The article was pretty vague handwaving. It didnt actually how any problem was solved with fractal mathematics. It could have tried to explain one example.
Computer and engineering journals are fairly receptive to open publication.
However, the medical journal industry is viciously protective. Pre-publication of articles threatens rejection and potential loss of priority rights. A lot of this is due to biotech which seeks to keep new technology hidden as long as possible. A number of people with fatal illness have complained to congressmen about the difficulty of accessing research on their diseases.
I am currently not affiliated with an university and have noticed increased difficulty in reading research journals at nearby libraries. The main culprit is online storage. Almost all the research libraries allow physical public patron access. But I can only read the online journals if I purchase a university computer account. I estimate over the past five years from the shrinkage of the magazine racks, half of the library journal subscriptions are only online now.
The original article I read said they would encourage MIT faculty and students to put their articles on a MIT-supplied website and back authors to obtain copyright permission. However, they weren't going to abrogate copyright contracts of existing articles and put the stuff out there without permission of the copyright holder. As more and more major institutions get on board this will back the expensive, commercial journals into a corner.
A possible compromise with the journals might be a 6 to 12 month delay before it goes on the MIT site.
Everyone has pictures of racks sliding across the room and CRT terminals dangling from desktops. The surprising thing was how much rebooted immediately after the power returned. And even in that year the pre-web internet was more reliable than the phone company. Email worked better than many phones.
Every employee reads and signs a conduct statement when joining and annually. Its spelled out in there. I believe company had some problems and fines in the past.
Scientists are constantly double-checking each other and making improvements. Especially in the case of one of the largest engineering projects ever built there will be improvements found.
I read Sun in a Bottle a summary of the history both hot and cold fusion research. The describes four cold fusion setups, two which have been reliably reproduced by others, and to which havent. The unsuccessful ones are the Pons & Fleishman fusion batteies and sonoluminescent bubbles. The successful one include a Telsa coil (has become a science fair staple) and one using solid state electronic materials. Unfortunately these only output a tiny fraction of energy compared to the import, so arent power sources. On the other other hand these may be safe neutron source for medical therapies, material science imaging anddrillhole rock evaluation because these neutrons can be turned on and off. Conventional source use radioactive sources which are occasionally lost or stolen and require high-security licenses from the feds.
Hot fusion has it share of scams too according this book. The first was an Argentine entrepeneur who claimed hot fusion success and fleeced General Peron's treasury in the early 1950s.
Sun's original forte was the personal graphics workstations with bitmap graphics and standard flavor of UNIX. (OK, there was Apollo nad MicroVAXEN too, but hey had lots of non-standard UNIX stuff in them.) The emphasis was "personal". Even though these cost 1/2 to 2/3 an engineer's annual salary at the time, this freed people from the tyranny of the departmental computer. Plus they had turnkey networking, having pioneered many of the newtwork software protocols. Also they one one of the first candidates for the mythical "3M Computer"- one megabyte of memory, one million operations per second, and one mega pixel display. Steve jobs wanted an Apple computer for this slot, but when Apple they balked (four-figure price), he started NeXT.
Sun had a brief renaissance in the 1990s with JAVA (Object-C done right), but it was too little too late.
Its just they have adapt these orders to be extremely explicit about the new kinds of communication. Face it, the average juror may not be that sharp and may not realize it until told.
Typically there are a few people in between jobs for one reason or another.
General full employment is somewhere around 4% unemployed. White and Asian college grads thats more like 2%'ish.
I've been watching the iPhone 3.0 introduction this morning. This device resembles the excitement of the Apple 2: it puts the "personal" back into the PC. Its a nearly full-featured computer you can carry around with your media anywhere. And almost anyone can write and sell software for it. And its fun.
I wrote my first program in the early 1970s (Conways Game of Life in Dartmouth BASIC on a teletype) and haven't stopped. I think I notice a decline in short term memory- the number of ideas I keep active in mind at time- but not a major decline. Thats where a trusty legal pad where I write done bug/enhancements that come to mind, but deferred to later, comes in. When younger I'd keep these all in my mind. The legal pads also double as a lab notebook for review or writing up documentation later.
I can still work in 12-hour streaks if need be or highly motivated as I am doing this week. I never did marathon all-nighters at any age.
I am still surprised I am being paid to program at this advanced age. I dont like managing. I work in a industry where many of use have a graduate degree in a non-computer domain specialty which we code for. Youngsters arent particularly attracted to this domain anymore, even though it is lucrative. And offshoring to youngsters in India without the domain knowledge or any job stay tenure was a dismal expensive failure some years back.
Mechanisms for resistance radiation damage are extremely old in life. Half of Earth's history there was insufficient free oxygen to produce the productive ozone layer. Yet bacteria evolved mechanisms to colonize the energy rich top inches of the ocean surface and resist UV damage.
Many of these same chemical pathways were co-opted in aerobic cells. Free oxygen is toxic to many cells and parts of cells. Yet they figured out how to incorporate the toxic mitochondria energy engines. Mitochondria help cells generate an order of magnitude more energy than aerobic cells, setting the stage for later mobile animal life which requires lots of energy.
New people with bachelors were being paid almost as much as people with decades of experience and graduate degrees. If you are at the other end just ask if you being paid enough to live on and not worry so much what the other guy is making.
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The article was pretty vague handwaving. It didnt actually how any problem was solved with fractal mathematics. It could have tried to explain one example.
Lots of silly apocalytic blogs these days. But the new solar cycle will be churning by 2013.
Object-verb-subject jokes aside, sometimes the young are more in tune with technological advances than their elders.
Computer and engineering journals are fairly receptive to open publication. However, the medical journal industry is viciously protective. Pre-publication of articles threatens rejection and potential loss of priority rights. A lot of this is due to biotech which seeks to keep new technology hidden as long as possible. A number of people with fatal illness have complained to congressmen about the difficulty of accessing research on their diseases.
