While his message was one of tolerance, he was also an ordained priest (or whatever those men in dresses call it). He just showed them why it is not such a good idea to put a religious person at the head of a science organisation. As Richard Dawkins suggested, he could have given up his religious position too, that would have been much more convincing.
If I understood the article correctly, VIA pays no royalties on patents covering their chipsets, as they are seen only as intermediate products. The onus in on the manufacturer that makes the final product to take care of those. In this case your company would be the manufacturer that markets to the public. By signing an NDA with VIA, a reference implementation could be had, so there would be some sort of driver support. If the conditions of the NDA allow for the driver to be open sourced subsequently and wether X.org and the kernel would accept patent-encumbered code remains to be seen though.
Are you sure a bout that? Seems to me you are just presenting another exam to them, which by your own definition, they know how to handle.
Not quite. With the exams, they have resources available to give them the answers (i.e. textbooks, MCSE Cram's etc), but with a test within the interview, they won't necessarily know the answer until they see the test. The tests I use are more real world as they are usually based on a problem I have had within the previous couple of weeks, not something they would get from a text book but something they would know from experience.
So somehow you think that your tests are better then those that the candidate took to get his certification/diploma? Why aren't you in education then? This suggests to me that your ego is oversize. Not uncommon for the prototype geek, but not so good for people in management. Unfortunately that is where they all end up, disfunctioning at their level of incompetence.
Yes because they store all that equipment right on the wall or ceiling, and if the wall will clean it, that means that's a lot of savings for/from the autoclave. Unless it is stuff like doorhandles, there is little reason to make everything self-'disinfecting'.
Who read that as Stamford Wallace dead. I cheered. If you transform Spammers into non-humans, it is easy to cheer their demise. Until I realised it was some guy I have never heard of. American Icon, true patriot? Maybe with his passing, you USians will need less of that.
How about we don't give money to the RIAA bunch? that means you have to be picky with the music you buy. Maybe a campaign is in order to let the independents mark their products with 'No RIAA-evil used in the production of this album'. That way it becomes a little easier to discern it from RIAA poison.
Young people are typically drawn to free and shiny (one might say, Chromed) things. You mean things like 'bling', is that actually free then? Kids are by definition less intelligent then adults, and fall for all the materialism traps marketeers throw at them. Free might generate some pickup, but they really want to spend their money on shiny _expensive_ things.
Maybe those companies you mention also make nuclear energy very expensive here on earth(cartel/lack of competition), and their ancient uranium technology does not meet the design specifications by a long shot. They make massive reactors in size and output, Nasa wants a miniature reactor in size and output. Do they have any experience with those? Since there are no fuel assemblies to be sold to the moon or any other maintenance done, the big guys are probably not even interested?
What I don't understand from the article (yes I RTFA) is why this fossil forrest needs to be viewed from below? Was all the commercially interesting coal beneath the tree fossils, or is there a scientific reason to approach it bottom up?
34 separate (common) sugars, + sugar-protein, sugar lipid combinations. Something tells me this guy has some stake in the acceptance of sugars in cell biology. By including the buildingblocks of DNA and RNA, but not their sequences and regulating factors, he skews the board drastically for his cause. Maybe he is right and there are some diseases dependent on attached sugar groups. But thus far, these are swamped by the number of confirmed diseases caused by mutations in the DNA, or infections by viruses, bacteria or protozoa.
The thorium reactor described in the article you linked to does use plutonium to overcome a problem with pure thorium reactors. Thorium gets mutated to proactinum that decays later to Uranium-233, the uranium is fissle, but the proactinum not and will smother the chain-reaction. Using plutonium gives enough oompf to keep the reaction running until the proactinum has decayed enough. But plutonium also means you will have a lot of long-halflife actinides in your waste, which is not so good. But you are right that thorium is not a production ready technology yet. But by buying old technology from the west it might have less money to spend on R&D for cheaper thorium processes. That is just economics, unfortunately.
(and no I am not a nuclear scientist, I just play one on/.)
