IIRC, learning to play an instrument did start by memorizing all the different note positions. And I've learned a few (almost majored in music in college). The one instrument I learned on my own for fun, I can play adequately well but can't read music like my other instruments.
The patent wold have expired long before the concept of the wheel had migrated a few hundred km. Also, ever notice how the wheel was absent in the America's?
It's not the pay that sucks, but the environment. I went to a school and about 1/3rd of the teachers were retired professionals. It was also a private school and the pay was less than a public school - if they got paid at all, a few were there voluntarily. The facilities were old and outdated also. It was nothing like the public schools that I'd come from.
I went to a private school where very little outside of reading, writing and mathematics was taught. We had science, history, foreign language also, but they took a distant back seat to critical thinking skills. The point was that if you had these basic skills and knew them extremely well, then you should be able to teach yourself just about anything.
I have a physics degree and while I don't remember most of it, I have a good intuition about it and am able to derive most things from first principles. And as far as programming goes, the only way to learn it is to do it and not in a class setting unless is part of some larger goal. I dropped out of my one and only programming class (c++) after a few weeks, completely lost of what the point was (an apple is an instance of a fruit as is an orange. they both have seeds. yeah, so what), but I picked it up in a week when I had to learn it for a real job and became tech lead in three months.
Nowhere near being solved and nowhere being researched as much as how to do X in space. If we'd have concentrated all space research into getting there cheaply instead of researching how gerbils mate in weightless environment, we'd have rovers on all the bodies in the solar system by now.
It's difficult to justify the cost, both monetarily and learning curve, rather than farming the work out to a machine shop. I worked at a startup that manufactured very expensive widgets and we used a machine shop to fabricate our parts only assembling them in house. They are right down the road, so we used them for many prototypes also.
You really have to do economics when doing engineering. If he shop is making 10% profit on something that is 5% of your business, how many parts do you have to sell to justify doing it yourself?
War is not about killing people, it's about making the other side yield to your wishes. In fact it's better to injure the other guy because he then must expend resources to rescue and recuperate a wounded. All war is economic.
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Mean student debt is ~$30k/student. When normalized against the wage premium of a college degree, student debt is now lower than in the 70's.
IIRC, learning to play an instrument did start by memorizing all the different note positions. And I've learned a few (almost majored in music in college). The one instrument I learned on my own for fun, I can play adequately well but can't read music like my other instruments.
Do you not memorize words and their meanings to construct a sentence to express an idea?
The patent wold have expired long before the concept of the wheel had migrated a few hundred km. Also, ever notice how the wheel was absent in the America's?
It's not the pay that sucks, but the environment. I went to a school and about 1/3rd of the teachers were retired professionals. It was also a private school and the pay was less than a public school - if they got paid at all, a few were there voluntarily. The facilities were old and outdated also. It was nothing like the public schools that I'd come from.
I have a physics degree and while I don't remember most of it, I have a good intuition about it and am able to derive most things from first principles. And as far as programming goes, the only way to learn it is to do it and not in a class setting unless is part of some larger goal. I dropped out of my one and only programming class (c++) after a few weeks, completely lost of what the point was (an apple is an instance of a fruit as is an orange. they both have seeds. yeah, so what), but I picked it up in a week when I had to learn it for a real job and became tech lead in three months.
All of those numbers seem extremely high. I routinely use about 300kwh/month.
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Wouldn't it be more of an assembly site?
You keep using that word. I do not believe that it means what you think it means.
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Same thing. Propping up a high tech industry and manufacturing/skills base that would disappear otherwise.
I'd think it would be difficult to keep an unsecured 30 story cylinder upright on a ship at sea. It's difficult enough to land a helicopter.
Nowhere near being solved and nowhere being researched as much as how to do X in space. If we'd have concentrated all space research into getting there cheaply instead of researching how gerbils mate in weightless environment, we'd have rovers on all the bodies in the solar system by now.
You've just described a very niche market.
It's difficult to justify the cost, both monetarily and learning curve, rather than farming the work out to a machine shop. I worked at a startup that manufactured very expensive widgets and we used a machine shop to fabricate our parts only assembling them in house. They are right down the road, so we used them for many prototypes also. You really have to do economics when doing engineering. If he shop is making 10% profit on something that is 5% of your business, how many parts do you have to sell to justify doing it yourself?
I would have expected stocks to fall more than 75%.
War is not about killing people, it's about making the other side yield to your wishes. In fact it's better to injure the other guy because he then must expend resources to rescue and recuperate a wounded. All war is economic.
It's not universally boys.
that mooo guy is makig more sense on /. all the time
Like this? That's some semi serious hacking/electronics.
Don't pretend this doesn't happen to white kids.
http://boingboing.net/2008/09/22/star-simpson-one-yea.html
Or white