Sometimes you see or read something that you just know will be the weirdest thing that you see all day. The mention of Enders Game and Pornography in the same sentence did this for me today. I'm having flashbacks to my c1970 ninth grade science teacher dismissing Life Magazine as pornography. I suspect this is a tactic used by religious kooks to suppress anything they don't understand. Since they understand almost nothing the rest of the world becomes a pornocopia.
My 1954 Americana has about an inch and half on Nazism that is similar to the Britannica entry. It does note Adolph Hitlers election as Chancellor in 1933 and states that the Nazi's "pseudo scientific racial theories were original." The entry concludes with referrals to German History (Which I have not had time to read) and to National Socialism (Nazi) Germany which is less than a quarter page in length.
I like your theory of neglect over revision. After the war nobody wanted to invest time in a scholarly essay on the Nazi Party.
Thank you for taking the time to look up the items in this experiment. My point was that each edition reflects the technology and editing bias of the era in which it was printed. The lead time required to edit, proofread, typeset and print each edition was probably close to three years. I doubt that Britannica worked on the encyclopedia much during the war so your 1946 edition was probably a reprint of an earlier edition with minor edits. I performed the same exercise a few years ago on a 1954 Americana. I'll repeat and post a summary sometime later this evening. II can state that there is no entry for Transistor.
Find some old encyclopedias, A set from each of the following years: 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960 and so on
Look up the following in each set:
Israel
Communist
Transistor
Ku Klux Klan
Nazi
Steel
It's been a very long time but I remember enjoying everything of hers that I read.
Ann Maxwell:
Timeshadow Rider —1986 Dancer's Illusion —1983 Dancer's Luck —1983 Fire Dancer —1982 The Jaws Of Menx —1981 A Dead God Dancing —1979 Name Of A Shadow —1978 The Singer Enigma —1976 Change —1975
Marion Zimmer Bradley - I never got into the Darkover series but enjoyed a lot of her other works. Some highlights Hunters of the Red Moon (1973) - This would make an epic movie. A CGI enhanced remake of The Most Dangerous Game The Survivors (1979) The Brass Dragon (1970)
Roger Zelazny - Most everything he wrote on his own plus a few of the collaborations. The following is a short list of stories I remember fondly not counting the Amber. This Immortal (1966) Lord of Light (1967) Jack of Shadows (1971) Roadmarks (1979) The Changing Land (1981) Dilvish, the Damned (1982) Eye of Cat (1982)
Edgar Allen Poe The Fall of the House of Usher The Pit and the Pendulum
Streisand Effect. It is very disturbing to read that anyone seeking to take pictures of an abandoned or unused subway stations are subject to any sort of "Anti social" order. Taking pictures of a disused public conveyance is hardly "antisocial." Given the violent tendencies of yobs and chavs I've read about elsewhere; law enforcement in this jurisdiction has better things to do with their time. BTW Did they ever let Tony Martin out of jail or is he still a danger to burglars?
Catalytic converters are supposed to oxidize the unburned hydrocarbons and convert them to carbon dioxide and water. If gas engines are putting out twice as much carbon as previously thought then the engineering and laboratory testing of the converters is called into question. Three way converters have been around for years and are a robust technology for which the patents have lapsed. Is it possible that someone is stirring up shit because they have a new patented emissions control technology? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zH22Qpe2GA gives a general overview of how a catalytic converter works.
All three fatal accidents were predicted and avoidable:
Apollo I - Vendor told not to raise issue of pure oxygen design again.
Challenger - O-ring leakage documented on previous cold launches.
Columbia - Damage from ice at launch previously observed. The roots of these failures can be traced to the autocratic management culture established by Kris Kraft in the early years of NASA. Such management devolves into a culture that punishes dissent and sets the organization up for another fatal accident.
Back in the mid nineties I had to deal with clueless users installing various crapletts on their systems. Screen savers, animated icons, animated cursors and games mostly downloaded from BBS's, AOL, Prodigy, Delphi etc. As soon as you cleaned up one outbreak there was another. Of course upper management was silent on the matter of installing the crapletts. Here we are fifteen years later and it's the same song. I'm sure the IT departments want to clean this up but upper management isn't providing the necessary support.
