that is a BIG concern for me. NASA (not Nasa) is important to us and about to finally do some real work, even though I have my issues with how they are going about it. Of course, NASA has a LOW cost backup in spacex and bigelow as well as other companies that will be coming on-line. But the neo-cons have been absolute disasters to America (and I think to the world).
but W and the neo-cons KILLED the majority of our long term research and throw most of it towards coming up with hi-tech close term solutions for the DOD. In essence, they shutdown a lot of long-term multi-discipline research in our universities and various companies like GE, IBM, Lucent, etc and channeled it into a number of companies (GM, L-MART, Rathyeon, Halliburton, etc).
Look, I have a 2G ram Linux desktop system. I now used a flash ram disk with zero swap on it. On my server, I have 3G ram, and 4G CD flash HDD for / and 1 TB for other storage, (which sleeps most of the time). On the laptop, it is 1G and has 2G swap. I can tell you that this it depends on apps being used. If I start running google earth for any length of time, then I will add swap on desktop. At this time, it handles KDE, KDETV, and vi for development, make, g++ nicely. With swap turned off and using CF, the system is slightly faster AND 10 degrees cooler (and a lot quieter). SO, are you running MASSIVE APPS, or is it a standard laptop. If so, turn off the swap.
This will NEVER be used for regular homes. Far too expensive. Just the chemical make alone is an issue. But where this will make it will be the new solar cells for ISS in about 4 years or perhaps bigelow's stations, will use these. It really makes sense for that. Smaller surface area TYPICALLY means less metorite hits and less material to haul up, as well as easier to deploy. I would not be surprised to see a major load of these sent to the moon on the first trip or two to provide power for a moon base.
I would say that it is in just about EVERYbodies interest to see him succeed. Solar City is singlehandly lowering the costs of solar PV installs. Likewise, Tesla motors has renewed the interest in Electric cars AND serial hybrids. In fact, GM says that if not for Elon and Tesla, they NEVER would have done the volt. Of course, they still might not.
And WRT Spacex, Musk is changing the game. Many ppl on this site certainly hate him. Surest way to tell if somebody works at lmart, raytheon, Boeing, etc is to find a rocket science guy and ask what they think of spacex. If they work at one of the standard companies, they will RIP spacex. If not, the love them (conditionally). And if person is not rocket science, then they just seem to love them unconditionally:) . Unlike Bill Gates, this man is creating all new industries. Even now, Spacex will make bigelow possible. The two should lead to other rockets being finished, for example, Scaled Composites SSIII. That is suppose to be LEO for ppl. But the ONLY way that will be of use is if there is a destination. If simply a rocket ride, then SSII is far far cheaper. Bigelow is the destination. But Bigelow would not happen WITHOUT spacex (or some form of cheap LV).
Same as you or me; Jobs. For the most part, the middle east is no different than another country. In fact, I would say it is a LOT like USA. We have LOTS of radicals here. Moral Majority (though mostly gone); Focus on the Family; Timethy McVae; Alamo family down in Texas; The polygamists down in Texas; etc.
but these chips were NOT underpowered. Both The cyrix and transmeta could and should have been used in a number of niche markets that were developed. Even now, if they wanted to develop these chips, they would do start-up fundings for those with interesting ideas.
They SHOULD have gone places. The owners should have ponied up money to small start-ups based around those chips. It would have been a small amount of money and would have gotten sales moving.
They did pay for the first 2. The last one and this one are on Spacex's dime. As to the # of failures, EVERY group that has started with rockets has a number of failures up front. Once they have their first couple of successes, then it tends to be with new versions (though the shuttle says otherwise).
In a pandemic, most ppl will elect to be inside. Away from everybody. Not breathing on each other. The use of the net will JUMP leaps and bounds. And numerous ppl will want new connections, which will mean that their techs will be exposed to disease.
there is hardware available with XEN, that does just that concept. Of course, it is Linux in there, but each major app has its own set-up. That way, you have a DB, a webserver, a development env, etc.
I agree. If you memorize, you are toast in there. I had a high B in mine( Odd thing is that I took up p-chem later, but engineering based rather than biological based; walked away with my only D and was happy; I had not done calc in nearly 7 years; it killed me).
