It is totally wrong to classify Mexican
and Salvadorean food as South American.
Each section of Las Americas has very distinctive
food. Even between countries because the climate
differences are great together with the different ethnicity of people that immigrated to the region.
(informative how??)
As you most probably guess the dishes prepared
in Brazil are very different to the ones in
Argentina.
You can see this in the US.. people in California
have a very different diet to people living in
New York.. even though we have the technology to
transport fresh produce to wherever we live.
If army rations are anything to go by.. the
french ones are still the best and most tasty.
Ok so I may be showing my age but I remember when
I was little seeing this cartoon about a boy
who gets sold to this street musician and they
travel the french countryside.. this looks to
bet set around the same time.. even the characters
seem to have some relevance. Ok there are tanks
but it does have the feel of the 19th century.
Like the beginning of the industrial age.
The book that Remi is based on 'sans famille'
or Nobody's Boy was written around 1878 by Hector
Marlot.
51 episodes were made and it was the saddest things ever.. one by one he lost everyone
around him.. even his dogs.. I think at some point
we were forbidden from watching it because we
would endup crying at the end of each episode.
It also has aspects of another cartoon.. the
magical enchanted prince.. like Candy Candy..
from memory she was always chasing this guy
in red tartans...
I'm glad that I saw them when I was a kid
together with Mazinger, Robotech, StarBlazers,
Heidi because the larger than life characters
do not have the same charm when you are older.
By the same token I do not own a tv these days..
I think I have done enough tv watching for a
lifetime.
It is interesting that the popularity of the
DVD and the video player has meant that saturday
morning cartoons series are not as popular as
before. I'm not aware of 100+ episode
series like Candy Candy being made today. The
simpsons doesn't count because it works in all
levels while those cartoons only appealed to
kids.. yes I remember dad had to buy another
tv set because the kids would get up way too
early on saturday to compete for the control
of the tv. He could not stand them:) . I see his point these days.
I think the film looks great.. I will have
to convince one of my nephews to see it with
me.
'Tony Stark was an inventor and businessman, he headed Stark Industries a company supplying state of the art weaponry to the military. Whilst on a trip to the East, (I guess it could not have
been from eating fried foods and smoking) Stark was injured in the chest and invented an artificial heart in a chestplate that he had to wear at all times to survive, the chestplate became the basis of his Ironman armour. After further development he had a complete powered suit and took the Identity of Ironman, head of security at Stark Industries and crimefighter, although no one knew he was secretly Tony Stark.'
It made me read engineering books when I was
little.. I wanted to jump buildings and here
there was a possibility to do it. Rather
than Superman.. 'Mum are you sure you did not
find me, as a baby, in the middle of the road while driving on the countryside?'
But I agree the Batman animated cartoon series rocks!! That and the Tick are my favourites.
The only cartoon in print that I have ever read
or been interested on was Tank Girl.. it has
it's own style of drawing and laying out the cartoon story.
Don't you recognise happy people when you see
them? The whole thing worked right out of the
box.. no need to tinker or understand that
what is under the hood.. Yay!!! now I only
have to come up with what to say to my
friends or colleagues:) .
Actually I like Skype a lot.. I used it a
lot. The only thing is that it does not have
echo cancelling algorithm. It does suffer from that
hence the need for headphones with microphones.
I think it was the tail configuration
that the lifting body had. The two small vertical tails at the end of the delta wing is inherently unstable under certain conditions. I used to have the reference but I forget at this moment.
This is one of the reasons the space shuttle has a huge vertical tail.
Another point.. the B52- High and Mighty - NASA 008
was actually retired after the X-43A scramjet test
last year. So now they have to find another plane
to do the job. Scaled Composites is just another company like Boeing so I do not see the polemic here.
NASA will use whatever suits them.
Cheers,
A.
I think one of the reasons for the increase in
age is , as pointed before, there is a to understand
and developing intuition with subjects far removed
from everyday experience does take time and effort.
