Just to the north of the city, the local authorities have a speed limit sign which is 25mph, which is lower than the speed limits in most other parts of the state. The officers there have been instructed to pull people over several blocks into the speed zone, and to only do so for people that are doing at least 11 over the limit.
but the guy in the example isn't guessing on the entire test. his true score (questions he solidly knows) is around 55% with this example if he gets another third of his guesses right he pulls off a 70%. if he gets half he gets a 78, if his luck is bad he gets a 60. the problem comes from the fact that the test does not account for his guess work, and on my hypothetical three tests I end up with a close to twenty point spread for someone who only "knows" a little more than half the answers.
but there are many great used cars out there. three years ago I bought a 96 Subaru impreza for 6000 that only had 60k miles on it. so far I had to fix a small oil leak and put new tires on it, total cost around $600.
These cars are out there, and they aren't that hard to find, and while mine gets somewhat shitty gas mileage, it would take a long time to make up the difference.
Whether they say 53,103,102 or 53,000,000, it's still to the person. Just because one number is a little more "neat" than the other, there's no way to know which one is more accurate. The actual number could be higher than the first number, meaning rounding down would just make it even less accurate. It makes more sense to me to give a result that's in the middle of the error range than rounding.
In uncertainty analysis there is something known as implied uncertainty it is the uncertainty of a number given by the instrument that measured the number. 53,103,102 just as a number has an implied uncertainty of +-.5 which for people is clearly bunk, so for something that partials don't exist the number appears exact. 53,000,000 has implied uncertainty of +-500,000 this show considerable range of possible numbers. The first number is implied by the second, but the second reflects a much less accurate measurement.
It makes me cringe when I see numbers like 53,103,102 +- 623,103, that number is clearly crap. They admitted that there is a large uncertainty, but the excessive significant figures implies a high degree of confidence in the numbers. If you understand the normal distribution you would know that it is safe to call that same number 53,100,000 +-620,000 because the true number has a high probability of being within that range
California has had both managed care and tort reform for decades now, and there hasn't been a significant drop in the number of doctors working here,
You say that but, here in SLO-town I had an experience that that shows the opposite. My wife and I needed an OB-GYN and there was only one doc in town that was taking new patients. The other docs just said no, we don't have the time. We had a similar experience when we went looking for a dermatologist, most of them had two month waits just to see a doc. This isn't for one covered by a plan this is for cash on the barrel head. There may not be fewer docs in California but there are not any new docs showing up to match the increase in population.
One technique for this is the extended warranty racket. For the perception of improved service, and to make up for frequent shoddy workmanship, the product is available with several different layers of warranty available. The person who can marginally afford the product gets just the product but no added service or peace of mind, the person who will pay more for the product, gets the service he should expect with a quality piece of merchandise. All with just one line of product.
As with most laws, there was an old law that did the job and would have continued doing the job just fine if it had just been enforced. The fun part is that the new law will likely be enforced with all the vigor of the old law and the problem will continue unsolved.
why does it need to be hydraulic? there are a ton of linear servos available of varying speed and size, if my experience with hydraulics has taught me anything it is to love nice clean electric motors. if you feel that the casing is too big (can't see hydraulics being much smaller) stagger them so that the shafts slip by each other. an electronic pin board is possible it is just that it would be too complex and expensive so it hasn't been done yet.
I suggest leaving the cameras up, but make them netcams with no passwords so that anybody can see what is happening, not just the government. And get rid of the speakers.
To heck with that, I like the net cam idea, but I want to keep the speakers there. Random harassing statements to people half a world away sounds like a fun way to burn a few hours.
Hydrogen is even worse. the molecules are so small that at high pressure they can penetrate the crystal lattice of metals causing brittle failure. I would love to see how you could build a low cost fuel delivery system that avoids that problem.
his physics are fine. Yours are also good but your engineering is lacking. isothermic compression only happens if you insulate the storage medium. at 200+_ atm the temperatures are quite high with isothermic compression. insulating the tank and operating in this temperature region is going to cause all sorts of neat problems, like breaking down the composite matrix that he is building the tanks from.
