How do they know it's passenger weight gain? Cars got heavier between 1960 and 1974
The car itself doesn't matter. If you're committed to taking car X then the increase in car X's load between a fat passenger and a thin passenger increases the load and thus the fuel use. That a heavier car uses more fuel than a lighter car is not the comparison. A heavier passenger in a heavy car still uses more fuel than a light passenger in a heavy car.
Can you even be found innocent on a charge of drunken driving?
Yes, though not if you were really driving drunk. But in some cases erratic driving that makes one look like (and get arrested as) a drunk driver can turn out to be a legit medical condition.
To what ends? Why would they have their own agenda?
Because the people who work at the FBI are... people. They have bad customer service experiences, jilted/spurned lovers, see the red scare in every shadow, etc, and can just as easily give in to the temptation to take revenge or vigilante action as anyone else. Except being armed with these letters is a lot more dangerous than blogging a bitter grapes rant with pictures.
Of all the things to obsess over and waste your time "contributing" to in this world
They didn't waste time; the book is for sale on Kindle for $9.99. They're like the guy who did SuperSize Me in that the activity was research for the real product.
your source includes Private school teachers with public school teachers, skewing the results upwards a great deal
I must dissuade you from another misconception. Here is the u.s. department of education's breakout of public versus private teachers stats. See column 4, 'base salary' and/or column 3, 'Total school-year and summer earned income' : http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d09/tables/dt09_075.asp?referrer=list
Where do you get this absurdly lowball number? Check the bureau of labor stats for teachers The median is 52k and even the lowest 10% get 34k. The top 10% rake in over 80k which is what a good private sector programmer makes.
Ryvar: You say you want to save massive amounts of energy, and then you show me a design that is not a flying wing
Jeng: but I would think that wing = drag. Yes, some drag is needed for lift but
When you responded to the idea that a flying wing being the most energy efficient design by saying a wing is drag, there's no other conclusion but you think the wing is holding the plane back. And when you put "yes, some is needed for lift but..." the only reasonable conclusion is that you think the wing drags back on the thrust more than it contributes to lift. And complaining about drag as it applies to lift as if it weren't a good thing for an airplane to be able to lift doesn't make any sense. If you had some other idea, sorry, but it didn't come across at all from that wording. Not only did I miss it but so did the people who modded up my comment pointing out lift = good.
I am no aerospace engineer, about as far from it as you can get, but I would think that wing = drag.
Congrats on accidentally making the wrongest statement ever on/. On an airplane, wing = lift. And since the purpose of the airplane is to go up, lift = good. The part the people sit in, that uniform shaped tube body, equals drag. An airplane shaped like a big wing could thus lift the most and drag the least. (see: Northrop YB-49)
A tube body can actually produce some lift if it's shaped correctly but it's very expensive to manufacture and tricky to design (see: Super Constellation).
Oracle express is pretty much "click OK" to install - the regular oracle is a hassle. Express's browser interface is good enough for casual management and is really simple. SQL Server's management studio that comes the same for Express as Enterprise blows it away but has a higher learning curve.
I wouldn't start with database stuff until you have a programming language or two mastered
I would start with either database or with programming languages. Procedural programming requires a different mindset than the set logic of databases. Experienced professional programmers can have a hard time dealing with database sets properly never mind someone who is trying to just dabble in both.
But to the original question, you could read a simple book on SQL like "Sam's teach yourself sql in 10 minutes (a day)" and actually get a pretty good start compared to a quick start programming language guide. All the major database vendors provide free versions; DB/2, SQL Server, Oracle, even Teradata. The personal editions of Oracle and SQL Server are by far the easiest to set up and jump in, IMO. Database can be a VERY useful tool to a businessperson; even though latest versions of spreadsheets are capable of handling millions of rows this does not mean they are the correct tools. A little database insight can turn convoluted Excel nightmares into something much more manageable and flexible.
Lol if you honestly think that at the end of the day Apple is worth more than Microsoft
Where does this attitude come from? It's very simple: stock price times shares. If the gp's numbers are from yesterday's closing price, then yes, at the end of the day Apple WAS worth more than Microsoft by simple multiplication. The only 'lol' is that you're trying to make fun of someone who has correctly performed basic math.
