Never understood how birds are the only remaining dinosaurs... wonder what made dinos so vulnerable to this event, where many other large species (crocs, turtles, fish, etc) survive to this day. One might think that some small dinosaurs, or aquatic/marine species would have found a niche on some continent. Population bottleneck, I guess. Imagine if no dinosaurs at all had survived... maybe we'd have a lot more large insects and bats species filling the skies.
That's what IH is doing now. They don't care if you, or anyone, believes them. When you see this in the 6-o'clock news, it won't be that scientists celebrate that they've reproduced Rossi's results. It will be a blue-chip client disclosing that they've been using the device successfully for several months or more. Or that one of the things has blown up because accepted theory for LENR is still lacking.
So we have an eco-friendly design to be built on illustrated beachfront that will likely be eroded into nothingness within the next couple decades.
All the resources placed into its construction will be utterly wasted. Not very eco-friendly.
Take your argument to its logical conclusion... $200 -> $15 -> 1 cent. How about lowering the price to the cost of an aspirin. Which would likely be the actual per-dose cost of many addictive substances, absent prohibition. Or take alcohol - widespread addiction/abuse, but very few people robbing the Walgreens for a dose of MD 20/20.
I would pick a Ford over either in terms of reliability, cost of ownership, and value. Well, perhaps give Mercedes the edge on reliability.
However, I do agree it's sad that America lacks industrial capacity in the areas mentioned. Probably has something to do with complete lack of industrial policy (other than prison industrial complex and defense industrial complex).
That's cool that you are attending tech social events and such. But ultimately "you're doing it wrong" (or they are). OMG we can't get someone with 5 years mongodb experience at $140K. Rather than attending more events, the effective approach is likely to try advertising the position at 1.25X the compensation level every few months. It works. Someone *will* leave their current position for something better. But not at like 5 or 10 % more because they like you.
That being said, perhaps just wait a few months. The pendulum will swing the other way, and desperation will happen eventually. It's been a long, happy run, and I fear that the economy may cycle down prior to our reaching astronomical IT consulting fees seen circa 2000. Adjusted for inflation we're not even close.
Good luck with that. If anyone ever succeeds in LENR, the only convincing evidence will be a working industrial plant.
Nobody in their right mind would release sufficient details to fully replicate before that... this would be a world-changing discovery of incalculable value. Trade secret at all costs.
Have you read the report? Power input was monitored.
At this stage, either this is the most elaborate scientific/engineering hoax in history, or he's stumbled upon something novel. It happens. Unfortunately, the exact inner workings (fuel composition,...) are being protected as a trade secret.
Approaching this empirically, with a couple of 50-year intervals:
1912-1962 general relativity, discovery of DNA, yada yada
1963-2013 quantum chromodynamics, I grant you that... and supersymmetry or some such shit, various biotech engineering feats working out the details
Wow, just wow. Judge much?
So every 35+ member of society should be "making executive decisions", and is otherwise a child in your absurd metaphor?
Go back to reading Rand.
Though SAP is German, and this brilliant fellow is based in India, they should be careful. These kinds of statements suggest a more widespread policy of overt age discrimination at SAP, which is illegal in the US, among other countries. SAP should release a statement disowning this rant.
Imagine: 'My experience is that race X is generally not as productive as race Y, so I prefer not to hire anyone of race X'. Also, gender F tends to go on maternity leave and not come back, so I prefer to hire gender M. Unacceptable.
Nicely said, from another math/cs/physics/engineering type. Wish I had mod points for you.
My wife is terrible at maths... fine with arithmetic and the most basic algebra, but I fail to see how making her struggle with factoring quadratic equations helped her (or society) in any way.
One of the most brilliant programmers I've ever met is a terrible speller. Perhaps he should have been denied his high school diploma?
Wow, only took a few minutes for judgmental dude to jump in, and get modded up +5 insightful. That's what I love about Slashdot.
Many employers (especially small companies) allow for personal use within certain restrictions.
Many personal details can be left behind from work-related tasks such as registrations on intraweb sites, HR forms, and travel sites (including personal credit card to charge business trips later refunded).
It's a valid question. But I feel your need to judge. In fact, I am doing it right now. Maybe you are at work right now. Are you stealing the company's electricity to charge your phone?
Time to call it a week. My wistful expression of preference has been met with a bias alert by a dad in Portland. Internet, why do I bother with you.
Yet I've learned something. Apparently there are some good TV programs. Who knew. Eat shit, snark sig troll.
I hate it when good radio programs go away. Dr Dean Edell, now this. I don't know what it is, but I've always felt a stronger connection to radio than TV. I guess it's that I'm an old fart. But radio is so much more personal with less glitz, extraneous distraction. At least I still have As It Happens.
... such as Austin. Opportunities abound. There many small companies who are eager to hire smart, motivated folks with demonstrated capabilities, regardless of the field of their degree.
Wait... *don't* move here. There are already too many people here.
He's a fraudster. Name one other case where an invention or useful implement has preceded the theoretical framework to explain it. Oh wait...
I don't know whether Rossi has found something novel and commercialized it. Neither do you. Time will tell. AFAIK he hasn't been taking prepayment for delivery of the devices, even though it would be rather trivial to setup the infrastructure to accept $100 payments to be "first in line" for later delivery of home units. If/when he does this, I will be first to suspect fraud.
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Never understood how birds are the only remaining dinosaurs... wonder what made dinos so vulnerable to this event, where many other large species (crocs, turtles, fish, etc) survive to this day. One might think that some small dinosaurs, or aquatic/marine species would have found a niche on some continent. Population bottleneck, I guess. Imagine if no dinosaurs at all had survived... maybe we'd have a lot more large insects and bats species filling the skies.
