The look of the site is quite similar - it has columns right and left now instead of just the one to the right, actual sections instead of everything front page. It's too soon to tell if the stuff they cover will change - I don't think it'll change *too* much though. (But it wasn't just tech news - read some of the old stories...)
-r@wc
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And this lead leaches out of the glass in the landfill how?
Very slowly.
Just because a chemical is said to be 'non-soluble' doesn't mean that it won't dissolve at all - it just means that the concentration of a saturated solution is below an arbitrary value. (1 mol/L, I believe.) So 'insoluble' lead will dissolve - extremely slowly - in water. If the water is moving, the dissolved atoms are carried away, and more can dissolve. This process happens in landfills and mines everywhere.
According to the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, lead and its various oxides are insoluble in water - but soluble to varying degrees in nitric and sulphuric acid. Acid rain. So the leaded glass gets rained on in a landfill in the vicinity of a city, and over the years some of the lead is freed from the glass and gets into the groundwater. It's a very slow process (and happens to pretty much all of the heavy metals we find useful), which is why there are mines that have been closed and abandoned for years that they're suddenly reopening - for cleanup. Those mines had been silently leaking heavy metals and poisoning the land around them for years, and we're finally starting to learn to what extent they're screwing the local ecosystem up.
Once the lead is in the groundwater, plants pick it up and concentrate it, animals eat those plants and concentrate it more, and animals and people get lead poisoning.
Lead and the other heavy metals are freaking dangerous, more so because it's not immediately apparent that you've been poisoned.
(On a tangent... Ever wonder where 'mad as a hatter' came from? Hatters made hats from felt. The process of making felt involved mercury. One of the symptoms of mercury poisoning was... madness.)
-r@wc
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
Well, I have had a messagepad 2100 (the very last newton) since spring of 1998, and I must say it's very good. I actually had to chase around town, and when I picked it up I was told that I got the last one in the lower mainland, and if I hadn't shown up that day someone else would have gotten it.
And they're surprisingly fast. I actually take all of my class notes on it. Once I taught it a chemical engineering vocabulary, which took less than two weeks, it kept up just fine. I'd estimate a very low error rate, definitely less than 10% and possibly less than 5%, and nearly all errors could be fixed by a quick tap, tap 'try letter-by-letter recognition' that didn't slow me down much at all. And in many ways it was faster than taking the notes on a keyboard would have been: the profs draw a lot of diagrams, and quite frankly, 'tap, tap I'm in drawing mode, draw the picture, tap, tap I'm back in writing mode, keep making notes' is a heck of a lot faster than trying to make those diagrams with a keyboard and mouse. Selecting and moving items around - text or drawings - was so easy. I used that feature a *lot* for annotating the drawings and diagrams.
The two weeks I spent teaching it a chem.eng vocabulary didn't slow me down in class, either, because I told it not to convert the text, just to save the images of my handwriting for later conversion. After class I would go through and convert it to text, fixing all the errors. Once it learned the words, though (the newton works on a wordlist then a letter-by-letter scheme) I didn't have to do that anymore.
And it reads *my* handwriting, not the handwriting that the makers programmed into it. It's bigger than a palm, but it has a bigger screen, which I think is worth it. It may not fit into my pocket, but that's why I have a 'shoulder holster' for it (g)
I love my newton. In case you haven't guessed already.
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd I could tell you things about Peter Pan
well, crows have been observed picking up a twig, trimming it so that there's a backwards-pointing 'hook' on it, then carrying it with them when they're hunting. They poke it in holes in trees and use it to chase the bugs and stuff out.
Now this isn't just problem solving, this is knowing what's going on and planning ahead. Oh, and they also have a 'favourite' tool, which they will keep for future hunts.
Pretty smart by any standard I know...
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd I could tell you things about Peter Pan
I got that one once... from a co-worker at a co-op job I had. That was the same co-op job where my unofficial 'job title' was 'the kappa chick' because I calibrated the kappa machine three times a week. (course, they were looking really nervous the first time they called me that...)
But mostly I get 'chemical Engineering? That sounds *hard*' and surprised looks when I do well. I can't decide whether to find it funny or frustrating. At this point I just shrug and say, 'yeah, it's hard. I like it.'
But after being told that something is 'really really hard' and then finding out that it wasn't, I've stopped listening to them, except maybe to make sure to pay more attention to what I'm doing.
From before I started school, my neighbour refused to believe that I could read (because her daughters, who were older than me and in school, couldn't yet) to the other neighbour who told me 'you'll fail grade 4 for sure, it's so hard!' to the gr 10 math teacher (the same one who just handed me the course outline and let me run with it, oddly enough) who convinced me to go into the 'regular' chemistry as opposed to 'honours' - I was bored stiff, transferred into honours 3 weeks into the term, spent a week catching up (and wrote a test on the 3rd day) and found out that I loved chemistry - to the university students that told me that physical chemistry was just evil and most people took the class two or even three times before passing, or that the control systems course was incredibly hard and also needed to be taken multiple times (physical chemistry was interesting and challenging, but not evil, and control systems was a bitch but I learned so much (and did reasonably well) that I'm thinking of focusing on them in my last year at university).
