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forgotketchup

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    Comment #8151591

    That's right. We like to do science.

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    Comment #8150599

    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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    Comment #8150594

    >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 …

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    Comment #8148838

    > 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…

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    Comment #8129870

    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 …

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    Comment #8129817

    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 t…

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    Comment #8094323

    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 …

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    Comment #8085693

    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 operati…

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    Comment #8085605

    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…

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    Comment #8021240

    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 …

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    Comment #8021202

    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…