I was a visiting American Scientist during my prolonged stay in China and was the first American that many Chinese seen since the Chiang Kai-shek stuff from the 50's and 60's. I traveled some with the president of the American company where I worked (he was American Chinese) and so I had a lot of opportunities to explore many place that most Americans would not be admitted.
I literally traveled from one end of China to another. I am rather a low key guy but because of my title then each Chinese providence would hold a banquet in my honor and so we would drink wu-shing pigu (5 star beer) and a clear liquor that I forget the name of but it was potent... anyway, I found the Chinese to be a most proper group of individuals and were good to their word... except if government was involved then they followed the ticket that was being trailed out... probably for self preservation.
I really enjoyed the people and loved the environment... being raised originally on a farm in Ohio made me understand a lot more than if I was a city slicker. What I did find though was that the average person did what they had to do to get along in life. If it meant duplicating a song or a data file then it was not a problem for them... I must reiterate that their values were neither greater nor less than mine but rather that they did what they had to do to survive in the economy of that era.
Sometimes I wish that I had transfered there permanently. My heart is very similar to that of the typical Chinese individual and they had a warmth that I find missing in today's life in America.
I spent three years in Australia back in the 70's and never did learn to enjoy eating Vegemite... it certainly has an acquired taste whether in soup, gravy or on a piece of bread.
How the kids can devour it is beyond me.
I do agree that giving Vegemite to an octopus should be against the law.
Thank you for your consideration and compassion. I knew you were a kind person.
We all are in our reality prisons of our own making... some larger than others but still a prison. The idea that I presented is not mine but one that a friend has put together and says that I am free to share the general idea so that others might add their wisdom/insight/criticism as well.
I did not write the original comment for self aggrandizement for I do not not need that... I tend to be a quiet scientist that keeps to myself and I enjoy interacting with equipment rather than individuals... just who I am.
I do often though gain great insight of ideas... some by a small movie (in color even) that plays in my head that gives me understanding of new concepts, other times it is like a fresco or picture of a situation that I can gain valuable insight from reflecting upon it.
I assume that many here on Slashdot gain insight in the same or similar fashion. In my life I am simply seeking peace. Yea, I've been in war... the 60's were not the especially good time as many have said or seem to remember. Lots of good friends died.
I do ask thought that if you have a way of storing an idea for 5 years and then having it come forward again... I believe that you will be surprised by then (2013) at the shift in understanding of the galaxies and the new wisdom garnered.
It was not so very long ago that mankind knew that the Sun orbited Earth and perhaps even Earth was the center of the Universe...some people died for this belief... yet now we know differently.
Can you imagine if Louis Pasteur was on Slashdot and he said he thought milk went sour because of invisible bugs in it... he would have been heckled and probably marked a troll.
Or perhaps Sir Issac Newton who had a brilliant insight of the attraction between two bodies and developed the idea of gravity. What would the Slashdot crowd say to him if that was a new theory he just promulgated? Maybe it would be considered just silly.
A new theory still being explored is that each galaxy has two black holes. One is intake and one is output. In addition it appears that these galaxies are strung on a cord of high dimensional energy with each end looping back to or near what may be the Universe's center. This is much like a loose strung string of pearls with each pearl being a galaxy.
The two black holes are not like the two holes in a button but rather like a button with one hole on each side. What occurs where the two black holes meet is not understood.
A car analogy... One side of the galaxy is like the intake valve on an engine. The other side of the galaxy is like the exhaust valve... what is not understood is how the engine works and how it apparently takes little or no space in the galaxy itself... as if it resides in a much higher dimension that needs virtually no space.
I wonder what would we see if our planet resided on the other edge of the galaxy?
In spite of your ad hoc answer which contains little valuable information for the readers... why then has skin cancer only increased in spite of sun screen?
Are you saying that the individual's beliefs have nothing to do with whether that person develops skin cancer or not?
What does your science say about that? Why has skin cancer rates increased? Is the sun hotter? Are our bodies weaker? Is the sun screen not working? What does your science say?
Out west in a few states such as Arizona and New Mexico (and perhaps other states) the speed limit on interstates is 75 mph since the states are so large and the population is usually congregated around large cities. As one approaches metro areas however the speed decreases proportionally.