The other main reason is these days science requires big
resources to test an idea or investigate
a concept. For example 1984 Physics Nobel prize
was given to Carlo Rubbia and Simon Van der Meer for "their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction". Carlo Rubia was not the actual
discoverer but he was the project leader and it was his idea (Simon Van der Meer was the project
leader in the accelerator side) and he
was the one who puffed and puffed until everything
got build. You have to be pretty senior and with
credentials to go around puffing and getting
people to take you notice.
If you take another example.. the invention of
the transisor by John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain, scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Other scientists in
the early 1900s had seen the effect but they had not suceeded in reproducing the effect. It took a
company with great resources for them to have
everything necessary to make it work. I think
the purity of Germanium being one. Again to
have such a previldge position at a young age
is pretty rare.
Even Isaac Newton.. he was young when he came
up with the tools he required for creating the
models.. but it took him a good deal of 20years
after that for everything to actually fall in
place and for Principia to be written. If you
read James Gleick's biography you can see
his confusion and the mighty struggle he has.
Apart from trying to understand the physics
behind it he has to develop a method of
investigation which today we take for granted. Slowly, as he is being
pushed by his critics, he irons out the wrinkles in the work.
That is a bit harsh with arXiv.org I would be surprise if you found papers on perpetual motion machines (the sort of thing I would classify as crap). Then again I work in particle physics so most papers found in the repository have some editorial input already. I always seem to find stuff such as proceedings from summer schools which are useful when learning about a new subject which would require a lot of sluething if only the paper copy was available.
The review process is not completely solid either. If you do not like the comments from a reviewer you can always ask for another one. My first paper that I reviewed (a few months ago) I managed to tally around 25 comments and corrections. The second reviewer for the same paper wrote 2. They were both related to a grammatical error in the first page. It goes to show you should always question what you are reading.
But I agree completely. Having competent journals with good editors is necessary and has a place and hopefully enough momentum has been created to forced prices to ones that libraries can afford.
This already sort of happens with pre-prints. Servers like arXiv.org and at cern.ch already contains huge amounts of online material that can be search and download. Every major experiment has its own editorial board as well so a lot of those papers have had some kind of peer review process applied to them. It is hard to find scientists willing to review papers. Top scientists have their work cut out. Getting grants, doing research and teaching. Revewing papers unless it is a special paper is something that is avoided at all costs.
Conferences proceedings are almost obsolete as well since you can always find the talk given on the conference's website, the paper submitted to the publisher etc.
It is those pre-print servers and online information available to the public which are putting the squeeze in publishing companies. Libraries are doubting whether it is useful to keep paper copies of papers and if the expense is cost effective. It is the same old story.. library's budgets are cut and the journal prices are increased.
Publishing books is hard work and time consuming. Most probably not cost effective to be done yourself if you take into account how much your time is worth.
It is easy enough to create something on pdf with latex which gives you professional presentation and stick it on your website but the distribution of such thing would be very limited.
I like books they are portatble and I can annotate things on the margin.. laptops are still too big to be as portable as book.
The publishing companies do have a place but it needs a shake up or its strategy changed.
It is hard enough to get established scientists that are willing to review papers thoroughly as it is, let alone asked them to organise a peer review system.
Although it does happen, each big experiment usually has its own editorial board that is made up of senior scientists working on the project. To be part of this board is a good thing for your career. To have your work 'blessed' by this committee is cause for
a big celebration. It means it can be shown at conferences and submitted to journals.
One of the problems is that journals themselves are expensive even though some of them ask for a fee when submitting your work.
The hike in the price (whether it is real or just plain greedy) of journals means that a lot of universities cannot afford to have the same diversity on journals that they once possesed. Thus negating their aim which is to make knowledge available to everyone.
This is my story.. I'm from Australia
and I never been to either the USA
or UK before the 2001.
So I moved to CA, Bay area in 2001 from Australia.. The bottleneck there was getting a social security number. Two weeks later I was able to get a debit card with Visa logo with the bank account I opened. After that getting DSL was another week or so. No problem.
In Febraury this year I moved to Scotland. With
everything being global I thought things would be
similar. I have heard that getting a bank account
was a big problem but if I have my name on the lease of the place I'm living in, I reasoned, it should be ok. I never thought that it would be
may and would still not have a debit card.
