the name is for the little "rut" or "depression" in the skin some people have directly above their upper lips.... - rlwelch 04:44, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
How can I find out the exchange rate between British Pounds and US Dollars in September of last year? Thanks.
Thanks! I have another, related question, but I'm putting it under a new heading.
Last september I paid Brittish school fees of several thousand pounds from a US bank account. Recently I received a letter saying I'm several hundred pounds short. On a hunch, I looked up conversion rates, and the amount that I'm short is exactly the drop in value of my US dollars from then to now.
Though of course I'll ask them, I'm sure that they'd answer with whatever is most convienient for them, so I though I'd throw it out to the experts here. Question: Is it standard procedure when paying fees for their worth to be that of when they were paid in, or that of when the school cashes the check? (Actually, to be precise, I think I paid with a credit card. Don't know if it makes a difference).
Any help appreciated.
-- Theo (Talk) 12:09, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I have checked thoroughly ecnough on the above subject in arabic but couldn't find it, which kept me amaze! The question is I want to know how the prophets birthday start, its origin, and according to Islamic Legal scholars, is it permissible or not, a bid'a?
If possible, could you bring the picture of the person who started the maulud nabiy and from whom does the originator pick the birthday from?
2NaHCO3(s) + 2HCl(aq) --> 2CO2(g) + H2O(l) + 2NaCl(aq)
What kind of chemical reaction type is this? Neutrality talk 13:45, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
There was a skit where either Charlie Sheen or Emilio Estevez was part of a gameshow to identify the type of nerd he and others were. What was the name of the gameshow and and when did it air? PedanticallySpeaking 17:24, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
We don't really have these in the UK, at least not that I know of. But why are they called spelling bees? -- bodnotbod 21:10, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
How does a Bose-Einstein condensate slow down, or freeze light passing through it?-- Fangz 00:47, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I just uploaded Image:Azertis.jpg. It's a propaganda poster for the World War II-era Arrow Cross Party in Hungary. What does "azértis" mean? I made the rough guess of " shield", judging from the actual artwork. DO' И eil 03:01, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
An acquaintance of mine's cat was diagnosed with pancreatitis with a necrosis effect. I'm curious as to the possible causes and consequences of such an illness. (Currently, the cat eats a little...) David.Monniaux 07:34, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I don't quite understand the statistics of the lottery (I've read the article).
This site gives some of the math. It's aim is to explain why betting on the lottery is stupid. Down in the powerball section, the site shows that the probability of winner the powerball is 80 million to 1. A ticket costs a dollar and the amount you can win in a lump sum is 130 million.
So if the odds were always 80 million to one, and I have the potential to win 130 million, isn't my mean expected utility higher? Why doesn't powerball lose money?
Thanks, --anon
I wondered if Wikipedia would like to link to my website from this page of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Special_effect
Our Film & TV Special Effects company has a website that not only includes our portfolio, but also free behind the scenes articles showing exactly how we make certain items, such as a full size T-rex animatronic.
You can visit our site here: http://www.nimbacreations.com
Thanks for your time.
Can you please tell me who now owns the rights to the "Kung Fu Master" video arcade game, since Data East has gone bankrupt? My name is Daniel Zubiate and my email is zubidan@hotmail.com. Any help would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.
early in ad after christ i was told monks changed the calendar so that the birth of christ is 1-ad and befor christ the last year in BC is 1-bc.. where can i find more information on this. my hot mail is safe because i have aother main email so my hot email for msn is.. kbeethoven71@hotmail.com and its in the internet anyway
• Thorpe • 13:39, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What is the difference between a university and a college ?
Are the king/queen of UK exempt from singing the UK's national anthem God Save the Queen/King? I didn't see QE2 recite the anthem during Prince Charles wedding. What about other royal members? = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 20:51, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
Can you give me examples of hypotonic, hypertonic and isotonic solutions.
-- 165.21.154.113sakura1980
Examples of solutions:
What is the longest word in the world. Please give me the meaning of the word and examples of sentences to use the word.
In the US, there is the United States presidential line of succession. Does the UK have something similar for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?-- 212.100.250.216 12:38, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Is it true that Marilyn Monroe had a threesome with Cass Chaplin and someone else? What was her relatoinship with Cass Chaplin and how/ why did it end?
Also, in reading about her, and watching this "made for tv movie" called Blonde it seems that everybody who worked wit her says almost in a bad way that she was too intense or something like that, as though it was an acting problem she had, which doesn't make much sense since she was such a good, successful actress. And no, the article on Marilyn Monroe does not answer any of these questions. Thanks very much.
I've been cast in a LARP based on Baldur's gate 2 as a halfling paladin, and looking around the web, the character is most likely Mazzy Fentan (a portrait and description). The portraits I've seen only show her face. I don't know what she wears on the rest of her body, and I've never played the computer game (or even Dungeons & Dragons). I don't want to go out and spend lots of money on fake armor, I can't sew, and I don't have huge amounts of time.
So could someone (probably different people for each) please tell me 1) what she wears and 2) how I can fake that, using only clothing in my closet or at my local Goodwill store, Claire's, and the dollar store. moink 00:41, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
On a possibly unrelated note, Mazzy's weapon of preference is the short bow (which she has maximum proficiency in). She also uses a short sword, being a paladin and all, but that's only for the rare occasions she has to enter melee. Though the game is such that you could stick full plate mail on Mazzy (and most players therefore undoubtedly will), she's primarily an archer, so leather armour works fine. Definitely no skirt, though. Mazzy is the "have at thee, knave" kind of no-nonsense paladin who wouldn't wear something as flimsy as that, halfling or not. Other trivia: she has a sister named Pala, she used to travel around with her own band of adventurers (all perished at the claws of a Shadow Dragon, I'm afraid) her goddess is Arvoreen [7] (who seems to be female only in the game), and she has a classy British wannabe accent. Oh, and if you meet a dark, handsome human ranger-type named Valygar, convince him that he should be your squire. He'll struggle a bit but give in eventually, if he's true to the role. :-) JRM 09:21, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
Cheap, comfortable chainmail for an informal LARP can be simulated by taking a wide mesh T-shirt (or a string vest) and spraying it silver. If you have the time and skill it is also possible to knit or crochet a fair approximation from silvery thread (sold in knitting shops). Knit the garment on needles as large as the desired links. Be warned that such armour is no protection against exuberant players with boffer weapons (nor against the missiles of outrageous fortune). -- Theo (Talk) 17:56, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Do anyone remeber that game that came with super mario in the first supernintendo videogame? The one you shooted ducks?.. Well it was made to work with a special accesorie a nintendo shotgun. T]That gun amazes me to this day, how the hell did it worked? The gun was able to locate where you pointed it to the screen (of a normal television)!...-- Alexandre Van de Sande 02:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The article on State of Palestine mentions "about two-thirds of the world's countries recognize it today". Where can I find a list of countries that recognize it or have diplomatic relations with it (or a list of countries that don't recognize it or have diplomatic relations with it)? Are there any countries that maintain diplomatic relations with both Palestine and Israel as full and separate countries? -- Brhaspati\ talk/ contribs 03:14, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
Thanks! Since there are approximately 200 countries in the world, should State of Palestine be changed to read "about half of the world's countries" instead of "about two-thirds"? -- Brhaspati\ talk/ contribs 19:00, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
This is all based on a false premise (as is the article), because there is no "State of Palestine." The Palestinian Authority, the recognised representative of the Palestinian people, doesn't claim to be a state, and whatever the Palestinian National Council purported to do in 1988 has lapsed with the Oslo Accords and the establishment of the PA. Adam 03:02, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
James Joyce subsititued 'meow' (the noise a cat makes according to most English-speaking people) for something like 'meawmnrmrnmnr'. I read this in a Guardian article but I can't remember which one, and it wasn't on guardian.co.uk... does anybody know what the word is exactly? I couldn't find it at Onomatopoeia btw. Thanks
p.s. forgot to sign afterword 09:51, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Bloom's cat greets him in the morning with the sound 'Mrkgnao!”' but when he fails to feed her immediately she utters the sound 'Mrkrgnao!'. This converation occurs on page 57 of the first edition of Ulysses. -- Theo (Talk) 20:03, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Charles Darwin corresponded with a German chap called Hermann Muller. I don't think this was Hermann Joseph Muller, since Darwin died in 1882 and Muller was born in 1890. So who was he? Dunc| ☺ 19:51, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Oh and not Hermann Müller (the German chancellor) either. Dunc| ☺ 20:25, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
So, I've just gone and merged two articles on that great French military leader, General Leclerc. Or maybe Philippe Leclerc. Or Jacques-Philippe Leclerc. Or any one of about a thousand variants... it didn't help that he took a pseudonym, but I'm hopelessly confused as to what he was called before, after, or indeed during that period.
The article is currently at Philippe de Hauteclocque, which was one of the two merged articles, and (handily) also the name used on the French wikipedia (and they ought to know!)... I've read through the pages on naming conventions, which all mention that if there was a very common name, it should be used in preference. The thing is, I'm fairly stumped - should he be under some form of Leclerc? I'd never heard of the de Hauteclocque name until now, and it's almost always going to be redirected to.