There are a lot of individuals out there in human land that are feeling a lot of pain and turn to drugs (legal or illegal) as well as alcohol to mask their feelings... if only for a time.
It is as if a cosmic force is increasing the pressure on everyone and that time seems to be flying by when in the old days it seemed to pass at a slower rate. Today it is excruciating and tomorrow perhaps more so. When and where can it end... surely not in more drugs.
Escaping to drugs only seems to work for the issues causing the escape are still there the next day... however the pain is becoming so great in today's world that those whom you never believe would use drugs are now turning to them.
Unfortunately I do not know of a solution. But, it does break my heart to see those I love do so. A friend who is a beautiful blond, 20 years old and has the world by the tail was just prescribed Lithium as a way of coping with her emotional issues. Lithium is a poison to the body... what are the pharmaceutical companies and doctors thinking?
In my mind I compare it to the days of sunscreen. Before sunscreen the sun provided us with a source of vitamin D synthesis and then the doctors said the sun caused cancer and so we now use sunscreen. Now the skin cancer is at a unprecedented rate even using the sunscreen. Go figure?
It is as if there is some correlated relationship between Beliefs and Emotions. It is becoming more murky knowing what to believe in and what not to believe.
Read carefully what DWARG has written here for it is sage advice.
Dale Carnegie used to say that you had to have "the right to talk about it" meaning that the information is from personal experience garnered in the trenches and not from reading a book or guessing.
I have the right to talk about computers for I have been in the business professionally since the early 60's and yet DWARG concisely and eloquently speaks of his "Right to Talk" in his process of interacting with his customers and potential customers.
This could be viewed as an opportunity for the countries to work together but usually these things become opportunities to grab power as the AC above said... so rather than assist mankind it stalls out true progress.
There is a lot wrong with how the Internet is being used for scams, viruses, rootkits, etc. With a few countries working together then maybe more would be interested in joining in the cooperation.
I believe that life is eternal and that our body(ies) are like shirts. If one gets torn on a nail or worn out then it is discarded and a new one is put on for a new life experience.
The eternal part of us certainly can travel and assist the grieving family members just by being present with them. Time and space is an illusion and the only moment we have is the present one. Basically all time is now.
The eternal part of us knows only love... we as a body tend to exist in a state of fear and yet after enough lifetimes we (our consciousness) tends to shift from the fear side towards the love side.
To call this phenomena a hallucination seems to be a great stretch on somebody's part and certainly such an assumption is not from a level playing field. Of course, for those in fear of an afterlife... calling it a hallucination reduces the personal impact that it might have.
Back in the day of card punches in order to certify that a card punch was working properly a whole box (qty 2000) cards were fed, punched and read with only one error permitted. This was CDC equipment on the CDC 3100 and 3200 models.
If something was not quite adjusted properly usually a failure would occur much earlier in the cycle.
Sending out a new operating system was done with punch cards. A simple bootstrap program was keyed into the core and executed which would input from the card reader and a whole box of cards needed to be read without error.
The CDC card punch (can not remember the model number... maybe 3114) also had a read station in it so that a read after write cycle could be employed. The error exit could be used to offset the card in the output deck about 1/4 of an inch so that the individual card could be easily located and re-punched.
Reading a lace card was a real dicey test. Usually we alternated rows and columns.
Reminds me of the movie Office Space when the chick only had 15 pieces of bling but the real go getter guy had 37 or something like that... and so the boss was on her about it. It doesn't really make a difference but it does look like something is happening and that someone cares... whether they do or not is pretty much immaterial.
Don't know why you were modded down. Probably a marketing guy got mod points by mistake.
No apology necessary. I thank you for bringing out the points that you did which caused me to reflect further.
I don't necessarily see the memristor as an analog device (although it probably could be used as one like a dimmer switch) where it can have infinite positions but rather as a device that would have a discrete amount of static positions such as 3, 10, 12, etc. and would be just as accurate as a 1 or 0 is in binary.
There are a lot of smart younger individuals like you and others that post here on the board that can see how such a device could streamline computations and aid in unique situations. An example is the comment from the anonymous coward who clarified why the 12 position calculation would be so good for studying and working with the DNA in terms of 4 base types, 3 bases per peptide encoding; 3x4=12.
