I think they only do it when in dire need of your coordinates (like when you call 911). Otherwise, it's probably a waste of resources (computing power/network data). After all, how much does the cell phone cost? free w/signing your soul away for 2 years right?
Water coming into the house is on the order of 99.9-99.99% disinfected (ideally). Yes, it is not purely clean. Using this for formula and serving it to the child immediately is alright because it doesn't allow time for the bacteria to grow.
Now, if you make a batch of formula and let it sit around (esp at room temp) for a few hours/days. This has the potential for oodles of bacteria to grow in the nutrient rich solution. The advice of boiling/distilled is given with the assumption that either method effectively kills/removes enough bacteria that any remaining bacteria do not grow to any significant number. You ask how can distilled water be contaminated with bacteria? simple. If the equipment used to distill and bottle the water is not properly cleaned/maintained, you didn't sufficiently boil (yes full rolling boil not a few bubbles coming up, or the container used to make/hold formula was contaminated.
In the US, it's mainly a subsidized market where part of your bill goes to paying for the free/discounted phone. In order to keep you from signing up for a phone and immediately dumping the carrier, they lock the phones. (it's also to their benefit if you switch cause then they tell you to buy a new phone). However, it is my understanding that tmobile/cingular will give you unlock codes if you call up after ~3 months on the contract.
As for me, I've either purchased an unlocked phone (I used to work for a phone mfr), or get a nokia and generate my own unlock code.
Note: If your contract is up and you plan on keeping your phone for another year or 2, it's probably in your best interest to renew the contract and get a "free phone" out of it. hey, you're paying for it having the free phone or not. Grump
Don't higher end TVs have "integrated digital cable tuners" where you put a card in and be able to receive the digital channels? From my understanding, the only thing you'd be missing is the "special" services from your cable provider, mainly guide information.
You need more of 3 things. 1. Funding to buy letters. 2. A better lesson plan so you can aim for something higher than a class of C students. 3. A tech savvy room of students.
1. For a class of 30, I would suggest 10 As, 20 Bs, 10 Cs, 5 Ds and 2 Fs. Yes, it doesn't add up to 30, but you should give mostly As and Bs, a couple Cs for those seniors who just want something, anything to take and pass while they transition from HS to college, and the D/Fs are for those who are truly slackers and just don't even give you the half effort.
2. Sorry, I hate to shoot down others, but you seriously want a class of C students? I'm sure administration wouldn't be too happy with that.
3. I hate to lay it to you, but I've seen average college students have a hard time dealing with scripting, and teaching programming is thinking differently to a higher level. You said you want to teach a few motivated students, yet you need to be open to everyone who enrolls. I would suggest you have lower and upper level classes. Lower level will teach the basics of how a computer thinks, and how to write a basic program. Those in the upper level, is more independent study and you're there as their troubleshooter, adviser, and teacher for when they need new concepts and get stuck. And while you're at it, make writing a short paper (maybe 300-1000 words) on the project they did. It's good for them to learn documentation, communication and know you're boss.
Ok, 1 and 2 were a joke, but 3 was serious. If anyone is upset, laugh. it's meant to enlighten your day. god its 3am, and i have a final in 5 hours and i'm only 50% prepared.
Nah, its not $10,000, just 250 for each garage door affected.
David McGuire, whose Overhead Door Co. received more than 400 calls for help, said the Air Force may be able to slightly adjust the transmission frequency to solve the problem. If not, it will cost homeowners about $250 to have new units installed.
does that figure include the aggravation suffered when you wait at the baggage claim for a half hour after everyone has left and your bad hasn't shown up yet?
It happened to me once. I then filed a claim for missing luggage, and they called me 2 hours later saying it went on the wrong flight and to come pick it up (or they could deliver it the next day).
Hang the bastard, hang him well. Send his sorry soul to hell. When his neckbone snaps we'll know. When the cannibal won't be killing anymore.
His face will turn red, Then purple, then blue. We'll watch from up here To get a good view. And when his eyes bug out we'll know, It's the end of him And the end of the show!
So hang the bastard, hang him with cheer. We'll make some hot dogs And drink a few beers. And when his tongue rolls out we'll know, It's the end of the show And we all can go home!
But not till we hang the bastard, hang him here. The most exciting thing this town has seen in years. When his body stops jerking we'll know, It's the end of him, it's the end of him, It's the end of him, And the end of the show. Full Lyrics
About a year...year and a half ago, I found a Canadian site and watched 2 TV shows. The first one was "Trailer Park Boys" and the 2nd one was "Puppets Who Kill".
