They were routinely adding antibacterial agents to nylon when I worked in a nylon spinning plant back in the 80's. I think the practice goes back to the 50's or 60's.
It does, eventually, all depends on the type of plastic and is heavily dependent on the time it takes antibacteial agents within the plastic to break down. It's been known for quite some time that there does not seem to be any surface anywhere on the planet that does not have some microscopic plastic dust sprinkled on it. What these guys have noticed is that recent formations of sandstone/mudstone(?) contain plastic dust. To paraphrase the great Carlin, "The Earth doesn't care, it just incorporates palstic into a new paradigm - The Earth plus plastic."
It reminds me of some glitchy 1990s spam ladened chat program.
Sounds to me like you are using a 1990's card too, AFAIK "catalyst" is no longer supported and it's certainly not bundled with recent cards. I updated my NVIDIA driver just the other day, sure the driver is enourmous (250MB) but it installed flawlessly in the background without a reboot. I play WoT regularly at maximum detail on an i7 and have no issues other than the 200ms round trip from Oz to the US but it stays playable until that hits ~350ms. I've also been mucking around with CUDA for a few months, the developer resources are excellent and free for non-commercial use. If you really want to squeeze every last flop out of the card NVIDIA provide free resources such as the online book "CPU Gems" and the white papers that accompany some of the demo source, such as the optimised n-body example.
Stop creating new cards I can cook and egg on
My $150 GE Force 750 maxes out at just over a terraflop, significantly faster than ANY super computer that existed pre-Y2K. It uses less wattage than an old fashined light bulb, sure it can fry an egg, even scramble it with the on-card fan, but why is that a problem if it remains within its operating specs, is it that difficult to keep your eggs away from the video card. If your chickens are attracted to the heat then move the chickens outside where they belong.
In my professional opinion, I think the problem on your system is the chair to keyborad interface, it has nothing to do with NVIDIA or AMD's trully amazing technology since there is absolutely no need to fddle with default driver settings just to watch a movie. Listen to your wife and save yourself two headaches, forget about the PC drivers and just pay for the damned cable.
they pay their IT workers about 20 to 30% of what they bill the client at best. Avoid body shops like the plague if you want to make decent money.
That's very short-sighted advice from my experience. I made truckloads of cash from IBM/manpower in the 90's and they made truckloads off me, the difference is they had to pay for everything out of their cut, accountants, office space, secretaries, coffee machines, taxi's, air-fares, air-conditioning,..... Bottom line is a large corporation like IBM is doing well if it makes 10-15% ROI, ie: from $100 revenue, $30 goes to me, $60 expenses, $10 split between IBM/MP. The fact that I got $500-600/day and they rented me out at $1800-3500/day (depending on job title) amounts to little more than a rounding error on a $100M project.
Having said that, I think there's something NQR with a system that rewards an IT pimp for years simply because they introduced employer to employee. Sure a finders fee is fair, but ongoing commissions are just another form of rent seeking. After the initial hire MP does nothing more than cut pay cheques and sign a contract once every six months or so. Thing is, I didn't pay those commissions, IBM did, if the commission did not exist IBM would keep the money (I know I would). The reason IBM uses (more expensive) contractors is that they can let them go when they are no longer needed, no sick leave, no holiday pay, etc. It's much more expensive for them to keep/sack a full time employee. At some point the contractor becomes more expensive, my guess is 5yrs, since that seems to be the point where they start offering full time employment to a contractor.
At the end of the day when you account for full-time benefits, the contractor and the full-timer are on about the same pay, both positions attract a larger take-home percentage of the profit than the company and the pimp combined. I suppose you could try and cut out all the middle men between you and the end client, but in my experience end clients want the inherent risk mitigation and project stability that a team provides, they may be wary of vendor lock in but they definitely do not want to be "held to ransom" by a nerdish individual with zero business acumen.
So, how do you explain the explosion in scientifc aknowledge and technical prowess over the last 50yrs? - Or were you just trying to feel good about yourself by belittleing the achivements of others?
