We've had so many breathroughs that we should all have flying cars, be immortal, use sugar cube size supercomputers, and interstellar flight by now??? I Get tired of media hype all of the time!
I agree totally, what we need is to be able to write code "Well" enough, which is still something that needs to be done, quantumn computation will take a considerable amount more solutions, both hardware and programming to be viable. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying it can't be done, just that there's plenty of development still yet to do.
There still so many issues with quantumn computing that haven't been resolved yet. Like for instance how do you get the information out without affecting it...
Oddly enough, I'm getting tired of this too, I kow that all the official NASA space transport systems are made by private companies.
There is a difference though, being in government myself, I know that guidlines and standards plus the bureaucracy for federal run programs tend to be waistful in the least sense. Projects always tend to be costly in large company, non-competitive environments, as where in competitive run projects, handled by smaller, more nimble private companies tend to be the most cost effective, with exceptions.
I'm not saying that they stopped being productive after age 35, what I am saying is that the majority of their greatest accomplishments were done by 35, in fact by 30. If you look at the people you scited, you will see that.
Being over 40 I've had a desire to go back to doing research, physics was my Bachelors. Considering though that middle age for Physics is 35. What I mean by this is that most of the important work a Physicist will do will have been done by age 35. Now depedning on what you want to pursue,I would suggest going to a local University and just talk to some professors. See what they think.
Good Luck!
Texas is a right-to-work state, theres very little ground they have in suing you. Even if you had a non-compete disclosure. It's ahrd to up hold in a court of law.
Being in INFOSEC, and coming from both sides (security vendor, large enterprise) their is no easy solution. A malicous attack can be a loss of information, which can be shown by the value that information is to the company. If its higher than the cost of implementing a protective measure, then you can see the difference easily. The hard one is if the malicous attack takes down your network or e-commerce sight or email. DoS attacks have far reaching effects and cost burdens depending on the attack. What is the cost of not getting email for the guy on the help desk as compared to the cost of the VP or CE* getting an email? What is the cost of lost time in man hours for each indivual on the network? All these factors will be subjective and depend on what your company holds ultimate value for.
Because companies have are afraid of risk. To use something that is new and untried, and thus could cause mission critical issues, ie. email failure, is to risky.
"I'm fairly confident that the recently unveiled US space policy caused a massive "Oh yeah? We'll see about that!" response among China, Russia, India, and perhaps others too."
I'm not to sure about that, to have this capability so soon after Bushes decleration of policy would imply they've been studying this for sometime!
It's the stress of the launches on the rails that limits how many can be launched. I bit a small test rail gun and the amount of stress on the rails is signifcant, so much so that you would have to replace the rails after almost every launch. It's actually significant that the rails can be used ten times.
This rings a bell for me, I just left a company that I loved the job. I got along with my manager as he was, what I thought, a good guy. Over two years I began to see a pattern emerge, he would tell me what a good job I was doing, but at my reviews he would give me "satisfactory" even though I would work 60 to 70 hours a week and be out of town for weeks at a time ( my marriage took a nose-dive for this job), his boss would even wonder why he would only give me a satisfactory. Word finally got to me, my manager always wanted to be top dog, so he would never make anyone else look better than himself, no matter how much work he would give them and how well they do. The straw that broke my back was when he finally said that was between a good engineer and an excellent engineer...like himself.
but I digress...
Im curious, has anyone been verbally or physically abused by a manager or supervisor?
I know I have had terrible managers in the past, some almost could be considered abusive. Just wondered how wide spread it was.
I tend to agree, before we saw the cylon's as almost perfect calculating machines that just couldn't be beat. Now we see that they are blindly searching for a purpose in the universe much like humans have been doing for thousands of years. I guess they wanted us to be able tor elate to them.
I understand where your coming from. I've felt the same way, I have an undergraduate EE and wanted new challenges. I got a job that pays the bills and gives me enough to work on a few ideas of my own. I hope to form a company around them at some point.
I don't believe that any form of space elevator would have 8 trillion ton lifting capacity, over time yes, at once, no. Several hundred tons of protection, be it lead,water, hydrocarbon, would still reduce how much an elevator could be lifted at once, thus making it more costly to ship things to orbit, reducing the effectiveness of having an elevator.
Personally, I believe that by the time the kinks are worked out and we get around to having the technology to make a space based elevator, something better would have come along.
There's the issue of secondairy radiation, high energy proton's and electron's tend to create secondairy particles when it slams into nuclie. This can be just as band as primary radiation or even worse. Lead or some very thick (in meters) would have to be provided, if not that increase the speed for getting through the Van Alan belt (a few thousands of miles per hour).
He believes American audiences are deserting their movie going habits permanently
Hmm, could it because there really isn't many good movies being made? George. George? Ya hear us George?
# 1) Don't underestimate your audience, most people who go to movies want more than paper thin characterization.
#2) Don't hype a movie just to get people to come, high expectations are seldom matched.
Get this right and people will go to the movies...
The Laser Wakefield accelerator would be ideal as an injector, not necessarily for something to replace accelerators like the LHC. As the technology for Wakefield accelerators adavances it can easily increase the capabilities for the LHC. Infact the LHC could steadily increase in TeV rating by swapping out the injector as needed and the tech advances.
To me a 1 GeV particle accelerator that can fit in a semi-truck or room or heck even two rooms, is "portable" compared to lugging around a 2 mile long linear accelerator!
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We've had so many breathroughs that we should all have flying cars, be immortal, use sugar cube size supercomputers, and interstellar flight by now??? I Get tired of media hype all of the time!
I agree totally, what we need is to be able to write code "Well" enough, which is still something that needs to be done, quantumn computation will take a considerable amount more solutions, both hardware and programming to be viable. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying it can't be done, just that there's plenty of development still yet to do.
