No, most of us are out taking showers and having sex. So point in bitching about it.
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I'm curious to know how much petroleum goes to fuels vs products . . . anyone know?
This depends a lot on what grade of petroleum and what the demand is. But you can figure that at least half of an average barrell will go towards fuels. (Gasoline, Kerosene, Hydrogen, Diesel, Bunker Oil, etc...)
Before anybody says antything stupid about "well only 10% of crude is gasoline". I'll say this:
Most any fraction of crude can be turned into any other though cracking, alkylation and related processes. About the only stuff that can't really be helped is vacuum resid, which is basically asphalt.
While the references indicate that the actual mileage is lower than what is claimed, the vehicles do get better gas mileage than standard automobiles. From a conservation standpoint, that's still a good thing. From a Truth In Advertising (ha!) standpoint, it certainly stinks.
Not really, a normal civic get about 30-35 mpg anyway. The hybrid doesn't seem to be buying more than 1-2 MPG. Hardly signifigant.
If your bank sent you a letter and told you that they had decided that a new policy would be to reduce 20% of your savings annually in order to increase the wages of their local branch tellers so they could match cost of living increases and ensure employee comfort would you (or the average joe) keep banking there? Nope... so why would any shareholders keep money in Intel if they can make more money elsewhere... answer... they won't.
Unfortunately your analogy is flawed. The correct form would be:
The bank sends a letter that says: We're going to reduce the interest rate on your savings account and increase your variable rate mortgage for a year because the economy is bad and we don't want to lay off our loyal employees.
There is an important difference between the two, and if one cannot understand that, he or she should hit the economics books again.
Force-feeding memorization is the quickest way to end the technological dominance of the United States. If you do not believe me, travel the world and ask "What country produces the best engineers?". (I said engineers, not computer scientists, there is a difference.) I'll promise you, over half the time the reponse will be the US. The reason for this? American students generally know how to think, but this is changing for the worse.
Over-Memorization will produce better test scores, but worse educated students. I can get any computer to memorize a log table, but I cannot teach a computer what it means. If I teach a personwhat a log table means, they can go look up the values when they need them, or they can generate one themselves.
or actually show the console working and playing games to the press
Actually, HardOCP is still is good shape. Infinium would have to prove that HardOCP was wrong at the time they published the article.
IANAL though, but it's a pretty simple concept.
I had the good fortune of being one of those students. My professor (Dr. Stephen Rosen) gave each student who bought one of his new texts the royalties he earned on it. In my case it came out to be just under $5.
My undergraduate school had a policy: If the prof wrote the book he/she used for the course, the proceeds had to be donated to charity. I sorta liked that...
As other people have mentioned, the HR departments are even more messed up than the applicants.
Perfect example:
I am an engineer (chemical) getting ready to finish my PhD. I was granted an interview with a large company. (Fortune 500 oil company) As is common, I expected to be interviewed by another technically competent person. (Engineer, chemist, etc..) Probably not a doctoral level, but at least could tell a drill pipe from a distillation column.
But no, I was interviewed by an ACCOUNTANT. I franky felt insulted at that. HR departments should realise that the person interviewing should be at least in a related field to the interviewee. An accountant cannot assess my skills anymore than I could assess an accountant's. Needless to say, I won't be working for that company anytime soon.
Your example of a Prof. isn't the only one. In 8 years of college and grad school, only one course where the prof used his own book. He refunded everyone who bought the book new about $5.
nobody, not even weather computer people could ever want faster
Uhh, nope. In the high end world of computer simulations there is still a need for faster processors. Why?
1) There are jobs that just don't parallelize well or even at all. In this case you still need a single fast CPU.
2) There are still things that cannot be simulated because there are not fast enough computers available. If you would like a good simple real life example, a flag or piece of string flapping in the wind is nearly impossible to simulate.
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No, most of us are out taking showers and having sex. So point in bitching about it.
I'm curious to know how much petroleum goes to fuels vs products . . . anyone know?
