The Des Moines Register publishes a web extra detailing the compensation for all state employees. (Right now it covers the 2005 fiscal year.) It is searchable by department, or by county, and you can even list them in order of salary from highest to lowest. For reference - the four highest paid state employees are coaches for the University of Iowa and Iowa State University.
I thought that originally the kilogram was defined in terms of water, the mass of 10 square cm of water.
We can't use water as a reference since the molecules in the water are constantly splitting into ions and reforming as molecules. So it is essentially impossible to get 1000 cm^3 of "pure" water. It will be some mixture of H2O, H+ and O-- ions. Also, it would be incredibly hard to prevent other molecules from being disolved in the water. A few stray molecules hitting the surface will ruin your reference mass. Not to mention you need a container to keep it in...
The meter is defined in terms of the speed of light so that gives an empirical way to define the kg independent of anything else.
As mentioned above, we could measure a 1000 cm^3 volume, but we couldn't guarantee the purity of the water in that volume.
That's one reason we are trying to make a perfect sphere to replace the reference kilogram. Then we will have a definition of the kilogram in terms of number of silicon atoms.
Disclaimer: I don't have the book with me, so I am going from memory.
I believe the evaporation occured in the first layer of the suit, allowing for the cooling effect. The cooling is from the phase change from liquid to gas and not from losing "warm moist air". (That's why sweating can cool you even in environments above body temperature.) The vapor was then captured in the second layer of the suit for processing and collection.
I have seen odd things happen with radio waves, like have a very good signal in one spot, and almost no signal just a few feet away.
Actually, this isn't odd behavior. It's called multi-path interference which results from the signal bouncing off the walls, windows and other things, (even people). Since some of the signal has travelled a different distance to reach you, it begins interfering with, and even cancelling out your signal completely if the differing distance is ~1/2 of the wavelength. If you look at good wireless APs, their antennas are spaced so that a signal that is "cancelled out" at one of the antennas will not be cancelled out at the other.
I would have liked to see the results of 'dead' chips versus 'live' chips.
All RFID chips are "dead" except when being read. So, unless the pet lived at a vet's office and curled up under the RFID reader everyday, it wouldn't get and radio frequency radiation from the chip. Which is probably the kind of situation they put the lab animals through.
In addition, you can request a copy be placed in the records/archives at the courthouse.
When I was discharged from the Marine Corps, I took my DD-214 paperwork to my county courthouse, requested a couple of certified copies and that a copy be held in the archive. It cost a few dollars, (about $15 if I remember right), but a few days later I got my original copy, my certified copies, and a notice that a copy had been archived. I'm not sure if they will do it for non-government paperwork, but it wouldn't hurt to ask.
My physics exams at Iowa State were 50% multiple choice, mostly due to the large class size. However, the questions were brutal. The answers were constructed in such a way that, if you missed a step, reversed two of the values, or divided instead of multiplying, the resulting answer was listed. They also liked giving answers like: a) 3.02x10^4 b) 3.02x10^5 c) 3.02x10^6 d) none of the above. I really enjoyed the exams, and it was fun to listen to students afterwards trying to figure out the correct answers.
Make sure you put the correct spin on the graphs. You would hate to be called on your low number of support requests completed just because you managed to keep 100% uptime on everything. Also, try and keep it all relative - for example 94% of all support requests were completed within 1 hour. It doesn't matter if you got 16 or 160 requests, it still looks like a good number. Maybe have a "fall back" category such as %age of support requests taking more than 6 hours to resolve - works great even if you don't have any requests. Of course, if you have a lot of requests like that either use a longer time period, drop the category, or create a new category like "long-term roadmap support request" so you don't include the number in your regular data.
Also, you need to make sure that your management lives in the real world. For example, if you do a great job, and everything is running smoothly, they might assume you don't need all of the people in your department. When I was in development, teams would be let go based on how low their bug list was. If it was low, they didn't have as much work to do, so they got the boot instead of the people who had done a bad job of developing their module or feature.
Could you please provide a link to the supreme court ruling? I knew one of the cases was dismissed because there wasn't enough, (any), proof that those bringing the suit were targets of the surveillance. However, as far as I know there are still several cases pending, and SCOTUS hadn't ruled on the legality of the program. If this has been done, I would like to know about it.
