Is there a song with this title?
Once I saw a documentary in Discovery Channel about war strategies in medieval times, and they had this song playing all the time, with choirs and timpanis... At the end credits, I saw credits to "Chimes at Midnights" close the "music" credits. So, I suppose is the name of the such song. Searching for this I could indeed find references to a song, but nothing too substantial.
Err... What could it be? — Kieff | Talk 05:46, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
I believe there is a Jethro Tull song by this name. And I believe it was one of their pseudo-medieval things, so it might be the one. -- Jmabel 22:42, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
Since the phrase is from a moderately famous Shakespeare quote, there could well be multiple songs by that name. -- Matt McIrvin 23:01, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to request an article, but I'm wondering if we can get an article on the king crab? I heard it was supposed to have up to a 12ft armspan...
Rmhermen 21:40, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
Just for ducks, I changed King crab from a redirect to Horseshoe crab to include the above list. WormRunner | Talk 05:07, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Who is Weena Mercator: The Hopping Woman? I've seen reference to her in the show Freakazoid. I believe her name also appears in the credits to the game Star Wars Shadows of the Empire for the Nintedo 64 gaming console. I can't seem to find the origins of Weena Mercator. Who is Weena Mercator and where did she come from? ~ Joshua Renaud.
I've received sth in Chinese and, not knowing the language at all, have no idea what it says. This is especially confusing because it's the name of whoever sent it, and sent from an invalid address.
What is a rough translation of this? --[[User:Eequor|
η
υωρ]] 00:00, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Kidney cancer? Mark Richards 17:22, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
social and cultural factors that impact on contemporary health status of inuits.(Canadian)
What is the convention for referencing quotes and paraphrases of articles in Wikipedia?
Can someone tell me the name of the two tiered monument(fountain) located in a around about (rotory) that is surrounded by black statutes. It is very ornately decorated with gold and the statutes are all facing outward. It looks maybe to be dedicated to Africans but I'm not sure. I was in Paris and took a picture of it while driving but never could find reference to it. I can send you the picture if it would help.
Thanks In advance.
Before the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar the new year began in March (at least in England and a a number of other European countries). I was just looking at 1066. January 6 - Harold II is crowned King of England the day after Edward the Confessor dies. - Presumably this was actually 1065 and has been retrospectively "corrected" to follow the convention of the new year beginning in January. Can we be sure that this has been followed consistently? I mean can we be sure that there arn't articles and timelines where the chronology is skewed because of confusion over this issue? Should we make a note of this possible confusion in our articles on years and dates? Mintguy (T) 10:38, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know why we roll our eyes at certain things? It seems to go across many cultures and I'd think it has some sort of brain/cognition reason. Any have any clues? Thanks. JoeSmack (talk) 22:50, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)
I have an old cruiser, and I just got a new single speed rear wheel for it. I put it on, and tightened the bolts, but the wheel moves in the frame. I tightened them as far as I dare without threading them, but no joy, it still moves - any tips? Thanks, Jordan.
Seeking information on who actually came up with the idea and execution for the reversed © symbol. If you also know the origins of the copyright, trademark, patent and registered symbols, it would be helpful. thanks in advance.
marcus@locarecords.com
Hi,
I'm a CS student. I wanna know more about the SPECTRE and its functioning priciples. I searched online, but there's few.I'm asking where we can find more about this SPECTRE computer system.
Many many thanks!! Danny Calden
Did the Gregorian Calendar originate in Rome or Vatican City?
Hi. My family and i have just relocated to spain where i am looking to set up a business retailing seafood to majour supermarket chains. If anyone knows of anywhere that i can find a list of adresses for any supermarkets headquarters in spain please contact me at buffyfan4ever@hotmail.com (sorry, this is my da<ughters address as i have yet to have my home computer connected to the internet) thanx
By anonymous; moved from the Village Pump. [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk)]] 16:16, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
Related to reaching a certain number of sales but i) how many and ii) does it apply to only albums or do singles count too? -- Cfailde 16:37, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)
how would i cite the article coming from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Company
About a month ago I asked about which book Dorothy Parker was referring when she wrote this is not a book to be discarded lightly, it should be thrown with great force and the answer came back as The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne.
