I've never seen a cooking book in the UK that uses a measurement of volume for non-liquids in a recipe. I simply have no/concept/ of what a cup of beef chunks is. I understand what 1lb or 450g of beef chunks is though.
Try a 250mL cup. Are you saying that cooking books in the UK measure flour by weight?
So rather than saying 2 cups of flour or 500mL of flour it'll say 300 grams of flour? Doesn't that mean you have to keep an accurate scale for weighing every dry ingredient?
If the recipe says 2 cups of flour or if it says 500mL of flour, I can take my dry measuring cup, fill it with flour, level it off at the top, and dump it in the mixing bowl. If it says 300g of flour, I'd have to dump some flour on a scale and add or subtract to make the scale say 300g. Which is easier? (someone who cooks all the time will of course know exactly how much based on the weight in their hand but they probably don't always follow the recipe anyway)
You mean that manufacturers in the US cannot be bothered to add the metric measurements onto the measuring jug? To include a metric scale on the weighing scales? Honestly?
Liquid measuring cups do have both scales on them. It's when you have dry measurings cups. You can get both types here but most recipes here use "3 cups of sugar" rather than "750mL of sugar". We have both sets in the kitchen but the non-metric set gets used much more often.
Of course for Home Economics (a mandatory high school course here), everything is done in metric. This really confuses things.
I'm in Canada so some things are probably different elsewhere.
TNG Borg: RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, one, ONE Borg Cube defeated the entire Federation fleet and was only stopped by daring and clever hacking.
Compare Best of Both Worlds to Q Who. The Enterprise goes up against a cube in that one too and they blow giant fucking holes through it. Then rather than blowing enough holes in it to make it explode they decide to send over an away team to wander aimlessly. Then the away team notices that the ship is repairing itself. It still has holes in it, the Enterprise's weapons were active, they had no idea that the Borg could adapt to weapons fire yet, and it was determined earlier that the Borg can outrun the Enterprise. So what do they do? Destroy the ship while it's still reparing? Of course not. Run away from the ship that moves faster than you can.
Then when Best of Both Worlds comes around, the Borg are way more powerful. Anything you fire at them once or twice will be adapted against and completely blocked. Doesn't matter how much energy you put in, that phaser isn't going through. The Federation apparently has no concept of kinetic weapons except ramming manned ships into the cube. Earth must have thousands of those probes that the Enterprise loves to shoot into suns. Are they saying that the Borg's shields can stop 1000 probes hitting at warp 9? Either the galaxy has no creative weapon designers or shields block a lot more than I give them credit for.
95% of commerical radio blows goats. Unfortunately, college radio is now so afraid of offending somebody and being sued, very few of the real ground breaking programs are permitted to exist.
We actually have a good University station around here. CHRW 94.9
They have a huge variety of programs from jazz to foreign language talk to guys talking about having sex with fat girls to local bands and alternative music that isn't on other stations. It's also a station that will almost never be played in a workplace because enough people really do want "songs that were overplayed when they were popular and now we're going to overplay them again".
Just as a side note, I've never heard anything offensive except late at night so that's not why people don't play it in the workplace.
Truly sad that colleges and universities have to offer courses like this. Welcome to 13th grade.
I actually went to grade 13 and so did most of my peers in high school. When I was in high school, OAC (5th year of high school) was something most kids took. It was basically advanced high school courses. It also meant that a large percentage of 5th year students were drinking age partway through the year.
Then, any time someone would want to watch a movie, they'd simply have to hit a button, and the movie would be queued from the provider's central server, and streamed immediately and directly to the user's channel using a server/client setup. Considering the amount of processing power needed to play/stream a DVD is a nominal 500-700MHz, and these people's server power, I think this is more than possible. Question is, where the hell is it.
Unless I've misunderstood something, you've just described Video on Demand (VOD). My local cable monopoly is deploying it right now. I can't get it yet, but that's basically how it works. Hit a button and the movie starts streaming to you.
You say they got rid of the cameras, i presume people continued toi drive at 100-140 kmph. Did they change the law, or just say "oh, break the law then." ?
They went back to having cops on the road to enforce the law (some cops were still there when the cameras were). They have discretion and generally ignore people moving with the speed of traffic. Their real concern is people driving recklessly by going even faster or weaving in and out of traffic.
But wait- it gets even better. The UK government responded to criticism that it was using the cameras for revenue collection by changing the fines.
