No, your kids do not have that responsibility. That's actually another of YOUR responsibilities. If your children fail to respect your wishes, you can't sue them into the poorhouse or have them arrested, can you? And if you could, what the heck kind of a monster would do that?
Nothing that is limited to drawing 3kW is going to have that range without a) taking more than a day to charge or b) not being something you'd actually consider driving on a regular basis.
The reason is that a 10h charge gets you 1 hour on the road.
If you want an electric car, you're probably going to have to deal with renting the battery, and having swap-out stations. And probably cell-phone style pricing. And that's only if we can get the battery weight down to reasonable levels. And batteries that energy-dense will be bombs.
Synthetic Diesel is probably the future of automobiles. Whether bio- or something else, liquid hydrocarbons are a pretty ideal energy storage mechanism when you balance all of the needs of a transportation machine.
You don't have to give blood just at the drives. There's almost guaranteed to be a Red Cross center not far from where you live, or one of the other companies (red cross is not the only organization that collects and supplies blood products) Those are rarely filled up.
Interesting. Based on your comment, I think there should be, close to the end but not at the end. One additional ballot question. "I wish to have my ballot counted." If that's not checked, "yes" then no effort needs to be expended actually tallying the rest of the choices.
Ironically, WoW could probably be played fairly easily using a console-style control scheme. Whether it would port to a console or not is another matter, of course, but FFXI seems to have done alright.
I believe the poster was referring to commodities, which always average out to the marginal cost eventually. Fortunately, the bulk of what societies need are commodities.
What you're talking about are not commodities. They are luxury items. The famous painting for instance: there is only one of it. You could never call it a commodity. But society cannot enjoy the painting. We can however enjoy images of the painting. That is the commodity as soon as copyright runs out, after which viewings do approach the marginal cost (~$0).
Radio is how television has traditionally been transmitted, at least until the last couple decades. You can have vision-at-a-distance without using precious EM spectrum.
They do not want your garbage. They are interested in wearable clothing that you can no longer use, whether from growing up, out, or tired of it.
I.e. clothes you could potentially sell to someone yourself if you were so inclined.
They take your donation and go on to sell it. Just like with the blood drives.
There are several reasons they don't pay for blood, though I agree with you that they're probably specious. One reason is that they are afraid that payment will bring all the undesirables out of the woodwork. An unpaid donation attracts only the altruistic. But payment might convince intervenous drug users to give blood (for their very drug money...) and lie about their history. So the non-paid donations are thought to be easier to screen. The thinking may be that all of the people that would donate for the right reasons already are donating.
But the real reason is probably simply, because they can. There is no shortage of blood, but neither is there a surplus or very much of a reserve. If there were, then they would pay for it. They already pay for plasma, so the need there must be dire enough to ignore the potential screening problem (if there is, indeed, such a problem.) In fact, the tight supply might actually be enhancing the price of wholesale blood, further discouraging supply enhancing measures.
I am not a biologist, but I was under the impression that current gene sequencing techniques involved taking a rather large sample, mashing it up to break the cell walls and release the DNA molecule from the nucleus, introducing enzymes to further break the strands into smaller, manageable lengths, {magic, wherin those shorter molecules are actually translated to bits on a computer somewhere}, then pattern matching to splice the pieces back together digitally thereafter.
In theory, this would sequence everything in a sample, but depending on similarities, could be pretty error prone.
Well there was only one use of nuclear weapons in war ever, so your "all three kinds" is rhetorical nonsense.
You could just as easily have phrased is as the us being the only country yet to use all seven tools of war (nuclear, chemical, and automatic weapons, propaganda, espionage, communication and planning) or some other equally misleading list which includes nuclear weapons and a list of atrocities committed by every other nation than the US, too.
The only thing that differentiates the US in that regard is a single operation in a war that ended 70 years ago. Which was uniquely followed by consternation about whether or not it should've been done.
It also conveniently sidesteps the issue that is the heart of the matter: is the war itself Just. If the war is unjust, then no amount of weapons restrictions make it acceptable. Similarly, if the war is just, then no weapon is, in and of itself, unacceptable.
The US fear, wrt Iran, is that they will use nuclear weapons to further genocidal aims wrt Israel. That fear is based on public statements by the leader of Iran specifically stating that intention.