I have since managed to get hold of a copy of that review, and that sentence is not mentioned anywhere. Does anyone have any other ideas? -- Graham ☺ | Talk 21:40, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I want to expand the article lifejacket (actually, I want to move it to Personal flotation device, THEN expand it). I cannot believe that this stub is all that exists on this topic in Wikipedia. I've checked under PFD, Personal flotation device, life jacket (a redirect to lifejacket), and life vest for duplicate articles. Are there any more names that I just haven't thought of? Joyous 02:48, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
I don't think that PC has anything to do with it (unless someone can come up with something offensive regarding the word life or vest). In general, though, I think that the term "personal flotation device" covers a category of objects including life vests, life preservers, and other buoyant objects for individuals. A life vest, though, specifically defines a type of personal flotation device that you wear around your shoulders and body. Cvaneg 18:09, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The contents of the Koran in this library says that Jesus has no share in Divinity and that He never went to the cross. It also says that Allah has no sons whereas the Christian faith states that '...Jesus is the only (begotten) Son of God.' The Christian Scriptures also state that there is no other name than Jesus by which men and women can be saved from eternal damnation and benefit from the love of God in Heaven. What do you think of the above? Regards, FJL
Can someone give me some idea of how hard it would be to set up a personal wiki system? I am interested because I think it would a very useful way to organize some on-going personal research. At this point it would be fine with me if it 'lived' in my personal computer, rather than on a web server. To help you gauge your answer, it am a technically-minded person, but not a computer/database/web-site specialist. If this would be very challenging, can you suggest another simple set up lots of related pages of text with links between them? ike9898 21:39, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
what are california pods/chile pasilla? i know it is a food but i don't know what
What is Quillaia? It's apparently in my root beer, but beyond that.. [[User:Rhymeless| Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 06:02, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Are there any silent film stars that are still living today besides Anita Page?
I ran through the list of "entertainers of the present" in the World Almanac last night, and the oldest one entered still living was Hildegard, the singer, born February 1, 1906. Those born in 1910 or before I spotted were:
Other older living Oscar winners are Karl Malden ( March 22, 1912, Jane Wyman ( January 4, 1914), Olivia de Havilland ( July 1, 1916, her sister Joan Fontaine ( October 22, 1917), and Jennifer Jones ( July 1, 1916). The oldest entertainer the Almanac listed besides the above was bandleader and composer Mitch Miller, born July 4, 1911. PedanticallySpeaking 16:12, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
Can a person remember something when they were 1 year old of age or younger?
User func here. In programming languages, I understand that a variable cannot have the same name as a language key word, or reserved word, such as "if" or "while". There would not be enough context for the compiler/interpreter to disambiguate the difference between "if" as syntax-glue and "if" as variable. What I don't fully understand is why an object-oriented language also doesn't allow the methods and properties of objects to use the reserved words. For instance, I have often wanted to create object methods in JavaScript called things like "char" or "int", but the language doesn't allow for it, ("char" and "int" are reserved for future use):
var o = new Object; o.char = function( ... ) { whatever } // throws a reserved identifier error
Consider, the dot-syntax (or whatever object-syntax is used in the language) should make it clear and unambiguous to the compiler/interpreter that "char" is being used in an "identifying" way and not in a syntactic way.
if ( test ) { whatever } // no ambiguity, myValue = myObject.if; // right?
As compiler design is way above my head, I was just wondering if there was any reason why methods and instance variables are constrained in this way? func (talk) 17:16, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)== Reserved Words ==
Computer languages don't have to have reserved words. For example FORTRAN — or at least FORTRAN as it stood back when it was widely used, I have no idea about newer FORTRAN standards — does not. For example, the following is perfectly good FORTRAN.
IF = 7 FORMAT = 3.17
So, infamously, is
DO 10 I = 1.10
Because FORTRAN ignores spaces in variable names, instead of being the top of a loop (as it would be if that period were a comma) this assigns the value 1.10 to the variable DO10I. Charming.
Probably things like this are why most later languages followed Algol in having reserved words instead of FORTRAN's approach.
By the way, the way FORTRAN compilers cope with this is that they first try to parse every statement as an assignment and only try parsing it other ways after that fails. -- Jmabel 17:34, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
In a nutshell: reserving keywords results in fewer headaches for syntacticians, compiler/interpreter software engineers, maintenance programmers, and others. Reserved keywords make life simpler for all involved.
The long explanation: to generalize on the language-specific examples given Jmabel and DrBob, one important reason why keywords are reserved is to allow the language syntax to be extended without breaking old code. For any given language, it is often possible to write a non-standard compiler or interpreter that allows the use of reserved keywords as variable, method, or attribute names. But when and if the language syntax is extended, it may very well break your code. Reserved keywords are basically the language spec authors' telling you: "These keywords are part of the syntax, which may eventually be extended to use the keywords in new ways. We could say 'use these keywords as variable names at your own risk.' Instead, to make everyone's job easier, we're saying 'thou shalt not use these words as variable names at all.'"
