Everybody is gloating cause Apple, the patent troll, got its comeuppance. But, everybody knows, at the same time, that Samsung did, in fact, copy the iPad
I read the Foundation Trilogy about 40 years ago and have been terrified ever since that this type of technology would be used in marketing. Thank goodness we're only using it in war.
I used to work for lly, a big pharmaceutical company. Somebody there was a big fan of Jack Welch and they instituted that curve fitting thing. The big problem was that I worked at a remote site under a director at the main site in Indianapolis. So when they needed to get bodies to put in the bottom bucket, they always got them from the remote site. Eventually, they nuked the entire site. That's why I replied to "Like nuclear war" post.
People either know all about Star Trek or they don't. If they don't, it's because they don't want to. You'll only annoy them by trying to "introduce" them.
Sometimes I'm glad that I'm old. Sheesh, "Introduce" somebody to Star Trek. What a weird concept.
I read TFA. It was basically a political screed with little useful information. However, I tend to agree with the conclusion that it ain't so bad here in America. I tend to believe that maybe we're too science literate in America. I've got a ton of friends with high quality PhD's in chemistry who find themselves out of work or under-employed. Most of the STEM worries are veiled attempts to allow companies to hire scientists at pauper wages or to get tax advantages for off-shoring scientific research.
If the pharmaceutical industry had not moved so much of it's research off shore, the industry would be doing much better, vast hordes of US and European chemists would not be out of work and if someone made this kind of stuff, we could just arrest them. No need to involve Interpol or whoever that international police force is.
Put a drop of water on the glass surface of an iPad and put a drop of water on an ordinary piece of glass. The water on the iPad will ball up while the water on ordinary glass will adhere. Try it.
I wonder what this stuff is. It's pretty easy to silylate vast quantities of glassware in a vacuum oven with hexamethyldisilazane. Water beads up on the glass after treatment. It's covalent so it doesn't wash off unless you add something to dissolve the glass. Glass surfaces act sort of like an iPad. Maybe that's what they do to it to give it that greasy feel.
Of course, the article provided a wealth of chemical information as one would expect.
I noticed the error in the original post and looked and saw that coldwetdog had mentioned it around 5 PM EST. I'm looking at 9:45 pm EST and see that it hasn't been fixed yet.
DNA != protein. And vice versa.
It's pretty obvious from the posts on this thread why Apple doesn't want to help these people out. Lot of hate here. If I had to deal with people, I think I'd have the same "take it or leave it" attitude.
So the real question is, if I go to Wilmington, can I hook up to their wireless network with my WiFi enabled iPad, PC, Phone, whatever? The article doesn't say. I kind of think not, but the article doesn't say. And that's the real difference. Most of us think it's OK to call it WiFi if we can connect with our WiFi enabled devices. If we can't, it's not WiFi and they shouldn't be using the term.
So I still don't know the answer.
When I hit the link, it didn't work. WTF!! My browser, Firefox, sent me to the Apple page to get some plug-in. You know, a lot of crap in FireFox has quit working. I used to always auto-login to/. But not anymore. There's all kinds of things that break every time they do one of those weekly version updates. PDF in the browser quit working a long time ago. I keep using Firefox because I'm used to it and I don't want Google or Apple to completely own my ass. I avoid MS at all costs. But don't tell me I need to use Linux. I tried that. Those same people who told me to use Linux are probably the same people who don't want me to listen to this vocal fry stuff because it's not in Ogg Vorbis or maybe they'll tell me that I should just type some 40 word command line statement and just pipe that link into some program that I should be able to write in an afternoon using FORTH if I was worth anything. I played the sound with Safari.
There's a HS gal from NCSSM that works in our university lab on occasion and I think maybe she does that vocal fry thing. I'll have to listen for it.
So the cannon ball flies through the neighborhood at 4:15 PM when all the kids are coming home from school and tears through a house where the parents and kids are sleeping.
So why are they sleeping in the middle of the afternoon?
There's something wacky here. A thriving e-commerce company with one IT guy, newly hired. Let's think of some more similar situations.
A thriving construction company with one hammer.
A thriving aerospace company with a big backyard.
A thriving hospital with a nurse and a veterinarian on staff.
