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| ARTICLES RELATED TO trial and error | | | |  trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Knowledge - Defining knowledgeWhile knowledge is a central part of daily life, the actual definition of knowledge is of great interest to philosophers, social scientists, and historians. Knowledge, according to most thinkers, must follow three defining criteria. It must be justified, true, and believed. Meeting these qualifications may be difficult or impossible.
It is also common to weigh knowledge in how it can be applied or used. In this sense, knowledge consists of information augmented by intentionality (or direction). This model aligns with the DI ...
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Knowledge - Situated knowledge Situated knowledge is knowledge specific to a particular situation. Imagine two very similar breeds of mushroom, which grow on either side of a mountain, one nutritious, one poisonous. Relying on knowledge from one side of an ecological boundary, after crossing to the other, may lead to starving rather than eating perfectly healthy food near at hand, or to poisoning oneself by mistake.
Some methods of generating knowledge, such as trial and error, or learning from experience, tend to create highly situational knowledge. One of the main benefits of the scientific method is that the theories it generates are much less sit ...
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| | | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Aquarium - Function and design From the outdoor ponds and glass jars of antiquity, modern aquaria have evolved into a wide range of specialized systems. Aquaria can vary in size from a small bowl large enough for a single small fish, to the huge public aquaria that can simulate entire marine ecosystems. The most successful aquaria, as judged by the long-term survivability of its inhabitants, carefully emulate the natural environment ...
See also:Aquarium, Aquarium - History and development, Aquarium - Etymology, Aquarium - Ancient practices, Aquarium - Glass enclosures, Aquarium - Popularization, Aquarium - Function and design, Aquarium - Design, Aquarium - Classifications, Aquarium - Species selection, Aquarium - Source of aquarium inhabitants, Aquarium - Ecology, Aquarium - Nitrogen cycle, Aquarium - Other nutrient cycles, Aquarium - Biological loading, Aquarium - Public aquaria Read more here: » Aquarium: Encyclopedia II - Aquarium - Function and design |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Knowledge - Other definitions Knowledge is "information combined with experience, context, interpretation, and reflection. It is a high-valueform of information that is ready to apply to decisions and actions." T. Davenport et al., 1998
"Explicit or codified knowledge refers to knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language. On the other hand, tacit knowledge has a personal quality, which makes it hard ...
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Mac OS - Classic Mac OS technologies Some features of the "classic" Mac OS are still in use in Mac OS X, including:
ColorSync
ColorSync is a technology for matching colors between the screen and a printer.
Finder
The Finder is the interface for browsing the filesystem and launching applications.
Mac OS Roman
Mac OS Roman is the character encoding used in Macintosh systems.
PlainTalk
PlainTalk is a speech synthesis and speech recognition technology. It is still a part of the Macin ...
See also:Mac OS, Mac OS - Versions, Mac OS - Classic Mac OS 1984-2001, Mac OS - Mac OS X 2001-present, Mac OS - Classic Mac OS technologies, Mac OS - Obsolete technologies, Mac OS - Project Star Trek, Mac OS - Project Marklar, Mac OS - Translation emulation and Macintosh clones, Mac OS - A/UX Read more here: » Mac OS: Encyclopedia II - Mac OS - Classic Mac OS technologies |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Mac OS - Project Star Trek One interesting historical aspect of the classic Mac OS was a relatively unknown secret prototype Apple started work on in 1992, code-named Project Star Trek. The goal of this project was to create a version of Mac OS that would run on Intel-compatible x86 personal computers. It was short lived, being cancelled only one year later in 1993 due to political infighting, though its team was able to get the Macintosh Finder and some basic application ...
See also:Mac OS, Mac OS - Versions, Mac OS - Classic Mac OS 1984-2001, Mac OS - Mac OS X 2001-present, Mac OS - Classic Mac OS technologies, Mac OS - Obsolete technologies, Mac OS - Project Star Trek, Mac OS - Project Marklar, Mac OS - Translation emulation and Macintosh clones, Mac OS - A/UX Read more here: » Mac OS: Encyclopedia II - Mac OS - Project Star Trek |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Mac OS - Project Marklar In April 2002, eWeek reported a rumor that Apple had a version of Mac OS X running on x86 processors, code-named Marklar. The idea behind Marklar was to keep Mac OS X running on an alternate platform should Apple become unsatisfied with the progress of the PowerPC platform.[2] These rumors subsided until late in May 2005, when CNet reported that Apple would unveil Marklar in the coming months. The rumor was confirmed by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs in June 2005, when he announced that future Macintosh products will run on Intel processors starting ...
