I only joined SPS when I studied abroad and lost free access from the dorms to Physics Today and Phys Rev Letters. I seem to remember it being incredibly affordable (~$30 maybe). You only got to pick two journals to have access to, but that's all I wanted. Of course, I have no idea how much my college paid for me to have access to every journal imaginable from my dorm. Or how much my university now pays so that I can use their proxy from home to get even more.
It seems to me like a slippery slope from being a selective and respectable author-pays journal to being the equivalent of the vanity publisher. I think they could make more headway by restructuring their membership fees and benefits. Maybe more people'd buy a membership if it got them their two most-read journals for cheaper.
I stand corrected. I always assummed the Wright Amendment was a state law, but a google comfirms its federal. It does make more sense for the state to not be stepping on the federal government's toes in the aviation regulation department.
Difference is that this isn't the incoming country collecting the information at customs, but the AA people at the departure country.
Your destination country has the right to refuse you a visa if you don't give them the information they request, but they also probably have privacy laws saying that they won't be selling said information. He asked what AA's data-retention policy was and whose policy it was to collect this information (TSA or AA) and they couldn't answer him sufficiently.
His letter asks AA for the information he's entilted to under UK law: the company's data-retention policies on this information.
On another note, I've found that it's completely normal for airline agents to tell you that anything the company has told them to do is a federal policy, whether it actually is or not. For instance, bags can't be checked through from Love Field in Dallas to airports in non-adjacent states due to a local law meant to send out-of-state traffic through DFW, but if you ask the airline agents they'll adamantly claim it's FAA policy.
What does your school have to do with being a Bush supporter? I'm a physics PhD candidate at one of the three best AMO schools and I'm a huge bleeding heart liberal, despite being Texas born and bred. What we'd call a yellow-dog Democrat. In fact, I consider Bush the anti-christ. But my vote doesn't count twice because I've had so much schooling. The fact is that stupid people exist at all levels of society - as you've just reconfirmed.
Stereotypes have always only worked on large groups, not individuals. That's why people condemn their use on individuals. You don't get a prize for being a living example of these exceptions.
It's not like exit polls == victory. The pollsters don't have anything to gain from messing with exit poll data. I just don't understand why exit polling, which is used in other countries to sucessfully predict election results to within 1% and therefore ensure votes are counted, is so freaking unreliable here. We need an external check on the system, and either our votes weren't counted right or our check isn't working. Either way, I want it fixed.
I loved our system in Boulder. No punch machines, and there's a nice paper trail in case of recount. I didn't know they were so time-intensive though, which explains why CNN is reporting that only 30% of our precincts are reporting now.
Then it must be that Cauchy and Riemann got to everything in complex second, cause they sure as hell had everything but Euler's formula named after them.
Notice that I said most teams I knew. I know that there are good teams out there who build everything and do really well, but that doesn't change the fact that FIRST is an expensive competition that schools need to round up the money for. BEST requires absolutely no investment from the school or recruitment of outside funds. They hand you the parts. So you avoid the problem of overbearing sponsors entirely. That's the main appeal of BEST over FIRST.
The biggest difference between FIRST and BEST (and the reason my high school did BEST instead of FIRST) is corporate sponsorship. Every team that we knew who did FIRST ended up not really designing their robots because their sponsors were so invested in having a winning robot that they had their engineers do most of the design work. BEST has no sponsorship - in fact, you're only allowed to use parts from a short list - and so the students end up actually doing the design work.
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My friend's Dad had a bad case of polio as a kid and has a rough limp because of it. He doesn't need a cane or anything, but there is no such thing as a walk for leisure/scenery etc. Then they bought a couple of Segways so that he could go with wife or one of the kids on rides around the neighborhood and through local parks. Of course, his kids also like taking them off-roading in said locales, but for the first time in fifty-odd years he can go out for a spin around the park without a painful limp. Good thing they aren't illegal on his sidewalks.