As a practical matter the compressed air will be near room temperature by the time it is used (if not colder due to pressure bleed off).
I am curious whether the energy density of this is greater than or less than a bank of batteries, but it is an interesting solution to pollution shifted (not free) vehicles.
cinco de mayo is pretty much a California holiday. It is not widely celebrated in Mexico see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_mayo mostly it is an excuse for Americans to drink bad Mexican beer (there is good Mexican beer). It has turned into another St. Patricks day
you can increase efficiency notably by replacing the throttling valve with a small turbine. It doesn't even matter if the turbine power is used for anything. Just changing from a constant enthalpy process to a constant entropy process will improve efficiency.
It won't happen because you can make a throttling valve out of crimped piece of pipe, while turbines are still expensive little devices, and the energy savings are not large enough to justify the extra upfront cost. YET
I know you are joking, but try to use a dead blow hammer sometime. its kind of creepy to have the hammer just sort of die on impact. It wouldn't surprise me if they were using dead blows for this job to minimize the bounceback.
I have found that I just can't realy play zelda standing up. I have to sit there being a tool box, even though the fishing can be a little hard to coordinate.
Two years ago I bought my wifes new computer from dell business, my gradparents at roughly the same time bought a similar model from dell personal. I bought from the business side because it was about 10% cheaper for the same spec, but the computer was a little uglier. My wifes box came set up for for use with no craplets, no AOL, no MSN, nothing, it was great. It still works great and I haven't had to mess with it. My grandparents box came basicaly pre-pwned with steaming piles of coporate shit all over the screen, it had four differnt isp's software on it and a long list of bizaro apps that didn't work.
I know that there is no way that I would ever buy from the personal side of Dell again.
Why the party that campaigns on lowering taxes and refusing to ratify Kyoto hates the world's children has yet to be determined
The party that hates the world's children... oh you mean last group of people in the Western world who are against dismembering children in the womb?
You can't kill them before they are born or they wouldn't be able to pay for for all of the tax cuts or pay though the long term fallout from other disasterous thining from the RW.
We can theorise scientifically that it isn't sentient, since it has not yet developed a brain, and in the absence of evidence showing you can think without a brain we accept this as being as close to true as science get.
Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw. Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain? Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they? Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right
I hit a patch of loose sand (at 50, 5 under the posted limit), on a rural highway in a turn that was banked the wrong way. I reacted by pressing the brake and then turning into an oversteer. Unfortunatly I was driving my first(and last) frontwheel drive car, and was in an understeer situation. No antilock brakes, no steering, but if it wasn't for that powerpole I would have gone off of a cliff. The car was a total loss but I was basicaly unhurt (bloody nose and mild burn on my arm). who is to say if antilock brakes would have saved my car, but now I know how nasty a patch of sand can be
In the hills behind Santa Barbara and Ventura, are miles and miles of avacado orchards. in these orchards are the avacado dogs. These dogs live off almost entirly off avacados, they tend to have gorgeous shiny coats, and are so fat that they are basicaly tube shaped.
FROM THE CALIFORNIA AVOCADO COMMISSION: In spite of the very occasional and almost always indirect reports of avocado toxicity to dogs and cats there is a huge body of evidence to the contrary.
As you point out there are several pet food formulations containing avocado on the market and these are being fed to hundreds of thousands of dogs every day world-wide with no reported problems. Also, in California there are around 7,000 family farmers who grow avocados and almost every one has dogs that actively seek out fruit that has fallen from the trees to snack on. The happy, well-filled out and shiny-coated orchard dog is a familiar sight to anyone in this industry and we have NEVER had a report of a family orchard dog getting sick from eating avocados and they eat LOTS AND LOTS of them. Also, the US Forest Service and UC Santa Barbara are about to publish a paper on the importance of avocado orchards in California to sustaining carnivore populations (bears, coyotes, mountain lions, foxes and small cats) during drought conditions. All of these animals are known to eat the protein and nutrient rich fruit that has fallen from trees. Some bears have learned to pick the fruit, lay it on the orchard floor and come back to eat the fruit when it ripens!"
