Microsoft is killing Microsoft. They decided that they owned the developers and then they tried to milk them. It was only a matter of time that those who brought home the bread and butter would begin to let go and go somewhere else. It worked that way for Apple before them.
I bought an Apple II and upgraded the 48k memory to 64k way back in the stone age of computers. Then I decided to do some serious business programming and found that Apple owned programmers. They said if you want the chore done, hire Claris Works. Well I wasn't rich enough for them so I found a machine (Microsoft) OS that I could get data on. That by the way was a difference produced by an Industrial Spy at IBM. When the PC came out the earliest design was stolen by a Japanese spy who had clones on the market ahead of the release. This caused the data to be available that made programmers love getting into MS machines and their OS. It closed the door on the "Apple Model." Now MS wants to own the programmers who make their product live.
Only a few years ago, I noted that I could pay a horrid price for Visual Studio because I was an American but had I lived in China or India, MS had versions for sale at less than 1/10th the US price. Often they distributed in their development centers for free. This made me pay for my competition. That is a business model doomed to die. If I pay the price I pay for the end of my business. Figure this one out.
I personally think it should be bid out and not a lottery. We sell access to airwaves in this way, why not this?
To be quite frank the whole issue is a trade war the USA is running against its own citizens and the tax evasion of certain employers in that trade war. Its really quite simple: The USA taxes away (state local and federal) about 65% of the income of its workers. The foreign workers come into the country without the embedded tax cost of about $300,000 (varies on the degree) of tax exempt investment due to the parties not having paid US Taxes. I know there are parties who will discuss VAT in EU etc. (Blecch! It doesn't compare because of US Debt for Education systems) The USA wants its people to pay lots of taxes and then floods the market with either tax exempt goods and services or with tax evasion devices like "Illegal Aliens" and H-1B etc. They even set up a mechanism called "Totalization" where parties work in the USA without even paying the US Taxes at all and without audit in their own countries to evaluate even the compliance with the small local taxes.
I am sure I will hear from some people who don't understand this but this is the whole issue. A US BS graduate has an investment of about $300,000 of Tax Cost before they graduate. This has to be repaid. This requires the party to earn about $3,000 a month in income just to justify the expense. That is about $3,000/month more than their foreign competition. Of course any employer who can get an H-1B L-1 or other visa party in the country and does not have to repay this money is thrilled. This is in wages to the employee the difference between having to earn about $95,000 a year and doing well on about $40,000 a year. (approx - skip the math games) Of course an employer being able to get equal parties at that wage difference is thrilled. Try this with an MD and we are talking living well on $100,000/yr as alien and starving on $500,000 a year as a US MD as US Grad. Of course the Hospital or where ever still gets the payments that support the $500,000 a year but the MD doesn't. This causes the CEO of the Hospital a lot of income for every H-1B he can get!
Regards the parent post's remark about living together and visas...., Try having a marriage.
Not commenting on any particular Idea... But, the curious point of this graph is who relies on which type of thinking and why. Take a look at the almost absent connection between the life sciences (biology medicine etc) and the Physics and Chemistry side. There seems to be only a few people talking or connecting here. Note that the earth sciences like geology are a common link between the life sciences and the physics/ chemistry side.
Well the committee for State Security, (Russian translation KGB) is alive and well in the USA. It now comes out what I have been posting for some time that this was an effort to trounce the constitution.
Just about every time I report to people on this forum that observed data is conflicting with their defined model of the universe. I get moderated as troll. I really wish people would wake up and smell the coffee. The data is vastly different from the assumptions.
Doesn't anyone remember the Stardust recovery. It was going to find comet ice. Sorry folks... it must be summer and we just ran out of ice. Of course we have minerals that formed at high heat, (not cold temps) and which would have been destroyed by water. How about a thousand other similar observations that just about shout that the universe doesn't fit the nice box most people believe in right now. The data is out there and it says a completely different story. For example, how if the sun is a nuclear energy furnace does the matter ejected by it speed up as it passes the earth and further out as measured at Saturn? The G-Force hypothesis and Atomic Fusion model of the solar system don't work that way folks! Things would slow down on the way out.
Of course being a good scientist and noting such things on this forum has to be troll! I agree: "At some point, you have to go back to your assumptions and figure out where you went wrong." -- You went wrong -> (to those who mod troll) when you decided to shout down good science questions. The previous poster is right. I just hope we will begin to question the defined reality and challenge the religion that is parading around in the mask of science right now.
To clarify the content of various foods contains a ratio of various items. I don't want to go into exactly which ones -- too much to say if I did. The ratio determines the nutritional value of the foods similar to the air/fuel ratio in a gasoline engine but more complex. If you stuff in all kinds of one item such as protein or fat or carbohydrate and don't match them with the proper vitamins and minerals the situation gets out of hand. Your body will demand more stuff to fill in the ratio. Or it will store the excess to reduce the ratio.
To be fair, I don't think there is any "ONE" solution because people vary in genetic makeup as well in habits and history and they also have illness states etc.
A diet isn't a ratio malnutrition it is reduced intake unless it in some way alters the ratios. One problem people get with diets is that often they have long standing habits that the diet often is unsuited to them. Another is that there really is something to the rate at which various compounds are metabolized. Our diet science if you can call it that really stinks. It is really bad science. It was arrived at for reasons that have nothing to do with control of weight. It measures molecular weight and not bio-availability. It is as stupid as assuming Road Tar and Gasoline are the same thing. It completely disregards the complex metabolic issues or genetic makeup variations.
The magnetic field of the sun is pretty strong but of course is highly variable. At one point in 2005 (about the time we got the strong hurricanes) there were several Coronal Mass Ejections that left the sun riding its field at extreme speeds. By the time one of them passed earth (29 minutes after ejection) the matter was going 15% of the speed of light. By the time the same CME passed Saturn, the matter was going 30% of the speed of light.
People get this right! The solar system is electrical. The whole universe is electrically driven. I know that there are a lot of people out there who just don't get it. That CME that went out so fast..., It had a substantial mass being a large fraction of the mass of the earth. In order to accelerate a mass like this and have it get faster going further and further out the charge on the grid that drives this is nearly beyond calculation. Just for the record all CME's accelerate going out though many are hardly as fast as the 2005 ones. This proves something a lot of people are unwilling to see. The sun is electrical and not NUCLEAR. The neutrinos are missing folks. If the sun was nuclear, the CME's would decelerate on exit from the sun. The Corona would be colder than the surface of the sun. The Corona is 2 million degrees and the surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees.
This electrical reality is the source of the X-Ray emissions in the universe. It causes sun spots and CME's. It explains the forms we see in the universe. It represents the action of a field that is 10^39 times that of any G field that exists. It removes the need to explain things as "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" and it deletes those famous "Black Holes" and sadly for a lot of people who are just enchanted with the cute theories, it clobbers the "Big Bang." It also disrupts most of the accepted theory but here we see the electrical universe is real and it works. Now we are going to use if for propulsion. The wind is a blowing and it is going to blow away the old theories. Of course the course of science still advances one funeral at a time. I am sure some one of the old guys will declare me Troll rather than accept the obvious reality. Get a life if you disagree or post against me but forget the Troll stuff because I am not being troll to tell the truth.
I have no argument with the studies but I thought throwing a few more facts in the soup might be interesting.
