My firefox wasn't working correctly the other day, and it forced me to create a secondary user profile to open it up. Now it's stuck in the new profile. How do I switch back to the old one? - Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 02:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Will a music CD bought in Egypt play on machines in the USA? Is there a difference in recording formats throughout the world and does that make a native CD incompatability from the continent to continent. Will a CD purchased in Egypt work on standard North American equipment?
sir can i know wat r the yoga treatments for ankylosing spondylitis
On :7.6 Modern Physics
Once again I would ask :How does that formula derive?
Or
I know that human blood is red due to the presence of haemoglobin. But why different animals have different blood colour?
It seems to be a paradox. For  : which means that it does not equal to 1. Thus caused not coresponse Normalization. Known a standing wave is expressed as  :. Can anyone talk about your thoughts? Thanks.
I don't know why cannot edit right now. I'd open a new to edit. In that question, The original Math formula is derived from -- HydrogenSu 13:15, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
<Some of the user's comments were too offensive and involved person attacks. It was off Topic. Thus it is deleted here.>-- HydrogenSu 19:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
heloo , i want to know the source code of a programme. kindly help me in this .the problem ststement is" write a programme in c to find the sum of possitve odd numbers and product of even numbers less than 50"
Do anybody know how to remove the virus named WINFILE?It is a folder-like virus and spread inside the computer by creating the new unknown folder itself.
Is there a tool for batch PDF -> TXT conversion? The source PDFs are scanned documents with the embedded text layer. OCR is not needed at all because you only need to extract the embedded text from them. There are about 46,000 of them so I really need a tool that asks no questions. I tried pdftohtml.exe. It simply fails to see the text layer. -- Toytoy 14:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
The files were scanned documents that were poorly OCR'ed by some lowly-paid poor office workers. I have 46,000 such garbage text files now (1.6 GB). The Xpdf works. I find myself badly screwed anyway.
I plan to write a big PERL script to salvage the data someday. It'll involve a huge dictionary, a replacement engine using some sort of maximum length matching algorithm and some black magic or the dark side of the Force. Or I'l redo the OCR. Life sucks and PDF is evil. -- Toytoy 05:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
A possibility: Put the PDF files somewhere on the internet where Google can find them and access them using google search. Google creates HTML versions of PDF. WAS 4.250 04:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I would like to know what the difference between B mode and G mode is in wireless networks. I have tried finding the answer on my own but I could not find it anywhere. Thanks! 62.194.16.204 15:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
please give me a description on what this phrase means:
"We dont need no education"
and please help me explain why we need an education
You'll find the answer in our article about Glass. LarryMac 15:53, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Please could you tell me how aquatic animals and plants get there oxygen from water? Thankyou! From Hannah
[2] On which,I did some deriviation about Plank's combining with S.R. in bravely. I'm not sure taking
Is it(taking Im{exponential}) right? or wrong?
I asked this question many months ago at Talk:Gastric acid and never got an answer, so I'm asking again here: Where does the body get chlorine atoms to make HCl from? From salt (NaCl)? If so, does this mean that while eating too much salt may be bad for your blood pressure, eating too little may make it impossible for you to digest your food? Angr/ talk 16:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Also note that the sodium and chlorine requirements for people are quite low, since both can be recycled almost indefinitely in the body. It would be a huge task, in modern society, to eat so little salt that you actually suffered from a deficiency of either element (unless, of course, there is something wrong with your body's ability to retain sodium and/or chlorine). One restaurant meal would probably provide you with enough salt for a year, as would almost any processed foods (Campbell's Cream of Sodium soups come to mind, :-)). StuRat 18:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
If I put some files at some URL (using Apache), which I don't tell anyone, and don't link to from anywhere else, are the files still discoverable in some way that I'm not thinking of?
I'm not talking about classified data here, just embarassingly personal stuff.
I'll have to clear histories and caches of any public browsers I use to access the files.
I'll use some obscure URL to try to avoid dictionary attacks.
Thanks. 128.220.220.95 19:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you all for your helpful answers. 128.220.220.95 16:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Debye's Capacity Theory I derived Debye's Capacity theory. Please see on (part 1) [24] and on (part 2)[25] .The final part , part 3, which will be uploaded tomorrow. It’s now dark-night in Asia. Not convinience.Sorry.
Anyway saying thanks first for any correction if my deriviation is wrong.--HydrogenSu 19:41, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Are those questions reminiscient of homework questions? Well, to be honest, I've given this question to so many students tnat if you get the correct formula in the end, you did not make a mistake. Have a bit of confidence in yourself :-) It is virtually impossible to make a mistake in the derivation and still end up with the right expression. --HappyCamper 16:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC) Have you looked at Debye model article? hydnjo talk 17:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
This article above is retrieved from. ....><" Strange! Why not edit again! Angry.....><" Forget it. =7
I've been learning about statistical testing(especially the t-test), and something bothers me. If you use a p<.05 cutoff on a lot of tests (which as I understand it the scientific community does), doesn't that mean that 1 out of every 20 confirmations is a false positive? Even a p<.01 cutoff means 1 out of every 100 confimations with that cutoff is a false positive. In fact, if the tests are as widespread as I've heard they are, the proportion of false positives should be very close to 1/20 and 1/100 respectively, based on the law of large numbers. If I'm right, that means countless important studies got totally the wrong answer from the t-test, and trained statisticians have been relying on it despite that. So, how am I wrong? Black Carrot 20:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Assuming a large number (interpret that any way that's interesting) of studies based on such statistics give the wrong answer, which obviously and hopefully is wrong, what effect would that have on scientific knowledge? What things would suffer most, and what would suffer first? How wide would the damage spread, and would it get caught when the results were compared with other things?
I know nerves tend not to grow back. For instance, a severed spinal cord means you're paralysed for life. A stroke means the brain has to work around the damaged section. However, I've heard they are actually capable of growing back to some extent, in some circumstances. Is it at all possible for an eye with a damaged retina to partially or completely grow it back? Is it likely? Has it ever happened? If so, how? If not, why not? Black Carrot 20:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm hearing a bit of disagreement here. One person seems to say brain nerves can regenerate(depending on age), another says it's just peripheral nerves, another says there's an exception to that, and I have no idea at all what Zeizmic is talking about. Black Carrot 01:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you please tell me which 7 seas they are referring to when they say "Sailing The 7 Seas". Thank you.
I have been thinking about this question asked by one of my lecturers for sometime, without getting anywhere.
Consider a spring that is bound into compression by a rigid string. If the whole thing is immersed into a weak acid that eats away slowly at the metal of the spring, (but is un-reactive to the string), what happens to the stored mechanical energy?
what metal would make for a superior sword with the characteristics of being super strong, keeping an edge, and excelling in the art of batte ie:sword fighting,dueling, ect. im curious what would make for a superior sword, such as titanium? or animantium(im not sure if it is superior in anyway, im not to sure about animantium in any way shape or form? or steel? or any metals that are out there.
what type of metal would make for light, yet superior in strength and durability armor, ie: bullet proof, sword,knife,club, spike proof, things of that nature.
thats great, now how about for the armor part? metals for armor and the fabric for underneath, any ideas on that?
go through.
I am having trouble finding which rock is used to make building blocks, cement, and fertilizers. I can find two of the three uses for many rocks, but not one that does all three.
What is the definition of the "lens field" when referring to microscopes. Thank you 68.106.127.212 00:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
They help me breath air under water
"My mother is a fish."
I have a sense of humour... it helps me find statements like this somewhat funny, but you coul've done better.-- Cosmic girl 03:24, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
When did humans ever have gills? :S ... when 'we' had them I think we where far from human... hehe, it would be funny to see a hominid with gills...poor hominid, there's no doubt I'd bully him about his gills all day.-- Cosmic girl 16:55, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I heard in TV that the H5N2 aka "avian-influenza-the-serial-killer" was created by humans, mainly cause theres no virus in the whole world that evolves in such form. Is this true? AFAIK the H5N2 was first discovered in China, n we all know the Chinese re havin problems with that overwhelming population. Ok this possibly sounds a bit psychotic or like a conspiracy theory, but WHAT'S GOIN ON???
agree, chinese people are awesome...and chinese guys are cute! :O -- Cosmic girl 19:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Wasn't the huge threat H5N1? — Ilyan e p (Talk) 04:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
The pandemic threat is a specific strain of the subtype H5N1 of the species Influenzavirus A (bird flu virus). Its evolution from prior strains is well documented in the on-line documents linked to in the technical sub-section of the H5N1 "Further reading" section. WAS 4.250 05:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
H5N2 caused flu outbreaks with significant spread to numerous farms, resulting in great economic losses in 1983 in Pennsylvania, USA in chickens and turkeys, in 1994 in Mexico in chickens and a minor outbreak in 1997 in Italy in chickens [3]. In China, inactivated H5N2 has been used as a vaccine for H5N1. people.com.cn WAS 4.250 05:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Neither was made by man in a laboratory. But it is arguable that China's livestock vaccine policies helped H5N1 to evolve into what it is today. WAS 4.250 05:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey Wiki Volunteers (right?),
Well, I am a student in high school, and we are doing some interesting things in chemistry. I found something that caught my eye, and decided to search a bit. I was told that if a compound was ionic, it would break up into multiple ions and therefore lower the freezing point depression of water moreso than a molecular compound.
I looked into this, and I found that a compound called Propylene Glycol is a highly used deicer, and works better than a compound such as Calcium Chloride... but Propylene Glycol is molecular (C3H8O2). So why, exactly, is this? I've searched a bit, and maybe I am a bad browser, but I couldn't come up with anything. I am also definately not an experienced chemist, so I could be getting concepts wrong...
I sure hope you guys can help me out--you've done great in the past!
What is an example of a biochemical comparison to identify a species
Many thanks MT
Here is one using
PCR:
Identification of mammalian blood meals in mosquitoes by a multiplexed polymerase chain reaction targeting cytochrome B.
--
JWSchmidt
18:11, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
wtf
Does sex and masturbation lead to loss of energy?
It Burns enough calories and you use enought energy to lose one pound while doing it. (at least in my case)
Hello
I'm trying to figure out how insects like spiders go up over the walls against gravity??
I love researching weird stuff, and this [5] deserves an article. Any of our enthusiastic noobs want to do it? -- Zeizmic 15:40, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
The ability to climb is very much related to the scale of an organism. The weight of an insect or arachnid is almost insignificant compared to other forces, like adhesion. At the scale of people, it's the other way around, and the weight is the most significant force. When you get up to the size of an elephant, climbing becomes completely impossible. StuRat 18:01, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I found some techs on my draw paper which can derive this Solid-Physics formula in easy ways. Not need to truely do by .
-Curiosity-- HydrogenSu 19:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
For the previous discussion, the Plank's S.H.O. energy shows as:
I have pets,they're fishes. Everytime I call them come by shaking my hand(s),they'll do. Why? Curiosity...Do they "feel" my existance? If they do,why do they seem to "don't know of me" when I am back home? -- HydrogenSu 11:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I go with the feeding theory. They have learned that a certain series of images and sounds comes right before they are fed, so they move into position to be sure they get the food. You could arrange a system where Beethoven is played right before a robotic arm dumps their food into the container, and they would react in the same way (" A Fishbowl Orange"Â ?). StuRat 17:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
There's a common misconception that fish can't see outside the bounds of their fishtank because of refraction. If you look into a fishtank from the top, it appears as if the inner-side of the tank is a mirror and so that's where the misunderstanding comes from. Looking outside the tank from inside the water changes the angle of refraction, and thus, the fish can see you as well as you can see them, assuming they're looking and the actually care. I agree with Shantavaria in that they probably see something coming and assume it's just the God of food. Try walking up to them and waving them away saying "RUN AWAY! I'm going to KILL you!". There's a very good chance they would treat you exactly the same way as if you were shaking your hands at them.   freshgavin TALK   03:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
There is an old saying that "a gold fish has a three second memory." MythBusters tested this one. Verdict: not true. Fish do remember stuff for at least several weeks. The guys from MythBusters made simple mazes for their fish. Years ago, I saw a much more complicated fish maze. Fish would congregate at one particular place in the "tank-maze" just at feeding time. And they would respond to a cue to go somewhere else in the maze for feeding at "surprize feedings". The really neat thing about this is that every few weeks you could change the feeding place, and the fish would relearn the new location. Co-ol, no?
Is it possible to design a test in PHP (or similar web language) that can measure the time taken to make responses? If so, how accurate can this measure be (miliseconds?)? Thank you very much!
Why is it when you get from metal when a small peice of foil is in between your teeth. i cant recall from chemistry, it was discussed. what does the metal conduct for it to be electricty? thank you for your response.
I think whenever you have moving pieces of metal there will be small electrical charge imbalances and thus tiny sparks. The diff is that the root of a tooth is much more sensitive to this type of thing than the skin, so a person with fillings which conduct the spark to the root with feel it more. Now, why exactly are the roots of teeth so darned sensitive ? I suppose if a caveman was biting something hard that was about to crack a tooth, it was of critical importance to their survival to stop before the tooth cracked. A cracked tooth might have been a death sentence before their were dentists to stop infection and abscess from occurring. StuRat 17:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I think the letter "s" does not need to be in "photons". Which the vocabulary is from German originally. In German, s/es might not be always added in the end to show it is plural. But in English,must be added in most cased. I'm not sure still. My mother-language is Chinese. We shoud respect German in "photon"? How about? Anyone here is able to be good at German? I'd just learned for several months. Listing:
-- HydrogenSu 17:11, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you all. Merci. My "wife-language" is French. Je maitenant sais que "photon" n'est pas de German mais est du français. Et il a quelq'uen sait que qulques choses des "photons" avec Eintein? Si il peut senaître,parler en tout à mois. S'il vous plaît. -- HydrogenSu 09:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
What part of the HER-2 protein does Herceptin bind to?
