Also, you can win a date with a Nobel Prize winner.
Wait, wait. Are you telling me that if I win a Nobel, I might get a date, too? Wow! I need to get back to designing that perpetual motion machine--feels like I've been working on that stupid thing forever.
Who else thinks that Google didn't actually make these kinds of decisions? There's probably some body or convention that they're following--I just don't know which one.
Does no one use plain old MPI anymore? Light isn't exactly compact to produce, but it's so easy to work with--tunable, directional, all sorts of nice properties.
Just in case there are any chemical physicists reading this...
Assumedly, if this system is small enough to be backpack-sized, it's not a time-of-flight mass spec... right? The article's short on details on the actual mass spec--they seem to focus on their ionization technique more than on the spectrometer itself. But, then again, I guess that's where they're focusing their research.
I'm not too impressed by this "reactive chemical spray" system, but maybe that's because I'd be more concerned with airborne rather than adsorbed/adhered molecules. It seems needlessly destructive to be spraying corrosives onto a person's luggage, unless we're talking, like, microgram quantities--although if you're just taking off a few molecular layers, and if the reactive components are rarefied in a less reactive gas, maybe it's not a big deal. Still, couldn't the same sort of "wipes" that you see used with modern airport ion mobility spectrometers be used to spare travelers from being exposed to these "reactive" compounds? Too, it seems a bad idea to require that airports keep machines sitting around in terminals with cylinders of reactive gasses. Once again, the quantities one would be dealing with are what concern me.
They mention that their system suffers low selectivity. Selectivity, from what I understand, is pretty important in other fields, like nerve-gas detection, for instance, in order to force down false positives. What's keeping their system at a low rate of false positives as they claim?
I suppose I could read their papers; this article really is just a press release, after all. Being a lasers sort of guy, I guess maybe I'm just biased towards photoionization.
Also, even though this isn't really germane to my post here, I found another press release here is an article from just about a year ago that talks about this same DESI system.
"Thompson says that he is too busy drafting the legislation to bother having a tit-for-tat verbal battle and he considers his position clear and the matter closed." -- Aaron McKenaa for the Inquirer
It's funny how you'll hear faith healers and those sorts of folk say almost exactly the same thing.
"I'm much too busy healing people to bother with 'clinical studies' or 'having a rational discussion.'"
We all know that, in the end, it doesn't really matter who did the asking. Who else thinks that this hack's going to write some crazy thing and just send it to every important governmental official until he finds someone who bites?
... strangest way for a guy to off himself, though. I mean, why would a guy shoot himself seventeen times and _then_ run himself over with an SUV? Some people.
Yes, but I'd like to have some backstory, thank you, and while you're at it hold the leagues of Blizzard fans. In an MMO where you have time travel, you better damn well have a well planned story tree, otherwise someone will go back in time, kill Lord British, and then whine when Alfred Fancypants doesn't become Mayor of Greektown in 202020 AD.
Of course, the CT MMO could have no time travel, but then what's the point?
The book, I mean. The M.I. had tongue- and jaw-actuated radio controls. Of course, there wasn't any bone conduction going on (I don't think), and since this is tooth-mounted, this is actually quite a bit better. Wow--combine today's miniaturization with Heinlein's imagination. You could control your whole damn office building using just your mouth, neck, and eyelids.
Where I went, I took a BS _physics_ degree, and had exactly one shop-type course--two sessions each week for eight or so weeks, one for basic electronics (read: soldering, desoldering, and a small project), one for basic shop (read: milling, grinding, what to do when you slip up and cut a finger off). Now, I also took a BS _engineering_ degree, so I got to see what some other engineers were doing (I was optical, so we only spent a modest amount of time working with our machine shop tech). One of the freshman year ME courses was a kind of shop course--really basic, but there. I think that they probably had a few more project-type things after that. We (OE) had a course devoted to thinking about what the guys on the floor would have to do (sorta--it was also what the guys in the lab next door needed, and all), and that was during a transition period for the degree from "applied" to "engineering" optics.
So maybe the problem is that some schools just don't realize that hands-on is so valuable. It's not all of them, for sure.
The females do have two or four mammary slits either side of their genital slit...
How boring--I'm glad I'm not a dolphin.
