You are looking at the wrong statistics. One study pointed out that cyclist head injuries had dropped about 35% but failed to mention that the number of cyclists had decreased slightly more which indicated an increased rate of head injury.
You should compare the fatality rate instead. Possibly the head injury rate just 'shifted' a bit, but fewer people died and more people received no injury.
Personally, I think that only people with nothing to protect fail to wear a helmet. Maybe helmet use shouldn't be mandated, but are you willing to equate failure to wear a helmet with being kicked out of the hospital because your health care is used up?
Um, actually you're quite wrong. Many of them have come as students, and lived a relatively meager existence here. The ones who had the means have traveled extensively in the US, too, and enjoyed it very much. Nice assumptions, though.
Tough to walk with that knee jerking so much? Funny how most of the Europeans I know who have lived in the US for any amount of time have really liked it here. Some enough to stay here permanently. You should expand your horizons a bit, learn a little.
p.s. Netherlands? England? Where are you from? Just curious. Let me know before I sit on you and then shoot your crushed remains. My shrink says I should should stop in Turkey- it's on they way from the U.S. Or maybe he just wants another sandwich... Oh, nevermind, 'Idol' is coming on. Maybe I'll just sue y'all instead...
I read the '911 and the Bush Administration' link. It's just a bunch of rampant speculation, unsupported conclusions, and incorrect assumptions with a few details sprinkled in to try and hold it together. The parts of this that talked about an area I'm familiar with are just wrong, too. Flat-out-wrong. It's not even self-consistent. The Guardian article was little better. I'm more than willing to look at any proof of the claim that there was more to 911, but have you got anything better than this?
What a load of garbage. I could only stand to read two of the 'news' stories. This is a great example of how to lie and mislead with (unreferenced) statistics, and how to ignore facts that I'm guessing they don't like. Hugely pertinent facts are ignored to an extent that I actually find offensive. Don't get me started on some of the 'conclusions' they draw, and the incredible bias shown. Even stories on The Onion have better reasoning than these do, sheesh... Maybe they should reorganize as a humor site, it wouldn't take many changes.
This research is faulty in many ways. They did not account for anisotropy is the samples (i.e. different flatness in different directions) and they fail to mention if the pancake was from the bottom or the top of the stack. Also, I don't think a confocal microscope is the best tool- they probably could have gotten better results with a stylus or an AFM (Atomic Food Microscopy) instrument. With an AFM they could have also nano-indented the sample to hold more syrup. The pancake measurement seems under-sampled from both the digital image processing and the confocal measurements, and it was probably stale well before they finished. I think that this report would have a 'rougher' time in any peer-reviewed journal.
P.S. Their next research- seeing if the humid summer air is really thicker (more viscous?) than the leftover maple syrup...
As a graduate of UIUC, I hope there's more to these than it looks like in the summary. Commercial buildings already have sensor networks installed- how do they think the HVAC systems work? New construction, which seems to be the target here, would have controllers that can be accessed from a PC. People doing research in this field all already know how to get the data, research is now being done in different ways to use the data. The "info to firefighters" aspect might be useful, but there are already other efforts much more advanced. One feature which does potentially look useful is that these would be battery powered, so if the main building power went out these would still work- if only over a short range. But even then the firefighter wouldn't know where the sensor was, which makes this only minimally useful. The non-building uses mentioned seem to have much more potential. Or there could be more to this than appears from the summary. Hopefully a lot more.
The 5250 BTU units only have a EER of 9.7, while the 15100 BTU model has an EER of 10.7 so is more efficient. EER relates to the cooling power per energy used, higher is better. Neither 9.7 or 10.7 is very good, but save what you can. Most of the energy cost comes from the compressor turning on, so 3 small ones would probably cost more than one large compressor. Just get the 15,100 BTU model and strategicaly place some fans around the house to distribute the air further.
IIRC, every nuclear weapon AND reactor were destroyed, as was civilization (at least in the short story). Could this plan also be used to destroy enemies nuclear power plants? Maybe this is a plot by OPEC to maintain dependance on fossil fuels? I wish there were a way to read the original article...
