Except the Israeli intelligence services are the most transparent in the world with regards to activity reports to their own government and population. Given how they report their own activities, they've been far more open than the CIA and NSA.
Ooops... should've checked my facts before posting. MY MISTAKE. For some reason I thought that copper was more conductive. I think I was thinking of gold, rather than silver.
Oh well, in any case, the difference is on the order of a couple percent.
I can relate on pretty much everything you've said.
At one point when I had more disposable income, I set myself up with a decent stereo system, using separates for all components (all purchased used) and a pair of nice floorstanding speakers, later complemented by a subwoofer I built myself. It took me about 1.5 years and roughly $3000 to finally scratch that itch... and while speakers can indeed get MUCH better than what I have (it would be difficult to improve upon the electronics), it would cost me more than 2X what I spent overall to go to the next level, and I am simply not willing to do that.
Yet I never devolved into cable/wire insanities. I always assembled my own wire and cable, and it usually came out to <50c/foot + $2.50 for each nice connector.
As for "Monster" cables... I had my home-built ones tested by a friend in the electric engineering department, and the Monster cables had worse characteristics with regards to impedance, DC resistance, and capacitance.
What's wrong with building a separate listening room? Of all the "audiophile" insanities to do, that one is the one that's most likely to actually improve the sound (or make it worse).
Of course, don't get me started on the countless "listening room" photos I've seen with one chair in the sweet spot. That's REALLY REALLY sad.
P.S. I consider myself an audiophile. I'm also a scientist. Which gives my inner scientist a lot of things to laugh about, as I peruse the audiophile messageboards.
1. You don't care about shielding WIRE, only signal cables. 2. Don't coil speaker wire and put it next to your preamp. 3. 1 cover of regular techflex and one cover of mylar techflex. Protects and tastes bad. Not to mention looks pretty... at like $0.25/foot... 4. Crazy... I agree.
There are physical reasons why vaccuum tube amplifiers sound DIFFERENT than solid state amplifiers. I don't, however, subscribe to the philosophy that they're better inherently, as I've heard some terrible-sounding tube amps.
Didn't it ever crossed your brilliant mind that the real problem lied with you and your class never fighting for your own best interests and therefore being forced to earn less and having a crappy life?
<br> Sorry, we were too busy fighting for everyone else's interests, so we didn't pad our nests. <br> <blockquote>Do you actually believe that the problem lies in the fact that others fought and, as a consequence, are earning more and having a better life than you?</blockquote> Extorting money from the society, that is vastly disproportional to the provided service, does not qualify one as having a better life, as far as I am concerned.
Before the government started dictating terms of employment, working 12 hours per day, 6 days per week was the norm. Maybe you want to go back to that plan.
For scientists and doctors that's the current reality... alongside with dropping salaries.
The post-docs in my laboratory, make about $40'000 a year... after a PhD. A clerk in the subway booth makes $55'000 after 5 years with benefits that dwarf any academic institution... with a GED and a demeanor of a world-class asshole. When translated into per-hour payment, the booth clerk makes $27.5/hour, and the post-doc makes $13/hour.
That's the kind of society we live in. Want more unions?
They are not a financial company, and the changes are related to development rather than business. Without the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley, they only have to have a CONSISTENT policy of data storage... wherefore they can make a policy under which all emails in the development department are deleted after 30 days.
About 6 years ago, I was working in a virology lab, where one of the post-docs was doing some anthropological virology and investigating the possibility that one of the last extinctions was the result of a pandemic.
Discovery Channel did a 30-minute segment about this, which I decided not to participate in, and will be happy not to have done so till the end of my days. When I saw the final product a couple months later, I just sat with my mouth open for about 20 minutes... because I couldn't figure out whether I've been an idiot and couldn't figure out what my colleague was doing until I saw the segment, or the editors/journalists massacred the subject to the point that the research was rendered unrecognizable within the mounts of selectively quoted pseudo-science bullshit.
