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Someone I know is scared of wrists. Not that she constantly fears them or anything, she just doesn't like looking at them. She'll be fine as soon as she stops looking at a wrist so it's not like it really affects her in a huge way. However, everytime you show her a wrist, she'll cover her face with her arms and whimper. She wears short sleeved shirts quite often and says she avoids looking at her own wrists completely as well. Is this even a phobia and if it is, is there a name for it? -- 71.235.83.132
please see or write the article wrist cutting. 82.131.184.195 01:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Why does percolated coffee loose its aroma and flavor after the first cycle of percolation? ... IMHO ( Talk) 01:55, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Why doesn't this happen when roasting? ...
IMHO (
Talk)
23:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
What is a mesh-up?
I am asking in the context of the related term called "Mashing". The term mash-up is borrowed from the world of music, where it refers to the unauthorised combination of the vocal from one song with the musical backing of another, usually from a completely different genre. Web mash-ups do the same sort of thing, combining websites to produce useful hybrid sites and illustrating the internet's underlying philosophy: that open standards allow and promote unexpected forms of innovation.
Apparently, this is actually a manifestation of MESHING, of finding bridge points between disparate pieces to make a new "sense" of something. In fact, this might be a very early community indicator, as mash/meshes point out areas of shared interest.
NOTE: there is also another meaning of "mesh-up" in the computer world of 3-D imaging. It is the term that describes the creation of 3-D shapes which are "meshed-up" into an interactive plane. This is not to be confused in our context!
So I am not sure that this is accurate and cant find information other than perhaps a book on the subject called: "Web 2.0: Web Services Mesh-up" by Alexander Peter.
Can you clarify this subject area?
I've often seen this done (especially on torrents) but never been able to find out how to do it myself. Say I have a .rar file 2 GB large and want it to be broken into little files of 10 MB each. What programs can do it? -- Миборовский 08:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Does a full hard-drive weigh more than an empty hard drive?
I was just thinking about whether a charged capacitor weighs more (on an electron mass scale), but I don't think so, since more electrons on one plate means less on the other. I wonder if any electronic (computer) component experiences a change of mass. -- Zeizmic 12:18, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Paddling a canoe the weigh of the paddler is spread over a large area. Given the weigh of a large ship, for example aircraft carrier of oil tanker, and the small area in the water, why doesn't it sink?
Einstein's Shadow
-- Einstein's shadow 10:03, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Pupunwiki 12:08, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for answering my question........so is it yes? or no?
Hello, I was recently reading a book "Structured C Programming" by some author. In it he has mentioned one code which i am not able to understand. It goes as follows :
printf("%d %8.2f %d %hn",i,x,j,&count);
He says that : " If you need to verify the number of input or output characters, you can do so by specifying the n code. This code requires a matching variable address into which scanf or printf places the count of the characters input or output. If the code is prefaced with an h, the matching variable must be short; if it is l, the variable must be long. Since the operation places the results in the variable, its address must be used in the parameter list. In the following example, "count" is a short integer that is to receive the number of characters written".
And then he mentions the forthmentioned code.
My question is that what is the variable count doing? And if I want to see the value of this variable "count", how should I get it printed, because I tried the usual way : printf("%d",count), but it didnt work ! Then I tried to print it using the "%hn" specifier as mentioned by the author, but it also didnt work !
So some help is needed. Thank You.
Perhaps a programming website would be more suitable for such a question? Theres many of them. See [1] for documentation on printf. This code:
short count = 0; int i = 1, x = 2, j = 3; printf ( "%d %8.2f %d %hn", i, x, j, &count );
Would store the value '3' in count as three values: i, x and j have been outputted so far. I've never used or seen this functionality and can't see much reason to.
%hn means: output the number of variables written so far to the short specified. The h indicates that the argument is a short, not (as assumed by default) a long. Hence, the variable count in the example above is defined as short. Read that linked documentation for more info. EAi 11:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Not too long ago, I was confronted with the following multiple choice question in an exam (freely translated):
The human population of which continent shows the highest degree of genetic variation?