I wouldn't use "bad" to describe Outlook, yes it could be better and it is overly complicated for the vast majority of the userbase. It is important to remember that Outlook is more than just an email client. Outlook is firmly anchored in the corporate world by the integrated calendar and automatic reminder notifications. Add integration with Office Communicator and you have tools that provide email, meeting scheduling, instant messaging, voice chat and even desktop sharing. I don't see Libre Office or Open Office doing that anytime soon.
I shot many rolls of Kodachrome but was turned off by the processing and long turnaround after shooting some Fuji Crayola-chrome. It was faster than Kodachrome, processing was cheaper and faster. A friend of mine always resented not being able to get Kodachrome in 120 or 220 format. By the time it was offered he was married with children and his photography days were mostly behind him except for birthday and holiday parties. Kodak failed to adapt to the digital revolution in photography in the way that Minolta, Nikon and Canon did and the marketplace has made its choice.
A new strain of the Sykipot Trojan is been used to compromise the Department of Defense-sanctioned smart cards used to authorise network and building access at many US government agencies, according to security researchers....
Chinese hackers have adapted the Sykipot Trojan to lift card credentials from compromised systems in order to access classified military networks, according to researchers at security tools firm AlienVault.
Calcium carbonate or limestone is a much larger carbon repository than fossil fuels. I am working from memory here but IIRC photosynthesis fixes atmospheric carbon dioxide by using sunlight to hydrolyze water. The reactions take the hydrogen from the water to create hydrocarbons and free oxygen. A significant volume of the carbon consumed goes into skeletons and shells. Vast quantities of marine life formed shells made of calcium carbonate which eventually sank to sea floor to become limestone.
Cyanobacteria changed the chemistry of the oceans as well. Before oxygen production the oceans contained large quantities of dissolved iron. When oxygen was produced the dissolved iron oxidized and precipitated out as rust. The banded iron formations are a relic of this epoch. It wasn't until the oceans reached equilibrium between oxygen and iron that surplus oxygen was released into the atmosphere.
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...And the head coach wants no sissies
:)
so he reads to us from something called Ulysses
Sometimes you see or read something that you just know will be the weirdest thing that you see all day. The mention of Enders Game and Pornography in the same sentence did this for me today. I'm having flashbacks to my c1970 ninth grade science teacher dismissing Life Magazine as pornography. I suspect this is a tactic used by religious kooks to suppress anything they don't understand. Since they understand almost nothing the rest of the world becomes a pornocopia.
My 1954 Americana has about an inch and half on Nazism that is similar to the Britannica entry. It does note Adolph Hitlers election as Chancellor in 1933 and states that the Nazi's "pseudo scientific racial theories were original." The entry concludes with referrals to German History (Which I have not had time to read) and to National Socialism (Nazi) Germany which is less than a quarter page in length.
I like your theory of neglect over revision. After the war nobody wanted to invest time in a scholarly essay on the Nazi Party.
Thank you for taking the time to look up the items in this experiment. My point was that each edition reflects the technology and editing bias of the era in which it was printed. The lead time required to edit, proofread, typeset and print each edition was probably close to three years. I doubt that Britannica worked on the encyclopedia much during the war so your 1946 edition was probably a reprint of an earlier edition with minor edits. I performed the same exercise a few years ago on a 1954 Americana. I'll repeat and post a summary sometime later this evening. II can state that there is no entry for Transistor.
Find some old encyclopedias, A set from each of the following years: 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960 and so on
Look up the following in each set:
Israel
Communist
Transistor
Ku Klux Klan
Nazi
Steel
It's been a very long time but I remember enjoying everything of hers that I read. Ann Maxwell: Timeshadow Rider —1986
Dancer's Illusion —1983
Dancer's Luck —1983
Fire Dancer —1982
The Jaws Of Menx —1981
A Dead God Dancing —1979
Name Of A Shadow —1978
The Singer Enigma —1976
Change —1975
Marion Zimmer Bradley - I never got into the Darkover series but enjoyed a lot of her other works. Some highlights
Hunters of the Red Moon (1973) - This would make an epic movie. A CGI enhanced remake of The Most Dangerous Game
The Survivors (1979)
The Brass Dragon (1970)
Roger Zelazny - Most everything he wrote on his own plus a few of the collaborations. The following is a short list of stories I remember fondly not counting the Amber.
This Immortal (1966)
Lord of Light (1967)
Jack of Shadows (1971)
Roadmarks (1979)
The Changing Land (1981)
Dilvish, the Damned (1982)
Eye of Cat (1982)
Edgar Allen Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
Streisand Effect.
