Any outside technical people working with police are preferrable to the police' own experts: for being interested in geting their science right rather than getting their job done and over with - possibly by framing up the suspect.
" would be only slightly less viscous than the water itself "
Not quite correct, sir. If the stuff is crosslinked, the resulting solution will have a consistency of a gelly. It can be fragile and shaky, but not liquid.
Which brings the question whether gelyfish-like material would be good thing to have in the books, since water evaporation from jelly is greatly reduced.
$10000 thermal cycling machine is nothing more than variable heating/cooling bath. It is about as complicated as a home-breadmaking machine and I am sure that if there was large market for it (if it was sold like home appliance) it would cost maybe $200. One can do just as well manualy, with a beaker of hot and cold water, as described in the article. This is completely common with all lab equipment and lab chemicals - being overpriced over comparable bulk or common products by order of magnitude.
One business day of a qualified lab researcher or technician costs on average $1000 in th US (building cost and overhead, the administration etc, not mentioning lousy sysadmins). So you buy the $10 000 automated instrument and a nice PCS kit, no problem. Besides, nobody in US pharma or medical industry has incentive to do it cheaply.
[Universities have limited grant money and can use student labor for purifying ceramic dust.]
Me: "Why did you agree to have this deadline - when you knew well right then that it was not possible to meet it, even with 80-hour week? This pressure just makes people freaked out and frustrated. And it is dangerous to do it this way."
Manager: "Well, see what what you can do about it."
Adding retroviral code snippets into random places of your genome - in all cells throughout your body - sounds like a pretty secure way to get the police of your back: you could be dead from cancer long before they find and arrest you.
My score was 29 on the test. I should score better if I had ability to remember numbers. Anyway, here iare little Asperger jokes:
1)What is iodate? "iodate is a person yo go out to have dinnor with."
2)Physician is examining an elderly patient, taking his blood presure and asking: "Are you having problems with erection?"
"Not anymore. Now all these women can go and annoy someone else."
I have allway had severe trouble with angering my bosses, colleagues and advisors. I could not see why was all this happening, why my single-minded determination to do something would make them ballistic. I did not want to upset them, just get them out of my way.
You can learn by experience. I would say the best approach in dealing with people is to be completely sicere and natural. If they don't like you, it is at least easier on you since you do not have to pretend. Small talk and polite flattery - screw those types who need it.
[If you put a guy on hold for an hour, he will not bug you with those dumb support questions again].
Aspergers/autismus people have trouble with humor. I heard of one college math luminary - who was a bit on the far side of the autism spectra - being told a silly joke: "Cats always land on all four, and the toast always lands buttered side down. The way to build perpetum mobile is to tape a buttered toast onto the cat's back and throw it out from a window."
The poor autism guy did not get it and was working for hours trying to figure it out.
"Investigators at the School of Engineering are the first to manufacture these engines in a durable, heat resistant material such as ceramic or silicon carbide."
Apparently their ear is resistant (up to 2700K). Maybe yours would become too ceramic too - after the first bake.
Wait, and there is more - some solid propellants, used by military and in shuttle SRBs have pretty high energy/weight index ratio too. And it is easy to operate and get a great thrust from a small ammount of stuff. [Once you lit the fuse on the recharging rocket cell-phone fuel cartridge, you may have to hold tight on your mobile phone for next 30 seconds.]
How to recognize real news from Public Relation: The PR stuff is usualy better written and more funny. The smarter journalist often end up in better-paying jobs at agency, writing the "news" for their lazy colleagues at newspaper.
I loved the Vons clerk story, though.
[I may be little paranoid, but that does not mean that nobody is trying to shrink me with these mutant melons]
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Future likely application on a turtle ranch:
Turtle owner: "Where are all turtles?" Cybogr the turtle sheppard: "Wait. I was counting them. One turtle, two turtles, three turtles... trrrr and suddenly they were all gone away, pro'ly off to someplace"
"Researchers at Princeton have announced the results of a brain imaging study showing... a battle between different logical and emotional sectors of the brain...to investigate why people often make irrational decisions that actually go against their most logical best interests."
One day, the technical types will figure even the most unpredictable process of all - the mind of a girfriend.
Standing in the muddy lake and bludgeoning hippos with stone hand axes... modern humans were developing fast right there.
Being small, skinny and sickly can be useful trait. It gives you opportunity to draw pictures of men hunting hippos and men-hunting hippos for your children.
Who cares about space elevator: But if it is *five times* stronger than steel, it must be also better than Immodium.
[Use with meal, do not exceed 120 meter recommended daily dose. Spiderman is a copyrighted work of art, ingesting Carbonfibre for this purpose without authorisation of Warner Bros is prohibited.]
This fiber is not measured for a single nano-tube. What they do is taking a gelatine-like glue with tubes dispersed in it and extrude it and bake it. The tubes are aligned and glued together in the process. So this is the real, macroscopic parameter.
By the way, from the simple chemicals named as a starting material, it seems like they got a good shot at producing this cheaply. You know, until now the nanotubes were pretty expensive. (More than gold by weight)
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Any outside technical people working with police are preferrable to the police' own experts: for being interested in geting their science right rather than getting their job done and over with - possibly by framing up the suspect.
they should be investigated and stopped
from doimg their anti-competetive magnetic practices.
US army cannot get HIV/AIDS, because nobody loves them.
