Just one minor inaccuracy: the cost for university depend on where you live, and can range from 0-500 Eur + fees per semester. (I pay around 600)
At the current exchange rate, that's about $835.
Unless the fees are more than tuition, that's roughly half what US community colleges (cheapest way to get into college in the US) charge for a semester.
Every car produced for sale in North America or Europe (at least) is required to have a manually-operated emergency brake, and a crash safety switch that shuts the engine down in the event of a crash
What?
I just bought a brand-new car in November. There is no manually-operated e-brake, only a parking brake, and it is electronic - in fact, if I attempt to drive with the brake engaged, it will automatically disengage.
I've never heard of this "crash safety switch" but I've also never been involved in a crash serious enough to trigger airbags.
Actually, most US Navy vessels are not nuclear-powered. The carriers & submarines are, but almost none of the remaining fleet are. They experimented with nuclear cruisers in the 60s but retired those ships & didn't venture back into that area.
In California, presence of training does not obligate helping. However, once one does begin to intercede, that person cannot stop helping until relieved by emergency personnel. (At least this is how two first aid trainers have explained it to me.)
You might want to check that out. We have a similar law in NY, but if you're doing CPR for an extended period of time, help hasn't arrived, and you're exhausted to the point where you can't keep doing it, you're protected if you have to stop.
I had a co-op student once, who obviously had no affinity for programming . . . or, more to the point, no affinity for computers in general.
I worked with a woman just a couple years ago who had no affinity for anything more complicated than a basic cell phone.
One day while explaining to her how a 5-line Windows batch file worked (simple loop, but the syntax is a little ugly), she informed me that if not for the need to have remote access to the office, she wouldn't even own a computer (this came up because she was mad that she'd bought a home computer, then less than 6 months later company policy switched and mandated that only company-issued laptops could VPN into the network, thus rendering her purchase "useless.").
She was completely useless when she came up in the on-call rotation; if the phone rang, she immediately dumped the issue off to me.
She had school-age kids (10 & 12, IIRC), and wouldn't even own a PC so that they could learn the skills needed to use the most basic of software - which is pretty much mandatory nowadays (word processors).
How someone with that mindset gets a "Senior Developer" job title boggles my mind. Shining example of "only in it for the money."
It's not so much that you can go for a very narrow power band, it's that you can keep the engine RPMs in exactly the right spot for the conditions. The first time I accelerated uphill with the engine RPMs remaining constant, it was really weird.
My other Subaru has a 4-speed automatic. There are times where it'll have to hold the revs in the ~4K range, and I'll have to feather the throttle to keep the car at a steady speed, or it'll try to keep the revs low and as a result I'll bog way down (it won't kick down right away). The engine and the transmission actually work against each other.
Under the same conditions, the CVT & engine work together and everything remains "just right."
CVTs (which are automatic) are more efficient than manual transmissions. I recently bought a 2010 Subaru Outback and the mileage numbers are a couple MPG better w/ the CVT than the 6-speed manual.
North American car owners prefer automatics because you can't eat a cheeseburger and talk on the phone while applying makeup & reading the newspaper if you're driving stick.
Except he won't be at 120,000 feet when he reaches 300 m/s, he's going to fall from that altitude.
The question is will his velocity at any point during the descent be greater than the speed of sound; given that the speed of sound will be increasing while his terminal velocity will be decreasing, what you need to find the the point at which the two curves cross.
I had the pressure recommendation wrong. Ford had recommended 26 PSI. That's well below "normal" pressure for most road vehicles, especially heavier ones like SUVs.
Ford, which sets the specifications for the manufacture of its tires, decided to remove air from the tires, lowering the recommended psi to 26.
So Ford specified possibly weak tires, and then went on to change their recommendations in such a way that it made them weaker without changing the tire specs.
It wasn't even that "exotic" of a problem. Ford recommended a low tire pressure for a softer ride - trying to make a truck not ride like a truck. Low tire pressure generates excess heat, which ultimately causes the tire failure. And because the other tires on the vehicle are also under-inflated, the changes in the vehicle's handling are magnified and everything goes to hell.
