On the other hand, only in America could professional wrestling reach the heights of popularity it (supposedly) has.
Yes, I'm already aware of the critical mass moron factor.
The reason it's "terrible" is that perfectly good existing words with well-known definitions get displaced by pop-culture-derived terms that are more fuzzily-defined. I understand the need for new words to describe new things (computers and software have given us lots of them and those are justified although sometimes bizarre) but quite often new "words" are invented simply for marketing reasons or some percieved need to "coin a phrase" or to "be unique" in this rapidly-shrinking world of the English language.
One thing that has consistently grated on my nerves is Canadian (I'm a Canuck) use of "coast-to-coast-to-coast". My interpretation of this is that the usual, "coast-to-coast" wasn't good enough, so some twit decided that we had to go one better. Nevermind that the US has three coasts also.
What probably annoys me most is people that start adopting and using words/terminology (that they don't really understand) in order to sound authoritative, cool or trendy.
Please raise and shake your walking cane along with me and yell, "You kids! Get off my lawn!"
That does seem to be an odd thing to do, doesn't it? I'm all for expressing individualism, but that's just weird enough to warrant more than a little curiosity.
Personally, I liked the Coral Cache helpfulness in the original submission, just in case Slashdot Slashdots Google. Having just re-read what I just wrote I have to wonder what language I'm writing.
Dry Ice is a by-product of the air products industry. Air is cooled to condense it. Valuable gasses are fractionaly distilled out such as Oxygen, Argon, etc. CO2 is mostly a byproduct of the process.
No. This post is correct. In my experience (total of about 12 years as a cryo plant designer (oxygen, nitrogen, argon, CO2, hydrogen) NH3 is used as the cooling agent for CO2 liquefaction. What you quoted is largely correct.
so many old-school, teach-the-subject veterans are now leaving the profession (often through early retirement deals because they are much more expensive to employ as teachers than green youngsters fresh from university) that all the accumulated wisdom of generations of teachers is rapidly disappearing.
This has also happened in other fields. As a board-trained draftsman ('70s), I worked for many years to get to a certain status level where I could handle actual design. Nowadays, students learn CAD and assume they are a designer. There are a lot of really smart people doing CAD work but some of the design work I've seen clearly illustrates that the "accumulated wisdom of generations" is lost or being ignored.
One slightly tinfoilish concept is that there is plausible deniability (and we thought that was only for US presidents and stuff) when using commercial software. In other words, since it was paid-for, blame can be placed elsewhere so that everyone "gets off the hook".
Given most users'/executives' level of knowledge about software and hardware, this is maybe an effective "out" for problems whose origins are probably elsewhere.
Sorry for the brain trigger. I'm hopelessly behind the times. Based on the "hiking-up-the-pants" test I find myself doing lately unconsciously (I'm actually considering suspenders, that's how bad it's gotten) I've come to the realization that I'm already an old fart. Also no longer to coherent statement...stuff, like.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.
Grampa Simpson's writers were good with that one as...um, hey, get off my lawn!
Change Happens
They Keep Moving The Cheese
Anticipate Change
Get Ready For The Cheese To Move
Monitor Change
Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old
Adapt To Change Quickly
The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese
Change
Move With The Cheese
Enjoy Change!
Savor The Adventure And Enjoy The Taste Of New Cheese!
Be Ready To Change Quickly And Enjoy It Again & Again
They Keep Moving The Cheese.
Actually, I bought that one based on Dan's (dansdata) recommendation. Nice game, but I've been a C&C guy for years so I'm playing that now when I get the time. Games like this fulfill my inner need to have complete control (which, of course, no one can ever have in real life) and also dovetails nicely with my work where I "draw" small things that turn out to be Really Big Things. You just made me remember that I used to like plastic scale modeling as a kid. I seem to be specialized in small stuff and prob...crap. I just realized what my ex-wife was talking about.
