Wouldn't GPS tracking of mileage mean people could register mileage even if it isn't running.. say, on a ferry. Of course, ferrys use a lot of gas, so maybe that's okay.
Hmm.. wonder what silicon valley venture capitalists are behing the scenes lobbying for this one?
That's why as you get older you are suppsed to move your investments from high risk to low risk holdings. Sure, you won't get the 40% return like some of your buddies, but you also won't get the 40% bust. Common sense, really, if you're willing to play prudence against greed.
The issue is not making a stop short of your original destination, but evacation from the pod in emergencies. Given our generally fat asses and poor health, a rope ladder would probably not suffice to climb down from the pod between stations. Elevated trains that I've seen had a walkpath next to the track. I'm curious if this system has a similar means of egress. Check that, the infamous Old Dominion monorail doesn't have a walkpath, but it doesn't run, so no one's in danger.
There is a manner to rearrange the stickers that will both enable a proper solution (all sides monotone) and may require learning a new solution algorithm. If your algorithm is based on a specific relationship of the colors (ie white, red, and blue being on arranged relative to each other a certain way), then rearranging the final solved cube to have a different face-color relationship would frustrate the canned method.
Actually, several reviews I read (I'm not going to bother to track them down again) have noted Brad Bird's turn as Edna Mode as the funniest character in the film.
Except often ideas are evolved, too. For example, Einstein's Relativity built upon the work of Lorentz, Poincaire, and a host of others. He took concepts that were already half-way developed and made the mental leap that made them coherent.
Break it down (and this is purely out of my ass, so someone who know let me know how much these calues should be)
Labor:
Nurse, $45/hr, 20 min - $15
Technician, $30/hr, 20 min - $10
Materials: $0.01
Overhead: 30%
(Incl: administration, lab equip capital, work space HVAC, sanitation, janitorial services, markup for pro-bono care... hmm maybe 30% is not enough?)
Profit: 5%
= $33.76
Not exactly 1 million times markup, and my numbers could be way off. Point is, everything you purchase involves a lot more than just the materials involved. Otherwise, a can of coke would prob be 2 cents.
I don't know anything about health care, but in ship repair contracting, typical charges are $30/hr for skilled labor, plus materials, plus 10% admin overhead and 8% profit.
Follow-up. I suppose where one could argue that marketing creates additional costs is when some level of marketing is necessary just to get your drug to market. But this would be a symptom of too much competition. In that case, we would expect drug companies to be operating very close to the margin of profitability, which is precisely the opposite of what most anti-drug-company types say.
Furthermore, even before drug companies were advertising on TV, they were advertising to doctors.
Another way of looking at this... from a business perspective. Why would drug companies need to create and push lifestyle drugs? Why can't they be profitable creating drugs to treat deseases?
Think about it as if you ran the company. You could invest this years profits in creating a cancer drug or a erectile disfunction drug. You choose the latter because you can create more demand through marketing. By expanding your consumer base, marketing enables you to sell more, thus LOWERING the price because of economies of scale. Marketing, in other words, creates cheaper drugs, but only those which can be sold through advertising, not as a cure.
So I think it is incorrect to blame drug prices on the costs of marketing. If anything, drug companies are probably resorting to lifestyle drugs because they are more profitable.
Question: Were the tax breaks just tax breaks, or tax breaks specifically tied to overseas production?
As I recall from the news, the tax breaks were for US "manufactured" goods (they stretched concept of manufacturing), so these would actually be tax breaks to help keep jobs IN America.
I'd look it up, but I really don't care. However, since you're all fired up, I suggest you get your details straight first before spouting the party line.
Remember, both sides are prone to exageration and half-truths, esp during an election. never take what they say at face value.
After all, the reason so many people want to pull their kids out of public schools and put them into private schools is because the standards are lower.
You don't need standardized tests to ensure a good education. Parents know a good school from a bad school by talking to the teachers, seeing what their kids learn, and comparing the school's performance to other schools. Among private schools, accreditation associations provide the objective measure and comparison of a school's curriculum.
The antennas are built into the machine, but you often have to purchase the AirPort card as an option for it to have WiFi access. The higher priced versions sometimes have it already included. Unlike add-on cards for PC laptops, which are PC Cards often with small antennas, the AirPort card is plugged in under the keyboard, and connects to the built-in antenna.
I agree. Since it is fairly easy to support almost any monitor, not to mention you don't have to replace them with the same frequency as the computer, I can't understand why Apple doesn't make basic box. You figure with their design they could keep the form factor small and cheap, and could snap up people upgrading from PC who could keep their old monitors.
