By getting sick people with a variety of germs to come out of the house and mix with others at the hospital (and by opening up their guts etc), they are actually inviting the germs in make things worse. The hospitals need all that disinfection just to avoid having made things worse from a bacteriological perspective. and even then they fail. There is some research that earlier practices involving midwives attending pregnant women at birth is better than having them come to the hospital. OTOH, bubonic plague spread less when it killed all the people in the village.
Give me your sick, your germs yearning to break free....
Well it all starts with Indian Independence, at first they make do with leftover British stuff, but then they want their own, better stuff. But really don't have the capacity to make it. So they ask around. The US stuff costs too much so the they go with mostly Russian stuff that they can afford, and repair themselves..
As far as the US went, it wasn't even about the cost. Its about being able to rely on the US.
The Indians have bought from the Europeans (British, French, German#), but it's been more about the cost there. Plus the Europeans don't always have the good/best stuff for sale, or could be influenced by the US.
And while a *lot* of cash has been thrown at indigenization, some stuff can't be developed easily without collaboration. And it's getting to be not cost effective for *any country* without an export (large) market. India has not tended to be aggressive military exporters, primarily for political/ideological reasons also for lack of having the right products (cost/performance).
* The US refused to sell to or supply the Indians, while actively supplying the Pakistanis. [They did this mostly for political reasons (pakistan was a founding Centcom member and willing to do what the US asked, while India had its own opinions and a democracy which meant they didn't roll over when the US asked ]. Hell in the 1971 war, the US denied ammunition supply to the Indians and sent a carrier group over.
# Naval - Scorpene subs, used aircraft carriers (Vikrant, Viraat), Mirage, Jaguar, Sea Harrier airplanes, helicopters (sea King, westmoreland etc)
Am Indian
Something Lockheed makes makes India's planes' maneuverability irrelevant? How so? We're going to be fighting each other or something? Is Lockheed going to be selling their stuff to Pakistan?
Most of the focus today is on BVR (Beyond Visual Range) warfare. Radars and missiles help so that planes can engage and never get to a "merge" or force within Visual range (WVR) engagement. Of course, these arguments are not new. The claim was made as long ago as the korean war and vietnam war.
Range issues, limitations on number of missiles carriable to number of targets, on situational awareness, mission objectives (eg penetrate and strike at land target as opposed to intercept & keep away), and countermeasures including ecm and airborne maneouvres, mean that WVR still has a role, to the point that the Israelis still design guns on their aircraft. Maneouvrability is most important for WVR combat, but maneouvrability and energy (speed) has a role to play in BVR/surviving that BVR engagement also). Stealth also has a role allowing an attacker to reduce the range or a defender to keep just outside an opponents hit zone.
Northrop / Lockheed make the EO-DAS which is claimed to increase the range, situational awareness and augment the network centric warfare to focus on BVR engagements.
http://jalopnik.com/5264575/f+35-joint-strike-fighter-electro+optical-distributed-aperture-system-explained
Use your judgment on the amount of salt to be taken with.
Thrust Vector Control (TVC) is present on both the Sukhoi Su30-MKI and on the later lockheed planes.
nuclear carriers have an extremely high rate water flow across the deck they can start up that can minimise the damage by radiation of anything short of a direct hit
If memory serves, it was found that large ships stood up surprisingly well to a nuclear explosion (especially an atmospheric blast). Of course, in the immediate vicinity the ship is thrown thousands of feet into the air in many pieces, further away, the overpressure/shock blast and the wave still damage and sink them, (and would do worse to crews). as you move further away fires and radioactivity emerge as dangerous threats.
Underwater blasts are much worse to a ship than atmospheric blasts, the orientation of the ship with regard to the explosion matters and so on.
At a certain distance, a surviving ship could be recrewed or surviving crew operate it for a while, and washdown procedures would help minimize radioactivity (I think this is the reference to your quote) . Please note though that :
a) You need a source of non-radioactive water for the washdown. After the baker test, washdown was conducted with water from the surrounding seas, which added so much radioactivity to the ships, that they were no longer safe to retain or maintain and had to be towed away and sunk. I *think* this is what happened to the Nagumo which was once the flagship of the Japanese fleet.
b) Radioactivity is cumulatively harmful, so even a ship which is operational in the short term may be unusable, dangerous or lethally contaminated in longer term.