So, there you have it. lots of so called carnivors are fairly happy living off fruits and vegitables
I believe it. I work at sears. We have recieved exactly 1 ps3. we we got the 20gig on monday, it was still there sitting in the glass case when I went home on wedsnday. I wouldn't be shocked if it is still there.
You played safely with klackers? the origanal ones with the string before they put on the stiff plastic that let anybody use them? I remeber those things even when you used them correctly they would nail you in the wrist with enough force to leave a nasty bruse, and when the string broke there is a good chance somethinge else would too
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This is why California has speed trap laws http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/trans/trafficoperati
but the guy in the example isn't guessing on the entire test. his true score (questions he solidly knows) is around 55% with this example if he gets another third of his guesses right he pulls off a 70%. if he gets half he gets a 78, if his luck is bad he gets a 60. the problem comes from the fact that the test does not account for his guess work, and on my hypothetical three tests I end up with a close to twenty point spread for someone who only "knows" a little more than half the answers.
but there are many great used cars out there. three years ago I bought a 96 Subaru impreza for 6000 that only had 60k miles on it. so far I had to fix a small oil leak and put new tires on it, total cost around $600.
These cars are out there, and they aren't that hard to find, and while mine gets somewhat shitty gas mileage, it would take a long time to make up the difference.
In uncertainty analysis there is something known as implied uncertainty it is the uncertainty of a number given by the instrument that measured the number. 53,103,102 just as a number has an implied uncertainty of +-.5 which for people is clearly bunk, so for something that partials don't exist the number appears exact. 53,000,000 has implied uncertainty of +-500,000 this show considerable range of possible numbers. The first number is implied by the second, but the second reflects a much less accurate measurement.
It makes me cringe when I see numbers like 53,103,102 +- 623,103, that number is clearly crap. They admitted that there is a large uncertainty, but the excessive significant figures implies a high degree of confidence in the numbers. If you understand the normal distribution you would know that it is safe to call that same number 53,100,000 +-620,000 because the true number has a high probability of being within that range
You say that but, here in SLO-town I had an experience that that shows the opposite. My wife and I needed an OB-GYN and there was only one doc in town that was taking new patients. The other docs just said no, we don't have the time. We had a similar experience when we went looking for a dermatologist, most of them had two month waits just to see a doc. This isn't for one covered by a plan this is for cash on the barrel head. There may not be fewer docs in California but there are not any new docs showing up to match the increase in population.
One technique for this is the extended warranty racket. For the perception of improved service, and to make up for frequent shoddy workmanship, the product is available with several different layers of warranty available. The person who can marginally afford the product gets just the product but no added service or peace of mind, the person who will pay more for the product, gets the service he should expect with a quality piece of merchandise. All with just one line of product.
The laws don't do anything, Law enforcement does.
As with most laws, there was an old law that did the job and would have continued doing the job just fine if it had just been enforced. The fun part is that the new law will likely be enforced with all the vigor of the old law and the problem will continue unsolved.
why does it need to be hydraulic? there are a ton of linear servos available of varying speed and size, if my experience with hydraulics has taught me anything it is to love nice clean electric motors.
if you feel that the casing is too big (can't see hydraulics being much smaller) stagger them so that the shafts slip by each other. an electronic pin board is possible it is just that it would be too complex and expensive so it hasn't been done yet.
To heck with that, I like the net cam idea, but I want to keep the speakers there. Random harassing statements to people half a world away sounds like a fun way to burn a few hours.
