Incorrect. You are forgetting to account for inertia. The gravitational attraction between two objects is proportional to the mass of those two objects, but increasing their masses, while it will increase their attraction, will also increase their inertia. Net difference in acceleration: 0.
It was not to hard to guess that that would be the very first response to this article. It is very typical for doctors to expect patients to use medicines as medicines were designed. That is not what happens in the real world. The usage of the system is equivalent to the medicine itself. If the usage of it is flawed, then the medicine, too, is flawed.
Many medicines require you to refill your prescription once a month or more often. Of course, the prescription must be refilled by a trained and licensed pharmacist. Is it then a patient failure when every other patient forgets to refill their prescription? No! It is the medicine that is faulty.
Therefore, the medical system is faulty, most prescription based systems are, in fact, faulty. It is not an acceptable excuse to put the burden on the patient. It is a cop out. We are doctors, we should make stuff work. It is our job.
If a patient abuses a drug, or refuses to take the full course of drugs (in, say, a case of TB), is that the doctor's fault? There is only so much that a professional can do to mitigate against the stupidity of an end user. Perhaps password authentication is flawed, but I don't see you proposing a better solution. Perhaps BofA's system is fundamentally flawed, but I don't see you offering anything else. Regardless, at some point it is up to the user to protect their own interests by not taking 30 sleeping pills at a time, or giving out their passwords to other people.
Any Mac made in the last five years can upgrade to Tiger without more than a memory upgrade and actually run many things faster. I speak from personal experience on this and the iMac I had was actually six years old. The point was that you don't *need* a hardware upgrade to upgrade the OS.
Even older machines do fairly well. I have an almost 8 year old G3 tower that runs OS X 10.4 quite nicely. In fact, 10.4 runs much faster than 10.3 or earlier. As for upgrades, the only one needed to run 10.4 was a RAM upgrade (from 128 MB to 1 GB), though I have added a video card, a larger hard drive, and swapped the CD-ROM drive for a DVD-ROM/CD-RW. What more should I wish to upgrade?
Then I would suggest that you really aren't using the calculator as it was designed to be used. Get a PDA, and a graphing calculator emulator, or some other calculator program for the PDA. The calculator is designed to be used to crunch numbers, not read dissertations.
How often, in your daily use of the calculator, do you really find the need to pan an image around? How much text are you putting on the calculator's screen? A calculator is a dedicated device -- it is supposed to do math. The fact that you can play games on most of the modern ones is kind of cool, but it isn't the point. I have yet to see a calculator screen that does not display the amount of information that it needs to display -- i.e. a graph to give you a quick idea of what a function looks like. What more do you want?
Is there any good reason that a calculator should have a nicer screen? If you really need to see the graph in color or high resolution, use a computer and Maple or Excel. Calculators should have long battery life. Color LCDs don't lead to long battery life.
I had no trouble using my HP48gx on the SATs. A good friend of mine used his HP48gx on the ACT. And that was over a decade ago. I am fairly certain that the Casio graphing calculator offering is also allowed. Furthermore, there is more to life than standardized tests. If you have good grades and good letters of recommendation, it doesn't really matter what you get on the SAT/ACT, so long as you meet the minimum score for whatever school you wish to attend. Test scores are weighted far below academic achievement, extra-circular achievement, and other, less quantifiable aspects of your high school carrier.
Long story short -- get a calculator that you are comfortable with. Borrow an HP from a friend for a few days. Do the same with a TI and a Casio. Each has its pluses and minuses.
So the math department requires MathCAD for the lower level math courses and doesn't want students using anything other than that.
Hrm... that seems like a bad policy. Instead of teaching the theory of whatever problem they are teaching, they are instead teaching students to use the particular software to solve the problem. What happens when these students are forced to use Maple, or a calculator? I think that the attitude where I got my BA was much better -- the professors all had their own favorites, and most of them would come in on the first day and say "I use a TI-89 (or whatever). I can show you how to do these problems on a TI-89. If you use some other calculator, that is fine, just make sure that you know how to use it."
The 50g isn't bad. The keypad layout is better than the other 49 series calculators, though still not as good as the 48 series -- it lacks the large [ENTER] key, which really bothers me. It feels much faster and has more RAM than the 48 series. The 50g has returned to the hard plastic keys of the 48 series, rather than the crappy rubber keys of the 49. The CAS is pretty good, and easy to use, which is nice. Other than that, I haven't used it much yet, as I haven't been in school for several years -- I got it this year so that I have a chance to get used to it a bit before I return for my Masters in the fall.
Try the 50g (it is part of the 49 series, but they bumped the number to 50, for some reason). It goes back to the hard plastic clicky keys of the 48gx era, rather than the rubber keys of the 49. The keyboard layout is an improvement over the other 49s, and it has an assortment of other improvements. It still isn't as good as the 48 series, and there isn't a wealth of 3rd party software out for it yet, but it isn't bad. And it supports USB.
Oddly enough, the 49 series don't entirely suck. I still prefer the 48gx -- they messed with the keypad layout a bit too much on the 50g to make me really happy. On the other hand, the 50g feels much, much faster, and has a lot more RAM. It also speaks USB, which is nice.
It is a miniseries. That means that the entire story will be told in some number of episodes, probably 6-10, and it will then be done. Generally speaking, mini-series are completely filmed, edited, and finished before the first episode is aired. Your concern doesn't make sense in this context.
