1. If it's "rural areas where no one lives", then where will the light pollution come from? Last I checked, deer and squirrels weren't lining up to buy Halo 3.
2. You're not asked to count all the stars, you're asked to count a constellation and compare your numbers to a magnitude chart. And if someone misses a star they should have seen, that's what we call "experimental error".
3. If it's cloudy, DO IT TOMORROW.
Oh, and if there's a link, RTFA. It'll save your fingers in the long run.
I'm afraid you have missed the point. My point is that using such a social networking site does not automatically lead to a "degredation in skills" in interacting with friends and that it has many legitimate uses. Another point of mine was that nearly every comment posted above was a very negative one; I hardly see how offering an opposing view indicates the "weight of importance" I hold for the site. I made no mention of how often I use it or how many friends I have on the site, with the latter being the main thrust of this poorly researched paper in the first place.
So that's "backlashing"? Please. I said the site is more useful than a number of inexplicably-angry/. users want to admit. I didn't say I can't live without it. Try jumping to a few less conclusions before clicking "Submit" next time.
Maintaining contact with more than a handful of people through sites like Facebook does not make ALL of your friendships trite and meaningless. Some people can maintain a close circle of friends with a larger casual circle, or (as someone else pointed out) just a large circle of casual friends, by choice. Do you people mean to tell me that you call your close circle of friends every day to find out what's going on in their lives? Of course not. Friends update friends about their other friends all the time, and that's how FB works.
FB is basically a passive form of Messenger, but with more information and a far better way of making new contacts. Thanks to FB I have reestablished contact with people whom I haven't spoken to in years. It keeps you updated on the lives of your friends without having to call every one of them or visit them in foreign countries. It's also a convenient way to get in touch with your good friends and organize parties. You know, with your REAL friends, in meatspace.
Sure, some people treat FB as a big "friend"-gathering contest, and some people don't; that's their choice. If it bothers you, then please ask yourself (a) why you are checking how many friends these people have, and (b) why you are interacting with people who piss you off? If TFA can be crudely summarized as "Anyone with lots of friends only does it to increase their level of status" then the majority of the comments seem to be "Casual circle of friends or larger number of friends than me = bad", and neither is correct.
Insecurity veiled in indignant hostility? On/.? What is the world coming to?
"Control unit, keyboard, acoustic coupler and 5" video monitor"
Apparently, by "acoustic coupler" they mean "telephone". Goes to show that bamboozling unsuspecting consumers with high-tech talk has been around as long as the technologies themselves!
Considering that a kilo of Si will have over 10^22 atoms, the % distribution assumption should indeed be correct. Techniques such as mass spectrometry would ensure this was indeed the case to a certain degree of accuracy.
I must agree. I find the TeX-over-Word zealotry far far far more irritating than the my-OS-is-better-than-your-OS arguments. The idea that TeX is "obviously" easier to use is an insult to those of us who are (a) scientifically-minded, (b) technologically-minded, and (c) able to type and format a Word document in the blink of an eye.
Implementing TeX is cumbersome and irritating, and with rather little benefit given that many major journals have (wisely) chosen to go with the most popular format. If the popular format becomes unusable due to baffling corporate decisions then there will be a shift in default format, and that paradigm shift will be driven by the peer reviewers and editors, who in turn will be influenced by their students and peers. THAT is where you effect change, not by implying that everyone who uses "M$" products is a fucking moron.
Dashboard is active as soon as you install it, which is why it pops up right away whether you want it or not. It runs in the background whether you launch it or not, and Apple does not make it easy for you to disable it; you have to go into the console to shut it down. I don't remember the command but it is easy to Google for.
As for my Spotlight/QS ramble, I think it was one of those posts that you regret as soon as you send it. I do indeed realise that they are different programs for different tasks; I guess that my rant was just a manifestation of my wish for a Spotlight that was somewhat usable.
And by the way, some Spotlight searches ARE repeated over and over (I have nearly a thousand publications on my HD, and large swathes of this archive are related to a few key words, with further division occuring for there on)
Wow. It's been a long time since I've read an abstract with that little information in it. What a vapid piece of fucking trash. I'm sure that the next paper out of that research group will be "Telescoping carbon nanotube (CNT) space elevators in 3-5 years".
