are cell phones and iPods supposed to replace blackboards (or whiteboards)? What is being proposed here? Just let 'em bring their toys so they can chat, text, play games, listen to music etc. while they're supposed to be (or instead of) learning? What? Or is it that those things are all they need to know nowadays? I'm a little unclear on the premise.
BTW, Sunriver, Oregon is a good dark place thanks to the efforts of local amateur astronomers. They have an observatory there and the homeowners association has rules about outside lighting which make it a nice dark place for stargazing.
It's quite common around here to hear people say "I live in Washington State". AFAIK this is the only state where this is said, and I suppose it distinguishes between it and Washington D.C. I went to WSU, but I live in Oregon now. A similar problem we face locally is when you say Vancouver and you mean Canada, you have to say Vancouver BC, otherwise Vancouver, WA is assumed.
I thought that too, but what are the other several kilogram standards made of? Not the same thing I suppose. Perhaps oxidation is causing weight gains in the others. I'd like to know what was the standard deviation of all the other masses over time.
. ..but I learned three programming languages: BASIC, Pascal, and FORTRAN, in that order. That is all. Well, there was HP-41 synthetic programming and HP-48 too.
But sequestering it can be useful, particularly for alpha emitters and even beta emitters where they pretty much have to be on you or in you in order to hurt you. They're not talking about merely absorbing the radiation but taking the radioactive contamination out of water making it safe to drink, water your crops with, etc.
50 million years (source: Lewis, Richard (1983). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Universe. Harmony Books, New York, 65.)
or 17,000 years (source: Plait, Phil (1997). Bitesize Tour of the Solar System: The Long Climb from the Sun's Core. Bad Astronomy. Retrieved on 2006-03-22.)
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are cell phones and iPods supposed to replace blackboards (or whiteboards)? What is being proposed here? Just let 'em bring their toys so they can chat, text, play games, listen to music etc. while they're supposed to be (or instead of) learning? What? Or is it that those things are all they need to know nowadays? I'm a little unclear on the premise.
BTW, Sunriver, Oregon is a good dark place thanks to the efforts of local amateur astronomers. They have an observatory there and the homeowners association has rules about outside lighting which make it a nice dark place for stargazing.
Uh, you meant Oct 1st to June 15th, right?
Subjective?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
or their mind jumps to that crummy Billy Joel song:
I'm In a New York State Of Mind.
I lived in Saratoga Springs for a while and I never heard anyone NY State. Upstate NY I've heard.
Bottom line is, "Penn State" is obviously the school, while "Washington State" is ambiguous.
It's quite common around here to hear people say "I live in Washington State". AFAIK this is the only state where this is said, and I suppose it distinguishes between it and Washington D.C.
I went to WSU, but I live in Oregon now. A similar problem we face locally is when you say Vancouver and you mean Canada, you have to say Vancouver BC, otherwise Vancouver, WA is assumed.
I had a TI-55 too, and IIRC it had only like 32 program steps maximum, is that right?
I had mine around sixth or seventh grade, so about 1977 or 1978.
With that comment, you should have been an AC.
Just asking, but if "Maths" is plural of something, shouldn't it be "Maths are really powerful tools".
the floor wax guy?
SELETE, a Japanese consortium of semiconductor manufacturing companies, collaborating on research.
I thought that too, but what are the other several kilogram standards made of? Not the same thing I suppose.
Perhaps oxidation is causing weight gains in the others.
I'd like to know what was the standard deviation of all the other masses over time.
No. Gamma rays are not neutrons.
Really? I did.
Where is the list of things quantum theory is required to answer and who put "Why does mass exist?" on it?
you know not whereof you speak. The evidence confirming quantum theory is overwhelming. I don't even know where to start. OK, how about 100 years ago.
So if the city replaced them with parking meters that ran on OSX, they'd be OK with it?
I like Lilypond for music typesetting, and LaTeX works with it and they seem to share a similar aesthetic philosophy. Maybe I should try LaTeX again.
Of course not. Is Visio a part of Office, now? Try Inkscape. Much better than OOo Draw.
. . .but I learned three programming languages: BASIC, Pascal, and FORTRAN, in that order. That is all. Well, there was HP-41 synthetic programming and HP-48 too.
ugh, bad pun. What's the probability of that on Slashdot?
But sequestering it can be useful, particularly for alpha emitters and even beta emitters where they pretty much have to be on you or in you in order to hurt you. They're not talking about merely absorbing the radiation but taking the radioactive contamination out of water making it safe to drink, water your crops with, etc.
Adobe Reader does have an advantage over that one: it's free (as in $0).
50 million years (source: Lewis, Richard (1983). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Universe. Harmony Books, New York, 65.)
or 17,000 years (source: Plait, Phil (1997). Bitesize Tour of the Solar System: The Long Climb from the Sun's Core. Bad Astronomy. Retrieved on 2006-03-22.)
(or somewhere between)