Why does quenching only work for steel? How can I harden wrought iron, brass, etc.? Ksenon 19:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
is electric power frequency (50Hz or 60Hz ) included in the electromagnetic spectrum. please explain with chart if so.thanks in advance. 210.56.6.114 21:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
There probably isn't an answer to this, given that so little is known about dark matter, but the question is in my head and I need to try. I've seen on the TV (and checked on the article dark matter that galaxies are thought to be 'composed largely of a roughly spherical halo of dark matter with the visible matter concentrated in a disc at the center'. Given as how this dark matter is supposed to interact with atomic matter(and hold the galaxies together), what would happen to something made of ordinary atomic matter is if was removed from a galaxy and placed in open space away from the influence of dark matter? If, somehow, you flew a ship away from a galaxy, would it, and I know this sounds odd, fly apart without the dark matter? Probably not fly apart, but would there be any noticable effect?
Ta! Sabine's Sunbird 22:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't think it's dark matter, but my theory is that there is a substance in the intergalactic voids which repels normal matter. This explains:
StuRat 09:52, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I try to use regular keyboard to write POJ onto a microsoft word file but do not know how to do it. Please help. Thanks.-- Robert Wu 2/9/2006
Can a crystal overcharge and cause a massive explosion? (read the article on Edgar Cayce in 'major themes', at the end of the paragraph that talks about Atlantis).-- Cosmic girl 22:36, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I know it's just an organized molecular structure,and I don't know what is meant by 'charging the crystal' in that part of the article, that's why I ask...I don't think such a thing is possible either, but I'd better ask than suspect.-- Cosmic girl 23:10, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
A crystal can store a lot of static electricity, so in that respect, maybe. -- PopUpPirate 01:11, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
but can it actually 'explode'?-- Cosmic girl 02:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
To answer the question, pretty much everything that Edgar Cayce had to say was nonsense. TenOfAllTrades( talk) 01:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
To answer the question in another way, all explosions are the result of a substance expanding very rapidly and bursting their container. I don't think electricity passing through a normal crystal can cause anything inside the crystal to expand rapidly. Also, even if crystals can explode, the explosion won't be massive if the crystal itself isn't big. Bowlhover 04:46, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thanks! :) -- Cosmic girl 19:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
"Whether a butterfly's wing beat can cause a tornado is still a central debate of chaos theory. But is is now proven that drawings first published more than four months ago in Denmark have seeded outrage among Muslims from Gaza to Jakarta and embittered believers making their lives in Europe." -Time Magazine, current edition
I don't think the allusion to the
butterfly effect makes sense. A butterfly creating a tornado is an example of sensitive dependence on initial conditions. And from common sense, sensitive dependence on initial conditions must exist if one considers the enormous number of factors involved in real-world deterministic systems.
So my point is, I don't think there really is any debate about whether or not sensitive dependence on initial conditions exists, as stated by the article. And if there was, it wouldn't be around the butterfly example, since this is merely an illustrative example, not the central doctrine of chaos theory.(oops, ignore this) Am I right in this? --
JianLi
00:07, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Awhile ago, when I was visiting RadioShack, the clerk mentioned something he was trying to do in his spare time: make a radio (which broadcasts electromagnetic waves of a controllable frequency) broadcast a frequency within the range of visible light. Specifically, green. Is this possible? Black Carrot 01:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
For the record, my antenna beside me is already emitting a wavelength, even when it is turned off, thanks to the vibrations of the electrons. If I wanted my antenna to emit red light, all I would have to do would be to heat it up to around 1000 degrees. I could go up to white light, but I'm not certain if there would be any way of having it emit green light. — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 19:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Surely a green lightbulb would do the job? Gdr 22:14, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Was there intravenous feeding of patients in the late 1930s? These would be patients in comas. If not, how did they feed these patients? If there was, what were the instruments that were used, and what was the IV fluid contained in?
I'm trying to build a factory class via an interface, like this:
public interface Factory<T extends BaseObject> { public T newInstance(); }
So I implement my interface like this:
public class DefaultFactory<T extends BaseObject> implements Factory<T> { public T newInstance() { return new T(); } }
According to Java theory and practice: Generics gotchas (Construction delays), I should (and in fact do) get a compiler error: Cannot instantiate the type T.
My crappy solution is to pass in a Class<T> as a parameter to the DefaultFactory constructor, call Class.newInstance(), catch any thrown exceptions and throw an Error-based Throwable.
Am I approaching this pattern the wrong way? The purpose is I later plan to combine a custom iterator class (much like the generic Iterator interface), and since the source of data is a database or file (rather than a list), I need to be able to instantiate objects on the fly, rather than pulling them into a list and using the java.util.Iterator class.
-- 24.231.16.6 03:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Could someone direct me to information relating to the causes and nature of both the "Medieval Warm Period" (AD 890 - 1170) and the "Little Ice Age" (AD 1580 - 1850)?
Such as what environmental factors brought them about and allowed for a return to normal temperaturese? Was their effect mostly localized, or was it global? Etc.
This article compares those to the current cycle. [6] -- Zeizmic 13:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Is there any way for me to completely remove Internet Explorer from my Windows XP computer? I use Firefox, and my IE doesn't work anyway (it brings up an error and crashes). And if I need IE for a site that onl allows it, I can allows reinstall a fresh version that works. So I would love to delete it, to free up a little disk space and speed up the computer a tiny bit (I assume it will, because it is integrated with the desktop environment, isn't it?) I don't use Outlook, MSN Explorer, or Windows Messenger, so I don't care if they won't work or are deleted (actually, come to think of it, deleting would actually be nice!) while removing IE. I am familiar with the registry, but I just wanted expert advice before I started deleting any keys that seemed to be associated with IE and messed up my computer. Thanks.
I also came to that conclusion, that it is impossible to remove. However, I found that if you just don't use it for the Internet, it comes out to the same. Here's an interesting news item that jives with my experience with the kids: [7] -- Zeizmic 13:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Q.What is TM mode
A:Disappeared-- HydrogenSu 13:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
-- HydrogenSu 10:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC) -- HydrogenSu 12:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
errr... how will you know that the person who asked the question can read chinese? enochlau ( talk) 12:50, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Bingo....No....I mean the person who deleted was me. It won't be pity if I delete any Chinese. -- HydrogenSu 19:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I need help understandin these two topics. I would grateful if i got diagrams too. So if any one could please help me. thanks. Arijit
Vous pouvez voir en [9] ou en [10] Pendent vous allez vu(e), si c’est fini, souvant postez vos nouvelles questions ici.-- HydrogenSu 13:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
With all these questions about electromagnetism I remember once reading the following idea in the Dutch Mensa Journal. Visible light varies in frequency from 400 THz to 700 THz, which is almost double. In sound, a doubling of the frequency gives an octave-shift; the note is 'sort of the same'. And indeed, the light at the two ends of the visible spectrum are somewhat similar, both somewhat 'reddish'. If we could see frequencies from, say 100 to 1000 nm would we then perceive light in octaves (in casu just over 3 octaves)? And are there animals that can see such a wide spectrum of light?
One could take this even further. In music, a perfect fifth is a pleasing interval (a consonant), with the higher frequency being 1,5 x the lower frequency. But the nearby diminished fifth is a strong dissonant, very unpleasing, with a ratio of 1:1,4142. In light there is less room for such intervals without stepping out of the visible spectrum, but could one say that the combination of, say, 400 THz and 600 THz is pleasing, whereas the combination of 400 THz and 565,7 THz is displeasing? DirkvdM 10:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I was specutively considering what the colour of herding dinosoars might have been, and I got to thinking of zebra stripes. I wondered about the function of the stripes. Does it disguise the number in a herd from a distance in a heat haze? Or perhaps by a similar process allow young zebra to be better hidden in a herd? Alternatively, could it operate as a dazzle display against preditors at short distances i.e. the fast moving horizontal movement of their vertical lines interfering with a preditors judgment of distance or position as the preditor is about to pounce?
Dudley Warrinton-- 62.6.174.104
Is there any eyeglass available specifically used when seeing a computer? (Is there any special glass which can be used while using a computer?)
What is the name of that glass?
Can we use sunglass while using a computer? Or would a Anti-reflective coating glass be of any use?
From my own experience dealing with weak eyes applied to computers, I've learned that 90% of it is due to drying from not blinking enough, and the remaining 10% is from an uncomfortable focal length sought by your eyes (when focusing on the screen). It has nothing to do with 'glare' because i see the same impact from using a harsh polished CRT monitor in a high light situation as i do when using a very glare-proof LCD monitor in more mellow conditions. The tricks that work for me are: moving the monitor closer or farther (usually farther) to create a more comforable distance, and taking frequent breaks where my eyes are doing some other task (like looking out a window at long range) to allow them to normalize. If this doesn't help you, consult an Optometrist as there are glasses (very similar to reading glasses) that can help some people to better focus on computer screens. Hope this helps! -- Jmeden2000 19:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
User:AlMac| (talk) 21:00, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
moved from Talk:Gelatin - I am carrying research on gelatine. I need some technical help on determining the bloom of gelatine. Can any of viever can suggest me how to determine the bloom of gelatine gel by using very simple instrument or design of instrument to measure bloom. sushil dhital - nepal pls mail to [email removed]
I am trying to find out what the different types of Titanium Dioxide can be applied to and the only one that i don't seem to be able to find much about is this one "Titanium Dioxide 99.99998 purity - powder format" Can anyone help me???
Kind regards.
Tania <Email removed>
This looks like it came from an ebay entry...
how do we daydream even when we are wide awake?I thought dreams are only active when our body is at rest
I dreamed yesterday some dogs hiding my research/sudy pappers in three holes. And in my dream was about -- HydrogenSu 18:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Daydreams can often be a mild self-induced hypnotic state in which the brain produces alpha waves. I was at the dentist yesterday. While I was having a tooth drilled, I was actively focussing my vision on the mobile gently circling overhead, and actively listening to the music being played (Villa-Lobos's Preludes for guitar) and actively tapping my fingers on my belly in time with the rhythm of the music. I was not entirely unaware of the dentist and her doings, but a lot less aware of her than I might have been. The same kind of thing happens, often fleetingly, when you're just sitting at your desk, say, but your mind is concentrated on something else that's not physically present. The thing at hand goes on a little holiday while you go on your inner journey, and we call that daydreaming. JackofOz 22:41, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I am doing some research, and I have been searching on web for info about how a seed germinates after it is planted. I am not talking about specific environmental conditions that may be provided to help it germinate, but the specific mechanisms that are inherent in the seed to help it germinate. For example how does a seed know which way is up and which way is down for the roots and shoots to grow when it is buried within soil. Thank you for your time Rizvi
In my efforts to play around with Windows 2003 and scaling it down, I used nLite to remove a bunch of things, including the Secondary Logon service. I thought to myself Ahhh I'll never need that service. And I didn't, for a very long time. Then I tried to install PostgreSQL (which I prefer running on Linux anyways, but oh well), which is the only app I've found I've used that actually needs to this stupid service. Is there any way to get it back without rebuilding my install image and reinstalling Windows? -- 131.202.90.23 20:23, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
How does this work? : http://www.mysticalball.com/. -- Cosmic girl 21:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Awesome, thank u guys...hey EWS23, do u want me to leave u a message? or is that just part of your nickname....hhaha, cause I've seen that 'leave me a message' thing following a lot of nicknames.-- Cosmic girl 03:41, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
When you cook with wine, would be be reasonable to say that the alcohol is not boiled off because it forms an azeotrope with water? -- HappyCamper 22:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
"Eat with your children, that way you'll always have a little whine with your dinner." StuRat 01:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Another thing to note is that in many jurisdictions, distillation is illegal, but increasing alcohol concentration by freezing is not. moink 02:30, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
im doing a solo paper and experement on casien in curd, starting withun pasterised bovine milk , so far iv found how to clean, skim and seperate crds and whey and iknow that there is a high conc of casien in the whey but im stuck on what test to prove that thats whats in my sample. iv exhausted all the books in the collage liabary, and have just spent over six hours this week on the net trying to find it, but my results from both dont give me a clear answer
do you know if any of there are right maillard reaction casien hydrolisis test kappacasien and Ca phosphate stabilisation
yours hopefull tara
Tara, As a pharm science student you have to be careful about spellings...in this case, it's casein, not casien, so you're having trouble finding references. This .pdf file markets a lutex-agglutination based antibody test for casein. Probably not practical for your purposes, though, unless all you have to do is describe the test. - Nunh-huh 07:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm fond of the future, how we'll live, and how long we'll live. Therefore, what articles are relevant to the prolonging of lifespans due to future medical advances? Also, immortality due to future medical advances? -- Shultz 23:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
what are the comparisons of energy contents in food such as millet,cassava and rice.----------
Hi. I don't really know anything about computers, but I would like to purchase an inexpensive laptop for my work. I'd like it to be able to do 'power point presentations', use the internet, email, and word processor. What kind of laptop should I be looking at?
