Namely macronutrients. You can't survive off this - you will still die quickly of dehydration. And then the muscular atrophy will kick in from lack of protein, and loss of mental clarity from lack of glucose. Then, untimely death. This patch just means that now you can eat Snickers 6 times a day and Drink Water instead of fussing with the rest of that nutrition crap.
While I could RTFFAQ, I'm short on time, so can this anonymous luminary (or anyone else?) answer the question this raises in my head: if only mass-less particles move at c, and gravity moves at c, do these particles actually warp space through GR or are they merely warped by it? Does a light ray then leave a 'gravity wake', id est an orthogonal light cone? Or am I smoking a giant, giant bowl of crack?
The only Nobel winner I've ever met said that he paid off his mortgage and his bills, paid for his teams' tickets to Stockholm for the ceremony, and gave a small amount to charity if memory serves me. That was Eric Cornell from 2001 for the BEC experiments, btw, and he split it with two others.
As a kid, my parents had a TI-81, and played Hunt the Wumpus on that, and I had nightmares for years because of that thing. And then, then you mention Starflight 2, which I have desperately been trying to get to run on my computer, and you have broken my mind and my will to live. Goodbye, cruel slashdotters.
A local hero of mine, Dr. Lawrence Krauss Chair of the Physics Department of Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio, has taken up the call-to-arms to protect Ohioans and the rest of the world against crackpots. In our recent "Intelligent design" debacle, creationists attempted to hijack the science education curriculum, and, thanks in no small part to his efforts, were stopped.
He has also made a bigger name for himself analyzing science fiction, and is best known for his book "The Physics of Star Trek."
If you find a scientific cause that needs a real scientist to refute morons, he is your man.
While that is a solid plan of action, there is the frictional cost that is not negligible.
Academic deflation would hit the employment market pretty hard. Fewer degreed workers would immediately benefit those workers who never bothered to go to college, who are credentially equal. Meanwhile, Masters programs would suddenly have a lack fresh applicants (who would be getting substantially more cash because their fresh credentials are first rate), creating a credential ripple that will take a few years to work out of the system.
Raising the standards of teachers will probably be a much worse (educationally speaking) shockwave. There aren't many teachers that are really capable of what we're talking about here. A massive teacher crunch (one lasting more than a couple years) has the potential of turning this problem from frictional to structural. This would be the hardest part, if nigh impossible.
On the other hand, Imagine the shock to the nation if the former "gifted" programs became the norm in a school, and you're graduating calculus weilding, Mandarin speaking, Locke quoting 8th graders (I whole heartedly believe this is possible). And suddenly, there was no high school costs... All that education in 9 instead of 13 years, and you've slashed 31% of your years off the budget (or more accurately a 44% increase in cost per year on a flat budget). How many Americans like to know about the existence of 14 year olds applying to college, let alone have to meet one. I'm an intelligent person, and I think they're uppity. I'm also willing to admit jealousy.
A couple of comments have alluded to this so far, that there is a divergence coming up on clock speed vs. functionality. To generalize this further, firms want specialized products: as long as an AMD x and an Intel y are functionally the same product (competing along the Moore's Law continuum), one product has a cost advantage, and therefore one firm wins, and one firm loses. In contrast, when it turns into AMD x and Intel y having various features, it's suddenly a marketing and sales campaign.
Compare to cars. Cars all get people from point A to point B at reasonably similar speeds, efficiencies, and people find hundreds of reasons for buying car x versus car y. While the power of units might slow down, the firms can always charge more for certain functions that at the latest craze or style to increase the market and prices for marginal increases in "functionality" (air conditioning, high clearance, fuel cell powered).
That the radical religious factions responsible for saying genetics and evolution are lies not to be taught in schools are suddenly up in arms once the prospect of the best accreditted people proving them wrong arises.
The religion lobby has a long, rich history of dicking over education, research and technical progress. Stem cells and cloning are the obvious progression of medicine: we have near infinite potential to repair human bodies, minds, and lives sitting in the palm of out hand and we're debating whether or not we want to play with it.