Precisely, a skyscraper needs both clever architects and experienced welders, the jobs are not comparable but both are "mission critical". I've been working for 40yrs now, 15yrs as blue collar 25yrs as a degree qualified software developer. It has always puzzled me why a 4yr apprenticeship for (say) a plumber is not regarded in the same light as (say) a 4yr degree in Civil engineering. The tradesman not only suffers financially but is also finding it physically tough when he is my age (55), there's lots of corporate/political talk about "reskilling" aging tradesmen but very little in the way of actual deeds.
Disclaimer: I've enjoyed working as a developer and have dipped a toe into management, I've contracted to IBM, EDS, a major telco, and a couple of small inbetweeners. I don't like the idea of managing people but I do like the idea of leading by example (or at least trying to). I'm now fortunate enough to work full-time for a Japanese multi-national which has a markedly different culture wrt age and deadlines.
Your WW2 favorite reminds of one of my favorite clips from Forrest Gump. Personally I think Gump was such a huge box office hit because we've all been the idiot who got it right at some point in our lives.
That's why we have no fault divorce nowadays. - Yet another thing you ungrateful little snots can thank us "boomers" for. Oh, and you're on my lawn, you know what to do!
Though not while doing brain scans (they were fMRI ing the abdominal area)
Quite likely because orgasams are not created in the brain, they happen in a small bundle of neurons at the base of the spine, in fact a fresh corpse is capable of orgasam if the area is stimulated with a mild electric current. Further if you wire this up in a live rat so all it has to do is pull a lever to get an orgasm, it will hang off the lever until it dies of dehydration.
As to TFA, if video porn is shrinking your brain, what is a good sex life doing to it? Seriously, if you have a healthy sex life then watching porn together is quite often a part of that. Also watching porm does not imply that you like ALL porn anymore than watching a cartoon means you like all cartoons. Males are much more likely to enjoy porn because males are (in general) are much more sensitive to visual stimulation. Also a faie chunk of the porn out there is not catering to sexual desire, it's catering to the desire for power (SM), or catering to catholic style guilt, ie people who revel in being "dirty" (ATM).
To paraphrase Sagan, Science is more than a grab-bag of factoids, it's a philosophy, a way of thinking. I have no doubt these people carefully observed something interesting, but it seems to me they have prematurely jumped on the conclusion mat that best fits their worldview. OTOH it does generate way more questions than it answers, and according to Natural philosophy, that's a GoodThing(TM)
Propultion is not the problem, there's a glut of possible technologies that coud drive a ship to a nearby star. Food and water are the problem, the most sphisticated biodomes here on Earth only last about a year before they decay into poisinous organic goop. When we have the technology and political will power to fix the life support systems on spaceship Earth we will have the technology to feed interstellar colonists on their journey, only then then we can talk about getting off the solar merry-go-round. Until that time we are "stuck" with robotic probes.
BTW: Aluminium fizzbies can already be levitated with lasers in the lab, what's left to be "proven"?
The majority of American simply do not understand the term "free market" they believe that the "free" means free from regulation, yet nothing could be further from the truth. An economic market is not a "thing" it's a set of rules governing trade (eg:property law), a "set of rules" that's "free from regulation" is an oxymoron. "Free" actually refers to membership, in that everyone is free to participate in the market, provided they play by the rules. Some example of non-free markets - the international arms trade, nuclear fuel and waste industries, OPEC, etc.
Point 2 does not follow since point 1 uses the Fox News definition of "free market".
Sigh, someone says to you stop paying off someone else's mortgage, I will lend you 500K but don't worry about the payments because the housing market is booming and the capital gains you make will pay off the loan for you. People with little financial knowledge who had never made such a large and complicated purchase were scammed by lenders who knew exactly what they were doing - increasing their commision revenue by not giving a flying fuck about the mess they left behind. This is why the banks stopped trusting each other and the whole thing came to sudden halt. In the financial world it's ok to rip off joe home buyer but it's not ok to try and palm off the problem to another bank.
