More CO2 => increased temperatures => more greenery => more CO2 absorption => decreased temperatures? Yeah, seriously, I think I'm gonna go back to believing in horoscopes.
A long winded way perhaps, of saying that the iPhone game potential is "Lame"? Nah, just that they are putting features into small devices which aren't addressing the real shortcomings which prevent them being as useful as they could be. Speech recognition is much more important IMO, and, in the fantastic future, gaze-detection (eg: direct a pointer with your eyes and say 'go'). Then you can just look at your wrist and say "get me tomorrow's weather in Seattle" and the thing will say "I'm sorry Dave.. " etc.
Yeah, it's a cool thing to think about, I agree - the world at your fingertips wherever you are, etc., but after the dust settles and, in the end, we go back to our day-jobs, whatever they are, is it such a big deal?
In the medical field, for example, things like handheld computers have helped for carrying reference material around, and sometimes in fetching patient information quickly, but it isn't revolutionizing patient care. Though what I think will change things, fairly soon, is when we see doctors walking down corridors of hospitals whispering away into their wrists as their mobile computers interpret their jargon talk with near-100% accuracy, attributing it to the right patient practically every time, into the right section of the notes, etc., and when the device responds to the voice of the master reliably in a noisy room, etc.
Instead, at the moment, we have interns who do all of that.
This entire discussion about the iPhone's new bling features, in 10 years time will read a bit like the bling new features of a calculator watch. I remember as a kid how everyone sat around comparing who's digital watch had the most buttons, or whether every watch will some day tell you your altitude and temperature and all sorts of other useless rubbish.
It's the department of energy, not the military. Specifically, it is at Los Alamos, which is not a military base. What, you mean hundreds of moderator points were wasted on above military-related posts? Woohoo!! Bingo baby!
I'm glad to see the continuing trend of creatively "dumbing down" units of measure (in this case, flops) Yeah, my dad would have flipped if he'd read the summary.
NO, restrictive practice, and control, not of quality but dissent. Journals which practice this are just opening opportunities for new publishers.
Finally, lots of people are doing nothing more than moderated blogging inefficiently and badly to the benefit __only__ to a tiny number of very well established commercial entities. But lots of others are doing good vetting. There are good journals out there that filter stuff for mistakes, appropriate statistical method, significance of results and relevance.
As one who has reviewed endless scientific papers it would be much more efficient if the supervisor fixed most of th problems early on. That's true, but most supervisors are supervisors because they are too busy to do all that and most don't care. Journals pay people to take the time. Sure, if there is another way to pay people to diligently go through research papers and work out which ones are worth publicizing, then I'm all for it.
Tenure depends on quantity of publications not quality and so vast reams of garbage are generated every month making it really difficult to find the needle in the haystack of irrelevant tripe. Not exactly. It depends on what the research is about. If it's something that furthers an established industry, chances are industry is behind it all the way and publications come out purely because they are easy to produce in that context and help complete the academic process. If it's someone's personal dream project (or requirement to get their thesis finished) then you're right, the departments that generate this kind of research need to be very competitive but, as with anything, mediocrity abounds.
I guess when my evil twin gets hold of my shiny new face-recognizing laptop I'm doomed. Bit only if your evil twin holds a photograph of himself in front of your PC.
No one in their right mind would fly at all under these circumstances, and that's exactly what they want. .. that all those who are flying are not in their right mind? Isn't that supposedly what caused this problem in the first place?
From FTA:
"Most passengers don't think it's any big deal," Schear said. "They think it's a piece of security they're willing to do." Yeah, most people just wish deep down they could walk around the airport naked in the first place.
Of course, more pumps means more points of failure, but as long as the system intelligently handles (ie, shut the hell off) failures the damage is minimized. One thing is not to use pumps but rely on some other method, such as magnetism (if the liquid contained iron in the molecule, for example), to avoid moving parts. For heat exchange, as you say, they could use a cheap, replaceable module that uses water or something, but the idea of passing water into the chip would prevent me from being their first customer.
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Green Side Effect as a result of the greenhouse effect. So are we all gonna die or not already?
Yeah, it's a cool thing to think about, I agree - the world at your fingertips wherever you are, etc., but after the dust settles and, in the end, we go back to our day-jobs, whatever they are, is it such a big deal?
In the medical field, for example, things like handheld computers have helped for carrying reference material around, and sometimes in fetching patient information quickly, but it isn't revolutionizing patient care. Though what I think will change things, fairly soon, is when we see doctors walking down corridors of hospitals whispering away into their wrists as their mobile computers interpret their jargon talk with near-100% accuracy, attributing it to the right patient practically every time, into the right section of the notes, etc., and when the device responds to the voice of the master reliably in a noisy room, etc.
Instead, at the moment, we have interns who do all of that.
This entire discussion about the iPhone's new bling features, in 10 years time will read a bit like the bling new features of a calculator watch. I remember as a kid how everyone sat around comparing who's digital watch had the most buttons, or whether every watch will some day tell you your altitude and temperature and all sorts of other useless rubbish.
I smell feature-creep.
I have tag icons pushing down the article to below the screen. Keep em coming!
We've got crackers!!!
Quality control and that journals are recognizable and until now, financially viable.
It matters not whether you're in the right or not, but if you get sued it ruins your year.