It does, because he isn't... as is pointed out every time this pointless story comes back to/.
"Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
No... no, it doesn't. It could well be that there isn't a disproportionate amount of fraud here, when you use the appropriate metric. It could well be that there is. But there is zero logical connection between those two statements.
It ain't the hardware... it's the people. Who maintains the hardware? Programs it all? Who maintains the networks? Who is charged with tracking what's working and what isn't? Who backs it up, and updates formats, and catalogs it, and indexes it, and tracks the changing methodologies used in the collection? Who translates the old code, and operating systems, and storage formats, and hardware, and whatever else?
Hardware's cheap... people (especially those of the knowledgeable and reliable variety) aren't. Digital data archiving and warehousing for the long haul are well understood to be huge problems for which we haven't found a very good set of solutions.
Why? We switch units all the time, even when doing this "science" thing that so many seem to think only uses SI: eV, barn, torr, atm, etc. Suck it up, and learn to do conversions....
In undergrad, I typically did 3 hours of DiffyQ homework *per night*
That's what I noticed first... I tell my students that they should be doing about 3 hours of homework per credit hour per week. For a full time load, that works out to about 60 hours of classes plus homework a week. If you're doing WAY less than that, AND you're complaining about the work load.... you need to rethink you're approach to your education.
Potatoes contain gobs of potassium, which has a naturally occurring radioactive isotope (K40). Bananas have the same issue. Unlike C14, K40 is primordial, so everywhere you have potassium, you have essentially the same concentration of K40.
Well, we might be idiots, but that's not the problem. It's a set of three very large superconducting coils, custom wound on-site in the 1990s, built into cryostats that can't be disassembled, and being moved as a set of monolithic units. They were never designed or intended to be moved, and significant engineering work has gone into determining the mechanical loads they can be safely subjected to.
Both routes were considered, but I'm not sure why one was chosen over the other. Presumably input from the companies bidding on the contract had something to do with it.
As I mentioned up above, it turns out to be loads cheaper to move the experiment to Fermilab than to upgrade the accelerator complex at Brookhaven to do the experiment there.
We usually prefer airplanes to buses (lots cheaper, given the time value of money.....)
The cost of running the experiment again at Brookhaven (which had been our initial idea) would be significantly higher than moving it to Fermilab, because of the cost of required accelerator upgrades at Brookhaven. Fermilab has protons to spare, and the experiment fits into the larger muon program at the Lab. http://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/experiments/intensity/
The Steubenville convictees are legally juveniles. Society has decided that we don't throw the book at them. Had they been adults, they would not be getting sent to a juvenile facility, and they would not be getting out in so short a time. It's hardly an apt comparison.
Computer languages are meant to be read and written by people, yes. Your complaint, however, that "C++ really falls down", coming from someone who admittedly doesn't know the language and library, is a bit like me complaining that "French really falls down" when I haven't bothered to learn French. Or that idiomatic English constructs like "I couldn't care less" (which means exactly the opposite of its literal meaning) imply that "English really falls down". I can't read Lisp well... but I don't have the temerity to blame its impenetrability to me on Lisp being a bad language.
Most of the projects I'm involved in use C++ because it excels at helping us to control the complexity of the massive applications we write and use every day. If we tried to write that code in C, we'd be rending our garments and gnashing our teeth. Use the right tool for the job. C++ isn't the right tool for every job, but neither is C or Python or any other computer language.
The jury is the "finder of fact": does the evidence show that the defendant did A, B, or none of the above? If the jury finds that the facts support a particular conclusion, then the penalty provided by "law" is applied. If the jury finds "A", then penalty A' gets applied, etc. Neither juries nor judges have unfettered power in this process: judges are typically not permitted to rule on matters of "fact", and juries are typically not permitted to rule on matters of "law". Checks and balances....
Shutting down the Tevatron with the turn-on of the LHC was the right move, from my perspective in the field. The Tevatron would NEVER have reached the magic 5sigma threshold for discovery confirmation, something the LHC will do easily if the Higgs is really near 125GeV. And running the Tevatron isn't free: it's tens of millions of dollars a year, and many hundreds of man-years of effort. This funding would have been essentially "lost", but more importantly, the lost man-years would have decimated many other projects that Fermilab and the high energy physics community considered much more valuable than an additional year or two of Tevatron running. It would also have delayed for years the development of new accelerator projects at Fermilab that are considered extremely high priority within the field. These issues are why the shutdown decision was taken in the first place. Tevatron was a great machine for thirty plus years. But time marches on, and we don't keep high cost infrastructure running based just on nostalgia....
