Or, you know, we could learn to eat vegetables that are in season locally instead of trying to live off of a handful of vegetables year-round.... Kale is amazing, green mustards and chard... amazing greens and definitely under-appreciated.
As a side note, Romanesco broccoli is probably the best kind. Steam it and eat it as is! Or, if you'd like, with just a dab of good olive oil and a pinch of salt/pepper. Some people like to add a little lemon juice as well. This is how I usually eat broccoli and I've never been let down. Also, I don't seem to get an upset digestion after consuming the Romanesco variety as opposed to the traditional broccoli, this also holds true for broccolini (or broccolette).
Yes!. You just got the charges backwards.
If you look up triboelectric series (example here http://www.siliconfareast.com/tribo_series.htm) you'll see that nylon is half way up the positive scale where as Teflon is the second from the bottom on the negative side of the scale. Positive means that it tends to donate electrons and negative means it wants to accept or 'steal' electrons.
They key though, is the induction created to the water droplets which you can read about it here (http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/emotor/kelvin.html)
What is happening (my guess) is that the nylon when rubbed is positively charged (lost electrons) when placed near the tip of the syringe, the water is positively charged because its electrons are given to the nylon needle, creating a positive charge in the water. The Teflon needle, on the other hand, is a very negatively charged material (gained a lot of electrons through rubbing it with paper) and thus the positively charged water is attracted to the negatively charged teflon needle and the orbit through these opposing fields is achieved in microgravity!
Yes, but how many Stephen Colbert heads do you get per spool?
My problem with these 3d techs online is that there's no good way to know exactly how much you can DO with a given amount of raw material. At some point, i'm going to have to break down and purchase things, just to get a baseline on cost.
He claims in the video that the material is so cheap you can just give things to friends and print more, but... Somehow, I doubt it's that cheap.
Learn to calculate volume - the material is consumed based on how much volume goes into your part.
I think he wants to know how much plastic is in 1 kilo of spool.
From what I could find, ABS density is roughly 1.05g/cm^3 and PVA is 1.19-1.31g/cm^3 which means that:
1000g is roughly 952.380952cm^3 of ABS plastic
OR
1000g is roughly 800cm^3 of PVA plastic (with 1.25g/cm^3 density)
Now your answer applies where depending on how big a Stephen Colbert design is, it takes more or less of the material: a 1cm^3 Colbert would give you 952 ABS heads or 800 PVA heads. Now THAT'S a lot of Colbert!
Isn't what you're saying the same as a thumbnail of a pic? or 'fit to screen', zoom in/out ? I agree that this algorithm is (unfortunately) patentable but if this is what they're complaining about (I didn't read TFA, just going off from your comment) wouldn't this be considered prior art?
from TFA:
"Only one person can rent a DVD at one time, meaning that if Zediva bought 20 copies of a movie, only 20 people can watch it simultaneously. Still, Zediva saves money because it could serve many more customers with the same physical copy of a DVD than a company that has to mail out a DVD and wait for its return. "
So they're not using a single DVD to broadcast to multiple people simultaneously; they are basically a renting organization that is very similar to RedBox except it is done through streaming and online purchasing but the limitation is still a 1:1 ratio of viewer-to-physical dvd copy. Ask yourself this: if Redbox has 20 copies of a movie and every day 20 people rent it and return it (some the same day, some after a day or two), how is this different than Zediva's business model other than the online factor vs. physical stand?
Because even when we do, there are a large number of parents who, when confronted with little Jimmy's 15 absences in a semester, will threaten lawsuits, call board of ed members and threaten to get everyone fired because their little sunshine isn't going to graduate.
...
Children and their parents don't have a right to frivolous lawsuits.
I agree with both statements but, having said that, it still doesn't prevent me from suing you and prove in a trial that my lawsuit is not frivolous. In the mean time: you're being sued, your job is at stake, your school MIGHT suspend you pending investigation and I'm sure that while you might think this a frivolous lawsuit, it will still affect you emotionally.