First with TPB. This show is rediculous. It's full of drug use, guns, dysfunctional families, and pleanty of swearing. Well, to say the least it's one of those things you see and think "What the @#$% is this?" But you keep watching it, and you start to understand it and become a fan. Yes, I'll proudly declare that I've seen EVERY single episode of this show because of it's pure brillance. BBC America used to carry this show, but I hear it's censored to death. Anyway, TPB has gone from a cult TV show to a full length film that made an estimated $1.3 million at the box office in its opening weekend becoming the 11th top grossing film in North America. Too bad the movie wasn't released down here and I don't have the time/money to drive to Canadia to see the movie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_Park_Boys
Secondly with PWK. Simply put, it's a show my ex-roomate Will hates. He says puppets scare him. It's a show about a social worker who is unable to reform his killing puppets. What I really like about PWK is that the show is done with puppeters hiding under view of the camera, and it leads to some interesting camerawork/puppetery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppets_Who_Kill
So, what am I getting to with this rant? If it wasn't for google video, you tube...no the Interweb in general, I wouldn't have been exposed to such wonderful Canadian stuff, and I wouldn't have spent about $200 Canadian last summer importing DVDs of these two shows.
So media companies, You win some, you lose some. You made a customer here who went through all the truoble to import hundreds of dollars worth of DVDs. If you're stupid enough to do away with such wonderful content, well you just lost your international market who is WILLING to deal with placing an order with a company in a foriegn country, customs and extraordinary shipping rates and transit times just to show appreciation for the shows.
Good info on C2H6S! I took organic chemistry over the summer and I remember the professor takling about -SH and gas lines and whatnot. It was a 3 week class, I didn't really pick up much, sadly.
Anyway, the only reason I remember -SH is because the prof told a story of his former boss terrorising a K-Mart with it over a bad microwave they wouldn't take back. The store thought they had a gas leak and the fire dept was out there and everything.
That's right. When I read the headline I thought "natural gas" as being a naturally occuring hydrocarbon, the stuff you burn for hot water, stove, central heat.
But maybe the orig poster thought hydrogen sulfide is considered part of "natural gas" because it is added into the gas line so that if there is a gas leak, you can smell it and get the hell out of there.
Actually it's already in use, but instead of putting the trigger on a hot water pot, it's put on the refrigerator in reitrement castles.
The idea is that when you get up in the morning, you'll go to the fridge for food. If nobody opens the fridge beyond a certain time, then an alert goes off so somoene checks on the resident.
I took an environmental law class once, and the guy who taught it used to work county health or something.
In California, there are a few ways of determining if somethning is toxic, and one of the ways is to put the suspected agent into a fish tank with an "indicator species" of fish and wait a few days to see if the fish live or die. If the fish die, then the suspected agent is thus toxic.
Well, one time he was infront of a judge explaining the test, and presenting that the fish died. The judge then asked if the were any of these fish wild in the county. No, there are none of these fish wild in the county. Then why do we care about this test then?
Well, some people just don't understand the importance of indicator species.
The problem is that the system is moving away from graders and TAs and more towards automated grading. The problem is that you take the personal aspect out of education, and are subsituting the TA/grader for a computer program. This takes away insightful comments that a TA/grader would give.
If you get a problem wrong, you get it wrong. If it's a complex problem involving many steps (such as in physics), you could get the first half right, but the second half wrong. If you were to turn this into a TA, the TA would be able to mark the paper saying you are good here and this is where you fell apart. With an automated grading system, however, wrong is wrong. It becomes frustrating to the student to understand where they went wrong. As a way to alleviate such frustration, many turn to cheating with solution manuals and simply plug in the answers from the solution manual so they can get a high score on the homework.
And even worse, I have a friend who recenetly graduated from another university, and he said they used another automated homework system there. He said that there was a program floating around that would take your homework, and automatically solve the problems and fill in the solutions for you. Taking out the hassle of looking up the problem in the solution manual.
As for scantron tests, still feel it is an approiate format to test studens in when the class size is large and the question pool is diverse enough. Granted due dilligence is taken so that students don't cheat during the test.
Actually, I'm looking at the site on archive.org and this guy is greasier than you portray, IMHO.
