This is already in existence (not that it isn't incredibly cool!). Here's a link to a fellow slashdotter's sculpture site; he has an article describing the technology. Oh, and the art is really neat.. I don't know him, nor do I own any of the pieces though I would like to.
I just started twilight princess today, so maybe I've not made it to a restricted area yet, but at least in the village you can save at any point. I think it's button 2 that brings up the menu.
Wire transfer fees over here are stupidly high- the lowest I've seen is $10 each. Of course it's not a feature i ever use, so I haven't paid a lot of attention to the fees. Payroll is usually handled via the automated clearing house (ACH) system, and I have no idea what the fees on that are like but they were high enough the startup pharma company with a dozen employees I worked at didn't bother. We all got live paper checks each month.
I ended up sticking mine to the top of the dashboard above the center air vents. It's not a graceful spot, but it is convenient to look at and the only other thing I put up there is one of those collapsible sun shades. The sunshade helps keep the LCD from baking, so I put up with the gauge getting pulled off the velcro every now and then.
You may be correct regarding retaining speed control in tight driving conditions, but since I do this primarily on near-empty interstates the lack of acceleration control isn't a big deal; I'm not going to need to accelerate away from a potentially dangerous situation the same way you might in city traffic. I can still brake and/or steer to avoid any animals crossing the road and it makes no sense to try to speed around any other highway hazard I can think of at the moment, given the situation I mentioned.
And I don't drag on the brakes. My engine, however, has that effect- I'm in an automatic, BTW- if I leave the car in gear going downhill even with my foot off the gas, I lose so much speed that climbing up the next hill is tedious and I get a lot of pinging. I'd rather burn a little gas (0.3 gph at idle) and preserve the engine. As far as I've been able to determine I'm not causing any damage to the transaxle, either.
I'll second that- I love my ScanGauge, but finding a good spot for it was not the easiest thing ever. Seeing 207 MPG is great fun even if it does only last a few seconds going downhill in neutral. Seeing the 2.6 as you start up a hill from a stop, not so much. I've started choosing the flatter route to work.
Do you know if they've dropped the plans for a USB interface so you could pull the info off and chart it on a computer? I'd been looking forward to that, but looking around their site now I'm not finding any mention.
I am so sick and tired of people asking when I'm going to have children. My former gynecologist - a FEMALE gyno- refused to even discuss the option of a hysterectomy with me despite my very firm decision not to have children and a family history of various cancers- because I would "change my mind about having children." Sorry, no. Even if I did, there's adoption.
Now when people ask about kids I tell them I already have two- their names are Foucault and Raistlin, and they have adorable pointy ears and and fuzzy tails. Then I drag out the cat pictures. If my coworkers and every other person under the bleeding sun is going to make me look at their snotty brats they can bloody well look at my kittens.
There's already something similar in some of the more modern lady's rooms around; it's a spring-mounted shelf that you pull down and put your purse/whatever on, which then keeps you from opening the stall door without first removing your belongings. I thought it was really quite clever the first time I saw one; it also helps reduce the incidence of people reaching over the top of the door and snagging your purse from the coat hook while you sit there and watch helplessly.
I can point today at exactly the reason I did not go into electrical engineering. I attended a two day long university-sponsored Women in Engineering outreach program, and it was nothing about the program that scared me off, it was THE OTHER POTENTIAL FEMALE STUDENTS. Good lord, they were a pushy, stuck-up, title and prestige obsessed lot. I made the mistake of showing active interest in the electron microscope demonstration after the other girls in my tour group made it more than clear through whispering and shifting around restlessly that they thought it was incredibly boring, and no one in my group spoke to me again the rest of the day- which made the mandatory team-building engineering project contest later that evening more than a little awkward. (Do guys have mandatory team-building at their engineering recruitment events?)
So I went into biology instead, because I liked trees, and for some reason it was more OK to be a reclusive female biology student than engineer simply because these young ladies were so obsessed with breaking down stereotypes.
-so it might not hurt Apple as much when the name trademark dispute shoves it right back where it belongs. A clunky overpriced palmtop computer masquerading as a phone that now can't even be made to work to a reasonably acceptable degree as a palmtop computer.