Lax regulation allowed greed to take its natural course, it's like expecting a mugger not to mug you because you disbanded the police force. When the artificial housing bubble inevitably popped everybody lost out including the banks and the people who already owned their home outright (on the other side of the planet!!!). Greenspan was warned time and again this would happen, and when it did it damned near threw the world into another great depression. For every major fuck up there's always an ideologue somewhere at the bottom of it, the GFC is Greenspan's "legacy", not the fantasy of a libertarian paradise he had hoped for where everyone treats everyone else fairly when the government "gets out of the way".
Never heard of the doomsday book, huh? Seriously, you have to go back to a time before the Babylonians to find a a bunch of barbarians that did not collect financial information on their citizens.
Compare the geographic size and population density of the US with Japan, South Korea and Sweden.
I can "cherry pick" stats too, compare the size and pop.density of the US to Australia. Have people in the US ever thought of imposing universal service obligations in return for common carrier privileges?
What got me started? - 1965, first year of primary school, some random kid demonstrated how to a flashlight worked with a battery a wire and a torch bulb. It was in a busy corridor at recess and everyone was taller than me. I was absolutely fascinated by it, I spent a small fortune in pocket money over the next few months on batteries, torch bulbs, and sticky tape.
Thirty years later my (ex) wife came home from work one day, she was not dumb by any stretch of the imagination, she says to me with a tinge of excitement - "Do you know what comes out of a battery?" Note sure what she was angling at I said "Electricity?". She express disappointment because her trivia question failed to stump me. I then asked her what she had thought came out of batteries. "I dunno, just Ommphhh!" she says, it soon became apparent that hysterical laughter was not the response she had been looking for.
NGOML or I will be forced to tell you the story about how we used to tie an onion to our belt....
There's a video somewhere where a guy talks about teaching his infant son to speak Klingon. The kid loved it up until about the age of three, then suddenly the kid no longer wanted to "talk klingon". The guy himself explains why - it was no use to the child because there were so many everyday things that had no Klingon name, like fridge, lollies, bath, etc. The exact opposite happens when an infant is exposed to two natural languages like (say) English and Japanese because combining those two languages gives more ways for the toddler to take in the world around him and express himself to adults. In other words his 3yr old son had worked out Klingon was pointless, learning it was jamming up his language buffer with irrelevant words related to a sci-fi series he was too young to understand even if he had watched it.
Sigh and which constant do you suggest? - The second that all clocks defer to, is an SI unit. It IS based on a scientific constant, something to do with a particular cesium isotope. That "constant" is not an absolute constant in the same way the rotation of the Earth is not an absolute constant. We know that because we have recently built scientific clocks that keep time more accurately than a cesium atom. As I understand it, it appears we have now run out of natural time-ticks that are more constant than our "artificial" time-ticks.
Hours, minutes, days and years are not SI units, they are convenient units derived from measuring time in SI seconds. Personally I'd much rather have an alarm clock that may vary by a second either way in the morning but doesn't require a maths degree to setup at night.
Wow, were you aiming for humour? - Because it would be sad if you were serious
What people are saying is they have implemented FEC at the packet level. I don't know much about wireless but I do remember the maths lectures I attended 25yrs ago on error correction techniques. At the time I could perform the FEC algorithm by hand, I consider myself "mathematically inclined" and have been awarded bits of paper attesting to that inclination but to this day I still have just enough understanding of the mathematical concepts of error correction to marvel at the geniuses who worked it all out in the first place.
Packet FEC has been tried before and found to be wanting, but I would not be as quick as some to dismiss a strong claim by MIT just because others have failed in the past.
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It's been said that if you can remember the 60's you weren't there.
It's frequently said that those who resort to insults do so because they can't hold an intelligent debate.
Maybe, but you're assuming the opposition want an intelligent debate.
If somebody came and brutally raped your wife you would sing koombaya to him.
No, but the point is that it would be a lot cheaper and cause a lot less collateral damage to simply whack him with a $20 cricket bat.