Firstly, he has the disclaimer at the bottom of the home page: This service is designed for current legal owners of the software listed at this site.
Then if you move away from the home page, you get a different note: iBackups.net uses the latest secure 128 bit encryption when placing all orders so you may consider your order process secure and as safe as it can be! (because nobody ever reads the home page in deatail. you're busy looking for what you want!)
A typical sale is for a file download, and for an extra 20 bucks you get a CD in the mail.
Lastly, there is pressure for you to buy ASAP and not research the matter any further wth: Special Offer: Save BIG when you purchase from our site within 10 minutes of your first visit!
The following is from his about us page (FAQ)
We offer a service for our software titles that NO ONE else offers and that is instant downloads on ALL of our software!
We give you the option to have a disc included in your order!
The download servers we use are TOP OF THE LINE! A lot of companies will use cheap servers to save money, we use Dell Dual XEON servers connected DIRECTLY to the Internet backbone. Not once have we capped on our bandwidth, this means you can download as fast as your ISP allows you to!
We guarantee that you will not find a cheaper price on the software titles at our site! If you do, we will beat that price, or refund you the difference within 30 days of your purchase so there is absolutely NO WAY you can go wrong with us
In the article: About 80,000 pounds of steam per day will be sold to a neighboring Tropicana Products Inc. facility to power the juice plant's turbines.
Or when I lived at home with my parents, groceries weren't something I would buy. So when I did go to the store, it would be for something my parents don't pick up such as chips, soda, cheese, butter, canned foods. you know, the stuff that the insurance company would "die" over if they ever got a hold of my "prefered club shopper" records.
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I think they only do it when in dire need of your coordinates (like when you call 911). Otherwise, it's probably a waste of resources (computing power/network data). After all, how much does the cell phone cost? free w/signing your soul away for 2 years right?
Grump.
Water coming into the house is on the order of 99.9-99.99% disinfected (ideally). Yes, it is not purely clean. Using this for formula and serving it to the child immediately is alright because it doesn't allow time for the bacteria to grow.
Now, if you make a batch of formula and let it sit around (esp at room temp) for a few hours/days. This has the potential for oodles of bacteria to grow in the nutrient rich solution. The advice of boiling/distilled is given with the assumption that either method effectively kills/removes enough bacteria that any remaining bacteria do not grow to any significant number. You ask how can distilled water be contaminated with bacteria? simple. If the equipment used to distill and bottle the water is not properly cleaned/maintained, you didn't sufficiently boil (yes full rolling boil not a few bubbles coming up, or the container used to make/hold formula was contaminated.
Grump
dahaha my dyslexia tricked me again!
In the US, it's mainly a subsidized market where part of your bill goes to paying for the free/discounted phone. In order to keep you from signing up for a phone and immediately dumping the carrier, they lock the phones. (it's also to their benefit if you switch cause then they tell you to buy a new phone). However, it is my understanding that tmobile/cingular will give you unlock codes if you call up after ~3 months on the contract.
As for me, I've either purchased an unlocked phone (I used to work for a phone mfr), or get a nokia and generate my own unlock code.
Note: If your contract is up and you plan on keeping your phone for another year or 2, it's probably in your best interest to renew the contract and get a "free phone" out of it. hey, you're paying for it having the free phone or not.
Grump
Don't higher end TVs have "integrated digital cable tuners" where you put a card in and be able to receive the digital channels? From my understanding, the only thing you'd be missing is the "special" services from your cable provider, mainly guide information.
i on-Television/dp/B000A2K3XW
Like this tv:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-KDFE42A10-Rear-Project
Grump.
When I take my foot off, it slows the car to a halt. Just kidding, cruise control gets around the situation.
Grump
Dang, I thought you meant http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094834/
Well, still 8 years newer than the file in question.
intwesting. if i had mod points still (i think expired 2 or 3 days ago) I'd mod you up. That, and cause you're such a cutie pi.
You need more of 3 things.
1. Funding to buy letters.
2. A better lesson plan so you can aim for something higher than a class of C students.
3. A tech savvy room of students.
1. For a class of 30, I would suggest 10 As, 20 Bs, 10 Cs, 5 Ds and 2 Fs. Yes, it doesn't add up to 30, but you should give mostly As and Bs, a couple Cs for those seniors who just want something, anything to take and pass while they transition from HS to college, and the D/Fs are for those who are truly slackers and just don't even give you the half effort.
