There is a movie theater in Nelsonville, Ohio that still strobes with the lights appearing to chase each other down the long corridors. It bothers me some maybe it is just annoying, but i can see someone who is sensitive to strobing having a reaction to these lights.
It starts outside the theater, and proceeds into the ticket area, then into the snacks area and finally down the hall towards the showing rooms.
It has the same cringing effect on me that hearing music with a lot of chromatic keys being played.
Dr. Michio Kaku also wrote two books back in the 90's. Hyperspace (1994) and Visions (1997) which covers a lot of the very discussions here on Slashdot are being discussed in this topic. Both books are excellent reads.
While working at McDonnell Douglas years ago (before Boeing) I was given a potential problem to solve that mostly management would have liked to have solved but all concurred that a solution was not possible... involved some crypto stuff... so can not say more in detail... sorry.
However I started a rudimentary program and just as someone writes poetry the coding just came to me and as I typed it into the VAX then the next line appeared in my head and in a few hours I had a program that mostly worked. I needed to sort out a few minor coding details, but in another couple hours I had a program that worked.
Where that information came from... I do not know. How it came to me is a puzzle still, yet I hear of writers writing whole chapters in books in this same way or poetry being written stanza after stanza that just materializes . Great orators who can captivate an audience with words... their words come from someplace beyond our simple minds.
Needless to say my management was awestruck and delighted that such a program materialized out of thin air... or maybe it even came from the future... because when I was down editing it the future was then.
Has anyone else here on Slashdot had a similar experience?
Don't use me as an example unless you are looking for a bad one.
I've been around Slashdot since "Day 2" and avoided getting an UID until some reason that made it beneficial... way back when.
I did get out today... did a little metal detecting and fixed some steps for a friend of mine. Finally the weather is changing.
I'm glad to see you post here again EQ. I know the juvenile-ness bothers you some, but you have some unique experiences with your work in crypto that the readers would enjoy. And you have the right to talk about it. Welcome back.
I believe that it is appropriate for the parents to have parental control and supervision of what a 7 year old is browsing and participating when online. this is true whether the child is male or female.
It is as if you are projecting your issues upon your little sister.
Please look within your heart to see how locking out parents physically or emotionally in the long run is inappropriate and will only create angst.
Besides they will simply install windows (or have it installed for them) so they have the parental control back.
I had a similar experience when I was assigned as an additional task to take over a 24x7 computer operations department. The very next day I was ordered to fire the lead computer operator when actually i barely knew the guy. I asked why this individual should be fired and I was told by the regional director at Wang either to fire the operator or I would be fired... you are a bastard Raymond Weiand.
I don't know what the computer operator had on this pathetic Raymond individual but I have not forgotten even though it has been 24 years. Suddenly I feel at peace with it all! Maybe it is out of my crawl finally.
What strikes such fear into these individuals like Raymond that causes them to react so demoniacally?
I stayed at this Hyatt over several different weekends while there was dancing and music on the ground floor. What would happen is that several individuals would get the walkways to start swaying and then reinforce the sway by shifting their bodies at the right instant causing additional sway from the positive feedback. it was not unusual to experience 3 to 4 inches of sway.
Although this swaying is not normally mentioned in the articles about the construction of the Hyatt, it went a long way towards weakening and stressing the connectors supporting the floors.
Two of my friends were dancing on the floor when the walkways gave way and both were killed.
"makes their existing theories still work without being forced to confront the possibility that we really don't have a clue about anything."
Most of the theory right now revolves around our solar system and what occurs there. We have a whole set of formulas to calculate it.
But those formulas fall apart when applied to the very small such as an atom so we make exceptions.
Each planet rotates a given speed based upon its distance from the sun, yet electrons do not follow that same calculation around the proton.
Also now science is seeing that the Galaxies in space are rotating in a manner that also defies their calculations. A galaxy rotates all together nor like our planets whizzing at different speeds causing retrogrades and etc.
There is much to discover and we live at the opportune time to assist in these understandings of how the universe is really designed. We have chosen the perfect time to be here on Earth!
Eventually this will begin to show that the "Big Bang" did not start it all to begin.
As the astronomers equipment gets better, so it will be that science will have to change the reasons behind what it is seeing. Look for postulates of dark energy/matter (multidimensional areas in space), and also postulates of light changing its speed from place to place, depending upon the formula around localized reality, especially the time frame.
This will create new insight as how the Universe is moving.