I sense that the three state device will be the future for most computing work in the future having states of 1, 0, -1 as an example.
I can write those books and have in the past. My experience stems from 1962 being a systems Analyst for a computer system. In the old days before IC's and even before transistors were a part of computers the vacuum tube was used.
In those days the adder section, rather than being a single chip was composed of discrete components. Once an adder problem was a wire wrap on the back panel that was making poor connection causing it not to promote a "carry" from the previous position.
I really do understand binary but keep in mind that having more than the two states of binary permits a smaller size over all. For instance the 123 I mentioned needs 7 positions in binary but only 3 positions in decinary.
Watch for it. Eventually this will be the going thing. Binary locked us in and was very restrictive while this invention and others in a similar vein will present opportunities we could not imagine before.
Binary was chosen earlier in computer work for it could represent accurately a digit representive such as 1001 equals 9. Also magnetic core memory could hold only the two states.
With memristors (once they are perfected) can have multi-state such as trinary (base 3) or decinary (base 10) eliminating all of the conversion that is neccessary in the present binary system that require cpu cycles. 123 in the decinary system represents 123 where in binary it would be 1111011 and need to be converted in order to be meaningful.
For instance I have heard for those studying DNA that using base 12 has certain benefits in directly expressing information. Perhaps this will open a whole new arena of possibility that previously could only be simulated in binary.
The mind can imagine many new possibilities if the memristor actually is.
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I was a visiting American Scientist during my prolonged stay in China and was the first American that many Chinese seen since the Chiang Kai-shek stuff from the 50's and 60's. I traveled some with the president of the American company where I worked (he was American Chinese) and so I had a lot of opportunities to explore many place that most Americans would not be admitted.
I literally traveled from one end of China to another. I am rather a low key guy but because of my title then each Chinese providence would hold a banquet in my honor and so we would drink wu-shing pigu (5 star beer) and a clear liquor that I forget the name of but it was potent... anyway, I found the Chinese to be a most proper group of individuals and were good to their word... except if government was involved then they followed the ticket that was being trailed out... probably for self preservation.
I really enjoyed the people and loved the environment... being raised originally on a farm in Ohio made me understand a lot more than if I was a city slicker. What I did find though was that the average person did what they had to do to get along in life. If it meant duplicating a song or a data file then it was not a problem for them... I must reiterate that their values were neither greater nor less than mine but rather that they did what they had to do to survive in the economy of that era.
Sometimes I wish that I had transfered there permanently. My heart is very similar to that of the typical Chinese individual and they had a warmth that I find missing in today's life in America.
I spent three years in Australia back in the 70's and never did learn to enjoy eating Vegemite... it certainly has an acquired taste whether in soup, gravy or on a piece of bread.
How the kids can devour it is beyond me.
I do agree that giving Vegemite to an octopus should be against the law.
No, Not at all
More like Bozo in the other post.
Thank you for your consideration and compassion. I knew you were a kind person.
We all are in our reality prisons of our own making... some larger than others but still a prison. The idea that I presented is not mine but one that a friend has put together and says that I am free to share the general idea so that others might add their wisdom/insight/criticism as well.
I did not write the original comment for self aggrandizement for I do not not need that... I tend to be a quiet scientist that keeps to myself and I enjoy interacting with equipment rather than individuals... just who I am.
I do often though gain great insight of ideas... some by a small movie (in color even) that plays in my head that gives me understanding of new concepts, other times it is like a fresco or picture of a situation that I can gain valuable insight from reflecting upon it.
I assume that many here on Slashdot gain insight in the same or similar fashion. In my life I am simply seeking peace. Yea, I've been in war... the 60's were not the especially good time as many have said or seem to remember. Lots of good friends died.
I do ask thought that if you have a way of storing an idea for 5 years and then having it come forward again... I believe that you will be surprised by then (2013) at the shift in understanding of the galaxies and the new wisdom garnered.
I agree that we have a lot to learn yet.
It was not so very long ago that mankind knew that the Sun orbited Earth and perhaps even Earth was the center of the Universe...some people died for this belief... yet now we know differently.