Where's the question? What about gemology? :| ? ?i?ff? ? 01:41, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, im working on a project about sound response but can't find any wikipedia infomation on it. The technology im using is based on an audio float controller, assigned to models in 3D studio max; the models move and react to the input from wav. files, eg rotate whenever there is a beat in a song. Does anyone have any other suggestions as to what to search for or where to look to find more on animation reacting/moving to sound? thanks for your time.
Give me a list of elements which can undergo nuclear fission. 210.211.231.51 03:39, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for the question about fission. I meant- 'give me list of elements which can undergo fusion.' -- (same guy who asked the question)
Does anyone have any idea how many Yahoo accounts have been created? Captain Jackson 04:42, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Why isn't hydrogen considered a metalloid even though it can form H+ and H- ions? EamonnPKeane 12:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Apart from WAP and html, is there any other type of mobile browsing?
Is java (mobile) another way of browsing, or is it just related to html?
Is there any other type of mobile browsing?
Hello, thanks for having this service!!
I would like to know how many websites there are on the internet. I know the number must be astoundingly large by now, maybe more than 5 billion??
Thanks for your efforts in advance!! Happy Pre-Valentines Day!
InquiringMind
how does one calculate (in simple tems) the focal point of a parabole according (I imagine) to the angle of curvature? How can I find the answer on wikipedia if someone is kind enough to help?----
there is a points to all this, just keep reading, and hopefully you can help me answer my question, i didnt know were to put it, so i tried the Science Section.
In the ancient world there were many classes and countrys and warriors, but the Vikings are by far the most repeated, accounts of them coming on to shores in there Viking long boats or throwing there huge axes at men charging them, terrorizing villages and countrys alike let alone there berserkers were mean enough, crazy enough and bad enough to take on dozens of men at a time.They were one of the most feard people in Europe and lived in the harshes enviroments ie: what is now Russia, and Greenland.
The Samurais were also one of the most feared warriors in Japan, they were quick, diciplined, and would take there own life if told to do so. They were bodyguards, warriors, even assassins. There light armor made them quick, and the curved swords were fast and cut ferociously. You showed them respect, nd if you dishonored them it could meen you lose your head without a hesitation.
My question to whom ever can answer is this, "In the MedievalAges, who would win in a battle against each other, the Fierce Vikings, or the Diciplined Samurais? Who had the better Weapons and Armor, Who could do more damage, and what effect do you think Samurai swords and armor would have against Viking swords, axes and armor and shields." I thank you for any information you can give me.
that just states that this question in nonsense......
Katana#Comparisons with European swords has an interesting/theoretical comparison. - Cybergoth 14:49, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I understand the health benefits of grape seed oil. Please inform the manufacturing procedure, machinery suppliers to make Grape Seed Oil. (e-mail address removed)
(Why cannot plane waves be normalized?)-by the way needing a "short" answer only-this way saying,Brintish-English?
I say thanks first to any reply for the aboves.--
HydrogenSu
18:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
But don't understand very well still.
-- HydrogenSu 18:34, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Note to readers, don't waste your time following the footnote links above, as I did, since they are just the monochromator and plane waves links repeated from above, in a weird form. StuRat 19:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
In order to normalise a wave you have to multiply it by some number so that the integral of the square of the wavefunction (the probabilty) = 1 (i.e the probabilty of finding the wave quantum somewhere in space = 1)
A plane wave exists everywhere in space. The integral will therefore be infinite. There is no number that you can multiply infinity by to get 1. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 00:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Q:Verify Maxwell's speed distribution function::
Sol:
(?Pour quoi c'est le commencé pour la question?) -- HydrogenSu 19:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I have a TV that one of my kids broke the connector for the cable TV input (F connector). And getting it fixed costs more than is worth. This TV has both RCA input and an S-Video input.
Does anyone know if I can find / use and adaptor to either of these two input connectors in place of the F-Connector?
Thanks,
Bruce Bbottger 18:52, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
The F-type connector carries a radio-frequency (antenna) signal on which the video signal is encoded. (Or it may contain multiple, separately-enccoded channels, e.g. if it's cable TV.) The RCA and S-video connectors, on the other hand, are for single, line-level, composite video signals. So they're very different. The only "adapter" from the F-type connector to one of those other two would have to be a TV tuner, and while those exist, it would certainly cost more than fixing the broken F connector (or, if what you say is true, than the set is worth).
Fixing the broken F-type connector (or kludging in another one, connected to the same wire inside) shouldn't be that expensive. Maybe you just need to get a second estimate. Steve Summit ( talk) 19:55, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Your page on the Missourri River lists its length as 2315 miles, and that of the Mississippi at 2350 miles. Since the Missouri is really just a tributary of the Mississippi, that would make the true length of the total Mississippi 4665 miles, the longest river in the world, but you have their total length listed as just 3,900 miles, third in the world. Why is this?
Anthony
Thanks!
Look at a map. The Mississippi starts north of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Missouri joins it at St Louis. The Mississippi's distance between Minneapolis and St. Louis probably accounts for most of the that discrepancy, if the 3900 mile distance is from the source of the Missouri to the Gulf. alteripse 23:45, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Is electric power frequency (50Hz or 60Hz ) included in the electromagnetic spectrum or not . please be precise.
thanx
Imran
Would you lose weight after giving blood, or would it just stay the same because the blood gets replaced?
I was thinking of asking this anyway, and this seems like a good place. Is giving blood a good way to reduce blood pressure? It seems logical, but it's not listed at Blood donation#Benefits. — Keenan Pepper 22:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
The volume of a unit of blood is about 500 cc, about half a kg of immediate weight loss. BUT, about 70% of that weight is water and you replace it as soon as you drink. The remaining 125 g of solid matter removed in the blood is replaced when you eat a hamburger. So yes, you lose wt, but not much. The blood pressure would drop as the 500 cc is removed, but that much can be quickly compensated for, so any blood pressure lowering effect is most likely a matter of minutes rather than hours or days. alteripse 23:43, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
That's right. A little renin, a little aldo, and presto, pressure. alteripse 00:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
While the 10% of blood given during a donation can be easily compensated for by the body, higher percentages can't, so will result in lower BP. I've often thought that in people with severe high BP, removal of blood should be considered as a treatment option. I would do it in a continuous loop, as in hemodialysis, where the amount outside the body can be controlled precisely to adjust BP. I would think such a method could be used to quite precisely control BP, especially in patients who are already undergoing hemodialysis. StuRat 04:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Blood pressure goes up after giving blood, as the body compensates for the missing blood volume. Giving blood is *not* a good way to reduce blood pressure. Raul654 04:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Do all life processes produce heat? I've wondered about the circle of snow and ice free area around trees and plants. Do they actually produce enough heat to keep the area free of snow, or is there some other explanation? -- Fyslee 23:01, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Stated differently, are there any endothermic reactions used by life forms ? StuRat 01:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Why do some animals (like sea animals,I don't know exactly wich) exhibit cellular automata patterns on their 'skin', shell or outter covering? does this have an explanation? or is it not yet known why this happens?. oh and also,can a cellular automata hold an 'infinite' ammount of info. and/or processes? If not, is there any 'machine' hypothetical or real, (like a quantum computer) than CAN hold an infinite ammount of information and/or processes?. I mean, not being infinite in itself, it has to be finite, to be a machine, but infinite 'inside it' like, 'subjectively infinite'. can that be? or am I on drugs...-- Cosmic girl 02:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thank you :), yeah I knew about the omega point, it's a cool theory.-- Cosmic girl 03:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
ok, thanx for the 1st link...well when I ask about a computer that can contain an infinite ammount of info. I don't mean a computer that is inside our universe, but one that IS our universe, I suppose that the bekenstein bound wouldn't apply to the universe as a whole...do you think this is possible at all? since I know nothing about math nor computer science.-- Cosmic girl 03:17, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
haha! I knowwww, I'm on neurochemicals...at least they are natural drugs! :|-- Cosmic girl 03:31, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thank you! :) -- Cosmic girl 03:48, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thanks :) -- Cosmic girl 22:33, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
What do you think would happen if a vandal with OCD discovered wikipedia?- 152.163.100.74 05:27, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
How does one mass edit (in tradition of Finale) in Sibelius? --hello, i'm a member | talk to me! 05:41, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and how do I add a forte (piano), among other things?
Why does the score always stop at the end of the page? I've checked their help system.
I think he must pay the so called crowds and random people he performs for and selects for assistance. His tricks are totally fake. Does anyone have any evidence that they are real?
can biotechnology/genetic technology trace out a person's origin?if so,how?
I was reading the article on semen and I as curious: how long can semen be stored in liquid nitrogen/cold storage? People could be stored for a long time via cryonics. Could sperm be stored forever? What about body parts and organs? Are there any side effects on the sperm cells after defrosting? -- Blue387 08:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
A discussion from the pub, in theory, if a mouse fell from the top of the empire state building would it survive?
I imagine that the mouse would probably be too small to be caught up in the net, and would just fall through the spaces hitting the pavement directly, so basically.. no-- 152.163.100.74 14:49, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Can we use sun-glasses while reading? Do all sunglasses protect us from ultra violet rays only?
According to my experience,I feel it's much better when studying. For some parts of physics,even. Anyone else can talk about your studying/or learning about science? Try sharing.-- HydrogenSu 12:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I think human's feelings on "hearing" sound are better than sights. Maybe hearing will appear with "annocing/lound/sound" at the same time when we were children's learning,But human cannot "light" on something,never. I guess human's brain accept sound more easily than sights,in signal processing or memorizing something.-- HydrogenSu 21:17, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
How does the sun heat the earth. Is it the ultra violet rays the produce the heat?
Why are the cloudy nights warmer than the clear nights?
I'm developing some software which will be open source and licensed under the GPL. I have found Noia icons on the web which are also licensed under the GPL. I'd like to use one of the icons (unchanged and intact) in the package as the main icon for the Windows application.
Regards, -- Spaceman85 13:25, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Why does a cloud turn black or dark when its about to rain? 210.211.231.137 14:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Why can we see only light of wavelength 400-700nm not others like ultraviolet light or infrared?
Do humans know the colour of ultraviolet light?
Xionobox, do you think the above line was a joke. You think i am an alien or some thing. From now dont send what you think "jokes". P.S. I know that some animals like bees are sensitive to UV light. 61.17.48.173 09:31, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't know if this is appropriate to mention here. But the DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit is a large gathering for game designers to come together and some of the biggest names in video game design are there. It was Intended to happen from the 8th to the 11th. A man named Will Wright (creator of sims, and the upcoming PC game "Spore") was going to be a speaker there on the 10th. I was wondering if anyone knows, or could find out what he spoke about. If there is something that summarizes his speech out there you guys are the ones who could point me in the right direction. If this isn't appropriate for this, my mistake and feel free to remove it, and thanks in advance. Chris M. 16:39, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I recently installed a Windows theme ( http://tev.o2php.com/custo/Nuvola.php) based on David Vignoni's Nuvola icon set (original icons, http://www.icon-king.com/v2/goodies.php). Now I'd like to customize some of my shortcut icons, but I'm not sure which Nuvola icons are in which files. Are the full set of icons -- including any that might not be used in the theme -- available in one DLL or ZIP file anywhere? Or, is there any free program that would convert them all without losing the transparency (as the ones I've tried so far do)? Seahen 16:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I use the computer mostly for reading since I am a journalist. Would upgrading for a laptop or a tablet be of any use? Would a laptop be easy for reading purposes than a desktop? And would a tablet be more useful than a laptop?
I would think a large plasma screen would be the easiest to read, being clear and bright. An LCD is quite clear, but can also be fairly dim. A CRT is bright, but can be blurry. StuRat 19:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Whenever I clench my jaw fairly hard in the abscence of any other significant noise, I hear a short, very high-pitched sound in both ears, which fades after a second or two. Any idea why this might be? GeeJo (t) (c) • 17:08, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Could this be related to TMJ disorder ? 19:06, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Something is triggering the I/O Smart on my Diskeeper, but I can't tell which program is doing it. Is there a (preferably free) program that tracks how much each program is using a drive, like how Task Manager shows how much each program uses the CPU? -- AySz88 ^ - ^ 18:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I suggest you kill off the programs one at a time with Task Manager, if necessary, until the hard disk access stops. This should tell you which program was doing it. StuRat 18:59, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Any one knows how to delete the files in windows or registry of uninstalled software. i have tried registry cleaner, registry repair, HS winperfect, clean registry, ashampoo but non cleans all the files and thats what i need to install a fresh piece.
Why is it that the vast majority of graphic design and multimedia professionals insist that Macs are just better than Windows computers? 70.111.8.113 18:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
your n5h1 still should add about 10 nore country to the map but i is agreat job keep it going thank you kindly
I have been searching for some everyday examples that illustrate Weber's law, can you help?
yes I have seen that but I still have not come up with some everyday illustrations of Weber's law.
when was the internet established?
