I can honestly say this is not going to work. The working style at NIMS and RIKEN are completely different, and their administration is completely incompatible. This will likely cause headaches all over. Also, one organization does not improve communication between the scientists. I found at RIKEN that the one group was not allowed to talk to the other group at RIKEN in fear one would be copying or taking up time of the other.
As far as my knowledge goes, yes the pump laser has to be X-ray. The energy of the emitted photons from the laser are always lower than the excitation energy of the lasing medium. So you need the high photon energy of x-rays to excite the medium to lase photons of lower (but still x-ray) energy.
Funny, then, that my research focuses on the behavior of X-rays through metals. X-rays can penetrate metals, depending on the energy of the radiation used. high-energy radiation passes through almost everything, and interacts only a little with intermediate objects. Hence, it is very well possible they are using X-rays for this, but they can pretty much only use it to visualize the internal metallic structure of objects as it will pass right through people.
Yup, that's my experience too. I do my research in a particular way (research institute, YMMV), and it is IT's job to facilitate the IT aspects of that job. When I then need to SSH to an outside computational cluster, this is blocked by their (mcafee) firewall. Not only that, but (strangely) DNS requests also seem to be blocked if originating from an application other than a web-browser.
When I then call IT, and ask them to open SSH for my IP, they have no idea what I'm talking about. Finally, after days of explaining, I get access to a SOCKS server circumventing the firewall. Except, of course, for DNS so I am still stuck with editing/etc/hosts to add external cluster nodes.
This is not the first institute I have worked in, and in other institutes IT was more than willing to help me get access, sometimes after a cursory check of the "security" of my computer. Given it's a mac, that was no issue.
Now this current IT gets me riled. They make my life difficult. They stop me from doing my work in an easy way and insist on making it difficult when it does not need to be.
there isn't nearly enough of this common sense around in this thread. I stick with film cameras to be out of the world of "measurebators" - trying to find the best camera based on specs alone. A good picture is not a function of the camera.
it's the sifting through the photos that is the learning experience. Even with film (which I exclusively shoot still after having bought and abandoned a 400D a few years back) I still throw away at least 90% of my pictures. Learn to keep only the best.
Because apparently, the Russians do it better (see video). I also remember there being a stock of leftover engines from the end of the cold war (not sure if it was the NK-33), that exceeded the US theoretical predictions on some maximum engine parameters. So there are still lessons to be learned.
Depends on your definition of fact, the one I apply is "Fact: Something known to be true". Given that definition: before it is confirmed, we do not know it is true and therefore not a fact.
Ok, a quick analysis of your arguments and some counterarguments per paragraph. par. 1: You state that Christianity=love&peace, and that no-one should hate love and peace. But the one does not require the other, as there can be love and peace without Christianity.
par. 2: You state that Christianity and science are not in conflict. There are two counterarguments: Christianity is inherently anti-scientific in its nature, as it is a belief in something without evidence. Thus, Christianity trains unscientific thought patterns. Second argument is that in politics, Christianity is used as an argument to hinder science. So Christianity and science are in conflict.
par. 3: You state that you should believe in god without any evidence. That there is no way of showing god exists, certainly not in a statistically measurable way. So if god does not influence our lives in the slightest, why believe at all?
par. 4: This paragraph is a bit of a jumble. You state here that love and peace are unattainable on earth, thus conflicting with par. 1. Besides that, it is stated that god died on the cross, but instead it was his son as you should be well aware, or you are considering your god as three gods, the real one, Jezus and the holy spirit. Lastly you state that god does not intervene where we would consider it possible or beneficial. This, again, raises the question of his existence, and my counterargument of: if he does not influence our lives, why believe at all.
I recently switched from Matlab on the mac (I had been using it for about 8 years) to Python. I got fed up with the Matlab license annoyances (it was much easier to install a cracked version than to install the official server-authenticated version) and the artificial limitations. I would recommend Python, which is UI-wise slightly less polished, but otherwise equally or more capable than Matlab for my purposes! I even managed to get a factor of 20 speed improvement in a monte-carlo method I wrote.
Go install the free academic version of EPD on your mac, start following the "learn Python the hard way" for a couple of chapters, and you'll be up and running in no time. Use matplotlib for plotting capabilities.
