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The first being functions you expect people to know.

No. The first definition was 'common'. Granted the definition of 'common' is open to debate, but anything that appears on a $9 calculator at walmart is pretty common:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Tex...

But if you want to restrict trig functions go for it. As far as I know they are fine though as they don't allow any trivial solution construction ... but if you can find one using infinite applications of sin or arctan, that would be a feather in your hat and a bit of fame.

As for your lamda solution...

Valid math. Everything is externally defined

You are defining a function on the spot. And more importantly you are missing the point -- generic solutions are inherently undesirable; and discovering them means eliminating them from the allowed set. You seem to be going out of your way to introduce mathematical functionality specifically to enable a trivial solution. The log / sqrt solution is at least interesting because it was not immediately obvious that allowing them trivialized the problem.

Finding another generic solution with the allowed operations is kind of interesting, but introducing math with a trivial and obvious application to a generic solution for the express purpose of the introducing that generic solution pretty much misses the entire point of the puzzle.

If you disallow that too, then I might try restating it using category theory. This continuing shows the distinction is arbitrary.

One part arbitrary, and two parts "anything that obviously renders the puzzle trivial is disallowed". Anyone playing with the puzzle today disallows log because a generic solution with it is known.

https://www.walmart.com/browse...
Check the JVC and Sceptre out. https://www.walmart.com/browse...
Probably the same Sceptre again and an Avera... a Changhong. Not top name brands but they do exist.

https://www.walmart.com/browse...
Check the JVC and Sceptre out. https://www.walmart.com/browse...
Probably the same Sceptre again and an Avera... a Changhong. Not top name brands but they do exist.

You could use a tape measure or a ruler, and look at the dimensions in the product description.

But since 10" is apparently a maximum rather than (as I thought) a minimum:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Epi...

There are lots of sub-$200 netbooks.

The MSRP for the Nintendo Classic is $59.99, however, the going price (at Walmart for example) is $239.71 currently due to restricted stock.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nin...

http://www.nintendo.com/nes-cl...

But since you haven't gotten too many real answers to your question (which, if I understand correctly, is a request for a durable, long-lasting watch that just does what watches are supposed to do), I'll inform you of what I wear: the Casio G-Shock MT-G 900. I can't remember exactly when I got it, but it's been at least five years ago. It has an easy-to-read face with backlight, a steel band that doesn't get worn much with age, a radio receiver that syncs the time with the Fort Collins transmitter, and a solar-powered battery. I didn't have to actively charge it (by putting it on the windowsill during the day) until the past year. The only problem is that it's a little bit pricier than your old watch, but not by much.

Rob

C'mon, you can ALWAYS use a roll of duct tape! Remember, duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it binds the universe together.

I got me some of that.

Makes wiping great again.

There is no need to over regulate this marketplace. A class action lawsuit serves just fine. Especially if they are marketed under store brand names, sue the store.

A non-profit testing group could be setup by all sorts of industries to verify these kinds of things. There is NO need for additional government regulations that already require products to label their ingredients properly.

The other option is to stop buying the cheap products that are rip offs of the real (more expensive) products, where you know they are already taking shortcuts.

https://www.amazon.com/Aubrey-...

vs

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fru...

Literally six times more expensive for the real stuff.

I have covered this in a previous post that the US needs to take a lesson from the supplement industry laws in Australia. They are required in short to correctly label ingredients and contents, are subject to random sample testing and if any health claims are made are required to show structure and function of th ingredients involved in the claim similar to FDA standards in Phase 1 trials. (Safety, Structure, function and Pharmacodynamics)

I am drafting a letter to President elect Trump concerning this as well as a copy to the FDA administration. I am not holding my breath though.

There is no need to over regulate this marketplace. A class action lawsuit serves just fine. Especially if they are marketed under store brand names, sue the store.

A non-profit testing group could be setup by all sorts of industries to verify these kinds of things. There is NO need for additional government regulations that already require products to label their ingredients properly.

The other option is to stop buying the cheap products that are rip offs of the real (more expensive) products, where you know they are already taking shortcuts.

https://www.amazon.com/Aubrey-...

vs

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Fru...

Literally six times more expensive for the real stuff.

https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/d...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ref...

Honestly, it's not a lot of wiring. It's two of these walmart heaters. Or about $5 of nichrome wire on ebay. And really, that's not very much heat. I doubt it would keep 1m^2 @-20C (not too cold). You'd need 10-15 average panels to generate 3kw of power under optimal conditions.

I've had good results with DCON mouse traps. Mice go in and don't come out. I took out two mice with these. I'm kind of surprised at the reviews. 50% rate it 5/5, and 50% rate it 1/5.