No data. No numbers. No quantification, no discussion of advantages or difficulties with the technology. No discussion of the fact that it is quite frigging difficult to get relatively defect-free nanotubes in any sort of practical volume. Something tells me that Y-branched nanotubes will not work all that well in a telescoping system.../cue cries of Niche market! Tech will catch up in a year or so! Supply and demand!
Whatever. There's been a BIG demand for nanotubes for a very long time, and we are now realising the physical impacts of the fact that no reaction goes to 100% completion: a site defect that only occurs 0.01% of the time occurs in every 10,000 sites, and this is simply unacceptable for a material that is supposed to save the world.
I can't understand why Quicksilver (an application) is near-on instantaneous on my G3 933MHz iBook but Spotlight (built-in feature) needs to constantly search my entire harddrive every time I want to do a search. I guess QS is focusing on applications, but there's still quite a disparity. Spotlight has it's advantages, namely in searching for things other than programs, but it never learns my search behaviour! On the other hand, thanks to Quicksilver I haven't seen the Dock in months, and I don't miss it. I do realise that my system is slow and not the target for these new features, but that just serves to illustrate just how brilliant QS is.
As a ranting aside, the second best thing I did for this compy is disable Dashboard. Not that Apple makes it easy to turn off that useless timewasting memory hog...
Resigned before anything could be done? If he committed a crime, it shouldn't matter that he quit the job first.
I'm not proposing that the British system is the paragon of integrity relative to the American system, but that's probably the best example you can give of the police correcting corrupt government behaviour, and it didn't work. Bush sends thousands of Americans to their deaths overseas, but the entire American political system sits on their hands.
Dumbing down scientific language does nothing to help the progression and advancement of science. Terms like "nanorust" make people think it is sonething really complicated and technological, but when they find out that it's just small rust pieces and that it ISN'T cool at all it just feeds the idea that scientists are liars and smart-asses. We chemists in particular have a bad enough public perception (despite the fact that without chemists our curent way of life simply would not exist...) without this buzzword nonsense. THere are many more interesting (and less dishonest) ways of making science appealing to others; chemistry is full of neat tricks and displays. Let's not make the scientific discourse dumber simply to attract a half-dozen more kids.
Seeing as how the lab in question already has (we assume) fully licenced versions of Windows XP, suggesting that they throw away the software and learn how to use Linux does strike me as very unhelpful and, yes, a little bit offtopic. If this were a discussion about upgrading a computer lab then the Linux comment would have some merit, but here it just comes off as needlessly preachy and unhelpful.
You're forgetting the target audience. The target audience thinks that Windows=PC, and that Linux is a different (and scary) kind of computer, just like Mac is a different and very user-friendly kind of computer.
Plug in a new digital camera and Windows tosses up 3 or 4 status bubbles (found new hardware...found new usb device...found camera...found Canon xxxx), then (if the PC is a little older) warns you that your USB ports are slow, then pops up a dialogue box asking you to decide what programs you want use to handle the pictures. This is intimidating to casual computer users. Apple is much better at guiding new users to the correct/easy choices and hiding the grinding and churning of the OS/hardware.
If the primary mode of infection is user error and you are marketing to new and inexperienced users, then it makes sense to tout the fact that your system is virtually malware/virus free. To blame the user for viruses is a strawman to distract from the fact that the OS is incredibly prone to infection, and the requirement of firewalls and virus scanners (more confusing popups and reboots) is a warning sign.
A new user who has a couple of programs to install is instructed to reboot every time the installation process finishes, and unlike myself or yourself they WILL reboot every single time. I have had to reboot/shut down my iBook 5 times since I purchased it second-hand over a month ago, and two of those were to read the serial number on the battery and the computer itself, respectively (2nd number is inside the battery housing:-) ) for the Sony battery recall. A new Windows install still takes a number of reboots, especially once you start applying patches. Mac patches sometimes require reboots as well, but in far smaller numbers.
Sure some of it is embellishment. But they aren't targeting you or I with these ads, they are targeting people who aren't accustomed to when a system needs a reboot or when/how the temp files should be flushed. They want things to just work and leave them alone other than that.
Apple offers a solution that tries to let the OS take care of the computer with minimal user input. Windows/*nix/BSD/whatever require the user's assistance to take care of the computer in the long term. Friends and family always ask me to help them with their computer problems, but I have never had the Mac users ask me to do anything more than fix their internet (which was an ISP side problem anyways).