Two weeks to get a place. The Real Estate would not take
american credit cards for the deposit so over
three days I withdrew the amount from teller machines. When I had the lease I went happily to the bank, I had a proof of address. It didn't
count. I had to wait another 3 weeks for the
council to send me a bill for the council tax.
This would be my proof of address.
The first pay check was sent to me in two checks
that I could cash.. the checks were written
by hand which I thought would get me in trouble
as I had heard from previous friends (one was
arrested at the bank because they thought
they were illegal) but
at least that went ok.
In the meantime I tried to get a phone connected.
It would be four weeks wait for the engineer to
turn up. This is Glasgow, the second capital of
the Empire.. what takes them so long was my
question. It was
not obvious were I lived either.. I was told
one right(1R). Which meant 1st floor, the door to the right. The British Telecom person did not have
a clue about 1R so I had to choose between 1/2 or 2/2. Off course I got the wrong one and when
I discovered it and I called BT to tell them
they responded with I had to re-schedule and it would take 6 weeks.
In the bank front when I had the council tax bill
they allowed me to get a bank account but it
could only be a savings account with a card that
I could only be used in ATMs.. for a debit card
I would have to wait for 4 months.. four pay deposits for them to give me the card.
This meant that I was limited of what I could buy
on the internet some will only deliver to the address the card was registered. I would have
to buy airline tickets, hire cars with my american
cards and then wire money to the accounts.
Late March and finally the phone was connected.
Two weeks later I got my dsl connection with
the thanks of american cards.
But I'm getting used to carrying 1000 dollars
in my pocket
when I'm buying furniture and asking colleagues
to buy me stuff over the internet.
I guess things could have gone much worst but
I never thought that getting a debit
card would make me so happy.
Cheers,
A
ps: I actually brought my linksys router from the
US to the UK thinking I would only need to buy
new power adaptor.. good idea except that they
do not give you modems. At least the Netgear works really well.
It is funny to hear so much bagging of Rhapsody,
It is something I'm really fond of. I have been using it for a year and it has allowed me to
listen to music which otherwise I would never have heard or even known about. You can follow the history of a musician from band to band. You can even check out all the different versions of the same song. etc. etc.
The software is a bit shody but
to have such a big library at my finger tips without having to use the disk of my laptop
which is great.
I just hope they keep expanding their library.
Cheers,
A.
Slashdot Mirror
Apart from showing they had the big stick in the playground by dropping two bombs, they also tested the two different mechanism for ignition.
As you most probably guess the dishes prepared in Brazil are very different to the ones in Argentina.
You can see this in the US.. people in California have a very different diet to people living in New York.. even though we have the technology to transport fresh produce to wherever we live.
If army rations are anything to go by.. the french ones are still the best and most tasty.
Cheers, A.
Ok so I may be showing my age but I remember when I was little seeing this cartoon about a boy who gets sold to this street musician and they travel the french countryside.. this looks to bet set around the same time.. even the characters seem to have some relevance. Ok there are tanks but it does have the feel of the 19th century. Like the beginning of the industrial age.
The book that Remi is based on 'sans famille' or Nobody's Boy was written around 1878 by Hector Marlot. 51 episodes were made and it was the saddest things ever.. one by one he lost everyone around him.. even his dogs.. I think at some point we were forbidden from watching it because we would endup crying at the end of each episode.
It also has aspects of another cartoon.. the magical enchanted prince.. like Candy Candy.. from memory she was always chasing this guy in red tartans...
I'm glad that I saw them when I was a kid together with Mazinger, Robotech, StarBlazers, Heidi because the larger than life characters do not have the same charm when you are older. By the same token I do not own a tv these days.. I think I have done enough tv watching for a lifetime.
It is interesting that the popularity of the DVD and the video player has meant that saturday morning cartoons series are not as popular as before. I'm not aware of 100+ episode series like Candy Candy being made today. The simpsons doesn't count because it works in all levels while those cartoons only appealed to kids.. yes I remember dad had to buy another tv set because the kids would get up way too early on saturday to compete for the control of the tv. He could not stand them :) . I see his point these days.
