But seriously,I have been electrocuted by 20,000V at significant current several times. But only for a few hundred nanoseconds at a time. Sparks plugs rock.
As a U.S. physicist working at CERN, I can tell you that the U.S. is very much involved with LHC. Although the U.S. is not a member nation of CERN, U.S. people are more 30% of many the major projects in terms of people and money including ATLAS and CMS--according to the pretty pie charts in my building. The only other nation that contributes as much as the U.S. is Russia. As far as the contriubution to the collider itself, I am uncertain, but many of the past high level admins have been American including the a past director.
The labor breakdown is something like this (of couse there is much overlap; these are generalizations): All: Everyone contributes academically. Every group is multinational. Russia: Virtually all of the useful manual labor. In the pit, many signs are only in Russian.
A great deal of other functions. Switzerland/France: Makes the coffee. Cleans the floors. Secretarial work. Building maintenance. Safety. Admin. U.S.: Reminds everyone that we are on a schedule. Complains that solution X is unpractical. Falls asleep during meetings. Italy/Germany: Proposes solution X.
If someone could provide some hard numbers that would be great, but remember that money comes from many different places and I would assume much of the U.S. comes from the Unversities.
P.S.: TFA is wrong, Switzerland is not sunny. It is depressingly cloudy most of the year. It is thought to be a contributing factor in Geneva's absurdly high suicide rate. Spain/France: Provides hot women. Falls asleep after lunch.
I have been doing some extensive personal research for a number of years,
and I can tell you that, out on the streets, no one can tell that you are just a troll either.
I find that punctuating others' retorts with "WHAAAAA!" helps a bit.
Don't forget about the time Vivendi sued MP3.com for its business model, litigated them into a $200mil settlement, and then bought out the financially weaken company. Vivendi then offed the same service and sued its own lawyers(who told them this was illegal) for malpractice.
These people are not protesting the music. Not buying RIAA music will not stop DRM (not in time).
The big fear is that you won't be able to play DRMed content without DRM hardware, or possible find reasonably price non-DRM hardware.
Read up on DRM. Find out what is happening. If you are fine with it, Okay. But I don't expect that you will. And then, think about the fact that ignoring the RIAA and the MPAA and not buying their content has only made then more aggressive. Passive protest hasn't worked (i.e. bitching on/.). We need to get involved; We need to get others involved. Tell your friends, tell your mom, tell your congressman.
Besides, are people who own large boats a sizable portion of U.S. car owners? Even truck/SUV owners?
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but the problem is people who own gas guzzlers simply as a status symbol. What ever happened to the sports car?
I had some chick today tell me that she loved her Sidekick and that she hated resistors, capacitors and and inductors in the sam econ versation---she is currently taking PHYS 102.
It is this sort of attitude that will slow migration. Currently most GNU/Linux distros require you to have a basic understanding of what you are doing. Mandrivia does a good job of letting you get everything up and running while you're still learning.
Although the article does have a point; I was saw AOTS recommend Debian to noobs. At the time, Debian still had major installer problems---no real hardware detection. That sort of thing is outrageous when you have SUSE, Mandrake, PCLinuxOS, and the like. Kubuntu might shape up into something working right-out-of-the-box (or they could send you a properly detected soundcard with the CD). But if you are willing to type a couple of lines into the shell, the Linux community will get you up and running (HINT: use the forum link included in your browser; those Gentoo ricers can be jerks).
Can you tell me why I would want to have anything newer then Windows 98 on an over-glorified typewriter?
Oh thats right, MS won't support 98 past July 11th, and it will become even more suceptible to viruses.
News Flash: Some poeple USE their computers(for more than MS Office)
--like scientists, like myself, and engineers who do heavy floating-point arithmetic
--some people even use computers as servers
Its a good alternative to simply cranking up the clock speed.
But you're right 64-bit protein folding is silly--enjoy your cancer.
