Actually, many higher income people don't have cable or satellite as well. A recent study revealed that the Minneapolis/St. Paul Tv market has one of the smallest percentages of homes with cable/satellite usage. One of their explanations for this was the releatively high number of college graduates in the area. Here's the best link on this I could find. Note that what's being discussed here is a little bit different (TVs vs. households), but it is still an interesting comparison.
People are often sloppy when referring to temperature. According to thermodynamics, in a plasma temperature really refers to the width of the energy distribution of a population of particles.
A single particle doesn't really have a temperature, it has a kinetic energy. A mono-energetic beam of particles has a temeperature of 0 K, but what is usually referred to is the beam energy. The particles in a real beam don't have exactly the beam energy, but instead have a spread around it. A cold beam is a beam in which the particles are nearly mono-energetic (the spread is small compared to the beam energy). A hot beam is one where the spread in energy is large compared to the mean beam energy.
Cold in terms of cold fusion isn't as well defined, but personally I wouldn't call this cold fusion. I would call it table top fusion or a table top accelerator. This experiment is cold compared to the center of the sun, which is part of the reason that fusion yiled is so tiny.
Its going to be a long time before anything from the Pluto mission gets any useful data. In fact, the Voyagers will likely have died of natural causes before this mission is launched. Why not wait until this mission is getting useful data (or at least until its launched successfully) before pulling the plug?
Much of the budget probably goes to paying for time on the large antennaes needed to pick up Voyagers' weak radio signals. Collecting signals isn't cheap evening for Earth-orbitting spacecraft - for Voyager it has got to be quite spendy.
Though the article focusses on cutting Voyager, cutting all of the other spacecraft is at least as troubling. The other spacecraft are also still providing good data. Its extremely shortsighted to shut down still functioning spacecraft which don't have a replacement in the works. These spacecraft cost many millions to build and launch - throwing them away is ludicrous.
Its particularly sad turn-off the magnetospheric spacecraft, since the magnetospheric is such a complex system and being able to collect data from mulitple spacraft is so vital to understanding the system. Though the instruments on spacecraft do degrade over time, I know that the Polar spacraft, for exaple, is still collecting useful data. it is still being used in multi-spacecraft studies, along with newer spacecraft like
Cluster, to better understand the magnetosphere.
This is far from the the first time that artificial aurora have been created, though it might be the first time this technique has been used.
Previosuly artifial aurora have been created by sounding rockets and satellites by releasing elements into the atmosphere which normally wouldn't be there. One example of this type of study was done by CRRES.
As others have said, deb and rpm really are quite similar. its the care that goes into making the debs and rpms that varies. Here's a nice comparison of package formats.
For a more rational pilot's perspective, take a look at what Salon's "Ask the Pilot" columnist
Patrick Smith has to day about the issue. he has three columns on this issue in the past month:
December 17, January 4, and January
13. Smith very nicely skewers the sensationalistic nonsense that these laser incidents are some kind of terrorist conspiracy. These events happened before September 11, 2001 and they all seemed to be caused by accident or idiots like the guy in New Jersey.
The planet candidate is about 1.5 times the diameter of Jupiter and about five times as massive.
Who said it was a ball of gas? The earth is four times denser than Jupiter, so this planet would be similar to the earth in density.
Not quite.
Mass is proportional to volume, and this planet would have 3.4 times the volume of Jupiter. So its density would only be 1.5 times that of Jupiter. That higher density could easily be explained by having the same composition as Jupiter, just more tightly packed due to this planet's higher gravity. The differences between this planet and Jupiter are probably similar to the differences between Jupiter and Saturn.
For example, the Social Security Administration is lauded as one of the most efficient orginizations on Earth
Oh. That's why it's going bankrupt and needs to be overhauled. That's why the retirement age keeps getting bumped up a few extra years and benefits gets slashed on a regular basis.
The problems you mention are problems of politics and demographics. They say nothing about the efficiency of the Social Security bureacracy.
The Social Security Administration is very efficient at collecting and distributing money. It is the fault of politicians that there are
structural problem in Social Security.
As for benefits and retirement age, I don't know
where you are getting your information. Social
Security benefits haven't been cut in ages. In fact they they have probably been rising too quickly due to the method of inflation adjustment that is used. The retirement age has been increased so that people born before 1937 could retire at age 65, while those born after 1960 can retire at age 67. If anything the retirement age should be increased more - to at least 70. When originally implemented, most people didn't live till retirement age. Now life expectancy is in the upper 70s and people are collecting benefits for way too long. That's why Social Security is in trouble, not the bureacracy.
