No. It makes no difference at all. They didn't use any math to check for the fact that their toy can not possibly work in the way described. They can't generate more energy from the gravitational potential than is already there, else they'd be able to use a falling weight on a screw to power the device lifting the rock and have energy left over - which is obviously impossible.
I don't know about that. The Stardock games always get pretty good reviews, and they certainly don't have the most up-to-date graphics. It probably depends a lot on the genre and the platform. It certainly is true, however, that you won't find games from a company like Stardock unless you're going out of your way to look for them because they aren't very heavily marketed.
I remember that... from Lemmings on a Mac LC. The words were light yellow too so you couldn't photocopy the manual. I don't think I ever beat that game.
The thought that jumped to my mind immediately upon reading the title was that playing devil's advocate is a part of the engineering mindset, though this wasn't the direction TFA took.
Whenever I come up with a proposed solution to a problem, or see someone else's, my first thought is always, "OK. Where are the weak points? How can I make it fail? How spectacularly can I make it fail?"
Engineers are probably as a whole more likely to have type A personalities and be competent problem solvers than the general population, but in my opinion this only means we would make better terrorists, not that we're more likely to be terrorists. Maybe that means we'd stay terrorists longer?
If your point is that "right" and "left" are relatively useless terms because they lack any sort of nuance or precision and halfway switched sometime since they were originally defined, I agree. My comment was on semantics. What are your "far left" and "far right"? I'm having trouble defining them in a way that puts Ron Paul in the middle. He's not centrist by the common use of left and right, and I don't think he's halfway between a laissez faire capitalists and authoritarian monarchy, or between the "old order" and the "new order" (and where does socialism fit on either of those lines?). If you make it a square, with one axis being social liberty and the other being fiscal policy, RP would generally be both more socially liberal and fiscally conservative than either of the big parties. I think that representation is better, but there are problems with it, too. How does an issue like abortion fit in? It's framed as both a social liberty and taking away life depending on who's making the argument.
Hillary Clinton, supporting socialized medicine, is a right fringe candidate? Ron Paul, the small-government libertarian, is a centrist? May I ask what country you're from? It may be nice trivia who sat on which side of the French Legislative Assembly following their revolution, but it's of no practical purpose to use antiquated definitions that directly conflict with the modern ones and serve only to confuse your audience. While compared to most European countries our D and R parties may generally look like "right" and "further right", I don't think the use of "right" and "left" in this conversation is too far off the mark, except maybe thinking Hillary is a centrist shows that one doesn't know her positions.
A 160 grain bullet fired from a 30 caliber rifle at 3000 fps (those are rough numbers, and on the high side) has the same momentum as a 175lb man traveling at.4 fps. Momentum is not an issue.
It's not quite equivalent based on knives alone, but the statement that more Americans per capita kill each other with weapons that are not guns than British citizens kill each other in total would be true.
If we want to get worried about violence in society the blowback from the Bush era torture policy is going to be much worse. Just wait till we see a run of serial killers who were former CIA interrogation specialists.
Maybe the reaction from abroad, but certainly not internally. Even if the current era generates more serial killers than other eras, the number of people killed by serial killers is way out of proportion to the fear they generate (like terrorists). Many more murders are committed by people who know the victim than people who don't. The two biggest 'causes' in the US are the drug trade and domestic violence.
If every 4 day trip now takes 6, each ship that could previously finish 90 trips in a year is down to 60, and doing 900/year will take 15 ships instead of 10. 50% earlier may work if the ships currently have a lot of down time but somehow I doubt that.
The English version of the Wikipedia site *always* has a disproportionate amount of information about things in the United States. I've only ever been in England once, but I vaguely recall being able to gamble for money both at a local fair and at a bar, neither of which would make that list. Also, the comparison of the stock market to casinos is not valid. In the long run, most people who invest in stocks end up with more money than they started with. This is obviously not true for gamblers.
I'm curious how that worked, since unless the comet was only bright during a 12 hour window it shouldn't have been any more visible in Thailand than America. TFA also mentions that the comet was viewed in Barcelona, New Mexico, and Yokohama, and explicitly states that it should be visible in the entire northern hemisphere.
Comcast in central PA must be a total disaster. I called my parents in Chambersburg on their Comcast land line three times yesterday and each time got a message stating that all circuits were busy and I should try again later. I don't think I've been blocked from making a call strictly due to call volume since 9/11.
What is the incentive to innovate if someone else will immediately copy your idea and reproduce it? Pride and a sense of self satisfaction are great, but they don't put food on the table.
Either people are taking ownership of less music by all methods or they're substituting pirating for purchasing. The first is possible - people may only be buying digital singles rather than full albums - but I find the second to be much more likely.
You're missing orders of magnitude. The total solar energy available to the earth is approximately 3850 zettajoules (ZJ) per year. Worldwide energy consumption was 0.471 ZJ in 2004. You're talking fractions of a percent. In any event, much better to do it with added energy than with contributions to a feedback loop (CO2).