Frivolous lawsuits are a huge problem especially for any public institution like schools but even a private school can suffer at the hands of an idiot parent trying to sue their way through.
Unfortunately, the US (dunno about other countries specifically) has become a world of liability and everyone is trying to cover their ass from Joe Schmoe's lawsuit.
I agree with what you said. FYI though, I am not a lawyer, but I know that:
You cannot talk about "potential" in legal talk. My favourite way to make a simple argument against the word "potential" is that each sperm has the "potential" to become a human being, therefore, every time a man masturbates, they commit genocide.
What you can talk about, though, is probable foreseeable future based on specific conditions, "Likely" is another term...
If you are driving drunk, you have a probable foreseeable future of killing someone due to the effects of alcohol etc...
If you have a microchip implanted in you, there is no known effect on your reactions/judgments parallel to alcohol to be considered for a probable foreseeable future of killing someone
=====
On the other hand, implanting a chip in someone has the probable foreseeable future of massive invasion of privacy amongst other questionably ethical motives.
I know that someone will come along and say "What if the guy is a pedophile? Shouldn't we know where he is at all times?" which is a clusterfuck of an argument that deals with a person's rights and privileges and how a society distinguishes between the two and how said society wants to remove a right and/or privilege from someone based on criminal acts. Not to mention how the penitentiary system has the responsibility to rehabilitate someone into society.
I don't even know where to start.
I used to take notes electronically all the time and I ran into your problem in different classes. What I realised though, was that it was not a matter of speed, it was a matter of categorizing!
Allow me to explain.
You said you wish to take notes so you can sort them later and what not, that's a great idea and it worked great for me too! What I did for my equations though, was write them by hand on a notebook and (in the notes) refer to them as EQ1, EQ2, EQ3 etc... When I got home, I would review my notes and I would then type the equations in the notes!
This proved to be sufficiently fast if you have a notepad that you can fit on the desk with you (if you have a full-sized laptop, maybe try a smaller notebook).
I ran into this problem when I took a CS class that was making use of flow charts, I certainly didn't want to draw the damned things with a tablet, I simply drew them by hand, referred them in the notes as fig1, fig2 etc, and when I got home I would (sometimes) scan the drawings and paste them in!
I know this isn't a suggestion for software, but maybe it can help you with your notes in the mean time.
And "bus" comes from "omnibus"... Latin for "for all".
And while we're on Latin-based linguistic trivia and public transportation, "mob" comes from the Latin phrase "vulgus mobile"... which translates to "fickle crowd". But "mob" comes specifically from "mobile", which is the "fickle" part of the phrase, not the "crowd" part. Weird.
I thought that the origin was "mobile vulgus" which makes more sense as to why "mob" was taken as the derivative (short for the first word rather than the second). In any case, I thought that "mobile" means "moving" and "vulgus" means "common people" with the context perhaps implying "ignorant" or "vulgar". So to me, a "moving group of common people" makes more sense than "fickle crowd" as the translation of "mobile vulgus".
After reading TFA which brings a tie between Boston and LA as awful places to work, the link right below this article entitled "Where the IT Jobs Are: 10 American Cities" lists BOTH Boston and LA.....
Just for reference, the article from this thread is from June 18th or so while the second article praising cities for IT jobs is from May1st.
Although the original article mentions both places as a heaven for IT geeks, it also warns against the quality of life in the areas....or maybe I'm just trying to find the silver lining?
even if the RIAA doesn't hold legitimate copyrights to the music they sued for, somebody -does- have copyrights. The author of the song or the artist that played it or whomever. I guess returning the ill-gotten money is a great start and an ambitious goal (and I wish Camara all the best in this awesome quest) but when they settle to who actually owns the copyrights (unless it is 100% the buyer or public domain or fair use) it won't stop the true owner of the copyrights to go after the file-sharer no?