2. Sorry, I hate to shoot down others, but you seriously want a class of C students? I'm sure administration wouldn't be too happy with that.
3. I hate to lay it to you, but I've seen average college students have a hard time dealing with scripting, and teaching programming is thinking differently to a higher level. You said you want to teach a few motivated students, yet you need to be open to everyone who enrolls. I would suggest you have lower and upper level classes. Lower level will teach the basics of how a computer thinks, and how to write a basic program. Those in the upper level, is more independent study and you're there as their troubleshooter, adviser, and teacher for when they need new concepts and get stuck. And while you're at it, make writing a short paper (maybe 300-1000 words) on the project they did. It's good for them to learn documentation, communication and know you're boss.
Ok, 1 and 2 were a joke, but 3 was serious. If anyone is upset, laugh. it's meant to enlighten your day. god its 3am, and i have a final in 5 hours and i'm only 50% prepared.
Grump.
Nah, its not $10,000, just 250 for each garage door affected.
David McGuire, whose Overhead Door Co. received more than 400 calls for help, said the Air Force may be able to slightly adjust the transmission frequency to solve the problem. If not, it will cost homeowners about $250 to have new units installed.
does that figure include the aggravation suffered when you wait at the baggage claim for a half hour after everyone has left and your bad hasn't shown up yet?
It happened to me once. I then filed a claim for missing luggage, and they called me 2 hours later saying it went on the wrong flight and to come pick it up (or they could deliver it the next day).
Grumpy
From Cannibal the Musical - Hang the Bastard
Hang the bastard, hang him high.
Hoist his body to the sky.
It's as nice as a day can be.
Won't you come to the hanging with me?
Hang the bastard, hang him well.
Send his sorry soul to hell.
When his neckbone snaps we'll know.
When the cannibal won't be killing anymore.
His face will turn red,
Then purple, then blue.
We'll watch from up here
To get a good view.
And when his eyes bug out we'll know,
It's the end of him
And the end of the show!
So hang the bastard, hang him with cheer.
We'll make some hot dogs
And drink a few beers.
And when his tongue rolls out we'll know,
It's the end of the show
And we all can go home!
But not till we hang the bastard, hang him here.
The most exciting thing this town has seen in years.
When his body stops jerking we'll know,
It's the end of him, it's the end of him,
It's the end of him,
And the end of the show.
Full Lyrics
I completely agree with you.
About a year...year and a half ago, I found a Canadian site and watched 2 TV shows. The first one was "Trailer Park Boys" and the 2nd one was "Puppets Who Kill".
First with TPB. This show is rediculous. It's full of drug use, guns, dysfunctional families, and pleanty of swearing. Well, to say the least it's one of those things you see and think "What the @#$% is this?" But you keep watching it, and you start to understand it and become a fan. Yes, I'll proudly declare that I've seen EVERY single episode of this show because of it's pure brillance. BBC America used to carry this show, but I hear it's censored to death. Anyway, TPB has gone from a cult TV show to a full length film that made an estimated $1.3 million at the box office in its opening weekend becoming the 11th top grossing film in North America. Too bad the movie wasn't released down here and I don't have the time/money to drive to Canadia to see the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_Park_Boys
Secondly with PWK. Simply put, it's a show my ex-roomate Will hates. He says puppets scare him. It's a show about a social worker who is unable to reform his killing puppets. What I really like about PWK is that the show is done with puppeters hiding under view of the camera, and it leads to some interesting camerawork/puppetery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppets_Who_Kill
So, what am I getting to with this rant? If it wasn't for google video, you tube...no the Interweb in general, I wouldn't have been exposed to such wonderful Canadian stuff, and I wouldn't have spent about $200 Canadian last summer importing DVDs of these two shows.
So media companies, You win some, you lose some. You made a customer here who went through all the truoble to import hundreds of dollars worth of DVDs.
If you're stupid enough to do away with such wonderful content, well you just lost your international market who is WILLING to deal with placing an order with a company in a foriegn country, customs and extraordinary shipping rates and transit times just to show appreciation for the shows.
Grump
Good info on C2H6S! I took organic chemistry over the summer and I remember the professor takling about -SH and gas lines and whatnot. It was a 3 week class, I didn't really pick up much, sadly.
Anyway, the only reason I remember -SH is because the prof told a story of his former boss terrorising a K-Mart with it over a bad microwave they wouldn't take back. The store thought they had a gas leak and the fire dept was out there and everything.
