Re:Roland Piquepaille - Mod Him Way Up, IMHO
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I know this is off topic but it's worth mentioning... this is the first time in several years where I've seen a post by any of you sub 1000 (non-rob) UID folks that has content and isn't about the ahem size of your UID.
(not that I mean to rip on you guys or say that you don't make posts that I just don't see, but it is just such an infrequent occurrence in my view to be worth noting)... and I will wait patiently for some 56 user to make a non-witty, meaningful post to prove me wrong:)
please mod parent up under the RTFA Funny tag.. oh wait...
yes i know it was a way to long FA but it specifically brings up the introduction of checklists in aviation - specifically. ie a plane crashed and they figured the cause was that it was too complicated to fly so pilots should have checklists to prevent such problems.
I had att/cingular block texts on my phone a few years ago. I then quickly had them unblock it. Turns out the method by which they inform you of a voicemail existing is essentially a text message... so I was never really sure if I had a vm or not, and had to call to find out.
But YES I was able to get cingular to block all text messages to/from my plan.
The prestige of the journal has to be considered. I mean prestige as in PRL, APL and other APS journals are peer-reviewed thus the quality of the work is *supposed to be* significantly more relevant and important to the body of knowledge than uncle bob's journal of nukular behaivior. The standards of quality vary by journal, hence science/nature has a different writing style than PRL than JAP than PNAS than....
There *are* more open journals that allow modified copyright transfers and self-hosted online publishing.
I don't disagree that more open is better, but it is unrealistic to expect that quality research would be given due regard if it is not published in a method with reasonable hurdles to overcome.
well, it's 1am and i'm writing up my phd thesis draft in... spintronics... so i'll jump on this as best i can, having skimmed the article (but not the press release because really, what science comes from press releases)
the idea for spintronic devices is to use different device physics utilizing the spin of charge carriers vs just their charge. a common device is a GMR read head on hard drives - developed in '88, widespread now. the next step is to make transistors that use spin - this requires a new class of materials (GMR is a metal/macro structure effect), essentially making non-magnetic materials ferromagnetic is the goal. (personally i use ZnO, not Si, but the idea is similar). if you use a ferromagnetic semiconductor of some kind, then there is better charge transfer to other semiconductors vs a ferro metal to semiconductor... and then what you're looking for is a material that has a long spin polarization lifetime (time before the knocking around flips the spin and all of a sudden you have no polarization). so i *think* that they mean a spin current to be something that is 100% spin polarized (ie all spin up) - which means that if aligned with an applied magnetic field there will be minimal scattering therefor lower resistivity and lower heat/phonon interaction. vs. the case of a partially polarized or random spin up/down distribution where the available states in a material subjected to a field are only open to half of the free carriers (ie only spin up states are available because of the field, so only spin up electrons are efficient carriers). all this is very much so like GMR heads, obviously (well i suppose to me).
i've met the authors at conferences, and i'm sure they're less than thrilled with this being labeled a "major breakthrough" though i'm sure they like a bit of the attention. this is pretty cool and interesting stuff that they've done, but it isn't a breakthrough - just another piece of an extremely large and complex puzzle.
So true. I'm one of the people in the small community of physics.... and he didn't invent GMR. First publication was in 88 by Baibich. Not to discount the contributions that Parkin has made, but he was not the inventor nor would making the claim that he is the single most important person in the field be correct...
I suggest you read the peer-reviewed journal article rather than sounding off with the oft-repeated (and often true) correlation/causation comment. There's a reason they look at so many cases in the study... and there's a reason that the journals are peer reviewed.
very much so untrue. any and every journal of merit is published in english, it is extremely rare for there to be a journal that is published in anything but. an easy example is "Japanese Journal of Applied Physics"... is in english.
pre-end of cold war was another story with plenty of russian journals.
this comes from my experience in the world of physics/condmat/matsci but appears to be true throughout the other hard sciences
come on, man! it makes perfect sense. whenever i'm renting a house, I have access to any one of millions of houses out there for my use, so long as I keep paying rent. Sometimes I have problems with the keys not working, but that's just like the problem I have of getting subscribed music onto my ipod; it just takes a little bit of engineering.
I used to do the same thing but someone pointed out that there's a flaw to step 3. The mail sent back post-paid in the return envelope is at a standard rate, not based on weight. By stuffing things into the return envelope the only person you're burdening is the mailman carrying your letter and the marginal extra fuel costs to deliver... so now I just return the envelopes empty but sealed (unless it is a company that I am invested in in which case i just get annoyed that they wasted money advertising to me in the first place and wasting any more of their money only costs me)
If you really want to waste their time, though, enter fake information on a form and mail that in... but it's probably more a waste of your time than theirs.
