Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:19 am
Should sticky that info on the rules, but it really doesn't seem worth it.
How do wireless microphones work?
How do wireless microphones work?
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:32 pm
what's up with those square graduation hats?
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:49 am
you're lucky you got hats! We had to wear white tuxedos >_>
What is a foyer?
What is a foyer?
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:37 pm
why'd we call beyonder lazy a couple years ago? Was he really THAT lazy, or was it something Pez started?
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:24 pm
Is a data entry job as monotonous as it sounds?
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:04 pm
Sorry Proto-Zack. As much as I liked reading the comic, I can't say whether or not Pez should be smitten.
ICPO stands for International Criminal Police Organization, another name for Interpol, the largest international police organization in the world, hence the name. Its main purpose is to assist the communication of criminal information between its member countries. For instance, if one of the member countries is searching for a criminal it believes may have left the country, it can contact Interpol to have the criminal's name and picture put on an international wanted list so that other member countries can assist in the search. Source: http://www.interpol.int/
Wireless microphones, just like most other wireless devices, use a transmitter and a receiver to broadcast information between the microphone unit and the amplifier unit. You can search the Ask Chromus archives to find out how a microphone works. Instead of the electrical signals being sent down a wire, they're broadcast using radio waves and picked up by the amplifier which amplifies the sound and outputs to a built-in speaker or connected speakers. Source: http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~firehzrd/audio/mics.html
More likely, the Beyonder laziness thing was started by Pez in response to Beyonder not doing something just because he was lazy. In all of my dealings with Beyonder, I've found that he's not extremely lazy, but will avoid work if he can manage it.
Data entry is incredibly monotonous. There's no shortage of data to be entered, so you're always working, and your primary job is to enter into a database information on a piece of paper which was probably typed out by someone else to begin with so you get the feeling that you're just wasting key strokes. Fortunately, I keep my mind active by doing some programming on the side and watching Slashdot like a hawk for the latest stories.
ICPO stands for International Criminal Police Organization, another name for Interpol, the largest international police organization in the world, hence the name. Its main purpose is to assist the communication of criminal information between its member countries. For instance, if one of the member countries is searching for a criminal it believes may have left the country, it can contact Interpol to have the criminal's name and picture put on an international wanted list so that other member countries can assist in the search. Source: http://www.interpol.int/
Wireless microphones, just like most other wireless devices, use a transmitter and a receiver to broadcast information between the microphone unit and the amplifier unit. You can search the Ask Chromus archives to find out how a microphone works. Instead of the electrical signals being sent down a wire, they're broadcast using radio waves and picked up by the amplifier which amplifies the sound and outputs to a built-in speaker or connected speakers. Source: http://home1.pacific.net.sg/~firehzrd/audio/mics.html
More likely, the Beyonder laziness thing was started by Pez in response to Beyonder not doing something just because he was lazy. In all of my dealings with Beyonder, I've found that he's not extremely lazy, but will avoid work if he can manage it.
Data entry is incredibly monotonous. There's no shortage of data to be entered, so you're always working, and your primary job is to enter into a database information on a piece of paper which was probably typed out by someone else to begin with so you get the feeling that you're just wasting key strokes. Fortunately, I keep my mind active by doing some programming on the side and watching Slashdot like a hawk for the latest stories.
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:10 pm
Whoops. Looks like I missed two questions.
The academic caps known as mortarboards are an ancient tradition, and as such, I can't find out what, where, or why they were used. The term for them, however, seems to be much more recent and is first seen in the book The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman in the quote "I will overlook your offence in assuming that portion of the academical attire, to which you gave the offensive epithet of ‘mortar-board’; more especially, as you acted at the suggestion and bidding of those who ought to have known better." Source: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mor2.htm
A foyer is simply an entrance hall or a lobby, like the front hallway in a home or the front lobby in many business buildings. Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=foyer
The academic caps known as mortarboards are an ancient tradition, and as such, I can't find out what, where, or why they were used. The term for them, however, seems to be much more recent and is first seen in the book The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman in the quote "I will overlook your offence in assuming that portion of the academical attire, to which you gave the offensive epithet of ‘mortar-board’; more especially, as you acted at the suggestion and bidding of those who ought to have known better." Source: http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mor2.htm
A foyer is simply an entrance hall or a lobby, like the front hallway in a home or the front lobby in many business buildings. Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=foyer
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 1:58 pm
smitten? shouldn't that be smote? or smited?
