It's not that hot because people drink it that hot. It's that hot because after the four creams and three sugars, people for some reason still expect a hot beverage instead of a lukewarm beverage. Dunkin Donuts pre-creams your coffee for you to your specifications.
IIRC, Two creams and what tastes like way too much sugar are assumed if you don't specify, a mistake I made once stating "regular" to mean that I explicitly didn't want decaf. I don't put cream and sugar in my coffee because it overpowers the taste, so it annoys me that I have to wait for my coffee to cool down because a bunch of mouth breathers want something to sip, but don't actually like coffee. If you want a drink with caffeine and sugar, get a soda. If you want coffee flavored milk, Eclipse and Autocrat have wonderful options which won't burn you.
Don't just drink a cup of coffee because you think it's the "adult" thing to do. Argh.
Everyone was incredibly stupid in that McDonald's case. From the restaurant, for serving coffee that's just inside the vapor dome, to the woman for using her crotch as a cup holder for a beverage she's frequently ordered, and which is consistently way too hot, to the other customers for demanding a beverage which has to be dangerously heated to still be enjoyable after they mangle it with condiments.
Was McDonald's stupidity worth hundreds of millions of dollars? The Circuit Court of Appeals seams to think not.
They do work a lot better when you segregate them from the browser.
In firefox on windows, drill down through: Tools|options|content(tab)|manage...(button) Search (or scroll) for PDF and choose Change action. Then change it to open in acrobat reader (or whatever else you use) instead of the plugin.
It really annoys me that the default setting is to pretend it's a web page. Especially as the widgets don't map very well: you can't print from the browser's print, you have to print from the plugin, little things like that, but all over the place.
Did the machines ever say that the humans were power supplies? Perhaps they were using them for some other purpose. I think it makes a lot more sense if the humans are like the USDA seed bank system, except that humans can't be easily frozen and thawed out decades later, so there is a lot more maintenance.
Just because the humans thought they were power supplies doesn't mean that that's why the machines were maintaining stacks of millions of people.
You're making quite an assumption, there. They might be in the last place you look, but I make sure to keep looking after I find 'em every so often, just to avoid that awful cliché.
The best part is, you can put "finding the keys" in any percentile you want, just by looking some more. Heck, you can really screw with the average by looking for 'em occasionally when you already know where they are.
Well my cert is expired, so that tells you how long ago I bothered to learn any first aid, but I definitely remember my CPR instructors saying that if you don't break any ribs, you're probably not doing it right. I'm sure they were being a bit hyperbolic, as was my intent as well, but my main point was that ribs are not that difficult to break, so the injury there is not entirely implausible.
No. It will have very little effect on the actual spacecraft itself. However it will provide invaluable data (being only the second instrument ever to make in situ measurements there) to confirm and help update our models.
No matter what happens, it can't negatively affect the mission, because it is the mission. (well part of the mission, anyway) As a useless analogy, if Space Aliens came down and ray-gunned all of SETI's equipment, you wouldn't say that SETI's mission would be negatively impacted, would you?
Yes, you're not quite right. The magnitude of the force depends on the distance over which it is applied. Since the phone is restricted in one direction by your body, and not so much the other direction (by a flimsy shirt) the force on you is much greater.
The momentum of the phone itself is enough. Go down to the range and practice shooting. Feel all that recoil, despite the fact that the bullet is completely unrestrained in the other direction, and a bullet has a lot less mass than the gun does.
Now in a powerful explosion, the phone's gonna shoot off pretty fast. In some cases fast enough to rip through the shirt once it gets far enough that it takes up all the slack. Which brings to mind the question: how strong was that shirt? If it was strong enough, perhaps some kind of reinforced shirt or something, the hoop stress would be supported by the guy's back, so the shirt itself could maybe be the thing that broke the spine, rather than the shockwave. If that's the case, then there is also an easy solution: breakaway pockets.
I'm not sure that an explosion powerful enough to break the spine would also break the shirt, because I don't know how powerful an explosion would do either. Ribs are pretty easy to crack, though. You can do it just by punching someone hard, and you will crack some if you ever have to do CPR.