The faults at the bottom of the Atlantic are in rift zones where new oceanic crust is being produced. The material would not be subsumed into the mantle, but would be forced away from the fault. If you want it to be "sucked" into the mantle, you would need to drop it into a subduction zone, say, off the coast of Japan.
Less than 1% of every US tax dollar goes to space. Do you really think that, if that money were not going to space, it would go to the programs that you want it to go to? Do you not think that the exploration of our universe is a noble cause, worthy of public funding? Even if for no other reason than no other oranization has the money or motivation to fund that kind of exploration? It seems a rather trivial cost to me...
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Yeah, because no one plays racing games with controls that seek to accurately reproduce a steering wheel and floor pedals. Oh, wait... some people do.
So, in essence, your argument is that quantitiy > quality ? It doesn't matter that the articles are non-authoritative, so long as they exist?
Incorrect. You are forgetting to account for inertia. The gravitational attraction between two objects is proportional to the mass of those two objects, but increasing their masses, while it will increase their attraction, will also increase their inertia. Net difference in acceleration: 0.
Isn't that exactly what what the GP said? Or is it my reading comprehension that sucks, rather than yours?
Ow! That hurt! I am going to have to remember that one...
If a patient abuses a drug, or refuses to take the full course of drugs (in, say, a case of TB), is that the doctor's fault? There is only so much that a professional can do to mitigate against the stupidity of an end user. Perhaps password authentication is flawed, but I don't see you proposing a better solution. Perhaps BofA's system is fundamentally flawed, but I don't see you offering anything else. Regardless, at some point it is up to the user to protect their own interests by not taking 30 sleeping pills at a time, or giving out their passwords to other people.
Then I would suggest that you really aren't using the calculator as it was designed to be used. Get a PDA, and a graphing calculator emulator, or some other calculator program for the PDA. The calculator is designed to be used to crunch numbers, not read dissertations.
How often, in your daily use of the calculator, do you really find the need to pan an image around? How much text are you putting on the calculator's screen? A calculator is a dedicated device -- it is supposed to do math. The fact that you can play games on most of the modern ones is kind of cool, but it isn't the point. I have yet to see a calculator screen that does not display the amount of information that it needs to display -- i.e. a graph to give you a quick idea of what a function looks like. What more do you want?
Is there any good reason that a calculator should have a nicer screen? If you really need to see the graph in color or high resolution, use a computer and Maple or Excel. Calculators should have long battery life. Color LCDs don't lead to long battery life.
I had no trouble using my HP48gx on the SATs. A good friend of mine used his HP48gx on the ACT. And that was over a decade ago. I am fairly certain that the Casio graphing calculator offering is also allowed. Furthermore, there is more to life than standardized tests. If you have good grades and good letters of recommendation, it doesn't really matter what you get on the SAT/ACT, so long as you meet the minimum score for whatever school you wish to attend. Test scores are weighted far below academic achievement, extra-circular achievement, and other, less quantifiable aspects of your high school carrier.
Long story short -- get a calculator that you are comfortable with. Borrow an HP from a friend for a few days. Do the same with a TI and a Casio. Each has its pluses and minuses.
Heretic! In the calculator holy wars, there are only HP and TI. There is no Casio! Burn the heretic! Burn him!
There are a few tests that I wasn't allowed to use my HP48gx on. That's what the HP-11c was for. ;)
The 50g isn't bad. The keypad layout is better than the other 49 series calculators, though still not as good as the 48 series -- it lacks the large [ENTER] key, which really bothers me. It feels much faster and has more RAM than the 48 series. The 50g has returned to the hard plastic keys of the 48 series, rather than the crappy rubber keys of the 49. The CAS is pretty good, and easy to use, which is nice. Other than that, I haven't used it much yet, as I haven't been in school for several years -- I got it this year so that I have a chance to get used to it a bit before I return for my Masters in the fall.
Try the 50g (it is part of the 49 series, but they bumped the number to 50, for some reason). It goes back to the hard plastic clicky keys of the 48gx era, rather than the rubber keys of the 49. The keyboard layout is an improvement over the other 49s, and it has an assortment of other improvements. It still isn't as good as the 48 series, and there isn't a wealth of 3rd party software out for it yet, but it isn't bad. And it supports USB.
Oddly enough, the 49 series don't entirely suck. I still prefer the 48gx -- they messed with the keypad layout a bit too much on the 50g to make me really happy. On the other hand, the 50g feels much, much faster, and has a lot more RAM. It also speaks USB, which is nice.
MGSII. In MGS, the dead bodies flashed a couple of times before disappearing.
Well, while you are rushing to the passenger's seat, the US has called "dibs," and is already on its way with a fleet of nuclear destroyers.
Well, at least he can't possibly fsck it up as much as he fscked up Solaris... I hope.
It is a miniseries. That means that the entire story will be told in some number of episodes, probably 6-10, and it will then be done. Generally speaking, mini-series are completely filmed, edited, and finished before the first episode is aired. Your concern doesn't make sense in this context.
Too big, no 3G support. Lame.
Less than 1% of every US tax dollar goes to space. Do you really think that, if that money were not going to space, it would go to the programs that you want it to go to? Do you not think that the exploration of our universe is a noble cause, worthy of public funding? Even if for no other reason than no other oranization has the money or motivation to fund that kind of exploration? It seems a rather trivial cost to me...