I can read all the source material I need for my dissertation from home via a VPN connection to my university.
Equally, a student could just use google (or one of those essay-for-hire sites) and crib what someone else has written about them. I'm not implying that you would, of course.
people will go using the Thales Principle (projecting a known lenght segment over the one to divide) or the fact than an hexagon's side is exactly the lenght of the radius of the circunscribing circle, or the fact that a twelve units long rope (whatever the units are) will make for you a perfect square angle and will give you 3, 4 and 5 units long segments for free.
Finland went with a "fine is a percentage of yearly earnings" and it helped them a lot. But, money is also only money to some people.
I know you nordics are notoriously liberal, so I expect you don't have things like stocks or the birch - but have you really gone so far as abolishing prison?
No they don't. I mentioned consumer choice, if one shop sells in metric the people who want metric will go there. If another sells in imperial, those who prefer that will shop there instead.
And there are probably more cooks using imperial units anyway, since anybody under 30 only eats takeaways or microwave ready-meals.
Desperately trying to remember the SUVAT equations... v = u + at. u is zero (standing start) so v = at. v = 60 miles per hour ~= 100 km/h = 100,000 m/h = [takes off shoes] 28 m/s.
Thus the acceleration is v/t - 28 m/s^2 - around 3g. Not enough to rip your arms oout of the sockets but that would probably exceed most people's grip on the handlebars.
The question isn't about which system of measures is better, it's about whether a bunch of unelected bureaucrats have the right to interfere in other people's business.
If people, particularly the elderly, want to shop in units that they understand, why shouldn't they? Don't we believe in consumer choice? Half a litre of beer just doen't feel right. Trust me, I've made a study of these things.
From TFA:
We are trying to put ourselves forward as a modern country putting our imperial past in perspective, like slavery, and here we are glorifying one element of it Roz Denny, UK Metric Association
I guess I'm just frustrated by the inevitable comparison between software design and other real-world engineering design.
Even though they don't always stand up to scrutiny (what analogy does - if it did it wouldn't be an analogy, it would be reality) they're a useful counter to the PHB types who come out with crap like "How long to change it? But it's just a simple bit of typing!"
Another analogy here is what would happen if you changed a few lines of a novel - say made a character male instead of female. It may still make grammatical sense but the plot might become nonesense.
In the UK, a systems analyst is someone with domain knowledge who generally gathers requirements and writes them up into specs for the programmers to work from. In the old days this was usually someone promoted from the ranks of the senior programmers.
"Your pants are on fire!" "When you say pants, do you mean..."
Here in jolly old blighty, "pants" means underwear, and the things that are visible we refer to as "trousers". As you can see, they are quite distinct objects and it's important to know exactly which garment is undergoing combustion in order to react in a correct and timely manner without unseemly haste or panic. It lets the side down and frightens the horses.
Reread what I said. If more and mopre people take it - and they're less able - it will pull the average down, and any percentile based bands will move accordingly. Someone who scrapes a C when only the top third enter might be a borderline A if everyone takes it.
It might not seem so if you'd read it properly.
From TFA:
The average lifetime earnings of a man doing an arts degree, for example, is now just £22,500 greater than someone who stopped education after their A-levels and went straight to work.
That's about £1.50 per week. Not even a beer.
if you mean to write off all arts degrees as "mickey-mouse" then I think Oxford and Cambridge universities -- well, I was going to say they'd have something to say, but I somehow don't think they'd even bother.
I wonder what type are the majority considered in calculating that average mentioned above? Probably not Oxbridge grads. And even if they're paid more (for whatever reason), that just means the rest of the plebs are doing even worse. QED.
Wild guess - you're an arts graduate? But obviously not philosophy, or you'd know what an argument from authority is.
What is C orbiting? are you assuming that A is the orbit of a planet? Where does it say that?
The fact that it (A) orbited the point labelled as the star was a bit of a clue.
And if it's C then why can't it be D as well. There must be a planet for D to be an orbit.
There isn't (or I can't see it), so it isn't a feasible orbit. That pretty much disqualifies it as an answer.
Vinyl has a very poor bandwidth, hence the RIAA equalization
Equalisation is to flatten out the frequency response, which is skewed at recording time in an attempt to cut down or drown out the noise caused by physical imperfections. It's nothing directly related to bandwidth per se. CDs don't have those lovely hisses and pops - that's the quality increase in the answer.
One of the main effects of digital processing has been the increase in loudness.
Nope, that depends on the amplifier. The fact that some idiots have chosen to compress the dynamic range is neither here nor there. Oh, and didn't the question ask for an advantage?
Assign them by proportion of population - how would you measure the scores of the people who didn't take it?
If you assign it by proprtions of those who do the exam, it's affected by how many people enter. It seems, with the three-in-one papers that are the vogue these days that everyone takes it. In the old days perhaps a third might have done the O level, a third the GCSE and the rest something else - vocational courses perhaps.
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There was a big debate about that a few months back, claiming it infringed the students' copyrights and all.
Apart from the fact that it's on a different side of the Atlantic, it's a damn good precedent.
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No they don't. I mentioned consumer choice, if one shop sells in metric the people who want metric will go there. If another sells in imperial, those who prefer that will shop there instead. And there are probably more cooks using imperial units anyway, since anybody under 30 only eats takeaways or microwave ready-meals.
Desperately trying to remember the SUVAT equations ... v = u + at. u is zero (standing start) so v = at. v = 60 miles per hour ~= 100 km/h = 100,000 m/h = [takes off shoes] 28 m/s.
Thus the acceleration is v/t - 28 m/s^2 - around 3g. Not enough to rip your arms oout of the sockets but that would probably exceed most people's grip on the handlebars.
That would be too obvious. Just file it down a smidgen.
If people, particularly the elderly, want to shop in units that they understand, why shouldn't they? Don't we believe in consumer choice? Half a litre of beer just doen't feel right. Trust me, I've made a study of these things.
From TFA:Political correctness gone mad.
Another analogy here is what would happen if you changed a few lines of a novel - say made a character male instead of female. It may still make grammatical sense but the plot might become nonesense.
In the UK, a systems analyst is someone with domain knowledge who generally gathers requirements and writes them up into specs for the programmers to work from. In the old days this was usually someone promoted from the ranks of the senior programmers.
Reread what I said. If more and mopre people take it - and they're less able - it will pull the average down, and any percentile based bands will move accordingly. Someone who scrapes a C when only the top third enter might be a borderline A if everyone takes it.
If you hold a mirror up in front of it, then it sets up a feedback loop and burns out the camera. Feller who used to work for the BBC told me once.
I almost wrote exactly the same thing as you. Luckily, I decided to RTFA first and avoid making a total berk of myself.
Lecture: A period of time when the notes of the lecturer are transferred to the notebooks of the students without going through the brain of either.
It's a plot, Jim, but not as we know it.
I'm David Blunkett, you insensitive clod!!!!
Assign them by proportion of population - how would you measure the scores of the people who didn't take it?
If you assign it by proprtions of those who do the exam, it's affected by how many people enter. It seems, with the three-in-one papers that are the vogue these days that everyone takes it. In the old days perhaps a third might have done the O level, a third the GCSE and the rest something else - vocational courses perhaps.