I RTFA and still don't quite understand. I've worked in drug discovery for over 25 years and know that getting peptides into the brain by inhalation isn't a given. Except maybe for insulin, it isn't even known. So I'm skeptical.
I know we're supposed to hate MS and love the competition (and I do), but my wife claims that the Wii is also messing up the WiFi signal to her laptop.
The reason those friends of yours just out of college are getting jobs is that they're firing the more expensive older guys to make room for you and your cheaper friends.
You're right. Something like this has been reported before. Based on some of the later shenanigans of one of the authors of that work (not the UCSD prof), most people familiar with the work now consider it not reliable. This stuff sounds a little suspicious too.
No. It's because there are few jobs and the pay isn't so good. The employment situation for PhD chemists in the US is miserable and has been steadily getting worse for the last decade. It's because people in the US don't want to work hard enough to get a PhD and work at half the pay for an MBA who worked half as hard to get where he is, whom they suspect is only half as smart. Americans may be lazy but they ain't stupid. The people from outside the US that populate our labs didn't know that when they came. They'll soon be going home, as the wages back home rise.
I wake up and find an articles on finding drugs in dirt and capturing CO2 from the air. A whole lot of drugs were originally isolated from organisms that grow in dirt, most of the antibiotics probably. This is not news. Also, any chemist should know how to capture CO2 from the air. But can you do it efficiently enough to reverse the greenhouse effect. On thermodynamic grounds alone, I'd say it's not possible except by planting a lot of trees to store all the CO2. My point is that the science watch on/. goes a little weak over night.
This really is the correct assessment of the problem. Smart nerdy kids will always be teased by good looking smooth talking athletic morons. We can't change that with a science fair. What people see is that a lot of older chemists are looking for jobs cause theirs went off to China.
I couldn't have said it better. A few of years ago I worked for a biotech that got bought by a large Pharma. I was responsible for inventing, developing and delivering new technology that the large pharma was able to peddle for over $70 million. I was responsible for the packaging and delivery of that too. I worked very hard and was always thinking of how to do right by the company. Three years later and new middle management and I found myself on the wrong end of a bad performance review. I'm convinced that I would have been fired after a year on "probation" except that the company mercifully decided to lay off the whole division. A year later they closed the site.
I believe that it is reasonable and even noble to be loyal to people and to yourself but it is stupid to be loyal to a company. A company has no soul and no ethics except those of the people that inhabit it. The people can change pretty quickly and with it goes the soul.
I tend to agree. I've been trying to get my head around the physics of this thing and I don't seem to be able to. When I hold a string up in the back yard, it just falls to the ground. Maybe if I could put it up far enough, centrifugal force would make it stand up. But I figure it would have to go out to a point where the top (where I'd attach a big weight) would be stable in a geosynchronous orbit. That's about 25,000 miles I think. So maybe I'd need to go out a little farther to take care of the weight of the string.
Oh!! Now I get it. That's where those ultralight, ultrastrong carbon nanotubes come in.
If one only looks at sales, then I can see why the installed base numbers could be off.
I buy a new mac every 7 years. I bought my first, a 128K Mac in 1984. Although I added an extra floppy and a hard drive and upped the memory to 512K, it was mostly useless after seven years. But, it still worked and we used it for some games, word processing and some graphics.
Then in 1991 we got a Mac IIsi. It worked well and carried us into the Internet age.
It was still working fine, but in 1998 we splurged and bought a new 233 MHz G3. It's still working fine. I did upgrade the disk drive to 40G and added a USB card a couple of years ago. I run System 9.2 and it still handles 95+% of the stuff that one might want to do on a computer. I've got gobs of software that I could never afford to replace with new stuff.
By the way, I'm not a neophyte who never uses his computers. They get turned on in the morning and off around midnight every day of the week. We were one of the first families in the RTP area to get on cable. Our computers are used a lot.
Now that it's 2005, we're due for a new computer. What do you think I'll buy? I don't think people get this kind of milage out of WinTel PeeCeez.
This is way cool. You can get better (higher resolution) maps of some regions with TerraServer (http://terraserver-usa.com) but the navigation is nowhere near as much fun as with Google maps.
About 15 years ago, Apple stock was trading around $45 dollars and then a few things happened and it dropped to $35. I bought 100 shares, cause I thought it might go up again. I'll soon have 400 shares. There were a lot of better places to put my money, but I put it where my heart was. After 15 years, it's been an OK stock to have. It's been fun to ride and, overall, right now I'm getting about a 11% annual return.
