You should continue to be worried. There are a lot of things that *go into* electronics (components, among which ICs are the most profitable) or are used to *make* electronic components but you're right most of the *assembly* doesn't take place in Japan. Nikon (not just cameras), Hitachi, Fujitsu, Renesas, NEC, Canon (again, not just cameras), Shimadzu, (a few off the top off my head - and I'm tired so I'm leaving off a bunch) most of the companies listed here. And a lot of them make things *in Japan*. And then there's the specialty chemical companies. China does have some dependencies on Japan as well, although admittedly that has shifted a lot the other way.
But in context, he meant "paper-thin Li-ion is comparable to AA-form Li-ion" which *is* informative. And it was not hard to tell that that was what he meant, so it seems like you're being deliberately difficult.
1%? Gosh, I hope it's more than that. Oh, you're probably right. I'm odd in that (among other things) I feel equally comfortable expressing temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius. Anyway, it's my second arithmetic-dependent joke in as many days.
I heard a joke about ascribing unwarranted precision to numbers.
A museum guide is showing people a dinosaur exhibit and when he gets to their largest specimen he stops and tells the group, "This specimen is sixty-five million and thirty eight years old." A young man raises his hand and asks, "How do you know that?" The guide explains, "When I started working here, the staff scientist informed me that this dinosaur was sixty-five million years old. I started working here thirty eight years ago...you do the math!"
Both of these are interesting but what problem are they solving? Nobody cares how many kg of fuel they have left in their tank.
As far as measuring fuel out at the pump, yes you could install mass flow meters and pay by the lb/kg instead of by the gal/L, but is it worth the trouble and expense?
I'm not sure about that. Most Americans don't have a lot of savings. The equity in their home (assuming they have any after the last few years) is the biggest asset many have.
Yeah, any time an order is given over sound powered phones, the order is repeated back verbatim to ensure it was clearly heard, and it usually does go from an officer or chief through an enlisted person to another enlisted person.
The CO to the XO thing is not the norm since they the CO and XO are not together in Control during routine operations, but during a drill or emergency or some other special operation the CO might be at the conn, and the XO is the OOD (officer of the deck). You could then have the CO give a bell order (changing the speed of the main engines) to the OOD who tells the chief of the watch (COW) who tells the helmsman who tells the throttleman in maneuvering (back in the engineroom) who tells the EOOW, who in turn tells the throttleman who repeats it back, even though he's the one who told the EOOW in the first place(!). Then, once he's carried out the order, that info is relayed back through the same chain in reverse order, so everyone knows exactly what the status is, and so it doesn't end up like that telephone game where the initial message gets garbled after many relays and comes back to the originator totally different.
The facts (which one memorizes) are the prerequisite to the critical thinking, not a substitute for it. Critical thinking goes beyond memorization, to be sure, but it cannot be practiced in the absence of information.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot Effect is like a SPST toggle switch?
If I mention a non-existent site here will it spring up from nothing?
If by "farts and rainbows" you mean electronic components not including rare earth magnets, then yes, farts and rainbows.
You should continue to be worried.
There are a lot of things that *go into* electronics (components, among which ICs are the most profitable) or are used to *make* electronic components but you're right most of the *assembly* doesn't take place in Japan.
Nikon (not just cameras), Hitachi, Fujitsu, Renesas, NEC, Canon (again, not just cameras), Shimadzu, (a few off the top off my head - and I'm tired so I'm leaving off a bunch) most of the companies listed here. And a lot of them make things *in Japan*.
And then there's the specialty chemical companies.
China does have some dependencies on Japan as well, although admittedly that has shifted a lot the other way.
much less pee and chlorine in a bathtub.
But in context, he meant "paper-thin Li-ion is comparable to AA-form Li-ion" which *is* informative. And it was not hard to tell that that was what he meant, so it seems like you're being deliberately difficult.
I don't think "poo" and "buttocks" come from French. (the words, not the things themselves, which obviously do!).
How about eating pussy vs. eating cat? I'm not sure which of those is more offensive.
1%? Gosh, I hope it's more than that. Oh, you're probably right. I'm odd in that (among other things) I feel equally comfortable expressing temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Anyway, it's my second arithmetic-dependent joke in as many days.
That's only true on occasion, when it happens to be 72.5 at the US side of the border and 22.5 right over the border in Canada.
I heard a joke about ascribing unwarranted precision to numbers.
A museum guide is showing people a dinosaur exhibit and when he gets to their largest specimen he stops and tells the group, "This specimen is sixty-five million and thirty eight years old." A young man raises his hand and asks, "How do you know that?"
The guide explains, "When I started working here, the staff scientist informed me that this dinosaur was sixty-five million years old. I started working here thirty eight years ago...you do the math!"
Using the search terms seattle+knife+native+police, Google turned up this: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/09/john_williams_native_american.php as its first result.
Yes. tl;dr.
In my experience it seems that Airbus jets creak, rattle, vibrate, and shake more than Boeing jets, too.
your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is [because of global warming]...
That's just wrong. We know what dinosaurs are.
Hmmmm....why not split the difference and use a .2215? Are they hard to find?
Wait , are you telling me that a sportswear company has a higher homicide rate than South Africa?
Both of these are interesting but what problem are they solving? Nobody cares how many kg of fuel they have left in their tank. As far as measuring fuel out at the pump, yes you could install mass flow meters and pay by the lb/kg instead of by the gal/L, but is it worth the trouble and expense?
Asexual reproduction is very appropriate for the cars you mention.
I'm not sure about that. Most Americans don't have a lot of savings. The equity in their home (assuming they have any after the last few years) is the biggest asset many have.
Everyone knows what it is. Would you say that coconut *milk* and peanut *butter* are misnomers as well?
Yeah, any time an order is given over sound powered phones, the order is repeated back verbatim to ensure it was clearly heard, and it usually does go from an officer or chief through an enlisted person to another enlisted person. The CO to the XO thing is not the norm since they the CO and XO are not together in Control during routine operations, but during a drill or emergency or some other special operation the CO might be at the conn, and the XO is the OOD (officer of the deck). You could then have the CO give a bell order (changing the speed of the main engines) to the OOD who tells the chief of the watch (COW) who tells the helmsman who tells the throttleman in maneuvering (back in the engineroom) who tells the EOOW, who in turn tells the throttleman who repeats it back, even though he's the one who told the EOOW in the first place(!). Then, once he's carried out the order, that info is relayed back through the same chain in reverse order, so everyone knows exactly what the status is, and so it doesn't end up like that telephone game where the initial message gets garbled after many relays and comes back to the originator totally different.
Good point, but water and electricity supplies are constrained in ways that broadband is not.
"Machinery Two Lower Level, Maneuvering, shift Main Feed Pumps to fast."
Manuevering, Machinery Two Lower Level, shift Main Feed Pumps to fast, aye."
A one-way cell phone would be useless. Crystal radios are just receivers. You need to transmit.
The facts (which one memorizes) are the prerequisite to the critical thinking, not a substitute for it. Critical thinking goes beyond memorization, to be sure, but it cannot be practiced in the absence of information.
Good thing they don't make nuke plant heat exchangers, pumps, and piping out of carbon steel!
Oh, and that includes Seabrook nuclear power plant.