Is it not possible for women to lift weights and build muscle?
Yes, it is possible for a woman to build muscle. However, women do not have the same levels of testosterone as men. Testosterone promotes muscle hypertrophy, (the increase in the size and number of myofibrils inside muscle fibers), so, in general, they cannot build as much muscle as a man. In addition, if both perform the same workout, the man will build more muscle from it even though they are both performing the same amount of work.
Actually, that isn't a good comparison either. Over 90% of the Canadian population lives within 150 km of the U.S.-Canada border. This means there are vast areas of Canada that don't have a person living there, let alone Internet access. In the U.S. there are towns scattered throughout the entire lower 48 states which would need to be provided with access.
Even on a recoil operated weapon the round makes a huge difference. One way to think of it is that the recoil is trying to "push" off of the air in the barrel, (which doesn't work very well), instead of "pushing" off the round. Sure the round moves, but there is still a lot of inertia to overcome, giving enough time for the force of the recoil to build and operate the action.
If you want a movie reference, I'll steal one from Armageddon - A firecracker in your open hand just burns it a bit. (No bullet) If you close your hand, your wife is opening your ketchup bottles for the rest of your life (Bullet present). Another reference, from one of my infantry handbooks, is that placing an explosive against something underwater doubles the explosive force of the charge. Replace water with a bullet blocking the barrel and you get the same sort of effect.
Actually, Ventura wanted to spend more on education. He refused to fund a new roof for the dome stating that he had schools that had older roofs that should be taken care of first. What really screwed him over was the fact that Republicans and Democrats united against him so they could keep their system in place until they got one of their own elected again.
Actually, it isn't the fact that blanks don't kick as hard as real rounds, (although that is generally true), it's the lack of a bullet blocking the barrel that prevents the pressure required to cycle the weapon. An open barrel means all of the gas can easily escape, and not provide enough pressure to cycle the weapon. That's why you have a variety of "blank firing adaptors" that are a case to hold onto the end of the barrel and a screw that blocks the barrel itself.
I remember reading about an underground home builder that had an interesting solution to the water problem - they used a layer of felt between the concrete and moisture barrier. If a hole formed in the moisture barrier, the felt expanded to a ridiculous extent, effectively sealing the hole. I think the company was formworks, but their website only mentions a superior water-proofing method but no actual description. Still, they claim 20 years without any of their homes having leaks, so it might just work.
Not to be a troll, but can you explain why so many people have elective, (especially cosmetic), surgery? It is real surgery, with all of the risks, but they are just getting a better nose, fewer wrinkles or a bit less fat around the middle. By your logic shouldn't the risks keep them from having it?
I think that the rice represents the location of various weather systems. (The rice represents clouds???) I think the tub is the Earth, and the temperature of the water represents the surface temperature of the Earth (or maybe just the oceans). A meteorologist cares about the location of the rice (fronts) but a climatologist doesn't care, since they don't care about the location of specific fronts 5, 10 or 100 years from now. However, they do care about the average surface temperature of the Earth, so, in this analogy, would be able to estimate the temperature of the water in the tub.
I agree that it is an... interesting analogy though.
You can rotate through several exercises if you are hitting multiple muscles in a workout but many bodybuilders prefer to do only 1 or 2 related body-parts in a single day and then rest that body part for the rest of the week. If you are doing biceps and back in a single workout, then switching from curls to lat pulls doesn't help since the biceps are still involved. This keeps the biceps from recovering from the previous set, and reduces performance on the lat pulls since they are already fatigued. Thus, they stand around for a minute or two to recover before continuing with the same exercise.
Now, we can argue about which approach is the best, but it is like the vi vs. emacs fight - it would go on forever. The important part is for someone to figure out what works best for them given their fitness goals.
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Except the money goes towards stadium upgrades and other sports related items.
The Des Moines Register publishes a web extra detailing the compensation for all state employees. (Right now it covers the 2005 fiscal year.) It is searchable by department, or by county, and you can even list them in order of salary from highest to lowest. For reference - the four highest paid state employees are coaches for the University of Iowa and Iowa State University.
