How does this work? I thought the chemicals were the same size H2O, just that there was more space between the molecules in water vapor. Is there water tension or some other force that stops the water molecules from separating in liquid and seeping through the fabric?
I have worn drysuits that are made of breathable fabric. While underwater they do not let any liquids inside (except for a tiny bit of occasional seeping at the wrist, ankle and neck gaskets) and yet as soon as I come to the surface the fabric starts to breathe. Since I am a sailor, not a diver, I spend most of my time above water so the breathability is key. I haven't taken the suit diving (nor would I since you need specially designed suits) as I am pretty sure the breathability doesn't help when underwater for a long time.
Any recommended links on how to get started making vegetarian indian food? I have a wok at home and anything that can be cooked in a single skillet, and tastes great is awesome. Even better is if there is not a lot of preparation - Tofu for example takes a bit of prep.
BTW, I am as far from a vegetarian as anyone gets. But I am willing to give it a try, especially if it is tasty, not too spicy, and maybe a little sweet. *slurp*
I grew up sailing in Fisher's Island Sound, off the coast of Connecticut. We sailed by North Dumpling hundreds of times over the years. At some point in the 80s we noticed a lot more activity on the island than we had seen before, and this must be the point that Dean bought it. Suddenly there was a nice helicopter atop the island, and a grey amphibious landing craft always on the beach. We *never* saw anyone outside, certainly not any hot young things sunning themselves on the upper deck... this guy is apparently not James Bond, despite his penchant for bondian-type toys.
Anyway, it is a very cool spread. Personally I think anyone that owns an island like that should be able to seceed from the union, providing he pays for the protection afforded by the Groton sub base and can afford the duties/tariffs on any exports from CT!:-)
In my local school district the numbering system is true through elementary school (6th grade, approximately 10 - 11 years old). At that point they switch over to the 'standard' U.S. A,B,C,D,F grading system.
Here's a newsflash, those navel oranges that taste so yummy? You can't grow a tree from them as they are sterile (I forget the actual term applied to fruit). So they've already taken that step. Now I don't know how they will do the EULA under the peel, but for now they probably just stick it on the box/bag/outside.:-)
*Seedless watermelon and grapes are the same... can't grow your own either. I am OK with that since I'll never do either.
I thought we learned over the past few years that gigahertz was no longer important. Can we switch to some other standard please? I am not sure FLOPS is any better, but Ghz clearly isn't it except to say 'ooooo, shiney, and faster than yours!'
How the heck is Houston going to help in the first 30 seconds anyway? Unless you have someone dressed in a space suit to immediately help, it is unlikely that voice instruction is going to do anything. Stuff tends to happen catastrophically, and those things that don't the space walker is well trained to handle.
It sounds plausible. No idea if it is true, but who on earth wants to hear the dying gurgle of a good friend?
I concur with this. I work for an 25k+ employee organization and it takes between 10 and 20 minutes to get to my email each morning. That is, I arrive at my desk at 7:10 every day and cannot start working until 7:20 - 7:30, depending on whether something is being installed. Unfortunately I cannot just turn on the machine and let it run, I have to turn it on, wait 2 minutes for the login prompt (Windows XP) and then set it on its merry way.
Shutdown isn't much better as the machine has proven unreliable. I hit shutdown and have to wait for poweroff before putting my laptop away. I leave at 4:25 but usually start the shutdown at 4:17. A few times I have been in a rush and just hit shutdown, closed the lid and threw it in a drawer only to come in the next morning to a machine that did self-shutdown at 3% battery.
So all in all I am spending a minimum of 17 minutes each day waiting for my computer. I am salaried, so get paid for this time, but I would expect any hourly employee to be paid also.
Obviously IQ is a broken measure of intelligence. You were just called on the carpet for not being able to accurately articulate a response in a typed forum, and you replied with an excuse, and an attack, and still made a ton of grammatical and spelling errors.