If you get a PhD, early in your career the most important thing is who you worked for in graduate school. If the people who will be hiring you know who your boss is and know about his work (and like it), you'll do much better. If you work for a nobody or you're trying to get a job a bit outside of the field that your thesis adviser works in, my guess is that the closer your degree sounds like the job, the better. You might try a post-doc to fix that while the job market sucks.
And, if they don't know anything, then the better the school, the better your chances. Unless the people hiring you are the kind of people who don't trust Ivy League graduates for whatever reason. There seem to be more of those people around these days.
AC is right on with this one. Only the problem is much worse than that. The US does not value the scientists that they have. The current job market for scientists is absolutely miserable. In the field where I used to work, pharmaceutical drug discovery, the industry is sending research jobs to China and laying off huge numbers of scientists in the US and Europe. Over 90% of the chemists that I know, that are over age 50, have been let go at least once in the last 10 years. Few have found new jobs. Those that have found jobs have taken large salary cuts. It's a real mess. We don't need more scientists. It would be nice if we knew more science and it would be even nicer if we had jobs for the scientist that we have now.
The biggest problem with modeling is with the modelers. They don't ever seem to look at what they're doing with a critical eye. Any time that you have a huge parameter set and a limited data set (economics, weather, science) you can fit anything to a model. It basically reduces to fitting a spline to two data points.
I've watched it happen for years in drug discovery research in the pharmaceutical industry. The problem is that the modelers know how to run their programs and the more they know about how to run their programs, the less they have time to understand about the stuff they're trying to model. But the managers love it cause they don't have time to understand either and they like the quantitative aspect of the whole exercise. They can use the models to show how they're gonna be more productive. In the meantime, the whole world goes to crap.
While we're at it, there's no shortage of scientists either. There is a shortage of scientists who also want to work for minimum wage. But that's changing. I know a few scientist who are doing science at close to minimum wage because they like it and there are no other options except unemployment.
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Everybody is gloating cause Apple, the patent troll, got its comeuppance. But, everybody knows, at the same time, that Samsung did, in fact, copy the iPad
I read the Foundation Trilogy about 40 years ago and have been terrified ever since that this type of technology would be used in marketing. Thank goodness we're only using it in war.
I used to work for lly, a big pharmaceutical company. Somebody there was a big fan of Jack Welch and they instituted that curve fitting thing. The big problem was that I worked at a remote site under a director at the main site in Indianapolis. So when they needed to get bodies to put in the bottom bucket, they always got them from the remote site. Eventually, they nuked the entire site. That's why I replied to "Like nuclear war" post.
People either know all about Star Trek or they don't. If they don't, it's because they don't want to. You'll only annoy them by trying to "introduce" them.
Sometimes I'm glad that I'm old. Sheesh, "Introduce" somebody to Star Trek. What a weird concept.
I read TFA. It was basically a political screed with little useful information. However, I tend to agree with the conclusion that it ain't so bad here in America. I tend to believe that maybe we're too science literate in America. I've got a ton of friends with high quality PhD's in chemistry who find themselves out of work or under-employed. Most of the STEM worries are veiled attempts to allow companies to hire scientists at pauper wages or to get tax advantages for off-shoring scientific research.
If the pharmaceutical industry had not moved so much of it's research off shore, the industry would be doing much better, vast hordes of US and European chemists would not be out of work and if someone made this kind of stuff, we could just arrest them. No need to involve Interpol or whoever that international police force is.
Put a drop of water on the glass surface of an iPad and put a drop of water on an ordinary piece of glass. The water on the iPad will ball up while the water on ordinary glass will adhere. Try it.
I wonder what this stuff is. It's pretty easy to silylate vast quantities of glassware in a vacuum oven with hexamethyldisilazane. Water beads up on the glass after treatment. It's covalent so it doesn't wash off unless you add something to dissolve the glass. Glass surfaces act sort of like an iPad. Maybe that's what they do to it to give it that greasy feel.
Of course, the article provided a wealth of chemical information as one would expect.
Thanks, that clears everything up.
I noticed the error in the original post and looked and saw that coldwetdog had mentioned it around 5 PM EST. I'm looking at 9:45 pm EST and see that it hasn't been fixed yet. DNA != protein. And vice versa.
It's pretty obvious from the posts on this thread why Apple doesn't want to help these people out. Lot of hate here. If I had to deal with people, I think I'd have the same "take it or leave it" attitude.
