I live in New Hampshire. There are occasional nights when it's too hot to sleep comfortably without AC, even with lots of open windows and skylights. It's uncommon, but it happens.
Medium cloud coverage could reduce total irradiance down to 300 W/m2 and low-hanging clouds could bring it down to
230 W/m2. If it is really really overcast, you might end up with less than 150 W/m2 in the middle of the day.http://www.ftexploring.com/solar-energy/clouds-and-pollution.htm
Gasoline: = 33 kWh/gal. x 30% efficiency = 9.9 kWh/gal. At $2.50/gal, that's $0.25 per kWh for a typical gasoline automotive engine. Where I live, electricity is $0.16 per kWh. That's a 25/16 advantage for electric, not the >6/1 you're claiming.
If you want a doll that can listen, speak, and learn, available technology embedded in a doll cannot be adequate. The choices are a program on a home computer that's always on, or an internet connection.
It's creepy if you're untrusting (which may well be valid), but there aren't really many viable options to achieve what they claim they're trying to do.
FWIW the last time I heard a Mattel spokesperson speak about the Barbie product, it sounded like the movie stereotype of a male homosexual. Try analyzing the motives behind that person's contributions to Barbie.
Have you ever bothered to measure a Barbie doll? It's a little difficult because the breasts are not well delineated, but a good estimate is that they're B cup or smaller. That's average or below for well fed human females.
The unusual dimension for a Barbie doll is waist size, equivalent to about 17" IIRC.
being showy for the sake of men
That women dress up to show each other how successful they are is so well-established a notion that it's even made it into popular music. (Van Morrison, "Domino")
being smart or educated or strong-willed
How, pray tell, would you show those things in a doll? Do you think microscope-toting Barbie would sell well?
Show me a toy marketed primarily towards boys which even comes close to propagating such negative ideas.
Just about anything that promotes mindless destruction. "Transformers" comes to mind.
Barbie has been selling extremely well for decades. If that product were as "obscenely sexist" as you claim, people would have recognized it and production would have ceased after the first year.
Quite simply, you are mindfucked. Barbies are purchased because they are seen as a clean, attractive, and worthwhile model for girls. Would you prefer a trollop designed by Ralph Bakshi? An fat unwed mother welfare queen doll?
Bah. The main aim of circumcision these days is to prove that religion is able to exert power, without regard to any other underlying consideration. The second motivation is the desire of doctors to exert control, the third is parents. This is a perverted desire to exert socially acceptable force.
Cree is a respected brand name. There are sellers of LED lamps that have CREE in huge bold letters on the box, but the Cree components are only the LEDs. Look carefully for manufacturer information before buying.
The same sort of labor cost reduction applies to incandescents that applies to LEDs. LEDs require more labor and more material, so assuming similar production volumes and a lack of government abuse, they will always be more expensive.
You do know that most incandescents have their approximate lifespan printed on the box? It's usually about 1000 hours, 1/8th of a year.
They have a deterministic failure mechanism. Tungsten sublimates off the filament, and the hotter it is, the faster it happens. Nicks in the filament will be hotspots that erode even faster, but even a perfectly uniform filament doesn't last very long.
CFLs usually fail because the electronics are designed to be as cheap as possible, and turnon stresses kill them. If they don't fail catastrophically, they become less efficient over time.
LEDs, being much more expensive, might have more rugged electronics, but competitive pressure means that won't last. They do suffer typical electronic wearout mechanisms, which are controllable. In any case, they are heat sensitive, which means they often need heatsinks, which add to cost.
It's more the case that if an author writes a successful book, then more follow in a very similar vein. The following books also help the sales of the original. No number of novels will make a stinker sell, and attempting to do so is a waste of life.
The ability to overload operators makes it possible to write human-readable code. A class of matrix math, or non-standard length floats, results in code with a few operator symbols instead of a mass of function calls or macros.
There are advantages to using C++ wisely. If comments don't make it clear what's happening, it hasn't been used wisely.
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Liberals are armed thieves. You consider that less a problem than not being able to paint your house pink?
Impressive. Have you tried curtains?
You might be able to improve things by installing some canopies to shade your windows.
I live in New Hampshire. There are occasional nights when it's too hot to sleep comfortably without AC, even with lots of open windows and skylights. It's uncommon, but it happens.
