I've taught a class on essentially this topic in a senior-level class for a couple of years at a top-10 US University, so I've performed this same search that you are (My day job is Research Faculty). I could find very little. This thread has some nice suggestions that I am definitely going to check out, though.
Looking back now, I can see that in my own learning of the art of science and of R&D, it was all bits and pieces learned from people. Whether in undergrad, grad school, or as a post-doc – it was always the same case. I made a habit of listening to those whom I found competent. Most of the real, kernel-level things that I learned were discrete and small lessons. Sometimes a single observation or suggestion.
I wish I could articulate something useful, but really it was the experience of working with others in science or R&D/engineering that I learned the most valuable lessons. Becoming competent in this skill-set is, as far as I can tell, best achieved by being an understudy – an apprentice. That is actually what graduate school is: an apprenticeship.
I am not saying these things cannot be learned in other ways. If grad school is not an option, then read some of the fine-sounding books listed in-thread. Associate yourself, if you can, with anyone who possesses these skills.
Used responsibly, LSD is a phenomenal tool for introspection and "thinking about things from a higher plane". It's hard to describe to anyone who has not tried.
Remove your consciousness from your life experiences, everyday minutia, your body's senses, and politics/history pegged to a timeline, and so on. Freed from these tethers, incredibly insightful things can be realized for the first time in the mind. After you come down, and you remember the experience, you will never view the world the same-old way again, but will process subsequent life experiences from an additional, fresh, and wholistic view-point. It is a marvelous eye-opener.
Once you've "climbed the mountain" of a strong and positive LSD trip a few times, you will no longer need to take the drug to "get to that place", and to see things in this additional, new light. It is a breathtaking experience and changes your perspective forever. Well, for decades, at the least.
* Pardon the slang and 'short-for' phrasing. I tried to make the point as concise as possible to anyone who hasn't tried it – an impossible task. *
I just don't get something about permanent magnets.
A magnet exerts force, no?
Exerting force requires energy, no?
Where is the energy in a magnet? How is it obtained, stored, replenished?
Magnets have a potential energy relative to a magnetic sample at any distance away, but the attraction falls off steeply, so you have to get close for the attraction to matter.
Once you get close, the magnet's pull will be felt, and the object will be attracted to the magnet. Let it move closer (It's on a string), and potential energy between the pair is reduced. To reverse it, just pull the string, which takes force-over-distance, and so you have invested energy to pull the little sample away. Energy is conserved.
Hooray for the IBM PCjr! My father saved-up, and was either going to buy that or a Franklin (Apple IIe clone). PCjr it was.
I learned to program on it by just going through the BASIC or DOS manual, finding new commands, and coming up with some way to use them.
I made a program to play a polyphonic version of Moonlight Sonata, figured out how to use the three (four) display-type buffers to produce a Photoshop-like program that could save, open, and edit files in my own file format. Oh, and a few games and cartoon animations. God I miss that thing.
My mother still has it. It's got a side-car and topper added-on to allow for what I think was 256 KB of memory, a 40 MB hard drive, and a serial interface that I was playing with to create a home-brew iTunes-like jukebox. Then I went off to college, but it's still there back at home. I'll set it up the next time I go.
So, let's deliberately put water bears on Saturn to limit the risk to Titan and Enceladus? How can they be so sure that there isn't a layer of Saturn with composition, pressure, and temperature favorable to life?
Aside from it being a gas giant, Saturn's huge gravity well will pull Cassini in hard and fast, vaporizing every little bit of it back into elements and simple compounds (like oxides of the metals). No bugs can survive this plunge.
If we know that maybe we could crowd-fund the purchase of enough to get any law we want passed.
You might really, really have something there. I mean it.
The citizens of the US, united for a cause, could up-end the intrinsic corporate dominance that the Citizens United decision has resulted in since the ruling. Fuck them on their on petards, so to speak.
