... I have a unique prespective. I have resently found refuge from unemployment by leveraging my decades of knowledge and experience as a Tropical Fish hobbiest, to obtain a position at a Aquatics Store. What bothers me are all of the tattooed, stained, dyed ( via feeding), and obnoxiously hybridised fish. The last thing I want is to be selling GM fish. Though, the Glofish is probably a lot better then a tattooed fish ( i.e. painted glass fish). And certainly better then the Jellybean Parrot Cichlid ( the Mopyfish fish), which is first of all a most obnoxious hybrid, but is also stained.
On a side note; It is realy a good idea to have other skills besides programming in these weired times.
Salt water tanks are fricken hard to take care of.
Rubish. Salt tanks are easier then fresh to maintain. A properly set up system pretty much runs itself. All one needs to do is to do some periodic water changes ( far less then for a fresh water system), and maintain the equipment in good working condition. Follow the recipe, and a salt system damn near runs itself. Fresh water is more difficult. For one thing, fresh water tropical fish come from a huge array of enviroments, from cool black water deap jungle waters, to hard water lakes, to warm desert streams. It is a hell of a lot easier to make salt water then it is to make soft acidic black-water from the stuff that comes out of most peoples taps. For another, the natural systems that keep an enviroment stable, are easier to duplicate for standard salt water tanks then for fresh.
The only people who say that salt systems are difficult, either have never tried to set one up, or they did not follow the rules ( which are very simple). They are also ignorant of or have never tried to duplicate any of the more interesting fresh water enviroments. The only real barrier to starting a salt system is the cost of the fish, and for a reef tank, the cost of the live rock and other critters. The equipment costs are about the same.
Geneticaly engineered marine fishes would be far more expencive then the equivilent natural marine fishes, thus a system with such fishes would be even more prohibative then a normal salt water system.
Only males or steralized fish will be released for sale. That is how other selectivly breed varieties of fish are sold these days. An example is the "Electric Blue Jack Dempsey". This is a spectacular fish that comes from only one soure. Only males are sold ( at $80 a piece!). BTW, Jack Dempseys are very easy to breed, some might say too easy.
That was my first thought too. As someone who has spent almost a decade involved with reliability engineering of Level S components ( mostly NASA projects), I would love to get to run some tests on hardware like this. All the data points would be invaluble in calibrating the models used for reliability. But as I thought about it, I realized that all of the important tests would be destructive in some way. I don't think I would like to see such an important historic atrifact dissected.
Bullshit. Kepler used brute force to derive his 13 laws of planitary motion ( 10 of wich were wrong). Newton then placed the three correct laws on a mathamatical foundation. Most of Chemistry was based on Brute Force investigations. The Edison Light Bulb was a brute force invention.
Just some examples off the top of my head. There are many more.
History of technology is writen with a ballpoint pen.
I can't remember all the tangeled details, but basicaly, the ball point was designed to be used by fighter pilots. I seem to remember that it was a Russian who came up with the original design. Pilots use to write with pencils, but pencils have drawbacks. I think it was BIC ( a French Company?) who first licenced the technology. The fact that it was usable in space was known at that time. Pental, then created the "Space Pen" to get around patens. They then went on an adertisment blitz, leveraging NASAs need to use American products. The Ad blitz was a very Microsoftish attempt to remove knowledge of the original Ball Points abilities from the public psychy.
The perponderance of evidence supports collusion. Starting with a least the shreading of the Microsoft vs. Caledera court documents. Very fishy buisness.
Your right. I remembered after I posted. What I had been thinking about was some preliminary drawings I had seen while at Motorola. A lot had changed by the time the device reached silicon.
The HD sound issue is more complicated then that. The Japanese MC makers were specificaly attempting to duplicate the HD sound. The HD sound is a result of a particulare architecture not found in Japanese models. So what the Japanese were doing was artificial. If the Japanese produced a 45 degree V twin with dual fire ignition, they might have come close, but might olso have run up against some patens.