So, two questions -
Thanks all; it's not desperately important, but it is going to bug me. Shimgray 22:47, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
If a person had several names, the article should use the best-known. For example Caesar Augustus (not Gaius Octavius), George Orwell (not Eric Blair), Joseph Stalin (not Ioseb Jughashvili). So if the French general is best-known as Jacques-Philippe Leclerc then that's how the article should be named (I note that Encyclopedia Britannica uses this form). Gdr 18:01, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
This question is concerning Bijective S-boxes as used in cryptography.
Given two random permutations on n, , and : Is it nessasary there exists a pair of completely linear transforms , and such that ?
I understand this is the case for some special forms of bijective sboxes (such as the form used by AES) but is this the case for all bijective sboxes?
If it is not necessary, how does one design a pair of sboxes that are maximally difficult to approximate as linear transformations of each other?
Whatever the answer, is it proven or just assumed and what do I look up to find out more? Thanks -- Gmaxwell 23:11, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The short answer is, no, the linear transforms may not necessarily exist. I should try and dig up a paper with the proof, but (handwaving here) composing an S-box with a linear transformation doesn't change the differential or linear properties of the resultant S-box. This means that if you have two S-boxes with different differential (or linear) properties, they cannot be transformed into each other by linear transformation. One reference you might like to look up is:
This paper gives an algorithm that will yield a , and if they exist. I haven't studied the paper, but they also have a technique for detecting if two S-boxes are "almost equivalent" — Matt Crypto 15:47, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I'm trying to access the internet through DSL in Mandrake 10.1. My ISP automatically assigns the IP addr. to my PC. Its and works fine in XP. In Mandrake however, I tried a similar setting but can only access Mandrake related sites, the default bookmarks during installation. So no wikipedia, no google etc. Why is this happening? = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 09:48, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
First off - admission: this is for school. However, it's not a homework problem, its studying for an exam, and it's too late to ask the prof.
If I want to write a prolog program to allocate the correct salaries to staff, such that managers get $40,000, group leaders get $30,000 and averyone else gets $20,000, what's wrong with the following program:
Apparently it might assign someone the wrong salay, but I can't see when. If manager(X) is true, they will get 40000 and nothing else, because of the cut (!). Ditto for leaders, and if it gets all the way down without manager(X) or leader(X) being true, they'll get 20000, no?
Apparently the correct solution is to not use cuts and make the last line
...and I can see why that would work too, but don't see why the first doesn't.
Thank you for any help.
I have acquired a set of Illustrated London News from 1916, full of photos and illustrations which would be very useful for many Wikipedia articles. Could someone advise me of their copyright status? Adam 02:58, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
These works were published in Britain, I am located in Australia, and Wikipedia is based in the US. Whose copyright law applies? Adam 03:57, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks very much. Adam 05:21, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
In the UK copyright subsists until 70 years after the death of the creator. It is most unlikely that photographs published 1916-1922 are out of copyright. See what the UK patent office has to say about it. -- Theo (Talk) 08:27, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thankyou all for your help. I will email ILN and ask their permission, and unless they forbid me to use the photos I will use them. I am now taking this page off my watchlist. Adam 00:09, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I met a costume/set designer from yesteryear who claimed his workshop had invented the idea of leather armour (he said it was to reduce the expenses of making metal armour for the entire cast). He didn't deny that peoples before the Greeks or Romans may have worn leather as protection, but claims that neither Romans nor Greeks ever really used leather as armour (not counting, obviously clasps or other "accessories"), and that certainly it was never worn after them, particularly not the hardened leather of the kind that is so ubiquitous in D&D games and computer games.
Do anyone know to what extent leather armour was worn in the last two thousand years? Thanks, --anon
hi there im planning a trip and was wondering if you could tell me about the road that runs under The English Channel.
could you tell me from which cities it runs.... if you could please help me that would be wonderful thankyou
my email address is abbylou3005@hotmail.com
thank you very much for your time and help kimberly mackie
Where can I find a list? I have a list of the authors, and lots of comentry, but no list of the actual quotes used.
I wanna know the original (and also english, if the case) title of this stop-motion show featuring two brothers\friends that build crazy stuff.
Anyone can help me? — Kieff | Talk 06:01, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
Given the present copyright laws, can I print a few paintings of an English painter who lived and painted almost 200 years ago? -anon.
What are the RMS functions for various waveforms as a function of the amplitudes? Eg. RMS of a sine wave is of the amplitude. Alphax τ ε χ 08:40, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know of predictions of root-mean-squared deviations for various climate change models?
Why isn't RMS used more often? It seems to me that they would be a more accurate illustration of how much 'global warming' or other effects there is going to be - especially since predicted warming isn't uniform, thus letting parts of the Earth undergoing cooling cancel out heating in other places.-- Fangz 19:16, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
This is rather random, but does the "Talk" link on my sig look green to anyone else?
I usually work on my home computer, or one in the university labs, usually using Firefox, and my link looks grey, as it's supposed to. Today I'm in the library (in Edinburgh), using IE, and my link looks green (and a particularly ugly shade of fluorescent green at that). Have I been posting ugly green links next to my name?
The wiki code for my sig is [[User:Asbestos|Asbestos]] | [[User talk:Asbestos|<FONT COLOR="grey">Talk</FONT>]]. Why is it showing up green?
Thanks, — Asbestos | Talk 20:09, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
A while back I came accross an article that contained a picture of a parcel with an address on it that was written in Russian but had actually been printed using extended latin characters (e.g. something like åÇì ÇäÇ ÚÖæÉ ÌÏíÏÉ æ íÇ ÑíÊ ÊÞÈáæäì). A problem of exactly this nature has occurred on a forum I read, and I want to link to the article as that provides an excellent explanation of what happened. My problem is that even after extensive searching through all the articles I can think of (e.g. UTF-8, Russian language, Cyrillic alphabet, character encoding, Mail, etc) I can't find the article. Can somebody point me in the right direction.
Thanks Thryduulf 20:19, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone help me answer this question? How do scientists apply the precautionary principle to chemical exposure? How do they determine whether there is ever an "acceptable level" of risk?
I'm trying to access the internet through DSL in Mandrake 10.1. My ISP automatically assigns the IP addr. to my PC. Its and works fine in XP. In Mandrake however, I tried a similar setting but can only access Mandrake related sites, the default bookmarks during installation. So no wikipedia, no google etc. Why is this happening? = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 09:48, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
First off - admission: this is for school. However, it's not a homework problem, its studying for an exam, and it's too late to ask the prof.
If I want to write a prolog program to allocate the correct salaries to staff, such that managers get $40,000, group leaders get $30,000 and averyone else gets $20,000, what's wrong with the following program:
Apparently it might assign someone the wrong salay, but I can't see when. If manager(X) is true, they will get 40000 and nothing else, because of the cut (!). Ditto for leaders, and if it gets all the way down without manager(X) or leader(X) being true, they'll get 20000, no?
Apparently the correct solution is to not use cuts and make the last line
...and I can see why that would work too, but don't see why the first doesn't.
Thank you for any help.
Where can I find a list of companies that sponsored the Liberal Party of Canada? If the list includes all groups/organizations, that would be preferable. It's alright if they only show companies that donated $n amount of money. Thanks in advance :) - Frazzydee| ✍ 14:13, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You could contact them and ask directly. -- Theo (Talk) 11:00, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Any useful resources on glaciation for Lake District?
Try:
Are the quarterly earnings reports of US companies available online, through the SEC perhaps? Thanks. Mjklin 18:08, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)
I downloaded the .ogg software, following the instructions as closely a I know how. However, when I click on a .ogg file, when I browse to the file where I keep the download is, I just see OOOggComentDump.exe, OOOggDump.exe OOOggStat.exe, and OOOggValidate.exe. Which do I use? I am a Microsoft user Lee S. Svoboda 21:21, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I ran across this comment (since fixed) in Karbala, and it made me wonder what "laanat" means. I assume it's some sort of curse or vituperation, probably in Arabic; am I right? — Charles P. (Mirv) 01:26, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I've looked all over the damn web, and X's own documentation is just horrid, and people in EFNet #linux are a bunch of unhelpful egotistic wankers to answer this simple question. Without wasting any more of my time, 1) Where can I download GNU/free Japanese fonts for X/XFree86/X.Org, and 2) How do I install new X fonts so that X programs immediately "see" them (which is also a problem I've been having with X fonts in general)? -- I am not good at running 04:27, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
This question was pulled from the WikiEN-l moderation queue:
I'd appreciate it if somebody could find this out for the benefit of the user who emailed WikiEN-l. - Mark 14:57, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I have been going thru some of my grandfather's things, he was german and came across a small round pin, the front of the pin is outlined in blue with the words ski kurs oberammergau written on it and the middle is black with ski's crossed. Could you tell me what this is and when it's from. Thank You Diane
I am fuzzy on the actual name and publication schedule of Computer Graphics. Is it ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics? Computer Graphics Quarterly? I started to write the stub, and then I found out I didn't know what I thought I knew and now I've gone all cross-eyed. grendel| khan 21:36, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
Currently the encyclopedia states that:
On March 20 (April 2), 1917, the Pale of Settlement was abolished by the Provisional Government decree On abolition of confessional and national restrictions (Об отмене вероисповедных и национальных ограничений).
