There was another research project in England, to find out why single family mothers (ie. teenagers) were more dominant in one housing estate than another. After £120,000 of research, the researchers discovered... the housing department had zoned tenants according to income, marital status and number of children.
Was the Mykit 200, the one that came in two sections (one lower, one upper)? The lower section had the solar panel, light sensor, morse code switch, transistors, diodes and transformer. There was also a loudspeaker and microphone. The upper panel had all the resistors and capacitors. I still kept the instruction manual but had to throw out the unit itself for lack of space.
I look at all the online toy shops, and they just don't seem to have such items any more.
Politicians listened to business leaders, and business leaders naturally emphasised the type of skills they themselves had.
That's happening now - every postgraduate at our university is required to take courses in developing their "soft personal skills" as well as gaining technical qualifications.
Around 20 years ago, we used to gets kits like the Mykit electronic series (early model). This had a whole set of electronic components laid out on several panels. Each component was wired to little springs that were used to connect circuits together using red, blue and yellow wires. It was possible to build things like radios and low power transmitters. There were other kits where each component was placed in a numbered plastic cube that fitted into a grid. Then a circuit could be built simply by placing the right component in a grid.
Considering that according to a panel of "15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders" assembled by Human Events the Club of Rome's Limits of Growth is the 29th most harmful book ever written
They don't give any reasons, but according to the description at a well-known booksellers, the author wrote a computer program back in 1974 to simulate what effect the growing human population would have on natural resources (land, fresh water, minerals) and came to the conclusion that everything would collapse by 2100, unless human population levelled off and wealth was redistributed.
(According to latest world census results, population growth is levelling off, and thanks to outsourcing, wealth is being redistributed).
There are all sorts of challenges that will rattle around in your brain after you punch out for the day, and any good programmer or security-type admin will tell you that flashes of insight and other valuable cognitive moments occur when and where they occur... not necessarily during business hours.
That's very true - it's amazing the insights that can be gained from sitting in a small quiet room all to yourself (my university has "quiet rooms", and our group has a small windowless lab. Not forgetting the early evening late night buses which are nearly always empty).
Things happen, and it's always at 2:00AM.
I've been there, and my personal theory is that the holes dug by the road crews during the night, allow gremlins to escape from the underground pipes and cause all sorts of mischief
Jack: Picks up laser rifle and asks "How does this work?"
Major Carter: "It contains an energy store which is activated when the safety catch is released, which charges up the oscillation crystal, which then releases a beam of directed energy once the trigger is pressed".
Jack: "No, how does it work?"
Major Carter: "Oh, you release the safety catch, aim at the target and pull the trigger".
You are working on software/hardware project, and immediately see that skill X is going to be the future of the project. Do you?
(A) Tell your boss at the next personal meeting.
(B) Learn this skill as soon as possible in your own time, and tell your boss that you
already have this skill when it is needed?
If you do (A), there's the chance the he/she'll decide to take on another member of staff, since you don't already have that skill. That could prove fatal, if it becomes the only future direction of the project and that slot is already taken.
I did that a month ago while visiting my parents. They have AOL (at 9600 baud), and I had to have my fix of slashdot. Waiting for a 1500 comment article to download made watching the washing machine seem like a blockbuster movie with the latest visual effects.
There was an article which mentioned that scientists had figured out where the highest levels of consciousness in the brain was. Basically, this was the one region of the brain (central front left lobe) where if this area was damaged, the person would never regain consciousness, regardless of any stimulus given.
At normal body-temperature, brain cells can only last 2-3 minutes without an oxygen supply, before starting to incur damage. But if they are cooled down (as with hypothermia), they can last much longer.
So as long as this area of the brain remains undamaged, a person isn't really dead.
According to archeologists, we developed the ability to process geometry because that skill was required in order to make a spearhead from a block of flint. The flint would only cleave a sharp edge if hit in a particular direction, so this required geometric processing in order to determine the correct striking point.
For comparison, in Britain 0.03% of us will die[1] in ALL possible mishaps this year. That takes account of murder, car crashes, being eaten by ferocious llamas and so on and so forth.
In Britain, people are more concerned about living next to the neighbours from hell and being attacked in our outside their own homes:
If the objects are in near-earth orbit, then at some point it the future their orbits should all decay into the earth's atmosphere, at which point they will incinerate themselves. Sounds like a self-correcting problem to me! The only question is: when? Anybody have any guesses on how long it will take all this junk to deorbit if we just leave it alone?
But on the way down, these object may collide with each other, and create many more smaller pieces of space junk (kind of like a real world version of the Asteroids video game).
It's a real shame the laser solution with the Space Shuttle doesn't work...this image could become reality.
One feature of the early British postal service was that they would send newspapers for free (to help poor families). Needless to say, people would send messages to each other by using a needle to mark holes under individual letters in the newspaper print.