Normally animals and for that matter people given unlimited diets will only have a few individuals get fat. As a general rule diet and for that matter exercise just have little or no effect. We do know several things that to cause weight gain. It is known for example that deliberate malnutrition will cause weight gain. (anybody heard of a feed lot? Thats what it does. ) Genetic engineering of late has been producing the same effect as the feed lot diet.
There are a lot of other factors like loss of sleep. Maybe our society and lifestyle really are a disease. We tend to get an arrogant disregard for sleep in our society and we also get a disregard of the quality of our food having food sellers pushing foods that are grown in conditions that don't exactly produce the best balanced nutrition.
To begin with, this technology has been around for something like 60 years. Sorry for the MIT guys but this isn't new. It has been quite possible for some time to get a lot more MPG out of a car. The problem has been two fold. The first is that the High MPG engines make the NOx Pollution. Sorry but if you put the performance chips in your car you can get nearly 2x the power on the same gallon of gas. Of course the sky will turn brown in places like LA if too many people do this.
On the energy front the other reason for the failure is the deliberate prevention of advanced technology in the Auto and Energy supply industries. Those who think that the resistance isn't there don't know what it going on. Detroit and the other Auto centers don't want a "better car." They want the consumer throwaway car.
For those who might just want to know the future rarely goes in the direction one thinks at first. IT tends to be a bit cantankerous and tends to go its own way. As a hint though, you might just be wise to look in other directions. Fuel might not be the solution at all. There are at least 11 technologies at this time which are working their way through R&D to production that probably will eliminate fuel from the consideration. A future generation will wonder how we lived the older ways.
Yeah their business is in the Middle East getting those "No Bid" contracts from the US DOD running a mercenary army of rogues who would shoot at the American Citizens if their boss told them to do so. This is what happens when you subcontract out your army. Dare I say the word TREASON! This is particularly treasonous because these people are splitting the scene in possession of the most deeply held secrets of the US military. It is also treasonous because the owners of the company remain the US Congressmen and Politicians and the Politico families of America.
Oops! I forgot to report a little feature of their move that the previous "Insightful" idiot forgot. When you move over seas, you can by repatriation under the GATT export your entire set of profits to a nice tax haven while remaining fictionally an American Company. This means you can suck hard on the tit of the Washington DC sow sucking the US Taxpayers Dry while sitting there fat and tax exempt. Insightful Hell the previous poster is a complete IDIOT. This deal places the key secrets of the USA in the hands of fat cats who are so loyal that they will not even help pay back a trivial sum of their taxpayer river of funds while they sell our technology to the highest bidder --- Dare I say terrorist or dictator?
This all reminds me of a conversation I had with my brother who works for the US Army Corps of Engineers. He bragged how using these contractors was saving us poor taxpayers billions. I looked at him back then and said, "Saving money Hell, you just bankrupted the USA!" Then I went on to tell him that when you lay off a US Soldier he goes home and goes to work in a regular job, but when you lay off a contractor, he just seeks out another contract from another customer using my technology. In short, he switches sides. Honestly the next thing we are going to see is Haliburton armies facing off against the US Army. The US Army will be short of armor with the old weapons and antique tech while the Haliburton army working for the latest Osama bin Ladin clone will be armed with the top armor, weapons and provisions. Who wins this one people? Murder Inc is Haliburton!
The issue of a massive quantity of water in the mantle of the earth throws a big monkey wrench into the current theories of how the earth is formed and structured. It also throws a bunch of wrenches into the whole cosmological theory basis for how the earth formed etc. If the earth formed starting little and then grew hot from impacts and so forth then the water would be boiled out into space and the oceans would not exist. Sorry but the whole theory basis for the formation and structure of the earth as we now supposedly know it is goofed up by this.
Now on to what really is going on. The earth exists and grows. It grows by a process where by electrical charges are converted into matter. The sun is doing this as well as every other body in the universe. This allows them to be made "in situ". I know it will torque over the physics police and if you don't like what I have to say get over it. The universe is not formed by the current popular theories. They are busted. The electrical formation allows the construction of large bodies of water on the planet inside of it. It allows the formation of matter of almost any type. It allows the addition of oceans to the earth after the rocky body formed without having to add comet ice which as we now know from the space probes that went to comets, doesn't exist. It allows the construction of a planet with unique atomic makeup without any of the current age of the Universe or big bang or whatever. It allows the construction of a planet in the form we now see. It doesn't deny impacts but they become insignificant to the overall state of the planet. The planet can grow and split apart as NOAA sea bed maps show for sure has happened.
One thing which the guys writing the explanations suffer from is that they cannot get their heads out of the old theories. You cannot sink a continent containing that much water (Specific Gravity 2.5 or so) into basalt with specific gravity near 5.0. It doesn't work. The sinking continent idea doesn't work. The water is being made down there.
If you want the whole process it is too long for this forum but in synopsis the universe is plasma driven and the energy of this drives the reactions I am talking about. These are lab reproduced reactions. They work. As such there is good evidence that this is the process set. Of course it will just about trash all of the current theories of the universe that are so near and dear to the heart of so many.
By the way the appearance of this matches well to the orbital data over the earth in these places. The mountains of this region exist because the area has this deviation.
Why don't you get a life? Spell checkers and such don't always come up with the right words, people get tired, make minor mistakes etc. Try thinking of your errors when you get onto others. You may spell great, but you may have other weaknesses. How about bothering to comment on what is intended (and you knew what was intended) rather than being the spell check police?
It is the GMO's. Sorry for those who think that it isn't so. There is a 1:1 correspondence. The gene that makes cotton and other crops resistant to pests also infects their pollen and nectar. The result is that after a bee has taken its fill of nectar, it succumbs to the poison in the nectar. As such a crop bees that goes for the pollen and nectar of such a GMO crop is doomed. The French are RIGHT!
This is another in the long line of accomplishments of the GMO people. Unintended consequences of their actions bring real problems. The GMO people always deny these problems. For example, they told farmers that weeds were the problem with their crops and the roundup resistance gene was used to end weeds all together. It worked too! But with the weeds gone there was nothing to prevent soil erosion in the winter. So the farmers in my area now have to plant winter wheat to protect their soil and then kill it when the drill in their other crops in the spring. In the mean time the cost of cotton dropped by nearly 2/3 of the total price resulting in farmers being hardly able to make any money. Their machinery and loans and GMO payments became their slave masters. This stuff of playing with mother nature isn't exactly working out like the economics professors said it would.
Sorry to not be joking but I thought a few points might be worth discussing here...!
The high power lasers like these develop a problem almost immediately with atmosphere effects. This limits their range based upon the frequency and atmosphere response. I know it is a general statement but the range of such devices is limited unless other cute tricks are pulled like phase conjugate reflection controls and pulsed beam timing to literally displace the atmosphere and form a cavity for beam transmission. Yes it all varies with the color of the light.
The real issues here are quite simple. The technology will be sold out to the Chinese as soon as it is built. This in the name of making it cheaper and on the alter of "free trade." The other problem is the time it allows for decision making just reduced war beyond even the computers response times. Enemy possess laser and can shoot at any time. (Figure this one out for fun!) You possess a laser and are targeting. "Friendly fire" anyone? The problem with such weapons and it is coming no matter what we do is that they by their very existence pose an instant and continual and real threat to others. Of course if we don't have them somebody else will.