We've been cooking bread for at least ten thousand years before thermostatic control came along, so I can understand that not being part of the design requirements.
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Your bank balance doesn't appreciate; the bank pays you an income at a particular interest rate on the total value of your deposits that they hold. Stock dividends are similar - its a payment, not paper appreciation - and dividends are also taxed as income. Paper appreciation is different in kind from interest and dividend income.
Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state.[5][6] Rather, the premises of diplomatic missions remain under the jurisdiction of the host state while being afforded special privileges (such as immunity from most local laws) by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission
I worked on a "tiny" particle physics experiment... in about 4 months of running, we collected 150TB of data. My current experiments will collect PBs of data, and LHC is expected to collect EB of data over its lifetime. 10TB would be considered peanuts these days:-)
The US government didn't spend a penny on LHC? Really? A few seconds with your favorite search engine would have dispelled that myth.
In reality, the U.S. government has contributed over $600M to date in direct and in-kind contributions, with significant support for University and National Lab groups that participate in all aspects of construction, operations, and analysis.
You certainly CAN use GPS to synchronize clocks at the level of a few ns. While the GPS timing signals themselves are not accurate enough to form a stable timebase at this level, there are multiple methods which use GPS to implement time transfer between ground stations at much better than the 10ns level, when use in conjunction with an external high precision oscillator. See, for instance, http://tf.nist.gov/time/commonviewgps.htm or http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/tmas.cfm and the references therein.
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It does, because he isn't ... as is pointed out every time this pointless story comes back to /.
"Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
No ... no, it doesn't. It could well be that there isn't a disproportionate amount of fraud here, when you use the appropriate metric. It could well be that there is. But there is zero logical connection between those two statements.
It ain't the hardware ... it's the people. Who maintains the hardware? Programs it all? Who maintains the networks? Who is charged with tracking what's working and what isn't? Who backs it up, and updates formats, and catalogs it, and indexes it, and tracks the changing methodologies used in the collection? Who translates the old code, and operating systems, and storage formats, and hardware, and whatever else?
Hardware's cheap ... people (especially those of the knowledgeable and reliable variety) aren't. Digital data archiving and warehousing for the long haul are well understood to be huge problems for which we haven't found a very good set of solutions.
Why? We switch units all the time, even when doing this "science" thing that so many seem to think only uses SI: eV, barn, torr, atm, etc. Suck it up, and learn to do conversions....
I've always found it interesting that "modem" and "modern" are so easy to confuse in most fonts....
In undergrad, I typically did 3 hours of DiffyQ homework *per night*
That's what I noticed first ... I tell my students that they should be doing about 3 hours of homework per credit hour per week. For a full time load, that works out to about 60 hours of classes plus homework a week. If you're doing WAY less than that, AND you're complaining about the work load .... you need to rethink you're approach to your education.
Check your math ... your numbers are implausibly low. Hint: if there were that few C14 atoms in a body, carbon dating wouldn't work.
Of course, potatoes can't be produced from material free of radioisotopes..... http://www.livestrong.com/article/303878-a-list-of-the-most-radioactive-foods/
Potatoes contain gobs of potassium, which has a naturally occurring radioactive isotope (K40). Bananas have the same issue. Unlike C14, K40 is primordial, so everywhere you have potassium, you have essentially the same concentration of K40.
Well, we might be idiots, but that's not the problem. It's a set of three very large superconducting coils, custom wound on-site in the 1990s, built into cryostats that can't be disassembled, and being moved as a set of monolithic units. They were never designed or intended to be moved, and significant engineering work has gone into determining the mechanical loads they can be safely subjected to.
Both routes were considered, but I'm not sure why one was chosen over the other. Presumably input from the companies bidding on the contract had something to do with it.
As I mentioned up above, it turns out to be loads cheaper to move the experiment to Fermilab than to upgrade the accelerator complex at Brookhaven to do the experiment there.
We usually prefer airplanes to buses (lots cheaper, given the time value of money.....)
