The scientific advances from the LHC won't be coming for another few years. The IT impacts are happening now. I'm sure we'll get a new news blitz when the LHC starts to actually collide particles at high energies (when it breaks Fermi Labs records in a year or so) and then yet another when the first import preliminary results come in (preliminary because it will take another year after that to accumulate the statistics for definite results).
The LHC has been in construction for what, 15 years now? It is about time they get to have a party. Actually, we had parties for pretty much every tiny milestone, champagne is cheap there. But this is a bit bigger.
I did once, the year I bought this computer. It was also the first time I'd had to fill out state tax returns after the 'use' tax was put in effect (I'd been living overseas a few years). So now you know there is someone. I haven't done it recently since I'd only spent a paltry sum online and there is a lower limit.
except the AC meant du jour (standard of the day) and not de jure (standard from the law). Just because the random scribbles spelled a real word doesn't make it the right word.
My uncle saved plenty of money for retirement, a marvel considering he spent about 10 years in the 80's unable to get a real job, and has a reasonable pension. He would give us a countdown to retirement, to the day, for the last 5 years until he retired. He bought a house in Florida to retire in with his wife and Mother-in-law (poor guy). Now he's back to work because the economy in Michigan tanked and he can't sell his house here even after dropping the asking price 25% and Florida's market isn't much better.
It is easy to blame other people's problems on poor planning, but the truth of it is that if the floor drops out from under you there isn't much you can do unless you spent your entire life living like a miser or didn't squander the benefits of being upper class.
My understanding of the physics of linked resonant coils is that the coupling efficiency at a given range (once you're farther away than a few times the coil diameter) is proportional to the coil diameter cubed. So if you halve the ring size, you drop the range by a factor of 8.
The point was that slides have become a hallmark of bad presentations. The GP doesn't want any slides, no mater how snazzy.
I personally think there is a happy medium. In his case I might make 1 slide with a list of the new features and then animate it to highlight each one in turn. Enough to remind people where we are when the mind wanders without being distracting.
The paper is being published in a journal that comes out this week. It wouldn't make sense for him to post it to his website before it is even published (and would probably be a breach of contract).
Although MIT press releases are notoriously pie-in-the-sky, there probably are some real improvements here.
The patent office gets paid for granting patents. Its cheaper for them to just grant the patent and let companies fight it out in the courts. Let it come out of someone else's budget.
I recently switched from Sprint to Mobile, each with a 2-phone family plan with the least number of minutes (500 and 700). The total cost is about the same for each, but the fees are funny. With Sprint: $59.99 monthly, $3.88 Sprint surcharges (these should ALWAYS be in the advertised price but somehow never are), $4.41 Government taxes & fees (start of Jun 2008). The total varies about 20 cents every month. Total fees 8.29.
With T-Mobile: $55.99 monthly, $4.67 taxes and fees on the account, $4.15 taxes and fees on the first line, $4.12 taxes and fees on the second. Total fees $12.89 (end of Jun 2008).
The total cost of each? 68.28 for sprint, 68.93 for T-mobile (w/200 more minutes we never use). Why does Sprint only assess fees on one line and T-mobile both lines? (Okay, technically, 30 cents of the Sprint fees are on the second line).
Anyway, there's some data. The funniest TV ad I ever saw was for DSL advertised at $19.99 a month in big bold writting and in tiny blurry letters at the bottom of the screen it says "There is an additional $2.00 cost recovery fee." Where is a class action lawsuit when you need one?
I always thought that delay was on purpose so that people would take a second to reread their comments before clicking the final submit... If its not, it probably should be! Maybe good karma can reduce the wait time.
I really want to be able to mod people -1 idiotic, or at least -1 misinformative.
Not only did they make features smaller than the wavelength, they did it with a relatively simple and inexpensive setup. It would be interesting to see this combined with the memristor development in an attempt to create very cheap, high density storage or even cooler, hybrid analog/digital computers.
Short algorithms are trivial. What you need to evaluate is the applicant's ability to structure and organize their code. Someone who writes a wicked quick-sort may not have any clue how to put together a significant program for maintainability and expandibility. I know my first few projects were a mess because I was still figuring that part out.
Code samples and a presentation and discussion of how the code is organized are a good way to evaluate this. The poster's question of how to get non-trivial code that it is okay to show other companies is completely valid.
I suspect the American oil companies care a lot where the oil is coming from... and that they HATE where it comes from now. The fact that most of the worlds oil is from places with political instability or violence is not good for these companies in the long run (even if it boosts short term prices).
Domestically produced 'crude' would be a godsend to the oil companies. I'll keep my investment money elsewhere though until I see more proof than a press release.
