Mod parent up. Having to pay big $$$ to get a degree is something that happens in developing countries and the U.S. only. Admissions by merit is the rule - only diploma mills and other "not actually universities" would accept cash. Also, don't believe the "freedom fries" neocon story, Americans are well-received abroad. You already know English; you don't have to be fluent in any other language except if you go to a large country where people don't strictly need to know other languages (so forget Germany, France, Russia and Brazil). Of the checkboxes in the HR form, you get not only the Bachelor's degree, but also international experience. That, and you might also actually learn something.
As for Finland, there are a lot of AMK's that are quite easy to get into. They get funded by the government based on student numbers, so they have an incentive to accept students. These are 3-4-year degrees, but I believe you can negotiate to get the Associates studies included. (Such a degree doesn't exist in Finland.)
The story completely fails to elaborate on the contents of the box. If it's just an instant test for drugs, then there's little new. The idea that you could just replace a general analytical laboratory with a single gizmo is the product of a mind untrained in chemistry. A gas, liquid or ion chromatograph has a column, which must be of at least a certain length to produce good resolution, and ramping up the pressure would hardly be an option, since that would require heavier pressure-proof lines and pumps. How to set up a column oven inside a credit card is not obvious either. A mass spectrometer has a high-vacuum chamber (high vacuum = thick steel) and a strong magnet; the smallest are tabletop-size. Likewise, NMR spectrometers have a strong magnet, and have been miniaturized to a 1x1x1 ft cubes, but I don't see how, barring discovery of new elements, the magnets could be made smaller. (NQR might be an option, but that would then beg the question of how to miniaturize the radio transmitter and receiver. And no one has, as of yet, actually produced a working field NQR, ADE 651 not withstanding) For inorganic analysis, XRF is probably the closest, with handheld devices being the smallest. XPS or Auger is again high vacuum and involves vacuum tubes, so no luck here either. This equipment would cover much of the functionality of a 'James Bond' lab, and would still be useless without a trained analytical chemist.
Why such a stupid Finglish name, I wonder too. Univ student humor magazine Tamppi suggested LempÃÃlà Mobile Phones in 2000. But seriously, there is Westend ICT. Karamalmi or Keilaniemi would be obvious choices, but the guy's name, Zilliacus, is cool too.
The promises of orders are not mentioned in this article, but were in a TV documentary about the case. (Whatever the case, it's not known if the Soviets would've approved of orders by other countries or private individuals, for instance Israel.)
Mir. The interesting thing is that the CIA killed this project, leaving only the two pieces already produced. They feared that the technology was too advanced to be sold to the Soviet Union. They promised the manufacturer compensating orders from the West, but you should never trust the U.S. government - this was of course a lie.
You can make the examples work if you modify the problem. For instance, define that the box is cold, the room is hot and the food is hot. Then, putting the food in the box increases entropy. This is in fact analogous to eating, even in physical terms; the box that eats the food is an energy sink, just like a living being.
And just to clarify, their IL was 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, or better known as [hmim][NTf2], fairly nonexotic as far as ILs go. Although I didn't find the price for this, the butyl version (whose synthesis is very similar) goes for 1150 €/kg at SigmaAldrich.
Joking aside, ILs are expensive, because they're yet nothing but custom-manufactured small-batch chemicals for research. We're talking about 500-1200 €/kg for low grade (2-5% impurities). For high purity, you need very deep pockets, since producing pure ILs is not routine and may need expensive custom synthesis and research. If production is scaled up, though, then we're in the normal custom manufacturing range, order of magnitude being 10-100 €/kg. In this case, though, I think the price of the IL is not going to be a problem, simply because the amount needed is so small.
Personally, I think that what kills this eventually is the inability to control the degradation of the IL or the memory itself, and accumulation of harmful degradation products. Since this is a chip that you'll package and seal in, you wouldn't want to do an "oil change" now and then.
