How do we know a paralysed guy wants this thing telling us what he's thinking. For all we know, he's probably having a good time watching all these people asking him to blink for yes and blink twice for no. And now you make him do freaking math! How the hell does he get the damn thing off? I mean, nobody's gonna ask him if he wants to use it. And if he wants screaming No No No in his head, he'd just have to think of nothing over and over again?
But... but... I pointed out that Web designers *could* have a high IQ, but do not need one. I liberally sprinkled the post with joking words/claims which seems to have diluted the point.
The difference between a good web designer and a scientist is significant (assuming they both are good at what they do and *chose* their profession), and that was the point of my post. </serious>
FWIW, I feel should have been a journalist (don't judge me based on my posts here) rather than an engineer, but within engineering, I find interdisciplinary work in computing and engineering most fascinating. This way, I can diss computer science majors for studying things that anyone (including a web designer and an engineer) can learn and engineers for being luddites:)
P.S. I can't bear to spell diss with one 's' Cheers!
all I know about computers I taught myself Hey! me too!
That apart, I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "We're both intelligent, just in different directions". Traditionally, intelligence has been associated with analytical and quantitative skills. If you ask a 100 people to name smart men, they will name Einstein more frequently rather than Mozart because the latter applied his skills to constructing art rather than math/science. However, my point remains that the difference between you is not slight; it is enormous given your acumen for vastly different things. More importantly, it is (arguably) opposite sides of your brain being used...
Maybe we need a study on creativity as well. I have generally noticed that older *sons* tend to pursue a field that guarantees financial stability. Younger brothers and girls generally turn out to be more creative. I have considered this natural for obvious reasons of perceived and primitive social responsibilities.
This breaks down in families of girls. In my mom's family for example, the eldest daughter is a double Masters in English and French, mom is the middle one and is a theoretical physicist engaged in teaching (not research) and the last one is an engineer in a managerial capacity. It seems as if with girls , the eldest ones acts according to her persuasions and skills. The younger siblings lean towards male dominated fields in pursuit of false feminism.
I know this post is laden with sexism, stereotyping and generalizations, but I am just hypothesizing a theory that might be statistically significant (I say this based on my experiences).
I do not want to make this sound like flamebait, but if I had 50 graphics/web designer/computer geeks and 50 scientists, only 50% of them would say that the difference between them is slight. And they would all be from the first group.
I myself am an engineer who looks down upon both scientists and web designers, but I think scientists are smart (high IQ). Web designers are creative - they COULD have high IQs, but need not necessarily have high IQs. This is why DeVry has a program in web design and not in molecular biology.
Cheers!
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Vig
'IANAL' is the first word I thought of when I saw the article. It's hateful to me just because of the indirect associations I make when I see the word. For one, I think the term itself usually precedes someone spouting their oversimplified philosophy under the guise of knowledge. The fact that someone used the word triggers a red flag in my head. Typically, I am expecting something like the following: "IANAL, but I am pretty sure that abortion is the same as homicide"
It also triggers words in my head-especially 'banal' and 'anal'. So much so that I sometimes reply to people as if they never said 'IANAL' and were being anal about something...
invite an Indian worker to caption Peter: The intricacies of the romantic stars are charming. Would you like to dance? Priscilla: Oh! Dearest, do hold me beneath the luminescent moon...
Screen is going darkly. There is being the sound of soft trumpet. My name is the Mohan
It's disappeared from my search results too! Maybe a smart alec decided it was a good idea to do this and then got fired later for lack of good judgment:)
Cheers!
We do not need a Silicon sphere to measure a kg. These spheres will be exorbitantly priced and while offering a very high precision, are not required for the applications you outline.
Useful would be accepting that a kilogram is "X molecules of Y" and letting standards organizations and manufacturers of calibrated instruments create masses to adhere to the definition within varying tolerances.
The defn. of a meter for example is the distance traveled by light in a few billionths of a second or something.
I am questioning the necessity of the sphere, not the necessity of defining masses in terms of physical constants.
I am sure all of you have done this, but notice that when you google for eBay, the first and only ad is for Google Checkout (thinly veiled as an ad from buy.com).
While Google does not manipulate search results by hand, they definitely mess with the Ads:))
Cheers!
After 75 years, there are some drastically different "kilograms" floating around I buy a scale, measure out 1 kilogram, take it to a different scale and get 1.5 kilograms, while another says.75 kilograms. In this case, who's kilogram is "correct"? When the issue was raised, people would say, "Oh, if only we had a standard "kilogram" to compare them to!"