I think the film looks great.. I will have to convince one of my nephews to see it with me.
'Tony Stark was an inventor and businessman, he headed Stark Industries a company supplying state of the art weaponry to the military. Whilst on a trip to the East, (I guess it could not have been from eating fried foods and smoking) Stark was injured in the chest and invented an artificial heart in a chestplate that he had to wear at all times to survive, the chestplate became the basis of his Ironman armour. After further development he had a complete powered suit and took the Identity of Ironman, head of security at Stark Industries and crimefighter, although no one knew he was secretly Tony Stark.' It made me read engineering books when I was little.. I wanted to jump buildings and here there was a possibility to do it. Rather than Superman.. 'Mum are you sure you did not find me, as a baby, in the middle of the road while driving on the countryside?'
But I agree the Batman animated cartoon series rocks!! That and the Tick are my favourites.
The only cartoon in print that I have ever read or been interested on was Tank Girl.. it has it's own style of drawing and laying out the cartoon story.
Cheers, A.
Actually I like Skype a lot.. I used it a lot. The only thing is that it does not have echo cancelling algorithm. It does suffer from that hence the need for headphones with microphones.
Cheers, A.
This is one of the reasons the space shuttle has a huge vertical tail.
Another point.. the B52- High and Mighty - NASA 008 was actually retired after the X-43A scramjet test last year. So now they have to find another plane to do the job. Scaled Composites is just another company like Boeing so I do not see the polemic here. NASA will use whatever suits them. Cheers, A.
The other main reason is these days science requires big resources to test an idea or investigate a concept. For example 1984 Physics Nobel prize was given to Carlo Rubbia and Simon Van der Meer for "their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction". Carlo Rubia was not the actual discoverer but he was the project leader and it was his idea (Simon Van der Meer was the project leader in the accelerator side) and he was the one who puffed and puffed until everything got build. You have to be pretty senior and with credentials to go around puffing and getting people to take you notice.
If you take another example.. the invention of the transisor by John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain, scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Other scientists in the early 1900s had seen the effect but they had not suceeded in reproducing the effect. It took a company with great resources for them to have everything necessary to make it work. I think the purity of Germanium being one. Again to have such a previldge position at a young age is pretty rare.
Even Isaac Newton.. he was young when he came up with the tools he required for creating the models.. but it took him a good deal of 20years after that for everything to actually fall in place and for Principia to be written. If you read James Gleick's biography you can see his confusion and the mighty struggle he has. Apart from trying to understand the physics behind it he has to develop a method of investigation which today we take for granted. Slowly, as he is being pushed by his critics, he irons out the wrinkles in the work.
Cheers, A.
That is a bit harsh with arXiv.org I would be
surprise if you found papers on perpetual
motion machines (the sort of thing I would classify as crap). Then again I work in particle physics so most papers found in the repository
have some editorial input already.
I always seem to find stuff such as proceedings from summer schools which are useful
when learning about a new subject
which would require a lot of sluething
if only the paper copy was available.
The review process is not completely solid either.
If you do not like the comments from a reviewer
you can always ask for another one. My first
paper that I reviewed (a few months ago) I managed
to tally around 25 comments and corrections. The second reviewer for the same paper wrote 2. They were both related to a grammatical error in the first
page. It goes to show you should always question what you are reading.
But I agree completely. Having competent journals with good editors is necessary and has a place
and hopefully enough momentum has been created
to forced prices to ones that libraries can afford.
Cheers,
A.
This already sort of happens with pre-prints.
Servers like arXiv.org and at cern.ch
already contains huge
amounts of online material that can be search
and download.
Every major experiment has its own editorial board
as well so a lot of those papers have had some kind
of peer review process applied to them.
It is hard to find scientists willing to review
papers. Top scientists have their work cut out.
Getting grants, doing research and teaching.
Revewing papers unless it is a special paper is
something that is avoided at all costs.
Conferences proceedings are almost obsolete
as well since you can always find the talk
given on the conference's website, the paper
submitted to the publisher etc.
