You had backspace? I had to disconnect the carriage and slide it to the left.
Wow. It's been over three decades since I've touched a manual typewriter, but I can still remember the feel of the backspace key, with the extra force it needed to drive the carriage right.
The article states they can only get it to +3 psi, but does not say why. (I'd love to know.) Perhaps instruments (maybe avionics and other displays) inside the shuttle should not be exposed to more than 18 psi absolute.
Liquid latex currently takes two to three minutes to vulcanize, making it impractical. "For people to buy it," Krause says, "it needs to be ready in five to 10 seconds."
Without the protozoa, the termite would starve. Meanwhile, the protozoa would quickly die outside of the termite, resulting in a relationship of dependence between the animals that scientists call "mutualism."
The definition of symbiosis is in flux, and the term has been applied to a wide range of biological interactions. The symbiotic relationship may be categorized as being mutualistic, parasitic, or commensal in nature. Others define it more narrowly, as only those relationships from which both organisms benefit, in which case it would be synonymous with mutualism.
What fraction of all positive integers (represented in base 10) start with a "1", or is the value undefined because the limit fails to converge? In the latter case, is there some meaningful average of the upper and lower bounds?
I wouldn't make any Thai travel plans for the foreseeable future.
One small advantage of traveling now is that in an effort to encourage tourism the government has waived all tourist visa fees through 4 June. Last week I received a 60 day visa (extendable to 90) that would normally have cost me 110 Ringgits.
Note that when arriving by air, citizens of 40-some visa-exempt countries receive a 30 day visa on arrival -- always free -- but many wishing to stay longer used to make a "visa run" to a neighboring country such as Myanmar or Malaysia to get another 30 days. Just this year they started giving only 15 days at the border crossings, making advance visas more attractive.
It's probably worth noting that although the actual article uses neither the acronym nor its expansion, ISA in the story title refers to Instruction Set Architecture. (My first thoughts were of ISA cards as well.)
On Potter's Cay in Nassau I saw a strange fruit for sale -- a rather flat oblate spheroid, neatly arranged on the table in rows, with what appeared to be multiple stem attachment points on each fruit. I hadn't picked one up yet when the vendor misted them with water from a spray bottle and then put a pinch of grain meal on top of each, which the "fruit" then ate. They were crabs with their legs torn off, presumable for easier storage and display. I assume that the legs were sold separately. Is anyone here familiar with this practice? I've always wondered how long the crabs can be kept that way.
#2 The child must be at risk of serious injury or death
Many law enforcement agencies have not used #2 as a criterion, resulting in many parental abductions triggering an Amber Alert where the child is not known or assumed to be at risk of serious injury or death.
A Scripps Howard study of the 233 AMBER Alerts issued in the United States in 2004 found that most issued alerts did not meet the Department of Justice's criteria. Fully 50% (117 alerts) were categorized by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as being "family abductions," very often a parent involved in a custody dispute.
I wouldn't call writing on carbons a technical skill.
The technical skill required is inserting the carbon paper facing the right direction.
I recently saw carbon paper in action at a customs and immigration office in Thailand (when posting a bond to change my visa status as captain of a boat -- in effect promising that I'd come back to sail the boat out of country). When the officer finished typing the form, she was amused to discover that the copy had been made in reverse on the back of the original.
RPN is so overrated....by decomposing every equation
Perhaps this is similar to a personal preference for standard
vs. automatic transmissions, but I feel that this required decomposition is one
of the main advantages of RPN, as it involves active interaction with
the equation. Students who simply type in an algebraic equation and
press EVAL seem more likely to view equations as magical formulae,
accepting results without question. Intermediate results, calculated
and displayed via RPN, have meaning and are often identifiable
quantities.
I feel that the most vocal criticism of RPN comes from those who are
not sufficiently comfortable with math to effortlessly decompose
equations. These are the students who would benefit most from
regular use of RPN, as the mathematical facility developed would help
them better understand even those equations they do not evaluate.
An infix calculator is in many ways "smarter" than one that only
accepts RPN. (Think of how few lines of code are required to
implement an RPN stack.) What do you want your calculator to do for
you? If you want it to do as much of the math as possible then choose
infix. If you are willing to do the math and want the calculator only
to do the numerically accurate computation then choose RPN.
(Are you really going to evaluate 2*sin(pi/6)?)
I do realize that this is similar to the lamentations over the disuse
of slide rules, and students' resulting cluelessness with regard to
the expected magnitude of an answer. Perhaps the only difference is
that once the skills for rapid use of RPN are developed there is no
speed advantage in "graduating" to an infix machine.
If you care so much about numbers, start using SI units, please.
