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Hi there, I'm a research student doing some work looking at people's feelings/attitudes towards maths. I have a very quick questionnaire (10 questions) that I'm looking for people to complete. NO MATHS INVOLVED and all responses are ANONYMOUS! Here is the link: https://www.survey.lboro.ac.uk/maq/ So far I have more female respondents than males, so please girls and guys, spare a few minutes to help me out. Many thanks in advance! Ps. If you have any comments/stories to share, I'd love to hear them too!

Competition is a driving force for businesses. For example, AT&T was once almost the only telephone company, and telephone costs were high, especially long distance. In 1984 AT&T was broken up into several "baby bells" and the long distance firm named AT&T. Then other long distance companies began competing with AT&T, the price of long distance dropped to $0/min, and AT&T was purchased by the baby bell named Southwestern Bell, which renamed itself AT&T. Competition destroyed a portion of the telephone business Of course, cell phones became a new telephone business. Another development, the Open Hardware initiative, may also threaten busines…

In this thread I'd like to share with you concept art and/or audio for a project I've been working on. First off, I want you to take a look at 2 vehicle concept pictures I've done: Example of the hoverbikes in the story. Alternative example. Does the second picture still look like a motorcycle, or at least, a motorcycle-like vehicle? If not, what can I do to make it look more like a bike?

i know a lady who started learning Italian at the age of 38 and German 5 years later. She can speak both foreign languages very fluently now. She is so awesome ! it proves it is always not too late to learn a foreign language. how many foreign languages you can speak ? which language do you think is relatively easier to grasp ? and which language is most similar to English ? share your thoughts.

Why do so many machines these days no longer perform the function they were designed to? Or more precisely why do they try to tell you that you don't want to do what you have just asked them to do? In particular I posted a letter c in brackets in this thread. http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/75428-i-need-help-in-physics-please/ The computer controller told me I didn't want this and substituted a copyright symbol. I even wasted time editing the text back but the central controller was adament. I cannot have ( c) only ©. I can however have (a), (b), (d) etc. Tron please help!

I just saw a documentary about the Piraha, an Amazonian culture, whose language apparently has no recursion. For example it has no conjunctions, so you cannot say Mary and Mike drank water. It has started a war among linguists, with Chomskyians and others getting pretty hostile, kind of like the war between theists and atheists...not very scientific in some cases. There is no linguistics forum, so I didn't know where to post this. There are a couple of references to the Piraha in Religion; they do not have a belief in god. The linguist who reported this language went there as a missionary whom the Piraha converted him to atheism. It was also about the Piraha cultu…

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Fantastic response from Professor Dawkins! I never tire of listening to him! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIKfZHPqXYc

Some people dig in and refuse to change their opinion, at least in public, whenever evidence indicates they have made a mistake. Grinding can be counterproductive.

Whoever is closest to me IS MY BEST FRIEND. NB: deictic pronoun. Present tense Hopefully at least. I want to live.

I think something I may start posting all of my papers and essays here when I'm done with them. I'm in 8th grade, so if they don't go too much below the surface, don't be surprised, here's a paper on the Black Panther party I wrote for class. The Black Panther Party, By ******** In 1966 California, a movement was started by recent jailbird, Huey P. Newton, and 5 other members created a movement based of a principal of Marxism and Black Pride, titled the Black Power Movement for Self-Defense. The six founding fathers of the movement were Elbert Howard, Huey P. Newton, Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale, Reggie Forte, and Little Bobby Hutton.…

My wife is a special education teacher, K-5. Among her many duties is actually teaching; although, paperwork consumes much of her time. All of her children need more attention, but a sp-ed teacher is often one-on-one with a student. Educational computer programs (special games) could help, but I have been unable to find either open source or free programs that would be helpful. Does anyone know of any free computer programs for this purpose? If so please leave links. tyvm

Another question I've come across while working on my animated series concept: What makes racing more exciting? Is it the speed of the race, or the noise of the vehicles, or the danger the drivers face? I'd like you to tell me as soon as possible so that I know how to make the hoverbike races more exciting.

Hey all, I talked to my mom today and asked her if I could use the extra room in the basement as a lab. At first she said "NO!" but I talked her into it and now I get to live at home for free and have my own laboratory. If I'm going to name my lab for professional purposes, I think I'm going to call in "In a lamp laboratories". My first project is to get my program (Genie) up on the internet. I fully intend for this project to be a non-profit project but I am going to need some funding which I believe I can get from kickstarter.com. Once I get this program on the internet, it should speed up the pace of scientific progress and make survival easier for everyone so I truly …

Invertebrates with internal skeletons are poised to take over the land after the next great extinction... no doubt.. sort of...

Hey! i just joined a (highschool) debate team, any advice or maybe a couple of tips? Need a bit of help here guys..

What games are you guys playing? I've almost completely ditched the consoles and only play mobile games these days. Share some links to cool games. Thanks

Another thing I just thought of regarding my alien reptile character. If she was able to exhale fire like a mythical dragon, what biological traits would she need to be able to do that?

My question is straightforward Would my hypothetical child be ugly if the sister of my girlfriend is very ugly? I ask this because my 19 yr old girlfriend is quite attractive- blond, blue eyes, size 8, etc and yet her older sister (age 21) is fat, ugly, wears glasses. The mother was relatively pretty bud she died when my gf was at age 3 so not alot of info i can add there. Is my girlfriend capable of producing an attractive child or do i simply pass on her in the long term due to the risk of producing a dud child. I am a white male age 20, 180cm, 80kgs and look above average imo

hey! does anyone know in good rock bands out there?

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Another problem involving my animated series concept. First, here's the female lead: Secondly, she's on the team representing Canada, whereas her home is a far off planet full of giant trees and humid weather with lots of rainfall. Canada isn't much like that. This is a character I've worked really hard on, and I don't want her to stick out like a sore thumb. So how can I change her to fit in more with being on the Canadian team?

Someone is trying to get my newest YouTube video taken down for false copyright claims. I even made sure that the sound effects used in this video were legal to use for commercial purposes. More proof: http://www.freesound.org/people/Bidone/sounds/173145/ http://www.freesound.org/people/jobro/sounds/35686/ http://www.freesound.org/people/swim...sounds/165196/ http://www.freesound.org/people/XxBirdoxX/sounds/52293/ http://www.freesound.org/people/digi.../sounds/57608/ All of the above samples are perfectly legal for commercial use. Whoever is trying to get rid of my video should have know that, and so should YouTube.

What's you choice, i found some interesting point and it's maybe useful for everybody Computer Science is the study of computer systems including algorithmic processes and the principles involved in the design of hardware and software. Salary $76,000 Software Engineering is the practice of designing and implementing large, reliable, efficient and economical software by applying the principles and practices of engineering. Salary $95,000 here's the link source and the salary research http://www.cse.concordia.ca/prospectivestudents/softwareengineeringvscomputerscience/ http://computerengineeringsalarydata.com/computer-software-engineer-salary/

Got surprised at a restaurant where a paper strip around the flatware, like to keep them together, had its patent printed on it. Was going to attach a photo; but found it on the web to show : ----> http://www.flickr.com/photos/bunnyhero/5016909008/