I am only able to have dial-up service here in the country - but my laptop is wireless capable. When I stay in hotels my laptop connects to the wireless services but I still can’t get on the internet or get my email through MSOutlook. I believe the problem is that my laptop is some how configured to connect only through the dial-up but I don’t know how to change that. I need to be able to switch back and forth between dial-up and home and wireless when traveling. I hope this was understandable. Thanks for any help you can offer. -- 63.24.88.70 07:31, 13 February 2006 (UTC)MarCia
I was just thinking about this today: Why do people donate to cancer research? We have so many online donation centers, sponsored runs, cancer research-supporting thrift stores and so on. Surely cancer research is a multi-billion dollar industry, with chemo raking in millions and other drugs raking in who knows how much. More specifically, any pharma company that succeeds in creating a magic bullet cancer drug, or even just any drug that's better than the current standard, will dominate the market and be sitting on a billion-dollar pill. Aren't big-pharma and the investment bankers pouring in more than enough of their own money for what could be an extremely profitable investment? — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 16:02, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
I was just looking at the cancer article, and it's quite good. -- Zeizmic 22:25, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
As someone who works with charities in this rough kind of area, you don't get much funding outside of personal donations and business sponsership (at least in the UK). We deal with about 20 projects a year with about 5-15 people on each. 4-8 of these are business sponsered. The other's come from public donations. Something of interest is that the big amounts come from will donations. Still give my money to cancer charities each month as people I know have died from it and I want to think I'm helping find an answer. If you look at where we were 50 years ago a lot has been done. More could be done in another 50 years.
In the context of evolution, how is it possible the incidence of myopia and other vision related disorders is so high? I would expect a strong evolutionary selection against them, especially with early people living as hunters etc. -- 84.41.227.226 16:11, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Some thoughts. 1. It may be that there is no genetic basis for myopia; in that case evolution doesn't apply. 2. If it is genetic, eyesight generally worsens as you get older. But any worsening after the children or born isn't relevant to evolution. 3. I'd think you could still be an effective hunter in many modes of hunting with myopia. Digging a pit for trapping doesn't require good eyesight. Even in aiming an arrow at a mammoth, it doesn't matter whether it is fuzzy or clear, it's a target in any case. Notinasnaid 16:36, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Note that myopia not only makes long range vision worse, but also makes short range vision better. This might have had advantages in tribal societies, where having a few individuals with good short range vision for tool making, sewing furs together, picking insects out of food stores, etc., could aid the survival of the tribe and hence increase the possibility of those genes being passed on. StuRat 21:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Are there more people in the United Kingdom with blue eyes or with brown eyes? -- OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 16:46, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
"Don't it turn my brown eyes blue." - A song about the effects of excessive blueberry consumption. StuRat 21:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Will a 10" tablet PC be good enough for web browsing? I use the PC only for web browsing. Since I am buying a tablet pc, I am confused whether to go for a 10 or 12 or 14 inch tablet? Which one should I go?
Will a 10" tablet (used in same mode as a computer screen portrait or landscape I mean) be good enough for browsing the web or would it be too small or will be a little small or too small?
10 inches is really small. Unless you have exceptional eyesight to make out the tiny characters, I suggest a larger screen. StuRat 21:07, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I am having trouble finding out whether or not the natural frequency of an object is the same as it's resonant frequency. Logically, they should be the same, but I'm working in complex numbers, and some of the equation's I'm working with show that the natural frequency is not the same as the resonant frequency. My question is, under what condidtions can an object's natural frequency be different than it's resonant frequency?-- Rayc 21:45, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
what beans are baked beans?
Usually they are dried white beans - here is my favorite recipe for baked beans 63.24.1.78 01:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC)MarCia The beans can be made ahead. After cooking, cool them to room temperature and refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
Serves 4 to 6 4 ounces salt pork , trimmed of rind and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
2 ounces bacon (2 slices), cut into 1/4-inch pieces 1 medium onion , chopped fine 1/2 cup mild molasses 1 tablespoon mild molasses 1 1/2 tablespoons brown mustard 1 pound dried small white beans (about 2 cups), rinsed and picked over Table salt 1 teaspoon cider vinegar Ground black pepper
Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position; heat oven to 300 degrees. Add salt pork and bacon to 8-quart Dutch oven; cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned and most fat is rendered, about 7 minutes. Add onion and continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, about 8 minutes. Add 1/2 cup molasses, mustard, beans, 1 1/4 teaspoons salt, and 9 cups water; increase heat to medium-high and bring to boil. Cover pot and set in oven. Bake until beans are tender, about 4 hours, stirring once after 2 hours. Remove lid and continue to bake until liquid has thickened to syrupy consistency, 1 to 1 1/2 hours longer. Remove beans from oven; stir in remaining tablespoon of molasses, vinegar, and additional salt and pepper to taste. Serve.
I saw a CNN report about a sufi ritual where people pierced their bodies and ate glass ( of a fluorecent light bulb) and they didn't experience any pain ( I don't know about that), and they didn't bleed! ( I saw that) how can someone not bleed at will? this I guess goes against scientific knowledge...what does this mean? I also saw that budhist monks can literally DRY wet sheets just with the heat of their bodies in a cold environment... how many weird things are out there that we don't know about! :S... and just so noone tells me where is the question, the question is, if there is any theory that explains this, or is it just as weird as it seems to me.-- Cosmic girl 04:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
so... what does this mean? I mean according to Kieff there are studies that show that the brain can control things like blood pressure, and stuff, I already knew that, and also I have heard of cases of people with a multiple personality dissorder changing their neuroelectrical patterns, heart rate facial expresion,and even eye color...but I'm not claiming this is so, I just read it somewhere. but, what does this all mean? this doesn't make sense in a rational world to me, if all this is for real, then our world is...I don't wanna say a curse word...but yeah, if things like this happen, this is not a world that is meant to sustain rational life...since it can and will eventually, drive it crazy...because even if there are experiments that confirm how yoga helps or how monks can do weird things or how the mind can influence the body, we still don't know HOW this happens and that's the important thing...the universe can't be so random...well it can, but I don't like it.-- Cosmic girl 14:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
yeah, u are right, randomness is kinda cool, but not when u want something to hold on to...luckily I never wanted such a thing and the previous coment of mine was a burst of stupidity like the ones I use to have sometimes...--
Cosmic girl
21:39, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Yes , you are probably right, but then I should be able to cure myself of a feber by will and I don't think I would have any reason to not wanna, since a feber is annoying...so my guess is there's something else here...though I wouldn't like it to be that way, but I'm not the kind of person that seeks to confirm what she wants to believe, but seeks the truth, no matter how pretty or ugly it is.-- Cosmic girl 22:30, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
hahaa! =P, luckily I've never had a fever that lasted for more than 2 or 3 days.-- Cosmic girl 19:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Pain, like color is an interpretation of data. It does not exist in the raw data (uninterpreted reality). It really is all in your head. WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Wet sheets ALWAYS dry just with the heat of your body in a cold environment. Try it yourself. your body will dry the sheets too. WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
"How many weird things are out there that we don't know about! Is any theory that explains this, or is it just as weird as it seems to me." Most weird things that it seems "we don't know about" are things some human somewhere (usually a poorly paid scientist) has intimate detailed knowledge of, has written a detailed account of, and conforms to known laws of physics exactly. WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
"the brain can control things like blood pressure" Why shouldn't it? WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
"People with a multiple personality disorder changing their neuroelectrical patterns, heart rate, & facial expresion." yes, the same brain wetware can run different programs producing different results just like computer hardware can run different programs producing different computer behaviors. WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Some eye colors change based on how dialated they are (mine do). WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
"this doesn't make sense in a rational world to me" The world is rational. All humans are nonrational, delusional, and nondesigned. What do you want for an evolved throwaway product? Enjoy life; that's all it's good for. WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
You may be wrong but you may be right I heard this in a song... and maybe the world isn't rational, how are we to know? since you said it yourelf, we humans are deluded. and if all humans are subjective, how can psychiatrists and psychologists have any claim to know sanity from insanity?! the world is just crazy and subjective as hell...-- Cosmic girl 21:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
According to the article on nightmares: "In common current usage, the term nightmare refers to dreams of particular intensity, with content that the sleeper finds disturbing, related either to physiological causes, such as a high fever, or to psychological ones, such as unusual trauma or stress in the sleeper's life."
I had an extremely stressful (as well as depressing) day today, so what are the chances that I will have a nightmare tonight? I'm assuming that this nightmare, if I have it, will be related to today's stressful events, correct? -- Bowlhover 04:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I would like to know what is the Theory of Relativity, how to use it and how does it work
What is the tiling artefact in video compression? explain with example. Thanks
Our article on John Logie Baird doesn't name him, but there are plenty of sites that say the first human to appear on TV was a 15-year-old office boy named William Taynton, whose image Baird successfully transmitted on 30 October 1925.
But this suggests there were other claimants, namely:
And what ever happened to William Taynton? He would be about 96 now if he were still alive. Does anybody know how his life went after his 15 minutes of fame? JackofOz 08:16, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
(revised response after allowing myself to be led astray).
None of these clarifications are necesssary because they are not relevant to my questions. I wasn't asking "who was the first person to appear on television". I was asking "who was J E Hamelford", and "what ever became of William Taynton". JackofOz 23:32, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
hello! I am a first year student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Patras, Greece. I fell a little bit uncertain about my studies... Can you please tell me if possidle, with what can i occupy myself relatively to my studying subject after ihave finished my studies?? Thank you in advance very much
Hi there! I work in the pastry industry and would like to know more about two products that are very commonly used in the pastry kitchen: glucose and invert sugar. They are considered products derived from chemically-treated or chemically-altered products, and therefore, unnatural. The concern of these products being unnatural is that they might pose a hazard to long-term health. Is this correct?
Thanks for your answers. So, is it correct to call these produts "chemically-treated" or "chemically-altered" forms of sugar or some type of sugar?? And, more specifically, what are, if there are any, the health hazards related to the use of these products? -- 70.111.72.88 20:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you all very much, you have been very helpful! -- 70.111.72.88 22:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
This is a discusstion of a French man and I did. There has been still some questions below:-- HydrogenSu 18:54, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
*Une onde plane est une chimère ! Ca n'existe pas, sauf a la considerer localement : en effet, une telle onde occupe tout l'espace, ce qui pose des problemes ;-) — pem 12 février 2006 à 20:08 (CET)
Exuse-me. Do you mean:Any plan waves exist "locationally" only ? For considering of this question, that's showed us which plan waves occupy all space? But I still don't understand while reading what you said above. I'm sorry for my poor French. I would be speaking English above/below. In fields of physics only,just I'm extremly interested in this question,originally. It has been for several days already and been kept it in mind. I hope someone else can tell more about it.(French or English,either one of them is OK. :) ) J'en suis intéreseé qui la question.--HydrogenSu 13 février 2006 à 19:09 (CET)
I've been waiting a answer for the quetion for 2 days and got no reply almost. I don't know why has no reply in it,maybe he's been busy. But I still care this question. -- HydrogenSu 12:42, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Try this: let's say you have a wave, continuous in time, x=cos(?t). Then it has a well defined frequency, but it makes no sense to "localize" the wave in time. Consider then the composite function y={0 for t<0, cos(?t) for 0<t<p, 0 for t>0}. Now the wave has a definite position, but the frequency content is widely distributed. You can see this by doing Fourier transforms. Incidentally, Griffiths uses this as an analogy to the uncertainty principle (uncertainty principles seem to appear whenever Fourier transforms are involved). - mak o 04:42, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I once read a science fiction novel that stated that if all the K-40 in your body, by some incredible coincidence, decayed at once, the radiation would kill you. Is this true? -- Pak aran 15:59, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
doesn't this mean BLACK in spannish, as in the COLOR blac, so why do black people act all offended at being called negros, when it's no more or less offense than calling them black? Oto von Boise
What do cable operators in USA have in the last mile? Do they have copper or do they have fibre opticals?
If they have copper, then how would it be possible for them to have speedier connections than the same copper which telecom cos have?
If they have fibre, why did they lay fibre even before telecom cos?
I would like to know where the statement "the rabbit is dead" came from. Usually this statement is used when someone is testing for pregnancy. If they are pregnant they say "the rabbit is dead", when they are not pregnant they say "nope the rabbit is not dead yet." Some speculate that a long time ago the woman's blood was injected into the rabbit and if it died they were pregnant and if the rabbit lived they were not. Any help on this subject would be great as it is being debated at my office. Thanks a bunch!!!
Thanks for your help!! I will now end the debate at the office and educate others, Thanks again. (First time user from Missouri)
Why is Teflon tubing required when keeping a volatile substance under an inert gas like argon?
If I put a PAL VHS tape into a cheap NTSC VCR and hit play, what will I see on the screen? Why? Black Carrot 20:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I have more than 50 such photos from my experiment. I want to measure the slope (angle with horizontal/vertical) of the end plate on the left for each of these photos. I also want to measure the length of each of these tubes. How can i do this in a convenient way (or how can I do this at all)? I have at my disposal softwares like Photoshop, Illustrator, Matlab, GIMP, Paint, Photo Editor, etc. Thanks! deeptrivia ( talk) 20:37, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I think ol' triv-man wants something lazier. I looked it up, and commercial GIS software all has this functionality. However, I can't find out much about the state of open source GIS, just this link [ [14]] Some drawing packages might have a poly-line length measurement. In that case, you would lay on a spline curve, and have it calculate length. -- Zeizmic 23:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, My nephew, a freshman in high school who plans to be a doctor is doing a paper on Dr. Herbert Boyer (Genentech founder Herbert Boyer, former professor of biochemistry at UCSF) and needs to know his date of birth. Dr. Boyer was born in 1936. We know that from a number of WEB sites. However, I cannot find the exact date and would appreciate it if you knew the month and day. Thank you very much. His paper is due 2/21/06 so the sooner I get that information the better. Thank you. Pat Hersom
My firefox wasn't working correctly the other day, and it forced me to create a secondary user profile to open it up. Now it's stuck in the new profile. How do I switch back to the old one? - Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 02:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Will a music CD bought in Egypt play on machines in the USA? Is there a difference in recording formats throughout the world and does that make a native CD incompatability from the continent to continent. Will a CD purchased in Egypt work on standard North American equipment?
sir can i know wat r the yoga treatments for ankylosing spondylitis
On :7.6 Modern Physics
Once again I would ask :How does that formula derive?