Hunh? I used the units used in the chart. Are you suggesting that the authors, by using units common to the industry, abdicate their responsibility to makes sense of the numbers (an admittidly easier task with SI units).
In any case, I am not troubled so much by their being off by a factor of 10^6, in essence a typo, but by their beleiving their typo ("only a fraction of current U.S. annual consumption" -- technically true, as 3/4 is only a fraction), and providing meaningless entries for the solar and wind columns.
The table "Where Will the Hydrogen Come From?" on page 3 states:
Here's what it would take to reach that goal [150 million tons of
hydrogen anually[sic] to replacing fossil fuels used in passenger cars by
2040]
15.9 million cu. ft. of natural gas -- only a fraction of current
U.S. annual consumption
More likely 15.9 million MMcf, or 15.9 million million cu. ft, a
large fraction of current U.S. annual consumption (21.9 million MMcf in 2005).
An average home consumes 6 Mcf (thousand cubic feet) in a month, and
the gas consumed by 2500 homes in a month will not power the
nation's cars for a year.
Additionally, solar and wind densities do not compare to absolute
amounts of coal and biomass required annually.
Don't tell me:
Solar: 2500 kilowatt-hours of sun per square meter per year
Tell me how many acres of solar panels.
Don't tell me:
Wind: 7 meters per second average wind speed
Tell me how many wind towers.
Does anyone care about number anymore, or are they just sprinkled
about haphazardly to imbue the article with a sense of authority?
This reminds me of the unexpected patterns of
Taylor-Couette instability that develop in the fluid between two rotating co-axial cylinders. Such patterns are similar to the bands on Jupiter.
The moon has no atmosphere. Mars DOES have an atmosphere. You don't need space suits on Mars, just suits to handle lower atmospheric pressure.
Martian atmospheric pressure is less than 0.01 ATM (0.7-0.9 kPa, compared to Earth's 101.3 kPa). This is effectively a vacuum as regards spacesuit design.
The article states:
If you were to take it... immediately after the whale has expelled it, then you would put it back in the water, because apparently the smell is horrific.
But in chapter 91 of Moby Dick,
The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud, Stubb fast talks a French whaler out of a dead bloated whale, and then harvests a purse of ambergris directly from its bowels.
--
Stubb to the French Captain via a symapthetic interpreter:
Thank him heartily; but tell him it's against my principles to drink with the man I've diddled.
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You had backspace? I had to disconnect the carriage and slide it to the left.
Wow. It's been over three decades since I've touched a manual typewriter, but I can still remember the feel of the backspace key, with the extra force it needed to drive the carriage right.
The article states they can only get it to +3 psi, but does not say why. (I'd love to know.) Perhaps instruments (maybe avionics and other displays) inside the shuttle should not be exposed to more than 18 psi absolute.
and stop me if I'm wrong. Math is hard.
Try again, Barbie. Remember, units are your friend.
--
G. I. Joe
Now I keep a can of Sears Weather-beater next to my bed.
This is the start of a serious idea: Spray-On Condoms: Still a Hard Sell
Trouble seems to be drying time:
Liquid latex currently takes two to three minutes to vulcanize, making it impractical. "For people to buy it," Krause says, "it needs to be ready in five to 10 seconds."
Also, RISUG mentioned above is Reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance.
Let me google that for you.
Without the protozoa, the termite would starve. Meanwhile, the protozoa would quickly die outside of the termite, resulting in a relationship of dependence between the animals that scientists call "mutualism."
From the Symbiosis article:
The definition of symbiosis is in flux, and the term has been applied to a wide range of biological interactions. The symbiotic relationship may be categorized as being mutualistic, parasitic, or commensal in nature. Others define it more narrowly, as only those relationships from which both organisms benefit, in which case it would be synonymous with mutualism.
Hmm, live and learn.
What fraction of all positive integers (represented in base 10) start with a "1", or is the value undefined because the limit fails to converge? In the latter case, is there some meaningful average of the upper and lower bounds?
... you'll see it indenify Spock and then in the next scene he comes up as unknown even though he's facing the camera.
Hair cut recognition would help here.
I wouldn't make any Thai travel plans for the foreseeable future.
One small advantage of traveling now is that in an effort to encourage tourism the government has waived all tourist visa fees through 4 June. Last week I received a 60 day visa (extendable to 90) that would normally have cost me 110 Ringgits.
Note that when arriving by air, citizens of 40-some visa-exempt countries receive a 30 day visa on arrival -- always free -- but many wishing to stay longer used to make a "visa run" to a neighboring country such as Myanmar or Malaysia to get another 30 days. Just this year they started giving only 15 days at the border crossings, making advance visas more attractive.
Not at all. I see that the Spanish translation is called Un Mundo Feliz.