They were routinely adding antibacterial agents to nylon when I worked in a nylon spinning plant back in the 80's. I think the practice goes back to the 50's or 60's.
It does, eventually, all depends on the type of plastic and is heavily dependent on the time it takes antibacteial agents within the plastic to break down. It's been known for quite some time that there does not seem to be any surface anywhere on the planet that does not have some microscopic plastic dust sprinkled on it. What these guys have noticed is that recent formations of sandstone/mudstone(?) contain plastic dust. To paraphrase the great Carlin, "The Earth doesn't care, it just incorporates palstic into a new paradigm - The Earth plus plastic."
There also chatting with scientists to learn more about the concept of funny
It reminds me of some glitchy 1990s spam ladened chat program.
Sounds to me like you are using a 1990's card too, AFAIK "catalyst" is no longer supported and it's certainly not bundled with recent cards. I updated my NVIDIA driver just the other day, sure the driver is enourmous (250MB) but it installed flawlessly in the background without a reboot. I play WoT regularly at maximum detail on an i7 and have no issues other than the 200ms round trip from Oz to the US but it stays playable until that hits ~350ms. I've also been mucking around with CUDA for a few months, the developer resources are excellent and free for non-commercial use. If you really want to squeeze every last flop out of the card NVIDIA provide free resources such as the online book "CPU Gems" and the white papers that accompany some of the demo source, such as the optimised n-body example.
Stop creating new cards I can cook and egg on
My $150 GE Force 750 maxes out at just over a terraflop, significantly faster than ANY super computer that existed pre-Y2K. It uses less wattage than an old fashined light bulb, sure it can fry an egg, even scramble it with the on-card fan, but why is that a problem if it remains within its operating specs, is it that difficult to keep your eggs away from the video card. If your chickens are attracted to the heat then move the chickens outside where they belong.
In my professional opinion, I think the problem on your system is the chair to keyborad interface, it has nothing to do with NVIDIA or AMD's trully amazing technology since there is absolutely no need to fddle with default driver settings just to watch a movie. Listen to your wife and save yourself two headaches, forget about the PC drivers and just pay for the damned cable.
they pay their IT workers about 20 to 30% of what they bill the client at best. Avoid body shops like the plague if you want to make decent money.
That's very short-sighted advice from my experience. I made truckloads of cash from IBM/manpower in the 90's and they made truckloads off me, the difference is they had to pay for everything out of their cut, accountants, office space, secretaries, coffee machines, taxi's, air-fares, air-conditioning,..... Bottom line is a large corporation like IBM is doing well if it makes 10-15% ROI, ie: from $100 revenue, $30 goes to me, $60 expenses, $10 split between IBM/MP. The fact that I got $500-600/day and they rented me out at $1800-3500/day (depending on job title) amounts to little more than a rounding error on a $100M project.
Having said that, I think there's something NQR with a system that rewards an IT pimp for years simply because they introduced employer to employee. Sure a finders fee is fair, but ongoing commissions are just another form of rent seeking. After the initial hire MP does nothing more than cut pay cheques and sign a contract once every six months or so. Thing is, I didn't pay those commissions, IBM did, if the commission did not exist IBM would keep the money (I know I would). The reason IBM uses (more expensive) contractors is that they can let them go when they are no longer needed, no sick leave, no holiday pay, etc. It's much more expensive for them to keep/sack a full time employee. At some point the contractor becomes more expensive, my guess is 5yrs, since that seems to be the point where they start offering full time employment to a contractor.
At the end of the day when you account for full-time benefits, the contractor and the full-timer are on about the same pay, both positions attract a larger take-home percentage of the profit than the company and the pimp combined. I suppose you could try and cut out all the middle men between you and the end client, but in my experience end clients want the inherent risk mitigation and project stability that a team provides, they may be wary of vendor lock in but they definitely do not want to be "held to ransom" by a nerdish individual with zero business acumen.
So, how do you explain the explosion in scientifc aknowledge and technical prowess over the last 50yrs? - Or were you just trying to feel good about yourself by belittleing the achivements of others?