Hmm, actually, Scaled did a series of test flight gradually expanding the flight envelope, just like NASA. Because that's the smart way to do things - in measured steps.
The pilot probably did not cut the motor because he got it under control after only two oscillations.
Depends on the wing shape, but in general, a wing can lift in either direction.
Most aircraft have wings that are shaped to lift more efficiently in one direction than the other, so to flying upside induces more drag and results in poor flight, or if the engine isn't strong enough, an inverted dive.
Aerobatic aircraft, esp those designed for inverted flight, may have symmetric airfoils (the wing is curved the same on top as on the bottom). The are not as efficient, but lift equally well in both directions.
Because of this, I find this learjet story very suspect.
I don't know who said being in the military was a thankless job...
Random people thank me whenever I'm in uniform, plus there's the health care, MWR, a pension that starts immediately after 20 years of service, military discounts at stores... you can't beat the benefits. Thank YOU, American tax-payer.
Heck, a few decades ago you had to wait for mail call to get letters and care packages that could be months old. Now you can email, make phone calls at call centers, the troops have it a lot better than they used to.
And he's right, too much communications access can be bad. There is always some nimrod who breaks ComSec and ruins it for everyone else. I was down in the Caribbean a couple years back when we just got a new satellite pay phone on the cutter, and it wasn't two weeks before the spooks had notified us that someone was talking about port calls and the ship's schedule... resulting in no more phone calls for the rest of the patrol.
I don't know that higher volumes necessarily mean higher profits.
Each computer has to be sold supported. Looking at a support and sales cost per box, the margins on the high priced boxes could easily cover support, plus the additional overhead for R&D, etc. On a cheaper box, with smaller margins, the profit may only be able to cover the sales and support costs.
So the additional revenue gained by increased volume would only just cover the costs to sell and support that volume, and profit would not be affected.
Naturally, there must be a sweet spot, and we ahve to assume that the managers at Apple are constantly in search of it.
Just had a conversation in my workplace last week about this. One of my coowrkers grew up in Korea, until age 12. He says, back then, they beat the kids when they did not perform. If a students grades went down, they would get a stick across the calves or across the knuckles. If the whole class went down, everyone was beat.
I'm not saying we should beat our kids, but one can imagine that type of enironment did not foster laziness. Perhaps our kids need some better motivation--although I would shy away from corporal punishment.
I am a stundent at Old Dominion. One of my professors in the Aero Dept who was burdened with helping manage this project refers to it as "the stupid train." According to him, it hasn't been just contractual problems holding up the project, there have also been some engineering challenges... but I can't remember the details. Something about track vibration, as I recall.
As someone else pointed out, it's a straight shot for only 3/4 mile. I can't for the life of me understand who thought a MagLev train was right for this project. MagLev's only make economic sense for long distance, high-speed runs, where the decreased friction boosts their efficiency. This silly thing only runs a few blocks between center campus and some of the outlying student housing. It will NEVER approach a speed where it will become efficient.
Just think of the power required to hold the damn thing up while it coasts along at maybe 25-30 mph. This thing is not only sucking huge amounts of money now, it'll continues to do so way into the future. But like most pork-barrel projects, once it's been started, people are reluctant to cut their losses, no matter how wasteful or stupid it is.
I recall China built a maglev running between Shanghai and its airport. That makes a bit more sense... several miles, with only stops at the ends. I wonder how its doing...
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At the same time, efforts to "preserve" diversity mean we are preventing natural selection from eliminating species which have failed to adapt. And "preserving" diversity may also put our immediate survival at risk.
As a case study, I suggest the use of tree farming. Humans have a need for wood as a resource. We can either delineate huge tracts of land as untouchable in order to preserve the native species, or, through proper tree farming techniques, develop an ecosystem which provides needed resources while permitting species adapted to cyclical harvesting to thrive.
The entire wing does not fold, only the aft portion of the main wing and both tails. So there is still significant drag from the portion that remains parallel ot the fuselage.
The reason the wings fold up is so that the vehicle becomes aerodynamically stable with the body across the airflow, increasing drag, and thereby increasing the magnitude of deceleration.
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Wouldn't GPS tracking of mileage mean people could register mileage even if it isn't running.. say, on a ferry. Of course, ferrys use a lot of gas, so maybe that's okay.
Hmm.. wonder what silicon valley venture capitalists are behing the scenes lobbying for this one?