A slight tangent: sometimes new reserved keywords are added to the language. This often does break old code, although the newly reserved keywords will help maintenance programmers quickly find and fix the problem. A real world example: in Python, the keywords as and None are currently part of the syntax according to the latest language spec. They are not yet reserved keywords, though they will be, eventually, by which point maintenance programmers will have to make sure that they aren't using any variables named as or None. • Benc • 00:07, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
My school begun with this creativity fair thing... I suggested my group that we made a Tesla Coil, since hey, Tesla DOES deserve any kind of recognition, and it'd be nice to show people how important he was.
The problem is, we need a transformer and I'm not sure what exactly I'm needing here. What should be the power and the output voltage and current? The input must be 220V, and we're not planning to do anything big here. As long as the coil works, and as long as we can make experiments showing the energy transmission through distance (using fluorescent lights, for example), we'd have enough. Though, it'd be nice if the coil was safe enough to put our hand close to it.
Also, i'd like to know if we can put some glass bowl above it to give a plasma lamp effect. I've heard somewhere that these plasma lamps are nothing but a tesla coil with a bowl around, and if this is true, we could make it even more pleasent to the look.
But anyway, about the transformer, my physics teacher hasn't helped much about this aspect since he's having to ask other people, and this takes some time we don't have.
The transformers I could find already (I've asked for 5000V transformers, though this might be either too much or too few, so that's why I'm asking) are being extremely expensive (about 800 bucks), and I was thinking there could be a better option... Is it safe to make our own tranformer? If so, how should we proceed?
Well, that's pretty much what's worrying me right now, since we don't want it to be too expensive, but we do want something interesting.
Any help is appreciate. Thanks in advance. — Kieff | Talk 05:06, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
Is the inside of the uterus sterile? If so, how does it stay sterile if it is open at the cervix? Kusskeeper
No part of the human body is sterile. Mark Richards 23:59, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The cavum uteri (inside of the uterus) is practically sterile due to various protective mechanisms. The commensal lactobacilli of the vagina produce lactic acid, and the cervix likewise is hostile to pathogens. Infection of the uterus occurs in endometritis (a rare complication of childbirth), and chlamydia infects the uterus before it can affect the Fallopian tubes to causes salpingitis and pelvic inflammatory disease. JFW | T@lk 16:12, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
In Reference desk on ja.wikipedia, A question was posted and no one knows the answer. please help us. The question is below;
If you know him, answer on this page, I'll translate it into ja. Sketch 15:51, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It took awhile, but I think I've found him: The US television program The Pretender was based on a 1961 Tony Curtis film The Great Impostor, which in turn was based on "one of the world's greatest impersonators and hoaxters of the 1950's", a guy by the name of " Ferdinand Waldo Demara," (sometimes spelled "Demarra"). Here is an external link. func (talk) 16:56, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for your researches. I'll show these answers to the first questioner in ja.wp. - Sketch 06:44, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
And the question is?
Check out the history of that article. Mark Richards 23:59, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Good day,
I've been trying to find the etiquette of late 19-century hand-holding in England. More specifically, I'm looking to find out how a man was to take a women's hand or a woman to take the hand/arm of a man. I have searched books and the internet exhaustively and can find nothing specific in answer to my question.
If you have any answer at all, I would be much appreciative!
Sincerely, Searching
You could check out the Windows XP and Linux articles as a start. More specificity would help to avoid a long and complex flamewar! Intrigue 17:36, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Okay, I know that the yeast we use for alcoholic fermentation transforms simple sugars into alcohol. I also know that it cannot do this with complex carbohydrates like starch. That is why when you make beer, you have to malt the barley (to make a long story short, it helps transform the starch in the barley into sugars the yeast can use). So, my question is, some vodka is made from potatoes - how is the potatoe starch made available to the yeast?? ike9898 14:02, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
I've seen vodkas made from potatoes, grain, and at least one that was made from grapes. So, what defines vodka? Is there something distinct about the process used to make it? There is a partial answer in the vodka article, but I'm not sure how this is different from clear rum. Why isn't clear rum considered sugarcane vodka? ike9898 14:15, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone give me some more material about Kerberos Protocal? thanks! ligh@mails.gscas.ac.cn
The numbers we use in the U.S.A. what place were they design at and when? And the naming of the numbers we use in the U.S.A. where were they named at and when?
