I thought only a few counties in NC (including Wake where I live) had emissions testing anyway. Seems like those counties have a red/blue inspection sticker, while the others have a yellow sticker. Go figure that every link on NCDOT's website that is supposed to take you to a listing of "emissions counties" is broken. Have you got a link somewhere that confirms this?
It always amazed me that, whenever the football broadcast (and/or the post-game show) ran past 8pm, the Simpsons was shown in its entirety, but Futurama was always started "already in progress" or pre-empted completely.
While I adore the Simpsons (always have), in some ways, that show is indirectly responsible for FOX News and other atrocities like American Idol. The Simpsons was basically the only thing keeping FOX afloat in the early days... and now look what we have.
The worst part is that it's not just protecting children from "indecent programming"... it's protecting all of us. Dammit, I don't WANT protection from indecent programming. Hell, if anything, I want more of it!
* Dude, like Facebook is waaay more bitchin' than Myspace if ur in college * Among popular social networking sites, Facebook is far more accepted by college students than Myspace
They both make the same point, right? Which do you think might have a chance of getting serious attention from the scientific community? Which do you think has a chance of getting published in a respected journal? Which one sounds like serious research?
I don't care how insightful somebody's work may be. If it is too painful to read, it isn't worth it. Come back when you can present your ideas in a coherent, professional manner.
Ouch. I remember once in 3rd year physics, I had a Thermal Physics course that made virtually no sense to me. I went in for the mid-term, stewed, steamed, and fretted over that exam. I gnawed (mechanical) pencils. I balled up one sheet of paper after another. At the end of the hour, I unceremoniously dumped my sheaf of unwadded paper on the professor's desk, muttered something not-quite incoherent about the difficulty of the test and stalked off, certain I had just failed the exam.
Imagine my surprise a week later when I found out I had turned in the only perfect paper. I would have HATED an option like that on this particular test, as I would have surely guessed a 50-60%, been horribly wrong, and ruined a perfect score.
It's absurd that anyone that knows your name, date of birth, and SSN can pretend to be you and open up accounts in your name. Banks and credit card companies have to be held accountable for verifying the identities of their customers.
That just makes it harder for legitimate transactions. What's your proposed solution to this? Federal databases full of fingerprints? dental records? retinal scans? DNA? Sounds a bit too big brotherish to me.
What needs to happen is for compliance with the law forbidding the use of SSN for ANY external identification. I can't tell you the number of places that want my SSN that have no business having it. For cripes sake, it's a SOCIAL SECURITY number, not a national identification code.
The pound is a weight (mass times acceleration due to gravity). There is no standard because weight is not a fundamental dimension of measurement. I have no idea if there is an "official stone".
Mass is constant (assuming it is at rest), and has nothing to do with the force of gravity on an object. The mass times gravitational acceleration is the weight, often reported in lbs or Newtons. In other words, a kilogram here is a kilogram everywhere.
BTW, in the English measurement system, mass is measured in stones.
Because, according to the theory of special relativity, to move a massive particle at the speed of light would require infinite energy. See, mass changes with relative velocity, such that m = m0/(1-beta**2) where beta is v/c and m0 is rest mass. Since kinetic energy is proportional to mass, as v -> c, m -> m0/0 -> infinity, and so does the kinetic energy.
What you actually have is a stream of VERY low mass particles moving VERY close to the speed of light, containing large but finite amounts of kinetic energy.
Based on my limited experience from the mid-late 1990s (my physics PhD and others from my department, a couple math majors, and a few life sciences types I knew), the physical and mathematical sciences were strictly LaTeX, while the life sciences more often than not used Word. My thesis was a jumbled mass of hand-coded LaTeX.
The trollish grandparent is probably not DB-savvy enough to differentiate between DDL (always auto-committed) and DML (never auto-committed) statements in Oracle.
For non DB monkeys (not my term, see upthread), DDL includes create, alter, drop, and truncate commands and are performed on objects, while DML includes insert, update, and delete statements (select doesn't actually change anything) and are performed on data within an object.
High stock prices are good for the few that flip stocks on a daily basis (read, rich traders) and those with large amounts of stock options with low strike prices (read, upper management, C*O types). High P/E ratios are good for the average investor like you(?) and me(!). Higher stock prices usually indicate lower P/E ratios. I know which I'd consider a better indicator of a strong economy.
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Great, next thing you know, it will be illegal to buy flour or search for bread recipes. If baking is outlawed, only the terrorists will be bakers!
I thought only a few counties in NC (including Wake where I live) had emissions testing anyway. Seems like those counties have a red/blue inspection sticker, while the others have a yellow sticker. Go figure that every link on NCDOT's website that is supposed to take you to a listing of "emissions counties" is broken. Have you got a link somewhere that confirms this?