Agreed, but that wasn't really the point I was trying to make:-) Just that a seemingly minor issue to you or I could be a colossal obstacle to someone who suffers from fatigue, and ultimately this device is meant to rectify/prevent these RSI. I think the cordless mice are silly, but I'm sure you have at some point used a mouse where it felt like the cord was resisting your movements (I know I have). To someone suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome this minor resistance could be the proverbial straw on the camel's back.
Again, kind of a niche issue, but this is a product that is mostly marketed to a niche audience as well.
Research freedom vs. stability and compensation - I won't try to answer that one, but I would like to comment on your first point about academia.
It almost seems strange to me that students beyond the 3rd year level purchase textbooks, since my most interesting courses were taught quite nearly exclusively from important/recent literature. I think that the perception that students are worse today is largely based in poor performance at the high school level due to crumbling educational infrastructure. Student calibre increases dramatically once people get away from their 1st and 2nd year prerequisites and start getting into the subject material at some meaningful depth.
It's not that the students are poor, but their learning and subsequent research is less focused because the research areas are far more developed, and so far less students leave a course thinking "I can make a contribution and build a career in this area". They have far more information to learn these days, which means that while they require a greater time/resource investment to get started, their broad base of knowledge helps them catch up. In my experience, most of the recent graduates are far more versatile than the graduate students because they can tackle problems from many directions, while the grad students tend to get locked into their research field exclusively. You can easily teach a knowledgable researcher a new technique, but it's a bit tricker to teach a technician quantum mechanics!
In the end, research freedom is somewhat relative because ultimately you are accountable for your progress to your sources of funding. It just comes down to what sort of a work environment you want to work in.
I'm not sure I made a point here, but what the hell. Academia isn't necessarily as impoverished as it sounds, and industry isn't necessarily as soulless and confining as people make it out to be. It comes down to the particular work environment you find yourself in. Best of luck to you in your search!
While it is admittedly a small factor for most of us, I suspect that people with severe RSI will tell you that that little cord makes a big difference when the pain radiating up your arm makes it feel like it is plugged into a wall socket.
On the other hand, I have pounded the stuffing out of my 6-year-old corded Intellimouse Explorer and it is still performing absolutely flawlessly. I suspect that has something to do with the fact that it is built like a tank, and this probably is a big reason why I don't even notice the cord.
(linuxzealot)If only MS made their software like they make their peripherals.(/linuxzealot):-)
Yeah, god forbid they provide a link to the actual scientific paper! I guess you'll hold out for the half-assed review by some underpaid English major at a second-rate news agency who doesn't know a protein from a Prius because you're too lazy to think for yourself. People like you make scientists go crazy; please stop being part of the problem.
Please forgive the extreme cynicism here, but this sort of nonsense is a plague on the scientific community as a whole. On a person-to-person basis our society probably has less scientific reasoning ability than it did 50 years ago and this lazy dependance on media is a big part of the problem. This seemingly innocent laziness multiplied by a large population feeds the "if I hug this crystal it will fix my cancer" holistic bullshit market that scams people out of their money every single day.
That's nonsense. All portable media players now come with a sound limiting feature, and if you don't use it that is your problem. If you lock the controls then you can't accidentally crank the volume while rooting around for something in your pocket. The maximum volume setting has to be sufficiently high to accomodate alternate forms of output, such as varying headphone make/model or external speakers (ie. PC speakers), but you don't have to use it!
Once again, we have grown adults who don't have the integrity (or the intelligence, maybe?) to assume responsibility for their actions. A 10-year-old could tell you that if you turn up the music too loud and listen to it for too long you will lose your hearing.
Bottom line: Use the sound limiting feature that is supplied with the instrument and you won't lose your hearing.
No, Xonstantine's problem is even worse. He states that Muslims are not all terrorists but then justifies arresting Muslims based on nothing more than racial profiling because they are perceived to be terrorists.
This is the problem when people with no short-term memory or cohesive points to make try to argue on/.
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They addressed that a perpendicular approach would be unrealistic, and by determining the distance the bullet travels at an angle they roughly get the distance it would travel upon perpendicular entry, therefore probably getting "worst-case" scenario information without actually doing it.