Thank you for giving me that information but I still don't know where or when the numbers we use in the U.S.A. were design. Plus I don't know where or when the naming of the numbers we use in the U.S.A. happened. --anon
The set of numbers used throughout the Western world and much of the rest of the world as well (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) are ultimately derived from Hindi numerals which came to us by way of Arabic numerals. You can find very detailed information for each of the digits: 0 (number), 1 (number), 2 (number), 3 (number), 4 (number), 5 (number), 6 (number), 7 (number), 8 (number), and 9 (number). func (talk) 19:13, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
On a circuit, how do I generate a sine wave output signal using basic electronic components? — Kieff | Talk 06:28, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
Hey, im looking a complete image that i've seen on a Wikipedia page: Triple J, by Chuq. It's a banner that has a the front part cut off it, and i was hoping that someone may know or have the full banner. It's for a project im doing on Double J. Thanks!
Nia-maria
Would it be possible to construct a boat or other seaworthy craft, using pumice or some similar rock? [[User:Rhymeless| Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 23:00, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
hello, i am intrested in knowing about the quality of english as an language,my concerns are which is the standard english language spoken, is it britain english or american english?,because i heard about u.k english is considered as the standard english used in world, and american english is the slangest english,i just want to know that is that true.It would be great if you tell me where do indian english lie in all the three. hemant. you can mail me on khardehemant@rediffmail.com
What is homeopathy ? Jeanettesundby
Also see Emperor's New Clothes. True homeopathically diluted preparations are so demonstrably only water used as placebo that public acceptance can only be maintained by attacking those who dare to state the obvious. Alteripse 16:27, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
What happened on the 5th international maths congress in Cambridge? I'm interested in B. Russel-related informations particularly. Gubbubu 16:26, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Gubbubu 16:26, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[6] lists the 5th International Congresses of Mathematicians held at Cambridge, England in ( 1912), but I found only tidbits on Bertrand Russell being there ( [7]), maybe an email to one of the contacts at [8] might help? - Wikibob | Talk 12:01, 2004 Oct 11 (UTC)
You might start at Norway, though it would really help if you asked us a specific question! -[[User:Aranel| Aranel (" Sarah")]] 17:58, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Okay, I have a bit of a problem. The problem is this: My 3 year old Dell Dimension 4800 (256mb RAM, 2 hard drives totaling 100 gb, Nvidia GeForce 2, Windows XP service pack 1 (upgrade from WinMe)) has died on me. Whenever I boot Windows and try to log on, it loads my saved prefs and then logs off before it's even done logging on. I am now running it off of a DOS boot disk made on a Windows 95 Compaq Presario 2200 from 1997. Unfortunately, DOS refuses to recognize the second hard drive on the Dell, or its CD-ROM/RW/DVD-ROM drive (E and D drives, respectively.) So, I have two questions:
1. Is my WinXP error a known bug, and if so, how can I fix it?
2. How does one add drives to DOS when running off a boot disk?
Thanks -- 216.195.195.211 18:53, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
What do you actually want to do? I assume: 1. You want to recover the data on the second drive. 2. You want to repair WinXP. Reinstalling XP will solve both problems. If for some reason you can't do this, using a CD based version of Linux (like Knoppox) would allow you to read the NTFS drive (but not write to it) so you could recover the data to the first drive (assuming you have space) and then format the drive to FAT32 or whatever. You could use the opportunity to install Linux if the problem is that you don't have and don't want to buy winXP. Mark Richards 17:01, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I remember some years ago of playing a demo game where you were a cockroach. I think the story resembled something like Kafka's The Metamorphosis, but being specific about turning into a cockroach, but I'm not sure about this.
All I remember is that the game was point-and-click based (you had to guide the cockroach around), and the backgorunds were realistic. I remember there were nasty places, like a dead rat full of maggots or a rotten pizza.
Anyone know the title of such game? Thanks — Kieff | Talk 20:04, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)
I wrote a brief article at Bad Mojo. Intrigue 23:28, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Rather coincidentally, this game is being re-released for some reason [9] Cvaneg 18:48, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I was wondering today how many calories are contained in an apple of average weight. I looked at Nutritional information about the apple, but it didn't really help. Anyone have a rough figure? 147.9.159.224 04:11, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I found the following in the article namespace ( First Monterey International Pop Festival), but it probably belongs here. If anyone answers it should probably cc'ed by email, as I doubt he would find it here otherwise. andy 07:31, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Is there a song with this title?