There are some funny aspects to this design: Why would they choose flettner rotors over conventional windmills? I am pretty sure you can use windmill in the same way as an autogyro to provide propulsive force, the same as these magical rotors. The advantage would be that the rotation of the blades creates big G-forces, and thus pressure if you happened to run a waterpipe to the blade-tip. This pressure then could be used to atomise seawater into a large volume of air. If there was some easy process to store the electrical energy from the windmills (like a giant battery, hydrogen is much too voluminous), one could let these ships loiter in windy regions harvesting energy instead of only spraying some saltwater in the air.
How exactly are you so sure the earth biosphere is 'self healing'? Seen from the Venusian point of view, earth is stuck in an extreme, not venus. But 'life' is not a person, so don't attribute reason, self-awareness and purpose to it. It just is, and it will most likely continue, wether we manage to extinct ourselves or not.
India has one of the largest resources for thorium. Thorium can be used in an alternative nuclear cycle that is much less wastefull and produces far less highly radioactive waste (not actinides). These reactors would probably not need solid fuel assemblies, like they are used in the west. What is for sale in the west is a technology that produces much more waste, has a risk of being turned into bombs (you can't with thorium) and keeps you dependent on delivery of very expensive fuel assemblies (that is how the nuclear companies make their money). That last part is probably the intention: keep India (and all other buyers) dependent on a supply that you can take away again. It would be much better if India would sell some thorium reactors to the west, that would save a lot of hazardous waste.
Although dutch is also spoken at parties, it is not a party trick, it is a language spoken by ~20 milion people. If english is not your native language, people might have some trouble with it. Techies are hired for their technical knowledge, not their fluency in English or Swahili. Your apparent refusal to translate my previous answer in dutch illustrates my point: it is pretty arrogant to demand foreigners to speak your language flawlessly when communicating with you.
It seems to me that the more complicated the 'real' reason, the more it is open to propaganda misinterpretation. For instance, what were the real objectives of the 9/11 hijackers? whatever it was, they were swamped out by the utterly simple (and utterly wrong) diversion they 'hated america for its freedom'. The same seems to be the case here. The too simple "Israel should be wiped off the map' resonated much more with the (dumb?) public/journalists then the 'real' statement that the regime in Israel should be changed (like it happened in Franco's Spain, Argentinia, South Afrika etc).
Zou u zo vriendelijk willen zijn om uw commentaar in een andere taal dan uw moedertaal te geven. U zult daar zeker niet voor betaald worden, dus professioneel is het niet, maar het zou u wel het idee moeten geven dat de taakomschrijving van de meeste nederlandse techies geen onderdeel 'schrijven als een amerikaanse advokaat' bevat.
They are not doing this to scrape some money together. There is some kind of paradox that newspapers are less interested to invest time if the sources are there for any competitor to see. The free availability makes the perceived value less/zero. So by giving exclusive access to an interested outlet, they are guaranteed a better exposure then when they just would give it to all takers for free.
You're the second person comparing it to 'boot camp'. The fact that it is institutionalised does not mean that it is good or acceptable. I tough you guys would have learnt by now what happens when you put two separate groups together and mark one group as bad and put the other in power. Oh well maybe a population also gets the prisons they deserve.
Feeling superior towards other classmates does not make up for the education you missed by not cooperating with your peers. Humans are social beings, and the best learning happens in a social context. You learn a lot from seeing others make and correct mistakes. Yes there will be others(or you) that are only asking for fishes, not wanting to fish by themselves. You could help yourself more by explaining how to fish, than to walk away. They might give you a fish later when you are hungry.
Don't believe in social learning? try this for a thought experiment: Each one of you has to open a puzzle box of some sort (with a ticket for free sex in it if you prefer). Seeing someone else open that box will give you a clue how to open yours, and that will make the task easier that having to figure it out all by yourself.
As for the punishing prof: he needs to be sued for academic misconduct in denying his students an efficient study method, and for relying on security by obscurity. Perhaps his actual intent to teach was that the rules have to be obeyed no matter what, and you better not cross anyone that has any (percieved) power over you, as they have to right to come down on you like a ton of bricks. Hierachy has to be maintained after all. That would not suprise me in the corporatist USA.
Are you claiming that palestine and the lands north and south of that are in Europe? Or are you referring to the moor occupation of the Iberian peninsula? That was one crusade out of how many? The point is/was that all religions have been used for aggressive means. Not that you could not find an opening to do your 'defending' anyway.