Medium cloud coverage could reduce total irradiance down to 300 W/m2 and low-hanging clouds could bring it down to 230 W/m2. If it is really really overcast, you might end up with less than 150 W/m2 in the middle of the day.http://www.ftexploring.com/solar-energy/clouds-and-pollution.htm
That's 15%, not 50%.
Natural gas and propane used for home heating routinely exceed 95% efficiency.
Gasoline: = 33 kWh/gal. x 30% efficiency = 9.9 kWh/gal. At $2.50/gal, that's $0.25 per kWh for a typical gasoline automotive engine. Where I live, electricity is $0.16 per kWh. That's a 25/16 advantage for electric, not the >6/1 you're claiming.
If you want a doll that can listen, speak, and learn, available technology embedded in a doll cannot be adequate. The choices are a program on a home computer that's always on, or an internet connection.
It's creepy if you're untrusting (which may well be valid), but there aren't really many viable options to achieve what they claim they're trying to do.
FWIW the last time I heard a Mattel spokesperson speak about the Barbie product, it sounded like the movie stereotype of a male homosexual. Try analyzing the motives behind that person's contributions to Barbie.
Have you ever bothered to measure a Barbie doll? It's a little difficult because the breasts are not well delineated, but a good estimate is that they're B cup or smaller. That's average or below for well fed human females.
The unusual dimension for a Barbie doll is waist size, equivalent to about 17" IIRC.
That women dress up to show each other how successful they are is so well-established a notion that it's even made it into popular music. (Van Morrison, "Domino")
How, pray tell, would you show those things in a doll? Do you think microscope-toting Barbie would sell well?
Just about anything that promotes mindless destruction. "Transformers" comes to mind.
Barbie has been selling extremely well for decades. If that product were as "obscenely sexist" as you claim, people would have recognized it and production would have ceased after the first year.
Quite simply, you are mindfucked. Barbies are purchased because they are seen as a clean, attractive, and worthwhile model for girls. Would you prefer a trollop designed by Ralph Bakshi? An fat unwed mother welfare queen doll?
Bah. The main aim of circumcision these days is to prove that religion is able to exert power, without regard to any other underlying consideration. The second motivation is the desire of doctors to exert control, the third is parents. This is a perverted desire to exert socially acceptable force.
Starvation. A dilutant frequently used in homeopathy is sugar. Several tablespoons of any such homeopathic medicine will help cure starvation.
Cree is a respected brand name. There are sellers of LED lamps that have CREE in huge bold letters on the box, but the Cree components are only the LEDs. Look carefully for manufacturer information before buying.
Not quite. Read about the CIE chromacity diagram.
What part of the word "market" do you not understand?
The same sort of labor cost reduction applies to incandescents that applies to LEDs. LEDs require more labor and more material, so assuming similar production volumes and a lack of government abuse, they will always be more expensive.
You do know that most incandescents have their approximate lifespan printed on the box? It's usually about 1000 hours, 1/8th of a year.
They have a deterministic failure mechanism. Tungsten sublimates off the filament, and the hotter it is, the faster it happens. Nicks in the filament will be hotspots that erode even faster, but even a perfectly uniform filament doesn't last very long.
CFLs usually fail because the electronics are designed to be as cheap as possible, and turnon stresses kill them. If they don't fail catastrophically, they become less efficient over time.
LEDs, being much more expensive, might have more rugged electronics, but competitive pressure means that won't last. They do suffer typical electronic wearout mechanisms, which are controllable. In any case, they are heat sensitive, which means they often need heatsinks, which add to cost.
It's more the case that if an author writes a successful book, then more follow in a very similar vein. The following books also help the sales of the original. No number of novels will make a stinker sell, and attempting to do so is a waste of life.
1. s[strlen(s)]=='t' ______ This uses the standard C library string.h, which C++ inherits
How 3 is done depends on whether you want to allow corruption of the original string.
Why use the STL when more fundamental stuff is easier?
The ability to overload operators makes it possible to write human-readable code. A class of matrix math, or non-standard length floats, results in code with a few operator symbols instead of a mass of function calls or macros.
There are advantages to using C++ wisely. If comments don't make it clear what's happening, it hasn't been used wisely.
What's stopping you? Define your own classes for numbers. Or write a preprocessor.
The(nice(thing(about(Lisp(is(I(don't(have(to(use(it))))))))))).
Very impressive. Self-contradiction in only ten words.