All of the lower estimates given there are for a short initial time period, and consider American casualties only. They're also estimating casualties occurring at the rate of 1:3 to 1:5 American:Japanese, so multiply any of those numbers by 4-6 for the total from both sides. And take low casualty estimates by Generals with a grain of salt - they were willing to understate for the sake of invasion. Considering that the battle of Iwo Jima (21 km^2) lasted 35 days with a total of 30000 dead and 20000 wounded, it's not hard to imagine that a land invasion of the Japanese home islands would have lasted a long time with total casualties in the millions. I've not seen any numbers as high as 10M, but most things I've read on the subject have put estimates in the 2-4M range.
It's a separate issue, but it seems odd to me that people always come back to the atomic bombs, even though they might not crack the top 10 civilian atrocities perpetrated - by all sides - during WWII. Even if you look at only American actions, the firebombing of Tokyo was at least as bad as either nuclear event.
There's the Acela, which while not nearly as fast as the European/Japanese trains, can go 150mph where the track is in good enough shape. The Wikipedia article claims its fastest trip from DC to NYC is a little under three hours. I'm not sure how many stops that includes. It is a bit on the pricy side, I think it's a little more than twice as expensive as ordinary Amtrak service.
DB admin - 70k-124k
management - 60-110k (management paid by the hour??)
SAP - 100-146k
Security - 50-92k
Tech/helpdesk - 30-38k
Unix/Linux admins - 70-100k
Unskilled labor - 16-32k (not sure what this is doing in your list, really)
Web dev - 40-80k
Windows Admin - 40-80k
From your numbers, the average salary looks to be well above 60k if you exclude unskilled labor, which isn't IT anyway, unless there are a disproportionately large number of people working the help desk. Denver real estate appears to be cheaper than here (Philly), though admittedly I can't tell as much from listings because I don't know what are good and bad neighborhoods. If it's indeed cheaper than Philly, it's cheaper than most of the rest of the east coast and probably all of the west coast. Most CS and CompE grads I know are making $55-65k straight out of college. The more senior people at my company are in the $90-140k range, though it's mostly guys in their 40's and 50's, not 30 year olds.
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No. It makes no difference at all. They didn't use any math to check for the fact that their toy can not possibly work in the way described. They can't generate more energy from the gravitational potential than is already there, else they'd be able to use a falling weight on a screw to power the device lifting the rock and have energy left over - which is obviously impossible.
That's got nothing to do with log tables. It requires understanding of logarithms, but that's not the same thing.
This is a log table. It's the equivalent of a sine or cosine or tangent table - it's almost totally useless if you have a working calculator.
I don't know about that. The Stardock games always get pretty good reviews, and they certainly don't have the most up-to-date graphics. It probably depends a lot on the genre and the platform. It certainly is true, however, that you won't find games from a company like Stardock unless you're going out of your way to look for them because they aren't very heavily marketed.
I remember that... from Lemmings on a Mac LC. The words were light yellow too so you couldn't photocopy the manual. I don't think I ever beat that game.
The thought that jumped to my mind immediately upon reading the title was that playing devil's advocate is a part of the engineering mindset, though this wasn't the direction TFA took.
Whenever I come up with a proposed solution to a problem, or see someone else's, my first thought is always, "OK. Where are the weak points? How can I make it fail? How spectacularly can I make it fail?"
Engineers are probably as a whole more likely to have type A personalities and be competent problem solvers than the general population, but in my opinion this only means we would make better terrorists, not that we're more likely to be terrorists. Maybe that means we'd stay terrorists longer?
If your point is that "right" and "left" are relatively useless terms because they lack any sort of nuance or precision and halfway switched sometime since they were originally defined, I agree. My comment was on semantics. What are your "far left" and "far right"? I'm having trouble defining them in a way that puts Ron Paul in the middle. He's not centrist by the common use of left and right, and I don't think he's halfway between a laissez faire capitalists and authoritarian monarchy, or between the "old order" and the "new order" (and where does socialism fit on either of those lines?). If you make it a square, with one axis being social liberty and the other being fiscal policy, RP would generally be both more socially liberal and fiscally conservative than either of the big parties. I think that representation is better, but there are problems with it, too. How does an issue like abortion fit in? It's framed as both a social liberty and taking away life depending on who's making the argument.
Hillary Clinton, supporting socialized medicine, is a right fringe candidate? Ron Paul, the small-government libertarian, is a centrist? May I ask what country you're from? It may be nice trivia who sat on which side of the French Legislative Assembly following their revolution, but it's of no practical purpose to use antiquated definitions that directly conflict with the modern ones and serve only to confuse your audience. While compared to most European countries our D and R parties may generally look like "right" and "further right", I don't think the use of "right" and "left" in this conversation is too far off the mark, except maybe thinking Hillary is a centrist shows that one doesn't know her positions.
A 160 grain bullet fired from a 30 caliber rifle at 3000 fps (those are rough numbers, and on the high side) has the same momentum as a 175lb man traveling at .4 fps. Momentum is not an issue.
