You must be smoking some really serious weed. I have yet to see (in the US) any medical doctor who is not in the top 10% of income of the country (at the very least!). Get a specialization and you are easily in the top 2%. All of this "insurers set prices", "having to pay the lights" is complete BS. They see you for 6 minutes because they can... that way they can see 10 patients/hour and make 200-500 k$ salaries. Compare that to any other highly qualified professions (at > 10 years education) and you see that they have a pretty sweet deal. If this were not the case, you would not see so many applicants to medical schools, eh?
Very well said. All this "oh, we want a well rounded education" is BS from the humanities departments and/or covered discrimination. If a kid works hard and has straight A's through HS, he/she deserves a lot of credit for it and should be granted admission. No ifs or buts.
Let's see... a tire with a radius of ~0.3 m, in a car traveling at 100 mph ( 45 m/s) experiences a maximum centripetal acceleration of ~6700 m/s^2). A 1 in^2*0.5 in piece of rubber (assuming density to be ~ 1 g/cm^3) experiences a "centrifugal foce" of ONLY ~4.7 pounds! That is only 4.7 psi. So over-inflating by 20 psi MAY BE A PROBLEM.
I once put 70 psi on a tire rated for 45 (and designed to be inflated at 24 for normal ops.). Only noticed that a few days later (hey the car is really bumpy, mother said). Never had any other issue:)
Check out xprotolab (http://www.gabotronics.com/development-boards/xmega-xprotolab.htm) from Gabotronics. Not too fast or too easy to use but it is very capable and Gabo provides very good support. It is self-contained (small oled screen) but can also send info to PC over USB.
What are you smoking?? WE pay for the internet service (monthly bill, anyone?). So why should Netflix have to pay on top of that?? The infrastructure? Yes, coming from your monthly bill. Duh!
Your posting is close to non-sense. Who is saying that every Cessna 172 should have this device? We are talking about AIRLINERS, and in particular those that go transoceanic routes where radar tracking is not possible. On a 767-sized plane (and above) the $100k cost IS negligible when compared to other operational costs (fuel, crew, maintenance, insurance).
I am not talking RADAR, but rather satellite-linked transponders relaying (at least) once per minute the plane "vitals" (coordinates, velocity, altitude, attitude, cabin pressure and temperature, fuel levels, any error codes or warnings). I mean, this may not be cheap, but it is meaningless cost-wise compared to the operational cost of a plane.
What a S T U P ID reply. What is the orientation of the connectors in the back of a computer? In a random USB hub? Why the need to look for the logo when the shape of the connector could convey the correct orientation? (or even better, be orientation neutral). Do they pay you to use your brain in your work, or just brute force?
Is the fact that the standard USB connection (rectangle) is not really 180 degrees symmetric (despite a shape that indicates it should be), usually takes 3+ attempts to get it in. Damn it, Jim, a spin-1/2 connector!
Took about 30 min to build by a 11 year old. Mechanism is nice, looks nice too. Played with it for 10 minutes and then it is now on the shelf (a nice ornament ready to show to some friends). Overall I really liked it. Reasonable price too (though I found it for $15 on a chinese site).
Considering the very small number of tesla's out there, I would say the safety record is thin. Yes, other manufacturers had their problems, but with a baseline of MILLIONS of cars, their safety record is not so bad. It is always a matter of ratios.
The comparison is absolutely nonsense. When you write a book you almost always start from scratch, so yes... errors can creep in on book 10^9 at the same rate as on book 10^0. When you write code that is an update to an old software, you re-use a lot of the old code. So, there is no excuse for that.
I mean, it is a MAIL program, not a revolutionary new product. The protocols have been out there for years (esp. IMAP). Why is it still buggy? Even worse: why is it buggier than the previous version? If it worked before THERE IS NO F*ING EXCUSE FOR IT NOT TO WORK NOW. Very very very lame.
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You are certifiably insane :)
Have you eaten in Italy vs. in Germany? Enough said.
You must be smoking some really serious weed. I have yet to see (in the US) any medical doctor who is not in the top 10% of income of the country (at the very least!). Get a specialization and you are easily in the top 2%. All of this "insurers set prices", "having to pay the lights" is complete BS. They see you for 6 minutes because they can... that way they can see 10 patients/hour and make 200-500 k$ salaries. Compare that to any other highly qualified professions (at > 10 years education) and you see that they have a pretty sweet deal. If this were not the case, you would not see so many applicants to medical schools, eh?