In this case, LART likely refers to "Large Attitude Readjustment Tool" (for those not aware of pre-web lingo). It's generally used before, after or during application of the cluestick.
Is it ironic that the city best-known for their tossing of herbs and sparking something important is also the most conservative, old-boy-network-loving place in the United States? Most of the Brits I know LOVE Boston, they apparently feel at home and comfortable there in the core of, uh, New England.
I used to think that term limits were the way to go. However, after looking at CA, I see that's a really dumb way to do it. With term limits, everyone is a junior and the lobbyists just roll right over them.
You design things on a computer, right?
It always amuses me when people who work on a computer for a living think that their exempt from knowing about computers because they have some other job title. Computers are complex, and they're directly relevant to most desk jobs - you're not more exempt from knowing about computers because there are "computer people" than you are exempt from knowing about reading & writing because there are "english people".
Hey, I like working with computers and consider myself to be more knowledgeable than many computer/software "support" people that try to "help" me when I have a problem. I dislike software that complicates my job by making things more difficult or complex to do. I'm usually the guy that explains to the CAD drafters what OpenGL is, how to configure ACAD and how to properly run 3D design review software (JetStream, SmartPlant Review, for example) so I'm not exactly blissfully ignorant of the technology.
Many people are fascinated just fiddling around with computers; I prefer them to actually accomplish something relevant to my work without a lot of needless fussing about.
Slashdot Mirror
A presidential debate is not a pro sporting event
On the other hand, only in America could professional wrestling reach the heights of popularity it (supposedly) has. Yes, I'm already aware of the critical mass moron factor.
The reason it's "terrible" is that perfectly good existing words with well-known definitions get displaced by pop-culture-derived terms that are more fuzzily-defined. I understand the need for new words to describe new things (computers and software have given us lots of them and those are justified although sometimes bizarre) but quite often new "words" are invented simply for marketing reasons or some percieved need to "coin a phrase" or to "be unique" in this rapidly-shrinking world of the English language.
One thing that has consistently grated on my nerves is Canadian (I'm a Canuck) use of "coast-to-coast-to-coast". My interpretation of this is that the usual, "coast-to-coast" wasn't good enough, so some twit decided that we had to go one better. Nevermind that the US has three coasts also.
What probably annoys me most is people that start adopting and using words/terminology (that they don't really understand) in order to sound authoritative, cool or trendy.
Please raise and shake your walking cane along with me and yell, "You kids! Get off my lawn!"
Is that an accepted word now? What was wrong with, "disorient", is the original not trendy enough?
manipulate the debate on global climate change so easily
Are you claiming that most of the people can be fooled all of the time or that all of the people can be fooled some of the time?
That does seem to be an odd thing to do, doesn't it? I'm all for expressing individualism, but that's just weird enough to warrant more than a little curiosity.
is subject to massive corruption
Are you referring to data corruption or some other kind?
Hey, in theory, free porn could help lower the birth rate!
Thanks for ruining the ending of the movie, dickhead. Have you never heard of a ***SPOILER ALERT***?
In pipeline operations often a line pig is used to separate different flowing fluids. Disclaimer: I am a piping designer.
Personally, I liked the Coral Cache helpfulness in the original submission, just in case Slashdot Slashdots Google. Having just re-read what I just wrote I have to wonder what language I'm writing.
Dry Ice is a by-product of the air products industry. Air is cooled to condense it. Valuable gasses are fractionaly distilled out such as Oxygen, Argon, etc. CO2 is mostly a byproduct of the process.
No. This post is correct. In my experience (total of about 12 years as a cryo plant designer (oxygen, nitrogen, argon, CO2, hydrogen) NH3 is used as the cooling agent for CO2 liquefaction. What you quoted is largely correct.
It's called fracing (pronounced as "fracking"). From this page.
I live in Oregon. I've seen very fucking huge forests clear cut.