Other points :
1. Large nuclear weapons don't need "a direct hit" - I wonder if the concept is applicable
2.
before... weapons would be away and ordinance spent.
Given that just one bomb from a hypersonic ballistic missile, a cruise missile, a sub launched or air launched missile can kill the ship, you shouldn't stake much on that bet. Of course, it all depends.
3.
a long time before carriers are actually irrelevant
That's the *trillion* dollar question, isn't it ? Remember a carrier's got to have a support fleet of other ships. However, a carrier can respond in kind in offense and project force (and airplanes) where no land strip exists and it would be difficult to fly around the world to get to. The US has so far decided in favor of the carrier. Other navies, somewhat less so. (and their decisions *are* informed by the cost).
I beleive this is a reference to the washdown system used to limit the amount of radioactive agents that stick to the skin of the ship. This has very little to do
Nuclear weapons can be so explosive that the concept of direct hit stands altered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
the heat produced by a rabbit sitting on the Moon....... the agreed upon standard was something in terms of libraries of congress.......... conversion factor
Libraries of Congress is a measure of amount of information. The more information is contained, the less the entropy.
Heat difference provides also is quantified by entropy. So obviously the heat produced by the rabbit can be converted into libraries of congress.
The applicable equation is the first one in http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Bekenstein-Hawking_entropy which relates entropy to the planck length
(to bring it back on topic of TFA). The actual conversion factor is left as an exercise to the reader....
"the size of fish...has declined due to industrial fishing practices wiping out the larger subspecies
Hmm. Fish grow slowly over time. Industrial fishing kills off the huge ones, and ensures that smaller ones don't get to grow up enough to grow huge.
Solution : Timemod instead of Genemod. Invent a time machine/time accelerator so that said fish spends 50 years (in far past or in 50:1 time ratio) to grow huge.
For some reason, there are opponents to this as well....
Update: Mozillaâ(TM)s add-ons director, Mike Nguyen, emailed [Ha] to say that Google had a version of Gears ready that was compatible with Firefox 3.5, but it was delayed due to some âoelast-minute bugs.â There should be a new version out next week, he said
You read wrong. Until Pokhran II, India would not confirm nuclear weapon capability, and hence could have no official doctrine . After Pokhran II, India published a draft doctrine commiting to no first strike,
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/nuke/
... paying one hacker for a day to write a Perl script to hard wire all the salary data in the database to minimum wage.
Let's see.The governor's wage is $1 per year. Paying him minimum wage will actually result in a wage increase. The software ould then have to figure out a way to get him his (negative) back pay after 6 months.
it is not because they had more money
Phoenix cost 520 million $ in 2008 dollars.
Vikings cost 935 million in 1974 dollars (was nearly $3 billion measured in 1997 dollars, more in 2008 dollars)
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/05/the_actual_cost.html
The funding fiasco [http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=1D650F43-3048-8A5E-106FD610574B73C8] impacts more [http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2153825.html ] than just this slim chance to find the Higgs
Right, radiation pressure, gas leaks, drag, electric charge are all suspects, as are changes in the way data was collected.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly
The issue is that the current best guesses for these effects do not yet account for the anomaly.
Because not everyone's friends / family / dog have cell phones with text messaging ?
Some of us still use landlines, you know.
And some things are best accomplished by voice.
''enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.'' For a college graduate, Buffett reckons ''a few hundred thousand dollars'' sounds about right.
He grants that occasionally an heir may be the most suitable candidate to manage a company but believes the odds are against it.
Warren Buffett : ''Love is the greatest advantage a parent can give.
Susan Buffett... admits her father's position is tough to live with. ''My dad is one of the most honest, principled, good guys I know,'' she says. ''And I basically agree with him. But it's sort of strange when you know most parents want to buy things for their kids and all you need is a small sum of money -- to fix up the kitchen, not to go to the beach for six months. He won't give it to us on principle. All my life my father has been teaching us. Well, I feel I've learned the lesson. At a certain point you can stop.''
The stories about Ted Turner and his dad, and the tip to live outside Lousiana were also enjoyable.
there is no undoing the aquisition of the money..... If a drug baron donated a million dollars to charity it would still... make the world a better place.