Essentially the libertarians don't see any use for government. Sorry but it has a use to enforce the obligations people have to society. That is its proper duty. Many Libertarians excuse off their selfishness and short sightedness by cute arguments like the ones they pump out about the rights of an industrialist to damage society and the economy in the name of his own economy. They use the same arguments to say that we have no business restricting the alien access to the US Market.
They also ignore that citizenship is a property right bought in blood that trumps all other property rights in value. That citizenship defines the very money they worship. To deliberately destroy the economy of another because you can for a profit is to cause a tort injury that demands by justice a redress and recovery of damage. When a man invests his life and family in a business or education and then you without thought consider to destroy his economy you have done nothing less than a man running a car recklessly through the street striking pedestrians has done.
The topic of Cell Phones is really pretty plain. These people think they should hold a monopoly on service charging by the minute even while their costs are essentially fixed costs. They propose to use a lease on public rights of way to do this. It is well within the rights of the public to demand the terms of the use of their rights of way. Sorry Libertarians but I am using your logic and when someone knows the whole picture, it doesn't excuse off the claimed nonesense
Well it is plain to see that the moderators on this site don't like any opposing points of view to their physics beliefs. They moderate what was obviously a logical and a bit touched with humor point or two that obviously touched a nerve. They don't like the reality of someone who knows their arguments and their logic and sees through it. I just hope that somebody sees this and mods the parent up fixing this assault on free speech and decent thinking. Good science should be better than that.
I like thinking people. The parent of this post was definitely thinking. I personally will be most interested to see the contortions and outright lying the physics community goes through in order to keep their theory intact even after the obvious reality that they have goofed up is seen. This mathematical gamesmanship going on in the physics community with multiple dimensions to explain reality is getting a bit absurd. Lets see..., Hmmm! Well It didn't work in 11 dimensions but maybe in 12? Sad reality is that we call ourselves living in 3 dimensions (X, Y, Z) but in reality there is only one dimension and that is pure vector.
The reality of our world was explained almost 150 years ago by Maxwell and his equations got it right. His equations depended upon the ether. All attempts to deny the ether have proved wrong. GPS works because the Sagnac Principal works and it works because of the ether. I love the explanations of how the universe popped out of the head of a pin (Big Bang) and yet somehow we have to live in a universe entirely balanced on its forces where no energy or matter can be created...., Hmmmmmmmmmm!
So we created the universe and all of its energy and matter so long ago in some massive violation of the laws of thermodynamics but now days these are immutable. Which is why the CERN facility is going to be able to reproduce it....,. Of course those who bring this up keep on ignoring the most basic reality of the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics. That is all motion is Forever! That means perpetual motion folks. Read the laws if you don't believe me. "An object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by and external force." Sounds pretty perpetual to me! But since we also can create an opposed set of motions from nothing and we can do force annihilation it would appear we can create and destroy energy. We also know the energy to matter equivalence so this gets pretty close to creation of matter. Well enough teasing the angry Gods of Physics. They have no sense of humor. This is going to be funny to watch. Lets all do what the French do when they have something to celebrate and break open a bottle of the bubbly. It is sure to improve our ability to understand.
How about a different and respectful track? I wouldn't mind seeing a cleaner world. There are about 7 billion reasons I can think of right off the bat that say we don't need to be polluting our air, water and land with what we are doing. We don't need to argue over global warming or cooling or whatever to suggest that making a mess is not wise.
In this light I would suggest that people tend to see only surface effects and situations regards their activities. The USA for example does import massive amounts of oil, it also exports most of it right back out as finished products such as food, fertilizer, fiber, refined oil products and such. Sorry for those who want to blame someone but we are kind of in this together. I live in Alabama, USA. We are the worlds 2nd largest energy exporter. Coal! The same people who are yelling this nonsense about Kyoto and such are also sucking up our coal while telling us we cannot burn it. So we get to blast apart our mountains to make China, India and Indonesia have Electric power and running factories. You see Alabama's Coal is too dirty to be burned in Alabama but well... it is quite OK in some other places. Alabama also is a net CO2 uptake sink we are just about #1. (Georgia USA is #1) You see we have massive forests. So we produce the oxygen that blows around to China for them to mill our wood and.... It all is one power big game people.
Lets be fair though. Since the research at Ben Nevis (England) and the discovery of the Cloud Chamber over 100 years ago, the science for cosmic rays causing clouds has been known. It isn't new science! It is also quite obvious for anyone to see that the climate is changing and always has been so. It never stays the same. It is also obvious that mankind can poison and destroy enough area and resources to make a horrible mess. Why don't we start looking for how we can clean up our mess and not just make more? The fact or fiction of "Global Warming" doesn't really matter, whether the world gets colder or warmer, isn't going to be the end of the world. Poisoning large parts of our earth with our stupidity is not wise.
For those who are looking for the reality though, I would suggest a trip to the web and look up SOHO and start learning about the electrical universe that surrounds us. For those who want to argue about stuff here on earth..., How on earth do you get mad at me for burning coal in a plant with a scrubber for the smoke when you let the Chinese compete against me without doing any cleanup at all? Shouldn't China have to scrub their smoke? Of course before I confuse you too much the US-TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) operates some of the largest coal fired power plants on earth. They scrub the S02 out of the smoke. Now we see environmentalists suggesting we plant S02 to cool our planet? Go figure. US-TVA's SO2 emissions are not insignificant. A few years ago the US-TVA looked at selling the SO2 as an industrial raw material (base for sulphuric acid). They were stunned when they discovered that they could if they did so produce 12 times the entire world demand for SO2. Just a few points to think about when you realize that China is planning to burn under Kyoto 6 times as much coal.......... all within the treaty while Alabama has to cut back. Hmmmm!? This isn't troll, its just noting the facts folks. Have fun with your conclusions.
Obviously some operations do best as serial operations. Any process whereby we do a series of operations to one unit of data that is not done to all of the rest of the data in exactly the same way has obvious advantages being done in series. It is by definition a series of events.
To clarify, using a serial process is sort of like building a stack. You cannot add an item to a stack ahead of the item that is to precede it. If you do you break the intended order. Parallel is sort of like what could happen if you had a brick layer who could lay all of the bricks in one row at one time. So each row in a brick wall could be done in parallel to advantage but each row must be stacked on the previous row. So it should be clear that there are processes that have great advantage in series and some others have great advantage in parallel. USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE RIGHT JOB PLEASE! To be a bit silly here from Dr Seuss "Oh the thinks you can think" --(Wonder and think how much water can 55 elephants drink.) 55 elephants drinking at one time is a parallel operation. Each elephant drinking after the other is in series. It would be a bit hard to get the last elephant a drink before the first one needed another drink if this process is done in series. It sort of makes sense to do some jobs in parallel and others in series. Nothing is a one size fits all solution.
Optical processing solutions and mapping solutions are natural solutions for parallel processing. Done in series these processes tax very nearly the entire computing power we can summons and then they perform less than optimally. Done in parallel these operations by nature would become nearly instantly solved. Suppose for example we had parallel processing on Airline ticketing and routing. The data on which flight to take and the optimal schedule would be available almost instantly. Conversely done as it is in series (multi threaded though it may be) this process is at best a slightly optimized kludge. A similar solution is for memory access in computers. Currently all computer hard drives and similar mass storage devices are nothing but series accessed devices. This produces the curious reality of fetch times on a large hard drive (mean times) that are quite long. Done in Parallel, these operations could easily be done in a few clock cycles fetching data almost instantly. If for example you had a processor dedicated to each sector in each track, the hard drive could be read, fetched and files processed out nearly instantly.