Company worth is reflective of their expected near/mid term future income, not a sci-fi scenario where thier competitors magically disappear.
I bought the cheapest cables that Best Buy offered and haven't had any problems
Does this mean the equipment doesn't have a way to tell what grade of cable is being used? If that's the case, anyone who doesn't do what you've done is a sucker. I got the impression from way the article was going on about all these different types that there was some mechanism to enforce what cable would or wouldn't work.
Is there a storage device today that can deliever 50Gbps speeds?
Yes, they're called enterprise grade SANs. A good one is faster internally than the latest fiber connection and just begging for an upgrade to this new tech.
the Communist ideals of shared ownership and development for the public good that China purports to adhere to
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not; there's no such thing in China. There is a wide difference between Marxist communism and Maoist/Stalinist communism. Marx envisioned socialism as an intermediary step on the way to communism (and what you've described) while Mao and Stalin saw socialism as a mechanism for total state control with themselves at the head of state. They use the name communism but only for window dressing. The current economic system in China allows private enterprise but does certainly not work towards shared ownership and the public good in any political sense.
Exactly... and to be more specific: all it needs is positive thrust to weight. Then taking off straight up is possible. Just need to drop enough to go around the wire from which it has just hung.
While this sounds excessive, it's only truly crazy to consider that after they convert euros to dollars to start the program they just have to convert them back to spend on the local expenses. Think how many more three legged dogs could benefit if only the researchers hadn't pissed away a good 20% in paying the exchange fees twice.
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it's lengthy forum arguments
I didn't argue in a forum today.
How do they know it's passenger weight gain? Cars got heavier between 1960 and 1974
The car itself doesn't matter. If you're committed to taking car X then the increase in car X's load between a fat passenger and a thin passenger increases the load and thus the fuel use. That a heavier car uses more fuel than a lighter car is not the comparison. A heavier passenger in a heavy car still uses more fuel than a light passenger in a heavy car.
Can you even be found innocent on a charge of drunken driving?
Yes, though not if you were really driving drunk. But in some cases erratic driving that makes one look like (and get arrested as) a drunk driver can turn out to be a legit medical condition.
To what ends? Why would they have their own agenda?
... people. They have bad customer service experiences, jilted/spurned lovers, see the red scare in every shadow, etc, and can just as easily give in to the temptation to take revenge or vigilante action as anyone else. Except being armed with these letters is a lot more dangerous than blogging a bitter grapes rant with pictures.
Because the people who work at the FBI are
So what is Slashdot's policy about death?
From observation it seems to be to make fun of it when it happens to people you don't know.
Imagine how much that must piss off a real author with something they're having a hard time publishing
What's the difference between a real author whose book isn't published and a random guy whose book is published?
One of them is a real author.
Of all the things to obsess over and waste your time "contributing" to in this world
They didn't waste time; the book is for sale on Kindle for $9.99. They're like the guy who did SuperSize Me in that the activity was research for the real product.
I've got some WWII Popeye cartoons; will my children call Germans 'Krauts' and Japanese 'Japs'?
your source includes Private school teachers with public school teachers, skewing the results upwards a great deal
I must dissuade you from another misconception. Here is the u.s. department of education's breakout of public versus private teachers stats. See column 4, 'base salary' and/or column 3, 'Total school-year and summer earned income' : http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d09/tables/dt09_075.asp?referrer=list
Teachers make 20-35 thousand a year
Where do you get this absurdly lowball number? Check the bureau of labor stats for teachers The median is 52k and even the lowest 10% get 34k. The top 10% rake in over 80k which is what a good private sector programmer makes.
When chess nerds talk about end game strategies it is implied that "a king and a __ " ending is one where the other player has just a king.
Ryvar: You say you want to save massive amounts of energy, and then you show me a design that is not a flying wing
Jeng: but I would think that wing = drag. Yes, some drag is needed for lift but
When you responded to the idea that a flying wing being the most energy efficient design by saying a wing is drag, there's no other conclusion but you think the wing is holding the plane back. And when you put "yes, some is needed for lift but..." the only reasonable conclusion is that you think the wing drags back on the thrust more than it contributes to lift. And complaining about drag as it applies to lift as if it weren't a good thing for an airplane to be able to lift doesn't make any sense. If you had some other idea, sorry, but it didn't come across at all from that wording. Not only did I miss it but so did the people who modded up my comment pointing out lift = good.
