Is it just me or are those ETA's totally bogus? There is no way those times can possibly be... possible. We have things with film in can the estimated to arrive the same time as stuff that doesn't even have a script yet. What a bunch of crap.
IMO, you need organic chemistry to understand biochemistry. Now, extensive synthesis and all of that "crap"? No. But a one semester "intro to organic" followed by at least two semesters of biochem is what should be required. You can't build a pyramid starting at the top. You need a foundation.
Chemists already know that core electrons do influence bonding and such. It is simply a short cut to ignore them. Hence, when one wants to get the last few digits on your answer you turn on "core correlation" which treats the core and valance regions the same.
Furthermore, the conditions in question here are so extreme as to border on being a plasma or some such. So I am not really surprised to see some effect that are negligible under "normal" conditions to grow and become important.
You should call up Francis Crick and tell him he was using that word wrong. Maybe they will posthumously take back his Nobel Prize.
No need. Crick has already acknowledged that he really didn't understand the meaning of the word "dogma" when he used it. However, his ideas were so grond breaking that the word itself has changed/added meaning to accommodate him.
Ah, I thought so, but I had confused Ransom Love with Robert Love. How embarrassing.
I still don't get the implication about Sun "buying" the right to open Solaris. They couldn't really be stupid enough to do that (buying something they already had from some one who couldn't sell it to them anyway), could they?
have energy shells that occupy a lower ground state energy when completely filled.
I am pretty sure that is not right. The ground state energy will get progressively lower as you add nucleons. Stability has to do with the shape of the potential energy surface, not the energy per se.
Ah a loophole. If there is no copyright, it cannot be transferred. So release your papers into the public domain before you submit them to the ACS and you can do whatever you want with them.
Hrm.... interesting. However:
This manuscript will be considered with the understanding you have submitted it on an exclusive
basis.
Now usually I have read that to mean you can't submit to another journal while you are waiting to hear back from ACS (or vice-versa), but perhaps a public domain release may also violate this too. Also see jschen's comment about embargo. It might not be possible to make a meaningful "release... into the public domain" without running afoul of one of both of these stipulations (in as much as they are separate).
I've published to professional journals (as a academic historian) before, and I've never had to surrender copyright to the journal (agreement was strictly for publishing rights).
For chemistry:
The undersigned, with the consent of all authors, hereby transfers, to the extent that there is copyright to be transferred, the exclusive copyright interest in
the above cited manuscript, including the published version in any format (subsequently called the "work"), to the American Chemical Society....
Copyright to the above-listed unpublished and original article submitted by the above author(s), the abstract forming part thereof, and any
subsequent errata (collectively, the "Article") is hereby transferred to the American Physical Society (APS)...
Human: What do you think a typical mother would say if she found out her daughter was going to enter the porn industry? ALICE: I haven't thought much about a typical mother would say if she found out her daughter was going to enter the porn industry, so I don't have a good answer for you. Human: Why do you think children have emotional attachments to their parents? ALICE: Deductive reasoning from the facts. Human: Which is worse, racism or sexism? ALICE: sexism. Human: Why? ALICE: Because Dr. Richard S. Wallace programmed me for it. Human: Would you rather be a fireman or an astronaut, and why? ALICE: I am not so sure if I would like to rather be a fireman or an astronaut.
Better than I thought, but the sexism answer kind gives it away as far as a Turing test goes.
They are different things, but the summary was correct. The accuracy of the measurement is 0.1 mm/sec.
You are absolutely 100% wrong. From the article:
Although this is only one-millionth of the total velocity, the precision of the velocity measurements, carried out by looking at the Doppler shift in radio waves bounced off the craft, is 0.1 mm/sec...
(Emphasis mine.)
The rest of what you said is quite wrong also. Maybe not 100% wrong, but pretty close.
One of the big reasons the USA lost in Vietnam was that it became politically unacceptable to have body bags coming home. The current administration found a solution to that; ban news crews from the areas of airports where the body bags are unloaded.
What about the fact that US deaths in this conflict are around 4000 and in Vietnam it was like 60,000? I think the whole "ban news crews from the areas of airports where the body bags are unloaded" is bad news for sure. But even if news crews took all of the pictures they wanted, the fact is there is no comparison between the losses in Iraq and Vietnam.
Wikipedia is a quality control mechanism--otherwise, why not use it to mirror the entire internet, by your logic?
True.... But this proof page is a sub-page or what not. It's not clogging up the article. Plus the very act of putting information on wikipedia organizes it (or at least sets it up to be organized).
So maybe wikipedia would do better to get away from a "quality control" paradigm vis-a-vis deleting things, and more towards an "organizing information" paradigm. However, quality control of articles themselves is still important.
What's the deal with wikipedia and deleting stuff anyway? It is not like this little bit of text is wasting space or something. I would think it would be much better to have too many articles than too little. One of the things that has made wikipedia sucessful is the sheer amount of information there.
AFAIK Charles Stross is the only SF writer who has ever done much writing in a milieu where FTL is equivalent to time travel, and I don't think he's even done it consistently in all his work.
