Are we at the point in history where we can design a building completely inside a computer and simulate the effect earthquakes of various degrees will have on the building?
This is just a turf war. Teachers are mad that "Big Box Store" wikipedia has marched into town and offers more and better information than they can at far less cost. So what do they do? They assault wikipedia's character by questioning its credibility.
Personally I have found wikipedia to be as credible if not more credible than everything I was taught at school.
I know RPN and would never use it. My HP sits in my drawer while my TI-89 gets hours of use every day.
RPN is so overrated. Yeah you save 2.56% of keystrokes (or however much it is), but you only do so by decomposing every equation. As such you cant call up previous complete equations for modification, and you don't get to review the complete equation on screen.
I know planes carry cargo, and that they carry as much as they can. My point was that fuel loads are far more significant that small payload variations.
If you've ever flown a long-haul international flight you may have noticed that the plane always struggles to get off the ground. That is because for every pound of luggage somebody doesn't pack, they go ahead and load freight.
No, it's because the thing is carrying 250 tonnes of kerosene.
Yeah you expend more energy when you are exercising, but the extra energy is easily overwhelmed by a chocolate bar or some soft drinks or "fat-kid" genetics.
It's really hard to spend significant calories exercising. To work off say a bottle of coke you need to run for like an hour.
I am a big fan of 24 and until this year I have always downloaded it from usenet as we were always a few months behind the US. This year it is only one week, I can wait a week and so I do not download it.
Same as me. I used to download it but now I just watch it on Free to air. I think the stations are learning...
Herbicides are pesticides. I quote from the EPA's website:
A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for:
preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest.
Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, and various other substances used to control pests.
Pesticide resistance is engineered into some plants so farmers can spray as much pesticide as they want without hurting the crop - e.g. Roundup Ready plants.
Some plants are indeed engineered to be pest resistant, but that isn't what the GP was talking about.
What characteristics of the device precluded it containing explosives?
Show me a tubular bundle wrapped in black plastic with wires and electronics and I'd start thinking bomb, regardless of whether there's a picture of a cartoon character attached.
Since almost everything must deal with dissipating heat, why can't someone invent something that collect the heat and re-use it to generate even more power?
I think it has something to do with Second and his law of thermal dynamics.
The stupid names are one of the reasons I didn't stick with Linux. Why should I be expected to learn silly gibberish simply to open the correct program?
even though no mineral is harder than the diamond, good ol' granite is much tougher
Toughness (units in MPa m^0.5)
Granite: ~2 Diamond: ~3.5 Steel: ~100
Toughness is a combination of strength and ductility. Granite is medium strength and very low ductility. Diamond is high strength and very low ductility. Steel is medium strength and high ductility.
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Are we at the point in history where we can design a building completely inside a computer and simulate the effect earthquakes of various degrees will have on the building?
Pretty much.
Who makes that software?
People like this: http://www.csiberkeley.com/ http://www.risatech.com/.
How much does it cost?
About $5000.
This is just a turf war. Teachers are mad that "Big Box Store" wikipedia has marched into town and offers more and better information than they can at far less cost. So what do they do? They assault wikipedia's character by questioning its credibility.
Personally I have found wikipedia to be as credible if not more credible than everything I was taught at school.
I know RPN and would never use it. My HP sits in my drawer while my TI-89 gets hours of use every day.
RPN is so overrated. Yeah you save 2.56% of keystrokes (or however much it is), but you only do so by decomposing every equation. As such you cant call up previous complete equations for modification, and you don't get to review the complete equation on screen.
Just say "price".
Exactly. There will always be starving orphans, but that's no reason not to wash the dishes.
For having rights one should be able to lay a claim to this right
You would therefore argue that a baby has no rights?
I know planes carry cargo, and that they carry as much as they can. My point was that fuel loads are far more significant that small payload variations.
If you've ever flown a long-haul international flight you may have noticed that the plane always struggles to get off the ground. That is because for every pound of luggage somebody doesn't pack, they go ahead and load freight.
No, it's because the thing is carrying 250 tonnes of kerosene.
My question is... what exactly are you trying to secure?
His sense of being a big strong man.
Yeah you expend more energy when you are exercising, but the extra energy is easily overwhelmed by a chocolate bar or some soft drinks or "fat-kid" genetics.
It's really hard to spend significant calories exercising. To work off say a bottle of coke you need to run for like an hour.
I for one believe that consciousness is an intrinsic property of matter
So you would argue that a rock is conscious?
evolution occurs for a reason
No it doesn't, it just happens.
I am a big fan of 24 and until this year I have always downloaded it from usenet as we were always a few months behind the US. This year it is only one week, I can wait a week and so I do not download it.
Same as me. I used to download it but now I just watch it on Free to air.
I think the stations are learning...
Something doesn't need to be the most important thing in the world to be worth doing.
How many of the things you do each day that you deem important are more important that saving starving AIDS orphans?
Herbicides are pesticides. I quote from the EPA's website:
A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for:
preventing,
destroying,
repelling, or
mitigating any pest.
Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides, the term pesticide also applies to herbicides, fungicides, and various other substances used to control pests.
I am fully aware that roundup is a herbicide.
Pesticide resistance is engineered into some plants so farmers can spray as much pesticide as they want without hurting the crop - e.g. Roundup Ready plants.
Some plants are indeed engineered to be pest resistant, but that isn't what the GP was talking about.
You don't want to eat GM foods, that's fair enough. I don't consider you stupid for this.
I personally don't care if I eat GM foods. Why does that make me stupid?
Because they were in denial about what a fuck-up the whole thing was.
And don't forget hoop snakes....
"moot" not "mute"
What characteristics of the device precluded it containing explosives?
Show me a tubular bundle wrapped in black plastic with wires and electronics and I'd start thinking bomb, regardless of whether there's a picture of a cartoon character attached.
Anyone with half a brain (which apparently does not include the Boston PD) would have immediately known that those objects were not bombs.
How can you immediately tell that the objects aren't bombs? No ticking red timer?
Since almost everything must deal with dissipating heat, why can't someone invent something that collect the heat and re-use it to generate even more power?
I think it has something to do with Second and his law of thermal dynamics.
The stupid names are one of the reasons I didn't stick with Linux. Why should I be expected to learn silly gibberish simply to open the correct program?
even though no mineral is harder than the diamond, good ol' granite is much tougher
Toughness (units in MPa m^0.5)
Granite: ~2
Diamond: ~3.5
Steel: ~100
Toughness is a combination of strength and ductility. Granite is medium strength and very low ductility. Diamond is high strength and very low ductility. Steel is medium strength and high ductility.