Easy - let them die of measles. If they chose not to be vaccinated they can choose to die of an easily preventable disease. Then throw a big party celebrating them being gone.
Having a bunch of bulk HD's isn't their problem, is that the data needs to be indexed and searchable. Storage isn't a problem, it is getting the data off the mountain and into a workable database that is.
Honestly they have no clue. They are really counting on Moore's law to continue up to the point they go online. The data pipeline does not exists today, nor does the storage this data set will require - to say nothing of the amount of space required to run the search requests of every single astronomer in the world who may be inetrested in the data set this thing will produce.
Honsetly it is a great instrument, it is just the folks behind it are really, really depending on not hitting a downswing in tech between now and first light.
You can solve the main problem with sophmore-junior level physics. Any good undergrad Classical Mechanics book will have the basics. One on my shelf that has it is: "Classical Dynamics" by Marion and Thorton - section 8.8
Advanced books generally have all the inner workings - Goldstein or Fetter and Walecka. Or even a specialized book like others have recomended.
Honestly Sci Am did enough to kill off thier once good Am Scientist page in the last few years. Once this article was great and had some really good ideas, but ever since the feature's author got his "genius" grant quality control went way way way down. Really the last year or three of the series all they had were a bunch of very difficult to pull off experiemnets (not a problem, it's nice to see some dedication), but also did not even produce the results they were supposed to. Sheesh, the guys didn't even bother looking at the data they produced. Most of thier detection of things uch as "gravitatinal pull of the moon" or "Geomagetic microulsations" were all equiptment atrifacts and not even real data. Yurk.
Actually if you know enough about the scopes a "mass built" scope will indeed be just as good as what one could realistically build on thier own, provided one is talking about the larger sized scopes. I completely agree with you on the small guys, and anything over 16" needs to be custome ground for obvious reasons, but provided you know what is up the higher end mass built 10" and 12" tubes are actually nearly research grade.
Actually Stream wages are ~9.50/hr for part/time or contarcted labor (outsourced outsourcing!) then about $10.50/hr for actually streamies, more if you work suck-hours. They also spend more time making sure that you get folks off the phones quickly then actually teaching anything. If you are there for more than 3 months you're "old time" and after 6 months you have a good deal of seniority.
Speaking from experience, I had to tech support Dell for quite a while (not that bad of a job... well actually it sucked big time) Regardless I know for a fact that Dell tries. they sit thier techs through long training sesions, audit thier logs, and so on. They also support any system they ever made for as long as that system still has it's parts in it. Trust me I had to help someone out with thier 486 about a year ago. The support only covers replacement parts for a warrenty length, and that's where a lot of the issues come from, people don't read it! Sheesh.
Now since Dell actually really really wants you the user to be happy with thier little box and recomend it to all your friends and praise Dell etc etc, why the heck do people still have bad expereiences with thier tech support?
Well aside from people misunderstanding the warenty issue, the big problem is that Dell doesn't do thier own tech support! It is mainly outsourced to call centers nationwide run by other companies, thus the support is compromised by secondary factors: Dell wants to make money-> they want you to be happy with the support you get. Outsource company wants to make money-> wants to get you off the phones ASAP (they get paided by a mondo complicated formula involving number of calls and minutes spent per call) Dell only pays the company for the first X minutes of the tech call so after that time is up the techie's boss starts screaming at them to "dump the caller"
This leaves the tech in a real bad spot, they have to make Dell happy (they look at the logs)by providing good lengthy tech support, and they have to make the outsource company happy by making the calls as short as possible. Yuck! Oh, and most of the outsorce companies maintain a "no supervisor" policy. IE supervisors play tech weenie and will only answer policy questions, you want tech support, talk with the tech!
The last thing with Dell is that they don't like to admit "issues" with thier gear. Even if something fails consistantly they won't ever issue a recall/know issue. I stand corrected, while I was teching for Dell there was _one_ and only one know issue. There was a fan issue with one of the dimension descktops when it first came out, the fan was way to noisy, so they made availible a fan, with a in person tech to install the blasted thing to all the owners of the system. That is the only "known issue" i can remember Dell admiting (although they and everyone else had some problems with the early 1+gig chips catching fire)
Well since I certanly don't want my little home router being a bane to everyone else out there (it's a cheapo linksys; fire-resistant gear dawned!) and all I want is it to keep slinging data around my home's abundant supply of computers and out the wall, what could someone with a simple home system do to help make usre that their system doesn't become part of routerwarz02.