So the real question is, if I go to Wilmington, can I hook up to their wireless network with my WiFi enabled iPad, PC, Phone, whatever? The article doesn't say. I kind of think not, but the article doesn't say. And that's the real difference. Most of us think it's OK to call it WiFi if we can connect with our WiFi enabled devices. If we can't, it's not WiFi and they shouldn't be using the term. So I still don't know the answer.
As I watch new Google layouts take up more and more real estate on my screen with useless white space, I have to wonder what they know about style.
Are we still going to boycott them anyway, even though they changed their minds?
Do they need chemists? I'd love to go back to work for a reasonable wage. I'd even move to California. Oh yea, I can code a bit.
When I hit the link, it didn't work. WTF!! My browser, Firefox, sent me to the Apple page to get some plug-in. You know, a lot of crap in FireFox has quit working. I used to always auto-login to /. But not anymore. There's all kinds of things that break every time they do one of those weekly version updates. PDF in the browser quit working a long time ago. I keep using Firefox because I'm used to it and I don't want Google or Apple to completely own my ass. I avoid MS at all costs. But don't tell me I need to use Linux. I tried that. Those same people who told me to use Linux are probably the same people who don't want me to listen to this vocal fry stuff because it's not in Ogg Vorbis or maybe they'll tell me that I should just type some 40 word command line statement and just pipe that link into some program that I should be able to write in an afternoon using FORTH if I was worth anything. I played the sound with Safari.
There's a HS gal from NCSSM that works in our university lab on occasion and I think maybe she does that vocal fry thing. I'll have to listen for it.
So the cannon ball flies through the neighborhood at 4:15 PM when all the kids are coming home from school and tears through a house where the parents and kids are sleeping.
So why are they sleeping in the middle of the afternoon?
Just curious.
There's something wacky here. A thriving e-commerce company with one IT guy, newly hired. Let's think of some more similar situations.
A thriving construction company with one hammer.
A thriving aerospace company with a big backyard.
A thriving hospital with a nurse and a veterinarian on staff.
Maybe I should read the article. Nah!
Maybe it's because Assad et al think that new talking app is a blatant ripoff and bad misspelling of "Syria".
Teleporting makes you invisible. Telecommuting? I don't know.
If you get a PhD, early in your career the most important thing is who you worked for in graduate school. If the people who will be hiring you know who your boss is and know about his work (and like it), you'll do much better. If you work for a nobody or you're trying to get a job a bit outside of the field that your thesis adviser works in, my guess is that the closer your degree sounds like the job, the better. You might try a post-doc to fix that while the job market sucks.
And, if they don't know anything, then the better the school, the better your chances. Unless the people hiring you are the kind of people who don't trust Ivy League graduates for whatever reason. There seem to be more of those people around these days.
AC is right on with this one. Only the problem is much worse than that. The US does not value the scientists that they have. The current job market for scientists is absolutely miserable. In the field where I used to work, pharmaceutical drug discovery, the industry is sending research jobs to China and laying off huge numbers of scientists in the US and Europe. Over 90% of the chemists that I know, that are over age 50, have been let go at least once in the last 10 years. Few have found new jobs. Those that have found jobs have taken large salary cuts. It's a real mess. We don't need more scientists. It would be nice if we knew more science and it would be even nicer if we had jobs for the scientist that we have now.
The biggest problem with modeling is with the modelers. They don't ever seem to look at what they're doing with a critical eye. Any time that you have a huge parameter set and a limited data set (economics, weather, science) you can fit anything to a model. It basically reduces to fitting a spline to two data points.
I've watched it happen for years in drug discovery research in the pharmaceutical industry. The problem is that the modelers know how to run their programs and the more they know about how to run their programs, the less they have time to understand about the stuff they're trying to model. But the managers love it cause they don't have time to understand either and they like the quantitative aspect of the whole exercise. They can use the models to show how they're gonna be more productive. In the meantime, the whole world goes to crap.
Steve Jobs was one of my heroes. May he rest in peace.
While we're at it, there's no shortage of scientists either. There is a shortage of scientists who also want to work for minimum wage. But that's changing. I know a few scientist who are doing science at close to minimum wage because they like it and there are no other options except unemployment.
Science, the new art history.