There is also the option of using Dasher. You only need four controls: up, down and forward and back. The program shows a tree of the possible options, emphasizing more frequent words. You can write "the" by just looking at "t" and then at the "h e" that appear. This is pretty intuitive with eye-tracking, more so than a keyboard.
What force? That's the difficult question here, and the problem with your argument (an argument from ignorance). Of the four fundamental forces in nature, gravity has the longest range. But, structures larger than a supercluster are too large for gravity, because the metric expansion of the universe is a stronger "force" at that scale or larger, and necessarily tears apart any larger structures. That implies larger structures must have formed in process of the Big Bang.
The only known mechanism for creating large cosmic structures, baryon acoustic oscillations, is based on gravity. It tends to produce voids of 490 million light-years or smaller. The trouble is that you run out of possible fundamental forces when explaining the formation of larger structures. You literally need new physics to construct an object ten times larger than the limit given by known physics.
By the way, the size of the observable universe is 46.6 Mly, since the universe has expanded since then; the age of light and the current distance of its emitter are not interchangeable at cosmic distances.
The essential feature of the element is that it has a high X-ray absorbance. But, any heavy metal has a high X-ray absorbance; this is why thorium was used in the first place. The problem is the solubility: barium sulfate is essentially insoluble, but other metals are usually somewhat soluble and thus toxic. In principle you could use any heavy element (iodine, mercury, lead, uranium, thorium, bismuth, etc.). In practice, barium, iodine, bismuth and thorium have been used.
One alternative that is worth a mention is something that absorbs less that tissue, namely air.
The ExoMars rover will be launched in 2018. There was some reorganization when NASA was replaced by another partner, Roscosmos. The ESA site about the rover was updated last month, so it seems they're still on track.
The table is incredibly half-assed. Even if you assume "tech" really means "electronics", how about iron, copper and cadmium left blank? Duh. Also, arsenic, germanium, fluorine, chromium, mercury, lead, nitrogen,... AAARRGGH!
Slashdot reported earlier of a new upper jaw grown inside the body, not from the patient's excised bone, but from his stem cells. The operation in this post, as far as I understand, is an established part of modern medicine: epithelial tissue is excised, reshaped and reimplanted. This is not novel; it has been done since World War I.
The American standardized testing is severely infected with political correctness, in the sense it's intelligence testing more than academic testing. But, the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) has a traditional "grammar school" curriculum that is uniform across the world. The IB Diploma matches nearly exactly to the Abitur/matura grades, which are national standards for matriculation examinations in many European countries. IB is slightly more demanding than the U.S. high school programme. There are over 1100 public IB programmes in the United States.
We find the bulk modulus of M-carbon to be 365+/-38 GPa, thus is one of the stiffest materials known comparable to that of cubic-BN (387+/-4 GPa) and wurtzitic BN (375+/-9 GPa).... M-carbon also shows anisotropic compressibilities along lattice axes: the a axis is stiffest [527+/-2 GPa] and the b [271+/-1] and c [267+/-1 GPa] axes are roughly equivalent...
It seems that the anisotropy does give a lower compressibility, but not dramatically more as in graphite (weaker plane compressibility is 2.7% of the stronger plane). It's also clear that the diamond in the diamond anvil cell used to make this is damaged by the material. The picture in the Yale News article is the damaged anvil, not the M-carbon. In SEM images, it doesn't look like graphite at all, but more like fused grains. Characterization and proof of structure is done by X-ray diffraction, a standard materials science method, using synchrotrons, which are giant particle accelerators, namely ALS at LBL and APS at Argonne.
Since this whole Slashdot comments page has - expectably - become a giant circlejeck, I beg to differ. Wikipedia's default themes are all hard on the eyes. The text is too small, and there is no easy option to set a black background. I positively hate the obligatory bright white background, DOS-style fluorescent-on-black was much better. Wikipedia has already given in to a certain 1999's style "fashion". Also, the markup is a kludge.
In fact, I like the mobile site. That, and no limitations on use (the mobile view has limited functionality), it could be better.
