Not quite true. I don't know in which country you live, but in the USA you have a very lively and healthy market for used laboratory equipment of top quality. Perfectly usable, excellent quality SEM equipment can be had for 1/3rd to 1/4th of the price of new equipment of same quality.
If you are really interested in SEM microscopes, why don't you look into 2nd hand devices? At least in the USA, you have a thriving 2nd hand market for laboratory equipment - something we in Finland don't have (here used equipment is discarded, even if it is 100% usable. At best, specialized companies disassemble and resell some of the components. It's a crying shame.).
Most of the used SEM equipment in the USA can be had for 1/4th of the price of new, and this is ture also for stuff such as gas chromatography/masspec equipment, optical microscopes, vacuum chambers w/pumps, fractioning equipment, etc etc... Right now I am looking at a working SEM with EDS (on an auction site you might have heard about...) with vastly better characteristics than the Hitachi TM-1000. And it's cheaper than the TM-1000. I won't link to the auction, but if I had $60K laying around for a SEM, I'd take this beast and use the remaining money to arrange the room where the SEM will live.
It's a lot of fun mostly because of its ease of use. I'm pretty sure a 7-year old would have no problems using it correctly after only an hour or two of training. Another plus is that it can be configured with an EDS device for (relatively speaking) peanuts. And it is just as easy to operate as the TM-1000.
But don't kid yourself: the quality of the images trails far behind the more serious equipment like, for instance, the Zeiss SUPRA series. I'm not saying this to be a dick; the difference is striking. With the TM-1000 you really do get what you pay for, and on bad days it seems only marginally better than an optical microscope.
I sure hope it's not a fuck off to the EU - I think EU's "fuck off" to Microsoft would be way more painful. The EU doesn't need Windows 7 nearly as much as Microsoft needs the EU market.
Microsoft has responded by implementing the ballot screen as a web page inside IE.
I wonder how they've could had done it differently. If you provided the install exes along with OS setup, they would be outdated (bad bad thing in browsers).
By your reasoning, IE itself should not have been included with the OS, ever.
The funny thing is, if you have been using Linux for long enough, you already went through a phase of re-familiarization, from OSS to Alsa. But now there's this new kid in town in Linux, PulseAudio. It is supposed to work together with ALSA, but there are problems. I mean, an entirely new category of problems which you will have to get familiar with.
I think that Civ IV also leaves out General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics from its tech tree. These, in my opinion, are more fundamental and important.
WTF are you on about? There is plenty of stuff in the Civ IV Science Tree that is not tech related. About 1/3 is religion, philosophy and arts related.
Just this morning I realized that Civilization (at least the current one, Civ IV) doesn't have the theory of evolution, or Darwin, mentioned in the Tree of Science of the game. I am pretty sure there wasn't in Civ 1, either. I wonder if that was on purpose, in order to not jeopardize sales to a certain demographic?
That difference is just as small as what there is between any two other PC motherboards. It's insignificant. It doesn't prevent one from installing Windows on an PC sold by Apple (AKA a Mac), nor does it prevent one from installing Mac OS X onto any other PC.
And yes, the case is completely arbitrary to this debate - you can have a PC with a transparent case, a glass case, a case made of wood, one made with steam punk style case or one with an Apple logo. All those are PCs regardless of the case. I hope you're not going to start arguing that a case is what makes a PC.
C'mon Apple fanbois, you're just proving that the truth hurts you like hell! Just because you're buying a PC every time you buy a Mac, doesn't mean you have to feel personally offended by this fact.
Apple fanbois are really sensitive: does it hurt so much when I say that a Mac is the same thing as a PC? Usually you guys wait a day or two to start modding comments you dislike (the ones that dare to offend the Holy Apple), but apparently, some of you just couldn't resist the temptation.
I think there is 0 ambiguity about what Microsoft's stance towards open source and protocols in general, is: just ask the Samba guys what they think about the new "innovations" of SMB in Vista and Windows 7.
While it was PowerPC-based, one could argue that a Mac is not a PC, with the new Intel-based Macs the difference is now none. Yes, there is a completely artificial difference; you are not allowed to run OS X on a non-Apple sold PC, but that's it. And even that is not quite so clear, since it's only an EULA that prevents you, and I am not quite sure those would necessarily stand to a legal probe.
Anyhow, a Mac is a PC sold by Apple. It is preinstalled with Mac OS X. It has the Apple logo.