Or
I know that human blood is red due to the presence of haemoglobin. But why different animals have different blood colour?
It seems to be a paradox. For  : which means that it does not equal to 1. Thus caused not coresponse Normalization. Known a standing wave is expressed as  :. Can anyone talk about your thoughts? Thanks.
I don't know why cannot edit right now. I'd open a new to edit. In that question, The original Math formula is derived from -- HydrogenSu 13:15, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
<Some of the user's comments were too offensive and involved person attacks. It was off Topic. Thus it is deleted here.>-- HydrogenSu 19:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
heloo , i want to know the source code of a programme. kindly help me in this .the problem ststement is" write a programme in c to find the sum of possitve odd numbers and product of even numbers less than 50"
Do anybody know how to remove the virus named WINFILE?It is a folder-like virus and spread inside the computer by creating the new unknown folder itself.
Is there a tool for batch PDF -> TXT conversion? The source PDFs are scanned documents with the embedded text layer. OCR is not needed at all because you only need to extract the embedded text from them. There are about 46,000 of them so I really need a tool that asks no questions. I tried pdftohtml.exe. It simply fails to see the text layer. -- Toytoy 14:57, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
The files were scanned documents that were poorly OCR'ed by some lowly-paid poor office workers. I have 46,000 such garbage text files now (1.6 GB). The Xpdf works. I find myself badly screwed anyway.
I plan to write a big PERL script to salvage the data someday. It'll involve a huge dictionary, a replacement engine using some sort of maximum length matching algorithm and some black magic or the dark side of the Force. Or I'l redo the OCR. Life sucks and PDF is evil. -- Toytoy 05:17, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
A possibility: Put the PDF files somewhere on the internet where Google can find them and access them using google search. Google creates HTML versions of PDF. WAS 4.250 04:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I would like to know what the difference between B mode and G mode is in wireless networks. I have tried finding the answer on my own but I could not find it anywhere. Thanks! 62.194.16.204 15:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
please give me a description on what this phrase means:
"We dont need no education"
and please help me explain why we need an education
You'll find the answer in our article about Glass. LarryMac 15:53, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Please could you tell me how aquatic animals and plants get there oxygen from water? Thankyou! From Hannah
[2] On which,I did some deriviation about Plank's combining with S.R. in bravely. I'm not sure taking
Is it(taking Im{exponential}) right? or wrong?
I asked this question many months ago at Talk:Gastric acid and never got an answer, so I'm asking again here: Where does the body get chlorine atoms to make HCl from? From salt (NaCl)? If so, does this mean that while eating too much salt may be bad for your blood pressure, eating too little may make it impossible for you to digest your food? Angr/ talk 16:43, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Also note that the sodium and chlorine requirements for people are quite low, since both can be recycled almost indefinitely in the body. It would be a huge task, in modern society, to eat so little salt that you actually suffered from a deficiency of either element (unless, of course, there is something wrong with your body's ability to retain sodium and/or chlorine). One restaurant meal would probably provide you with enough salt for a year, as would almost any processed foods (Campbell's Cream of Sodium soups come to mind, :-)). StuRat 18:28, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
If I put some files at some URL (using Apache), which I don't tell anyone, and don't link to from anywhere else, are the files still discoverable in some way that I'm not thinking of?
I'm not talking about classified data here, just embarassingly personal stuff.
I'll have to clear histories and caches of any public browsers I use to access the files.
I'll use some obscure URL to try to avoid dictionary attacks.
Thanks. 128.220.220.95 19:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you all for your helpful answers. 128.220.220.95 16:34, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Debye's Capacity Theory I derived Debye's Capacity theory. Please see on (part 1) [24] and on (part 2)[25] .The final part , part 3, which will be uploaded tomorrow. It’s now dark-night in Asia. Not convinience.Sorry.
Anyway saying thanks first for any correction if my deriviation is wrong.--HydrogenSu 19:41, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Are those questions reminiscient of homework questions? Well, to be honest, I've given this question to so many students tnat if you get the correct formula in the end, you did not make a mistake. Have a bit of confidence in yourself :-) It is virtually impossible to make a mistake in the derivation and still end up with the right expression. --HappyCamper 16:37, 8 February 2006 (UTC) Have you looked at Debye model article? hydnjo talk 17:51, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
This article above is retrieved from. ....><" Strange! Why not edit again! Angry.....><" Forget it. =7
I've been learning about statistical testing(especially the t-test), and something bothers me. If you use a p<.05 cutoff on a lot of tests (which as I understand it the scientific community does), doesn't that mean that 1 out of every 20 confirmations is a false positive? Even a p<.01 cutoff means 1 out of every 100 confimations with that cutoff is a false positive. In fact, if the tests are as widespread as I've heard they are, the proportion of false positives should be very close to 1/20 and 1/100 respectively, based on the law of large numbers. If I'm right, that means countless important studies got totally the wrong answer from the t-test, and trained statisticians have been relying on it despite that. So, how am I wrong? Black Carrot 20:17, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Assuming a large number (interpret that any way that's interesting) of studies based on such statistics give the wrong answer, which obviously and hopefully is wrong, what effect would that have on scientific knowledge? What things would suffer most, and what would suffer first? How wide would the damage spread, and would it get caught when the results were compared with other things?
I know nerves tend not to grow back. For instance, a severed spinal cord means you're paralysed for life. A stroke means the brain has to work around the damaged section. However, I've heard they are actually capable of growing back to some extent, in some circumstances. Is it at all possible for an eye with a damaged retina to partially or completely grow it back? Is it likely? Has it ever happened? If so, how? If not, why not? Black Carrot 20:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm hearing a bit of disagreement here. One person seems to say brain nerves can regenerate(depending on age), another says it's just peripheral nerves, another says there's an exception to that, and I have no idea at all what Zeizmic is talking about. Black Carrot 01:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Could you please tell me which 7 seas they are referring to when they say "Sailing The 7 Seas". Thank you.
I have been thinking about this question asked by one of my lecturers for sometime, without getting anywhere.
Consider a spring that is bound into compression by a rigid string. If the whole thing is immersed into a weak acid that eats away slowly at the metal of the spring, (but is un-reactive to the string), what happens to the stored mechanical energy?
what metal would make for a superior sword with the characteristics of being super strong, keeping an edge, and excelling in the art of batte ie:sword fighting,dueling, ect. im curious what would make for a superior sword, such as titanium? or animantium(im not sure if it is superior in anyway, im not to sure about animantium in any way shape or form? or steel? or any metals that are out there.
what type of metal would make for light, yet superior in strength and durability armor, ie: bullet proof, sword,knife,club, spike proof, things of that nature.
thats great, now how about for the armor part? metals for armor and the fabric for underneath, any ideas on that?
go through.
I am having trouble finding which rock is used to make building blocks, cement, and fertilizers. I can find two of the three uses for many rocks, but not one that does all three.
What is the definition of the "lens field" when referring to microscopes. Thank you 68.106.127.212 00:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
They help me breath air under water
"My mother is a fish."
I have a sense of humour... it helps me find statements like this somewhat funny, but you coul've done better.-- Cosmic girl 03:24, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
When did humans ever have gills? :S ... when 'we' had them I think we where far from human... hehe, it would be funny to see a hominid with gills...poor hominid, there's no doubt I'd bully him about his gills all day.-- Cosmic girl 16:55, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I heard in TV that the H5N2 aka "avian-influenza-the-serial-killer" was created by humans, mainly cause theres no virus in the whole world that evolves in such form. Is this true? AFAIK the H5N2 was first discovered in China, n we all know the Chinese re havin problems with that overwhelming population. Ok this possibly sounds a bit psychotic or like a conspiracy theory, but WHAT'S GOIN ON???
agree, chinese people are awesome...and chinese guys are cute! :O -- Cosmic girl 19:22, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Wasn't the huge threat H5N1? — Ilyan e p (Talk) 04:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
The pandemic threat is a specific strain of the subtype H5N1 of the species Influenzavirus A (bird flu virus). Its evolution from prior strains is well documented in the on-line documents linked to in the technical sub-section of the H5N1 "Further reading" section. WAS 4.250 05:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
H5N2 caused flu outbreaks with significant spread to numerous farms, resulting in great economic losses in 1983 in Pennsylvania, USA in chickens and turkeys, in 1994 in Mexico in chickens and a minor outbreak in 1997 in Italy in chickens [3]. In China, inactivated H5N2 has been used as a vaccine for H5N1. people.com.cn WAS 4.250 05:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Neither was made by man in a laboratory. But it is arguable that China's livestock vaccine policies helped H5N1 to evolve into what it is today. WAS 4.250 05:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey Wiki Volunteers (right?),
Well, I am a student in high school, and we are doing some interesting things in chemistry. I found something that caught my eye, and decided to search a bit. I was told that if a compound was ionic, it would break up into multiple ions and therefore lower the freezing point depression of water moreso than a molecular compound.
I looked into this, and I found that a compound called Propylene Glycol is a highly used deicer, and works better than a compound such as Calcium Chloride... but Propylene Glycol is molecular (C3H8O2). So why, exactly, is this? I've searched a bit, and maybe I am a bad browser, but I couldn't come up with anything. I am also definately not an experienced chemist, so I could be getting concepts wrong...
I sure hope you guys can help me out--you've done great in the past!
What is an example of a biochemical comparison to identify a species
Many thanks MT
Here is one using
PCR:
Identification of mammalian blood meals in mosquitoes by a multiplexed polymerase chain reaction targeting cytochrome B.
--
JWSchmidt
18:11, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
wtf
Does sex and masturbation lead to loss of energy?
It Burns enough calories and you use enought energy to lose one pound while doing it. (at least in my case)
Hello
I'm trying to figure out how insects like spiders go up over the walls against gravity??
I love researching weird stuff, and this [5] deserves an article. Any of our enthusiastic noobs want to do it? -- Zeizmic 15:40, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
The ability to climb is very much related to the scale of an organism. The weight of an insect or arachnid is almost insignificant compared to other forces, like adhesion. At the scale of people, it's the other way around, and the weight is the most significant force. When you get up to the size of an elephant, climbing becomes completely impossible. StuRat 18:01, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I found some techs on my draw paper which can derive this Solid-Physics formula in easy ways. Not need to truely do by .
-Curiosity-- HydrogenSu 19:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
For the previous discussion, the Plank's S.H.O. energy shows as:
I have pets,they're fishes. Everytime I call them come by shaking my hand(s),they'll do. Why? Curiosity...Do they "feel" my existance? If they do,why do they seem to "don't know of me" when I am back home? -- HydrogenSu 11:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I go with the feeding theory. They have learned that a certain series of images and sounds comes right before they are fed, so they move into position to be sure they get the food. You could arrange a system where Beethoven is played right before a robotic arm dumps their food into the container, and they would react in the same way (" A Fishbowl Orange"Â ?). StuRat 17:43, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
There's a common misconception that fish can't see outside the bounds of their fishtank because of refraction. If you look into a fishtank from the top, it appears as if the inner-side of the tank is a mirror and so that's where the misunderstanding comes from. Looking outside the tank from inside the water changes the angle of refraction, and thus, the fish can see you as well as you can see them, assuming they're looking and the actually care. I agree with Shantavaria in that they probably see something coming and assume it's just the God of food. Try walking up to them and waving them away saying "RUN AWAY! I'm going to KILL you!". There's a very good chance they would treat you exactly the same way as if you were shaking your hands at them.   freshgavin TALK   03:12, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
There is an old saying that "a gold fish has a three second memory." MythBusters tested this one. Verdict: not true. Fish do remember stuff for at least several weeks. The guys from MythBusters made simple mazes for their fish. Years ago, I saw a much more complicated fish maze. Fish would congregate at one particular place in the "tank-maze" just at feeding time. And they would respond to a cue to go somewhere else in the maze for feeding at "surprize feedings". The really neat thing about this is that every few weeks you could change the feeding place, and the fish would relearn the new location. Co-ol, no?
Is it possible to design a test in PHP (or similar web language) that can measure the time taken to make responses? If so, how accurate can this measure be (miliseconds?)? Thank you very much!
Why is it when you get from metal when a small peice of foil is in between your teeth. i cant recall from chemistry, it was discussed. what does the metal conduct for it to be electricty? thank you for your response.
I think whenever you have moving pieces of metal there will be small electrical charge imbalances and thus tiny sparks. The diff is that the root of a tooth is much more sensitive to this type of thing than the skin, so a person with fillings which conduct the spark to the root with feel it more. Now, why exactly are the roots of teeth so darned sensitive ? I suppose if a caveman was biting something hard that was about to crack a tooth, it was of critical importance to their survival to stop before the tooth cracked. A cracked tooth might have been a death sentence before their were dentists to stop infection and abscess from occurring. StuRat 17:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I think the letter "s" does not need to be in "photons". Which the vocabulary is from German originally. In German, s/es might not be always added in the end to show it is plural. But in English,must be added in most cased. I'm not sure still. My mother-language is Chinese. We shoud respect German in "photon"? How about? Anyone here is able to be good at German? I'd just learned for several months. Listing:
-- HydrogenSu 17:11, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you all. Merci. My "wife-language" is French. Je maitenant sais que "photon" n'est pas de German mais est du français. Et il a quelq'uen sait que qulques choses des "photons" avec Eintein? Si il peut senaître,parler en tout à mois. S'il vous plaît. -- HydrogenSu 09:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
What part of the HER-2 protein does Herceptin bind to?