Of course, if you buy a PC with MS Windows preinstalled, it will have all the right drivers. Dell, or whoever, won't ship the box otherwise. In turn, Best Buy isn't going to carry something without that MS seal on the box. I get tired of seeing Windows (XP,2000) being listed as a system requirement when I know that it works with Linux (without ndiswrapper). The Linux community typically only has trouble when companies do things like change the chipset in mid-version.
The manufacturer will typically write the driver for Microsoft and leave everyone else to fend for themselves. I understand that Linux just doesn't have the marketshare, but then the company becomes so secretive about there blase' engineering. Sometimes this is done to cover up software features that are misrepresented as hardware features. Really only a minimal amount of information about the hardware is needed to write drivers, but the Linuix community gets stonewalled while the manufacturer sucks on the MS teet.
To paraphrase another slashdotter: Get Windows XP running on a Spark Laptop and we'll talk about driver compatability. For God's sake, MS waited half a decade to become 64-bit capable and no one seemed to notice. Quit this double standard MSBS.
I think we can all agree that many patent should be invalidated. Your outrage is even further justified by our society's view on the subject. We come come off as Marxists or pirates who want to change the law to squash inventors so that we can by chinese knockoffs at a discounted price. But in reality, we just want the basic criterion for patentability to be met.
From Wikipedia: Patent laws usually require that, in order for an invention to be patentable, it must
* be of patentable subject matter, ie a kind of subject-matter that is eligible for patent protection,
* be novel,
* be non-obvious (in United States patent law) or involve an inventive step (in European patent law);
* be useful (in U.S. patent law) or be susceptible of industrial application (in European patent law).
Usually the term "patentability" only refers to "substantive" conditions, and does not refer to formal conditions such as the "sufficiency of disclosure", the "unity of invention" or the "best mode requirement".
In addition, I personally also feel that the patent holder should actively involved in the development of some technology or industrial application of some kind with or without regard to the specific patent(i.e. no solely patent holding companies or long term patent estates).
The problem is that there can be no reform until IP becomes a center stage issue. A polititian's stance on a side issue in always for sale. Until Americans stop allowing the media to distacty us with ridiculous issues like whether or not the state should recognize monogamous butt-sex as a valid family unit, we will see our freedoms slip away.
I stand corrected. Although NTP is purely a patent holding company that doesn't employ their patents to further develop the technology. the owner of NTP happens to be a co-inventor on all of the handful of patents they own.
Who is this small guy that got crushed? NTP has no employees. They hire lawyers and buy patents that are being infringed upon in order to make money through law suits. These people are parisites who do nothing to employ the technology to which they patents; they are certainly not inventors.
Someone in Congress likes you? Congratulations, we can offer to hold up your patent or alternatively strike someone else's down.
Congress? They have little to no sway regarding the validity of a particular patent. They can only push legislation that allows antiquated technology producers to quash new technology that threatens thier market share. Look at what RCA did to Edwin Armstrong, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Armstrong, or the history of internet radio.
This the problem with righteous anger: it's a crutch for ignorant people who want to participate in the opinion game.
That sharp decline in 1993 can be attributed to the federal legalization of abortion twenty years prior. This trend has been checked against violent teen crime statistics in states that legalized abortion sooner.
Obviously, if I am speaking of a graph in which predictions are made, and you have seen a graph in which no predictions are made, then the graph of which I am speaking is not the graph that you have seen.
I am certain that their are many graph which you have seen in your lifetime to which I am not currently refering.
I don't really think that anyone contests the measured data or the methods by which the data is smoothed. Noone is suggesting that kind of a conspiracy.
If we only look at a small period of time, any non-cyclical behavior would be captured by the short frequency components. If we look at the pre and post industrial revolution time periods (of equal duration), and see a signfigantly higher power in the short frequency components, then we can make some conclusions. Does the Fourier series of a square wave obscure is non-cyclical behavior over short intervals.
But you're right, I don't KNOW what would be the BEST method of modelling the data; it was just my first instinct. In fact, if you really want to make predictions a running Markov chain is typically better for this sort of application. Its what some friends of mine use to make adaptible controls for lean-burn engines (lean-burn engines have nasty cycle variations).