Issac Deutscher, historian of the Russian bolshevik revolution, states that bolshevism ended the pale at a later date than above)
See also below:
"The Pale of Settlement was created by a decree of Czar Nicholas 1 in April 1835 and with minor modifications remained Russian policy until 1917 when the Bolshevik revolution removed it from the statute books. It included present day Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Moldavia, and other regions west of Russia. According to the census of 1897, there were 4,899,300 Jews lived in the Pale, forming approximately 11.6% of the total population."
So was it the Kerensky Government or the Bolsheviks who ended the Pale?
Maybe this is an old topic, but I've never really found out what his moustache was all about. Just in general, I'm curious to learn about it. Was that a popular style at the time or was that his own personal creation? Whats the name of that style moustache? Was it popularized in Germany after he reached the level of fame that he did? Is it symbolic of anything? Did he keep it all throughout his time in power? and so on. I found this picture of Julius Schreck bearing the same style moustache, which might imply that it was at least popular within the Nazi leadership-- Clngre 02:31, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
The same goes for the name Adolf I suppose. I'd be interested to see some statistics comparing the prevelance of that name before the rise of the Nazis, during their rule, and in the time since the war. I assume it's somewhat tainted these days, but am I wrong? And was it ever widespread before or was it a relatively uncommon name all along? I did once see a sign in Germany with Adolf on, in a context unrelated to Hitler, so it can't be completely taboo. — Trilobite ( Talk) 03:04, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
@ Ferkelparade: Your assumption that you can count all Germans named Adolf currently alive on one hand is ridiculous. You should do at least a little research, before you confuse our clueless american/english/canadian etc. fellow citizens with such foolish utterances. Actually there are at least hundreds, if not thousands living Adolfs in Germany – not to mention Austria. ;) — Daniel FR 22:11, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed a large number of seemingly unrelated webpages are plastered with
random chunks of text from Wikipedia articles — even in their titles! Does anyone know what this could be?
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Examples:
Mortgages and loans are common spam topics. Could the incorporation of our text be related to generation of email spam that fools certain kinds of spam detectors? alteripse 21:02, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I'm the admin of a private mediawiki wiki, and I have problems with vandals. I have written messages in their talk pages, but I don't think they have seen them. How do I get the message (it's a template called "vandal") to be broadcasted to the vandal whenever they access my wiki, like Wikipedia admins are able to do? What markup does this? Thanks in advance. 69.157.0.206 20:31, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hello,
Great Site!! I am currently working to win City of Anaheim business and need some facts from 1983 - I would greatly appreciate if you could send me the folowing by Tuesday April 26 (not much time, I know - but it's a deadline) anyway, here goes,
Median home prices in Anaheim 1983 Average income in Anaheim in 1983 Price for a gallon of gas in 1983 (in Anaheim, if you can get it) any other Anaheim 1983 news that you can dig up would be great
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In quantum field theory, I understand that photon is a kind of quanta.
The special theory of relativity on the other hand indicates there is no object that moves at the speed of light. And indeed, no one has yet observed any objects that move at the speed higher than that of light (notice that such objects are not necessarily UN-observable, unless the direction of motion is away from you). And I do understand within the classical theory that waves and objects are different, and that light is an electromagnetic wave.
Considering the above context, could someone explain to me how it does not make sense to carry out analyses on the frame attached to a photon in quantum field theory? Is it that a photon does not 'feel' proper time in relativity, while other quata such as electrons do?
Sorry if I do not make sense. If I do make some sense, tell me where I make sense and where I do not.
Thanks, User:Principia
A photon is a quantum of light; that is, it is the smallest divisible unit of light. It has no mass and has the velocity of light. Light shows the characteristics of particles (albeit massless ones) and waves, which presents a problem for classical physics.
Einstein's Special theory of relativity describes the motion of particles moving at close to the speed of light. A consequence of it is that no object can accelerate to the speed of light. A photon (and any other object with zero mass) can travel at the speed of light because it exists at the speed of light and does not accelerate to reach that speed. Other consequences of the special theory are that an increase in velocity increases the mass of the moving object (e=mc2), reduces its length along the direction of its motion (The Lorentz contraction) and slows time ( Time dilation). It is not, therefore, that photons experience time in an abnormal way; more that the experience is extreme because photons exist at a boundary condition. -- Theo (Talk) 14:42, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Who patented RW CDs?
Dave
See: Apollo 1
2 psi over sea level atmospheric pressure (1.14 atm)? Pure oxygen? What's wrong with them? I mean the cabin pressure of a typical commercial airlinear is about 0.75 atm of normal air (20% oxygen; 0.15 atm O2; FAA requirement; air pressure at 8,000 ft). Why did they use such ridiculous high pressure of pure oxygen during a simulation?
If they wanted to simulate a 0.14 atm positive pressure in space, they could have pumped 0.94 atm extra nitrogen to the cabin (total pressure: 0.94 atm N2 + 0.2 atm O2 = 1.2 atm). The cabin air would be breathable and safe. Why couldn't they do that on the ground? I mean since you were not in space, you could afford to attach some additional gas tanks and pumps.
What was the actual cabin pressure when they were in space? If it was 0.14 atm pure oxygen, the pressure would have been too low (only enough oxygen) but the risk of a fire was nearly zero. You could set the pressure a little higher (lowest pressure a man could handle) and still use pure oxygen. The risk of a fire increased with added oxygen pressure. But letting them breath pure oxygen saved some weight. If anything went wrong (such as the Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion), the remaining pure oxygen in cabin could let them survive longer. I guess it was a good choice to use pure oxygen in space.
What is the lowest pressure (pure oxygen) a trained man can withstand without prolonged depressurization and repressurization (see: decompression sickness? Even if you had already breathed pure oxygen in advance, when you lose air pressure very quickly, would the air in your stomach cavity pop your diaphragm and make you unable to breathe? -- Toytoy 14:11, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
Who is the "head of the army" in the UK? And what rank? Who else could put the country under martial law?-- 212.100.250.210 14:31, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I suspect there is no such concept as Martial Law in UK law or the British Constitution, although there are various bits of legislation such as those than Duncharris has mentioned. Certainly he Chief of the General Staff (or even the Chief of the Defence Staff, who is overall in command of the UK armed forces) would have no ability to declare martial law, and I would think even the monarch or cabinet would not be able to do such a thing without specific legislation. However in case of overwhelming urgent need the Government would probably be able to persuade Parliament to pass a law extremely quickly. rossb 11:12, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What is the highest honor one can receive for heroic actions etc. while serving in the armed forces in the United States?
There exists a cocktail that is a lot like a White Russian but with coffee liqueur (e.g. Kahlua) as the sole booze (i.e. no vodka). Is the correct name of this cocktail "Smith and Kerns" or "Smith and Kearns"? Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 20:42, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
Kahlua and cream is called a sombrero? Never heard that one. Back home, I usually called it a brown cow, but when I moved here I figured out that no one knew what that was, so I've switched to calling it Kahlua and milk. I've also never heard of putting club soda in it. I imagine that would be terrible. But I'm no fan of carbonation. moink 03:55, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Where/What/Who did this quote come from?
Why is it so well known today among the masses, whereas Luce is not?
Can someone please point me to any source for the official Latin names of the colleges of the University of Oxford? Thanks. rossb 22:19, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Sometime in the early to mid 1990's, my parents took the kids (including me) on a Florida vacation. We visited several theme parks, including Wet & Wild in Orlando, Florida. I fell and scraped my elbow near the wave pool, leaving a good-sized wound. When we returned to the hotel, prior to showering, my parents attempted to cleanse the wound with Hydrogen Peroxide. Some sort of reaction between the pool-water chemicals & the peroxide, however, turned it corrosive, leaving me with a somewhat larger wound.
I've always wondered exactly what happened... Can any amateur chemists out there speculate on what reaction could have caused Hydrogen Peroxide to turn corrosive? 70.19.142.51 01:47, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Ever skeptical, I wonder how you know the wound is larger than it would have been without the hydrogen peroxide? Peroxide is a weak antiseptic and quite safe to skin. It is hard to imagine it damaging healthy tissue. It is even harder imaging that any significant amount of residual chlorine compound from the pool water survived your parents' mopping at your wound and the trip back to the hotel. The major medical use of peroxide is to get blood stains out of white coats, for which it is nigh miraculous. The scarring from an elbow abrasion depends more on the depth of the abrasion-- any areas that lost full thickness of dermis would heal with obvious scarring (like third degree burns). alteripse 02:14, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
If there was chlorine in the water and the wound, couldn't it have reacted with the peroxide to create hydrochloric acid? RickK 66.60.159.190 17:56, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know of a portable product which can record audio (using a microphone) as either WAV, MP3, OGG, or WMA? It would have to be fairly small and plug into either firewire or usb, and hopefully it can use memory cards (such as Compact Flash) Failing that, does anyone know of anything which is portable and can record audio that cost under AU$150? Thanks -- Fir0002 10:22, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)-
Could someone please name two battles in the English Civil War won by the Cavaliers (Royalists). Also, if known, where I could obtain battle plans for these. Thankyou very much,-- J.B. 14:30, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Try Smurthwaite, D. The Ordnance Survey Complete Guide to the Battlefields of Britain, (London: Osprey, 1993) ISBN 0718136551. -- Theo (Talk) 14:51, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Why is it the traditional custom (...in America; I'm not sure if it is in other countries) for the bride's family to pay for the wedding or at least for most of it?