Why does quenching only work for steel? How can I harden wrought iron, brass, etc.? Ksenon 19:37, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
is electric power frequency (50Hz or 60Hz ) included in the electromagnetic spectrum. please explain with chart if so.thanks in advance. 210.56.6.114 21:28, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
There probably isn't an answer to this, given that so little is known about dark matter, but the question is in my head and I need to try. I've seen on the TV (and checked on the article dark matter that galaxies are thought to be 'composed largely of a roughly spherical halo of dark matter with the visible matter concentrated in a disc at the center'. Given as how this dark matter is supposed to interact with atomic matter(and hold the galaxies together), what would happen to something made of ordinary atomic matter is if was removed from a galaxy and placed in open space away from the influence of dark matter? If, somehow, you flew a ship away from a galaxy, would it, and I know this sounds odd, fly apart without the dark matter? Probably not fly apart, but would there be any noticable effect?
Ta! Sabine's Sunbird 22:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't think it's dark matter, but my theory is that there is a substance in the intergalactic voids which repels normal matter. This explains:
StuRat 09:52, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I try to use regular keyboard to write POJ onto a microsoft word file but do not know how to do it. Please help. Thanks.-- Robert Wu 2/9/2006
Can a crystal overcharge and cause a massive explosion? (read the article on Edgar Cayce in 'major themes', at the end of the paragraph that talks about Atlantis).-- Cosmic girl 22:36, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
I know it's just an organized molecular structure,and I don't know what is meant by 'charging the crystal' in that part of the article, that's why I ask...I don't think such a thing is possible either, but I'd better ask than suspect.-- Cosmic girl 23:10, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
A crystal can store a lot of static electricity, so in that respect, maybe. -- PopUpPirate 01:11, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
but can it actually 'explode'?-- Cosmic girl 02:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
To answer the question, pretty much everything that Edgar Cayce had to say was nonsense. TenOfAllTrades( talk) 01:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
To answer the question in another way, all explosions are the result of a substance expanding very rapidly and bursting their container. I don't think electricity passing through a normal crystal can cause anything inside the crystal to expand rapidly. Also, even if crystals can explode, the explosion won't be massive if the crystal itself isn't big. Bowlhover 04:46, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thanks! :) -- Cosmic girl 19:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
"Whether a butterfly's wing beat can cause a tornado is still a central debate of chaos theory. But is is now proven that drawings first published more than four months ago in Denmark have seeded outrage among Muslims from Gaza to Jakarta and embittered believers making their lives in Europe." -Time Magazine, current edition
I don't think the allusion to the
butterfly effect makes sense. A butterfly creating a tornado is an example of sensitive dependence on initial conditions. And from common sense, sensitive dependence on initial conditions must exist if one considers the enormous number of factors involved in real-world deterministic systems.
So my point is, I don't think there really is any debate about whether or not sensitive dependence on initial conditions exists, as stated by the article. And if there was, it wouldn't be around the butterfly example, since this is merely an illustrative example, not the central doctrine of chaos theory.(oops, ignore this) Am I right in this? --
JianLi
00:07, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Awhile ago, when I was visiting RadioShack, the clerk mentioned something he was trying to do in his spare time: make a radio (which broadcasts electromagnetic waves of a controllable frequency) broadcast a frequency within the range of visible light. Specifically, green. Is this possible? Black Carrot 01:42, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
For the record, my antenna beside me is already emitting a wavelength, even when it is turned off, thanks to the vibrations of the electrons. If I wanted my antenna to emit red light, all I would have to do would be to heat it up to around 1000 degrees. I could go up to white light, but I'm not certain if there would be any way of having it emit green light. — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 19:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Surely a green lightbulb would do the job? Gdr 22:14, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Was there intravenous feeding of patients in the late 1930s? These would be patients in comas. If not, how did they feed these patients? If there was, what were the instruments that were used, and what was the IV fluid contained in?
I'm trying to build a factory class via an interface, like this:
public interface Factory<T extends BaseObject> { public T newInstance(); }
So I implement my interface like this:
public class DefaultFactory<T extends BaseObject> implements Factory<T> { public T newInstance() { return new T(); } }
According to Java theory and practice: Generics gotchas (Construction delays), I should (and in fact do) get a compiler error: Cannot instantiate the type T.
My crappy solution is to pass in a Class<T> as a parameter to the DefaultFactory constructor, call Class.newInstance(), catch any thrown exceptions and throw an Error-based Throwable.
Am I approaching this pattern the wrong way? The purpose is I later plan to combine a custom iterator class (much like the generic Iterator interface), and since the source of data is a database or file (rather than a list), I need to be able to instantiate objects on the fly, rather than pulling them into a list and using the java.util.Iterator class.
-- 24.231.16.6 03:53, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Could someone direct me to information relating to the causes and nature of both the "Medieval Warm Period" (AD 890 - 1170) and the "Little Ice Age" (AD 1580 - 1850)?
Such as what environmental factors brought them about and allowed for a return to normal temperaturese? Was their effect mostly localized, or was it global? Etc.
This article compares those to the current cycle. [6] -- Zeizmic 13:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Is there any way for me to completely remove Internet Explorer from my Windows XP computer? I use Firefox, and my IE doesn't work anyway (it brings up an error and crashes). And if I need IE for a site that onl allows it, I can allows reinstall a fresh version that works. So I would love to delete it, to free up a little disk space and speed up the computer a tiny bit (I assume it will, because it is integrated with the desktop environment, isn't it?) I don't use Outlook, MSN Explorer, or Windows Messenger, so I don't care if they won't work or are deleted (actually, come to think of it, deleting would actually be nice!) while removing IE. I am familiar with the registry, but I just wanted expert advice before I started deleting any keys that seemed to be associated with IE and messed up my computer. Thanks.
I also came to that conclusion, that it is impossible to remove. However, I found that if you just don't use it for the Internet, it comes out to the same. Here's an interesting news item that jives with my experience with the kids: [7] -- Zeizmic 13:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Q.What is TM mode
A:Disappeared-- HydrogenSu 13:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
-- HydrogenSu 10:37, 10 February 2006 (UTC) -- HydrogenSu 12:39, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
errr... how will you know that the person who asked the question can read chinese? enochlau ( talk) 12:50, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Bingo....No....I mean the person who deleted was me. It won't be pity if I delete any Chinese. -- HydrogenSu 19:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I need help understandin these two topics. I would grateful if i got diagrams too. So if any one could please help me. thanks. Arijit
Vous pouvez voir en [9] ou en [10] Pendent vous allez vu(e), si c’est fini, souvant postez vos nouvelles questions ici.-- HydrogenSu 13:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
With all these questions about electromagnetism I remember once reading the following idea in the Dutch Mensa Journal. Visible light varies in frequency from 400 THz to 700 THz, which is almost double. In sound, a doubling of the frequency gives an octave-shift; the note is 'sort of the same'. And indeed, the light at the two ends of the visible spectrum are somewhat similar, both somewhat 'reddish'. If we could see frequencies from, say 100 to 1000 nm would we then perceive light in octaves (in casu just over 3 octaves)? And are there animals that can see such a wide spectrum of light?
One could take this even further. In music, a perfect fifth is a pleasing interval (a consonant), with the higher frequency being 1,5 x the lower frequency. But the nearby diminished fifth is a strong dissonant, very unpleasing, with a ratio of 1:1,4142. In light there is less room for such intervals without stepping out of the visible spectrum, but could one say that the combination of, say, 400 THz and 600 THz is pleasing, whereas the combination of 400 THz and 565,7 THz is displeasing? DirkvdM 10:43, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
I was specutively considering what the colour of herding dinosoars might have been, and I got to thinking of zebra stripes. I wondered about the function of the stripes. Does it disguise the number in a herd from a distance in a heat haze? Or perhaps by a similar process allow young zebra to be better hidden in a herd? Alternatively, could it operate as a dazzle display against preditors at short distances i.e. the fast moving horizontal movement of their vertical lines interfering with a preditors judgment of distance or position as the preditor is about to pounce?
Dudley Warrinton-- 62.6.174.104
Is there any eyeglass available specifically used when seeing a computer? (Is there any special glass which can be used while using a computer?)
What is the name of that glass?
Can we use sunglass while using a computer? Or would a Anti-reflective coating glass be of any use?
From my own experience dealing with weak eyes applied to computers, I've learned that 90% of it is due to drying from not blinking enough, and the remaining 10% is from an uncomfortable focal length sought by your eyes (when focusing on the screen). It has nothing to do with 'glare' because i see the same impact from using a harsh polished CRT monitor in a high light situation as i do when using a very glare-proof LCD monitor in more mellow conditions. The tricks that work for me are: moving the monitor closer or farther (usually farther) to create a more comforable distance, and taking frequent breaks where my eyes are doing some other task (like looking out a window at long range) to allow them to normalize. If this doesn't help you, consult an Optometrist as there are glasses (very similar to reading glasses) that can help some people to better focus on computer screens. Hope this helps! -- Jmeden2000 19:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
User:AlMac| (talk) 21:00, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
moved from Talk:Gelatin - I am carrying research on gelatine. I need some technical help on determining the bloom of gelatine. Can any of viever can suggest me how to determine the bloom of gelatine gel by using very simple instrument or design of instrument to measure bloom. sushil dhital - nepal pls mail to [email removed]
I am trying to find out what the different types of Titanium Dioxide can be applied to and the only one that i don't seem to be able to find much about is this one "Titanium Dioxide 99.99998 purity - powder format" Can anyone help me???
Kind regards.
Tania <Email removed>
This looks like it came from an ebay entry...
how do we daydream even when we are wide awake?I thought dreams are only active when our body is at rest
I dreamed yesterday some dogs hiding my research/sudy pappers in three holes. And in my dream was about -- HydrogenSu 18:36, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Daydreams can often be a mild self-induced hypnotic state in which the brain produces alpha waves. I was at the dentist yesterday. While I was having a tooth drilled, I was actively focussing my vision on the mobile gently circling overhead, and actively listening to the music being played (Villa-Lobos's Preludes for guitar) and actively tapping my fingers on my belly in time with the rhythm of the music. I was not entirely unaware of the dentist and her doings, but a lot less aware of her than I might have been. The same kind of thing happens, often fleetingly, when you're just sitting at your desk, say, but your mind is concentrated on something else that's not physically present. The thing at hand goes on a little holiday while you go on your inner journey, and we call that daydreaming. JackofOz 22:41, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I am doing some research, and I have been searching on web for info about how a seed germinates after it is planted. I am not talking about specific environmental conditions that may be provided to help it germinate, but the specific mechanisms that are inherent in the seed to help it germinate. For example how does a seed know which way is up and which way is down for the roots and shoots to grow when it is buried within soil. Thank you for your time Rizvi
In my efforts to play around with Windows 2003 and scaling it down, I used nLite to remove a bunch of things, including the Secondary Logon service. I thought to myself Ahhh I'll never need that service. And I didn't, for a very long time. Then I tried to install PostgreSQL (which I prefer running on Linux anyways, but oh well), which is the only app I've found I've used that actually needs to this stupid service. Is there any way to get it back without rebuilding my install image and reinstalling Windows? -- 131.202.90.23 20:23, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
How does this work? : http://www.mysticalball.com/. -- Cosmic girl 21:55, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
Awesome, thank u guys...hey EWS23, do u want me to leave u a message? or is that just part of your nickname....hhaha, cause I've seen that 'leave me a message' thing following a lot of nicknames.-- Cosmic girl 03:41, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
When you cook with wine, would be be reasonable to say that the alcohol is not boiled off because it forms an azeotrope with water? -- HappyCamper 22:35, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
"Eat with your children, that way you'll always have a little whine with your dinner." StuRat 01:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Another thing to note is that in many jurisdictions, distillation is illegal, but increasing alcohol concentration by freezing is not. moink 02:30, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
im doing a solo paper and experement on casien in curd, starting withun pasterised bovine milk , so far iv found how to clean, skim and seperate crds and whey and iknow that there is a high conc of casien in the whey but im stuck on what test to prove that thats whats in my sample. iv exhausted all the books in the collage liabary, and have just spent over six hours this week on the net trying to find it, but my results from both dont give me a clear answer
do you know if any of there are right maillard reaction casien hydrolisis test kappacasien and Ca phosphate stabilisation
yours hopefull tara
Tara, As a pharm science student you have to be careful about spellings...in this case, it's casein, not casien, so you're having trouble finding references. This .pdf file markets a lutex-agglutination based antibody test for casein. Probably not practical for your purposes, though, unless all you have to do is describe the test. - Nunh-huh 07:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm fond of the future, how we'll live, and how long we'll live. Therefore, what articles are relevant to the prolonging of lifespans due to future medical advances? Also, immortality due to future medical advances? -- Shultz 23:08, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
what are the comparisons of energy contents in food such as millet,cassava and rice.----------
Hi. I don't really know anything about computers, but I would like to purchase an inexpensive laptop for my work. I'd like it to be able to do 'power point presentations', use the internet, email, and word processor. What kind of laptop should I be looking at?