The name for a real commercial product can be bland, boring or just plain bad, but it can't be unpresentable. Or a silly joke - you could pay maybe $5 for the novelty, but not more.
That, and the other pet peeve of mine is that pi isn't really "pie" [pai], as in the bakery product, but "pi" [pi] (modern) or [pei] (ancient Greek). This incredibly lame attempt at humor is obviously lost on most people.
I would like to buy a computer that is much like Raspberry Pi, but I just can't buy a "Raspberry Pi". Too cringe-inducing. Would a car manufacturer name their vehicle "Toot-Toot Peanut Butter"? Sorry but I'll pass.
And APC is a TLA, which, as TLAs often have, has an established use, in this case Armoured Personnel Carrier.
I agree. The significant thing is that in the absence of a patent, the NDA is usually the only real legal recourse the victim has. The United States, for example, has no federal law on trade secret protection, and it would be much more difficult to prove trade secret violations if there was no NDA.
And more accurately, the U.S. budget deficit was $3.59 billion in 1934. Just four $1 billion bonds could cover it completely. $6 trillion in total means that there were 6000 of these fake bonds.
The problem isn't the existence of water before the formation of the Sun, it's why it's still here. First, the young Sun would clean the space around itself from excess material with an intense solar wind. The Giant Impact to form the moon would convert the Earth into a magma ocean, again not much helping with water retention. Over time, the solar wind and ultraviolet radiation destroyed the water in all other planets close to the Sun. In the inner solar system, all unprotected water will eventually evaporate, dissociate into hydrogen, and the hydrogen will be blown out from the solar system by solar wind. We know that Earth's magnetic field protects from solar wind, but the problem is still where did the original water come from - was it already here, or was it imported from the outer solar system? It's like we're in the middle of a desert, but we still find water where we are.
It's your job as an expert. The bare fact is that people who get involved in purchasing services for an auxiliary/support function such as IT are not experts in the same. The "vague generalities" you deride are the performance targets, not the solution - that's your job. Seriously, would you prefer a customer that micromanages you from start to end, complaining about each thing incessantly? And is wrong all the time, to boot? Do appreciate the freedom of being given vague generalities to work on!
Anyway, maybe this will finally prove or disprove the conspiracy theories about Nicola Tesla's wireless power transmission system. Alternatively, at least tesla coils as in C&C become reality. A great replacement for landmines, now that the boo-hoo pacifists try to ban them.
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Mod parent up. Having to pay big $$$ to get a degree is something that happens in developing countries and the U.S. only. Admissions by merit is the rule - only diploma mills and other "not actually universities" would accept cash. Also, don't believe the "freedom fries" neocon story, Americans are well-received abroad. You already know English; you don't have to be fluent in any other language except if you go to a large country where people don't strictly need to know other languages (so forget Germany, France, Russia and Brazil). Of the checkboxes in the HR form, you get not only the Bachelor's degree, but also international experience. That, and you might also actually learn something.
As for Finland, there are a lot of AMK's that are quite easy to get into. They get funded by the government based on student numbers, so they have an incentive to accept students. These are 3-4-year degrees, but I believe you can negotiate to get the Associates studies included. (Such a degree doesn't exist in Finland.)
The story completely fails to elaborate on the contents of the box. If it's just an instant test for drugs, then there's little new. The idea that you could just replace a general analytical laboratory with a single gizmo is the product of a mind untrained in chemistry. A gas, liquid or ion chromatograph has a column, which must be of at least a certain length to produce good resolution, and ramping up the pressure would hardly be an option, since that would require heavier pressure-proof lines and pumps. How to set up a column oven inside a credit card is not obvious either. A mass spectrometer has a high-vacuum chamber (high vacuum = thick steel) and a strong magnet; the smallest are tabletop-size. Likewise, NMR spectrometers have a strong magnet, and have been miniaturized to a 1x1x1 ft cubes, but I don't see how, barring discovery of new elements, the magnets could be made smaller. (NQR might be an option, but that would then beg the question of how to miniaturize the radio transmitter and receiver. And no one has, as of yet, actually produced a working field NQR, ADE 651 not withstanding) For inorganic analysis, XRF is probably the closest, with handheld devices being the smallest. XPS or Auger is again high vacuum and involves vacuum tubes, so no luck here either. This equipment would cover much of the functionality of a 'James Bond' lab, and would still be useless without a trained analytical chemist.
