Thank you for your interesting post. I'll actually keep it in mind if I will ever have children myself.
I have had the plan for a long time to help them with foreign languages as well. Reading your paragraph about this makes me wonder right now if one cannot just turn on, say, a Japanese TV program for children or a simple audio book. You/we might not understand the language, but it might give your child a feeling/foundation for that language (or at least its sounds and pronunciation) which might really help later in life. A bit later one could then switch to a Pimsleur language programming or something like that.;)
And starting with sarcasm at two years old... I bet she'll become a Slashdot poster with great karma later in life!;P
Heavens Above is also wonderful for predicting so-called Iridium flares. These are bright flashes of light caused by the satellite in question reflecting the light of the Sun. These can reach a magnitude of -8 and -9... can be very spectatular to see. A bit like a small lighthouse in the sky.:)
If you're really enthusiastic, you can build your own laser to point to the correct spot in the sky!;)
I only want to add that a platform like Yahoo is running isn't converted to a Microsoft-based 'solution' in a single day.
This does give the various projects and people some time to consider there options. Someone like Rasmus Lerdorf is not likely to give up his own project, just because the company he's working for is bought.
I bet there are other companies, and not just Google, who might be very interested in having someone with his expertise onboard.. if only just to claim that he's working for your company.
Things will be shaken up, but I tagged this 'wewilladapt' for a reason.:)
I recently read somewhere (if only I could recall the link...) that on average Google's MapReduce jobs process something in the order of 100 GB/second, 24/7/365
I've got nothing against RDBMS... but how can you be critical about a tool that scales and performs so well? It's just a matter of selecting and using the right tool for the job.
But it might depend a bit on how one bends definitions (min/max distance between receivers etc.)..
"The antennas are simple enough but there are a lot of them - 25000 in the full LOFAR design. To make radio pictures of the sky with adequate sharpness, these antennas are to be arranged in clusters that are spread out over an area of ultimately 350 km in diameter. (In phase 1 that is currently funded 15000 antenna's and maximum baselines of 100 km will be built). Data transport requirements are in the range of many Tera-bits/sec and the processing power needed is tens of Tera-FLOPS."
http://www.lofar.org/p/geninfo.htm
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That is such a cool idea!
(Could perhaps be great idea for a PhD project to research this idea further)
Thank you for your interesting post. I'll actually keep it in mind if I will ever have children myself.
;)
;P
I have had the plan for a long time to help them with foreign languages as well. Reading your paragraph about this makes me wonder right now if one cannot just turn on, say, a Japanese TV program for children or a simple audio book. You/we might not understand the language, but it might give your child a feeling/foundation for that language (or at least its sounds and pronunciation) which might really help later in life. A bit later one could then switch to a Pimsleur language programming or something like that.
And starting with sarcasm at two years old... I bet she'll become a Slashdot poster with great karma later in life!
If you're really enthusiastic, you can build your own laser to point to the correct spot in the sky!
And if you want to be up to date all the time, why not download the OSX Iridium Flare Dashboard widget?
Happy flare spotting!
That's an interesting list, thanks!
I only want to add that a platform like Yahoo is running isn't converted to a Microsoft-based 'solution' in a single day.
This does give the various projects and people some time to consider there options. Someone like Rasmus Lerdorf is not likely to give up his own project, just because the company he's working for is bought.
I bet there are other companies, and not just Google, who might be very interested in having someone with his expertise onboard.. if only just to claim that he's working for your company.
Things will be shaken up, but I tagged this 'wewilladapt' for a reason.
A bit OT, but I just have to say that the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong"-tag makes me chuckle every single time. :))
They should have used a Token Ring... my pwwweeccioussss! ;p
./! (you forgot the dot or exclamation mark ;))
The spice^W ethanol expands consciousness~
RFID For Dummies (Paperback)
;)
by Patrick J. Sweeney II
http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Dummies-Patrick-J-Sweeney/dp/076457910X
Perhaps you can add a chapter to the next release though
I'm afraid that that has a dependency on Common Sense 1.0
TeleFrag accidents are known
That's not a problem; just make sure you don't sign her public key!
http://xkcd.com/364/
(And almost a Freudian typo slipped in.. yes, you betcha, pun intended in this sentence as well)
Agreed.
I recently read somewhere (if only I could recall the link...) that on average Google's MapReduce jobs process something in the order of 100 GB/second, 24/7/365
I've got nothing against RDBMS... but how can you be critical about a tool that scales and performs so well? It's just a matter of selecting and using the right tool for the job.
Just be careful and practice safe search!
Then there's one middle road between greed and science: becoming an entrepreneur selling new, innovative products.
Preferably in the green/eco area because the world really needs to change in that field.
Chucky Egg for me as well. But on the Acorn BBC Micro (AWESOME machine, still own it).
;D
Along with games like Repton and Castle Quest. I still hope to reach the end of the latter.
What!?!? The content of this stuff in fresh air already varies between 0.03% (300 ppm) and 0.06% (600 ppm), and I'm running out of duct tape! :O
Is it just me who recognizes Dilbert in that emoticon? :p
There is indeed such a thing as the GIL: God's Interpreter Lock. ;)
http://www.lofar.org/
But it might depend a bit on how one bends definitions (min/max distance between receivers etc.)..
"The antennas are simple enough but there are a lot of them - 25000 in the full LOFAR design. To make radio pictures of the sky with adequate sharpness, these antennas are to be arranged in clusters that are spread out over an area of ultimately 350 km in diameter. (In phase 1 that is currently funded 15000 antenna's and maximum baselines of 100 km will be built). Data transport requirements are in the range of many Tera-bits/sec and the processing power needed is tens of Tera-FLOPS."
http://www.lofar.org/p/geninfo.htm
and vote with your dollars I'd say. This is not acceptable.
You can be sure that they will welcome their Russian overlords. :)
:p
Europeans also love Vodka and play chess to keep warm!
In this case I'd tend to say that it's high school though. ;)
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