"The use of Russian equipment also created an unprecedented division of labor and raised the potential for communication blackouts, requiring the crewmen to come up with hand signals for alerting each other of danger or conveying smooth sailing."
and...
"Mission Control in Moscow was in charge of the spacewalk, with Russian the official language, but that was supposed to switch to Mission Control in Houston and English as soon as Padalka and Fincke reached the U.S. side of the complex -- and vice versa on the way back."
Why the language and Mission Control switching when they cross "the line"? Is that what is meant by "international"? I guess bureaucracy hasn't killed enough atronauts, yet.
Besides, pirates already have Sep 19th, Talk Like A Pirate Day. Until Legos and Ninjas get their own day, pirates need to just take a seat and wait patiently for the ultimate battle for control of the universe.
I was at Seattle/Tacoma Int'l Airport (oh the irony), yesterday and the freeway traffic advisory monitor near baggage claim had crashed. It was displaying a Windows "illegal operation" error popup w/ a IE window in the background. This was in area of the airport where, literally, 1000's of people walk by in an hour.
"Hi, welcome to Seattle. This traffic information is provided by Microsoft. Ooops."
COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election.
French ambassador after finding out the asteroid is heading for his country: "We must act now to remove the threat of this weapon of mass destruction."
Some terrestrial bugs make catalase to degrade peroxides, so no.
It's Staphyloccus aureus that made the bubbles on your skin when Mom treated your scrapes with H2O2. BTW, it's totally ineffective at killing Staph and casues more damage to your, already, injured tissues.
...This isn't too hard or expensive of a job to move the stat. The wiring is simple and low voltage, just make sure the heater is switched off at the breaker.
There are several approaches: Perhaps you can get into the attic above the hallway ? Or, run the wire out the baseboard under the carpet, into the other baseboard and up to the new hole in the other wall. A crawl space appraoch would save the baseboard drilling. Run new wire from the new hole direct to the furnace and disconnect the old.
Aha! More precise language merely changes the argument, not the objection, against increasing the thermostat setting to effect a quicker temp rise. (I assume we are talking about forced air heat)
If the area allows for decent air flow (rooms without obstacles hanging from the ceiling and open doors), it won't make much of a difference. The hot air is flowing out and away from the register, hence away from the thermostat. The airflow is laminar as it leaves the register, so it doens't mix well with the surrounding air. Once it becomes turbulent and begins mixing some distance away, the warm air will rise and spread out evenly along the ceiling, mixing with cooler air, and displacing it lower. When the top layer of warm air is "deep enough" to reach down to the level of the thermostat, it shuts off the furnace. There is some mixing at the interface of the two layers, helping to average the air temps, but not a lot because of the differing densities. (Think of the upsidedown-equivalent of filling a bathtub - the water doesn't collect around the faucet.)
Turning the thermostat up shouldn't cause a temporal difference in desired temperature time. The time until shut off would be changed if the thermostat was directly in the airflow or higher on the wall, but the area wouldn't have reached the desired temp. The thermostat would be percieved to be out of calibration if checked against a corectly-placed thermometer. If it was directly in the airflow it wouldn't matter how high you set the thermostat. The hot air is much warmer than the max setting on the thermostat and would still cause it to turn it off early. In that case fire the guy that installed the system.
A recent article in the Seattle PI said that car sensors at intersections were sensitive enough to pick up bikes. Cyclists who noticed an unresponsive intersection wers asked to report it.
Dr. B.F. Skinner renowned psychologist and behaviorist:
"Stimuli are presented in the environment based on two basic schedules: continuous and intermittent. Continuous reinforcement simply means that the behavior is followed by a consequence each time it occurs. Intermittent schedules are based either on the passage of time, interval schedules, or the number of correct responses emitted, known as ratio schedules. The consequence can be delivered based on the passage of the same amount of time or the same number of correct responses, which is a fixed consequence, or it could be based on a slightly different amount of time or number of correct responses that vary around a particular number, a variable consequence. This results in four classes of intermittent schedules: 1) fixed interval is reinforcing the first correct response after a set amount of time (always the same) has passed; 2) variable interval is reinforcing the first correct response after a set amount of time has passed, and after the reinforcement, a new time period (shorter or longer) is set with the average equaling a specific number over a sum total of trials; 3) fixed ratiois giving a reinforcer after a specified number of correct responses, used primarily for learning a new behavior; and 4) variable ratio is giving a reinforcer after a set number of correct responses, and after reinforcement the number of correct responses necessary for reinforcement changes, used primarily for maintaining behavior. The number of responses per time period increases as the schedule of reinforcement is changed from fixed interval to variable interval and from fixed ratio to variable ratio. Variable interval and especially, variable ratio schedules produce steadier and more persistent rates of response because the learners cannot predict when the reinforcement will come although they know that they will eventually succeed."