There's a natural apprehension, to take a pause to reflect over the new "ethics" and come to terms with the concept, but I think the average American/1st Worlder has been exposed enough to the concept to realize the dangers. Of course, the dangers are far greater if the moral side is the one not to embrace its power.
While the fermion condensate cannot have two _identical_ eigenstates, it can have a 'neat' organization, such as by spin pairs, organized in quantum steps around the lowest energy state.
Commanche would be under Army again though:( Interesting related factoid: the Army has more aircraft than the Air Force does http://www-rucker.army.mil/
Having worked in an office a few years where a very Spartan dress code was required, I have often found that people were straight up evaluated for promotions not on the quality of the persons work, but on their appearance. This office never dealt with customers, never dealt with upper management.
I think that people promoted to management who do not have the credentials for it attempt to make themselves cosmetically better by providing their superiors with the image of a good staff.
The traditional excuse is "People willing to bust their ass to look good will bust their ass to do a good job." - Neglecting the economization fact that people only have so much time to go round. While appearance is nice, it is never more cumulative to the bottom line than productivity.
One place where a dress code does significantly effect is the employee net pay. I end up getting two suits dry cleaned and pressed and a shoe shine per week. A quality suit costs $300-600 range in this country. This is a net expense for the employee, degrading his incentive. While it works out to be only around $40/wk, that's a hard drive a month.
Maybe I'm a bit bitter because my last evaluation read something like "Excellent job - one of the lynch-pins of the organization. But not ready for promotion. Suit ironed, but not pressed." And no, there was no one else who beat me out in performance.
Needless to say, this organization is one of the most inefficient ones in the country and requires massive government subsidies to operate.
Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
You forgot Peabody Energy, Yangzhou Coal Mining, Rheinbraun AG, and BHP Billiton - with the support of Chinese steel producers and American coal powered powerplants. Coal is the major producer of carbon dioxide, the major factor in global warming.
As a liberal non eco-nazi, I agree the ecology argument against pollution is pretty weak. Weather changes, critters die - that's life. Look at the economics of pollution on humans, though, and you'll find what people care about.
WHO claims its more than TB and HIV combined. Another report claims it costs $4.6 bil per year in health expenses. American Lung Association, probably the one I trust most, says its direct and indirect impact is around $12.6 billion for the 14.6 million Americans affected. Recent research points to a 200% increase in asthma risk in high pollution communities to low pollution communities => assuming a symmetric distirbution of pollution in communities, half of asthma is pollution related => it costs America $6.3 billion a year. That's just one health risk. Compare to the EPA's $7.7 billion requested for treating all environmental health issues in FY2003.
You have to hide the fact that you didn't read the article: find all the modded down peeps on the thread and read their mistakes. Its usually more informative and entertaining than the article.
I love these metal tins - I've gone on expeditions acquiring them from people and put all my cds in them. They are, as AOL indoubitably discovered, great at preventing cd damage. I was sick of having jewel cases in my bookbag getting cracked after an hour. The only trick, so far, has been that they open up after a couple dents, so use a rubber band with them. I hope AOL continues to squander their money making my life better through tins, CNN fighting Fox News, and widespread AIM (since they can't do so through content or service).
I have the luxury of a pet dental resident who is required to use new technology in his work, and as a result, I recently got one of these shrinky-dink filings. And let me tell you - though the inital pain is unbearable, after a day the pain is gone and the nerve is covered much more completely than the conventional filling materials. Having the worst teeth in the world (ok, maybe it was the 20 yrs w/o dental insurance..), I have too much exp w/ fillings going bad after a couple years, and this technology is a boon to anyone who's had a filling come out and a root canal ensue. The proof is, as they say, in the pudding, so I'm going off to lunch on it.
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My Super Bowl was the Fiesta Bowl, baby - OSU is the only football team Ohio has. Except maybe St. Ignatius...
Namely macronutrients. You can't survive off this - you will still die quickly of dehydration. And then the muscular atrophy will kick in from lack of protein, and loss of mental clarity from lack of glucose. Then, untimely death. This patch just means that now you can eat Snickers 6 times a day and Drink Water instead of fussing with the rest of that nutrition crap.