Also does anybody know statistics about how many weddings still function as this, or with our "changing times" are weddings split 50/50 more often, etc.?
It's possible that the Anglo-American tradition has something to do with a dowry, but I doubt it. In England dowries were confined to the highest social classes and were pretty rare even among the nobility by the 18th century. I think it's more likely to be to do with the fact that in England before the modern era weddings usually took place in the bride's parish church (because it was easier for an unmarried young man to travel). The couple would return to the bride's parents' house after the wedding, hence the bride's parents' provided the entertainment. (You should note that the modern wedding "traditions" — white gown, morning dress, hotel reception, etc, with associated expense — are quite recent; they are an attempt by the middle classes to copy the society weddings of the early 20th century. A 19th century wedding was typically much less elaborate.) My personal experience (in the {[United Kingdom]]) is that couples generally pay for their own weddings. Gdr 14:35, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
I have to do a research paper and I would like to use wikipedia as one of my reference sources. However, I don't know how to site it correctly. Can anyone help? Thanks! --anon.
Hi, I'm doing a (high school) science project on Swarovski crystals and can't find much info on the topic. I need to know how they are coloured and how light reflects them(basicly the science behind these crysals-if any.) Any information would be greatly appreciated. thank you very much, --anon
I am attending a film workshop over the summer and found that at my location we will be using digital video cameras to shoot our film, but at two of the other locations they will be using 16mm Arriflex-S cameras. What is the difference? Is one better then the other? Should I be concerned that I am at a disadvantage using DV cameras?
This question may be a little odd as I do not see the answer posted within the contents of your web site. But here it goes anyway. Is it true that there was a pope after John Paul I but before John Paul II that didnt get a chance to serve due to a sudden death? And then John Paul I was immediately ellected to replace him? -- anon.
Does anyone know when and how Aquilia Severa, one-time Vestal Virgin and second/fourth wife of Roman Emperor Elagabalus, died? I've found claims that she remained with him until his assassination, but was she killed along with him, as seemed to be traditional? If she survived, what did she do? There seems to be little known about Severa, other than that she married Elagabalus and that it caused a scandal — any other details about her life would be welcome, too. -- Vardion 09:09, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I believe it would be enormously useful to have a massive database of political statistics for analysis. Here's an example: everyone knows it's good to have a lead in the polls, say, ten months before the election. But is it important? If we had a historical list of all the candidates who had leads ten months before the election, we could see how often those candidates wound up winning. If the result weren't too revealing (say, 50-60%) it wouldn't be too instructive. If the result were over 90%, however, we might really be onto something.
I'm thinking of making a wiki on this and seeing if it can't take off, but I don't want to repeat anyone's work. So do any of these databases exist? Can the public access them? -- Wwjdd 19:50, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
http://www.pollingreport.com/2004.htm — Sebastian (talk) 00:36, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
In perhaps one of the strangest VfD discussions I've yet been involved in ( Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Invigilator) I have just had cause to quote somebody as saying that "England and America are two nations divded by a common language", but to whom should I be giving atribution. A websearch suggests it might be either Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde, but it doesn't appear on any of their pages at Wikiquote ( Q:Winston Churchill), Q:George Bernard Shaw, Q:Oscar Wilde). Wikiquote does though point out that Messrs Churchill and Wilde are often misattributed quotes. Can anyone help? Thryduulf 23:30, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
A few days ago, I saw a Spanish film (with French subtitles) that was really cool. But nobody i saw it with remembers what the title is: here's the plot: Arabic dude is going out with Jewish girl, goes to her house, thinks he's killed the Jewish girl's dad after dropping frozen soup outta the window in a high-rise flat. Then that dad goes for a wander, finds a hooker he thinks is his wife....there's a Jewish ginger-haired guy (who looks very similar to me) who reckons the Arabic guy is a terrorist who tries2teach his little sister to read the jewish alphabet. And the moslem guy has a really bad sweat problem. So...what it this film called? Reply here, but pls put a note on my talkpage -- Wonderfool t (c) e) 00:24, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I started reading books off of the modern library's 100 best english language books awhile ago, and just finished Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five.
I understand that Vonnegut uses black humor and is satirical (sort of reminded me of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove) and I understand it is an anti-war book, but Vonnegut accepts the inevitability of war.
Does Vonnegut truly believe that free will does not exist? Or does he just think with regards to war there is no way out of it, (although it is horrific and terribly destructive) but in life and other things we have free will? Because although Billy Pilgrim basically exhibits no free will at all, he does exhibit free will when he decides he must tell the rest of the world of the Tralfamadorians and how free will does not exist. What is the purpose of the irony?
How many different speces of bacteria and viruses are known to man? davidzuccaro 05:32, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Lonely and confused, Alphax τ ε χ 07:11, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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, but I don't think it worked, possibly because it hadn't finished running (or something). I've thought about Cygwin before but decided it had too much bloat. Thanks anyway,
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χ 06:15, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)I am interested in writing a biography of Mary Cholmondeley and I hoped you might be able to help me with an initial enquiry, having seen the biographical details on your website. What I am concerned to know at this stage is what issues there might be in quoting from letters and diaries or other copyright material. I would be most grateful for any information you could give me, and especially for contact details of the copyright holder(s) where applicable. Of course, if you could help me locate original material, that would be even better - I have consulted the 1981 research guide compiled by Jane Crisp, but there is no mention of a diary, for instance.
Many thanks!
C.O. -- 194.66.208.11 09:30, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Could someone please translate the part of de:Otto Normalverbraucher dealing with where he was born and his income below? Thanks, E.M. 12:11, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I have to make a short trip this weekend, and after looking at the skyrocketing gas prices (a pittance to my friends across the pond no doubt) I started wondering, what are the relative fuel efficiencies of various types of travel ( Plane, train, automobile, ship, etc)? Obviously the numbers will change depending on the different types of vehicles, relative load, and trip length, but is there some sort of overall trend? For extra credit, does fuel efficiency correlate at all to environmental burden? -- CVaneg 20:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
From time to time I read about silver killing bacteria, silver ions killing bacteria, etc. I have seen many people placing a silver spoon in a jug of water, supposedly to kill bacteria. One of these people was actually my deceased grandmother, who was a professional chemist and rocket scientist (she worked on rocket fuel for the Soviet space program for several decades in the State Institute of Applied Chemistry). I am not saying that she was advocating the use of silver spoons though, may be she just thought it would do no harm to try.
So I am wondering if there are actually any biological effects (i.e. does a piece of silver in a jug of water kill bacteria) and if there are, do these translate into health benefits.
I found a lot of information on the web about dangers and questionable efficacy of colloidal silver, but nothing on silver per se.
I would appreciate any light you can shed on this matter.
A debate on the Chile Talk page has got me thinking. Where would I go to find a list of the longest straight as-the-crow-flies distances between the borders of any given country? For example, the claim about Chile being the longest N-S country in the world is not correct as it stands, since most such journeys would have you exiting the border well before you got to the bottom of the country. But there must be a straight-line journey that a crow could fly entirely within the borders of Chile that is longer than any other such journey in that country. Same for any other country one cares to name. What are the details, and where is the list? Cheers JackofOz 23:24, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The US Patent Office has a nifty online search engine which will let you search any patents filed since 1976 in fulltext and anything before 1976 by their patent number. But surely there are ways to search for patents before 1976 without knowing their patent number -- how else would patent clerks be able to navigate through the millions of prior patents when doing research on prior art? So my question is, how do they do it? And more to my specific need: if I have the name of someone who was awarded a patent in a pre-1976 period, how would I go about looking up the patent number of it in a systematic and simple way? Thanks if you know. -- Fastfission 04:21, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What are possible legal implications of using modern gun models in a videogame (freeware or otherwise)? As much as you see real-life models in many other computer games out there, I'm still pretty sure that gun models/designs and their respective names are likely copyrighted and trademarked by their makers, just like other assembled industrial products such as automobiles -- although I don't know for certain. As much as I don't see trademark notices or "used with permission" in the credits of games which feature real-life guns, is it still a potential (even if unlikely) source of a lawsuit from a gun manufacturer trying to protect their intellectual property? If I create, for example, a Counterstrike clone featuring some more recent models of civilian and military firearms, could I be sued for copyright infringement or something trademark-related, just as a videogame company that makes a racing game featuring a popular brand of car without getting the car company's permission can potentially be sued by the car maker? Basically, is it legally "safe" to include a trademark weapon with its intact design in a videogame? Have any such lawsuits happened before against a videogame company? -- I am not good at running 05:16, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know the composer and title of a symphony that features a bagpipe in its final movement? I remember I was at a university orchestra concert once when this piece was performed. In the final movement a spotlight shone on the bagpiper, who was dressed in full regalia. It was quite a treat. Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 13:20, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
the name is for the little "rut" or "depression" in the skin some people have directly above their upper lips.... - rlwelch 04:44, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
How can I find out the exchange rate between British Pounds and US Dollars in September of last year? Thanks.