You may be one of the first non-English speakers I have met that didn't take pride in accurate spelling and grammar. If you are indeed a non-English speaker, I recommend you try composing your response in a offline tool, like OpenOffice or MS Word, checking the spelling and then posting.
IQ may be a measure of intelligence, but it sure isn't a measure of "smarts".
Do you have a citation or experience that shows how well water is "practically always more dangerous" than municipal water? In my response I indicated how our well water was tested against the municipal supply, and it tested with lower levels of contaminants (though higher in minerals).
The only "danger" I realistically see from well water, in the United States anyway, is the lack of fluoridation and the subsequent effect on children's teeth. I have more damage to my teeth from lack of fluoridation (despite brushing and flossing) while my wife has none of the same problems - she grew up in town with town water.
You need to consider well depth, not just horizontal distance. If you have a 300 foot well, then you could have a leeching field directly on top of your well head and still have purer water than many municipal water supplies.
With a properly designed and implemented leeching system, the water you get after traveling through several hundred feet of soil is about as pure as you are going to get. At least as far as viruses, bacteria and the things we typically worry about. I don't know about dissolved chemicals, but I will say the water we used to drink was from a well (in a large neighborhood filled with septic systems) tested as cleaner than the municipal supply. The only houses in town that ever had a problem were those that had shallow wells. Redrilling the well a little deeper solved the problem every time.
Furthermore, in a reservoir system most of the water is not coming from the recycled stuff feeding back through the creek, but is instead being replenished by rainwater. And then you have the fact that any stuff coming back through the creek is likely diluted tremendously into the larger reservoir.
I've never been able to figure it out, and in fact didn't know why he was famous until you mentioned broadcast.com (a place I have never been). Billions for that?
I only saw his reality show, and learned from that show that he owns a basketball team. Otherwise, you are right. Why should we care? He made billions, meanwhile his company (I believe acquired by Yahoo! since broadcast.com redirects there) no longer exists and the parent company is in financial trouble itself. Got out at the right time is an understatement!
It may be a moot point because radio controlled modelers are moving to spread spectrum radios nowadays anyway. However the point was that one set of technologies should not push out, inadvertently, into radio spectrum that was granted by the FCC to a specific, if shared, use. In this case, the needs of the "many" were trampling the needs of the relative few but without regard for existing rules granting the usage of the airspace. Imagine if BPL interfered with a 30 pound model, causing it to hit some children... whose responsiblity does it become?
Techdirt recently asked if we could finally declare BPL officially dead. I guess not!
There was great concern in the radio control modeling community about potential interference from BPL. In fact, a significant amount of fields are underneath or near these powerlines in the "wasted" space where no one wants to build houses. I recall in 2004 or so there being significant email/forum traffic, particularly from those clubs with sites very close to powerlines or from RC Glider pilots that fly long distances from view, toward the horizon, where planes are susceptible to inteference. It was predicted that there was plenty of potential for concern.
Apparently with the concept dying off, so did the concern from RC pilots. I found a post as recently as 2006 where there was found to be little cause for concern (gmarc.com) using a spread spectrum analyzer.
I play the guitar and he has expressed interest in learning that also... though only when I put it on full distortion and suggest he run the pick up and down the wound strings. Regardless, some of his interest in cool toys is a benefit to me - I get to look at the stuff that I want!
So, to that end, the link you shared is awesome. I just wasted 15 minutes looking through it, and it appears that building a few stompboxes may be in our future. Neither of us knows soldering or electronics that well, so it will be an interesting learning experience!
This is supposed to be a site for open source geeks and no one noticed!
I don't know about that. This is a gathering place for nerds, for sure. It just happens to attract the sort of nerds that know and appreciate open source. But in no way is this "supposed" to be a site for anything other than "News For Nerds".
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Maybe we could invent a drug that is safe, everyone could take, and would make everyone a little bit happy. I propose we call the drug 'SOMA'.
How does this work? I thought the chemicals were the same size H2O, just that there was more space between the molecules in water vapor. Is there water tension or some other force that stops the water molecules from separating in liquid and seeping through the fabric?