So now when someone tells me that something is 'too hard' and I shouldn't try it, I do it anyways (if I want to). The fact that I'm stubborn to the point of boneheadedness sometimes helps here, though...:-)
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd I could tell you things about Peter Pan
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actually, my home town opened a brand-new drivein a few years back... My sister went with her friends a few times and they'd all sit on the hood of her friend's big ol' cordoba with a portable stereo (the cordoba having only AM radio and an 8-track player, of course).
Great fun.
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd I could tell you things about Peter Pan
Working at one of the very large oil companies, I can tell you positively that this one at least is indeed working on non-oil technologies:-)
Dunno whether they're waiting for the consumers to ask or waiting for their R&D people to produce something that works, though. I work in a different department.
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd I could tell you things about Peter Pan
propane is a gas too... I guess that means my parents only imagined that 600km drive, on one tank, right?;-)
It would probably be stored at something like 2000 psi (for comparison, the tank I carry on my back when SCUBA diving holds air at ~3000psi). At least, the gas cylinders I've worked with in the lab are typically at that pressure; I don't know what pressure propane is stored at in a car's fuel tank.
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd I could tell you stories about Peter Pan Or the Wizard of Oz - there's a dirty old man!"
Thank you! I found monitor.inf, searched through it for my monitor manufacturer and model, and found the hsync and vertical frequencies.
I had been tearing my hair out trying to find them, as I lost the manual for my monitor probably more than a year ago and the manufacturer doesn't even mention my monitor model on their website (and they still haven't replied to my email asking them for the specs)
Now I can finally get the right modelines and get X running at better than 640X480.
>all I'm saying is that it's likely that their >analysis people say "For the reasons X, Y and Z, >we need to stick with Word and Excel, therefore >with Microsoft."
You did read the article, didn't you?
>even though a majority of the department's 20,000 >work stations already had licences for Corel's >WordPerfect software
They're converting to MS, not sticking with it (the majority of their computers, anyhow)
Now I don't know how the US DOL 'tilted' the bidding process - the article was kind of short on details, but this isn't really a case of the gov't re-ordering.
Slashdot Mirror
The look of the site is quite similar - it has columns right and left now instead of just the one to the right, actual sections instead of everything front page. It's too soon to tell if the stuff they cover will change - I don't think it'll change *too* much though. (But it wasn't just tech news - read some of the old stories...)
-r@wc
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And this lead leaches out of the glass in the landfill how?
Very slowly.
Just because a chemical is said to be 'non-soluble' doesn't mean that it won't dissolve at all - it just means that the concentration of a saturated solution is below an arbitrary value. (1 mol/L, I believe.) So 'insoluble' lead will dissolve - extremely slowly - in water. If the water is moving, the dissolved atoms are carried away, and more can dissolve. This process happens in landfills and mines everywhere.
According to the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, lead and its various oxides are insoluble in water - but soluble to varying degrees in nitric and sulphuric acid. Acid rain. So the leaded glass gets rained on in a landfill in the vicinity of a city, and over the years some of the lead is freed from the glass and gets into the groundwater. It's a very slow process (and happens to pretty much all of the heavy metals we find useful), which is why there are mines that have been closed and abandoned for years that they're suddenly reopening - for cleanup. Those mines had been silently leaking heavy metals and poisoning the land around them for years, and we're finally starting to learn to what extent they're screwing the local ecosystem up.
Once the lead is in the groundwater, plants pick it up and concentrate it, animals eat those plants and concentrate it more, and animals and people get lead poisoning.
Lead and the other heavy metals are freaking dangerous, more so because it's not immediately apparent that you've been poisoned.
(On a tangent... Ever wonder where 'mad as a hatter' came from? Hatters made hats from felt. The process of making felt involved mercury. One of the symptoms of mercury poisoning was... madness.)
-r@wc
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
Well, I have had a messagepad 2100 (the very last newton) since spring of 1998, and I must say it's very good. I actually had to chase around town, and when I picked it up I was told that I got the last one in the lower mainland, and if I hadn't shown up that day someone else would have gotten it.
And they're surprisingly fast. I actually take all of my class notes on it. Once I taught it a chemical engineering vocabulary, which took less than two weeks, it kept up just fine. I'd estimate a very low error rate, definitely less than 10% and possibly less than 5%, and nearly all errors could be fixed by a quick tap, tap 'try letter-by-letter recognition' that didn't slow me down much at all. And in many ways it was faster than taking the notes on a keyboard would have been: the profs draw a lot of diagrams, and quite frankly, 'tap, tap I'm in drawing mode, draw the picture, tap, tap I'm back in writing mode, keep making notes' is a heck of a lot faster than trying to make those diagrams with a keyboard and mouse. Selecting and moving items around - text or drawings - was so easy. I used that feature a *lot* for annotating the drawings and diagrams.
