From what I've learned in Astronomy recently, it sounds like there is a good possibility that some solar bound object disturbs the Earth's Oort cloud every few million years. Many astroids may have impacted in the final years of the dinosaurs, not just one killer as the experts at Hollywood would have us understand things.
I beg to differ. David Suzuki and Bob McDonald are foremost science journalists in Canada who have national television and radio programs. Many children grow up with science being in the main stream Canadian media. The US may lack a strong voice, but they could certainly listen to ours [if they are willing to put up with that wacky SI].
CBC does entertaining science programing every weekend and week. The Nature of Things is a very good program hosted by David Suzuki who is always provocative. Bob McDonald of Quirks and Quarks on the radio give up-to-the-week science news that is very informative and interesting.
It just takes the right person, and the right subject. Not all science is for everyone. Space people might not care for the science of bugs for instance.
The really annoying part about this stuff is that kids who can file with their parents taxes according to the software, but don't have access to the same computer, can't share the software within the family anymore. I suppose this is what the software company is going for. It must be nice to have a monoply.
Sorry, on second though, I think it was a 6" Newtonian telescope with a R.A. auto tracking motor. It was possibly a 12mm eyepiece, and the camera is a Canon Powershot S30 with 3X zoom and held against the eyepiece as steady as I could.
I wonder how my post could be construed as "flaimbait"? Slightly offtopic, I conceed, but people interested in Jupiter news might like to see how it looked just last Thursday. You never know when it will just pack up and leave with all it's moons in tow.
Exactly. People learn how NOT to be geeky - in the awkward movement sense. From watching me play baseball, someone might say I don't look coordinated, however I can catch and throw, and I self taught myself to juggle. Imagine the self confidence someone will have taking a cruise on the ocean, if they never were taught how to swim? We shouldn't allow are kids to be denied open spaces to play, and dedicated kind teachers to show them how if they have trouble.
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Oh my goodness, I'm clumsy at spelling! My reasoning isn't though.
And your second "point" shows you how much you know about what you are talking about. Dyslexics CAN be helped by proper training.
Unless you have a balance/motor control disability, or are BLIND, you CAN and will benefit from sports and some training. Side effects like not getting picked first, and having the ball thrown at your head just mean you are playing with the wrong people.
Heck, even blind people can play sports like golf, and they do benefit from it in the form of exercise and having something else they can be proud of. And even people with motor disabilities need training/therapy so they can learn to move even with their defective body parts.
Notice how I critized ORGANIZED sports, and a lack of proper athletic training? People get all worked up over stuff that is supposed to be fun and healthy because some kids [parents] can't play nice [fair].
Sports are important. They just aren't as important as jocks and soccer moms like to think they are. People who play sports have a lot of fun, and have better opportunities for picking up very attractive members of the opposite sex. I think a loser is someone who wastes their athletic ability by smoking, or refusing to participate.
Coordination can be learned. If someone is too clumbsy to catch or throw properly, someone else didn't teach them properly. Some parts of throwing are instinctual, but not all of them.
Part of the problem is that city life doesn't lend itself naturally to sports. The places to play are crowded, and when you want to use the basketball court, you have to either be bigger than the people currently using it, or wait on the sidelines doing something else. Organized sports are an unnatural event. People should be able to just go outside with their buddies when ever the weather allows, and start playing.
I don't know of anyone using homebrew penicilin to cure their staph, you just waltz over to the doctor then pharmacy.
The problem isn't that the drug is well known, it is that people are stupid. They don't finish their dosage, and most people don't know that antibiotics have no effect on viruses. If we ever want to eliminate a bacteria, we'll have to come up with an effective drug that works in hours, or quarantine infected people by force until they are better.
Exactly. I like the text startup too. I don't like waiting for 256 million bytes to count, but I can always skip that.
You can really tell the difference between a piece of junk HP, and a generic MoBo when you fire a machine up. With an HP, they don't even trust a user to not press F10 to enter setup, so they don't tell the user how to access it. GRRRR!
The new feature of giving the system's vital statistics is cool too. You can see if your fans are running, and your system temperature after rebooting, just before the OS starts to load.
You are confusing a lack of a good BIOS-menu interface, with the lack of a Basic Input-Output System. No computer as of yet can get by without something to control the input an output from and to the user. Otherwise you have a box that you can't give work to, and can't get the answer from.
"After a few minutes we noticed toxic smoke rising from the furnace vent and decided to take a look inside. We realized we should have removed the PCBs from the drives first... oh well:"
What is more unhealthy? Volcanic gas, or melting hydrocarbons with aluminum? I can't decide.
CBC has a story about poachers who got nailed by the Mounties for using eBay as a fence. I guess you can't sell "anything" on eBay. At least you can't get away with it.
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From what I've learned in Astronomy recently, it sounds like there is a good possibility that some solar bound object disturbs the Earth's Oort cloud every few million years. Many astroids may have impacted in the final years of the dinosaurs, not just one killer as the experts at Hollywood would have us understand things.
That's right, Bob had a show called Wonder Struck, and it was incredibly entertaining as a kid. It was better than some cartoons.
If by "every loonie" you mean at most 35%, then you are bang on.
Think of all the Moon landing hoax sites claiming they are fact.
The blessing is smart people will keep looking for answers even after they've found an "answer" they were looking for.
http://www.badastronomy.com/
I beg to differ. David Suzuki and Bob McDonald are foremost science journalists in Canada who have national television and radio programs. Many children grow up with science being in the main stream Canadian media. The US may lack a strong voice, but they could certainly listen to ours [if they are willing to put up with that wacky SI].
