Regarding your assertion that Google is better with age. I used to use Altavista in the DEC days, and didn't adopt Google until I didn't think it was "too new."
Yeah, I noticed this morning. It's my first approved story, but it was rejected at first because the synopsis was too long. In resubmitting I forgot to remove the link, hence the appearance of recursion.
Would it be accurate to analogize this to antimatter, in the sense that the latter was found mathematically first, and observed later (and maybe not yet)?
At Revelle College, UCSD, the undergraduate program of study was developed in response to C.P. Snow's writings about "the two cultures." Everyone takes both science and humanities courses, and learns one language other than English.
This would seem to address your concerns; however, a Revelle degree is seen as 'harder' than one from the other UCSD colleges, so few try.
Back in my laser jock days at UCLA, two fairly young (early-20s) people came into the lab where I was working. They were from a studio or a production company, I don't remember now. A few minutes of looking at the assembly of equipment and they left without saying much.
To get to the point of being able to operate that equipment took a public school education, then an undergrad degree, plus grad school. If I'd seen a movie that made it seem glamorous, and on the basis of that film started on that path, I would likely have never stuck it out. Real science is punctuated by too much unavoidable dullness.
I've had a similar revelation, after talking with real military pilots, with whom I was working, after we saw "Top Gun."
I was thinking more along the line of the gas chromatographs and other such systems. Back in 1990-1 I worked as an undergrad in F. S. Rowland's atmospheric chemistry lab at UC Irvine, in support of global warming studies. I was doing trace gas analysis and baseline corrections by hand, as the auto-magic software would often go stupid. The GCs were from H-P, and those products went to Agilent.
Last night, I saw The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, http://wildparrotsfilm.com/ again. The red-crested conyers will not mate with a blue-crested conyer. Now I wonder if it's something I can't see...
A company named Instruments for Research and Industry, or I2R, sends out a calendar as part of its sales program. One month is devoted to some variation on the theme "periodic table." There was a spiral table with elongated arms for the transition metals, and so on. It looked a bit awkward as I recall, having to jam elements into inside corners and stretch them around outside corners.
Once, they had a ball-and-stick model of a periodate ion, H5IO6 with overall charge of -1, IIRC, which supported a clear, round tabletop. It was surrounded by workers in lab coats, and the conversation went as follows:
Lab Coat 1: "You call that a periodic table?"
Lab Coat 2: "Yes, it's our periodic table, and I can prove it. It's for our periodic coffee breaks."
The Computer History Museum had an event celebrating 40 years of System/360. Someone fessed up to being part of the JCL team, saying they weren't careful because they were in a hurry, and were sure it was an interim product, that something better would replace it.
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if it's in the Bible it MUST be true
Apparently Bush hasn't seen Gershwins' "Porgy and Bess:"
It ain't necessarily so,
it ain't necessarily so,
The things as a child, you learned in the Bible,
It ain't necessarily so.
(Act II Scene 2)
This was wisdom in 1935; now it's almost heresy. So much for 'progress'...
And yes, I have a dog in this fight, as I have an underutilized science Ph.D.
Between managed care and lawsuits, we're losing doctors.
The few who don't grandstand, who quietly get things done? With a modus operandi like that, it's no wonder you don't know about them.
Yes, but by then, it will have been sold to them.
Regarding your assertion that Google is better with age. I used to use Altavista in the DEC days, and didn't adopt Google until I didn't think it was "too new."
Putting in an image intensifier in the optics chain shouldn't be that hard. I wonder if it was tried and deemed inadequate.
And, much faster!
Yeah, I noticed this morning. It's my first approved story, but it was rejected at first because the synopsis was too long. In resubmitting I forgot to remove the link, hence the appearance of recursion.
An answer, an answer, my mod point for an answer!
Would it be accurate to analogize this to antimatter, in the sense that the latter was found mathematically first, and observed later (and maybe not yet)?
At Revelle College, UCSD, the undergraduate program of study was developed in response to C.P. Snow's writings about "the two cultures." Everyone takes both science and humanities courses, and learns one language other than English.
This would seem to address your concerns; however, a Revelle degree is seen as 'harder' than one from the other UCSD colleges, so few try.
Back in my laser jock days at UCLA, two fairly young (early-20s) people came into the lab where I was working. They were from a studio or a production company, I don't remember now. A few minutes of looking at the assembly of equipment and they left without saying much.
To get to the point of being able to operate that equipment took a public school education, then an undergrad degree, plus grad school. If I'd seen a movie that made it seem glamorous, and on the basis of that film started on that path, I would likely have never stuck it out. Real science is punctuated by too much unavoidable dullness.
I've had a similar revelation, after talking with real military pilots, with whom I was working, after we saw "Top Gun."
conure
I was thinking more along the line of the gas chromatographs and other such systems. Back in 1990-1 I worked as an undergrad in F. S. Rowland's atmospheric chemistry lab at UC Irvine, in support of global warming studies. I was doing trace gas analysis and baseline corrections by hand, as the auto-magic software would often go stupid. The GCs were from H-P, and those products went to Agilent.
Last night, I saw The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, http://wildparrotsfilm.com/ again. The red-crested conyers will not mate with a blue-crested conyer. Now I wonder if it's something I can't see...
Nit: pensions really took off after World War II, as a way to make up for low pay due to low cash flow.
HP doesn't invent; Agilent (the spinoff with all the cool stuff) does, though I've heard bad rumors there, too.
It's "Always On," not "Instant Response."
A company named Instruments for Research and Industry, or I2R, sends out a calendar as part of its sales program. One month is devoted to some variation on the theme "periodic table." There was a spiral table with elongated arms for the transition metals, and so on. It looked a bit awkward as I recall, having to jam elements into inside corners and stretch them around outside corners.
Once, they had a ball-and-stick model of a periodate ion, H5IO6 with overall charge of -1, IIRC, which supported a clear, round tabletop. It was surrounded by workers in lab coats, and the conversation went as follows:
Lab Coat 1: "You call that a periodic table?"
Lab Coat 2: "Yes, it's our periodic table, and I can prove it. It's for our periodic coffee breaks."
I visited an AT&T long distance center in California some years back. They had a room full of lead-acid cells ready to keep everything up.
The lesson here is: have a system that isn't dependant on the power company.
The Computer History Museum had an event celebrating 40 years of System/360. Someone fessed up to being part of the JCL team, saying they weren't careful because they were in a hurry, and were sure it was an interim product, that something better would replace it.
What are the differences between Windows, Unix, and mainframe programmers?
GUI, shell scripts, and JCL.
add b to c giving d
In CMS-2 (Navy high-level language for embedded apps, pre-Ada) that would be
SET D TO B + C
which looks like BASIC:
LET D = B + C
And, 98% of everything is junk.
Or 8 inch and 5.5 inch floppies.