Very little if any of the 88000 went into the PPC. As for the 88000 not finding a home in Workstations, that is hardly suprising concidering the processor was designed with robotics in mind. The CPU world does not revolve around Workstations. In fact, they account for only a fraction of the CPU/MPU market. Some of the concepts pioneered in the 88000 did show up later in some high end DSPs. I can't remember, off teh top of my head, which series. RISC design concepts were incorporated in the 68000 series from at least the tail end of the 80s, certainly sooner then Intel doing the same with the x86. The lackluster adotion of the 88000 had more to do with the concervative nature of the MPU market rather then any problem with the device. And I will reiterate, to Motorola, Workstations are a niche market, dwarfed by everything else.
You can thank George Fisher for the miserable time you had. I worked for Motorola ( several divisions) from the early 80s untill the mid 90s. I saw first hand, the fall. Too bad, Motorola use to be a great place to work. See what happens when the Board of Directors start running a company?
Concidering Apples phycotic behavior towards its suppliers over the years, I doubt that they would get very far in attempting to sue Motorola. Also, the PPC was not sandbagged per say. Apple wanted things that would have negativly affected the PPCs use for embeded apps. They also kept changing their mind about what they wanted. Motorola probably could have spun out another line of PPC, but after Apples past behavior, decided it was too much bother.
On the other hand, Motorola has been caught up in that whole Board of Directors driven, "shareholder value"/"growth company" thing. That has made them a bit psycotic too. I know several Motorola lifers that have left out of frustration. I'm glad I'm no longer with the company.
"Where are the art books?" Actual need: tattoo information
Responce: What type of art book are you looking for?.
"I need a book on Microsoft." Actual need: Learning that the Enter key will move you down to the next line when using a word processing program such as Word
Responce: What would you like the book to tell you?.
"When I was little, I really liked this book you had. The little girl in it was named Jane or Joan, I think. I think it was blue. Do you know it?"
?
Responce: How long ago did you read it? Were did you get the book from? Can you remember any of the plot?
The guys a moron or has an agenda. Working for MS, he probably has an agenda. I have done my own research into this topic. Not only am I an artist, but I am also skilled at math. My profesional field is instrumentation. I have been studying how animal vision works for about 20 years. Art is all about abstraction. An artist creates an illusion that the audience interprets as an image. Knowing the dynamics of vision is instrumental in creating effective art. Try drawing a monsoonal anvil cloud lit by the setting sun that is producing lightning, without using a large set of tricks. The result will be flat and lifeless.
People use a whole series of mechinisms to interpret the visual wavefront reaching there eyes. When the first fails, another is tried, then another. It has to do with our hunter/gatherer past. Humans are very good at abstracting pattern, such as the disruption in the distrubution of detritus on a game trail. Humans will always first try to match the WHOLE pattern, i.e. the word shape, befor resorting to slower methods, i.e. phonen recognition. Sounding out the letters is the last resort.
The human mind, and probably the generalised animal mind, uses sets of algorithms. The fastes is used first. Then fallbacks are tried in turn untill the cognition is accomplished. This guy is a cognative phycologist, and he does not understand this?
I had to laugh when I read the headline, as I just minuets ago finished doing my watering. Plants include norfolk pine ( Araucaria), sago palm (cycas), and zamia (zamiaceae, in same order with cycadaceae). I will need to move some of my plants soon because the shade from a redwood is starting to block the morning sun.
That explains a lot. I am starting a company with some friends. We will NOT be using any VC money EVER. As that is the easiest way to lose control of a company.
are companies who like to suck up to MS gonna fire you for developing a linux program?
Actualy yes they are. Where I use to work, just being known to know too much about Linux would put a person on the layoff list. And when the company is laying off 40% of its workforce, little things like that are easy to hide. I would go into more detail on how this company is sucking bills fat FUD, but I am starting to get upset. Basical, in any MS controled company, knowing UNIX is a severe liability, regardless of how well one knows MS stuff. Unless of course, ones knowledge is absolutly instrumental in positioning the company infrastructure, in preparation for MSs penetration.
The stations used to collect data for these studies were specificaly set up to do this study, i.e. setup to insure that the error in data was independent of the week cycle. All meteroligist are well aware of the traditional unreliability of weekend/holiday data. This is one of the reasons for the data collection portion of these studies. Otherwise a lot of time and effort could have been saved by using already existing data.
The reverse effect is seen in coastal cities. The climate of coastal cities is influenced by the marine air mass. Air masses do not mix very much. Weekday activity might be setting up convection or some other mechinism, allowing a deaper penetration of the marine layer.