Check out a company called Northfield Labs (http://www.northfieldlabs.com/) as they're attempting to make a synthetic blood replacement for use in trauma treatment.
There is some precedent to this in that the gov't via the FAA agrees to international standards for air traffic that stipulates as mundane things as the size of letters on runways to the spacing of landings based on plane size... and they advise the republic that it must be followed but they don't have the authority to enforce. SO, you get the case where none of the airports in the US act in accordance with international law/treaty/agreement in spite of the federal gov't agreeing to it. Just another accepted wackyness of this fair country.
At least the international language of transport is not the international language of diplomacy.
Dude. Chill. Nothing in the press or from Apple indicates that the phones will be locked or that they won't work with another GSM provider's card. That said, the features co-developed (ie visual voicemail) will only work w/ Cingular unless is some standard is determined and enabled by other GSM carriers & apple supports it. Only selling through Cingular? Makes sense to me if they want to have the co-developed features and still prevent leaks. Have to give to get, and they gave exclusivity to cingular. I'm sure Jobs would prefer for it to be sold directly by apple but then they'd be just another cell phone manufacturer that may or may not work. The tight integration is the whole apple hallmark thing. It did buck the system, in a way. Just not the way *you* want. I'd rather have the features work as advertised vs the crap that happens now with every phone I've ever had & differing carrier implementation...
My friend's father's HP48 was in a briefcase which was left behind during evacuation of the world trade center, somewhere around the 70th floor. 6 months after 9/11, FBI called him up (the evacuated father who made it out) and said "we need you to come down and identify a few items" briefcase made it through with lots of things trashed inside, mostly crushed... but the HP was still working just fine.
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I know this is off topic but it's worth mentioning... this is the first time in several years where I've seen a post by any of you sub 1000 (non-rob) UID folks that has content and isn't about the ahem size of your UID.
(not that I mean to rip on you guys or say that you don't make posts that I just don't see, but it is just such an infrequent occurrence in my view to be worth noting) ... and I will wait patiently for some 56 user to make a non-witty, meaningful post to prove me wrong :)
You've clearly never been in a design, sales, or marketing meeting with him - involved would be an understatement.
please mod parent up under the RTFA Funny tag.. oh wait...
yes i know it was a way to long FA but it specifically brings up the introduction of checklists in aviation - specifically. ie a plane crashed and they figured the cause was that it was too complicated to fly so pilots should have checklists to prevent such problems.
I had att/cingular block texts on my phone a few years ago. I then quickly had them unblock it. Turns out the method by which they inform you of a voicemail existing is essentially a text message... so I was never really sure if I had a vm or not, and had to call to find out.
But YES I was able to get cingular to block all text messages to/from my plan.
The prestige of the journal has to be considered. I mean prestige as in PRL, APL and other APS journals are peer-reviewed thus the quality of the work is *supposed to be* significantly more relevant and important to the body of knowledge than uncle bob's journal of nukular behaivior. The standards of quality vary by journal, hence science/nature has a different writing style than PRL than JAP than PNAS than....
There *are* more open journals that allow modified copyright transfers and self-hosted online publishing.
I don't disagree that more open is better, but it is unrealistic to expect that quality research would be given due regard if it is not published in a method with reasonable hurdles to overcome.
I think the wood chipper would probably object as well.
You must not be an american. I am america, and so can you.
well, it's 1am and i'm writing up my phd thesis draft in... spintronics... so i'll jump on this as best i can, having skimmed the article (but not the press release because really, what science comes from press releases)
the idea for spintronic devices is to use different device physics utilizing the spin of charge carriers vs just their charge. a common device is a GMR read head on hard drives - developed in '88, widespread now. the next step is to make transistors that use spin - this requires a new class of materials (GMR is a metal/macro structure effect), essentially making non-magnetic materials ferromagnetic is the goal. (personally i use ZnO, not Si, but the idea is similar). if you use a ferromagnetic semiconductor of some kind, then there is better charge transfer to other semiconductors vs a ferro metal to semiconductor... and then what you're looking for is a material that has a long spin polarization lifetime (time before the knocking around flips the spin and all of a sudden you have no polarization). so i *think* that they mean a spin current to be something that is 100% spin polarized (ie all spin up) - which means that if aligned with an applied magnetic field there will be minimal scattering therefor lower resistivity and lower heat/phonon interaction. vs. the case of a partially polarized or random spin up/down distribution where the available states in a material subjected to a field are only open to half of the free carriers (ie only spin up states are available because of the field, so only spin up electrons are efficient carriers). all this is very much so like GMR heads, obviously (well i suppose to me).
i've met the authors at conferences, and i'm sure they're less than thrilled with this being labeled a "major breakthrough" though i'm sure they like a bit of the attention. this is pretty cool and interesting stuff that they've done, but it isn't a breakthrough - just another piece of an extremely large and complex puzzle.
