Until quite recently prose was recorded using tools such as "quill", "pen", or "chalk" and "parchment", "paper", and "slate". Although not directly portable to *nix, there are a number of close equivalents.
I would highly recommend vi as a suitable tool for recording prose. It runs on most operating systems, unix-like and otherwise. I believe there is even a version for EMACS!
It's got nothing to do with synaesthetics, but I count the months on my knuckles to work out the number of days, rather than running through the old "Thirty days hath September" rhyme.
You start with January on the knuckle of the left pinky, and February on the gap between the pinky and the ring finger, working to the right as you go. Knuckles have 31 days, gaps do not. It just seems to work quicker than the rhyme, perhaps because the rhyme reauires you to perform a "pattern match" against an unordered list.
This is a thoroughly spectacular demonstration of many physical and chemical properties and concepts.
Make a dry mix of pulverised Aluminium and Iodine. Then pour a small cone of the mix onto a fireproof base (my chem teacher used an asbestos sheet, but I'm not sure if asbestos is used in schools any longer). Make a small well in the top of the cone. The mixture is stable, right?
Well, watch what happens to the mixture when you put a single drop of water in the well. You get a plume of purple smoke and a handful of sparks.
The real question to ask the kids is "Why didn't the reaction begin until the water was added?".
IIRC, it goes something like this: When Iodine dissolves in water, some of it hydrolyses into an acid (hydroiodic?) which reduces the oxide film on some the aluminium, leaving bare elemental Aluminium in contact with water, oxidising it. The heat from the water oxidising the Aluminium sublimes the Iodine, creating the purple plumes and melts more Aluminium leaving bare Aluminium in contact with oxygen in the air, starting the main reaction.
You might want to use a fume hood, though, gaseous Iodine is a little unpleasant.
The way I read this situation is that all patent applications are first treated with an assumption of novelty. Is this some bizarre extension of the assumption of innocence? If I told you I had a brilliant idea, before telling you what it was, would you assume that I was the first person ever to have that idea? Of course you wouldn't, so why should the default response to a patent application be a grant?
The concept of Patent Clerks being paid piece rates for how many applications they can reject really is a good one. Of course, I wouldn't mind being a Patent Clerk during the first year or so of this scheme's implementation;)
Absolutely - ignorant media hype at work again. The pricks almost always get science wrong. The worst thing is that so many people fall for it.
The real reason that Escherichia Coli gets such bad press is a mere side effect of that it's such a common and incredibly populous inhabitant of a healthy human intestinal tract. That's what makes it such an excellent indicator of untreated sewage content.
When you're investigating possible sewage pollution, there's no point beginning with looking for the rare stuff that's dangerous in needle & haystack concentrations. No, you're better off counting the numbers of something that you're guaranteed to find, and extrapolating from there.
Of course, the media then jumps to the conclusion that, because a high E. Coli count probably means Really Bad Things are in the water, E. Coli itself becomes a Really Bad Thing.
"[Curie], who handles daily a particle of radium more dangerous than lightning, was afraid when confronted by the necessity of appearing before the public.""--Stéphane Lauzanne, editor-in-chief of Le Matin
Note: Not the stage fright, but the daily handling of radium (considering she was probably the most informed person in the world on the safety or otherwise of radium!)
Of course, I could be applying my early 21st century knowledge to her early 20th century situation.
I would like to see, in the context of this excerpt from the Last Will and Testament of Alfred Nobel, a justification for the Nobel Prize for "Economic Sciences", first awarded in 1969.
Should's that read Tonto, chief?
Kemosabe means friend.:)
Yeah, the Tonto thing bothered me a bit. I was thinking "If the Lone Ranger's sidekick is Kemosabe, then who's Tonto? LR's horse? No, that was Silver. LR's arch-enemy? No, I don't think so. Umm, maybe Tonto was from different folklore. Oh, screw it!" - Submit!
I am subscribed to a couple of worldwide mailing lists and I have found that email simply rocks in high 'net traffic situations.
During the New York tragedy, much of the traffic on those lists was along the lines of "I can't get to the major sites because the web is clagged solid - can anyone tell me the latest?". And thankfully for a couple of days, the rules about straying from the topic of the mailing list were ignored.
Granted, many of the complaints were actually related to individual corporate firewalls, http gateways and proxy servers, rather than the sites themselves, but the situation stands: for whatever reason, you can't get to the site. Our web proxy fell over under the load, but our SMTP gateway just kept on going. And so did most others around the world. And I imagine that NNTP stuff worked just as well the SMTP stuff.
Remember folks, the Internet is a lot more than the Web!
Uh-oh! Indians headed this way, lots of Indians. It looks like we're in trouble, Kemosabe!
Kemosabe:
Who's
we, white man?
While you have a good point about the merits of this game, your attitude is one the main reasons that corporations such as MS have problems dealing with "The Linux Community". The community is not a single entity with a central steering committee. In other words, we did not release this game.
And besides, do you really think that Linux users are the only ones to release games displaying poor taste or immature humour? What about all the really silly Flash games (or whatever they are) that crapflood mailboxes the world over, like the Frog in a blender game? Do you believe that anyone really thinks that those games are released by "The Windows Community"? If not, then why would anyone think that the Tux Vs Clippy game is release by the Linux community?
Slashdot Mirror
I've only ever seen the one kid, but I swear the couple down the road have triplets.