Precisely, a skyscraper needs both clever architects and experienced welders, the jobs are not comparable but both are "mission critical". I've been working for 40yrs now, 15yrs as blue collar 25yrs as a degree qualified software developer. It has always puzzled me why a 4yr apprenticeship for (say) a plumber is not regarded in the same light as (say) a 4yr degree in Civil engineering. The tradesman not only suffers financially but is also finding it physically tough when he is my age (55), there's lots of corporate/political talk about "reskilling" aging tradesmen but very little in the way of actual deeds.
Disclaimer: I've enjoyed working as a developer and have dipped a toe into management, I've contracted to IBM, EDS, a major telco, and a couple of small inbetweeners. I don't like the idea of managing people but I do like the idea of leading by example (or at least trying to). I'm now fortunate enough to work full-time for a Japanese multi-national which has a markedly different culture wrt age and deadlines.
Your WW2 favorite reminds of one of my favorite clips from Forrest Gump. Personally I think Gump was such a huge box office hit because we've all been the idiot who got it right at some point in our lives.
but do not overboil
Because there's nothing worse than burnt water.....wankers.
there's no orgasm worth a lifetime affliction
That's why we have no fault divorce nowadays. - Yet another thing you ungrateful little snots can thank us "boomers" for. Oh, and you're on my lawn, you know what to do!
Though not while doing brain scans (they were fMRI ing the abdominal area)
Quite likely because orgasams are not created in the brain, they happen in a small bundle of neurons at the base of the spine, in fact a fresh corpse is capable of orgasam if the area is stimulated with a mild electric current. Further if you wire this up in a live rat so all it has to do is pull a lever to get an orgasm, it will hang off the lever until it dies of dehydration.
As to TFA, if video porn is shrinking your brain, what is a good sex life doing to it? Seriously, if you have a healthy sex life then watching porn together is quite often a part of that. Also watching porm does not imply that you like ALL porn anymore than watching a cartoon means you like all cartoons. Males are much more likely to enjoy porn because males are (in general) are much more sensitive to visual stimulation. Also a faie chunk of the porn out there is not catering to sexual desire, it's catering to the desire for power (SM), or catering to catholic style guilt, ie people who revel in being "dirty" (ATM).
To paraphrase Sagan, Science is more than a grab-bag of factoids, it's a philosophy, a way of thinking. I have no doubt these people carefully observed something interesting, but it seems to me they have prematurely jumped on the conclusion mat that best fits their worldview. OTOH it does generate way more questions than it answers, and according to Natural philosophy, that's a GoodThing(TM)
Propultion is not the problem, there's a glut of possible technologies that coud drive a ship to a nearby star. Food and water are the problem, the most sphisticated biodomes here on Earth only last about a year before they decay into poisinous organic goop. When we have the technology and political will power to fix the life support systems on spaceship Earth we will have the technology to feed interstellar colonists on their journey, only then then we can talk about getting off the solar merry-go-round. Until that time we are "stuck" with robotic probes.
BTW: Aluminium fizzbies can already be levitated with lasers in the lab, what's left to be "proven"?
it is almost certain that ALL of that information was given over to the governments of the countries he traveled to
If Snowden is every standing before a jury I hope they have a better grasp of "reasonable doubt".
But since GCHQ is a bought and paid for subsidary of the NSA.
Learn some history mate.
1. There is no such thing as a free market.
The majority of American simply do not understand the term "free market" they believe that the "free" means free from regulation, yet nothing could be further from the truth. An economic market is not a "thing" it's a set of rules governing trade (eg:property law), a "set of rules" that's "free from regulation" is an oxymoron. "Free" actually refers to membership, in that everyone is free to participate in the market, provided they play by the rules. Some example of non-free markets - the international arms trade, nuclear fuel and waste industries, OPEC, etc.
Point 2 does not follow since point 1 uses the Fox News definition of "free market".
