Nope, not at all. Take-away places in Melbourne do corrugated paper cups which are great - never too hot, but you can wrap your icy fingers around them to warm them up. And on campus both in Melbourne and in Reykjavík you can usually use a normal crockery mug. Styrofoam, wow, it's making me think of spandex and fluorescent tights!
"Styrofoam cups will never go away". Huh? I can't remember the last time I saw a styrofoam cup, like 20 years ago? No, probably more (wow, how old am I again? The number keeps changing!) What was so useful about them?
Music is a sort of three-dimensional. [...] It's a composition of layers. Literature is not; it is - by definition - one-dimensional. Linear.
Mm, I don't quite agree there. Given different assumptions/backgrounds (ie storylines, characters, relationships, themes), the same words can have very different meanings. A character's motivation for doing or saying something can really change the meaning of what they do or say. There are plenty of layers of meaning in language. For example, am I not providing examples because I can't, or because they are so obvious I don't need to?
I completely agree. I reread them only last year, and I still imagine the scenes in my head like a film from the 1940s or so. Maybe because of the 'old fellow' way the characters speak, and the super-quaint 'hi-tech' that reminds me of the Time Machine movie from way back when...
Most of the kids mentioned in the article were doing work. Not all, but well over half. Just a little fyi for all those who assumed every kid was on facebook or playing games.
the vast majority of people actually read (cover-cover) one single book at a time
I call BS on this one! 1. Breakfast/lunchtime book. 2. night-time book. 3. lounge-room book. 4. book (normally 1-3) i started reading but got vaguely bored of but haven't given up on completely. 4. academic papers/books that are on the go (normally around 3-10).
I might read a single book cover-to-cover with an especially good book sometimes, but since I listen to audiobooks too, and since I'd probably be in the middle of several others anyway, this is pretty rare.
Using an HRM is like keeping score on a video game. Or playing the tomagotchi game with your body as the avatar. Or something. Something fun and trackable, anyway.
Seriously dude, this is one of the funniest, and most accurate statements about exercise I've ever read! This is also exactly why I like running on a treadmill instead of in the great outdoors, even more precise measurements of distances, inclines, pace and heartrate. I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one to feel like this!:D
Oh, and it could therefore be interesting to the kids, too (in the original question).
well, anyone in Australia would also know it as a completely ordinary word. Actually, you come off as sounding pretty elitist for implying that American English is the only 'correct/normal' English:p (Just trying to give a gentle hint here!)
Well, here in Iceland, it's pretty hard to find *anyone* who has *never* lived overseas. Uni, work, extended visits with family and friends... So, yeah, depends on where you look.
I've always wondered if I took a postcard, wrote someone's name and city to be delivered to, and gave it to a random person. Would it ever get there? I'm going to try it tonight.
Hang on, they did this with emails back in 2001 report. There was a person's name, country and occupation I think, and you had to forward it to someone who you thought would be 'closer'. I wonder how different this would be using only Facebook friends or something.
I'm a linguist, and I use EndNote X for storing all my papers (and books now actually too). It makes reference lists in my papers without me doing anything, but more importantly, it stores the reference/paper itself (which for me are mostly pdfs, with some Word and some html documents) with the record. There are fields in EndNote for notes, keywords, all that jazz, which are very searchable.
I would expect any modern photocopier to scan to pdf (while 150dpi is okay to look at, the OCR is better at 300dpi), then Adobe Professional does the OCR (my uni has a site license).
I actually bought a nifty tablet/pen thingy recently, and now I can write notes directly on the pdf too, in my own handwriting. I love it.
I've been thinking for some time that this is a logical step to take. Musicians already get paid per play of their song (on air or live - I'm in a band, and we submit our setlists here in Australia), this could just be increased. Similarly for authors, artists and so on. It would just create another set of public servants, which doesn't bother me that much. But the university grant-type system would need to be fixed first, although I think the general idea is sound.
So, 16oz is two cups of coffee, and I suppose most ordinary human beings would have it in smaller quantities (/. posters != 'ordinary human beings', judging from some other posters' comments about their coffee/soft drink intake). Still, it's interesting how much variation there is in the amount of caffeine found in different cups of coffee (assuming your espresso machine makes only a cup of liquid, then Starbucks' drip coffee contains more than three times the amount of caffeine - ye gads). Apparently even 'decaf' is not 'caffeine free', just less than 20mg or something.
well, I make it clear to anyone who brings small children to my house that, since we don't have kids, our house is NOT CHILDPROOF. This encourages parents to keep a closer eye on their little ones, and also encourages them to meet with us at their house, or the park, or some other childproof area, if the kids have to come along. But, yeah, parents should probably check out the grandparents' place before leaving the little 'uns there for the day.