Ozone will corrode almost anything. We had to overpressurize our lab at school because it was across the hall from the copy room. The ozone from the copiers was causing our silver mirrors to corrode very slowly. There's a reason it gets rid of odors so well: it reacts with almost everything.
They didn't fabricate results, their results just became public too quickly, and so when there was trouble duplicating the results, there was serious backlash against them.
Several congress critters have done just that, and from what I understand, there will be international observers here... I read it a couple of days ago on one of the media sites like CNN or something.
If you don't want to RTFA, "OSCE, the world's largest regional security organization, will send a preliminary mission to Washington in September to assess the size, scope, logistics and cost of the mission, Gunnarsdottir said." I think usually that monitors only have the ability to either endorse or publicly condemn election results. So they essentially have no authority except in the court of public opinion.
On an interesting side note: "In November 2002, OSCE sent 10 observers on a weeklong mission to monitor the U.S. midterm elections. OSCE also sent observers to monitor the California gubernatorial recall election last year."
I'm in California, and have already requested my absentee ballot.
Nice and all that you have yourself taken care of in this coming election, but I hope you're also trying to make sure others aren't disenfranchised by getting the word out and contacting your local politicians in charge of such things. While your one vote being counted accurately is reassuring to you, it isn't to me.
If Diebold was really evil, than they would have put much more thought into the machines.
I'd have to say that more evil was accomplished through incompetence than through sheer malice. Whatever their intentions (and the sibling points out suspicious hints at it) their incompetence makes it easier for people to take advantage of exploits maliciously. I'll stick with the conspiracy theories regardless of possible intent, because the opportunity for them really happening is still there.
This was already done when I was in college a few years back at Harvey Mudd. Every year one dorm builds a movie screen in their courtyard for the super bowl and leaves it up for a week after for video games and movies. In between, people regularly use the screens in our large lecture hall for after hours gaming. It looks like a blast, but at Mudd at least there's no market for selling this service.
Galveston is worse. Wherever you are, Galveston is worse. It has the most Section 8 housing per captia in the country. My sister drives a soft-top Jeep there, and she leaves the doors unlocked so that people can rifle through and see that there's nothing to steal left behind. At least once a week she comes back to discover that her glovebox has been sifted through and forty cents is gone from the dash. A couple of times though the doors have been unlocked and people have still cut into the soft-top, found nothing inside. Drives her insurance up like mad to have to fix that top all the time.
The technique usually used for this I understand is conformal mapping. There's a little spiel and animation about it here. The calculation itself isn't really that fun, at least from what I remember from my homework assignments, but its pretty cool that it can be done systematically for all these airfoils.
If you are into the details, from the the Riemann theorem quoted in the wikipedia link, any simply connected subset of the complex plane can be mapped onto a disk, and since it's easy to conformally map from a disk to the complex plane minus that disk - like in the figure on the second linked page - then once you know that first mapping for whatever shape your airfoil is (the hard part) you can figure out all the fluid flows around that shape. Of course, this entire technique only works for infinitely long airfoils, since the complex plane just represents a cross-section. If you dislike math and want the actual figure you can just stick it into an air-tunnel and skip the calculation. But you get the idea.
Katie T makes the point on her webpage that Parry Aftab was not representing her. In fact, going back to the original report of the conversation on katie.com, Katie Jones merely says that Aftab said she was working with Katie Tarbox on a project. So it sounds like Aftab was working on her own dime, and thought that she could get ahold of the domain for their project herself.
Of course, plausible deniability only stretches so far. Katie Tarbox definitely could have pressured the publishers on this one if she wanted to, but instead she decided to say she was powerless over the situtation.
Who'd you steal the Camero from? Or do you really mean that you copied a Camero, liked the copy, even though it was lower quality, and then later bought a high quality original?
I don't really understand whose hands I'm taking music out of when I download a copy to see how good it is.
My sister decided to get laser surgery when the insurance at her job started covering it. She was legally blind before without any contacts. She went to the guy that was recommended by multiple doctors, and afterwards (well, after the initial swelling of the surgery went down) she had better vision than she'd ever had with contacts even.