The defining characteristic of being the "bronze age" is the ability to smelt copper and forge bronze. i.e. the Temperatures achievable in furnaces and forges. If they couldn't make thousand degree fires, it wouldn't be the bronze age.
Emacs and Vi are too bloated. If you must use a utility to compose text files in unix, there is a perfectly usable and full featured word processor right there in/bin on every POSIX compliant system.
I speak of the Computer Aided Text processor
It has a few command line options depending on whether you want your lines numbered, reduce unnecessary whitespace, and other conveniences. Each line is fully editable until you commit it by hitting the enter key. If something happens while you're typing it, not to worry: it autosaves after each line of text. Just use the -a (append) option when you run it again to finish the file.
You only need to remember one control sequence. Unlike those wannabe window managers like emacs and vi with their scores of non-mnemonic commands. When you're done typing in cat, hit ctrl-d (for done, of course) and that's it.
I should've added that I mean psychology is infantile as in it's still in its infancy, not that we have nothing to learn from the field. But progress is necessarily slow in a field where it may be unethical to perform any significant experiments.
Biology is a fuzzy science. Not as fuzzy and infantile as psychology, but it still can't be trusted like physics can.
I haven't seen any evidence that proves evolution. I've heard of quite a few experiments that fail to disprove it, or don't really prove anything at all, but the best evidence we have for evolution is indirect observation. It's a good theory, and it fits most of the facts, but it's simply not beautiful yet like F=dp/dt or E=hnu.
What the scientists want is for science education to be as complete as possible, but what the slashdotters seem to want is for people to place faith in evolution instead of Christ. or YHWH. or Budda. or Zoroaster. or His Grand Noodliness.
Faith is the domain of religion, and should remain there. It has no place in science. Ask me to believe your theory, but don't ask me to believe in it. We'll both be disappointed.
Not really, would you really want to wait in line for an hour at the beginning of each level? Red vs. Blue could probably make something of it, but I don't think it'd make a very fun game.
I can't think of any reason why 9.42 would be considered more precise than 3*pi, since you could always write it as 9.425, or 9.4248, or etc. Perhaps there was some aspect to the problem that limited it to those significant digits that you failed to consider?
If not, your geometry teacher was astoundingly bad.
True, though you can't polish a microprocessor. You have to evaluate the demand for the higher precision vs. the cost of implementing it. Sometimes, you can have a very precise process that happens to not be particularly accurate.
Resistors for instance are done in batches that are extremely consistent, but not necessarily exactly on the desired resistance. And they're sold by how well they are expected to match. Quite a few applications are order-of-magnitude, so a 10% accurate resistor isn't that bad: it's less than about half a dB of change. If all you need is a current-limiting or pull-up resistor, you don't even need to be within 50% of the value, as long as it's above the threshold.
If you're already producing enough parts of the higher quality parts to satisfy the demand, why would you add a polishing step or improved machining process?
Using momentum in the terminology (which would never have occurred to Newton) is a latter-day revision of the law to bring it into correspondence with special relativity.
But after reading that, I'm left wondering where the heck the rocket equation came from. and fluid dynamics. And whether a smart man is trying to blow smoke where smoke does not belong in the hopes of appearing even smarter for the purpose of getting grant money.
You could do this as a 3-body problem, and then you'd be correct that they fall at different rates, but you'd have quite a difficulty measuring the difference, since the feather and the hammer are orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude less than the mass of the moon.
The other point you've mentioned is actually quite the physical puzzle. There's no reason why gravitational mass and inertial mass need to be the same, yet to our ability to measure so far, they are.
Um.. yeah. of course that's how it is. Measurement is always more precise and less costly than machining. If you've got a process that produces 4.00 cm parts, and you put more effort into measuring, you might be able to sift some 4.00000 parts from the mix. But those parts are much rarer than the 4.00s, and so command better pricing. (it also means that the remaining parts are definitely not 4.00000)
If you need more 4.00000 parts, you could use tighter machining tolerances, but each part will be much more expensive. The choice of which method depends on a variety of factors, not the least of which is whether you can use the "rejects" as "low quality parts" or "scrap."
There is no rule that says every plural has to have an 's' on the end. What about fish, or sheep, or mice?
It's silly to put the 's' sound after the 'th' sound, so we don't do it. Sticking to something that's silly because of some imagined superior etymology is pigheaded. Except for the word, 'isthmus.' That word is is so silly it shoots the moon into being worth keeping around.