Can you imagine if Louis Pasteur was on Slashdot and he said he thought milk went sour because of invisible bugs in it... he would have been heckled and probably marked a troll.
Or perhaps Sir Issac Newton who had a brilliant insight of the attraction between two bodies and developed the idea of gravity. What would the Slashdot crowd say to him if that was a new theory he just promulgated? Maybe it would be considered just silly.
A new theory still being explored is that each galaxy has two black holes. One is intake and one is output. In addition it appears that these galaxies are strung on a cord of high dimensional energy with each end looping back to or near what may be the Universe's center. This is much like a loose strung string of pearls with each pearl being a galaxy.
The two black holes are not like the two holes in a button but rather like a button with one hole on each side. What occurs where the two black holes meet is not understood.
A car analogy... One side of the galaxy is like the intake valve on an engine. The other side of the galaxy is like the exhaust valve... what is not understood is how the engine works and how it apparently takes little or no space in the galaxy itself... as if it resides in a much higher dimension that needs virtually no space.
I wonder what would we see if our planet resided on the other edge of the galaxy?
Obviously, it is a substitution code.
You read 'Error establishing a database connection'.
I read 'about the love of life, the lovely woman, and the angst of making a choice'.
In spite of your ad hoc answer which contains little valuable information for the readers... why then has skin cancer only increased in spite of sun screen?
Are you saying that the individual's beliefs have nothing to do with whether that person develops skin cancer or not?
What does your science say about that? Why has skin cancer rates increased? Is the sun hotter? Are our bodies weaker? Is the sun screen not working? What does your science say?
FYI
Out west in a few states such as Arizona and New Mexico (and perhaps other states) the speed limit on interstates is 75 mph since the states are so large and the population is usually congregated around large cities. As one approaches metro areas however the speed decreases proportionally.
There are a lot of individuals out there in human land that are feeling a lot of pain and turn to drugs (legal or illegal) as well as alcohol to mask their feelings... if only for a time.
It is as if a cosmic force is increasing the pressure on everyone and that time seems to be flying by when in the old days it seemed to pass at a slower rate. Today it is excruciating and tomorrow perhaps more so. When and where can it end... surely not in more drugs.
Escaping to drugs only seems to work for the issues causing the escape are still there the next day... however the pain is becoming so great in today's world that those whom you never believe would use drugs are now turning to them.
Unfortunately I do not know of a solution. But, it does break my heart to see those I love do so. A friend who is a beautiful blond, 20 years old and has the world by the tail was just prescribed Lithium as a way of coping with her emotional issues. Lithium is a poison to the body... what are the pharmaceutical companies and doctors thinking?
In my mind I compare it to the days of sunscreen. Before sunscreen the sun provided us with a source of vitamin D synthesis and then the doctors said the sun caused cancer and so we now use sunscreen. Now the skin cancer is at a unprecedented rate even using the sunscreen. Go figure?
It is as if there is some correlated relationship between Beliefs and Emotions. It is becoming more murky knowing what to believe in and what not to believe.
Read carefully what DWARG has written here for it is sage advice.
Dale Carnegie used to say that you had to have "the right to talk about it" meaning that the information is from personal experience garnered in the trenches and not from reading a book or guessing.
I have the right to talk about computers for I have been in the business professionally since the early 60's and yet DWARG concisely and eloquently speaks of his "Right to Talk" in his process of interacting with his customers and potential customers.
This could be viewed as an opportunity for the countries to work together but usually these things become opportunities to grab power as the AC above said... so rather than assist mankind it stalls out true progress.
There is a lot wrong with how the Internet is being used for scams, viruses, rootkits, etc. With a few countries working together then maybe more would be interested in joining in the cooperation.
Good ole Douglas Adams... God rest his soul
I believe that life is eternal and that our body(ies) are like shirts. If one gets torn on a nail or worn out then it is discarded and a new one is put on for a new life experience.
The eternal part of us certainly can travel and assist the grieving family members just by being present with them. Time and space is an illusion and the only moment we have is the present one. Basically all time is now.
The eternal part of us knows only love... we as a body tend to exist in a state of fear and yet after enough lifetimes we (our consciousness) tends to shift from the fear side towards the love side.
