Before I got Comcast setup in my new apartment I had to use my T-Mobile Blackberry tethered to my laptop. In just one night of streaming Al-Jazeera over that I used 2.5 Gigs according to the meter on their site. But once I got Comcast setup I tested it with their meter and it came nowhere near that much usage. I don't know how to call them on it thought. Can their really be that much overhead on a mobile connection compared to a cable one?
People used aspirin for almost a hundred years, it's natural form willow bark for thousands, and that simple answer was so amazing to science it won the Nobel Prize.
Oh, and per your hangover cure: other than the commonly known problem of ulcers, NSAIDs also destroy the lining of the intestines, causing leaky gut syndrome. Which can lead to allergies, arthritis, cancer, and a lot of other bad things. Fortunately the cure for both side-effects is as simple as supplements of the amino acid glutamine with your mix. Either that or use an analgesic.
That looks like a continuation of Yahoo's directory days. Back when they relied on their directory, and not search results, people would submit sites and Yahoo would review them and categorize them. After awhile the backlog got so long that Yahoo started charging $200 to guarantee a review, though category placement was still up to them. Guess they just carried the policy over to their search engine.
Yahoo might feel they're being open about this, even if it is in a contract small print or fast talking end of radio ad kind of way. I just noticed on every search results page they have a "(About this page)" link at the top that points to a page that basically says they do this. http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basic s-03.html
I saw something similar when I worked on a website for someone who hosts on Yahoo. The site was new so I figured it would just take some time for the spiders to index it. But for months afterward the site would show up higher placed and for more keywords on Yahoo than Google. For awhile the only way to find the site on Google would be to search for the company's name. And even that took a few months to happen. Today, three years later, the site comes up fourth on Yahoo and 22nd on Google for a search on it's major keyword - fender hook. Though if you add quotes around the keywords it drops out of Yahoo altogether and moves up to 21 on Google. So I'm not sure what to make of it.
My first graders want to know, How do astronauts go to the bathroom in space? I think the potty chair is in place. Is this correct?
The Answer We have come up with a number of answers to your question. We will let you, as the professional teacher, decide which is appropriate for your classroom and what is best left to the teachers lounge.
6. How do you take a bath, brush your teeth, and go to the bathroom in space?
We do not have a bath or shower on the Shuttle, so we just wash off with wet washcloths, using soaps that you don't have to rinse off. When we brush our teeth, we can either swallow the toothpaste or spit it into a washcloth. Designing a toilet for zero-gravity is tougher. We use air flow to make the urine or feces go where we want, since gravity will not do it for us. You have to be more careful and think about what you are doing with the toilet in the Shuttle.
B. Another colleague pointed out that Johnson Space Center is the home of the astronauts, and they have some web pages dealing with this issue too. (We really know little more than you do about the astronaut program -- but they do.)
This used to be under the old FAQ at Spacelink. It has since been removed.
4. HOW DO ASTRONAUTS GO TO THE BATHROOM AND TAKE CARE OF OTHER PERSONAL HYGIENE? Each Space Shuttle has a toilet that can be used by both men and women. Designed to be as much as possible like those on Earth, the units use flowing air instead of water to move waste through the system.
Solid wastes are compressed and stored on-board, and then removed after landing. Waste water is vented to space, although future systems may recycle it. The air is filtered to remove odor and bacteria and then returned to the cabin.
Astronauts brush their teeth just like they do on Earth. There is no shower on the Shuttle, so astronauts must make do with sponge baths until they return home.
The toilet that was first flown aboard STS-54 is completely new in design and offers new and improved features:
The new toilet features better hygiene, larger storage capacity, greater dependability, and an overall cost savings in maintenance.
-The previous model had a 14-day capacity for storage of waste material. The new model has an unlimited storage capacity.
-The new model features a cylinder system where a plastic bag is placed in the toilet before use. The bag is then sealed and is forced to the bottom of the cylinder after each use by a plunger attached to a lever. A new bag is then placed in the toilet for the next astronaut. When the cylinder is filled, it is replaced by a new cylinder.
-The previous model relied on air flow to pull the waste to a holding tank. None of the waste was separated as it is now. The new system provides better hygiene conditions. There was no way to empty the old system. When it was full, it simply could hold no more waste materials. It had a 14 day capacity.
-The new toilet also provides an odor-free environment. The old model did not.
-The opening in the lid of the toilet was increased from 4" to 8", allowing for easier handling of the plasti
What does this have to do with AOL trying to keep customers? AOL has done this since the beginning of time, even when they had more customers than they knew what to do with.
