So that was the number of years that you needed ovules for. The average women got married at 12 and died at, say, 24. That's 12 years of being fertile. That's all the ovules it needed.
You might want to rethink that, a few searches seem to indicate that the onset of puberty was later than 12 as recently as a few hundred years ago, so you have a very short breeding life, particularly given that some if not all of the spike in mortality in the mid-20s is probably due to childbirth.
Just looking at clothes from the civil war era, dresses don't seem to be cut for much if any bust until adult height (maybe age 16-17). I found this information to support that idea. A few hundred years isn't enough for evolution to have a measurable effect, and the paper suggests that diet is a large factor, so I think your suggested breeding age of 12 is very low.
I would offer instead the idea that thousands of years ago, when any evolutionary value would have time to express its value, that women became able to conceive in their late teens, and many did not survive their first pregnancy. That assumption fits the mortality spike far better, and there would be evolutionary value to many eggs so that the women who could survive childbirth with minimal medical care could produce more offspring.
I wonder if this offers faster or better recovery from burns? Currently severe burns require grafts because dermal tissue regenerates poorly or not at all. Even if this could only help speed growth of auto-graft tissue production it would be a benefit.
Nothing beats an afternoon of watching dBan and a comfy chair. Beer or whisky optional.
Not sure the beverage is optional for that, but I agree that dban rules! You are almost certainly better protected against data recovery with dban, unless you have a handy plasma torch to randomize the ones and zeros.
Based on my own experiences and those of which I've read since 2.6 came out, as features have been added performance has gone down. Only the release of cheap fast hardware has kept this from being obvious. Unless there's a good reason to go 2.6 it will probably help performance to keep it simple.
This can lead to a question of who morally owns the invention, the person who pays to do the research or the person who does the research. That has no legal weight, but may be worth discussing.
Since the university wouldn't have rights to this if the research was independently funded, I assume for discussion the government paid for the research and the university owns the patent. The obvious improvement would be if taxpayer money funded the research, then some of the royalties should go back to the government to at least give some reward to the people who really paid for it. However, the law need not make sense or be fair, so that's not the way it works.
It would seem reasonable that if taxes pay for an invention that it should be licensed without fee to people who use the method to create goods, services, or software which they give away. This returns benefit to the people who funded the research in a more diffuse way than sending money, but still seems a reasonable policy. As described this was a for-profit use so it doesn't seem different than any other user in that sense.
If the inventor was paid to work on the research, it seems to leave no legal claim and a very weak moral claim on the work product. Grad students and interns are cheap labor, but they are clearly being paid to do a job, and in the case of research the job is to discover new things.
Many of these images were taken with excessive spacing between the views, which makes things "pop-up" unnaturally. This is fine when used to add texture to something almost flat, at least compared to the distance from the eye to the object, but the Brooklyn pictures look particularly fake, and many others are "just wrong."
I used to do this for a living several careers ago, doing 1500x photomicrography pairs at a research lab. I have no trouble viewing, but some are not lifelike, at least defined as "as the eye would see it." An interesting collection for all of that.
When using a telephoto lens, the distance between views should be the interpupilary distance times the zoom, or 195mm for 3x zoom, as an example. Trying to show the contour of a mountain miles away, I did once use a separation of about 10m, but that was to compensate for the zoom and exaggerate the depth to locate features, and was not intended to be lifelike.
Any organization which connects critical infrastructure to the Internet suffers from either stupidity or arrogance. That is, they either don't understand the problem or they believe that they are smarter than everyone else and can construct perfect defenses against data theft and more active intrusion.
That seems to include a good bit of the military and business organizations in many places, including the USA.
The important thing is to pick a language which is well suited to what you want to do! Anyone who tells you that "the language to learn is something" is wrong. There are too many languages to consider any one as the language. Modern languages which fit certain tasks include C for system tasks, C++ for applications where overlays and objects are useful, javascript for things which need to run on the client system, perl for things which benefit from string handling and associative arrays, etc. Note that the list of languages is not complete, nor are the areas of usefulness mentioned anything more than hints, many problems solve equally well using the features of any of several languages.