Now, the correct answer according to them is Africa. I answered it right by feeling, but I still thought it can't really be true. I mean, even with the "out of Africa" hypothesis, which would mean that modern humans in Africa had the most time to evolve etc., there are people of African origin in all parts of the world. So my natural feeling was that Northern America, with its most recent, but most mixed population should have the highest degree of genetic variation. Is Africa the correct answer? Would Africa only be the correct answer if the question would be: "The native/original human population ..."? Is the question just plain dumb and not clearly answerable? Thanks, -- Totti (talk) 11:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
The answer is correct, and is consistent with the Out-of-Africa theory of human migration. Non-Africans are genetically more related to each other than they are to Africans because they are all descended from a small group of humans that migrated out of Africa. - Cybergoth 22:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes I dream I stumble and fall and during that I shudder in bed. Is it because of the fall of the muscular tone? -- Brand спойт 12:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you exolain me and give refference to me on destructive distillation of wood?With pictures.-- Saksham Sharma 12:58, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Please tell me about ocean currents in full detail.Please give me the referrence also.-- Saksham Sharma 13:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking for the chemical structure of a plastic, but all my web searches have been fruitless. The plastic in question is PETG (Glycol-modified PET). Wikipedia has a nice article on PET, but not PETG. Can sombody help me figure out where the glycol modifications are on this molecule? Many thanks. - M
PET is poly(ethylene terephthalate) while PETG is poly(ethylene terephthalate) glycol. The only difference between the two is that PET has a hydrogen at one end and a hydroxyl at the other, while PETG is a glycol, with two terminal hydroxyls. – Clockwork Soul 19:06, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Inspired by the recent naming of Nix and Hydra (moons of Pluto), I have a couple of questions about the formalities of satellite-naming:
Thanks, Cam 14:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I've been translating Clematis vitalba from the French article, and there is a word "entomogame", which it appears means something like "transferring seeds by the wind". I guessed the English translation would be entomogamy or something similar. Does Wikipedia have an article on this, or something the same? I assume we would anyway. -- Brandnewuser 15:44, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
If it's going to get disolved in water, what possible difference does it make, whether I use caster sugar or icing sugar? Why not just granulated sugar? When it's dissolved, it's just sugar water, no matter what size the granules were to begin with? http://www.supercook.co.uk/inspiration/recipe-ideas/details/12011 -- Username132 ( talk) 17:21, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Okay i have two questions that are tied in with each other.
1a. How would the composition of earth's atmosphere change if green plants and other autotrophs disappeared?
1b. How would animal life be affected by this atmospheric change?
Any help with these questions would really be appreciated. I've looked all over and can't find answers. I don't remember anything like this being in the book, and i homeschool so there is no teacher for me to ask.
Hopless Biology Student
Thank you for letting me know what to look up... i kinda get it all now... thanks :)
Okay, I want to get a Macbook Pro for my next school year. But I also want to have Windows on there.
