I think what you wrote makes sense, and you missed one critical aspect : shared access to excessively expensive capitalized facilities an...
I think what you wrote makes sense, and you missed one critical aspect : shared access to excessively expensive capitalized facilities and equipment. One example from 1985 onwards that i can think of is NSF funding of supercomputer centers. 40 years ago, SIMD / vector processors with boatloads of memory were not ubiquitous, nor were shared memory multicore / multiprocessors, a situation which differs with the reality today. This NSF funding established the 5 supercomputing centers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Ne... and then further downstream effects include popular access to creations from the supercomputer centers, such as Mosaic from NCSA, and an expansion of ideas outside the compuserve / aol paradigms. I think similar situations apply for other engineering disciplines, mechanical and chemical and physics and so on. Probably true for the arts in various forms: people don't have personal pipe organs to learn Bach on, for a crazy example, but universities do. For various industries, learning requires physical equipment too expensive for individuals, historically and still.
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Living in a 200+ year old house, I've seen a lot of this first-hand through both planned and unplanned renovations and repairs.
Is anything with the pebble time able to capture heart rate for historical data analysis?
Datastar has evolved into a suite of tools [1].
> real issue is that MSG is basically a public utility.
Everything good is a slippery slope: every step in the right direction is bad if you overshoot.
Status Update - May 2026
I think what you wrote makes sense, and you missed one critical aspect : shared access to excessively expensive capitalized facilities an...
Long-range anti-ship missiles of old are also obsolete, they and their launch problems are also too expensive for their vulnerability.
I think what you wrote makes sense, and you missed one critical aspect : shared access to excessively expensive capitalized facilities an...
I think what you wrote makes sense, and you missed one critical aspect : shared access to excessively expensive capitalized facilities and equipment. One example from 1985 onwards that i can think of is NSF funding of supercomputer centers. 40 years ago, SIMD / vector processors with boatloads of memory were not ubiquitous, nor were shared memory multicore / multiprocessors, a situation which differs with the reality today. This NSF funding established the 5 supercomputing centers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Ne... and then further downstream effects include popular access to creations from the supercomputer centers, such as Mosaic from NCSA, and an expansion of ideas outside the compuserve / aol paradigms. I think similar situations apply for other engineering disciplines, mechanical and chemical and physics and so on. Probably true for the arts in various forms: people don't have personal pipe organs to learn Bach on, for a crazy example, but universities do. For various industries, learning requires physical equipment too expensive for individuals, historically and still.
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