I agree. You should not be taking notes on the computer. It's much better to do it on paper and, if you really need it, digitize them later.
This coming from a former mathematical physics student, now teaching mathematical physics. So I do have (a lot of) experience with it.
In fact, the crackpotness of El Nachies' papers is obvious even to most grad students (you should read some, they are in fact rather funny). The bigger problem is that, by repeatedly citing his own articles, his journal gets a high impact factor. People who have absolutely no clue about math, like the ones who decide on the funding, conclude from the high impact factor that the papers in this journal must be of high quality.
You can always start a new petition stating the opposed of the original. I think for some petitions there was indeed also an opposed, altough I can't remember an exapmle. I think there even was a petition against the system of online petitions.
No it's not. "Democracy" by definotion means the people ('demos' in greek) rule ('kratos'). Now "the people" (at least those who signed the petition, lets assume they are representative) said no to the new ID cards yet the real ruler ignored them.
I wonder what use this petitions have? After all the government can just neglect those thy don't like. And then they can chose to give in to some petitions and say "look we followed the will of the people in this and this case, aren't we a democratic government?". Nice propaganda...
Is there anyone who really wants to download music with his car? I wonder if this will prove a useful feature. Is this something people will have some advantage of or more like another use of software "just because we can use it here"? It seems to me that some industries (and governments etc. for that matter) think that if something has software in it, it will be better. Of course for nerds maybe it is...
In Belgium they can't ask it back. If they send something to you they can never ever get it back:-) (unless you give it back ofcourse). I think some items, I think for everything except letters and other paperwork, you can even demand that they come to take it back at there costs. This is because it's not easy to get rid of something like a laptop (or any other electonic thing); You can't just put them in the garbage, have to bring them to special recicling stations. So if someone sends you a laptop you can ask them to come and get it back at ther own costs.
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I agree. You should not be taking notes on the computer. It's much better to do it on paper and, if you really need it, digitize them later. This coming from a former mathematical physics student, now teaching mathematical physics. So I do have (a lot of) experience with it.
The "theory" of Nielsen and Ninomiya is complete nonsense. Read this and this for more information about these crackpots.
In fact, the crackpotness of El Nachies' papers is obvious even to most grad students (you should read some, they are in fact rather funny). The bigger problem is that, by repeatedly citing his own articles, his journal gets a high impact factor. People who have absolutely no clue about math, like the ones who decide on the funding, conclude from the high impact factor that the papers in this journal must be of high quality.
Why he is the best: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008361
Maybe someone should start "proofopedia" - an online database of proofs. Is the URL still free? Soemeone register it, quick...
There must be something behind it... Some Conspiracy... The US secret agencies... Aliens... :-)
Maybe they can send an envlope with anthrax if you ask a hardcopy of mail containig a virus...
You can always start a new petition stating the opposed of the original. I think for some petitions there was indeed also an opposed, altough I can't remember an exapmle. I think there even was a petition against the system of online petitions.
No it's not. "Democracy" by definotion means the people ('demos' in greek) rule ('kratos'). Now "the people" (at least those who signed the petition, lets assume they are representative) said no to the new ID cards yet the real ruler ignored them. I wonder what use this petitions have? After all the government can just neglect those thy don't like. And then they can chose to give in to some petitions and say "look we followed the will of the people in this and this case, aren't we a democratic government?". Nice propaganda...
Is there anyone who really wants to download music with his car? I wonder if this will prove a useful feature. Is this something people will have some advantage of or more like another use of software "just because we can use it here"? It seems to me that some industries (and governments etc. for that matter) think that if something has software in it, it will be better. Of course for nerds maybe it is...
Or your car crashing itself without any apparent reason :-)
In Belgium they can't ask it back. If they send something to you they can never ever get it back :-) (unless you give it back ofcourse). I think some items, I think for everything except letters and other paperwork, you can even demand that they come to take it back at there costs. This is because it's not easy to get rid of something like a laptop (or any other electonic thing); You can't just put them in the garbage, have to bring them to special recicling stations. So if someone sends you a laptop you can ask them to come and get it back at ther own costs.
Why would they want to give every child a laptop? Aren't there a lot of children with more urgent needs?