"Very fucking huge" is a relative description. Why don't you use Google Earth and show us what you're talking about?
so many old-school, teach-the-subject veterans are now leaving the profession (often through early retirement deals because they are much more expensive to employ as teachers than green youngsters fresh from university) that all the accumulated wisdom of generations of teachers is rapidly disappearing.
This has also happened in other fields. As a board-trained draftsman ('70s), I worked for many years to get to a certain status level where I could handle actual design. Nowadays, students learn CAD and assume they are a designer. There are a lot of really smart people doing CAD work but some of the design work I've seen clearly illustrates that the "accumulated wisdom of generations" is lost or being ignored.
which clothes to wear to sex
The best answer to this question is none. Holy sheet is this ever a straight line!
You mean, Lo and behold, maybe: 'used to call attention or to express wonder or surprise' .
Reposting one of my previous comments.
One slightly tinfoilish concept is that there is plausible deniability (and we thought that was only for US presidents and stuff) when using commercial software. In other words, since it was paid-for, blame can be placed elsewhere so that everyone "gets off the hook". Given most users'/executives' level of knowledge about software and hardware, this is maybe an effective "out" for problems whose origins are probably elsewhere.
Sorry for the brain trigger. I'm hopelessly behind the times. Based on the "hiking-up-the-pants" test I find myself doing lately unconsciously (I'm actually considering suspenders, that's how bad it's gotten) I've come to the realization that I'm already an old fart. Also no longer to coherent statement...stuff, like.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me.
Grampa Simpson's writers were good with that one as...um, hey, get off my lawn!
To me, this just illustrates the absurdity of the whole thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese
Change Happens
They Keep Moving The Cheese
Anticipate Change
Get Ready For The Cheese To Move
Monitor Change
Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old
Adapt To Change Quickly
The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese
Change
Move With The Cheese
Enjoy Change!
Savor The Adventure And Enjoy The Taste Of New Cheese!
Be Ready To Change Quickly And Enjoy It Again & Again
They Keep Moving The Cheese.
Actually, I bought that one based on Dan's (dansdata) recommendation. Nice game, but I've been a C&C guy for years so I'm playing that now when I get the time. Games like this fulfill my inner need to have complete control (which, of course, no one can ever have in real life) and also dovetails nicely with my work where I "draw" small things that turn out to be Really Big Things. You just made me remember that I used to like plastic scale modeling as a kid. I seem to be specialized in small stuff and prob...crap. I just realized what my ex-wife was talking about.
In this case, LART likely refers to "Large Attitude Readjustment Tool" (for those not aware of pre-web lingo). It's generally used before, after or during application of the cluestick.
Is it ironic that the city best-known for their tossing of herbs and sparking something important is also the most conservative, old-boy-network-loving place in the United States? Most of the Brits I know LOVE Boston, they apparently feel at home and comfortable there in the core of, uh, New England.
I used to think that term limits were the way to go. However, after looking at CA, I see that's a really dumb way to do it. With term limits, everyone is a junior and the lobbyists just roll right over them.
Interesting point.
What kind of bizarre logic is that?
Digital? You know, this or that, yes or no, one or zero, "you're either with us or against us".
You design things on a computer, right? It always amuses me when people who work on a computer for a living think that their exempt from knowing about computers because they have some other job title. Computers are complex, and they're directly relevant to most desk jobs - you're not more exempt from knowing about computers because there are "computer people" than you are exempt from knowing about reading & writing because there are "english people".
Hey, I like working with computers and consider myself to be more knowledgeable than many computer/software "support" people that try to "help" me when I have a problem. I dislike software that complicates my job by making things more difficult or complex to do. I'm usually the guy that explains to the CAD drafters what OpenGL is, how to configure ACAD and how to properly run 3D design review software (JetStream, SmartPlant Review, for example) so I'm not exactly blissfully ignorant of the technology.
Many people are fascinated just fiddling around with computers; I prefer them to actually accomplish something relevant to my work without a lot of needless fussing about.