I am sure Intel have given a great deal of thought to this, and in a few years saying D 860 or whatever will be completely natural.
They've been there with that number using the i860, which was a high-performance RISC processor designed for graphics, and reused that number (i860) for a Intel XEON motherboard control chipset.
4004, 4040, 8008, 8080, 8085, 8086, 8088, 80186, 80188, 80286 i386 DX, i386 SX, i386 EX, i386 SL, i486 DX, i486 SX, i486 SL, i486 OverDrive Pentium P5, Pentium P54C, Pentium MMX, Pentium OverDrive, Pentium Pro, Pentium II P II Celeron, P II Xeon, P II OverDrive, Pentium III, P III Celeron, P III Xeon FPU, StrongARM, i860, i960, MCS-48
To me, something like 'iXXXXX' is more recognisable than something like P II OverDrive.
Sandia National Labs have this interesting article on a Linux computer that is built vertically with the power unit at the base, and optional modules which are stacked on top of each other (CPU Modules, Dual PCMCIA Interface Modules, Hubs, KVM Switch and End Plate Wiring).
This idea has been the basis for concept cars for the past 15 years. The main advantage is that it would eliminate the injuries caused by drivers being impaled by the driving column/steering wheel.
Sun's main customers are the manufacturing, banking and federal sectors. When you're managing large networks of 300+ workstations plus servers, all of which need to have identical releases of software, having centralised control and storage is essential to keep costs down. You don't want to have a bunch of technicians tied up over one computer, trying to figure out why a PDF file won't print to the nearest laser printer or why E-mails can't be read.
I thought we already knew this - that bees fly because little ridges on their wing roots act as vortex generators, breaking up the airflow above the wing?
This design technique works for whales as well - at least for swimming in water. They have tubercles on their leading fin surfaces.
... but they were deterred from carrying out this plan for fear of what retaliatory action the Soup Dragon and the rest of the Clangers would carry out (see the Astronaut episode for more details).
Slashdot Mirror
There was another research project in England, to find out why single family mothers (ie. teenagers) were more dominant in one housing estate than another. After £120,000 of research, the researchers discovered... the housing department had zoned tenants according to income, marital status and number of children.
Was the Mykit 200, the one that came in two sections (one lower, one upper)? The lower section had the solar panel, light sensor, morse code switch, transistors, diodes and transformer. There was also a loudspeaker and microphone. The upper panel had all the resistors and capacitors. I still kept the instruction manual but had to throw out the unit itself for lack of space.
I look at all the online toy shops, and they just don't seem to have such items any more.
Politicians listened to business leaders, and business leaders naturally emphasised the type of skills they themselves had.
That's happening now - every postgraduate at our university is required to take courses in developing their "soft personal skills" as well as gaining technical qualifications.
Around 20 years ago, we used to gets kits like the Mykit electronic series (early model). This had a whole set of electronic components laid out on several panels. Each component was wired to little springs that were used to connect circuits together using red, blue and yellow wires. It was possible to build things like radios and low power transmitters. There were other kits where each component was placed in a numbered plastic cube that fitted into a grid. Then a circuit could be built simply by placing the right component in a grid.
Considering that according to a panel of "15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders" assembled by Human Events the Club of Rome's Limits of Growth is the 29th most harmful book ever written
They don't give any reasons, but according to the description at a well-known booksellers, the author wrote a computer program back in 1974 to simulate what effect the growing human population would have on natural resources (land, fresh water, minerals) and came to the conclusion that everything would collapse by 2100, unless human population levelled off and wealth was redistributed.
(According to latest world census results, population growth is levelling off, and thanks to outsourcing, wealth is being redistributed).
There's also the "tallest poppy syndrome" - Cut off the head of every flower that sticks up above the others.
I hope they put a webcam in the helmet area. That would be funky to see the view change as the suit rotated to and from sunlight/earthshadow.
There are all sorts of challenges that will rattle around in your brain after you punch out for the day, and any good programmer or security-type admin will tell you that flashes of insight and other valuable cognitive moments occur when and where they occur... not necessarily during business hours.
That's very true - it's amazing the insights that can be gained from sitting in a small quiet room all to yourself (my university has "quiet rooms", and our group has a small windowless lab. Not forgetting the early evening late night buses which are nearly always empty).
Things happen, and it's always at 2:00AM.
I've been there, and my personal theory is that the holes dug by the road crews during the night, allow gremlins to escape from the underground pipes and cause all sorts of mischief
My favourite was something like:
Jack: Picks up laser rifle and asks "How does this work?"
Major Carter: "It contains an energy store which is activated when the safety catch is released, which charges up the oscillation crystal, which then releases a beam of directed energy once the trigger is pressed".
Jack: "No, how does it work?"
Major Carter: "Oh, you release the safety catch, aim at the target and pull the trigger".