The mitochondria have not been incorporated into the human genome. Mitochondria contains its own circular DNA structure, which exists and replicates independently of the genomic DNA. There must have been some gene loss/exchange, however, because many proteins necessary for mitochondrial structure and function are found solely in the genomic DNA.
The proteins made by this bacteria are still identical to the parent strain. The cell wall and membrane composition of the recipient cells also don't change. Furthermore, the makeup of all the daughter bacteria will be identical to the parent strain as well. There is nothing new about the daughter cells... and certainly nothing "synthetic" in the way you seem to understand the term.
However, in reference to the article, I wonder... given the ease of transforming bacteria with plasmids... or using recombination-based transduction with phages, what the benefit of whole-genome transfer is, other than to shorten the time required to transfer large blocks of genes.
What job can man do hands-on that must be done for space exploration and is not possible to do by machine?
Exploring...
I am sure that you have no experience with scientific research, because any researcher will tell you that to do something yourself, or to have a machine do it, is worlds apart.
No offense, but I'm inherently... weary... of people waving the banner that someone _else_ should sacrifice everything for the general progress.
I never shifted responsibility to someone ELSE...
If you think a life is that disposable, why don't you go risk _your_ life on some endeavour that benefits everyone?
I am a medical scientist. I can't say I do it haughtily or foolishly, but I do deal with infectious agents and carcinogens on a daily basis. I've also sacrificed my youth to being stuck in a lab 60-80 hours a week at $25k/year. It may not be as romantic as going up into space, but it's risk and sacrifice as well, so don't lecture me.
P.S.
If given the opportunity I'd go up as a medical officer.
You want to talk about the scientific developments that shaped the 20'th century? How about the fact that most of them were driven by the need for safety and/or comfort
No, most of them were driven by desire to figure out better ways to kill other people.
We seem to have forgotten that in the U.S. lately. Granted, the integrity of the shuttle frame is not worth human life, but the panicked semi-troll responses to this crisis made me realize yet again how far we've fallen as a society.
The same people are "concerned" now, as the ones who were calling for ending the space program after Columbia.
We are so fat and content that we seem to think that anything that interferes with our blissful lives must be a curse. We have forgotten the drive and determination of scientists, engineers, and many others, which made the world we're living in possible. Make no mistake about it - without self-sacrifice, many of the technological and scientific developments that shaped the latter half of the 20th century would not have been possible.
Yet the population, spurred on by the scaremongering media, seem to think that we've now magically gotten to a point at which we can make everything safe. Well... we almost can... if we all just stay home. But if we want another revolution in the development of our species, like the one that spanned 1850-1975, we will have to accept that some things are worth it. Yes, it's important to minimize risk... but sometimes you have to accept a reasonable amount of risk, take a deep breath, and just go.
In other words, RIAA has declared that it has no intention whatsoever of paying the money. Instead, they intend to continue a farsical court battle with no prospects of winning, no end in sight... merely for the publicity of being seen as being above the law.
In my opinion, this company has already been punished for their mistake. They exist no more. The employees who made the mistake have already lost their jobs. What would be the purpose of suing? Revenge?
Well, the problem is that when corporations fold, what happens is that the Board Of Directors winds up leaving with multi-million dollar severance packages, while everyone else is thrown into the street. Some of the severance packages are so great as to make it almost more profitable for some individuals to be let go, then to continue working.
That's the biggest problem with corporations in my view - the people who set the policies are the people with the LEAST to lose in the case of the corporation going bankrupt.
Counting down to creationists quoting these numbers to prove existence of god, fallacy of evolution, presence of soul in blastocysts, and inferiority of gays:
Clearly, all that hard work to polish the recorded sound isn't really very important to people.
Have you heard any recent CD?!
I'd say that 90% of all new CDs have less than 6dB of dynamic range... and clip at every crescendo. I think they're mastered by people whose previous careers had them working with jackhammers without protection.
We can record in 24/192 all we want, but compression of the final product is rather moot when most of the damage was inflicted during mastering... where the "engineers" make the song as loud as humanly possible, so it could be used to silence thoughts while blasting 100dB through $5 earbuds.