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No, your kids do not have that responsibility. That's actually another of YOUR responsibilities. If your children fail to respect your wishes, you can't sue them into the poorhouse or have them arrested, can you? And if you could, what the heck kind of a monster would do that?
Nothing that is limited to drawing 3kW is going to have that range without a) taking more than a day to charge or b) not being something you'd actually consider driving on a regular basis.
The reason is that a 10h charge gets you 1 hour on the road.
If you want an electric car, you're probably going to have to deal with renting the battery, and having swap-out stations. And probably cell-phone style pricing. And that's only if we can get the battery weight down to reasonable levels. And batteries that energy-dense will be bombs.
Synthetic Diesel is probably the future of automobiles. Whether bio- or something else, liquid hydrocarbons are a pretty ideal energy storage mechanism when you balance all of the needs of a transportation machine.
You don't have to give blood just at the drives. There's almost guaranteed to be a Red Cross center not far from where you live, or one of the other companies (red cross is not the only organization that collects and supplies blood products) Those are rarely filled up.
Interesting. Based on your comment, I think there should be, close to the end but not at the end. One additional ballot question. "I wish to have my ballot counted." If that's not checked, "yes" then no effort needs to be expended actually tallying the rest of the choices.
Ironically, WoW could probably be played fairly easily using a console-style control scheme. Whether it would port to a console or not is another matter, of course, but FFXI seems to have done alright.
I believe the poster was referring to commodities, which always average out to the marginal cost eventually. Fortunately, the bulk of what societies need are commodities.
What you're talking about are not commodities. They are luxury items. The famous painting for instance: there is only one of it. You could never call it a commodity. But society cannot enjoy the painting. We can however enjoy images of the painting. That is the commodity as soon as copyright runs out, after which viewings do approach the marginal cost (~$0).
Radio is how television has traditionally been transmitted, at least until the last couple decades. You can have vision-at-a-distance without using precious EM spectrum.
They do not want your garbage. They are interested in wearable clothing that you can no longer use, whether from growing up, out, or tired of it.
I.e. clothes you could potentially sell to someone yourself if you were so inclined.
They take your donation and go on to sell it. Just like with the blood drives.
There are several reasons they don't pay for blood, though I agree with you that they're probably specious. One reason is that they are afraid that payment will bring all the undesirables out of the woodwork. An unpaid donation attracts only the altruistic. But payment might convince intervenous drug users to give blood (for their very drug money...) and lie about their history. So the non-paid donations are thought to be easier to screen. The thinking may be that all of the people that would donate for the right reasons already are donating.
But the real reason is probably simply, because they can. There is no shortage of blood, but neither is there a surplus or very much of a reserve. If there were, then they would pay for it. They already pay for plasma, so the need there must be dire enough to ignore the potential screening problem (if there is, indeed, such a problem.) In fact, the tight supply might actually be enhancing the price of wholesale blood, further discouraging supply enhancing measures.
I am not a biologist, but I was under the impression that current gene sequencing techniques involved taking a rather large sample, mashing it up to break the cell walls and release the DNA molecule from the nucleus, introducing enzymes to further break the strands into smaller, manageable lengths, {magic, wherin those shorter molecules are actually translated to bits on a computer somewhere}, then pattern matching to splice the pieces back together digitally thereafter.
In theory, this would sequence everything in a sample, but depending on similarities, could be pretty error prone.
Where do you think thrift stores get their stock?
Well there was only one use of nuclear weapons in war ever, so your "all three kinds" is rhetorical nonsense.
You could just as easily have phrased is as the us being the only country yet to use all seven tools of war (nuclear, chemical, and automatic weapons, propaganda, espionage, communication and planning) or some other equally misleading list which includes nuclear weapons and a list of atrocities committed by every other nation than the US, too.
The only thing that differentiates the US in that regard is a single operation in a war that ended 70 years ago. Which was uniquely followed by consternation about whether or not it should've been done.
It also conveniently sidesteps the issue that is the heart of the matter: is the war itself Just. If the war is unjust, then no amount of weapons restrictions make it acceptable. Similarly, if the war is just, then no weapon is, in and of itself, unacceptable.
The US fear, wrt Iran, is that they will use nuclear weapons to further genocidal aims wrt Israel. That fear is based on public statements by the leader of Iran specifically stating that intention.