Thanks! I have another, related question, but I'm putting it under a new heading.
Last september I paid Brittish school fees of several thousand pounds from a US bank account. Recently I received a letter saying I'm several hundred pounds short. On a hunch, I looked up conversion rates, and the amount that I'm short is exactly the drop in value of my US dollars from then to now.
Though of course I'll ask them, I'm sure that they'd answer with whatever is most convienient for them, so I though I'd throw it out to the experts here. Question: Is it standard procedure when paying fees for their worth to be that of when they were paid in, or that of when the school cashes the check? (Actually, to be precise, I think I paid with a credit card. Don't know if it makes a difference).
Any help appreciated.
-- Theo (Talk) 12:09, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I have checked thoroughly ecnough on the above subject in arabic but couldn't find it, which kept me amaze! The question is I want to know how the prophets birthday start, its origin, and according to Islamic Legal scholars, is it permissible or not, a bid'a?
If possible, could you bring the picture of the person who started the maulud nabiy and from whom does the originator pick the birthday from?
2NaHCO3(s) + 2HCl(aq) --> 2CO2(g) + H2O(l) + 2NaCl(aq)
What kind of chemical reaction type is this? Neutrality talk 13:45, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
There was a skit where either Charlie Sheen or Emilio Estevez was part of a gameshow to identify the type of nerd he and others were. What was the name of the gameshow and and when did it air? PedanticallySpeaking 17:24, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
We don't really have these in the UK, at least not that I know of. But why are they called spelling bees? -- bodnotbod 21:10, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
How does a Bose-Einstein condensate slow down, or freeze light passing through it?-- Fangz 00:47, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I just uploaded Image:Azertis.jpg. It's a propaganda poster for the World War II-era Arrow Cross Party in Hungary. What does "azértis" mean? I made the rough guess of " shield", judging from the actual artwork. DO' И eil 03:01, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)
An acquaintance of mine's cat was diagnosed with pancreatitis with a necrosis effect. I'm curious as to the possible causes and consequences of such an illness. (Currently, the cat eats a little...) David.Monniaux 07:34, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I don't quite understand the statistics of the lottery (I've read the article).
This site gives some of the math. It's aim is to explain why betting on the lottery is stupid. Down in the powerball section, the site shows that the probability of winner the powerball is 80 million to 1. A ticket costs a dollar and the amount you can win in a lump sum is 130 million.
So if the odds were always 80 million to one, and I have the potential to win 130 million, isn't my mean expected utility higher? Why doesn't powerball lose money?
Thanks, --anon
I wondered if Wikipedia would like to link to my website from this page of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Special_effect
Our Film & TV Special Effects company has a website that not only includes our portfolio, but also free behind the scenes articles showing exactly how we make certain items, such as a full size T-rex animatronic.
You can visit our site here: http://www.nimbacreations.com
Thanks for your time.
Can you please tell me who now owns the rights to the "Kung Fu Master" video arcade game, since Data East has gone bankrupt? My name is Daniel Zubiate and my email is zubidan@hotmail.com. Any help would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.
early in ad after christ i was told monks changed the calendar so that the birth of christ is 1-ad and befor christ the last year in BC is 1-bc.. where can i find more information on this. my hot mail is safe because i have aother main email so my hot email for msn is.. kbeethoven71@hotmail.com and its in the internet anyway
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What is the difference between a university and a college ?
Are the king/queen of UK exempt from singing the UK's national anthem God Save the Queen/King? I didn't see QE2 recite the anthem during Prince Charles wedding. What about other royal members? = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 20:51, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
Can you give me examples of hypotonic, hypertonic and isotonic solutions.
-- 165.21.154.113sakura1980
Examples of solutions:
What is the longest word in the world. Please give me the meaning of the word and examples of sentences to use the word.
In the US, there is the United States presidential line of succession. Does the UK have something similar for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?-- 212.100.250.216 12:38, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Is it true that Marilyn Monroe had a threesome with Cass Chaplin and someone else? What was her relatoinship with Cass Chaplin and how/ why did it end?
Also, in reading about her, and watching this "made for tv movie" called Blonde it seems that everybody who worked wit her says almost in a bad way that she was too intense or something like that, as though it was an acting problem she had, which doesn't make much sense since she was such a good, successful actress. And no, the article on Marilyn Monroe does not answer any of these questions. Thanks very much.
I've been cast in a LARP based on Baldur's gate 2 as a halfling paladin, and looking around the web, the character is most likely Mazzy Fentan (a portrait and description). The portraits I've seen only show her face. I don't know what she wears on the rest of her body, and I've never played the computer game (or even Dungeons & Dragons). I don't want to go out and spend lots of money on fake armor, I can't sew, and I don't have huge amounts of time.
So could someone (probably different people for each) please tell me 1) what she wears and 2) how I can fake that, using only clothing in my closet or at my local Goodwill store, Claire's, and the dollar store. moink 00:41, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
On a possibly unrelated note, Mazzy's weapon of preference is the short bow (which she has maximum proficiency in). She also uses a short sword, being a paladin and all, but that's only for the rare occasions she has to enter melee. Though the game is such that you could stick full plate mail on Mazzy (and most players therefore undoubtedly will), she's primarily an archer, so leather armour works fine. Definitely no skirt, though. Mazzy is the "have at thee, knave" kind of no-nonsense paladin who wouldn't wear something as flimsy as that, halfling or not. Other trivia: she has a sister named Pala, she used to travel around with her own band of adventurers (all perished at the claws of a Shadow Dragon, I'm afraid) her goddess is Arvoreen [7] (who seems to be female only in the game), and she has a classy British wannabe accent. Oh, and if you meet a dark, handsome human ranger-type named Valygar, convince him that he should be your squire. He'll struggle a bit but give in eventually, if he's true to the role. :-) JRM 09:21, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
Cheap, comfortable chainmail for an informal LARP can be simulated by taking a wide mesh T-shirt (or a string vest) and spraying it silver. If you have the time and skill it is also possible to knit or crochet a fair approximation from silvery thread (sold in knitting shops). Knit the garment on needles as large as the desired links. Be warned that such armour is no protection against exuberant players with boffer weapons (nor against the missiles of outrageous fortune). -- Theo (Talk) 17:56, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Do anyone remeber that game that came with super mario in the first supernintendo videogame? The one you shooted ducks?.. Well it was made to work with a special accesorie a nintendo shotgun. T]That gun amazes me to this day, how the hell did it worked? The gun was able to locate where you pointed it to the screen (of a normal television)!...-- Alexandre Van de Sande 02:38, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The article on State of Palestine mentions "about two-thirds of the world's countries recognize it today". Where can I find a list of countries that recognize it or have diplomatic relations with it (or a list of countries that don't recognize it or have diplomatic relations with it)? Are there any countries that maintain diplomatic relations with both Palestine and Israel as full and separate countries? -- Brhaspati\ talk/ contribs 03:14, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
Thanks! Since there are approximately 200 countries in the world, should State of Palestine be changed to read "about half of the world's countries" instead of "about two-thirds"? -- Brhaspati\ talk/ contribs 19:00, 2005 Apr 18 (UTC)
This is all based on a false premise (as is the article), because there is no "State of Palestine." The Palestinian Authority, the recognised representative of the Palestinian people, doesn't claim to be a state, and whatever the Palestinian National Council purported to do in 1988 has lapsed with the Oslo Accords and the establishment of the PA. Adam 03:02, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
James Joyce subsititued 'meow' (the noise a cat makes according to most English-speaking people) for something like 'meawmnrmrnmnr'. I read this in a Guardian article but I can't remember which one, and it wasn't on guardian.co.uk... does anybody know what the word is exactly? I couldn't find it at Onomatopoeia btw. Thanks
p.s. forgot to sign afterword 09:51, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Bloom's cat greets him in the morning with the sound 'Mrkgnao!”' but when he fails to feed her immediately she utters the sound 'Mrkrgnao!'. This converation occurs on page 57 of the first edition of Ulysses. -- Theo (Talk) 20:03, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Charles Darwin corresponded with a German chap called Hermann Muller. I don't think this was Hermann Joseph Muller, since Darwin died in 1882 and Muller was born in 1890. So who was he? Dunc| ☺ 19:51, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Oh and not Hermann Müller (the German chancellor) either. Dunc| ☺ 20:25, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
So, I've just gone and merged two articles on that great French military leader, General Leclerc. Or maybe Philippe Leclerc. Or Jacques-Philippe Leclerc. Or any one of about a thousand variants... it didn't help that he took a pseudonym, but I'm hopelessly confused as to what he was called before, after, or indeed during that period.