This depends a lot on what grade of petroleum and what the demand is. But you can figure that at least half of an average barrell will go towards fuels. (Gasoline, Kerosene, Hydrogen, Diesel, Bunker Oil, etc...)
Before anybody says antything stupid about "well only 10% of crude is gasoline". I'll say this:
Most any fraction of crude can be turned into any other though cracking, alkylation and related processes. About the only stuff that can't really be helped is vacuum resid, which is basically asphalt.
While the references indicate that the actual mileage is lower than what is claimed, the vehicles do get better gas mileage than standard automobiles. From a conservation standpoint, that's still a good thing. From a Truth In Advertising (ha!) standpoint, it certainly stinks.
Not really, a normal civic get about 30-35 mpg anyway. The hybrid doesn't seem to be buying more than 1-2 MPG. Hardly signifigant.
Unfortunately your analogy is flawed. The correct form would be:
The bank sends a letter that says: We're going to reduce the interest rate on your savings account and increase your variable rate mortgage for a year because the economy is bad and we don't want to lay off our loyal employees.
There is an important difference between the two, and if one cannot understand that, he or she should hit the economics books again.
Force-feeding memorization is the quickest way to end the technological dominance of the United States. If you do not believe me, travel the world and ask "What country produces the best engineers?". (I said engineers, not computer scientists, there is a difference.) I'll promise you, over half the time the reponse will be the US. The reason for this? American students generally know how to think, but this is changing for the worse.
Over-Memorization will produce better test scores, but worse educated students. I can get any computer to memorize a log table, but I cannot teach a computer what it means. If I teach a personwhat a log table means, they can go look up the values when they need them, or they can generate one themselves.
Okay, I feel better now, flame away.
Actually, HardOCP is still is good shape. Infinium would have to prove that HardOCP was wrong at the time they published the article.
IANAL though, but it's a pretty simple concept.
HA! If you only know just how many supercomputers aren't fast enough to run some programs written in fortran.
I'm not saying fortran is perfect, but for straight line math it's pretty damn hard to beat.
I had the good fortune of being one of those students. My professor (Dr. Stephen Rosen) gave each student who bought one of his new texts the royalties he earned on it. In my case it came out to be just under $5.
My undergraduate school had a policy: If the prof wrote the book he/she used for the course, the proceeds had to be donated to charity. I sorta liked that...
Pontiac Aztek!
That car is so bad, it must have been hit twice with the ugly stick.
As other people have mentioned, the HR departments are even more messed up than the applicants.
Perfect example:
I am an engineer (chemical) getting ready to finish my PhD. I was granted an interview with a large company. (Fortune 500 oil company) As is common, I expected to be interviewed by another technically competent person. (Engineer, chemist, etc..) Probably not a doctoral level, but at least could tell a drill pipe from a distillation column.
But no, I was interviewed by an ACCOUNTANT. I franky felt insulted at that. HR departments should realise that the person interviewing should be at least in a related field to the interviewee. An accountant cannot assess my skills anymore than I could assess an accountant's. Needless to say, I won't be working for that company anytime soon.
Oh, then you mean this:
Sunrayce 99
It doesn't say it outright on that page, but that rayce had solid clouds and rain 8 out of 9 days.
You mean this: American Solar Challenge.
Two of the teams in WSC were competitors in ASC!
Your example of a Prof. isn't the only one. In 8 years of college and grad school, only one course where the prof used his own book. He refunded everyone who bought the book new about $5.
nobody, not even weather computer people could ever want faster
Uhh, nope. In the high end world of computer simulations there is still a need for faster processors. Why?
1) There are jobs that just don't parallelize well or even at all. In this case you still need a single fast CPU.
2) There are still things that cannot be simulated because there are not fast enough computers available. If you would like a good simple real life example, a flag or piece of string flapping in the wind is nearly impossible to simulate.
"Wow, that sounds like a really good deal... How about I just give you the finger *birdie flies* and you get me my goddamed lawyer."
Okay so the quote isn't exact, but you get the point.