From the headline I thought this was going to be another story about overclocking.
More seriously- there are plenty of materials which will withstand just above molten iron temperatures, but it gets a lot hotter than needed to melt iron further down. And let's not forget the pressure. Most of the high-temperature materials are ceramics, which are also less dense than molten lead. So unless you have a bunch of denser-than-lead inside the probe, all you have is an expensive float. Also, the shell material may survive high temperature, but it does not block it. Certainly after a day or two (probably much sooner) the heat would conduct through the shell and melt the stuff (instruments, controls, etc) inside. And I haven't even discussed the communications and power problems yet!
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Great! Now all we'll need to make our own Beowolf cluster is a stack of paper and a xerox machine! Maybe the next big cluster we read about will be ASCI-Kinko's?
I think this is a common misconception. You can't actually go back in time to where you are now. You are at the center of an imaginary sphere. A second starts, and 'that second' propagates outward at the speed of light. If you start at 12:00 (for example), and you travel faster than light in a direction, and if the universe determines time from your watch, pretty soon you will be someplace where the time is 11:59. If you turn around and wait a minute you may see yourself leave (as the light from that event catches up to you). But if you reverse your course at faster than light, you would still arrive after you left the first time. Remember, time is relative. It's not that you're going back in time, it's that you are outracing time, or at least outracing _a_ time.
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We wouldn't need computers to do this- otherwise it never would have been done in the first place.
If you can't build X without X, and you don't have X then you never will have X. Your statement about needing computers to build computers is obviously false.
Of course we wouldn't start with all the fancy doped semiconductor stuff we use now, but we wouldn't have to regress to vacuum tubes either. It would not be difficult to set up silkscreening equipment to get basic circuitry. That will give you everything you need to get started, including logic advanced enough to run equipment (forced growth machines, doping equipment, etc.) to get you close to where we are today after only a few generations. We'd be back to playing Pong in 6 months, and people would be trolling Slashdot II in a year or two, tops.
MM
ps. I submitted this a minute ago, and it somehow lost my username and went in as anon. Weird.
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And will we be able to download it before it's in the theaters?
#102: Stop splitting up articles over multiple pages for the sole purpose of increasing advertising hits (or link directly to the printer version).
I would prefer my measurements in multiples of audio cassette tape storage, thank you.
One study pointed out that cyclist head injuries had dropped about 35% but failed to mention that the number of cyclists had decreased slightly more which indicated an increased rate of head injury.
You should compare the fatality rate instead. Possibly the head injury rate just 'shifted' a bit, but fewer people died and more people received no injury.
Personally, I think that only people with nothing to protect fail to wear a helmet. Maybe helmet use shouldn't be mandated, but are you willing to equate failure to wear a helmet with being kicked out of the hospital because your health care is used up?
> Don't buy a fucking dog then.
Yes, please remember to spay or neuter your pets. Or anyone else who knocks your laptop off the table.
Um, actually you're quite wrong. Many of them have come as students, and lived a relatively meager existence here. The ones who had the means have traveled extensively in the US, too, and enjoyed it very much. Nice assumptions, though.
Overly anal spell checker! Get bunt!
Tough to walk with that knee jerking so much? Funny how most of the Europeans I know who have lived in the US for any amount of time have really liked it here. Some enough to stay here permanently. You should expand your horizons a bit, learn a little.
p.s. Netherlands? England? Where are you from? Just curious. Let me know before I sit on you and then shoot your crushed remains. My shrink says I should should stop in Turkey- it's on they way from the U.S. Or maybe he just wants another sandwich... Oh, nevermind, 'Idol' is coming on. Maybe I'll just sue y'all instead...
p.p.s. Just joking...
57 years! I have images of melting Disney animators, hunched over drawing boards and computers...
(the famous Dali picture with melting clocks is called 'Persistance of Memory')
I read the '911 and the Bush Administration' link. It's just a bunch of rampant speculation, unsupported conclusions, and incorrect assumptions with a few details sprinkled in to try and hold it together. The parts of this that talked about an area I'm familiar with are just wrong, too. Flat-out-wrong. It's not even self-consistent. The Guardian article was little better. I'm more than willing to look at any proof of the claim that there was more to 911, but have you got anything better than this?