Here in Colorado, we are suffering a shortage of docs in the outback areas, with a current surplus of docs in cities, but expected to be short in the future. I have thought about that for a while and came up with one idea. Basically, build another med school at Colo State, but have it do DIRT CHEAP tuition. It would only have Family, Peds, OB/GYN/, General Sug/ Anethsia/ etc. IOW, no real specialist. In turn all the students will work for 10 years in the outback area, another 10 in any none city area, and finally another 5 years in any part of Colorado. In addition, they would be put on a special insurance company that would keep rates way below normal rates. I figure that plenty of ppl would be happy to apply for that, and it would be cream of the crop. This would give a pretty nice career to a person. THe only draw back is that they would be constrained to Colorado for a long payback. But it is something that I would have done.
I think that it would improve MS's ad if they had dogdick in there. Absolutely. I am quite certain that it would help Windows improve sales to their core group of customers who peruse the net at night.
I was going to take my oldest daughter to the polls with me (want to instill civic duty in her), but have decided instead to vote via mail. All of the counties are pushing for vote by mail, knowing that at most only 10-15% will do that.
Clinicians need to know less about organic chemistry and more about the higher level (in the programming language sense of the phrase) sciences such as molecular/cellular and systems biology. Thankfully, they spend a lot of time in medical school studying the latter, so they have a clue what they're doing.
Exactly. They learn that in MED SCHOOL. So they NEED the organic in undergrad, NOT MED SCHOOL.
But of course, I'm just a neuroscientist that actually works on human disease and has worked with people that do drug design and discovery, so it's not like I know what I'm talking about.
Yes, I did that for CDC back in the early 80's. Little things like West Nile, VEE, WEE, etc( In fact, because of our work on Arthopod bourne retro virus, we got in on the ground floor of another interesting research in 81 as well as the politics that was never documented in "the band played on"). But hey, that does not compare to your work.
Just so others know, what you wrote about organic chemistry allowing clinicians to look at a drug structure and determine its effects is completely absurd. If that were possible then we wouldn't need drug trials or large scale screens during the drug discovery process.
Hmmm. First degree was in microbio/minor in chem. Interviewed at several med schools before I pulled my app (came to the realization that I could not deal with a child death; had worked in ER as EMT but was lucky that never had to deal with a child's death, youngest was 19 y.o ).
Having the o-chem will not allow a doc to DETERMINE its effects (nor did I say that it would), but will certainly give him/her plenty of hints. And there have been plenty of times in the past when a doc has seen something that others did not. For example, a none researching doctor figured it out that the vast majority of our ulcers could not be chemicals, so went looking for a bacteria and found it.
The one who is lacking is yourself. The doc is on the front line and needs to have enough tools available to make intelligent choices.
Overall the average doc is not a bad critter. But as times change, the drugs change as do their interactions. Organic chem gives the ability to the doc to understand HOW these drugs interact. In particular, when looking at the PDR and seeing the struct, it is possible for a doc to think about what they are seeing in patients, possibly with other drugs.
In the end, an MD with organic is like the difference between CS vs. MIS. MIS teaches the current tech. It gives somebody a CURRENT job. CS teaches principles to allow that person to adopt and change and get future jobs. An MD with Organic Chem will adopt better to knew methods and new diseases (think prions which were unknown in the industry just 25 years ).
That is a LOT of raw resources. There is oil, lead, silver, gold, copper, Lithium, etc. in these. There are a number of expensive raw earth materials. Sending it elsewhere is basically buying raw materials, mixing them, and then sending them to another country. Instead, we would do well to research what it takes to recycle these. If we can extract these for a low costs, then we can keep these material for future use. May sound hookie, but there will probably come a time when it will be expensive or difficult to get certain materials (say a cold war in which the items are located in russia).
This needs to be turned into an opportunity, not a problem.
I'll say. Germany, France, ENgland, Russia, etc. have been FAR WORSE over a long period of time. But the west is lumped together because we are generally together on all this. All in all, it is the west, not just USA.
And you think that DOD and NASA do not want to see him hit it soon? L-MART/Rathyon/etc are not wild about it, but top ppl in NASA and All of DOD are pushing this. That is reality. And yeah, I expect to see him hit leo this year, and a falcon 9 to leo before next summer.
