The call boxes were paid for by the counties. The result being that the poorer counties, like Modoc and San Joaquin where the call boxes would have been most useful, couldn't afford to buy them. It might be nice to call a tow truck from where you're broken down on 880 between Hegenberger and 98th, but you know a car will be along shortly. 395 is another story.
Not a single thing about the preview matches the article. Well, the prosthetic arm bit...but that's it. No rocket motor. No super-soldiers. It isn't even fully developed.
It is not Degrees Kelvin, it is only Kelvin. Not sure why but I remember my Physics professor beating it into our heads.
Because it is an absolute measurement not a relative measurement within defined points. Centigrade is dividing up the range of liquid water into 100 equal parts or degrees. Fahrenheit sets frozen plain water at 32 and boiling plain water at 212 with 180 equal degrees between. Kelvin is a direct statement of the average kinetic energy of a mass with the scale defined by absolute zero and VMSO water's triple point. Celsius is Kelvin minus 273.15 to restore the numbers at normal temperatures to two digits thus becoming a relative measurement.
That's not just funny, that's insightful. The conflict between HAL and Dave could easily be an analogue for the argument robot-only types typically give.
"Money's too scarce to waste on life-support. If you give us all the money we'll take care of the science cheaper and better." "Why risk anyone's life? When you lose somebody that will only demoralize the plebes and they'll cut off all our funds." "I know better than you. I'm certain of it. Therefore your opinion doesn't matter."
All I see is a guy who makes his living selling memorabilia and documents screaming about the possibility of some of those docs becoming artificially scarce (in just a few short hours!) and the only corroboration he seems to have is what looks to be the excerpt of what could have been an email from an unknown person in some NASA office somewhere at Kennedy. Something smells.
Motion sickness is caused by a disconnect between the information coming out of the visual system and the information coming from the vestibular system. In normal maneuvers, your best bet would be a window seat with a clear view of the horizon near but forward of the wing. In daytime. In clear weather. In hard maneuvering all bets are off since your body's sense of vertical will be wrong.
Thank you for your excellent response. I've been modded into the ground for my first time at slashdot, probably because I used too much sarcasm without warning people and assumed that a certain amount of economic theory was general knowledge.
Are you quite certain of that? Could it be that the swarm has spoken and your post was found wanting?
I'm no geologist so I can't comment on whether or not this lake looks typical but I will say that, judging by the coloration of the foliage around it, this is probable the same land as the river/stream that winds to the west of it. Interesting is that if you follow it northwest for miles it looks smooth cut. Once it passes Lake Cheko, it seems to become more speckled and pock marked. Doesn't seem 'natural' to me for an inlet and outlet to be positioned so close together on a lake--though the topography could indeed make that make sense if I could see a map of it.
I especially like this part:...manufacturers can build in excess margins for themselves and for their favored retailers -- prices that consumers have no choice but to pay.
O noes! If I don't buy the latest gadget, I'm gonna DIE!
Quoth TFA:
The Supreme Court adopted the flat ban on resale price agreements between manufacturers and retailers in 1911, when it founded that the Dr. Miles Medical Company had violated the Sherman act. The company had sought to sell medicine only to distributors who agreed to resell them at set prices. The court said such agreements benefit only the distributors, not consumers, and set a rule making such agreements unlawful.
There are more things to buy in this world than gadgets.
The first 787 will not roll out of the paint hangar completed until late july.
Sincerely,
A Boeing Employee
Mod down parent. I seriously doubt that an actual 'Boeing Employee' would call AW&ST a 'whatever periodical'.
The AC should wander down to the PR department and tell them that Brokaw should change his travel plans because they seem to be under the delusion that the rollout is going on as planned.
I'm guessing you don't live in California. People on the coasts(North, Central, South1 and South2) have different interests than people in the Central Valley than do the foothills of the Sierras than the Sacramento and Feather River drainage... California's geographic diversity doesn't follow population density well. Remember the story of the School District that owes IBM $5M? That poorest part of the East Bay is smack up against the richest part of the East Bay, separated by canyon roads. People in Modoc, Lassen and Plumas aren't going to be happy being represented by the 'city folk' from Redding. Fresno is going to be in civil war. Lumping people in the 50 corridor with the farmers of San Joaquin with the diaspora commuters to the Bay Area? Uh. Uh. It's a nice start, though.
No. He should have said West Contra Costa School District. This used to be the Richmond School District. You lock your doors here when driving through on the freeway at speed.
OTOH, your point (3) is spurious as the idea behind the entire enterprise is to set Na to a fixed value. And no, I don't know Na to 8sf: I'm not that sad...
I knew it because of all the homework and lab exercises that made it easier to memorize than look it up. There's nothing spurious about fixing the number. All it represents is a concept. The same thing was done with the second and the meter. It would change the value of any arbitrary mass (and the current standard artifact) by, at most, one part in 10^8, which is better than the mass standard precision is known today as it is due to issues with erosion and deposition. The relative atomic masses of C12 and U238 are known better than the mass of any large uncounted quantity of them can be stated.
The idea is to redefine the kilogram in terms of the weight of an atom of silicon (i.e. 602383623523895723945743 atoms of Si-14 weigh exactly 14 grams).
Somehow I don't trust someone who:
Doesn't know that Si-14 doesn't exist.
Doesn't know that the lightest naturally occuring isotope of silicon is the commonest, Si-28(0.92223), M=27.98 . (Si-29_0.04685),(Si-30_0.03092)
Lucy Lawless probably is the only person alive and perhaps the online person ever to have a moon named after her.
Actually, James Christy named Charon (and established the sh pronunciation) in honor of his wife Charlene. I don't know if she spends any time online however.