I thought that originally the kilogram was defined in terms of water, the mass of 10 square cm of water.
We can't use water as a reference since the molecules in the water are constantly splitting into ions and reforming as molecules. So it is essentially impossible to get 1000 cm^3 of "pure" water. It will be some mixture of H2O, H+ and O-- ions. Also, it would be incredibly hard to prevent other molecules from being disolved in the water. A few stray molecules hitting the surface will ruin your reference mass. Not to mention you need a container to keep it in...
The meter is defined in terms of the speed of light so that gives an empirical way to define the kg independent of anything else.
As mentioned above, we could measure a 1000 cm^3 volume, but we couldn't guarantee the purity of the water in that volume.
That's one reason we are trying to make a perfect sphere to replace the reference kilogram. Then we will have a definition of the kilogram in terms of number of silicon atoms.
Disclaimer: I don't have the book with me, so I am going from memory.
I believe the evaporation occured in the first layer of the suit, allowing for the cooling effect. The cooling is from the phase change from liquid to gas and not from losing "warm moist air". (That's why sweating can cool you even in environments above body temperature.) The vapor was then captured in the second layer of the suit for processing and collection.
Since when does a great leader have to be a statesman?
I have seen odd things happen with radio waves, like have a very good signal in one spot, and almost no signal just a few feet away.
Actually, this isn't odd behavior. It's called multi-path interference which results from the signal bouncing off the walls, windows and other things, (even people). Since some of the signal has travelled a different distance to reach you, it begins interfering with, and even cancelling out your signal completely if the differing distance is ~1/2 of the wavelength. If you look at good wireless APs, their antennas are spaced so that a signal that is "cancelled out" at one of the antennas will not be cancelled out at the other.
Most pets don't have the skill to remove or swap-out their own RFID implants.
I would have liked to see the results of 'dead' chips versus 'live' chips.
All RFID chips are "dead" except when being read. So, unless the pet lived at a vet's office and curled up under the RFID reader everyday, it wouldn't get and radio frequency radiation from the chip. Which is probably the kind of situation they put the lab animals through.
Shouldn't that be 15 Linux could save you fifteen percent or more on your operational cost.
Hacking and altering a system, even if it is for the "greater good", (or their own good for that matter), is still illegal.
Actually, the Underpants Gnomes are real. I saw them on TV. I forget what show it was, but it must have been true since it was on TV.
However, they had already searched the bag and found nothing stolen before they took him to jail.
In addition, you can request a copy be placed in the records/archives at the courthouse.
When I was discharged from the Marine Corps, I took my DD-214 paperwork to my county courthouse, requested a couple of certified copies and that a copy be held in the archive. It cost a few dollars, (about $15 if I remember right), but a few days later I got my original copy, my certified copies, and a notice that a copy had been archived. I'm not sure if they will do it for non-government paperwork, but it wouldn't hurt to ask.
My physics exams at Iowa State were 50% multiple choice, mostly due to the large class size. However, the questions were brutal. The answers were constructed in such a way that, if you missed a step, reversed two of the values, or divided instead of multiplying, the resulting answer was listed. They also liked giving answers like: a) 3.02x10^4 b) 3.02x10^5 c) 3.02x10^6 d) none of the above. I really enjoyed the exams, and it was fun to listen to students afterwards trying to figure out the correct answers.
Make sure you put the correct spin on the graphs. You would hate to be called on your low number of support requests completed just because you managed to keep 100% uptime on everything. Also, try and keep it all relative - for example 94% of all support requests were completed within 1 hour. It doesn't matter if you got 16 or 160 requests, it still looks like a good number. Maybe have a "fall back" category such as %age of support requests taking more than 6 hours to resolve - works great even if you don't have any requests. Of course, if you have a lot of requests like that either use a longer time period, drop the category, or create a new category like "long-term roadmap support request" so you don't include the number in your regular data.
Also, you need to make sure that your management lives in the real world. For example, if you do a great job, and everything is running smoothly, they might assume you don't need all of the people in your department. When I was in development, teams would be let go based on how low their bug list was. If it was low, they didn't have as much work to do, so they got the boot instead of the people who had done a bad job of developing their module or feature.