Their names are
I would highly recommend vi as a suitable tool for recording prose. It runs on most operating systems, unix-like and otherwise. I believe there is even a version for EMACS!
Or did you want to record performances of prose?
This probably probably should have been given it a (-1 redundant). After all that's what mirroring is all about!
One of these devices is already being used to mirror slashdot.
But the world ends at GMT 03:14:07, Tuesday, January 19, 2038!
Uhh, pencil me in for the 18th... just in case.
As soon as I saw "Libraries are 31337", I was immediately reminded of The Crimson Permanent Assurance.
It's got nothing to do with synaesthetics, but I count the months on my knuckles to work out the number of days, rather than running through the old "Thirty days hath September" rhyme.
You start with January on the knuckle of the left pinky, and February on the gap between the pinky and the ring finger, working to the right as you go. Knuckles have 31 days, gaps do not. It just seems to work quicker than the rhyme, perhaps because the rhyme reauires you to perform a "pattern match" against an unordered list.
Kinda like German?
"What is he talking about?"
"I have no idea, he hasn't got to the verb yet!"
This is a thoroughly spectacular demonstration of many physical and chemical properties and concepts.
Make a dry mix of pulverised Aluminium and Iodine.
Then pour a small cone of the mix onto a fireproof base (my chem teacher used an asbestos sheet, but I'm not sure if asbestos is used in schools any longer). Make a small well in the top of the cone. The mixture is stable, right?
Well, watch what happens to the mixture when you put a single drop of water in the well. You get a plume of purple smoke and a handful of sparks.
The real question to ask the kids is "Why didn't the reaction begin until the water was added?".
IIRC, it goes something like this:
When Iodine dissolves in water, some of it hydrolyses into an acid (hydroiodic?) which reduces the oxide film on some the aluminium, leaving bare elemental Aluminium in contact with water, oxidising it. The heat from the water oxidising the Aluminium sublimes the Iodine, creating the purple plumes and melts more Aluminium leaving bare Aluminium in contact with oxygen in the air, starting the main reaction.
You might want to use a fume hood, though, gaseous Iodine is a little unpleasant.
That's just crazy!
;)
The way I read this situation is that all patent applications are first treated with an assumption of novelty. Is this some bizarre extension of the assumption of innocence? If I told you I had a brilliant idea, before telling you what it was, would you assume that I was the first person ever to have that idea? Of course you wouldn't, so why should the default response to a patent application be a grant?
The concept of Patent Clerks being paid piece rates for how many applications they can reject really is a good one. Of course, I wouldn't mind being a Patent Clerk during the first year or so of this scheme's implementation
LOL!
:)
(I really did!
Sure it's way off topic, but that is funny!
What has it got on it's sectorses?
Absolutely - ignorant media hype at work again. The pricks almost always get science wrong. The worst thing is that so many people fall for it.
The real reason that Escherichia Coli gets such bad press is a mere side effect of that it's such a common and incredibly populous inhabitant of a healthy human intestinal tract. That's what makes it such an excellent indicator of untreated sewage content.
When you're investigating possible sewage pollution, there's no point beginning with looking for the rare stuff that's dangerous in needle & haystack concentrations. No, you're better off counting the numbers of something that you're guaranteed to find, and extrapolating from there.
Of course, the media then jumps to the conclusion that, because a high E. Coli count probably means Really Bad Things are in the water, E. Coli itself becomes a Really Bad Thing.
From this site comes this gem.
Note: Not the stage fright, but the daily handling of radium (considering she was probably the most informed person in the world on the safety or otherwise of radium!)
Of course, I could be applying my early 21st century knowledge to her early 20th century situation.
Highly intelligent? Yeah, sure!
Dumb? Absolutely!
I would like to see, in the context of this excerpt from the Last Will and Testament of Alfred Nobel, a justification for the Nobel Prize for "Economic Sciences", first awarded in 1969.
Lutefisk? Is that something like this?
I don't want to grow up at all.
So I can be just like this guy!
Ohhh, did we miss our Thorazine, did we?
I am subscribed to a couple of worldwide mailing lists and I have found that email simply rocks in high 'net traffic situations.
During the New York tragedy, much of the traffic on those lists was along the lines of "I can't get to the major sites because the web is clagged solid - can anyone tell me the latest?". And thankfully for a couple of days, the rules about straying from the topic of the mailing list were ignored.
Granted, many of the complaints were actually related to individual corporate firewalls, http gateways and proxy servers, rather than the sites themselves, but the situation stands: for whatever reason, you can't get to the site. Our web proxy fell over under the load, but our SMTP gateway just kept on going. And so did most others around the world. And I imagine that NNTP stuff worked just as well the SMTP stuff.
Remember folks, the Internet is a lot more than the Web!
Lone Ranger (pressing his ear to the ground):
Kemosabe:
While you have a good point about the merits of this game, your attitude is one the main reasons that corporations such as MS have problems dealing with "The Linux Community". The community is not a single entity with a central steering committee. In other words, we did not release this game.
And besides, do you really think that Linux users are the only ones to release games displaying poor taste or immature humour? What about all the really silly Flash games (or whatever they are) that crapflood mailboxes the world over, like the Frog in a blender game? Do you believe that anyone really thinks that those games are released by "The Windows Community"? If not, then why would anyone think that the Tux Vs Clippy game is release by the Linux community?
Well done, AC. That's clever!
...without knowing exactly what areas of physics, botany you are studying!
How about infophytonics?