My question is this: Boot Camp is currently in beta, but it'll be official when OS X 10.5 comes out in late November I believe. However, I will need to have a laptop before August. Is it likely that Apple will release Bootcamp Final for all the saps who bought a new computer for the new school year with 10.4? — Ilyan e p (Talk) 20:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
i was tolt that there are two types of melting, one is called a "pasteous melting" and the other one is "frank melting", physics consider some objects like parafin and glass as liquids and when heat is added to them, they melt not like the water ice cubes, they do it slowly and they call it pasteous melting. I have found this right here -> in spanish on page one, but i am still confused on the meaning of both types of melting. What a "pasteous melting" and "frank melting" are ?-- HappyApple 22:07, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
It may be of note that nothing really has a definite melting point, but rather a melting range. This range may vary in size, from a few hundredths of a degree in very pure substances, to many degrees in less pure solids. This range is often created by imperfections in the crystalline structure of some solids (though not all solids are crystalline), but can also be effected by impurities (even impurities caused by putting a pure substance in contact with air). I would venture to say that the difference in melting behavior of wax and ice is due less to some different "type" of melting, and more to the thermal masses of the substances, and the relative liquidity of the newly melted products. Tuckerekcut 17:52, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
If you had to compare the human eye to a camera lens and sensor, how would you describe the ISO range, aperture range and focal length? -- Jcmaco 22:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I wish to know whether there is a way to sterilize an Ace bandage [redlink, needs writing] without ruining it. I have an Ace bandage that has possibly MRSA-infected bodily fluids on it.— msh210℠ 22:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Why not just get a new Ace bandage and dispose of the infected one? What makes this particular one so important? M@$+ @ Ju ~ ♠ 00:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Get rid of it. There is a reason why most medical equipment these days is disposable. It's cheaper and much safer just to get another one. Can you explain why you wish to keep an infected and soiled bandage? -- mboverload @ 13:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Mattman723, mboverload, everyone else. I didn't know what Ace bandages cost, although someone on Usenet has now told me that they're cheap, and, from growing up, I remember their being reused (not when bloodstained, though). So, yes, I'll chuck it. It? Them. I get one bloodstained daily. That leads me to my next question, which is whether my discharges are still MRSA-infected, now that I've been on vanc this long — but that's a question for my doctor, not for here. Thakns again, folks, for your responses.— msh210℠ 08:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
No problem msh =D On the cost:
Google it. Plenty of deals -- mboverload @ 04:42, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
What is the technical/formal term for a substance that is neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere in-between? Yogurt is the best example I can think of at the moment, or perhaps a thick milkshake. -- 71.98.5.11 23:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
How about a plain old gel ? StuRat 03:34, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Amorphous solids, like glass, also have characteristics of liquids (such as flowing over time), and are sometimes called "supercooled fluids". StuRat 03:40, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
There are classifications for everything... try this: Suspension (chemistry). I think that's where yogurt would fall. -- Bmk 03:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Hmmm... how about an emulsion? - Cybergoth 16:12, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Does the word hydrochore or something that may look similar mean anything, maybe meaning something like "disperses seeds through water", in the dissemination of plants, specifically the Yellow Water-lily?
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Someone I know is scared of wrists. Not that she constantly fears them or anything, she just doesn't like looking at them. She'll be fine as soon as she stops looking at a wrist so it's not like it really affects her in a huge way. However, everytime you show her a wrist, she'll cover her face with her arms and whimper. She wears short sleeved shirts quite often and says she avoids looking at her own wrists completely as well. Is this even a phobia and if it is, is there a name for it? -- 71.235.83.132
please see or write the article wrist cutting. 82.131.184.195 01:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Why does percolated coffee loose its aroma and flavor after the first cycle of percolation? ... IMHO ( Talk) 01:55, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Why doesn't this happen when roasting? ...
IMHO (
Talk)
23:32, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
What is a mesh-up?
I am asking in the context of the related term called "Mashing". The term mash-up is borrowed from the world of music, where it refers to the unauthorised combination of the vocal from one song with the musical backing of another, usually from a completely different genre. Web mash-ups do the same sort of thing, combining websites to produce useful hybrid sites and illustrating the internet's underlying philosophy: that open standards allow and promote unexpected forms of innovation.
Apparently, this is actually a manifestation of MESHING, of finding bridge points between disparate pieces to make a new "sense" of something. In fact, this might be a very early community indicator, as mash/meshes point out areas of shared interest.
NOTE: there is also another meaning of "mesh-up" in the computer world of 3-D imaging. It is the term that describes the creation of 3-D shapes which are "meshed-up" into an interactive plane. This is not to be confused in our context!
So I am not sure that this is accurate and cant find information other than perhaps a book on the subject called: "Web 2.0: Web Services Mesh-up" by Alexander Peter.
Can you clarify this subject area?
I've often seen this done (especially on torrents) but never been able to find out how to do it myself. Say I have a .rar file 2 GB large and want it to be broken into little files of 10 MB each. What programs can do it? -- Миборовский 08:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Does a full hard-drive weigh more than an empty hard drive?