Stephen Baxter's Xeelee stories also explore the FTL == time travel issue. Indeed, warring factions use "FTL foreknowledge" throughout the whole story arc. In particular, the novel Exultant spends a good deal of effort exploring the implications of "real FTL" travel on an interpersonal level.
However, Baxter seems to be a bit inconsistent in how he treats FTL travel in that the time travel aspect appears to be ignored when it would interfere with other plot elements. (Or maybe he is just way smarter than me and I am misreading things...)
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Is it just me or are those ETA's totally bogus? There is no way those times can possibly be... possible. We have things with film in can the estimated to arrive the same time as stuff that doesn't even have a script yet. What a bunch of crap.
IAACP (I am a chemistry professor).
IMO, you need organic chemistry to understand biochemistry. Now, extensive synthesis and all of that "crap"? No. But a one semester "intro to organic" followed by at least two semesters of biochem is what should be required. You can't build a pyramid starting at the top. You need a foundation.
That can't be right. According to wikipedia the US has way more than two pumped storage plants. I got suspicious because I grew up next to Yard's Creek in NJ....
Chemists already know that core electrons do influence bonding and such. It is simply a short cut to ignore them. Hence, when one wants to get the last few digits on your answer you turn on "core correlation" which treats the core and valance regions the same.
Furthermore, the conditions in question here are so extreme as to border on being a plasma or some such. So I am not really surprised to see some effect that are negligible under "normal" conditions to grow and become important.
No need. Crick has already acknowledged that he really didn't understand the meaning of the word "dogma" when he used it. However, his ideas were so grond breaking that the word itself has changed/added meaning to accommodate him.
I totally disagree. In physical chemistry and chemistry, LaTeX has become more viable as a submission option in the last 10 years.
Wow, thanks for that lucid explanation. I had never put all of those pieces together like that before.
Ah, I thought so, but I had confused Ransom Love with Robert Love. How embarrassing.
I still don't get the implication about Sun "buying" the right to open Solaris. They couldn't really be stupid enough to do that (buying something they already had from some one who couldn't sell it to them anyway), could they?
Forgive my ignorance, but
Huh?
Huh?
I don't understand either of these statements.
I am pretty sure that is not right. The ground state energy will get progressively lower as you add nucleons. Stability has to do with the shape of the potential energy surface, not the energy per se.
You dope. That is what the atomic number means.
Hrm.... interesting. However:
Now usually I have read that to mean you can't submit to another journal while you are waiting to hear back from ACS (or vice-versa), but perhaps a public domain release may also violate this too. Also see jschen's comment about embargo. It might not be possible to make a meaningful "release ... into the public domain" without running afoul of one of both of these stipulations (in as much as they are separate).
For chemistry:
From http://pubs.acs.org/copyright/forms/copyright.pdf
For physics:
From http://forms.aps.org/author/copytrnsfr.pdf, which interestingly enough wouldn't let me cut-and-paste without using a hacked version of xpdf. :P
You are absolutely 100% wrong. From the article:
(Emphasis mine.)
The rest of what you said is quite wrong also. Maybe not 100% wrong, but pretty close.
This is true, but we are all so busy I figured interested parties would look for themselves.
The short version is while the measurements may be very precise, they could be completely f'ing wrong.
The precision of the measurements is 0.1 mm/sec, not the accuracy. Those are different things.
What about the fact that US deaths in this conflict are around 4000 and in Vietnam it was like 60,000? I think the whole "ban news crews from the areas of airports where the body bags are unloaded" is bad news for sure. But even if news crews took all of the pictures they wanted, the fact is there is no comparison between the losses in Iraq and Vietnam.
That said, even one death is too many.
I thought they went to Linux....
http://www.novell.com/success/burlington.html
I guess maybe they should have gone all the way, so to speak...
If it were that simple....
And here is more...
So there is negative temperature. It is just not what you think it is.
True.... But this proof page is a sub-page or what not. It's not clogging up the article. Plus the very act of putting information on wikipedia organizes it (or at least sets it up to be organized).
So maybe wikipedia would do better to get away from a "quality control" paradigm vis-a-vis deleting things, and more towards an "organizing information" paradigm. However, quality control of articles themselves is still important.
What's the deal with wikipedia and deleting stuff anyway? It is not like this little bit of text is wasting space or something. I would think it would be much better to have too many articles than too little. One of the things that has made wikipedia sucessful is the sheer amount of information there.
I thought you were going to say so they can hunt down the unheathly. Like:
"I can see it now. A car pulls up to the drive-through. 'I'd like the 48-pound chicken bucket, 4 pounds of mashed potatoes... What the...GRARGH!'"
One of the first truly funny posts I have seen on Slashdot in a long time.
Stephen Baxter's Xeelee stories also explore the FTL == time travel issue. Indeed, warring factions use "FTL foreknowledge" throughout the whole story arc. In particular, the novel Exultant spends a good deal of effort exploring the implications of "real FTL" travel on an interpersonal level.
However, Baxter seems to be a bit inconsistent in how he treats FTL travel in that the time travel aspect appears to be ignored when it would interfere with other plot elements. (Or maybe he is just way smarter than me and I am misreading things...)