66 senators needed to be on the same page in this case, since without immunity Bush would have vetoed this bill. Congress feels the need to pass bills to look useful since there is an election coming up, a real economic crisis and a perceived security crisis. Bush is out next year anyway, so he's happy to veto anything that might hurt his legacy or his friends. The republicans are doing very well at holding the party line and they still have 49 seats.
The result seems to be a bunch of crazy crap getting passed and very little of the things people want like ending the war, energy reform, or accountability for the nefarious deeds of the executive branch.
I know 20 something year old Koreans who took a single semester of Japanese and can now understand significant amounts of spoken Japanese. I admit Korean and Japanese are some of the languages on the edge of my knowledge and I may have over stated the similarity, but it is much easier to learn one if you know the other.
With only a BS in CS, you're qualified to fetch coffee and be a code monkey.
If had gotten a graduate degree in CS or CE, you probably could have found a research job. As a physics graduate student, you most likely will not do research after getting your degree (very few job openings). It is much more likely you'll end up in the financial industry (or a perpetual post doc).
Chinese engineers and scientists generally learn their trade in English. When speaking about technical topics, two native Chinese will frequently switch to English.
Don't learn a language for your career unless you have a clear need. Learn a language now that really appeals to you to make learning other languages later easier.
I've been looking for someone to make this point before I made it myself. It is pretty impossible to predict which language is going to be useful, and unless you're natively bilingual you're unlikely to get a job of out college as an engineer based on your language skills.
If you have time in your schedule though and a language you're interested in, take some classes. Once you've learned a second language it will be much easier to learn a third, fourth, fifth, etc. It is not at all necessary to be fluent in a language to get some use out of it.
I learned Spanish in high school, took nothing in college. I lived in France after graduating and learned French there while I picked up some Chinese to work better with the Chinese technicians. I learned enough Italian and German to travel confidently. I almost never use Spanish, but if I hadn't studied it I would have had a hard time picking up everything else.
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The scientific advances from the LHC won't be coming for another few years. The IT impacts are happening now. I'm sure we'll get a new news blitz when the LHC starts to actually collide particles at high energies (when it breaks Fermi Labs records in a year or so) and then yet another when the first import preliminary results come in (preliminary because it will take another year after that to accumulate the statistics for definite results).
The LHC has been in construction for what, 15 years now? It is about time they get to have a party. Actually, we had parties for pretty much every tiny milestone, champagne is cheap there. But this is a bit bigger.
I did once, the year I bought this computer. It was also the first time I'd had to fill out state tax returns after the 'use' tax was put in effect (I'd been living overseas a few years). So now you know there is someone. I haven't done it recently since I'd only spent a paltry sum online and there is a lower limit.
except the AC meant du jour (standard of the day) and not de jure (standard from the law). Just because the random scribbles spelled a real word doesn't make it the right word.
My uncle saved plenty of money for retirement, a marvel considering he spent about 10 years in the 80's unable to get a real job, and has a reasonable pension. He would give us a countdown to retirement, to the day, for the last 5 years until he retired. He bought a house in Florida to retire in with his wife and Mother-in-law (poor guy). Now he's back to work because the economy in Michigan tanked and he can't sell his house here even after dropping the asking price 25% and Florida's market isn't much better.
It is easy to blame other people's problems on poor planning, but the truth of it is that if the floor drops out from under you there isn't much you can do unless you spent your entire life living like a miser or didn't squander the benefits of being upper class.
Don't forget medicine that other people pay for, and then send to your country where you get it for free.
PS. Of course, propping up third world economies is in the rich countries' interests. Just ask Marx.
PPS. To the GGGGGP, incorrect use of 'who' is almost unnoticable. In correct use of 'whom' is both stupid, pretentious and glaring.
My understanding of the physics of linked resonant coils is that the coupling efficiency at a given range (once you're farther away than a few times the coil diameter) is proportional to the coil diameter cubed. So if you halve the ring size, you drop the range by a factor of 8.
The point was that slides have become a hallmark of bad presentations. The GP doesn't want any slides, no mater how snazzy.
I personally think there is a happy medium. In his case I might make 1 slide with a list of the new features and then animate it to highlight each one in turn. Enough to remind people where we are when the mind wanders without being distracting.
The paper is being published in a journal that comes out this week. It wouldn't make sense for him to post it to his website before it is even published (and would probably be a breach of contract).
Although MIT press releases are notoriously pie-in-the-sky, there probably are some real improvements here.
The patent office gets paid for granting patents. Its cheaper for them to just grant the patent and let companies fight it out in the courts. Let it come out of someone else's budget.
I recently switched from Sprint to Mobile, each with a 2-phone family plan with the least number of minutes (500 and 700). The total cost is about the same for each, but the fees are funny.