If Atmosperic methane correlates with the expansion of the Taco Bell franchise, can we just blame them?
Of course we would be following the media lead in ignoring that silly correlation vs. causality thing, in doing this. But thats OK, because its for a good cause.
On a serious note, there is some discusion regading the effects of dinofarts on the Jurasic weather.
You wouldn't want to build the foundation of science and technological progression on assumptions, would you?
Umm, math and science ARE built upon assumptions. They are called Axioms. Goedel: Any formal system must be based on theroms not provable by that system.
Motorola was making microcomputors based on the 6800 series as early as 1973. That was the year I first saw one. I am not sure of the name at that time, but later 6809 systems were marketed under the name ExorCiser or something simular.
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... I have a unique prespective. I have resently found refuge from unemployment by leveraging my decades of knowledge and experience as a Tropical Fish hobbiest, to obtain a position at a Aquatics Store. What bothers me are all of the tattooed, stained, dyed ( via feeding), and obnoxiously hybridised fish. The last thing I want is to be selling GM fish. Though, the Glofish is probably a lot better then a tattooed fish ( i.e. painted glass fish). And certainly better then the Jellybean Parrot Cichlid ( the Mopyfish fish), which is first of all a most obnoxious hybrid, but is also stained. On a side note; It is realy a good idea to have other skills besides programming in these weired times.
Rubish. Salt tanks are easier then fresh to maintain. A properly set up system pretty much runs itself. All one needs to do is to do some periodic water changes ( far less then for a fresh water system), and maintain the equipment in good working condition. Follow the recipe, and a salt system damn near runs itself. Fresh water is more difficult. For one thing, fresh water tropical fish come from a huge array of enviroments, from cool black water deap jungle waters, to hard water lakes, to warm desert streams. It is a hell of a lot easier to make salt water then it is to make soft acidic black-water from the stuff that comes out of most peoples taps. For another, the natural systems that keep an enviroment stable, are easier to duplicate for standard salt water tanks then for fresh.
The only people who say that salt systems are difficult, either have never tried to set one up, or they did not follow the rules ( which are very simple). They are also ignorant of or have never tried to duplicate any of the more interesting fresh water enviroments. The only real barrier to starting a salt system is the cost of the fish, and for a reef tank, the cost of the live rock and other critters. The equipment costs are about the same.
Geneticaly engineered marine fishes would be far more expencive then the equivilent natural marine fishes, thus a system with such fishes would be even more prohibative then a normal salt water system.
Only males or steralized fish will be released for sale. That is how other selectivly breed varieties of fish are sold these days. An example is the "Electric Blue Jack Dempsey". This is a spectacular fish that comes from only one soure. Only males are sold ( at $80 a piece!). BTW, Jack Dempseys are very easy to breed, some might say too easy.
That was my first thought too. As someone who has spent almost a decade involved with reliability engineering of Level S components ( mostly NASA projects), I would love to get to run some tests on hardware like this. All the data points would be invaluble in calibrating the models used for reliability. But as I thought about it, I realized that all of the important tests would be destructive in some way. I don't think I would like to see such an important historic atrifact dissected.
Just some examples off the top of my head. There are many more.
I can't remember all the tangeled details, but basicaly, the ball point was designed to be used by fighter pilots. I seem to remember that it was a Russian who came up with the original design. Pilots use to write with pencils, but pencils have drawbacks. I think it was BIC ( a French Company?) who first licenced the technology. The fact that it was usable in space was known at that time. Pental, then created the "Space Pen" to get around patens. They then went on an adertisment blitz, leveraging NASAs need to use American products. The Ad blitz was a very Microsoftish attempt to remove knowledge of the original Ball Points abilities from the public psychy.
The perponderance of evidence supports collusion. Starting with a least the shreading of the Microsoft vs. Caledera court documents. Very fishy buisness.
Your right. I remembered after I posted. What I had been thinking about was some preliminary drawings I had seen while at Motorola. A lot had changed by the time the device reached silicon.
The HD sound issue is more complicated then that. The Japanese MC makers were specificaly attempting to duplicate the HD sound. The HD sound is a result of a particulare architecture not found in Japanese models. So what the Japanese were doing was artificial. If the Japanese produced a 45 degree V twin with dual fire ignition, they might have come close, but might olso have run up against some patens.