People who ran the tires at (for example) 35PSI instead of 30PSI didn't have problems.
$16M/year is nothing to the government, they've just been keeping it on life support for 10 years. Even if SA is turned back on, GPS will be accurate enough for commercial navigation and the system proven reliable enough. Let LORAN-C pass.
I don't know about you, but my internet is faster than 10 years ago, and for the same price.
But your neighbor, with the same provider, might not be getting any faster service.
A couple years ago, I realized that my download speed was a lot crappier than the 10Mbps that TW had been advertising (this was after some rollouts to boost speeds in the area from earlier levels). I ran some speed tests and learned I wasn't even getting 1Mbps at times. WTF?
Long story short, the modem I had wasn't capable of the new DOCSIS standard or otherwise wasn't able to handle the speeds TW was advertising. They never told me that my modem was obsolete, despite knowing what equipment I had. The first-level "tech" couldn't even figure it out, but after 45 minutes I convinced him to escalate it and after getting permission, I talked to someone more knowledgeable who, in about 15 seconds, knew that I had an old box and it had to be swapped out (free).
TW is counting on people with older hardware to remain in the dark, thus keeping their bandwidth usage low & profits high.
I've found that if you want to really cut utility costs you have to do a good bit of sacrificing. That means enduring the heat of the summer and not turning on air conditioning, running a dryer once a week, or better yet hanging your clothes out to dry
If you live someplace where hanging your clothes out to dry is reasonable (warm, sunny, little chance of rain), that's really not a "sacrifice" - it's a better way to dry your clothes! Less wear, less shrinkage, and less energy usage.
Maybe a little more work, but is it really so bad to get off the couch for 5 minutes?
Fatality rates are dropping annually. I'd say we're already making good progress on making crashes more survivable. Adding more "avoidance" systems only ignores the true problem - people are being encouraged to stop paying attention to driving.
They likely shut it off or turned it way down for the final stage of labor. That way she was able to feel a little of it, and it didn't slow things down.
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At the current exchange rate, that's about $835.
Unless the fees are more than tuition, that's roughly half what US community colleges (cheapest way to get into college in the US) charge for a semester.
What?
I just bought a brand-new car in November. There is no manually-operated e-brake, only a parking brake, and it is electronic - in fact, if I attempt to drive with the brake engaged, it will automatically disengage.
I've never heard of this "crash safety switch" but I've also never been involved in a crash serious enough to trigger airbags.
Actually, most US Navy vessels are not nuclear-powered. The carriers & submarines are, but almost none of the remaining fleet are. They experimented with nuclear cruisers in the 60s but retired those ships & didn't venture back into that area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_navy#Other_nuclear-powered_vessels
Mozilla has already stated that a BlackBerry port won't happen or if it does, it's at the bottom of the priority list. The BB OS isn't powerful enough to handle it, apparently. http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/11/09/mozilla-rules-out-firefox-for-iphone-and-blackberry/
Doesn't Apple still prohibit 3rd-party web browsers on iPhone because they would directly compete with software offered by Apple?
http://www.futurama-madhouse.com.ar/scripts/2acv06.shtml
You might want to check that out. We have a similar law in NY, but if you're doing CPR for an extended period of time, help hasn't arrived, and you're exhausted to the point where you can't keep doing it, you're protected if you have to stop.
Nobody drives in New York City. There's too much traffic.
If you aren't manually changing the gear ratio, it's automatic.
I worked with a woman just a couple years ago who had no affinity for anything more complicated than a basic cell phone.
One day while explaining to her how a 5-line Windows batch file worked (simple loop, but the syntax is a little ugly), she informed me that if not for the need to have remote access to the office, she wouldn't even own a computer (this came up because she was mad that she'd bought a home computer, then less than 6 months later company policy switched and mandated that only company-issued laptops could VPN into the network, thus rendering her purchase "useless.").
She was completely useless when she came up in the on-call rotation; if the phone rang, she immediately dumped the issue off to me.
She had school-age kids (10 & 12, IIRC), and wouldn't even own a PC so that they could learn the skills needed to use the most basic of software - which is pretty much mandatory nowadays (word processors).
