My own VAX computer use goes back to the original 11/780, in 1979 (undergrad class), and ends in 1997 (hosting cross-platform dev tools). Not gone, but headed that way.
Supposedly this one may throw rock and ash up to 3 miles away. The Forest Service camera is 5 miles off, and the 1980 explosion threw ask over 250 miles.
I haven't been up there but did hike up Lassen Peak in 2000. Much of that area is still bare from the eruptions that occurred around 1915.
But 77K is the boiling point of nitrogen at standard atmospheric pressures. Given that liquid N2 is fairly cheap, one should look for early-adopt motor apps and maybe low-loss electricity transmission.
Some of the melted material shoots out of volcanoes; the Cascades, for instance, are fed by that subduction zone parallel to the Oregon-Washington coast.
It's fast only if the problem being solved is, as they say on comp.parallel, embarassingly parallel. IBM mainframes are likely to still be the I/O champs.
I've probably read at least as much on the subject as you; I have a half-dozen books on education at home and, when a TA in grad school, learned about education as well as my main area (chemistry).
Vouchers work when there are good schools and teachers nearby, and that is not a given.
I didn't intend to assert that schools are first-rate now.
Before funding levels are determined, we as members of a community need to agree on the function of schooling. I've read "Education and Ecstasy" (1968) and generally agree with its goals (humanistic, anti-systems), as outlined in the chapter titled "Schools -- For What?" YMMV, however.
I agree with you on both points; I was just describing how things would evolve in the absence of barriers, which seemed to be absent from the discussion.
Cost differentials among countries were sustained in the past by labor and trade laws. Globalization removes these laws, to a greater or lesser extent. Things will come to a new equilibrium; it will be one rough ride, though.
Thanks for the insights. I'd mod you up if I could.
From what I understand about international finance, the IMF and World Bank tend to frown on countries' inflating their way out of debt. How they enforce this, I don't know; maybe the loans are payable in US dollars, euros, or yen.
Not sure about gold, though my money is partly in Newmont Mining (assuming increasing industrial activity will push metals up). If Bush wins, and if inflation heats up, he may spike interest rates and gold will plummt, as it did in Reagan's early years.
The Soviet Union was a police state that overspent on the military and secret police, with political hacks running agriculture and civilian production. It could be argued that their problems were more political than economic.
Any place where the price of real estate consistently outpaces income is setting itself up for cost disadvantages. This has long been true in the coastal metro areas of the USA, and is now happening in non-metro areas, such as San Luis Obispo.
In 1969, my parents sold a nearly new 3 bedroom house in rural New York state and bought a new 4 bedroom house in a San Diego, CA, suburb for the same price. In both cases he could, as a high school graduate of no academic distinction who held a factory foreman's job, obtain a loan of about 2.5 times his gross pay. His commute to work was about 1/2 hour.
In 2002, in the Bay Area, with a tech masters degree, I'm limited in choice to a one bedroom condo with an 80 minute commute. Homes are available, but only to those with astonishing credit who are willing to live with the fear that comes with a 2% down payment and 'creative' financing.
Spiraling land values should be regarded as a crime, because they force startups to locate away from research universities.
The parent post did propose to shut down bad schools.
If the customers vote with their feet, the better restaurants will prosper and the worst ones will have to close. The same thing would happen with schools,
Question: do you want to pay a lot of taxes for a first-rate public education for every child, or do you want to pay a lot of taxes for a first-rate court and prison system? My state, California, chose the latter.
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Ligase, right. I'm an ex-laser jock, not a biochemist!
Biochemists could, I presume, tailor ubiquitin to grab up undesirable proteins and still have the degradation function work.
Imagine all the diseases that come from bad proteins! This could unleash a new class of therapies.
My own VAX computer use goes back to the original 11/780, in 1979 (undergrad class), and ends in 1997 (hosting cross-platform dev tools). Not gone, but headed that way.
"Nothing sucks like a VAX" was a double-entendre, as VAX was a vacuum machine and a computer.
