Like all government agencies divorced from profit and loss, its primary task is really to provide pork barrel jobs, regardless of whether those jobs do anything useful or not.
Isn't it a bit early to audition for a job with the Trump administration?
While I'm agreeing that we should weigh the need for human scientific advancement against other cultural needs, we should be very careful before deciding to subjugate science infrastructure projects to stone age cultural beliefs. Just as we do not allow native Hawaiians anymore to club somebody to death just because they stepped on the shadow of their ruler, we shouldn't allow arbitrary cultural designations to decide on where science can be done. I hope we can all agree that we have now more enlightened ways of rulemaking.
Science & engineering are both good fields. By science I mean disciplines like physics, chemistry, biology and the like. By engineering I mean mechanical & electrical/electronics engineering and similar fields. These fields have a higher than average likelihood of leading to a fun job with reasonable pay and lower than average unemployment.
Taking care of old people will also be in increasing demand, but I'm not sure that those jobs ever will pay well.
I'm already paying AT&T to deliver Netflix. Seems to me the carriers expect to be paid twice for the same service, once by the source (Netflix) and once by the destination (me).
Digital camera detection (based on the reflective properties of sensors) has been solved for movie theaters.
One possible solution for your problem might be to install a generalized version of those systems (say, light sources in four corners of the room/bus, and reflection detectors distributed all around), coupled with steerable light beams (e.g. lasers) that get pointed at the detected locations.
BYOP (bring your own phone) T-mobile value plan. Here in Chicago the coverage seems better than AT&T (e.g. no holes at Lake Shore & Monroe and near UIC).
...because it makes it easier for Apple to continue to support them with iOS updates...
One would think though, but they don't. Apple doesn't support even relatively recent 'old' hardware: they abandoned the $500 (no subsidies back then) 2008 iPhone in June 2010 when iOS 4 came out, after merely two years! No security fixes, nothing. And since most app developers don't bother with iOS backwards compatibility, most newer apps (and app updates) don't run on that phone either.
So now that we finally got rid of the shuttle, how about giving that other big orbiting bottomless sink of of money a good dunking in the Pacific, and then get on with actual science?
Last I checked DHS are part of the US government. So all they needed to find out about stuxnet was to talk to their Federales buddies who helped create it.
Compact fluorescents have truly horrible light quality compared to incandescent lighting. Unfortunately CRI (color rendering index) is not required information on light bulb packaging. As I found out the hard way CFLs are also unsuitable for most types of enclosed fixtures, due to the temperature sensitivity of the electronics. And they smell really bad when they fail.
How about a pdf vulnerability fix for the 2G? Or is it too much to ask for some basic OS support for a 2 year old $500 Apple product?
And while they are at it, maybe they could reverse the recent degradation of the 2G map accuracy. Might be just AT&T reducing the number of 2G towers, though.
..is a good dunk in the Pacific. Flying people around in low earth orbit is neither science nor particularly inspirational as human spaceflight, and uses up billions that could fund real space science missions.
I like SageTV ( http://www.sagetv.com/ ), especially the one-click commercial skipping; it has (had?) its occasional hiccups, but this might also be a function of how much one fiddles with the hardware/software setup:-) It seems pretty mature (it's at v6.x by now), has an active user/contributor base, and handles multiple receivers and set top/converter boxes with IR control nicely. It has a free trial.
...and was therefore dropped by e.g. Hongkong as a response to the swine flu 'pandemic'. While we were there in May they changed their policy from quarantine to supervised medication once a day. Would have sucked to get stuck there for a whole week just because of elevated facial temperature - whether it's caused by H1N1, or 'normal' flu, or just because you're lugging heavy bags around after dehydrating for 12 hours in some damn' UA airplane with smelly watertanks.
Yep - you could see that when they redid I-88 near Chicago: they only put maybe a foot of gravel instead of the three needed to get drainage below frost level - this guarantees frost damage and the next rebuilding contract.