I'd really like to see the figures on kids who kill a parent with a gun versus with a kitchen knife. Somehow I think more damage is done, more easily, with a gun.
I'm a little confused - any legally binding document I've ever had to sign, eg buying and renting a house, *required* every party to initial every page, on everyone's copies, and each of these copies get photocopied for everyone else's records. I find it a little bizarre, but comforting to know that that's the way it is. But then I live in Australia, and ycmv*.
*your contracts may vary
Fair enough. But the other information should be made available. An open system helps those who get the job and those who don't, and in the long run can save employers time in the recruitment process because the applicants themselves have a more realistic idea about their suitability for a position.
Funny, in Scandinavia when you apply for a job (at least at university), each applicant gets a list of every applicant, their names, ages, sexes and qualifications, along with a summary from the interviewing committee about the rankings of each applicant and reasons for the rankings. I have found it an excellent way of learning which jobs I should apply for and what kinds of skills I need to acquire before I apply for the next job. And yet you (I'm guessing you're American) talk of SUING someone who mentions other applicants? I find that very disturbing, to say the least! Having participated in the Australian and the Scandinavian ways of applying for jobs, I most definitely prefer the Scando way.
but... 'home signs' are more or less invented and used within the family, or at least by very few people. And home signs aren't 'language', as you say, they're 'pre-pidgin'. Yeah, I admit it's not a perfect 'put babies together and see how they eventually communicate', but it shows that a complex system has arisen far more quickly than most non-linguists seem to think it has ever happened.
And I was under the impression that most of these deaf people had been quite poor at written Spanish, which supporters of the critical age theory were waving about as 'proof' that humans have to learn a first language very early on, in order to have any hope at acquiring native/near-native proficiency in subsequent ones. But, this is only something I've *taught* for a few lectures, I haven't *studied* it, so I admit I don't know too much about it:p
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Nope, not at all. Take-away places in Melbourne do corrugated paper cups which are great - never too hot, but you can wrap your icy fingers around them to warm them up. And on campus both in Melbourne and in Reykjavík you can usually use a normal crockery mug. Styrofoam, wow, it's making me think of spandex and fluorescent tights!
"Styrofoam cups will never go away". Huh? I can't remember the last time I saw a styrofoam cup, like 20 years ago? No, probably more (wow, how old am I again? The number keeps changing!) What was so useful about them?
Music is a sort of three-dimensional. [...] It's a composition of layers. Literature is not; it is - by definition - one-dimensional. Linear.
Mm, I don't quite agree there. Given different assumptions/backgrounds (ie storylines, characters, relationships, themes), the same words can have very different meanings. A character's motivation for doing or saying something can really change the meaning of what they do or say. There are plenty of layers of meaning in language. For example, am I not providing examples because I can't, or because they are so obvious I don't need to?
I completely agree. I reread them only last year, and I still imagine the scenes in my head like a film from the 1940s or so. Maybe because of the 'old fellow' way the characters speak, and the super-quaint 'hi-tech' that reminds me of the Time Machine movie from way back when...
Most of the kids mentioned in the article were doing work. Not all, but well over half. Just a little fyi for all those who assumed every kid was on facebook or playing games.
I stumbled over it for a bit before deciding it must mean "I am actually a lawyer"! (ie, and am therefore qualified to make this comment)
the vast majority of people actually read (cover-cover) one single book at a time
I call BS on this one! 1. Breakfast/lunchtime book. 2. night-time book. 3. lounge-room book. 4. book (normally 1-3) i started reading but got vaguely bored of but haven't given up on completely. 4. academic papers/books that are on the go (normally around 3-10).
I might read a single book cover-to-cover with an especially good book sometimes, but since I listen to audiobooks too, and since I'd probably be in the middle of several others anyway, this is pretty rare.
Using an HRM is like keeping score on a video game. Or playing the tomagotchi game with your body as the avatar. Or something. Something fun and trackable, anyway.
Seriously dude, this is one of the funniest, and most accurate statements about exercise I've ever read! This is also exactly why I like running on a treadmill instead of in the great outdoors, even more precise measurements of distances, inclines, pace and heartrate. I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one to feel like this! :D
Oh, and it could therefore be interesting to the kids, too (in the original question).