Well, duh, induced drag IS lift; and it's pretty clear from context this is NOT the type of drag the GP was talking about.
I am no aerospace engineer, about as far from it as you can get, but I would think that wing = drag.
/. On an airplane, wing = lift. And since the purpose of the airplane is to go up, lift = good. The part the people sit in, that uniform shaped tube body, equals drag. An airplane shaped like a big wing could thus lift the most and drag the least. (see: Northrop YB-49)
Congrats on accidentally making the wrongest statement ever on
A tube body can actually produce some lift if it's shaped correctly but it's very expensive to manufacture and tricky to design (see: Super Constellation).
Oracle express is pretty much "click OK" to install - the regular oracle is a hassle. Express's browser interface is good enough for casual management and is really simple. SQL Server's management studio that comes the same for Express as Enterprise blows it away but has a higher learning curve.
I wouldn't start with database stuff until you have a programming language or two mastered
I would start with either database or with programming languages. Procedural programming requires a different mindset than the set logic of databases. Experienced professional programmers can have a hard time dealing with database sets properly never mind someone who is trying to just dabble in both.
But to the original question, you could read a simple book on SQL like "Sam's teach yourself sql in 10 minutes (a day)" and actually get a pretty good start compared to a quick start programming language guide. All the major database vendors provide free versions; DB/2, SQL Server, Oracle, even Teradata. The personal editions of Oracle and SQL Server are by far the easiest to set up and jump in, IMO. Database can be a VERY useful tool to a businessperson; even though latest versions of spreadsheets are capable of handling millions of rows this does not mean they are the correct tools. A little database insight can turn convoluted Excel nightmares into something much more manageable and flexible.
Lol if you honestly think that at the end of the day Apple is worth more than Microsoft
Where does this attitude come from? It's very simple: stock price times shares. If the gp's numbers are from yesterday's closing price, then yes, at the end of the day Apple WAS worth more than Microsoft by simple multiplication. The only 'lol' is that you're trying to make fun of someone who has correctly performed basic math.
Company worth is reflective of their expected near/mid term future income, not a sci-fi scenario where thier competitors magically disappear.
I bought the cheapest cables that Best Buy offered and haven't had any problems
Does this mean the equipment doesn't have a way to tell what grade of cable is being used? If that's the case, anyone who doesn't do what you've done is a sucker. I got the impression from way the article was going on about all these different types that there was some mechanism to enforce what cable would or wouldn't work.
Is there a storage device today that can deliever 50Gbps speeds?
Yes, they're called enterprise grade SANs. A good one is faster internally than the latest fiber connection and just begging for an upgrade to this new tech.
Number of my countrymen to be killed or wounded while Clinton nailed a fat secretary: 0
That means you're not from Kosovo.
the Communist ideals of shared ownership and development for the public good that China purports to adhere to
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not; there's no such thing in China. There is a wide difference between Marxist communism and Maoist/Stalinist communism. Marx envisioned socialism as an intermediary step on the way to communism (and what you've described) while Mao and Stalin saw socialism as a mechanism for total state control with themselves at the head of state. They use the name communism but only for window dressing. The current economic system in China allows private enterprise but does certainly not work towards shared ownership and the public good in any political sense.
You've obviously never worked at a Fortune 500 company
I don't think TransOcean is that big.
Exactly... and to be more specific: all it needs is positive thrust to weight. Then taking off straight up is possible. Just need to drop enough to go around the wire from which it has just hung.
Can I Ask Slashdot why Hungarians always refer to a vague "European Country"
What does this have to do with anything in this topic, since Hungary is central, not southern, and medium sized, not small.
I think the questioner is probably a Cretan.
Billions of dollars in three legged dogs
While this sounds excessive, it's only truly crazy to consider that after they convert euros to dollars to start the program they just have to convert them back to spend on the local expenses. Think how many more three legged dogs could benefit if only the researchers hadn't pissed away a good 20% in paying the exchange fees twice.