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that is a BIG concern for me. NASA (not Nasa) is important to us and about to finally do some real work, even though I have my issues with how they are going about it. Of course, NASA has a LOW cost backup in spacex and bigelow as well as other companies that will be coming on-line. But the neo-cons have been absolute disasters to America (and I think to the world).
but W and the neo-cons KILLED the majority of our long term research and throw most of it towards coming up with hi-tech close term solutions for the DOD. In essence, they shutdown a lot of long-term multi-discipline research in our universities and various companies like GE, IBM, Lucent, etc and channeled it into a number of companies (GM, L-MART, Rathyeon, Halliburton, etc).
Look, I have a 2G ram Linux desktop system. I now used a flash ram disk with zero swap on it. On my server, I have 3G ram, and 4G CD flash HDD for / and 1 TB for other storage, (which sleeps most of the time). On the laptop, it is 1G and has 2G swap. I can tell you that this it depends on apps being used. If I start running google earth for any length of time, then I will add swap on desktop. At this time, it handles KDE, KDETV, and vi for development, make, g++ nicely. With swap turned off and using CF, the system is slightly faster AND 10 degrees cooler (and a lot quieter). SO, are you running MASSIVE APPS, or is it a standard laptop. If so, turn off the swap.
Show the housewives yours and see if you can get in behind her. Heck, she might even like the car. After all, the V8-SUV is no doubt for the husband.
This will NEVER be used for regular homes. Far too expensive. Just the chemical make alone is an issue. But where this will make it will be the new solar cells for ISS in about 4 years or perhaps bigelow's stations, will use these. It really makes sense for that. Smaller surface area TYPICALLY means less metorite hits and less material to haul up, as well as easier to deploy. I would not be surprised to see a major load of these sent to the moon on the first trip or two to provide power for a moon base.
I would say that it is in just about EVERYbodies interest to see him succeed. Solar City is singlehandly lowering the costs of solar PV installs. Likewise, Tesla motors has renewed the interest in Electric cars AND serial hybrids. In fact, GM says that if not for Elon and Tesla, they NEVER would have done the volt. Of course, they still might not. :) . Unlike Bill Gates, this man is creating all new industries. Even now, Spacex will make bigelow possible. The two should lead to other rockets being finished, for example, Scaled Composites SSIII. That is suppose to be LEO for ppl. But the ONLY way that will be of use is if there is a destination. If simply a rocket ride, then SSII is far far cheaper. Bigelow is the destination. But Bigelow would not happen WITHOUT spacex (or some form of cheap LV).
And WRT Spacex, Musk is changing the game. Many ppl on this site certainly hate him. Surest way to tell if somebody works at lmart, raytheon, Boeing, etc is to find a rocket science guy and ask what they think of spacex. If they work at one of the standard companies, they will RIP spacex. If not, the love them (conditionally). And if person is not rocket science, then they just seem to love them unconditionally
Same as you or me; Jobs. For the most part, the middle east is no different than another country. In fact, I would say it is a LOT like USA. We have LOTS of radicals here. Moral Majority (though mostly gone); Focus on the Family; Timethy McVae; Alamo family down in Texas; The polygamists down in Texas; etc.
but these chips were NOT underpowered. Both The cyrix and transmeta could and should have been used in a number of niche markets that were developed. Even now, if they wanted to develop these chips, they would do start-up fundings for those with interesting ideas.
They SHOULD have gone places. The owners should have ponied up money to small start-ups based around those chips. It would have been a small amount of money and would have gotten sales moving.
They did pay for the first 2. The last one and this one are on Spacex's dime. As to the # of failures, EVERY group that has started with rockets has a number of failures up front. Once they have their first couple of successes, then it tends to be with new versions (though the shuttle says otherwise).
In a pandemic, most ppl will elect to be inside. Away from everybody. Not breathing on each other. The use of the net will JUMP leaps and bounds. And numerous ppl will want new connections, which will mean that their techs will be exposed to disease.
there is hardware available with XEN, that does just that concept. Of course, it is Linux in there, but each major app has its own set-up. That way, you have a DB, a webserver, a development env, etc.
I agree. If you memorize, you are toast in there. I had a high B in mine( Odd thing is that I took up p-chem later, but engineering based rather than biological based; walked away with my only D and was happy; I had not done calc in nearly 7 years; it killed me).