(uh, dative + possessive case-mashing? Try 'whose else's' :p )
well, anyone in Australia would also know it as a completely ordinary word. Actually, you come off as sounding pretty elitist for implying that American English is the only 'correct/normal' English :p (Just trying to give a gentle hint here!)
How many Americans have lived somewhere else?
How many people have?
Well, here in Iceland, it's pretty hard to find *anyone* who has *never* lived overseas. Uni, work, extended visits with family and friends... So, yeah, depends on where you look.
I've always wondered if I took a postcard, wrote someone's name and city to be delivered to, and gave it to a random person. Would it ever get there? I'm going to try it tonight.
Hang on, they did this with emails back in 2001 report. There was a person's name, country and occupation I think, and you had to forward it to someone who you thought would be 'closer'. I wonder how different this would be using only Facebook friends or something.
I would expect any modern photocopier to scan to pdf (while 150dpi is okay to look at, the OCR is better at 300dpi), then Adobe Professional does the OCR (my uni has a site license).
I actually bought a nifty tablet/pen thingy recently, and now I can write notes directly on the pdf too, in my own handwriting. I love it.
Where is the proof that people copying stuff is hurting Sweden?
Very bloody good point.
hear, hear. That's why I'm a rightie with the mouse on the left. Normal left-click/right-click on the left/right side.
I've been thinking for some time that this is a logical step to take. Musicians already get paid per play of their song (on air or live - I'm in a band, and we submit our setlists here in Australia), this could just be increased. Similarly for authors, artists and so on. It would just create another set of public servants, which doesn't bother me that much. But the university grant-type system would need to be fixed first, although I think the general idea is sound.
So, 16oz is two cups of coffee, and I suppose most ordinary human beings would have it in smaller quantities (/. posters != 'ordinary human beings', judging from some other posters' comments about their coffee/soft drink intake). Still, it's interesting how much variation there is in the amount of caffeine found in different cups of coffee (assuming your espresso machine makes only a cup of liquid, then Starbucks' drip coffee contains more than three times the amount of caffeine - ye gads). Apparently even 'decaf' is not 'caffeine free', just less than 20mg or something.
well, I make it clear to anyone who brings small children to my house that, since we don't have kids, our house is NOT CHILDPROOF. This encourages parents to keep a closer eye on their little ones, and also encourages them to meet with us at their house, or the park, or some other childproof area, if the kids have to come along. But, yeah, parents should probably check out the grandparents' place before leaving the little 'uns there for the day.
I'd really like to see the figures on kids who kill a parent with a gun versus with a kitchen knife. Somehow I think more damage is done, more easily, with a gun.
40 and 176 mg
http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/poison/caffeine/caffeine.htm
it may range between 40 and 176 mg
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/healthyliving2/stories/011608dnlivcaffeine.3d6c6.html
Starbucks' drip (16 oz.): 400 mg (f*ck me!)
http://www.nancyscoffee.com/
1 cup of coffee contains 230 milligrams of caffeine
Apparently 100mg is not that hard to come by in one cup of coffee...
Women don't really care about the dual-quad intake [...], so long as it looks and sounds good.
Or, 'so long as it is clean, doesn't leak too much, and isn't driven by a maniac'.
I'm a little confused - any legally binding document I've ever had to sign, eg buying and renting a house, *required* every party to initial every page, on everyone's copies, and each of these copies get photocopied for everyone else's records. I find it a little bizarre, but comforting to know that that's the way it is. But then I live in Australia, and ycmv*. *your contracts may vary
Fair enough. But the other information should be made available. An open system helps those who get the job and those who don't, and in the long run can save employers time in the recruitment process because the applicants themselves have a more realistic idea about their suitability for a position.
Funny, in Scandinavia when you apply for a job (at least at university), each applicant gets a list of every applicant, their names, ages, sexes and qualifications, along with a summary from the interviewing committee about the rankings of each applicant and reasons for the rankings. I have found it an excellent way of learning which jobs I should apply for and what kinds of skills I need to acquire before I apply for the next job. And yet you (I'm guessing you're American) talk of SUING someone who mentions other applicants? I find that very disturbing, to say the least! Having participated in the Australian and the Scandinavian ways of applying for jobs, I most definitely prefer the Scando way.
And I was under the impression that most of these deaf people had been quite poor at written Spanish, which supporters of the critical age theory were waving about as 'proof' that humans have to learn a first language very early on, in order to have any hope at acquiring native/near-native proficiency in subsequent ones. But, this is only something I've *taught* for a few lectures, I haven't *studied* it, so I admit I don't know too much about it :p