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by forgotketchup 12y ago
That's right. We like to do science.
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by forgotketchup 12y ago
I don't know of anyone who publishes in Word (and universities don't publish papers, except for dissertations), but everyone composes papers in Word.
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by forgotketchup 12y ago
>What subfield of physics have you worked in? Experimental condensed matter physics (free molecular beams). Never met anyone in my research group, or any other research group that anyone in my group collaborated with, who recently (in
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by forgotketchup 12y ago
> I've been checking the (Word-generated) "papers" from this guy's group at NASA, they're extremely shoddy. Not defending this particular paper, but I'm curious why you highlighted the fact that it's
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by forgotketchup 12y ago
Worse from the customer perspective. All their old apps now run probably 2 to 10 times slower, until new native binaries arrived. Compare that with the PPC->Intel transition, when old binary apps stayed about the same or maybe got a lit
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by forgotketchup 12y ago
Why should they? Intel chips blew the doors off PPC by the time Apple got around to the PPC -> Intel transition. That (and good emulation software) allowed a relatively pain-free transition for most consumers: PPC apps didn't feel
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by forgotketchup 12y ago
To expand on what avoid3d said: You can make a plot of entropy vs. energy of a system. Further, you can calculate the derivative (slope) of that plot and give it a name. You could also calculate the quantity 1/slope and give that a
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by forgotketchup 12y ago
The (historically) low price of bunker fuel led to the development of turbine locomotives for railroads[1]. The idea was that the low price made up for the inefficiency (in operational practice) of turbine engines. When the plastics indus
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by forgotketchup 12y ago
Lack of qualified operators is real operational problem. Majoring in physics pretty much guaranteed you a NROTC scholarship, if you wanted one, back when I was in undergrad. Around a third of my cohort (and the ones graduating immediately
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by forgotketchup 12y ago
You're correct that the text of FARs does not explicitly require a prior personal relationship. However, as they are applied and interpreted in practice , you're almost guaranteed to get in hot water if you fly-share as a privat
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by forgotketchup 12y ago
It's worth mentioning that the definition of common purpose in this letter is considerably looser that what the FAA has used in the past. I'm having trouble finding the link at the moment, but I seem to remember private pilots ge