We have developed processors that are really good. Their clock rates are beyond imagination fast. Yet competing against a processor which is massively parallel and with a clock rate less than 30 cycles per second, (Your brain) modern computers are at best running poor second rate. Many problems simple are beyond the modern computers and yet are routinely solved by humans. The move to massively parallel will bring up a genuine competition. But to think this way requires one to divorce the old thinking and get into a completely different mind set.
Its just opinion but I think the problem with parallel programming is a substantial lack of processors. If for example a die was made with 10 million processors on it (very simple processors) with modest queue memory, there are applications in optical data processing that would become extremely efficient and much more natural than any solutions as of this time. Otherwise we just spend our time loading the queue of one or 4 processors millions of times to do exactly the same process on the data from each pixel in a camera for example.
Having 4 processors is not parallel processing, it is just divided serial processing. Parallel processing allows that the process is in fact done in parallel rather than simply divided into 4 pipes. The thinking that is dominating the processor study at this time is one of how do we do these "serial" processes faster. Duh! We are going to parallel processes here folks! It requires thinking in a whole different paradigm. It isn't serial processing of course the guys with serial brains are not going to get the process figured out.
Multi-threading is merely serial operations done with time interrupts and conditional interrupt flags. It is by definition serial. The parent post isn't bad, it begins to get there, but really we have to get out of that mind set. Parallel will operate like a single serial operation set applied in several million sets at the same time without interrupts. Parallel programming will have many other features including a reconstruction of base process step after the parallel is done. To illustrate, if you were to do a simple operation such as comparing one video frame with another in real time, you could compare with a corresponding number of processors every pixel in one clock cycle. You could at the end of that cycle instruct another set of operations such as a time decayed comparison of many frames.
Isn't it ironic that a profession alleged to be dedicated to the good of mankind is completely unwilling to accept human limitations as a criteria for their management in the work place? Sorry if I am so crass but the medical profession has made a business out of this sort of cruel behavior. (No this isn't troll -- its a fact)
Actually this whole story and it's subsequent discussions illustrates the conflicts of interest that develop as you take a person and reduce them to a mere cog in the wheels of society. The interests (Adam Smith "Invisible Hand") of the individual have in modern society become so departed from the common interest of the survival of society and the general welfare of all mankind that we allow arguments and policy that are insane on the face of them. The "Invisible Hand" only works when it is driven with the whole picture in mind. As such the economic and social arguments of many "Libertarian" and "Conservative" types (Not all of them please!) often depart from any reality. Medicine when driven by profit motive does not seek to cure, that is a one shot one time customer who pays little. It seeks rather to treat where many expensive unsuccessful repeat visits occur.
It is a complete reality that there are multiple technologies out there which for little cost will cure many conditions of mankind. There are also other solutions awaiting "research funding" that work well or will soon work well if given the chance. Examples of these include "Cold Lasers" which can improve healing, reduce most arthritic conditions, stop many infections and more. Another is strong magnets. They work for pain relief (in some cases as strong as morphine without the problems) and to accelerate healing. These all languish for lack of FDA approval due to the fact that they cannot be patented and held hostage to pay back for the expensive studies needed. The argument for socialized medicine becomes strong here. Many other things like vaccines could cure or prevent many diseases and will never happen because of this system. For example a vaccine against Syphilis and some other Sexually Transmitted Diseases would dramatically cut costs in our world. They compete against the ineffective treatments so they never happen. The reasons here are very simple. The "Invisible Hand" is pushed by the MD and Hospital Paycheck rather than by the end customer's needs.
In medicine there is another nasty realty. Answer for yourself, have you ever known anyone who was seriously ill that could pay their own medical costs? (Rare for sure) Everyone sick depends on the healthy to support them back to health. It is a reality that has no answer in the "Free Market." It has an answer as an obligation of mankind and a function of society. (Read Thomas Payne "Common Sense" [1776]) Government is the proper agent to compel those who forget this obligation of society to do their duty. All defects of Government admitted.
As to the kindness of Medical Personnel, there are many decent persons there. However; there is a group largely the management level who have no human compassion what so ever. They call the shots. These people think there is something right about having staff who does not have health care coverage. These people run an industry in the USA which has a very high rate of uninsured parties and primarily as a result of the determined policy of management. The best way to describe the management of Health Care in the USA is that it is a gang of vultures and jackals.
Since every time I clobber this issue, some idiot calls me a troll and mods me through the floor I probably shouldn't answer but in the hope that there are some true scientific types out there.... I will post away.
The answer is really very simple and detailed explanations can be found in the discussion of the Plasma Universe. Thunderbolts has a good explanation.
Essentially the real issue is that the EM force rules the universe and all of the data coming back backs up the assertions of the Thunderbolts crew. The Einstein Special Relativity crowd who thinks gravity rules are just wrong. Sorry but they are. Special Relativity is a busted theory and it doesn't answer issues like the atmosphere temperature on Saturn. A busted theory is one that doesn't match reality. They don't match reality.
The issue of the heating of atmospheres and much more is a very serious issue. I wish we could get some seriously good science going here. There is a lot going on that needs good science. The IEEE thinks so as well and has opened a full discussion site for the discussion of the plasma universe. I hope it happens soon and the guys who disagree get back into science and quit trying the shout down routine.
In the mean time if you are moderating quit thinking that to bring this up is troll. It is actually quite informative.
I hate to even suggest it but maybe when one is talking with a recruiter the prospect should clandestinely record the negotiation. It probably would result in termination from the offer and one being set but it might will set such a company bait and switch program with a fraud charge. I disagree with the huge mix up excuse. Company people have played this game against me.
Of course the worst of these bait and switch games is that famous sign on bonus that somehow becomes dependent on you keeping the job for a year or two and of course they can let you go and make you have to give it back. It also sets your wages high in the first year and gives you a pay cut in the second year. Don't believe me? Try asking them not to give you the sign on bonus but rather just set your wages up the few thousand dollars a year. They don't take that offer.
The issue that NASA is trying to resolve has much more important value than the previous post is thinking. The mechanisms for the aurora and other processes are very powerful producing electrical currents at the highest levels ever seen. What is more the processes do affect the earth in profound ways. The link between these and the weather is being firmly established. NASA is starting to get the data together that is linking the stellar space behavior and that of all weather on the planet earth.
Yes this is very important. It involves everything from the trivial to the profound. Make no mistake about it the aurora mechanism is very important to understanding the physics of the universe as well. There is a considerable prejudice against what is coming down form SOHO and other platforms. The Electrical Nature of the Universe is being proved with very strong evidence thought the Gravity only crowd still attacks it. The entire electrical circuit will be pretty much locked up when this network of measuring devices is installed. At which point the whole nature of the cosmos will be shown without doubt to be vastly different from the classical assumptions. Yes this is important stuff here.
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Microsoft is killing Microsoft. They decided that they owned the developers and then they tried to milk them. It was only a matter of time that those who brought home the bread and butter would begin to let go and go somewhere else. It worked that way for Apple before them.