To call this phenomena a hallucination seems to be a great stretch on somebody's part and certainly such an assumption is not from a level playing field. Of course, for those in fear of an afterlife... calling it a hallucination reduces the personal impact that it might have.
Back in the day of card punches in order to certify that a card punch was working properly a whole box (qty 2000) cards were fed, punched and read with only one error permitted. This was CDC equipment on the CDC 3100 and 3200 models.
If something was not quite adjusted properly usually a failure would occur much earlier in the cycle.
Sending out a new operating system was done with punch cards. A simple bootstrap program was keyed into the core and executed which would input from the card reader and a whole box of cards needed to be read without error.
The CDC card punch (can not remember the model number ... maybe 3114) also had a read station in it so that a read after write cycle could be employed. The error exit could be used to offset the card in the output deck about 1/4 of an inch so that the individual card could be easily located and re-punched.
Reading a lace card was a real dicey test. Usually we alternated rows and columns.
PCOD sounds about right.
God, you are right. How could I mess that up... sigh
I stand corrected
user #90765 with the Linux Counter... # Interpreted as mar 1997
Reminds me of the movie Office Space when the chick only had 15 pieces of bling but the real go getter guy had 37 or something like that... and so the boss was on her about it. It doesn't really make a difference but it does look like something is happening and that someone cares... whether they do or not is pretty much immaterial.
Don't know why you were modded down. Probably a marketing guy got mod points by mistake.
No apology necessary. I thank you for bringing out the points that you did which caused me to reflect further.
I don't necessarily see the memristor as an analog device (although it probably could be used as one like a dimmer switch) where it can have infinite positions but rather as a device that would have a discrete amount of static positions such as 3, 10, 12, etc. and would be just as accurate as a 1 or 0 is in binary.
There are a lot of smart younger individuals like you and others that post here on the board that can see how such a device could streamline computations and aid in unique situations. An example is the comment from the anonymous coward who clarified why the 12 position calculation would be so good for studying and working with the DNA in terms of 4 base types, 3 bases per peptide encoding; 3x4=12.
I sense that the three state device will be the future for most computing work in the future having states of 1, 0, -1 as an example.
Thanks again for replying
That is similar to the population in West Virgina... 3 million people, 5 last names.
Let's start with the Michael Bolton fans
Thanks for the suggestion on the book.
I can write those books and have in the past. My experience stems from 1962 being a systems Analyst for a computer system. In the old days before IC's and even before transistors were a part of computers the vacuum tube was used.
In those days the adder section, rather than being a single chip was composed of discrete components. Once an adder problem was a wire wrap on the back panel that was making poor connection causing it not to promote a "carry" from the previous position.
I really do understand binary but keep in mind that having more than the two states of binary permits a smaller size over all. For instance the 123 I mentioned needs 7 positions in binary but only 3 positions in decinary.
Watch for it. Eventually this will be the going thing. Binary locked us in and was very restrictive while this invention and others in a similar vein will present opportunities we could not imagine before.
Binary was chosen earlier in computer work for it could represent accurately a digit representive such as 1001 equals 9. Also magnetic core memory could hold only the two states.
With memristors (once they are perfected) can have multi-state such as trinary (base 3) or decinary (base 10) eliminating all of the conversion that is neccessary in the present binary system that require cpu cycles. 123 in the decinary system represents 123 where in binary it would be 1111011 and need to be converted in order to be meaningful.
For instance I have heard for those studying DNA that using base 12 has certain benefits in directly expressing information. Perhaps this will open a whole new arena of possibility that previously could only be simulated in binary.
The mind can imagine many new possibilities if the memristor actually is.
They came first to implant those who had Aids/HIV,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Aids/Hiv positive.
Then they came to implant the Protesters of forced implanting,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Protester.
Then they came to implant those who were less than average,
and I did not speak out for I was well educated.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up that hadn't already been implanted.
Thanks for sharing that information
In addition to the Homo neanderthalensis being a sub-specie there is talk of yet a further subdivision of the Homo neanderthalensis into:
A: Chair throwing
B: Non chair throwing
Should say:
Typical well water in Cottonwood Arizona area contains approximately 50 ppb arsenic.
I even previewed my previous post.. duh...