OK folks, Can anyone here tell me the 2 largest commercial uses of Nanotechnolgy, RIGHT NOW?
Care to guess? I was at a talk on this very topic this weekend, and it's all deep lab stuff except for 2 main uses.
Can you say, Industrial cutting tools, and cosmetics? For cutting tools, they are using fused nanopowders to form the cutting tools - when a chunk rips off the tool, it's a smaller chunk, so the tool lasts a lot longer.
For cosmetics, they are using nanopowders to defract UV rays (But not visible light) to make transparent sun screen
THAT'S it! That's about the current limit on "Nanotech".
One of the BIG (or should I say small) problems with nanotech is energy storage and delivery. How do you get energy into a "Nano" device? Yes, people are looking into carbon tubes, but that research has been done mostly by labs that are less than strict about little things like peer review. Remember that one of the highest energy storage densities is buring fossil fuels - try that in your nano device
The First Amendment enumerates the right to free speech, the SECOND GUARNTEES it!
Look at the document below - Look at how many of these things apply today - Comments and highlighting mine
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
(Calling Defendents all the way across the country on 1 days notice? See DeCSS suits)
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
Immigration laws, anyone
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Look at all the offices of the Feds are out there, and all the Executive Orders, and "Notice of Rules"
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
Gee, the 2nd Amendment doesn't count, because the Army is so strong, how can you fight them?
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: UN? WTO? anyone?
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: Congressional hearings on things like WACO?
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:User Fees like the Universal Internet access fee>
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:Using the courts to create legislation, instead of the legislator?
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.See above
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Gee, Economics 101 - ANYTHING is worth exactly what it will sell for. If no deal can be made, the seller valuse the item more than the buyer (which may or may not be reational, but, I digres)
TPM the most visually stunning move in history? You smoking something? "Visually Stunning" is a lot broader than "Special Effects".
Have you ever watched "Koyaanisqatsi"? How about "2001" (which was slow, but VISUALLY stunning), how about (if you want great visuals) "Out of Africa" (Date Movie, but amazing camera work)
Oh, Trust me, I do have a life outside of work, but when tight deadlines loom, things get pushed aside.
As for that life? A 3 YO daughter, a lovely wife, Live Steam trains (which requires a whole machine shop in the basement), Shooting etc (check my web site)
As I said in my reply, NOT getting out of the house is what killed me after 10 months or so. My wife took the car to work, so I was stuck.
Take the advice to heart. If you do this, get out of the house
If you DO have a clear cut project/section of code to work on, you can make great progress, when you don't (aka, you need more info), you can die waiting for info
I had a job working for one of my best friends, who also turned out to be one of the best bosses I've ever had. The problems are social.
Picture you are a typical geek. You'll get up in the AM, and log in, and then stay there till you go to bed. You'll go weeks without leaving the house except for food. Gets REAL old after a few months.
The other problem (for both you and your employer) is that it gets hard to separate home from work. You never leave work, but you also never leave home. You know those "dead times" you always get at work? It's real easy to drift off into home mode, but it's also real easy to spend all day working, and it feeling like you are ALWAYS at work (like 24x7).
Another problem that isn't so bad today now that things like Cable Modem and xDSL are around is the cost of phones. We were using ISDN, and the phone bill from my end to the office ran around $1100 per month. This costs your boss some real $$$
I could see telecommuting 2-3 days a week, but NOT more than that.
I'm sorry to say it didn't work out, but luckily, it didn't hurt the friendship
What Pandora's Box? I guess you don't remember the story. In the story it was GOOD that the box was closed. The story is that once the box was opened, you can put things back in.
In the case of Gnutella, I won't say that it's good or bad that it got out (OK, I'll give my opinion - It's mostly used for illegal copying, which is wrong). It's just that once it's out, you can't make it go back
I think the best thing to do is what some of the bookies are doing. Put a little thermite on top of your HD. Someone trys to open the case without your permission, or when you slap the scram switch, it goes "poof", and you hand the cops (or the court) what's LEFT of you hard drive and say "Here you go, read what you can"
OK, let's see, when did the Apple ][ come out? 1976/7? It was basically gone when the Mac came out - 1984.
That means that this so called typical end user has been using a desktop computer since at least 1984, or 16 years. On top of that, if you were using an Apple ][ you were either working for a small company that computerized EARLY (Pre 1980) or didn't follow the IBM PC trend, OR you bought the computer yourself. Any of these situations puts you in an self selected group of power users. This is NOT a typical desktop user.
You know all those "Joke" stories we hear about "End users". Part of what makes jokes funny is that the must have an element of truth
The average programmer is 2 standard deviations higher in intelligence than the "average" person. We literally can't understand why people don't get it.
