Yeah, a cooling fan or two in there couldn't hurt.
I tried that once, but the cute little redhead blowing in my ear didn't cool things off at all and she was very distracting while I was trying to do math.
CSS Zen Garden is the most enlightening site I've ever seen when it comes to the power of CSS to seperate content from layout.
I AM NOT AN ARTIST but I am a highly compentent illustrator. I've made a living for over twenty years doing computer graphics ranging from computer aided drafting (AutoCAD) to digital prepress work (Photoshop, Quark, Freehand) to 3d modeling using a number of different tools. I cannot draw but I can do professional layout with the best of them. Since I'm pretty much locked into Windows as an OS (blame AutoDesk) I tend to do most of my web page visualization using the Corel DRAW suite. If in LINUX I use GIMP. If in a resturant I use napkins and a ballpoint.
Whatever method you use to "see" the page in your mind, seperating the content from the layout using HTML and CSS makes life so much easier when your client (or boss) decides your carefully thought out color scheme sucks and insists on purple and orange.
Check out Zen Garden. It'll change the way you do web design for the better.
What possible justification could you have for letting people take off their clothes right there in front of you?
"If god had wanted people to run around naked we'd have been born without no clothes on."
That's all the justification I need. But then I was taught to make a destinction between being naked (not being clothed) and being nekid (not having cloths on and being up to something). This woman was definitly nekid.
The real question here is: how comfortable are you with the technology you're introducing to this child? Can you stay far enough ahead of a young inquisitive mind to stear her in the right direction? If she suddenly wants to know all about cascading style sheets are you going to freek? Do PHP and SQL cause you to loose sleep at night?
If you're totally comfortable in this arena, then, by all means, introduce her to the nuts and bolts of web programming. If not, then point her in the direction of one of the "free" page hosts that provide a template driven page layout program.
Education, in any field of endevor, is simply a matter of providing a safe environment in which the recources exist for discovering on their own what you wanted the student to learn in the first place.
it's an insurance policy for the poorly informed. The original manufacturers warranty will cover 99.9% of all actual product defects. If it's electronic and it's going to fail, it will happen within the first 90 days of use.
As for covering powersurges and the like: Surge units are a much cheaper form of insurance, and a lot of the better companies will replace anything that gets fried while attached to their unit.
ended well before his 30th birthday. After that he made a complete fool of himself with his attempts to apply his rapidly dimishing mental abilities to "decoding" the Bible. I was a physics student back in the days when the History of Science was still considered a necessary part of training as a scientist. As I recall from Newton's biographys, he made a number of attempts to date Biblical events, including creation, and missed every one by at least an order of magnitude. No one who has any knowledge of Newton's life and work is likely to consider this "prediction" as anything more than it was: the rantings of a demented mind.
The Reactor is in the X-10 (Oak Ridge National Lab) complex. And after having posted that I remembered that they've closed access to X-10 as well. They are supposed to be working out arrangements for tour groups to visit the reactor through the museum.
Come on down. The museum has gotten a lot better but you better hurry. The Dept. of Energy has cut off funding after all these years and it's likely to be the Oak Ridge Museum of History rather than the American Museum of Science and Energy before too long.
But don't expect to see much of the y-12 complex. That's where they store all the enriched uranium that has been removed from all the decommissioned bombs. They're a bit touchy about uninvited guests there these days.
But you can go look at the Graphite Reactor. This was the first production reactor ever built. 1 kilowatt total output and air cooled. It was shut down in the 60's but, unlike the west coast where they cart the things off and bury them when they are too old to use anymore, we made ours into a National Historic Landmark. It's not like we're going to be able to use that spot for anything else for the next couple of hundred thousand years.
It's very powerful, and a good reminder of just what a nuke actually does to people.