So it's not all a sales pitch when you hear how great it works, but as with any other surgical procedure, check out the person you plan on seeing before getting it done. And ask as many questions as you want to first, too. I'm always surprised by people who don't feel comfortable questioning their doctor. I feel way more comfortable when I get an answer to my question and the impression that the guy with the knife knows his shit.
* Finally think I have goat sex written correctly in German. I think. Arschficken?
Arschficken mit Ziegen really means assf*cking with goats. If you want goat sex, I'd got with Ziegegeschlecht (to coin a new compound word - why not, it's German afterall). Geschlecht seems to be the preferred equivalent to the english noun sex.
As the sibling said, all this can be generalized. A set of funtions can form a vector space, defined by orthogonal functions. The idea of orthogonal functions might be familiar from differential equations, where sines and cosines and other solutions to equations were usually chosen so as to be linearly independent. From there it's easy to generalize more linear algebra things like eigenvalue equations with operators instead of vectors on one side. In fact, there's many types of vector spaces, about which I know nothing because I only know the math physics has thought applicable enough to lift.
If they were in a quantum class and talking about energy eigenvalues, it's possible he meant 0.23 eV. There's a few energy eigenvalues you're supposed to know (like the ground state of Hydrogen, -13.6 eV), and from there you can get to a whole bunch more for that system knowing the general form. The energy eigenvalues, E_n, for Hydrogen-like two-body systems go like m/n^2, where m is the reduced mass of the system and n is the energy level. And since all of them are negative, a lot of people don't bother to say it explicitly.
I'm just saying there are possible reasonable explanations that aren't too far fetched. All of this is stuff I learned in sophomore quantum physics. Now if it was a math class instead of physics, solving for an eigenvalue of 0.23 in your head would usually be rediculous.
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I only joined SPS when I studied abroad and lost free access from the dorms to Physics Today and Phys Rev Letters. I seem to remember it being incredibly affordable (~$30 maybe). You only got to pick two journals to have access to, but that's all I wanted. Of course, I have no idea how much my college paid for me to have access to every journal imaginable from my dorm. Or how much my university now pays so that I can use their proxy from home to get even more.
It seems to me like a slippery slope from being a selective and respectable author-pays journal to being the equivalent of the vanity publisher. I think they could make more headway by restructuring their membership fees and benefits. Maybe more people'd buy a membership if it got them their two most-read journals for cheaper.
I stand corrected. I always assummed the Wright Amendment was a state law, but a google comfirms its federal. It does make more sense for the state to not be stepping on the federal government's toes in the aviation regulation department.
Difference is that this isn't the incoming country collecting the information at customs, but the AA people at the departure country.
Your destination country has the right to refuse you a visa if you don't give them the information they request, but they also probably have privacy laws saying that they won't be selling said information. He asked what AA's data-retention policy was and whose policy it was to collect this information (TSA or AA) and they couldn't answer him sufficiently.
His letter asks AA for the information he's entilted to under UK law: the company's data-retention policies on this information.
On another note, I've found that it's completely normal for airline agents to tell you that anything the company has told them to do is a federal policy, whether it actually is or not. For instance, bags can't be checked through from Love Field in Dallas to airports in non-adjacent states due to a local law meant to send out-of-state traffic through DFW, but if you ask the airline agents they'll adamantly claim it's FAA policy.
What does your school have to do with being a Bush supporter? I'm a physics PhD candidate at one of the three best AMO schools and I'm a huge bleeding heart liberal, despite being Texas born and bred. What we'd call a yellow-dog Democrat. In fact, I consider Bush the anti-christ. But my vote doesn't count twice because I've had so much schooling. The fact is that stupid people exist at all levels of society - as you've just reconfirmed.
Stereotypes have always only worked on large groups, not individuals. That's why people condemn their use on individuals. You don't get a prize for being a living example of these exceptions.