Actually, it's probably for the best. We're making a Sci-fi, here, not furry porn.
Come to think of it, though... that's a completely untapped market! When's the last time you saw "Lust of the Wereseal" or something at the back room of the local Video Shack?
Man, this could be like buying stock in AOL (back in the 90's)--you know you're going to hell, but at least you'll be rich when you get there!
Wait, do furries have money? Never mind. Let's just go with the sci-fi thing.
Maybe we could pull a Strangelove here, and make a movie that so accurately reproduces the Navy's classified plans that it makes their brass nervous. What an idea.
Hey, I just had a great idea for a B sci-fi movie! It's totally unrelated to what we're discussing here, but it involves killer dolphins and a big hurricane. The tagline: "God made them smart. Man made them killers. Nature set them free!"
That's why I melt down all the pennies people give me and mint my own commemorative collector's coins (not valid tender anywhere). If the government wants my DNA, they can buy my coins like everyone else.
Yes, you could refuse to give a sample, but if the police really wanted to obtain your DNA samples they'd just obtain a search warrant for your house, and attempt to collect it from hair/nails etc.
Whew. That's creepy. Here come the police: they're searching your house, not for duck porn or drugs or guns, but for your SKIN. That would seriously make me feel like some creepy stalker, if I were a cop and had to visit some guy's house just to swab his toilet seat for a sample of his ass.
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I hear this Bill O'Reilly guy is a little right-of-center.
I find that in chat rooms I usually need protected from people who very much _want_ to be over 18, but instead seem to have BR0EKN KEYB04RDZ.
My point exactly.
97 / 9 = 10.777...
98 / 9 = 10.888...
Implies 99 / 9 = 10.999...
99 / 9 = 11 / 1 = 11
Therefore 10.999... = 11, so whatever approaches 11 approaches 10.999...
(Now, spot the logical flaw... if there is one.)
Also, you can win a date with a Nobel Prize winner.
Wait, wait. Are you telling me that if I win a Nobel, I might get a date, too? Wow! I need to get back to designing that perpetual motion machine--feels like I've been working on that stupid thing forever.
But first, why oh why is this headed with "science"?
There's more to science than hurting animals... but, frankly, it's the part that I like best.
Who else thinks that Google didn't actually make these kinds of decisions? There's probably some body or convention that they're following--I just don't know which one.
I think it was Fermi who said, "If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist."
Hell, if a giant like Fermi had trouble, who am I, a lowly physics undergrad, to think that _I_ can remember them all.
Does no one use plain old MPI anymore? Light isn't exactly compact to produce, but it's so easy to work with--tunable, directional, all sorts of nice properties.
Just in case there are any chemical physicists reading this...
Assumedly, if this system is small enough to be backpack-sized, it's not a time-of-flight mass spec... right? The article's short on details on the actual mass spec--they seem to focus on their ionization technique more than on the spectrometer itself. But, then again, I guess that's where they're focusing their research.
I'm not too impressed by this "reactive chemical spray" system, but maybe that's because I'd be more concerned with airborne rather than adsorbed/adhered molecules. It seems needlessly destructive to be spraying corrosives onto a person's luggage, unless we're talking, like, microgram quantities--although if you're just taking off a few molecular layers, and if the reactive components are rarefied in a less reactive gas, maybe it's not a big deal. Still, couldn't the same sort of "wipes" that you see used with modern airport ion mobility spectrometers be used to spare travelers from being exposed to these "reactive" compounds? Too, it seems a bad idea to require that airports keep machines sitting around in terminals with cylinders of reactive gasses. Once again, the quantities one would be dealing with are what concern me.
They mention that their system suffers low selectivity. Selectivity, from what I understand, is pretty important in other fields, like nerve-gas detection, for instance, in order to force down false positives. What's keeping their system at a low rate of false positives as they claim?
I suppose I could read their papers; this article really is just a press release, after all. Being a lasers sort of guy, I guess maybe I'm just biased towards photoionization.
Also, even though this isn't really germane to my post here, I found another press release here is an article from just about a year ago that talks about this same DESI system.