Actually, this happened 220 years ago and the Americans fought the British over this. Then George Washington went to the Queen and this conversation ensued
GW: You're British...call your 'kilogram' something else...
Queen: How about you do it?
GW: Well, my kilogram is correct... you 'kilogram' is wrong
Queen: Really?
GW: Yeah! Put yours against mine on a scale...See? You don't have a kilogram iron ball.
Queen: Aw shucks! sorry about the war man... Alright, since I am British, we call my kilogram a 'pound'. Kind of like an English 'kilogram'... like an English Unit
GW: Ok...that's cool... so we call the war off?
Queen: Sure!
GW: Ok listen... I'll be embarrassed if I tell these guys that I took them to war over this instead of clearing this misunderstanding like we just did.
Queen: And I'll be embarrassed if my guys find out that we've been using a wrong kilogram
GW: How about you give me the continent and I'll let you use our kilogram?
Queen: That's cool, but then I am losing a continent...
GW: Ok... how about this? I'll use your 'English Units' so that you can make fun of us later...
Cheers!
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Vig
The principle you outlined is related to the Avogadro's number hence the name of the project. Using the same principle and different volumes, you could use water, but it depends also on accurate measurement of temperature. It is anyway contrived and reverse engineered from the definition of units of pressure (atm uses water; torr uses Hg and so forth)
Even if you could use the water standard, pure water is impossible to find. Purer silicon than water can be obtained which makes this project sensible. Not that they would use this technique to define the kilogram though:)
I can't think of any applications for the damn thing though... Except QC and Calibration maybe?
Seems like there is an argument that we do not need hyoomans in space for the things we send them into space to do. If this argument is indeed valid, NASA can partner with Branson or some of the other space travel companies for funding and send robots to space. Also if political backing for NASA does actually come from the public's desire to see astronauts sent to space (as the article claims), once space tourists start getting sent regularly (by Branson or others), this charm will wear off since most of the people still engaged in the star wars wouldn;t be able to tell the difference between a NASA mission and GGW in Space...Actually, if you think about it, maybe NASA is pushing Putin and Bush to re-ignite the Cold war to get people to support spending on manned missions...hehehe
$265m (cost of sending Mars rover) is about the same as what MIT or Georgia Tech spend on research every year. If some form of private research spending interest comes along, I am sure NASA can shape up to be a viable commercial alternative, where it starts doing real research so that stuff in space gets discovered and people stop caring if "OMG!WESENT8PEOPLETOSPACESTFUCOMMIEBASTARDS!!"
Cheers!
Hey! I have bushy eyebrows, dark skin and dark curly hair ! But I have been asked by Egyptian kids if I was one:)
Personal appearances aside, when I was in the ATL, rednecks would either ask me if I was Arab or if I was Muslim. Others are usually scared to take a shot at it and ask me where I am from. Such minute differences worry me in terms of society's ignorance, prejudice and obsession with PCness...
Cheers!
Ok...I'm not sure if you are defending the Arabs (in which case, I am with you...)...Arabs are good...Drugs are bad...mmmkay? But if you are saying out of the million bajillion arabs, only tens of thousands are innocent, then I am guessing your wallpaper has something to do with NASCAR...
Cheers!
I am an Arab looking Indian dude who seldom ever calls home with my phone connection. I've installed Skype on my phone and call abroad with that because it's WAAAY cheaper... Now I wonder if they can/do tap into Skype...
Fundamentally, this is akin to the DRM issue. Those that want to make calls and talk about anthrax will use modes of communication that aren't monitored and those who pay the penalty are Arab looking Indian dudes... *sigh*...
Cheers!
While the Wii seems reasonable to most people who can afford to spend on a system, The major issue for the 360 or PS3 is that you have to spend more immediately on games to have any fun. The Wii leverages the variety of Wii sports so that people can be fascinated by the control system for a while before buying add-ons.
Instead of a price cut, perhaps MS will bundle the systems with more games and maybe a wireless controller or something. The Wii can just give away some free money to buy online games with. The PS3 needs to bundle their console with... a Wii
Does the crater HAVE to be deep? I mean, maybe it is lined on the inside with a low emissivity & reflectivity material which did not get altered due it's being in a shadow from the sun?
Here's to hoping that the cavity is small and not a big deal...
Cheers!
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Vig
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Like is said... f***ing Brosnan fanboys :)
Cheers!
How do we know a paralysed guy wants this thing telling us what he's thinking. For all we know, he's probably having a good time watching all these people asking him to blink for yes and blink twice for no. And now you make him do freaking math! How the hell does he get the damn thing off? I mean, nobody's gonna ask him if he wants to use it. And if he wants screaming No No No in his head, he'd just have to think of nothing over and over again?