I was just thinking about whether a charged capacitor weighs more (on an electron mass scale), but I don't think so, since more electrons on one plate means less on the other. I wonder if any electronic (computer) component experiences a change of mass. -- Zeizmic 12:18, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Paddling a canoe the weigh of the paddler is spread over a large area. Given the weigh of a large ship, for example aircraft carrier of oil tanker, and the small area in the water, why doesn't it sink?
Einstein's Shadow
-- Einstein's shadow 10:03, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Pupunwiki 12:08, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for answering my question........so is it yes? or no?
Hello, I was recently reading a book "Structured C Programming" by some author. In it he has mentioned one code which i am not able to understand. It goes as follows :
printf("%d %8.2f %d %hn",i,x,j,&count);
He says that : " If you need to verify the number of input or output characters, you can do so by specifying the n code. This code requires a matching variable address into which scanf or printf places the count of the characters input or output. If the code is prefaced with an h, the matching variable must be short; if it is l, the variable must be long. Since the operation places the results in the variable, its address must be used in the parameter list. In the following example, "count" is a short integer that is to receive the number of characters written".
And then he mentions the forthmentioned code.
My question is that what is the variable count doing? And if I want to see the value of this variable "count", how should I get it printed, because I tried the usual way : printf("%d",count), but it didnt work ! Then I tried to print it using the "%hn" specifier as mentioned by the author, but it also didnt work !
So some help is needed. Thank You.
Perhaps a programming website would be more suitable for such a question? Theres many of them. See [1] for documentation on printf. This code:
short count = 0; int i = 1, x = 2, j = 3; printf ( "%d %8.2f %d %hn", i, x, j, &count );
Would store the value '3' in count as three values: i, x and j have been outputted so far. I've never used or seen this functionality and can't see much reason to.
%hn means: output the number of variables written so far to the short specified. The h indicates that the argument is a short, not (as assumed by default) a long. Hence, the variable count in the example above is defined as short. Read that linked documentation for more info. EAi 11:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Not too long ago, I was confronted with the following multiple choice question in an exam (freely translated):
The human population of which continent shows the highest degree of genetic variation?
Now, the correct answer according to them is Africa. I answered it right by feeling, but I still thought it can't really be true. I mean, even with the "out of Africa" hypothesis, which would mean that modern humans in Africa had the most time to evolve etc., there are people of African origin in all parts of the world. So my natural feeling was that Northern America, with its most recent, but most mixed population should have the highest degree of genetic variation. Is Africa the correct answer? Would Africa only be the correct answer if the question would be: "The native/original human population ..."? Is the question just plain dumb and not clearly answerable? Thanks, -- Totti (talk) 11:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
The answer is correct, and is consistent with the Out-of-Africa theory of human migration. Non-Africans are genetically more related to each other than they are to Africans because they are all descended from a small group of humans that migrated out of Africa. - Cybergoth 22:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes I dream I stumble and fall and during that I shudder in bed. Is it because of the fall of the muscular tone? -- Brand спойт 12:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you exolain me and give refference to me on destructive distillation of wood?With pictures.-- Saksham Sharma 12:58, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Please tell me about ocean currents in full detail.Please give me the referrence also.-- Saksham Sharma 13:05, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking for the chemical structure of a plastic, but all my web searches have been fruitless. The plastic in question is PETG (Glycol-modified PET). Wikipedia has a nice article on PET, but not PETG. Can sombody help me figure out where the glycol modifications are on this molecule? Many thanks. - M
PET is poly(ethylene terephthalate) while PETG is poly(ethylene terephthalate) glycol. The only difference between the two is that PET has a hydrogen at one end and a hydroxyl at the other, while PETG is a glycol, with two terminal hydroxyls. – Clockwork Soul 19:06, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Inspired by the recent naming of Nix and Hydra (moons of Pluto), I have a couple of questions about the formalities of satellite-naming:
Thanks, Cam 14:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I've been translating Clematis vitalba from the French article, and there is a word "entomogame", which it appears means something like "transferring seeds by the wind". I guessed the English translation would be entomogamy or something similar. Does Wikipedia have an article on this, or something the same? I assume we would anyway. -- Brandnewuser 15:44, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
If it's going to get disolved in water, what possible difference does it make, whether I use caster sugar or icing sugar? Why not just granulated sugar? When it's dissolved, it's just sugar water, no matter what size the granules were to begin with? http://www.supercook.co.uk/inspiration/recipe-ideas/details/12011 -- Username132 ( talk) 17:21, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Okay i have two questions that are tied in with each other.