Once I saw a documentary in Discovery Channel about war strategies in medieval times, and they had this song playing all the time, with choirs and timpanis... At the end credits, I saw credits to "Chimes at Midnights" close the "music" credits. So, I suppose is the name of the such song. Searching for this I could indeed find references to a song, but nothing too substantial.
Err... What could it be? — Kieff | Talk 05:46, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
I believe there is a Jethro Tull song by this name. And I believe it was one of their pseudo-medieval things, so it might be the one. -- Jmabel 22:42, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
Since the phrase is from a moderately famous Shakespeare quote, there could well be multiple songs by that name. -- Matt McIrvin 23:01, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to request an article, but I'm wondering if we can get an article on the king crab? I heard it was supposed to have up to a 12ft armspan...
Rmhermen 21:40, Oct 1, 2004 (UTC)
Just for ducks, I changed King crab from a redirect to Horseshoe crab to include the above list. WormRunner | Talk 05:07, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Who is Weena Mercator: The Hopping Woman? I've seen reference to her in the show Freakazoid. I believe her name also appears in the credits to the game Star Wars Shadows of the Empire for the Nintedo 64 gaming console. I can't seem to find the origins of Weena Mercator. Who is Weena Mercator and where did she come from? ~ Joshua Renaud.
I've received sth in Chinese and, not knowing the language at all, have no idea what it says. This is especially confusing because it's the name of whoever sent it, and sent from an invalid address.
What is a rough translation of this? --[[User:Eequor|
η
υωρ]] 00:00, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Kidney cancer? Mark Richards 17:22, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
social and cultural factors that impact on contemporary health status of inuits.(Canadian)
What is the convention for referencing quotes and paraphrases of articles in Wikipedia?
Can someone tell me the name of the two tiered monument(fountain) located in a around about (rotory) that is surrounded by black statutes. It is very ornately decorated with gold and the statutes are all facing outward. It looks maybe to be dedicated to Africans but I'm not sure. I was in Paris and took a picture of it while driving but never could find reference to it. I can send you the picture if it would help.
Thanks In advance.
Before the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar the new year began in March (at least in England and a a number of other European countries). I was just looking at 1066. January 6 - Harold II is crowned King of England the day after Edward the Confessor dies. - Presumably this was actually 1065 and has been retrospectively "corrected" to follow the convention of the new year beginning in January. Can we be sure that this has been followed consistently? I mean can we be sure that there arn't articles and timelines where the chronology is skewed because of confusion over this issue? Should we make a note of this possible confusion in our articles on years and dates? Mintguy (T) 10:38, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Does anyone know why we roll our eyes at certain things? It seems to go across many cultures and I'd think it has some sort of brain/cognition reason. Any have any clues? Thanks. JoeSmack (talk) 22:50, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)
I have an old cruiser, and I just got a new single speed rear wheel for it. I put it on, and tightened the bolts, but the wheel moves in the frame. I tightened them as far as I dare without threading them, but no joy, it still moves - any tips? Thanks, Jordan.
Seeking information on who actually came up with the idea and execution for the reversed © symbol. If you also know the origins of the copyright, trademark, patent and registered symbols, it would be helpful. thanks in advance.
marcus@locarecords.com
Hi,
I'm a CS student. I wanna know more about the SPECTRE and its functioning priciples. I searched online, but there's few.I'm asking where we can find more about this SPECTRE computer system.
Many many thanks!! Danny Calden
Did the Gregorian Calendar originate in Rome or Vatican City?
Hi. My family and i have just relocated to spain where i am looking to set up a business retailing seafood to majour supermarket chains. If anyone knows of anywhere that i can find a list of adresses for any supermarkets headquarters in spain please contact me at buffyfan4ever@hotmail.com (sorry, this is my da<ughters address as i have yet to have my home computer connected to the internet) thanx
By anonymous; moved from the Village Pump. [[User:Poccil| Peter O. ( Talk)]] 16:16, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
Related to reaching a certain number of sales but i) how many and ii) does it apply to only albums or do singles count too? -- Cfailde 16:37, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)
how would i cite the article coming from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_Company
About a month ago I asked about which book Dorothy Parker was referring when she wrote this is not a book to be discarded lightly, it should be thrown with great force and the answer came back as The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne.