Where's the question? What about gemology? :| ? ?i?ff? ? 01:41, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, im working on a project about sound response but can't find any wikipedia infomation on it. The technology im using is based on an audio float controller, assigned to models in 3D studio max; the models move and react to the input from wav. files, eg rotate whenever there is a beat in a song. Does anyone have any other suggestions as to what to search for or where to look to find more on animation reacting/moving to sound? thanks for your time.
Give me a list of elements which can undergo nuclear fission. 210.211.231.51 03:39, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for the question about fission. I meant- 'give me list of elements which can undergo fusion.' -- (same guy who asked the question)
Does anyone have any idea how many Yahoo accounts have been created? Captain Jackson 04:42, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Why isn't hydrogen considered a metalloid even though it can form H+ and H- ions? EamonnPKeane 12:18, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Apart from WAP and html, is there any other type of mobile browsing?
Is java (mobile) another way of browsing, or is it just related to html?
Is there any other type of mobile browsing?
Hello, thanks for having this service!!
I would like to know how many websites there are on the internet. I know the number must be astoundingly large by now, maybe more than 5 billion??
Thanks for your efforts in advance!! Happy Pre-Valentines Day!
InquiringMind
how does one calculate (in simple tems) the focal point of a parabole according (I imagine) to the angle of curvature? How can I find the answer on wikipedia if someone is kind enough to help?----
there is a points to all this, just keep reading, and hopefully you can help me answer my question, i didnt know were to put it, so i tried the Science Section.
In the ancient world there were many classes and countrys and warriors, but the Vikings are by far the most repeated, accounts of them coming on to shores in there Viking long boats or throwing there huge axes at men charging them, terrorizing villages and countrys alike let alone there berserkers were mean enough, crazy enough and bad enough to take on dozens of men at a time.They were one of the most feard people in Europe and lived in the harshes enviroments ie: what is now Russia, and Greenland.
The Samurais were also one of the most feared warriors in Japan, they were quick, diciplined, and would take there own life if told to do so. They were bodyguards, warriors, even assassins. There light armor made them quick, and the curved swords were fast and cut ferociously. You showed them respect, nd if you dishonored them it could meen you lose your head without a hesitation.
My question to whom ever can answer is this, "In the MedievalAges, who would win in a battle against each other, the Fierce Vikings, or the Diciplined Samurais? Who had the better Weapons and Armor, Who could do more damage, and what effect do you think Samurai swords and armor would have against Viking swords, axes and armor and shields." I thank you for any information you can give me.
that just states that this question in nonsense......
Katana#Comparisons with European swords has an interesting/theoretical comparison. - Cybergoth 14:49, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I understand the health benefits of grape seed oil. Please inform the manufacturing procedure, machinery suppliers to make Grape Seed Oil. (e-mail address removed)
(Why cannot plane waves be normalized?)-by the way needing a "short" answer only-this way saying,Brintish-English?
I say thanks first to any reply for the aboves.--
HydrogenSu
18:17, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
But don't understand very well still.
-- HydrogenSu 18:34, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Note to readers, don't waste your time following the footnote links above, as I did, since they are just the monochromator and plane waves links repeated from above, in a weird form. StuRat 19:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
In order to normalise a wave you have to multiply it by some number so that the integral of the square of the wavefunction (the probabilty) = 1 (i.e the probabilty of finding the wave quantum somewhere in space = 1)
A plane wave exists everywhere in space. The integral will therefore be infinite. There is no number that you can multiply infinity by to get 1. Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 00:36, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Q:Verify Maxwell's speed distribution function::
Sol:
(?Pour quoi c'est le commencé pour la question?) -- HydrogenSu 19:26, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I have a TV that one of my kids broke the connector for the cable TV input (F connector). And getting it fixed costs more than is worth. This TV has both RCA input and an S-Video input.
Does anyone know if I can find / use and adaptor to either of these two input connectors in place of the F-Connector?
Thanks,
Bruce Bbottger 18:52, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
The F-type connector carries a radio-frequency (antenna) signal on which the video signal is encoded. (Or it may contain multiple, separately-enccoded channels, e.g. if it's cable TV.) The RCA and S-video connectors, on the other hand, are for single, line-level, composite video signals. So they're very different. The only "adapter" from the F-type connector to one of those other two would have to be a TV tuner, and while those exist, it would certainly cost more than fixing the broken F connector (or, if what you say is true, than the set is worth).
Fixing the broken F-type connector (or kludging in another one, connected to the same wire inside) shouldn't be that expensive. Maybe you just need to get a second estimate. Steve Summit ( talk) 19:55, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Your page on the Missourri River lists its length as 2315 miles, and that of the Mississippi at 2350 miles. Since the Missouri is really just a tributary of the Mississippi, that would make the true length of the total Mississippi 4665 miles, the longest river in the world, but you have their total length listed as just 3,900 miles, third in the world. Why is this?
Anthony
Thanks!
Look at a map. The Mississippi starts north of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Missouri joins it at St Louis. The Mississippi's distance between Minneapolis and St. Louis probably accounts for most of the that discrepancy, if the 3900 mile distance is from the source of the Missouri to the Gulf. alteripse 23:45, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Is electric power frequency (50Hz or 60Hz ) included in the electromagnetic spectrum or not . please be precise.
thanx
Imran
Would you lose weight after giving blood, or would it just stay the same because the blood gets replaced?
I was thinking of asking this anyway, and this seems like a good place. Is giving blood a good way to reduce blood pressure? It seems logical, but it's not listed at Blood donation#Benefits. — Keenan Pepper 22:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
The volume of a unit of blood is about 500 cc, about half a kg of immediate weight loss. BUT, about 70% of that weight is water and you replace it as soon as you drink. The remaining 125 g of solid matter removed in the blood is replaced when you eat a hamburger. So yes, you lose wt, but not much. The blood pressure would drop as the 500 cc is removed, but that much can be quickly compensated for, so any blood pressure lowering effect is most likely a matter of minutes rather than hours or days. alteripse 23:43, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
That's right. A little renin, a little aldo, and presto, pressure. alteripse 00:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
While the 10% of blood given during a donation can be easily compensated for by the body, higher percentages can't, so will result in lower BP. I've often thought that in people with severe high BP, removal of blood should be considered as a treatment option. I would do it in a continuous loop, as in hemodialysis, where the amount outside the body can be controlled precisely to adjust BP. I would think such a method could be used to quite precisely control BP, especially in patients who are already undergoing hemodialysis. StuRat 04:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Blood pressure goes up after giving blood, as the body compensates for the missing blood volume. Giving blood is *not* a good way to reduce blood pressure. Raul654 04:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Do all life processes produce heat? I've wondered about the circle of snow and ice free area around trees and plants. Do they actually produce enough heat to keep the area free of snow, or is there some other explanation? -- Fyslee 23:01, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
Stated differently, are there any endothermic reactions used by life forms ? StuRat 01:37, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Why do some animals (like sea animals,I don't know exactly wich) exhibit cellular automata patterns on their 'skin', shell or outter covering? does this have an explanation? or is it not yet known why this happens?. oh and also,can a cellular automata hold an 'infinite' ammount of info. and/or processes? If not, is there any 'machine' hypothetical or real, (like a quantum computer) than CAN hold an infinite ammount of information and/or processes?. I mean, not being infinite in itself, it has to be finite, to be a machine, but infinite 'inside it' like, 'subjectively infinite'. can that be? or am I on drugs...-- Cosmic girl 02:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thank you :), yeah I knew about the omega point, it's a cool theory.-- Cosmic girl 03:13, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
ok, thanx for the 1st link...well when I ask about a computer that can contain an infinite ammount of info. I don't mean a computer that is inside our universe, but one that IS our universe, I suppose that the bekenstein bound wouldn't apply to the universe as a whole...do you think this is possible at all? since I know nothing about math nor computer science.-- Cosmic girl 03:17, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
haha! I knowwww, I'm on neurochemicals...at least they are natural drugs! :|-- Cosmic girl 03:31, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thank you! :) -- Cosmic girl 03:48, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thanks :) -- Cosmic girl 22:33, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
What do you think would happen if a vandal with OCD discovered wikipedia?- 152.163.100.74 05:27, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
How does one mass edit (in tradition of Finale) in Sibelius? --hello, i'm a member | talk to me! 05:41, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Oh, and how do I add a forte (piano), among other things?
Why does the score always stop at the end of the page? I've checked their help system.
I think he must pay the so called crowds and random people he performs for and selects for assistance. His tricks are totally fake. Does anyone have any evidence that they are real?
can biotechnology/genetic technology trace out a person's origin?if so,how?
I was reading the article on semen and I as curious: how long can semen be stored in liquid nitrogen/cold storage? People could be stored for a long time via cryonics. Could sperm be stored forever? What about body parts and organs? Are there any side effects on the sperm cells after defrosting? -- Blue387 08:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
A discussion from the pub, in theory, if a mouse fell from the top of the empire state building would it survive?
I imagine that the mouse would probably be too small to be caught up in the net, and would just fall through the spaces hitting the pavement directly, so basically.. no-- 152.163.100.74 14:49, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Can we use sun-glasses while reading? Do all sunglasses protect us from ultra violet rays only?
According to my experience,I feel it's much better when studying. For some parts of physics,even. Anyone else can talk about your studying/or learning about science? Try sharing.-- HydrogenSu 12:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I think human's feelings on "hearing" sound are better than sights. Maybe hearing will appear with "annocing/lound/sound" at the same time when we were children's learning,But human cannot "light" on something,never. I guess human's brain accept sound more easily than sights,in signal processing or memorizing something.-- HydrogenSu 21:17, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
How does the sun heat the earth. Is it the ultra violet rays the produce the heat?
Why are the cloudy nights warmer than the clear nights?
I'm developing some software which will be open source and licensed under the GPL. I have found Noia icons on the web which are also licensed under the GPL. I'd like to use one of the icons (unchanged and intact) in the package as the main icon for the Windows application.
Regards, -- Spaceman85 13:25, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Why does a cloud turn black or dark when its about to rain? 210.211.231.137 14:47, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Why can we see only light of wavelength 400-700nm not others like ultraviolet light or infrared?
Do humans know the colour of ultraviolet light?
Xionobox, do you think the above line was a joke. You think i am an alien or some thing. From now dont send what you think "jokes". P.S. I know that some animals like bees are sensitive to UV light. 61.17.48.173 09:31, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't know if this is appropriate to mention here. But the DICE (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit is a large gathering for game designers to come together and some of the biggest names in video game design are there. It was Intended to happen from the 8th to the 11th. A man named Will Wright (creator of sims, and the upcoming PC game "Spore") was going to be a speaker there on the 10th. I was wondering if anyone knows, or could find out what he spoke about. If there is something that summarizes his speech out there you guys are the ones who could point me in the right direction. If this isn't appropriate for this, my mistake and feel free to remove it, and thanks in advance. Chris M. 16:39, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I recently installed a Windows theme ( http://tev.o2php.com/custo/Nuvola.php) based on David Vignoni's Nuvola icon set (original icons, http://www.icon-king.com/v2/goodies.php). Now I'd like to customize some of my shortcut icons, but I'm not sure which Nuvola icons are in which files. Are the full set of icons -- including any that might not be used in the theme -- available in one DLL or ZIP file anywhere? Or, is there any free program that would convert them all without losing the transparency (as the ones I've tried so far do)? Seahen 16:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I use the computer mostly for reading since I am a journalist. Would upgrading for a laptop or a tablet be of any use? Would a laptop be easy for reading purposes than a desktop? And would a tablet be more useful than a laptop?
I would think a large plasma screen would be the easiest to read, being clear and bright. An LCD is quite clear, but can also be fairly dim. A CRT is bright, but can be blurry. StuRat 19:11, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Whenever I clench my jaw fairly hard in the abscence of any other significant noise, I hear a short, very high-pitched sound in both ears, which fades after a second or two. Any idea why this might be? GeeJo (t) (c) • 17:08, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Could this be related to TMJ disorder ? 19:06, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Something is triggering the I/O Smart on my Diskeeper, but I can't tell which program is doing it. Is there a (preferably free) program that tracks how much each program is using a drive, like how Task Manager shows how much each program uses the CPU? -- AySz88 ^ - ^ 18:04, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I suggest you kill off the programs one at a time with Task Manager, if necessary, until the hard disk access stops. This should tell you which program was doing it. StuRat 18:59, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Any one knows how to delete the files in windows or registry of uninstalled software. i have tried registry cleaner, registry repair, HS winperfect, clean registry, ashampoo but non cleans all the files and thats what i need to install a fresh piece.
Why is it that the vast majority of graphic design and multimedia professionals insist that Macs are just better than Windows computers? 70.111.8.113 18:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
your n5h1 still should add about 10 nore country to the map but i is agreat job keep it going thank you kindly
I have been searching for some everyday examples that illustrate Weber's law, can you help?
yes I have seen that but I still have not come up with some everyday illustrations of Weber's law.
when was the internet established?