Actually making Buckyballs is rather easy these days. For about 500$-1000$ you can build one yourself. All you need is an acr welding powersupply, a small roughing vacuum pump some helium (for purity) and a couple of gauges to monitor the process. Well that and a bunch of tubes and glass. Still just about any lab can whip up several grams of Buckyballs in a couple of days. If a lab is dedicated to it they would have no problems making much much more. The trick these days is getting the carbon into more exotic forms like onionskins (think buckyballs inside buckyballs) and carbon nanotubes. These aren't quite as easy to make.
Well actually this tech is years away from being usable for a "real engineer" it was only just demonstrated to work. Before everyone go screaming for "engineering data" please, remember, people still have to finish thier research on this stuff before there is any "practical" applications. Sheesh, as if having to fend off all the posts about "could BEC be used as a switching device" Just leave it to/.ies to rate any accomplishment on it's ability to be put into thier pet project...
Unfortunately you couldn't use them as superconductors, as just about any amount of energy added to the system knocks the condensate out of its lowest energy (ground) state and "poof" no more BEC, just some cold gas.
Well actually the guys working on AIDS get thier nobels through the Nobel Prize in medicine. Demonstrating BEC is definately worthy of being the physics prize, it was one of the great predictions of quantum theory, and it took around 70 years or so to actually demonstrate it. Big Props to Dr. Carl on this one.
More than likely these mini black holes are indeed created during heavy cosmic particle bombardment. The fact that cosmic ray detectors haven't spotted them doesn't mean a thing, these detectors (fly's eye et al) do a good job of collecting info on the junk that these heavy cosmic visitors blow into when the cruise into our neighborhood. If and when a mini-black would be created it would have no chance of making it to the detector, let alone being detected by it. detectors generally only pick up one thing, you can throw non-charged partcles at an elctron grid all day long and not see anything, doesn't mean they aren't there.
Well seeing as applied material science gets big bucks from companies and corporations this "esoteric" particle research (as well as most anything without a direct link to joe consumer)needs to get money from someplace. It might not have direct applications to everyday life, but it's stuff like this that makes life interesting.
yes, but those "mars fragments" have been altered by our own environment here on earth, not to mention all changes the rock chuncks underwent when the were superheated during entry into our atmosphere.
But i've seen a bunch of posts about how this espcially hits the big market browsers like IE. I don't know about anyone else but when I run IE it's with Java (and cookies!) turned off. A little one second jaunt into the security menu and no more pop-ups...
bleh.
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Easy - let them die of measles. If they chose not to be vaccinated they can choose to die of an easily preventable disease. Then throw a big party celebrating them being gone.
Having a bunch of bulk HD's isn't their problem, is that the data needs to be indexed and searchable. Storage isn't a problem, it is getting the data off the mountain and into a workable database that is.
Honestly they have no clue. They are really counting on Moore's law to continue up to the point they go online. The data pipeline does not exists today, nor does the storage this data set will require - to say nothing of the amount of space required to run the search requests of every single astronomer in the world who may be inetrested in the data set this thing will produce. Honsetly it is a great instrument, it is just the folks behind it are really, really depending on not hitting a downswing in tech between now and first light.
I'll just add my "for what it is worth" to this.
You can solve the main problem with sophmore-junior level physics. Any good undergrad Classical Mechanics book will have the basics. One on my shelf that has it is:
"Classical Dynamics" by Marion and Thorton - section 8.8
Advanced books generally have all the inner workings - Goldstein or Fetter and Walecka. Or even a specialized book like others have recomended.
Honestly Sci Am did enough to kill off thier once good Am Scientist page in the last few years. Once this article was great and had some really good ideas, but ever since the feature's author got his "genius" grant quality control went way way way down. Really the last year or three of the series all they had were a bunch of very difficult to pull off experiemnets (not a problem, it's nice to see some dedication), but also did not even produce the results they were supposed to. Sheesh, the guys didn't even bother looking at the data they produced. Most of thier detection of things uch as "gravitatinal pull of the moon" or "Geomagetic microulsations" were all equiptment atrifacts and not even real data. Yurk.
Actually if you know enough about the scopes a "mass built" scope will indeed be just as good as what one could realistically build on thier own, provided one is talking about the larger sized scopes. I completely agree with you on the small guys, and anything over 16" needs to be custome ground for obvious reasons, but provided you know what is up the higher end mass built 10" and 12" tubes are actually nearly research grade.
Actually Stream wages are ~9.50/hr for part/time or contarcted labor (outsourced outsourcing!) then about $10.50/hr for actually streamies, more if you work suck-hours. They also spend more time making sure that you get folks off the phones quickly then actually teaching anything. If you are there for more than 3 months you're "old time" and after 6 months you have a good deal of seniority.
Speaking from experience, I had to tech support Dell for quite a while (not that bad of a job... well actually it sucked big time) Regardless I know for a fact that Dell tries. they sit thier techs through long training sesions, audit thier logs, and so on. They also support any system they ever made for as long as that system still has it's parts in it. Trust me I had to help someone out with thier 486 about a year ago. The support only covers replacement parts for a warrenty length, and that's where a lot of the issues come from, people don't read it! Sheesh.