It is those pre-print servers and online information available to the
public which are putting the squeeze in publishing
companies. Libraries are doubting whether it is
useful to keep paper copies of papers and if the
expense is cost effective. It is the same old
story.. library's budgets are cut and the journal
prices are increased.
Publishing books is hard work and time consuming.
Most probably not cost effective to be done
yourself if you take into account how much your
time is worth.
It is easy enough to create something on pdf with
latex which gives you professional presentation
and stick it on your website
but the distribution of such thing would be
very limited.
I like books they are portatble and I can
annotate things on the margin.. laptops
are still too big to be as portable as book.
Cheers,
A.
The publishing companies do have a place
but it needs a shake up or its strategy changed.
It is hard enough to get established scientists that
are willing to review papers thoroughly as it is,
let alone asked them to organise a peer review
system.
Although it does happen, each big experiment
usually has its own editorial board that is
made up of senior scientists working on the
project. To be part of this board
is a good thing for your career. To have your
work 'blessed' by this committee is cause for
a big celebration. It means it can be shown at
conferences and submitted to journals.
One of the problems is that journals themselves
are expensive even though some of them ask
for a fee when submitting your work.
The hike in the price (whether it is real or
just plain greedy) of journals means that a lot of
universities cannot afford to have the
same diversity on journals that they once
possesed. Thus negating their aim which is to
make knowledge available to everyone.
Cheers,
A
This is my story.. I'm from Australia and I never been to either the USA or UK before the 2001.
So I moved to CA, Bay area in 2001 from Australia.. The bottleneck there was getting a social security number. Two weeks later I was able to get a debit card with Visa logo with the bank account I opened. After that getting DSL was another week or so. No problem.
In Febraury this year I moved to Scotland. With everything being global I thought things would be similar. I have heard that getting a bank account was a big problem but if I have my name on the lease of the place I'm living in, I reasoned, it should be ok. I never thought that it would be may and would still not have a debit card.
Two weeks to get a place. The Real Estate would not take american credit cards for the deposit so over three days I withdrew the amount from teller machines. When I had the lease I went happily to the bank, I had a proof of address. It didn't count. I had to wait another 3 weeks for the council to send me a bill for the council tax. This would be my proof of address.
The first pay check was sent to me in two checks that I could cash.. the checks were written by hand which I thought would get me in trouble as I had heard from previous friends (one was arrested at the bank because they thought they were illegal) but at least that went ok.
In the meantime I tried to get a phone connected. It would be four weeks wait for the engineer to turn up. This is Glasgow, the second capital of the Empire.. what takes them so long was my question. It was not obvious were I lived either.. I was told one right(1R). Which meant 1st floor, the door to the right. The British Telecom person did not have a clue about 1R so I had to choose between 1/2 or 2/2. Off course I got the wrong one and when I discovered it and I called BT to tell them they responded with I had to re-schedule and it would take 6 weeks.
In the bank front when I had the council tax bill they allowed me to get a bank account but it could only be a savings account with a card that I could only be used in ATMs.. for a debit card I would have to wait for 4 months.. four pay deposits for them to give me the card.
This meant that I was limited of what I could buy on the internet some will only deliver to the address the card was registered. I would have to buy airline tickets, hire cars with my american cards and then wire money to the accounts.
Late March and finally the phone was connected. Two weeks later I got my dsl connection with the thanks of american cards.
But I'm getting used to carrying 1000 dollars in my pocket when I'm buying furniture and asking colleagues to buy me stuff over the internet.
I guess things could have gone much worst but I never thought that getting a debit card would make me so happy.
Cheers, Aps: I actually brought my linksys router from the US to the UK thinking I would only need to buy new power adaptor.. good idea except that they do not give you modems. At least the Netgear works really well.
Obviously you have not been to Liverpool on a saturday night in the middle of winter.
It is funny to hear so much bagging of Rhapsody, It is something I'm really fond of. I have been using it for a year and it has allowed me to listen to music which otherwise I would never have heard or even known about. You can follow the history of a musician from band to band. You can even check out all the different versions of the same song. etc. etc. The software is a bit shody but to have such a big library at my finger tips without having to use the disk of my laptop which is great. I just hope they keep expanding their library. Cheers, A.