We need privacy laws for the damn device!
Cheers!
Ok... Just because Mr. Bond got married to a Japanese chick, doesn't mean you don't respect the movie and respect it's details.
... F***ing Brosnan fanboys...sheesh!
The lake never disappeared. It was a metal sheet all along and they discovered it when connery threw a rock on its surface...
Watch your James Bond movies before you use them in a joke
Cheers!
But ... but... I pointed out that Web designers *could* have a high IQ, but do not need one. I liberally sprinkled the post with joking words/claims which seems to have diluted the point.
:)
The difference between a good web designer and a scientist is significant (assuming they both are good at what they do and *chose* their profession), and that was the point of my post.
</serious>
FWIW, I feel should have been a journalist (don't judge me based on my posts here) rather than an engineer, but within engineering, I find interdisciplinary work in computing and engineering most fascinating. This way, I can diss computer science majors for studying things that anyone (including a web designer and an engineer) can learn and engineers for being luddites
P.S. I can't bear to spell diss with one 's'
Cheers!
That apart, I think you hit the nail on the head when you said "We're both intelligent, just in different directions". Traditionally, intelligence has been associated with analytical and quantitative skills. If you ask a 100 people to name smart men, they will name Einstein more frequently rather than Mozart because the latter applied his skills to constructing art rather than math/science. However, my point remains that the difference between you is not slight; it is enormous given your acumen for vastly different things. More importantly, it is (arguably) opposite sides of your brain being used...
Maybe we need a study on creativity as well. I have generally noticed that older *sons* tend to pursue a field that guarantees financial stability. Younger brothers and girls generally turn out to be more creative. I have considered this natural for obvious reasons of perceived and primitive social responsibilities.
This breaks down in families of girls. In my mom's family for example, the eldest daughter is a double Masters in English and French, mom is the middle one and is a theoretical physicist engaged in teaching (not research) and the last one is an engineer in a managerial capacity. It seems as if with girls , the eldest ones acts according to her persuasions and skills. The younger siblings lean towards male dominated fields in pursuit of false feminism.
I know this post is laden with sexism, stereotyping and generalizations, but I am just hypothesizing a theory that might be statistically significant (I say this based on my experiences).
Cheers!
I do not want to make this sound like flamebait, but if I had 50 graphics/web designer/computer geeks and 50 scientists, only 50% of them would say that the difference between them is slight. And they would all be from the first group.
I myself am an engineer who looks down upon both scientists and web designers, but I think scientists are smart (high IQ). Web designers are creative - they COULD have high IQs, but need not necessarily have high IQs. This is why DeVry has a program in web design and not in molecular biology. Cheers! -- Vig
'IANAL' is the first word I thought of when I saw the article. It's hateful to me just because of the indirect associations I make when I see the word. For one, I think the term itself usually precedes someone spouting their oversimplified philosophy under the guise of knowledge. The fact that someone used the word triggers a red flag in my head. Typically, I am expecting something like the following:
"IANAL, but I am pretty sure that abortion is the same as homicide"
It also triggers words in my head-especially 'banal' and 'anal'. So much so that I sometimes reply to people as if they never said 'IANAL' and were being anal about something...
Cheers!
--
Vig
Will this make getting patents cheaper for the applicant?
Priscilla: Oh! Dearest, do hold me beneath the luminescent moon...
Screen is going darkly. There is being the sound of soft trumpet. My name is the Mohan
Cheers!
The advert is gone.
Someone in Mtn. View reading Slashdot must've fixed it (I'd like to think)
Cheers!
It's disappeared from my search results too! Maybe a smart alec decided it was a good idea to do this and then got fired later for lack of good judgment :)
Cheers!
We do not need a Silicon sphere to measure a kg. These spheres will be exorbitantly priced and while offering a very high precision, are not required for the applications you outline.
Useful would be accepting that a kilogram is "X molecules of Y" and letting standards organizations and manufacturers of calibrated instruments create masses to adhere to the definition within varying tolerances.
The defn. of a meter for example is the distance traveled by light in a few billionths of a second or something.
I am questioning the necessity of the sphere, not the necessity of defining masses in terms of physical constants.
Cheers!
The co.uk suggests you are in Britainland? Perhaps this is Google US behaviour...
Cheers!
I am sure all of you have done this, but notice that when you google for eBay, the first and only ad is for Google Checkout (thinly veiled as an ad from buy.com). While Google does not manipulate search results by hand, they definitely mess with the Ads :))
Cheers!
