Reminds me of a cat joke about the difference between a philosopher and a theologian: “A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.” - H.L. Mencken
That's what happened in New Zealand many years ago. "Summer time" was introduced year-round and daylight saving was discontinued for many years. Now, when we are on daylight saving time we are actually 1.5 hours ahead of our solar time. https://www.govt.nz/browse/rec...
I work in a library in New Zealand which has a childrens' area with "Lego pits" for children to play with Lego bricks. I asked the librarians, and the volunteers who supervise the Lego pits if anyone called them "Legos". Their response was in the negative, with a volunteer supervisor saying "It's a North American thing"
I must admit that my opinion of Bill Gates went up a bit when I read an article a while ago about his mathematical solution to the "pancake sorting" problem: https://www.aol.com/article/20...
With hindsight, it might have been better for Boeing to modernise the Boeing 757 instead of stretching the role of the Boeing 737 so much: https://www.businessinsider.co...
The opposite happened on XL Airways Flight 888, an acceptance flight for an Air New Zealand Airbus A320 going back to ANZ after a lease to XL Airways Germany. The Airbus A320's computers noticed the conflicting readings from the sensors and put the pitch trim into manual mode. The pilots didn't notice the warning on a screen and were relying on the flight computers to prevent the plane from stalling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A cousin of ours in Italy was almost screaming to my sister during a phone call the other day to use Whatsapp. She uses Whatsapp with other family members, but I am leery about getting involved with something that has ties with Facebook. She is not interested in using other programs like Hangouts or Signal that I was suggesting. I was thinking about getting a cheap mobile phone and a SIM with no other contacts on it to use Whatsapp exclusively with her. Anybody here have any experiences with Whatsapp to relate?
In 1981, when I was in my final year of high school, there was a song that I heard many times on the radio about the Walkman cassette tape player. Now, whenever I hear this I am brought back to 1981. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Something like that happened with a 15 year-old boy in my year at school in the late 1970's. He had been shooting rabbits with some other kids and they were back at a farmhouse watching television. One of the other kids was cleaning a rifle and was being careful to point it away from himself and towards the TV. The boy in question went to change the channel on the TV using the channel knob when the rifle fired off a round left in the firing chamber. From what I understand, the bullet went into one of his main blood vessels and got sucked into his heart, killing him.
I'm 56 and I just tried doing some push-ups. I managed to do 21, not bad considering that I gave up on doing push-ups every day about 3 years ago. I had been doing about 75 push-ups per day before then, and I am sure that I have done 40 in a row with some effort. I had been doing the push-ups to keep my arm strength up and I found that doing 50 per day was not enough. I was also doing about 50 sit-ups per day, I am sure that this protected my back when doing heavy lifting and also kept me from getting hernias like my father had.
I have heard of job applications being initially selected in a similar manner. This page from a book claims that such a thing is true. https://books.google.co.nz/boo...
Reminds me of this saying: If you owe the bank $10,000 and can't repay, you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10 million dollars and can't repay, the bank has a problem.
I have been reading it for about as long as I have been reading Slashdot too. I usually check it a few times per week. Lately, I have noticed that often there are very few comments posted for an article; it is not uncommon to see fewer than 10 comments posted.
By contrast, all the public libraries that I have been working at in the last few years have all used pay-photocopiers that also function as flatbed scanners and networked laser printers.
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Reminds me of a cat joke about the difference between a philosopher and a theologian: “A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.” - H.L. Mencken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You are probably thinking about Professor Dava Newman's BioSuit: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/61704...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's what happened in New Zealand many years ago. "Summer time" was introduced year-round and daylight saving was discontinued for many years. Now, when we are on daylight saving time we are actually 1.5 hours ahead of our solar time. https://www.govt.nz/browse/rec...
I work in a library in New Zealand which has a childrens' area with "Lego pits" for children to play with Lego bricks. I asked the librarians, and the volunteers who supervise the Lego pits if anyone called them "Legos". Their response was in the negative, with a volunteer supervisor saying "It's a North American thing"
Fine in theory, but it would never work in practice. Every manufacturer would make their own proprietary connector, so it would not be universal.
I think that the point is that a Lego set is made up of many loose parts whereas an iPhone is a single item.
I must admit that my opinion of Bill Gates went up a bit when I read an article a while ago about his mathematical solution to the "pancake sorting" problem: https://www.aol.com/article/20...
With hindsight, it might have been better for Boeing to modernise the Boeing 757 instead of stretching the role of the Boeing 737 so much: https://www.businessinsider.co...
The opposite happened on XL Airways Flight 888, an acceptance flight for an Air New Zealand Airbus A320 going back to ANZ after a lease to XL Airways Germany. The Airbus A320's computers noticed the conflicting readings from the sensors and put the pitch trim into manual mode. The pilots didn't notice the warning on a screen and were relying on the flight computers to prevent the plane from stalling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A cousin of ours in Italy was almost screaming to my sister during a phone call the other day to use Whatsapp. She uses Whatsapp with other family members, but I am leery about getting involved with something that has ties with Facebook. She is not interested in using other programs like Hangouts or Signal that I was suggesting. I was thinking about getting a cheap mobile phone and a SIM with no other contacts on it to use Whatsapp exclusively with her. Anybody here have any experiences with Whatsapp to relate?
In 1981, when I was in my final year of high school, there was a song that I heard many times on the radio about the Walkman cassette tape player. Now, whenever I hear this I am brought back to 1981. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This wizard would not be hard to identify by his gait: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Something like that happened with a 15 year-old boy in my year at school in the late 1970's. He had been shooting rabbits with some other kids and they were back at a farmhouse watching television. One of the other kids was cleaning a rifle and was being careful to point it away from himself and towards the TV. The boy in question went to change the channel on the TV using the channel knob when the rifle fired off a round left in the firing chamber. From what I understand, the bullet went into one of his main blood vessels and got sucked into his heart, killing him.
I'm 56 and I just tried doing some push-ups. I managed to do 21, not bad considering that I gave up on doing push-ups every day about 3 years ago. I had been doing about 75 push-ups per day before then, and I am sure that I have done 40 in a row with some effort. I had been doing the push-ups to keep my arm strength up and I found that doing 50 per day was not enough. I was also doing about 50 sit-ups per day, I am sure that this protected my back when doing heavy lifting and also kept me from getting hernias like my father had.
I have heard of job applications being initially selected in a similar manner. This page from a book claims that such a thing is true. https://books.google.co.nz/boo...
Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Reminds me of this saying: If you owe the bank $10,000 and can't repay, you have a problem. If you owe the bank $10 million dollars and can't repay, the bank has a problem.
Hope it goes better than the Piasecki PA97 Helistat - A helicopter-blimp hybrid heavy-lift vehicle https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Neil Armstrong written backwards is "Gnorts, Mr Alien"
I have been reading it for about as long as I have been reading Slashdot too. I usually check it a few times per week. Lately, I have noticed that often there are very few comments posted for an article; it is not uncommon to see fewer than 10 comments posted.
Hampton the Hamster "The Hamsterdance Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
By contrast, all the public libraries that I have been working at in the last few years have all used pay-photocopiers that also function as flatbed scanners and networked laser printers.
https://my.christchurchcitylib...
The brand-new library that I work at has things like 3D printers, a recording studio, laser cutters and sewing machines available.
https://my.christchurchcitylib...
"Mars must be one of the most inhospitable places on Earth." BBC Radio Leeds Presenter