An eV is a unit of energy. (1 Volt * the charge on 1 electron. A Volt has units of energy/charge, so the dimensions work out right: energy/charge * charge = energy.) At relativistic speeds, it's useful to express mass in units of energy. It's OK because mass is related to energy by E=mc^2, and it is often useful in relativistic calculations to write down the "total energy" of a particle (mass energy + kinetic energy).
Briefly: People mostly get it with a new computer, so they don't actually shell out anything for it and they don't know about the (often hidden) option to omit installation of Windows for cash. Or they pirate it instead of getting Linux, because that's what they are used to.
I'll vouch for the GP--I have the same capacity to remember where to find things in a physical book, and I can testify that this just doesn't translate well to noncorporeal objects, which I can only manipulate via a certain, limited set of controls.
It's not a matter of being unable to search a PDF or scroll a webpage. I can do those things well and quickly, but it's easier by far to jump to what I need with a paper textbook of decent quality.
Part of it has to do with the fact that searching a document requires me to come up with a phrase that is characteristic of the area of the text I want to access. Sure, that's easy and I do it well--but it's still another link in the chain. Then I have to compare the actual text I'm accessing with what I want to access. The corresponding task is much easier and faster with a physical textbook--even paragraphs' positions on the page can clue me in. And paradoxically, even though the motions involved in scrolling electronic pages are much smaller, it's much easier to turn paper pages.
This is actually the first time I've articulated a preference for physical books over ebooks. The more I think about it, the more I think paying a reasonable premium for paper is a good thing. It's a shame such a thing exists only in college students' dreams.
Ignorance is lack of knowledge, no more. I am ignorant about a large part of organic chemistry--but that's just because I haven't yet learned it. I haven't turned away from it.
A cluster whose peculiar arrangement is such that, periodically, stars are fired at extremely high velocities straight into a fellow star cluster.
That other star cluster should, if possible, be named the Whittington Cluster.
Well said, but I think it's important to distinguish between official and unofficial Chinese propaganda. Everyone knows it's them, but they don't admit it.
Crap, should've previewed. I was referring to their use of "we" and "us" instead of "you." Dead giveaway. And if they fix that, there will be other signs. Even their attitudes give them away.
Man, I could tell that and I don't even speak Chinese. All you have to have is a basic familiarity with how exactly speakers of various languages tend to violate conventions of the English language. You just have to hear people speak (or see them write) bad English while knowing or inferring their native language.
One thing that I was consciously aware of was how they said "Look at ": "Let's look at...", "We'll show how...", "Let's see the true face of western media". Such mistakes are hard to fix, because they're not technically wrong--just context-inappropriate.
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Implementation was tricky, it never made it out of alpha...
...when he thought all he was doing was fucking around!
An eV is a unit of energy. (1 Volt * the charge on 1 electron. A Volt has units of energy/charge, so the dimensions work out right: energy/charge * charge = energy.) At relativistic speeds, it's useful to express mass in units of energy. It's OK because mass is related to energy by E=mc^2, and it is often useful in relativistic calculations to write down the "total energy" of a particle (mass energy + kinetic energy).
The summary should read "...amici curiae..."
That's the userid, not the comment number.
Briefly: People mostly get it with a new computer, so they don't actually shell out anything for it and they don't know about the (often hidden) option to omit installation of Windows for cash. Or they pirate it instead of getting Linux, because that's what they are used to.
They were right!
Please take this as a statement of fact rather than as an (intended) insult: Your feelings on this matter not at all.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and absurd generalizations that fail to take into account the manifold subtleties of their subject?
Lecture 1-1 of the Feynman Lectures in Physics that he gave as a two-year undergraduate course in physics at Caltech.
It's not a matter of being unable to search a PDF or scroll a webpage. I can do those things well and quickly, but it's easier by far to jump to what I need with a paper textbook of decent quality.
Part of it has to do with the fact that searching a document requires me to come up with a phrase that is characteristic of the area of the text I want to access. Sure, that's easy and I do it well--but it's still another link in the chain. Then I have to compare the actual text I'm accessing with what I want to access. The corresponding task is much easier and faster with a physical textbook--even paragraphs' positions on the page can clue me in. And paradoxically, even though the motions involved in scrolling electronic pages are much smaller, it's much easier to turn paper pages.
This is actually the first time I've articulated a preference for physical books over ebooks. The more I think about it, the more I think paying a reasonable premium for paper is a good thing. It's a shame such a thing exists only in college students' dreams.
zimbabwe? sudan?
I abandoned Ayn Rand in favor of crumpled porno?
So... It's Abramowitz and Stegun that one should look at?
Ignorance is lack of knowledge, no more. I am ignorant about a large part of organic chemistry--but that's just because I haven't yet learned it. I haven't turned away from it.
You mean stupidity, ignorance, and gullibility are not shameful, though willing acceptance of bogosity is?
It's DIFFERENTIATE, not DERIVE! Philistines.
Now, to find it...
Rommel never thought of liberation, period.
Yet when all evidence suggests that it is fiction, that makes it likely.
A cluster whose peculiar arrangement is such that, periodically, stars are fired at extremely high velocities straight into a fellow star cluster. That other star cluster should, if possible, be named the Whittington Cluster.
Well said, but I think it's important to distinguish between official and unofficial Chinese propaganda. Everyone knows it's them, but they don't admit it.
Crap, should've previewed. I was referring to their use of "we" and "us" instead of "you." Dead giveaway. And if they fix that, there will be other signs. Even their attitudes give them away.
One thing that I was consciously aware of was how they said "Look at ": "Let's look at...", "We'll show how...", "Let's see the true face of western media". Such mistakes are hard to fix, because they're not technically wrong--just context-inappropriate.
Or Green Green Brown?