As we approach the speed of Light then our Time frame changes... this also works in reverse... as time frames change then so does the speed of Light. Some locales in space have different time than that of Earth and therefore the speed of Light is also different.
It is interesting to see what the Supreme Court has ruled upon or refused to advise upon from the past... whether the subject was slavery or other free rights... they constantly get it wrong. Example:
In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories.
The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.
Taney -- a staunch supporter of slavery and intent on protecting southerners from northern aggression -- wrote in the Court's majority opinion that, because Scott was black, he was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue. The framers of the Constitution, he wrote, believed that blacks "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it."
Referring to the language in the Declaration of Independence that includes the phrase, "all men are created equal," Taney reasoned that "it is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration. . .."
I feel that Microsoft will always have a market, however I also sense that the open source movements including Sun will put a major roadblock in their present path of being the 800 lb monkey.
These changes seem to be right in front of us in the now moment and we have a ringside seat to watch it all go down. The next few years are really going to be interesting and will be something that we can tell our children or our children's children about in the future years... how open source came of age and the mighty Goliath(s) fell.
One thing is though we do not definitely know that the speed of Light in another galaxy is the same as ours. Perhaps each particular area of the universe has its own speed based upon its mass or some other unknown quantity.
Right now we assume it is the same and make measurements based upon it... and that is fine for now. One day we will more fully understand about the other galaxies and may need to make adjustments.
Not long ago it was believed the Sun rotated around the Earth and now we believe that the speed of light in the universe is just like ours. time will tell.
Some of the recent work I have been involved with tends to have some anomalies that are not easily sorted out concerning Light speeds and velocities in these areas.
Obviously if a 60 watt light bulb is glowing from this machine and the machine still runs then there is a source of energy coming from someplace. What a neat thing to do as to find that source and understand it.
Gravity certainly could be one source... since no one understands what really causes gravity to begin with, but other sources could be the magnetic field around Earth, or a source that resides in a different dimension that is not obvious to us yet. The scientists are calling it dark energy in regards to "outer space" but most likely in is inter-dimensional energy and the magnets/magnetic fields permits access to this unknown energy.
I would personally like to design or copy such a device just to understand its workings if I could.
Science sometimes becomes bound by their rules not realizing that rules are guidelines only and not universal law.
Some individuals say that the structure between dimensions is getting thinner and so maybe these types of devices are now possible while in the past they were impossible.
I'm convinced that historians will look back on Apollo as the high point of our civilization
I believe we are only a few (3 to 4) years away from being patriotic and supporting America like it was done in the 50's and 60's. Not that we will be at war, but rather true peace. We will have our heroes back and have a bunch of new ones as well. I predict that some individuals will become heroes who even post here on Slashdot for i have read a lot of very thought provoking messages over the last 10 years.
I visualize peace and cooperation in the world beginning to happen at an amazing rate. Perhaps each country will have their share of heroes too... I would be all for that.
Yale, get astonishingly good reviews astonishingly often
My friend Arden who was a straight "A" student in high school exchanged a paper with me that we each wrote. We recopied it in our own handwriting and turned them in for our assignment.
Arden got the "A" and I got the "B" because everyone knew that Arden was smart and an "A" student so his work must be of that caliber.
I, on the other hand was an underachiever thus I deserved the "B".
Double blind would have eliminated that kind of grading... also a work processor would have helped because my handwriting is not very neat... compared to girls'.
Back in the 70's I was a district Manager of ten states and was still technically accomplished so I wrote a rather large document on troubleshooting various stand alone disk drives. I sent the document to all of the engineers/branch managers in my district and then copied all the district managers around the country so they could share the information if they desired. I also sent a copy to my Boss.
My Boss removed my name from the document and put his name in place of it and sent it to all the district managers... which I had already done.
They all called up hooting and laughing at what he did... it was more funny than anything else and it was not too much longer that he was removed from the position. I do not know if that had anything to do with his removal... but I still chuckle at what he did.
There were lots of jokes like that . We joked about it too.
Wang Labs had PC's back in the late 70's based on the Z-80 architecture. The thought process back then was to stay proprietary so no other company could move in on you... what it did was make a lot of companies look like dinosaurs. Wang, Data General, Prime, Honeywell, etc. all went down the tubes because non-interoperability.
Perhaps the best book that I have ever read was "The Soul of the New Machine" by Tracy Kidder... if you are a techie then this is a must read. If I remember right it even won a Pulitzer Prize... it is about a new machine designed by Data General techs beneath the radar of management that kept the company going against all odds. How one man fighting big odds was able to make it happen.