Problem solved. GOgroove BlueGATE RXT Wireless Bluetooth Receiver & Transmitter with 3.5mm Stereo Output & Included RCA Adapter http://www.walmart.com/ip/GOgr...

What I liked was the ability to ship to to a local store (5 miles away) and pick it up there for zero shipping charge.

Zero shipping charge but you spend 30+ minutes (minimum) of your time plus gas going to pick it up. It might be cheaper depending on what you are having sent to you but the price isn't zero. Plus you have to actually go to a Walmart which is something I'd actually pay to avoid. My nearest Walmart is about 8 miles away so with my truck I'll spend roughly 3/4 of a gallon of fuel to get there and back. At local fuel prices as I type this (around $2.25) that is about $1.68 per trip in fuel alone for "free" in store pickup. Not even counting the value of my time either. Not bad but not great either. See below.

That's so much better than Amazon's having to wait three days to a week before it is even shipped if you opt for free delivery. (I'm not talking about amazon prime's free shipping, I don't pay $100 per year for free shipping when the product price already has shipping charges baked in.

You are aware that Walmart has their own version of Prime, right? Whether Prime is a good deal depends on how you shop. For me I buy a LOT through Amazon so on a per transaction basis it would be substantially more expensive (not to mention time consuming) for me to go pick something up at Walmart every time I placed an order. I placed 154 orders through Amazon in 2015, so the freight cost per order was $0.65 per order. That's less than the cost of gas to my nearest Walmart and back AND I didn't have to waste my time traveling to Walmart.

How have you not heard of VIZIO? They're extremely well reviewed, inexpensive and carried by all the major big box stores.

If you've never heard of VIZIO then I'm guessing you haven't shopped for TVs in about 10 years.

TV trays/tables.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Furi...

lappads /trays can also work,

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Atla...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/4856...

These are also handy if you do console games where a keyboard might come in handy. (I used a lappad now and then for EQOA on the PS2 when I didn't play at a desk)

Also handy if you use a HOTAS with WarThunder on the PS4.

And of course they can be used with laptops and tablets.

TV trays/tables.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Furi...

lappads /trays can also work,

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Atla...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/4856...

These are also handy if you do console games where a keyboard might come in handy. (I used a lappad now and then for EQOA on the PS2 when I didn't play at a desk)

Also handy if you use a HOTAS with WarThunder on the PS4.

And of course they can be used with laptops and tablets.

TV trays/tables.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Furi...

lappads /trays can also work,

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Atla...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/4856...

These are also handy if you do console games where a keyboard might come in handy. (I used a lappad now and then for EQOA on the PS2 when I didn't play at a desk)

Also handy if you use a HOTAS with WarThunder on the PS4.

And of course they can be used with laptops and tablets.

Except for the blind spots.

http://www.walmart.com/c/kp/blind-spot-mirrors

They start at $2. I guarantee your camera system will need an add-on two order of magnitude more expensive than that to cover its blindspots.

$70 is NOT a reasonable price for a WRT54GL! You can get a TP-Link TL-WDR3600 for less, also new, for example from Walmart. That is a simultaneous dual-band router, supported by OpenWRT, with two USB ports, 8MB flash and 64MB RAM, gigabit Ethernet and a CPU that can route about 300Mbps, compared to the ca. 30Mbps that the WRT54GL can handle between WAN and LAN.

In the 1980's, mopeds were very cool and essentially the same capabilities as an ebike. Apparently you can even by electric mopeds at walmart for $250.

Why you would put android on a flip phone is beyond me, as you pointed out kinda defeats the purpose of having a flip phone.

Here is what I got my mom and she just loves the thing. It gets about 7-8 days on a charge, was easy for me to set up so she merely pushes "up" to call up her address book, its simple, its easy, makes good calls, pretty much everything you want in a basic flip phone.

There are inserts that fit the Keurigs that you can fill with your own ground coffee, then empty after it's brewed. I'd love to use them, it'd give me a wider variety of coffees. The only problem is that none of them seal properly, water and grounds come out the top and make a mess and the leakage interferes with the brewing. If Keurig really wanted to solve the problem, put the research into modifying the MyK-Cup so it seals properly and the water flows through the grounds rather than off the top and through the open mesh screen.

I use a 3rd party reusable filter basket. It seals very good, I forget the brand name, but I know I got it at Wal-Mart and it's red plastic with a fine mesh screen, and hinged flip top. I've never had it leak grounds into my cup, and I've probably made well over a thousand cups of coffee with it and it's still working perfectly. They were a little pricey ($10 I think?) but well worth it. The reusable filter basket that Keurig makes isn't very good for the reasons you pointed out.

I fished a bit for you on google, and this guy looks a lot like mine: Perfect Pod Eco-Fill Deluxe Refilible Capsule with Permanent Etched Foil Filter For Keurig, 2-Pack

The plastic k-cups are pretty environmentally unfriendly, but the machines, when used appropriately are fantastic. I love mine.