The last big blast cleared about a cubic mile of rock out of the way. Pressures this time won't build as high as a result.
Supposedly this one may throw rock and ash up to 3 miles away. The Forest Service camera is 5 miles off, and the 1980 explosion threw ask over 250 miles.
I haven't been up there but did hike up Lassen Peak in 2000. Much of that area is still bare from the eruptions that occurred around 1915.
But 77K is the boiling point of nitrogen at standard atmospheric pressures. Given that liquid N2 is fairly cheap, one should look for early-adopt motor apps and maybe low-loss electricity transmission.
... and a panic is when your wife is out of work.
Some of the melted material shoots out of volcanoes; the Cascades, for instance, are fed by that subduction zone parallel to the Oregon-Washington coast.
It's a nit-picking examination of the dynamics of breaking a molecular bond, in the simplest stable case: a hydrogen molecule.
Singly-ionized hydrogen is simpler but isn't stable.
Mars has a thin atmosphere.
On Earth, standard atmospheric pressure is 101.325 kPa.
On Mars, it is 0.7-0.9 kPa.
It's fast only if the problem being solved is, as they say on comp.parallel, embarassingly parallel. IBM mainframes are likely to still be the I/O champs.
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George Leonard is a 5th degree black belt in aikido. He lives and breaths the ecstatic aspect of education, at age 81.
I've probably read at least as much on the subject as you; I have a half-dozen books on education at home and, when a TA in grad school, learned about education as well as my main area (chemistry).
Vouchers work when there are good schools and teachers nearby, and that is not a given.
It must be nice to be so cowardly, A.C.
It's easier to staff a restaurant than a good school. The analogy fails!
And what happens when enough bad schools close and there aren't enough good schools nearby to handle the displaced students?
I didn't intend to assert that schools are first-rate now.
Before funding levels are determined, we as members of a community need to agree on the function of schooling. I've read "Education and Ecstasy" (1968) and generally agree with its goals (humanistic, anti-systems), as outlined in the chapter titled "Schools -- For What?" YMMV, however.
I agree with you on both points; I was just describing how things would evolve in the absence of barriers, which seemed to be absent from the discussion.
Shoot nukes to save the dollar? Ick.
Cost differentials among countries were sustained in the past by labor and trade laws. Globalization removes these laws, to a greater or lesser extent. Things will come to a new equilibrium; it will be one rough ride, though.
Thanks for the insights. I'd mod you up if I could.
From what I understand about international finance, the IMF and World Bank tend to frown on countries' inflating their way out of debt. How they enforce this, I don't know; maybe the loans are payable in US dollars, euros, or yen.
Not sure about gold, though my money is partly in Newmont Mining (assuming increasing industrial activity will push metals up). If Bush wins, and if inflation heats up, he may spike interest rates and gold will plummt, as it did in Reagan's early years.
The Soviet Union was a police state that overspent on the military and secret police, with political hacks running agriculture and civilian production. It could be argued that their problems were more political than economic.
Any place where the price of real estate consistently outpaces income is setting itself up for cost disadvantages. This has long been true in the coastal metro areas of the USA, and is now happening in non-metro areas, such as San Luis Obispo.
In 1969, my parents sold a nearly new 3 bedroom house in rural New York state and bought a new 4 bedroom house in a San Diego, CA, suburb for the same price. In both cases he could, as a high school graduate of no academic distinction who held a factory foreman's job, obtain a loan of about 2.5 times his gross pay. His commute to work was about 1/2 hour.
In 2002, in the Bay Area, with a tech masters degree, I'm limited in choice to a one bedroom condo with an 80 minute commute. Homes are available, but only to those with astonishing credit who are willing to live with the fear that comes with a 2% down payment and 'creative' financing.
Spiraling land values should be regarded as a crime, because they force startups to locate away from research universities.
All clear?
How? Magic?
Question: do you want to pay a lot of taxes for a first-rate public education for every child, or do you want to pay a lot of taxes for a first-rate court and prison system? My state, California, chose the latter.