** Anyone is free to use this idea to found a Kickstarter-like company aimed t achieving this goal. I claim no ownership, nor credit. GO DO IT!
... If you could do these three things I would have purchased another macbook pro when my last laptop died. But no, you had to make that piece of shit...
They still sell new MBPs from the prior generation, before they ditched all of the useful ports. I saw one right next to the new, dumb MBP in the Apple Store just last week. Barring that, go for a refurbished MBP 11,5.
As an engineer, I can tell you that refurbished is almost always better than new––the parts have been 'burned in' already, so no factory-new parts will be dying on you.
Admittedly, I didn't read too much into this. Mostly just expressing the first thing I thought of when I read the summary, which isn't usually very insightful stuff anyways.
LOL. Yeah, I should have just skipped your Comment as DNRTFA, but my Comment was most appropriate as a Reply to another – one like yours.
Storing digital on film negatives makes sense. At a bare minimum, it is equivalent ounce-for-ounce to a CD-ROM. That's if each pixel is binary. This is film we're talking about, with a huge dynamic range, so storing the digital with grayscale pixels to represent, say, hexadecimal values, increases the storage capacity by leaps and bounds without changing the weight of the medium.
And, with a human-readable portion, instructions for interpretation of the pixels (digital data) are written on the media itself.
You can buy a Cube-Sat online. 10 x 10 x 10 cm^3, and it fits into a standard deployment thingie – which the rocket going up, with a bit of space/weight to spare, is happy to "fill-up the bus" before launch. You can buy double and triple-sized Cube-Sats, and it sounds like this one was 20 x 10 x 10 cm^3.
High-school kids do projects with these routinely. Commercial giants getting into the game is no surprise––they just don't get a subsidy to put the thing into orbit.
The Earth still exerts a gravitational pull at orbital altitudes. They're not doing experiments outside of the influence of Earth's gravity, they're doing experiments in free fall.
You were close. Because the unit was orbiting, it was not in "free" fall. Whatever the decay rate of its orbit, then that's the micro-gravity it was under (ignoring atmospheric braking).
What's the difference between free fall and stable orbit? Well, hmmn, it's got to do with orbital speed and altitude. Take any satellite, like the ISS, and just stop its orbit, leaving it at the altitude it is. The earth's gravity will exert a noticeable effect on it – it will go into free fall.
Does anyone think that a person who would use a Internet of things Dildo would are about being tracked? Might even be a form of exhibitionism.
Yes. People who believe that they have privacy through a privately-owned pair of devices should not have to think about the technological perspectives.
Everyone needs to get off, but not everyone has a deep understanding of tech.
Slashdot Mirror
In anti-matter universe, negative score predict you.
Antimatter has mass. In fact, a given antiparticle has the same mass as its counterpart particle. Like, say, an antiproton and a proton.
I've taught a class on essentially this topic in a senior-level class for a couple of years at a top-10 US University, so I've performed this same search that you are (My day job is Research Faculty). I could find very little. This thread has some nice suggestions that I am definitely going to check out, though.
Looking back now, I can see that in my own learning of the art of science and of R&D, it was all bits and pieces learned from people. Whether in undergrad, grad school, or as a post-doc – it was always the same case. I made a habit of listening to those whom I found competent. Most of the real, kernel-level things that I learned were discrete and small lessons. Sometimes a single observation or suggestion.
I wish I could articulate something useful, but really it was the experience of working with others in science or R&D/engineering that I learned the most valuable lessons. Becoming competent in this skill-set is, as far as I can tell, best achieved by being an understudy – an apprentice. That is actually what graduate school is: an apprenticeship.
I am not saying these things cannot be learned in other ways. If grad school is not an option, then read some of the fine-sounding books listed in-thread. Associate yourself, if you can, with anyone who possesses these skills.
Good luck.
Used responsibly, LSD is a phenomenal tool for introspection and "thinking about things from a higher plane". It's hard to describe to anyone who has not tried.
