Meh. I don't know what Shadowrun is, but half the players of Final Fantasy XI have named their characters Shadow_something. Shadowrun could only be worse.
During the Manhattan Project, Robert Serber periodically gave lectures on basic fission bomb physics to newly arrived scientists. Those lecture notes were published by Univ. of California Press in 1992 as "The Lost Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb"; it's still in print. You'll need at least sophomore-level physics to understand it.
--- The BBC has an article that pretty much sums up everything you might need to know if you wanted to refine nuclear fuel and build some atomic weapons.
Should read "...explains nothing of what you might need to know..."
I don't know much about flying, but I do know that one needs a balloon pilot's certificate to pilot a balloon.
I do know the requirements for hobby rockets: (1) for rockets under 1 lb AND under 113 gm of propellant, no permission is needed; (2) for rockets of 1.0-3.3 lbs AND under 125 gm propellant, you must notify the FAA beforehand but don't need permission; and (3) for rockets of >3.3 lbs -OR- >125 gm propellant, you need to have the FAA give you a waiver of the rules (Federal Aviation Regulations section 101); they will specify your allowed maximum altitude.
You need to request the waiver months before your intended flight. Our rocketry club has been using our current site for about 5 years and we submit our waiver request in January for the May-October rocketry season; we usually hear back from the FAA in April.
The Brunner novels that I've read have been very good. "The Infinitive of Go" is a novellette about teleportation; you could read it in one sitting. "Polymath" is pretty good; it's about a polymath. "The Crucible of Time" is excellent; it has some very interesting astrophysics and biophysics.
A recent study by Jan Born et al. of the University of Lubeck in Germany showed how a night's sleep enabled 59% of subjects to discover a trick to simplify a tedious calculation, compared to 23% of a control group who didn't sleep between two trials of the task. (Time magazine, 12/20/04).
I've been playing FFXI on the Alexander server for about 13 months. Lately, the number of players online is ranging 1800-3200, down from 2500-4500 in early autumn.
A couple of years ago there was an interesting little story in the news which, unfortunately, was skimpy on details. It seems some folks had made some fighting robots. One day, they couldn't find one. Apparently it had made its way through a couple of doors and was in the parking lot, heading away.
I've always wondered something about Gigolo Joe, the android played by Jude Law in the movie "AI". When Joe services a client, does he ejaculate? Discuss.
"To hell with [Commodore]. Take 50% of my money and put it in the blue chips: Transatlantic Zeppelin, Amalgamated Spats, Congraves' Inflammable Powders, U.S. Hay, and sink the rest into that up and coming Baltimore Opera Hat Company." (He actually said "IBM".)
Your idea for prevention is intriguing. It reminds me of John McPhee's book "The Control of Nature" in which he describes mankind's attempts to battle some of nature's larger forces: lava flows in Iceland, the changing course of the lower Mississippi River, and mudslides in southern California.
Years ago, a friend and I spent an entire evening thinking about who would be good in a remake of Gilligan's Island. Wish I had notes from that. The only ones I remember are Pauly Shore for Gilligan and John Goodman for the Skipper.
There's a good article on the science of gravitational radiation and its detection in the July-August issue of "American Scientist".
(Note that this -isn't- "Scientific American". "American Scientist" is a bimonthly journal with articles aimed at a multidisciplinary scientist audience, whereas SA is aimed at a lay audience. AS's articles are of the depth and quality that SA had twenty years ago.)
You can't read the article online, but your local li-berry may have it. Worth a trip.
It's a good article, but the page as a whole is annoying, due to several animated ads. I won't put up with that shit. I copied the text to my word processor for reading.
NBC isn't doing this to spite Tivo users, which are an insignificant fraction of viewers. They're doing it to retain viewers of the preceding show, to capture them before they have a chance to switch channels.
Surely you have a VCR? Record 'CSI' on Tivo and record 'ER' on the VCR.
Personally, I think Tivo is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I've been a time shifter for 20 years, hardly ever watching live TV even long before Tivo. Tivo has made this so much easier. Now, of course, I hardly watch any TV at all; instead i play Final Fantasy XI.