On another note, San Francisco Bay brand coffee pods work in the older Keurig machines and are supposedly 100% biodegradable. My mother uses those because she's lazy, at least they're more responsible than the plastic ones.

He's probably thinking of the surprising number of PC games that have default mappings specifically for the XBox controller. Truth be told, it's not that bad of a controller. It's sort of annoying when an XBox controller is displayed in a joystick configuration menu. I bought a $15 wired PS3 controller made by Nyko (example) after I got frustrated with always needing to put fresh batteries in my controller and was surprised by how well it worked. It's been my go-to on PC since.

At any rate, that's pretty cool to see somebody improving video game accessibility.

$1+$.30+$4+$1.50 = $7 (ultra conservatively)

Apparently it's some apologism for Windows 10...

Really!? You're going there. That's like saying the sun is dying because it doesn't look as bright behind the tinted windows inside your car.

But taking you at your word, let's also say that your remark is apparently apologist for the paranoia cabal that supports Mr. Crust (as the ZDNet author dubs him) and his oh-so-loosely termed "research" claims.

A guy installs Windows 10 on a VM slice under Linux, blocks all LAN traffic and records the result. The only thing conclusive about that is the inter-dependency between modern PC platforms and the Internet... and that's all; something TFA makes incontrovertibly clear. In other news, water is wet and the sun will rise in the morning.

For anyone who took 10 minutes to read TFA, the truth is plain to see. The claims of Mr. Crust are firstly, trumped-up, and secondly, wholly presumptuous based on highly circumstantial and incomplete data, and lastly, hyped-up pseudoscience masquerading as research. It's not being an apologist, it's being a realist. The real "test" here is done on the audience; to find those among us who would be gullible enough to believe such rabble-rousing.

FYI: Record-low prices on hat-making material; Wal-Mart has 50 sq ft available for under four bucks.

There is no proven cure for Stupid,

Sure there is. You can even buy it at Walmart. Or you can go old school Doom, with no pesky waiting period.

There is no proven cure for Stupid,

Sure there is. You can even buy it at Walmart. Or you can go old school Doom, with no pesky waiting period.

A favorite target of the 'inequity' crowd seems to be Walmart.

Yes, that makes sense; they don't pay a living wage, and their existence destroys [small] businesses which do, at least to a larger percentage of their workforce.

And why not, after all their average employee makes about $15K/year, while the CEO makes $26M. Until you do math, that is. There are 2.2M employees. Paying the CEO the same as everyone else, assuming you could find someone to do the job, would result in an extra $10 PER YEAR for each employee.

There's lots of other places that you could squeeze money out of Wal-Mart besides just the CEO's salary. You've actually overestimated his pay for 2015, at least according to the official filings.

C. Douglas McMillon, President and CEO: $19,070,249.00
Charles M. Holley Jr., Executive Vice President and CFO: $7,294,712.00
Neil M. Ashe, Executive Vice President: $9,434,570.00
Rosalind G. Brewer, Executive Vice President: $9,549,184.00
David Cheesewright, Executive Vice President: $10,059,475.00
Gregory S. Foran, Executive Vice President: $19,531,039.00

But that's not all! For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2015, Walmart increased net sales by 1.9% to $482.2 billion and returned $7.2 billion to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. So yeah. On one hand, there's a lot more executive compensation than what you accounted for in your calculations. On the other hand, that's totally irrelevant, as you said. On the third hand, it's still a shit argument, because Wal-Mart actually spent billions of dollars on dividends and stock buyback. Surely they could have given one of those seven billions to their workers.

Much cheaper, same functuionality

P.S. If anyone from Staples is reading, your website is a bag of arse.

I get the Wal-Mart brand of Claritin or Zyrtec. No Prescription needed even for 6+ month supplies. I find I have to alternate between the two every few months. There's something in the Georgia grass that my skin just doesn't like being around...and my body tries to kill me if I go out and mow, no matter what med I take.

I get the Wal-Mart brand of Claritin or Zyrtec. No Prescription needed even for 6+ month supplies. I find I have to alternate between the two every few months. There's something in the Georgia grass that my skin just doesn't like being around...and my body tries to kill me if I go out and mow, no matter what med I take.

I wonder though... at a dollar a pill... when you compare it to 750, it seems insanely tiny. But look at your bottle of ibuprofin, at $13 for 1,000 capsules, you see that even at a buck a pill they are still easily able to stay in the black.

I realize not every pill has the same manufacturing cost, but they are at least within an order of magnutude of each other for the most part. At a buck a pill, that bottle above would be $1,000. It's $13, and they're still making a margin off it. I'd be surprised if this $750 drug costs over 76 times as much to manufacture in quantity as another drug.