Nothing. Mythbusters actually did good work on this one. You've got to have the fuel-air mix just right, or even a spark plug won't light it. There are really only two places where the cell could ignite fumes. One is right next to the fuel port, and the other is on the ground in a puddle of gasoline.
Both assume that you're pretty sloppy with the nozzle. Like Zoolander sloppy. There's supposed to be a vapor hood over it for pollution reduction, which would also reduce the fuel in the air around the nozzle.
You just need to add a correction factor. Every time the device actually reaches the cutoff voltage, take the raw output from the integrator and store that as the normalization constant.
Divide by the constant and you should get a pretty good (though over) estimate of the fraction used. If you want to go "really" complicated, you could multiply the correction factor by a correction factor based on how recently it was last updated, to account for the possibility of accelerating degradation. And even more complicated, the correction factors themselves would make a pretty good indicator of when the battery should be replaced instead of recharged.
I'm assuming you're doing the integration in software or digital IC, of course, since a variable normalization factor would be difficult to store for any significant length of time in an analog circuit.
Not really. They just needed to provide sequel and tie-in information in their dataset. The exact relationship doesn't matter. And you can't get that info from the titles necessarily, anyway. I mean, how is a text-based algorithm going to know that "Serenity" is the movie tie-in to the series, "Firefly?"
Shouldn't they be up to thirdlife by now? It's still like barely quake-2 level realistic, when the entire rest of the games industry has moved on e-generations ago.
Yeah, 'cause there's no chance the "unarmed" guy has a shiv or an infectious disease and proclivity for biting. Keep in mind, also, that cops deal with these people all of the time, so even if 95% aren't biters, that's still a lot of risk.
Just because someone doesn't have any weapons doesn't mean a taser isn't an appropriate action.
I'll grant that the "Don't tase me, Bra" guy didn't appear to be a candidate for tasing, but notably the woman who did it wasn't law enforcement officer. Perhaps what needs to happen is a review of the university "campus safety" system.
My recollection may be poor, but I don't remember scientists actually saying rogue waves can't exist. I do remember they said they couldn't model them using the linearized CFD simulations that had become popular, and when processing power finally grew to the point where they could cross fewer terms off of the ol' Navier-Stokes equations, they found something that resembled rogue waves in the results.
I suspect this is a case where one group of scientists or engineers misinterpreted or exaggerated the results of another group of scientists and engineers.
My car, based on averages of roughly 5-mile stretches of a Florida highway using cruise control, gets its peak fuel economy (a lamentable 27 mpg)at 72 mph. It is not a small car, nor is it particularly aerodynamic.
It would be wrong to assume that slower driving always results in greater fuel efficiency for the simple reason that wind resistance is not the sole factor in determining wasted energy.
Safety is the most important factor in obeying speed limits, and should be such in setting them as well.
Interestingly, the GP's poor driver may already be in legal trouble. Most states have a little-known "reasonable and prudent" clause modifying their speed laws. Basically, you are required to drive at an appropriate speed depending on the road conditions and traffic regardless of the posted speed limit. It can be used to get out of speeding tickets under certain circumstances, but you can also get tickets under its rules. Most of the time, it's people driving too fast, but under the limit, under particularly adverse conditions like low visibility or slush.
But it's certainly also within the realm of possibility to get a ticket for driving below the posted limit when the "flow of traffic" is above it.
Perhaps you are not from the US, so you don't know that congress declared the war. They did not use the specific words, "We declare war on Iraq" but their authorization bill was exactly those words in character. Moreover, what are you supposed to do when the terms of armistice are repeatedly violated over a decade?
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It's not that hot because people drink it that hot. It's that hot because after the four creams and three sugars, people for some reason still expect a hot beverage instead of a lukewarm beverage. Dunkin Donuts pre-creams your coffee for you to your specifications.