I am only able to have dial-up service here in the country - but my laptop is wireless capable. When I stay in hotels my laptop connects to the wireless services but I still can’t get on the internet or get my email through MSOutlook. I believe the problem is that my laptop is some how configured to connect only through the dial-up but I don’t know how to change that. I need to be able to switch back and forth between dial-up and home and wireless when traveling. I hope this was understandable. Thanks for any help you can offer. -- 63.24.88.70 07:31, 13 February 2006 (UTC)MarCia
I was just thinking about this today: Why do people donate to cancer research? We have so many online donation centers, sponsored runs, cancer research-supporting thrift stores and so on. Surely cancer research is a multi-billion dollar industry, with chemo raking in millions and other drugs raking in who knows how much. More specifically, any pharma company that succeeds in creating a magic bullet cancer drug, or even just any drug that's better than the current standard, will dominate the market and be sitting on a billion-dollar pill. Aren't big-pharma and the investment bankers pouring in more than enough of their own money for what could be an extremely profitable investment? — Asbestos | Talk (RFC) 16:02, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
I was just looking at the cancer article, and it's quite good. -- Zeizmic 22:25, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
As someone who works with charities in this rough kind of area, you don't get much funding outside of personal donations and business sponsership (at least in the UK). We deal with about 20 projects a year with about 5-15 people on each. 4-8 of these are business sponsered. The other's come from public donations. Something of interest is that the big amounts come from will donations. Still give my money to cancer charities each month as people I know have died from it and I want to think I'm helping find an answer. If you look at where we were 50 years ago a lot has been done. More could be done in another 50 years.
In the context of evolution, how is it possible the incidence of myopia and other vision related disorders is so high? I would expect a strong evolutionary selection against them, especially with early people living as hunters etc. -- 84.41.227.226 16:11, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Some thoughts. 1. It may be that there is no genetic basis for myopia; in that case evolution doesn't apply. 2. If it is genetic, eyesight generally worsens as you get older. But any worsening after the children or born isn't relevant to evolution. 3. I'd think you could still be an effective hunter in many modes of hunting with myopia. Digging a pit for trapping doesn't require good eyesight. Even in aiming an arrow at a mammoth, it doesn't matter whether it is fuzzy or clear, it's a target in any case. Notinasnaid 16:36, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
Note that myopia not only makes long range vision worse, but also makes short range vision better. This might have had advantages in tribal societies, where having a few individuals with good short range vision for tool making, sewing furs together, picking insects out of food stores, etc., could aid the survival of the tribe and hence increase the possibility of those genes being passed on. StuRat 21:18, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Are there more people in the United Kingdom with blue eyes or with brown eyes? -- OpenToppedBus - Talk to the driver 16:46, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
"Don't it turn my brown eyes blue." - A song about the effects of excessive blueberry consumption. StuRat 21:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Will a 10" tablet PC be good enough for web browsing? I use the PC only for web browsing. Since I am buying a tablet pc, I am confused whether to go for a 10 or 12 or 14 inch tablet? Which one should I go?
Will a 10" tablet (used in same mode as a computer screen portrait or landscape I mean) be good enough for browsing the web or would it be too small or will be a little small or too small?
10 inches is really small. Unless you have exceptional eyesight to make out the tiny characters, I suggest a larger screen. StuRat 21:07, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I am having trouble finding out whether or not the natural frequency of an object is the same as it's resonant frequency. Logically, they should be the same, but I'm working in complex numbers, and some of the equation's I'm working with show that the natural frequency is not the same as the resonant frequency. My question is, under what condidtions can an object's natural frequency be different than it's resonant frequency?-- Rayc 21:45, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
what beans are baked beans?
Usually they are dried white beans - here is my favorite recipe for baked beans 63.24.1.78 01:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC)MarCia The beans can be made ahead. After cooking, cool them to room temperature and refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
Serves 4 to 6 4 ounces salt pork , trimmed of rind and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
2 ounces bacon (2 slices), cut into 1/4-inch pieces 1 medium onion , chopped fine 1/2 cup mild molasses 1 tablespoon mild molasses 1 1/2 tablespoons brown mustard 1 pound dried small white beans (about 2 cups), rinsed and picked over Table salt 1 teaspoon cider vinegar Ground black pepper
Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position; heat oven to 300 degrees. Add salt pork and bacon to 8-quart Dutch oven; cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned and most fat is rendered, about 7 minutes. Add onion and continue to cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, about 8 minutes. Add 1/2 cup molasses, mustard, beans, 1 1/4 teaspoons salt, and 9 cups water; increase heat to medium-high and bring to boil. Cover pot and set in oven. Bake until beans are tender, about 4 hours, stirring once after 2 hours. Remove lid and continue to bake until liquid has thickened to syrupy consistency, 1 to 1 1/2 hours longer. Remove beans from oven; stir in remaining tablespoon of molasses, vinegar, and additional salt and pepper to taste. Serve.
I saw a CNN report about a sufi ritual where people pierced their bodies and ate glass ( of a fluorecent light bulb) and they didn't experience any pain ( I don't know about that), and they didn't bleed! ( I saw that) how can someone not bleed at will? this I guess goes against scientific knowledge...what does this mean? I also saw that budhist monks can literally DRY wet sheets just with the heat of their bodies in a cold environment... how many weird things are out there that we don't know about! :S... and just so noone tells me where is the question, the question is, if there is any theory that explains this, or is it just as weird as it seems to me.-- Cosmic girl 04:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
so... what does this mean? I mean according to Kieff there are studies that show that the brain can control things like blood pressure, and stuff, I already knew that, and also I have heard of cases of people with a multiple personality dissorder changing their neuroelectrical patterns, heart rate facial expresion,and even eye color...but I'm not claiming this is so, I just read it somewhere. but, what does this all mean? this doesn't make sense in a rational world to me, if all this is for real, then our world is...I don't wanna say a curse word...but yeah, if things like this happen, this is not a world that is meant to sustain rational life...since it can and will eventually, drive it crazy...because even if there are experiments that confirm how yoga helps or how monks can do weird things or how the mind can influence the body, we still don't know HOW this happens and that's the important thing...the universe can't be so random...well it can, but I don't like it.-- Cosmic girl 14:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
yeah, u are right, randomness is kinda cool, but not when u want something to hold on to...luckily I never wanted such a thing and the previous coment of mine was a burst of stupidity like the ones I use to have sometimes...--
Cosmic girl
21:39, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Yes , you are probably right, but then I should be able to cure myself of a feber by will and I don't think I would have any reason to not wanna, since a feber is annoying...so my guess is there's something else here...though I wouldn't like it to be that way, but I'm not the kind of person that seeks to confirm what she wants to believe, but seeks the truth, no matter how pretty or ugly it is.-- Cosmic girl 22:30, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
hahaa! =P, luckily I've never had a fever that lasted for more than 2 or 3 days.-- Cosmic girl 19:07, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Pain, like color is an interpretation of data. It does not exist in the raw data (uninterpreted reality). It really is all in your head. WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Wet sheets ALWAYS dry just with the heat of your body in a cold environment. Try it yourself. your body will dry the sheets too. WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
"How many weird things are out there that we don't know about! Is any theory that explains this, or is it just as weird as it seems to me." Most weird things that it seems "we don't know about" are things some human somewhere (usually a poorly paid scientist) has intimate detailed knowledge of, has written a detailed account of, and conforms to known laws of physics exactly. WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
"the brain can control things like blood pressure" Why shouldn't it? WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
"People with a multiple personality disorder changing their neuroelectrical patterns, heart rate, & facial expresion." yes, the same brain wetware can run different programs producing different results just like computer hardware can run different programs producing different computer behaviors. WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Some eye colors change based on how dialated they are (mine do). WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
"this doesn't make sense in a rational world to me" The world is rational. All humans are nonrational, delusional, and nondesigned. What do you want for an evolved throwaway product? Enjoy life; that's all it's good for. WAS 4.250 19:48, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
You may be wrong but you may be right I heard this in a song... and maybe the world isn't rational, how are we to know? since you said it yourelf, we humans are deluded. and if all humans are subjective, how can psychiatrists and psychologists have any claim to know sanity from insanity?! the world is just crazy and subjective as hell...-- Cosmic girl 21:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
According to the article on nightmares: "In common current usage, the term nightmare refers to dreams of particular intensity, with content that the sleeper finds disturbing, related either to physiological causes, such as a high fever, or to psychological ones, such as unusual trauma or stress in the sleeper's life."
I had an extremely stressful (as well as depressing) day today, so what are the chances that I will have a nightmare tonight? I'm assuming that this nightmare, if I have it, will be related to today's stressful events, correct? -- Bowlhover 04:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I would like to know what is the Theory of Relativity, how to use it and how does it work
What is the tiling artefact in video compression? explain with example. Thanks
Our article on John Logie Baird doesn't name him, but there are plenty of sites that say the first human to appear on TV was a 15-year-old office boy named William Taynton, whose image Baird successfully transmitted on 30 October 1925.
But this suggests there were other claimants, namely:
And what ever happened to William Taynton? He would be about 96 now if he were still alive. Does anybody know how his life went after his 15 minutes of fame? JackofOz 08:16, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
(revised response after allowing myself to be led astray).
None of these clarifications are necesssary because they are not relevant to my questions. I wasn't asking "who was the first person to appear on television". I was asking "who was J E Hamelford", and "what ever became of William Taynton". JackofOz 23:32, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
hello! I am a first year student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Patras, Greece. I fell a little bit uncertain about my studies... Can you please tell me if possidle, with what can i occupy myself relatively to my studying subject after ihave finished my studies?? Thank you in advance very much
Hi there! I work in the pastry industry and would like to know more about two products that are very commonly used in the pastry kitchen: glucose and invert sugar. They are considered products derived from chemically-treated or chemically-altered products, and therefore, unnatural. The concern of these products being unnatural is that they might pose a hazard to long-term health. Is this correct?
Thanks for your answers. So, is it correct to call these produts "chemically-treated" or "chemically-altered" forms of sugar or some type of sugar?? And, more specifically, what are, if there are any, the health hazards related to the use of these products? -- 70.111.72.88 20:30, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Thank you all very much, you have been very helpful! -- 70.111.72.88 22:23, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
This is a discusstion of a French man and I did. There has been still some questions below:-- HydrogenSu 18:54, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
*Une onde plane est une chimère ! Ca n'existe pas, sauf a la considerer localement : en effet, une telle onde occupe tout l'espace, ce qui pose des problemes ;-) — pem 12 février 2006 à 20:08 (CET)
Exuse-me. Do you mean:Any plan waves exist "locationally" only ? For considering of this question, that's showed us which plan waves occupy all space? But I still don't understand while reading what you said above. I'm sorry for my poor French. I would be speaking English above/below. In fields of physics only,just I'm extremly interested in this question,originally. It has been for several days already and been kept it in mind. I hope someone else can tell more about it.(French or English,either one of them is OK. :) ) J'en suis intéreseé qui la question.--HydrogenSu 13 février 2006 à 19:09 (CET)
I've been waiting a answer for the quetion for 2 days and got no reply almost. I don't know why has no reply in it,maybe he's been busy. But I still care this question. -- HydrogenSu 12:42, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Try this: let's say you have a wave, continuous in time, x=cos(?t). Then it has a well defined frequency, but it makes no sense to "localize" the wave in time. Consider then the composite function y={0 for t<0, cos(?t) for 0<t<p, 0 for t>0}. Now the wave has a definite position, but the frequency content is widely distributed. You can see this by doing Fourier transforms. Incidentally, Griffiths uses this as an analogy to the uncertainty principle (uncertainty principles seem to appear whenever Fourier transforms are involved). - mak o 04:42, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I once read a science fiction novel that stated that if all the K-40 in your body, by some incredible coincidence, decayed at once, the radiation would kill you. Is this true? -- Pak aran 15:59, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
doesn't this mean BLACK in spannish, as in the COLOR blac, so why do black people act all offended at being called negros, when it's no more or less offense than calling them black? Oto von Boise
What do cable operators in USA have in the last mile? Do they have copper or do they have fibre opticals?
If they have copper, then how would it be possible for them to have speedier connections than the same copper which telecom cos have?
If they have fibre, why did they lay fibre even before telecom cos?
I would like to know where the statement "the rabbit is dead" came from. Usually this statement is used when someone is testing for pregnancy. If they are pregnant they say "the rabbit is dead", when they are not pregnant they say "nope the rabbit is not dead yet." Some speculate that a long time ago the woman's blood was injected into the rabbit and if it died they were pregnant and if the rabbit lived they were not. Any help on this subject would be great as it is being debated at my office. Thanks a bunch!!!
Thanks for your help!! I will now end the debate at the office and educate others, Thanks again. (First time user from Missouri)
Why is Teflon tubing required when keeping a volatile substance under an inert gas like argon?
If I put a PAL VHS tape into a cheap NTSC VCR and hit play, what will I see on the screen? Why? Black Carrot 20:10, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I have more than 50 such photos from my experiment. I want to measure the slope (angle with horizontal/vertical) of the end plate on the left for each of these photos. I also want to measure the length of each of these tubes. How can i do this in a convenient way (or how can I do this at all)? I have at my disposal softwares like Photoshop, Illustrator, Matlab, GIMP, Paint, Photo Editor, etc. Thanks! deeptrivia ( talk) 20:37, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
I think ol' triv-man wants something lazier. I looked it up, and commercial GIS software all has this functionality. However, I can't find out much about the state of open source GIS, just this link [ [14]] Some drawing packages might have a poly-line length measurement. In that case, you would lay on a spline curve, and have it calculate length. -- Zeizmic 23:36, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, My nephew, a freshman in high school who plans to be a doctor is doing a paper on Dr. Herbert Boyer (Genentech founder Herbert Boyer, former professor of biochemistry at UCSF) and needs to know his date of birth. Dr. Boyer was born in 1936. We know that from a number of WEB sites. However, I cannot find the exact date and would appreciate it if you knew the month and day. Thank you very much. His paper is due 2/21/06 so the sooner I get that information the better. Thank you. Pat Hersom