"Thompson says that he is too busy drafting the legislation to bother having a tit-for-tat verbal battle and he considers his position clear and the matter closed." -- Aaron McKenaa for the Inquirer It's funny how you'll hear faith healers and those sorts of folk say almost exactly the same thing. "I'm much too busy healing people to bother with 'clinical studies' or 'having a rational discussion.'" We all know that, in the end, it doesn't really matter who did the asking. Who else thinks that this hack's going to write some crazy thing and just send it to every important governmental official until he finds someone who bites?
Yeah, that's the project I meant; the rumor was that it was foxed due to Squeenix wanting to do a remake themselves. Any truth to that?
... strangest way for a guy to off himself, though. I mean, why would a guy shoot himself seventeen times and _then_ run himself over with an SUV? Some people.
Yes, but I'd like to have some backstory, thank you, and while you're at it hold the leagues of Blizzard fans. In an MMO where you have time travel, you better damn well have a well planned story tree, otherwise someone will go back in time, kill Lord British, and then whine when Alfred Fancypants doesn't become Mayor of Greektown in 202020 AD.
Of course, the CT MMO could have no time travel, but then what's the point?
I heard a rumor that Square-Enix shut down some fan-made CT game because they're going to remake it themselves. Probably hogwash, but who knows?
I'd love to see a PS3-quality CT update myself, but that's just because I can't stand playing on hand-helds.
Too bad there's not enough lore to make a CT MMO.
Yeah. Two MMOs.
The book, I mean. The M.I. had tongue- and jaw-actuated radio controls. Of course, there wasn't any bone conduction going on (I don't think), and since this is tooth-mounted, this is actually quite a bit better. Wow--combine today's miniaturization with Heinlein's imagination. You could control your whole damn office building using just your mouth, neck, and eyelids.
Clearly. We need more robotic doctors training patients how to take care of their damn selves.
Where I went, I took a BS _physics_ degree, and had exactly one shop-type course--two sessions each week for eight or so weeks, one for basic electronics (read: soldering, desoldering, and a small project), one for basic shop (read: milling, grinding, what to do when you slip up and cut a finger off). Now, I also took a BS _engineering_ degree, so I got to see what some other engineers were doing (I was optical, so we only spent a modest amount of time working with our machine shop tech). One of the freshman year ME courses was a kind of shop course--really basic, but there. I think that they probably had a few more project-type things after that. We (OE) had a course devoted to thinking about what the guys on the floor would have to do (sorta--it was also what the guys in the lab next door needed, and all), and that was during a transition period for the degree from "applied" to "engineering" optics.
So maybe the problem is that some schools just don't realize that hands-on is so valuable. It's not all of them, for sure.
(Disclaimer: I went to Rose, like a few of you.)
You know how to recognize a joke, right? What a coward.
The females do have two or four mammary slits either side of their genital slit...
How boring--I'm glad I'm not a dolphin.
Actually, it's probably for the best. We're making a Sci-fi, here, not furry porn.
Come to think of it, though... that's a completely untapped market! When's the last time you saw "Lust of the Wereseal" or something at the back room of the local Video Shack?
Man, this could be like buying stock in AOL (back in the 90's)--you know you're going to hell, but at least you'll be rich when you get there!
Wait, do furries have money? Never mind. Let's just go with the sci-fi thing.
Maybe we could pull a Strangelove here, and make a movie that so accurately reproduces the Navy's classified plans that it makes their brass nervous. What an idea.
What's next? Crack-addled dolphins?
Hey, I just had a great idea for a B sci-fi movie! It's totally unrelated to what we're discussing here, but it involves killer dolphins and a big hurricane. The tagline: "God made them smart. Man made them killers. Nature set them free!"
That's why I melt down all the pennies people give me and mint my own commemorative collector's coins (not valid tender anywhere). If the government wants my DNA, they can buy my coins like everyone else.
Yes, you could refuse to give a sample, but if the police really wanted to obtain your DNA samples they'd just obtain a search warrant for your house, and attempt to collect it from hair/nails etc.
Whew. That's creepy. Here come the police: they're searching your house, not for duck porn or drugs or guns, but for your SKIN. That would seriously make me feel like some creepy stalker, if I were a cop and had to visit some guy's house just to swab his toilet seat for a sample of his ass.