" would be only slightly less viscous than the water itself "
Not quite correct, sir. If the stuff is crosslinked, the resulting solution will have a consistency of a gelly. It can be fragile and shaky, but not liquid.
Which brings the question whether gelyfish-like material would be good thing to have in the books, since water evaporation from jelly is greatly reduced.
PCR, sorry.
$10000 thermal cycling machine is nothing more than variable heating/cooling bath. It is about as complicated as a home-breadmaking machine and I am sure that if there was large market for it (if it was sold like home appliance) it would cost maybe $200. One can do just as well manualy, with a beaker of hot and cold water, as described in the article. This is completely common with all lab equipment and lab chemicals - being overpriced over comparable bulk or common products by order of magnitude.
One business day of a qualified lab researcher or technician costs on average $1000 in th US (building cost and overhead, the administration etc, not mentioning lousy sysadmins). So you buy the $10 000 automated instrument and a nice PCS kit, no problem. Besides, nobody in US pharma or medical industry has incentive to do it cheaply.
[Universities have limited grant money and can use student labor for purifying ceramic dust.]
Here is a recent Dilbertian conversation:
Me: "Why did you agree to have this deadline - when you knew well right then that it was not possible to meet it, even with 80-hour week? This pressure just makes people freaked out and frustrated. And it is dangerous to do it this way."
Manager: "Well, see what what you can do about it."
Not even if she had 20x magnifying glass?
Adding retroviral code snippets into random places of your genome - in all cells throughout your body - sounds like a pretty secure way to get the police of your back: you could be dead from cancer long before they find and arrest you.
Tall blondes may participate in two more tests that had been planned
I thought this was the term for a heat sink/overclock bummer
With the GPS-guided bombs arriving first, you won't need to hear the sonic boom.
"With the loss of the Challenger, the crash of the Helios, and now this, it makes me wonder what next."
Tragic demise of Bill Gates, I fear.
My score was 29 on the test. I should score better if I had ability to remember numbers. Anyway, here iare little Asperger jokes:
1)What is iodate?
"iodate is a person yo go out to have dinnor with."
2)Physician is examining an elderly patient, taking his blood presure and asking: "Are you having problems with erection?"
"Not anymore. Now all these women can go and annoy someone else."
I have allway had severe trouble with angering my bosses, colleagues and advisors. I could not see why was all this happening, why my single-minded determination to do something would make them ballistic. I did not want to upset them, just get them out of my way.
You can learn by experience. I would say the best approach in dealing with people is to be completely sicere and natural. If they don't like you, it is at least easier on you since you do not have to pretend. Small talk and polite flattery - screw those types who need it.
[If you put a guy on hold for an hour, he will not bug you with those dumb support questions again].
Aspergers/autismus people have trouble with humor. I heard of one college math luminary - who was a bit on the far side of the autism spectra - being told a silly joke: "Cats always land on all four, and the toast always lands buttered side down. The way to build perpetum mobile is to tape a buttered toast onto the cat's back and throw it out from a window."
The poor autism guy did not get it and was working for hours trying to figure it out.
"Investigators at the School of Engineering are the first to manufacture these engines in a durable, heat resistant material such as ceramic or silicon carbide."
Apparently their ear is resistant (up to 2700K).
Maybe yours would become too ceramic too - after the first bake.
Wait, and there is more - some solid propellants, used by military and in shuttle SRBs have pretty high energy/weight index ratio too. And it is easy to operate and get a great thrust from a small ammount of stuff. [Once you lit the fuse on the recharging rocket cell-phone fuel cartridge, you may have to hold tight on your mobile phone for next 30 seconds.]
Try to get tattooed with some nifty lines in C++ . If the code is longer, you may consider using larger body areas, like chest.
How to recognize real news from Public Relation:
The PR stuff is usualy better written and more funny. The smarter journalist often end up in better-paying jobs at agency, writing the "news" for their lazy colleagues at newspaper.
I loved the Vons clerk story, though.
[I may be little paranoid, but that does not mean that nobody is trying to shrink me with these mutant melons]
Future likely application on a turtle ranch:
Turtle owner: "Where are all turtles?"
Cybogr the turtle sheppard: "Wait. I was counting them. One turtle, two turtles, three turtles... trrrr and suddenly they were all gone away, pro'ly off to someplace"
"Researchers at Princeton have announced the results of a brain imaging study showing ... a battle between different logical and emotional sectors of the brain...to investigate why people often make irrational decisions that actually go against their most logical best interests."
One day, the technical types will figure even the most unpredictable process of all - the mind of a girfriend.
Standing in the muddy lake and bludgeoning hippos with stone hand axes... modern humans were developing fast right there.
Being small, skinny and sickly can be useful trait. It gives you opportunity to draw pictures of men hunting hippos and men-hunting hippos for your children.
Who cares about space elevator: But if it is *five times* stronger than steel, it must be also better than Immodium.
[Use with meal, do not exceed 120 meter recommended daily dose. Spiderman is a copyrighted work of art, ingesting Carbonfibre for this purpose without authorisation of Warner Bros is prohibited.]
This fiber is not measured for a single nano-tube. What they do is taking a gelatine-like glue with tubes dispersed in it and extrude it and bake it. The tubes are aligned and glued together in the process. So this is the real, macroscopic parameter.
By the way, from the simple chemicals named as a starting material, it seems like they got a good shot at producing this cheaply. You know, until now the nanotubes were pretty expensive. (More than gold by weight)
because Russians got Venus.
(lame lame lame me)