Sounds like you had a teacher like one of mine: Mark Ellison. I was fortunate to have him as a lecturer back while he was still at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Although much younger than I am, he was an inspiration.
I took O-chem; never heard of orgo. And O-chem wasn't that hard.
Indeed, orgo sounds more like an abbreviation for something that might happen in your bedroom on a lucky night.
I never found it hard to just say "organic chem" (though I usually called analytical chemistry "anal chem", despite the fact that I loved it). And while many students do seem to spend a lot of time memorising things, I found that by spending enough time actually thinking about chemistry, I quite suddenly "got it", and it made sense without having to memorise anything more than a few names of common types of compound.
2) If you are serious about actually storing stuff, get yourself a server and secure it.
I hate those FTFY posts, but if you are really serious about storing stuff, then you should do it yourself. The so-called "cloud" services might be convenient (depending on the cost and availability of your internet connection), but they are totally out of your control, especially if you care even the slightest about security.
...and the internet doesn't work. Both WiFi and cellular icons are grey and all apps complain of no internet.
If you open up a terminal emulator and ping a valid IP adress, it'll probably work, which means that the internet isn't broken. The grey doubt icons are simply an indication that Google's location services aren't working with your phone. I also have a GNex (Maguro), and this "issue" (FWIW) was fixed by simply downloading the appropriate Gapps package for CM10.2.
... but less than half of devices currently for sale from phone carriers or independent stores are supported by CM.
Perhaps, but where CM shines is in its support for devices no longer being actively sold or supported, which even with brands like Samsung can happen only months after you've bought the phone.
I've[sic] we're going to be ridiculously nerdy and arbitrary we could all just just use seconds since the start of 1970.
Which might be fine for you, but those of us who would thus have been born long before the beginning of time might be justified in being a little miffed.
Actually, it is just called Summer Time. Daylight Saving Time is American dialect.
That depends. In the British Isles, it is known as "Summer Time" but in Australia as "daylight saving" (or a variety of more colourful epithets).
For the record: in the Australian context, the business community has made several attempts to force daylight saving[s] time on Western Australia over the years when I was resident there, but it was (and is) hugely unpopular, largely because for political reasons the "normal" datum is already ahead of the natural time for the longitude. Stepping out into 40-degree Celsius heat and blazing sunshine at 7.00pm gets old very quickly. However, now that I live in Tasmania, at a much lower latitude, changing the clocks makes slightly more sense, except that the dawn and dusk twilight periods make fiddling with the clocks more or less redundant.
Fair enough - and you'll note I did acknowledge the likelihood of a "whoosh" moment.;-)
OT and for the record, though, I used to have no formal objection to the term "twerking" until I saw the most ignoble moment of Australian politics in the form of a clip of that fat creepy billionaire, Clive Palmer twerking for votes. If only some things could be retrospectively "unseen"...
Is it really a problem? If you really need to use an X server, you would frankly be better off doing so on a desktop or laptop machine, so you don't have to punish yourself with a touchscreen keypad. If all you actually need is a TTY with access to the usual *nix command line tools, you can use busybox (root required) with any of the terminal emulators already available.
Having said that, by the time I get around to buying myself a tablet, hopefully the Android versions of LibreOffice will be mature enough to be useful...
For many of us, the cost of living in Australia is vastly more expensive. An example: we in Australia pay approximately double per litre of petrol (gasoline) - which, for those of us who don't live in major metropolitan areas and have to make a 110km round trip to get to work and back every day, makes for a very big hit in the back pocket.
...just as it's rare to find an English major that's good at math.
Curiously, though, by far the majority of my math professors have impressed me as being exceptionally well-read, erudite and articulate. I can honestly say they were an inspiration to me, to the extent that I sometimes felt that it would have been worthwhile to study math more than as a discipline incidental to my other studies.
However, honesty compelled me to admit that although I can comfortably handle a differential equation, I would never be more than a plodder in the context of post-graduate math, which is where you only begin to scratch the surface of new ground.
Well, part of my edited post did make reference to chimpanzees and Shakespeare.:)
you'd think an "editor" for a popular site would know a modicum of English.
Fix: You'd hope so. But apparently in vain. All too often (if we take the trouble to look, or if we notice that our own submissions are bowdlerised) we see perfectly cogent posts mangled to the extent that any relevant content is entirely non-existent. Maybe there's a new species of crypto-editor that needs to be added to the corpus of cryptozoological studies...
Calling fine software (audacity) that millions of users use 'crap'...
No, he was talking about "Adaucity", which is apparently so obscure, not even Google can find any developers associated with it. So that program might indeed be crap, but we'll never know.
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IOW they're either disabled, dumb or idealistic.
Or some of us just love our jobs, despite the fact that the pay sucks.
Too complicated to learn, english language is.
It's not that hard, Master Yoda. Just remember to capitalise "English". As for the rest, most of your readers are 1ll1ter8 ba5tard5 anyway...
I'll keep my fangs, and damn the government. And, damn the mindless sheep as well.
Perhaps the sheep will damn themselves, given time... :-|
Sounds like you had a teacher like one of mine: Mark Ellison. I was fortunate to have him as a lecturer back while he was still at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Although much younger than I am, he was an inspiration.
an alternative form of "will" which was "wol", quite common in Middle English (Chaucer uses it a lot).
Not any more. He stopped in 1400 or earlier.
I took O-chem; never heard of orgo. And O-chem wasn't that hard.
Indeed, orgo sounds more like an abbreviation for something that might happen in your bedroom on a lucky night.
