My Chevy has a software switch that changes the speedometer dial to kph and the temperature display to Celsius, and all it takes is a few button pushes on the console. This one was built in Kansas City. Considering how many "American" cars are built in Mexico or Canada, it's quite possible that the calibration is already done by someone licensed for it in those jurisdictions.
A certain building on the UPenn campus has a plaque in a stairwell, commemorating the donor of the funds that built that named stairwell. Another building has a plaque above the urinals in the mens' room commemorating the donor of the funds that refurbished those urinals. You can always find money to pay for the little stuff. The problem is priorities in general, not the whims of politics in particular.
+1.
MATLAB is slow, clunky, is indexed off of 1 instead of 0, and spends more time polling its license server than doing your computations, but it's also full of useful, standardized algorithms, makes pretty plots in a few keystrokes, and can be translated to C, C++, or FORTRAN without major restructuring.
is Algebra II the first class where kids are weened off of using just numbers in math? If memory serves, that little bit of abstraction is the first time that the men are separated from the boys, and I don't doubt that's what indicates the success, not the PR-mandated "II" in the course title.
That, and many nerds are card-carrying members of the military industrial complex. Jokes aside though, military action against a man who orders crowds of protesters to be bombed is not at all a bad thing. Remember people: there's a difference between the civilized world and the rest of the world.
One day, some day, the US elementary education system will move to the metric system. But as long as parents expect teachers to teach what they know and use, it will never happen.
Never! You can have my feet when you pry them from my cold, dead legs!
Wealth inequality without context is a bad measure of the quality of a civilization. For example, in America, there is a stark divide between the super-rich and the working poor, as they're called. But even the working poor are able to afford a roof over their heads, running water, in many cases cell phones and internet, and cable tv. And they're entitled to public services funded by taxes collected (somewhat disproportionatly) from the rich, as our taxation isn't a flat-fee per capita, but is progressive.
In China or Africa, on the other hand, there is also a stark gap between the rich and poor. But while the rich Chinese businessman or African landowner may live a close approximation of the life of the rich American, the rural poor in these places don't have access to running water, or medicine, or in some cases even electricity. So I'll take my chances with American inequality any day, thank you.
You've got it all wrong. They're going with style (easy, sexy, and makes for good admissions brochures) over substance (tedious, frustrating, difficult to market).
Which sort of makes my point for me. If the power source needs a diesel backup that's going to be used often enough (ie some/most of the winter?), then it's not it's not as viable a source of renewable energy as that same diesel running on synthetic fuel would be. Unfortunately, there is not (yet) a viable large scale production capacity for synthetic fuel. Equally unfortunate is that people and research funding bodies have this solar pathology tattooed on their brains.
And then you'd have the fun and moral satisfaction of purchasing a new set of heavy duty batteries every year or two. Mind you that would be a very large set, to account for the possibility of many short cloudy winter days in a row.
It doesn't work at night when you need electricity to power your lights. Which is especially a problem in the long winter nights when you need to heat your home. Can we please finally put this solar-for-everyone nonsense to bed?
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My Chevy has a software switch that changes the speedometer dial to kph and the temperature display to Celsius, and all it takes is a few button pushes on the console. This one was built in Kansas City. Considering how many "American" cars are built in Mexico or Canada, it's quite possible that the calibration is already done by someone licensed for it in those jurisdictions.
Similarly for millimetres they tend to say 'mil' (this could also be millilitre, depending on context).
In America, a "mil" is 1/1000 of an inch = 25.4 um exactly. Not a millimeter. There is also a thing called a microinch = 25.4nm exactly.
I love the looks on their faces when I have them find the magnitude, in meters, of an object with a velocity in fathoms per minute.
How many of them can fathom that?
Naw, we got the 2nd Amendment to keep the King out of our living rooms, so we can use English units without fear of subjugation.
No, they got the plans for a bunch of pinball machine parts by mistake.
A certain building on the UPenn campus has a plaque in a stairwell, commemorating the donor of the funds that built that named stairwell. Another building has a plaque above the urinals in the mens' room commemorating the donor of the funds that refurbished those urinals. You can always find money to pay for the little stuff. The problem is priorities in general, not the whims of politics in particular.
+1. MATLAB is slow, clunky, is indexed off of 1 instead of 0, and spends more time polling its license server than doing your computations, but it's also full of useful, standardized algorithms, makes pretty plots in a few keystrokes, and can be translated to C, C++, or FORTRAN without major restructuring.
No, no. Some of it's real.
Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
Do that and the stuff in there will.
is Algebra II the first class where kids are weened off of using just numbers in math? If memory serves, that little bit of abstraction is the first time that the men are separated from the boys, and I don't doubt that's what indicates the success, not the PR-mandated "II" in the course title.
Burns: What will you demand next? Real *lead* in the radiation shields?!
That, and many nerds are card-carrying members of the military industrial complex. Jokes aside though, military action against a man who orders crowds of protesters to be bombed is not at all a bad thing. Remember people: there's a difference between the civilized world and the rest of the world.
One day, some day, the US elementary education system will move to the metric system. But as long as parents expect teachers to teach what they know and use, it will never happen.
Never! You can have my feet when you pry them from my cold, dead legs!
That doesn't sound to OSHA-compliant too me, considering that some one, somewhere, must make hardhats with chinstraps.
What if they say on screen that the bad guy's IP address is 127.0.0.1?
Kinda like putting foam padding on all the sharp objects in your house...
Wealth inequality without context is a bad measure of the quality of a civilization. For example, in America, there is a stark divide between the super-rich and the working poor, as they're called. But even the working poor are able to afford a roof over their heads, running water, in many cases cell phones and internet, and cable tv. And they're entitled to public services funded by taxes collected (somewhat disproportionatly) from the rich, as our taxation isn't a flat-fee per capita, but is progressive.
In China or Africa, on the other hand, there is also a stark gap between the rich and poor. But while the rich Chinese businessman or African landowner may live a close approximation of the life of the rich American, the rural poor in these places don't have access to running water, or medicine, or in some cases even electricity. So I'll take my chances with American inequality any day, thank you.
You've got it all wrong. They're going with style (easy, sexy, and makes for good admissions brochures) over substance (tedious, frustrating, difficult to market).
Which sort of makes my point for me. If the power source needs a diesel backup that's going to be used often enough (ie some/most of the winter?), then it's not it's not as viable a source of renewable energy as that same diesel running on synthetic fuel would be. Unfortunately, there is not (yet) a viable large scale production capacity for synthetic fuel. Equally unfortunate is that people and research funding bodies have this solar pathology tattooed on their brains.
And then you'd have the fun and moral satisfaction of purchasing a new set of heavy duty batteries every year or two. Mind you that would be a very large set, to account for the possibility of many short cloudy winter days in a row.
It doesn't work at night when you need electricity to power your lights. Which is especially a problem in the long winter nights when you need to heat your home. Can we please finally put this solar-for-everyone nonsense to bed?
Get rid of the right and middle clicks next. After all, Linux users are sufficiently unsophisticated to be confused by the extra buttons.
Selling your body is way less profitable than selling other people's bodies. But hey, the legal system marches on.
Rule of Acquisition 1337: Make up random, non-sequential Rules of Acquisition to prove your point. For profit!
when you pry it from under my cold dead fingers!