How someone with that mindset gets a "Senior Developer" job title boggles my mind. Shining example of "only in it for the money."
It's not so much that you can go for a very narrow power band, it's that you can keep the engine RPMs in exactly the right spot for the conditions. The first time I accelerated uphill with the engine RPMs remaining constant, it was really weird.
My other Subaru has a 4-speed automatic. There are times where it'll have to hold the revs in the ~4K range, and I'll have to feather the throttle to keep the car at a steady speed, or it'll try to keep the revs low and as a result I'll bog way down (it won't kick down right away). The engine and the transmission actually work against each other.
Under the same conditions, the CVT & engine work together and everything remains "just right."
CVTs (which are automatic) are more efficient than manual transmissions. I recently bought a 2010 Subaru Outback and the mileage numbers are a couple MPG better w/ the CVT than the 6-speed manual.
North American car owners prefer automatics because you can't eat a cheeseburger and talk on the phone while applying makeup & reading the newspaper if you're driving stick.
Except he won't be at 120,000 feet when he reaches 300 m/s, he's going to fall from that altitude.
The question is will his velocity at any point during the descent be greater than the speed of sound; given that the speed of sound will be increasing while his terminal velocity will be decreasing, what you need to find the the point at which the two curves cross.
Sure you're not thinking of the WMF exploit? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability
I had the pressure recommendation wrong. Ford had recommended 26 PSI. That's well below "normal" pressure for most road vehicles, especially heavier ones like SUVs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firestone_and_Ford_tire_controversy
So Ford specified possibly weak tires, and then went on to change their recommendations in such a way that it made them weaker without changing the tire specs.
It wasn't even that "exotic" of a problem. Ford recommended a low tire pressure for a softer ride - trying to make a truck not ride like a truck. Low tire pressure generates excess heat, which ultimately causes the tire failure. And because the other tires on the vehicle are also under-inflated, the changes in the vehicle's handling are magnified and everything goes to hell.
People who ran the tires at (for example) 35PSI instead of 30PSI didn't have problems.
thousands of businesses are using plain FTP and email to throw unencrypted files around to & from other companies daily.
$16M/year is nothing to the government, they've just been keeping it on life support for 10 years. Even if SA is turned back on, GPS will be accurate enough for commercial navigation and the system proven reliable enough. Let LORAN-C pass.
But your neighbor, with the same provider, might not be getting any faster service.
A couple years ago, I realized that my download speed was a lot crappier than the 10Mbps that TW had been advertising (this was after some rollouts to boost speeds in the area from earlier levels). I ran some speed tests and learned I wasn't even getting 1Mbps at times. WTF?
Long story short, the modem I had wasn't capable of the new DOCSIS standard or otherwise wasn't able to handle the speeds TW was advertising. They never told me that my modem was obsolete, despite knowing what equipment I had. The first-level "tech" couldn't even figure it out, but after 45 minutes I convinced him to escalate it and after getting permission, I talked to someone more knowledgeable who, in about 15 seconds, knew that I had an old box and it had to be swapped out (free).
TW is counting on people with older hardware to remain in the dark, thus keeping their bandwidth usage low & profits high.
If you live someplace where hanging your clothes out to dry is reasonable (warm, sunny, little chance of rain), that's really not a "sacrifice" - it's a better way to dry your clothes! Less wear, less shrinkage, and less energy usage.
Maybe a little more work, but is it really so bad to get off the couch for 5 minutes?
Because they were too busy trying to fix too many problems with too few staffers on hand.
Fatality rates are dropping annually. I'd say we're already making good progress on making crashes more survivable. Adding more "avoidance" systems only ignores the true problem - people are being encouraged to stop paying attention to driving.
Fix the drivers, not the technology.
Add Nextel into any Sprint numbers. 49,500 hits for "i hate nextel"
They likely shut it off or turned it way down for the final stage of labor. That way she was able to feel a little of it, and it didn't slow things down.
You won't always be the new boy, but if you let yourself be used as a doormat, you'll be taking the crap for a very, very long time.