I never found it hard to just say "organic chem" (though I usually called analytical chemistry "anal chem", despite the fact that I loved it). And while many students do seem to spend a lot of time memorising things, I found that by spending enough time actually thinking about chemistry, I quite suddenly "got it", and it made sense without having to memorise anything more than a few names of common types of compound.
Good catch.
Only if you consider a barracuda worth eating, which I don't...
2) If you are serious about actually storing stuff, get yourself a server and secure it.
I hate those FTFY posts, but if you are really serious about storing stuff, then you should do it yourself. The so-called "cloud" services might be convenient (depending on the cost and availability of your internet connection), but they are totally out of your control, especially if you care even the slightest about security.
...and the internet doesn't work. Both WiFi and cellular icons are grey and all apps complain of no internet.
If you open up a terminal emulator and ping a valid IP adress, it'll probably work, which means that the internet isn't broken. The grey doubt icons are simply an indication that Google's location services aren't working with your phone. I also have a GNex (Maguro), and this "issue" (FWIW) was fixed by simply downloading the appropriate Gapps package for CM10.2.
HTH.
... but less than half of devices currently for sale from phone carriers or independent stores are supported by CM.
Perhaps, but where CM shines is in its support for devices no longer being actively sold or supported, which even with brands like Samsung can happen only months after you've bought the phone.
...and sees regular updates, far beyond manufacturer support.
Indeed. My Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Maguro) last saw a manufacturer update early last year. CyanogenMod is pretty nearly as current as it can get.
I've[sic] we're going to be ridiculously nerdy and arbitrary we could all just just use seconds since the start of 1970.
Which might be fine for you, but those of us who would thus have been born long before the beginning of time might be justified in being a little miffed.
Actually, it is just called Summer Time. Daylight Saving Time is American dialect.
That depends. In the British Isles, it is known as "Summer Time" but in Australia as "daylight saving" (or a variety of more colourful epithets).
For the record: in the Australian context, the business community has made several attempts to force daylight saving[s] time on Western Australia over the years when I was resident there, but it was (and is) hugely unpopular, largely because for political reasons the "normal" datum is already ahead of the natural time for the longitude. Stepping out into 40-degree Celsius heat and blazing sunshine at 7.00pm gets old very quickly. However, now that I live in Tasmania, at a much lower latitude, changing the clocks makes slightly more sense, except that the dawn and dusk twilight periods make fiddling with the clocks more or less redundant.
Fair enough - and you'll note I did acknowledge the likelihood of a "whoosh" moment. ;-)
OT and for the record, though, I used to have no formal objection to the term "twerking" until I saw the most ignoble moment of Australian politics in the form of a clip of that fat creepy billionaire, Clive Palmer twerking for votes. If only some things could be retrospectively "unseen"...
There aren't enough Jehovah's Witnesses for them to be a major focus of research expenditure.
There are plenty, thanks. The only problem is getting rid of the empty bodies once you've consumed all of their blood. ;-)
Now all we need is a supply of artificial flies for that nice Mr. Renfield.
Is it really a problem? If you really need to use an X server, you would frankly be better off doing so on a desktop or laptop machine, so you don't have to punish yourself with a touchscreen keypad. If all you actually need is a TTY with access to the usual *nix command line tools, you can use busybox (root required) with any of the terminal emulators already available.
Having said that, by the time I get around to buying myself a tablet, hopefully the Android versions of LibreOffice will be mature enough to be useful...
Double? Try 20% more nominal, and 19% less (PPP).
For many of us, the cost of living in Australia is vastly more expensive. An example: we in Australia pay approximately double per litre of petrol (gasoline) - which, for those of us who don't live in major metropolitan areas and have to make a 110km round trip to get to work and back every day, makes for a very big hit in the back pocket.
A literary illusion?
I think you mean "allusion". Unless that was some illusion passing me by, going "whoosh"...
Indeed, and not entirely incongruous with the premise that "30% of Americans Get News From Facebook".
The latter might go a long way toward explaining the apparent general level of profound ignorance.
...just as it's rare to find an English major that's good at math.
Curiously, though, by far the majority of my math professors have impressed me as being exceptionally well-read, erudite and articulate. I can honestly say they were an inspiration to me, to the extent that I sometimes felt that it would have been worthwhile to study math more than as a discipline incidental to my other studies.
However, honesty compelled me to admit that although I can comfortably handle a differential equation, I would never be more than a plodder in the context of post-graduate math, which is where you only begin to scratch the surface of new ground.
Where do they recruit them, the local zoo?
Well, part of my edited post did make reference to chimpanzees and Shakespeare. :)
you'd think an "editor" for a popular site would know a modicum of English.
Fix: You'd hope so. But apparently in vain. All too often (if we take the trouble to look, or if we notice that our own submissions are bowdlerised) we see perfectly cogent posts mangled to the extent that any relevant content is entirely non-existent. Maybe there's a new species of crypto-editor that needs to be added to the corpus of cryptozoological studies...
Calling fine software (audacity) that millions of users use 'crap'...
No, he was talking about "Adaucity", which is apparently so obscure, not even Google can find any developers associated with it. So that program might indeed be crap, but we'll never know.
Correction: crippleware if you don't build it from source.
My bad. Sorry. Actually, just to be clear, the OP's submission (pre-editing) does, to be fair, mention "proprietary or open-source"...
Ardour might be fine piece of software, but sadly it is also crippleware unless you are prepared to cough up your shekels.