And it isn't just the people on the recieving end that are affected, or effected for that matter. I'm a bit late joining this discussion, but that has given me time to read through most of the earlier comments. I am a child of the Manhattan Project: born in a goverment hospital on a goverment reservation that is now the town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. My grandfather helped build the plants that enriched the uranium that leveled Hiroshima. My father worked in the Oak Ridge Defense works for 22 years. He died, in part, from complications related to exposure to berillium. I have spent way more time than I care to admidit coming to terms with the "sins of our fathers" issue. That time included six years of studying nuclear physics and chemistry and reading almost everything written about the Manhattan Project, including this book.
For the record, The Making of the Atomic Bomb was copyrighted in 1986 and made it to paperback in 1988. (or so it says in my copy).
I have three other comments about this discussion in general:
1. Some one mentions 6 years and 60,000 employes. (reguarding goverment secrecy). Oak Ridge alone had a peak employmnet of over 80,000 people of whom maybe 100 had a clue as to what was really going on.
2. We DID NOT "NUKE" Japan. We droped two very deadly ATOMIC bombs on them. The distinction: about three orders of maginitude. The WWII bombs were both fission bombs. Nuke is a reference to "thermonuclear" or fusion. It's a distinction that we should not let get blurred by common useage. Little Boy was a totally unsophisticated bomb. It didn't implode. It was nothing but a big gun with an enriched uranium bullet fired into a target of more enriched uranium. It could fit into the back of my van. And with the enriched uranium in hand it could be assembled in a good high school machine shop. With several thousand kilograms of already enriched unraniun floating around in the world, do not ever be decieved into thinking that a terroist group has to be technically savy to build an atomic weapon.
3. Totally off topic, but the discussion of morality and ethics in using the atomic bomb brings up a very annoying question. How can a nation that has sacrificed all that we have to build and deploy the largest nuclear arsenal in the known universe send foot soldiers off to fight a war with another nation over it's having weapons of mass distruction? If Iraq having the bomb is a legetimate problem, we have the capability of eliminating it without exposing one American to their chemical, biological, and possible nuclear threat. Is fighting a conventional war under these circumstances Moral?
Cats spend up to 20 hours a day sleeping and yet still manage to stay fitter than most human gymnasts.
I have friends who swear that people who sleep with a purring cat are healthier. (sorry but I prefer a dog - it's warmer).
Anyway, the solution to loss of bone mass might just be to send a few cats along. Just strap a couple to each astronaut and maybe the humans would benifit.
Reguarding REAL science, have we ever put a cat in orbit for a long enough duration to see how feline bones react to zero g? This purring thing might actually have merit but we'll never find out by sending robots into space.
My phsyc friends tell me it's three as well. I can't help it if all phsyc majors have bad memories. MY earliest memory is of my dad taking me outside of town to see a comet. I remember it vividly. As an adult I went searching for data to back this up and the only visible (naked eye) comet occured between the time I was 9 and 11 MONTHS old. The next one happened after I was 4. My family moved when I was just over 25 months old and I have lots of memories from the house we moved from. I think memory depends on the individual's brain and how fast it cranks up when they're young. Most people I've met who remember things before the age of three learned to read before they were three as well. I believe language plays a very definite role in memory, helping us encode the data somehow.
It'd be worth more if you left it in the ground and just traded it around. Let's see-- I'll give you four New York to Miami for one Washington DC to Portland Washington. ... You could make more on broker's commissions, not get near as dirty, never have to leave the house, and totally avoid that little issue of not owning the stuff in the first place.
In 18 years of programming desktop computers for a living, I've recieved a TOTAL of 3 weeks of employer paid, formal training. During most of that time I was given commercial software packages to evaluate and was expected to train others. They worked on the theory that it was cheaper for me to learn from the manuals, at work, than to send someone off to school. After all those years of talking to machinery, I now work as a telephone support tech for a LARGE ADSL internet provider. They gave us 3 weeks of in-house classroom training prior to letting us out into the call center and they constantly give update sessions that amount to one or two days per month. We also are eligible for up to $1500 per year for continuing education (after we pass the class).
But, by far the best ongoing education benifits I've ever recieved in any job was during 3 years I worked as a camp manager/director for a major protastant denomination. I was classified as a missionary (no theology degree) and they paid my salary, room and board, and expenses for 4 weeks/year of ongoing education (and for 4 more weeks of just plain old vacation).