In that link, the bullet has to pass through plastic (often several layers) to get a result, meaning that not only is the test different than the Mythbusters' test, but the test conditions vary from calibre to calibre! His results are interesting but they do not refute, contradict or support anything the Mythbusters tried to do because the test conditions are different.
That doesn't make any sense. If they told people about it then they wouldn't be waiting for further analysis, now would they? How did your not being informed about a 10th planet adversely affect your life?
If you tell the public there is a 10th planet and then have to retract that information, people then start ridiculing the scientists. If you don't tell the people until you get further evidence but the information gets forced out anyways, people start complaining that information was being withheld.
You might say "Hey, it's just a planet, why not let us know?", but it just serves to illustrate the underlying problem. For example, if this was information about a cure for AIDS that was withheld for more research then everyone would have lost their minds. However, once this drug was studied for 2 more years and shown to cause an 80% cancer rate, everyone would have been even angrier than before and tried to blame the scientists who wanted to do more research in the first place!
I know that scientists are at times guilty of rushing to press, but honestly! Stuff like this makes me wonder why people bother doing research...
I think that the incorporation of the f block into a linear atomic weight order is great. However...
I would suggest that teaching students yet another way to memorize information without learning the how or why is not a good thing.
Secondly, the periodic table already separates the elements into s, p, d and f blocks according to (most) of their relevant properties, and since this chart is largely just a pretty way of re-drawing the information there is not much to be gained. I have colour-coded periodic tables available as well.
Thirdly, as another poster has pointed out, the electronegativity trend is not quite as obvious according to this layout; as well, other trends such as EA and the preferred ion charges are harder to assess. To return to the learning aspect, I would argue that the order of the current periodic table is the easier way for a student to assess these properties and understand, at least at some level, why they arise.
I'm not beating my CRC here and resisting change because I am scared, but I think this is change for the sake of change and marketing.
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"Insightful"? Good god.
1. If it's "rural areas where no one lives", then where will the light pollution come from? Last I checked, deer and squirrels weren't lining up to buy Halo 3.
2. You're not asked to count all the stars, you're asked to count a constellation and compare your numbers to a magnitude chart. And if someone misses a star they should have seen, that's what we call "experimental error".
3. If it's cloudy, DO IT TOMORROW.
Oh, and if there's a link, RTFA. It'll save your fingers in the long run.
I'm afraid you have missed the point. My point is that using such a social networking site does not automatically lead to a "degredation in skills" in interacting with friends and that it has many legitimate uses. Another point of mine was that nearly every comment posted above was a very negative one; I hardly see how offering an opposing view indicates the "weight of importance" I hold for the site. I made no mention of how often I use it or how many friends I have on the site, with the latter being the main thrust of this poorly researched paper in the first place.
/. users want to admit. I didn't say I can't live without it. Try jumping to a few less conclusions before clicking "Submit" next time.
So that's "backlashing"? Please. I said the site is more useful than a number of inexplicably-angry
Maintaining contact with more than a handful of people through sites like Facebook does not make ALL of your friendships trite and meaningless. Some people can maintain a close circle of friends with a larger casual circle, or (as someone else pointed out) just a large circle of casual friends, by choice. Do you people mean to tell me that you call your close circle of friends every day to find out what's going on in their lives? Of course not. Friends update friends about their other friends all the time, and that's how FB works.
/.? What is the world coming to?
FB is basically a passive form of Messenger, but with more information and a far better way of making new contacts. Thanks to FB I have reestablished contact with people whom I haven't spoken to in years. It keeps you updated on the lives of your friends without having to call every one of them or visit them in foreign countries. It's also a convenient way to get in touch with your good friends and organize parties. You know, with your REAL friends, in meatspace.
Sure, some people treat FB as a big "friend"-gathering contest, and some people don't; that's their choice. If it bothers you, then please ask yourself (a) why you are checking how many friends these people have, and (b) why you are interacting with people who piss you off? If TFA can be crudely summarized as "Anyone with lots of friends only does it to increase their level of status" then the majority of the comments seem to be "Casual circle of friends or larger number of friends than me = bad", and neither is correct.
Insecurity veiled in indignant hostility? On
"Control unit, keyboard, acoustic coupler and 5" video monitor"
Apparently, by "acoustic coupler" they mean "telephone". Goes to show that bamboozling unsuspecting consumers with high-tech talk has been around as long as the technologies themselves!