Consider this situation:
You are working on software/hardware project, and immediately see that skill X is going to be the future of the project. Do you?
(A) Tell your boss at the next personal meeting.
(B) Learn this skill as soon as possible in your own time, and tell your boss that you
already have this skill when it is needed?
If you do (A), there's the chance the he/she'll decide to take on another member of staff, since you don't already have that skill. That could prove fatal, if it becomes the only future direction of the project and that slot is already taken.
Reading about this makes me really glad I don't have the gmail account: experts.exchange.gmail.com
I did that a month ago while visiting my parents. They have AOL (at 9600 baud), and I had to have my fix of slashdot. Waiting for a 1500 comment article to download made watching the washing machine seem like a blockbuster movie with the latest visual effects.
There was an article which mentioned that scientists had figured out where the highest levels of consciousness in the brain was. Basically, this was the one region of the brain (central front left lobe) where if this area was damaged, the person would never regain consciousness, regardless of any stimulus given.
At normal body-temperature, brain cells can only last 2-3 minutes without an oxygen supply, before starting to incur damage. But if they are cooled down (as with hypothermia), they can last much longer.
So as long as this area of the brain remains undamaged, a person isn't really dead.
According to archeologists, we developed the ability to process geometry because that skill was required in order to make a spearhead from a block of flint. The flint would only cleave a sharp edge if hit in a particular direction, so this required geometric processing in order to determine the correct striking point.
For comparison, in Britain 0.03% of us will die[1] in ALL possible mishaps this year. That takes account of murder, car crashes, being eaten by ferocious llamas and so on and so forth.
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In Britain, people are more concerned about living next to the neighbours from hell and being attacked in our outside their own homes:
Bullying campaign linked to fire that killed girl's parents
City dealer murdered by intruders
CCTV of murdered lawyer released
Yet, you can be locked up for making comments about a police horse:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/46
or defending your own property:
Tony Martin
If the objects are in near-earth orbit, then at some point it the future their orbits should all decay into the earth's atmosphere, at which point they will incinerate themselves. Sounds like a self-correcting problem to me! The only question is: when? Anybody have any guesses on how long it will take all this junk to deorbit if we just leave it alone?
But on the way down, these object may collide with each other, and create many more smaller pieces of space junk (kind of like a real world version of the Asteroids video game).
It's a real shame the laser solution with the Space Shuttle doesn't work...this image could become reality.
One feature of the early British postal service was that they would send newspapers for free (to help poor families). Needless to say, people would send messages to each other by using a needle to mark holes
under individual letters in the newspaper print.
Yes, but someone borrowed my red Swingline stapler and hasn't returned it.
I am sure Intel have given a great deal of thought to this, and in a few years saying D 860 or whatever will be completely natural.
They've been there with that number using the i860, which was a high-performance RISC processor designed for graphics, and reused that number (i860) for a Intel XEON motherboard control chipset.
CPU Collection has a complete list of Intel chip classes:
4004, 4040, 8008, 8080, 8085, 8086, 8088, 80186, 80188, 80286
i386 DX, i386 SX, i386 EX, i386 SL, i486 DX, i486 SX, i486 SL, i486 OverDrive
Pentium P5, Pentium P54C, Pentium MMX, Pentium OverDrive, Pentium Pro, Pentium II
P II Celeron, P II Xeon, P II OverDrive, Pentium III, P III Celeron, P III Xeon
FPU, StrongARM, i860, i960, MCS-48
To me, something like 'iXXXXX' is more recognisable than something like P II OverDrive.
Perhaps it was the PC/104 Linux Minicluster (IEEE P996.1)? (Some pictures provided).
Sandia National Labs have this interesting article on a Linux computer that is built
vertically with the power unit at the base, and optional modules which are stacked
on top of each other (CPU Modules, Dual PCMCIA Interface Modules, Hubs, KVM Switch and End Plate Wiring).
And whenever there's a crash, the debris field will also glow bright green.
This idea has been the basis for concept cars for the past 15 years. The main advantage is that it would eliminate the injuries caused by drivers being impaled by the driving column/steering wheel.
And it also benefits people with spinal injuries.
Sun's main customers are the manufacturing, banking and federal sectors. When you're managing large networks of 300+ workstations plus servers, all of which need to have identical releases of software, having centralised control and storage is essential to keep costs down. You don't want to have a bunch of technicians tied up over one computer, trying to figure out why a PDF file won't print to the nearest laser printer or why E-mails can't be read.
I thought we already knew this - that bees fly because little ridges on their wing roots act as vortex generators, breaking up the airflow above the wing? This design technique works for whales as well - at least for swimming in water. They have tubercles on their leading fin surfaces.
... but they were deterred from carrying out this plan for fear of what retaliatory action the Soup Dragon and the rest of the Clangers would carry out (see the Astronaut episode for more details).