Actually, this happened 220 years ago and the Americans fought the British over this. Then George Washington went to the Queen and this conversation ensued
GW: You're British...call your 'kilogram' something else...
Queen: How about you do it?
GW: Well, my kilogram is correct... you 'kilogram' is wrong
Queen: Really?
GW: Yeah! Put yours against mine on a scale...See? You don't have a kilogram iron ball.
Queen: Aw shucks! sorry about the war man... Alright, since I am British, we call my kilogram a 'pound'. Kind of like an English 'kilogram'... like an English Unit
GW: Ok...that's cool... so we call the war off?
Queen: Sure!
GW: Ok listen... I'll be embarrassed if I tell these guys that I took them to war over this instead of clearing this misunderstanding like we just did.
Queen: And I'll be embarrassed if my guys find out that we've been using a wrong kilogram
GW: How about you give me the continent and I'll let you use our kilogram?
Queen: That's cool, but then I am losing a continent...
GW: Ok... how about this? I'll use your 'English Units' so that you can make fun of us later...
Cheers! -- Vig
The principle you outlined is related to the Avogadro's number hence the name of the project. Using the same principle and different volumes, you could use water, but it depends also on accurate measurement of temperature. It is anyway contrived and reverse engineered from the definition of units of pressure (atm uses water; torr uses Hg and so forth)
:)
Even if you could use the water standard, pure water is impossible to find. Purer silicon than water can be obtained which makes this project sensible. Not that they would use this technique to define the kilogram though
I can't think of any applications for the damn thing though... Except QC and Calibration maybe?
Cheers!
--
Vig
I believe the word you are looking for is 'likeness'?
Cheers!
Why is this article classified under Science?
Since my intellectual rights are being violated by the politics of the church, I am not sure if Politics or YRO will fit better.
Cheers!
Seems like there is an argument that we do not need hyoomans in space for the things we send them into space to do. If this argument is indeed valid, NASA can partner with Branson or some of the other space travel companies for funding and send robots to space. Also if political backing for NASA does actually come from the public's desire to see astronauts sent to space (as the article claims), once space tourists start getting sent regularly (by Branson or others), this charm will wear off since most of the people still engaged in the star wars wouldn;t be able to tell the difference between a NASA mission and GGW in Space...Actually, if you think about it, maybe NASA is pushing Putin and Bush to re-ignite the Cold war to get people to support spending on manned missions...hehehe
$265m (cost of sending Mars rover) is about the same as what MIT or Georgia Tech spend on research every year. If some form of private research spending interest comes along, I am sure NASA can shape up to be a viable commercial alternative, where it starts doing real research so that stuff in space gets discovered and people stop caring if "OMG!WESENT8PEOPLETOSPACESTFUCOMMIEBASTARDS!!"
Cheers!
Hey! I have bushy eyebrows, dark skin and dark curly hair ! But I have been asked by Egyptian kids if I was one :)
Personal appearances aside, when I was in the ATL, rednecks would either ask me if I was Arab or if I was Muslim. Others are usually scared to take a shot at it and ask me where I am from. Such minute differences worry me in terms of society's ignorance, prejudice and obsession with PCness...
Cheers!
Ok...I'm not sure if you are defending the Arabs (in which case, I am with you...)...Arabs are good...Drugs are bad...mmmkay?
But if you are saying out of the million bajillion arabs, only tens of thousands are innocent, then I am guessing your wallpaper has something to do with NASCAR...
Cheers!
I am an Arab looking Indian dude who seldom ever calls home with my phone connection. I've installed Skype on my phone and call abroad with that because it's WAAAY cheaper... Now I wonder if they can/do tap into Skype... Fundamentally, this is akin to the DRM issue. Those that want to make calls and talk about anthrax will use modes of communication that aren't monitored and those who pay the penalty are Arab looking Indian dudes... *sigh*... Cheers!
While the Wii seems reasonable to most people who can afford to spend on a system, The major issue for the 360 or PS3 is that you have to spend more immediately on games to have any fun. The Wii leverages the variety of Wii sports so that people can be fascinated by the control system for a while before buying add-ons.
Instead of a price cut, perhaps MS will bundle the systems with more games and maybe a wireless controller or something. The Wii can just give away some free money to buy online games with. The PS3 needs to bundle their console with... a Wii
Cheers!
Does the crater HAVE to be deep? I mean, maybe it is lined on the inside with a low emissivity & reflectivity material which did not get altered due it's being in a shadow from the sun? Here's to hoping that the cavity is small and not a big deal... Cheers! -- Vig
Ditto for ATL(anta)... There are people who have used it for a few months and then sold it at a $50 markup on craigslist...