The defining characteristic of being the "bronze age" is the ability to smelt copper and forge bronze. i.e. the Temperatures achievable in furnaces and forges. If they couldn't make thousand degree fires, it wouldn't be the bronze age.
Yet they allowed the bodies to be removed? Since when is grave desecration ok if the grave in question happens to be "really, really neat."
Emacs and Vi are too bloated. If you must use a utility to compose text files in unix, there is a perfectly usable and full featured word processor right there in /bin on every POSIX compliant system.
I speak of the Computer Aided Text processor
It has a few command line options depending on whether you want your lines numbered, reduce unnecessary whitespace, and other conveniences. Each line is fully editable until you commit it by hitting the enter key. If something happens while you're typing it, not to worry: it autosaves after each line of text. Just use the -a (append) option when you run it again to finish the file.
You only need to remember one control sequence. Unlike those wannabe window managers like emacs and vi with their scores of non-mnemonic commands. When you're done typing in cat, hit ctrl-d (for done, of course) and that's it.
They're pretty good at taking your money and borrowing against your credit.
What will you do when the lubricant evaporates? Buy a scanning tunneling microscope?
I should've added that I mean psychology is infantile as in it's still in its infancy, not that we have nothing to learn from the field. But progress is necessarily slow in a field where it may be unethical to perform any significant experiments.
Biology is a fuzzy science. Not as fuzzy and infantile as psychology, but it still can't be trusted like physics can.
I haven't seen any evidence that proves evolution. I've heard of quite a few experiments that fail to disprove it, or don't really prove anything at all, but the best evidence we have for evolution is indirect observation. It's a good theory, and it fits most of the facts, but it's simply not beautiful yet like F=dp/dt or E=hnu.
What the scientists want is for science education to be as complete as possible, but what the slashdotters seem to want is for people to place faith in evolution instead of Christ. or YHWH. or Budda. or Zoroaster. or His Grand Noodliness.
Faith is the domain of religion, and should remain there. It has no place in science. Ask me to believe your theory, but don't ask me to believe in it. We'll both be disappointed.
Not really, would you really want to wait in line for an hour at the beginning of each level? Red vs. Blue could probably make something of it, but I don't think it'd make a very fun game.
I can't think of any reason why 9.42 would be considered more precise than 3*pi, since you could always write it as 9.425, or 9.4248, or etc. Perhaps there was some aspect to the problem that limited it to those significant digits that you failed to consider?
If not, your geometry teacher was astoundingly bad.
True, though you can't polish a microprocessor. You have to evaluate the demand for the higher precision vs. the cost of implementing it. Sometimes, you can have a very precise process that happens to not be particularly accurate.
Resistors for instance are done in batches that are extremely consistent, but not necessarily exactly on the desired resistance. And they're sold by how well they are expected to match. Quite a few applications are order-of-magnitude, so a 10% accurate resistor isn't that bad: it's less than about half a dB of change. If all you need is a current-limiting or pull-up resistor, you don't even need to be within 50% of the value, as long as it's above the threshold.
If you're already producing enough parts of the higher quality parts to satisfy the demand, why would you add a polishing step or improved machining process?
You could do this as a 3-body problem, and then you'd be correct that they fall at different rates, but you'd have quite a difficulty measuring the difference, since the feather and the hammer are orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude less than the mass of the moon.
The other point you've mentioned is actually quite the physical puzzle. There's no reason why gravitational mass and inertial mass need to be the same, yet to our ability to measure so far, they are.
Um.. yeah. of course that's how it is. Measurement is always more precise and less costly than machining. If you've got a process that produces 4.00 cm parts, and you put more effort into measuring, you might be able to sift some 4.00000 parts from the mix. But those parts are much rarer than the 4.00s, and so command better pricing. (it also means that the remaining parts are definitely not 4.00000)
If you need more 4.00000 parts, you could use tighter machining tolerances, but each part will be much more expensive. The choice of which method depends on a variety of factors, not the least of which is whether you can use the "rejects" as "low quality parts" or "scrap."
There is no rule that says every plural has to have an 's' on the end. What about fish, or sheep, or mice?
It's silly to put the 's' sound after the 'th' sound, so we don't do it. Sticking to something that's silly because of some imagined superior etymology is pigheaded. Except for the word, 'isthmus.' That word is is so silly it shoots the moon into being worth keeping around.