The reason typewriter typists didn't get CTS is because they had to have their wrists elevated (ie, not resting on the desk) in order to get the power to strike the keys hard enough to make a mark on the paper. Nowadays, almost no power is required to make our keys click. We can generate that amount of power with wrists resting on the desk, because it's easier on our arms. The constant pressure on the inside of the wrist is what collapses the carpal tunnel, compressing the nerve inside, and leading to pain.
I wonder how many people actually type now with their wrists elevated off of the desk. Any who do and still experience wrist pain, please let me know. Those who experience wrist pain and have their wrists resting on the desk, try elevating them. It's hard on the arms, but once those muscles build, you should be much better off.
As a side note, I type with my wrists down, but never for long stints. I do find that it is more comfortable to type with my elbows resting on the arms of my chair, keyboard at the edge of the desk, so that I can't rest my wrists on the desk.
I find the indirect approach much more satisfying
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Prank warz. 'nuff said.
Buy 1 box ex-lax. Buy 1 box Quality Street Chocolates. Eat chocolates, saving wrappers. Wrap ex-lax. Let your imagination take you from here.
Or, bring a bottle of tobasco sauce to work. Unattended coffee cups and yet-unused teabags make great targets.
As I am currently involved in an ongoing dispute, I would appreciate any and all suggestions for amusing (non-destructive) pranks that I may play on my cubemates.
It has been many years since I've read the book, and though the concepts may all still be in my cavernous skull, the spelling has gone the way of the dodo.
Just change the control to work the other way around. Move the robot arm, the monkey's arm gets moved. Then, we hide ourselves inside a big, black rectangle, and start teaching them to tie knots in grass, and kill things for food.
Particle Man, Particle Man,
Particle Man thinks Linux can!
Stream mp3's, fast as you can,
Particle Man Insert solo here
Put DMCA in a garbage can
If you need more servers, set up a LAN
Get a giant cooling fan
Particle Man!
What's to stop you? Exactly the same thing that stopped people from making copies of cassettes for thier friends. In a word, nothing.
Here's a caveat, though. If you become the sole distributor of large numbers of copies, record companies will come down on your head. Of course, all you need to do is develop/join another P2P group, and put your dl'd, decrypted songs in there. If there is not way to track who contributed the songs, you're safe. As long as there is no central entity (person/company) to go after, the record companies are pretty much screwed.
This irks me. A meter is a measuring device. Ohmmeter, ammeter, thermometer. A metre is a measure of distance. To each his own, but I know that I've added lots of new words to my spell checker.
Celsius degrees were designated so that water froze at 0 and boiled at 100. For fahrenheit (sp?), a saturated brine solution freezes at 0, and the human body temperature is 100, but the guy measuring made a mistake. Kelvin has degrees the same size as Celsius, but having 0 at absolute zero. There is a similar scale called Rankins (I think) with degrees the same size as Fahrenheit, but 0 is absolute zero.
As a Canadian, I grew up with the metric system, and am comfortable with it for most things (especially any calculations for physics etc.) However, I still think a lot of the time in feet/inches, pounds, and cups. This is because of what I was exposed to as a child. My height was always given in feet/inches (I don't even know how many centimetres tall I am), my weight in pounds (sometimes stone, my mom came from England, and she brought her bathroom scale). Of course, any cooking I do is strictly cups, tsps, & tbsp. This is because that is what all of the recipies are in, and what all of the measuring implements are.
Now, I know we are supposed to be a metric country, but I believe, like the US, we are still in the transition phase. Each new generation will rely less on imperial measurements, because they will be brought up more with metric. My dad is Canadian, but still needs the temperature in Fahrenheit. I can see my children, in fifteen or twenty years, laughing at me because when they tell me how tall they are, I ask for them to convert it to feet and inches.
The country is changing at a rate it feels comfortable with. We just happen to have a bit of a headstart over the US, but my guess is that, a few generations down the road, we'll all be talking in kilograms, metres, and newtons instead of slugs (imperial measurement of mass), feet, and pounds. How many US lightbulbs are rated in horsepower instead of watts?
