Our twelve year old son has hair down to his waist and our seven year old daughter has thrown out all her fairy books and pink clothes and wears mostly cammo and sturdy boots.
It's quite likely they'll swap their tastes several times in the next decade or two - and good luck to them. The only problem we have with it is the extra work telling them that they don't have to be upset when their school mates can't handle their non-conformity. We've managed to convince friends and family not to buy "inappropriate" presents - they've learned now to ask each kid what's in favour that year.
Video Game Dork - Thermal expansion and contraction is the commonest cause of failure of most electronic equipment - turning it on and off is what makes it warm up and cool down. There are also very small scale effects within chips - I wish I could find the New Scientist article but I can't.
Wear and tear? Using a computer once it's on makes very little difference to its life span. It's the switching it on and off in the first place that accounts for most of it.
Also, if the forces on the plane are balanced it will retain the velocity (not speed) it had at the start. Since it was stationary at the start it would remain stationary.
Ben - yes, but the important bit is the cap on how much you can exchange. Otherwise, yes, it's an arbitrary number for a unit of exchange and has no meaning in itself and can readily be swapped for other units.
The difficulty is in the cap. If you were told that you could only convert £1000 of savings into the new units and had to abandon the rest I reckon you'd be a bit miffed, too.
It's quite likely they'll swap their tastes several times in the next decade or two - and good luck to them. The only problem we have with it is the extra work telling them that they don't have to be upset when their school mates can't handle their non-conformity. We've managed to convince friends and family not to buy "inappropriate" presents - they've learned now to ask each kid what's in favour that year.
Also, if the forces on the plane are balanced it will retain the velocity (not speed) it had at the start. Since it was stationary at the start it would remain stationary.
The difficulty is in the cap. If you were told that you could only convert £1000 of savings into the new units and had to abandon the rest I reckon you'd be a bit miffed, too.
Oh - SEAWATER. Right - that makes perfect sense.