Nope. The technology harvests the rotational energy of the earth causing the rotation to slow and the radius of the lunar orbit to increase. The earlier posts have it right.
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Just today, I sent in my annual membership renewal to SIAM even though the president this year is Cleve Moler who invented matlab(TM), the secret language of crippled users of matrix algorithms. http://www.siam.org/election/president_letter.php
Yes. You've got it right. An extra piece that you could add is the motivation of faculty to publish. The fact that faculty hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions are often based simply on the number of publications is the pressure that creates the volume of mostly unread journal papers that fill library shelves.
Yes, it was a frightening miscarriage of justice and common sense. Washington County simply did the bidding of Intel (its largest employer). The irony of Washington County now becoming a center for free software is not appreciated widely enough.
Take a look at what http://fundrace.org/ reports for the zip code 87544 (Los Alamos New Mexico). It seems that most of the people and money there support democrats. In addition, the big Bush money in Los Alamos comes from not from scientists who work at the lab but from realtors, etc. I'm not sure what to make of it.
My guess is that people who think and re-think things for a living (folks like myself) oppose Bush's unreflective faith based decision factory approach.
Selling manned space flight by saying it supports science is false advertising. Manned space flight may be an important step towards colonization, but for now it's main use is as entertainment. Disney is more efficient in terms of money and lives.
My guess is that Dr. Koss's article will jepordize his NASA funding. I congratulate him for his courage. The poster's tactic of attacking the messenger as "narrow minded" rather than dealing with the message is misleading.
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Thanks for a simple sincere statement. I agree with most of your sentiments. Rather than wishing "influential American Jews" would do anything to influence Israel. I wish Americans of conscience would push for an end to our reflexive support and funding of Israel.
On the other hand, as another poster observed, now may not be the best time to beat that drum.
"Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics."
I've quoted him with a smile, but this is not a good pitch to make to education major.
Why are men generally "easier" and more promiscuous?
How could men be more promiscuous than women? Every heterosexual act involves one of each. For men to participate in more sex acts than women they must resort to homosexual acts.
What are the physical limits on the performance of silver halide film vs CCD? My son (at my shoulder) asks, "don't you know the answer?"; Nope. But I've wondered for a while. It seems to me that if silver catches more photons than a CCD, that there will allways be a place for film, but if not then it is only a matter of time before the film is completely obsolete.
I'm interested in the question, "Is there a future for newspapers?" I subscribed (from California, Texas and Oregon) to the NYTimes for decades. Now I subscribe to The Economist.
I used to use local papers for shopping (housing, cars, appliances, etc). Filtering through ads placed by dealers and agents was a pain, but it was the only way to shop. Now I use the net or go to the agents and dealers themselves.
At work (Portland State University) the local paper (The Oregonian) is important. It is the standard we use to understand what "the community" thinks about. It is not a source of news for me. It documents the boundary between what we talk about and know amongst ourselves and what is widely known and discussed.
This morning, I brought up my ppp connection to see if there was any public mention of an important board meeting at OGI (The Oregon Graduate Institute) yesterday. I didn't find anything.
When I was subscribing to the NYTimes I used to wish for a good local weekly that would cover local politics and events in depth. I have never seen such a paper anywhere. I don't know how such a paper could make money since I wouldn't use its advertizing for shopping.
I thought Katz piece was worth reading. Disney movies/land/stuff has always given me the creeps.
I have an off topic question. Last month a woman sitting next to me on an airplane said that the department of defense had some large underground installation at ?Dinseyland? I took it as an indication that she was a kook, but later my girlfriend said she had heard about it too.
Is there something to this? Is it urban legend? Or am I just dealing with kooks?
You mention Princeton's Dyson and Princeton's Singer. Dyson is at the Institute for Advanced Study (http://www.ias.edu/) while Singer is at the University (http://www.princeton.edu/)
They are unrelated institutions in the same town. For the IAS think Einstein. For the University think Fitzgerald (dropped out, see http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/7734/cdoaa.ht ml).
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Nope. The technology harvests the rotational energy of the earth causing the rotation to slow and the radius of the lunar orbit to increase. The earlier posts have it right.