Around January 1, Square Enix announced that there were 500,000 subscribers. Divided among 20-25 servers, that's about 20,000 players/server. At this moment, on my server, there are 2134 people logged in, which is typical. So, there are plenty of people playing.
One important point is that the PS2 players are going to need a keyboard. FFXI is a very social game; players will want and need to type to talk to other players.
"Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before and it has always been due to human error."
from the article: The evolving strategies of phishing crews underscore the need for continuing consumer education on detecting deceptive URLs, web sites and now, to discern authentic SSL certificates and relationships as well.
I understood most of the article, but parts of it were like Greek to me, and I'm pretty savvy. I understand encryption and know to look for the SSL lock when I'm entering sensitive information, but visual spoofing worries me. I'll be sure to look at SSL certificates from now on. I hope the browser and backbone programmers can make this more secure.
The world has plenty of fresh water - it is just not in the right places...
The water is in the right places; it's people that aren't in the right places. Our society is foolish by allowing so many to live in desert areas like Arizona and southern and central California.
If it's what you want, do it. Fear not--I think the number of programming jobs in the USA will grow.
I, too, am a physician in the midst of changing my career to programming. I quit medicine a few months ago, just in time before my head exploded. I finally realized that I had never enjoyed medicine. My background is physics; I could never wrap my brain around medicine.
I'm learning C++. I'm considering game programming and medical informatics. The medical software I've used has been awful (just a hole to throw data into) and I know that I can make stuff that's much better. I'm going to make a software tool for managing chronic illness. However, game programming would be more fun. I think I could write game AI that would walk across the room and smack you in the face.
Would I be wasting my many years of medical education and practice? No. I'm like Dirk Gently: I believe in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Whenever I learn anything, I connect it to everything else I know. (Just today I noted that I could easily apply my medical problem-solving skills to assessing avalanche risk.) Also, my work as part of multidisciplanary medical teams will translate to working in programming teams wherein members have differing sets of skills.
Most likely I'll still do some doc-in-the-box stuff on the side to make money, at least as long as I feel competent.
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Meh. I don't know what Shadowrun is, but half the players of Final Fantasy XI have named their characters Shadow_something. Shadowrun could only be worse.
During the Manhattan Project, Robert Serber periodically gave lectures on basic fission bomb physics to newly arrived scientists. Those lecture notes were published by Univ. of California Press in 1992 as "The Lost Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb"; it's still in print. You'll need at least sophomore-level physics to understand it.
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The BBC has an article that pretty much sums up everything you might need to know if you wanted to refine nuclear fuel and build some atomic weapons.
Should read "...explains nothing of what you might need to know..."
Amara's Law: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."
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I don't know much about flying, but I do know that one needs a balloon pilot's certificate to pilot a balloon.
I do know the requirements for hobby rockets: (1) for rockets under 1 lb AND under 113 gm of propellant, no permission is needed; (2) for rockets of 1.0-3.3 lbs AND under 125 gm propellant, you must notify the FAA beforehand but don't need permission; and (3) for rockets of >3.3 lbs -OR- >125 gm propellant, you need to have the FAA give you a waiver of the rules (Federal Aviation Regulations section 101); they will specify your allowed maximum altitude.
You need to request the waiver months before your intended flight. Our rocketry club has been using our current site for about 5 years and we submit our waiver request in January for the May-October rocketry season; we usually hear back from the FAA in April.
The Brunner novels that I've read have been very good. "The Infinitive of Go" is a novellette about teleportation; you could read it in one sitting. "Polymath" is pretty good; it's about a polymath. "The Crucible of Time" is excellent; it has some very interesting astrophysics and biophysics.
Caffeine is not a substitute for sleep.
A recent study by Jan Born et al. of the University of Lubeck in Germany showed how a night's sleep enabled 59% of subjects to discover a trick to simplify a tedious calculation, compared to 23% of a control group who didn't sleep between two trials of the task. (Time magazine, 12/20/04).
I've been playing FFXI on the Alexander server for about 13 months. Lately, the number of players online is ranging 1800-3200, down from 2500-4500 in early autumn.