IIRC, Two creams and what tastes like way too much sugar are assumed if you don't specify, a mistake I made once stating "regular" to mean that I explicitly didn't want decaf. I don't put cream and sugar in my coffee because it overpowers the taste, so it annoys me that I have to wait for my coffee to cool down because a bunch of mouth breathers want something to sip, but don't actually like coffee. If you want a drink with caffeine and sugar, get a soda. If you want coffee flavored milk, Eclipse and Autocrat have wonderful options which won't burn you.
Don't just drink a cup of coffee because you think it's the "adult" thing to do. Argh.
Everyone was incredibly stupid in that McDonald's case. From the restaurant, for serving coffee that's just inside the vapor dome, to the woman for using her crotch as a cup holder for a beverage she's frequently ordered, and which is consistently way too hot, to the other customers for demanding a beverage which has to be dangerously heated to still be enjoyable after they mangle it with condiments.
Was McDonald's stupidity worth hundreds of millions of dollars? The Circuit Court of Appeals seams to think not.
They do work a lot better when you segregate them from the browser.
In firefox on windows, drill down through: Tools|options|content(tab)|manage...(button) Search (or scroll) for PDF and choose Change action. Then change it to open in acrobat reader (or whatever else you use) instead of the plugin.
It really annoys me that the default setting is to pretend it's a web page. Especially as the widgets don't map very well: you can't print from the browser's print, you have to print from the plugin, little things like that, but all over the place.
Did the machines ever say that the humans were power supplies? Perhaps they were using them for some other purpose. I think it makes a lot more sense if the humans are like the USDA seed bank system, except that humans can't be easily frozen and thawed out decades later, so there is a lot more maintenance.
Just because the humans thought they were power supplies doesn't mean that that's why the machines were maintaining stacks of millions of people.
You're making quite an assumption, there. They might be in the last place you look, but I make sure to keep looking after I find 'em every so often, just to avoid that awful cliché.
The best part is, you can put "finding the keys" in any percentile you want, just by looking some more. Heck, you can really screw with the average by looking for 'em occasionally when you already know where they are.
Well my cert is expired, so that tells you how long ago I bothered to learn any first aid, but I definitely remember my CPR instructors saying that if you don't break any ribs, you're probably not doing it right. I'm sure they were being a bit hyperbolic, as was my intent as well, but my main point was that ribs are not that difficult to break, so the injury there is not entirely implausible.
No. It will have very little effect on the actual spacecraft itself. However it will provide invaluable data (being only the second instrument ever to make in situ measurements there) to confirm and help update our models.
No matter what happens, it can't negatively affect the mission, because it is the mission. (well part of the mission, anyway) As a useless analogy, if Space Aliens came down and ray-gunned all of SETI's equipment, you wouldn't say that SETI's mission would be negatively impacted, would you?
Yes, you're not quite right. The magnitude of the force depends on the distance over which it is applied. Since the phone is restricted in one direction by your body, and not so much the other direction (by a flimsy shirt) the force on you is much greater.
The momentum of the phone itself is enough. Go down to the range and practice shooting. Feel all that recoil, despite the fact that the bullet is completely unrestrained in the other direction, and a bullet has a lot less mass than the gun does.
Now in a powerful explosion, the phone's gonna shoot off pretty fast. In some cases fast enough to rip through the shirt once it gets far enough that it takes up all the slack. Which brings to mind the question: how strong was that shirt? If it was strong enough, perhaps some kind of reinforced shirt or something, the hoop stress would be supported by the guy's back, so the shirt itself could maybe be the thing that broke the spine, rather than the shockwave. If that's the case, then there is also an easy solution: breakaway pockets.
I'm not sure that an explosion powerful enough to break the spine would also break the shirt, because I don't know how powerful an explosion would do either. Ribs are pretty easy to crack, though. You can do it just by punching someone hard, and you will crack some if you ever have to do CPR.
Nothing. Mythbusters actually did good work on this one. You've got to have the fuel-air mix just right, or even a spark plug won't light it. There are really only two places where the cell could ignite fumes. One is right next to the fuel port, and the other is on the ground in a puddle of gasoline.
Both assume that you're pretty sloppy with the nozzle. Like Zoolander sloppy. There's supposed to be a vapor hood over it for pollution reduction, which would also reduce the fuel in the air around the nozzle.
