So if you travel 100 miles, the first option saves 5 gallons (10 gallons minus 5 gallons) and the second options saves just over 1 gallon (3 gallons minus 2 gallons). Again, what is the logic by which the parent claims that the second option saves more gas?
CSIRO gets about 65-70% of its money directly from the government and is required to get the remainder from "external earnings", such as patent income.
Back in January, I had a few symptoms of what I assumed was a minor illness, typed them into wrongdiagnosis.com, and it suggested I had pneumonia. I chuckled at this ridiculous idea, and at myself for Googling in the first place, but took myself to the doctor when I felt worse the next day. The real diagnosis? Pneumonia.
I'm not sure why hearing aids are so expensive, but my father recently found out that it is really worth shopping around for them. The place where he had his hearing tested tried to sell him hearing aids for more than three times the price for which the same brand and model was available from a competitor down the road.
Your blog post is not "private". Your memoir in a "text file zine with a small distribuiton list" is not "private".
Sure. We know this now. How many understood it 15 years ago? That it was not only not private, but that it would be available to *everyone*, *forever*? And not just theoretically available, but readily findable?
Almost, yes. I've started "printing" meeting agendas and the like to my Kindle recently, and keeping maps and flight itineraries on my iphone, so there is much less that I need to print.
If you bought your Kindle in the US and use it in another country, you pay the US price with $2 extra if you download it wirelessly. If you bought it from another country, you pay the prices for that country (generally $2 higher than the US price plus any applicable tax) with no extra for downloading it wirelessly (and no option of a discount if you don't).
We were assigned "Day of the Triffids", "The Tripods", "Animal Farm", "Farhenheit 451" and "Z for Zachariah", and "Playing Beattie Bow". They wouldn't have been my own picks, but they each had something going for them as texts.
I'd pick Phillip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Ted Chiang and Greg Egan for some classic hard SF short ideas stories. What does it mean to be human?
I'd add some Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin and George Orwell for the more advanced students for some social "what if" exploration.
For younger high-school students, I'd also go looking for popular YA titles on the shelves now. I don't know much about that category.
All my pictures (nicely organised into folders and subfolders) were loaded automatically onto my iPhone when I synced it, out of the box. I can sort my bookmarks, too, no problem.
As a woman, I'm not keen on them either. They seem to increase friction and chafing, even with lube. Oddly, the ribbed ones seem better on this front - perhaps because the ribs break the seal.
It's not easy, but here are some low-key, geeky fun things to try: * Roleplaying: you can join a club or just find a group near you that plays regularly. One place to find these groups is at your local game store, which might have a notice-board. If not, ask the proprietor, or try looking at online roleplaying discussion boards. * Board-gaming: As above. * Science fiction fan groups (seek real-life groups online). * Roleplaying or science fiction or writing conventions, or board gaming tournaments - more intimidating for a newcomer than smaller groups, but with a wider range of people to meet. * Social groups at your local university, especially if you are young. These cater to a range of different interests. This is where I found my first roleplaying group, and how I met my first friends after moving across the country to a new city. * Film clubs. * Linux user or computer modding clubs. * Book clubs. * Volunteering for a charity in an area relating to your interests: for example, I volunteer to sort book donations for Lifeline. * For something more physical but still geeky, join a paintball or laser-game team. or for something more old-fashioned, perhaps a ten-pin bowling team that needs an extra player. * Adult education classes (but classes have a limited time-frame, so you need to make your connections while you can).
My parents gave me an allowance which wasn't tied to either grades or chores. My sisters and I were expected to get good grades for own own benefit. We were expected to do chores (a few hours a week) because (as my parents put it) that was part of being in a family. We were given an allowance so that we could learn to manage money, exercise a little independence and prioritise our wants.
And once it's well established that women can do the job, it starts to be seen as a lower-skilled job, and relative pay rates fall. Past examples include secretarial clerks, teachers, and others.
A lot of that 40% actually comes from the Australian taxpayer indirectly. Some divisions get 40% of their funding from external contracts, but the contracts are with other (state and federal) government agencies.
Renting last.fm is no different than renting Satellite radio, satellite tv, or cable tv on a monthly basis.
Yep. I don't do any of those, either. I love last.fm, but when they start charging, I'm back to free-to-air radio. If I used it every day, it'd be different, but for me, it's just something to throw a few new things into the mix so I find new songs to buy to add to my already extensive collection.
After 6 months unemployed in a poor economic climate, watch how much harder it becomes to get a new job. There will always be doubts in a potential employer's mind about that career gap.
Where I work, annual performance reviews are reviewed by your manager and next level manager only, and assessed against measurable goals agreed upon at the start of the year. So yes, they mean something.
Try getting a grant when you have no university "home". The government gives you the grant on the basis of your past achievements and the reputation of the university at which you are working. The university does, or should, help polish and process grant applications. It provides a space for you to work, and colleagues to work with (at the very least - usually rather more). And if the government is funding your research, why should the profits go to you personally, rather than to the community at large (perhaps through better-funded universities profiting from patents)?
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That was not one of the options.
So if you travel 100 miles, the first option saves 5 gallons (10 gallons minus 5 gallons) and the second options saves just over 1 gallon (3 gallons minus 2 gallons). Again, what is the logic by which the parent claims that the second option saves more gas?
CSIRO gets about 65-70% of its money directly from the government and is required to get the remainder from "external earnings", such as patent income.