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I tried that once, but the cute little redhead blowing in my ear didn't cool things off at all and she was very distracting while I was trying to do math.
CSS Zen Garden is the most enlightening site I've ever seen when it comes to the power of CSS to seperate content from layout.
I AM NOT AN ARTIST but I am a highly compentent illustrator. I've made a living for over twenty years doing computer graphics ranging from computer aided drafting (AutoCAD) to digital prepress work (Photoshop, Quark, Freehand) to 3d modeling using a number of different tools. I cannot draw but I can do professional layout with the best of them. Since I'm pretty much locked into Windows as an OS (blame AutoDesk) I tend to do most of my web page visualization using the Corel DRAW suite. If in LINUX I use GIMP. If in a resturant I use napkins and a ballpoint.
Whatever method you use to "see" the page in your mind, seperating the content from the layout using HTML and CSS makes life so much easier when your client (or boss) decides your carefully thought out color scheme sucks and insists on purple and orange.
Check out Zen Garden. It'll change the way you do web design for the better.
"If god had wanted people to run around naked we'd have been born without no clothes on."
That's all the justification I need. But then I was taught to make a destinction between being naked (not being clothed) and being nekid (not having cloths on and being up to something). This woman was definitly nekid.
The real question here is: how comfortable are you with the technology you're introducing to this child? Can you stay far enough ahead of a young inquisitive mind to stear her in the right direction? If she suddenly wants to know all about cascading style sheets are you going to freek? Do PHP and SQL cause you to loose sleep at night?
If you're totally comfortable in this arena, then, by all means, introduce her to the nuts and bolts of web programming. If not, then point her in the direction of one of the "free" page hosts that provide a template driven page layout program.
Education, in any field of endevor, is simply a matter of providing a safe environment in which the recources exist for discovering on their own what you wanted the student to learn in the first place.
it's an insurance policy for the poorly informed. The original manufacturers warranty will cover 99.9% of all actual product defects. If it's electronic and it's going to fail, it will happen within the first 90 days of use.
As for covering powersurges and the like: Surge units are a much cheaper form of insurance, and a lot of the better companies will replace anything that gets fried while attached to their unit.
ended well before his 30th birthday. After that he made a complete fool of himself with his attempts to apply his rapidly dimishing mental abilities to "decoding" the Bible. I was a physics student back in the days when the History of Science was still considered a necessary part of training as a scientist. As I recall from Newton's biographys, he made a number of attempts to date Biblical events, including creation, and missed every one by at least an order of magnitude. No one who has any knowledge of Newton's life and work is likely to consider this "prediction" as anything more than it was: the rantings of a demented mind.
The Reactor is in the X-10 (Oak Ridge National Lab) complex. And after having posted that I remembered that they've closed access to X-10 as well. They are supposed to be working out arrangements for tour groups to visit the reactor through the museum.
Come on down. The museum has gotten a lot better but you better hurry. The Dept. of Energy has cut off funding after all these years and it's likely to be the Oak Ridge Museum of History rather than the American Museum of Science and Energy before too long.
But don't expect to see much of the y-12 complex. That's where they store all the enriched uranium that has been removed from all the decommissioned bombs. They're a bit touchy about uninvited guests there these days.
But you can go look at the Graphite Reactor. This was the first production reactor ever built. 1 kilowatt total output and air cooled. It was shut down in the 60's but, unlike the west coast where they cart the things off and bury them when they are too old to use anymore, we made ours into a National Historic Landmark. It's not like we're going to be able to use that spot for anything else for the next couple of hundred thousand years.
And it isn't just the people on the recieving end that are affected, or effected for that matter. I'm a bit late joining this discussion, but that has given me time to read through most of the earlier comments. I am a child of the Manhattan Project: born in a goverment hospital on a goverment reservation that is now the town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. My grandfather helped build the plants that enriched the uranium that leveled Hiroshima. My father worked in the Oak Ridge Defense works for 22 years. He died, in part, from complications related to exposure to berillium. I have spent way more time than I care to admidit coming to terms with the "sins of our fathers" issue. That time included six years of studying nuclear physics and chemistry and reading almost everything written about the Manhattan Project, including this book.
