He is talking about the people who clip special piezoelectric rocks in a vial to their cables to suppress, well, something they're sure they otherwise hear.
Piezoelectric rocks?
WTF? I thought you were just making it up, but sadly, no. You can't make up this sort of thing.
Fact: Diamonds have good bass but rolled off highs
Fact: Citrine follows in the similar sound quality.
Fact: Amethyst has very good top end and upper midrange energy.
Fact: Diamonds and most other crystals, are thermoluminescent, whereby the crystals pick up stray electrons, trapping them in their latticework, and can release them later along with a photon (QED). This fact is utilized by archeologists to date buried artifacts ( flint and other material normally not datable by carbon), by heating the crystals up to 900 degrees and having a photomultiplier present as they do so to count photons released. Apparently, exposure to even light purges the stray electrons within the crystal thus "resetting" the crystal back to zero, giving a rough time line as to when the crystal or rock was reburied., as the natural radiation i the earth "recharges" the crystal.
Fact: Amethyst transforms itself into clear quartz when heated to 450 degrees C and into citrine when hated to 550 C.
Fact: Clear quartz does not quite have the openness of amethyst.
Fact: In addition to the trace amount of iron, amethysts are supposedly to obtain the darker shades of purple by exposure to natural radiation contained in the soil in which they are buried. The darkest shades seem to come from deeper within the earth.
Speculation: Being that the piezo effect means that an EMI field hitting a piezo electric crystal can generate movement and thus help dissipate energy, could it be possible that the citrine and diamonds have their unique sound signature because they are absorbing some of the electrons?
Perhaps amethysts have a lattice work which is "full" and thus more energy is transformed into mechanical motion. While some mineralogists warn that prolonged exposure to sunlight will bleach out the coloring of stones, most amethyst is fairly stable color wise.
I have tried heating some matched amethyst beads with an alcohol lamp and have succeeded in creating clear and a slight citrine coloration. The experiment was interesting because I could listen to the purple application and then heat the crystals up and reevaluate. One caveat: the crystal can "pop" like popcorn and they are very hot! Theoretically, the crystals remain unchanged except for the application of heat. The molecular structure is supposedly unchanged, but there are distinct differences in color and in sound when applied, with the top end distinctly being rolled off.
Incidentally, if you missed it over on Tweaks, sugar is also piezo electric and using a sugar cube certainly makes an effect. The cool thing about sugar cubes is that you can shape the cube and it most certainly has an effect upon the sound ( see the post on Tweaks for more information, a reply to FidPup's query about crystal alternatives).
What kind of computer system were they using in 1991? By 1991 it wasn't very common anymore for users of email, Usenet, or FidoNet to do everything in all caps.
I think it is pretty hard to be "also a surgeon". Might make more sense to have a surgeon who is also something else. I'd rather have a surgeon who dabbles in engineering or geology than an engineer who dabbles in surgery.
Actually, for simple things that you might do to healthy adults, it's not that far fetched. Think orthopedics, appendectomies and lacerations. They're pretty easy to teach. The problem with more complex stuff (like the hip fracture) is that you need lots of pieces parts. Special drills, special screws and plates, etc. For bad vascular accidents like a major blunt force trauma you'd need various bits of mesh, artificial blood vessels and such. Yeah, you can envision printing them out on some wizzo 3D printer, but we're not there quite yet.
It's not the instructions that are hard in surgery. You can download detailed anatomical guides on the Internet - it's the manipulative skill of not pulling the blood vessel apart when you're trying to sew it, the graphical skill of visualizing the organ in question after it's been run over by a truck and is bleeding, the clinical skill of how to structure the repair (what goes in first, what not to tug on) and then there is nursing, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, lab and a bunch of other little neglected bits.
Uh huh. Just like how the iPod, iPhone and iPad were going to be huge flops? Does anyone still give these predictions by bitter neck beards any credence?
If their sense of market forces is in any way associated with their sense of humor, then no.
Fukushima was designed to withstand earthquakes of greater magnitude than had been recorded in that area, and tsunamis larger than had been recorded in that area. In what way do you believe they were under-engineered (using the best available data at the time of their construction, of course.)
Sort of true. However, later study on the area's geology indicated that there were tsunami's much higher than originally planned for. TEPCO decided not to do anything about that because it would have involved a multi million dollar upgrade to the sea wall.