Universally hated by those with endless hours to kill and maybe three like-minded friends, perhaps. When you want something to take maybe an hour, have lots of people who would like to play, want people to be able to drop in and out at will (such as at a holiday party), there's nothing quite as much fun as fluxx. There's next to no learning curve (the rules are all on the table, for crissake) and there can be as much or as little strategy to it as you want. Yeah, you get the odd hand with nothing but lame cards, but I can't think of any game where you don't at least occasionally wind up completely constrained by the contents of whatever it is you have to work with.
No, I'm pretty sure we all got it- the grumbling is at the editors and the off-precise-topic discussion of noise cancelling is just what Slashdotters _do_.:)
I also have the E2Cs, and I didn't have the problem of feeling like i was sticking things too far into my ear- of course, I've been shooting rifles since I was six which means that I've been using ear plugs since i was six, and am quite accustomed to them. In my work environment, there's a fair bit of background noise (about twelve computers, a large refrigerator, a fossilized air conditioner compressor, three centrifuges going on and off) and at the time i bought the phones, two coworkers whose constant, shrill, incredibly loud laughter reminded me of hyenas. The Shures saved my bloody sanity until i got the promotion and PHB said I had to "be available to answer employee questions at all times." Fortunately one hyena-woman had left by then... They worked really well for my needs, a mix of constant background hum and sharp high-frequency outbursts, though the high pitch stuff still came through enough to detect.
My problem with the E2C actually was that in combination with my Rio Carbon I could not turn the music volume down _low_ enough to be 100% comfortable all the time. I couldn't listen to rock music with them, for example, because I found it painfully loud. This is not a problem for most people, I'm told:)
I'm considering getting a Wii, which I find interesting because I've never really been a fan of console games. If Nintendo is trying to pull in new users, well, mid-twenties women might be a good place to start. Of course, I am something of a nerd.. i'm not going to buy one if it means i have to go buy a TV too- I need to figure out how i'd connect it to my monitor. YMMV, and no, anecdotes do not equal data.
WRT to the years in college... Girls who study stuff like engineering here are *swamped* with men and they get to pick which ones they want.
Why do you think that they want to pick? Geek guys do exactly that "smothering" thing that women interesting in engineering and computer science do not want to experience at all. Women with scientific impulses at this time tend to be self-confident and don't feel a need to have a guy around.
I didn't claim that the brain cells of elegans was known- they haven't properly got one, as you point out. I was saying that the fate of ALL cells in the elegans zygote are known- that you can trace the development of a single cell from ferticlization to adult. If you want to know what the cell in the fourth quadrant upper right is (i don't know the mapping schema- I do trees) you can go look it up somewhere, and conversely, if you want to know which cell in the blastocyte produced the segment you're looking at under the microscope you can find that information as well. I had thought this proceudre had been done on humans as well, but I was apparently wrong, that or this article is old news. It is/. after all.
I rather thought that the destiny of the initial cells was known out to about a month- perhaps I'm confusing humans and C. elegans, which i am certain has been fully documented. I'm a tad bit tipsy at the moment- perhaps this tequila worm could tell me, if it weren't pickeled...
It's great if you don't have anything else to do with your life. I played for about six months last winter (Whoo Karnak! Hi Guardians of Re!) and had to quit because the boyfriend couldn't handle me talking about breeding scarab beetles any more. The only problem I found was it was impossible to be a casual gamer- you'd come back after a weekend trip and find that not only had three new techs been opened, you were now good for nothing but growing cabbage. Sigh. I was in a research guild, YMMV.
it's a word that is used to refer to one who speaks with the authority of God, that is, a prophet, though not necessarily a prophet as moderns know it. An amen didn't always fortell the future. My source for this is J. Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries 1999 paperback edition, p. 14. He doesn't give a source for this translation/understanding of the Aramaic, and I don't speak Aramaic so YMMV.
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I had a copy of that story in a children's literature anthology. It's called "The Story About Ping."
This is already in existence (not that it isn't incredibly cool!). Here's a link to a fellow slashdotter's sculpture site; he has an article describing the technology. Oh, and the art is really neat.. I don't know him, nor do I own any of the pieces though I would like to.