I have since managed to get hold of a copy of that review, and that sentence is not mentioned anywhere. Does anyone have any other ideas? -- Graham ☺ | Talk 21:40, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I want to expand the article lifejacket (actually, I want to move it to Personal flotation device, THEN expand it). I cannot believe that this stub is all that exists on this topic in Wikipedia. I've checked under PFD, Personal flotation device, life jacket (a redirect to lifejacket), and life vest for duplicate articles. Are there any more names that I just haven't thought of? Joyous 02:48, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
I don't think that PC has anything to do with it (unless someone can come up with something offensive regarding the word life or vest). In general, though, I think that the term "personal flotation device" covers a category of objects including life vests, life preservers, and other buoyant objects for individuals. A life vest, though, specifically defines a type of personal flotation device that you wear around your shoulders and body. Cvaneg 18:09, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The contents of the Koran in this library says that Jesus has no share in Divinity and that He never went to the cross. It also says that Allah has no sons whereas the Christian faith states that '...Jesus is the only (begotten) Son of God.' The Christian Scriptures also state that there is no other name than Jesus by which men and women can be saved from eternal damnation and benefit from the love of God in Heaven. What do you think of the above? Regards, FJL
Can someone give me some idea of how hard it would be to set up a personal wiki system? I am interested because I think it would a very useful way to organize some on-going personal research. At this point it would be fine with me if it 'lived' in my personal computer, rather than on a web server. To help you gauge your answer, it am a technically-minded person, but not a computer/database/web-site specialist. If this would be very challenging, can you suggest another simple set up lots of related pages of text with links between them? ike9898 21:39, Oct 5, 2004 (UTC)
what are california pods/chile pasilla? i know it is a food but i don't know what
What is Quillaia? It's apparently in my root beer, but beyond that.. [[User:Rhymeless| Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 06:02, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Are there any silent film stars that are still living today besides Anita Page?
I ran through the list of "entertainers of the present" in the World Almanac last night, and the oldest one entered still living was Hildegard, the singer, born February 1, 1906. Those born in 1910 or before I spotted were:
Other older living Oscar winners are Karl Malden ( March 22, 1912, Jane Wyman ( January 4, 1914), Olivia de Havilland ( July 1, 1916, her sister Joan Fontaine ( October 22, 1917), and Jennifer Jones ( July 1, 1916). The oldest entertainer the Almanac listed besides the above was bandleader and composer Mitch Miller, born July 4, 1911. PedanticallySpeaking 16:12, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
Can a person remember something when they were 1 year old of age or younger?
User func here. In programming languages, I understand that a variable cannot have the same name as a language key word, or reserved word, such as "if" or "while". There would not be enough context for the compiler/interpreter to disambiguate the difference between "if" as syntax-glue and "if" as variable. What I don't fully understand is why an object-oriented language also doesn't allow the methods and properties of objects to use the reserved words. For instance, I have often wanted to create object methods in JavaScript called things like "char" or "int", but the language doesn't allow for it, ("char" and "int" are reserved for future use):
var o = new Object; o.char = function( ... ) { whatever } // throws a reserved identifier error
Consider, the dot-syntax (or whatever object-syntax is used in the language) should make it clear and unambiguous to the compiler/interpreter that "char" is being used in an "identifying" way and not in a syntactic way.
if ( test ) { whatever } // no ambiguity, myValue = myObject.if; // right?
As compiler design is way above my head, I was just wondering if there was any reason why methods and instance variables are constrained in this way? func (talk) 17:16, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)== Reserved Words ==
Computer languages don't have to have reserved words. For example FORTRAN — or at least FORTRAN as it stood back when it was widely used, I have no idea about newer FORTRAN standards — does not. For example, the following is perfectly good FORTRAN.
IF = 7 FORMAT = 3.17
So, infamously, is
DO 10 I = 1.10
Because FORTRAN ignores spaces in variable names, instead of being the top of a loop (as it would be if that period were a comma) this assigns the value 1.10 to the variable DO10I. Charming.
Probably things like this are why most later languages followed Algol in having reserved words instead of FORTRAN's approach.
By the way, the way FORTRAN compilers cope with this is that they first try to parse every statement as an assignment and only try parsing it other ways after that fails. -- Jmabel 17:34, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
In a nutshell: reserving keywords results in fewer headaches for syntacticians, compiler/interpreter software engineers, maintenance programmers, and others. Reserved keywords make life simpler for all involved.
The long explanation: to generalize on the language-specific examples given Jmabel and DrBob, one important reason why keywords are reserved is to allow the language syntax to be extended without breaking old code. For any given language, it is often possible to write a non-standard compiler or interpreter that allows the use of reserved keywords as variable, method, or attribute names. But when and if the language syntax is extended, it may very well break your code. Reserved keywords are basically the language spec authors' telling you: "These keywords are part of the syntax, which may eventually be extended to use the keywords in new ways. We could say 'use these keywords as variable names at your own risk.' Instead, to make everyone's job easier, we're saying 'thou shalt not use these words as variable names at all.'"