I run a small company that sells technology for parallel synthesis, an approach to doing early stage drug discovery research. When I search "parallel synthesis" on Google, my web site shows up on the gazillionth page. On MS search, it's on page 2. I gotta like that.
What this study did was what every good study does. It leaves the researchers at an impasse that can only be crossed with more funding.
This is a good example of an excellent study. The results are very important, millions could die horrible deaths and it effects just about every one on the planet. What's a few more million for an extended study when so much is at stake.
OK, so this is off topic. But I just tried the new MSN music site and some of the buttons (like search) don't work in FireFox. What a piece of crap. I'm going back to IE. (just kidding, about going back that is. The search button really is DOA).
We just switched over to VOIP with Time Warner, who also sends us cable TV and Road Runner. They get a big check from us every month. It seems to work about the same except that all those features on the phone (Caller ID etc.) now work. Oddly enough, my old local company sent me a letter yesterday offering about the same deal. Why didn't they send me the offer while I was still a customer? It reminded me of something that happened a few years ago at work. We used to subscribe to a Derwent patent publication that listed new patents in the pharmaceutical industry. It costs about $30K a year. I called and asked if they could give us a little break on the price. "No Way," they said. So we cancelled the subscription. A few weeks later, they call up and said that there was a mistake and they could give it to us for only $800/yr. I said "No Way." Pricing in this information busness is funny stuff.
I don't know the numbers, but it all might make sense. Say that they might make a total profit of 80 million on their CD stuff after about 20 more years. My guess is that just about all computers ship with burners stuff already. So they cash out today and make enough money to retire, but they don't. They would get bored. So, they decide to try something new and exciting. They might even get to hang out with rock stars.
Oh, what about the guy who just started in the code room and won't get rich? He obviously didn't get to take part in the decision.
Everyone doesn't want to be Bill Gates, though most might like to try it for a little while.
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Finally, someone mentions that goofy typo that just sits there staring all the illiterates in the eye. Fix it already.
I RTFA and still don't quite understand. I've worked in drug discovery for over 25 years and know that getting peptides into the brain by inhalation isn't a given. Except maybe for insulin, it isn't even known. So I'm skeptical.
I know we're supposed to hate MS and love the competition (and I do), but my wife claims that the Wii is also messing up the WiFi signal to her laptop.
The reason those friends of yours just out of college are getting jobs is that they're firing the more expensive older guys to make room for you and your cheaper friends.
You're right. Something like this has been reported before. Based on some of the later shenanigans of one of the authors of that work (not the UCSD prof), most people familiar with the work now consider it not reliable. This stuff sounds a little suspicious too.
Seems like you would want your height to weight ratio to be on the high side. Is this to punish the thin people?
No. It's because there are few jobs and the pay isn't so good. The employment situation for PhD chemists in the US is miserable and has been steadily getting worse for the last decade. It's because people in the US don't want to work hard enough to get a PhD and work at half the pay for an MBA who worked half as hard to get where he is, whom they suspect is only half as smart. Americans may be lazy but they ain't stupid. The people from outside the US that populate our labs didn't know that when they came. They'll soon be going home, as the wages back home rise.
I wake up and find an articles on finding drugs in dirt and capturing CO2 from the air. A whole lot of drugs were originally isolated from organisms that grow in dirt, most of the antibiotics probably. This is not news. Also, any chemist should know how to capture CO2 from the air. But can you do it efficiently enough to reverse the greenhouse effect. On thermodynamic grounds alone, I'd say it's not possible except by planting a lot of trees to store all the CO2. My point is that the science watch on /. goes a little weak over night.
There's still a lot more than just powered USB that needs to be consolidated to get rid of the rat nest of wires that live around our computers. Have a look: http://pfh.blogspot.com/2006/09/wonders-of-wireles s-i-was-looking-under.html
This really is the correct assessment of the problem. Smart nerdy kids will always be teased by good looking smooth talking athletic morons. We can't change that with a science fair. What people see is that a lot of older chemists are looking for jobs cause theirs went off to China.
Been there.
I kind of do this stuff for a living so I don't need to RTFA to know that 3 grams of morphine/kg of body weight is way past a lethal dose.
I downloaded and installed FireFox 2.0 for my intel mac mini. It's a lot zippier than 1.5.x. I like it.
And 95% of chain smokers prefer cigarettes to chains.
I couldn't have said it better. A few of years ago I worked for a biotech that got bought by a large Pharma. I was responsible for inventing, developing and delivering new technology that the large pharma was able to peddle for over $70 million. I was responsible for the packaging and delivery of that too. I worked very hard and was always thinking of how to do right by the company. Three years later and new middle management and I found myself on the wrong end of a bad performance review. I'm convinced that I would have been fired after a year on "probation" except that the company mercifully decided to lay off the whole division. A year later they closed the site.