While I could RTFFAQ, I'm short on time, so can this anonymous luminary (or anyone else?) answer the question this raises in my head: if only mass-less particles move at c, and gravity moves at c, do these particles actually warp space through GR or are they merely warped by it? Does a light ray then leave a 'gravity wake', id est an orthogonal light cone? Or am I smoking a giant, giant bowl of crack?
The only Nobel winner I've ever met said that he paid off his mortgage and his bills, paid for his teams' tickets to Stockholm for the ceremony, and gave a small amount to charity if memory serves me. That was Eric Cornell from 2001 for the BEC experiments, btw, and he split it with two others.
How exactly do they manage to get a current to go in such a manner that it produces this type of magnetic field?
Oh, and on a personal note, noting THE Ohio State University's impact, GO BUCKS! 14-0!
As a kid, my parents had a TI-81, and played Hunt the Wumpus on that, and I had nightmares for years because of that thing. And then, then you mention Starflight 2, which I have desperately been trying to get to run on my computer, and you have broken my mind and my will to live. Goodbye, cruel slashdotters.
*Whips out the sour cream and chives, and sticks out his tounge*
A local hero of mine, Dr. Lawrence Krauss Chair of the Physics Department of Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio, has taken up the call-to-arms to protect Ohioans and the rest of the world against crackpots. In our recent "Intelligent design" debacle, creationists attempted to hijack the science education curriculum, and, thanks in no small part to his efforts, were stopped. He has also made a bigger name for himself analyzing science fiction, and is best known for his book "The Physics of Star Trek." If you find a scientific cause that needs a real scientist to refute morons, he is your man.
While that is a solid plan of action, there is the frictional cost that is not negligible.
Academic deflation would hit the employment market pretty hard. Fewer degreed workers would immediately benefit those workers who never bothered to go to college, who are credentially equal. Meanwhile, Masters programs would suddenly have a lack fresh applicants (who would be getting substantially more cash because their fresh credentials are first rate), creating a credential ripple that will take a few years to work out of the system.
Raising the standards of teachers will probably be a much worse (educationally speaking) shockwave. There aren't many teachers that are really capable of what we're talking about here. A massive teacher crunch (one lasting more than a couple years) has the potential of turning this problem from frictional to structural. This would be the hardest part, if nigh impossible.
On the other hand, Imagine the shock to the nation if the former "gifted" programs became the norm in a school, and you're graduating calculus weilding, Mandarin speaking, Locke quoting 8th graders (I whole heartedly believe this is possible). And suddenly, there was no high school costs... All that education in 9 instead of 13 years, and you've slashed 31% of your years off the budget (or more accurately a 44% increase in cost per year on a flat budget). How many Americans like to know about the existence of 14 year olds applying to college, let alone have to meet one. I'm an intelligent person, and I think they're uppity. I'm also willing to admit jealousy.
The "toxic sludge" of yesteryear is now referred to as "biosolids". Get your euphemisms right.
Your facts are nowhere near as funny.
A couple of comments have alluded to this so far, that there is a divergence coming up on clock speed vs. functionality. To generalize this further, firms want specialized products: as long as an AMD x and an Intel y are functionally the same product (competing along the Moore's Law continuum), one product has a cost advantage, and therefore one firm wins, and one firm loses. In contrast, when it turns into AMD x and Intel y having various features, it's suddenly a marketing and sales campaign.
Compare to cars. Cars all get people from point A to point B at reasonably similar speeds, efficiencies, and people find hundreds of reasons for buying car x versus car y. While the power of units might slow down, the firms can always charge more for certain functions that at the latest craze or style to increase the market and prices for marginal increases in "functionality" (air conditioning, high clearance, fuel cell powered).
You know, transistor density doubling only twice per 24 months is breaking Moore's Law too.
That the radical religious factions responsible for saying genetics and evolution are lies not to be taught in schools are suddenly up in arms once the prospect of the best accreditted people proving them wrong arises.
The religion lobby has a long, rich history of dicking over education, research and technical progress. Stem cells and cloning are the obvious progression of medicine: we have near infinite potential to repair human bodies, minds, and lives sitting in the palm of out hand and we're debating whether or not we want to play with it.