I have worn drysuits that are made of breathable fabric. While underwater they do not let any liquids inside (except for a tiny bit of occasional seeping at the wrist, ankle and neck gaskets) and yet as soon as I come to the surface the fabric starts to breathe. Since I am a sailor, not a diver, I spend most of my time above water so the breathability is key. I haven't taken the suit diving (nor would I since you need specially designed suits) as I am pretty sure the breathability doesn't help when underwater for a long time.
Any recommended links on how to get started making vegetarian indian food? I have a wok at home and anything that can be cooked in a single skillet, and tastes great is awesome. Even better is if there is not a lot of preparation - Tofu for example takes a bit of prep.
BTW, I am as far from a vegetarian as anyone gets. But I am willing to give it a try, especially if it is tasty, not too spicy, and maybe a little sweet. *slurp*
I grew up sailing in Fisher's Island Sound, off the coast of Connecticut. We sailed by North Dumpling hundreds of times over the years. At some point in the 80s we noticed a lot more activity on the island than we had seen before, and this must be the point that Dean bought it. Suddenly there was a nice helicopter atop the island, and a grey amphibious landing craft always on the beach. We *never* saw anyone outside, certainly not any hot young things sunning themselves on the upper deck... this guy is apparently not James Bond, despite his penchant for bondian-type toys.
Anyway, it is a very cool spread. Personally I think anyone that owns an island like that should be able to seceed from the union, providing he pays for the protection afforded by the Groton sub base and can afford the duties/tariffs on any exports from CT! :-)
In my local school district the numbering system is true through elementary school (6th grade, approximately 10 - 11 years old). At that point they switch over to the 'standard' U.S. A,B,C,D,F grading system.
Right, Facebook had more reliable pictures of college-age girls doing things for the camera.
I grok what you did there!
Here's a newsflash, those navel oranges that taste so yummy? You can't grow a tree from them as they are sterile (I forget the actual term applied to fruit). So they've already taken that step. Now I don't know how they will do the EULA under the peel, but for now they probably just stick it on the box/bag/outside. :-)
*Seedless watermelon and grapes are the same... can't grow your own either. I am OK with that since I'll never do either.
I thought we learned over the past few years that gigahertz was no longer important. Can we switch to some other standard please? I am not sure FLOPS is any better, but Ghz clearly isn't it except to say 'ooooo, shiney, and faster than yours!'
Actually video killed the radio star.
For those looking into the "GAP" accounting methods mentioned, it is actually GAAP - Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
How the heck is Houston going to help in the first 30 seconds anyway? Unless you have someone dressed in a space suit to immediately help, it is unlikely that voice instruction is going to do anything. Stuff tends to happen catastrophically, and those things that don't the space walker is well trained to handle.
It sounds plausible. No idea if it is true, but who on earth wants to hear the dying gurgle of a good friend?
I concur with this. I work for an 25k+ employee organization and it takes between 10 and 20 minutes to get to my email each morning. That is, I arrive at my desk at 7:10 every day and cannot start working until 7:20 - 7:30, depending on whether something is being installed. Unfortunately I cannot just turn on the machine and let it run, I have to turn it on, wait 2 minutes for the login prompt (Windows XP) and then set it on its merry way.
Shutdown isn't much better as the machine has proven unreliable. I hit shutdown and have to wait for poweroff before putting my laptop away. I leave at 4:25 but usually start the shutdown at 4:17. A few times I have been in a rush and just hit shutdown, closed the lid and threw it in a drawer only to come in the next morning to a machine that did self-shutdown at 3% battery.
So all in all I am spending a minimum of 17 minutes each day waiting for my computer. I am salaried, so get paid for this time, but I would expect any hourly employee to be paid also.
Your username sums up the content of your post perfectly.
Obviously IQ is a broken measure of intelligence. You were just called on the carpet for not being able to accurately articulate a response in a typed forum, and you replied with an excuse, and an attack, and still made a ton of grammatical and spelling errors.
