We'll never solve population pressure with space travel, it costs too much to get into orbit. But I'd bet the Chinese are considering mining operations off planet.
Agreed, it was a problem with the first record this crew did with Thrust SSC. The wind tunnel work they did was almost all about stopping take-off and the nose of the craft was packed with sensors monitoring for catastrophic lift.
I met Nobel and Andy the pilot/driver when Thrust SSC was going and they are both very enthusiastic, utterly committed to breaking land speed records and madder than a sack of badgers.
Green said the weirdest thing about the whole drive was dealing with the brain's capacity to process relative speed, or rather the lack of ability to do so. At the end of the run he'd found himself getting ready to brake hard as the vehicle felt like it was going slowly enough and found he was still going around 400mph.
The paper looks very interesting and should be another reason for a full grid upgrade, so we can use smarter power systems. It's a pity Edison's idea of local power stations never took off. Such a system would be much more fault tolerant and scalable. The same thing could be done now with pebble nuclear reactors.
Well, not exactly. Once the petition is signed by more than 500 signatures the government has to make a response. However, you are right in that the response is usually worthless.
I've seen similar birthday plans scheduled for October 29th (first hard link) or even December. It's one of those unknowable things, but an entertaining article nevertheless.
Actually I suspect not. Intel traditionally has been quite cagey about releasing exact specs while being very free for generalised bullshit about morphing materials and the like.
If they are saying they will reach 4nm they probably have already figured out either a way to do it, or the method they will use to do it successfully once they've built the materials to do it with, within the time frame. It leaves them a lot of wiggle room later on of course, as you pointed out.
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You're not alone.
Apparently Bill Gates had a screaming row with Paul Allen after Allen bunked off with two workmates for 24 hours so they could get down to watch the first shuttle launch.
No, none of the participants knew until they arrived at the site. She was relatively low down on the food chain but they were (presumably) security checked, given orders of where to turn up and then told and ordered to sign the act. Apparently this was the case for the high end code breakers themselves as well.
She was a little bitter, but the main reason was that for 40+ years she wasn't even allowed to tell her family or husband what she had done, which caused some unpleasantness for her among people who assumed she'd slacked off during the war. Then when she could no-one understood the significance of what she had taken part in.
Almost all of the staff were draftees, doing their military service at the camp. I never heard anyone complain about the money - it was what people did in war time. Indeed Tommy Flowers spent more than the £1,000 he received to build Colossus. But with the war won they couldn't talk about what they had done until the 1980s and their extraordinary contribution has never been officially recognised.
Well my Sinclair ZX81 still works, just about, around 25 years after we got it. Sadly the 16Kb RAM pack is toast, so there's not much you can do with it.
As a British citizen I'd say that this practice was an absolute outrage. If someone has been officially charged and found guilty then fair enough, a DNA profile is justified as part of the price of doing the crime. But to do this merely on arrest is a gross affront to civil liberties and one that has left 1/12 of the population on this database.
The argument is often made that it is a handy tool for solving past crimes and if you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear. I beg to differ.
There have already been cases of criminals planting false DNA on crime scenes (Dr. John Schneeberger of Canada) and, while the technology is very useful, it is not the be all and end all of evidence.
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Once an author becomes really successful, as Stephenson rightfully is, editors refuse to push hard enough for cuts. Instead, like the later works of Dickens, we get overbearing and flabby books.
Unlike the reviewer I stuck with the Baroque Cycle, after begging my local bookshop daily for an advanced copy. But by book three I was just in 'what's the point' mode, as it went on and on with no conceivable point.
Stephenson needs to tighten up his writing. Zodiac was a beautifully crafted bit of work, and Snow Crash too. Cryptomonicon, while high on the favourites list, suffered a bit from Dickens Syndrome (Turing's bike chain) but this was occasionally worthwhile due to humour (Captain Crunch).
So I've held off on buying this one and ordered it from the library to see if it's worthwhile before investing in a copy.
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"My sweet, you know how you said you wanted to travel..."
Seriously, my better half would find me in the darkest Arsia Mons caves, and there'd be bloody murder.
Sure, but in 20 years who is going to have more funds to throw at space travel - the US or China?
We'll never solve population pressure with space travel, it costs too much to get into orbit. But I'd bet the Chinese are considering mining operations off planet.