I bought an Apple II and upgraded the 48k memory to 64k way back in the stone age of computers. Then I decided to do some serious business programming and found that Apple owned programmers. They said if you want the chore done, hire Claris Works. Well I wasn't rich enough for them so I found a machine (Microsoft) OS that I could get data on. That by the way was a difference produced by an Industrial Spy at IBM. When the PC came out the earliest design was stolen by a Japanese spy who had clones on the market ahead of the release. This caused the data to be available that made programmers love getting into MS machines and their OS. It closed the door on the "Apple Model." Now MS wants to own the programmers who make their product live.
Only a few years ago, I noted that I could pay a horrid price for Visual Studio because I was an American but had I lived in China or India, MS had versions for sale at less than 1/10th the US price. Often they distributed in their development centers for free. This made me pay for my competition. That is a business model doomed to die. If I pay the price I pay for the end of my business. Figure this one out.
I personally think it should be bid out and not a lottery. We sell access to airwaves in this way, why not this?
To be quite frank the whole issue is a trade war the USA is running against its own citizens and the tax evasion of certain employers in that trade war. Its really quite simple: The USA taxes away (state local and federal) about 65% of the income of its workers. The foreign workers come into the country without the embedded tax cost of about $300,000 (varies on the degree) of tax exempt investment due to the parties not having paid US Taxes. I know there are parties who will discuss VAT in EU etc. (Blecch! It doesn't compare because of US Debt for Education systems) The USA wants its people to pay lots of taxes and then floods the market with either tax exempt goods and services or with tax evasion devices like "Illegal Aliens" and H-1B etc. They even set up a mechanism called "Totalization" where parties work in the USA without even paying the US Taxes at all and without audit in their own countries to evaluate even the compliance with the small local taxes.
I am sure I will hear from some people who don't understand this but this is the whole issue. A US BS graduate has an investment of about $300,000 of Tax Cost before they graduate. This has to be repaid. This requires the party to earn about $3,000 a month in income just to justify the expense. That is about $3,000/month more than their foreign competition. Of course any employer who can get an H-1B L-1 or other visa party in the country and does not have to repay this money is thrilled. This is in wages to the employee the difference between having to earn about $95,000 a year and doing well on about $40,000 a year. (approx - skip the math games) Of course an employer being able to get equal parties at that wage difference is thrilled. Try this with an MD and we are talking living well on $100,000/yr as alien and starving on $500,000 a year as a US MD as US Grad. Of course the Hospital or where ever still gets the payments that support the $500,000 a year but the MD doesn't. This causes the CEO of the Hospital a lot of income for every H-1B he can get!
Regards the parent post's remark about living together and visas...., Try having a marriage.
Not commenting on any particular Idea... But, the curious point of this graph is who relies on which type of thinking and why. Take a look at the almost absent connection between the life sciences (biology medicine etc) and the Physics and Chemistry side. There seems to be only a few people talking or connecting here. Note that the earth sciences like geology are a common link between the life sciences and the physics/ chemistry side.
Well the committee for State Security, (Russian translation KGB) is alive and well in the USA. It now comes out what I have been posting for some time that this was an effort to trounce the constitution.
Just about every time I report to people on this forum that observed data is conflicting with their defined model of the universe. I get moderated as troll. I really wish people would wake up and smell the coffee. The data is vastly different from the assumptions.
Doesn't anyone remember the Stardust recovery. It was going to find comet ice. Sorry folks... it must be summer and we just ran out of ice. Of course we have minerals that formed at high heat, (not cold temps) and which would have been destroyed by water. How about a thousand other similar observations that just about shout that the universe doesn't fit the nice box most people believe in right now. The data is out there and it says a completely different story. For example, how if the sun is a nuclear energy furnace does the matter ejected by it speed up as it passes the earth and further out as measured at Saturn? The G-Force hypothesis and Atomic Fusion model of the solar system don't work that way folks! Things would slow down on the way out.
Of course being a good scientist and noting such things on this forum has to be troll! I agree: "At some point, you have to go back to your assumptions and figure out where you went wrong." -- You went wrong -> (to those who mod troll) when you decided to shout down good science questions. The previous poster is right. I just hope we will begin to question the defined reality and challenge the religion that is parading around in the mask of science right now.
To clarify the content of various foods contains a ratio of various items. I don't want to go into exactly which ones -- too much to say if I did. The ratio determines the nutritional value of the foods similar to the air/fuel ratio in a gasoline engine but more complex. If you stuff in all kinds of one item such as protein or fat or carbohydrate and don't match them with the proper vitamins and minerals the situation gets out of hand. Your body will demand more stuff to fill in the ratio. Or it will store the excess to reduce the ratio.
To be fair, I don't think there is any "ONE" solution because people vary in genetic makeup as well in habits and history and they also have illness states etc.
A diet isn't a ratio malnutrition it is reduced intake unless it in some way alters the ratios. One problem people get with diets is that often they have long standing habits that the diet often is unsuited to them. Another is that there really is something to the rate at which various compounds are metabolized. Our diet science if you can call it that really stinks. It is really bad science. It was arrived at for reasons that have nothing to do with control of weight. It measures molecular weight and not bio-availability. It is as stupid as assuming Road Tar and Gasoline are the same thing. It completely disregards the complex metabolic issues or genetic makeup variations.
The magnetic field of the sun is pretty strong but of course is highly variable. At one point in 2005 (about the time we got the strong hurricanes) there were several Coronal Mass Ejections that left the sun riding its field at extreme speeds. By the time one of them passed earth (29 minutes after ejection) the matter was going 15% of the speed of light. By the time the same CME passed Saturn, the matter was going 30% of the speed of light.
People get this right! The solar system is electrical. The whole universe is electrically driven. I know that there are a lot of people out there who just don't get it. That CME that went out so fast..., It had a substantial mass being a large fraction of the mass of the earth. In order to accelerate a mass like this and have it get faster going further and further out the charge on the grid that drives this is nearly beyond calculation. Just for the record all CME's accelerate going out though many are hardly as fast as the 2005 ones. This proves something a lot of people are unwilling to see. The sun is electrical and not NUCLEAR. The neutrinos are missing folks. If the sun was nuclear, the CME's would decelerate on exit from the sun. The Corona would be colder than the surface of the sun. The Corona is 2 million degrees and the surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees.
This electrical reality is the source of the X-Ray emissions in the universe. It causes sun spots and CME's. It explains the forms we see in the universe. It represents the action of a field that is 10^39 times that of any G field that exists. It removes the need to explain things as "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy" and it deletes those famous "Black Holes" and sadly for a lot of people who are just enchanted with the cute theories, it clobbers the "Big Bang." It also disrupts most of the accepted theory but here we see the electrical universe is real and it works. Now we are going to use if for propulsion. The wind is a blowing and it is going to blow away the old theories. Of course the course of science still advances one funeral at a time. I am sure some one of the old guys will declare me Troll rather than accept the obvious reality. Get a life if you disagree or post against me but forget the Troll stuff because I am not being troll to tell the truth.
I have no argument with the studies but I thought throwing a few more facts in the soup might be interesting.
