This is true. However, I would want to have at least a few mines operating when a crisis hits, as it's a substantial amount of time before a new mining operation can be executed in. I don't know for certain but I'd guess probably 1-2 years, if we're in a hurry. However, us Westerners would have to work like the Chinese, which is generally very very hard my friends. As they might say, we might need to learn how to "eat a little bitter" in the meantime.
I'm a chemical engineer, and part of my job is to put together physical property packages for our simulator. I have no idea if you can legally do this by adapting something from another database, but I would contribute some of the information I have if you can get through the legal stuff.
Mainly, I rely on NIST's JANAF publication for thermodynamic data (inorganics only), the DIPPR database, and the Yaw's Physical Property Handbook. For binary VLE data DECHEMA is the best references Of these, JANAF is freely available (in horrible PDF format) while the other two would require some sort of membership or purchase. These are mainly in the form of equations or data tables. From there, we simply bring it into excel or sometimes some curve refitting routines and then on to the simulator, which takes the equations directly. We're members of AIChE which gives us access to the online version of these databases.
DIPPR was the result of a major effort of a consortium of companies who needed this data. I believe most of the serious big petrochemical companies are members of DIPPR. You will be trying to recreate this work, which is doable, but I think it will be harder than you think. I agree that this data shouldn't be locked away as tightly as it is.
as I'm sure my fellow chem nerd slashdotters are saying over and over in other posts: "No, at the pressures we're talking about here the 3-phase diagram is insufficient. Check the real thing:"
And anybody who talks about critical temperatures and pressures in relation to whether a solid forms is wrong, you can still make a solid above the critical T/P.
Personally, I think that Popper's theory (and apparently Quine's, never read it) is a little too harsh. I don't need something that's undeniably,absolutely positively true. Any good Skeptic can always cast some logical doubt on a theory.
My views are more in line with Kuhn. What we mainly need is a working set of principles that matches our world in the best way possible, so that we can understand and utilize the physcial world around us.
It is often possible to take an old, erroneous model and attach some fudge factors to it to make it fit the theory. What people forget is that it takes a lot of work sometimes to iron out all the kinks in the theory, even if it is shown to be right in the end. What is more important for a theory is that it explains a phenomenon in the simplest and best way possible.
- Give a kid a computer and he/she learns. Most of the people who claim to have above average knowledge of computers started when they were kids, and learned a large part of what they know by trial and error, and the fact that learning one UI helps you deal with another.
- About the actual topic: Computers are made to be useful, and to be used by humans. It should always be possible for most of your target audience to pick up your software and become productive with it. It's called market research. It's called QA testing. It's called proper documentation. It can be expensive to do well, but do it right and people will come.
- Have you noticed how many people use computers now? For work? For everything in their lives? For media? Give up on trying to take their computers away, because you're for sure not taking mine. Now, it has taken some simplification for the world at large to use computers. But you give the "average" user too little credit. They're trying, but they're too busy and have not learned enough to compete with the haxors.
- And what's wrong with hiring IT workers to supervise the networks? That's called specialization, guys, one of the major principles of civilization as we know it today.
- If you're one of the trolls calling for going back to the "elite good ole' days," you need to learn patience. Education is the only way forward. Sit down with a "dinosaur" or "newbie" or whatever you want to call them, (as I've done countless times at work) and *educate* them if you think you're such hot stuff. You might be surprised at what they'll learn in just a few minutes.
I'm not sure because when I tried to check up on it, it was very difficult to separate the exact rules from the generalizations, but I thought that most forms of encryption were already made illegal.
Well, this has been the US's wet dream for a long time. If we're able to shoot down other people's nukes we get to own the world and all that. Also, this isn't nearly the first time we've failed miserably at it.
We're shouldn't be talking about how much money has been poured into this thing this year, we should be talking about how much has been poured into it since at least the 80s, and probably before that.
On an aside, here at MIT a Professor Postol gave a very convincing lecture a year or two ago on the fraud surrounding the first National Missile Defence test, and the subsequent cover-up of the allegations by MIT's Lincoln Labs and others. Needless to say, he's received a lot of "pressure" from all over the place. More info here.
Well, if you cannot understand books by reading them and need help... do you really deserve to pass?
That's friggin' harsh. I'm guessing you've never read Paradise Lost, Ulysses, or Wasteland.