So if RIAA returns money Artist is found to hold true copyrights Artist can sue for said money now?
What are the implications of this outcome? Maybe I'm thinking waaaaay ahead and I need to let it unfold some more?
Your problem is identical to the OP problem, but you are both looking to find a solution that does not address the problem, it only fixes the symptom.
What you both need is not a way to track down your lost daughter/dog, but a way to prevent them from getting lost in the first place!
- The OP needs to address the school district as to why in the hell they keep putting kids on the wrong bus on a regular basis and someone way up on the thread already suggested this (dkleinsc). In the mean time, I'd also take advice from blueZ3 where a better way to approach a solution and also impart useful lessons and skills is to have your daughter learn to ask for help from the appropriate people and learn her home address and number etc...
- You, (Charles Dodgeson) need to train your dog to not run away when she sees a bunny. Not to insult, but have you ever watched the dog whisperer? I swear that guy is a magician when it comes to dog training. http://www.cesarmillaninc.com/dogwhisperer/
Re:you know there was a better way to do that.
on
David After Dentist
·
· Score: 1
True, but then again, why would you need stitches if all you're doing is pulling a tooth? I've had two teeth pulled and all they did was leave the gaping hole to self-heal.
Maybe he had some serious mouth surgery that required harder drugs?
I'm not a dentist, but I take the video for what it was on the surface: Fuckin' hilarious! *roflmao!*
Re:Typical Organized Medicine slams
on
Trick or Treatment
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Goddamn it, why isn't anyone giving you any 'Insightful' or 'Interesting' mod points?
This whole thread is pretty much being embraced by every reply I read except for the far and few in between (such as the parent) as "wholesome pure scientific proof that anything but medicines from drug companies and approved by FDA are effective".
It seems that the vast majority of the community is easily scared of the "unknown medical methods" and you would rather side with "what you know method" without actually doing any research of your own.
I thought that this is what lobbyists try to take advantage of in Washington to influence the mind of politicians. Scare tactics and bullshit research to side one way or another. I don't see this book as anything different from that.
Oh, do any of you recall the "Eggs are good for you" research? I thought a recent research said that now "Eggs are bad for you" but I guess a NEW research changed it to "Eggs are good for you!" Those were also scientific research studies!
Oh, and the coffee research, yeah. That had the same kind of sea-saw kind of research and publicity.
Anyone can do a research and make it sound like they did real actual scientific work, but even "research" can be misleading and many companies rely on misleading information to prove a point. They may not be necessarily lie to you, but I doubt that they always tell you the WHOLE STORY.
As always, don't be so damned quick to judge. Read peer-reviewed journals, do your own work, don't just allow outside information to persuade you passively. Ask the hard questions!!
For example, why did the review spend (at least) 3 fuckin' chapters on homeopathy and only half of a chapter (chapter 5) on Herbal Medicine? Where is the review against Chiropractic therapy? Where is the review against Acupuncture?
Why does every paragraph of the review slams homeopathy and then quickly follows with "homeopathy and other bogus cures" ? Could it be that they're just trying to feed you their strongest opinion and make you believe it applies to ALL alternative medicine?
Whatever.
Apologies to the parent, for my reply morphed into a different argument.
Slashdot Mirror
Ack, didn't see your comment until after I had replied above: Here's a cache link so you can see the image/diagram : http://webcache.googleusercont...
Cached, so you can see the image: http://webcache.googleusercont...
You mean like XPrivacy ?
...China's biggest e-retailer, totaled more than $3.1 billion, doubling the $1.5 billion spent by U.S. consumers on Cyber Monday in 2012.
How many people live in China? How many people live in the US?
. A more valid comparison would be the amount of money spent per person, that removes the bias of large-populations.