They're trying to recoup an R&D lost. I get that. That's OK. But they've had years to do that. That's precisely why we have patents. But when your time is up, that knowledge is transferred to the public. It's up to you as a developer to use your time wisely and recoup your investment and reap a reward for your innovation. But then you have to give it up. If you still don't feel you've managed to get enough back out of the system by that point, then you're doing something wrong, and have no one to blame but yourself.

Can't vouch for 5 times the cost, but often the same product is significantly cheaper through Walmart, and is delivered quicker.

http://www.amazon.com/Everlast...

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ever...

And most recently, as Amazon is pushing it's subscription service, there are products Amazon refuses to sell unless you join Prime (Prime Pantry items being the most egregious). Only the hubris Jeff Bezos can justify the logic in not selling things.

Amazon's only grace at this point is near one-stop shopping, but increasingly on terms of price, total ease (especially if there is the possibility of a return involved), and speed of delivery (Walmart usually takes 3-5 days, Amazon is averaging 2 weeks), other retailers have got them beat.

Well, considering their base pay is currently $9 and minimum wage is $7.25, yes, they are in fact paying above minimum wage.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/1...

Waiting tables makes way above minimum wage, so I would highly recommend those jobs. The minimum wage for waiting tables is $2.13, and waiting makes good tips (with some effort).

The form to get the Walmart job, is called a job application. It is available on their site:

http://careers.walmart.com/sea...

Here is a reference point with real numbers;

http://www.personal-drones.net...

This copter can carry two people for 30 minutes on a fully charged 17.5 KWh battery.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/4070...

This electric scooter can carry two people and has a range of 40 miles per charge, so lets assume two people is closer to 25 miles, and at 15 miles per hour that would easily be over an hour of travel time. The battery for this is only 0.8 KWh.

As you can see, its not even close.

They can be had at Walmart for ~$180:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-1...

Microsoft Office 365 is on these for a year or students can use the free Google office apps. Students that don't have Internet at home can go to a public library after school or on weekends or visit a McDonalds, Starbucks or other place where free Internet is available. Generally, one does not need to buy anything to use the free internet in those places. Depending on where you live and your local ISP providers (Comcast), if income is below a certain level, adequate Internet can be had for $10 per month.

you can already buy sub-$50 tablets, and they already run Android.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/RCA-...

You'll know they're mainstream when walmart starts stocking both the sets and movies for them.

Like: http://www.walmart.com/ip/3966... for $450 from walmart?

$2400

Here you go and only $5.97
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Bicy...

They still have 24 packs, but the 20 packs cost what the 24 packs used to cost. And yes, there are 20 packs out there.
Wal-Mart
Amazon
Office Depot seems to only sell the 24 packs. For $12.99. 3 years ago I was stocking soda for our soda machine and the 24 pack cases were $6.99, sometimes $4.99 on sale. Wal-mart sells the 20 pack cases for $6.48, which at first makes you think the price of a case of soda has gone down, until you see that it went down in price by 8% and down in quantity by 20%.

Wait, you can buy a six figure truck, but $300 is too much to spend to have appropriate mapping?!? That's a complete BS excuse. Heck, I imagine one fine for having a truck on a route that doesn't allow them is enough to pay for the unit. Also I bet the fuel price search could save more in a month than the unit costs.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Quas...

Are you making a serious argument in comparing people getting shot and the NYSE shutdown?

Any serious economic loss can be compared to lost life(ves). The link I gave you explains, how the value of life is computed — it is done based on our own attitudes.

For example, if you aren't willing to spend $5000 on an airbag, that would improve your chances of survival by %0.1, then you value your own life at less than $5 mln.

For another, closer to home example, consider the horrendous losses of Ukrainian fighters resisting Russia for the last year: a whopping 1/3rd of those wounded in battle have died (NATO's acceptable average is about 3% — 10 times!).

Most of the deaths were due to blood loss. A single doze of Celox would've saved one such wounded man — $10-20 delivered to Kyiv, but many either could not afford it or chose to spend money on something else instead.

Not to get in the way of a good rant, but Amazon does not appear to sell Nazi flags:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb...

Nor does Walmart:

http://www.walmart.com/search/...

I'm not sure what a "Communist" flag is. I never knew Communism was a country.

If it was less than $10 it might not have even been 4x8GB.
According to their website, you're lucky to get ONE drive for less than $10.

Buying flash drives in retail stores is like buying USB and HDMI cables in stores -- an exercise only to be done when you really HAVE to have it now. For everything else, there's NewEgg and Monoprice.

https://www.jitterbugdirect.co...

https://www.consumercellular.c...

http://www.walmart.com/c/kp/ce...

You can still buy feature-phones at Wal-mart.