With Sprint: $59.99 monthly, $3.88 Sprint surcharges (these should ALWAYS be in the advertised price but somehow never are), $4.41 Government taxes & fees (start of Jun 2008). The total varies about 20 cents every month. Total fees 8.29.
With T-Mobile: $55.99 monthly, $4.67 taxes and fees on the account, $4.15 taxes and fees on the first line, $4.12 taxes and fees on the second. Total fees $12.89 (end of Jun 2008).
The total cost of each? 68.28 for sprint, 68.93 for T-mobile (w/200 more minutes we never use). Why does Sprint only assess fees on one line and T-mobile both lines? (Okay, technically, 30 cents of the Sprint fees are on the second line).
Anyway, there's some data. The funniest TV ad I ever saw was for DSL advertised at $19.99 a month in big bold writting and in tiny blurry letters at the bottom of the screen it says "There is an additional $2.00 cost recovery fee." Where is a class action lawsuit when you need one?
You've made about 20 comments already today. Only a few are modded up. The system obviously can't be slowing you down THAT much.
If they're full of shit, reply to their comment with a link to a reputable source
Undoing all my other moderation ... I'd mod you -1 idiotic but I've already posted in this discussion[/joke].
I always thought that delay was on purpose so that people would take a second to reread their comments before clicking the final submit ... If its not, it probably should be! Maybe good karma can reduce the wait time.
I really want to be able to mod people -1 idiotic, or at least -1 misinformative.
I have a sexy kung fu hacker chick wife.
Not only did they make features smaller than the wavelength, they did it with a relatively simple and inexpensive setup. It would be interesting to see this combined with the memristor development in an attempt to create very cheap, high density storage or even cooler, hybrid analog/digital computers.
Short algorithms are trivial. What you need to evaluate is the applicant's ability to structure and organize their code. Someone who writes a wicked quick-sort may not have any clue how to put together a significant program for maintainability and expandibility. I know my first few projects were a mess because I was still figuring that part out.
Code samples and a presentation and discussion of how the code is organized are a good way to evaluate this. The poster's question of how to get non-trivial code that it is okay to show other companies is completely valid.
I suspect the American oil companies care a lot where the oil is coming from ... and that they HATE where it comes from now. The fact that most of the worlds oil is from places with political instability or violence is not good for these companies in the long run (even if it boosts short term prices).
Domestically produced 'crude' would be a godsend to the oil companies. I'll keep my investment money elsewhere though until I see more proof than a press release.
66 senators needed to be on the same page in this case, since without immunity Bush would have vetoed this bill. Congress feels the need to pass bills to look useful since there is an election coming up, a real economic crisis and a perceived security crisis. Bush is out next year anyway, so he's happy to veto anything that might hurt his legacy or his friends. The republicans are doing very well at holding the party line and they still have 49 seats.
The result seems to be a bunch of crazy crap getting passed and very little of the things people want like ending the war, energy reform, or accountability for the nefarious deeds of the executive branch.
Newegg has the Eee PC 901 for $599
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No need to guess.
Finally, I'd say that for a really ballpark example, Japanese and Korean are about as mutually intelligible as French and Romanian
Great, now I need to go learn some Romanian to find out how similar it is to French.
I know 20 something year old Koreans who took a single semester of Japanese and can now understand significant amounts of spoken Japanese. I admit Korean and Japanese are some of the languages on the edge of my knowledge and I may have over stated the similarity, but it is much easier to learn one if you know the other.
I held out so much hope all during the trial process that Hans wasn't guilty. Good luck, Hans.
Why?
With only a BS in CS, you're qualified to fetch coffee and be a code monkey.
If had gotten a graduate degree in CS or CE, you probably could have found a research job. As a physics graduate student, you most likely will not do research after getting your degree (very few job openings). It is much more likely you'll end up in the financial industry (or a perpetual post doc).
Chinese engineers and scientists generally learn their trade in English. When speaking about technical topics, two native Chinese will frequently switch to English.
Don't learn a language for your career unless you have a clear need. Learn a language now that really appeals to you to make learning other languages later easier.
I've been looking for someone to make this point before I made it myself. It is pretty impossible to predict which language is going to be useful, and unless you're natively bilingual you're unlikely to get a job of out college as an engineer based on your language skills.
If you have time in your schedule though and a language you're interested in, take some classes. Once you've learned a second language it will be much easier to learn a third, fourth, fifth, etc. It is not at all necessary to be fluent in a language to get some use out of it.
I learned Spanish in high school, took nothing in college. I lived in France after graduating and learned French there while I picked up some Chinese to work better with the Chinese technicians. I learned enough Italian and German to travel confidently. I almost never use Spanish, but if I hadn't studied it I would have had a hard time picking up everything else.
Especially the English ... Except, if English were your native language you probably wouldn't have used a semicolon there.