The article is currently at Philippe de Hauteclocque, which was one of the two merged articles, and (handily) also the name used on the French wikipedia (and they ought to know!)... I've read through the pages on naming conventions, which all mention that if there was a very common name, it should be used in preference. The thing is, I'm fairly stumped - should he be under some form of Leclerc? I'd never heard of the de Hauteclocque name until now, and it's almost always going to be redirected to.
So, two questions -
Thanks all; it's not desperately important, but it is going to bug me. Shimgray 22:47, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
If a person had several names, the article should use the best-known. For example Caesar Augustus (not Gaius Octavius), George Orwell (not Eric Blair), Joseph Stalin (not Ioseb Jughashvili). So if the French general is best-known as Jacques-Philippe Leclerc then that's how the article should be named (I note that Encyclopedia Britannica uses this form). Gdr 18:01, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
This question is concerning Bijective S-boxes as used in cryptography.
Given two random permutations on n, , and : Is it nessasary there exists a pair of completely linear transforms , and such that ?
I understand this is the case for some special forms of bijective sboxes (such as the form used by AES) but is this the case for all bijective sboxes?
If it is not necessary, how does one design a pair of sboxes that are maximally difficult to approximate as linear transformations of each other?
Whatever the answer, is it proven or just assumed and what do I look up to find out more? Thanks -- Gmaxwell 23:11, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The short answer is, no, the linear transforms may not necessarily exist. I should try and dig up a paper with the proof, but (handwaving here) composing an S-box with a linear transformation doesn't change the differential or linear properties of the resultant S-box. This means that if you have two S-boxes with different differential (or linear) properties, they cannot be transformed into each other by linear transformation. One reference you might like to look up is:
This paper gives an algorithm that will yield a , and if they exist. I haven't studied the paper, but they also have a technique for detecting if two S-boxes are "almost equivalent" — Matt Crypto 15:47, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I'm trying to access the internet through DSL in Mandrake 10.1. My ISP automatically assigns the IP addr. to my PC. Its and works fine in XP. In Mandrake however, I tried a similar setting but can only access Mandrake related sites, the default bookmarks during installation. So no wikipedia, no google etc. Why is this happening? = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 09:48, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
First off - admission: this is for school. However, it's not a homework problem, its studying for an exam, and it's too late to ask the prof.
If I want to write a prolog program to allocate the correct salaries to staff, such that managers get $40,000, group leaders get $30,000 and averyone else gets $20,000, what's wrong with the following program:
Apparently it might assign someone the wrong salay, but I can't see when. If manager(X) is true, they will get 40000 and nothing else, because of the cut (!). Ditto for leaders, and if it gets all the way down without manager(X) or leader(X) being true, they'll get 20000, no?
Apparently the correct solution is to not use cuts and make the last line
...and I can see why that would work too, but don't see why the first doesn't.
Thank you for any help.
I have acquired a set of Illustrated London News from 1916, full of photos and illustrations which would be very useful for many Wikipedia articles. Could someone advise me of their copyright status? Adam 02:58, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
These works were published in Britain, I am located in Australia, and Wikipedia is based in the US. Whose copyright law applies? Adam 03:57, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thanks very much. Adam 05:21, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
In the UK copyright subsists until 70 years after the death of the creator. It is most unlikely that photographs published 1916-1922 are out of copyright. See what the UK patent office has to say about it. -- Theo (Talk) 08:27, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thankyou all for your help. I will email ILN and ask their permission, and unless they forbid me to use the photos I will use them. I am now taking this page off my watchlist. Adam 00:09, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I met a costume/set designer from yesteryear who claimed his workshop had invented the idea of leather armour (he said it was to reduce the expenses of making metal armour for the entire cast). He didn't deny that peoples before the Greeks or Romans may have worn leather as protection, but claims that neither Romans nor Greeks ever really used leather as armour (not counting, obviously clasps or other "accessories"), and that certainly it was never worn after them, particularly not the hardened leather of the kind that is so ubiquitous in D&D games and computer games.
Do anyone know to what extent leather armour was worn in the last two thousand years? Thanks, --anon
hi there im planning a trip and was wondering if you could tell me about the road that runs under The English Channel.
could you tell me from which cities it runs.... if you could please help me that would be wonderful thankyou
my email address is abbylou3005@hotmail.com
thank you very much for your time and help kimberly mackie
Where can I find a list? I have a list of the authors, and lots of comentry, but no list of the actual quotes used.
I wanna know the original (and also english, if the case) title of this stop-motion show featuring two brothers\friends that build crazy stuff.
Anyone can help me? — Kieff | Talk 06:01, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
Given the present copyright laws, can I print a few paintings of an English painter who lived and painted almost 200 years ago? -anon.
What are the RMS functions for various waveforms as a function of the amplitudes? Eg. RMS of a sine wave is of the amplitude. Alphax τ ε χ 08:40, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know of predictions of root-mean-squared deviations for various climate change models?
Why isn't RMS used more often? It seems to me that they would be a more accurate illustration of how much 'global warming' or other effects there is going to be - especially since predicted warming isn't uniform, thus letting parts of the Earth undergoing cooling cancel out heating in other places.-- Fangz 19:16, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
This is rather random, but does the "Talk" link on my sig look green to anyone else?
I usually work on my home computer, or one in the university labs, usually using Firefox, and my link looks grey, as it's supposed to. Today I'm in the library (in Edinburgh), using IE, and my link looks green (and a particularly ugly shade of fluorescent green at that). Have I been posting ugly green links next to my name?
The wiki code for my sig is [[User:Asbestos|Asbestos]] | [[User talk:Asbestos|<FONT COLOR="grey">Talk</FONT>]]. Why is it showing up green?
Thanks, — Asbestos | Talk 20:09, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
A while back I came accross an article that contained a picture of a parcel with an address on it that was written in Russian but had actually been printed using extended latin characters (e.g. something like åÇì ÇäÇ ÚÖæÉ ÌÏíÏÉ æ íÇ ÑíÊ ÊÞÈáæäì). A problem of exactly this nature has occurred on a forum I read, and I want to link to the article as that provides an excellent explanation of what happened. My problem is that even after extensive searching through all the articles I can think of (e.g. UTF-8, Russian language, Cyrillic alphabet, character encoding, Mail, etc) I can't find the article. Can somebody point me in the right direction.
Thanks Thryduulf 20:19, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone help me answer this question? How do scientists apply the precautionary principle to chemical exposure? How do they determine whether there is ever an "acceptable level" of risk?
I'm trying to access the internet through DSL in Mandrake 10.1. My ISP automatically assigns the IP addr. to my PC. Its and works fine in XP. In Mandrake however, I tried a similar setting but can only access Mandrake related sites, the default bookmarks during installation. So no wikipedia, no google etc. Why is this happening? = Nichalp ( talk · contribs)= 09:48, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
First off - admission: this is for school. However, it's not a homework problem, its studying for an exam, and it's too late to ask the prof.
If I want to write a prolog program to allocate the correct salaries to staff, such that managers get $40,000, group leaders get $30,000 and averyone else gets $20,000, what's wrong with the following program:
Apparently it might assign someone the wrong salay, but I can't see when. If manager(X) is true, they will get 40000 and nothing else, because of the cut (!). Ditto for leaders, and if it gets all the way down without manager(X) or leader(X) being true, they'll get 20000, no?
Apparently the correct solution is to not use cuts and make the last line
...and I can see why that would work too, but don't see why the first doesn't.
Thank you for any help.
Where can I find a list of companies that sponsored the Liberal Party of Canada? If the list includes all groups/organizations, that would be preferable. It's alright if they only show companies that donated $n amount of money. Thanks in advance :) - Frazzydee| ✍ 14:13, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
You could contact them and ask directly. -- Theo (Talk) 11:00, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Any useful resources on glaciation for Lake District?
Try:
Are the quarterly earnings reports of US companies available online, through the SEC perhaps? Thanks. Mjklin 18:08, 2005 Apr 21 (UTC)
I downloaded the .ogg software, following the instructions as closely a I know how. However, when I click on a .ogg file, when I browse to the file where I keep the download is, I just see OOOggComentDump.exe, OOOggDump.exe OOOggStat.exe, and OOOggValidate.exe. Which do I use? I am a Microsoft user Lee S. Svoboda 21:21, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I ran across this comment (since fixed) in Karbala, and it made me wonder what "laanat" means. I assume it's some sort of curse or vituperation, probably in Arabic; am I right? — Charles P. (Mirv) 01:26, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I've looked all over the damn web, and X's own documentation is just horrid, and people in EFNet #linux are a bunch of unhelpful egotistic wankers to answer this simple question. Without wasting any more of my time, 1) Where can I download GNU/free Japanese fonts for X/XFree86/X.Org, and 2) How do I install new X fonts so that X programs immediately "see" them (which is also a problem I've been having with X fonts in general)? -- I am not good at running 04:27, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
This question was pulled from the WikiEN-l moderation queue:
I'd appreciate it if somebody could find this out for the benefit of the user who emailed WikiEN-l. - Mark 14:57, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I have been going thru some of my grandfather's things, he was german and came across a small round pin, the front of the pin is outlined in blue with the words ski kurs oberammergau written on it and the middle is black with ski's crossed. Could you tell me what this is and when it's from. Thank You Diane
I am fuzzy on the actual name and publication schedule of Computer Graphics. Is it ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics? Computer Graphics Quarterly? I started to write the stub, and then I found out I didn't know what I thought I knew and now I've gone all cross-eyed. grendel| khan 21:36, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
Currently the encyclopedia states that:
On March 20 (April 2), 1917, the Pale of Settlement was abolished by the Provisional Government decree On abolition of confessional and national restrictions (Об отмене вероисповедных и национальных ограничений).