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While his message was one of tolerance, he was also an ordained priest (or whatever those men in dresses call it). He just showed them why it is not such a good idea to put a religious person at the head of a science organisation. As Richard Dawkins suggested, he could have given up his religious position too, that would have been much more convincing.
If I understood the article correctly, VIA pays no royalties on patents covering their chipsets, as they are seen only as intermediate products. The onus in on the manufacturer that makes the final product to take care of those. In this case your company would be the manufacturer that markets to the public. By signing an NDA with VIA, a reference implementation could be had, so there would be some sort of driver support. If the conditions of the NDA allow for the driver to be open sourced subsequently and wether X.org and the kernel would accept patent-encumbered code remains to be seen though.
So somehow you think that your tests are better then those that the candidate took to get his certification/diploma? Why aren't you in education then? This suggests to me that your ego is oversize. Not uncommon for the prototype geek, but not so good for people in management. Unfortunately that is where they all end up, disfunctioning at their level of incompetence.
Are you sure a bout that? Seems to me you are just presenting another exam to them, which by your own definition, they know how to handle.
Yes because they store all that equipment right on the wall or ceiling, and if the wall will clean it, that means that's a lot of savings for/from the autoclave. Unless it is stuff like doorhandles, there is little reason to make everything self-'disinfecting'.
Who read that as Stamford Wallace dead. I cheered. If you transform Spammers into non-humans, it is easy to cheer their demise.
Until I realised it was some guy I have never heard of. American Icon, true patriot? Maybe with his passing, you USians will need less of that.
How about we don't give money to the RIAA bunch? that means you have to be picky with the music you buy. Maybe a campaign is in order to let the independents mark their products with 'No RIAA-evil used in the production of this album'. That way it becomes a little easier to discern it from RIAA poison.
Young people are typically drawn to free and shiny (one might say, Chromed) things.
You mean things like 'bling', is that actually free then?
Kids are by definition less intelligent then adults, and fall for all the materialism traps marketeers throw at them. Free might generate some pickup, but they really want to spend their money on shiny _expensive_ things.
jabs about linux ignored.
Maybe those companies you mention also make nuclear energy very expensive here on earth(cartel/lack of competition), and their ancient uranium technology does not meet the design specifications by a long shot. They make massive reactors in size and output, Nasa wants a miniature reactor in size and output. Do they have any experience with those?
Since there are no fuel assemblies to be sold to the moon or any other maintenance done, the big guys are probably not even interested?
What I don't understand from the article (yes I RTFA) is why this fossil forrest needs to be viewed from below? Was all the commercially interesting coal beneath the tree fossils, or is there a scientific reason to approach it bottom up?
34 separate (common) sugars, + sugar-protein, sugar lipid combinations. Something tells me this guy has some stake in the acceptance of sugars in cell biology. By including the buildingblocks of DNA and RNA, but not their sequences and regulating factors, he skews the board drastically for his cause. Maybe he is right and there are some diseases dependent on attached sugar groups. But thus far, these are swamped by the number of confirmed diseases caused by mutations in the DNA, or infections by viruses, bacteria or protozoa.
I can't spell. Better read here how it is spelled by the hive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protactinium-233
I'm so sorry you don't speak any foreign languages. You must feel very inadequate?
your right it is proactinium. That had too many vowels for me. Thanx for the correction AC!
The thorium reactor described in the article you linked to does use plutonium to overcome a problem with pure thorium reactors. Thorium gets mutated to proactinum that decays later to Uranium-233, the uranium is fissle, but the proactinum not and will smother the chain-reaction. Using plutonium gives enough oompf to keep the reaction running until the proactinum has decayed enough. But plutonium also means you will have a lot of long-halflife actinides in your waste, which is not so good.
But you are right that thorium is not a production ready technology yet. But by buying old technology from the west it might have less money to spend on R&D for cheaper thorium processes. That is just economics, unfortunately.
(and no I am not a nuclear scientist, I just play one on /.)
There are some funny aspects to this design: Why would they choose flettner rotors over conventional windmills? I am pretty sure you can use windmill in the same way as an autogyro to provide propulsive force, the same as these magical rotors. The advantage would be that the rotation of the blades creates big G-forces, and thus pressure if you happened to run a waterpipe to the blade-tip. This pressure then could be used to atomise seawater into a large volume of air.
