It is known beyond any shadow of a doubt that pi does not repeat or end.
The reason for calculating it to absurd precision is simply because we can. And also to explore the statistical properties of the digits, about which much less is known.
This is a very strange position to take - tablets are probably at their absolute best when used for browsing the web. Might suck a bit when it comes to typing stuff into forms etc, but I expect it's possible to get pretty nifty on those virtual keyboard things.
I have an ipod touch, which is basically a wee tiny tablet. I've had it for probably three years (ish), and I use it to browse the web nearly every day. It's much more convenient than picking up the laptop, and I've even taken to sending short emails on it for the same reason.
I'd think that the tablet market is only just beginning, and by 2014 they will be everywhere. IOS vs. Android is much less clear, but tablets are without a doubt here to stay.
Steve Jobs seemed to be the only man who understood how important this is (except the consumer obviously, who reacted to the design by buying metric-shit-loads of product). Apple products are not 'shiny' or 'flashy' - they are the opposite.
Or... in a few years they'll download Xcode, write an astonishingly original and useful app that you or I would never have thought of in a thousand years, and make millions of dollars or yen or whatever the de-facto international currency is by that point.
The fault for the idiocy of purchasing a suite of iPads for a kindergarten does not lie with Apple, it lies with a poorly managed and entirely wrong-headed approach to education that seems to be widespread in US schools.
Just because Apple (like every other computer vendor as near as I can tell) offer their devices at a healthy educational discount does not mean that the education system has to buy them.
I don't disagree with your general point, but at five most kids are a bit beyond the eating play-doh stage and should be starting to learn to read & write.
Also, where do you get inflatable alphabet letters? They sound great.
HFS+ is like this too - any characters are admissible. Except that the Finder will allow you to manipulate them & of course you can do so with the command line too. In windows I've had files before that I've been unable to delete in Explorer OR the command line due to them having an illegal filename.
I'm sure your case is an exception, but I couldn't resist. The one time I felt like the only option was a rewrite, it turned out to be the right decision and the result was a huge improvement and a success. I wish you the same luck with yours.
Well if that's true, how come this sort of shit doesn't go down all over the place al the time? I mean trouble flaring up like this so easily in multiple cities across a country does seem to point to some deeper problems, doesn't it?
Dude, honestly. If you hire someone to kill your wife, you deserve to go to jail for a long time.
Paying to have someone killed is at least as bad as doing the killing yourself. Both you and your hired killer get put away, any other outcome is quite frankly completely bonkers.
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I'm a philosopher---by education and in my current job
That explains your nickname then :)
It is known beyond any shadow of a doubt that pi does not repeat or end.
The reason for calculating it to absurd precision is simply because we can. And also to explore the statistical properties of the digits, about which much less is known.
"Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all."
Well, as one of the millions who have a mortgage, I find that demand quite appealing.
This is a very strange position to take - tablets are probably at their absolute best when used for browsing the web. Might suck a bit when it comes to typing stuff into forms etc, but I expect it's possible to get pretty nifty on those virtual keyboard things.
I have an ipod touch, which is basically a wee tiny tablet. I've had it for probably three years (ish), and I use it to browse the web nearly every day. It's much more convenient than picking up the laptop, and I've even taken to sending short emails on it for the same reason.
I'd think that the tablet market is only just beginning, and by 2014 they will be everywhere. IOS vs. Android is much less clear, but tablets are without a doubt here to stay.
It's where two Operating Systems vie for control of the hardware using pistols at twenty paces. Obviously.
Also, GP sounds like a hoot at parties.
That's a fair point - but he did bring them together, and oversaw their output, and the result has unarguably been an astonishing success.
Apple is currently the only company designing products according to Dieter Rams' ten principles of good design. Go and read them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams#Rams.27_ten_principles_to_.22good_design.22
Steve Jobs seemed to be the only man who understood how important this is (except the consumer obviously, who reacted to the design by buying metric-shit-loads of product). Apple products are not 'shiny' or 'flashy' - they are the opposite.
In your examples two laws (at least..) are broken:
Trespass. (your living room)
Criminal Damage. (painting your car)
Protesting in peace on a public street and breaking no laws should not require a permit.
..Phone numbers aren't numbers. They're sequences of digits. There is a difference.
My phone number isn't nine million eight hundred and twelve thousand four hundred and fifteen.
So it's fine for the layouts to be different - I expect our brains handle phone numbers and counting numbers rather differently.
and they say romance is dead.
..the square root of not having real string....
Or... in a few years they'll download Xcode, write an astonishingly original and useful app that you or I would never have thought of in a thousand years, and make millions of dollars or yen or whatever the de-facto international currency is by that point.
The fault for the idiocy of purchasing a suite of iPads for a kindergarten does not lie with Apple, it lies with a poorly managed and entirely wrong-headed approach to education that seems to be widespread in US schools.
Just because Apple (like every other computer vendor as near as I can tell) offer their devices at a healthy educational discount does not mean that the education system has to buy them.
I don't disagree with your general point, but at five most kids are a bit beyond the eating play-doh stage and should be starting to learn to read & write.
Also, where do you get inflatable alphabet letters? They sound great.
THIS
You can have dozens of UIs installed on a Linux distro.
No wonder it's such a usability dream
:-)
Well that's all dandy, but what I want is a *forwards* button!
HFS+ is like this too - any characters are admissible. Except that the Finder will allow you to manipulate them & of course you can do so with the command line too. In windows I've had files before that I've been unable to delete in Explorer OR the command line due to them having an illegal filename.
Maybe you should get an iPhone? :)
"interpreted code execution"
You mean like javascript? Just sayin'.
And a stapler.
Oblig
(Sorry)
I'm sure your case is an exception, but I couldn't resist. The one time I felt like the only option was a rewrite, it turned out to be the right decision and the result was a huge improvement and a success. I wish you the same luck with yours.
Balanced is better because it's balanced, not because there are larger contacts involved.
Somewhere someone is deleting an object during shutdown too quickly and causing a crash
void DoShutdown()
{
ExitProcess(0);
}
Problem solved :)
But seriously. Use auto_ptr or scoped_ptr or shared_ptr. Change all your code over to do this today. You will not regret it. We didn't.
Well if that's true, how come this sort of shit doesn't go down all over the place al the time? I mean trouble flaring up like this so easily in multiple cities across a country does seem to point to some deeper problems, doesn't it?
Dude, honestly. If you hire someone to kill your wife, you deserve to go to jail for a long time.
Paying to have someone killed is at least as bad as doing the killing yourself. Both you and your hired killer get put away, any other outcome is quite frankly completely bonkers.