Actually, it still is quite fast. Nobody wants to risk further damage to the machine just to get the first data in a few months earlier. Ok, except maybe for a few grad students and post docs whose time is running out... All the gory details on the decision making process can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/chamonix2009
In the mean time we can run the Tevatron a little bit longer...:-)
I'm surprised by the low quality of comments so far. Must be the fallout from Turkey Day here in the US... Anyways, Dark Matter and Dark Energy are two very different concepts. Dark Matter is what makes the universe clump together. Galaxies are just the markers or highlights in the densest spots of the Dark Matter distribution, pretty much like foam on the tips of waves. There's plenty of observational evidence besides rotation curves. Simulations of the evolution of the universe these days are pretty much Dark Matter simulations, and they work out surprisingly well coming up with the string/plane and void structure that we observe today. I don't think there's too much left to discuss there concerning the existence of this stuff, even though we do not know at all what it is made of in terms of particle physics constituents (there are plenty of hypotheses of course). Sorry if you missed it... (Seriously, there's a huge job left trying to explain science to the general public. Especially if we want to keep getting funded...)
Dark Energy is a more speculative concept, but the basic fact that galaxies at far enough red shifts seem rarer than even flat cosmic evolution models tell is hard to discuss away. Basically, the universe expands faster than even a completely empty universe would, so you need something else than matter (baryonic = visible, or dark). Adding matter would just make it clump more and slow down the expansion.
Now, the cool thing about all these Dark Energy projects and missions (with JDEM just being the biggest of them) is that no matter what you find in the end, you will learn a great deal about the time evolution of the universe, by looking far back into vast areas of space. Counting supernovae, deducting the lumpy structure of matter (dark & visible) by observing distortions in the distribution and apparent shape of galaxies, all this gives you sort of a time-lapse movie of the large scale evolution of the matter distribution. Just google dark energy, or have a look at the DES white paper (https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-project/survey_documents/DES-DETF/DES-DETF_whitepaper_v1.7.7-final.pdf)if you want to learn more about this stuff.
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Like all government agencies divorced from profit and loss, its primary task is really to provide pork barrel jobs, regardless of whether those jobs do anything useful or not.
Isn't it a bit early to audition for a job with the Trump administration?
While I'm agreeing that we should weigh the need for human scientific advancement against other cultural needs, we should be very careful before deciding to subjugate science infrastructure projects to stone age cultural beliefs. Just as we do not allow native Hawaiians anymore to club somebody to death just because they stepped on the shadow of their ruler, we shouldn't allow arbitrary cultural designations to decide on where science can be done. I hope we can all agree that we have now more enlightened ways of rulemaking.
Science & engineering are both good fields. By science I mean disciplines like physics, chemistry, biology and the like. By engineering I mean mechanical & electrical/electronics engineering and similar fields. These fields have a higher than average likelihood of leading to a fun job with reasonable pay and lower than average unemployment.
Taking care of old people will also be in increasing demand, but I'm not sure that those jobs ever will pay well.
I'm already paying AT&T to deliver Netflix. Seems to me the carriers expect to be paid twice for the same service, once by the source (Netflix) and once by the destination (me).
Digital camera detection (based on the reflective properties of sensors) has been solved for movie theaters. One possible solution for your problem might be to install a generalized version of those systems (say, light sources in four corners of the room/bus, and reflection detectors distributed all around), coupled with steerable light beams (e.g. lasers) that get pointed at the detected locations.
BYOP (bring your own phone) T-mobile value plan. Here in Chicago the coverage seems better than AT&T (e.g. no holes at Lake Shore & Monroe and near UIC).
...because it makes it easier for Apple to continue to support them with iOS updates...
One would think though, but they don't. Apple doesn't support even relatively recent 'old' hardware: they abandoned the $500 (no subsidies back then) 2008 iPhone in June 2010 when iOS 4 came out, after merely two years! No security fixes, nothing. And since most app developers don't bother with iOS backwards compatibility, most newer apps (and app updates) don't run on that phone either.
So now that we finally got rid of the shuttle, how about giving that other big orbiting bottomless sink of of money a good dunking in the Pacific, and then get on with actual science?
Why does NASA feel the need to waste my tax dollars to repeat this nonsense over and over?
Last I checked DHS are part of the US government. So all they needed to find out about stuxnet was to talk to their Federales buddies who helped create it.