Why such a stupid Finglish name, I wonder too. Univ student humor magazine Tamppi suggested LempÃÃlà Mobile Phones in 2000. But seriously, there is Westend ICT. Karamalmi or Keilaniemi would be obvious choices, but the guy's name, Zilliacus, is cool too.
The promises of orders are not mentioned in this article, but were in a TV documentary about the case. (Whatever the case, it's not known if the Soviets would've approved of orders by other countries or private individuals, for instance Israel.)
Mir. The interesting thing is that the CIA killed this project, leaving only the two pieces already produced. They feared that the technology was too advanced to be sold to the Soviet Union. They promised the manufacturer compensating orders from the West, but you should never trust the U.S. government - this was of course a lie.
You can make the examples work if you modify the problem. For instance, define that the box is cold, the room is hot and the food is hot. Then, putting the food in the box increases entropy. This is in fact analogous to eating, even in physical terms; the box that eats the food is an energy sink, just like a living being.
And just to clarify, their IL was 1-hexyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, or better known as [hmim][NTf2], fairly nonexotic as far as ILs go. Although I didn't find the price for this, the butyl version (whose synthesis is very similar) goes for 1150 €/kg at SigmaAldrich.
Personally, I think that what kills this eventually is the inability to control the degradation of the IL or the memory itself, and accumulation of harmful degradation products. Since this is a chip that you'll package and seal in, you wouldn't want to do an "oil change" now and then.
There is also the option of using Dasher. You only need four controls: up, down and forward and back. The program shows a tree of the possible options, emphasizing more frequent words. You can write "the" by just looking at "t" and then at the "h e" that appear. This is pretty intuitive with eye-tracking, more so than a keyboard.
What force? That's the difficult question here, and the problem with your argument (an argument from ignorance). Of the four fundamental forces in nature, gravity has the longest range. But, structures larger than a supercluster are too large for gravity, because the metric expansion of the universe is a stronger "force" at that scale or larger, and necessarily tears apart any larger structures. That implies larger structures must have formed in process of the Big Bang.
The only known mechanism for creating large cosmic structures, baryon acoustic oscillations, is based on gravity. It tends to produce voids of 490 million light-years or smaller. The trouble is that you run out of possible fundamental forces when explaining the formation of larger structures. You literally need new physics to construct an object ten times larger than the limit given by known physics.
By the way, the size of the observable universe is 46.6 Mly, since the universe has expanded since then; the age of light and the current distance of its emitter are not interchangeable at cosmic distances.
The essential feature of the element is that it has a high X-ray absorbance. But, any heavy metal has a high X-ray absorbance; this is why thorium was used in the first place. The problem is the solubility: barium sulfate is essentially insoluble, but other metals are usually somewhat soluble and thus toxic. In principle you could use any heavy element (iodine, mercury, lead, uranium, thorium, bismuth, etc.). In practice, barium, iodine, bismuth and thorium have been used.
One alternative that is worth a mention is something that absorbs less that tissue, namely air.
The ExoMars rover will be launched in 2018. There was some reorganization when NASA was replaced by another partner, Roscosmos. The ESA site about the rover was updated last month, so it seems they're still on track.
The table is incredibly half-assed. Even if you assume "tech" really means "electronics", how about iron, copper and cadmium left blank? Duh. Also, arsenic, germanium, fluorine, chromium, mercury, lead, nitrogen, ... AAARRGGH!