A company called Decision Sciences Co. is developing a product that uses natural cosmic rays in a similar manner. Since natural cosmic rays can penetrate about 7 meters of quartz, shielding is almost out of the question. See http://www.pr-inside.com/decision-sciences-corporation-announces-agreement-r113316.htm
Just today, I sent in my annual membership renewal to SIAM even though the president this year is Cleve Moler who invented matlab(TM), the secret language of crippled users of matrix algorithms. http://www.siam.org/election/president_letter.php
Yes. You've got it right. An extra piece that you could add is the motivation of faculty to publish. The fact that faculty hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions are often based simply on the number of publications is the pressure that creates the volume of mostly unread journal papers that fill library shelves.
Thank you for your concise and accurate description of the expensive and sick condition of academic publishing.
When I attended PU, the university required you to pay up and join the book store. The "screw store" charge card was also the campus ID.
Yes, it was a frightening miscarriage of justice and common sense. Washington County simply did the bidding of Intel (its largest employer). The irony of Washington County now becoming a center for free software is not appreciated widely enough.
Take a look at what http://fundrace.org/ reports for the zip code 87544 (Los Alamos New Mexico). It seems that most of the people and money there support democrats. In addition, the big Bush money in Los Alamos comes from not from scientists who work at the lab but from realtors, etc. I'm not sure what to make of it.
My guess is that people who think and re-think things for a living (folks like myself) oppose Bush's unreflective faith based decision factory approach.
Selling manned space flight by saying it supports science is false advertising. Manned space flight may be an important step towards colonization, but for now it's main use is as entertainment. Disney is more efficient in terms of money and lives.
My guess is that Dr. Koss's article will jepordize his NASA funding. I congratulate him for his courage. The poster's tactic of attacking the messenger as "narrow minded" rather than dealing with the message is misleading.
Thanks for a simple sincere statement. I agree with most of your sentiments. Rather than wishing "influential American Jews" would do anything to influence Israel. I wish Americans of conscience would push for an end to our reflexive support and funding of Israel.
On the other hand, as another poster observed, now may not be the best time to beat that drum.
Goodstein opens his text "States of Matter" with:
"Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics."
I've quoted him with a smile, but this is not a good pitch to make to education major.
How could men be more promiscuous than women? Every heterosexual act involves one of each. For men to participate in more sex acts than women they must resort to homosexual acts.
I believe that Steve Wolfram and Cal Tech had an argument about who owned his code, and then he left Cal Tech.
I spent a summer working at JPL (run by Cal Tech) and I think I recall that they wanted to own all of the code written.
What are the physical limits on the performance of silver halide film vs CCD? My son (at my shoulder) asks, "don't you know the answer?"; Nope. But I've wondered for a while. It seems to me that if silver catches more photons than a CCD, that there will allways be a place for film, but if not then it is only a matter of time before the film is completely obsolete.
I'm interested in the question, "Is there a future for newspapers?" I subscribed (from California, Texas and Oregon) to the NYTimes for decades. Now I subscribe to The Economist.
I used to use local papers for shopping (housing, cars, appliances, etc). Filtering through ads placed by dealers and agents was a pain, but it was the only way to shop. Now I use the net or go to the agents and dealers themselves.
At work (Portland State University) the local paper (The Oregonian) is important. It is the standard we use to understand what "the community" thinks about. It is not a source of news for me. It documents the boundary between what we talk about and know amongst ourselves and what is widely known and discussed.
This morning, I brought up my ppp connection to see if there was any public mention of an important board meeting at OGI (The Oregon Graduate Institute) yesterday. I didn't find anything.
When I was subscribing to the NYTimes I used to wish for a good local weekly that would cover local politics and events in depth. I have never seen such a paper anywhere. I don't know how such a paper could make money since I wouldn't use its advertizing for shopping.
I thought Katz piece was worth reading. Disney
movies/land/stuff has always given me the creeps.
I have an off topic question. Last month a woman
sitting next to me on an airplane said that the
department of defense had some large underground
installation at ?Dinseyland? I took it as an
indication that she was a kook, but later my
girlfriend said she had heard about it too.
Is there something to this? Is it urban legend?
Or am I just dealing with kooks?
You mention Princeton's Dyson and Princeton's Singer. Dyson is at the Institute for Advanced Study (http://www.ias.edu/) while Singer is at the University (http://www.princeton.edu/)
t ml).
They are unrelated institutions in the same town. For the IAS think Einstein. For the University think Fitzgerald (dropped out, see http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/7734/cdoaa.h