Agreed. Here are some numbers:
Currently the US hosts: 317,047,520 people
China hosts: 1,349,585,838 people
(Source: http://www.census.gov/popclock/)
Ratio US to China: 1:4.2567
Or, you know, we could learn to eat vegetables that are in season locally instead of trying to live off of a handful of vegetables year-round.... Kale is amazing, green mustards and chard... amazing greens and definitely under-appreciated.
As a side note, Romanesco broccoli is probably the best kind. Steam it and eat it as is! Or, if you'd like, with just a dab of good olive oil and a pinch of salt/pepper. Some people like to add a little lemon juice as well. This is how I usually eat broccoli and I've never been let down. Also, I don't seem to get an upset digestion after consuming the Romanesco variety as opposed to the traditional broccoli, this also holds true for broccolini (or broccolette).
I've always found
AVG Free http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage
or
Avira Free http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus
To be good free solutions.
Yes!. You just got the charges backwards. If you look up triboelectric series (example here http://www.siliconfareast.com/tribo_series.htm) you'll see that nylon is half way up the positive scale where as Teflon is the second from the bottom on the negative side of the scale. Positive means that it tends to donate electrons and negative means it wants to accept or 'steal' electrons.
They key though, is the induction created to the water droplets which you can read about it here (http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/emotor/kelvin.html)
What is happening (my guess) is that the nylon when rubbed is positively charged (lost electrons) when placed near the tip of the syringe, the water is positively charged because its electrons are given to the nylon needle, creating a positive charge in the water. The Teflon needle, on the other hand, is a very negatively charged material (gained a lot of electrons through rubbing it with paper) and thus the positively charged water is attracted to the negatively charged teflon needle and the orbit through these opposing fields is achieved in microgravity!
Yes, but how many Stephen Colbert heads do you get per spool?
My problem with these 3d techs online is that there's no good way to know exactly how much you can DO with a given amount of raw material. At some point, i'm going to have to break down and purchase things, just to get a baseline on cost.
He claims in the video that the material is so cheap you can just give things to friends and print more, but... Somehow, I doubt it's that cheap.
Learn to calculate volume - the material is consumed based on how much volume goes into your part.
I think he wants to know how much plastic is in 1 kilo of spool. From what I could find, ABS density is roughly 1.05g/cm^3 and PVA is 1.19-1.31g/cm^3 which means that:
1000g is roughly 952.380952cm^3 of ABS plastic
OR
1000g is roughly 800cm^3 of PVA plastic (with 1.25g/cm^3 density)
Now your answer applies where depending on how big a Stephen Colbert design is, it takes more or less of the material: a 1cm^3 Colbert would give you 952 ABS heads or 800 PVA heads. Now THAT'S a lot of Colbert!
Isn't what you're saying the same as a thumbnail of a pic? or 'fit to screen', zoom in/out ? I agree that this algorithm is (unfortunately) patentable but if this is what they're complaining about (I didn't read TFA, just going off from your comment) wouldn't this be considered prior art?
from TFA:
"Only one person can rent a DVD at one time, meaning that if Zediva bought 20 copies of a movie, only 20 people can watch it simultaneously. Still, Zediva saves money because it could serve many more customers with the same physical copy of a DVD than a company that has to mail out a DVD and wait for its return. "
So they're not using a single DVD to broadcast to multiple people simultaneously; they are basically a renting organization that is very similar to RedBox except it is done through streaming and online purchasing but the limitation is still a 1:1 ratio of viewer-to-physical dvd copy. Ask yourself this: if Redbox has 20 copies of a movie and every day 20 people rent it and return it (some the same day, some after a day or two), how is this different than Zediva's business model other than the online factor vs. physical stand?
Because even when we do, there are a large number of parents who, when confronted with little Jimmy's 15 absences in a semester, will threaten lawsuits, call board of ed members and threaten to get everyone fired because their little sunshine isn't going to graduate.
...
Children and their parents don't have a right to frivolous lawsuits.