See also:Mac OS, Mac OS - Versions, Mac OS - Classic Mac OS 1984-2001, Mac OS - Mac OS X 2001-present, Mac OS - Classic Mac OS technologies, Mac OS - Obsolete technologies, Mac OS - Project Star Trek, Mac OS - Project Marklar, Mac OS - Translation emulation and Macintosh clones, Mac OS - A/UX Read more here: » Mac OS: Encyclopedia II - Mac OS - Project Marklar |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Knowledge - Other definitions Knowledge is "information combined with experience, context, interpretation, and reflection. It is a high-value form of information that is ready to apply to decisions and actions." T. Davenport et al., 1998
"Explicit or codified knowledge refers to knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language. On the other hand, tacit knowledge has a personal quality, which makes it hard ...
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Knowledge - Sociology of knowledge Main articles: Sociology of knowledge and Sociology of scientific knowledge
Aspects of knowledge exhibit a social character. For instance, knowledge is a form of social capital. Sociology of knowledge examines the way in which Society and knowledge interact.
Through experience, observation, and inference, individuals and cultures gain knowledge. The spread of this knowledge is examined by diffusion. Diffusion of innovations theory explores the factors that lead people to become aware, try, and adopt new ideas and practices - ...
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Brassiere - Culture Statistics show the average American woman today owns six bras- one of which is a strapless bra and one a color other than white.
Indeed in many Western cultures, it is often considered more noteworthy not to wear a bra. Much of the TV presenter Charlie Dimmock's fame may be attributed to her reputation for gardening without a bra. [2]
Although similar in appearance to the upper part of a bikini, it is not generally considered suitable to expose one's brassiere in public in western cultures, and to do so is usually consi ...
See also:Brassiere, Brassiere - Need for brassières, Brassiere - History, Brassiere - Bra sizes, Brassiere - Sister size, Brassiere - Construction and Fit, Brassiere - Types of bra, Brassiere - Culture, Brassiere - Terminology Read more here: » Brassiere: Encyclopedia II - Brassiere - Culture |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Brassiere - Terminology The word brassière derives from bracière, an Old French word meaning "arm protector" and referring to military uniform (bras in French means "arm"). This later became used for a military breast plate, and later for a type of woman's corset.
In modern European French, the word for a bra is soutien-gorge, (breast support) and 'brassière' refers to a baby's vest, although it is sometimes used for the "bra-top" without formed cups. In Quebec, soutien-gorg ...
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| | | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Sudoku - History The puzzle was designed by Howard Garns, a retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor, and first published in 1979. Although likely inspired by the Latin square invention of Leonhard Euler, Garns added a third dimension (the regional restriction) to the mathematical construct and (unlike Euler) presented the creation as a puzzle, providing a partially-completed grid and requiring the solver to fill in the rest. The puzzle was first published in New York by the specialist puzzle publisher Dell Magazines in its magazine Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games, under the title Number Place (which w ...
See also:Sudoku, Sudoku - Introduction, Sudoku - Rules and terminology, Sudoku - Solution methods, Sudoku - Scanning, Sudoku - Marking up, Sudoku - Analysis, Sudoku - Computer solutions, Sudoku - Difficulty ratings, Sudoku - Construction, Sudoku - Variants, Sudoku - Mathematics of Sudoku, Sudoku - History, Sudoku - Popularity in the media Read more here: » Sudoku: Encyclopedia II - Sudoku - History |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Mac OS - Translation emulation and Macintosh clones Some computers have been shown to successfully run MacOS using the process of translation emulation. One example of this is the Amiga that successfully ran classic MacOS using translation emulation for the m68k series or PowerPC processors. Example emulators include ShapeShifter (by the same programmer that conceived SheepShaver, Christian Bauer, not to be confused with the third party preference pane ShapeShifter), Fusion and iFusion (the latter ran classic MacOS using translation emulation with a PowerPC "coprocessor" accelerator card). Th ...
See also:Mac OS, Mac OS - Versions, Mac OS - Classic Mac OS 1984-2001, Mac OS - Mac OS X 2001-present, Mac OS - Classic Mac OS technologies, Mac OS - Obsolete technologies, Mac OS - Project Star Trek, Mac OS - Project Marklar, Mac OS - Translation emulation and Macintosh clones, Mac OS - A/UX Read more here: » Mac OS: Encyclopedia II - Mac OS - Translation emulation and Macintosh clones |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Mac OS - A/UX In 1988, Apple released its first UNIX based OS, named A/UX.
This was an operating system that seamlessly integrated the Mac OS look and feel with the power and flexibility of UNIX. Since it was before the advent of PowerPC and therefore had to run on the Motorola 68000 processor, it was not very competitive for its time. A/UX had most of its success in sales to the Federal government of the United States, where UNIX was a requirement that Mac OS could not meet.
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Soap bubble - History of bubbles as playthings 17th century Flemish paintings show children blowing with clay pipes. This means that bubbles as playthings are at least 400 years old. The London based firm of A. & F. Pears created a famous advertisement campaign for its soaps in 1886 using a painting by Millais of a child playing with bubbles. A Chicago company called Chemtoy began selling bubble solution in the 1940s, and the fad never wore off. According to one industry estimate, retailers sell around 200 million bottles annually, perhaps more than any other ...