I seem to remember that during the first challenge, much media attention was spent on a pitted "battle" between an australian (?) and an american team. Except that in the end, the Dutch team won by miles, which earned the Dutch team a side note. Talk about media focus getting it wrong;).
Well, I live in Japan so the competition will be tougher:). For some reason, everyone seems to know about the rotary engines here. I would bet on the RX-8 in southern american states as long as there is a corner in the track:). In a straight line... I wouldn't be so sure.
But thanks for sharing! I'll keep my eyes on the site:).
Insanely cool. I have yet to do a single mod on my RX-8, I was thinking to replace the clutch and lighten the flywheel. I was stopped, however, when I realized I should have started with the higher performance RX-8 to begin with (which was not available), and that any significant improvements on this one would be rather pointless. It still is very much fun to drive. I wonder what you would do with the 1.6L engine in development:). Do you have a site where your (car's) progress can be followed? And, if you do not mind telling, where on earth do you people get the money for these mods?
761 HP? Are you the one with the quad-rotor engine, or have you added so much turbo and superchargers that it's quite the monster now? Mine (second hand, didn't have a power choice) only has 190 HP. Still good fun on the Japanese mountain roads, though.
Sure, but I cannot imagine the music industry letting it get too large, fearing a backlash. Now, it's just a fringe of the populace which has been caught, enough so you have a friend of a friend who got a message, but not enough that you have mass disconnects. If the group is small enough, you will never consider yourself a possible member.
"Oracle claims the chip's single-threaded performance has been significantly boosted" Be that as it may, the TX chips were designed to handle a vast multitude of threads with lower performance per thread. So now they are trying to turn that design around? Seems to me they are designing the processor equivalent of the half-track.
Except that humans are not particularly inflammable. Sure, the hair burns, and maybe a bit of the skin or clothing, but the huge quantities of water in the body make for a reasonable extinguisher. Perhaps, though, if you're loaded up with lethal levels of alcohol...
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I can honestly say this is not going to work. The working style at NIMS and RIKEN are completely different, and their administration is completely incompatible. This will likely cause headaches all over. Also, one organization does not improve communication between the scientists. I found at RIKEN that the one group was not allowed to talk to the other group at RIKEN in fear one would be copying or taking up time of the other.
...which is not that bad for a laser [to be monochromatic].
As far as my knowledge goes, yes the pump laser has to be X-ray. The energy of the emitted photons from the laser are always lower than the excitation energy of the lasing medium. So you need the high photon energy of x-rays to excite the medium to lase photons of lower (but still x-ray) energy.
Funny, then, that my research focuses on the behavior of X-rays through metals. X-rays can penetrate metals, depending on the energy of the radiation used. high-energy radiation passes through almost everything, and interacts only a little with intermediate objects. Hence, it is very well possible they are using X-rays for this, but they can pretty much only use it to visualize the internal metallic structure of objects as it will pass right through people.
Yup, that's my experience too. I do my research in a particular way (research institute, YMMV), and it is IT's job to facilitate the IT aspects of that job. When I then need to SSH to an outside computational cluster, this is blocked by their (mcafee) firewall. Not only that, but (strangely) DNS requests also seem to be blocked if originating from an application other than a web-browser.
When I then call IT, and ask them to open SSH for my IP, they have no idea what I'm talking about. Finally, after days of explaining, I get access to a SOCKS server circumventing the firewall. Except, of course, for DNS so I am still stuck with editing /etc/hosts to add external cluster nodes.
This is not the first institute I have worked in, and in other institutes IT was more than willing to help me get access, sometimes after a cursory check of the "security" of my computer. Given it's a mac, that was no issue.
Now this current IT gets me riled. They make my life difficult. They stop me from doing my work in an easy way and insist on making it difficult when it does not need to be.
there isn't nearly enough of this common sense around in this thread. I stick with film cameras to be out of the world of "measurebators" - trying to find the best camera based on specs alone. A good picture is not a function of the camera.
it's the sifting through the photos that is the learning experience. Even with film (which I exclusively shoot still after having bought and abandoned a 400D a few years back) I still throw away at least 90% of my pictures. Learn to keep only the best.
except Japan. In a big way. Here, the carriers control everything about the phones, which is why they are lagging behind so much.