The two weeks I spent teaching it a chem.eng vocabulary didn't slow me down in class, either, because I told it not to convert the text, just to save the images of my handwriting for later conversion. After class I would go through and convert it to text, fixing all the errors. Once it learned the words, though (the newton works on a wordlist then a letter-by-letter scheme) I didn't have to do that anymore.
And it reads *my* handwriting, not the handwriting that the makers programmed into it. It's bigger than a palm, but it has a bigger screen, which I think is worth it. It may not fit into my pocket, but that's why I have a 'shoulder holster' for it (g)
I love my newton. In case you haven't guessed already.
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
well, crows have been observed picking up a twig, trimming it so that there's a backwards-pointing 'hook' on it, then carrying it with them when they're hunting. They poke it in holes in trees and use it to chase the bugs and stuff out.
Now this isn't just problem solving, this is knowing what's going on and planning ahead. Oh, and they also have a 'favourite' tool, which they will keep for future hunts.
Pretty smart by any standard I know...
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
>- Are you here to get your Mrs. degree?
:-)
I got that one once... from a co-worker at a co-op job I had. That was the same co-op job where my unofficial 'job title' was 'the kappa chick' because I calibrated the kappa machine three times a week. (course, they were looking really nervous the first time they called me that...)
But mostly I get 'chemical Engineering? That sounds *hard*' and surprised looks when I do well. I can't decide whether to find it funny or frustrating. At this point I just shrug and say, 'yeah, it's hard. I like it.'
But after being told that something is 'really really hard' and then finding out that it wasn't, I've stopped listening to them, except maybe to make sure to pay more attention to what I'm doing.
From before I started school, my neighbour refused to believe that I could read (because her daughters, who were older than me and in school, couldn't yet) to the other neighbour who told me 'you'll fail grade 4 for sure, it's so hard!' to the gr 10 math teacher (the same one who just handed me the course outline and let me run with it, oddly enough) who convinced me to go into the 'regular' chemistry as opposed to 'honours' - I was bored stiff, transferred into honours 3 weeks into the term, spent a week catching up (and wrote a test on the 3rd day) and found out that I loved chemistry - to the university students that told me that physical chemistry was just evil and most people took the class two or even three times before passing, or that the control systems course was incredibly hard and also needed to be taken multiple times (physical chemistry was interesting and challenging, but not evil, and control systems was a bitch but I learned so much (and did reasonably well) that I'm thinking of focusing on them in my last year at university).
So now when someone tells me that something is 'too hard' and I shouldn't try it, I do it anyways (if I want to). The fact that I'm stubborn to the point of boneheadedness sometimes helps here, though...
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
actually, my home town opened a brand-new drivein a few years back... My sister went with her friends a few times and they'd all sit on the hood of her friend's big ol' cordoba with a portable stereo (the cordoba having only AM radio and an 8-track player, of course).
Great fun.
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
Working at one of the very large oil companies, I can tell you positively that this one at least is indeed working on non-oil technologies :-)
Dunno whether they're waiting for the consumers to ask or waiting for their R&D people to produce something that works, though. I work in a different department.
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
That's the UBC Engineers. Trust me, I've been in on the planning of a couple :-)
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you stories about Peter Pan
Or the Wizard of Oz - there's a dirty old man!"
Am I the only one who's thinking:
"no, no, b'rer bear, don't throw me in the briar patch! Anything but that!"
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you stories about Peter Pan
Or the Wizard of Oz - there's a dirty old man!"
propane is a gas too... I guess that means my parents only imagined that 600km drive, on one tank, right? ;-)
It would probably be stored at something like 2000 psi (for comparison, the tank I carry on my back when SCUBA diving holds air at ~3000psi). At least, the gas cylinders I've worked with in the lab are typically at that pressure; I don't know what pressure propane is stored at in a car's fuel tank.
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you stories about Peter Pan
Or the Wizard of Oz - there's a dirty old man!"
My sig makes my point more eloquently than I could...
"When correctly viewed, everything is lewd
I could tell you stories about Peter Pan
Or the Wizard of Oz - there's a dirty old man!"
Thank you! I found monitor.inf, searched through it for my monitor manufacturer and model, and found the hsync and vertical frequencies.
I had been tearing my hair out trying to find them, as I lost the manual for my monitor probably more than a year ago and the manufacturer doesn't even mention my monitor model on their website (and they still haven't replied to my email asking them for the specs)
Now I can finally get the right modelines and get X running at better than 640X480.
>all I'm saying is that it's likely that their
>analysis people say "For the reasons X, Y and Z,
>we need to stick with Word and Excel, therefore
>with Microsoft."
You did read the article, didn't you?
>even though a majority of the department's 20,000
>work stations already had licences for Corel's
>WordPerfect software
They're converting to MS, not sticking with it (the majority of their computers, anyhow)
Now I don't know how the US DOL 'tilted' the bidding process - the article was kind of short on details, but this isn't really a case of the gov't re-ordering.