And to further emphasize the point, the right alternative under consideration is not
Option A : Undo the drug business and the gift to charity
But
Option B : The drug baron has made his cash and could donate the million to charity, to funding terrorists/ploughing it back into business or to feathering his own bed.
For any competently run charity, we can argue that the donation makes the world a better place. For certain values of charity, and competence, it may be argued that feathering his own bed makes the world a better place. (Just think of the featherbed industry kickstarted, the hundreds gainfully employed, the widows and orphans who invest in the featherbed stocks...
The Death Tax is to make certain the middleclass doesn't get ideas.
All taxes provide an incentive to taxpayers to reduce the taxes they pay. The death tax therefore provides an incentive for the private sector to find a means to eliminate death. Kind of like the Ansari X prize, but with a much bigger upside. Immortality of the physical or other kind.
But assuming that Da Gooberment has an obligation to obligate safer vehicles, where do you set the bar? If a "mesh-like material" is the difference between injury and Pedestrian Souffle', why not require such a system on all vehicles
Next time don't speak out loud. : Here are some controversial regulations for pedestrian safety...
especially the portion that said...."
In practice, over the few seconds that a gamma ray burst occurs, it releases almost the same amount of energy as the entire Universe! "
The article posted on Slashdot is on the short and hard type
It's not just because there is a solution... there are cases where the observations are such that no other solution per the proven theory seems plausible
Slashdot Mirror
By getting sick people with a variety of germs to come out of the house and mix with others at the hospital (and by opening up their guts etc), they are actually inviting the germs in make things worse. The hospitals need all that disinfection just to avoid having made things worse from a bacteriological perspective. and even then they fail. There is some research that earlier practices involving midwives attending pregnant women at birth is better than having them come to the hospital. OTOH, bubonic plague spread less when it killed all the people in the village. Give me your sick, your germs yearning to break free ....
Well it all starts with Indian Independence, at first they make do with leftover British stuff, but then they want their own, better stuff. But really don't have the capacity to make it. So they ask around. The US stuff costs too much so the they go with mostly Russian stuff that they can afford, and repair themselves. .
As far as the US went, it wasn't even about the cost. Its about being able to rely on the US. The Indians have bought from the Europeans (British, French, German#), but it's been more about the cost there. Plus the Europeans don't always have the good/best stuff for sale, or could be influenced by the US. And while a *lot* of cash has been thrown at indigenization, some stuff can't be developed easily without collaboration. And it's getting to be not cost effective for *any country* without an export (large) market. India has not tended to be aggressive military exporters, primarily for political/ideological reasons also for lack of having the right products (cost/performance).
* The US refused to sell to or supply the Indians, while actively supplying the Pakistanis. [They did this mostly for political reasons (pakistan was a founding Centcom member and willing to do what the US asked, while India had its own opinions and a democracy which meant they didn't roll over when the US asked ]. Hell in the 1971 war, the US denied ammunition supply to the Indians and sent a carrier group over.
# Naval - Scorpene subs, used aircraft carriers (Vikrant, Viraat), Mirage, Jaguar, Sea Harrier airplanes, helicopters (sea King, westmoreland etc) Am Indian
Something Lockheed makes makes India's planes' maneuverability irrelevant? How so? We're going to be fighting each other or something? Is Lockheed going to be selling their stuff to Pakistan?
Most of the focus today is on BVR (Beyond Visual Range) warfare. Radars and missiles help so that planes can engage and never get to a "merge" or force within Visual range (WVR) engagement. Of course, these arguments are not new. The claim was made as long ago as the korean war and vietnam war. Range issues, limitations on number of missiles carriable to number of targets, on situational awareness, mission objectives (eg penetrate and strike at land target as opposed to intercept & keep away), and countermeasures including ecm and airborne maneouvres, mean that WVR still has a role, to the point that the Israelis still design guns on their aircraft. Maneouvrability is most important for WVR combat, but maneouvrability and energy (speed) has a role to play in BVR/surviving that BVR engagement also). Stealth also has a role allowing an attacker to reduce the range or a defender to keep just outside an opponents hit zone.