Because apparently, the Russians do it better (see video). I also remember there being a stock of leftover engines from the end of the cold war (not sure if it was the NK-33), that exceeded the US theoretical predictions on some maximum engine parameters. So there are still lessons to be learned.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S0zbFD2FqU
Depends on your definition of fact, the one I apply is "Fact: Something known to be true". Given that definition: before it is confirmed, we do not know it is true and therefore not a fact.
I think before something becomes a fact, it's a hypothesis at best.
Sorry, but facts without evidence are not facts. As you stated above, there is no evidence.
Ok, a quick analysis of your arguments and some counterarguments per paragraph.
par. 1: You state that Christianity=love&peace, and that no-one should hate love and peace. But the one does not require the other, as there can be love and peace without Christianity.
par. 2: You state that Christianity and science are not in conflict. There are two counterarguments: Christianity is inherently anti-scientific in its nature, as it is a belief in something without evidence. Thus, Christianity trains unscientific thought patterns. Second argument is that in politics, Christianity is used as an argument to hinder science. So Christianity and science are in conflict.
par. 3: You state that you should believe in god without any evidence. That there is no way of showing god exists, certainly not in a statistically measurable way. So if god does not influence our lives in the slightest, why believe at all?
par. 4: This paragraph is a bit of a jumble. You state here that love and peace are unattainable on earth, thus conflicting with par. 1. Besides that, it is stated that god died on the cross, but instead it was his son as you should be well aware, or you are considering your god as three gods, the real one, Jezus and the holy spirit. Lastly you state that god does not intervene where we would consider it possible or beneficial. This, again, raises the question of his existence, and my counterargument of: if he does not influence our lives, why believe at all.
Cheers.
Would not work, this change is not a material change.
Thanks for the refresher. :).
I recently switched from Matlab on the mac (I had been using it for about 8 years) to Python. I got fed up with the Matlab license annoyances (it was much easier to install a cracked version than to install the official server-authenticated version) and the artificial limitations. I would recommend Python, which is UI-wise slightly less polished, but otherwise equally or more capable than Matlab for my purposes! I even managed to get a factor of 20 speed improvement in a monte-carlo method I wrote.
Go install the free academic version of EPD on your mac, start following the "learn Python the hard way" for a couple of chapters, and you'll be up and running in no time. Use matplotlib for plotting capabilities.
I seem to remember that during the first challenge, much media attention was spent on a pitted "battle" between an australian (?) and an american team. Except that in the end, the Dutch team won by miles, which earned the Dutch team a side note. Talk about media focus getting it wrong ;).
Well, I live in Japan so the competition will be tougher :). For some reason, everyone seems to know about the rotary engines here. I would bet on the RX-8 in southern american states as long as there is a corner in the track :). In a straight line... I wouldn't be so sure.
But thanks for sharing! I'll keep my eyes on the site :).
Insanely cool. I have yet to do a single mod on my RX-8, I was thinking to replace the clutch and lighten the flywheel. I was stopped, however, when I realized I should have started with the higher performance RX-8 to begin with (which was not available), and that any significant improvements on this one would be rather pointless. It still is very much fun to drive. :). Do you have a site where your (car's) progress can be followed? And, if you do not mind telling, where on earth do you people get the money for these mods?
I wonder what you would do with the 1.6L engine in development
761 HP? Are you the one with the quad-rotor engine, or have you added so much turbo and superchargers that it's quite the monster now? Mine (second hand, didn't have a power choice) only has 190 HP. Still good fun on the Japanese mountain roads, though.
Sure, but I cannot imagine the music industry letting it get too large, fearing a backlash. Now, it's just a fringe of the populace which has been caught, enough so you have a friend of a friend who got a message, but not enough that you have mass disconnects. If the group is small enough, you will never consider yourself a possible member.
Hear, Hear. It wasn't even funny when it was a real message on my terminal screen. ...
Fuck, I'm getting old.
"Oracle claims the chip's single-threaded performance has been significantly boosted"
Be that as it may, the TX chips were designed to handle a vast multitude of threads with lower performance per thread. So now they are trying to turn that design around? Seems to me they are designing the processor equivalent of the half-track.
Except that humans are not particularly inflammable. Sure, the hair burns, and maybe a bit of the skin or clothing, but the huge quantities of water in the body make for a reasonable extinguisher. Perhaps, though, if you're loaded up with lethal levels of alcohol...
They should extend it so it blocks real-life ads as well. Would be a godsend in ad-ridden Japan.