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:14 pm
Nope. Smite is the present tense form:
I/you/we/they smite
He/she/it smites
Smote is the past tense:
I/you/he/she/it/we/they smote
Smitten is the noun form of the past tense:
I was smitten
You/we/they were smitten
I/you/we/they smite
He/she/it smites
Smote is the past tense:
I/you/he/she/it/we/they smote
Smitten is the noun form of the past tense:
I was smitten
You/we/they were smitten
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 9:24 pm
what is Slashdot?
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:03 am
Slashdot is, perhaps, the largest community blog in existance. Each entry generally contains a summary of a news article or a question posed to the Slashdot community. The Slashdot community is so large that, when small websites are linked to from news summaries, the community can easily swamp and take down the web server. This is known as the Slashdot effect, or in some circles, the Fark effect, named after a similar website. Slashdot news and questions are generally limited to technology or science, hence the motto: "News for nerds, stuff that matters".
I generally read Slashdot every day, more often than that when I need to keep my mind entertained while I do data entry or when I'm bored, but there are some other news aggregation sites that I visit, such as Fark, Corante, and of course, Google News.
I generally read Slashdot every day, more often than that when I need to keep my mind entertained while I do data entry or when I'm bored, but there are some other news aggregation sites that I visit, such as Fark, Corante, and of course, Google News.
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:53 pm
why is it said that yawning is contagious? is there any scientific proof behind this?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:56 am
There once was a theory that yawns were caused by low oxygen in the body. The yawn was thought to cause a massive intake of oxygen and a massive output of carbon dioxide. The stretching that accompanied yawning temporarily increased circulation. This theory, however, has been debated recently.
The new theory proposed by some psychologists is that yawning is a reflex trigged by seeing your peers yawn. This is why adults rarely "catch" a yawn from children, or vice versa, or why yawns aren't caught from different species, like dogs or cats. Truthfully, there's no one answer that everyone agrees on. Source: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_309.html
The new theory proposed by some psychologists is that yawning is a reflex trigged by seeing your peers yawn. This is why adults rarely "catch" a yawn from children, or vice versa, or why yawns aren't caught from different species, like dogs or cats. Truthfully, there's no one answer that everyone agrees on. Source: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_309.html
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:14 pm
why people ask "what came first: the chicken or the egg?"? How can there be an egg out of no where? nothing would make it hatch O_O
And why cover the ramen while your cooking it, what would that do
And why cover the ramen while your cooking it, what would that do
Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:34 am
The egg structure as we are familar with it has been around millions of years, long before chickens were alive, so the answer should be obvious. I'm going to assume, though, that you meant chicken eggs rather than eggs in general.
Since a chicken egg, by definition, hatches a chicken, it should be fairly obvious that the chicken egg came first as well. I haven't seen a requirement that a chicken egg be created by a chicken, yet this is the misconception that most people have when this question is asked. It is possible that a non-chicken created a chicken egg from which the first chicken hatched.
Covering your ramen noodles helps cook them more efficiently since you're trapping steam and heat in the pot. The steam heats the noodles from above while the hot water heats them from below, providing you with faster, better cooked noodles.
Since a chicken egg, by definition, hatches a chicken, it should be fairly obvious that the chicken egg came first as well. I haven't seen a requirement that a chicken egg be created by a chicken, yet this is the misconception that most people have when this question is asked. It is possible that a non-chicken created a chicken egg from which the first chicken hatched.
Covering your ramen noodles helps cook them more efficiently since you're trapping steam and heat in the pot. The steam heats the noodles from above while the hot water heats them from below, providing you with faster, better cooked noodles.