Back in the 70's before hard drives were small enclosed devices, I had worked on a hard drive that would give old outdated data of customer's information... things like an old telephone number, or old contact names, addresses, etc.
The drive used every other cylinder with the idea of one day doubling density of the drive with the addition of a jumper wire on the track counting circuit. Well the zero track sensor was defective and so the disk was formatted twice with each interleaving the other as the first format failed.
Every once in a while while performing a "restore" command which brought the heads back to the zero track the carriage would mistakenly stop on the middle cylinder thus providing old information mistakenly updated previously.
Replacing the track zero sensor did the trick in fixing the problem... everyone thought the drive was possessed by evil spirits as corrected data would mysteriously change itself back to what it was prior to the change.
This was a Wang model 710 and of the 20 mistakes a designer could make in designing a disk drive about 19 were accomplished in the 710's design. The only thing that was done right was pulling it off the market and replacing it with a Diablo model 43.
This problem brought a whole new philosophy about deeper zeros and shallow zeros. Thanks for your post... it re-reminded me of the 710 fiasco.
I was driving around the bypass in Columbus the other day... driving in the next to fastest lane maintaining a speed about 70 mph which is what the traffic was flowing.
I could see in my rear view mirror a SUV that was cutting in and out of traffic moving very fast. I respect others that are in a hurry... happens to all of us at times... anyway the SUV was ready to pass me and suddenly it slowed to match my speed exactly right beside me... thus blocking any escape path i might need.
I looked over to see why a person would slow from 85 to 70 so quickly and here she was pulling out a cell phone and looking at it to dial.
I laid on my horn, holding it down and it so startled her that she dropped the phone and she looked over at me and I pointed my finger at her and she took off at 85 again.
Two point to make:
1: her driving concentration fell way low as she was messing with the cell phone. 2: I realized that I could multi-task by driving and pointing at the same time
Slashdot Mirror
There is a movie theater in Nelsonville, Ohio that still strobes with the lights appearing to chase each other down the long corridors. It bothers me some maybe it is just annoying, but i can see someone who is sensitive to strobing having a reaction to these lights.
It starts outside the theater, and proceeds into the ticket area, then into the snacks area and finally down the hall towards the showing rooms.
It has the same cringing effect on me that hearing music with a lot of chromatic keys being played.
Dr. Michio Kaku also wrote two books back in the 90's. Hyperspace (1994) and Visions (1997) which covers a lot of the very discussions here on Slashdot are being discussed in this topic. Both books are excellent reads.
While working at McDonnell Douglas years ago (before Boeing) I was given a potential problem to solve that mostly management would have liked to have solved but all concurred that a solution was not possible... involved some crypto stuff... so can not say more in detail... sorry.
However I started a rudimentary program and just as someone writes poetry the coding just came to me and as I typed it into the VAX then the next line appeared in my head and in a few hours I had a program that mostly worked. I needed to sort out a few minor coding details, but in another couple hours I had a program that worked.
Where that information came from... I do not know. How it came to me is a puzzle still, yet I hear of writers writing whole chapters in books in this same way or poetry being written stanza after stanza that just materializes . Great orators who can captivate an audience with words... their words come from someplace beyond our simple minds.
Needless to say my management was awestruck and delighted that such a program materialized out of thin air... or maybe it even came from the future... because when I was down editing it the future was then.
Has anyone else here on Slashdot had a similar experience?
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Don't use me as an example unless you are looking for a bad one.
I've been around Slashdot since "Day 2" and avoided getting an UID until some reason that made it beneficial... way back when.
I did get out today... did a little metal detecting and fixed some steps for a friend of mine. Finally the weather is changing.
I'm glad to see you post here again EQ. I know the juvenile-ness bothers you some, but you have some unique experiences with your work in crypto that the readers would enjoy. And you have the right to talk about it. Welcome back.
From the article "Can you imagine some of the expansion pack titles we could've seen?"
I misread that as titties as first and thought "Whaaat?"
I need to get out more.
"Oh, and that turn signal thingy...try using is occasionally."
Here in Appalachia if a vehicle has its turn signal on then it usually indicates that the vehicle was shipped from the factory that way.
I believe that it is appropriate for the parents to have parental control and supervision of what a 7 year old is browsing and participating when online. this is true whether the child is male or female.
It is as if you are projecting your issues upon your little sister.
Please look within your heart to see how locking out parents physically or emotionally in the long run is inappropriate and will only create angst.
Besides they will simply install windows (or have it installed for them) so they have the parental control back.
