Engineering is all about tradeoffs. Sure, the ideal would be to not crash the probe into any planet. Given what we know, steering into the least-likely place to have life is the least bad decision. What is your proposal?
I could see "reckless endangerment", but attempted murder? He was trying to prevent his kid from hurting himself with firearms - quite obviously not trying to kill him.
You don't bet "everything on stealth". If you want to nuke a city, you send airplanes using stealth, missiles from Nebraska, missiles from submarines, and low-flying cruise missiles from ships. If you aren't nuking a city, you send radar-seeking missiles and cruise missiles first and make their coverage weaker before sending stealthy aircraft. And for countries without Russian state-of-the-art radars, you just loiter in their airspace dropping ordinance at leisure.
How so? Nothing came through the baggage and the planes were hijacked with box cutters, which were an allowed carry-on. I used to travel with the pocket knife that lived in my pocket - I think the blade limit was something like 3 inches.
The cheapest NUC I can find on Amazon is around $139. The cheapest Pi I can find is $19.99 for an A, $32 for a B, and $39 for a Pi 2. At 3-7 times the cost, I don't think they are exactly competitors across the board. There is surely overlap, but that doesn't mean they will "eat the lunch" of the Pi in a space in which it does not have an offering.
A friend of mine who grew up on a farm was caught by his father playing with a shotgun. His dad told him to start running because he was going to shoot at him after he counted to ten. He did in fact shoot his son, who experienced pain but no real injury. I would not endorse this method of parenting, but it does illustrate that shotguns have a very limited lethal range, at least with whatever load it had.
Considering 70 years later we are still arguing about it rather than roundly condemning it... well, I'd say that reflects pretty well on Truman. It shows how it was a difficult decision, even given the cooling of heads that comes with the passage of time.
The feds aren't in education in any meaningful way, unless your kid is a special ed student. Obama did try to hang his hat on Common Core, but that was already almost universally implemented by the states before he got involved. He did push a few stragglers into the fold, and managed to politicize what had previously been nonpartisan - but largely had nothing to do with Common Core.
To be fair, public schools also fail. You link to Philly.com. Philadelphia School District doubled funding over 10 years and had absolutely nothing to show for it. While I think that the way we fund schools is bat-shit crazy - giving wealthier kids more resources and poor kids less - please don't summarily dismiss just how corrupt many of our cities' school systems are. You are largely correct that charters funnel money away from kids, and yet in Newark more money reaches students at the charter schools than at the traditional public schools. Small wonder parents go to great lengths to get their kids into charters in certain districts.
Sorry, what I meant was that - unless you are paying for more data than you need - you would be hitting your 65% limit pretty much every month. Yes, it's still useful if you get the warning unexpectedly early. But, no, it's not useful at all if you already hit 65% and then have your "oops" moment the next day.
Doesn't that just mean that you reliably get a message on around the 20th of each month? I mean, it's better than nothing, but they still rake you over the coals when you go over. Now, if the message said "reply to this message with 'more' to buy an additional 1 GB for $10" or something along those lines, it would be pretty good. Still not as good as a "soft cap", but better than a simple informational message.
In my opinion, the only company who does data caps in a fair way is T-Mobile. You still have a data limit, but rather than unexpected charges on your account you get a slowdown in speed. Now, it would be nice if they had more options for increasing the limit - even temporarily - but that is the only customer-friendly way to approach data caps. It is very easy to have an "oops" moment and exceed your data plan. You can blame people for being stupid, but even smart people make mistakes.
Ah! They have thought of you. They have a "resale value guarantee" which promises that your car will be worth at least 50% of what you paid for it after 3 years. $50k over 3 years? Why, what else were you going to do with that money:)
Tesla seems to hold value compared to other electrics. I've seen it speculated that it is because Tesla's battery holds up very well. It loses only 6% of it's initial capacity over the first 50,000 miles, and then only 1% per 30,000 miles thereafter. That means you could legitimately never expect to replace the battery pack.
If I wanted to (and I have to admit it is kind of tempting), I could pick up a used Leaf with less than 30,000 miles for around $12k. That's a car that starts for around $30k. I suspect this would not be the case if the battery packs held up better (and gas wasn't practically free).
Why? At the end of the day you always have "take it apart and fix it locally". Teslas should be at least as easy to fix as an equivalent ICE car. And hold on while I shed some tears for people who spend $100,000 on a car and then whine about repair costs.