Issac Deutscher, historian of the Russian bolshevik revolution, states that bolshevism ended the pale at a later date than above)
See also below:
"The Pale of Settlement was created by a decree of Czar Nicholas 1 in April 1835 and with minor modifications remained Russian policy until 1917 when the Bolshevik revolution removed it from the statute books. It included present day Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Moldavia, and other regions west of Russia. According to the census of 1897, there were 4,899,300 Jews lived in the Pale, forming approximately 11.6% of the total population."
So was it the Kerensky Government or the Bolsheviks who ended the Pale?
Maybe this is an old topic, but I've never really found out what his moustache was all about. Just in general, I'm curious to learn about it. Was that a popular style at the time or was that his own personal creation? Whats the name of that style moustache? Was it popularized in Germany after he reached the level of fame that he did? Is it symbolic of anything? Did he keep it all throughout his time in power? and so on. I found this picture of Julius Schreck bearing the same style moustache, which might imply that it was at least popular within the Nazi leadership-- Clngre 02:31, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)
The same goes for the name Adolf I suppose. I'd be interested to see some statistics comparing the prevelance of that name before the rise of the Nazis, during their rule, and in the time since the war. I assume it's somewhat tainted these days, but am I wrong? And was it ever widespread before or was it a relatively uncommon name all along? I did once see a sign in Germany with Adolf on, in a context unrelated to Hitler, so it can't be completely taboo. — Trilobite ( Talk) 03:04, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
@ Ferkelparade: Your assumption that you can count all Germans named Adolf currently alive on one hand is ridiculous. You should do at least a little research, before you confuse our clueless american/english/canadian etc. fellow citizens with such foolish utterances. Actually there are at least hundreds, if not thousands living Adolfs in Germany – not to mention Austria. ;) — Daniel FR 22:11, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I've noticed a large number of seemingly unrelated webpages are plastered with
random chunks of text from Wikipedia articles — even in their titles! Does anyone know what this could be?
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Examples:
Mortgages and loans are common spam topics. Could the incorporation of our text be related to generation of email spam that fools certain kinds of spam detectors? alteripse 21:02, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I'm the admin of a private mediawiki wiki, and I have problems with vandals. I have written messages in their talk pages, but I don't think they have seen them. How do I get the message (it's a template called "vandal") to be broadcasted to the vandal whenever they access my wiki, like Wikipedia admins are able to do? What markup does this? Thanks in advance. 69.157.0.206 20:31, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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In quantum field theory, I understand that photon is a kind of quanta.
The special theory of relativity on the other hand indicates there is no object that moves at the speed of light. And indeed, no one has yet observed any objects that move at the speed higher than that of light (notice that such objects are not necessarily UN-observable, unless the direction of motion is away from you). And I do understand within the classical theory that waves and objects are different, and that light is an electromagnetic wave.
Considering the above context, could someone explain to me how it does not make sense to carry out analyses on the frame attached to a photon in quantum field theory? Is it that a photon does not 'feel' proper time in relativity, while other quata such as electrons do?
Sorry if I do not make sense. If I do make some sense, tell me where I make sense and where I do not.
Thanks, User:Principia
A photon is a quantum of light; that is, it is the smallest divisible unit of light. It has no mass and has the velocity of light. Light shows the characteristics of particles (albeit massless ones) and waves, which presents a problem for classical physics.
Einstein's Special theory of relativity describes the motion of particles moving at close to the speed of light. A consequence of it is that no object can accelerate to the speed of light. A photon (and any other object with zero mass) can travel at the speed of light because it exists at the speed of light and does not accelerate to reach that speed. Other consequences of the special theory are that an increase in velocity increases the mass of the moving object (e=mc2), reduces its length along the direction of its motion (The Lorentz contraction) and slows time ( Time dilation). It is not, therefore, that photons experience time in an abnormal way; more that the experience is extreme because photons exist at a boundary condition. -- Theo (Talk) 14:42, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Who patented RW CDs?
Dave
See: Apollo 1
2 psi over sea level atmospheric pressure (1.14 atm)? Pure oxygen? What's wrong with them? I mean the cabin pressure of a typical commercial airlinear is about 0.75 atm of normal air (20% oxygen; 0.15 atm O2; FAA requirement; air pressure at 8,000 ft). Why did they use such ridiculous high pressure of pure oxygen during a simulation?
If they wanted to simulate a 0.14 atm positive pressure in space, they could have pumped 0.94 atm extra nitrogen to the cabin (total pressure: 0.94 atm N2 + 0.2 atm O2 = 1.2 atm). The cabin air would be breathable and safe. Why couldn't they do that on the ground? I mean since you were not in space, you could afford to attach some additional gas tanks and pumps.
What was the actual cabin pressure when they were in space? If it was 0.14 atm pure oxygen, the pressure would have been too low (only enough oxygen) but the risk of a fire was nearly zero. You could set the pressure a little higher (lowest pressure a man could handle) and still use pure oxygen. The risk of a fire increased with added oxygen pressure. But letting them breath pure oxygen saved some weight. If anything went wrong (such as the Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion), the remaining pure oxygen in cabin could let them survive longer. I guess it was a good choice to use pure oxygen in space.
What is the lowest pressure (pure oxygen) a trained man can withstand without prolonged depressurization and repressurization (see: decompression sickness? Even if you had already breathed pure oxygen in advance, when you lose air pressure very quickly, would the air in your stomach cavity pop your diaphragm and make you unable to breathe? -- Toytoy 14:11, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
Who is the "head of the army" in the UK? And what rank? Who else could put the country under martial law?-- 212.100.250.210 14:31, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I suspect there is no such concept as Martial Law in UK law or the British Constitution, although there are various bits of legislation such as those than Duncharris has mentioned. Certainly he Chief of the General Staff (or even the Chief of the Defence Staff, who is overall in command of the UK armed forces) would have no ability to declare martial law, and I would think even the monarch or cabinet would not be able to do such a thing without specific legislation. However in case of overwhelming urgent need the Government would probably be able to persuade Parliament to pass a law extremely quickly. rossb 11:12, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What is the highest honor one can receive for heroic actions etc. while serving in the armed forces in the United States?
There exists a cocktail that is a lot like a White Russian but with coffee liqueur (e.g. Kahlua) as the sole booze (i.e. no vodka). Is the correct name of this cocktail "Smith and Kerns" or "Smith and Kearns"? Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 20:42, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)
Kahlua and cream is called a sombrero? Never heard that one. Back home, I usually called it a brown cow, but when I moved here I figured out that no one knew what that was, so I've switched to calling it Kahlua and milk. I've also never heard of putting club soda in it. I imagine that would be terrible. But I'm no fan of carbonation. moink 03:55, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Where/What/Who did this quote come from?
Why is it so well known today among the masses, whereas Luce is not?
Can someone please point me to any source for the official Latin names of the colleges of the University of Oxford? Thanks. rossb 22:19, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Sometime in the early to mid 1990's, my parents took the kids (including me) on a Florida vacation. We visited several theme parks, including Wet & Wild in Orlando, Florida. I fell and scraped my elbow near the wave pool, leaving a good-sized wound. When we returned to the hotel, prior to showering, my parents attempted to cleanse the wound with Hydrogen Peroxide. Some sort of reaction between the pool-water chemicals & the peroxide, however, turned it corrosive, leaving me with a somewhat larger wound.
I've always wondered exactly what happened... Can any amateur chemists out there speculate on what reaction could have caused Hydrogen Peroxide to turn corrosive? 70.19.142.51 01:47, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Ever skeptical, I wonder how you know the wound is larger than it would have been without the hydrogen peroxide? Peroxide is a weak antiseptic and quite safe to skin. It is hard to imagine it damaging healthy tissue. It is even harder imaging that any significant amount of residual chlorine compound from the pool water survived your parents' mopping at your wound and the trip back to the hotel. The major medical use of peroxide is to get blood stains out of white coats, for which it is nigh miraculous. The scarring from an elbow abrasion depends more on the depth of the abrasion-- any areas that lost full thickness of dermis would heal with obvious scarring (like third degree burns). alteripse 02:14, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
If there was chlorine in the water and the wound, couldn't it have reacted with the peroxide to create hydrochloric acid? RickK 66.60.159.190 17:56, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know of a portable product which can record audio (using a microphone) as either WAV, MP3, OGG, or WMA? It would have to be fairly small and plug into either firewire or usb, and hopefully it can use memory cards (such as Compact Flash) Failing that, does anyone know of anything which is portable and can record audio that cost under AU$150? Thanks -- Fir0002 10:22, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)-
Could someone please name two battles in the English Civil War won by the Cavaliers (Royalists). Also, if known, where I could obtain battle plans for these. Thankyou very much,-- J.B. 14:30, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Try Smurthwaite, D. The Ordnance Survey Complete Guide to the Battlefields of Britain, (London: Osprey, 1993) ISBN 0718136551. -- Theo (Talk) 14:51, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Why is it the traditional custom (...in America; I'm not sure if it is in other countries) for the bride's family to pay for the wedding or at least for most of it?