It was modded +5 earlier today. Obviously, the descent started already. Apple fanbots in action early? I expected them to come out of the woods a day or two later.
No shit. When was the last time Microsoft did something the customers wanted, instead of forcing them to "take it or leave it". When was the last time any Office application didn't brake file compatibility with previous versions. When was the last time you felt like you actually own a Microsoft software product, and don't have to rent it AND justify yourself every time you need to install it on a new computer? Last time some Microsoft protocol didn't break compatibility with competing, or even older own protocols? I don't know, it feels like forever.
Licensing issues are really just the tip of the iceberg of this Satan's spawn called Microsoft.
Is there a 'peer reviewed' medical consensus on the health effects yet?
No, there isn't. I wrote a mini document review on in vivo and in vitro effect of fullerenes and nanotuves, and while nanotubes do exhibit cytotoxic activity, the concentrations involved seem un-realistic, but all the experiments were very short term. In vitro experiments seem more conclusive (nanotubes == bad), but that does not necessarily imply that in real life, nanotubes would meaningfully reach the cells to the same extent as in the experiment.
Besides, there is another problem: scientists involved with CNTs have an ego-problem confessing that their baby may be a killer - so they just block that tought out. I have seen that.
We're talking about Pu-based implosion devices here, nothing to do with increasing yields in nuclear power plant, and everything to do with implosion blast-shaping and tamper/pusher design.
Whether Iran is within it's rights to possess such tech, I won't get into, nor will I speculate on whether the intelligence is correct. But the technology mentioned here, has no civilian purpose. It's all about making implosion devices possible.
Eccept that the article refers to implosion (that is, Plutonium) devices, which are much more sophisticated than the uranium-based, "cannon bullet" bomb you have in mind.
leglize pot let everyone out of jail who has any pot convictions, even if they trafficed 500 tonnes, just give them a tax bill.
im sure that will save 10 billion.
I agree. Marijuana/THC is not addictive, doesn't cause aggressive behavior (both hallmarks of... alcohol!) and it even shows some anti-depressant properties.
Make it a tradeable item, for the benefit of everybody.
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Not quite true. I don't know in which country you live, but in the USA you have a very lively and healthy market for used laboratory equipment of top quality. Perfectly usable, excellent quality SEM equipment can be had for 1/3rd to 1/4th of the price of new equipment of same quality.
If you are really interested in SEM microscopes, why don't you look into 2nd hand devices? At least in the USA, you have a thriving 2nd hand market for laboratory equipment - something we in Finland don't have (here used equipment is discarded, even if it is 100% usable. At best, specialized companies disassemble and resell some of the components. It's a crying shame.).
Most of the used SEM equipment in the USA can be had for 1/4th of the price of new, and this is ture also for stuff such as gas chromatography/masspec equipment, optical microscopes, vacuum chambers w/pumps, fractioning equipment, etc etc... Right now I am looking at a working SEM with EDS (on an auction site you might have heard about...) with vastly better characteristics than the Hitachi TM-1000. And it's cheaper than the TM-1000. I won't link to the auction, but if I had $60K laying around for a SEM, I'd take this beast and use the remaining money to arrange the room where the SEM will live.
It's a lot of fun mostly because of its ease of use. I'm pretty sure a 7-year old would have no problems using it correctly after only an hour or two of training. Another plus is that it can be configured with an EDS device for (relatively speaking) peanuts. And it is just as easy to operate as the TM-1000.
But don't kid yourself: the quality of the images trails far behind the more serious equipment like, for instance, the Zeiss SUPRA series. I'm not saying this to be a dick; the difference is striking. With the TM-1000 you really do get what you pay for, and on bad days it seems only marginally better than an optical microscope.
I sure hope it's not a fuck off to the EU - I think EU's "fuck off" to Microsoft would be way more painful. The EU doesn't need Windows 7 nearly as much as Microsoft needs the EU market.
Microsoft has responded by implementing the ballot screen as a web page inside IE.
I wonder how they've could had done it differently. If you provided the install exes along with OS setup, they would be outdated (bad bad thing in browsers).
By your reasoning, IE itself should not have been included with the OS, ever.
followed by "a whole lot of math and science".
Pure orgasm.
The funny thing is, if you have been using Linux for long enough, you already went through a phase of re-familiarization, from OSS to Alsa. But now there's this new kid in town in Linux, PulseAudio. It is supposed to work together with ALSA, but there are problems. I mean, an entirely new category of problems which you will have to get familiar with.
One thing I noticed: a working and consistent sound system.