Considering that a kilo of Si will have over 10^22 atoms, the % distribution assumption should indeed be correct. Techniques such as mass spectrometry would ensure this was indeed the case to a certain degree of accuracy.
I must agree. I find the TeX-over-Word zealotry far far far more irritating than the my-OS-is-better-than-your-OS arguments. The idea that TeX is "obviously" easier to use is an insult to those of us who are (a) scientifically-minded, (b) technologically-minded, and (c) able to type and format a Word document in the blink of an eye.
Implementing TeX is cumbersome and irritating, and with rather little benefit given that many major journals have (wisely) chosen to go with the most popular format. If the popular format becomes unusable due to baffling corporate decisions then there will be a shift in default format, and that paradigm shift will be driven by the peer reviewers and editors, who in turn will be influenced by their students and peers. THAT is where you effect change, not by implying that everyone who uses "M$" products is a fucking moron.
Dashboard is active as soon as you install it, which is why it pops up right away whether you want it or not. It runs in the background whether you launch it or not, and Apple does not make it easy for you to disable it; you have to go into the console to shut it down. I don't remember the command but it is easy to Google for.
As for my Spotlight/QS ramble, I think it was one of those posts that you regret as soon as you send it. I do indeed realise that they are different programs for different tasks; I guess that my rant was just a manifestation of my wish for a Spotlight that was somewhat usable.
And by the way, some Spotlight searches ARE repeated over and over (I have nearly a thousand publications on my HD, and large swathes of this archive are related to a few key words, with further division occuring for there on)
Thanks for the perspective. Cheers!
Wow. It's been a long time since I've read an abstract with that little information in it. What a vapid piece of fucking trash. I'm sure that the next paper out of that research group will be "Telescoping carbon nanotube (CNT) space elevators in 3-5 years".
/cue cries of Niche market! Tech will catch up in a year or so! Supply and demand!
/end angry_chemist_rant
No data. No numbers. No quantification, no discussion of advantages or difficulties with the technology. No discussion of the fact that it is quite frigging difficult to get relatively defect-free nanotubes in any sort of practical volume. Something tells me that Y-branched nanotubes will not work all that well in a telescoping system...
Whatever. There's been a BIG demand for nanotubes for a very long time, and we are now realising the physical impacts of the fact that no reaction goes to 100% completion: a site defect that only occurs 0.01% of the time occurs in every 10,000 sites, and this is simply unacceptable for a material that is supposed to save the world.
Fuck "nanotechnology".
Cheers!
I can't understand why Quicksilver (an application) is near-on instantaneous on my G3 933MHz iBook but Spotlight (built-in feature) needs to constantly search my entire harddrive every time I want to do a search. I guess QS is focusing on applications, but there's still quite a disparity. Spotlight has it's advantages, namely in searching for things other than programs, but it never learns my search behaviour! On the other hand, thanks to Quicksilver I haven't seen the Dock in months, and I don't miss it. I do realise that my system is slow and not the target for these new features, but that just serves to illustrate just how brilliant QS is.
As a ranting aside, the second best thing I did for this compy is disable Dashboard. Not that Apple makes it easy to turn off that useless timewasting memory hog...
Cheers
Water shortage? At the rate we are going there won't be much of a water shortage, not with Greenland floating down past the Eastern seaboard :-)
Resigned before anything could be done? If he committed a crime, it shouldn't matter that he quit the job first.
I'm not proposing that the British system is the paragon of integrity relative to the American system, but that's probably the best example you can give of the police correcting corrupt government behaviour, and it didn't work. Bush sends thousands of Americans to their deaths overseas, but the entire American political system sits on their hands.
But lie about a blowjob, and...
Dumbing down scientific language does nothing to help the progression and advancement of science. Terms like "nanorust" make people think it is sonething really complicated and technological, but when they find out that it's just small rust pieces and that it ISN'T cool at all it just feeds the idea that scientists are liars and smart-asses. We chemists in particular have a bad enough public perception (despite the fact that without chemists our curent way of life simply would not exist...) without this buzzword nonsense. THere are many more interesting (and less dishonest) ways of making science appealing to others; chemistry is full of neat tricks and displays. Let's not make the scientific discourse dumber simply to attract a half-dozen more kids.