As explained in the Ask the Pilot column, this threat is severely over-hyped. The probability of success is so low
compared to the risk of detection, that its unlikely that terrorsits would try this tact.
Its not really that weird. Lately they seem to have that kind of advert/category about once a week. I remember a Stars Wars category from when the original series came out on DVD, in particular. I don't like that type of category, but I don't think that its all that odd.
Related category titles (sometimes for both rounds) also seem fairly common these days.
I may try an hour of each, but I really don't like having manual programs set. With them you end recording more re-runs, or whatever else happens to play in a shows normal time.
As far the first minute of ER, ER seems to have less of the "previously on.." stuff than some shows. I would guess only 20 seconds typically, and in the next 40 seconds or so there is often something crucial to the plot.
CSI, on the other hand, never has anything important in its last minute. Its that second to last minute that I am missing right now that's the problem.
The alternative is to set up manual recording for both shows to start/end on the hour. That sucks for shows that might move around, etc, and then it'll also record non-new shows since it's no longer a season pass. But at least now they're labeling the manual recordings with the show name.
I have a normal season pass for ER, and a manual season pass for CSI. The problem for me is that TiVo manual recordings do not allow for all possible lengths of shows. So I am stuck with a 58 minute recording of CSI, a minute off, and then a 61 minute recording of ER. (The 58 minutes is actually a 55 minute recording with 3 minutes of padding on the end - for some reason 4 minutes of padding is not allowed). And sometimes CSI leaves a twist till the 59th minute.
So I wish TiVo would at least allow any length for manual recordings, if they are not going to allow negative padding. Or at least allow more choices for positive padding.
Personally, when I count words in LaTeX I avoid the.dvi step. I use either the simple untex or the prettier hevea to go from LaTeX to plain text. This avoids the problem of page numbers and references, though it has some other issues.
I liked that response as well. It definitely sounded recycled.
Also, by most reasonable measures it seems wrong.
My personal feeling is that "freedom advanced" most
from the last half of WWII on. Nazi and Japanese-controlled territories were freed. Though in the case of the Soviet Bloc countries and China the improvement wasn't great, for much of the rest of the world it was. In the years after this most of the European powers shed their colonies, which lead to a lot of instability, but eventually to more freedom in many places. In particular, the transformation of India to a democracy "advanced freedom" tremendously.
Depending on how you measure things, other time periods could be competitors as well. The time periods of The American Revolution, French Revolution, American Civil War, or British Civil Wars could all be argued, but I am not convinced that they rank as high as the other time periods mentioned.
Finally, the one event that could trump them all is if the Chinese suddenly became much more free. At this point, though, it looks more likely that they will slowly gain more freedom over a long period of time.
I have a professor who actually think the base-unit in US for mass AND weight is the pound (he coined the word, pound-mass and pound-weight).
Your professor didn't coin anything. The "pound-mass" is used more often than the slug for mass by engineers in the American system of units. Having to use "punds-mass" and "pounds-force" is annoying, but it is still common.
The base-unit for mass in US-unit is a slug, the weight is a pound. And 32 slug = a pound because the acceleration due to gravity in US unit is 32 feet/second squared.
Your definition of the slug is actually the definition of the lound-mass. The definition of a slug is "1 lb force acting on 1 slug mass will give the mass an acceleration of 1 ft/s2". So a slug is 14.59 kg or in
standard gravity on Earth, a slug weighs 32.174.
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Actually, many higher income people don't have cable or satellite as well. A recent study revealed that the Minneapolis/St. Paul Tv market has one of the smallest percentages of homes with cable/satellite usage. One of their explanations for this was the releatively high number of college graduates in the area. Here's the best link on this I could find. Note that what's being discussed here is a little bit different (TVs vs. households), but it is still an interesting comparison.
A single particle doesn't really have a temperature, it has a kinetic energy. A mono-energetic beam of particles has a temeperature of 0 K, but what is usually referred to is the beam energy. The particles in a real beam don't have exactly the beam energy, but instead have a spread around it. A cold beam is a beam in which the particles are nearly mono-energetic (the spread is small compared to the beam energy). A hot beam is one where the spread in energy is large compared to the mean beam energy.
Cold in terms of cold fusion isn't as well defined, but personally I wouldn't call this cold fusion. I would call it table top fusion or a table top accelerator. This experiment is cold compared to the center of the sun, which is part of the reason that fusion yiled is so tiny.
There was a previous story on this last fall.