I'm going back a long way, here. Trying to remember my grade 10 biology class when we dissected a locust. I mostly remember the smell. Yuk. Anyway, back on topic: IIRC, insects don't really have a well developed cardiovascular system at all. Their internal organs just float around in a sea of "blood" which is circulated by several valves that just squirt it everywhere. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Otherwise known as the giant squid. Reaches lengths of up to (we think) 20m. It is these creatures that we normally attribute those huge sucker marks to. Bits of giant squids have been found washed up on shore, in the bellies of whales, or in fishermans nets. Check out the Smithsonian Institutions page on this creature. What still eludes us is any observation of one of these creatures still alive, although there was a horrible horror movie made about it (and no, it didn't star Capt. Nemo).
it's all about the size of the heart. If the heart is not big enough to pump gallons of blood 30' into the air (and that's a really hard feat) then a dinosaur would pass out when it lifted its head.
Think about it -> how often do you grey out a little bit when you stand up too fast? Or, when you cut your finger, didn't your mom tell you to hold your hand above your head? That was to prevent as much blood from getting there, because the heart can't pump it up there as easily
By the way, if you're really careful, you can sometimes see the impressions of soft tissue as well as the bones in fossils. Also, it's fairly safe to assume that, being closely related to today's reptiles, dinosaurs would have only one heart. The only thing I know of that has more is an earthworm (5 hearts), and those aren't really hearts, just parallel tubes that contract to pump blood.
I haven't found many problems at all in terms of taking the physics courses. Of course, there are administrators who co-ordinate the options for engineering students, so if you are having problems, all you have to do is go and talk to them. They're generally fairly helpful in getting everything you want onto your schedule. Of course, this physics option means that I have to take an extra course every term, and I had to challenge for credit in Calc4 (pre-req) because it wouldn't fit in my schedule anywhere.
Last summer I took Quantum I, along with all of my CompEng courses. I only have one other summer term, in 4A I think, so I don't forsee any more difficulties there.
What problems are you having getting into the Eng courses? Is it overcrowding, scheduling, or pre-reqs? I know that most of our courses have *way* too many students in them for the number of TA's, labtime etc. Also, most of the courses that I take require a string of pre-reqs that goes back to year one. I can see that being a bit of a problem for someone who wants to take *somewhat* advanced/interesting eng courses, but hasn't been in engineering from the ground up.
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I'm currently taking Comp.Eng. at the University of Waterloo, with a Physics option. When you take the physics option, you're given a bit of choice as to what you want to specialize in. I happen to be taking all of the quantum courses offered by my university, but, IIRC, you can also take courses on astrophysics, thermodynamics, and a few others.
are available for just about every console system out there. If there isn't one for the PS2 yet, I predict that it won't take very long before one is made.
It makes me sick to see things like this. According to a previous article, Bush is predicting a 4.6 trillion dollar surplus over the next ten years. From that, they can't find a measly little ten million dollars to keep this valuable piece of equipment in the sky for another decade? Let's see, 4.6 - 0.00001 = 4.59999. Wow, they're really gonna miss that money.
By the way, check out Berkley's slide show on EUVE. It's fascinating. Describes the equipment on the satellite, as well as it's discoveries very well. Even good for a non-techie.
Since the universe is supposidly expanding, we measure most things as moving away from us with velocities close to c and sometimes for the really far objects many times greater than c (redshift in the light).
From what I understood of my Quantum I class, we cannot measure anything moving away from us at many times c. (Except, IIRC, for weird particles like neutrinos, which travel faster than c but never drop below it). The simple Einstein velocity addition formula states that v=(u1+u2)/(1+u1*u2/c^2). Thus, nothing is ever faster than c, no matter how many times you speed it up.
You are absolutely right. In retrospect, fear for your livelihood can't be a good thing to have hanging over your head when doing anything. As is, all I've faced so far is fear of failure.
Good luck to you in your crusade!
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Only job related sites should be allowed.
But then how would I be participating in this discussion? I'm pretty darn sure that/. is not a job related site.
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The reason typewriter typists didn't get CTS is because they had to have their wrists elevated (ie, not resting on the desk) in order to get the power to strike the keys hard enough to make a mark on the paper. Nowadays, almost no power is required to make our keys click. We can generate that amount of power with wrists resting on the desk, because it's easier on our arms. The constant pressure on the inside of the wrist is what collapses the carpal tunnel, compressing the nerve inside, and leading to pain.