CBC does entertaining science programing every weekend and week. The Nature of Things is a very good program hosted by David Suzuki who is always provocative. Bob McDonald of Quirks and Quarks on the radio give up-to-the-week science news that is very informative and interesting.
It just takes the right person, and the right subject. Not all science is for everyone. Space people might not care for the science of bugs for instance.
The really annoying part about this stuff is that kids who can file with their parents taxes according to the software, but don't have access to the same computer, can't share the software within the family anymore. I suppose this is what the software company is going for. It must be nice to have a monoply.
Sorry, on second though, I think it was a 6" Newtonian telescope with a R.A. auto tracking motor. It was possibly a 12mm eyepiece, and the camera is a Canon Powershot S30 with 3X zoom and held against the eyepiece as steady as I could.
I wonder how my post could be construed as "flaimbait"? Slightly offtopic, I conceed, but people interested in Jupiter news might like to see how it looked just last Thursday. You never know when it will just pack up and leave with all it's moons in tow.
I think I need a better telescope...
Jupiter through a 3" telescope.
This must be a Washington - Oregon rivalry, that is manifesting itself at the legislative level.
That is a fancy way of saying "Screw you Bill Gates, and your f'ing Seatle company".
Exactly. People learn how NOT to be geeky - in the awkward movement sense. From watching me play baseball, someone might say I don't look coordinated, however I can catch and throw, and I self taught myself to juggle. Imagine the self confidence someone will have taking a cruise on the ocean, if they never were taught how to swim? We shouldn't allow are kids to be denied open spaces to play, and dedicated kind teachers to show them how if they have trouble.
Oh my goodness, I'm clumsy at spelling! My reasoning isn't though.
And your second "point" shows you how much you know about what you are talking about. Dyslexics CAN be helped by proper training.
Unless you have a balance/motor control disability, or are BLIND, you CAN and will benefit from sports and some training. Side effects like not getting picked first, and having the ball thrown at your head just mean you are playing with the wrong people.
Heck, even blind people can play sports like golf, and they do benefit from it in the form of exercise and having something else they can be proud of. And even people with motor disabilities need training/therapy so they can learn to move even with their defective body parts.
You are right on all accounts.
Notice how I critized ORGANIZED sports, and a lack of proper athletic training? People get all worked up over stuff that is supposed to be fun and healthy because some kids [parents] can't play nice [fair].
Sports are important. They just aren't as important as jocks and soccer moms like to think they are. People who play sports have a lot of fun, and have better opportunities for picking up very attractive members of the opposite sex. I think a loser is someone who wastes their athletic ability by smoking, or refusing to participate.
Coordination can be learned. If someone is too clumbsy to catch or throw properly, someone else didn't teach them properly. Some parts of throwing are instinctual, but not all of them.
Part of the problem is that city life doesn't lend itself naturally to sports. The places to play are crowded, and when you want to use the basketball court, you have to either be bigger than the people currently using it, or wait on the sidelines doing something else. Organized sports are an unnatural event. People should be able to just go outside with their buddies when ever the weather allows, and start playing.
I don't know of anyone using homebrew penicilin to cure their staph, you just waltz over to the doctor then pharmacy.
The problem isn't that the drug is well known, it is that people are stupid. They don't finish their dosage, and most people don't know that antibiotics have no effect on viruses. If we ever want to eliminate a bacteria, we'll have to come up with an effective drug that works in hours, or quarantine infected people by force until they are better.
Isn't that just transferring the job of the BIOS to an external BIOS instead then?
Something has to go between the hardware and the software.
Exactly. I like the text startup too. I don't like waiting for 256 million bytes to count, but I can always skip that.
You can really tell the difference between a piece of junk HP, and a generic MoBo when you fire a machine up. With an HP, they don't even trust a user to not press F10 to enter setup, so they don't tell the user how to access it. GRRRR!
The new feature of giving the system's vital statistics is cool too. You can see if your fans are running, and your system temperature after rebooting, just before the OS starts to load.
You are confusing a lack of a good BIOS-menu interface, with the lack of a Basic Input-Output System. No computer as of yet can get by without something to control the input an output from and to the user. Otherwise you have a box that you can't give work to, and can't get the answer from.
But, if I snort up the left nostril, does that correspond to the RIGHT side of my brain? This method is so confusing.
I think they made an idiot proof way to erase a drive, but a better idiot will always find a way...
"After a few minutes we noticed toxic smoke rising from the furnace vent and decided to take a look inside.
We realized we should have removed the PCBs from the drives first... oh well:"
What is more unhealthy? Volcanic gas, or melting hydrocarbons with aluminum? I can't decide.
CBC has a story about poachers who got nailed by the Mounties for using eBay as a fence. I guess you can't sell "anything" on eBay. At least you can't get away with it.
Try looking up a German eBayer's info, and you'll hit a brick wall. I wonder if eBay can play so fast and loose with the law there?
Actually, you are all wrong. In Canada, most people use QUICK Tax. So the boot sector writes to Intuit QUICK Tax, eh?
Girls can be geeks too. Why aren't we as concerned about them having the chance to find the right GUY?
"Diplomacy would have played as significant a role as the player's tactical abilities."
I'll be undiplomatic, and say that Bush would not like this game.