Having programmed for a living for decades, I have found that a language which includes features relevant to the task will result in much less effort in writing and maintaining the code. So pick a problem which interests you, and pick a language which helps solve that problem (not one you think you should learn which isn't a good fit). Embrace the strengths of the language you choose, don't be one of those people we used to say "can write FORTRAN in any language."
Of all the code from discontinued projects which vanished, I would have liked to see the MULTICS code released. Instead, I'm told that Honeywell wouldn't even sell the code, reasons unclear.
Having worked on that code decades ago, and seen how close the modern Intel/AMD processors are to the features of the original GE-645 CPU (four rings instead of eight), it would seem that MULTICS could be ported to such processors, making all the application code written for MULTICS (mostly in PL/1) available again.
I guess I'm a dreamer, but even if the code needed to be emulated, ala bochs it would probably run as fast as the 70s processors.
1 - you are misinterpreting what you see, the O/S has swap (as it should) but it not using it.
2 - you have so much stuff running (or the OS does) that the excess must be paged out to swap. This is possible with VISTA.
3 - the OS is just doing a bad job handling memory. I don't see anything like this on Linux, so it's not a feature of "modern operating systems" but may be a feature of a legacy system like VISTA.
You claim the rich pay a disproportionate amount of tax, what is your standard on which you base this? Certainly not disposable income, that over and above what's needed for a reasonable standard of living. Certainly not in terms of how their lifestyle would change if they had their tax money to spend.
Perhaps you think only in terms of income tax rates without considering the tax games played by the rich. Only the stupid rich pay those rates, there are many legal ways to reduce taxes which are available to those who regard "more money" as investment capital rather than a chance to upgrade the kids lunches.
On the principle that any good science will be used for evil purposes I postulate that this will lead to a new generation of undetectable performance enhancing drugs.
You wouldn't want to waste this capability doing useful research, would you?
When I wake up on Wednesday morning, my fervent hopes are that this election is a blowout and will not have to be decided again by the courts.
Actually there's worse case, imagine Bob Barr and Ralph Nader getting just a few votes, and Maine splitting, so each major candidate get less than 270. That throws the election into the House of Representatives. Biggest circus since they closed the Colosseum!
WNYC (NYC, obviously), WAMC (Albany NY), WFSU (Florida State University) all should have live audio election coverage, add ".org" to the call letters. Also bbc.co.uk should have a live channel, cnn.com (there are serious issues with Linux playing their live feed, though), or politics.msnbc.com.
So lots of places you can at least listen online, some you can probably watch.
Opening a closed but not locked door and entering a building without permission is still against the law. It is called breaking and entering.
Trespass. An unforced entry is not "breaking" unless there's some odd local law on B&E.
He is not being punished for "wanting to do" something, he has not been punished for anything yet. He has been charged with a crime for something he did, namely "computer trespass" for accessing a system without permission.
He used his student password to get in. The school gave him the password he used. And looking around a computer to which you have been given access is hardly hacking, finding documentation, schedules, and similar public administrative information is why they give students the password in the first place, I assume.
As a multi-time jurist, I think there's a boatload of reasonable doubt that he did anything wrong, much less illegal. I hope he has a real lawyer to keep him from doing a plea, at least based on the evidence currently in public.
You really need to know the thrust developed here before you can tell if this means anything, or at least anything which is going to change the paradigm for space travel.
The important thing may be the exit velocity, the thrust per unit weight of propellant goes up with velocity, but the energy needed goes up with square of velocity. So fast exhaust saves fuel but takes more energy.
I recently attended a talk on electronic voting by Ron Rivest (the "R" in RSA encryption), and I would certainly say that he has technical knowledge. He has some comments and proposals on his web page at MIT, which should help you understand the solutions.