Normally animals and for that matter people given unlimited diets will only have a few individuals get fat. As a general rule diet and for that matter exercise just have little or no effect. We do know several things that to cause weight gain. It is known for example that deliberate malnutrition will cause weight gain. (anybody heard of a feed lot? Thats what it does. ) Genetic engineering of late has been producing the same effect as the feed lot diet.There are a lot of other factors like loss of sleep. Maybe our society and lifestyle really are a disease. We tend to get an arrogant disregard for sleep in our society and we also get a disregard of the quality of our food having food sellers pushing foods that are grown in conditions that don't exactly produce the best balanced nutrition.
To begin with, this technology has been around for something like 60 years. Sorry for the MIT guys but this isn't new. It has been quite possible for some time to get a lot more MPG out of a car. The problem has been two fold. The first is that the High MPG engines make the NOx Pollution. Sorry but if you put the performance chips in your car you can get nearly 2x the power on the same gallon of gas. Of course the sky will turn brown in places like LA if too many people do this.
On the energy front the other reason for the failure is the deliberate prevention of advanced technology in the Auto and Energy supply industries. Those who think that the resistance isn't there don't know what it going on. Detroit and the other Auto centers don't want a "better car." They want the consumer throwaway car.For those who might just want to know the future rarely goes in the direction one thinks at first. IT tends to be a bit cantankerous and tends to go its own way. As a hint though, you might just be wise to look in other directions. Fuel might not be the solution at all. There are at least 11 technologies at this time which are working their way through R&D to production that probably will eliminate fuel from the consideration. A future generation will wonder how we lived the older ways.
Yeah their business is in the Middle East getting those "No Bid" contracts from the US DOD running a mercenary army of rogues who would shoot at the American Citizens if their boss told them to do so. This is what happens when you subcontract out your army. Dare I say the word TREASON! This is particularly treasonous because these people are splitting the scene in possession of the most deeply held secrets of the US military. It is also treasonous because the owners of the company remain the US Congressmen and Politicians and the Politico families of America.
Oops! I forgot to report a little feature of their move that the previous "Insightful" idiot forgot. When you move over seas, you can by repatriation under the GATT export your entire set of profits to a nice tax haven while remaining fictionally an American Company. This means you can suck hard on the tit of the Washington DC sow sucking the US Taxpayers Dry while sitting there fat and tax exempt. Insightful Hell the previous poster is a complete IDIOT. This deal places the key secrets of the USA in the hands of fat cats who are so loyal that they will not even help pay back a trivial sum of their taxpayer river of funds while they sell our technology to the highest bidder --- Dare I say terrorist or dictator?
This all reminds me of a conversation I had with my brother who works for the US Army Corps of Engineers. He bragged how using these contractors was saving us poor taxpayers billions. I looked at him back then and said, "Saving money Hell, you just bankrupted the USA!" Then I went on to tell him that when you lay off a US Soldier he goes home and goes to work in a regular job, but when you lay off a contractor, he just seeks out another contract from another customer using my technology. In short, he switches sides. Honestly the next thing we are going to see is Haliburton armies facing off against the US Army. The US Army will be short of armor with the old weapons and antique tech while the Haliburton army working for the latest Osama bin Ladin clone will be armed with the top armor, weapons and provisions. Who wins this one people? Murder Inc is Haliburton!
Well I cannot be sure it is worked out since I haven't gone through the equations step by step, but it looks pretty good to me. ---> Fran de Aquino
may just have worked this question out. I can assure you that something is definitely quite different than the standard cosmology is saying. Have fun.Back On topic...
The issue of a massive quantity of water in the mantle of the earth throws a big monkey wrench into the current theories of how the earth is formed and structured. It also throws a bunch of wrenches into the whole cosmological theory basis for how the earth formed etc. If the earth formed starting little and then grew hot from impacts and so forth then the water would be boiled out into space and the oceans would not exist. Sorry but the whole theory basis for the formation and structure of the earth as we now supposedly know it is goofed up by this.
Now on to what really is going on. The earth exists and grows. It grows by a process where by electrical charges are converted into matter. The sun is doing this as well as every other body in the universe. This allows them to be made "in situ". I know it will torque over the physics police and if you don't like what I have to say get over it. The universe is not formed by the current popular theories. They are busted. The electrical formation allows the construction of large bodies of water on the planet inside of it. It allows the formation of matter of almost any type. It allows the addition of oceans to the earth after the rocky body formed without having to add comet ice which as we now know from the space probes that went to comets, doesn't exist. It allows the construction of a planet with unique atomic makeup without any of the current age of the Universe or big bang or whatever. It allows the construction of a planet in the form we now see. It doesn't deny impacts but they become insignificant to the overall state of the planet. The planet can grow and split apart as NOAA sea bed maps show for sure has happened.
One thing which the guys writing the explanations suffer from is that they cannot get their heads out of the old theories. You cannot sink a continent containing that much water (Specific Gravity 2.5 or so) into basalt with specific gravity near 5.0. It doesn't work. The sinking continent idea doesn't work. The water is being made down there.
If you want the whole process it is too long for this forum but in synopsis the universe is plasma driven and the energy of this drives the reactions I am talking about. These are lab reproduced reactions. They work. As such there is good evidence that this is the process set. Of course it will just about trash all of the current theories of the universe that are so near and dear to the heart of so many.
By the way the appearance of this matches well to the orbital data over the earth in these places. The mountains of this region exist because the area has this deviation.
Why don't you get a life? Spell checkers and such don't always come up with the right words, people get tired, make minor mistakes etc. Try thinking of your errors when you get onto others. You may spell great, but you may have other weaknesses. How about bothering to comment on what is intended (and you knew what was intended) rather than being the spell check police?
It is the GMO's. Sorry for those who think that it isn't so. There is a 1:1 correspondence. The gene that makes cotton and other crops resistant to pests also infects their pollen and nectar. The result is that after a bee has taken its fill of nectar, it succumbs to the poison in the nectar. As such a crop bees that goes for the pollen and nectar of such a GMO crop is doomed. The French are RIGHT!
This is another in the long line of accomplishments of the GMO people. Unintended consequences of their actions bring real problems. The GMO people always deny these problems. For example, they told farmers that weeds were the problem with their crops and the roundup resistance gene was used to end weeds all together. It worked too! But with the weeds gone there was nothing to prevent soil erosion in the winter. So the farmers in my area now have to plant winter wheat to protect their soil and then kill it when the drill in their other crops in the spring. In the mean time the cost of cotton dropped by nearly 2/3 of the total price resulting in farmers being hardly able to make any money. Their machinery and loans and GMO payments became their slave masters. This stuff of playing with mother nature isn't exactly working out like the economics professors said it would.
Sorry to not be joking but I thought a few points might be worth discussing here...!
The high power lasers like these develop a problem almost immediately with atmosphere effects. This limits their range based upon the frequency and atmosphere response. I know it is a general statement but the range of such devices is limited unless other cute tricks are pulled like phase conjugate reflection controls and pulsed beam timing to literally displace the atmosphere and form a cavity for beam transmission. Yes it all varies with the color of the light.
The real issues here are quite simple. The technology will be sold out to the Chinese as soon as it is built. This in the name of making it cheaper and on the alter of "free trade." The other problem is the time it allows for decision making just reduced war beyond even the computers response times. Enemy possess laser and can shoot at any time. (Figure this one out for fun!) You possess a laser and are targeting. "Friendly fire" anyone? The problem with such weapons and it is coming no matter what we do is that they by their very existence pose an instant and continual and real threat to others. Of course if we don't have them somebody else will.