Seeing as how the lab in question already has (we assume) fully licenced versions of Windows XP, suggesting that they throw away the software and learn how to use Linux does strike me as very unhelpful and, yes, a little bit offtopic. If this were a discussion about upgrading a computer lab then the Linux comment would have some merit, but here it just comes off as needlessly preachy and unhelpful.
my 2 cents
You're forgetting the target audience. The target audience thinks that Windows=PC, and that Linux is a different (and scary) kind of computer, just like Mac is a different and very user-friendly kind of computer.
:-) ) for the Sony battery recall. A new Windows install still takes a number of reboots, especially once you start applying patches. Mac patches sometimes require reboots as well, but in far smaller numbers.
Plug in a new digital camera and Windows tosses up 3 or 4 status bubbles (found new hardware...found new usb device...found camera...found Canon xxxx), then (if the PC is a little older) warns you that your USB ports are slow, then pops up a dialogue box asking you to decide what programs you want use to handle the pictures. This is intimidating to casual computer users. Apple is much better at guiding new users to the correct/easy choices and hiding the grinding and churning of the OS/hardware.
If the primary mode of infection is user error and you are marketing to new and inexperienced users, then it makes sense to tout the fact that your system is virtually malware/virus free. To blame the user for viruses is a strawman to distract from the fact that the OS is incredibly prone to infection, and the requirement of firewalls and virus scanners (more confusing popups and reboots) is a warning sign.
A new user who has a couple of programs to install is instructed to reboot every time the installation process finishes, and unlike myself or yourself they WILL reboot every single time. I have had to reboot/shut down my iBook 5 times since I purchased it second-hand over a month ago, and two of those were to read the serial number on the battery and the computer itself, respectively (2nd number is inside the battery housing
Sure some of it is embellishment. But they aren't targeting you or I with these ads, they are targeting people who aren't accustomed to when a system needs a reboot or when/how the temp files should be flushed. They want things to just work and leave them alone other than that.
Apple offers a solution that tries to let the OS take care of the computer with minimal user input. Windows/*nix/BSD/whatever require the user's assistance to take care of the computer in the long term. Friends and family always ask me to help them with their computer problems, but I have never had the Mac users ask me to do anything more than fix their internet (which was an ISP side problem anyways).
Just my 48 cents.
Agreed, but that wasn't really the point I was trying to make :-) Just that a seemingly minor issue to you or I could be a colossal obstacle to someone who suffers from fatigue, and ultimately this device is meant to rectify/prevent these RSI. I think the cordless mice are silly, but I'm sure you have at some point used a mouse where it felt like the cord was resisting your movements (I know I have). To someone suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome this minor resistance could be the proverbial straw on the camel's back.
Again, kind of a niche issue, but this is a product that is mostly marketed to a niche audience as well.
Cheers!
Research freedom vs. stability and compensation - I won't try to answer that one, but I would like to comment on your first point about academia.
It almost seems strange to me that students beyond the 3rd year level purchase textbooks, since my most interesting courses were taught quite nearly exclusively from important/recent literature. I think that the perception that students are worse today is largely based in poor performance at the high school level due to crumbling educational infrastructure. Student calibre increases dramatically once people get away from their 1st and 2nd year prerequisites and start getting into the subject material at some meaningful depth.
It's not that the students are poor, but their learning and subsequent research is less focused because the research areas are far more developed, and so far less students leave a course thinking "I can make a contribution and build a career in this area". They have far more information to learn these days, which means that while they require a greater time/resource investment to get started, their broad base of knowledge helps them catch up. In my experience, most of the recent graduates are far more versatile than the graduate students because they can tackle problems from many directions, while the grad students tend to get locked into their research field exclusively. You can easily teach a knowledgable researcher a new technique, but it's a bit tricker to teach a technician quantum mechanics!
In the end, research freedom is somewhat relative because ultimately you are accountable for your progress to your sources of funding. It just comes down to what sort of a work environment you want to work in.
I'm not sure I made a point here, but what the hell. Academia isn't necessarily as impoverished as it sounds, and industry isn't necessarily as soulless and confining as people make it out to be. It comes down to the particular work environment you find yourself in. Best of luck to you in your search!