Northrop / Lockheed make the EO-DAS which is claimed to increase the range, situational awareness and augment the network centric warfare to focus on BVR engagements. http://jalopnik.com/5264575/f+35-joint-strike-fighter-electro+optical-distributed-aperture-system-explained Use your judgment on the amount of salt to be taken with. Thrust Vector Control (TVC) is present on both the Sukhoi Su30-MKI and on the later lockheed planes.
nuclear carriers have an extremely high rate water flow across the deck they can start up that can minimise the damage by radiation of anything short of a direct hit
Reference : Able-Baker - especially the Baker test. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
If memory serves, it was found that large ships stood up surprisingly well to a nuclear explosion (especially an atmospheric blast). Of course, in the immediate vicinity the ship is thrown thousands of feet into the air in many pieces, further away, the overpressure/shock blast and the wave still damage and sink them, (and would do worse to crews). as you move further away fires and radioactivity emerge as dangerous threats. Underwater blasts are much worse to a ship than atmospheric blasts, the orientation of the ship with regard to the explosion matters and so on.
At a certain distance, a surviving ship could be recrewed or surviving crew operate it for a while, and washdown procedures would help minimize radioactivity (I think this is the reference to your quote) . Please note though that : a) You need a source of non-radioactive water for the washdown. After the baker test, washdown was conducted with water from the surrounding seas, which added so much radioactivity to the ships, that they were no longer safe to retain or maintain and had to be towed away and sunk. I *think* this is what happened to the Nagumo which was once the flagship of the Japanese fleet. b) Radioactivity is cumulatively harmful, so even a ship which is operational in the short term may be unusable, dangerous or lethally contaminated in longer term.
Other points : 1. Large nuclear weapons don't need "a direct hit" - I wonder if the concept is applicable
2.
before ... weapons would be away and ordinance spent.
Given that just one bomb from a hypersonic ballistic missile, a cruise missile, a sub launched or air launched missile can kill the ship, you shouldn't stake much on that bet. Of course, it all depends. 3.
a long time before carriers are actually irrelevant
That's the *trillion* dollar question, isn't it ? Remember a carrier's got to have a support fleet of other ships. However, a carrier can respond in kind in offense and project force (and airplanes) where no land strip exists and it would be difficult to fly around the world to get to. The US has so far decided in favor of the carrier. Other navies, somewhat less so. (and their decisions *are* informed by the cost). I beleive this is a reference to the washdown system used to limit the amount of radioactive agents that stick to the skin of the ship. This has very little to do Nuclear weapons can be so explosive that the concept of direct hit stands altered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
That's really uninformed and outdated scare mongering. The soyuz spacecraft did NOT nearly burn up, it entered in a ballistic trajectory (i.e.without lift). This is uncomfortable, and undesirable as it is a backup emagency mode, which causes brief periods of high G and causes the craft to land off-course but is still safe. The problem was investigated, fixes determined, and recent soyuz launches work fine. Cites : http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/exp16/080422descent.html http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/24/soyuz-hard-landing-the-facts/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/23/nasa_says_soyuz_all_fixed_now/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_TMA-13
Libraries of Congress is a measure of amount of information. The more information is contained, the less the entropy.
Heat difference provides also is quantified by entropy. So obviously the heat produced by the rabbit can be converted into libraries of congress. ....
The applicable equation is the first one in http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Bekenstein-Hawking_entropy which relates entropy to the planck length (to bring it back on topic of TFA). The actual conversion factor is left as an exercise to the reader
Yes, of course informational entropy vs thermodynamic entropy as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_entropy, but the one is a function of the other per black hole theory. (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Bekenstein-Hawking_entropy) .... http://www.mediamarksurveys.com/playboy/
This is also clearly the reason why we perceive intelligence as hot
So .... how hot is the Library of Congress anyway ?
"the size of fish ...has declined due to industrial fishing practices wiping out the larger subspecies
Hmm. Fish grow slowly over time. Industrial fishing kills off the huge ones, and ensures that smaller ones don't get to grow up enough to grow huge.
Solution : Timemod instead of Genemod. Invent a time machine/time accelerator so that said fish spends 50 years (in far past or in 50:1 time ratio) to grow huge.
For some reason, there are opponents to this as well ....
and i should have been clearer, gears doesn't yet appear to work even with nightly tester tools
From http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009/06/30/firefox-35-takes-you-back-to-a-time-before-browser-add-ons/
Update: Mozillaâ(TM)s add-ons director, Mike Nguyen, emailed [Ha] to say that Google had a version of Gears ready that was compatible with Firefox 3.5, but it was delayed due to some âoelast-minute bugs.â There should be a new version out next week, he said
and many add-ons seem to be fine or can be forced to work with dev builds or Nighly Tester Tools https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543
I'm still waiting on google gears, myself.