What a load of garbage. I could only stand to read two of the 'news' stories. This is a great example of how to lie and mislead with (unreferenced) statistics, and how to ignore facts that I'm guessing they don't like. Hugely pertinent facts are ignored to an extent that I actually find offensive. Don't get me started on some of the 'conclusions' they draw, and the incredible bias shown. Even stories on The Onion have better reasoning than these do, sheesh... Maybe they should reorganize as a humor site, it wouldn't take many changes.
Don't you mean to say:
"We're not!"
This research is faulty in many ways. They did not account for anisotropy is the samples (i.e. different flatness in different directions) and they fail to mention if the pancake was from the bottom or the top of the stack. Also, I don't think a confocal microscope is the best tool- they probably could have gotten better results with a stylus or an AFM (Atomic Food Microscopy) instrument. With an AFM they could have also nano-indented the sample to hold more syrup. The pancake measurement seems under-sampled from both the digital image processing and the confocal measurements, and it was probably stale well before they finished. I think that this report would have a 'rougher' time in any peer-reviewed journal.
P.S. Their next research- seeing if the humid summer air is really thicker (more viscous?) than the leftover maple syrup...
As a graduate of UIUC, I hope there's more to these than it looks like in the summary. Commercial buildings already have sensor networks installed- how do they think the HVAC systems work? New construction, which seems to be the target here, would have controllers that can be accessed from a PC. People doing research in this field all already know how to get the data, research is now being done in different ways to use the data. The "info to firefighters" aspect might be useful, but there are already other efforts much more advanced.
One feature which does potentially look useful is that these would be battery powered, so if the main building power went out these would still work- if only over a short range. But even then the firefighter wouldn't know where the sensor was, which makes this only minimally useful.
The non-building uses mentioned seem to have much more potential.
Or there could be more to this than appears from the summary. Hopefully a lot more.
The 5250 BTU units only have a EER of 9.7, while the 15100 BTU model has an EER of 10.7 so is more efficient. EER relates to the cooling power per energy used, higher is better. Neither 9.7 or 10.7 is very good, but save what you can. Most of the energy cost comes from the compressor turning on, so 3 small ones would probably cost more than one large compressor. Just get the 15,100 BTU model and strategicaly place some fans around the house to distribute the air further.
Do you mean the Revolutionary War?
IIRC, every nuclear weapon AND reactor were destroyed, as was civilization (at least in the short story). Could this plan also be used to destroy enemies nuclear power plants? Maybe this is a plot by OPEC to maintain dependance on fossil fuels?
I wish there were a way to read the original article...
From the headline I thought this was going to be another story about overclocking.
More seriously- there are plenty of materials which will withstand just above molten iron temperatures, but it gets a lot hotter than needed to melt iron further down. And let's not forget the pressure. Most of the high-temperature materials are ceramics, which are also less dense than molten lead. So unless you have a bunch of denser-than-lead inside the probe, all you have is an expensive float. Also, the shell material may survive high temperature, but it does not block it. Certainly after a day or two (probably much sooner) the heat would conduct through the shell and melt the stuff (instruments, controls, etc) inside. And I haven't even discussed the communications and power problems yet!
He wasn't expecting the Spammish Inquisition!
Great! Now all we'll need to make our own Beowolf cluster is a stack of paper and a xerox machine! Maybe the next big cluster we read about will be ASCI-Kinko's?
MM
Of course we wouldn't start with all the fancy doped semiconductor stuff we use now, but we wouldn't have to regress to vacuum tubes either. It would not be difficult to set up silkscreening equipment to get basic circuitry. That will give you everything you need to get started, including logic advanced enough to run equipment (forced growth machines, doping equipment, etc.) to get you close to where we are today after only a few generations. We'd be back to playing Pong in 6 months, and people would be trolling Slashdot II in a year or two, tops.
MM
ps. I submitted this a minute ago, and it somehow lost my username and went in as anon. Weird.