It may be counterintuitive, but having thousands of buttons that may or may not work, which all eventually let you cross the street, is the optimum way to condition people.
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone else read: "9 weeks to pimp out New Orleans"?
Forces acting ON the spacecraft. What about forces generated ONBOARD the spacecraft?
Nothing as simple as a torque force vector from the spin of the spacecraft??? Or some other spinning component on board the spacecraft???
Something about a "right hand" rule....
There are lies,
Damned lies,
and statistics
Why the language and Mission Control switching when they cross "the line"? Is that what is meant by "international"? I guess bureaucracy hasn't killed enough atronauts, yet.
"There's a little black spot in the sun today..."
Did anyone else read the headline as:
WormRadar Nude Volunteers Help Graph Attacks
Besides, pirates already have Sep 19th, Talk Like A Pirate Day. Until Legos and Ninjas get their own day, pirates need to just take a seat and wait patiently for the ultimate battle for control of the universe.
Saturday! You insensitive clod!
I was at Seattle/Tacoma Int'l Airport (oh the irony), yesterday and the freeway traffic advisory monitor near baggage claim had crashed. It was displaying a Windows "illegal operation" error popup w/ a IE window in the background. This was in area of the airport where, literally, 1000's of people walk by in an hour.
"Hi, welcome to Seattle. This traffic information is provided by Microsoft. Ooops."
I didn't plagarize /. for karma, if that's what you're insinuating.
/. comments is good for karma? ;-)
I discovered the article in a Tablet PC Buzz.com discussion about a woman trying to get change from a fake $1,000,000 bill at Wal-Mart.
Perhaps refuting charges of recylcling
It's all fun and games until someone makes a 2:1 scale model.
More likely the debate would be in the UN.
French ambassador after finding out the asteroid is heading for his country:
"We must act now to remove the threat of this weapon of mass destruction."
US ambassador with a devlish grin:
"Veto!"
Some terrestrial bugs make catalase to degrade peroxides, so no.
It's Staphyloccus aureus that made the bubbles on your skin when Mom treated your scrapes with H2O2. BTW, it's totally ineffective at killing Staph and casues more damage to your, already, injured tissues.
Catalase Test
Catalase: The Enzyme
Any good microbioligist will tell you that sterility is just a state of mind :)
They're full of fruits? They eventually become rotten?
Oh, they grow on trees, like money!
They found Hoffa!!!
Isn't that one of the members of the Axis of Evil? We probably have CIA and Spec Ops there, now
...This isn't too hard or expensive of a job to move the stat. The wiring is simple and low voltage, just make sure the heater is switched off at the breaker.
There are several approaches:
Perhaps you can get into the attic above the hallway ?
Or, run the wire out the baseboard under the carpet, into the other baseboard and up to the new hole in the other wall.
A crawl space appraoch would save the baseboard drilling.
Run new wire from the new hole direct to the furnace and disconnect the old.
Or check this out - GO Wireless!
Aha! More precise language merely changes the argument, not the objection, against increasing the thermostat setting to effect a quicker temp rise. (I assume we are talking about forced air heat)
If the area allows for decent air flow (rooms without obstacles hanging from the ceiling and open doors), it won't make much of a difference. The hot air is flowing out and away from the register, hence away from the thermostat. The airflow is laminar as it leaves the register, so it doens't mix well with the surrounding air. Once it becomes turbulent and begins mixing some distance away, the warm air will rise and spread out evenly along the ceiling, mixing with cooler air, and displacing it lower. When the top layer of warm air is "deep enough" to reach down to the level of the thermostat, it shuts off the furnace. There is some mixing at the interface of the two layers, helping to average the air temps, but not a lot because of the differing densities.
(Think of the upsidedown-equivalent of filling a bathtub - the water doesn't collect around the faucet.)
Turning the thermostat up shouldn't cause a temporal difference in desired temperature time. The time until shut off would be changed if the thermostat was directly in the airflow or higher on the wall, but the area wouldn't have reached the desired temp. The thermostat would be percieved to be out of calibration if checked against a corectly-placed thermometer. If it was directly in the airflow it wouldn't matter how high you set the thermostat. The hot air is much warmer than the max setting on the thermostat and would still cause it to turn it off early. In that case fire the guy that installed the system.
Sirius Cybernetics Corp. should look into this ASAP :-)
A recent article in the Seattle PI said that car sensors at intersections were sensitive enough to pick up bikes. Cyclists who noticed an unresponsive intersection wers asked to report it.
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See:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportat
It may be counterintuitive, but having thousands of buttons that may or may not work, which all eventually let you cross the street, is the optimum way to condition people.
Did any one else read that as "anatomically show the walk signal"?
Sexist crosswalks...!
Since it doesn't greet you, it's probably a cheap knock-off of a Sirius Cybernetics Corp lift.