I wonder how many people actually type now with their wrists elevated off of the desk. Any who do and still experience wrist pain, please let me know. Those who experience wrist pain and have their wrists resting on the desk, try elevating them. It's hard on the arms, but once those muscles build, you should be much better off.
As a side note, I type with my wrists down, but never for long stints. I do find that it is more comfortable to type with my elbows resting on the arms of my chair, keyboard at the edge of the desk, so that I can't rest my wrists on the desk.
Prank warz. 'nuff said.
Buy 1 box ex-lax. Buy 1 box Quality Street Chocolates. Eat chocolates, saving wrappers. Wrap ex-lax. Let your imagination take you from here.
Or, bring a bottle of tobasco sauce to work. Unattended coffee cups and yet-unused teabags make great targets.
As I am currently involved in an ongoing dispute, I would appreciate any and all suggestions for amusing (non-destructive) pranks that I may play on my cubemates.
It has been many years since I've read the book, and though the concepts may all still be in my cavernous skull, the spelling has gone the way of the dodo.
Just change the control to work the other way around. Move the robot arm, the monkey's arm gets moved. Then, we hide ourselves inside a big, black rectangle, and start teaching them to tie knots in grass, and kill things for food.
Hey... It could happen...
I was very disappointed with the use of those zap boxes, rather than a good, old fashioned crysknife. I was impressed by the shields, tho'
I also wonder if they will still make the worms look like giant phalluses...
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Particle Man, Particle Man,
Particle Man thinks Linux can!
Stream mp3's, fast as you can,
Particle Man
Insert solo here
Put DMCA in a garbage can
If you need more servers, set up a LAN
Get a giant cooling fan
Particle Man!
From the article: Has Middlehoff found the perfect compromise, or has he jumped into the Big Muddy?
From the post I replied to: WTF is the Big Muddy?
From my reply: the Big Muddy is the Mississippi
Where does the offtopic rating come from? Oooh, if only I could metamod this...
What's to stop you? Exactly the same thing that stopped people from making copies of cassettes for thier friends. In a word, nothing.
Here's a caveat, though. If you become the sole distributor of large numbers of copies, record companies will come down on your head. Of course, all you need to do is develop/join another P2P group, and put your dl'd, decrypted songs in there. If there is not way to track who contributed the songs, you're safe. As long as there is no central entity (person/company) to go after, the record companies are pretty much screwed.
This irks me. A meter is a measuring device. Ohmmeter, ammeter, thermometer. A metre is a measure of distance. To each his own, but I know that I've added lots of new words to my spell checker.
Celsius degrees were designated so that water froze at 0 and boiled at 100. For fahrenheit (sp?), a saturated brine solution freezes at 0, and the human body temperature is 100, but the guy measuring made a mistake. Kelvin has degrees the same size as Celsius, but having 0 at absolute zero. There is a similar scale called Rankins (I think) with degrees the same size as Fahrenheit, but 0 is absolute zero.
As a Canadian, I grew up with the metric system, and am comfortable with it for most things (especially any calculations for physics etc.) However, I still think a lot of the time in feet/inches, pounds, and cups. This is because of what I was exposed to as a child. My height was always given in feet/inches (I don't even know how many centimetres tall I am), my weight in pounds (sometimes stone, my mom came from England, and she brought her bathroom scale). Of course, any cooking I do is strictly cups, tsps, & tbsp. This is because that is what all of the recipies are in, and what all of the measuring implements are.
Now, I know we are supposed to be a metric country, but I believe, like the US, we are still in the transition phase. Each new generation will rely less on imperial measurements, because they will be brought up more with metric. My dad is Canadian, but still needs the temperature in Fahrenheit. I can see my children, in fifteen or twenty years, laughing at me because when they tell me how tall they are, I ask for them to convert it to feet and inches.
The country is changing at a rate it feels comfortable with. We just happen to have a bit of a headstart over the US, but my guess is that, a few generations down the road, we'll all be talking in kilograms, metres, and newtons instead of slugs (imperial measurement of mass), feet, and pounds. How many US lightbulbs are rated in horsepower instead of watts?