Just remember, the average user finds the task of installing even Win9x well above their heads, and if anything goes wrong at all with their computer, needs help.
I was thinking about your list - Most are great. The book that got me into SciFi was an OLD anthology written in the 1950s - It had (among others) Nightfall, The Roads must roll, and a bunch of others (VanVogt, Campbell etc). Maybe a GOOD anthology of short stories is the way to go?
Actually, the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights DON'T just exist in the USA, that is, if you really believe what our forefathers did. They believed that those rights are God given unalienable rights, and they can not be taken away, even if the BOR was changed.
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You missed Upton NY - Read Stony Brook, where the local NWS center is - the grounds of the Old Camp Upton - now known as Brookhaven National Labs
That's because children are a natural "hot Button". When you become a parent, the urge to protect your children at almost any cost is very strong. Of course, some people can see that the so called protection will hurt their children in the long run. Some one once said (and I agree) that if a person says "It's for the children" watch your wallets and your rights, because one or the other (or both) are under attack
I agree. I haven't gone COLD turkey, but I watch about 1/2hr to 1 hr of TV a month,Usually when my wife is watching and I keep her company. My wife and I have decided that our Daughter only gets to watch TV on "special" occasions. The last of those being the annual airing of "The Grinch who Stole Christmas" The next will probably be the Valentine's day Winnie the Pooh Special. There is a good chance that'll be the next time I watch TV too.
Most TV, including the better stuff on cable, is a wasteland. I work for one of the networks, and I can't tell you when I last watched one of our shows.
Except that old black and white TVs could continue to receive color signals (The only difference is the color burst on the front porch, and a controlled phase angle - BTW all your tint control does is adjust the phase angle (timing) from the color burst pulse to the signal.
OLD TV sets won't be able to receive DTV - I know a bunch of people who aren't buying TVs right now because they don't want their investment to go away. Take my parents. They are happy with their 20 year old 25" set. Now it's starting to go. They want their NEXT set to last just as long. Are YOU going to be the one to tell them that they HAVE to buy 3 new sets to replace the ones they have?
There are a LOT of people I know of AARP age who are ready to bring in petitions to the courts to have cable outlawed (TV should be free). Let's face it, they DO out number US
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OK folks,
Can anyone here tell me the 2 largest commercial uses of Nanotechnolgy, RIGHT NOW?
Care to guess? I was at a talk on this very topic this weekend, and it's all deep lab stuff except for 2 main uses.
Can you say, Industrial cutting tools, and cosmetics? For cutting tools, they are using fused nanopowders to form the cutting tools - when a chunk rips off the tool, it's a smaller chunk, so the tool lasts a lot longer.
For cosmetics, they are using nanopowders to defract UV rays (But not visible light) to make transparent sun screen
THAT'S it! That's about the current limit on "Nanotech".
One of the BIG (or should I say small) problems with nanotech is energy storage and delivery. How do you get energy into a "Nano" device? Yes, people are looking into carbon tubes, but that research has been done mostly by labs that are less than strict about little things like peer review. Remember that one of the highest energy storage densities is buring fossil fuels - try that in your nano device
Oh well, there goes a few karma points, but...
Gee,
Economics 101 - ANYTHING is worth exactly what it will sell for. If no deal can be made, the seller valuse the item more than the buyer (which may or may not be reational, but, I digres)
Gee, reminds me of the Sagan case - Should we just refer to Laurence Godfrey as Butt Head physicist?
TPM the most visually stunning move in history? You smoking something? "Visually Stunning" is a lot broader than "Special Effects".
Have you ever watched "Koyaanisqatsi"? How about "2001" (which was slow, but VISUALLY stunning), how about (if you want great visuals) "Out of Africa" (Date Movie, but amazing camera work)
Oh, Trust me, I do have a life outside of work, but when tight deadlines loom, things get pushed aside.
As for that life? A 3 YO daughter, a lovely wife, Live Steam trains (which requires a whole machine shop in the basement), Shooting etc (check my web site)
As I said in my reply, NOT getting out of the house is what killed me after 10 months or so. My wife took the car to work, so I was stuck.
Take the advice to heart. If you do this, get out of the house
If you DO have a clear cut project/section of code to work on, you can make great progress, when you don't (aka, you need more info), you can die waiting for info
I've done this, and would not do it again.
I had a job working for one of my best friends, who also turned out to be one of the best bosses I've ever had. The problems are social.
Picture you are a typical geek. You'll get up in the AM, and log in, and then stay there till you go to bed. You'll go weeks without leaving the house except for food. Gets REAL old after a few months.