Remove your consciousness from your life experiences, everyday minutia, your body's senses, and politics/history pegged to a timeline, and so on. Freed from these tethers, incredibly insightful things can be realized for the first time in the mind. After you come down, and you remember the experience, you will never view the world the same-old way again, but will process subsequent life experiences from an additional, fresh, and wholistic view-point. It is a marvelous eye-opener.
Once you've "climbed the mountain" of a strong and positive LSD trip a few times, you will no longer need to take the drug to "get to that place", and to see things in this additional, new light. It is a breathtaking experience and changes your perspective forever. Well, for decades, at the least.
* Pardon the slang and 'short-for' phrasing. I tried to make the point as concise as possible to anyone who hasn't tried it – an impossible task. *
I assume the reason for this is Apple makes their money selling storage in the cloud. The more you use those apps, the more storage you need.
There is no requirement to use anything iCloud to use these Apps. You can, if you wish, though.
If you do, the price is in line with other cloud services. $2.99.mo. for 200 GB, for example.
I just don't get something about permanent magnets.
A magnet exerts force, no?
Exerting force requires energy, no?
Where is the energy in a magnet? How is it obtained, stored, replenished?
Magnets have a potential energy relative to a magnetic sample at any distance away, but the attraction falls off steeply, so you have to get close for the attraction to matter.
Once you get close, the magnet's pull will be felt, and the object will be attracted to the magnet. Let it move closer (It's on a string), and potential energy between the pair is reduced. To reverse it, just pull the string, which takes force-over-distance, and so you have invested energy to pull the little sample away. Energy is conserved.
Hooray for the IBM PCjr! My father saved-up, and was either going to buy that or a Franklin (Apple IIe clone). PCjr it was.
I learned to program on it by just going through the BASIC or DOS manual, finding new commands, and coming up with some way to use them.
I made a program to play a polyphonic version of Moonlight Sonata, figured out how to use the three (four) display-type buffers to produce a Photoshop-like program that could save, open, and edit files in my own file format. Oh, and a few games and cartoon animations. God I miss that thing.
My mother still has it. It's got a side-car and topper added-on to allow for what I think was 256 KB of memory, a 40 MB hard drive, and a serial interface that I was playing with to create a home-brew iTunes-like jukebox. Then I went off to college, but it's still there back at home. I'll set it up the next time I go.
So, let's deliberately put water bears on Saturn to limit the risk to Titan and Enceladus? How can they be so sure that there isn't a layer of Saturn with composition, pressure, and temperature favorable to life?
Aside from it being a gas giant, Saturn's huge gravity well will pull Cassini in hard and fast, vaporizing every little bit of it back into elements and simple compounds (like oxides of the metals). No bugs can survive this plunge.
Ajit Pai is a very bad liar and shill. He's just plain bad at spin, angle, misdirection... and yet he is a Republican.
That's the confusing part.
If we know that maybe we could crowd-fund the purchase of enough to get any law we want passed.
You might really, really have something there. I mean it.
The citizens of the US, united for a cause, could up-end the intrinsic corporate dominance that the Citizens United decision has resulted in since the ruling. Fuck them on their on petards, so to speak.
** Anyone is free to use this idea to found a Kickstarter-like company aimed t achieving this goal. I claim no ownership, nor credit. GO DO IT!
We can't have collusion between auto companies and dealers. The consumer would be totally shafted.
Thanks for keeping businesses honest, Republicans.
/SARCASM METER OFF.
Just in case anyone didn't notice.
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If you could do these three things I would have purchased another macbook pro when my last laptop died. But no, you had to make that piece of shit...
They still sell new MBPs from the prior generation, before they ditched all of the useful ports. I saw one right next to the new, dumb MBP in the Apple Store just last week. Barring that, go for a refurbished MBP 11,5.