I'm going back a long way, here. Trying to remember my grade 10 biology class when we dissected a locust. I mostly remember the smell. Yuk. Anyway, back on topic: IIRC, insects don't really have a well developed cardiovascular system at all. Their internal organs just float around in a sea of "blood" which is circulated by several valves that just squirt it everywhere. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Otherwise known as the giant squid. Reaches lengths of up to (we think) 20m. It is these creatures that we normally attribute those huge sucker marks to. Bits of giant squids have been found washed up on shore, in the bellies of whales, or in fishermans nets. Check out the Smithsonian Institutions page on this creature. What still eludes us is any observation of one of these creatures still alive, although there was a horrible horror movie made about it (and no, it didn't star Capt. Nemo).
it's all about the size of the heart. If the heart is not big enough to pump gallons of blood 30' into the air (and that's a really hard feat) then a dinosaur would pass out when it lifted its head.
Think about it -> how often do you grey out a little bit when you stand up too fast? Or, when you cut your finger, didn't your mom tell you to hold your hand above your head? That was to prevent as much blood from getting there, because the heart can't pump it up there as easily
By the way, if you're really careful, you can sometimes see the impressions of soft tissue as well as the bones in fossils. Also, it's fairly safe to assume that, being closely related to today's reptiles, dinosaurs would have only one heart. The only thing I know of that has more is an earthworm (5 hearts), and those aren't really hearts, just parallel tubes that contract to pump blood.
And if it's American beer, well, you might as well be drinking 9.2% water, 60% urine!
I would rather this country was run by an intellectual elite
I feel a Simpsons quote coming on:
"I came to see your Utopia, but instead it turned out to be a Fruitopia."
Ah... Simpsons. Is there nothing they can't do?
I haven't found many problems at all in terms of taking the physics courses. Of course, there are administrators who co-ordinate the options for engineering students, so if you are having problems, all you have to do is go and talk to them. They're generally fairly helpful in getting everything you want onto your schedule. Of course, this physics option means that I have to take an extra course every term, and I had to challenge for credit in Calc4 (pre-req) because it wouldn't fit in my schedule anywhere.
Last summer I took Quantum I, along with all of my CompEng courses. I only have one other summer term, in 4A I think, so I don't forsee any more difficulties there.
What problems are you having getting into the Eng courses? Is it overcrowding, scheduling, or pre-reqs? I know that most of our courses have *way* too many students in them for the number of TA's, labtime etc. Also, most of the courses that I take require a string of pre-reqs that goes back to year one. I can see that being a bit of a problem for someone who wants to take *somewhat* advanced/interesting eng courses, but hasn't been in engineering from the ground up.
I'm currently taking Comp.Eng. at the University of Waterloo, with a Physics option. When you take the physics option, you're given a bit of choice as to what you want to specialize in. I happen to be taking all of the quantum courses offered by my university, but, IIRC, you can also take courses on astrophysics, thermodynamics, and a few others.
are available for just about every console system out there. If there isn't one for the PS2 yet, I predict that it won't take very long before one is made.
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Caveat Emptor = Buyer Beware
It makes me sick to see things like this. According to a previous article, Bush is predicting a 4.6 trillion dollar surplus over the next ten years. From that, they can't find a measly little ten million dollars to keep this valuable piece of equipment in the sky for another decade? Let's see, 4.6 - 0.00001 = 4.59999. Wow, they're really gonna miss that money.
By the way, check out Berkley's slide show on EUVE. It's fascinating. Describes the equipment on the satellite, as well as it's discoveries very well. Even good for a non-techie.
Since the universe is supposidly expanding, we measure most things as moving away from us with velocities close to c and sometimes for the really far objects many times greater than c (redshift in the light).
From what I understood of my Quantum I class, we cannot measure anything moving away from us at many times c. (Except, IIRC, for weird particles like neutrinos, which travel faster than c but never drop below it). The simple Einstein velocity addition formula states that v=(u1+u2)/(1+u1*u2/c^2). Thus, nothing is ever faster than c, no matter how many times you speed it up.
We'd have enough time to hire a bunch of oil drillers, throw them into two spacecraft...
Okay, I've had my fun. I'll stop now.
You are absolutely right. In retrospect, fear for your livelihood can't be a good thing to have hanging over your head when doing anything. As is, all I've faced so far is fear of failure.
Good luck to you in your crusade!
Only job related sites should be allowed.
/. is not a job related site.
But then how would I be participating in this discussion? I'm pretty darn sure that