Your aim seems to be missing the mark.
"Fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
I had a similar experience when I was assigned as an additional task to take over a 24x7 computer operations department. The very next day I was ordered to fire the lead computer operator when actually i barely knew the guy. I asked why this individual should be fired and I was told by the regional director at Wang either to fire the operator or I would be fired... you are a bastard Raymond Weiand.
I don't know what the computer operator had on this pathetic Raymond individual but I have not forgotten even though it has been 24 years. Suddenly I feel at peace with it all! Maybe it is out of my crawl finally.
What strikes such fear into these individuals like Raymond that causes them to react so demoniacally?
I stayed at this Hyatt over several different weekends while there was dancing and music on the ground floor. What would happen is that several individuals would get the walkways to start swaying and then reinforce the sway by shifting their bodies at the right instant causing additional sway from the positive feedback. it was not unusual to experience 3 to 4 inches of sway.
Although this swaying is not normally mentioned in the articles about the construction of the Hyatt, it went a long way towards weakening and stressing the connectors supporting the floors.
Two of my friends were dancing on the floor when the walkways gave way and both were killed.
"makes their existing theories still work without being forced to confront the possibility that we really don't have a clue about anything."
Most of the theory right now revolves around our solar system and what occurs there. We have a whole set of formulas to calculate it.
But those formulas fall apart when applied to the very small such as an atom so we make exceptions.
Each planet rotates a given speed based upon its distance from the sun, yet electrons do not follow that same calculation around the proton.
Also now science is seeing that the Galaxies in space are rotating in a manner that also defies their calculations. A galaxy rotates all together nor like our planets whizzing at different speeds causing retrogrades and etc.
There is much to discover and we live at the opportune time to assist in these understandings of how the universe is really designed. We have chosen the perfect time to be here on Earth!
Eventually this will begin to show that the "Big Bang" did not start it all to begin.
As the astronomers equipment gets better, so it will be that science will have to change the reasons behind what it is seeing. Look for postulates of dark energy/matter (multidimensional areas in space), and also postulates of light changing its speed from place to place, depending upon the formula around localized reality, especially the time frame.
This will create new insight as how the Universe is moving.
As we approach the speed of Light then our Time frame changes... this also works in reverse... as time frames change then so does the speed of Light. Some locales in space have different time than that of Earth and therefore the speed of Light is also different.
It is interesting to see what the Supreme Court has ruled upon or refused to advise upon from the past... whether the subject was slavery or other free rights... they constantly get it wrong. Example:
."
In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories.
The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.
Taney -- a staunch supporter of slavery and intent on protecting southerners from northern aggression -- wrote in the Court's majority opinion that, because Scott was black, he was not a citizen and therefore had no right to sue. The framers of the Constitution, he wrote, believed that blacks "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold and treated as an ordinary article of merchandise and traffic, whenever profit could be made by it."
Referring to the language in the Declaration of Independence that includes the phrase, "all men are created equal," Taney reasoned that "it is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration. . .
props to PBS
This is the same Catch-22...
Please mod up if you would please. thanks
I feel that Microsoft will always have a market, however I also sense that the open source movements including Sun will put a major roadblock in their present path of being the 800 lb monkey.
These changes seem to be right in front of us in the now moment and we have a ringside seat to watch it all go down. The next few years are really going to be interesting and will be something that we can tell our children or our children's children about in the future years... how open source came of age and the mighty Goliath(s) fell.
Good insight.
One thing is though we do not definitely know that the speed of Light in another galaxy is the same as ours. Perhaps each particular area of the universe has its own speed based upon its mass or some other unknown quantity.
Right now we assume it is the same and make measurements based upon it... and that is fine for now. One day we will more fully understand about the other galaxies and may need to make adjustments.
Not long ago it was believed the Sun rotated around the Earth and now we believe that the speed of light in the universe is just like ours. time will tell.
Some of the recent work I have been involved with tends to have some anomalies that are not easily sorted out concerning Light speeds and velocities in these areas.
Obviously if a 60 watt light bulb is glowing from this machine and the machine still runs then there is a source of energy coming from someplace. What a neat thing to do as to find that source and understand it.
Gravity certainly could be one source... since no one understands what really causes gravity to begin with, but other sources could be the magnetic field around Earth, or a source that resides in a different dimension that is not obvious to us yet. The scientists are calling it dark energy in regards to "outer space" but most likely in is inter-dimensional energy and the magnets/magnetic fields permits access to this unknown energy.