I agree with both statements but, having said that, it still doesn't prevent me from suing you and prove in a trial that my lawsuit is not frivolous. In the mean time: you're being sued, your job is at stake, your school MIGHT suspend you pending investigation and I'm sure that while you might think this a frivolous lawsuit, it will still affect you emotionally.
Frivolous lawsuits are a huge problem especially for any public institution like schools but even a private school can suffer at the hands of an idiot parent trying to sue their way through.
Unfortunately, the US (dunno about other countries specifically) has become a world of liability and everyone is trying to cover their ass from Joe Schmoe's lawsuit.
So I was wondering, since the article mentions:
"The study was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health."
Does this mean that a drug company can't put a patent on it? what happens when research funded by public tax-payer money is released?
Please note: I'm not sure where the NIH money comes from other than rumors I've heard that it is a public institution in the US.
Sounds like the much hyped over-ventilated commercials on 3 vs. 4 blades, and now 4 vs. 5 blades....
:)
Pretty soon, there will be a commercial for 5 colours and how it's so much clearer than 4 colours!!
I agree with what you said. FYI though, I am not a lawyer, but I know that:
You cannot talk about "potential" in legal talk. My favourite way to make a simple argument against the word "potential" is that each sperm has the "potential" to become a human being, therefore, every time a man masturbates, they commit genocide.
What you can talk about, though, is probable foreseeable future based on specific conditions, "Likely" is another term...
If you are driving drunk, you have a probable foreseeable future of killing someone due to the effects of alcohol etc...
If you have a microchip implanted in you, there is no known effect on your reactions/judgments parallel to alcohol to be considered for a probable foreseeable future of killing someone
=====
On the other hand, implanting a chip in someone has the probable foreseeable future of massive invasion of privacy amongst other questionably ethical motives.
I know that someone will come along and say "What if the guy is a pedophile? Shouldn't we know where he is at all times?" which is a clusterfuck of an argument that deals with a person's rights and privileges and how a society distinguishes between the two and how said society wants to remove a right and/or privilege from someone based on criminal acts. Not to mention how the penitentiary system has the responsibility to rehabilitate someone into society.
I don't even know where to start.
I used to take notes electronically all the time and I ran into your problem in different classes. What I realised though, was that it was not a matter of speed, it was a matter of categorizing! Allow me to explain. You said you wish to take notes so you can sort them later and what not, that's a great idea and it worked great for me too! What I did for my equations though, was write them by hand on a notebook and (in the notes) refer to them as EQ1, EQ2, EQ3 etc... When I got home, I would review my notes and I would then type the equations in the notes! This proved to be sufficiently fast if you have a notepad that you can fit on the desk with you (if you have a full-sized laptop, maybe try a smaller notebook). I ran into this problem when I took a CS class that was making use of flow charts, I certainly didn't want to draw the damned things with a tablet, I simply drew them by hand, referred them in the notes as fig1, fig2 etc, and when I got home I would (sometimes) scan the drawings and paste them in! I know this isn't a suggestion for software, but maybe it can help you with your notes in the mean time.
And "bus" comes from "omnibus"... Latin for "for all".
And while we're on Latin-based linguistic trivia and public transportation, "mob" comes from the Latin phrase "vulgus mobile"... which translates to "fickle crowd". But "mob" comes specifically from "mobile", which is the "fickle" part of the phrase, not the "crowd" part. Weird.
I thought that the origin was "mobile vulgus" which makes more sense as to why "mob" was taken as the derivative (short for the first word rather than the second). In any case, I thought that "mobile" means "moving" and "vulgus" means "common people" with the context perhaps implying "ignorant" or "vulgar". So to me, a "moving group of common people" makes more sense than "fickle crowd" as the translation of "mobile vulgus".
After reading TFA which brings a tie between Boston and LA as awful places to work, the link right below this article entitled "Where the IT Jobs Are: 10 American Cities" lists BOTH Boston and LA.....
Just for reference, the article from this thread is from June 18th or so while the second article praising cities for IT jobs is from May1st.