Slashdot reported earlier of a new upper jaw grown inside the body, not from the patient's excised bone, but from his stem cells. The operation in this post, as far as I understand, is an established part of modern medicine: epithelial tissue is excised, reshaped and reimplanted. This is not novel; it has been done since World War I.
The American standardized testing is severely infected with political correctness, in the sense it's intelligence testing more than academic testing. But, the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) has a traditional "grammar school" curriculum that is uniform across the world. The IB Diploma matches nearly exactly to the Abitur/matura grades, which are national standards for matriculation examinations in many European countries. IB is slightly more demanding than the U.S. high school programme. There are over 1100 public IB programmes in the United States.
It seems that the anisotropy does give a lower compressibility, but not dramatically more as in graphite (weaker plane compressibility is 2.7% of the stronger plane). It's also clear that the diamond in the diamond anvil cell used to make this is damaged by the material. The picture in the Yale News article is the damaged anvil, not the M-carbon. In SEM images, it doesn't look like graphite at all, but more like fused grains. Characterization and proof of structure is done by X-ray diffraction, a standard materials science method, using synchrotrons, which are giant particle accelerators, namely ALS at LBL and APS at Argonne.
Since this whole Slashdot comments page has - expectably - become a giant circlejeck, I beg to differ. Wikipedia's default themes are all hard on the eyes. The text is too small, and there is no easy option to set a black background. I positively hate the obligatory bright white background, DOS-style fluorescent-on-black was much better. Wikipedia has already given in to a certain 1999's style "fashion". Also, the markup is a kludge.
In fact, I like the mobile site. That, and no limitations on use (the mobile view has limited functionality), it could be better.
That, and the other pet peeve of mine is that pi isn't really "pie" [pai], as in the bakery product, but "pi" [pi] (modern) or [pei] (ancient Greek). This incredibly lame attempt at humor is obviously lost on most people.
I would like to buy a computer that is much like Raspberry Pi, but I just can't buy a "Raspberry Pi". Too cringe-inducing. Would a car manufacturer name their vehicle "Toot-Toot Peanut Butter"? Sorry but I'll pass.
And APC is a TLA, which, as TLAs often have, has an established use, in this case Armoured Personnel Carrier.
I agree. The significant thing is that in the absence of a patent, the NDA is usually the only real legal recourse the victim has. The United States, for example, has no federal law on trade secret protection, and it would be much more difficult to prove trade secret violations if there was no NDA.
And more accurately, the U.S. budget deficit was $3.59 billion in 1934. Just four $1 billion bonds could cover it completely. $6 trillion in total means that there were 6000 of these fake bonds.
The problem isn't the existence of water before the formation of the Sun, it's why it's still here. First, the young Sun would clean the space around itself from excess material with an intense solar wind. The Giant Impact to form the moon would convert the Earth into a magma ocean, again not much helping with water retention. Over time, the solar wind and ultraviolet radiation destroyed the water in all other planets close to the Sun. In the inner solar system, all unprotected water will eventually evaporate, dissociate into hydrogen, and the hydrogen will be blown out from the solar system by solar wind. We know that Earth's magnetic field protects from solar wind, but the problem is still where did the original water come from - was it already here, or was it imported from the outer solar system? It's like we're in the middle of a desert, but we still find water where we are.
It's your job as an expert. The bare fact is that people who get involved in purchasing services for an auxiliary/support function such as IT are not experts in the same. The "vague generalities" you deride are the performance targets, not the solution - that's your job. Seriously, would you prefer a customer that micromanages you from start to end, complaining about each thing incessantly? And is wrong all the time, to boot? Do appreciate the freedom of being given vague generalities to work on!
>Tesla Roadster
Seems like there's an extra "d" in there.
Anyway, maybe this will finally prove or disprove the conspiracy theories about Nicola Tesla's wireless power transmission system. Alternatively, at least tesla coils as in C&C become reality. A great replacement for landmines, now that the boo-hoo pacifists try to ban them.
Three times higher than Western Europe in general, in where you have actual life sentences for example.