This. Nuclear has its risks, but they are relatively localized. The impending doom of AGM should be pushing us towards nuclear. But... paranoia.
That's what IH is doing now. They don't care if you, or anyone, believes them. When you see this in the 6-o'clock news, it won't be that scientists celebrate that they've reproduced Rossi's results. It will be a blue-chip client disclosing that they've been using the device successfully for several months or more. Or that one of the things has blown up because accepted theory for LENR is still lacking.
And/or medium-sized drones carrying Velveeta and beer!
So we have an eco-friendly design to be built on illustrated beachfront that will likely be eroded into nothingness within the next couple decades. All the resources placed into its construction will be utterly wasted. Not very eco-friendly.
Take your argument to its logical conclusion... $200 -> $15 -> 1 cent. How about lowering the price to the cost of an aspirin. Which would likely be the actual per-dose cost of many addictive substances, absent prohibition. Or take alcohol - widespread addiction/abuse, but very few people robbing the Walgreens for a dose of MD 20/20.
I would pick a Ford over either in terms of reliability, cost of ownership, and value. Well, perhaps give Mercedes the edge on reliability. However, I do agree it's sad that America lacks industrial capacity in the areas mentioned. Probably has something to do with complete lack of industrial policy (other than prison industrial complex and defense industrial complex).
That's cool that you are attending tech social events and such. But ultimately "you're doing it wrong" (or they are). OMG we can't get someone with 5 years mongodb experience at $140K. Rather than attending more events, the effective approach is likely to try advertising the position at 1.25X the compensation level every few months. It works. Someone *will* leave their current position for something better. But not at like 5 or 10 % more because they like you. That being said, perhaps just wait a few months. The pendulum will swing the other way, and desperation will happen eventually. It's been a long, happy run, and I fear that the economy may cycle down prior to our reaching astronomical IT consulting fees seen circa 2000. Adjusted for inflation we're not even close.
I forget he name of it, but one issue of a computer magazine in maybe late 80's was over 1,000 pages of PC clone adverts.
Computer Shopper! I remember it well.
Good luck with that. If anyone ever succeeds in LENR, the only convincing evidence will be a working industrial plant. Nobody in their right mind would release sufficient details to fully replicate before that... this would be a world-changing discovery of incalculable value. Trade secret at all costs.
Have you read the report? Power input was monitored. At this stage, either this is the most elaborate scientific/engineering hoax in history, or he's stumbled upon something novel. It happens. Unfortunately, the exact inner workings (fuel composition, ...) are being protected as a trade secret.
A shock would be better. Negative reinforcement. Think doggie training collar.
Approaching this empirically, with a couple of 50-year intervals:
1912-1962 general relativity, discovery of DNA, yada yada
1963-2013 quantum chromodynamics, I grant you that... and supersymmetry or some such shit, various biotech engineering feats working out the details
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_scientific_discoveries#20th_century
There does seem to be a trend towards application of established theories (essentially an engineering exercise) as opposed to new fundamental discoveries.
Wow, just wow. Judge much? So every 35+ member of society should be "making executive decisions", and is otherwise a child in your absurd metaphor? Go back to reading Rand.
Though SAP is German, and this brilliant fellow is based in India, they should be careful. These kinds of statements suggest a more widespread policy of overt age discrimination at SAP, which is illegal in the US, among other countries. SAP should release a statement disowning this rant. Imagine: 'My experience is that race X is generally not as productive as race Y, so I prefer not to hire anyone of race X'. Also, gender F tends to go on maternity leave and not come back, so I prefer to hire gender M. Unacceptable.
... and off production/consumption treadmill. I r writer!
Nicely said, from another math/cs/physics/engineering type. Wish I had mod points for you. My wife is terrible at maths... fine with arithmetic and the most basic algebra, but I fail to see how making her struggle with factoring quadratic equations helped her (or society) in any way. One of the most brilliant programmers I've ever met is a terrible speller. Perhaps he should have been denied his high school diploma?
Wow, only took a few minutes for judgmental dude to jump in, and get modded up +5 insightful. That's what I love about Slashdot. Many employers (especially small companies) allow for personal use within certain restrictions. Many personal details can be left behind from work-related tasks such as registrations on intraweb sites, HR forms, and travel sites (including personal credit card to charge business trips later refunded). It's a valid question. But I feel your need to judge. In fact, I am doing it right now. Maybe you are at work right now. Are you stealing the company's electricity to charge your phone?
Time to call it a week. My wistful expression of preference has been met with a bias alert by a dad in Portland. Internet, why do I bother with you. Yet I've learned something. Apparently there are some good TV programs. Who knew. Eat shit, snark sig troll.
I hate it when good radio programs go away. Dr Dean Edell, now this. I don't know what it is, but I've always felt a stronger connection to radio than TV. I guess it's that I'm an old fart. But radio is so much more personal with less glitz, extraneous distraction. At least I still have As It Happens.
... such as Austin. Opportunities abound. There many small companies who are eager to hire smart, motivated folks with demonstrated capabilities, regardless of the field of their degree. Wait... *don't* move here. There are already too many people here.
This is giving me a huge bulge of my own. How long until New York freezes over like in The Day After Tomorrow?
He's a fraudster. Name one other case where an invention or useful implement has preceded the theoretical framework to explain it. Oh wait...
I don't know whether Rossi has found something novel and commercialized it. Neither do you. Time will tell. AFAIK he hasn't been taking prepayment for delivery of the devices, even though it would be rather trivial to setup the infrastructure to accept $100 payments to be "first in line" for later delivery of home units. If/when he does this, I will be first to suspect fraud.
How long before T-Mobile's reasonably-priced prepaid plans vanish? I give it 6-12 months.
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