You may be one of the first non-English speakers I have met that didn't take pride in accurate spelling and grammar. If you are indeed a non-English speaker, I recommend you try composing your response in a offline tool, like OpenOffice or MS Word, checking the spelling and then posting.
IQ may be a measure of intelligence, but it sure isn't a measure of "smarts".
Do you have a citation or experience that shows how well water is "practically always more dangerous" than municipal water? In my response I indicated how our well water was tested against the municipal supply, and it tested with lower levels of contaminants (though higher in minerals).
The only "danger" I realistically see from well water, in the United States anyway, is the lack of fluoridation and the subsequent effect on children's teeth. I have more damage to my teeth from lack of fluoridation (despite brushing and flossing) while my wife has none of the same problems - she grew up in town with town water.
You need to consider well depth, not just horizontal distance. If you have a 300 foot well, then you could have a leeching field directly on top of your well head and still have purer water than many municipal water supplies.
With a properly designed and implemented leeching system, the water you get after traveling through several hundred feet of soil is about as pure as you are going to get. At least as far as viruses, bacteria and the things we typically worry about. I don't know about dissolved chemicals, but I will say the water we used to drink was from a well (in a large neighborhood filled with septic systems) tested as cleaner than the municipal supply. The only houses in town that ever had a problem were those that had shallow wells. Redrilling the well a little deeper solved the problem every time.
Furthermore, in a reservoir system most of the water is not coming from the recycled stuff feeding back through the creek, but is instead being replenished by rainwater. And then you have the fact that any stuff coming back through the creek is likely diluted tremendously into the larger reservoir.
I've never been able to figure it out, and in fact didn't know why he was famous until you mentioned broadcast.com (a place I have never been). Billions for that?
I only saw his reality show, and learned from that show that he owns a basketball team. Otherwise, you are right. Why should we care? He made billions, meanwhile his company (I believe acquired by Yahoo! since broadcast.com redirects there) no longer exists and the parent company is in financial trouble itself. Got out at the right time is an understatement!
It may be a moot point because radio controlled modelers are moving to spread spectrum radios nowadays anyway. However the point was that one set of technologies should not push out, inadvertently, into radio spectrum that was granted by the FCC to a specific, if shared, use. In this case, the needs of the "many" were trampling the needs of the relative few but without regard for existing rules granting the usage of the airspace. Imagine if BPL interfered with a 30 pound model, causing it to hit some children... whose responsiblity does it become?
Techdirt recently asked if we could finally declare BPL officially dead. I guess not!
There was great concern in the radio control modeling community about potential interference from BPL. In fact, a significant amount of fields are underneath or near these powerlines in the "wasted" space where no one wants to build houses. I recall in 2004 or so there being significant email/forum traffic, particularly from those clubs with sites very close to powerlines or from RC Glider pilots that fly long distances from view, toward the horizon, where planes are susceptible to inteference. It was predicted that there was plenty of potential for concern.
Apparently with the concept dying off, so did the concern from RC pilots. I found a post as recently as 2006 where there was found to be little cause for concern (gmarc.com) using a spread spectrum analyzer.
I play the guitar and he has expressed interest in learning that also... though only when I put it on full distortion and suggest he run the pick up and down the wound strings. Regardless, some of his interest in cool toys is a benefit to me - I get to look at the stuff that I want!
So, to that end, the link you shared is awesome. I just wasted 15 minutes looking through it, and it appears that building a few stompboxes may be in our future. Neither of us knows soldering or electronics that well, so it will be an interesting learning experience!
Argh, your link is blocked from work. Dangit Websense! Thanks for the suggestions, will definitely check it out...
This is supposed to be a site for open source geeks and no one noticed!
I don't know about that. This is a gathering place for nerds, for sure. It just happens to attract the sort of nerds that know and appreciate open source. But in no way is this "supposed" to be a site for anything other than "News For Nerds".