It's probably worth noting that although the actual article uses neither the acronym nor its expansion, ISA in the story title refers to Instruction Set Architecture. (My first thoughts were of ISA cards as well.)
To adolescents, we give A Happy World and claim its against drugs.
Is "A Happy World" an alternative title for Huxley's "A Brave New World"?
On Potter's Cay in Nassau I saw a strange fruit for sale -- a rather flat oblate spheroid, neatly arranged on the table in rows, with what appeared to be multiple stem attachment points on each fruit. I hadn't picked one up yet when the vendor misted them with water from a spray bottle and then put a pinch of grain meal on top of each, which the "fruit" then ate. They were crabs with their legs torn off, presumable for easier storage and display. I assume that the legs were sold separately. Is anyone here familiar with this practice? I've always wondered how long the crabs can be kept that way.
[From AMBER Alert#Activation criteria]
#2 The child must be at risk of serious injury or death
Many law enforcement agencies have not used #2 as a criterion, resulting in many parental abductions triggering an Amber Alert where the child is not known or assumed to be at risk of serious injury or death.
[and later from AMBER Alert#Falsealarms]
A Scripps Howard study of the 233 AMBER Alerts issued in the United States in 2004 found that most issued alerts did not meet the Department of Justice's criteria. Fully 50% (117 alerts) were categorized by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as being "family abductions," very often a parent involved in a custody dispute.
I recently saw carbon paper in action at a customs and immigration office in Thailand (when posting a bond to change my visa status as captain of a boat -- in effect promising that I'd come back to sail the boat out of country). When the officer finished typing the form, she was amused to discover that the copy had been made in reverse on the back of the original.
Perhaps this is similar to a personal preference for standard vs. automatic transmissions, but I feel that this required decomposition is one of the main advantages of RPN, as it involves active interaction with the equation. Students who simply type in an algebraic equation and press EVAL seem more likely to view equations as magical formulae, accepting results without question. Intermediate results, calculated and displayed via RPN, have meaning and are often identifiable quantities.
I feel that the most vocal criticism of RPN comes from those who are not sufficiently comfortable with math to effortlessly decompose equations. These are the students who would benefit most from regular use of RPN, as the mathematical facility developed would help them better understand even those equations they do not evaluate.
An infix calculator is in many ways "smarter" than one that only accepts RPN. (Think of how few lines of code are required to implement an RPN stack.) What do you want your calculator to do for you? If you want it to do as much of the math as possible then choose infix. If you are willing to do the math and want the calculator only to do the numerically accurate computation then choose RPN. (Are you really going to evaluate 2*sin(pi/6)?)
I do realize that this is similar to the lamentations over the disuse of slide rules, and students' resulting cluelessness with regard to the expected magnitude of an answer. Perhaps the only difference is that once the skills for rapid use of RPN are developed there is no speed advantage in "graduating" to an infix machine.
In any case, I am not troubled so much by their being off by a factor of 10^6, in essence a typo, but by their beleiving their typo ("only a fraction of current U.S. annual consumption" -- technically true, as 3/4 is only a fraction), and providing meaningless entries for the solar and wind columns.
More likely 15.9 million MMcf, or 15.9 million million cu. ft, a large fraction of current U.S. annual consumption (21.9 million MMcf in 2005). An average home consumes 6 Mcf (thousand cubic feet) in a month, and the gas consumed by 2500 homes in a month will not power the nation's cars for a year.
Additionally, solar and wind densities do not compare to absolute amounts of coal and biomass required annually.
Tell me how many acres of solar panels.Don't tell me:
Tell me how many wind towers.Don't tell me:
Does anyone care about number anymore, or are they just sprinkled about haphazardly to imbue the article with a sense of authority?
The Navy has more planes than the Air Force, and the Army has more boats than the Navy.
This reminds me of the unexpected patterns of Taylor-Couette instability that develop in the fluid between two rotating co-axial cylinders. Such patterns are similar to the bands on Jupiter.
But in chapter 91 of Moby Dick, The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud, Stubb fast talks a French whaler out of a dead bloated whale, and then harvests a purse of ambergris directly from its bowels.
--
Stubb to the French Captain via a symapthetic interpreter: Thank him heartily; but tell him it's against my principles to drink with the man I've diddled.
Most owners treat their Aibo affectionately, as they would a real pet. When Aibos break down, we treat them at our 'clinic.'
I found Mercerism easier to swallow than a populace doting on their robotic pets, but I must now admit that PKD was right.
[Yes, I know that this wasn't the *main* thrust of the article -- it just continues to amaze me. Hack value, yes, but pet, no.]
Here is the article in a more (or less) barbaric language.