But in true./ form, you've missed the point of my post: forget best, the authors of this paper didn't even try to model it well. Linear Extrapolation! A seven year old defaults to linear extrapolation. It's totally inappropriate.
I've read this article before. I tried to find a copy of it with google scholar. I recommend everyone shut their faces until they read the article. The graph you speak of is so telling. As a scientist, it sickens me. The temperature versus time data has a very noisy complex periodic behavior at best, most likely chaotic. This being said, there can still be discernible upward and downward trends after smoothing the data, and many other techniques that can yield illuminating results. None of these were done. What they did was take a system that would be best modelled with a Fourier series and linearly extrapolated over the next few decades. This is the hockey stick of which you speak. It is like looking at a stock history and saying that since the stock went up over the last two days that it will continue to go up ad infinitum at a constant rate. Nature is awful about printing this kind of garbage.
I have had vehement discussion of this subject with other scientist only to discover that they have not actually seen this graph. After showing it to them, they were a bit embarrassed.
What you have to remember is that scientists in many fields make a name for themselves by preaching that the sky is falling. If they said otherwise, it wouldn't be news. This is especially true is earth sciences. It's not always about $$$ sometimes its about reputation.
I would love to see a good astrophysicist's paper on cyclic variation in the earths average temperature. Or maybe a well done statistical analysis.
Investigating changes in the earth's climate is important. I just don't like secular religions (actually, I just don't like religion) propped up by "science".
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Oh, I meant what I said. I am a zombie, and I am going to haunt the $h17 out of you.
I am the greatest lover that ever lived.
But seriously,I have been electrocuted by 20,000V at significant current several times. But only for a few hundred nanoseconds at a time. Sparks plugs rock.
As a U.S. physicist working at CERN, I can tell you that the U.S. is very much involved with LHC. Although the U.S. is not a member nation of CERN, U.S. people are more 30% of many the major projects in terms of people and money including ATLAS and CMS--according to the pretty pie charts in my building. The only other nation that contributes as much as the U.S. is Russia. As far as the contriubution to the collider itself, I am uncertain, but many of the past high level admins have been American including the a past director.
The labor breakdown is something like this (of couse there is much overlap; these are generalizations):
All: Everyone contributes academically. Every group is multinational.
Russia: Virtually all of the useful manual labor. In the pit, many signs are only in Russian.
A great deal of other functions.
Switzerland/France: Makes the coffee. Cleans the floors. Secretarial work. Building maintenance. Safety. Admin.
U.S.: Reminds everyone that we are on a schedule. Complains that solution X is unpractical. Falls asleep during meetings.
Italy/Germany: Proposes solution X.
If someone could provide some hard numbers that would be great, but remember that money comes from many different places and I would assume much of the U.S. comes from the Unversities.
P.S.: TFA is wrong, Switzerland is not sunny. It is depressingly cloudy most of the year. It is thought to be a contributing factor in Geneva's absurdly high suicide rate.
Spain/France: Provides hot women. Falls asleep after lunch.
I have been doing some extensive personal research for a number of years,
and I can tell you that, out on the streets, no one can tell that you are just a troll either.
I find that punctuating others' retorts with "WHAAAAA!" helps a bit.
Don't forget about the time Vivendi sued MP3.com for its business model, litigated them into a $200mil settlement, and then bought out the financially weaken company. Vivendi then offed the same service and sued its own lawyers(who told them this was illegal) for malpractice.
You can point out simple arithmetic errors and make baseless anti-American comments.
I guess that is what passes for clever these days.
These people are not protesting the music. Not buying RIAA music will not stop DRM (not in time). The big fear is that you won't be able to play DRMed content without DRM hardware, or possible find reasonably price non-DRM hardware.
/.).
Read up on DRM. Find out what is happening. If you are fine with it, Okay. But I don't expect that you will. And then, think about the fact that ignoring the RIAA and the MPAA and not buying their content has only made then more aggressive. Passive protest hasn't worked (i.e. bitching on
We need to get involved; We need to get others involved. Tell your friends, tell your mom, tell your congressman.