A slight tangent: sometimes new reserved keywords are added to the language. This often does break old code, although the newly reserved keywords will help maintenance programmers quickly find and fix the problem. A real world example: in Python, the keywords as and None are currently part of the syntax according to the latest language spec. They are not yet reserved keywords, though they will be, eventually, by which point maintenance programmers will have to make sure that they aren't using any variables named as or None. • Benc • 00:07, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
My school begun with this creativity fair thing... I suggested my group that we made a Tesla Coil, since hey, Tesla DOES deserve any kind of recognition, and it'd be nice to show people how important he was.
The problem is, we need a transformer and I'm not sure what exactly I'm needing here. What should be the power and the output voltage and current? The input must be 220V, and we're not planning to do anything big here. As long as the coil works, and as long as we can make experiments showing the energy transmission through distance (using fluorescent lights, for example), we'd have enough. Though, it'd be nice if the coil was safe enough to put our hand close to it.
Also, i'd like to know if we can put some glass bowl above it to give a plasma lamp effect. I've heard somewhere that these plasma lamps are nothing but a tesla coil with a bowl around, and if this is true, we could make it even more pleasent to the look.
But anyway, about the transformer, my physics teacher hasn't helped much about this aspect since he's having to ask other people, and this takes some time we don't have.
The transformers I could find already (I've asked for 5000V transformers, though this might be either too much or too few, so that's why I'm asking) are being extremely expensive (about 800 bucks), and I was thinking there could be a better option... Is it safe to make our own tranformer? If so, how should we proceed?
Well, that's pretty much what's worrying me right now, since we don't want it to be too expensive, but we do want something interesting.
Any help is appreciate. Thanks in advance. — Kieff | Talk 05:06, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
Is the inside of the uterus sterile? If so, how does it stay sterile if it is open at the cervix? Kusskeeper
No part of the human body is sterile. Mark Richards 23:59, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
The cavum uteri (inside of the uterus) is practically sterile due to various protective mechanisms. The commensal lactobacilli of the vagina produce lactic acid, and the cervix likewise is hostile to pathogens. Infection of the uterus occurs in endometritis (a rare complication of childbirth), and chlamydia infects the uterus before it can affect the Fallopian tubes to causes salpingitis and pelvic inflammatory disease. JFW | T@lk 16:12, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
In Reference desk on ja.wikipedia, A question was posted and no one knows the answer. please help us. The question is below;
If you know him, answer on this page, I'll translate it into ja. Sketch 15:51, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It took awhile, but I think I've found him: The US television program The Pretender was based on a 1961 Tony Curtis film The Great Impostor, which in turn was based on "one of the world's greatest impersonators and hoaxters of the 1950's", a guy by the name of " Ferdinand Waldo Demara," (sometimes spelled "Demarra"). Here is an external link. func (talk) 16:56, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Thank you for your researches. I'll show these answers to the first questioner in ja.wp. - Sketch 06:44, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
And the question is?
Check out the history of that article. Mark Richards 23:59, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Good day,
I've been trying to find the etiquette of late 19-century hand-holding in England. More specifically, I'm looking to find out how a man was to take a women's hand or a woman to take the hand/arm of a man. I have searched books and the internet exhaustively and can find nothing specific in answer to my question.
If you have any answer at all, I would be much appreciative!
Sincerely, Searching
You could check out the Windows XP and Linux articles as a start. More specificity would help to avoid a long and complex flamewar! Intrigue 17:36, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Okay, I know that the yeast we use for alcoholic fermentation transforms simple sugars into alcohol. I also know that it cannot do this with complex carbohydrates like starch. That is why when you make beer, you have to malt the barley (to make a long story short, it helps transform the starch in the barley into sugars the yeast can use). So, my question is, some vodka is made from potatoes - how is the potatoe starch made available to the yeast?? ike9898 14:02, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
I've seen vodkas made from potatoes, grain, and at least one that was made from grapes. So, what defines vodka? Is there something distinct about the process used to make it? There is a partial answer in the vodka article, but I'm not sure how this is different from clear rum. Why isn't clear rum considered sugarcane vodka? ike9898 14:15, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
Can anyone give me some more material about Kerberos Protocal? thanks! ligh@mails.gscas.ac.cn
The numbers we use in the U.S.A. what place were they design at and when? And the naming of the numbers we use in the U.S.A. where were they named at and when?