Also does anybody know statistics about how many weddings still function as this, or with our "changing times" are weddings split 50/50 more often, etc.?
It's possible that the Anglo-American tradition has something to do with a dowry, but I doubt it. In England dowries were confined to the highest social classes and were pretty rare even among the nobility by the 18th century. I think it's more likely to be to do with the fact that in England before the modern era weddings usually took place in the bride's parish church (because it was easier for an unmarried young man to travel). The couple would return to the bride's parents' house after the wedding, hence the bride's parents' provided the entertainment. (You should note that the modern wedding "traditions" — white gown, morning dress, hotel reception, etc, with associated expense — are quite recent; they are an attempt by the middle classes to copy the society weddings of the early 20th century. A 19th century wedding was typically much less elaborate.) My personal experience (in the {[United Kingdom]]) is that couples generally pay for their own weddings. Gdr 14:35, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
I have to do a research paper and I would like to use wikipedia as one of my reference sources. However, I don't know how to site it correctly. Can anyone help? Thanks! --anon.
Hi, I'm doing a (high school) science project on Swarovski crystals and can't find much info on the topic. I need to know how they are coloured and how light reflects them(basicly the science behind these crysals-if any.) Any information would be greatly appreciated. thank you very much, --anon
I am attending a film workshop over the summer and found that at my location we will be using digital video cameras to shoot our film, but at two of the other locations they will be using 16mm Arriflex-S cameras. What is the difference? Is one better then the other? Should I be concerned that I am at a disadvantage using DV cameras?
This question may be a little odd as I do not see the answer posted within the contents of your web site. But here it goes anyway. Is it true that there was a pope after John Paul I but before John Paul II that didnt get a chance to serve due to a sudden death? And then John Paul I was immediately ellected to replace him? -- anon.
Does anyone know when and how Aquilia Severa, one-time Vestal Virgin and second/fourth wife of Roman Emperor Elagabalus, died? I've found claims that she remained with him until his assassination, but was she killed along with him, as seemed to be traditional? If she survived, what did she do? There seems to be little known about Severa, other than that she married Elagabalus and that it caused a scandal — any other details about her life would be welcome, too. -- Vardion 09:09, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I believe it would be enormously useful to have a massive database of political statistics for analysis. Here's an example: everyone knows it's good to have a lead in the polls, say, ten months before the election. But is it important? If we had a historical list of all the candidates who had leads ten months before the election, we could see how often those candidates wound up winning. If the result weren't too revealing (say, 50-60%) it wouldn't be too instructive. If the result were over 90%, however, we might really be onto something.
I'm thinking of making a wiki on this and seeing if it can't take off, but I don't want to repeat anyone's work. So do any of these databases exist? Can the public access them? -- Wwjdd 19:50, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
http://www.pollingreport.com/2004.htm — Sebastian (talk) 00:36, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
In perhaps one of the strangest VfD discussions I've yet been involved in ( Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Invigilator) I have just had cause to quote somebody as saying that "England and America are two nations divded by a common language", but to whom should I be giving atribution. A websearch suggests it might be either Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde, but it doesn't appear on any of their pages at Wikiquote ( Q:Winston Churchill), Q:George Bernard Shaw, Q:Oscar Wilde). Wikiquote does though point out that Messrs Churchill and Wilde are often misattributed quotes. Can anyone help? Thryduulf 23:30, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
A few days ago, I saw a Spanish film (with French subtitles) that was really cool. But nobody i saw it with remembers what the title is: here's the plot: Arabic dude is going out with Jewish girl, goes to her house, thinks he's killed the Jewish girl's dad after dropping frozen soup outta the window in a high-rise flat. Then that dad goes for a wander, finds a hooker he thinks is his wife....there's a Jewish ginger-haired guy (who looks very similar to me) who reckons the Arabic guy is a terrorist who tries2teach his little sister to read the jewish alphabet. And the moslem guy has a really bad sweat problem. So...what it this film called? Reply here, but pls put a note on my talkpage -- Wonderfool t (c) e) 00:24, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I started reading books off of the modern library's 100 best english language books awhile ago, and just finished Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five.
I understand that Vonnegut uses black humor and is satirical (sort of reminded me of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove) and I understand it is an anti-war book, but Vonnegut accepts the inevitability of war.
Does Vonnegut truly believe that free will does not exist? Or does he just think with regards to war there is no way out of it, (although it is horrific and terribly destructive) but in life and other things we have free will? Because although Billy Pilgrim basically exhibits no free will at all, he does exhibit free will when he decides he must tell the rest of the world of the Tralfamadorians and how free will does not exist. What is the purpose of the irony?
How many different speces of bacteria and viruses are known to man? davidzuccaro 05:32, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Lonely and confused, Alphax τ ε χ 07:11, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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, but I don't think it worked, possibly because it hadn't finished running (or something). I've thought about Cygwin before but decided it had too much bloat. Thanks anyway,
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χ 06:15, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)I am interested in writing a biography of Mary Cholmondeley and I hoped you might be able to help me with an initial enquiry, having seen the biographical details on your website. What I am concerned to know at this stage is what issues there might be in quoting from letters and diaries or other copyright material. I would be most grateful for any information you could give me, and especially for contact details of the copyright holder(s) where applicable. Of course, if you could help me locate original material, that would be even better - I have consulted the 1981 research guide compiled by Jane Crisp, but there is no mention of a diary, for instance.
Many thanks!
C.O. -- 194.66.208.11 09:30, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Could someone please translate the part of de:Otto Normalverbraucher dealing with where he was born and his income below? Thanks, E.M. 12:11, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I have to make a short trip this weekend, and after looking at the skyrocketing gas prices (a pittance to my friends across the pond no doubt) I started wondering, what are the relative fuel efficiencies of various types of travel ( Plane, train, automobile, ship, etc)? Obviously the numbers will change depending on the different types of vehicles, relative load, and trip length, but is there some sort of overall trend? For extra credit, does fuel efficiency correlate at all to environmental burden? -- CVaneg 20:06, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
From time to time I read about silver killing bacteria, silver ions killing bacteria, etc. I have seen many people placing a silver spoon in a jug of water, supposedly to kill bacteria. One of these people was actually my deceased grandmother, who was a professional chemist and rocket scientist (she worked on rocket fuel for the Soviet space program for several decades in the State Institute of Applied Chemistry). I am not saying that she was advocating the use of silver spoons though, may be she just thought it would do no harm to try.
So I am wondering if there are actually any biological effects (i.e. does a piece of silver in a jug of water kill bacteria) and if there are, do these translate into health benefits.
I found a lot of information on the web about dangers and questionable efficacy of colloidal silver, but nothing on silver per se.
I would appreciate any light you can shed on this matter.
A debate on the Chile Talk page has got me thinking. Where would I go to find a list of the longest straight as-the-crow-flies distances between the borders of any given country? For example, the claim about Chile being the longest N-S country in the world is not correct as it stands, since most such journeys would have you exiting the border well before you got to the bottom of the country. But there must be a straight-line journey that a crow could fly entirely within the borders of Chile that is longer than any other such journey in that country. Same for any other country one cares to name. What are the details, and where is the list? Cheers JackofOz 23:24, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The US Patent Office has a nifty online search engine which will let you search any patents filed since 1976 in fulltext and anything before 1976 by their patent number. But surely there are ways to search for patents before 1976 without knowing their patent number -- how else would patent clerks be able to navigate through the millions of prior patents when doing research on prior art? So my question is, how do they do it? And more to my specific need: if I have the name of someone who was awarded a patent in a pre-1976 period, how would I go about looking up the patent number of it in a systematic and simple way? Thanks if you know. -- Fastfission 04:21, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What are possible legal implications of using modern gun models in a videogame (freeware or otherwise)? As much as you see real-life models in many other computer games out there, I'm still pretty sure that gun models/designs and their respective names are likely copyrighted and trademarked by their makers, just like other assembled industrial products such as automobiles -- although I don't know for certain. As much as I don't see trademark notices or "used with permission" in the credits of games which feature real-life guns, is it still a potential (even if unlikely) source of a lawsuit from a gun manufacturer trying to protect their intellectual property? If I create, for example, a Counterstrike clone featuring some more recent models of civilian and military firearms, could I be sued for copyright infringement or something trademark-related, just as a videogame company that makes a racing game featuring a popular brand of car without getting the car company's permission can potentially be sued by the car maker? Basically, is it legally "safe" to include a trademark weapon with its intact design in a videogame? Have any such lawsuits happened before against a videogame company? -- I am not good at running 05:16, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Does anyone know the composer and title of a symphony that features a bagpipe in its final movement? I remember I was at a university orchestra concert once when this piece was performed. In the final movement a spotlight shone on the bagpiper, who was dressed in full regalia. It was quite a treat. Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 13:20, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)