You just need to add a correction factor. Every time the device actually reaches the cutoff voltage, take the raw output from the integrator and store that as the normalization constant.
Divide by the constant and you should get a pretty good (though over) estimate of the fraction used. If you want to go "really" complicated, you could multiply the correction factor by a correction factor based on how recently it was last updated, to account for the possibility of accelerating degradation. And even more complicated, the correction factors themselves would make a pretty good indicator of when the battery should be replaced instead of recharged.
I'm assuming you're doing the integration in software or digital IC, of course, since a variable normalization factor would be difficult to store for any significant length of time in an analog circuit.
Brilliant, and with everyone else switching to FIOS, they won't even have to lay new copper!
Not really. They just needed to provide sequel and tie-in information in their dataset. The exact relationship doesn't matter. And you can't get that info from the titles necessarily, anyway. I mean, how is a text-based algorithm going to know that "Serenity" is the movie tie-in to the series, "Firefly?"
Shouldn't they be up to thirdlife by now? It's still like barely quake-2 level realistic, when the entire rest of the games industry has moved on e-generations ago.
You get crap for that, and if you are actually defeated all the way up to the choke point, you've already lost the game.
South America and Africa are the continents to go for. No one ever expects Africa to be the lynchpin because of latent racism.
We are the grey goo.
Oh, how convenient for them that even their shortcomings make them superior.
Um.. the Wankel engine works. There's one in the Mazda RX- series.
So.. it'd be Yahoo! then?
Speaking of those design changes, I've got to wonder exactly what changes you could make to make a 100 foot high wave survivable.
If the meth addict charges a cop with a knife, the cop should skip the taser and go straight for the gun.
Yeah, 'cause there's no chance the "unarmed" guy has a shiv or an infectious disease and proclivity for biting. Keep in mind, also, that cops deal with these people all of the time, so even if 95% aren't biters, that's still a lot of risk.
Just because someone doesn't have any weapons doesn't mean a taser isn't an appropriate action.
I'll grant that the "Don't tase me, Bra" guy didn't appear to be a candidate for tasing, but notably the woman who did it wasn't law enforcement officer. Perhaps what needs to happen is a review of the university "campus safety" system.
My recollection may be poor, but I don't remember scientists actually saying rogue waves can't exist. I do remember they said they couldn't model them using the linearized CFD simulations that had become popular, and when processing power finally grew to the point where they could cross fewer terms off of the ol' Navier-Stokes equations, they found something that resembled rogue waves in the results.
I suspect this is a case where one group of scientists or engineers misinterpreted or exaggerated the results of another group of scientists and engineers.
You couldn't find any /a> below $140?
Well I guess they don't exist, then.
My car, based on averages of roughly 5-mile stretches of a Florida highway using cruise control, gets its peak fuel economy (a lamentable 27 mpg)at 72 mph. It is not a small car, nor is it particularly aerodynamic.
It would be wrong to assume that slower driving always results in greater fuel efficiency for the simple reason that wind resistance is not the sole factor in determining wasted energy.
Safety is the most important factor in obeying speed limits, and should be such in setting them as well.
Interestingly, the GP's poor driver may already be in legal trouble. Most states have a little-known "reasonable and prudent" clause modifying their speed laws. Basically, you are required to drive at an appropriate speed depending on the road conditions and traffic regardless of the posted speed limit. It can be used to get out of speeding tickets under certain circumstances, but you can also get tickets under its rules. Most of the time, it's people driving too fast, but under the limit, under particularly adverse conditions like low visibility or slush.
But it's certainly also within the realm of possibility to get a ticket for driving below the posted limit when the "flow of traffic" is above it.
Science is all about the baby steps. You can't talk about determining the weights before you know what the connections are.
Perhaps you are not from the US, so you don't know that congress declared the war. They did not use the specific words, "We declare war on Iraq" but their authorization bill was exactly those words in character. Moreover, what are you supposed to do when the terms of armistice are repeatedly violated over a decade?