Yes, the flat torque curve is very nice at low speeds. But the Tesla also has that, and is doing 60 by the time the Leaf gets to 30.
I imagine the limit to regenerative braking is how quickly the battery can take the charge. If you really wanted to you could pass the motors through a resistor to save wear on the pads. But brake pads are cheap. The real problem is the rotor damage - but you need thin rotors to bleed off the heat. It's not a trivial problem to solve in fast cars, and the Tesla adds a lot of weight to the equation.
Break wear is proportional to how ludicrously fast the owners drive the car. Actually, it's probably an exponential curve. The Tesla S is a very fast car, and very heavy to boot. I don't imagine Leaf owners are getting into a whole lot of trouble with their 92 MPH speed governor and 8.8 second 0-60 times.
You are right that some of the plastic parts could probably be replaced with some metal parts, and then those parts would last longer. But it wouldn't really matter once the drivetrain and suspension points are all worn out - you'd just toss the whole thing anyway. They even get the upholstery about right - just when the seats are falling apart is when the car isn't worth repairing anymore mechanically. Higher quality material in the seats would delay them getting ratty, but you'd still have to toss out the (now more expensive) car.
It's entirely possible that in Tesla's service model it is cheaper to swap a part and recondition it in mass production than it is to train and pay a local technician.
I don't own one because it's $100,000 for a damn car. Any $100,000 car is going to be unreliable - the whole reason it is $100,000 is because it is all gussied up with extra crap that can break.
But when electrics become economically prudent I will probably get one. They should be mechanically simpler and I only commute 20 miles a day - my wife only goes 10 miles.
My understanding is that the new "Romney" rules make it such that a nominee at the convention must have a _majority_ (not plurality) win in 8 states. There are "winner take all" states, but all of them require a majority - again, not plurality - to get all of the delegates.
But it doesn't matter. The rules are determined at the beginning of the convention, and they will change if Trump is the front-runner:)
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Engineering is all about tradeoffs. Sure, the ideal would be to not crash the probe into any planet. Given what we know, steering into the least-likely place to have life is the least bad decision. What is your proposal?
I could see "reckless endangerment", but attempted murder? He was trying to prevent his kid from hurting himself with firearms - quite obviously not trying to kill him.
Pretty nasty conditions for life on Saturn
You don't bet "everything on stealth". If you want to nuke a city, you send airplanes using stealth, missiles from Nebraska, missiles from submarines, and low-flying cruise missiles from ships. If you aren't nuking a city, you send radar-seeking missiles and cruise missiles first and make their coverage weaker before sending stealthy aircraft. And for countries without Russian state-of-the-art radars, you just loiter in their airspace dropping ordinance at leisure.
How so? Nothing came through the baggage and the planes were hijacked with box cutters, which were an allowed carry-on. I used to travel with the pocket knife that lived in my pocket - I think the blade limit was something like 3 inches.
I'm pretty sure that my friend would have had a harder time growing up without a breadwinner and father, but if that helps make you feel better...
The cheapest NUC I can find on Amazon is around $139. The cheapest Pi I can find is $19.99 for an A, $32 for a B, and $39 for a Pi 2. At 3-7 times the cost, I don't think they are exactly competitors across the board. There is surely overlap, but that doesn't mean they will "eat the lunch" of the Pi in a space in which it does not have an offering.
A New York farm.
A friend of mine who grew up on a farm was caught by his father playing with a shotgun. His dad told him to start running because he was going to shoot at him after he counted to ten. He did in fact shoot his son, who experienced pain but no real injury. I would not endorse this method of parenting, but it does illustrate that shotguns have a very limited lethal range, at least with whatever load it had.
Considering 70 years later we are still arguing about it rather than roundly condemning it... well, I'd say that reflects pretty well on Truman. It shows how it was a difficult decision, even given the cooling of heads that comes with the passage of time.
The feds aren't in education in any meaningful way, unless your kid is a special ed student. Obama did try to hang his hat on Common Core, but that was already almost universally implemented by the states before he got involved. He did push a few stragglers into the fold, and managed to politicize what had previously been nonpartisan - but largely had nothing to do with Common Core.
