Jersey barriers are surely much cheaper and more durable than turbines, and I think the cost of turbine repair or replacement after the inevitable accidents would be enough to make this proposal uneconomical.
The obvious solution: Just put up some big concrete barriers to protect those expensive turbines. Heck, if you line 'em up all neat and orderly, they might even smooth out the airflow a bit and reduce drag on the cars.
Prices and product sizes are carefully designed to make comparative math very difficult to ordinary folks.
Luckily, all the grocery stores that I frequent have the price/oz printed on the price cards on the shelf edges. I wonder why they'd do that if they want to make it hard for shoppers to compare? Could it be that the advantage of making customers more willing to shop at their store (vs. a competitor) outweighs the disadvantage of being less able to sneak in poor deals? Or do, perhaps, the lower priced store brand items have better margins for the store since they pay less for them too? I don't really know. But whatever the reason, it is a very common practice.
And how is that going to affect buying decisions when the buyer doesn't know about it until checkout time?
If the gallon of milk is marked $4.99 on the shelf, the customer who is unwilling to pay more than $3 is not going to put it in his cart. That the store plans to discount it to $2.99 at the register won't change that. And if the customer is willing to pick up the $4.99 milk, what incentive is there for the store to charge less for it?
Let me get this straight. As long as Castro embraces software freedom, actual political freedom is irrelevant in Stallman's world.
Yeah! What a Castro-lovin' jerk he is. And to illustrate the truth of that, I've written a trimmed-down version of his song that isolates and highlights all the pro-Castro bits:
Defendant: Not guilty, Your Honor, because I wasn't driving the car at the time.
Judge: Then who was?
Defendant: No one. I was in a drunken stupor and had gone momentarily unconscious. I was slumped over sideways on the passenger seat for several seconds before I snapped out of it and regained control.
Gotta agree. During a visit to a local electronics surplus store (which also sells some new items as well), my daughter, who was about to turn 9, saw this very same kit and decided that was what she wanted for her birthday. So I got it for her. She loves it. And I'm pretty pleased with it too. Yes, it's aimed at teaching children. But I have no reservation about recommending it for adults.
IMHO, a small number of simple projects with good explanation is much better for learning than hundreds of projects that leave little room in the manual for explanation. The complex "gee whiz" projects end up being a distraction. The kids are drawn to them. But because they don't know the basics necessary to understand them, they end up just "painting by number", being entertained by the blinky lights and noises, and not learning very much in the process. They may even be a bit put from learning because of their failure to comprehend what they've built.
It's the extremely simple (and usually very unimpressive to watch/hear) experiments that have the best learning potential. Really basic stuff like seeing how a lower series resistance makes an LED glow brighter. How a diode conducts one direction but not the other. How a capacitor takes longer to charge through higher resistance. How a transistor can use a very small current to control the flow of a much larger one. Stuff like that.
Forget the big hundreds-in-one kits. Avoid the distraction. Start with this simple "Electronic Playground" kit. Do the experiments in order. Don't skip the boring ones. They're actually not so boring when you get those little "aha" moments and understand what they're trying to show you. Learn the basics. After that, you can get one of the bigger kits and be able to actually understand the workings of some of the more complex circuits so you can actually learn something from them. Or move on to a solderless breadboard, one or more Forrest Mims III books (like another poster suggested), and a bunch of parts. Radio shack may not have many parts anymore, but there's PLENTY available from other sources (Google for Jameco, Digikey, Mouser, B.G. Micro, and All Electronics, as a good starting point). And if you're lucky enough to live near a good hobbyist-friendly electronics surplus store, visit it. Those places have WAY more parts available than RS ever did.
Oh, and kudos for not being put off by this being a kid oriented kit. Too many people do themselves a disservice by thinking that the "start simple" principle doesn't apply to them just because they're adults.
I guess I'm old fashioned. Or maybe just a bit antisocial. But my preferred work space is a real office with a door that, though usually open, can be closed when I need some "focus time", or locked when I'm away and don't want my stuff messed with. A work space that's well enough isolated that I can listen to music without headphones and not bother anyone. Unfortunately, it's been a long time since I've had that luxury.
Okay, apparently half the posters don't understand what Freedom of Speech is all about. Google and Amazon are not the government (yet at least).
And apparently the other half are bent on pointing this out over and over again. As has already been said, a thing does not have to be unconstitutional to be bad.
Since I'm not the first to make this point, I guess this puts me in the third half of the posters.
With the previous initiative, apparently 2 of 19 hijackers in the 9/11 tragedy could have been caught.
With this new improved initiative, maybe they could have caught 5 of the 19...d
5? That's nothing. Heck, with this grand scheme they might catch 50 of the 19.
The US never had any jobs or industries, and we did just fine!
The US became prosperous by industrializing itself. Do you really think we'd have done as well if all that early industrialization had belonged to England or Spain? Our industrial revolution may have been inspired by the English, but little of it was owned by them.
The week after that:
Millions of users are switching from Windows, MS Office, IE, and Outlook to SUSE, OO, FireFox, and Evolution now that the last barrier to FOSS adoption has fallen: familiarity.
Simple. If you cannot resove this conflict in favor of doing your job properly, then get out of teaching and move into a career for which you are competent.