And yes, paper trails are certainly part of the solutions. Printed after the vote is entered, and in some scenarios formally recorded by scanning the paper trail after the voter has the chance to verify it.
There are other ideas you should investigate before assuming that the problem can't be solved.
In the first place the assumption of younger fathers is obviously untrue in developing countries, where successful women put off child bearing until they have an education and start their career. And a majority of professional women have mates as old or slightly older, so while the bottom of the society breeds younger, the more successful breeds older.
Various articles linking the increases in autism and personalities to the age of the father support this position, and older men do have more sperm damage in general, to the point where many sperm are not viable, a driver for IVF.
Add the effects of all the mutagens in the environment and the larger population to increase the sample size, along with medical advances to permit marginally-viable children to survive and I find that the proposition is very unlikely to be correct.
Right after the PC came out ~1980 a company started selling a PC board (ISA bus at that time) with a Z80 and 64k (yes k) of RAM, so you could run CP/M for all the applications which hadn't been ported yet.
So why wouldn't a CPU be added on a board like this? By making it a glorified math coprocessor (ala 8087) you lose the ability to simply use the desktop os as a feeder and make the math part fully independent. And with Windows you want something to survive crashes!:-(
I believe there's a version of Linux for cell, and that would be a good fit with the most obvious uses of the hardware. Interesting speculation, but the fully independent computer on a board has advantages, and with a network interface could be a compute server for a department, etc.
The future will be "Songs are our promotion, and concerts are where the real money's at."
For about $5,000 you can buy a complete set of recording equipment - the necessary laptop, software, mics, etc. to go with your instruments. If you want to do it on the cheap, well... that's why recording studios exist. How often do you hear about recording studios going bankrupt and having an unsuccessful business model? They don't.
Actually, if you look at the names of the record labels of the 30s through 70s, most are gone... The model requires talent at one end and revenue at the other. Remove the talent, such as some competitor paying more, or just artistic piss-off, and the model fails. Remove the revenue by either piracy or lack of demand, and the model fails.
A lot of the folk and jazz labels folded when taste changed, the "big band" labels are gone or doing other genre, companies go out of business even if they don't go bankrupt. The model is fine, but both ends of success are moving targets.
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So that was the number of years that you needed ovules for. The average women got married at 12 and died at, say, 24. That's 12 years of being fertile. That's all the ovules it needed.
You might want to rethink that, a few searches seem to indicate that the onset of puberty was later than 12 as recently as a few hundred years ago, so you have a very short breeding life, particularly given that some if not all of the spike in mortality in the mid-20s is probably due to childbirth.
Just looking at clothes from the civil war era, dresses don't seem to be cut for much if any bust until adult height (maybe age 16-17). I found this information to support that idea. A few hundred years isn't enough for evolution to have a measurable effect, and the paper suggests that diet is a large factor, so I think your suggested breeding age of 12 is very low.
I would offer instead the idea that thousands of years ago, when any evolutionary value would have time to express its value, that women became able to conceive in their late teens, and many did not survive their first pregnancy. That assumption fits the mortality spike far better, and there would be evolutionary value to many eggs so that the women who could survive childbirth with minimal medical care could produce more offspring.
I wonder if this offers faster or better recovery from burns? Currently severe burns require grafts because dermal tissue regenerates poorly or not at all. Even if this could only help speed growth of auto-graft tissue production it would be a benefit.
Nothing beats an afternoon of watching dBan and a comfy chair. Beer or whisky optional.
Not sure the beverage is optional for that, but I agree that dban rules! You are almost certainly better protected against data recovery with dban, unless you have a handy plasma torch to randomize the ones and zeros.
Based on my own experiences and those of which I've read since 2.6 came out, as features have been added performance has gone down. Only the release of cheap fast hardware has kept this from being obvious. Unless there's a good reason to go 2.6 it will probably help performance to keep it simple.
This can lead to a question of who morally owns the invention, the person who pays to do the research or the person who does the research. That has no legal weight, but may be worth discussing.
