Kodak could be raking in the dough from film sales for these old cameras.
Kodak stopped making film for these cameras precisely because they weren't making money on them. Anybody using a bellows camera in the US with a format smaller than 4"x5" after about 1965 was in for a lot of ridicule. Instamatics were always regarded as junk by anybody doing even "advanced amateur" photography. (The Instamatic cartidge can't hold film in a dependable enough position to get reliably sharp pictures at wide lens apertures.) Once disposables became popular, the Instamatic format was doomed.
It's a good hypothesis, here's another possibility: In the early 20th century, mechanical refrigeration made the widespread consumption of large quantities of ice cream possible. The increased consumption of sugar resulted in weakened immune systems and poorer general health.
If you were Bill Gates would you be filling out these forms yourself? He undoubtedly has investment counselors whose job it is to scout good opportunities, get approval from Gates, and take care of the paperwork. Somebody needs to lose his job.
"but we can't get the fucking congress to fund education to the top of the list"
Dammit, it's not the money. If the kids want to learn and the parents push them, you can put 100 kids in a 10 meter square room with one teacher, no computers, no desks, and no heat or A/C and THEY'LL LEARN.
Furthermore, federal funding of education (excepting only the military academies) is flat-out wrong. This leads to government indoctrination which is very dangerous.
Classical Euclidean geometry is not regarded very highly by knowledgeable mathematicians today. Many "proofs" are known to be defective and the good information gained is not generally worth the effort. The useful stuff should be put into another math course and Euclidean geometry dropped from high school curricula. Analytical geometry is something else: sines and tangents and such are a basis for most technology.
My high school pulled in (I guess) between 500 and 1000 people per football game, and perhaps half that many for basketball. That should easily have paid expenses.
It's hard to separate the various factors, but work weeks a bit over 40 hours is not what is damaging families. A century ago factory work hours were considerably longer than they are today. School children spend 30 hours a week in school which overlap work hours. Look elsewhere for family problems.
I have a good idea of what I think I'm worth. About 6 years ago, when I finally started being paid a bit more than I thought I was worth (after years of getting 2/3 or less) I said so. (It didn't result in my raise being reduced.) I didn't give a darn that someone far away got paid little, but I did care that some of my co-workers might not be getting what they deserved. I want justice for myself and those I deal with. I don't particularly care if my company makes small or large heaps of money, as long as it's profitable. I doubt very much that the Simpsons voicers have any such scruples.
Natural cesium (At. Wt. ~133) is not radioactive - what's the problem? It's probably being used because it emits electrons easily. It has been used in vacuum tubes as a getter for decades.
If you were working on technology that won't be productized for 10 or 20 years would you still do it if you knew it would be obsolete?
The problem is, you don't know. Most technologies that look promising end up being abandoned or relegated to niches: think about Chrysler's turbine engine for passenger cars and Mazda's Wankel, respectively.
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Sorry. The centifugal force is proportional to the square of the speed divided by the radius of the turn.
The force tangential to the road is nearly linearly proportional to the force perpendicular to the road. Calling it logarithmic is ridiculous, that would imply enormous traction at low loads. At high forces the linear approximation breaks down as the tread squirms and the local forces exceed the strength of the tread material. This is worsened when the tire is not parallel to the road; the failure of parallelism is caused by poor suspension geometry which in turn is ameliorated by stiff springs and shocks.
Tread squirm is reduced by (among other things) by having shallow treads (or none), as is common in racing tires. It is reduced by increasing tire inflation pressure, which is part of the reason that having low pressure in the rear tires increases the risk of a spinout.
In the early 1970s one of the Chaparrals (the 2J, IIRC) had a separate engine and fan to generate downforce, even standing still. It had bugs that weren't worked out before it was banned because it was too effective.
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There are many limits to correcting lens errors. You can't restore information that has passed through a zero in the lens's response. Sensors don't detect phase or polarization; they provide the absolute value of the incident light. This also limits image restoration.
