The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XL

[aimeeandbeatles]

Question: I have a book. It was originally published in 1951, but the edition I have was published in 1965. There's a valid ISBN number on the copyright page. The ISBN wasn't introduced until 1970. Did I come across time travelers?

 

[Arakhor]

Are you sure it wasn't just a reprint?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'm not sure. This is the book in question. In the book itself the only thing about the date is a "Copyright 1951."

 

[Cutlass]

I'm not sure. This is the book in question. In the book itself the only thing about the date is a "Copyright 1951."

On the publishers page of the book, does it list a number of different printings?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Sorry the picture is bad

 

[Takhisis]

Just because it's the 1965 edition does not mean that it isn't a reprint, a newer issue of the same edition but at a later date.

 

[trader/warrior]

Since I can't seem to find the right combination of keywords to make Google understand what I'm looking for:

When did they start standing computer towers up on end? A lot of early computer cases were on their side, allowing the monitor to sit on top of it. What was the first computer to turn it sideways?

Got really curious as well. Seems the very much ahead of their time Xerox workstations had vertical towers all the way back in the 70's.

Spoiler :

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And seems vertical towers continued to be normal for professional workstations through the 80's, probably as it is a natural development from the earlier use of huge mainframe towers.

But yeah it seems it only became common in home computers in the early 90's.

Edit: Seems the xerox workstation I pictured was from 1985, the towers from the 70's were so massive they would place the screen on top of the machine instead of having a desk, which is kinda different from what we consider a normal tower computer.

 

[Cutlass]

Sorry the picture is bad

Spoiler :

More recent printings have more information there. I think it was probably a 1965 printing of a 1951 edition. But there isn't enough information to answer your question.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Going to Goodreads' All Editions only lists the original 1951 edition and the 1965 edition. Maybe the 1965 was printed again sometime after 1970 so they added the ISBN.

 

[elmurcis]

How much electricity laptop actually use when it is connected to power all the time? Is it pretty much like (65W) all the time or is it less on average?
(it is old, rusty laptop (but it can handle civ4 pretty well, so it fill basic need of life!!! ) that don't like to be off for long period of time so it is working 99% of time per year, and noise of fan also helps to get asleep quickly and even if it uses ~1,5kWh/day, it is reasonable "price", just was wondering - is it actually?)

 

[really]

I've no idea but I have solar panels that generate a decent amount of electricity in the summer and I use any surplus to heat water.

I ran out of hot water after a dull week and realised I had left 2 laptops and a desktop running for days and they had taken all the excess.

I switched them off and after one sunny day the water was hot again.

 

[trader/warrior]

How much electricity laptop actually use when it is connected to power all the time? Is it pretty much like (65W) all the time or is it less on average?
(it is old, rusty laptop (but it can handle civ4 pretty well, so it fill basic need of life!!! ) that don't like to be off for long period of time so it is working 99% of time per year, and noise of fan also helps to get asleep quickly and even if it uses ~1,5kWh/day, it is reasonable "price", just was wondering - is it actually?)

Both the CPU and graphics card (or integrated graphics) should automatically downclock and use way less power when not in use, at which point I would think the screen is one of the major draws of power, so either have the screen turn off after some time (maybe it does this automatically) or just use a black screensaver should save a bit of power.

A program like HWinfo64 with the sensor view is nice for looking at exactly how much wattage your parts are using, if they are under load, temperatures, and whether they are clocking down. Though it is a bit confusing and has lots of advanced info and features I don't really understand, but it's a great monitoring program.

 

[Samson]

What is in gravy powder / granules except starch that gives it a meaty flavour? This is the one I have, the ingredients are below and the only thing that actually sounds like it imparts any real flavour is the nebulous "Flavouring (contains Soya)".

I am on a kind of lowish carb diet, and try to reduce the amount of things like starch. I make gravy with the best bread flour I can get, on the principle that the more gluten in the flour the more thickening I get from protein not carbohydrate. I do not want to use the shop stuff for the little bit of flavouring and get all the starch, so want to buy it on its own.

Spoiler Ingredients :

INGREDIENTSotato Starch, Palm Oil, Salt, Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Maltodextrin, Colour: Ammonia Caramel; Flavouring (contains Soya), Hydrolysed Maize Protein, Emulsifier: Soya lecithin.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Could it be the second-to-last?

Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) products are foodstuffs obtained by protein hydrolysis and are used as ingredients to create a bouillon (broth) taste without the vegetables, bones, simmering, or other standard elements of creating bouillon from scratch.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Why are most mammals' poop brown and birds' poop white?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Why are most mammals' poop brown and birds' poop white?

Uric acid. Birds don't pee.

At least human poop is brown because of a mixture of bilirubin and bile. Not sure about other mammals.

 

[Samson]

Could it be the second-to-last?

That sounds exactly like it, and it seems you can buy it industrially, but using google shopping, ebay or amazon I only get up cosmetics? I have not had that problem before, I wonder if there is a reason you cannot easily buy jars of it to add to cooking.

[EDIT] A little more hunting and it seems you can buy it, but not less than 1 Kg.
[EDIT 2] It is not as easy as that. It kind of seems like this is a product you cannot buy at a consumer level. I have only got into this internet shopping thing during lockdown, so perhaps I am not doing it right. So a new question: Can you buy hydrolyzed vegetable protein as a consumer product? I think it is a mix of amino acids made of depolymerised protein that has a very strong umami flavour.

It really looks like you could just get a Kg for <= $10, but the information seems so dodgy:

SALT (%)                     ≤50
LEAD (AS PB) (MG/KG)         ≤1.0
ARSENIC (AS AS) (MG/KG)      ≤0.5
HEAVY METALS (MG/KG)         ≤10
STANDARD PLATE COUNT (/G)    ≤10'000
COLIFORMS (MPN/G)            ≤3
YEAST & MOLD (/G)            ≤50

 

[The_J]

I don't know what the cutoffs are, but doesn't seem dodgy to me.
(besides that I'd not buy food additives from China, that itself is...mmhh...)

 

[Samson]

I don't know what the cutoffs are, but doesn't seem dodgy to me.
(besides that I'd not buy food additives from China, that itself is...mmhh...)

Less than half the product is salt. "Only" 10 mg of heavy metals per Kg. I am not sure what standard plate count is, but it sounds like colony forming units, and 10,000 per gram sounds a fair bit, and some coliforms means it has some poo in it?

 

[The_J]

For the salt, I actually really don't know. Seems weird.w.
Yes, standard plate count should be the same as CFU. I don't know what the normal cutoff are, but 10^4 is considered in microbiological work low, whereas 10^8 or 9 can be considered high. Your colon reaches 10^12 cfu/ml.
Coliforme doesn't mean poo. It means a group of bacteria looking similar to E.coli. While many people know E.coli as a gut bacterium, it's not really that (you have it in the gut, but not a major component), it's essentially weed, growing everywhere, and is a common contaminant. Therefore often checked separately.

I'd like to check what the sigma aldrich uses in their microbiological products, but their website is just...can't even call that functional.