Further, there was later damage to suggest that the reactor did suffer significant damage during the quake, thus damaging the assumption that the original design and engineering was adequate.
Of course, this would have been a technical footnote in some brief stuffed in a disused lavatory had someone had the presence of mind not to put all the backup generators in the basement.
chalk another victory for Apple's superior product and unmatched level customer satisfaction. Businesses are just as gaga over the iPhone as individuals -- even archconservative firms such as Halliburton have made the switch.
OK, you like Apple. Next time don't put so much sugar in the Kool-Aid.
Basically, he's just wishing that the wireless carriers would just be dumb pipes and let Apple's Goodness permeate the eather unimpaired.
Google seems to be doing everything they can to tank G+ for some reason. The "accidental" deletion of email when closing a G+ account at the beginning, requiring real names and 18+ years old, censoring photos, and, as you mentioned, buying beloved companies every month just to shut them down (a la Microsoft?) rather than integrating... someone over there needs to be sacked.
So, your virtual Chihuahua is running around naked, is it?
The many Lords of the parthenon forbid that Google actually uses the term "beta" correctly unlike 99% of the software companies out there. Beta does not simply mean "pre-release".
"it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."
This is one of the things the Middle East is very good at. The Portuguese have a word for it: Desenrascanco, which basically means the quick and dirty solution that's thrown together at the last minute and/or from what's on hand.
Actually I would compare it to, say Dragon Dictate, somewhere around 2000. You could tell the computer to start, stop, save, move the cursor, move blocks of text - all sorts of things. Took some training, but it worked. And worked well. Siri confuses words, really confuses tense and generally acts foolish. Starting what amounts to a straight dictation - yep - 2000 ish.
Maybe it's just me (and thousands of others, apparently), but Siri doesn't impress. If you want your phone to tell you when it's raining - well and good. That sort of fluff doesn't resonate with me.....
They lost me at "the dinner plate connected to social networking sites". Although they don't mention toilets in a similar vein, I'm thinking it can't be too far from their twisted minds.
Apple is not in the habit of releasing half-finished features. They either don't have a feature, or they do it right.
I don't understand that philosophy, at least as it relates to Apple. They have a history of pushing out iOS upgrades that tend to degrade performance on older machines, requiring a point release to improve it enough to be viable.
Apple is just as bad as everyone else in terms of dumping half baked concepts out there. In fact, I think Apple does less testing than some other vendors. I never upgrade any Apple device until the.3 rev shows up. I never buy the first generation of Apple hardware.
And I like Apple, in general. But this idea that somehow they're perfectionists is really pixie dust.
The big problem with Siri isn't background noise. Siri just isn't all that smart. If you want to do simple things - send a simple text, it sort of works - just like voice commands have sort of worked since, oh, around 2000. If you want to do complex things it sometimes works, but very often screws up. When it screws up, you end up keyboarding the problem. Might as well go for the keyboard in the first place.
Will you stop that? Curiosity is a great concept, a great rover but:
1. It isn't there yet. 2. 'There' is Mars that eats satellites and probes for breakfast. 3. Even if it accomplishes 300% of design objectives, it is one tiny little probe on largish, unknown planet. ExoMars and Curiosity have somewhat different science packages. It's not like every good experiment got sent up on Curiosity. Even if it were a clone of Curiosity, it just might be nice to get additional data from said largish planet.
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He is talking about the people who clip special piezoelectric rocks in a vial to their cables to suppress, well, something they're sure they otherwise hear.
Piezoelectric rocks?
WTF? I thought you were just making it up, but sadly, no. You can't make up this sort of thing.
Fact: Diamonds have good bass but rolled off highs
Fact: Citrine follows in the similar sound quality.
Fact: Amethyst has very good top end and upper midrange energy.
Fact: Diamonds and most other crystals, are thermoluminescent, whereby the crystals pick up stray electrons, trapping them in their latticework, and can release them later along with a photon (QED). This fact is utilized by archeologists to date buried artifacts ( flint and other material normally not datable by carbon), by heating the crystals up to 900 degrees and having a photomultiplier present as they do so to count photons released. Apparently, exposure to even light purges the stray electrons within the crystal thus "resetting" the crystal back to zero, giving a rough time line as to when the crystal or rock was reburied., as the natural radiation i the earth "recharges" the crystal.