As long as they don't find the Voltron parts buried on the ocean floor, preserved in the SUB-FREEZING depths of the OCEAN.
P.S. If you're reading this, Mr. Bay, I implore you to consider that at least some of your audience has education beyond the 3Rs... or you know, common sense...
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Except the Israeli intelligence services are the most transparent in the world with regards to activity reports to their own government and population. Given how they report their own activities, they've been far more open than the CIA and NSA.
Ooops... should've checked my facts before posting. MY MISTAKE. For some reason I thought that copper was more conductive. I think I was thinking of gold, rather than silver.
Oh well, in any case, the difference is on the order of a couple percent.
I can relate on pretty much everything you've said.
At one point when I had more disposable income, I set myself up with a decent stereo system, using separates for all components (all purchased used) and a pair of nice floorstanding speakers, later complemented by a subwoofer I built myself. It took me about 1.5 years and roughly $3000 to finally scratch that itch... and while speakers can indeed get MUCH better than what I have (it would be difficult to improve upon the electronics), it would cost me more than 2X what I spent overall to go to the next level, and I am simply not willing to do that.
Yet I never devolved into cable/wire insanities. I always assembled my own wire and cable, and it usually came out to <50c/foot + $2.50 for each nice connector.
As for "Monster" cables... I had my home-built ones tested by a friend in the electric engineering department, and the Monster cables had worse characteristics with regards to impedance, DC resistance, and capacitance.
What's wrong with building a separate listening room? Of all the "audiophile" insanities to do, that one is the one that's most likely to actually improve the sound (or make it worse).
Of course, don't get me started on the countless "listening room" photos I've seen with one chair in the sweet spot. That's REALLY REALLY sad.
P.S. I consider myself an audiophile. I'm also a scientist. Which gives my inner scientist a lot of things to laugh about, as I peruse the audiophile messageboards.
I am pretty sure silver is more resistive than copper.
1. You don't care about shielding WIRE, only signal cables.
2. Don't coil speaker wire and put it next to your preamp.
3. 1 cover of regular techflex and one cover of mylar techflex. Protects and tastes bad. Not to mention looks pretty... at like $0.25/foot...
4. Crazy... I agree.
There are physical reasons why vaccuum tube amplifiers sound DIFFERENT than solid state amplifiers. I don't, however, subscribe to the philosophy that they're better inherently, as I've heard some terrible-sounding tube amps.
A hidden volume that was uncovered during forensic analysis was not hidden.
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Sorry, we were too busy fighting for everyone else's interests, so we didn't pad our nests.
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<blockquote>Do you actually believe that the problem lies in the fact that others fought and, as a consequence, are earning more and having a better life than you?</blockquote>
Extorting money from the society, that is vastly disproportional to the provided service, does not qualify one as having a better life, as far as I am concerned.
And by the way - that's a retarded argument.
For scientists and doctors that's the current reality... alongside with dropping salaries.
The post-docs in my laboratory, make about $40'000 a year... after a PhD. A clerk in the subway booth makes $55'000 after 5 years with benefits that dwarf any academic institution... with a GED and a demeanor of a world-class asshole. When translated into per-hour payment, the booth clerk makes $27.5/hour, and the post-doc makes $13/hour.
That's the kind of society we live in. Want more unions?
They are not a financial company, and the changes are related to development rather than business. Without the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley, they only have to have a CONSISTENT policy of data storage... wherefore they can make a policy under which all emails in the development department are deleted after 30 days.
Is that anything like pre-SP1 Windows?
Because to me it sounds like the program was up and RUNNING...
About 6 years ago, I was working in a virology lab, where one of the post-docs was doing some anthropological virology and investigating the possibility that one of the last extinctions was the result of a pandemic.
Discovery Channel did a 30-minute segment about this, which I decided not to participate in, and will be happy not to have done so till the end of my days. When I saw the final product a couple months later, I just sat with my mouth open for about 20 minutes... because I couldn't figure out whether I've been an idiot and couldn't figure out what my colleague was doing until I saw the segment, or the editors/journalists massacred the subject to the point that the research was rendered unrecognizable within the mounts of selectively quoted pseudo-science bullshit.