We had these cameras in Ontario a few years back. They were only on a few roads at the time, mostly major highways such as the 401 (probably the most used highway in the province). The speed limit on the 401 is 100km/h. The standard speed people actually drive at varies depending on what part of the highway you're on, but it's anywhere from 100-140km/h. A couple of truck drivers got really pissed off at having to go 100km/h in the places where 140km/h was normal and decided to drive side by side at exactly 100km/h, blocking off anyone from passing them. Needless to say, the traffic was backed up quite badly and the government eventually got rid of the photo radar cameras.
Of course, the current government has decided that bringing them back is a great idea and want them not just on major highways, but along city streets all over. Don't blame me, I voted for another party.
I would be exteremly surprised if anyone actually still has a party line phone, or has even had one for a long time. Got any references? If anyone actually did, it would be limited to extremities of the Yukon, Northwest and Nunavut territories.
I'm just outside London, Ontario and I know there are people in this area who had party lines until about 5 years ago. This was partly by choice because having a party line was cheaper. If they'd really wanted, they could have had their own line.
Actually just as a nitpick, it wasn't Batman. It was when he was talking about his involvement with the then-soon-to-be-file-13'ed 'Superman' effort. The producer of the movie was all excited about doing the picture, but could we have Superman in shorts fighting a huge spider?
The man he was talking about was Jon Peters. He was a producer on Batman as well as Wild Wild West. He was also Barbra Streisand's hairdresser and as far as Smith could tell, quit kooky.
But the same as a school wouldn't allow an R rated movie to be shown to any child on school grounds (regardless of who owns it, and who's watching it, and what kind of parental permission they have) there are some books that are INAPPROPRIATE for the student at school.
I don't know about you, but when I was in high school we were shown Romeo and Juliet (the version where a breast is shown briefly) and 1984 (which showed breasts and IIRC, full female frontal nudity).
I also vaguely remember the two 'Ewok Adventures' I used to watch as a kid, and enjoyed, though at the time I was not yet old enough to be a good critic.
I remember a scene in a movie involving a hang glider in a cave and Ewoks in the cave with it. Until I rewatched ROTJ at an age where I could remember exactly what was happening, I would have sworn that scene was in ROTJ. Then I figured it was just from some 80s movie with a creature that looked similar to an Ewok or it could have been a scene that took place in the cartoon. I had no idea the two movies you've mentioned existed.
Does anyone recall seeing the scene I mentioned in either of the above movies?
Hmm. It's not clear skimming through the article whether this guy had an oxygen tank or not (I'm not sure what oxygen meter refers to) but wouldn't an oxygen tank make an excellent explosive? Oxygen tanks always have warnings to keep them away from flame.
Is it possible to make a normal oxygen tank explode and if so, how powerful would it be? I expect you could blow a hole in a plane though that wouldn't necissarly kill anyone.
Tomorrow?s bedside clock will be a sophisticated brainwave monitor. It?ll keep track of your sleep cycle, gently bringing up the room lights at precisely the right time so that you?ll feel rested, not cardiac arrested, as you awake.
This is a variant of a device that allows you to tell what part of the sleep cycle your spouse or baby is in. From the novel The Terminal Experiment.
Throughout the day, your wristband ? a combination cellphone, PDA, camera, and e-book display, all controlled by spoken commands ? will be your lifeline.
And naturally, your wristband will be recording everything you see and do, with software indexing it all as you go along.
You won?t have to worry about losing your car keys in the future ? your biometrics will identify you whenever necessary ? but you might forget where you?ve put your sunglasses and hat (sadly, both of which you?ll probably always need when venturing outdoors). No problem: just ask your wristband, and it?ll tell you where they are.
Recording your entire life will take a lot of storage, but the cost of data storage will be essentially zero by 2014, so that?s no problem. The images of your life will be beamed through the air to an archive that only you can access; quantum cryptography ? unbreakable even in principle ? will have made such transmissions totally secure.
This is similar to the Companions that alternate universe Neanderthals have in the books Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids. Their main purpose was to record your life (can't be opened by anyone other than yourself or the courts). The main difference is that Companions are implanted in your arm.
To me, this article seems like something Mr. Sawyer has put together pretty quickly. His novels are much more well thought out. Checking the date of this article, I suspect he was working on his newest novel, Mindscan, at the same time as writing this article. Mindscan probably got more attention.
Incidentally, I've heard of places where nuke power cooling discharge has so altered the *local* water temp that 1 - people swim there in cold weather,
People in southern Ontario do swim in the winter. But that's a matter of insanity rather than warm water.