Hydrogen is even worse. the molecules are so small that at high pressure they can penetrate the crystal lattice of metals causing brittle failure. I would love to see how you could build a low cost fuel delivery system that avoids that problem.
his physics are fine.
Yours are also good but your engineering is lacking.
isothermic compression only happens if you insulate the storage medium. at 200+_ atm the temperatures are quite high with isothermic compression. insulating the tank and operating in this temperature region is going to cause all sorts of neat problems, like breaking down the composite matrix that he is building the tanks from.
As a practical matter the compressed air will be near room temperature by the time it is used (if not colder due to pressure bleed off).
I am curious whether the energy density of this is greater than or less than a bank of batteries, but it is an interesting solution to pollution shifted (not free) vehicles.
cinco de mayo is pretty much a California holiday. It is not widely celebrated in Mexico see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_mayo
mostly it is an excuse for Americans to drink bad Mexican beer (there is good Mexican beer).
It has turned into another St. Patricks day
you can increase efficiency notably by replacing the throttling valve with a small turbine. It doesn't even matter if the turbine power is used for anything. Just changing from a constant enthalpy process to a constant entropy process will improve efficiency.
It won't happen because you can make a throttling valve out of crimped piece of pipe, while turbines are still expensive little devices, and the energy savings are not large enough to justify the extra upfront cost.
YET
I know you are joking, but try to use a dead blow hammer sometime. its kind of creepy to have the hammer just sort of die on impact. It wouldn't surprise me if they were using dead blows for this job to minimize the bounceback.
I have found that I just can't realy play zelda standing up. I have to sit there being a tool box, even though the fishing can be a little hard to coordinate.
pool of radiance was rereleased for the gameboy advanced as just dungeons and dragons. it was a good way to kill an airplane ride or two
Two years ago I bought my wifes new computer from dell business, my gradparents at roughly the same time bought a similar model from dell personal. I bought from the business side because it was about 10% cheaper for the same spec, but the computer was a little uglier. My wifes box came set up for for use with no craplets, no AOL, no MSN, nothing, it was great. It still works great and I haven't had to mess with it. My grandparents box came basicaly pre-pwned with steaming piles of coporate shit all over the screen, it had four differnt isp's software on it and a long list of bizaro apps that didn't work.
I know that there is no way that I would ever buy from the personal side of Dell again.
You can't kill them before they are born or they wouldn't be able to pay for for all of the tax cuts or pay though the long term fallout from other disasterous thining from the RW.
Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain... only straw.
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right
First thing that came to mind
I hit a patch of loose sand (at 50, 5 under the posted limit), on a rural highway in a turn that was banked the wrong way. I reacted by pressing the brake and then turning into an oversteer. Unfortunatly I was driving my first(and last) frontwheel drive car, and was in an understeer situation. No antilock brakes, no steering, but if it wasn't for that powerpole I would have gone off of a cliff. The car was a total loss but I was basicaly unhurt (bloody nose and mild burn on my arm). who is to say if antilock brakes would have saved my car, but now I know how nasty a patch of sand can be
in these orchards are the avacado dogs. These dogs live off almost entirly off avacados, they tend to have gorgeous shiny coats, and are so fat that they are basicaly tube shaped.
So, there you have it. lots of so called carnivors are fairly happy living off fruits and vegitables
oh yeah and it was still there on friday at 5:30
I believe it. I work at sears. We have recieved exactly 1 ps3. we we got the 20gig on monday, it was still there sitting in the glass case when I went home on wedsnday. I wouldn't be shocked if it is still there.
You played safely with klackers? the origanal ones with the string before they put on the stiff plastic that let anybody use them?
I remeber those things even when you used them correctly they would nail you in the wrist with enough force to leave a nasty bruse, and when the string broke there is a good chance somethinge else would too
Evolving to handle high levels of radiation doesn't seem to be a problem for number of of species of bacteria.h ile&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls =org.mozilla:en-US:official
http://www.google.com/search?q=radiation+extremop