I would personally like to design or copy such a device just to understand its workings if I could.
Science sometimes becomes bound by their rules not realizing that rules are guidelines only and not universal law.
Some individuals say that the structure between dimensions is getting thinner and so maybe these types of devices are now possible while in the past they were impossible.
See... Bush is not dumb
Two birds with one stone
I'm convinced that historians will look back on Apollo as the high point of our civilization
I believe we are only a few (3 to 4) years away from being patriotic and supporting America like it was done in the 50's and 60's. Not that we will be at war, but rather true peace. We will have our heroes back and have a bunch of new ones as well. I predict that some individuals will become heroes who even post here on Slashdot for i have read a lot of very thought provoking messages over the last 10 years.
I visualize peace and cooperation in the world beginning to happen at an amazing rate. Perhaps each country will have their share of heroes too... I would be all for that.
Yale, get astonishingly good reviews astonishingly often
My friend Arden who was a straight "A" student in high school exchanged a paper with me that we each wrote. We recopied it in our own handwriting and turned them in for our assignment.
Arden got the "A" and I got the "B" because everyone knew that Arden was smart and an "A" student so his work must be of that caliber.
I, on the other hand was an underachiever thus I deserved the "B".
Double blind would have eliminated that kind of grading... also a work processor would have helped because my handwriting is not very neat... compared to girls'.
Back in the 70's I was a district Manager of ten states and was still technically accomplished so I wrote a rather large document on troubleshooting various stand alone disk drives. I sent the document to all of the engineers/branch managers in my district and then copied all the district managers around the country so they could share the information if they desired. I also sent a copy to my Boss.
My Boss removed my name from the document and put his name in place of it and sent it to all the district managers... which I had already done.
They all called up hooting and laughing at what he did... it was more funny than anything else and it was not too much longer that he was removed from the position. I do not know if that had anything to do with his removal... but I still chuckle at what he did.
New Mexico is not Mexico
No, but at its present rate... it soon will be.
There were lots of jokes like that . We joked about it too.
Wang Labs had PC's back in the late 70's based on the Z-80 architecture. The thought process back then was to stay proprietary so no other company could move in on you... what it did was make a lot of companies look like dinosaurs. Wang, Data General, Prime, Honeywell, etc. all went down the tubes because non-interoperability.
Perhaps the best book that I have ever read was "The Soul of the New Machine" by Tracy Kidder... if you are a techie then this is a must read. If I remember right it even won a Pulitzer Prize... it is about a new machine designed by Data General techs beneath the radar of management that kept the company going against all odds. How one man fighting big odds was able to make it happen.
It is the same rules as in a knife fight... "There are no rules in a knife fight" - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/quotes
Back in the 70's before hard drives were small enclosed devices, I had worked on a hard drive that would give old outdated data of customer's information... things like an old telephone number, or old contact names, addresses, etc.
The drive used every other cylinder with the idea of one day doubling density of the drive with the addition of a jumper wire on the track counting circuit. Well the zero track sensor was defective and so the disk was formatted twice with each interleaving the other as the first format failed.
Every once in a while while performing a "restore" command which brought the heads back to the zero track the carriage would mistakenly stop on the middle cylinder thus providing old information mistakenly updated previously.
Replacing the track zero sensor did the trick in fixing the problem... everyone thought the drive was possessed by evil spirits as corrected data would mysteriously change itself back to what it was prior to the change.
This was a Wang model 710 and of the 20 mistakes a designer could make in designing a disk drive about 19 were accomplished in the 710's design. The only thing that was done right was pulling it off the market and replacing it with a Diablo model 43.
This problem brought a whole new philosophy about deeper zeros and shallow zeros. Thanks for your post... it re-reminded me of the 710 fiasco.
I was driving around the bypass in Columbus the other day... driving in the next to fastest lane maintaining a speed about 70 mph which is what the traffic was flowing.
I could see in my rear view mirror a SUV that was cutting in and out of traffic moving very fast. I respect others that are in a hurry... happens to all of us at times... anyway the SUV was ready to pass me and suddenly it slowed to match my speed exactly right beside me... thus blocking any escape path i might need.
I looked over to see why a person would slow from 85 to 70 so quickly and here she was pulling out a cell phone and looking at it to dial.
I laid on my horn, holding it down and it so startled her that she dropped the phone and she looked over at me and I pointed my finger at her and she took off at 85 again.
Two point to make:
1: her driving concentration fell way low as she was messing with the cell phone.
2: I realized that I could multi-task by driving and pointing at the same time