If there was some easy process to store the electrical energy from the windmills (like a giant battery, hydrogen is much too voluminous), one could let these ships loiter in windy regions harvesting energy instead of only spraying some saltwater in the air.
How exactly are you so sure the earth biosphere is 'self healing'? Seen from the Venusian point of view, earth is stuck in an extreme, not venus. But 'life' is not a person, so don't attribute reason, self-awareness and purpose to it. It just is, and it will most likely continue, wether we manage to extinct ourselves or not.
India has one of the largest resources for thorium. Thorium can be used in an alternative nuclear cycle that is much less wastefull and produces far less highly radioactive waste (not actinides). These reactors would probably not need solid fuel assemblies, like they are used in the west. What is for sale in the west is a technology that produces much more waste, has a risk of being turned into bombs (you can't with thorium) and keeps you dependent on delivery of very expensive fuel assemblies (that is how the nuclear companies make their money).
That last part is probably the intention: keep India (and all other buyers) dependent on a supply that you can take away again. It would be much better if India would sell some thorium reactors to the west, that would save a lot of hazardous waste.
Although dutch is also spoken at parties, it is not a party trick, it is a language spoken by ~20 milion people. If english is not your native language, people might have some trouble with it. Techies are hired for their technical knowledge, not their fluency in English or Swahili. Your apparent refusal to translate my previous answer in dutch illustrates my point: it is pretty arrogant to demand foreigners to speak your language flawlessly when communicating with you.
It seems to me that the more complicated the 'real' reason, the more it is open to propaganda misinterpretation. For instance, what were the real objectives of the 9/11 hijackers? whatever it was, they were swamped out by the utterly simple (and utterly wrong) diversion they 'hated america for its freedom'. The same seems to be the case here. The too simple "Israel should be wiped off the map' resonated much more with the (dumb?) public/journalists then the 'real' statement that the regime in Israel should be changed (like it happened in Franco's Spain, Argentinia, South Afrika etc).
Geachte Heer Lyons,
Zou u zo vriendelijk willen zijn om uw commentaar in een andere taal dan uw moedertaal te geven. U zult daar zeker niet voor betaald worden, dus professioneel is het niet, maar het zou u wel het idee moeten geven dat de taakomschrijving van de meeste nederlandse techies geen onderdeel 'schrijven als een amerikaanse advokaat' bevat.
IOW: it's an odd notion indeed.
They are not doing this to scrape some money together. There is some kind of paradox that newspapers are less interested to invest time if the sources are there for any competitor to see. The free availability makes the perceived value less/zero. So by giving exclusive access to an interested outlet, they are guaranteed a better exposure then when they just would give it to all takers for free.
You're the second person comparing it to 'boot camp'. The fact that it is institutionalised does not mean that it is good or acceptable. I tough you guys would have learnt by now what happens when you put two separate groups together and mark one group as bad and put the other in power. Oh well maybe a population also gets the prisons they deserve.
Feeling superior towards other classmates does not make up for the education you missed by not cooperating with your peers. Humans are social beings, and the best learning happens in a social context. You learn a lot from seeing others make and correct mistakes. Yes there will be others(or you) that are only asking for fishes, not wanting to fish by themselves. You could help yourself more by explaining how to fish, than to walk away. They might give you a fish later when you are hungry.
Don't believe in social learning? try this for a thought experiment: Each one of you has to open a puzzle box of some sort (with a ticket for free sex in it if you prefer). Seeing someone else open that box will give you a clue how to open yours, and that will make the task easier that having to figure it out all by yourself.
As for the punishing prof: he needs to be sued for academic misconduct in denying his students an efficient study method, and for relying on security by obscurity. Perhaps his actual intent to teach was that the rules have to be obeyed no matter what, and you better not cross anyone that has any (percieved) power over you, as they have to right to come down on you like a ton of bricks. Hierachy has to be maintained after all. That would not suprise me in the corporatist USA.
Are you claiming that palestine and the lands north and south of that are in Europe? Or are you referring to the moor occupation of the Iberian peninsula? That was one crusade out of how many?
The point is/was that all religions have been used for aggressive means. Not that you could not find an opening to do your 'defending' anyway.