We were freshman in IIT, having passed JEE, head high in the clouds, top 1000 All India Rank, all the orientation speakers calling us creme-de-la-creme of India.
First Chemistry 101 class. Reading ahead for the class, our study group found there are some electron orbital stuff, n orbital, p orbital etc. One of them was described to be doughnut shaped. All of us were stumped. We did not know what a doughnut was or what it would look like.
Then one from our study group found an American chemistry text book with pictures. It spelled doughnut as donut, but had a picture. We exclaimed, "It is a damned torus! Why wouldn't they call it a torus? Why use this weird thing donut/doughnut". In the class Prof PJ Narayanan said, "... it says doughnut in the text book. Doughnut is like a vada but it is sweet not savoury, they make in the West..."
If slashdot is going to call itself "news for the nerds" the least it can do is to call that shape by its proper name, a torus.
It is the ghost-like that got me. What are the actual properties of a ghost? Sheet like with holes for eyes?
The interesting thing is this is the second time. The first time the city was called Hot Springs and changed its' name to T or C at the behest of a game show in the early fifties.
Freedom of speech is freedom from oppression from the government. The French government in no way oppressed Charlie. They are still putting out papers. However, freedom of speech is not the same as protection from retaliation. Killing those guys was murder, but if some nut job is going to kill you for something you said, it does not matter if you had a protected right to say it, you are still dead.
The first things engineers developed were engines of was, i.e. the catapult. They started calling civil engineers civil to distinguish them from engineers that had a military purpose.
The Constitution is a document to give the right to do something, not to forbid something. There is nothing in the Constitution that gives the government the right to monitor anything.
He absolutely reinvented the light bulb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Woodward_(inventor) The only invention of note that he actually did himself was the phonograph, which admittedly had its' own impact. Edison took existing inventions from a staff , like Nikola Tesla, who worked under him and commercialized them. He was a good, even visionary, business man, like Jobs, not an amazing inventor like George Washington Carver or Nikola Tesla.
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We were freshman in IIT, having passed JEE, head high in the clouds, top 1000 All India Rank, all the orientation speakers calling us creme-de-la-creme of India. First Chemistry 101 class. Reading ahead for the class, our study group found there are some electron orbital stuff, n orbital, p orbital etc. One of them was described to be doughnut shaped. All of us were stumped. We did not know what a doughnut was or what it would look like.
Then one from our study group found an American chemistry text book with pictures. It spelled doughnut as donut, but had a picture. We exclaimed, "It is a damned torus! Why wouldn't they call it a torus? Why use this weird thing donut/doughnut". In the class Prof PJ Narayanan said, "... it says doughnut in the text book. Doughnut is like a vada but it is sweet not savoury, they make in the West..."
If slashdot is going to call itself "news for the nerds" the least it can do is to call that shape by its proper name, a torus.
It is the ghost-like that got me. What are the actual properties of a ghost? Sheet like with holes for eyes?
Their voting machines will only print a paper ballot if you ask for it, otherwise they'll just provide ballots "only in electronic form." /future-irony
I've been voting in California elections my whole life. Not once electronically. We use a stamp method in the area I vote in.
Yeah, I figured a young hen going through your head wouldn't be all that painless for you or the chicken.
They are not beating on it because it is self-driving. They are beating on it because it is a GM.
The interesting thing is this is the second time. The first time the city was called Hot Springs and changed its' name to T or C at the behest of a game show in the early fifties.
The cost for desalination is not in the price of the plant, it is in the cost of operation. Reverse osmosis chews through a lot of electricity.
Freedom of speech is freedom from oppression from the government. The French government in no way oppressed Charlie. They are still putting out papers. However, freedom of speech is not the same as protection from retaliation. Killing those guys was murder, but if some nut job is going to kill you for something you said, it does not matter if you had a protected right to say it, you are still dead.
I'm pretty sure I have enough dimes to outlast your patience waiting for the spot.
The first things engineers developed were engines of was, i.e. the catapult. They started calling civil engineers civil to distinguish them from engineers that had a military purpose.
The Constitution is a document to give the right to do something, not to forbid something. There is nothing in the Constitution that gives the government the right to monitor anything.
He absolutely reinvented the light bulb. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Woodward_(inventor) The only invention of note that he actually did himself was the phonograph, which admittedly had its' own impact. Edison took existing inventions from a staff , like Nikola Tesla, who worked under him and commercialized them. He was a good, even visionary, business man, like Jobs, not an amazing inventor like George Washington Carver or Nikola Tesla.
It does measure.
That is exactly what I'm using it for.