There still so many issues with quantumn computing that haven't been resolved yet. Like for instance how do you get the information out without affecting it...
Oddly enough, I'm getting tired of this too, I kow that all the official NASA space transport systems are made by private companies. There is a difference though, being in government myself, I know that guidlines and standards plus the bureaucracy for federal run programs tend to be waistful in the least sense. Projects always tend to be costly in large company, non-competitive environments, as where in competitive run projects, handled by smaller, more nimble private companies tend to be the most cost effective, with exceptions.
I've always thought the private sector could do it better, cheaper, faster than NASA. Profit motivatioin is a powerful force!
I'm not saying that they stopped being productive after age 35, what I am saying is that the majority of their greatest accomplishments were done by 35, in fact by 30. If you look at the people you scited, you will see that.
Being over 40 I've had a desire to go back to doing research, physics was my Bachelors. Considering though that middle age for Physics is 35. What I mean by this is that most of the important work a Physicist will do will have been done by age 35. Now depedning on what you want to pursue,I would suggest going to a local University and just talk to some professors. See what they think. Good Luck!
Texas is a right-to-work state, theres very little ground they have in suing you. Even if you had a non-compete disclosure. It's ahrd to up hold in a court of law.
Being in INFOSEC, and coming from both sides (security vendor, large enterprise) their is no easy solution. A malicous attack can be a loss of information, which can be shown by the value that information is to the company. If its higher than the cost of implementing a protective measure, then you can see the difference easily. The hard one is if the malicous attack takes down your network or e-commerce sight or email. DoS attacks have far reaching effects and cost burdens depending on the attack. What is the cost of not getting email for the guy on the help desk as compared to the cost of the VP or CE* getting an email? What is the cost of lost time in man hours for each indivual on the network? All these factors will be subjective and depend on what your company holds ultimate value for.
Because companies have are afraid of risk. To use something that is new and untried, and thus could cause mission critical issues, ie. email failure, is to risky.
"I'm fairly confident that the recently unveiled US space policy caused a massive "Oh yeah? We'll see about that!" response among China, Russia, India, and perhaps others too." I'm not to sure about that, to have this capability so soon after Bushes decleration of policy would imply they've been studying this for sometime!
It's the stress of the launches on the rails that limits how many can be launched. I bit a small test rail gun and the amount of stress on the rails is signifcant, so much so that you would have to replace the rails after almost every launch. It's actually significant that the rails can be used ten times.
Sounds like what they've been trying to do with extracting energy from the ocean's, with little success. http://www.nrel.gov/otec/electricity.html
This rings a bell for me, I just left a company that I loved the job. I got along with my manager as he was, what I thought, a good guy. Over two years I began to see a pattern emerge, he would tell me what a good job I was doing, but at my reviews he would give me "satisfactory" even though I would work 60 to 70 hours a week and be out of town for weeks at a time ( my marriage took a nose-dive for this job), his boss would even wonder why he would only give me a satisfactory. Word finally got to me, my manager always wanted to be top dog, so he would never make anyone else look better than himself, no matter how much work he would give them and how well they do. The straw that broke my back was when he finally said that was between a good engineer and an excellent engineer...like himself. but I digress...
Im curious, has anyone been verbally or physically abused by a manager or supervisor? I know I have had terrible managers in the past, some almost could be considered abusive. Just wondered how wide spread it was.
I tend to agree, before we saw the cylon's as almost perfect calculating machines that just couldn't be beat. Now we see that they are blindly searching for a purpose in the universe much like humans have been doing for thousands of years. I guess they wanted us to be able tor elate to them.
I understand where your coming from. I've felt the same way, I have an undergraduate EE and wanted new challenges. I got a job that pays the bills and gives me enough to work on a few ideas of my own. I hope to form a company around them at some point.
A robot that has a "concept of itself"! I mean in the AI field this a precursor to 'self-awareness'
Who knows, throw in cheap production of antimatter and it's doable!
I don't believe that any form of space elevator would have 8 trillion ton lifting capacity, over time yes, at once, no. Several hundred tons of protection, be it lead,water, hydrocarbon, would still reduce how much an elevator could be lifted at once, thus making it more costly to ship things to orbit, reducing the effectiveness of having an elevator. Personally, I believe that by the time the kinks are worked out and we get around to having the technology to make a space based elevator, something better would have come along.
There's the issue of secondairy radiation, high energy proton's and electron's tend to create secondairy particles when it slams into nuclie. This can be just as band as primary radiation or even worse. Lead or some very thick (in meters) would have to be provided, if not that increase the speed for getting through the Van Alan belt (a few thousands of miles per hour).
No easy solution!
He believes American audiences are deserting their movie going habits permanently Hmm, could it because there really isn't many good movies being made? George. George? Ya hear us George? # 1) Don't underestimate your audience, most people who go to movies want more than paper thin characterization. #2) Don't hype a movie just to get people to come, high expectations are seldom matched. Get this right and people will go to the movies...
The Laser Wakefield accelerator would be ideal as an injector, not necessarily for something to replace accelerators like the LHC. As the technology for Wakefield accelerators adavances it can easily increase the capabilities for the LHC. Infact the LHC could steadily increase in TeV rating by swapping out the injector as needed and the tech advances.
When I said cancer therapy I was thinking more along other known therapies such as Pion therapy, more novel but effective in treating tumor cells just as well. See here for Pion therapy: http://www.triumf.ca/welcome/pion_trtmt.html See here how to create Pion's using electron bombardment: http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v102/i5/p1392_1
To me a 1 GeV particle accelerator that can fit in a semi-truck or room or heck even two rooms, is "portable" compared to lugging around a 2 mile long linear accelerator!