Maybe this had nothing to do with the fact that the vehicle had ABS
Or maybe it had everything to do with ABS.
See page 34 of this report by the NHTSA. It reads:
On loose gravel, each of the nine vehicles stopped in the shortest distance
with a panic brake application and disabled ABS, regardless of the loading
condition. Stops made on the gravel were lengthened considerably when ABS
was active: 24.6% when the test vehicles were fully laden and 30.0% when
lightly laden.
It is generally accepted that the plowing of a vehicle's tires into a
deformable surface such as loose gravel generates greater stopping forces
than if the wheels were allowed to continue to roll over the surface (as
in an ABS-assisted stop).
But what Tom's is asking is for all memory from a given manufacturer to overclock the same.
No, they're not. They're asking manufacturers to send them representative (i.e. random) samples, rather than cherry-picking a sample that's at the favorable tail of the distribution.
Cambridge is notable, but I don't think MIT is particularly close. Never heard of the other one. Why'd they name a town after that old rock band my parents listened to?
No, the middle digit for an area code is always 0 or 1.
You're only 11 years behind the times. My cell phone, my wife's cell phone, and our landline are in three different area codes, and none of them have 0 or 1 as the middle digit.
Yes it is. He was quoting, verbatim, a classic joke in which a patient keeps hurting himself. There is no third party in the joke, so it does not make sense to apply it to this situation.
1. NPO registration costs money and takes an enormous amount of time and upkeep - much more than designing and running a website. There is no reason for our organization to go to the trouble or expense of registering.
Only in the past decade has everyone gotten this weird urge to try and archive and record every unimportant detail of their daily lives (see MySpace.com, blogging, etc). What they don't realize is no one really gives a crap today, and they sure as hell won't give a crap in 100 years.
As opposed, say, to the whole sky visible from the US?:-)) I didn't know that the planet was semi-transparent.
At the equator, the entire celestial sphere is visible at night at some point during the year. So if you want to study a certain object or field at an equatorial observatory, you can figure out what time of year it's up at night, and put that time constraint in your proposal. If your target is overhead at noon now, it will be overhead at midnight in six months.
In contrast, at the poles, half of the celestial sphere is never visible.
Intermediate points, such as the US, are of course an intermediate case. But note that the biggest observatories in the US are on Hawai'i, which is about 19 degrees north latitude. That's pretty darn good--I've seen the Southern Cross from there. The major observatories in the Continental US, like Palomar and Kitt Peak, are also in the south, more like 30 degrees north. I've (just barely!) seen Omega Centauri from Palomar.
Yeah, but Antartica is located on the bottom of the world. We won't be able to see anything from there!
You joke, but there's some truth to the statement. Specifically, half of the sky is never visible from Antarctica (i.e. the northern celestial hemisphere).
What's to prevent people from using the paint without making it known? You walk into a building and suddenly your phone stops working.
That can happen anyway. At my last job, on a college campus, the building I worked in was quite old, and had thick concrete or masonry walls. In my office, on the top (second) floor, my cell phone only had a chance of working if I were near a window. Even then, it often dropped calls or failed to ring when someone called. In the hallway, or on lower floors, it wouldn't get a signal at all.
If somebody depends on their cell phone or pager working, they should check to make sure it has a signal when they're inside a building.
0 dB is defined by the hearing threshold of the average human ear. While 0 dB might be quiet but audible to you, it may be inaudible to someone else.
But if a noise source produces sound that measures 0 dBA at a certain distance, and you move closer to the source, it will become audible even to average or below-average ears. Thus, it doesn't make sense to call such a source "silent."
upshot is almost, in my experience, ubiquitously used as an opposite to downside
I think the word those people are looking for is "upside."
I had a college roommate who consistently used the word "nevertheless" as if it meant "consequently." He would say things like "I'm hungry. Nevertheless, I think I will go get some dinner."
Personally, I have no problem with it being taught in a philosophy class, though apparently others do when it's a philosophy class in a government-funded high school.
I, also, would not object to ID being taught in a philosophy class, and when I first heard this story on the radio, I also questioned the effort to fight it. But in this case, I think it's a thinly-veiled propaganda class for ID, not a balanced study of the debate.
[T]he class will take a close look at evolution as a theory and will discuss the scientific, biological and biblical aspects that suggest why Darwin's philosophy is not rock solid. The class will discuss intelligent design as an alternative response to evolution. Physical and chemical evidence will be presented suggesting the earth is thousands of years old, not billions.
And, while ID is alleged not to be a Christian theory (making no claims about who the Intelligent Designer is), the teacher of this class was the wife of a fundamentalist minister, and wrote "I believe this is the class that the Lord wanted me to teach."
The difference, in my view, is like that of a "Religions of the World" theology class vs. Sunday School.
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"Sugar and spice and everything vice"
Do you live in Detroit, by chance, or have you just been in a cocoon for 25 years?
"Don't do that, then" is not helpful advice to the people who are suffering from this attack.
In contrast, at the poles, half of the celestial sphere is never visible.
Intermediate points, such as the US, are of course an intermediate case. But note that the biggest observatories in the US are on Hawai'i, which is about 19 degrees north latitude. That's pretty darn good--I've seen the Southern Cross from there. The major observatories in the Continental US, like Palomar and Kitt Peak, are also in the south, more like 30 degrees north. I've (just barely!) seen Omega Centauri from Palomar.
If somebody depends on their cell phone or pager working, they should check to make sure it has a signal when they're inside a building.
I had a college roommate who consistently used the word "nevertheless" as if it meant "consequently." He would say things like "I'm hungry. Nevertheless, I think I will go get some dinner."
The course description reads:
And, while ID is alleged not to be a Christian theory (making no claims about who the Intelligent Designer is), the teacher of this class was the wife of a fundamentalist minister, and wrote "I believe this is the class that the Lord wanted me to teach."The difference, in my view, is like that of a "Religions of the World" theology class vs. Sunday School.