Its going to be a long time before anything from the Pluto mission gets any useful data. In fact, the Voyagers will likely have died of natural causes before this mission is launched. Why not wait until this mission is getting useful data (or at least until its launched successfully) before pulling the plug?
Much of the budget probably goes to paying for time on the large antennaes needed to pick up Voyagers' weak radio signals. Collecting signals isn't cheap evening for Earth-orbitting spacecraft - for Voyager it has got to be quite spendy.
Its particularly sad turn-off the magnetospheric spacecraft, since the magnetospheric is such a complex system and being able to collect data from mulitple spacraft is so vital to understanding the system. Though the instruments on spacecraft do degrade over time, I know that the Polar spacraft, for exaple, is still collecting useful data. it is still being used in multi-spacecraft studies, along with newer spacecraft like Cluster, to better understand the magnetosphere.
Or the closely related (but less verbose) Church of :x!
Previosuly artifial aurora have been created by sounding rockets and satellites by releasing elements into the atmosphere which normally wouldn't be there. One example of this type of study was done by CRRES.
Yeah, it also odd that they mention Fortran 2000, ut not Fortran 2003 which is a standard.
As others have said, deb and rpm really are quite similar. its the care that goes into making the debs and rpms that varies. Here's a nice comparison of package formats.
For a more rational pilot's perspective, take a look at what Salon's "Ask the Pilot" columnist Patrick Smith has to day about the issue. he has three columns on this issue in the past month: December 17, January 4, and January 13. Smith very nicely skewers the sensationalistic nonsense that these laser incidents are some kind of terrorist conspiracy. These events happened before September 11, 2001 and they all seemed to be caused by accident or idiots like the guy in New Jersey.
Mass is proportional to volume, and this planet would have 3.4 times the volume of Jupiter. So its density would only be 1.5 times that of Jupiter. That higher density could easily be explained by having the same composition as Jupiter, just more tightly packed due to this planet's higher gravity. The differences between this planet and Jupiter are probably similar to the differences between Jupiter and Saturn.
As for benefits and retirement age, I don't know where you are getting your information. Social Security benefits haven't been cut in ages. In fact they they have probably been rising too quickly due to the method of inflation adjustment that is used. The retirement age has been increased so that people born before 1937 could retire at age 65, while those born after 1960 can retire at age 67. If anything the retirement age should be increased more - to at least 70. When originally implemented, most people didn't live till retirement age. Now life expectancy is in the upper 70s and people are collecting benefits for way too long. That's why Social Security is in trouble, not the bureacracy.
As explained in the Ask the Pilot column, this threat is severely over-hyped. The probability of success is so low compared to the risk of detection, that its unlikely that terrorsits would try this tact.
Or even better the owners complaining about they can't be expected to know how to spend their money. Someone has to help them stick to a budget.
Gnumeric reads OpenOffice.org files as well.
Here's some more direct info on the card from Minnesota DVS.
Related category titles (sometimes for both rounds) also seem fairly common these days.
As far the first minute of ER, ER seems to have less of the "previously on .." stuff than some shows. I would guess only 20 seconds typically, and in the next 40 seconds or so there is often something crucial to the plot.
CSI, on the other hand, never has anything important in its last minute. Its that second to last minute that I am missing right now that's the problem.
Plus I like ER better than CSI.
So I wish TiVo would at least allow any length for manual recordings, if they are not going to allow negative padding. Or at least allow more choices for positive padding.
Personally, when I count words in LaTeX I avoid the .dvi step. I use either the simple untex or the prettier hevea to go from LaTeX to plain text. This avoids the problem of page numbers and references, though it has some other issues.
Also, by most reasonable measures it seems wrong. My personal feeling is that "freedom advanced" most from the last half of WWII on. Nazi and Japanese-controlled territories were freed. Though in the case of the Soviet Bloc countries and China the improvement wasn't great, for much of the rest of the world it was. In the years after this most of the European powers shed their colonies, which lead to a lot of instability, but eventually to more freedom in many places. In particular, the transformation of India to a democracy "advanced freedom" tremendously.
Depending on how you measure things, other time periods could be competitors as well. The time periods of The American Revolution, French Revolution, American Civil War, or British Civil Wars could all be argued, but I am not convinced that they rank as high as the other time periods mentioned.
Finally, the one event that could trump them all is if the Chinese suddenly became much more free. At this point, though, it looks more likely that they will slowly gain more freedom over a long period of time.
Well for one thing, "usr" doesn't stand for "User", it stands for "Unix System Resources", which is is a little bit long for my tastes.
I may have read you wrong, but you were still mixed up. There's 32 pounds-mass per slug, not vice versa.