It's not like exit polls == victory. The pollsters don't have anything to gain from messing with exit poll data. I just don't understand why exit polling, which is used in other countries to sucessfully predict election results to within 1% and therefore ensure votes are counted, is so freaking unreliable here. We need an external check on the system, and either our votes weren't counted right or our check isn't working. Either way, I want it fixed.
I loved our system in Boulder. No punch machines, and there's a nice paper trail in case of recount. I didn't know they were so time-intensive though, which explains why CNN is reporting that only 30% of our precincts are reporting now.
Then it must be that Cauchy and Riemann got to everything in complex second, cause they sure as hell had everything but Euler's formula named after them.
Notice that I said most teams I knew. I know that there are good teams out there who build everything and do really well, but that doesn't change the fact that FIRST is an expensive competition that schools need to round up the money for. BEST requires absolutely no investment from the school or recruitment of outside funds. They hand you the parts. So you avoid the problem of overbearing sponsors entirely. That's the main appeal of BEST over FIRST.
The biggest difference between FIRST and BEST (and the reason my high school did BEST instead of FIRST) is corporate sponsorship. Every team that we knew who did FIRST ended up not really designing their robots because their sponsors were so invested in having a winning robot that they had their engineers do most of the design work. BEST has no sponsorship - in fact, you're only allowed to use parts from a short list - and so the students end up actually doing the design work.
My friend's Dad had a bad case of polio as a kid and has a rough limp because of it. He doesn't need a cane or anything, but there is no such thing as a walk for leisure/scenery etc. Then they bought a couple of Segways so that he could go with wife or one of the kids on rides around the neighborhood and through local parks. Of course, his kids also like taking them off-roading in said locales, but for the first time in fifty-odd years he can go out for a spin around the park without a painful limp. Good thing they aren't illegal on his sidewalks.
Ozone will corrode almost anything. We had to overpressurize our lab at school because it was across the hall from the copy room. The ozone from the copiers was causing our silver mirrors to corrode very slowly. There's a reason it gets rid of odors so well: it reacts with almost everything.
They didn't fabricate results, their results just became public too quickly, and so when there was trouble duplicating the results, there was serious backlash against them.
Several congress critters have done just that, and from what I understand, there will be international observers here... I read it a couple of days ago on one of the media sites like CNN or something.
Go go gadget Google!
If you don't want to RTFA, "OSCE, the world's largest regional security organization, will send a preliminary mission to Washington in September to assess the size, scope, logistics and cost of the mission, Gunnarsdottir said." I think usually that monitors only have the ability to either endorse or publicly condemn election results. So they essentially have no authority except in the court of public opinion.
On an interesting side note: "In November 2002, OSCE sent 10 observers on a weeklong mission to monitor the U.S. midterm elections. OSCE also sent observers to monitor the California gubernatorial recall election last year."
I'm in California, and have already requested my absentee ballot.
Nice and all that you have yourself taken care of in this coming election, but I hope you're also trying to make sure others aren't disenfranchised by getting the word out and contacting your local politicians in charge of such things. While your one vote being counted accurately is reassuring to you, it isn't to me.
If Diebold was really evil, than they would have put much more thought into the machines.
I'd have to say that more evil was accomplished through incompetence than through sheer malice. Whatever their intentions (and the sibling points out suspicious hints at it) their incompetence makes it easier for people to take advantage of exploits maliciously. I'll stick with the conspiracy theories regardless of possible intent, because the opportunity for them really happening is still there.
This was already done when I was in college a few years back at Harvey Mudd. Every year one dorm builds a movie screen in their courtyard for the super bowl and leaves it up for a week after for video games and movies. In between, people regularly use the screens in our large lecture hall for after hours gaming. It looks like a blast, but at Mudd at least there's no market for selling this service.
Anyone else reminded of the Sexual Harassment Panda and the Island of Misfit Mascots? What the hell does a ferret have to do with Copyright law?
Galveston is worse. Wherever you are, Galveston is worse. It has the most Section 8 housing per captia in the country. My sister drives a soft-top Jeep there, and she leaves the doors unlocked so that people can rifle through and see that there's nothing to steal left behind. At least once a week she comes back to discover that her glovebox has been sifted through and forty cents is gone from the dash. A couple of times though the doors have been unlocked and people have still cut into the soft-top, found nothing inside. Drives her insurance up like mad to have to fix that top all the time.