Essentially the libertarians don't see any use for government. Sorry but it has a use to enforce the obligations people have to society. That is its proper duty. Many Libertarians excuse off their selfishness and short sightedness by cute arguments like the ones they pump out about the rights of an industrialist to damage society and the economy in the name of his own economy. They use the same arguments to say that we have no business restricting the alien access to the US Market.
They also ignore that citizenship is a property right bought in blood that trumps all other property rights in value. That citizenship defines the very money they worship. To deliberately destroy the economy of another because you can for a profit is to cause a tort injury that demands by justice a redress and recovery of damage. When a man invests his life and family in a business or education and then you without thought consider to destroy his economy you have done nothing less than a man running a car recklessly through the street striking pedestrians has done.
The topic of Cell Phones is really pretty plain. These people think they should hold a monopoly on service charging by the minute even while their costs are essentially fixed costs. They propose to use a lease on public rights of way to do this. It is well within the rights of the public to demand the terms of the use of their rights of way. Sorry Libertarians but I am using your logic and when someone knows the whole picture, it doesn't excuse off the claimed nonesense
Well it is plain to see that the moderators on this site don't like any opposing points of view to their physics beliefs. They moderate what was obviously a logical and a bit touched with humor point or two that obviously touched a nerve. They don't like the reality of someone who knows their arguments and their logic and sees through it. I just hope that somebody sees this and mods the parent up fixing this assault on free speech and decent thinking. Good science should be better than that.
I like thinking people. The parent of this post was definitely thinking. I personally will be most interested to see the contortions and outright lying the physics community goes through in order to keep their theory intact even after the obvious reality that they have goofed up is seen. This mathematical gamesmanship going on in the physics community with multiple dimensions to explain reality is getting a bit absurd. Lets see..., Hmmm! Well It didn't work in 11 dimensions but maybe in 12? Sad reality is that we call ourselves living in 3 dimensions (X, Y, Z) but in reality there is only one dimension and that is pure vector.
The reality of our world was explained almost 150 years ago by Maxwell and his equations got it right. His equations depended upon the ether. All attempts to deny the ether have proved wrong. GPS works because the Sagnac Principal works and it works because of the ether. I love the explanations of how the universe popped out of the head of a pin (Big Bang) and yet somehow we have to live in a universe entirely balanced on its forces where no energy or matter can be created...., Hmmmmmmmmmm!
So we created the universe and all of its energy and matter so long ago in some massive violation of the laws of thermodynamics but now days these are immutable. Which is why the CERN facility is going to be able to reproduce it....,. Of course those who bring this up keep on ignoring the most basic reality of the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics. That is all motion is Forever! That means perpetual motion folks. Read the laws if you don't believe me. "An object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by and external force." Sounds pretty perpetual to me! But since we also can create an opposed set of motions from nothing and we can do force annihilation it would appear we can create and destroy energy. We also know the energy to matter equivalence so this gets pretty close to creation of matter. Well enough teasing the angry Gods of Physics. They have no sense of humor. This is going to be funny to watch. Lets all do what the French do when they have something to celebrate and break open a bottle of the bubbly. It is sure to improve our ability to understand.
How about a different and respectful track? I wouldn't mind seeing a cleaner world. There are about 7 billion reasons I can think of right off the bat that say we don't need to be polluting our air, water and land with what we are doing. We don't need to argue over global warming or cooling or whatever to suggest that making a mess is not wise.
In this light I would suggest that people tend to see only surface effects and situations regards their activities. The USA for example does import massive amounts of oil, it also exports most of it right back out as finished products such as food, fertilizer, fiber, refined oil products and such. Sorry for those who want to blame someone but we are kind of in this together. I live in Alabama, USA. We are the worlds 2nd largest energy exporter. Coal! The same people who are yelling this nonsense about Kyoto and such are also sucking up our coal while telling us we cannot burn it. So we get to blast apart our mountains to make China, India and Indonesia have Electric power and running factories. You see Alabama's Coal is too dirty to be burned in Alabama but well... it is quite OK in some other places. Alabama also is a net CO2 uptake sink we are just about #1. (Georgia USA is #1) You see we have massive forests. So we produce the oxygen that blows around to China for them to mill our wood and .... It all is one power big game people.
Lets be fair though. Since the research at Ben Nevis (England) and the discovery of the Cloud Chamber over 100 years ago, the science for cosmic rays causing clouds has been known. It isn't new science! It is also quite obvious for anyone to see that the climate is changing and always has been so. It never stays the same. It is also obvious that mankind can poison and destroy enough area and resources to make a horrible mess. Why don't we start looking for how we can clean up our mess and not just make more? The fact or fiction of "Global Warming" doesn't really matter, whether the world gets colder or warmer, isn't going to be the end of the world. Poisoning large parts of our earth with our stupidity is not wise.
For those who are looking for the reality though, I would suggest a trip to the web and look up SOHO and start learning about the electrical universe that surrounds us. For those who want to argue about stuff here on earth..., How on earth do you get mad at me for burning coal in a plant with a scrubber for the smoke when you let the Chinese compete against me without doing any cleanup at all? Shouldn't China have to scrub their smoke? Of course before I confuse you too much the US-TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) operates some of the largest coal fired power plants on earth. They scrub the S02 out of the smoke. Now we see environmentalists suggesting we plant S02 to cool our planet? Go figure. US-TVA's SO2 emissions are not insignificant. A few years ago the US-TVA looked at selling the SO2 as an industrial raw material (base for sulphuric acid). They were stunned when they discovered that they could if they did so produce 12 times the entire world demand for SO2. Just a few points to think about when you realize that China is planning to burn under Kyoto 6 times as much coal.......... all within the treaty while Alabama has to cut back. Hmmmm!? This isn't troll, its just noting the facts folks. Have fun with your conclusions.
Obviously some operations do best as serial operations. Any process whereby we do a series of operations to one unit of data that is not done to all of the rest of the data in exactly the same way has obvious advantages being done in series. It is by definition a series of events.
To clarify, using a serial process is sort of like building a stack. You cannot add an item to a stack ahead of the item that is to precede it. If you do you break the intended order. Parallel is sort of like what could happen if you had a brick layer who could lay all of the bricks in one row at one time. So each row in a brick wall could be done in parallel to advantage but each row must be stacked on the previous row. So it should be clear that there are processes that have great advantage in series and some others have great advantage in parallel. USE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE RIGHT JOB PLEASE! To be a bit silly here from Dr Seuss "Oh the thinks you can think" --(Wonder and think how much water can 55 elephants drink.) 55 elephants drinking at one time is a parallel operation. Each elephant drinking after the other is in series. It would be a bit hard to get the last elephant a drink before the first one needed another drink if this process is done in series. It sort of makes sense to do some jobs in parallel and others in series. Nothing is a one size fits all solution.