1a. How would the composition of earth's atmosphere change if green plants and other autotrophs disappeared?
1b. How would animal life be affected by this atmospheric change?
Any help with these questions would really be appreciated. I've looked all over and can't find answers. I don't remember anything like this being in the book, and i homeschool so there is no teacher for me to ask.
Hopless Biology Student
Thank you for letting me know what to look up... i kinda get it all now... thanks :)
Okay, I want to get a Macbook Pro for my next school year. But I also want to have Windows on there.
My question is this: Boot Camp is currently in beta, but it'll be official when OS X 10.5 comes out in late November I believe. However, I will need to have a laptop before August. Is it likely that Apple will release Bootcamp Final for all the saps who bought a new computer for the new school year with 10.4? — Ilyan e p (Talk) 20:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
i was tolt that there are two types of melting, one is called a "pasteous melting" and the other one is "frank melting", physics consider some objects like parafin and glass as liquids and when heat is added to them, they melt not like the water ice cubes, they do it slowly and they call it pasteous melting. I have found this right here -> in spanish on page one, but i am still confused on the meaning of both types of melting. What a "pasteous melting" and "frank melting" are ?-- HappyApple 22:07, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
It may be of note that nothing really has a definite melting point, but rather a melting range. This range may vary in size, from a few hundredths of a degree in very pure substances, to many degrees in less pure solids. This range is often created by imperfections in the crystalline structure of some solids (though not all solids are crystalline), but can also be effected by impurities (even impurities caused by putting a pure substance in contact with air). I would venture to say that the difference in melting behavior of wax and ice is due less to some different "type" of melting, and more to the thermal masses of the substances, and the relative liquidity of the newly melted products. Tuckerekcut 17:52, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
If you had to compare the human eye to a camera lens and sensor, how would you describe the ISO range, aperture range and focal length? -- Jcmaco 22:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I wish to know whether there is a way to sterilize an Ace bandage [redlink, needs writing] without ruining it. I have an Ace bandage that has possibly MRSA-infected bodily fluids on it.— msh210℠ 22:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
Why not just get a new Ace bandage and dispose of the infected one? What makes this particular one so important? M@$+ @ Ju ~ ♠ 00:36, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Get rid of it. There is a reason why most medical equipment these days is disposable. It's cheaper and much safer just to get another one. Can you explain why you wish to keep an infected and soiled bandage? -- mboverload @ 13:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Mattman723, mboverload, everyone else. I didn't know what Ace bandages cost, although someone on Usenet has now told me that they're cheap, and, from growing up, I remember their being reused (not when bloodstained, though). So, yes, I'll chuck it. It? Them. I get one bloodstained daily. That leads me to my next question, which is whether my discharges are still MRSA-infected, now that I've been on vanc this long — but that's a question for my doctor, not for here. Thakns again, folks, for your responses.— msh210℠ 08:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
No problem msh =D On the cost:
Google it. Plenty of deals -- mboverload @ 04:42, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
What is the technical/formal term for a substance that is neither solid nor liquid, but somewhere in-between? Yogurt is the best example I can think of at the moment, or perhaps a thick milkshake. -- 71.98.5.11 23:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
How about a plain old gel ? StuRat 03:34, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Amorphous solids, like glass, also have characteristics of liquids (such as flowing over time), and are sometimes called "supercooled fluids". StuRat 03:40, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
There are classifications for everything... try this: Suspension (chemistry). I think that's where yogurt would fall. -- Bmk 03:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Hmmm... how about an emulsion? - Cybergoth 16:12, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Does the word hydrochore or something that may look similar mean anything, maybe meaning something like "disperses seeds through water", in the dissemination of plants, specifically the Yellow Water-lily?