I believe that it is reasonable and even noble to be loyal to people and to yourself but it is stupid to be loyal to a company. A company has no soul and no ethics except those of the people that inhabit it. The people can change pretty quickly and with it goes the soul.
I just went and read TFA. I was surprised that I had, indeed, guessed it right. It'll never work.
I tend to agree. I've been trying to get my head around the physics of this thing and I don't seem to be able to. When I hold a string up in the back yard, it just falls to the ground. Maybe if I could put it up far enough, centrifugal force would make it stand up. But I figure it would have to go out to a point where the top (where I'd attach a big weight) would be stable in a geosynchronous orbit. That's about 25,000 miles I think. So maybe I'd need to go out a little farther to take care of the weight of the string.
Oh!! Now I get it. That's where those ultralight, ultrastrong carbon nanotubes come in.
If one only looks at sales, then I can see why the installed base numbers could be off.
I buy a new mac every 7 years. I bought my first, a 128K Mac in 1984. Although I added an extra floppy and a hard drive and upped the memory to 512K, it was mostly useless after seven years. But, it still worked and we used it for some games, word processing and some graphics.
Then in 1991 we got a Mac IIsi. It worked well and carried us into the Internet age.
It was still working fine, but in 1998 we splurged and bought a new 233 MHz G3. It's still working fine. I did upgrade the disk drive to 40G and added a USB card a couple of years ago. I run System 9.2 and it still handles 95+% of the stuff that one might want to do on a computer. I've got gobs of software that I could never afford to replace with new stuff.
By the way, I'm not a neophyte who never uses his computers. They get turned on in the morning and off around midnight every day of the week. We were one of the first families in the RTP area to get on cable. Our computers are used a lot.
Now that it's 2005, we're due for a new computer. What do you think I'll buy? I don't think people get this kind of milage out of WinTel PeeCeez.
This is way cool. You can get better (higher resolution) maps of some regions with TerraServer (http://terraserver-usa.com) but the navigation is nowhere near as much fun as with Google maps.
About 15 years ago, Apple stock was trading around $45 dollars and then a few things happened and it dropped to $35. I bought 100 shares, cause I thought it might go up again. I'll soon have 400 shares. There were a lot of better places to put my money, but I put it where my heart was. After 15 years, it's been an OK stock to have. It's been fun to ride and, overall, right now I'm getting about a 11% annual return.
I run a small company that sells technology for parallel synthesis, an approach to doing early stage drug discovery research. When I search "parallel synthesis" on Google, my web site shows up on the gazillionth page. On MS search, it's on page 2. I gotta like that.
Not directly dioxins, but it does make covalent chlorine, which often ends stabilizing as dioxins
Either this post is funny or you should ignore it.
What this study did was what every good study does. It leaves the researchers at an impasse that can only be crossed with more funding.
This is a good example of an excellent study. The results are very important, millions could die horrible deaths and it effects just about every one on the planet. What's a few more million for an extended study when so much is at stake.
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OK, so this is off topic. But I just tried the new MSN music site and some of the buttons (like search) don't work in FireFox. What a piece of crap. I'm going back to IE. (just kidding, about going back that is. The search button really is DOA).
We just switched over to VOIP with Time Warner, who also sends us cable TV and Road Runner. They get a big check from us every month. It seems to work about the same except that all those features on the phone (Caller ID etc.) now work. Oddly enough, my old local company sent me a letter yesterday offering about the same deal. Why didn't they send me the offer while I was still a customer?
It reminded me of something that happened a few years ago at work.
We used to subscribe to a Derwent patent publication that listed new patents in the pharmaceutical industry. It costs about $30K a year. I called and asked if they could give us a little break on the price. "No Way," they said. So we cancelled the subscription. A few weeks later, they call up and said that there was a mistake and they could give it to us for only $800/yr. I said "No Way." Pricing in this information busness is funny stuff.
I don't know the numbers, but it all might make sense. Say that they might make a total profit of 80 million on their CD stuff after about 20 more years. My guess is that just about all computers ship with burners stuff already. So they cash out today and make enough money to retire, but they don't. They would get bored. So, they decide to try something new and exciting. They might even get to hang out with rock stars. Oh, what about the guy who just started in the code room and won't get rich? He obviously didn't get to take part in the decision. Everyone doesn't want to be Bill Gates, though most might like to try it for a little while.