Now since Dell actually really really wants you the user to be happy with thier little box and recomend it to all your friends and praise Dell etc etc, why the heck do people still have bad expereiences with thier tech support?
Well aside from people misunderstanding the warenty issue, the big problem is that Dell doesn't do thier own tech support! It is mainly outsourced to call centers nationwide run by other companies, thus the support is compromised by secondary factors: Dell wants to make money-> they want you to be happy with the support you get. Outsource company wants to make money-> wants to get you off the phones ASAP (they get paided by a mondo complicated formula involving number of calls and minutes spent per call) Dell only pays the company for the first X minutes of the tech call so after that time is up the techie's boss starts screaming at them to "dump the caller"
This leaves the tech in a real bad spot, they have to make Dell happy (they look at the logs)by providing good lengthy tech support, and they have to make the outsource company happy by making the calls as short as possible. Yuck! Oh, and most of the outsorce companies maintain a "no supervisor" policy. IE supervisors play tech weenie and will only answer policy questions, you want tech support, talk with the tech!
The last thing with Dell is that they don't like to admit "issues" with thier gear. Even if something fails consistantly they won't ever issue a recall/know issue. I stand corrected, while I was teching for Dell there was _one_ and only one know issue. There was a fan issue with one of the dimension descktops when it first came out, the fan was way to noisy, so they made availible a fan, with a in person tech to install the blasted thing to all the owners of the system. That is the only "known issue" i can remember Dell admiting (although they and everyone else had some problems with the early 1+gig chips catching fire)
blehg
Well since I certanly don't want my little home router being a bane to everyone else out there (it's a cheapo linksys; fire-resistant gear dawned!) and all I want is it to keep slinging data around my home's abundant supply of computers and out the wall, what could someone with a simple home system do to help make usre that their system doesn't become part of routerwarz02.
foosh.
You can get a perfectly circular orbit as well, but you have to be pretty slick with your total energy calculations.
Actually making Buckyballs is rather easy these days. For about 500$-1000$ you can build one yourself. All you need is an acr welding powersupply, a small roughing vacuum pump some helium (for purity) and a couple of gauges to monitor the process. Well that and a bunch of tubes and glass. Still just about any lab can whip up several grams of Buckyballs in a couple of days. If a lab is dedicated to it they would have no problems making much much more. The trick these days is getting the carbon into more exotic forms like onionskins (think buckyballs inside buckyballs) and carbon nanotubes. These aren't quite as easy to make.
Absolutely correct, being wrong is actually one of the greatest things that can happen in science becasue it makes you take a step back and ask "why?"
Well actually this tech is years away from being usable for a "real engineer" it was only just demonstrated to work. Before everyone go screaming for "engineering data" please, remember, people still have to finish thier research on this stuff before there is any "practical" applications. Sheesh, as if having to fend off all the posts about "could BEC be used as a switching device" Just leave it to /.ies to rate any accomplishment on it's ability to be put into thier pet project...
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Unfortunately you couldn't use them as superconductors, as just about any amount of energy added to the system knocks the condensate out of its lowest energy (ground) state and "poof" no more BEC, just some cold gas.
Well actually the guys working on AIDS get thier nobels through the Nobel Prize in medicine. Demonstrating BEC is definately worthy of being the physics prize, it was one of the great predictions of quantum theory, and it took around 70 years or so to actually demonstrate it. Big Props to Dr. Carl on this one.
More than likely these mini black holes are indeed created during heavy cosmic particle bombardment. The fact that cosmic ray detectors haven't spotted them doesn't mean a thing, these detectors (fly's eye et al) do a good job of collecting info on the junk that these heavy cosmic visitors blow into when the cruise into our neighborhood. If and when a mini-black would be created it would have no chance of making it to the detector, let alone being detected by it. detectors generally only pick up one thing, you can throw non-charged partcles at an elctron grid all day long and not see anything, doesn't mean they aren't there.
Well seeing as applied material science gets big bucks from companies and corporations this "esoteric" particle research (as well as most anything without a direct link to joe consumer)needs to get money from someplace. It might not have direct applications to everyday life, but it's stuff like this that makes life interesting.
yes, but those "mars fragments" have been altered by our own environment here on earth, not to mention all changes the rock chuncks underwent when the were superheated during entry into our atmosphere.
But i've seen a bunch of posts about how this espcially hits the big market browsers like IE. I don't know about anyone else but when I run IE it's with Java (and cookies!) turned off. A little one second jaunt into the security menu and no more pop-ups... bleh.