A couple of years ago there was an interesting little story in the news which, unfortunately, was skimpy on details. It seems some folks had made some fighting robots. One day, they couldn't find one. Apparently it had made its way through a couple of doors and was in the parking lot, heading away.
Fortran. Definitely Fortran. Any version will do, but Fortran77 is especially good.
I've always wondered something about Gigolo Joe, the android played by Jude Law in the movie "AI". When Joe services a client, does he ejaculate? Discuss.
There are approximately 250 mice to the gallon. --from an old "Life Is Hell" calendar.
--C. Montgomery Burns in Simpsons 4F17
Your idea for prevention is intriguing. It reminds me of John McPhee's book "The Control of Nature" in which he describes mankind's attempts to battle some of nature's larger forces: lava flows in Iceland, the changing course of the lower Mississippi River, and mudslides in southern California.
There's a neat book called "Where Is Everybody?" by Stephen Webb; it discusses 50 reasons why we haven't heard from ETIs yet.
"The aliens will contact us when they can make money by doing so." -- David Byrne
Years ago, a friend and I spent an entire evening thinking about who would be good in a remake of Gilligan's Island. Wish I had notes from that. The only ones I remember are Pauly Shore for Gilligan and John Goodman for the Skipper.
(Note that this -isn't- "Scientific American". "American Scientist" is a bimonthly journal with articles aimed at a multidisciplinary scientist audience, whereas SA is aimed at a lay audience. AS's articles are of the depth and quality that SA had twenty years ago.)
You can't read the article online, but your local li-berry may have it. Worth a trip.
It's a good article, but the page as a whole is annoying, due to several animated ads. I won't put up with that shit. I copied the text to my word processor for reading.
Surely you have a VCR? Record 'CSI' on Tivo and record 'ER' on the VCR.
Personally, I think Tivo is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I've been a time shifter for 20 years, hardly ever watching live TV even long before Tivo. Tivo has made this so much easier. Now, of course, I hardly watch any TV at all; instead i play Final Fantasy XI.
Around January 1, Square Enix announced that there were 500,000 subscribers. Divided among 20-25 servers, that's about 20,000 players/server. At this moment, on my server, there are 2134 people logged in, which is typical. So, there are plenty of people playing.
One important point is that the PS2 players are going to need a keyboard. FFXI is a very social game; players will want and need to type to talk to other players.
Or malfeasance.
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I understood most of the article, but parts of it were like Greek to me, and I'm pretty savvy. I understand encryption and know to look for the SSL lock when I'm entering sensitive information, but visual spoofing worries me. I'll be sure to look at SSL certificates from now on. I hope the browser and backbone programmers can make this more secure.
The water is in the right places; it's people that aren't in the right places. Our society is foolish by allowing so many to live in desert areas like Arizona and southern and central California.
Everyone needs to read "Cadillac Dessert".
...this guy's got a LOT of time on his hands.
Descent 3 is awesome--as good as Halo. Not sure if it runs under OS X.
If it's what you want, do it. Fear not--I think the number of programming jobs in the USA will grow.
I, too, am a physician in the midst of changing my career to programming. I quit medicine a few months ago, just in time before my head exploded. I finally realized that I had never enjoyed medicine. My background is physics; I could never wrap my brain around medicine.
I'm learning C++. I'm considering game programming and medical informatics. The medical software I've used has been awful (just a hole to throw data into) and I know that I can make stuff that's much better. I'm going to make a software tool for managing chronic illness. However, game programming would be more fun. I think I could write game AI that would walk across the room and smack you in the face.
Would I be wasting my many years of medical education and practice? No. I'm like Dirk Gently: I believe in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Whenever I learn anything, I connect it to everything else I know. (Just today I noted that I could easily apply my medical problem-solving skills to assessing avalanche risk.) Also, my work as part of multidisciplanary medical teams will translate to working in programming teams wherein members have differing sets of skills.
Most likely I'll still do some doc-in-the-box stuff on the side to make money, at least as long as I feel competent.