It is very disturbing to read that anyone seeking to take pictures of an abandoned or unused subway stations are subject to any sort of "Anti social" order. Taking pictures of a disused public conveyance is hardly "antisocial." Given the violent tendencies of yobs and chavs I've read about elsewhere; law enforcement in this jurisdiction has better things to do with their time.
BTW Did they ever let Tony Martin out of jail or is he still a danger to burglars?
Catalytic converters are supposed to oxidize the unburned hydrocarbons and convert them to carbon dioxide and water. If gas engines are putting out twice as much carbon as previously thought then the engineering and laboratory testing of the converters is called into question. Three way converters have been around for years and are a robust technology for which the patents have lapsed. Is it possible that someone is stirring up shit because they have a new patented emissions control technology? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zH22Qpe2GA gives a general overview of how a catalytic converter works.
HP has produced memristors. Give the boffins a few more years and flash may be a fizzle.
All three fatal accidents were predicted and avoidable:
Apollo I - Vendor told not to raise issue of pure oxygen design again.
Challenger - O-ring leakage documented on previous cold launches.
Columbia - Damage from ice at launch previously observed.
The roots of these failures can be traced to the autocratic management culture established by Kris Kraft in the early years of NASA. Such management devolves into a culture that punishes dissent and sets the organization up for another fatal accident.
Back in the mid nineties I had to deal with clueless users installing various crapletts on their systems. Screen savers, animated icons, animated cursors and games mostly downloaded from BBS's, AOL, Prodigy, Delphi etc. As soon as you cleaned up one outbreak there was another. Of course upper management was silent on the matter of installing the crapletts. Here we are fifteen years later and it's the same song. I'm sure the IT departments want to clean this up but upper management isn't providing the necessary support.
I wouldn't use "bad" to describe Outlook, yes it could be better and it is overly complicated for the vast majority of the userbase. It is important to remember that Outlook is more than just an email client. Outlook is firmly anchored in the corporate world by the integrated calendar and automatic reminder notifications. Add integration with Office Communicator and you have tools that provide email, meeting scheduling, instant messaging, voice chat and even desktop sharing. I don't see Libre Office or Open Office doing that anytime soon.
It depends on what the meaning of is is. :)
No. That's Whole Foods. (But I shop there anyway)
http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm
I shot many rolls of Kodachrome but was turned off by the processing and long turnaround after shooting some Fuji Crayola-chrome. It was faster than Kodachrome, processing was cheaper and faster. A friend of mine always resented not being able to get Kodachrome in 120 or 220 format. By the time it was offered he was married with children and his photography days were mostly behind him except for birthday and holiday parties. Kodak failed to adapt to the digital revolution in photography in the way that Minolta, Nikon and Canon did and the marketplace has made its choice.
But without the laugh track the viewers wouldn't know when someone uttered a punchline.
They don't. As I understand this the trojan/malware compromises the PIN and then uses card/PIN for unauthorized access through additional malware. There's more here: http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/01/13/2216218/sykipot-trojan-variant-stealing-dod-smartcard-credentials
They will sue the Nevada State Bar Association.
A new strain of the Sykipot Trojan is been used to compromise the Department of Defense-sanctioned smart cards used to authorise network and building access at many US government agencies, according to security researchers. ...
Chinese hackers have adapted the Sykipot Trojan to lift card credentials from compromised systems in order to access classified military networks, according to researchers at security tools firm AlienVault.
Calcium carbonate or limestone is a much larger carbon repository than fossil fuels. I am working from memory here but IIRC photosynthesis fixes atmospheric carbon dioxide by using sunlight to hydrolyze water. The reactions take the hydrogen from the water to create hydrocarbons and free oxygen. A significant volume of the carbon consumed goes into skeletons and shells. Vast quantities of marine life formed shells made of calcium carbonate which eventually sank to sea floor to become limestone.
Cyanobacteria changed the chemistry of the oceans as well. Before oxygen production the oceans contained large quantities of dissolved iron. When oxygen was produced the dissolved iron oxidized and precipitated out as rust. The banded iron formations are a relic of this epoch. It wasn't until the oceans reached equilibrium between oxygen and iron that surplus oxygen was released into the atmosphere.
Maybe this is Comcast Engineers mooning the corporate overlords who support it.
I apologize. I meant to reply to the previous post.
Here's a place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA#Negative_impact_on_DNS.2C_DNSSEC_and_Internet_security It's Wikipedia so verify the cites