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Kodak stopped making film for these cameras precisely because they weren't making money on them. Anybody using a bellows camera in the US with a format smaller than 4"x5" after about 1965 was in for a lot of ridicule. Instamatics were always regarded as junk by anybody doing even "advanced amateur" photography. (The Instamatic cartidge can't hold film in a dependable enough position to get reliably sharp pictures at wide lens apertures.) Once disposables became popular, the Instamatic format was doomed.
Very well expressed. Ask for voltage, not "electro-motive force".
It's a good hypothesis, here's another possibility: In the early 20th century, mechanical refrigeration made the widespread consumption of large quantities of ice cream possible. The increased consumption of sugar resulted in weakened immune systems and poorer general health.
If you were Bill Gates would you be filling out these forms yourself? He undoubtedly has investment counselors whose job it is to scout good opportunities, get approval from Gates, and take care of the paperwork. Somebody needs to lose his job.
Dammit, it's not the money. If the kids want to learn and the parents push them, you can put 100 kids in a 10 meter square room with one teacher, no computers, no desks, and no heat or A/C and THEY'LL LEARN.
Furthermore, federal funding of education (excepting only the military academies) is flat-out wrong. This leads to government indoctrination which is very dangerous.
Classical Euclidean geometry is not regarded very highly by knowledgeable mathematicians today. Many "proofs" are known to be defective and the good information gained is not generally worth the effort. The useful stuff should be put into another math course and Euclidean geometry dropped from high school curricula. Analytical geometry is something else: sines and tangents and such are a basis for most technology.
My high school pulled in (I guess) between 500 and 1000 people per football game, and perhaps half that many for basketball. That should easily have paid expenses.
It's hard to separate the various factors, but work weeks a bit over 40 hours is not what is damaging families. A century ago factory work hours were considerably longer than they are today. School children spend 30 hours a week in school which overlap work hours. Look elsewhere for family problems.
I have a good idea of what I think I'm worth. About 6 years ago, when I finally started being paid a bit more than I thought I was worth (after years of getting 2/3 or less) I said so. (It didn't result in my raise being reduced.) I didn't give a darn that someone far away got paid little, but I did care that some of my co-workers might not be getting what they deserved. I want justice for myself and those I deal with. I don't particularly care if my company makes small or large heaps of money, as long as it's profitable. I doubt very much that the Simpsons voicers have any such scruples.
The body said to the sensor, "Nice design."
An aspherical lens is one that has a surface that is not a portion of a sphere. It has nothing to do with the evenness of density of the lens.
It's not a small price to pay. The risk is that within 4 years we'll be dead.
The articles I read said 173. Apparently they don't all agree.
Natural cesium (At. Wt. ~133) is not radioactive - what's the problem? It's probably being used because it emits electrons easily. It has been used in vacuum tubes as a getter for decades.
Can you imagine not having to slow down for curves? Climbing Mt. Everest in a Buick? Or parking on the roof of a tunnel?
Some cars get too light on the front end at high speeds. Imagine a burst of wind causing a back flip at 170 mph.
Big battery banks, big electric motors/generators are expensive. Sophisticated, reliable, cheap controllers are fairly recent.
The problem is, you don't know. Most technologies that look promising end up being abandoned or relegated to niches: think about Chrysler's turbine engine for passenger cars and Mazda's Wankel, respectively.
Sorry. The centifugal force is proportional to the square of the speed divided by the radius of the turn.
Tread squirm is reduced by (among other things) by having shallow treads (or none), as is common in racing tires. It is reduced by increasing tire inflation pressure, which is part of the reason that having low pressure in the rear tires increases the risk of a spinout.
In the early 1970s one of the Chaparrals (the 2J, IIRC) had a separate engine and fan to generate downforce, even standing still. It had bugs that weren't worked out before it was banned because it was too effective.
World government will soon change to world tyranny, from which recovery will be difficult and slow, if possible at all. Not a good idea.
No, I PREVENT injury by warming up properly.
There are many limits to correcting lens errors. You can't restore information that has passed through a zero in the lens's response. Sensors don't detect phase or polarization; they provide the absolute value of the incident light. This also limits image restoration.
Distributing the initial shock over time will also lower the frequency. The ear is less sensitive to lower frequencies.