The cost of running the experiment again at Brookhaven (which had been our initial idea) would be significantly higher than moving it to Fermilab, because of the cost of required accelerator upgrades at Brookhaven. Fermilab has protons to spare, and the experiment fits into the larger muon program at the Lab. http://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/experiments/intensity/
The Steubenville convictees are legally juveniles. Society has decided that we don't throw the book at them. Had they been adults, they would not be getting sent to a juvenile facility, and they would not be getting out in so short a time. It's hardly an apt comparison.
Computer languages are meant to be read and written by people, yes. Your complaint, however, that "C++ really falls down", coming from someone who admittedly doesn't know the language and library, is a bit like me complaining that "French really falls down" when I haven't bothered to learn French. Or that idiomatic English constructs like "I couldn't care less" (which means exactly the opposite of its literal meaning) imply that "English really falls down". I can't read Lisp well ... but I don't have the temerity to blame its impenetrability to me on Lisp being a bad language.
Most of the projects I'm involved in use C++ because it excels at helping us to control the complexity of the massive applications we write and use every day. If we tried to write that code in C, we'd be rending our garments and gnashing our teeth. Use the right tool for the job. C++ isn't the right tool for every job, but neither is C or Python or any other computer language.
The jury is the "finder of fact": does the evidence show that the defendant did A, B, or none of the above? If the jury finds that the facts support a particular conclusion, then the penalty provided by "law" is applied. If the jury finds "A", then penalty A' gets applied, etc. Neither juries nor judges have unfettered power in this process: judges are typically not permitted to rule on matters of "fact", and juries are typically not permitted to rule on matters of "law". Checks and balances....
Shutting down the Tevatron with the turn-on of the LHC was the right move, from my perspective in the field. The Tevatron would NEVER have reached the magic 5sigma threshold for discovery confirmation, something the LHC will do easily if the Higgs is really near 125GeV. And running the Tevatron isn't free: it's tens of millions of dollars a year, and many hundreds of man-years of effort. This funding would have been essentially "lost", but more importantly, the lost man-years would have decimated many other projects that Fermilab and the high energy physics community considered much more valuable than an additional year or two of Tevatron running. It would also have delayed for years the development of new accelerator projects at Fermilab that are considered extremely high priority within the field. These issues are why the shutdown decision was taken in the first place. Tevatron was a great machine for thirty plus years. But time marches on, and we don't keep high cost infrastructure running based just on nostalgia....
We've been cooking bread for at least ten thousand years before thermostatic control came along, so I can understand that not being part of the design requirements.
Your bank balance doesn't appreciate; the bank pays you an income at a particular interest rate on the total value of your deposits that they hold. Stock dividends are similar - its a payment, not paper appreciation - and dividends are also taxed as income. Paper appreciation is different in kind from interest and dividend income.
16 tons/yr for m(b)illions of years is in aggregate a lot more than a few hundred tons a year for the last few decades.
Contrary to popular belief, diplomatic missions do not enjoy full extraterritorial status and are not sovereign territory of the represented state.[5][6] Rather, the premises of diplomatic missions remain under the jurisdiction of the host state while being afforded special privileges (such as immunity from most local laws) by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission
I worked on a "tiny" particle physics experiment ... in about 4 months of running, we collected 150TB of data. My current experiments will collect PBs of data, and LHC is expected to collect EB of data over its lifetime. 10TB would be considered peanuts these days :-)
The US government didn't spend a penny on LHC? Really? A few seconds with your favorite search engine would have dispelled that myth.
In reality, the U.S. government has contributed over $600M to date in direct and in-kind contributions, with significant support for University and National Lab groups that participate in all aspects of construction, operations, and analysis.
The bigger problem is that Ni62 is the most tightly bound nucleus known, http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/nucbin2.html#c1 or http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/chart/ Fusion or fission of Ni62 require an input of energy; they clearly aren't measuring spontaneous release of energy in a fusion event...
You certainly CAN use GPS to synchronize clocks at the level of a few ns. While the GPS timing signals themselves are not accurate enough to form a stable timebase at this level, there are multiple methods which use GPS to implement time transfer between ground stations at much better than the 10ns level, when use in conjunction with an external high precision oscillator. See, for instance, http://tf.nist.gov/time/commonviewgps.htm or http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/tmas.cfm and the references therein.