Compact fluorescents have truly horrible light quality compared to incandescent lighting. Unfortunately CRI (color rendering index) is not required information on light bulb packaging. As I found out the hard way CFLs are also unsuitable for most types of enclosed fixtures, due to the temperature sensitivity of the electronics. And they smell really bad when they fail.
Does this support the iphone 2?
...if he were still alive. He built his (and the world's) first programmable binary computer with program storage, the Z3, from old mechanical relays.
'Installed' doesn't mean 'enabled'. Plus, 87% of all statistics are made up.
The 16 GB iPhone 2G appeared in February 2008.
How about a pdf vulnerability fix for the 2G? Or is it too much to ask for some basic OS support for a 2 year old $500 Apple product?
And while they are at it, maybe they could reverse the recent degradation of the 2G map accuracy. Might be just AT&T reducing the number of 2G towers, though.
...Armstrong also needs a good dunking in the Pacific.
..is a good dunk in the Pacific. Flying people around in low earth orbit is neither science nor particularly inspirational as human spaceflight, and uses up billions that could fund real space science missions.
I like SageTV ( http://www.sagetv.com/ ), especially the one-click commercial skipping; it has (had?) its occasional hiccups, but this might also be a function of how much one fiddles with the hardware/software setup :-) It seems pretty mature (it's at v6.x by now), has an active user/contributor base, and handles multiple receivers and set top/converter boxes with IR control nicely. It has a free trial.
http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0812.2299 is a better (free) link to the preprint.
...and was therefore dropped by e.g. Hongkong as a response to the swine flu 'pandemic'. While we were there in May they changed their policy from quarantine to supervised medication once a day. Would have sucked to get stuck there for a whole week just because of elevated facial temperature - whether it's caused by H1N1, or 'normal' flu, or just because you're lugging heavy bags around after dehydrating for 12 hours in some damn' UA airplane with smelly watertanks.
Yep - you could see that when they redid I-88 near Chicago: they only put maybe a foot of gravel instead of the three needed to get drainage below frost level - this guarantees frost damage and the next rebuilding contract.
Actually, it still is quite fast. Nobody wants to risk further damage to the machine just to get the first data in a few months earlier. Ok, except maybe for a few grad students and post docs whose time is running out...
All the gory details on the decision making process can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/chamonix2009
In the mean time we can run the Tevatron a little bit longer... :-)
You're in luck, because exactly that is already a requirement.
I'm surprised by the low quality of comments so far. Must be the fallout from Turkey Day here in the US... Anyways, Dark Matter and Dark Energy are two very different concepts. Dark Matter is what makes the universe clump together. Galaxies are just the markers or highlights in the densest spots of the Dark Matter distribution, pretty much like foam on the tips of waves. There's plenty of observational evidence besides rotation curves. Simulations of the evolution of the universe these days are pretty much Dark Matter simulations, and they work out surprisingly well coming up with the string/plane and void structure that we observe today. I don't think there's too much left to discuss there concerning the existence of this stuff, even though we do not know at all what it is made of in terms of particle physics constituents (there are plenty of hypotheses of course). Sorry if you missed it... (Seriously, there's a huge job left trying to explain science to the general public. Especially if we want to keep getting funded...)
Dark Energy is a more speculative concept, but the basic fact that galaxies at far enough red shifts seem rarer than even flat cosmic evolution models tell is hard to discuss away. Basically, the universe expands faster than even a completely empty universe would, so you need something else than matter (baryonic = visible, or dark). Adding matter would just make it clump more and slow down the expansion.
Now, the cool thing about all these Dark Energy projects and missions (with JDEM just being the biggest of them) is that no matter what you find in the end, you will learn a great deal about the time evolution of the universe, by looking far back into vast areas of space. Counting supernovae, deducting the lumpy structure of matter (dark & visible) by observing distortions in the distribution and apparent shape of galaxies, all this gives you sort of a time-lapse movie of the large scale evolution of the matter distribution. Just google dark energy, or have a look at the DES white paper (https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/the-project/survey_documents/DES-DETF/DES-DETF_whitepaper_v1.7.7-final.pdf)if you want to learn more about this stuff.