To be fair, public schools also fail. You link to Philly.com. Philadelphia School District doubled funding over 10 years and had absolutely nothing to show for it. While I think that the way we fund schools is bat-shit crazy - giving wealthier kids more resources and poor kids less - please don't summarily dismiss just how corrupt many of our cities' school systems are. You are largely correct that charters funnel money away from kids, and yet in Newark more money reaches students at the charter schools than at the traditional public schools. Small wonder parents go to great lengths to get their kids into charters in certain districts.
Sorry, what I meant was that - unless you are paying for more data than you need - you would be hitting your 65% limit pretty much every month. Yes, it's still useful if you get the warning unexpectedly early. But, no, it's not useful at all if you already hit 65% and then have your "oops" moment the next day.
Doesn't that just mean that you reliably get a message on around the 20th of each month? I mean, it's better than nothing, but they still rake you over the coals when you go over. Now, if the message said "reply to this message with 'more' to buy an additional 1 GB for $10" or something along those lines, it would be pretty good. Still not as good as a "soft cap", but better than a simple informational message.
I'm sure you use that line on all the alien babes.
In my opinion, the only company who does data caps in a fair way is T-Mobile. You still have a data limit, but rather than unexpected charges on your account you get a slowdown in speed. Now, it would be nice if they had more options for increasing the limit - even temporarily - but that is the only customer-friendly way to approach data caps. It is very easy to have an "oops" moment and exceed your data plan. You can blame people for being stupid, but even smart people make mistakes.
Ah! They have thought of you. They have a "resale value guarantee" which promises that your car will be worth at least 50% of what you paid for it after 3 years. $50k over 3 years? Why, what else were you going to do with that money :)
Tesla seems to hold value compared to other electrics. I've seen it speculated that it is because Tesla's battery holds up very well. It loses only 6% of it's initial capacity over the first 50,000 miles, and then only 1% per 30,000 miles thereafter. That means you could legitimately never expect to replace the battery pack.
If I wanted to (and I have to admit it is kind of tempting), I could pick up a used Leaf with less than 30,000 miles for around $12k. That's a car that starts for around $30k. I suspect this would not be the case if the battery packs held up better (and gas wasn't practically free).
Why? At the end of the day you always have "take it apart and fix it locally". Teslas should be at least as easy to fix as an equivalent ICE car. And hold on while I shed some tears for people who spend $100,000 on a car and then whine about repair costs.
Yes, the flat torque curve is very nice at low speeds. But the Tesla also has that, and is doing 60 by the time the Leaf gets to 30.
I imagine the limit to regenerative braking is how quickly the battery can take the charge. If you really wanted to you could pass the motors through a resistor to save wear on the pads. But brake pads are cheap. The real problem is the rotor damage - but you need thin rotors to bleed off the heat. It's not a trivial problem to solve in fast cars, and the Tesla adds a lot of weight to the equation.
Break wear is proportional to how ludicrously fast the owners drive the car. Actually, it's probably an exponential curve. The Tesla S is a very fast car, and very heavy to boot. I don't imagine Leaf owners are getting into a whole lot of trouble with their 92 MPH speed governor and 8.8 second 0-60 times.
You are right that some of the plastic parts could probably be replaced with some metal parts, and then those parts would last longer. But it wouldn't really matter once the drivetrain and suspension points are all worn out - you'd just toss the whole thing anyway. They even get the upholstery about right - just when the seats are falling apart is when the car isn't worth repairing anymore mechanically. Higher quality material in the seats would delay them getting ratty, but you'd still have to toss out the (now more expensive) car.
It's entirely possible that in Tesla's service model it is cheaper to swap a part and recondition it in mass production than it is to train and pay a local technician.
I don't own one because it's $100,000 for a damn car. Any $100,000 car is going to be unreliable - the whole reason it is $100,000 is because it is all gussied up with extra crap that can break.
But when electrics become economically prudent I will probably get one. They should be mechanically simpler and I only commute 20 miles a day - my wife only goes 10 miles.
That is until - whoops! - you have your DRM chip manufactured in China and pretty soon anyone can buy a DRM stripper for under $20.
My understanding is that the new "Romney" rules make it such that a nominee at the convention must have a _majority_ (not plurality) win in 8 states. There are "winner take all" states, but all of them require a majority - again, not plurality - to get all of the delegates.
But it doesn't matter. The rules are determined at the beginning of the convention, and they will change if Trump is the front-runner :)