I am currently not affiliated with an university and have noticed increased difficulty in reading research journals at nearby libraries. The main culprit is online storage. Almost all the research libraries allow physical public patron access. But I can only read the online journals if I purchase a university computer account. I estimate over the past five years from the shrinkage of the magazine racks, half of the library journal subscriptions are only online now.
The original article I read said they would encourage MIT faculty and students to put their articles on a MIT-supplied website and back authors to obtain copyright permission. However, they weren't going to abrogate copyright contracts of existing articles and put the stuff out there without permission of the copyright holder. As more and more major institutions get on board this will back the expensive, commercial journals into a corner.
A possible compromise with the journals might be a 6 to 12 month delay before it goes on the MIT site.
Everyone has pictures of racks sliding across the room and CRT terminals dangling from desktops. The surprising thing was how much rebooted immediately after the power returned. And even in that year the pre-web internet was more reliable than the phone company. Email worked better than many phones.
Got his number via Google from a Discover Magazine article. We can do insect brains now.
Every employee reads and signs a conduct statement when joining and annually. Its spelled out in there. I believe company had some problems and fines in the past.
Scientists are constantly double-checking each other and making improvements. Especially in the case of one of the largest engineering projects ever built there will be improvements found.
I read Sun in a Bottle a summary of the history both hot and cold fusion research. The describes four cold fusion setups, two which have been reliably reproduced by others, and to which havent. The unsuccessful ones are the Pons & Fleishman fusion batteies and sonoluminescent bubbles. The successful one include a Telsa coil (has become a science fair staple) and one using solid state electronic materials. Unfortunately these only output a tiny fraction of energy compared to the import, so arent power sources. On the other other hand these may be safe neutron source for medical therapies, material science imaging anddrillhole rock evaluation because these neutrons can be turned on and off. Conventional source use radioactive sources which are occasionally lost or stolen and require high-security licenses from the feds.
Hot fusion has it share of scams too according this book. The first was an Argentine entrepeneur who claimed hot fusion success and fleeced General Peron's treasury in the early 1950s.
He has been trying to prove it works for 20 years without convincing too many people. So I am skeptical right away.
Peter's claim to fame was one designers of the first working Xray laser (powered by nuclear explosion). That impressed many people.
The porn industry is often the first technology adopter. They were doing ecommerce on the web when most businesses were afraid to take CC numbers.
Sun's original forte was the personal graphics workstations with bitmap graphics and standard flavor of UNIX. (OK, there was Apollo nad MicroVAXEN too, but hey had lots of non-standard UNIX stuff in them.) The emphasis was "personal". Even though these cost 1/2 to 2/3 an engineer's annual salary at the time, this freed people from the tyranny of the departmental computer. Plus they had turnkey networking, having pioneered many of the newtwork software protocols. Also they one one of the first candidates for the mythical "3M Computer"- one megabyte of memory, one million operations per second, and one mega pixel display. Steve jobs wanted an Apple computer for this slot, but when Apple they balked (four-figure price), he started NeXT.
Sun had a brief renaissance in the 1990s with JAVA (Object-C done right), but it was too little too late.
I remeber him whining about how Star Trek screwed him in a talk he gave in the 1980s.
Its just they have adapt these orders to be extremely explicit about the new kinds of communication. Face it, the average juror may not be that sharp and may not realize it until told.
Typically there are a few people in between jobs for one reason or another. General full employment is somewhere around 4% unemployed. White and Asian college grads thats more like 2%'ish.
I've been watching the iPhone 3.0 introduction this morning. This device resembles the excitement of the Apple 2: it puts the "personal" back into the PC. Its a nearly full-featured computer you can carry around with your media anywhere. And almost anyone can write and sell software for it. And its fun.
I wrote my first program in the early 1970s (Conways Game of Life in Dartmouth BASIC on a teletype) and haven't stopped. I think I notice a decline in short term memory- the number of ideas I keep active in mind at time- but not a major decline. Thats where a trusty legal pad where I write done bug/enhancements that come to mind, but deferred to later, comes in. When younger I'd keep these all in my mind. The legal pads also double as a lab notebook for review or writing up documentation later.
I can still work in 12-hour streaks if need be or highly motivated as I am doing this week. I never did marathon all-nighters at any age.
I am still surprised I am being paid to program at this advanced age. I dont like managing. I work in a industry where many of use have a graduate degree in a non-computer domain specialty which we code for. Youngsters arent particularly attracted to this domain anymore, even though it is lucrative. And offshoring to youngsters in India without the domain knowledge or any job stay tenure was a dismal expensive failure some years back.
If he violated judges instructions about discussing the case. I wonder if the parties involved could sue the jurors for the cost of a retrial.
Mechanisms for resistance radiation damage are extremely old in life. Half of Earth's history there was insufficient free oxygen to produce the productive ozone layer. Yet bacteria evolved mechanisms to colonize the energy rich top inches of the ocean surface and resist UV damage.
Many of these same chemical pathways were co-opted in aerobic cells. Free oxygen is toxic to many cells and parts of cells. Yet they figured out how to incorporate the toxic mitochondria energy engines. Mitochondria help cells generate an order of magnitude more energy than aerobic cells, setting the stage for later mobile animal life which requires lots of energy.
Steve hates fans and keeps them out of this toasters, oops, computers.
Maybe one of the 25K apps simulates the sound of a fan.
New people with bachelors were being paid almost as much as people with decades of experience and graduate degrees. If you are at the other end just ask if you being paid enough to live on and not worry so much what the other guy is making.
Rather old news
You languish in apprenticeships called post-docs for years while waiting for a real job to open up.
Or you canned by the time you are 40.