Mods: Parent post may be playing Devil's Advocate, but is certainly not flamebait.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/weaponstab.htm
It's not quite equivalent based on knives alone, but the statement that more Americans per capita kill each other with weapons that are not guns than British citizens kill each other in total would be true.
If we want to get worried about violence in society the blowback from the Bush era torture policy is going to be much worse. Just wait till we see a run of serial killers who were former CIA interrogation specialists.
Maybe the reaction from abroad, but certainly not internally. Even if the current era generates more serial killers than other eras, the number of people killed by serial killers is way out of proportion to the fear they generate (like terrorists). Many more murders are committed by people who know the victim than people who don't. The two biggest 'causes' in the US are the drug trade and domestic violence.
If every 4 day trip now takes 6, each ship that could previously finish 90 trips in a year is down to 60, and doing 900/year will take 15 ships instead of 10. 50% earlier may work if the ships currently have a lot of down time but somehow I doubt that.
The English version of the Wikipedia site *always* has a disproportionate amount of information about things in the United States. I've only ever been in England once, but I vaguely recall being able to gamble for money both at a local fair and at a bar, neither of which would make that list. Also, the comparison of the stock market to casinos is not valid. In the long run, most people who invest in stocks end up with more money than they started with. This is obviously not true for gamblers.
To use an example more people may recognize, Yao Ming was "created" by the Communist China-assisted marriage of two national basketball stars: http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501051114/story.html
Meh. If the max sentence is 20 years, they'll probably get 5, and be paroled after 18 months on good behavior. You not from the states? :)
Only until it leaks lead acid on my balls.
The Russians have gotten smarter - they're going for the energy sector instead.
I'm curious how that worked, since unless the comet was only bright during a 12 hour window it shouldn't have been any more visible in Thailand than America. TFA also mentions that the comet was viewed in Barcelona, New Mexico, and Yokohama, and explicitly states that it should be visible in the entire northern hemisphere.
Comcast in central PA must be a total disaster. I called my parents in Chambersburg on their Comcast land line three times yesterday and each time got a message stating that all circuits were busy and I should try again later. I don't think I've been blocked from making a call strictly due to call volume since 9/11.
What is the incentive to innovate if someone else will immediately copy your idea and reproduce it? Pride and a sense of self satisfaction are great, but they don't put food on the table.
After trending upward for decades, album sales are falling. Digital music sales make up some of the difference, but not all of it. http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/12/down_7_for_05.html
Either people are taking ownership of less music by all methods or they're substituting pirating for purchasing. The first is possible - people may only be buying digital singles rather than full albums - but I find the second to be much more likely.
You're missing orders of magnitude. The total solar energy available to the earth is approximately 3850 zettajoules (ZJ) per year. Worldwide energy consumption was 0.471 ZJ in 2004. You're talking fractions of a percent. In any event, much better to do it with added energy than with contributions to a feedback loop (CO2).
I was able to tell this before reading the article.
All of the lower estimates given there are for a short initial time period, and consider American casualties only. They're also estimating casualties occurring at the rate of 1:3 to 1:5 American:Japanese, so multiply any of those numbers by 4-6 for the total from both sides. And take low casualty estimates by Generals with a grain of salt - they were willing to understate for the sake of invasion. Considering that the battle of Iwo Jima (21 km^2) lasted 35 days with a total of 30000 dead and 20000 wounded, it's not hard to imagine that a land invasion of the Japanese home islands would have lasted a long time with total casualties in the millions. I've not seen any numbers as high as 10M, but most things I've read on the subject have put estimates in the 2-4M range.
It's a separate issue, but it seems odd to me that people always come back to the atomic bombs, even though they might not crack the top 10 civilian atrocities perpetrated - by all sides - during WWII. Even if you look at only American actions, the firebombing of Tokyo was at least as bad as either nuclear event.
There's the Acela, which while not nearly as fast as the European/Japanese trains, can go 150mph where the track is in good enough shape. The Wikipedia article claims its fastest trip from DC to NYC is a little under three hours. I'm not sure how many stops that includes. It is a bit on the pricy side, I think it's a little more than twice as expensive as ordinary Amtrak service.
DB admin - 70k-124k
management - 60-110k (management paid by the hour??)
SAP - 100-146k
Security - 50-92k
Tech/helpdesk - 30-38k
Unix/Linux admins - 70-100k
Unskilled labor - 16-32k (not sure what this is doing in your list, really)
Web dev - 40-80k
Windows Admin - 40-80k
From your numbers, the average salary looks to be well above 60k if you exclude unskilled labor, which isn't IT anyway, unless there are a disproportionately large number of people working the help desk. Denver real estate appears to be cheaper than here (Philly), though admittedly I can't tell as much from listings because I don't know what are good and bad neighborhoods. If it's indeed cheaper than Philly, it's cheaper than most of the rest of the east coast and probably all of the west coast. Most CS and CompE grads I know are making $55-65k straight out of college. The more senior people at my company are in the $90-140k range, though it's mostly guys in their 40's and 50's, not 30 year olds.