There's a natural apprehension, to take a pause to reflect over the new "ethics" and come to terms with the concept, but I think the average American/1st Worlder has been exposed enough to the concept to realize the dangers. Of course, the dangers are far greater if the moral side is the one not to embrace its power.
While the fermion condensate cannot have two _identical_ eigenstates, it can have a 'neat' organization, such as by spin pairs, organized in quantum steps around the lowest energy state.
Commanche would be under Army again though :( Interesting related factoid: the Army has more aircraft than the Air Force does http://www-rucker.army.mil/
Good job! We've recovered the loot, and placed the henchmen behind bars. Now, it's time to go after Carmen Sandiego, Gumshoe!
Having worked in an office a few years where a very Spartan dress code was required, I have often found that people were straight up evaluated for promotions not on the quality of the persons work, but on their appearance. This office never dealt with customers, never dealt with upper management.
I think that people promoted to management who do not have the credentials for it attempt to make themselves cosmetically better by providing their superiors with the image of a good staff.
The traditional excuse is "People willing to bust their ass to look good will bust their ass to do a good job." - Neglecting the economization fact that people only have so much time to go round. While appearance is nice, it is never more cumulative to the bottom line than productivity.
One place where a dress code does significantly effect is the employee net pay. I end up getting two suits dry cleaned and pressed and a shoe shine per week. A quality suit costs $300-600 range in this country. This is a net expense for the employee, degrading his incentive. While it works out to be only around $40/wk, that's a hard drive a month.
Maybe I'm a bit bitter because my last evaluation read something like "Excellent job - one of the lynch-pins of the organization. But not ready for promotion. Suit ironed, but not pressed." And no, there was no one else who beat me out in performance.
Needless to say, this organization is one of the most inefficient ones in the country and requires massive government subsidies to operate.
Well-well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
So if the guy who wrote Vanilla Sky uses LE, we can never say "Benny the Dog" without copyright violation?
You forgot Peabody Energy, Yangzhou Coal Mining, Rheinbraun AG, and BHP Billiton - with the support of Chinese steel producers and American coal powered powerplants. Coal is the major producer of carbon dioxide, the major factor in global warming.
As a liberal non eco-nazi, I agree the ecology argument against pollution is pretty weak. Weather changes, critters die - that's life. Look at the economics of pollution on humans, though, and you'll find what people care about.
WHO claims its more than TB and HIV combined. Another report claims it costs $4.6 bil per year in health expenses. American Lung Association, probably the one I trust most, says its direct and indirect impact is around $12.6 billion for the 14.6 million Americans affected. Recent research points to a 200% increase in asthma risk in high pollution communities to low pollution communities => assuming a symmetric distirbution of pollution in communities, half of asthma is pollution related => it costs America $6.3 billion a year. That's just one health risk. Compare to the EPA's $7.7 billion requested for treating all environmental health issues in FY2003.
You have to hide the fact that you didn't read the article: find all the modded down peeps on the thread and read their mistakes. Its usually more informative and entertaining than the article.
I love these metal tins - I've gone on expeditions acquiring them from people and put all my cds in them. They are, as AOL indoubitably discovered, great at preventing cd damage. I was sick of having jewel cases in my bookbag getting cracked after an hour. The only trick, so far, has been that they open up after a couple dents, so use a rubber band with them. I hope AOL continues to squander their money making my life better through tins, CNN fighting Fox News, and widespread AIM (since they can't do so through content or service).
I have the luxury of a pet dental resident who is required to use new technology in his work, and as a result, I recently got one of these shrinky-dink filings. And let me tell you - though the inital pain is unbearable, after a day the pain is gone and the nerve is covered much more completely than the conventional filling materials. Having the worst teeth in the world (ok, maybe it was the 20 yrs w/o dental insurance..), I have too much exp w/ fillings going bad after a couple years, and this technology is a boon to anyone who's had a filling come out and a root canal ensue. The proof is, as they say, in the pudding, so I'm going off to lunch on it.