Open and widely published formats are good, of course. But if you're looking for a really long term solution (as in multiple millennia), then I think the prime requirement other than physical durability should be easy reverse engineering. This way the data has some hope of recovery even if the knowlege of the format has been lost. This generally means that simpler is better. Things like plain ascii text. Uncompressed and unencrypted image and/or audio data. Verbose ascii based vector graphics. Things like that. Put it all on a durable, low density, and simply formatted media that will easily give up its secrets to relatively low-tech and completely non-specialized tools like a microscope. It's not the most efficient way to store data, but it's much more likely to be useable by future archaeologists than things like MS-Word files, WMA files, JPG's, MP3's, etc.
I just think that the system should be set up to reward risk takers rather than banks that refuse to lend. It would go a long way towards improving the economy.
If you removed the risk, they wouldn't be "risk takers" anymore. They'd just be takers.
He turned it and started heading it downwards (with a democrat congress).
That simply never happened. Check the numbers. Deficits rose to record highs under Bush I. Bush's 3rd and 4th year deficits were higher even than Reagan's worst years.
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And how is that going to affect buying decisions when the buyer doesn't know about it until checkout time?
If the gallon of milk is marked $4.99 on the shelf, the customer who is unwilling to pay more than $3 is not going to put it in his cart. That the store plans to discount it to $2.99 at the register won't change that. And if the customer is willing to pick up the $4.99 milk, what incentive is there for the store to charge less for it?
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Just shameful, ain't it?
Defendant: Not guilty, Your Honor, because I wasn't driving the car at the time.
Judge: Then who was?
Defendant: No one. I was in a drunken stupor and had gone momentarily unconscious. I was slumped over sideways on the passenger seat for several seconds before I snapped out of it and regained control.
Gotta agree. During a visit to a local electronics surplus store (which also sells some new items as well), my daughter, who was about to turn 9, saw this very same kit and decided that was what she wanted for her birthday. So I got it for her. She loves it. And I'm pretty pleased with it too. Yes, it's aimed at teaching children. But I have no reservation about recommending it for adults.
IMHO, a small number of simple projects with good explanation is much better for learning than hundreds of projects that leave little room in the manual for explanation. The complex "gee whiz" projects end up being a distraction. The kids are drawn to them. But because they don't know the basics necessary to understand them, they end up just "painting by number", being entertained by the blinky lights and noises, and not learning very much in the process. They may even be a bit put from learning because of their failure to comprehend what they've built.
It's the extremely simple (and usually very unimpressive to watch/hear) experiments that have the best learning potential. Really basic stuff like seeing how a lower series resistance makes an LED glow brighter. How a diode conducts one direction but not the other. How a capacitor takes longer to charge through higher resistance. How a transistor can use a very small current to control the flow of a much larger one. Stuff like that.
Forget the big hundreds-in-one kits. Avoid the distraction. Start with this simple "Electronic Playground" kit. Do the experiments in order. Don't skip the boring ones. They're actually not so boring when you get those little "aha" moments and understand what they're trying to show you. Learn the basics. After that, you can get one of the bigger kits and be able to actually understand the workings of some of the more complex circuits so you can actually learn something from them. Or move on to a solderless breadboard, one or more Forrest Mims III books (like another poster suggested), and a bunch of parts. Radio shack may not have many parts anymore, but there's PLENTY available from other sources (Google for Jameco, Digikey, Mouser, B.G. Micro, and All Electronics, as a good starting point). And if you're lucky enough to live near a good hobbyist-friendly electronics surplus store, visit it. Those places have WAY more parts available than RS ever did.
Oh, and kudos for not being put off by this being a kid oriented kit. Too many people do themselves a disservice by thinking that the "start simple" principle doesn't apply to them just because they're adults.
I think it meant that computers crashed on all 12 F-22's, not that all of the computers aboard each F-22 crashed.
Ah, yes. Bad idea, that.
That thing always reminded me of Teletubbies.
What MS wallpaper? Those solid blue areas?
I guess I'm old fashioned. Or maybe just a bit antisocial. But my preferred work space is a real office with a door that, though usually open, can be closed when I need some "focus time", or locked when I'm away and don't want my stuff messed with. A work space that's well enough isolated that I can listen to music without headphones and not bother anyone. Unfortunately, it's been a long time since I've had that luxury.
Ah, I understand now. Thanks. Yes, that would be an advantage.
Perhaps I misunderstood.
The week after that: Millions of users are switching from Windows, MS Office, IE, and Outlook to SUSE, OO, FireFox, and Evolution now that the last barrier to FOSS adoption has fallen: familiarity.
Open and widely published formats are good, of course. But if you're looking for a really long term solution (as in multiple millennia), then I think the prime requirement other than physical durability should be easy reverse engineering. This way the data has some hope of recovery even if the knowlege of the format has been lost. This generally means that simpler is better. Things like plain ascii text. Uncompressed and unencrypted image and/or audio data. Verbose ascii based vector graphics. Things like that. Put it all on a durable, low density, and simply formatted media that will easily give up its secrets to relatively low-tech and completely non-specialized tools like a microscope. It's not the most efficient way to store data, but it's much more likely to be useable by future archaeologists than things like MS-Word files, WMA files, JPG's, MP3's, etc.
If I were a scientist, and had a chicken wing on me, I don't think I'd WANT it to grow back if it got cut off.