The thermometer doesn't get much higher than 25 degrees Celcius, and rarely pushes beyond 30, but the humidity in that place is extremely high in the summer.
Ignoring this summer (which has been unusually cool for southern Ontario), it's quite routine to see the temperature go past 30C. If you include the humidex (a word weathermen love to use which I assume stands for humidity index), the temperature is often reported as Feels Like 35 or Feels Like 40.
People in this area of the country never blame the actual temperature for their feeling uncomfortably hot or cold. In the summer the phrase is "It's not the heat, it's the humidity". In the winter "It's not the cold, it's the wind chill". It's true too. We've had times where the temperature is in the high 30s but the humidity was low. As long as you stay in the shade, it's not all that bad.
I recently bought a D-Link 802.11g+ card. The loaf at Best Buy expressed doubts about whether D-Link's 108Mbps "protocol" (compression, etc on regular g) would work with Netgear's 108Mbps protocol and he suggested I buy the same company's brand for the entire network.
It's my understanding that they achieve (in theory) 108 Mbps by taking up two channels that don't interfere with each other and running 54Mbps over each channel.
Fixed speed limits are a crock anyway, how does it tell the difference between driving on an icy covered road in a blizzard, and a clear day with dry roads and unlimited visibility, with no traffic? Driving 50 in the first case may be suicide, yet it is legal. Doing 50 on the open highway in clear conditions, you are a traffic impediment.
Driving 50 in the first case isn't legal. Depending on where you are, they could call it reckless driving, dangerous driving, or a few other things. If you fly off the road and hit a tree, killing your passenger you probably get negligence causing death or maybe manslaughter.
I've seen mentally disturbed people on the Chicago subway really doing this before. Instead of a toy wheel, they just held their hands up around an invisible steering wheel.
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I've never seen a cooking book in the UK that uses a measurement of volume for non-liquids in a recipe. I simply have no /concept/ of what a cup of beef chunks is. I understand what 1lb or 450g of beef chunks is though.
Try a 250mL cup. Are you saying that cooking books in the UK measure flour by weight?
So rather than saying 2 cups of flour or 500mL of flour it'll say 300 grams of flour? Doesn't that mean you have to keep an accurate scale for weighing every dry ingredient?
If the recipe says 2 cups of flour or if it says 500mL of flour, I can take my dry measuring cup, fill it with flour, level it off at the top, and dump it in the mixing bowl. If it says 300g of flour, I'd have to dump some flour on a scale and add or subtract to make the scale say 300g. Which is easier? (someone who cooks all the time will of course know exactly how much based on the weight in their hand but they probably don't always follow the recipe anyway)
You mean that manufacturers in the US cannot be bothered to add the metric measurements onto the measuring jug? To include a metric scale on the weighing scales? Honestly?
Liquid measuring cups do have both scales on them. It's when you have dry measurings cups. You can get both types here but most recipes here use "3 cups of sugar" rather than "750mL of sugar". We have both sets in the kitchen but the non-metric set gets used much more often.
Of course for Home Economics (a mandatory high school course here), everything is done in metric. This really confuses things.
I'm in Canada so some things are probably different elsewhere.
Don't discount the business value of these open formats - for a hardware or tools vendor it is one less license to pay.
Same with games. Why compress your audio with mp3 and have to pay a fee when you can use ogg vorbis for free?
yeah, but no one shows gameshows from other countries, due to the fact that quiz questions are so culture specific.
Untrue. Canada shows many gameshows from the USA. Partly because no one seems to want to make gameshows in Canada.
TNG Borg: RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, one, ONE Borg Cube defeated the entire Federation fleet and was only stopped by daring and clever hacking.
Compare Best of Both Worlds to Q Who. The Enterprise goes up against a cube in that one too and they blow giant fucking holes through it. Then rather than blowing enough holes in it to make it explode they decide to send over an away team to wander aimlessly. Then the away team notices that the ship is repairing itself. It still has holes in it, the Enterprise's weapons were active, they had no idea that the Borg could adapt to weapons fire yet, and it was determined earlier that the Borg can outrun the Enterprise. So what do they do? Destroy the ship while it's still reparing? Of course not. Run away from the ship that moves faster than you can.
Then when Best of Both Worlds comes around, the Borg are way more powerful. Anything you fire at them once or twice will be adapted against and completely blocked. Doesn't matter how much energy you put in, that phaser isn't going through. The Federation apparently has no concept of kinetic weapons except ramming manned ships into the cube. Earth must have thousands of those probes that the Enterprise loves to shoot into suns. Are they saying that the Borg's shields can stop 1000 probes hitting at warp 9? Either the galaxy has no creative weapon designers or shields block a lot more than I give them credit for.