Fact: Amethyst transforms itself into clear quartz when heated to 450 degrees C and into citrine when hated to 550 C.
Fact: Clear quartz does not quite have the openness of amethyst.
Fact: In addition to the trace amount of iron, amethysts are supposedly to obtain the darker shades of purple by exposure to natural radiation contained in the soil in which they are buried. The darkest shades seem to come from deeper within the earth.
Speculation: Being that the piezo effect means that an EMI field hitting a piezo electric crystal can generate movement and thus help dissipate energy, could it be possible that the citrine and diamonds have their unique sound signature because they are absorbing some of the electrons?
Perhaps amethysts have a lattice work which is "full" and thus more energy is transformed into mechanical motion. While some mineralogists warn that prolonged exposure to sunlight will bleach out the coloring of stones, most amethyst is fairly stable color wise.
I have tried heating some matched amethyst beads with an alcohol lamp and have succeeded in creating clear and a slight citrine coloration. The experiment was interesting because I could listen to the purple application and then heat the crystals up and reevaluate. One caveat: the crystal can "pop" like popcorn and they are very hot! Theoretically, the crystals remain unchanged except for the application of heat. The molecular structure is supposedly unchanged, but there are distinct differences in color and in sound when applied, with the top end distinctly being rolled off.
Incidentally, if you missed it over on Tweaks, sugar is also piezo electric and using a sugar cube certainly makes an effect. The cool thing about sugar cubes is that you can shape the cube and it most certainly has an effect upon the sound ( see the post on Tweaks for more information, a reply to FidPup's query about crystal alternatives).
Right.
Off your lawn straight away, sir!
Because if science has taught us one thing, it is that results of experiments should change over time.
Right, guys?!
No, if engineering has taught us anything it's that 'we didn't do enough experiments'.
PRISM / IFR designs in general (and Molten salt breeders, in theory) turn that "waste" into enough fuel to supply the earth ... forever, assuming we build pyroprocessing facilities (PUREX generates a lot of waste ... no good).
"In theory". Aye, there's the rub.
We really need more active research in this area instead of relying on experiments conducted in the 1960's.
This is "news" in the same way that saying Mr. Jobs was a carbon based life form would been news.
To be fair, that revelation would have surprised a lot of the Apple Faithful.
What kind of computer system were they using in 1991? By 1991 it wasn't very common anymore for users of email, Usenet, or FidoNet to do everything in all caps.
The FBI likes yelling.
I think it is pretty hard to be "also a surgeon". Might make more sense to have a surgeon who is also something else. I'd rather have a surgeon who dabbles in engineering or geology than an engineer who dabbles in surgery.
Actually, for simple things that you might do to healthy adults, it's not that far fetched. Think orthopedics, appendectomies and lacerations. They're pretty easy to teach. The problem with more complex stuff (like the hip fracture) is that you need lots of pieces parts. Special drills, special screws and plates, etc. For bad vascular accidents like a major blunt force trauma you'd need various bits of mesh, artificial blood vessels and such. Yeah, you can envision printing them out on some wizzo 3D printer, but we're not there quite yet.
It's not the instructions that are hard in surgery. You can download detailed anatomical guides on the Internet - it's the manipulative skill of not pulling the blood vessel apart when you're trying to sew it, the graphical skill of visualizing the organ in question after it's been run over by a truck and is bleeding, the clinical skill of how to structure the repair (what goes in first, what not to tug on) and then there is nursing, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, lab and a bunch of other little neglected bits.
Sounds like playing doctor to me.
Uh huh. Just like how the iPod, iPhone and iPad were going to be huge flops? Does anyone still give these predictions by bitter neck beards any credence?
If their sense of market forces is in any way associated with their sense of humor, then no.
Huge landmass, with a giant density hole in the middle.
That's not very nice. You shouldn't describe Americans like that, even if it's mostly true.
So, what you're really saying is we should melt down a few more reactors in order to understand the process better.
Your ideas intrigue me....
Fukushima was designed to withstand earthquakes of greater magnitude than had been recorded in that area, and tsunamis larger than had been recorded in that area. In what way do you believe they were under-engineered (using the best available data at the time of their construction, of course.)
Sort of true. However, later study on the area's geology indicated that there were tsunami's much higher than originally planned for. TEPCO decided not to do anything about that because it would have involved a multi million dollar upgrade to the sea wall.