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http://www.bathsheba.com/sculpt/process/index.htm
at least if they had laptops in chambers we could see which senators were playing solitaire on CSpan.. and who was IMing the pages.
I just started twilight princess today, so maybe I've not made it to a restricted area yet, but at least in the village you can save at any point. I think it's button 2 that brings up the menu.
Wire transfer fees over here are stupidly high- the lowest I've seen is $10 each. Of course it's not a feature i ever use, so I haven't paid a lot of attention to the fees. Payroll is usually handled via the automated clearing house (ACH) system, and I have no idea what the fees on that are like but they were high enough the startup pharma company with a dozen employees I worked at didn't bother. We all got live paper checks each month.
I ended up sticking mine to the top of the dashboard above the center air vents. It's not a graceful spot, but it is convenient to look at and the only other thing I put up there is one of those collapsible sun shades. The sunshade helps keep the LCD from baking, so I put up with the gauge getting pulled off the velcro every now and then.
You may be correct regarding retaining speed control in tight driving conditions, but since I do this primarily on near-empty interstates the lack of acceleration control isn't a big deal; I'm not going to need to accelerate away from a potentially dangerous situation the same way you might in city traffic. I can still brake and/or steer to avoid any animals crossing the road and it makes no sense to try to speed around any other highway hazard I can think of at the moment, given the situation I mentioned.
And I don't drag on the brakes. My engine, however, has that effect- I'm in an automatic, BTW- if I leave the car in gear going downhill even with my foot off the gas, I lose so much speed that climbing up the next hill is tedious and I get a lot of pinging. I'd rather burn a little gas (0.3 gph at idle) and preserve the engine. As far as I've been able to determine I'm not causing any damage to the transaxle, either.
I'll second that- I love my ScanGauge, but finding a good spot for it was not the easiest thing ever. Seeing 207 MPG is great fun even if it does only last a few seconds going downhill in neutral. Seeing the 2.6 as you start up a hill from a stop, not so much. I've started choosing the flatter route to work.
Do you know if they've dropped the plans for a USB interface so you could pull the info off and chart it on a computer? I'd been looking forward to that, but looking around their site now I'm not finding any mention.
You're right, that is bizarre. :/ Especially given the number of butch lesbians out there with kids.
hear hear.
I am so sick and tired of people asking when I'm going to have children. My former gynecologist - a FEMALE gyno- refused to even discuss the option of a hysterectomy with me despite my very firm decision not to have children and a family history of various cancers- because I would "change my mind about having children." Sorry, no. Even if I did, there's adoption.
Now when people ask about kids I tell them I already have two- their names are Foucault and Raistlin, and they have adorable pointy ears and and fuzzy tails. Then I drag out the cat pictures. If my coworkers and every other person under the bleeding sun is going to make me look at their snotty brats they can bloody well look at my kittens.
I'd stick it..
Are you in Lexington KY? Probably not, but thought I'd ask.
There's already something similar in some of the more modern lady's rooms around; it's a spring-mounted shelf that you pull down and put your purse/whatever on, which then keeps you from opening the stall door without first removing your belongings. I thought it was really quite clever the first time I saw one; it also helps reduce the incidence of people reaching over the top of the door and snagging your purse from the coat hook while you sit there and watch helplessly.
That may well be true. I didn't bother remembering any faces to see where they finally showed up.
I can point today at exactly the reason I did not go into electrical engineering. I attended a two day long university-sponsored Women in Engineering outreach program, and it was nothing about the program that scared me off, it was THE OTHER POTENTIAL FEMALE STUDENTS. Good lord, they were a pushy, stuck-up, title and prestige obsessed lot. I made the mistake of showing active interest in the electron microscope demonstration after the other girls in my tour group made it more than clear through whispering and shifting around restlessly that they thought it was incredibly boring, and no one in my group spoke to me again the rest of the day- which made the mandatory team-building engineering project contest later that evening more than a little awkward. (Do guys have mandatory team-building at their engineering recruitment events?)
So I went into biology instead, because I liked trees, and for some reason it was more OK to be a reclusive female biology student than engineer simply because these young ladies were so obsessed with breaking down stereotypes.