The technique usually used for this I understand is conformal mapping. There's a little spiel and animation about it here. The calculation itself isn't really that fun, at least from what I remember from my homework assignments, but its pretty cool that it can be done systematically for all these airfoils.
If you are into the details, from the the Riemann theorem quoted in the wikipedia link, any simply connected subset of the complex plane can be mapped onto a disk, and since it's easy to conformally map from a disk to the complex plane minus that disk - like in the figure on the second linked page - then once you know that first mapping for whatever shape your airfoil is (the hard part) you can figure out all the fluid flows around that shape. Of course, this entire technique only works for infinitely long airfoils, since the complex plane just represents a cross-section. If you dislike math and want the actual figure you can just stick it into an air-tunnel and skip the calculation. But you get the idea.
Katie T makes the point on her webpage that Parry Aftab was not representing her. In fact, going back to the original report of the conversation on katie.com, Katie Jones merely says that Aftab said she was working with Katie Tarbox on a project. So it sounds like Aftab was working on her own dime, and thought that she could get ahold of the domain for their project herself.
Of course, plausible deniability only stretches so far. Katie Tarbox definitely could have pressured the publishers on this one if she wanted to, but instead she decided to say she was powerless over the situtation.
Who'd you steal the Camero from? Or do you really mean that you copied a Camero, liked the copy, even though it was lower quality, and then later bought a high quality original?
I don't really understand whose hands I'm taking music out of when I download a copy to see how good it is.
My sister decided to get laser surgery when the insurance at her job started covering it. She was legally blind before without any contacts. She went to the guy that was recommended by multiple doctors, and afterwards (well, after the initial swelling of the surgery went down) she had better vision than she'd ever had with contacts even.
So it's not all a sales pitch when you hear how great it works, but as with any other surgical procedure, check out the person you plan on seeing before getting it done. And ask as many questions as you want to first, too. I'm always surprised by people who don't feel comfortable questioning their doctor. I feel way more comfortable when I get an answer to my question and the impression that the guy with the knife knows his shit.
My CNN doesn't have popups. Then again, I'm spyware free and using Firefox. Still don't remember the CNN articles themselves having popups even in IE.
* Finally think I have goat sex written correctly in German. I think. Arschficken?
Arschficken mit Ziegen really means assf*cking with goats. If you want goat sex, I'd got with Ziegegeschlecht (to coin a new compound word - why not, it's German afterall). Geschlecht seems to be the preferred equivalent to the english noun sex.
As the sibling said, all this can be generalized. A set of funtions can form a vector space, defined by orthogonal functions. The idea of orthogonal functions might be familiar from differential equations, where sines and cosines and other solutions to equations were usually chosen so as to be linearly independent. From there it's easy to generalize more linear algebra things like eigenvalue equations with operators instead of vectors on one side. In fact, there's many types of vector spaces, about which I know nothing because I only know the math physics has thought applicable enough to lift.
What wikipedia has to say about vector spaces. Check out example three. The eigenvalue-eigenvector equation most often solved in quantum mechanics is the Scroedinger Equation, where the eigenvalues are energies.
If they were in a quantum class and talking about energy eigenvalues, it's possible he meant 0.23 eV. There's a few energy eigenvalues you're supposed to know (like the ground state of Hydrogen, -13.6 eV), and from there you can get to a whole bunch more for that system knowing the general form. The energy eigenvalues, E_n, for Hydrogen-like two-body systems go like m/n^2, where m is the reduced mass of the system and n is the energy level. And since all of them are negative, a lot of people don't bother to say it explicitly.
I'm just saying there are possible reasonable explanations that aren't too far fetched. All of this is stuff I learned in sophomore quantum physics. Now if it was a math class instead of physics, solving for an eigenvalue of 0.23 in your head would usually be rediculous.