Further, there was later damage to suggest that the reactor did suffer significant damage during the quake, thus damaging the assumption that the original design and engineering was adequate.
Of course, this would have been a technical footnote in some brief stuffed in a disused lavatory had someone had the presence of mind not to put all the backup generators in the basement.
Gag me with a spoon. FTFA:
chalk another victory for Apple's superior product and unmatched level customer satisfaction. Businesses are just as gaga over the iPhone as individuals -- even archconservative firms such as Halliburton have made the switch.
OK, you like Apple. Next time don't put so much sugar in the Kool-Aid.
Basically, he's just wishing that the wireless carriers would just be dumb pipes and let Apple's Goodness permeate the eather unimpaired.
As I said, too much sugar.
Google seems to be doing everything they can to tank G+ for some reason. The "accidental" deletion of email when closing a G+ account at the beginning, requiring real names and 18+ years old, censoring photos, and, as you mentioned, buying beloved companies every month just to shut them down (a la Microsoft?) rather than integrating... someone over there needs to be sacked.
So, your virtual Chihuahua is running around naked, is it?
Real money spent on virtual clothes for virtual pets.
I just cannot make the mental leap to understanding that.
'Mental leap' - think Planck distance for these folks. Probably just stochastic noise triggering a couple of "I want" neurons.
Personally, I would blame water fluoridation. Flouride's pretty reactive, you know.
The many Lords of the parthenon forbid that Google actually uses the term "beta" correctly unlike 99% of the software companies out there. Beta does not simply mean "pre-release".
"it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."
This is one of the things the Middle East is very good at. The Portuguese have a word for it: Desenrascanco, which basically means the quick and dirty solution that's thrown together at the last minute and/or from what's on hand.
And exactly who do think invented Duck Tape?
USA! USA! USA!
I take it we're using the customer service skills of the TSA as an example of DHS's practical application of their lack of knowledge? ;-)
More like we will be using the IT skills of the TSA screeners.
"Does the Internet really come out of that cable? Wow. That's cool."
Actually I would compare it to, say Dragon Dictate, somewhere around 2000. You could tell the computer to start, stop, save, move the cursor, move blocks of text - all sorts of things. Took some training, but it worked. And worked well. Siri confuses words, really confuses tense and generally acts foolish. Starting what amounts to a straight dictation - yep - 2000 ish.
Maybe it's just me (and thousands of others, apparently), but Siri doesn't impress. If you want your phone to tell you when it's raining - well and good. That sort of fluff doesn't resonate with me.....
does the DHS even have the necessary expertise in IT security ?
Of course not. What a silly question.
Understanding something is not a requirement for supervising it. Ask your boss.
I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that.
(Your supposed to be on a diet, remember?)
They lost me at "the dinner plate connected to social networking sites". Although they don't mention toilets in a similar vein, I'm thinking it can't be too far from their twisted minds.
Do. Not. Want.
On either end of either end....
Apple is not in the habit of releasing half-finished features. They either don't have a feature, or they do it right.
I don't understand that philosophy, at least as it relates to Apple. They have a history of pushing out iOS upgrades that tend to degrade performance on older machines, requiring a point release to improve it enough to be viable.
Apple is just as bad as everyone else in terms of dumping half baked concepts out there. In fact, I think Apple does less testing than some other vendors. I never upgrade any Apple device until the .3 rev shows up. I never buy the first generation of Apple hardware.
And I like Apple, in general. But this idea that somehow they're perfectionists is really pixie dust.
As opposed to being dismissed as a half-arsed gimmick on the 4S?
The big problem with Siri isn't background noise. Siri just isn't all that smart. If you want to do simple things - send a simple text, it sort of works - just like voice commands have sort of worked since, oh, around 2000. If you want to do complex things it sometimes works, but very often screws up. When it screws up, you end up keyboarding the problem. Might as well go for the keyboard in the first place.
Will you stop that? Curiosity is a great concept, a great rover but:
1. It isn't there yet.
2. 'There' is Mars that eats satellites and probes for breakfast.
3. Even if it accomplishes 300% of design objectives, it is one tiny little probe on largish, unknown planet. ExoMars and Curiosity have somewhat different science packages. It's not like every good experiment got sent up on Curiosity. Even if it were a clone of Curiosity, it just might be nice to get additional data from said largish planet.