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I had this conversation with a friend of mine a while back. When something doesn't work on your computer it seems like for other people it always does. You can follow the exact same procedure that someone else reports worked for them yet it doesn't work for you. Just an example I'm trying to run Civilization 4 under wine*. According to the wine appdb I did everything correctly yet it seg faults. There's even a guy with the same distro and same version of wine whom says it's "running perfectly." Why it works for him and not me, I don't know. This is a recurrent thing, and it seems like it's not just me. I'm not complaining about it -- it's kind of amusing, ac…

What is the significane of using Red color for danger? is it the wavelength or any other factors Thanks, Murulidhara

Just watched 2001 A Space Odyssey last night. I've never seen this movie and after watching it, I really have no idea how this one stayed off of my radar - I loved it. I loved the emptiness, cold, sterile, realism. Why isn't more science fiction done this way? Particularly since it's touted as the best sci-fi film ever. Anyway, I got to wondering how you scientists view science fiction. The themes in "2001" were cool - to me, a non-scientist. The dawn of man scene was really neat - again, to me, a non-scientist. These concepts seem interesting to us, the non-scientist public, but do they seem the least bit interesting to you scientists? I wrote a short s…

Maybe it's a bit silly, but I absolutely loathe spoilers. I hear that some news sites are ruining the last Harry Potter novel by publishing early reviews with spoilers. And I suspect other news organizations will pick up the story and run with it, carrying the spoilers along for the ride. That really makes me mad. So for the next week, or however many days it takes me to plow through HP7, I'm boycotting all news services. Bah!

I have read that people with better memory do better in school. Riding that thought I was just wondering if anyone has any thought as to what memory improvement course to take. I have done some research and found a couple of sites but not sure which one to take. Theres the School of Phenomenal Memory and Theres dr. brunos course. There were plenty more but I just wanted to see if anyone has any experience with any of these memory improvement courses. Thanks

I noticed this... http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/member.php?u=12366 what is it exactly, a VB error, or somebody hacking the forums ?

It's annoying having to keep logging in.. is there any way I can change this? I know I don't contribute much as it is..

When a college considers GPA do they consider your GPA with or without weights from advanced classes?

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My home page for many years (over ten?): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Dunno if anybody else here follows APOD, but I've noticed that the site's been down for over a day now. Does anybody know anything about this? There's just a notice there saying that they're having technical difficulties. I was wondering if it maybe got hacked or defunded or something.

Yesterday I had to endure another chav episode whilst trying to study on the bus...with the usual taunts 'gonna stab this guy yeah, gonna spit in the drivers face yeah, got kicked outta school yeah, my mate stabbed this guy yeah...et.c' This got me wondering, and perhaps the problem applies throughout history, I'm not sure. But, is there some trick that could be applied, say, economically or politically that could stamp out chavs and asbos and remove them from our evolution. The problem is, smart and successful people are caught in lifestyles that warrant smaller families, due to more responsibility (I realize that's a slight generalization) but to be really suc…

while getting directions for a trip i came across this piece of genius from google. [ATTACH]1570[/ATTACH] anyone think i'll actually find a Mr Treublaan there?

The only one I have found so far has a very limited library. I'm looking for an itunes, but I really want mp3. I really don't want to have go through the trouble of using wine. Are there any good solution? This seems like way too much of a headache to have to put Linux users through.

Hi, everybody I would like to know a site where i can download past exam papers of cambridge... Plzzzz.....help me its important for me....

i-e. butsurigaku tanoshii ja arimasein. butsurigaku hidoi desu. watashi wakariyasui butsurigaku ja arimasein kichi desu ka?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2cpNjyVvqK0 Watching this video I see a number of arguments lodged against evolution which I've also seen lodged against global warming. For example: - mainly advocated by the media - other scientists disagree and are being suppressed by the media - it's being pushed by a minority with an agenda - part of a larger push towards a particular ideology - no evidence - not a theory, just a model - early advocates were highly uncertain - examples have been put forward in the past which were incorrect - need to be skeptical and examine both sides of the argument (teach the controversy!) What do you think?

An interesting item in our local newspaper. Dr. Jim Flynn is emeritus professor at Otago University, and an expert on the interaction of class, race and IQ. While he argues vigorously that race is not a determinant of IQ, he says that class can be. He feels that, in a society that is socially mobile (meaning anyone with ability can rise into higher socio-economic levels), those of lower IQ remain in the 'lower' classes, while those of high IQ rise into higher socio-economic classes. He notes that women in the lower classes produce more babies than those in higher. The following figues relate to New Zealand, but are probably similar for other western coun…

There was something I was going to try based on things I learned in different science courses last school year but I'm not sure if I would be sure enough of what I'm doing, and there's some things I'd like to ask here first. My idea mixes electromagnetic induction with electrolysis of aqueous solutions, but that would mean I'm asking for things related to chemistry and things related to physics. What would be a good approach to take, should I ask these things separately in the separate boards or is another board (like general) a good place to put it?

That includes checking teh credentials of teh author and...and... o_o is a book considered reliable if the publication date is seven years from now (2000(? The book I am referring to is a medical book called Vaccination: the facts, the fears, the future by Gordon Ada. Are there any more factors that can decide whether a book is reliable?

I will illustrate it in a description, to let you guys get a sense of what is going on--which is bad--in Taiwan. Taiwan is a little island besides East coast of China. The citizens of Taiwan are getting more informations (relative to entertainment the most) from Western world. Although Mandarin and Taiwanese dialogue are two main spoken languages in Taiwan, people are thriving to study English. Now, there are some cultural discriminations going on in Taiwan: some folks who are obsessed in Western culture kind of despise native people of Taiwan that don't seem to have good or fashion state of beings on their faces. Because those native Taiwanese usually dress vulgar …

A few weeks ago, I began drinking soy milk and stopped drinking cow's milk. Unfortunately, I didn't drink all of the cow milk from the gallon before switching to soy. I left the milk gallon in a small fridge, which doesn't really work. I opened the fridge today and found that the milk had expired a week ago. Here's my question. What happened to the milk? It's all watery for 9/10 of it and the top 1/10 is white, probably the milk fat. The gallon has bulged out. Is that because it's giving off a gas? Most intriguing of all, why is the gallon a lot heavier now? A gallon once half full now weighs as much as two gallons. Shouldn't it be the same weight?

I remember this one game online but I can't remember what it's called. I think I first found out about it through SFN, but I can't remember that either. It's online. You are a person in a locked room and you can't remember anything. You escape through the room and do a lot of puzzles. It has about a dozen levels I think. You discover that you're a time traveler or something. There's one room with a lot of green tiles on the wall and you click the tiles. It's part of a puzzle. There are aliens on level 9 or so. What's it called?

which is correct, "a UMS" or "an UMS"? I have found articles from either of them.

As blike mentioned in the announcement, here's the discussion thread. Feel free to talk about anything related to WiSci, although I would prefer you put it on the Community Portal there. If you don't know what WiSci is, visit http://www.wisci.org.

Am I alone in noticing that ``The Trouble with Physics'' is still the book of the month? Is the ``book of the month'' intended to incite discussion, or is it something less academic? For one, I can't join the discussion (probably because of post count), and two, it seems that there is no real discussion there anyway because aparently either no one has read it or no one understands it. If this is the case, then why is it the ``book of the month''? Below is a copy of a private message I sent to blike with a comment for the thread (for some reason I can't participate). Despite the fact that this message was sent several weeks ago, and the link specifically re…