In North Korea, MySpace is for Kim Jong Il.
I think that Civ IV also leaves out General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics from its tech tree. These, in my opinion, are more fundamental and important.
I agree.
And BTW, thanks a lot for that genial quote!
WTF are you on about? There is plenty of stuff in the Civ IV Science Tree that is not tech related. About 1/3 is religion, philosophy and arts related.
Just this morning I realized that Civilization (at least the current one, Civ IV) doesn't have the theory of evolution, or Darwin, mentioned in the Tree of Science of the game. I am pretty sure there wasn't in Civ 1, either. I wonder if that was on purpose, in order to not jeopardize sales to a certain demographic?
That difference is just as small as what there is between any two other PC motherboards. It's insignificant. It doesn't prevent one from installing Windows on an PC sold by Apple (AKA a Mac), nor does it prevent one from installing Mac OS X onto any other PC.
And yes, the case is completely arbitrary to this debate - you can have a PC with a transparent case, a glass case, a case made of wood, one made with steam punk style case or one with an Apple logo. All those are PCs regardless of the case. I hope you're not going to start arguing that a case is what makes a PC.
C'mon Apple fanbois, you're just proving that the truth hurts you like hell! Just because you're buying a PC every time you buy a Mac, doesn't mean you have to feel personally offended by this fact.
Apple fanbois are really sensitive: does it hurt so much when I say that a Mac is the same thing as a PC? Usually you guys wait a day or two to start modding comments you dislike (the ones that dare to offend the Holy Apple), but apparently, some of you just couldn't resist the temptation.
I think there is 0 ambiguity about what Microsoft's stance towards open source and protocols in general, is: just ask the Samba guys what they think about the new "innovations" of SMB in Vista and Windows 7.
While it was PowerPC-based, one could argue that a Mac is not a PC, with the new Intel-based Macs the difference is now none. Yes, there is a completely artificial difference; you are not allowed to run OS X on a non-Apple sold PC, but that's it. And even that is not quite so clear, since it's only an EULA that prevents you, and I am not quite sure those would necessarily stand to a legal probe.
Anyhow, a Mac is a PC sold by Apple. It is preinstalled with Mac OS X. It has the Apple logo.
I believe the GP was looking for an argument, not contradiction.
No, he wasn't!
It was modded +5 earlier today. Obviously, the descent started already. Apple fanbots in action early? I expected them to come out of the woods a day or two later.
No shit. When was the last time Microsoft did something the customers wanted, instead of forcing them to "take it or leave it". When was the last time any Office application didn't brake file compatibility with previous versions. When was the last time you felt like you actually own a Microsoft software product, and don't have to rent it AND justify yourself every time you need to install it on a new computer? Last time some Microsoft protocol didn't break compatibility with competing, or even older own protocols? I don't know, it feels like forever.
Licensing issues are really just the tip of the iceberg of this Satan's spawn called Microsoft.
Is there a 'peer reviewed' medical consensus on the health effects yet?
No, there isn't. I wrote a mini document review on in vivo and in vitro effect of fullerenes and nanotuves, and while nanotubes do exhibit cytotoxic activity, the concentrations involved seem un-realistic, but all the experiments were very short term. In vitro experiments seem more conclusive (nanotubes == bad), but that does not necessarily imply that in real life, nanotubes would meaningfully reach the cells to the same extent as in the experiment.
Besides, there is another problem: scientists involved with CNTs have an ego-problem confessing that their baby may be a killer - so they just block that tought out. I have seen that.
We're talking about Pu-based implosion devices here, nothing to do with increasing yields in nuclear power plant, and everything to do with implosion blast-shaping and tamper/pusher design.
Whether Iran is within it's rights to possess such tech, I won't get into, nor will I speculate on whether the intelligence is correct. But the technology mentioned here, has no civilian purpose. It's all about making implosion devices possible.
Eccept that the article refers to implosion (that is, Plutonium) devices, which are much more sophisticated than the uranium-based, "cannon bullet" bomb you have in mind.
Though I kinda like my minidisc player - 12 years old and still going gracefully strong. At least Sony makes reliable hardware.
leglize pot
let everyone out of jail who has any pot convictions, even if they trafficed 500 tonnes, just give them a tax bill.
im sure that will save 10 billion.
I agree. Marijuana/THC is not addictive, doesn't cause aggressive behavior (both hallmarks of... alcohol!) and it even shows some anti-depressant properties.
Make it a tradeable item, for the benefit of everybody.