Since the university wouldn't have rights to this if the research was independently funded, I assume for discussion the government paid for the research and the university owns the patent. The obvious improvement would be if taxpayer money funded the research, then some of the royalties should go back to the government to at least give some reward to the people who really paid for it. However, the law need not make sense or be fair, so that's not the way it works.
It would seem reasonable that if taxes pay for an invention that it should be licensed without fee to people who use the method to create goods, services, or software which they give away. This returns benefit to the people who funded the research in a more diffuse way than sending money, but still seems a reasonable policy. As described this was a for-profit use so it doesn't seem different than any other user in that sense.
If the inventor was paid to work on the research, it seems to leave no legal claim and a very weak moral claim on the work product. Grad students and interns are cheap labor, but they are clearly being paid to do a job, and in the case of research the job is to discover new things.
Many of these images were taken with excessive spacing between the views, which makes things "pop-up" unnaturally. This is fine when used to add texture to something almost flat, at least compared to the distance from the eye to the object, but the Brooklyn pictures look particularly fake, and many others are "just wrong."
I used to do this for a living several careers ago, doing 1500x photomicrography pairs at a research lab. I have no trouble viewing, but some are not lifelike, at least defined as "as the eye would see it." An interesting collection for all of that.
When using a telephoto lens, the distance between views should be the interpupilary distance times the zoom, or 195mm for 3x zoom, as an example. Trying to show the contour of a mountain miles away, I did once use a separation of about 10m, but that was to compensate for the zoom and exaggerate the depth to locate features, and was not intended to be lifelike.
A good programmer can write FORTRAN in any language
Any organization which connects critical infrastructure to the Internet suffers from either stupidity or arrogance. That is, they either don't understand the problem or they believe that they are smarter than everyone else and can construct perfect defenses against data theft and more active intrusion.
That seems to include a good bit of the military and business organizations in many places, including the USA.
The important thing is to pick a language which is well suited to what you want to do! Anyone who tells you that "the language to learn is something" is wrong. There are too many languages to consider any one as the language. Modern languages which fit certain tasks include C for system tasks, C++ for applications where overlays and objects are useful, javascript for things which need to run on the client system, perl for things which benefit from string handling and associative arrays, etc. Note that the list of languages is not complete, nor are the areas of usefulness mentioned anything more than hints, many problems solve equally well using the features of any of several languages.
Having programmed for a living for decades, I have found that a language which includes features relevant to the task will result in much less effort in writing and maintaining the code. So pick a problem which interests you, and pick a language which helps solve that problem (not one you think you should learn which isn't a good fit). Embrace the strengths of the language you choose, don't be one of those people we used to say "can write FORTRAN in any language."
Good luck with your learning!
Of all the code from discontinued projects which vanished, I would have liked to see the MULTICS code released. Instead, I'm told that Honeywell wouldn't even sell the code, reasons unclear.
Having worked on that code decades ago, and seen how close the modern Intel/AMD processors are to the features of the original GE-645 CPU (four rings instead of eight), it would seem that MULTICS could be ported to such processors, making all the application code written for MULTICS (mostly in PL/1) available again.
I guess I'm a dreamer, but even if the code needed to be emulated, ala bochs it would probably run as fast as the 70s processors.
1 - you are misinterpreting what you see, the O/S has swap (as it should) but it not using it.
2 - you have so much stuff running (or the OS does) that the excess must be paged out to swap. This is possible with VISTA.
3 - the OS is just doing a bad job handling memory. I don't see anything like this on Linux, so it's not a feature of "modern operating systems" but may be a feature of a legacy system like VISTA.
You claim the rich pay a disproportionate amount of tax, what is your standard on which you base this? Certainly not disposable income, that over and above what's needed for a reasonable standard of living. Certainly not in terms of how their lifestyle would change if they had their tax money to spend.