For the record, The Making of the Atomic Bomb was copyrighted in 1986 and made it to paperback in 1988. (or so it says in my copy).
I have three other comments about this discussion in general:
1. Some one mentions 6 years and 60,000 employes. (reguarding goverment secrecy). Oak Ridge alone had a peak employmnet of over 80,000 people of whom maybe 100 had a clue as to what was really going on.
2. We DID NOT "NUKE" Japan. We droped two very deadly ATOMIC bombs on them. The distinction: about three orders of maginitude. The WWII bombs were both fission bombs. Nuke is a reference to "thermonuclear" or fusion. It's a distinction that we should not let get blurred by common useage. Little Boy was a totally unsophisticated bomb. It didn't implode. It was nothing but a big gun with an enriched uranium bullet fired into a target of more enriched uranium. It could fit into the back of my van. And with the enriched uranium in hand it could be assembled in a good high school machine shop. With several thousand kilograms of already enriched unraniun floating around in the world, do not ever be decieved into thinking that a terroist group has to be technically savy to build an atomic weapon.
3. Totally off topic, but the discussion of morality and ethics in using the atomic bomb brings up a very annoying question. How can a nation that has sacrificed all that we have to build and deploy the largest nuclear arsenal in the known universe send foot soldiers off to fight a war with another nation over it's having weapons of mass distruction? If Iraq having the bomb is a legetimate problem, we have the capability of eliminating it without exposing one American to their chemical, biological, and possible nuclear threat. Is fighting a conventional war under these circumstances Moral?
I have friends who swear that people who sleep with a purring cat are healthier. (sorry but I prefer a dog - it's warmer).
Anyway, the solution to loss of bone mass might just be to send a few cats along. Just strap a couple to each astronaut and maybe the humans would benifit.
Reguarding REAL science, have we ever put a cat in orbit for a long enough duration to see how feline bones react to zero g? This purring thing might actually have merit but we'll never find out by sending robots into space.
My phsyc friends tell me it's three as well. I can't help it if all phsyc majors have bad memories. MY earliest memory is of my dad taking me outside of town to see a comet. I remember it vividly. As an adult I went searching for data to back this up and the only visible (naked eye) comet occured between the time I was 9 and 11 MONTHS old. The next one happened after I was 4. My family moved when I was just over 25 months old and I have lots of memories from the house we moved from. I think memory depends on the individual's brain and how fast it cranks up when they're young. Most people I've met who remember things before the age of three learned to read before they were three as well. I believe language plays a very definite role in memory, helping us encode the data somehow.
It'd be worth more if you left it in the ground and just traded it around. Let's see-- I'll give you four New York to Miami for one Washington DC to Portland Washington. . .. You could make more on broker's commissions, not get near as dirty, never have to leave the house, and totally avoid that little issue of not owning the stuff in the first place.
In 18 years of programming desktop computers for a living, I've recieved a TOTAL of 3 weeks of employer paid, formal training. During most of that time I was given commercial software packages to evaluate and was expected to train others. They worked on the theory that it was cheaper for me to learn from the manuals, at work, than to send someone off to school. After all those years of talking to machinery, I now work as a telephone support tech for a LARGE ADSL internet provider. They gave us 3 weeks of in-house classroom training prior to letting us out into the call center and they constantly give update sessions that amount to one or two days per month. We also are eligible for up to $1500 per year for continuing education (after we pass the class).
But, by far the best ongoing education benifits I've ever recieved in any job was during 3 years I worked as a camp manager/director for a major protastant denomination. I was classified as a missionary (no theology degree) and they paid my salary, room and board, and expenses for 4 weeks/year of ongoing education (and for 4 more weeks of just plain old vacation).
Why was it I became a programmer again?