I admire Clarke as much as anybody here, but he admits he did not invent the geostationary orbit (though he was the first to suggest using the orbit for communications satellites). The idea had been proposed as early as the 19th century by Tsiolkovsky. Citation available here (paywalled, sorry, but you can get the gist from the abstract).
Inspired by his never ending quest for progress, in 2084 man perfects the robotrons: A robot species so advanced that man is inferior to his own creation. Guided by their infallible logic, the robotrons conclude: The human race is inefficient and therefore must be destroyed. You are the last hope of mankind, due to a genetic engineering error, you possess superhuman powers. Your Mission is to stop the robotrons, and SAVE THE LAST HUMAN FAMILY.
Get a Kano. Yes, it's just a Raspberry Pi, but first off, your kid has to assemble it (hardware!), and it comes loaded with many of the products already mentioned here, such as Scratch, a Scratch-modifiable version of Minecraft, and a couple of others.
I got it for my kid when he was 10, but it is really geared towards younger children. Age seven should be just perfect.
"... natural language is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming. "
They are actually lobbying for the passage of bills which would provide them with some compensation. They are not protesting the test which took place 70 years ago.
I know this because I read the leaflet they handed to me at the site.
"... this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality"
Agreed! Domain Registration != Domain Hosting. If you ever wondered who owns the domain you have hosted somewhere, do a who is and find out who the domain is really registered to.
In my case, my employer gives me Health Care Spending account money based on how many steps I log on my fitbit. So even if my phone can do the function, it won't get me my money.
Author Susan Cain wrote about the current cult of the extroverted personality and how it excludes other personality types. She wrote a book about it that you may find interesting.
If they won't treat us as guests, at least treat us as paying customers, not just more eye balls they can sell to advertisers. Maybe all that advertising (not the movie previews) really has degraded the movie-going experience?
A lot of people like monopoly, in spite of it being a terrible game. For those folk, the following video from this fellow Scott Nicholson could be mind opening
Very cool hack! Back in my younger days, I met a lab technician who would impress the much younger engineers by displaying broadcast TV on an oscilloscope.
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I admire Clarke as much as anybody here, but he admits he did not invent the geostationary orbit (though he was the first to suggest using the orbit for communications satellites). The idea had been proposed as early as the 19th century by Tsiolkovsky. Citation available here (paywalled, sorry, but you can get the gist from the abstract).
Choice quote: "Lena became for the engineers something like what Rita Hayworth was for U.S. soldiers in the trenches of World War II."
More historical background available here and here.
Inspired by his never ending quest for progress, in 2084 man perfects the robotrons: A robot species so advanced that man is inferior to his own creation. Guided by their infallible logic, the robotrons conclude: The human race is inefficient and therefore must be destroyed. You are the last hope of mankind, due to a genetic engineering error, you possess superhuman powers. Your Mission is to stop the robotrons, and SAVE THE LAST HUMAN FAMILY.
...will not be tweeted.
Get a Kano. Yes, it's just a Raspberry Pi, but first off, your kid has to assemble it (hardware!), and it comes loaded with many of the products already mentioned here, such as Scratch, a Scratch-modifiable version of Minecraft, and a couple of others. I got it for my kid when he was 10, but it is really geared towards younger children. Age seven should be just perfect.
Edsger Dijkstra - 1966
They are actually lobbying for the passage of bills which would provide them with some compensation. They are not protesting the test which took place 70 years ago. I know this because I read the leaflet they handed to me at the site.
... If women en masse knew that they could manipulate most men with a sweet smile and some relevant conversation, many of us would be doomed.
Don't worry, they already know and we are doomed.
- Plato on writing in the Phaedrus dialogue
Agreed! Domain Registration != Domain Hosting. If you ever wondered who owns the domain you have hosted somewhere, do a who is and find out who the domain is really registered to.
I mean it's so bad, drug gangs have to kidnap people to get IT support! This program is just a market response to that huge demand
...if I find the billion dollar solid titanium asteroid that Planetary Resources is going to harvest?
http://www.victorypointgames.c...
In my case, my employer gives me Health Care Spending account money based on how many steps I log on my fitbit. So even if my phone can do the function, it won't get me my money.
Indeed, image processing is making huge strides lately. Check out the technology developed by Clarifai for image recognition and categorization.
From the history books:
Declassified NSA Document Reveals the Secret History of TEMPEST
Surely you jest, but to go along with you, we must remember that H.G. Wells wrote about the Martian invaders using a "heat ray" in 1898.
...goes that they wanted to name the invention Light Oscillation by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, but nobody would like a LOSER
Could anyone do it in one line of APL?
The ULA CEO, Tory Bruno, has already offered to help SpaceX fix their problems with landing boosters. Everybody is playing nice! :)
Author Susan Cain wrote about the current cult of the extroverted personality and how it excludes other personality types. She wrote a book about it that you may find interesting.
If they won't treat us as guests, at least treat us as paying customers, not just more eye balls they can sell to advertisers. Maybe all that advertising (not the movie previews) really has degraded the movie-going experience?
A lot of people like monopoly, in spite of it being a terrible game. For those folk, the following video from this fellow Scott Nicholson could be mind opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(skip the first two or so minutes of puppet show to get to the good parts)
Very cool hack! Back in my younger days, I met a lab technician who would impress the much younger engineers by displaying broadcast TV on an oscilloscope.
That question was asked by Bruce L. Gary and the answer is what he wrote in his free book: EXOPLANET OBSERVING
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