Here in Colorado, we are suffering a shortage of docs in the outback areas, with a current surplus of docs in cities, but expected to be short in the future. I have thought about that for a while and came up with one idea. Basically, build another med school at Colo State, but have it do DIRT CHEAP tuition. It would only have Family, Peds, OB/GYN/, General Sug/ Anethsia/ etc. IOW, no real specialist. In turn all the students will work for 10 years in the outback area, another 10 in any none city area, and finally another 5 years in any part of Colorado. In addition, they would be put on a special insurance company that would keep rates way below normal rates. I figure that plenty of ppl would be happy to apply for that, and it would be cream of the crop. This would give a pretty nice career to a person. THe only draw back is that they would be constrained to Colorado for a long payback. But it is something that I would have done.
congress has issues with spending a couple of hundred millions making sure that a capsule is ready by end of 2010. Amazing.
If we survive another 100 years, I will be impressed. As Eisenstein said, not sure what weapon will be in WWIII, but WWIV will be sticks and stones.
I think that it would improve MS's ad if they had dogdick in there. Absolutely. I am quite certain that it would help Windows improve sales to their core group of customers who peruse the net at night.
false; geothermal; wave; etc.
I was going to take my oldest daughter to the polls with me (want to instill civic duty in her), but have decided instead to vote via mail. All of the counties are pushing for vote by mail, knowing that at most only 10-15% will do that.
Yes, We know. We robbed you last week. We Will see you this weekend.
Clinicians need to know less about organic chemistry and more about the higher level (in the programming language sense of the phrase) sciences such as molecular/cellular and systems biology. Thankfully, they spend a lot of time in medical school studying the latter, so they have a clue what they're doing.
Exactly. They learn that in MED SCHOOL. So they NEED the organic in undergrad, NOT MED SCHOOL.
But of course, I'm just a neuroscientist that actually works on human disease and has worked with people that do drug design and discovery, so it's not like I know what I'm talking about.
Yes, I did that for CDC back in the early 80's. Little things like West Nile, VEE, WEE, etc( In fact, because of our work on Arthopod bourne retro virus, we got in on the ground floor of another interesting research in 81 as well as the politics that was never documented in "the band played on"). But hey, that does not compare to your work.
Just so others know, what you wrote about organic chemistry allowing clinicians to look at a drug structure and determine its effects is completely absurd. If that were possible then we wouldn't need drug trials or large scale screens during the drug discovery process. Hmmm. First degree was in microbio/minor in chem. Interviewed at several med schools before I pulled my app (came to the realization that I could not deal with a child death; had worked in ER as EMT but was lucky that never had to deal with a child's death, youngest was 19 y.o ).
Having the o-chem will not allow a doc to DETERMINE its effects (nor did I say that it would), but will certainly give him/her plenty of hints. And there have been plenty of times in the past when a doc has seen something that others did not. For example, a none researching doctor figured it out that the vast majority of our ulcers could not be chemicals, so went looking for a bacteria and found it.
The one who is lacking is yourself. The doc is on the front line and needs to have enough tools available to make intelligent choices.
Overall the average doc is not a bad critter. But as times change, the drugs change as do their interactions. Organic chem gives the ability to the doc to understand HOW these drugs interact. In particular, when looking at the PDR and seeing the struct, it is possible for a doc to think about what they are seeing in patients, possibly with other drugs.
In the end, an MD with organic is like the difference between CS vs. MIS. MIS teaches the current tech. It gives somebody a CURRENT job. CS teaches principles to allow that person to adopt and change and get future jobs. An MD with Organic Chem will adopt better to knew methods and new diseases (think prions which were unknown in the industry just 25 years ).
That is a LOT of raw resources. There is oil, lead, silver, gold, copper, Lithium, etc. in these. There are a number of expensive raw earth materials. Sending it elsewhere is basically buying raw materials, mixing them, and then sending them to another country. Instead, we would do well to research what it takes to recycle these. If we can extract these for a low costs, then we can keep these material for future use. May sound hookie, but there will probably come a time when it will be expensive or difficult to get certain materials (say a cold war in which the items are located in russia).
This needs to be turned into an opportunity, not a problem.
I'll say. Germany, France, ENgland, Russia, etc. have been FAR WORSE over a long period of time. But the west is lumped together because we are generally together on all this. All in all, it is the west, not just USA.
And you think that DOD and NASA do not want to see him hit it soon? L-MART/Rathyon/etc are not wild about it, but top ppl in NASA and All of DOD are pushing this. That is reality. And yeah, I expect to see him hit leo this year, and a falcon 9 to leo before next summer.