While it is admittedly a small factor for most of us, I suspect that people with severe RSI will tell you that that little cord makes a big difference when the pain radiating up your arm makes it feel like it is plugged into a wall socket.
:-)
On the other hand, I have pounded the stuffing out of my 6-year-old corded Intellimouse Explorer and it is still performing absolutely flawlessly. I suspect that has something to do with the fact that it is built like a tank, and this probably is a big reason why I don't even notice the cord.
(linuxzealot)If only MS made their software like they make their peripherals.(/linuxzealot)
Yeah, god forbid they provide a link to the actual scientific paper! I guess you'll hold out for the half-assed review by some underpaid English major at a second-rate news agency who doesn't know a protein from a Prius because you're too lazy to think for yourself. People like you make scientists go crazy; please stop being part of the problem.
Please forgive the extreme cynicism here, but this sort of nonsense is a plague on the scientific community as a whole. On a person-to-person basis our society probably has less scientific reasoning ability than it did 50 years ago and this lazy dependance on media is a big part of the problem. This seemingly innocent laziness multiplied by a large population feeds the "if I hug this crystal it will fix my cancer" holistic bullshit market that scams people out of their money every single day.
That's nonsense. All portable media players now come with a sound limiting feature, and if you don't use it that is your problem. If you lock the controls then you can't accidentally crank the volume while rooting around for something in your pocket. The maximum volume setting has to be sufficiently high to accomodate alternate forms of output, such as varying headphone make/model or external speakers (ie. PC speakers), but you don't have to use it!
Once again, we have grown adults who don't have the integrity (or the intelligence, maybe?) to assume responsibility for their actions. A 10-year-old could tell you that if you turn up the music too loud and listen to it for too long you will lose your hearing.
Bottom line: Use the sound limiting feature that is supplied with the instrument and you won't lose your hearing.
No, Xonstantine's problem is even worse. He states that Muslims are not all terrorists but then justifies arresting Muslims based on nothing more than racial profiling because they are perceived to be terrorists.
/.
This is the problem when people with no short-term memory or cohesive points to make try to argue on
They addressed that a perpendicular approach would be unrealistic, and by determining the distance the bullet travels at an angle they roughly get the distance it would travel upon perpendicular entry, therefore probably getting "worst-case" scenario information without actually doing it.
In that link, the bullet has to pass through plastic (often several layers) to get a result, meaning that not only is the test different than the Mythbusters' test, but the test conditions vary from calibre to calibre! His results are interesting but they do not refute, contradict or support anything the Mythbusters tried to do because the test conditions are different.
That doesn't make any sense. If they told people about it then they wouldn't be waiting for further analysis, now would they? How did your not being informed about a 10th planet adversely affect your life?
If you tell the public there is a 10th planet and then have to retract that information, people then start ridiculing the scientists. If you don't tell the people until you get further evidence but the information gets forced out anyways, people start complaining that information was being withheld.
You might say "Hey, it's just a planet, why not let us know?", but it just serves to illustrate the underlying problem. For example, if this was information about a cure for AIDS that was withheld for more research then everyone would have lost their minds. However, once this drug was studied for 2 more years and shown to cause an 80% cancer rate, everyone would have been even angrier than before and tried to blame the scientists who wanted to do more research in the first place!
I know that scientists are at times guilty of rushing to press, but honestly! Stuff like this makes me wonder why people bother doing research...
I think you have overlooked those self-described "purists" who want to buy (one of) the last of the PPC systems.
Apologies. A linear atomic number order, not weight.
I think that the incorporation of the f block into a linear atomic weight order is great. However...
I would suggest that teaching students yet another way to memorize information without learning the how or why is not a good thing.
Secondly, the periodic table already separates the elements into s, p, d and f blocks according to (most) of their relevant properties, and since this chart is largely just a pretty way of re-drawing the information there is not much to be gained. I have colour-coded periodic tables available as well.
Thirdly, as another poster has pointed out, the electronegativity trend is not quite as obvious according to this layout; as well, other trends such as EA and the preferred ion charges are harder to assess. To return to the learning aspect, I would argue that the order of the current periodic table is the easier way for a student to assess these properties and understand, at least at some level, why they arise.
I'm not beating my CRC here and resisting change because I am scared, but I think this is change for the sake of change and marketing.
Cheers!