That's why as you get older you are suppsed to move your investments from high risk to low risk holdings. Sure, you won't get the 40% return like some of your buddies, but you also won't get the 40% bust. Common sense, really, if you're willing to play prudence against greed.
The issue is not making a stop short of your original destination, but evacation from the pod in emergencies. Given our generally fat asses and poor health, a rope ladder would probably not suffice to climb down from the pod between stations. Elevated trains that I've seen had a walkpath next to the track. I'm curious if this system has a similar means of egress. Check that, the infamous Old Dominion monorail doesn't have a walkpath, but it doesn't run, so no one's in danger.
There is a manner to rearrange the stickers that will both enable a proper solution (all sides monotone) and may require learning a new solution algorithm. If your algorithm is based on a specific relationship of the colors (ie white, red, and blue being on arranged relative to each other a certain way), then rearranging the final solved cube to have a different face-color relationship would frustrate the canned method.
Actually, several reviews I read (I'm not going to bother to track them down again) have noted Brad Bird's turn as Edna Mode as the funniest character in the film.
Except often ideas are evolved, too. For example, Einstein's Relativity built upon the work of Lorentz, Poincaire, and a host of others. He took concepts that were already half-way developed and made the mental leap that made them coherent.
Break it down (and this is purely out of my ass, so someone who know let me know how much these calues should be) Labor: Nurse, $45/hr, 20 min - $15 Technician, $30/hr, 20 min - $10 Materials: $0.01 Overhead: 30% (Incl: administration, lab equip capital, work space HVAC, sanitation, janitorial services, markup for pro-bono care... hmm maybe 30% is not enough?) Profit: 5% = $33.76 Not exactly 1 million times markup, and my numbers could be way off. Point is, everything you purchase involves a lot more than just the materials involved. Otherwise, a can of coke would prob be 2 cents. I don't know anything about health care, but in ship repair contracting, typical charges are $30/hr for skilled labor, plus materials, plus 10% admin overhead and 8% profit.
My mom worked as a nurse before going into teaching. One of her favorite stories is of two doctors she knew back then.
One was very smart, top of his class, but had no bedside manner and was horrible with patients.
The other was only middle of his class, but was compassionate and had common sense.
Book smarts and class rank don't mean everything in the real world.
Follow-up. I suppose where one could argue that marketing creates additional costs is when some level of marketing is necessary just to get your drug to market. But this would be a symptom of too much competition. In that case, we would expect drug companies to be operating very close to the margin of profitability, which is precisely the opposite of what most anti-drug-company types say.
Furthermore, even before drug companies were advertising on TV, they were advertising to doctors.
Another way of looking at this... from a business perspective. Why would drug companies need to create and push lifestyle drugs? Why can't they be profitable creating drugs to treat deseases?
Think about it as if you ran the company. You could invest this years profits in creating a cancer drug or a erectile disfunction drug. You choose the latter because you can create more demand through marketing. By expanding your consumer base, marketing enables you to sell more, thus LOWERING the price because of economies of scale. Marketing, in other words, creates cheaper drugs, but only those which can be sold through advertising, not as a cure.
So I think it is incorrect to blame drug prices on the costs of marketing. If anything, drug companies are probably resorting to lifestyle drugs because they are more profitable.
Question: Were the tax breaks just tax breaks, or tax breaks specifically tied to overseas production? As I recall from the news, the tax breaks were for US "manufactured" goods (they stretched concept of manufacturing), so these would actually be tax breaks to help keep jobs IN America. I'd look it up, but I really don't care. However, since you're all fired up, I suggest you get your details straight first before spouting the party line. Remember, both sides are prone to exageration and half-truths, esp during an election. never take what they say at face value.
After all, the reason so many people want to pull their kids out of public schools and put them into private schools is because the standards are lower.
You don't need standardized tests to ensure a good education. Parents know a good school from a bad school by talking to the teachers, seeing what their kids learn, and comparing the school's performance to other schools. Among private schools, accreditation associations provide the objective measure and comparison of a school's curriculum.
Follow-up: The new iBooks all have the AirPort extreme card included, not as an add-on option.
The antennas are built into the machine, but you often have to purchase the AirPort card as an option for it to have WiFi access. The higher priced versions sometimes have it already included. Unlike add-on cards for PC laptops, which are PC Cards often with small antennas, the AirPort card is plugged in under the keyboard, and connects to the built-in antenna.