Could you please provide a link to the supreme court ruling? I knew one of the cases was dismissed because there wasn't enough, (any), proof that those bringing the suit were targets of the surveillance. However, as far as I know there are still several cases pending, and SCOTUS hadn't ruled on the legality of the program. If this has been done, I would like to know about it.
Is it not possible for women to lift weights and build muscle?
Yes, it is possible for a woman to build muscle. However, women do not have the same levels of testosterone as men. Testosterone promotes muscle hypertrophy, (the increase in the size and number of myofibrils inside muscle fibers), so, in general, they cannot build as much muscle as a man. In addition, if both perform the same workout, the man will build more muscle from it even though they are both performing the same amount of work.
Actually, that isn't a good comparison either. Over 90% of the Canadian population lives within 150 km of the U.S.-Canada border. This means there are vast areas of Canada that don't have a person living there, let alone Internet access. In the U.S. there are towns scattered throughout the entire lower 48 states which would need to be provided with access.
Even on a recoil operated weapon the round makes a huge difference. One way to think of it is that the recoil is trying to "push" off of the air in the barrel, (which doesn't work very well), instead of "pushing" off the round. Sure the round moves, but there is still a lot of inertia to overcome, giving enough time for the force of the recoil to build and operate the action.
If you want a movie reference, I'll steal one from Armageddon - A firecracker in your open hand just burns it a bit. (No bullet) If you close your hand, your wife is opening your ketchup bottles for the rest of your life (Bullet present). Another reference, from one of my infantry handbooks, is that placing an explosive against something underwater doubles the explosive force of the charge. Replace water with a bullet blocking the barrel and you get the same sort of effect.
Actually, Ventura wanted to spend more on education. He refused to fund a new roof for the dome stating that he had schools that had older roofs that should be taken care of first. What really screwed him over was the fact that Republicans and Democrats united against him so they could keep their system in place until they got one of their own elected again.
Actually, it isn't the fact that blanks don't kick as hard as real rounds, (although that is generally true), it's the lack of a bullet blocking the barrel that prevents the pressure required to cycle the weapon. An open barrel means all of the gas can easily escape, and not provide enough pressure to cycle the weapon. That's why you have a variety of "blank firing adaptors" that are a case to hold onto the end of the barrel and a screw that blocks the barrel itself.
I remember reading about an underground home builder that had an interesting solution to the water problem - they used a layer of felt between the concrete and moisture barrier. If a hole formed in the moisture barrier, the felt expanded to a ridiculous extent, effectively sealing the hole. I think the company was formworks, but their website only mentions a superior water-proofing method but no actual description. Still, they claim 20 years without any of their homes having leaks, so it might just work.
Not to be a troll, but can you explain why so many people have elective, (especially cosmetic), surgery? It is real surgery, with all of the risks, but they are just getting a better nose, fewer wrinkles or a bit less fat around the middle. By your logic shouldn't the risks keep them from having it?
I think that the rice represents the location of various weather systems. (The rice represents clouds???) I think the tub is the Earth, and the temperature of the water represents the surface temperature of the Earth (or maybe just the oceans). A meteorologist cares about the location of the rice (fronts) but a climatologist doesn't care, since they don't care about the location of specific fronts 5, 10 or 100 years from now. However, they do care about the average surface temperature of the Earth, so, in this analogy, would be able to estimate the temperature of the water in the tub.
I agree that it is an... interesting analogy though.
You can rotate through several exercises if you are hitting multiple muscles in a workout but many bodybuilders prefer to do only 1 or 2 related body-parts in a single day and then rest that body part for the rest of the week. If you are doing biceps and back in a single workout, then switching from curls to lat pulls doesn't help since the biceps are still involved. This keeps the biceps from recovering from the previous set, and reduces performance on the lat pulls since they are already fatigued. Thus, they stand around for a minute or two to recover before continuing with the same exercise.
Now, we can argue about which approach is the best, but it is like the vi vs. emacs fight - it would go on forever. The important part is for someone to figure out what works best for them given their fitness goals.