YMMV, of course.
-so it might not hurt Apple as much when the name trademark dispute shoves it right back where it belongs. A clunky overpriced palmtop computer masquerading as a phone that now can't even be made to work to a reasonably acceptable degree as a palmtop computer.
Universally hated by those with endless hours to kill and maybe three like-minded friends, perhaps. When you want something to take maybe an hour, have lots of people who would like to play, want people to be able to drop in and out at will (such as at a holiday party), there's nothing quite as much fun as fluxx. There's next to no learning curve (the rules are all on the table, for crissake) and there can be as much or as little strategy to it as you want. Yeah, you get the odd hand with nothing but lame cards, but I can't think of any game where you don't at least occasionally wind up completely constrained by the contents of whatever it is you have to work with.
No, I'm pretty sure we all got it- the grumbling is at the editors and the off-precise-topic discussion of noise cancelling is just what Slashdotters _do_. :)
I also have the E2Cs, and I didn't have the problem of feeling like i was sticking things too far into my ear- of course, I've been shooting rifles since I was six which means that I've been using ear plugs since i was six, and am quite accustomed to them. In my work environment, there's a fair bit of background noise (about twelve computers, a large refrigerator, a fossilized air conditioner compressor, three centrifuges going on and off) and at the time i bought the phones, two coworkers whose constant, shrill, incredibly loud laughter reminded me of hyenas. The Shures saved my bloody sanity until i got the promotion and PHB said I had to "be available to answer employee questions at all times." Fortunately one hyena-woman had left by then... They worked really well for my needs, a mix of constant background hum and sharp high-frequency outbursts, though the high pitch stuff still came through enough to detect.
:)
My problem with the E2C actually was that in combination with my Rio Carbon I could not turn the music volume down _low_ enough to be 100% comfortable all the time. I couldn't listen to rock music with them, for example, because I found it painfully loud. This is not a problem for most people, I'm told
I'm considering getting a Wii, which I find interesting because I've never really been a fan of console games. If Nintendo is trying to pull in new users, well, mid-twenties women might be a good place to start. Of course, I am something of a nerd.. i'm not going to buy one if it means i have to go buy a TV too- I need to figure out how i'd connect it to my monitor. YMMV, and no, anecdotes do not equal data.
WRT to the years in college... Girls who study stuff like engineering here are *swamped* with men and they get to pick which ones they want.
Why do you think that they want to pick? Geek guys do exactly that "smothering" thing that women interesting in engineering and computer science do not want to experience at all. Women with scientific impulses at this time tend to be self-confident and don't feel a need to have a guy around.
I didn't claim that the brain cells of elegans was known- they haven't properly got one, as you point out. I was saying that the fate of ALL cells in the elegans zygote are known- that you can trace the development of a single cell from ferticlization to adult. If you want to know what the cell in the fourth quadrant upper right is (i don't know the mapping schema- I do trees) you can go look it up somewhere, and conversely, if you want to know which cell in the blastocyte produced the segment you're looking at under the microscope you can find that information as well. I had thought this proceudre had been done on humans as well, but I was apparently wrong, that or this article is old news. It is /. after all.
I rather thought that the destiny of the initial cells was known out to about a month- perhaps I'm confusing humans and C. elegans, which i am certain has been fully documented. I'm a tad bit tipsy at the moment- perhaps this tequila worm could tell me, if it weren't pickeled...
It's great if you don't have anything else to do with your life. I played for about six months last winter (Whoo Karnak! Hi Guardians of Re!) and had to quit because the boyfriend couldn't handle me talking about breeding scarab beetles any more. The only problem I found was it was impossible to be a casual gamer- you'd come back after a weekend trip and find that not only had three new techs been opened, you were now good for nothing but growing cabbage. Sigh. I was in a research guild, YMMV.
it's a word that is used to refer to one who speaks with the authority of God, that is, a prophet, though not necessarily a prophet as moderns know it. An amen didn't always fortell the future. My source for this is J. Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries 1999 paperback edition, p. 14. He doesn't give a source for this translation/understanding of the Aramaic, and I don't speak Aramaic so YMMV.