Very little if any of the 88000 went into the PPC. As for the 88000 not finding a home in Workstations, that is hardly suprising concidering the processor was designed with robotics in mind. The CPU world does not revolve around Workstations. In fact, they account for only a fraction of the CPU/MPU market. Some of the concepts pioneered in the 88000 did show up later in some high end DSPs. I can't remember, off teh top of my head, which series. RISC design concepts were incorporated in the 68000 series from at least the tail end of the 80s, certainly sooner then Intel doing the same with the x86. The lackluster adotion of the 88000 had more to do with the concervative nature of the MPU market rather then any problem with the device. And I will reiterate, to Motorola, Workstations are a niche market, dwarfed by everything else.
You can thank George Fisher for the miserable time you had. I worked for Motorola ( several divisions) from the early 80s untill the mid 90s. I saw first hand, the fall. Too bad, Motorola use to be a great place to work. See what happens when the Board of Directors start running a company?
So what was the 88000?
On the other hand, Motorola has been caught up in that whole Board of Directors driven, "shareholder value"/"growth company" thing. That has made them a bit psycotic too. I know several Motorola lifers that have left out of frustration. I'm glad I'm no longer with the company.
Responce: What type of art book are you looking for?.
"I need a book on Microsoft." Actual need: Learning that the Enter key will move you down to the next line when using a word processing program such as Word
Responce: What would you like the book to tell you?.
"When I was little, I really liked this book you had. The little girl in it was named Jane or Joan, I think. I think it was blue. Do you know it?"
? Responce: How long ago did you read it? Were did you get the book from? Can you remember any of the plot?
So, whats your point?
No. The computer would do what a human would, i.e. respond with "Huh???".
People use a whole series of mechinisms to interpret the visual wavefront reaching there eyes. When the first fails, another is tried, then another. It has to do with our hunter/gatherer past. Humans are very good at abstracting pattern, such as the disruption in the distrubution of detritus on a game trail. Humans will always first try to match the WHOLE pattern, i.e. the word shape, befor resorting to slower methods, i.e. phonen recognition. Sounding out the letters is the last resort.
The human mind, and probably the generalised animal mind, uses sets of algorithms. The fastes is used first. Then fallbacks are tried in turn untill the cognition is accomplished. This guy is a cognative phycologist, and he does not understand this?
What I said is just not my opinion. Its the opinion of almost all of the programmers including the ones that are still left.
I had to laugh when I read the headline, as I just minuets ago finished doing my watering. Plants include norfolk pine ( Araucaria), sago palm (cycas), and zamia (zamiaceae, in same order with cycadaceae). I will need to move some of my plants soon because the shade from a redwood is starting to block the morning sun.
That explains a lot. I am starting a company with some friends. We will NOT be using any VC money EVER. As that is the easiest way to lose control of a company.
Actualy yes they are. Where I use to work, just being known to know too much about Linux would put a person on the layoff list. And when the company is laying off 40% of its workforce, little things like that are easy to hide. I would go into more detail on how this company is sucking bills fat FUD, but I am starting to get upset. Basical, in any MS controled company, knowing UNIX is a severe liability, regardless of how well one knows MS stuff. Unless of course, ones knowledge is absolutly instrumental in positioning the company infrastructure, in preparation for MSs penetration.
The stations used to collect data for these studies were specificaly set up to do this study, i.e. setup to insure that the error in data was independent of the week cycle. All meteroligist are well aware of the traditional unreliability of weekend/holiday data. This is one of the reasons for the data collection portion of these studies. Otherwise a lot of time and effort could have been saved by using already existing data.
The reverse effect is seen in coastal cities. The climate of coastal cities is influenced by the marine air mass. Air masses do not mix very much. Weekday activity might be setting up convection or some other mechinism, allowing a deaper penetration of the marine layer.
Of course we would be following the media lead in ignoring that silly correlation vs. causality thing, in doing this. But thats OK, because its for a good cause.
On a serious note, there is some discusion regading the effects of dinofarts on the Jurasic weather.
Umm, math and science ARE built upon assumptions. They are called Axioms. Goedel: Any formal system must be based on theroms not provable by that system.
Motorola was making microcomputors based on the 6800 series as early as 1973. That was the year I first saw one. I am not sure of the name at that time, but later 6809 systems were marketed under the name ExorCiser or something simular.