Perhaps you think only in terms of income tax rates without considering the tax games played by the rich. Only the stupid rich pay those rates, there are many legal ways to reduce taxes which are available to those who regard "more money" as investment capital rather than a chance to upgrade the kids lunches.
That actually sounds like something I'd rather forget...
And what do you do with 10% of a rug?
On the principle that any good science will be used for evil purposes I postulate that this will lead to a new generation of undetectable performance enhancing drugs.
You wouldn't want to waste this capability doing useful research, would you?
When I wake up on Wednesday morning, my fervent hopes are that this election is a blowout and will not have to be decided again by the courts.
Actually there's worse case, imagine Bob Barr and Ralph Nader getting just a few votes, and Maine splitting, so each major candidate get less than 270. That throws the election into the House of Representatives. Biggest circus since they closed the Colosseum!
WNYC (NYC, obviously), WAMC (Albany NY), WFSU (Florida State University) all should have live audio election coverage, add ".org" to the call letters. Also bbc.co.uk should have a live channel, cnn.com (there are serious issues with Linux playing their live feed, though), or politics.msnbc.com.
So lots of places you can at least listen online, some you can probably watch.
Global warming - execute game over sequence
Opening a closed but not locked door and entering a building without permission is still against the law. It is called breaking and entering.
Trespass. An unforced entry is not "breaking" unless there's some odd local law on B&E.
He is not being punished for "wanting to do" something, he has not been punished for anything yet. He has been charged with a crime for something he did, namely "computer trespass" for accessing a system without permission.
He used his student password to get in. The school gave him the password he used. And looking around a computer to which you have been given access is hardly hacking, finding documentation, schedules, and similar public administrative information is why they give students the password in the first place, I assume.
As a multi-time jurist, I think there's a boatload of reasonable doubt that he did anything wrong, much less illegal. I hope he has a real lawyer to keep him from doing a plea, at least based on the evidence currently in public.
The important thing may be the exit velocity, the thrust per unit weight of propellant goes up with velocity, but the energy needed goes up with square of velocity. So fast exhaust saves fuel but takes more energy.
I look forward to more detail on this.
And yes, paper trails are certainly part of the solutions. Printed after the vote is entered, and in some scenarios formally recorded by scanning the paper trail after the voter has the chance to verify it.
There are other ideas you should investigate before assuming that the problem can't be solved.
Various articles linking the increases in autism and personalities to the age of the father support this position, and older men do have more sperm damage in general, to the point where many sperm are not viable, a driver for IVF.
Add the effects of all the mutagens in the environment and the larger population to increase the sample size, along with medical advances to permit marginally-viable children to survive and I find that the proposition is very unlikely to be correct.
So why wouldn't a CPU be added on a board like this? By making it a glorified math coprocessor (ala 8087) you lose the ability to simply use the desktop os as a feeder and make the math part fully independent. And with Windows you want something to survive crashes! :-(
I believe there's a version of Linux for cell, and that would be a good fit with the most obvious uses of the hardware. Interesting speculation, but the fully independent computer on a board has advantages, and with a network interface could be a compute server for a department, etc.
Very true.
The future will be "Songs are our promotion, and concerts are where the real money's at."
For about $5,000 you can buy a complete set of recording equipment - the necessary laptop, software, mics, etc. to go with your instruments. If you want to do it on the cheap, well... that's why recording studios exist. How often do you hear about recording studios going bankrupt and having an unsuccessful business model? They don't.
Actually, if you look at the names of the record labels of the 30s through 70s, most are gone... The model requires talent at one end and revenue at the other. Remove the talent, such as some competitor paying more, or just artistic piss-off, and the model fails. Remove the revenue by either piracy or lack of demand, and the model fails.
A lot of the folk and jazz labels folded when taste changed, the "big band" labels are gone or doing other genre, companies go out of business even if they don't go bankrupt. The model is fine, but both ends of success are moving targets.
Yes, if you can't tell the difference between these candidates, by all means don't confuse the issue for those of us paying attention.