I've signed up and canceled AOL many a time, starting around '93. And each time it's been like this, to varying degrees. Slow news day indeed...
Can't believe this made the Today show too. Ohh all hail the power of the Interweb.
Or the fact that now that it's been implemented, there are still quirks. In IE6 on Windows XP, a lot of posts have the story starting down below the left sidebar instead of to the right of it.
You know... until this last upgrade I thought the same way.
I used to have a Socket 478 motherboard with a P4 2.4GHZ CPU (Northwood) in it. Then I looked at the "Mother of All CPU Charts" (2004 & 2005) and saw how high a Northwood chip still is on those charts. Now I have a 3.4GHZ (Northwood) cpu in my motherboard.
And so far my rough benchmark with DVD Shrink bears out those charts. Copying a DVD with all the quality settings checked used to take 2 and half hours. Now it takes a little less than an hour and a half.
It's amazing for a cpu that's 4 or 5 years old to be as fast as stuff that's still being released. Processor speeds have really stalled in the last few years.
That's too bad. I guess the panels are as customizable as it gets. And they kind of suck.
It's mostly just the search within a site button that I use (the magnifying glass with the googly eyes icon) in Google Toolbar anyways, that and the info button a bit. For some reason when I use a browser without it I feel at a loss. And I'm too lazy to bother doing it manually from the Google homepage.
I wish they'd just make Google Toolbar for Opera. That's the only reason I don't use it. I'm addicted to it. It's the only reason I still use MSIE. Firefox has it but it's a resource hog. Opera is great as far as resources and security but no Toolbar.
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Before I got Comcast setup in my new apartment I had to use my T-Mobile Blackberry tethered to my laptop. In just one night of streaming Al-Jazeera over that I used 2.5 Gigs according to the meter on their site. But once I got Comcast setup I tested it with their meter and it came nowhere near that much usage. I don't know how to call them on it thought. Can their really be that much overhead on a mobile connection compared to a cable one?
Just get a Kill-A-Watt. My desktops use about the same power as a lamp with a 75 watt bulb in it, my laptop is 20-30 watts.
People used aspirin for almost a hundred years, it's natural form willow bark for thousands, and that simple answer was so amazing to science it won the Nobel Prize.
Oh, and per your hangover cure: other than the commonly known problem of ulcers, NSAIDs also destroy the lining of the intestines, causing leaky gut syndrome. Which can lead to allergies, arthritis, cancer, and a lot of other bad things. Fortunately the cure for both side-effects is as simple as supplements of the amino acid glutamine with your mix. Either that or use an analgesic.
That looks like a continuation of Yahoo's directory days. Back when they relied on their directory, and not search results, people would submit sites and Yahoo would review them and categorize them. After awhile the backlog got so long that Yahoo started charging $200 to guarantee a review, though category placement was still up to them. Guess they just carried the policy over to their search engine.
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Here's a news story from 1999 about it when it began:
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2
Here it is today:
https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro
Yahoo might feel they're being open about this, even if it is in a contract small print or fast talking end of radio ad kind of way. I just noticed on every search results page they have a "(About this page)" link at the top that points to a page that basically says they do this.
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basi
Even links to the program you linked to.
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/srchsb/choose.ph
I saw something similar when I worked on a website for someone who hosts on Yahoo. The site was new so I figured it would just take some time for the spiders to index it. But for months afterward the site would show up higher placed and for more keywords on Yahoo than Google. For awhile the only way to find the site on Google would be to search for the company's name. And even that took a few months to happen. Today, three years later, the site comes up fourth on Yahoo and 22nd on Google for a search on it's major keyword - fender hook. Though if you add quotes around the keywords it drops out of Yahoo altogether and moves up to 21 on Google. So I'm not sure what to make of it.
...in the late 90's check out this weblog. Site search.
"Look at me. I'm reading The Economist. Did you know Indonesia is at a crossroads?". http://www.duffzone.org/framegrabs/index.php?op=5& path=fabf14&file=fabf14-071.jpg
Forget it Google is my friend.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answer s/970411a.html
The Question
(Submitted April 11, 1997)
My first graders want to know, How do astronauts go to the bathroom in space? I think the potty chair is in place. Is this correct?
The Answer
We have come up with a number of answers to your question. We will let you, as the professional teacher, decide which is appropriate for your classroom and what is best left to the teachers lounge.