I don't see how this fights terrorism.
Actually, power = heat/time since heat is thermal energy (disordered kinetic energy) and power is energy per unit time.
You really should stay awake is physics class. After all, knowledge is power.
Somebody forgot to take their meds.
Besides, are people who own large boats a sizable portion of U.S. car owners? Even truck/SUV owners?
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but the problem is people who own gas guzzlers simply as a status symbol. What ever happened to the sports car?
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I've seen that a number of my textbooks were TeXed up, and having used Latex somewhat extensively myself, I wonder what else is needed for publishing.
Does anyone out there know have an intimate knowledge of publishing?
I had some chick today tell me that she loved her Sidekick and that she hated resistors, capacitors and and inductors in the sam econ versation---she is currently taking PHYS 102.
It is this sort of attitude that will slow migration. Currently most GNU/Linux distros require you to have a basic understanding of what you are doing. Mandrivia does a good job of letting you get everything up and running while you're still learning.
Although the article does have a point; I was saw AOTS recommend Debian to noobs. At the time, Debian still had major installer problems---no real hardware detection. That sort of thing is outrageous when you have SUSE, Mandrake, PCLinuxOS, and the like. Kubuntu might shape up into something working right-out-of-the-box (or they could send you a properly detected soundcard with the CD). But if you are willing to type a couple of lines into the shell, the Linux community will get you up and running (HINT: use the forum link included in your browser; those Gentoo ricers can be jerks).
That is a nice set of dogs.
I have seen no evidence for staunch nationalism in our civil courts. We treat Canada the same as the other 50 states.
Can you tell me why I would want to have anything newer then Windows 98 on an over-glorified typewriter? Oh thats right, MS won't support 98 past July 11th, and it will become even more suceptible to viruses.
News Flash: Some poeple USE their computers(for more than MS Office)
--like scientists, like myself, and engineers who do heavy floating-point arithmetic
--some people even use computers as servers
Its a good alternative to simply cranking up the clock speed.
But you're right 64-bit protein folding is silly--enjoy your cancer.
Of course, if you buy a PC with MS Windows preinstalled, it will have all the right drivers. Dell, or whoever, won't ship the box otherwise. In turn, Best Buy isn't going to carry something without that MS seal on the box. I get tired of seeing Windows (XP,2000) being listed as a system requirement when I know that it works with Linux (without ndiswrapper). The Linux community typically only has trouble when companies do things like change the chipset in mid-version. The manufacturer will typically write the driver for Microsoft and leave everyone else to fend for themselves. I understand that Linux just doesn't have the marketshare, but then the company becomes so secretive about there blase' engineering. Sometimes this is done to cover up software features that are misrepresented as hardware features. Really only a minimal amount of information about the hardware is needed to write drivers, but the Linuix community gets stonewalled while the manufacturer sucks on the MS teet. To paraphrase another slashdotter: Get Windows XP running on a Spark Laptop and we'll talk about driver compatability. For God's sake, MS waited half a decade to become 64-bit capable and no one seemed to notice. Quit this double standard MSBS.
I've been meaning to upgrade my Batsuit.
I think we can all agree that many patent should be invalidated. Your outrage is even further justified by our society's view on the subject. We come come off as Marxists or pirates who want to change the law to squash inventors so that we can by chinese knockoffs at a discounted price. But in reality, we just want the basic criterion for patentability to be met.
From Wikipedia:
Patent laws usually require that, in order for an invention to be patentable, it must
* be of patentable subject matter, ie a kind of subject-matter that is eligible for patent protection,
* be novel,
* be non-obvious (in United States patent law) or involve an inventive step (in European patent law);
* be useful (in U.S. patent law) or be susceptible of industrial application (in European patent law).
Usually the term "patentability" only refers to "substantive" conditions, and does not refer to formal conditions such as the "sufficiency of disclosure", the "unity of invention" or the "best mode requirement".