See also:Soap bubble, Soap bubble - Physics, Soap bubble - Surface tension and shape, Soap bubble - Freezing, Soap bubble - Merging, Soap bubble - Interference and reflection, Soap bubble - Mathematical properties, Soap bubble - How to make soap bubbles, Soap bubble - Additives, Soap bubble - Procedure, Soap bubble - History of bubbles as playthings, Soap bubble - Bubble blowers, Soap bubble - Sample formulae, Soap bubble - Performance art Read more here: » Soap bubble: Encyclopedia II - Soap bubble - History of bubbles as playthings |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Sudoku - Introduction The name Sudoku is the Japanese abbreviation of a longer phrase, "suji wa dokushin ni kagiru," meaning "the digits must remain single"; it is a trademark of puzzle publisher Nikoli Co. Ltd in Japan. Other Japanese publishers refer to the puzzle as Nanpure (Number Place), the original U. S. title. In Japanese, the word is pronounced [sɯːdokɯ]; in English, it is usually spoken with an Anglicised pronunciation, [s ...
See also:Sudoku, Sudoku - Introduction, Sudoku - Rules and terminology, Sudoku - Solution methods, Sudoku - Scanning, Sudoku - Marking up, Sudoku - Analysis, Sudoku - Computer solutions, Sudoku - Difficulty ratings, Sudoku - Construction, Sudoku - Variants, Sudoku - Mathematics of Sudoku, Sudoku - History, Sudoku - Popularity in the media Read more here: » Sudoku: Encyclopedia II - Sudoku - Introduction |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Sudoku - Variants Although the 9×9 grid with 3×3 regions is by far the most common, numerous variations abound: sample puzzles can be 4×4 grids with 2×2 regions; 5×5 grids with pentomino regions have been published under the name Logi-5; the World Puzzle Championship has previously featured a 6×6 grid with 2×3 regions and a 7×7 grid with six heptomino regions and a disjoint region; Daily SuDoku features new 4×4, 6×6, and simpler 9×9 grids every day as Daily SuDoku for Kids. [1] Even the 9×9 grid is not always standard, with Ebb regul ...
See also:Sudoku, Sudoku - Introduction, Sudoku - Rules and terminology, Sudoku - Solution methods, Sudoku - Scanning, Sudoku - Marking up, Sudoku - Analysis, Sudoku - Computer solutions, Sudoku - Difficulty ratings, Sudoku - Construction, Sudoku - Variants, Sudoku - Mathematics of Sudoku, Sudoku - History, Sudoku - Popularity in the media Read more here: » Sudoku: Encyclopedia II - Sudoku - Variants |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Sudoku - Difficulty ratings Published puzzles often are ranked in terms of difficulty. Perhaps surprisingly, the number of givens has little or no bearing on a puzzle's difficulty. A puzzle with a minimum number of givens may be very easy to solve, and a puzzle with more than the average number of givens can still be extremely difficult to solve. It is based on the relevance and the positioning of the numbers rather than the quantity of the numbers.
Computer solvers can estimate the difficulty for a human to find the solution, based on the complexity of the solv ...
See also:Sudoku, Sudoku - Introduction, Sudoku - Rules and terminology, Sudoku - Solution methods, Sudoku - Scanning, Sudoku - Marking up, Sudoku - Analysis, Sudoku - Computer solutions, Sudoku - Difficulty ratings, Sudoku - Construction, Sudoku - Variants, Sudoku - Mathematics of Sudoku, Sudoku - History, Sudoku - Popularity in the media Read more here: » Sudoku: Encyclopedia II - Sudoku - Difficulty ratings |
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| | | | | trial and error: Encyclopedia II - Soap bubble - How to make soap bubbles The easiest ways are to use commercially produced soap bubble fluid (marketed as a toy) or to simply put some dish washing soap in water. However, this latter might not work as well as expected, and there are several tricks to improve the soap sud formula:
Soap bubble - Additives.
Something to reduce the water's surface tension, such as liquid soap or baby shampoo. These may work better the more pure (devoid of perfume or other additives) the soap is, or perhaps with more expensive soaps.
So ...
See also:Soap bubble, Soap bubble - Physics, Soap bubble - Surface tension and shape, Soap bubble - Freezing, Soap bubble - Merging, Soap bubble - Interference and reflection, Soap bubble - Mathematical properties, Soap bubble - How to make soap bubbles, Soap bubble - Additives, Soap bubble - Procedure, Soap bubble - History of bubbles as playthings, Soap bubble - Bubble blowers, Soap bubble - Sample formulae, Soap bubble - Performance art Read more here: » Soap bubble: Encyclopedia II - Soap bubble - How to make soap bubbles |
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