The Science and Industry Endowment Fund: http://www.sief.org.au/
"The Fund will make strategic investments in scientific research that addresses issues of national priority for Australia."
No, A4 is 0.2 inches narrower and 0.7 inches longer than Letter.
Most firefighters here in Australia are volunteers. Is that not true where you are? http://www.volunteerfirefighters.org.au/
Back in January, I had a few symptoms of what I assumed was a minor illness, typed them into wrongdiagnosis.com, and it suggested I had pneumonia. I chuckled at this ridiculous idea, and at myself for Googling in the first place, but took myself to the doctor when I felt worse the next day. The real diagnosis? Pneumonia.
I'm not sure why hearing aids are so expensive, but my father recently found out that it is really worth shopping around for them. The place where he had his hearing tested tried to sell him hearing aids for more than three times the price for which the same brand and model was available from a competitor down the road.
You can download the Amazon Kindle app to your iPhone and read books bought from Amazon using that. It's similar to Stanza, when it comes to reading.
Note that you can plug a Kindle into a computer and drag PDF or mobipocket files onto it. And MP3 files to listen to.
Your blog post is not "private". Your memoir in a "text file zine with a small distribuiton list" is not "private".
Sure. We know this now. How many understood it 15 years ago? That it was not only not private, but that it would be available to *everyone*, *forever*? And not just theoretically available, but readily findable?
Almost, yes. I've started "printing" meeting agendas and the like to my Kindle recently, and keeping maps and flight itineraries on my iphone, so there is much less that I need to print.
If you bought your Kindle in the US and use it in another country, you pay the US price with $2 extra if you download it wirelessly. If you bought it from another country, you pay the prices for that country (generally $2 higher than the US price plus any applicable tax) with no extra for downloading it wirelessly (and no option of a discount if you don't).
We were assigned "Day of the Triffids", "The Tripods", "Animal Farm", "Farhenheit 451" and "Z for Zachariah", and "Playing Beattie Bow". They wouldn't have been my own picks, but they each had something going for them as texts.
I'd pick Phillip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Ted Chiang and Greg Egan for some classic hard SF short ideas stories. What does it mean to be human?
I'd add some Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin and George Orwell for the more advanced students for some social "what if" exploration.
For younger high-school students, I'd also go looking for popular YA titles on the shelves now. I don't know much about that category.
All my pictures (nicely organised into folders and subfolders) were loaded automatically onto my iPhone when I synced it, out of the box. I can sort my bookmarks, too, no problem.
As a woman, I'm not keen on them either. They seem to increase friction and chafing, even with lube. Oddly, the ribbed ones seem better on this front - perhaps because the ribs break the seal.
It's not easy, but here are some low-key, geeky fun things to try:
* Roleplaying: you can join a club or just find a group near you that plays regularly. One place to find these groups is at your local game store, which might have a notice-board. If not, ask the proprietor, or try looking at online roleplaying discussion boards.
* Board-gaming: As above.
* Science fiction fan groups (seek real-life groups online).
* Roleplaying or science fiction or writing conventions, or board gaming tournaments - more intimidating for a newcomer than smaller groups, but with a wider range of people to meet.
* Social groups at your local university, especially if you are young. These cater to a range of different interests. This is where I found my first roleplaying group, and how I met my first friends after moving across the country to a new city.
* Film clubs.
* Linux user or computer modding clubs.
* Book clubs.
* Volunteering for a charity in an area relating to your interests: for example, I volunteer to sort book donations for Lifeline.
* For something more physical but still geeky, join a paintball or laser-game team. or for something more old-fashioned, perhaps a ten-pin bowling team that needs an extra player.
* Adult education classes (but classes have a limited time-frame, so you need to make your connections while you can).
My parents gave me an allowance which wasn't tied to either grades or chores. My sisters and I were expected to get good grades for own own benefit. We were expected to do chores (a few hours a week) because (as my parents put it) that was part of being in a family. We were given an allowance so that we could learn to manage money, exercise a little independence and prioritise our wants.
And once it's well established that women can do the job, it starts to be seen as a lower-skilled job, and relative pay rates fall. Past examples include secretarial clerks, teachers, and others.
Because the perceived value of women's work is lower, which is part of the reason they get paid less.
A lot of that 40% actually comes from the Australian taxpayer indirectly. Some divisions get 40% of their funding from external contracts, but the contracts are with other (state and federal) government agencies.
Renting last.fm is no different than renting Satellite radio, satellite tv, or cable tv on a monthly basis.
Yep. I don't do any of those, either. I love last.fm, but when they start charging, I'm back to free-to-air radio. If I used it every day, it'd be different, but for me, it's just something to throw a few new things into the mix so I find new songs to buy to add to my already extensive collection.
After 6 months unemployed in a poor economic climate, watch how much harder it becomes to get a new job. There will always be doubts in a potential employer's mind about that career gap.
Where I work, annual performance reviews are reviewed by your manager and next level manager only, and assessed against measurable goals agreed upon at the start of the year. So yes, they mean something.
Try getting a grant when you have no university "home". The government gives you the grant on the basis of your past achievements and the reputation of the university at which you are working. The university does, or should, help polish and process grant applications. It provides a space for you to work, and colleagues to work with (at the very least - usually rather more). And if the government is funding your research, why should the profits go to you personally, rather than to the community at large (perhaps through better-funded universities profiting from patents)?