Mod this up!
That's right. When I read the headline I thought "natural gas" as being a naturally occuring hydrocarbon, the stuff you burn for hot water, stove, central heat.
But maybe the orig poster thought hydrogen sulfide is considered part of "natural gas" because it is added into the gas line so that if there is a gas leak, you can smell it and get the hell out of there.
Grump.
And in windows, you can download a shareware ver of BatteryMon at http://www.passmark.com/products/batmon.htm
No relation, but I did find the utility helpful.
Grump.
Wait, I'm confused.
My SSN is 078-05-1120 but I don't see it on the list. Help!
Grump
you use the freezer, i'll be having kids instead.
Actually it's already in use, but instead of putting the trigger on a hot water pot, it's put on the refrigerator in reitrement castles.
The idea is that when you get up in the morning, you'll go to the fridge for food. If nobody opens the fridge beyond a certain time, then an alert goes off so somoene checks on the resident.
Slightly off topic, but a related story.
I took an environmental law class once, and the guy who taught it used to work county health or something.
In California, there are a few ways of determining if somethning is toxic, and one of the ways is to put the suspected agent into a fish tank with an "indicator species" of fish and wait a few days to see if the fish live or die. If the fish die, then the suspected agent is thus toxic.
Well, one time he was infront of a judge explaining the test, and presenting that the fish died.
The judge then asked if the were any of these fish wild in the county.
No, there are none of these fish wild in the county.
Then why do we care about this test then?
Well, some people just don't understand the importance of indicator species.
Grump
The problem is that the system is moving away from graders and TAs and more towards automated grading. The problem is that you take the personal aspect out of education, and are subsituting the TA/grader for a computer program. This takes away insightful comments that a TA/grader would give.
If you get a problem wrong, you get it wrong. If it's a complex problem involving many steps (such as in physics), you could get the first half right, but the second half wrong. If you were to turn this into a TA, the TA would be able to mark the paper saying you are good here and this is where you fell apart. With an automated grading system, however, wrong is wrong. It becomes frustrating to the student to understand where they went wrong. As a way to alleviate such frustration, many turn to cheating with solution manuals and simply plug in the answers from the solution manual so they can get a high score on the homework.
And even worse, I have a friend who recenetly graduated from another university, and he said they used another automated homework system there. He said that there was a program floating around that would take your homework, and automatically solve the problems and fill in the solutions for you. Taking out the hassle of looking up the problem in the solution manual.
As for scantron tests, still feel it is an approiate format to test studens in when the class size is large and the question pool is diverse enough. Granted due dilligence is taken so that students don't cheat during the test.
Grump
Actually, I'm looking at the site on archive.org and this guy is greasier than you portray, IMHO.
Firstly, he has the disclaimer at the bottom of the home page:
This service is designed for current legal owners of the software listed at this site.
Then if you move away from the home page, you get a different note:
iBackups.net uses the latest secure 128 bit encryption when placing all orders so you may consider your order process secure and as safe as it can be!
(because nobody ever reads the home page in deatail. you're busy looking for what you want!)
A typical sale is for a file download, and for an extra 20 bucks you get a CD in the mail.
Lastly, there is pressure for you to buy ASAP and not research the matter any further wth:
Special Offer: Save BIG when you purchase from our site within 10 minutes of your first visit!
Grump.
This is from june 15 2004 http://web.archive.org/web/*/ibackups.net
The following is from his about us page (FAQ)
We offer a service for our software titles that NO ONE else offers and that is instant downloads on ALL of our software!
We give you the option to have a disc included in your order!
The download servers we use are TOP OF THE LINE! A lot of companies will use cheap servers to save money, we use Dell Dual XEON servers connected DIRECTLY to the Internet backbone. Not once have we capped on our bandwidth, this means you can download as fast as your ISP allows you to!
We guarantee that you will not find a cheaper price on the software titles at our site! If you do, we will beat that price, or refund you the difference within 30 days of your purchase so there is absolutely NO WAY you can go wrong with us
In the article:
About 80,000 pounds of steam per day will be sold to a neighboring Tropicana Products Inc. facility to power the juice plant's turbines.
Grump
Or when I lived at home with my parents, groceries weren't something I would buy. So when I did go to the store, it would be for something my parents don't pick up such as chips, soda, cheese, butter, canned foods. you know, the stuff that the insurance company would "die" over if they ever got a hold of my "prefered club shopper" records.