I. The Official NASA pages:
A. There is a nice space shuttle web page at: http://shuttle.nasa.gov/ Digging in there I found a Q&A Web page. Here's what it says: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/faq/ living.html
6. How do you take a bath, brush your teeth, and go to the bathroom in space?
We do not have a bath or shower on the Shuttle, so we just wash off with wet washcloths, using soaps that you don't have to rinse off. When we brush our teeth, we can either swallow the toothpaste or spit it into a washcloth. Designing a toilet for zero-gravity is tougher. We use air flow to make the urine or feces go where we want, since gravity will not do it for us. You have to be more careful and think about what you are doing with the toilet in the Shuttle.
B. Another colleague pointed out that Johnson Space Center is the home of the astronauts, and they have some web pages dealing with this issue too. (We really know little more than you do about the astronaut program -- but they do.)
Their home page at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/ has links for KIDS, EDUCATORS, and more.
I went to their page: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/more.html and this is what I found:
This used to be under the old FAQ at Spacelink. It has since been removed.
4. HOW DO ASTRONAUTS GO TO THE BATHROOM AND TAKE CARE OF OTHER PERSONAL HYGIENE?
Each Space Shuttle has a toilet that can be used by both men and women. Designed to be as much as possible like those on Earth, the units use flowing air instead of water to move waste through the system.
Solid wastes are compressed and stored on-board, and then removed after landing. Waste water is vented to space, although future systems may recycle it. The air is filtered to remove odor and bacteria and then returned to the cabin.
Astronauts brush their teeth just like they do on Earth. There is no shower on the Shuttle, so astronauts must make do with sponge baths until they return home.
The toilet that was first flown aboard STS-54 is completely new in design and offers new and improved features:
The new toilet features better hygiene, larger storage capacity, greater dependability, and an overall cost savings in maintenance.
-The previous model had a 14-day capacity for storage of waste material. The new model has an unlimited storage capacity.
-The new model features a cylinder system where a plastic bag is placed in the toilet before use. The bag is then sealed and is forced to the bottom of the cylinder after each use by a plunger attached to a lever. A new bag is then placed in the toilet for the next astronaut. When the cylinder is filled, it is replaced by a new cylinder.
-The previous model relied on air flow to pull the waste to a holding tank. None of the waste was separated as it is now. The new system provides better hygiene conditions. There was no way to empty the old system. When it was full, it simply could hold no more waste materials. It had a 14 day capacity.
-The new toilet also provides an odor-free environment. The old model did not.
-The opening in the lid of the toilet was increased from 4" to 8", allowing for easier handling of the plasti
How do you do #2?
I've been reading /. since 98 or 99 and this is first time I actually laughed at someone's comment. Literally LOL. Thanks!
What does this have to do with AOL trying to keep customers? AOL has done this since the beginning of time, even when they had more customers than they knew what to do with.
I've signed up and canceled AOL many a time, starting around '93. And each time it's been like this, to varying degrees. Slow news day indeed...
Can't believe this made the Today show too. Ohh all hail the power of the Interweb.
Or the fact that now that it's been implemented, there are still quirks. In IE6 on Windows XP, a lot of posts have the story starting down below the left sidebar instead of to the right of it.
Best comment of the article.
I used to have a Socket 478 motherboard with a P4 2.4GHZ CPU (Northwood) in it. Then I looked at the "Mother of All CPU Charts" (2004 & 2005) and saw how high a Northwood chip still is on those charts. Now I have a 3.4GHZ (Northwood) cpu in my motherboard.
And so far my rough benchmark with DVD Shrink bears out those charts. Copying a DVD with all the quality settings checked used to take 2 and half hours. Now it takes a little less than an hour and a half.
It's amazing for a cpu that's 4 or 5 years old to be as fast as stuff that's still being released. Processor speeds have really stalled in the last few years.
Bergeronian as in Harrison Bergeron?
Word! I'll have to mess around with this. Thanks.
It's mostly just the search within a site button that I use (the magnifying glass with the googly eyes icon) in Google Toolbar anyways, that and the info button a bit. For some reason when I use a browser without it I feel at a loss. And I'm too lazy to bother doing it manually from the Google homepage.
That's the only reason I don't use Opera. The other its refer to Google Toolbar.
I wish they'd just make Google Toolbar for Opera. That's the only reason I don't use it. I'm addicted to it. It's the only reason I still use MSIE. Firefox has it but it's a resource hog. Opera is great as far as resources and security but no Toolbar.