Reading other's people's thoughts about a work can be very helpful in many ways, as long as you don't use these thoughts to supplant actually reading the damn thing. My high school had this problem all the time, so 2 or 3 years ago some teachers began to use anti-plagiarism programs to scan work. While, there were some reports of false negatives, a bunch of kids got caught so we were much more careful from then on.
to political sensitivities that in several cases should not be so easily accommodated
but it's China. and Taiwan is just not an issue you want to screw with them over. How much money would they lose if China banned legitimate copies of Windows? All Microsoft wants is to sell more copies, not play geopolitics, and frankly that's all it should do. in my book, big companies + geopolitics = really bad. (e.g. United Fruit and South America)
Gotta love the smell of broad generalizations in the morning.
Of course it's all true, I called in early this morning to the Secret Organization of Liberals for the Removal of All Freedoms this morning, and my vote put them over the top to start "Operation: Hypocrite."
i get about 1 about every other day or so, and it's so much more annoying than e-mail spam because it'll cause my phone to ring. basically, this is the kind of stuff you never want to let get out of hand.
forgive if you know this, i just wanna run through a few things. (starin' at my biochem textbook)
so the receptors on the outside of a cell membrane have a corresponding G-protein within the membrane. normally, when the receptor is stimulated, the G-protein will bind a GTP, which in turn activates adenylate cyclase.
the adenylate cyclase is important because it converts ATP into cAMP, which is then free to float around the cell and act as a messenger. (cAMP tends to appears when the cell is low on energy)
normally, this signal fades over time because the GTP is phosphorylated to GDP.
cholera toxin prevents the phosphorylation of the G protein-GTP complex, so the receptor does not turn off, and excess cAMP builds up.
cAMP is a transcription factor for all kinds of hormones, cytokines, etc. when the toxin hits your intestines, one of the consequences is that the fluid levels are out of whack and you get diarrhea, which is the primary problem of cholera.
since the toxin can disrupt the cells metabolic processes, it is quite capable of killing cells. if the level of toxin is high, enough red blood cells can die and blockages in those tiny little capillaries in the kidneys, causing them to stop working pretty suddenly. (Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome ) http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/childk idneydiseases/hemolytic_uremic_syndrome/
if so, hope you're rich/lucky enough to get dialysis.
bottom line: yes, cholera toxin isn't fun stuff, but for the majority of cases it matters most whether or not you're hydrating properly.
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In many ways you are correct. See the story of epicycles for instance.
Random good read on subject: Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He's better than me at arguing.
This is true. However, I would want to have at least a few mines operating when a crisis hits, as it's a substantial amount of time before a new mining operation can be executed in. I don't know for certain but I'd guess probably 1-2 years, if we're in a hurry. However, us Westerners would have to work like the Chinese, which is generally very very hard my friends. As they might say, we might need to learn how to "eat a little bitter" in the meantime.
I'm a chemical engineer, and part of my job is to put together physical property packages for our simulator. I have no idea if you can legally do this by adapting something from another database, but I would contribute some of the information I have if you can get through the legal stuff.
Mainly, I rely on NIST's JANAF publication for thermodynamic data (inorganics only), the DIPPR database, and the Yaw's Physical Property Handbook. For binary VLE data DECHEMA is the best references Of these, JANAF is freely available (in horrible PDF format) while the other two would require some sort of membership or purchase. These are mainly in the form of equations or data tables. From there, we simply bring it into excel or sometimes some curve refitting routines and then on to the simulator, which takes the equations directly. We're members of AIChE which gives us access to the online version of these databases.
DIPPR was the result of a major effort of a consortium of companies who needed this data. I believe most of the serious big petrochemical companies are members of DIPPR. You will be trying to recreate this work, which is doable, but I think it will be harder than you think. I agree that this data shouldn't be locked away as tightly as it is.
as I'm sure my fellow chem nerd slashdotters are saying over and over in other posts: "No, at the pressures we're talking about here the 3-phase diagram is insufficient. Check the real thing:"
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html
And anybody who talks about critical temperatures and pressures in relation to whether a solid forms is wrong, you can still make a solid above the critical T/P.
You know your stuff.
Personally, I think that Popper's theory (and apparently Quine's, never read it) is a little too harsh. I don't need something that's undeniably,absolutely positively true. Any good Skeptic can always cast some logical doubt on a theory.
My views are more in line with Kuhn. What we mainly need is a working set of principles that matches our world in the best way possible, so that we can understand and utilize the physcial world around us.
It is often possible to take an old, erroneous model and attach some fudge factors to it to make it fit the theory. What people forget is that it takes a lot of work sometimes to iron out all the kinks in the theory, even if it is shown to be right in the end. What is more important for a theory is that it explains a phenomenon in the simplest and best way possible.