Sigh, someone says to you stop paying off someone else's mortgage, I will lend you 500K but don't worry about the payments because the housing market is booming and the capital gains you make will pay off the loan for you. People with little financial knowledge who had never made such a large and complicated purchase were scammed by lenders who knew exactly what they were doing - increasing their commision revenue by not giving a flying fuck about the mess they left behind. This is why the banks stopped trusting each other and the whole thing came to sudden halt. In the financial world it's ok to rip off joe home buyer but it's not ok to try and palm off the problem to another bank.
Lax regulation allowed greed to take its natural course, it's like expecting a mugger not to mug you because you disbanded the police force. When the artificial housing bubble inevitably popped everybody lost out including the banks and the people who already owned their home outright (on the other side of the planet!!!). Greenspan was warned time and again this would happen, and when it did it damned near threw the world into another great depression. For every major fuck up there's always an ideologue somewhere at the bottom of it, the GFC is Greenspan's "legacy", not the fantasy of a libertarian paradise he had hoped for where everyone treats everyone else fairly when the government "gets out of the way".
Never heard of the doomsday book, huh? Seriously, you have to go back to a time before the Babylonians to find a a bunch of barbarians that did not collect financial information on their citizens.
Compare the geographic size and population density of the US with Japan, South Korea and Sweden.
I can "cherry pick" stats too, compare the size and pop.density of the US to Australia. Have people in the US ever thought of imposing universal service obligations in return for common carrier privileges?
What got me started? - 1965, first year of primary school, some random kid demonstrated how to a flashlight worked with a battery a wire and a torch bulb. It was in a busy corridor at recess and everyone was taller than me. I was absolutely fascinated by it, I spent a small fortune in pocket money over the next few months on batteries, torch bulbs, and sticky tape.
Thirty years later my (ex) wife came home from work one day, she was not dumb by any stretch of the imagination, she says to me with a tinge of excitement - "Do you know what comes out of a battery?" Note sure what she was angling at I said "Electricity?". She express disappointment because her trivia question failed to stump me. I then asked her what she had thought came out of batteries. "I dunno, just Ommphhh!" she says, it soon became apparent that hysterical laughter was not the response she had been looking for.
NGOML or I will be forced to tell you the story about how we used to tie an onion to our belt....
There's a video somewhere where a guy talks about teaching his infant son to speak Klingon. The kid loved it up until about the age of three, then suddenly the kid no longer wanted to "talk klingon". The guy himself explains why - it was no use to the child because there were so many everyday things that had no Klingon name, like fridge, lollies, bath, etc. The exact opposite happens when an infant is exposed to two natural languages like (say) English and Japanese because combining those two languages gives more ways for the toddler to take in the world around him and express himself to adults. In other words his 3yr old son had worked out Klingon was pointless, learning it was jamming up his language buffer with irrelevant words related to a sci-fi series he was too young to understand even if he had watched it.
Sigh and which constant do you suggest? - The second that all clocks defer to, is an SI unit. It IS based on a scientific constant, something to do with a particular cesium isotope. That "constant" is not an absolute constant in the same way the rotation of the Earth is not an absolute constant. We know that because we have recently built scientific clocks that keep time more accurately than a cesium atom. As I understand it, it appears we have now run out of natural time-ticks that are more constant than our "artificial" time-ticks.
Hours, minutes, days and years are not SI units, they are convenient units derived from measuring time in SI seconds. Personally I'd much rather have an alarm clock that may vary by a second either way in the morning but doesn't require a maths degree to setup at night.
Wow, were you aiming for humour? - Because it would be sad if you were serious
What people are saying is they have implemented FEC at the packet level. I don't know much about wireless but I do remember the maths lectures I attended 25yrs ago on error correction techniques. At the time I could perform the FEC algorithm by hand, I consider myself "mathematically inclined" and have been awarded bits of paper attesting to that inclination but to this day I still have just enough understanding of the mathematical concepts of error correction to marvel at the geniuses who worked it all out in the first place.
Packet FEC has been tried before and found to be wanting, but I would not be as quick as some to dismiss a strong claim by MIT just because others have failed in the past.