Thank you for giving me that information but I still don't know where or when the numbers we use in the U.S.A. were design. Plus I don't know where or when the naming of the numbers we use in the U.S.A. happened. --anon
The set of numbers used throughout the Western world and much of the rest of the world as well (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9) are ultimately derived from Hindi numerals which came to us by way of Arabic numerals. You can find very detailed information for each of the digits: 0 (number), 1 (number), 2 (number), 3 (number), 4 (number), 5 (number), 6 (number), 7 (number), 8 (number), and 9 (number). func (talk) 19:13, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
On a circuit, how do I generate a sine wave output signal using basic electronic components? — Kieff | Talk 06:28, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
Hey, im looking a complete image that i've seen on a Wikipedia page: Triple J, by Chuq. It's a banner that has a the front part cut off it, and i was hoping that someone may know or have the full banner. It's for a project im doing on Double J. Thanks!
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Would it be possible to construct a boat or other seaworthy craft, using pumice or some similar rock? [[User:Rhymeless| Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss)]] 23:00, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
hello, i am intrested in knowing about the quality of english as an language,my concerns are which is the standard english language spoken, is it britain english or american english?,because i heard about u.k english is considered as the standard english used in world, and american english is the slangest english,i just want to know that is that true.It would be great if you tell me where do indian english lie in all the three. hemant. you can mail me on khardehemant@rediffmail.com
What is homeopathy ? Jeanettesundby
Also see Emperor's New Clothes. True homeopathically diluted preparations are so demonstrably only water used as placebo that public acceptance can only be maintained by attacking those who dare to state the obvious. Alteripse 16:27, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
What happened on the 5th international maths congress in Cambridge? I'm interested in B. Russel-related informations particularly. Gubbubu 16:26, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Gubbubu 16:26, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[6] lists the 5th International Congresses of Mathematicians held at Cambridge, England in ( 1912), but I found only tidbits on Bertrand Russell being there ( [7]), maybe an email to one of the contacts at [8] might help? - Wikibob | Talk 12:01, 2004 Oct 11 (UTC)
You might start at Norway, though it would really help if you asked us a specific question! -[[User:Aranel| Aranel (" Sarah")]] 17:58, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Okay, I have a bit of a problem. The problem is this: My 3 year old Dell Dimension 4800 (256mb RAM, 2 hard drives totaling 100 gb, Nvidia GeForce 2, Windows XP service pack 1 (upgrade from WinMe)) has died on me. Whenever I boot Windows and try to log on, it loads my saved prefs and then logs off before it's even done logging on. I am now running it off of a DOS boot disk made on a Windows 95 Compaq Presario 2200 from 1997. Unfortunately, DOS refuses to recognize the second hard drive on the Dell, or its CD-ROM/RW/DVD-ROM drive (E and D drives, respectively.) So, I have two questions:
1. Is my WinXP error a known bug, and if so, how can I fix it?
2. How does one add drives to DOS when running off a boot disk?
Thanks -- 216.195.195.211 18:53, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
What do you actually want to do? I assume: 1. You want to recover the data on the second drive. 2. You want to repair WinXP. Reinstalling XP will solve both problems. If for some reason you can't do this, using a CD based version of Linux (like Knoppox) would allow you to read the NTFS drive (but not write to it) so you could recover the data to the first drive (assuming you have space) and then format the drive to FAT32 or whatever. You could use the opportunity to install Linux if the problem is that you don't have and don't want to buy winXP. Mark Richards 17:01, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I remember some years ago of playing a demo game where you were a cockroach. I think the story resembled something like Kafka's The Metamorphosis, but being specific about turning into a cockroach, but I'm not sure about this.
All I remember is that the game was point-and-click based (you had to guide the cockroach around), and the backgorunds were realistic. I remember there were nasty places, like a dead rat full of maggots or a rotten pizza.
Anyone know the title of such game? Thanks — Kieff | Talk 20:04, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)
I wrote a brief article at Bad Mojo. Intrigue 23:28, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Rather coincidentally, this game is being re-released for some reason [9] Cvaneg 18:48, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I was wondering today how many calories are contained in an apple of average weight. I looked at Nutritional information about the apple, but it didn't really help. Anyone have a rough figure? 147.9.159.224 04:11, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I found the following in the article namespace ( First Monterey International Pop Festival), but it probably belongs here. If anyone answers it should probably cc'ed by email, as I doubt he would find it here otherwise. andy 07:31, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)