You read wrong. Until Pokhran II, India would not confirm nuclear weapon capability, and hence could have no official doctrine . After Pokhran II, India published a draft doctrine commiting to no first strike, http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/india/nuke/
Let's see.The governor's wage is $1 per year. Paying him minimum wage will actually result in a wage increase. The software ould then have to figure out a way to get him his (negative) back pay after 6 months.
Information can not be destro
it is not because they had more money Phoenix cost 520 million $ in 2008 dollars. Vikings cost 935 million in 1974 dollars (was nearly $3 billion measured in 1997 dollars, more in 2008 dollars) http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/05/the_actual_cost.html
The funding fiasco [http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=1D650F43-3048-8A5E-106FD610574B73C8] impacts more [http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2153825.html ] than just this slim chance to find the Higgs
Right, radiation pressure, gas leaks, drag, electric charge are all suspects, as are changes in the way data was collected. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly The issue is that the current best guesses for these effects do not yet account for the anomaly.
Is that the ground speed velocity of a laden or unladen snail ?
Because not everyone's friends / family / dog have cell phones with text messaging ? Some of us still use landlines, you know. And some things are best accomplished by voice.
Additional quotes ....
On how much to leave :
''enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.'' For a college graduate, Buffett reckons ''a few hundred thousand dollars'' sounds about right.
He grants that occasionally an heir may be the most suitable candidate to manage a company but believes the odds are against it.
Warren Buffett : ''Love is the greatest advantage a parent can give.
Susan Buffett ... admits her father's position is tough to live with. ''My dad is one of the most honest, principled, good guys I know,'' she says. ''And I basically agree with him. But it's sort of strange when you know most parents want to buy things for their kids and all you need is a small sum of money -- to fix up the kitchen, not to go to the beach for six months. He won't give it to us on principle. All my life my father has been teaching us. Well, I feel I've learned the lesson. At a certain point you can stop.''
The stories about Ted Turner and his dad, and the tip to live outside Lousiana were also enjoyable.
And to further emphasize the point, the right alternative under consideration is not
Option A : Undo the drug business and the gift to charity
But
Option B : The drug baron has made his cash and could donate the million to charity, to funding terrorists/ploughing it back into business or to feathering his own bed.
For any competently run charity, we can argue that the donation makes the world a better place. For certain values of charity, and competence, it may be argued that feathering his own bed makes the world a better place. (Just think of the featherbed industry kickstarted, the hundreds gainfully employed, the widows and orphans who invest in the featherbed stocks ...
All taxes provide an incentive to taxpayers to reduce the taxes they pay. The death tax therefore provides an incentive for the private sector to find a means to eliminate death. Kind of like the Ansari X prize, but with a much bigger upside. Immortality of the physical or other kind.
Next time don't speak out loud. : Here are some controversial regulations for pedestrian safety ...
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/automotive/di rectives/vehicles/dir2003_102_ce.htm
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:AjOjPniOPhsJ:w ww.unece.org/trans/doc/2003/wp29grsp/ps-33.doc+ped estrian+safety+regulation&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2
And of course :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_Safety_Thr ough_Vehicle_Design
"The organisms found in ice are survivors" . Oh No, not another Reality Show
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ejb/faq.html
especially the portion that said ...."
In practice, over the few seconds that a gamma ray burst occurs, it releases almost the same amount of energy as the entire Universe! "
The article posted on Slashdot is on the short and hard type
http://www.wonderquest.com/black-holes-proof.htm
Summarizes very neatly the default hypothesis that they exist
This leaves aside the problem of coming up with a better theory than GR (which has been extensively tested)
After all, the theory of black holes has been contested vigorously from its inception http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6193
Two examples of a reasonable approximation to proof: ... Here they seem to have shown that MACHOs and WIMPs do not fit the bill. i lkyway_021016.html
Massive black holes
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blackhole_m
And for a stellar mass black holee ath_spiral_010111.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/d
So what is Autodesk's alias ? PS: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?id=5970 886&siteID=123112