The rest of the world might be surprised to know that earthquakes are not a daily concern to californians. There is no 4pm shake. Sorry to disappoint.
you grew up in a 300 baud modem? must have been both uncomfortable and incredibly noisy. it'd be like constantly trying to see through the hayes.
So true. I'm one of the people in the small community of physics.... and he didn't invent GMR. First publication was in 88 by Baibich. Not to discount the contributions that Parkin has made, but he was not the inventor nor would making the claim that he is the single most important person in the field be correct...
Hey man, GPRS is 3G here in the US! What is this silly talk about it being stone-age and that there's something new. Silly foreigners.
I sent him the link to your comment with "i've often thought this myself"
his response:
"ha ha"
I suggest you read the peer-reviewed journal article rather than sounding off with the oft-repeated (and often true) correlation/causation comment. There's a reason they look at so many cases in the study... and there's a reason that the journals are peer reviewed.
very much so untrue. any and every journal of merit is published in english, it is extremely rare for there to be a journal that is published in anything but. an easy example is "Japanese Journal of Applied Physics"... is in english.
pre-end of cold war was another story with plenty of russian journals.
this comes from my experience in the world of physics/condmat/matsci but appears to be true throughout the other hard sciences
Which part of "Presented by Blendtec" in the window title (and elsewhere) gave away the insipid viral marketing angle?
come on, man! it makes perfect sense. whenever i'm renting a house, I have access to any one of millions of houses out there for my use, so long as I keep paying rent. Sometimes I have problems with the keys not working, but that's just like the problem I have of getting subscribed music onto my ipod; it just takes a little bit of engineering.
I used to do the same thing but someone pointed out that there's a flaw to step 3. The mail sent back post-paid in the return envelope is at a standard rate, not based on weight. By stuffing things into the return envelope the only person you're burdening is the mailman carrying your letter and the marginal extra fuel costs to deliver... so now I just return the envelopes empty but sealed (unless it is a company that I am invested in in which case i just get annoyed that they wasted money advertising to me in the first place and wasting any more of their money only costs me)
If you really want to waste their time, though, enter fake information on a form and mail that in... but it's probably more a waste of your time than theirs.
Check out a company called Northfield Labs (http://www.northfieldlabs.com/) as they're attempting to make a synthetic blood replacement for use in trauma treatment.
As far as rebates go, I would like to think that the situation could only get better...
There is some precedent to this in that the gov't via the FAA agrees to international standards for air traffic that stipulates as mundane things as the size of letters on runways to the spacing of landings based on plane size... and they advise the republic that it must be followed but they don't have the authority to enforce. SO, you get the case where none of the airports in the US act in accordance with international law/treaty/agreement in spite of the federal gov't agreeing to it. Just another accepted wackyness of this fair country.
At least the international language of transport is not the international language of diplomacy.
Well, I guess education is not one of the things they do.
realize. than.
what's it all coming to?
Says you!
I'm going to live forever!
Dude. Chill. Nothing in the press or from Apple indicates that the phones will be locked or that they won't work with another GSM provider's card. That said, the features co-developed (ie visual voicemail) will only work w/ Cingular unless is some standard is determined and enabled by other GSM carriers & apple supports it. Only selling through Cingular? Makes sense to me if they want to have the co-developed features and still prevent leaks. Have to give to get, and they gave exclusivity to cingular. I'm sure Jobs would prefer for it to be sold directly by apple but then they'd be just another cell phone manufacturer that may or may not work. The tight integration is the whole apple hallmark thing. It did buck the system, in a way. Just not the way *you* want. I'd rather have the features work as advertised vs the crap that happens now with every phone I've ever had & differing carrier implementation...
My friend's father's HP48 was in a briefcase which was left behind during evacuation of the world trade center, somewhere around the 70th floor. 6 months after 9/11, FBI called him up (the evacuated father who made it out) and said "we need you to come down and identify a few items" briefcase made it through with lots of things trashed inside, mostly crushed... but the HP was still working just fine.
strong statement as to their durability.