In addition, I personally also feel that the patent holder should actively involved in the development of some technology or industrial application of some kind with or without regard to the specific patent(i.e. no solely patent holding companies or long term patent estates). The problem is that there can be no reform until IP becomes a center stage issue. A polititian's stance on a side issue in always for sale. Until Americans stop allowing the media to distacty us with ridiculous issues like whether or not the state should recognize monogamous butt-sex as a valid family unit, we will see our freedoms slip away.
I stand corrected. Although NTP is purely a patent holding company that doesn't employ their patents to further develop the technology. the owner of NTP happens to be a co-inventor on all of the handful of patents they own.
Who is this small guy that got crushed? NTP has no employees. They hire lawyers and buy patents that are being infringed upon in order to make money through law suits. These people are parisites who do nothing to employ the technology to which they patents; they are certainly not inventors.
Someone in Congress likes you? Congratulations, we can offer to hold up your patent or alternatively strike someone else's down.
Congress? They have little to no sway regarding the validity of a particular patent. They can only push legislation that allows antiquated technology producers to quash new technology that threatens thier market share. Look at what RCA did to Edwin Armstrong, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Armstrong, or the history of internet radio.
This the problem with righteous anger: it's a crutch for ignorant people who want to participate in the opinion game.
HIBT?
That sharp decline in 1993 can be attributed to the federal legalization of abortion twenty years prior.
This trend has been checked against violent teen crime statistics in states that legalized abortion sooner.
I will go ahead and supply the link to the counter-rant http://www.isteve.com/abortion.htm .
It is oozing with legitamacy.
Obviously, if I am speaking of a graph in which predictions are made, and you have seen a graph in which no predictions are made, then the graph of which I am speaking is not the graph that you have seen.
I am certain that their are many graph which you have seen in your lifetime to which I am not currently refering.
I don't really think that anyone contests the measured data or the methods by which the data is smoothed. Noone is suggesting that kind of a conspiracy.
What is contested are the predictions.
If we only look at a small period of time, any non-cyclical behavior would be captured by the short frequency components. If we look at the pre and post industrial revolution time periods (of equal duration), and see a signfigantly higher power in the short frequency components, then we can make some conclusions. Does the Fourier series of a square wave obscure is non-cyclical behavior over short intervals.
./ form, you've missed the point of my post: forget best, the authors of this paper didn't even try to model it well. Linear Extrapolation! A seven year old defaults to linear extrapolation. It's totally inappropriate.
But you're right, I don't KNOW what would be the BEST method of modelling the data; it was just my first instinct. In fact, if you really want to make predictions a running Markov chain is typically better for this sort of application. Its what some friends of mine use to make adaptible controls for lean-burn engines (lean-burn engines have nasty cycle variations).
But in true
I've read this article before. I tried to find a copy of it with google scholar. I recommend everyone shut their faces until they read the article. The graph you speak of is so telling. As a scientist, it sickens me. The temperature versus time data has a very noisy complex periodic behavior at best, most likely chaotic. This being said, there can still be discernible upward and downward trends after smoothing the data, and many other techniques that can yield illuminating results. None of these were done. What they did was take a system that would be best modelled with a Fourier series and linearly extrapolated over the next few decades. This is the hockey stick of which you speak. It is like looking at a stock history and saying that since the stock went up over the last two days that it will continue to go up ad infinitum at a constant rate. Nature is awful about printing this kind of garbage.
I have had vehement discussion of this subject with other scientist only to discover that they have not actually seen this graph. After showing it to them, they were a bit embarrassed.
What you have to remember is that scientists in many fields make a name for themselves by preaching that the sky is falling. If they said otherwise, it wouldn't be news. This is especially true is earth sciences. It's not always about $$$ sometimes its about reputation.
I would love to see a good astrophysicist's paper on cyclic variation in the earths average temperature. Or maybe a well done statistical analysis.
Investigating changes in the earth's climate is important. I just don't like secular religions (actually, I just don't like religion) propped up by "science".