The mitochondria have not been incorporated into the human genome. Mitochondria contains its own circular DNA structure, which exists and replicates independently of the genomic DNA. There must have been some gene loss/exchange, however, because many proteins necessary for mitochondrial structure and function are found solely in the genomic DNA.
What are you talking about?
The proteins made by this bacteria are still identical to the parent strain. The cell wall and membrane composition of the recipient cells also don't change. Furthermore, the makeup of all the daughter bacteria will be identical to the parent strain as well. There is nothing new about the daughter cells... and certainly nothing "synthetic" in the way you seem to understand the term.
However, in reference to the article, I wonder... given the ease of transforming bacteria with plasmids... or using recombination-based transduction with phages, what the benefit of whole-genome transfer is, other than to shorten the time required to transfer large blocks of genes.
The trouble is that you think of space exploration as dry data-gathering. It's not.
That's the cardinal difference between data gathering and exploring - the human element.
Exploring...
I am sure that you have no experience with scientific research, because any researcher will tell you that to do something yourself, or to have a machine do it, is worlds apart.
P.S.
If given the opportunity I'd go up as a medical officer.
No, most of them were driven by desire to figure out better ways to kill other people.
Never send a machine to do a man's job. No amount of data will make up for the lack of information we get from seeing, and touching things.
Life has a cost too.
We seem to have forgotten that in the U.S. lately. Granted, the integrity of the shuttle frame is not worth human life, but the panicked semi-troll responses to this crisis made me realize yet again how far we've fallen as a society.
The same people are "concerned" now, as the ones who were calling for ending the space program after Columbia.
We are so fat and content that we seem to think that anything that interferes with our blissful lives must be a curse. We have forgotten the drive and determination of scientists, engineers, and many others, which made the world we're living in possible. Make no mistake about it - without self-sacrifice, many of the technological and scientific developments that shaped the latter half of the 20th century would not have been possible.
Yet the population, spurred on by the scaremongering media, seem to think that we've now magically gotten to a point at which we can make everything safe. Well... we almost can... if we all just stay home. But if we want another revolution in the development of our species, like the one that spanned 1850-1975, we will have to accept that some things are worth it. Yes, it's important to minimize risk... but sometimes you have to accept a reasonable amount of risk, take a deep breath, and just go.
Anyway, sorry about the rant...
In other words, RIAA has declared that it has no intention whatsoever of paying the money. Instead, they intend to continue a farsical court battle with no prospects of winning, no end in sight... merely for the publicity of being seen as being above the law.
Well, the problem is that when corporations fold, what happens is that the Board Of Directors winds up leaving with multi-million dollar severance packages, while everyone else is thrown into the street. Some of the severance packages are so great as to make it almost more profitable for some individuals to be let go, then to continue working.
That's the biggest problem with corporations in my view - the people who set the policies are the people with the LEAST to lose in the case of the corporation going bankrupt.
Counting down to creationists quoting these numbers to prove existence of god, fallacy of evolution, presence of soul in blastocysts, and inferiority of gays:
3...
2...
1...
Go!
Let the trolling across the internet begin anew!
Have you heard any recent CD?!
I'd say that 90% of all new CDs have less than 6dB of dynamic range... and clip at every crescendo. I think they're mastered by people whose previous careers had them working with jackhammers without protection.
We can record in 24/192 all we want, but compression of the final product is rather moot when most of the damage was inflicted during mastering... where the "engineers" make the song as loud as humanly possible, so it could be used to silence thoughts while blasting 100dB through $5 earbuds.
As long as they don't find the Voltron parts buried on the ocean floor, preserved in the SUB-FREEZING depths of the OCEAN.
P.S. If you're reading this, Mr. Bay, I implore you to consider that at least some of your audience has education beyond the 3Rs... or you know, common sense...