It always amazed me that, whenever the football broadcast (and/or the post-game show) ran past 8pm, the Simpsons was shown in its entirety, but Futurama was always started "already in progress" or pre-empted completely.
While I adore the Simpsons (always have), in some ways, that show is indirectly responsible for FOX News and other atrocities like American Idol. The Simpsons was basically the only thing keeping FOX afloat in the early days... and now look what we have.
The worst part is that it's not just protecting children from "indecent programming" ... it's protecting all of us. Dammit, I don't WANT protection from indecent programming. Hell, if anything, I want more of it!
I see no criticism... only whining. Typically criticism (constructive or destructive) would include reasons that support your statement.
In a serious scientific discussion, yes.
* Dude, like Facebook is waaay more bitchin' than Myspace if ur in college
* Among popular social networking sites, Facebook is far more accepted by college students than Myspace
They both make the same point, right? Which do you think might have a chance of getting serious attention from the scientific community? Which do you think has a chance of getting published in a respected journal? Which one sounds like serious research?
I don't care how insightful somebody's work may be. If it is too painful to read, it isn't worth it. Come back when you can present your ideas in a coherent, professional manner.
If the author wants anyone to take her work seriously, she REALLY needs to avoid sentences like "It's so not that easy."
After reading that nugget, my interest in the topic waned almost instantly.
Fixit! Fixit! Fixit! "Neil Gainman" indeed...
Ouch. I remember once in 3rd year physics, I had a Thermal Physics course that made virtually no sense to me. I went in for the mid-term, stewed, steamed, and fretted over that exam. I gnawed (mechanical) pencils. I balled up one sheet of paper after another. At the end of the hour, I unceremoniously dumped my sheaf of unwadded paper on the professor's desk, muttered something not-quite incoherent about the difficulty of the test and stalked off, certain I had just failed the exam.
Imagine my surprise a week later when I found out I had turned in the only perfect paper. I would have HATED an option like that on this particular test, as I would have surely guessed a 50-60%, been horribly wrong, and ruined a perfect score.
That just makes it harder for legitimate transactions. What's your proposed solution to this? Federal databases full of fingerprints? dental records? retinal scans? DNA? Sounds a bit too big brotherish to me.
What needs to happen is for compliance with the law forbidding the use of SSN for ANY external identification. I can't tell you the number of places that want my SSN that have no business having it. For cripes sake, it's a SOCIAL SECURITY number, not a national identification code.
There goes my confusion between English units and Imperial units again. Let's abolish them ALL in favor of metric!
The pound is a weight (mass times acceleration due to gravity). There is no standard because weight is not a fundamental dimension of measurement. I have no idea if there is an "official stone".
By definition, a "perfect" sphere would require pi to infinite precision. Let me know when you've got that figured out.
Mass is constant (assuming it is at rest), and has nothing to do with the force of gravity on an object. The mass times gravitational acceleration is the weight, often reported in lbs or Newtons. In other words, a kilogram here is a kilogram everywhere.
BTW, in the English measurement system, mass is measured in stones.
Because, according to the theory of special relativity, to move a massive particle at the speed of light would require infinite energy. See, mass changes with relative velocity, such that m = m0/(1-beta**2) where beta is v/c and m0 is rest mass. Since kinetic energy is proportional to mass, as v -> c, m -> m0/0 -> infinity, and so does the kinetic energy.
What you actually have is a stream of VERY low mass particles moving VERY close to the speed of light, containing large but finite amounts of kinetic energy.
There, I fixed that for you.
Based on my limited experience from the mid-late 1990s (my physics PhD and others from my department, a couple math majors, and a few life sciences types I knew), the physical and mathematical sciences were strictly LaTeX, while the life sciences more often than not used Word. My thesis was a jumbled mass of hand-coded LaTeX.
Aficionados of roguelike games have been saying this for 20+ years.
The trollish grandparent is probably not DB-savvy enough to differentiate between DDL (always auto-committed) and DML (never auto-committed) statements in Oracle.
For non DB monkeys (not my term, see upthread), DDL includes create, alter, drop, and truncate commands and are performed on objects, while DML includes insert, update, and delete statements (select doesn't actually change anything) and are performed on data within an object.
Watch those dangling participles... in this case, the "it" would be red dwarf AC+79 3888, not Pioneer 10/11.
So was this guy.
Dammit, I got the same number. How many zorkmids do I owe you?
(Score:6, Best. Post. Ever.)
High stock prices are good for the few that flip stocks on a daily basis (read, rich traders) and those with large amounts of stock options with low strike prices (read, upper management, C*O types). High P/E ratios are good for the average investor like you(?) and me(!). Higher stock prices usually indicate lower P/E ratios. I know which I'd consider a better indicator of a strong economy.