95% of commerical radio blows goats. Unfortunately, college radio is now so afraid of offending somebody and being sued, very few of the real ground breaking programs are permitted to exist.
We actually have a good University station around here. CHRW 94.9
They have a huge variety of programs from jazz to foreign language talk to guys talking about having sex with fat girls to local bands and alternative music that isn't on other stations. It's also a station that will almost never be played in a workplace because enough people really do want "songs that were overplayed when they were popular and now we're going to overplay them again".
Just as a side note, I've never heard anything offensive except late at night so that's not why people don't play it in the workplace.
Truly sad that colleges and universities have to offer courses like this. Welcome to 13th grade.
I actually went to grade 13 and so did most of my peers in high school. When I was in high school, OAC (5th year of high school) was something most kids took. It was basically advanced high school courses. It also meant that a large percentage of 5th year students were drinking age partway through the year.
Again...the President cannot simply say "I need another 100,00 troops. That authorization must go through Congress.
The president also can't declare war by himself. Doesn't seem to have stopped presidents over the last 50 years from invading various countries.
Oh, and which party controls congress at the moment?
Then, any time someone would want to watch a movie, they'd simply have to hit a button, and the movie would be queued from the provider's central server, and streamed immediately and directly to the user's channel using a server/client setup. Considering the amount of processing power needed to play/stream a DVD is a nominal 500-700MHz, and these people's server power, I think this is more than possible. Question is, where the hell is it.
Unless I've misunderstood something, you've just described Video on Demand (VOD). My local cable monopoly is deploying it right now. I can't get it yet, but that's basically how it works. Hit a button and the movie starts streaming to you.
You say they got rid of the cameras, i presume people continued toi drive at 100-140 kmph. Did they change the law, or just say "oh, break the law then." ?
They went back to having cops on the road to enforce the law (some cops were still there when the cameras were). They have discretion and generally ignore people moving with the speed of traffic. Their real concern is people driving recklessly by going even faster or weaving in and out of traffic.
But wait- it gets even better. The UK government responded to criticism that it was using the cameras for revenue collection by changing the fines.
We had these cameras in Ontario a few years back. They were only on a few roads at the time, mostly major highways such as the 401 (probably the most used highway in the province). The speed limit on the 401 is 100km/h. The standard speed people actually drive at varies depending on what part of the highway you're on, but it's anywhere from 100-140km/h. A couple of truck drivers got really pissed off at having to go 100km/h in the places where 140km/h was normal and decided to drive side by side at exactly 100km/h, blocking off anyone from passing them. Needless to say, the traffic was backed up quite badly and the government eventually got rid of the photo radar cameras.
Of course, the current government has decided that bringing them back is a great idea and want them not just on major highways, but along city streets all over. Don't blame me, I voted for another party.
I would be exteremly surprised if anyone actually still has a party line phone, or has even had one for a long time. Got any references? If anyone actually did, it would be limited to extremities of the Yukon, Northwest and Nunavut territories.
I'm just outside London, Ontario and I know there are people in this area who had party lines until about 5 years ago. This was partly by choice because having a party line was cheaper. If they'd really wanted, they could have had their own line.
Actually just as a nitpick, it wasn't Batman. It was when he was talking about his involvement with the then-soon-to-be-file-13'ed 'Superman' effort. The producer of the movie was all excited about doing the picture, but could we have Superman in shorts fighting a huge spider?
The man he was talking about was Jon Peters. He was a producer on Batman as well as Wild Wild West. He was also Barbra Streisand's hairdresser and as far as Smith could tell, quit kooky.
But the same as a school wouldn't allow an R rated movie to be shown to any child on school grounds (regardless of who owns it, and who's watching it, and what kind of parental permission they have) there are some books that are INAPPROPRIATE for the student at school.
I don't know about you, but when I was in high school we were shown Romeo and Juliet (the version where a breast is shown briefly) and 1984 (which showed breasts and IIRC, full female frontal nudity).
Well I can get a cell phone for as much as my monthly landline service. Why would I bother with a fixed line?
Some people live in areas where the reception is either poor or non-existant. When I did tech support, I talked to every one of them.
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I also vaguely remember the two 'Ewok Adventures' I used to watch as a kid, and enjoyed, though at the time I was not yet old enough to be a good critic.