Optical processing solutions and mapping solutions are natural solutions for parallel processing. Done in series these processes tax very nearly the entire computing power we can summons and then they perform less than optimally. Done in parallel these operations by nature would become nearly instantly solved. Suppose for example we had parallel processing on Airline ticketing and routing. The data on which flight to take and the optimal schedule would be available almost instantly. Conversely done as it is in series (multi threaded though it may be) this process is at best a slightly optimized kludge. A similar solution is for memory access in computers. Currently all computer hard drives and similar mass storage devices are nothing but series accessed devices. This produces the curious reality of fetch times on a large hard drive (mean times) that are quite long. Done in Parallel, these operations could easily be done in a few clock cycles fetching data almost instantly. If for example you had a processor dedicated to each sector in each track, the hard drive could be read, fetched and files processed out nearly instantly.
We have developed processors that are really good. Their clock rates are beyond imagination fast. Yet competing against a processor which is massively parallel and with a clock rate less than 30 cycles per second, (Your brain) modern computers are at best running poor second rate. Many problems simple are beyond the modern computers and yet are routinely solved by humans. The move to massively parallel will bring up a genuine competition. But to think this way requires one to divorce the old thinking and get into a completely different mind set.
Its just opinion but I think the problem with parallel programming is a substantial lack of processors. If for example a die was made with 10 million processors on it (very simple processors) with modest queue memory, there are applications in optical data processing that would become extremely efficient and much more natural than any solutions as of this time. Otherwise we just spend our time loading the queue of one or 4 processors millions of times to do exactly the same process on the data from each pixel in a camera for example.
Having 4 processors is not parallel processing, it is just divided serial processing. Parallel processing allows that the process is in fact done in parallel rather than simply divided into 4 pipes. The thinking that is dominating the processor study at this time is one of how do we do these "serial" processes faster. Duh! We are going to parallel processes here folks! It requires thinking in a whole different paradigm. It isn't serial processing of course the guys with serial brains are not going to get the process figured out.
Multi-threading is merely serial operations done with time interrupts and conditional interrupt flags. It is by definition serial. The parent post isn't bad, it begins to get there, but really we have to get out of that mind set. Parallel will operate like a single serial operation set applied in several million sets at the same time without interrupts. Parallel programming will have many other features including a reconstruction of base process step after the parallel is done. To illustrate, if you were to do a simple operation such as comparing one video frame with another in real time, you could compare with a corresponding number of processors every pixel in one clock cycle. You could at the end of that cycle instruct another set of operations such as a time decayed comparison of many frames.
Isn't it ironic that a profession alleged to be dedicated to the good of mankind is completely unwilling to accept human limitations as a criteria for their management in the work place? Sorry if I am so crass but the medical profession has made a business out of this sort of cruel behavior. (No this isn't troll -- its a fact)
Actually this whole story and it's subsequent discussions illustrates the conflicts of interest that develop as you take a person and reduce them to a mere cog in the wheels of society. The interests (Adam Smith "Invisible Hand") of the individual have in modern society become so departed from the common interest of the survival of society and the general welfare of all mankind that we allow arguments and policy that are insane on the face of them. The "Invisible Hand" only works when it is driven with the whole picture in mind. As such the economic and social arguments of many "Libertarian" and "Conservative" types (Not all of them please!) often depart from any reality. Medicine when driven by profit motive does not seek to cure, that is a one shot one time customer who pays little. It seeks rather to treat where many expensive unsuccessful repeat visits occur.
It is a complete reality that there are multiple technologies out there which for little cost will cure many conditions of mankind. There are also other solutions awaiting "research funding" that work well or will soon work well if given the chance. Examples of these include "Cold Lasers" which can improve healing, reduce most arthritic conditions, stop many infections and more. Another is strong magnets. They work for pain relief (in some cases as strong as morphine without the problems) and to accelerate healing. These all languish for lack of FDA approval due to the fact that they cannot be patented and held hostage to pay back for the expensive studies needed. The argument for socialized medicine becomes strong here. Many other things like vaccines could cure or prevent many diseases and will never happen because of this system. For example a vaccine against Syphilis and some other Sexually Transmitted Diseases would dramatically cut costs in our world. They compete against the ineffective treatments so they never happen. The reasons here are very simple. The "Invisible Hand" is pushed by the MD and Hospital Paycheck rather than by the end customer's needs.
In medicine there is another nasty realty. Answer for yourself, have you ever known anyone who was seriously ill that could pay their own medical costs? (Rare for sure) Everyone sick depends on the healthy to support them back to health. It is a reality that has no answer in the "Free Market." It has an answer as an obligation of mankind and a function of society. (Read Thomas Payne "Common Sense" [1776]) Government is the proper agent to compel those who forget this obligation of society to do their duty. All defects of Government admitted.
As to the kindness of Medical Personnel, there are many decent persons there. However; there is a group largely the management level who have no human compassion what so ever. They call the shots. These people think there is something right about having staff who does not have health care coverage. These people run an industry in the USA which has a very high rate of uninsured parties and primarily as a result of the determined policy of management. The best way to describe the management of Health Care in the USA is that it is a gang of vultures and jackals.
Since every time I clobber this issue, some idiot calls me a troll and mods me through the floor I probably shouldn't answer but in the hope that there are some true scientific types out there.... I will post away.
The answer is really very simple and detailed explanations can be found in the discussion of the Plasma Universe. Thunderbolts has a good explanation.
Essentially the real issue is that the EM force rules the universe and all of the data coming back backs up the assertions of the Thunderbolts crew. The Einstein Special Relativity crowd who thinks gravity rules are just wrong. Sorry but they are. Special Relativity is a busted theory and it doesn't answer issues like the atmosphere temperature on Saturn. A busted theory is one that doesn't match reality. They don't match reality.
The issue of the heating of atmospheres and much more is a very serious issue. I wish we could get some seriously good science going here. There is a lot going on that needs good science. The IEEE thinks so as well and has opened a full discussion site for the discussion of the plasma universe. I hope it happens soon and the guys who disagree get back into science and quit trying the shout down routine.
In the mean time if you are moderating quit thinking that to bring this up is troll. It is actually quite informative.
I hate to even suggest it but maybe when one is talking with a recruiter the prospect should clandestinely record the negotiation. It probably would result in termination from the offer and one being set but it might will set such a company bait and switch program with a fraud charge. I disagree with the huge mix up excuse. Company people have played this game against me.
Of course the worst of these bait and switch games is that famous sign on bonus that somehow becomes dependent on you keeping the job for a year or two and of course they can let you go and make you have to give it back. It also sets your wages high in the first year and gives you a pay cut in the second year. Don't believe me? Try asking them not to give you the sign on bonus but rather just set your wages up the few thousand dollars a year. They don't take that offer.
The issue that NASA is trying to resolve has much more important value than the previous post is thinking. The mechanisms for the aurora and other processes are very powerful producing electrical currents at the highest levels ever seen. What is more the processes do affect the earth in profound ways. The link between these and the weather is being firmly established. NASA is starting to get the data together that is linking the stellar space behavior and that of all weather on the planet earth.
Yes this is very important. It involves everything from the trivial to the profound. Make no mistake about it the aurora mechanism is very important to understanding the physics of the universe as well. There is a considerable prejudice against what is coming down form SOHO and other platforms. The Electrical Nature of the Universe is being proved with very strong evidence thought the Gravity only crowd still attacks it. The entire electrical circuit will be pretty much locked up when this network of measuring devices is installed. At which point the whole nature of the cosmos will be shown without doubt to be vastly different from the classical assumptions. Yes this is important stuff here.