Facehugger anyone? Seriously though, how many of us would sign up for a one-way trip? I'd do it in a heartbeat, but the wife would kill me.
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Agreed, it was a problem with the first record this crew did with Thrust SSC. The wind tunnel work they did was almost all about stopping take-off and the nose of the craft was packed with sensors monitoring for catastrophic lift.
I met Nobel and Andy the pilot/driver when Thrust SSC was going and they are both very enthusiastic, utterly committed to breaking land speed records and madder than a sack of badgers. Green said the weirdest thing about the whole drive was dealing with the brain's capacity to process relative speed, or rather the lack of ability to do so. At the end of the run he'd found himself getting ready to brake hard as the vehicle felt like it was going slowly enough and found he was still going around 400mph.
The paper looks very interesting and should be another reason for a full grid upgrade, so we can use smarter power systems. It's a pity Edison's idea of local power stations never took off. Such a system would be much more fault tolerant and scalable. The same thing could be done now with pebble nuclear reactors.
Well, not exactly. Once the petition is signed by more than 500 signatures the government has to make a response. However, you are right in that the response is usually worthless.
I've seen similar birthday plans scheduled for October 29th (first hard link) or even December. It's one of those unknowable things, but an entertaining article nevertheless.
At least pick one that works.
Actually I suspect not. Intel traditionally has been quite cagey about releasing exact specs while being very free for generalised bullshit about morphing materials and the like. If they are saying they will reach 4nm they probably have already figured out either a way to do it, or the method they will use to do it successfully once they've built the materials to do it with, within the time frame. It leaves them a lot of wiggle room later on of course, as you pointed out.
You're not alone.
Apparently Bill Gates had a screaming row with Paul Allen after Allen bunked off with two workmates for 24 hours so they could get down to watch the first shuttle launch.
No, none of the participants knew until they arrived at the site. She was relatively low down on the food chain but they were (presumably) security checked, given orders of where to turn up and then told and ordered to sign the act. Apparently this was the case for the high end code breakers themselves as well.
A fascinating piece of history, I'm glad she's getting what she deserves.
She was a little bitter, but the main reason was that for 40+ years she wasn't even allowed to tell her family or husband what she had done, which caused some unpleasantness for her among people who assumed she'd slacked off during the war. Then when she could no-one understood the significance of what she had taken part in.
I see your point on this, although their work did enable many servicemen and women to come home alive.
Almost all of the staff were draftees, doing their military service at the camp. I never heard anyone complain about the money - it was what people did in war time. Indeed Tommy Flowers spent more than the £1,000 he received to build Colossus. But with the war won they couldn't talk about what they had done until the 1980s and their extraordinary contribution has never been officially recognised.
Cheers to both of you, good ideas.
Well my Sinclair ZX81 still works, just about, around 25 years after we got it. Sadly the 16Kb RAM pack is toast, so there's not much you can do with it.
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The Queen can whistle for it as far as I am concerned, and that goes double for her idiot son.
As a British citizen I'd say that this practice was an absolute outrage. If someone has been officially charged and found guilty then fair enough, a DNA profile is justified as part of the price of doing the crime. But to do this merely on arrest is a gross affront to civil liberties and one that has left 1/12 of the population on this database.
The argument is often made that it is a handy tool for solving past crimes and if you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear. I beg to differ.
There have already been cases of criminals planting false DNA on crime scenes (Dr. John Schneeberger of Canada) and, while the technology is very useful, it is not the be all and end all of evidence.
Once an author becomes really successful, as Stephenson rightfully is, editors refuse to push hard enough for cuts. Instead, like the later works of Dickens, we get overbearing and flabby books. Unlike the reviewer I stuck with the Baroque Cycle, after begging my local bookshop daily for an advanced copy. But by book three I was just in 'what's the point' mode, as it went on and on with no conceivable point. Stephenson needs to tighten up his writing. Zodiac was a beautifully crafted bit of work, and Snow Crash too. Cryptomonicon, while high on the favourites list, suffered a bit from Dickens Syndrome (Turing's bike chain) but this was occasionally worthwhile due to humour (Captain Crunch). So I've held off on buying this one and ordered it from the library to see if it's worthwhile before investing in a copy.