I remember a scene in a movie involving a hang glider in a cave and Ewoks in the cave with it. Until I rewatched ROTJ at an age where I could remember exactly what was happening, I would have sworn that scene was in ROTJ. Then I figured it was just from some 80s movie with a creature that looked similar to an Ewok or it could have been a scene that took place in the cartoon. I had no idea the two movies you've mentioned existed.
Does anyone recall seeing the scene I mentioned in either of the above movies?
Hmm. It's not clear skimming through the article whether this guy had an oxygen tank or not (I'm not sure what oxygen meter refers to) but wouldn't an oxygen tank make an excellent explosive? Oxygen tanks always have warnings to keep them away from flame.
Is it possible to make a normal oxygen tank explode and if so, how powerful would it be? I expect you could blow a hole in a plane though that wouldn't necissarly kill anyone.
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Just FYI, Futureshop is now owned by Best Buy.
Some of these are devices used in his books.
Tomorrow?s bedside clock will be a sophisticated brainwave monitor. It?ll keep track of your sleep cycle, gently bringing up the room lights at precisely the right time so that you?ll feel rested, not cardiac arrested, as you awake.
This is a variant of a device that allows you to tell what part of the sleep cycle your spouse or baby is in. From the novel The Terminal Experiment.
Throughout the day, your wristband ? a combination cellphone, PDA, camera, and e-book display, all controlled by spoken commands ? will be your lifeline.
And naturally, your wristband will be recording everything you see and do, with software indexing it all as you go along.
You won?t have to worry about losing your car keys in the future ? your biometrics will identify you whenever necessary ? but you might forget where you?ve put your sunglasses and hat (sadly, both of which you?ll probably always need when venturing outdoors). No problem: just ask your wristband, and it?ll tell you where they are.
Recording your entire life will take a lot of storage, but the cost of data storage will be essentially zero by 2014, so that?s no problem. The images of your life will be beamed through the air to an archive that only you can access; quantum cryptography ? unbreakable even in principle ? will have made such transmissions totally secure.
This is similar to the Companions that alternate universe Neanderthals have in the books Hominids, Humans, and Hybrids. Their main purpose was to record your life (can't be opened by anyone other than yourself or the courts). The main difference is that Companions are implanted in your arm.
To me, this article seems like something Mr. Sawyer has put together pretty quickly. His novels are much more well thought out. Checking the date of this article, I suspect he was working on his newest novel, Mindscan, at the same time as writing this article. Mindscan probably got more attention.
Incidentally, I've heard of places where nuke power cooling discharge has so altered the *local* water temp that 1 - people swim there in cold weather,
People in southern Ontario do swim in the winter. But that's a matter of insanity rather than warm water.
The thermometer doesn't get much higher than 25 degrees Celcius, and rarely pushes beyond 30, but the humidity in that place is extremely high in the summer.
Ignoring this summer (which has been unusually cool for southern Ontario), it's quite routine to see the temperature go past 30C. If you include the humidex (a word weathermen love to use which I assume stands for humidity index), the temperature is often reported as Feels Like 35 or Feels Like 40.
People in this area of the country never blame the actual temperature for their feeling uncomfortably hot or cold. In the summer the phrase is "It's not the heat, it's the humidity". In the winter "It's not the cold, it's the wind chill". It's true too. We've had times where the temperature is in the high 30s but the humidity was low. As long as you stay in the shade, it's not all that bad.
I recently bought a D-Link 802.11g+ card. The loaf at Best Buy expressed doubts about whether D-Link's 108Mbps "protocol" (compression, etc on regular g) would work with Netgear's 108Mbps protocol and he suggested I buy the same company's brand for the entire network.
It's my understanding that they achieve (in theory) 108 Mbps by taking up two channels that don't interfere with each other and running 54Mbps over each channel.
Fixed speed limits are a crock anyway, how does it tell the difference between driving on an icy covered road in a blizzard, and a clear day with dry roads and unlimited visibility, with no traffic? Driving 50 in the first case may be suicide, yet it is legal. Doing 50 on the open highway in clear conditions, you are a traffic impediment.
Driving 50 in the first case isn't legal. Depending on where you are, they could call it reckless driving, dangerous driving, or a few other things. If you fly off the road and hit a tree, killing your passenger you probably get negligence causing death or maybe manslaughter.
I've seen mentally disturbed people on the Chicago subway really doing this before. Instead of a toy wheel, they just held their hands up around an invisible steering wheel.
Stop following me on the subway.