NASA & ESA are being offered to send their payload (some kinda sensors) FREE of cost on board the Chandrayan - I in 2008, only under the condition of equal access to data from those sensors.
Well that's one way of spinning it. Another would be that somebody has been reading Tom Sawyer. "We'll let you build and pay for the high-tech for our craft if you'll agree to let us have all the data as well."
Don't get me wrong, though, I like the idea of cooperation in space.
Firstly, as far as I remmember you are not buried *foreever* in a cemetary, after a while (50 years?) you are remain get taken care of.
Well, yeah. That's the way it works in Germany and Austria, but here in the U.S. we've got lots of land. Other countries have different traditions. Traditions, and their associated mythologies, are often rationalized to available resources.
"They also make the vast assumption that the angels are pointing to a treble clef, when there are many others such as the C clef and bass clef that were more common in the 15th Century."
That's true, but it doesn't matter since the relative spacing between the notes is the same. So the key moves up or down but the melody remains the same.
True, once you've got the intervals you have the melody, moving it up or down just changes the key. But the intervals between a given pair of lines on the stave differ depending on the clef, so using the stave as evidence for a particular interval depends on knowing which clef to use. For example, the top space and top line in the treble clef denote 'E' and 'F', which differ by a semitone (there is no accidental E sharp/F flat between them). The top space and line on the Bass clef are 'G' and 'A', which differ by a whole tone (there is a G sharp / A flat between them). They labelled the notes on the stave, as if it used the treble clef- I'm not an expert in music theory by any means but even I can see this as an amateurish error. The assumption they've made looks even worse when you consider that 4-line staves were more common then, and the F and C clefs were in far more common usage.
A little knowledge....
The clefs were called F,G and C because that's where the F,G and C are marked. The treble clef is one of the original G clefs where the curl wraps around the second line where G is on the treble clef. Similarly, the bass clef is an F clef where the two dots surround the fourth line where F is on the bass clef. Now, the C clef is still used in multiple locations. When its on the third line it's the alto clef, on the fourth it's tenor. Both mark middle C.
This has nothing to do with keys or distibution of intervals among the lettered notes. That's the job of the key signature. E-F is a semitone and G-A is a whole tone in Cmaj/Amin(no sharps, no flats), however in Bmaj/G#min(five sharps), the lines/spaces for F, A and G are all sharp, making the E-F interval a whole tone. In E-flat-maj/Dmin(three flats) E and A are flat, so the E-F interval is a whole tone and G-A a semitone.
So you were both right in words and both wrong in concept about what each other were talking about.
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The call boxes were paid for by the counties. The result being that the poorer counties, like Modoc and San Joaquin where the call boxes would have been most useful, couldn't afford to buy them. It might be nice to call a tow truck from where you're broken down on 880 between Hegenberger and 98th, but you know a car will be along shortly. 395 is another story.
The phone company synced to atomic time twice a year when DST changed. So long as everybody synced to the same standard what's the big deal?
I always dialed(anachronism alert) 767-7777(or 767-1111 when I had a dial phone) out of laziness.
Summary, not preview. Preview is the button I should have used.
Not a single thing about the preview matches the article. Well, the prosthetic arm bit...but that's it. No rocket motor. No super-soldiers. It isn't even fully developed.
That's not just funny, that's insightful. The conflict between HAL and Dave could easily be an analogue for the argument robot-only types typically give. "Money's too scarce to waste on life-support. If you give us all the money we'll take care of the science cheaper and better." "Why risk anyone's life? When you lose somebody that will only demoralize the plebes and they'll cut off all our funds." "I know better than you. I'm certain of it. Therefore your opinion doesn't matter."
All I see is a guy who makes his living selling memorabilia and documents screaming about the possibility of some of those docs becoming artificially scarce (in just a few short hours!) and the only corroboration he seems to have is what looks to be the excerpt of what could have been an email from an unknown person in some NASA office somewhere at Kennedy. Something smells.
Motion sickness is caused by a disconnect between the information coming out of the visual system and the information coming from the vestibular system. In normal maneuvers, your best bet would be a window seat with a clear view of the horizon near but forward of the wing. In daytime. In clear weather. In hard maneuvering all bets are off since your body's sense of vertical will be wrong.
I'm guessing you don't live in California. People on the coasts(North, Central, South1 and South2) have different interests than people in the Central Valley than do the foothills of the Sierras than the Sacramento and Feather River drainage... California's geographic diversity doesn't follow population density well. Remember the story of the School District that owes IBM $5M? That poorest part of the East Bay is smack up against the richest part of the East Bay, separated by canyon roads. People in Modoc, Lassen and Plumas aren't going to be happy being represented by the 'city folk' from Redding. Fresno is going to be in civil war. Lumping people in the 50 corridor with the farmers of San Joaquin with the diaspora commuters to the Bay Area? Uh. Uh. It's a nice start, though.
The clefs were called F,G and C because that's where the F,G and C are marked. The treble clef is one of the original G clefs where the curl wraps around the second line where G is on the treble clef. Similarly, the bass clef is an F clef where the two dots surround the fourth line where F is on the bass clef. Now, the C clef is still used in multiple locations. When its on the third line it's the alto clef, on the fourth it's tenor. Both mark middle C.
This has nothing to do with keys or distibution of intervals among the lettered notes. That's the job of the key signature. E-F is a semitone and G-A is a whole tone in Cmaj/Amin(no sharps, no flats), however in Bmaj/G#min(five sharps), the lines/spaces for F, A and G are all sharp, making the E-F interval a whole tone. In E-flat-maj/Dmin(three flats) E and A are flat, so the E-F interval is a whole tone and G-A a semitone.
So you were both right in words and both wrong in concept about what each other were talking about.
I'm convinced that the problem is with the teachers today. They forgot how to use paragraphs or the preview button.