I agree. Since it is fairly easy to support almost any monitor, not to mention you don't have to replace them with the same frequency as the computer, I can't understand why Apple doesn't make basic box. You figure with their design they could keep the form factor small and cheap, and could snap up people upgrading from PC who could keep their old monitors.
Of course, back then it included the R&D to develop better electronics, gyros, etc. Now all those things already exist, COTS.
Hmm, actually, Scaled did a series of test flight gradually expanding the flight envelope, just like NASA. Because that's the smart way to do things - in measured steps.
The pilot probably did not cut the motor because he got it under control after only two oscillations.
RTFWS - it's got cold gas thrusters.
Depends on the wing shape, but in general, a wing can lift in either direction.
Most aircraft have wings that are shaped to lift more efficiently in one direction than the other, so to flying upside induces more drag and results in poor flight, or if the engine isn't strong enough, an inverted dive.
Aerobatic aircraft, esp those designed for inverted flight, may have symmetric airfoils (the wing is curved the same on top as on the bottom). The are not as efficient, but lift equally well in both directions.
Because of this, I find this learjet story very suspect.
I second this.
I don't know who said being in the military was a thankless job...
Random people thank me whenever I'm in uniform, plus there's the health care, MWR, a pension that starts immediately after 20 years of service, military discounts at stores... you can't beat the benefits. Thank YOU, American tax-payer.
Heck, a few decades ago you had to wait for mail call to get letters and care packages that could be months old. Now you can email, make phone calls at call centers, the troops have it a lot better than they used to.
And he's right, too much communications access can be bad. There is always some nimrod who breaks ComSec and ruins it for everyone else. I was down in the Caribbean a couple years back when we just got a new satellite pay phone on the cutter, and it wasn't two weeks before the spooks had notified us that someone was talking about port calls and the ship's schedule... resulting in no more phone calls for the rest of the patrol.
I don't know that higher volumes necessarily mean higher profits.
Each computer has to be sold supported. Looking at a support and sales cost per box, the margins on the high priced boxes could easily cover support, plus the additional overhead for R&D, etc. On a cheaper box, with smaller margins, the profit may only be able to cover the sales and support costs.
So the additional revenue gained by increased volume would only just cover the costs to sell and support that volume, and profit would not be affected.
Naturally, there must be a sweet spot, and we ahve to assume that the managers at Apple are constantly in search of it.
Just had a conversation in my workplace last week about this. One of my coowrkers grew up in Korea, until age 12. He says, back then, they beat the kids when they did not perform. If a students grades went down, they would get a stick across the calves or across the knuckles. If the whole class went down, everyone was beat.
I'm not saying we should beat our kids, but one can imagine that type of enironment did not foster laziness. Perhaps our kids need some better motivation--although I would shy away from corporal punishment.
I am a stundent at Old Dominion. One of my professors in the Aero Dept who was burdened with helping manage this project refers to it as "the stupid train." According to him, it hasn't been just contractual problems holding up the project, there have also been some engineering challenges... but I can't remember the details. Something about track vibration, as I recall.
As someone else pointed out, it's a straight shot for only 3/4 mile. I can't for the life of me understand who thought a MagLev train was right for this project. MagLev's only make economic sense for long distance, high-speed runs, where the decreased friction boosts their efficiency. This silly thing only runs a few blocks between center campus and some of the outlying student housing. It will NEVER approach a speed where it will become efficient.
Just think of the power required to hold the damn thing up while it coasts along at maybe 25-30 mph. This thing is not only sucking huge amounts of money now, it'll continues to do so way into the future. But like most pork-barrel projects, once it's been started, people are reluctant to cut their losses, no matter how wasteful or stupid it is.
I recall China built a maglev running between Shanghai and its airport. That makes a bit more sense... several miles, with only stops at the ends. I wonder how its doing...
At the same time, efforts to "preserve" diversity mean we are preventing natural selection from eliminating species which have failed to adapt. And "preserving" diversity may also put our immediate survival at risk.
As a case study, I suggest the use of tree farming. Humans have a need for wood as a resource. We can either delineate huge tracts of land as untouchable in order to preserve the native species, or, through proper tree farming techniques, develop an ecosystem which provides needed resources while permitting species adapted to cyclical harvesting to thrive.
The entire wing does not fold, only the aft portion of the main wing and both tails. So there is still significant drag from the portion that remains parallel ot the fuselage.
The reason the wings fold up is so that the vehicle becomes aerodynamically stable with the body across the airflow, increasing drag, and thereby increasing the magnitude of deceleration.