Although the original article mentions both places as a heaven for IT geeks, it also warns against the quality of life in the areas....or maybe I'm just trying to find the silver lining?
Your solution:
http://xkcd.com/208/
IANAL but I was thinking:
even if the RIAA doesn't hold legitimate copyrights to the music they sued for, somebody -does- have copyrights. The author of the song or the artist that played it or whomever. I guess returning the ill-gotten money is a great start and an ambitious goal (and I wish Camara all the best in this awesome quest) but when they settle to who actually owns the copyrights (unless it is 100% the buyer or public domain or fair use) it won't stop the true owner of the copyrights to go after the file-sharer no?
So if RIAA returns money
Artist is found to hold true copyrights
Artist can sue for said money now?
What are the implications of this outcome?
Maybe I'm thinking waaaaay ahead and I need to let it unfold some more?
Your problem is identical to the OP problem, but you are both looking to find a solution that does not address the problem, it only fixes the symptom.
What you both need is not a way to track down your lost daughter/dog, but a way to prevent them from getting lost in the first place!
- The OP needs to address the school district as to why in the hell they keep putting kids on the wrong bus on a regular basis and someone way up on the thread already suggested this (dkleinsc). In the mean time, I'd also take advice from blueZ3 where a better way to approach a solution and also impart useful lessons and skills is to have your daughter learn to ask for help from the appropriate people and learn her home address and number etc...
- You, (Charles Dodgeson) need to train your dog to not run away when she sees a bunny. Not to insult, but have you ever watched the dog whisperer? I swear that guy is a magician when it comes to dog training. http://www.cesarmillaninc.com/dogwhisperer/
Just my $0.02
Who's Sue? Is she hot?
Toothache, maybe!
Maybe this video will cheer the kid up!
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/03/1627237
True, but then again, why would you need stitches if all you're doing is pulling a tooth?
I've had two teeth pulled and all they did was leave the gaping hole to self-heal.
Maybe he had some serious mouth surgery that required harder drugs?
I'm not a dentist, but I take the video for what it was on the surface: Fuckin' hilarious! *roflmao!*
Goddamn it, why isn't anyone giving you any 'Insightful' or 'Interesting' mod points?
This whole thread is pretty much being embraced by every reply I read except for the far and few in between (such as the parent) as "wholesome pure scientific proof that anything but medicines from drug companies and approved by FDA are effective".
It seems that the vast majority of the community is easily scared of the "unknown medical methods" and you would rather side with "what you know method" without actually doing any research of your own.
I thought that this is what lobbyists try to take advantage of in Washington to influence the mind of politicians. Scare tactics and bullshit research to side one way or another. I don't see this book as anything different from that.
Oh, do any of you recall the "Eggs are good for you" research? I thought a recent research said that now "Eggs are bad for you" but I guess a NEW research changed it to "Eggs are good for you!"
Those were also scientific research studies!
Oh, and the coffee research, yeah. That had the same kind of sea-saw kind of research and publicity.
Anyone can do a research and make it sound like they did real actual scientific work, but even "research" can be misleading and many companies rely on misleading information to prove a point. They may not be necessarily lie to you, but I doubt that they always tell you the WHOLE STORY.
As always, don't be so damned quick to judge. Read peer-reviewed journals, do your own work, don't just allow outside information to persuade you passively. Ask the hard questions!!
For example, why did the review spend (at least) 3 fuckin' chapters on homeopathy and only half of a chapter (chapter 5) on Herbal Medicine? Where is the review against Chiropractic therapy? Where is the review against Acupuncture?
Why does every paragraph of the review slams homeopathy and then quickly follows with "homeopathy and other bogus cures" ? Could it be that they're just trying to feed you their strongest opinion and make you believe it applies to ALL alternative medicine?
Whatever.
Apologies to the parent, for my reply morphed into a different argument.
All in good humor, of course :)