As an engineer, I can tell you that refurbished is almost always better than new––the parts have been 'burned in' already, so no factory-new parts will be dying on you.
I spec'd a Mac Pro the other day. There is an option for 12 cores, not the max-of-8 mentioned in the article.
And pricing for what you get has come way, way down. Max out everything and it's not $8000 any more, but rather much more affordable.
**Doomsday may be closer than ever,**
That is a stupid fucking statement to make.
Not so much. Doomsday is real––the sun will engulf the earth, eventually.
That time is approaching, and ever-closer, albeit not on a human time-scale. It's true, but irrelevant.
Admittedly, I didn't read too much into this. Mostly just expressing the first thing I thought of when I read the summary, which isn't usually very insightful stuff anyways.
LOL. Yeah, I should have just skipped your Comment as DNRTFA, but my Comment was most appropriate as a Reply to another – one like yours.
It has human-readable instructions on the medium, along with the digital data.
It is exactly this that is described in US Patent 8,163,403.
CORRECTION: My link is accurate, but the US Patent is 8,085,304.
The Chinese government stole my background case file for my security clearance a few years ago. So, yes, I believe a government is out to get me.
I'm in the same boat – the US OPM data breach.
Think more broadly, though. Your own government could be out to get you, too.
It has human-readable instructions on the medium, along with the digital data.
It is exactly this that is described in US Patent 8,163,403.
Storing digital on film negatives makes sense. At a bare minimum, it is equivalent ounce-for-ounce to a CD-ROM. That's if each pixel is binary. This is film we're talking about, with a huge dynamic range, so storing the digital with grayscale pixels to represent, say, hexadecimal values, increases the storage capacity by leaps and bounds without changing the weight of the medium.
And, with a human-readable portion, instructions for interpretation of the pixels (digital data) are written on the media itself.
All of this is covered by US Patent 8,085,304. Link to Patent, describing it clearly.
(and said lady's law firm starts looking for their next class action target)
In this case they should, from the looks of it.
Working outside their area of expertise.
Say what you like but as a manager or supervisory type, HR better be your friend, or you will be hammered in court. And fired.
The dumb was/is strong in these Uber managers. Makes me want to buy another car just to say no to Uber.
HR is never your friend. Never.
Filmmaker complains when social media borks film. But it's fine and dandy when it misleads tons of viewers into seeing a bad film.
FTFY.
.... But if Apple is following the law in NZ, they are not doing anything unethical.
FFS, take an Ethics class. You have no clue.
You can buy a Cube-Sat online. 10 x 10 x 10 cm^3, and it fits into a standard deployment thingie – which the rocket going up, with a bit of space/weight to spare, is happy to "fill-up the bus" before launch. You can buy double and triple-sized Cube-Sats, and it sounds like this one was 20 x 10 x 10 cm^3.
High-school kids do projects with these routinely. Commercial giants getting into the game is no surprise––they just don't get a subsidy to put the thing into orbit.
It is not news that anyone ran an experiment with a Cube-Sat: http://www.cubesat.org/about/
The Earth still exerts a gravitational pull at orbital altitudes. They're not doing experiments outside of the influence of Earth's gravity, they're doing experiments in free fall.
You were close. Because the unit was orbiting, it was not in "free" fall. Whatever the decay rate of its orbit, then that's the micro-gravity it was under (ignoring atmospheric braking).
What's the difference between free fall and stable orbit? Well, hmmn, it's got to do with orbital speed and altitude. Take any satellite, like the ISS, and just stop its orbit, leaving it at the altitude it is. The earth's gravity will exert a noticeable effect on it – it will go into free fall.
Difference without a distinction, almost.
Does anyone think that a person who would use a Internet of things Dildo would are about being tracked? Might even be a form of exhibitionism.
Yes. People who believe that they have privacy through a privately-owned pair of devices should not have to think about the technological perspectives.
Everyone needs to get off, but not everyone has a deep understanding of tech.