The other problem (for both you and your employer) is that it gets hard to separate home from work. You never leave work, but you also never leave home. You know those "dead times" you always get at work? It's real easy to drift off into home mode, but it's also real easy to spend all day working, and it feeling like you are ALWAYS at work (like 24x7).
Another problem that isn't so bad today now that things like Cable Modem and xDSL are around is the cost of phones. We were using ISDN, and the phone bill from my end to the office ran around $1100 per month. This costs your boss some real $$$
I could see telecommuting 2-3 days a week, but NOT more than that.
I'm sorry to say it didn't work out, but luckily, it didn't hurt the friendship
"NPS Internet Solutions, LLC "
Humm, sounds like a disinterested 3rd party to me, huh?
What Pandora's Box? I guess you don't remember the story. In the story it was GOOD that the box was closed. The story is that once the box was opened, you can put things back in.
In the case of Gnutella, I won't say that it's good or bad that it got out (OK, I'll give my opinion - It's mostly used for illegal copying, which is wrong). It's just that once it's out, you can't make it go back
I guess the folks at AOL have never heard of Pandora's Box, Huh?
www.pgp.org Huh? Pecan Grove Plantation ?? No, I'm not kidding! Maybe www.pgpi.org or www.pgp.com
I think the best thing to do is what some of the bookies are doing. Put a little thermite on top of your HD. Someone trys to open the case without your permission, or when you slap the scram switch, it goes "poof", and you hand the cops (or the court) what's LEFT of you hard drive and say "Here you go, read what you can"
OK, let's see, when did the Apple ][ come out? 1976/7? It was basically gone when the Mac came out - 1984.
That means that this so called typical end user has been using a desktop computer since at least 1984, or 16 years. On top of that, if you were using an Apple ][ you were either working for a small company that computerized EARLY (Pre 1980) or didn't follow the IBM PC trend, OR you bought the computer yourself. Any of these situations puts you in an self selected group of power users. This is NOT a typical desktop user.
You know all those "Joke" stories we hear about "End users". Part of what makes jokes funny is that the must have an element of truth
The average programmer is 2 standard deviations higher in intelligence than the "average" person. We literally can't understand why people don't get it.
Just remember, the average user finds the task of installing even Win9x well above their heads, and if anything goes wrong at all with their computer, needs help.
I was thinking about your list - Most are great. The book that got me into SciFi was an OLD anthology written in the 1950s - It had (among others) Nightfall, The Roads must roll, and a bunch of others (VanVogt, Campbell etc). Maybe a GOOD anthology of short stories is the way to go?
One that I like, and no one has on their list - Shockwave rider
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Actually, the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights DON'T just exist in the USA, that is, if you really believe what our forefathers did. They believed that those rights are God given unalienable rights, and they can not be taken away, even if the BOR was changed.
You missed Upton NY - Read Stony Brook, where the local NWS center is - the grounds of the Old Camp Upton - now known as Brookhaven National Labs
That's because children are a natural "hot Button". When you become a parent, the urge to protect your children at almost any cost is very strong. Of course, some people can see that the so called protection will hurt their children in the long run. Some one once said (and I agree) that if a person says "It's for the children" watch your wallets and your rights, because one or the other (or both) are under attack
Well,
That's fine if you get PAID when you get called out. Most of us are on salary. No extra pay to get called out
I agree. I haven't gone COLD turkey, but I watch about 1/2hr to 1 hr of TV a month,Usually when my wife is watching and I keep her company. My wife and I have decided that our Daughter only gets to watch TV on "special" occasions. The last of those being the annual airing of "The Grinch who Stole Christmas" The next will probably be the Valentine's day Winnie the Pooh Special. There is a good chance that'll be the next time I watch TV too.
Most TV, including the better stuff on cable, is a wasteland. I work for one of the networks, and I can't tell you when I last watched one of our shows.
READ A BOOK, it'll make you use your brain
Except that old black and white TVs could continue to receive color signals (The only difference is the color burst on the front porch, and a controlled phase angle - BTW all your tint control does is adjust the phase angle (timing) from the color burst pulse to the signal.
OLD TV sets won't be able to receive DTV - I know a bunch of people who aren't buying TVs right now because they don't want their investment to go away. Take my parents. They are happy with their 20 year old 25" set. Now it's starting to go. They want their NEXT set to last just as long. Are YOU going to be the one to tell them that they HAVE to buy 3 new sets to replace the ones they have?
There are a LOT of people I know of AARP age who are ready to bring in petitions to the courts to have cable outlawed (TV should be free). Let's face it, they DO out number US
Just remember, a lot of companies will say "Fine, if I have to pay for the stuff, you might as well come into the office"
This is going to kill the work at home movement