Very well said. All this "oh, we want a well rounded education" is BS from the humanities departments and/or covered discrimination. If a kid works hard and has straight A's through HS, he/she deserves a lot of credit for it and should be granted admission. No ifs or buts.
Let's see... a tire with a radius of ~0.3 m, in a car traveling at 100 mph ( 45 m/s) experiences a maximum centripetal acceleration of ~6700 m/s^2). A 1 in^2*0.5 in piece of rubber (assuming density to be ~ 1 g/cm^3) experiences a "centrifugal foce" of ONLY ~4.7 pounds! That is only 4.7 psi. So over-inflating by 20 psi MAY BE A PROBLEM.
I once put 70 psi on a tire rated for 45 (and designed to be inflated at 24 for normal ops.). Only noticed that a few days later (hey the car is really bumpy, mother said). Never had any other issue :)
m = 10^{-3}, M = 10^3.
Check out xprotolab (http://www.gabotronics.com/development-boards/xmega-xprotolab.htm) from Gabotronics. Not too fast or too easy to use but it is very capable and Gabo provides very good support. It is self-contained (small oled screen) but can also send info to PC over USB.
Also, the "arduino" teensy 3.1 could be used to make a USB-based scope for ca. $20 (plus some additional parts) and can have a lot of other cool uses too. Check it out: http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/tee... and http://forum.pjrc.com/threads/....
Agree! LOL!
Yes, it is a BS factor, to some degree. But Scientific Reports is not Nature... that is for sure.
The 2012 Impact Factor for Scientific Reports is 2.927. For comparison, that of Nature is 38.597. Still impressive, but please lets be precise.
What are you smoking?? WE pay for the internet service (monthly bill, anyone?). So why should Netflix have to pay on top of that?? The infrastructure? Yes, coming from your monthly bill. Duh!
Your posting is close to non-sense. Who is saying that every Cessna 172 should have this device? We are talking about AIRLINERS, and in particular those that go transoceanic routes where radar tracking is not possible. On a 767-sized plane (and above) the $100k cost IS negligible when compared to other operational costs (fuel, crew, maintenance, insurance).
I am not talking RADAR, but rather satellite-linked transponders relaying (at least) once per minute the plane "vitals" (coordinates, velocity, altitude, attitude, cabin pressure and temperature, fuel levels, any error codes or warnings). I mean, this may not be cheap, but it is meaningless cost-wise compared to the operational cost of a plane.
4 wheel drive dowes *not** equal 4 wheel STOP.
And I thought all cars had breaks on all wheels... (4 wheel stop). Was I wrong? Maybe I should check my car again.
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What a S T U P ID reply. What is the orientation of the connectors in the back of a computer? In a random USB hub? Why the need to look for the logo when the shape of the connector could convey the correct orientation? (or even better, be orientation neutral). Do they pay you to use your brain in your work, or just brute force?
Is the fact that the standard USB connection (rectangle) is not really 180 degrees symmetric (despite a shape that indicates it should be), usually takes 3+ attempts to get it in. Damn it, Jim, a spin-1/2 connector!
Mod parent up! LOL
Took about 30 min to build by a 11 year old. Mechanism is nice, looks nice too. Played with it for 10 minutes and then it is now on the shelf (a nice ornament ready to show to some friends). Overall I really liked it. Reasonable price too (though I found it for $15 on a chinese site).
Source?
Considering the very small number of tesla's out there, I would say the safety record is thin. Yes, other manufacturers had their problems, but with a baseline of MILLIONS of cars, their safety record is not so bad. It is always a matter of ratios.
You are literally demanding perfection. Exactly how many professions are there where people don't make mistakes?
Well... programmers seems to be among the worst...
The comparison is absolutely nonsense. When you write a book you almost always start from scratch, so yes... errors can creep in on book 10^9 at the same rate as on book 10^0. When you write code that is an update to an old software, you re-use a lot of the old code. So, there is no excuse for that.
I mean, it is a MAIL program, not a revolutionary new product. The protocols have been out there for years (esp. IMAP). Why is it still buggy? Even worse: why is it buggier than the previous version? If it worked before THERE IS NO F*ING EXCUSE FOR IT NOT TO WORK NOW. Very very very lame.