- Give a kid a computer and he/she learns. Most of the people who claim to have above average knowledge of computers started when they were kids, and learned a large part of what they know by trial and error, and the fact that learning one UI helps you deal with another.
- About the actual topic: Computers are made to be useful, and to be used by humans. It should always be possible for most of your target audience to pick up your software and become productive with it. It's called market research. It's called QA testing. It's called proper documentation. It can be expensive to do well, but do it right and people will come.
- Have you noticed how many people use computers now? For work? For everything in their lives? For media? Give up on trying to take their computers away, because you're for sure not taking mine. Now, it has taken some simplification for the world at large to use computers. But you give the "average" user too little credit. They're trying, but they're too busy and have not learned enough to compete with the haxors.
- And what's wrong with hiring IT workers to supervise the networks? That's called specialization, guys, one of the major principles of civilization as we know it today.
- If you're one of the trolls calling for going back to the "elite good ole' days," you need to learn patience. Education is the only way forward. Sit down with a "dinosaur" or "newbie" or whatever you want to call them, (as I've done countless times at work) and *educate* them if you think you're such hot stuff. You might be surprised at what they'll learn in just a few minutes.
I'm not sure because when I tried to check up on it, it was very difficult to separate the exact rules from the generalizations, but I thought that most forms of encryption were already made illegal.
Well, this has been the US's wet dream for a long time. If we're able to shoot down other people's nukes we get to own the world and all that. Also, this isn't nearly the first time we've failed miserably at it.
We're shouldn't be talking about how much money has been poured into this thing this year, we should be talking about how much has been poured into it since at least the 80s, and probably before that.
On an aside, here at MIT a Professor Postol gave a very convincing lecture a year or two ago on the fraud surrounding the first National Missile Defence test, and the subsequent cover-up of the allegations by MIT's Lincoln Labs and others. Needless to say, he's received a lot of "pressure" from all over the place. More info here.
Well, if you cannot understand books by reading them and need help... do you really deserve to pass?
That's friggin' harsh. I'm guessing you've never read Paradise Lost, Ulysses, or Wasteland.
Reading other's people's thoughts about a work can be very helpful in many ways, as long as you don't use these thoughts to supplant actually reading the damn thing. My high school had this problem all the time, so 2 or 3 years ago some teachers began to use anti-plagiarism programs to scan work. While, there were some reports of false negatives, a bunch of kids got caught so we were much more careful from then on.
The massive fine they'd impose on you for violating their IP?
They could always hire Tanya Harding again too.
to political sensitivities that in several cases should not be so easily accommodated
but it's China. and Taiwan is just not an issue you want to screw with them over. How much money would they lose if China banned legitimate copies of Windows? All Microsoft wants is to sell more copies, not play geopolitics, and frankly that's all it should do. in my book, big companies + geopolitics = really bad. (e.g. United Fruit and South America)
Gotta love the smell of broad generalizations in the morning.
Of course it's all true, I called in early this morning to the Secret Organization of Liberals for the Removal of All Freedoms this morning, and my vote put them over the top to start "Operation: Hypocrite."
http://www4.blah
yeah, it's the same in taiwan.
i get about 1 about every other day or so, and it's so much more annoying than e-mail spam because it'll cause my phone to ring. basically, this is the kind of stuff you never want to let get out of hand.
forgive if you know this, i just wanna run through a few things. (starin' at my biochem textbook)
k idneydiseases/hemolytic_uremic_syndrome/
if so, hope you're rich/lucky enough to get dialysis.
so the receptors on the outside of a cell membrane have a corresponding G-protein within the membrane. normally, when the receptor is stimulated, the G-protein will bind a GTP, which in turn activates adenylate cyclase.
the adenylate cyclase is important because it converts ATP into cAMP, which is then free to float around the cell and act as a messenger. (cAMP tends to appears when the cell is low on energy)
normally, this signal fades over time because the GTP is phosphorylated to GDP. cholera toxin prevents the phosphorylation of the G protein-GTP complex, so the receptor does not turn off, and excess cAMP builds up.
cAMP is a transcription factor for all kinds of hormones, cytokines, etc. when the toxin hits your intestines, one of the consequences is that the fluid levels are out of whack and you get diarrhea, which is the primary problem of cholera.
since the toxin can disrupt the cells metabolic processes, it is quite capable of killing cells. if the level of toxin is high, enough red blood cells can die and blockages in those tiny little capillaries in the kidneys, causing them to stop working pretty suddenly. (Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome )
http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/child
bottom line: yes, cholera toxin isn't fun stuff, but for the majority of cases it matters most whether or not you're hydrating properly.
whee! too much information man to the rescue!