I have about 25 or so slide rules, including a 4 ft. long one used for classroom instruction which hangs above my desk at home.
I used a 6in. magnesium slide rule until I got into college when it was broken by a classmate. Watching that moron step on my backpack and hearing the glass guide snap was like watching someone shoot a puppy.
I have a Pickett N 3P-ES on my desk at work. When people ask what it is I tell them it's the backup system in case the mainframe goes down.
Anyway, when everyone else was dealing with graphing calculators and believing whatever their HPs told them, I was visualizing the graphs and numerical relationships in my head. I had a much better head for numbers, approximations and telling if the answers I got passed the 'smell test'.
Knowing how to use a slide rule for an engineer or scientist is like knowing how to program in LISP if you are a programmer. You may never actually use it in your day to day work, but you will benefit from the knowledge and you will be a better professional for it.
1) Cheap rail system is powered by cars on turnpike -- part of what makes rail system cheap is there are little to no power costs. 2) More people start taking rail line and fewer people drive on turnpike. 3) Prices of rail line go up because they can no longer use the 'free' power from the turnpike wind turbines. 4) More people drive on turnpike. 5) Repeat.
The question becomes, will this reach an equilibrium or oscillate out of control? This is kind of like using lottery profits to fund education.
Before you go about deciding what file system you need, you need to spend some time thinking about what kinds of files your customers are storing. RDBMS data? Large graphics/audio/video files that rarely if ever change? Scanned documents? Large numbers of small files? Small numbers of large files? You get the idea.
Then you can start looking at solutions. 'Optimal File System' can mean many things to many people, and everyone here is going to have a different viewpoint. You need to decide what features of a file system makes it optimal for you. Then you can go looking for a solution.
Seriously. Spend your money on getting a really good FM transmitter. Then any radio you can buy becomes a speaker for the system. No wires to run, no hassles.
Yeah, the football team is pretty bad. In the four years I marched in the marching band, we had three victories.
The win against Pitt State was awesome. They were ranked #1 in the nation at the time and we beat them on their home turf. The next year (we played them every stinkin' year), the coach for Pitt State said nothing for a pre-game pep-talk. He simply walked up to the chalkboard in the front of the lockerroom and wrote their record from the previous year: 11-1. And then he circled the '1'. Needless to say, UMR lost that game...
As a UMR grad (and a townie; 21 years is too long to live in that town) this is awesome.
For those of you who don't know, UMR has about 5000 students, abour 3800 of those are full-time undergrads (at least those are the numbers last I looked; might be less now). For a school of this size, this is some choice recognition, especially it was chosen as having the most unhappy student population in the latest Princeton Review.
Some of the other lovely competitions that UMR competes in every year include the concrete canoe races (people actually build canoes out of concrete and race them) and mucking (old time mining).
BTW, for those of you who don't know the difference between UMR and Mizzou (UM-Columbia), here are two things to remember:
If you took the 50 dumbest students from UMR and enrolled them at Mizzou, you'd raise the average IQ of both campuses, and
The limit of UMR as GPA aproaches zero is Mizzou (basicly, you can always go to Mizzou if you flunk out of UMR
(and if you don't like my speling, just remember: UMR is an engineering school, not a spelling school)
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...on which oil or car company will buy these guys so this technology never makes it to market.
And it wasn't the United States.
Please define 'God'.
What, are they going to go from 'suck' to 'blow'?
Will there be a patch?
Go find some kiddie pr0n, download it on these machines remotely, then file an anonymous tip. Problem solved.
Maybe now we can finally get a decent Windows driver!
I have about 25 or so slide rules, including a 4 ft. long one used for classroom instruction which hangs above my desk at home.
I used a 6in. magnesium slide rule until I got into college when it was broken by a classmate. Watching that moron step on my backpack and hearing the glass guide snap was like watching someone shoot a puppy.
I have a Pickett N 3P-ES on my desk at work. When people ask what it is I tell them it's the backup system in case the mainframe goes down.
Anyway, when everyone else was dealing with graphing calculators and believing whatever their HPs told them, I was visualizing the graphs and numerical relationships in my head. I had a much better head for numbers, approximations and telling if the answers I got passed the 'smell test'.
Knowing how to use a slide rule for an engineer or scientist is like knowing how to program in LISP if you are a programmer. You may never actually use it in your day to day work, but you will benefit from the knowledge and you will be a better professional for it.
The end guy is tough.
Can you please state that in units us Slashdotters can understand? Like how many Libraries of Congress would we have to burn to get that much energy?
...does it run Vista?
1) Cheap rail system is powered by cars on turnpike -- part of what makes rail system cheap is there are little to no power costs.
2) More people start taking rail line and fewer people drive on turnpike.
3) Prices of rail line go up because they can no longer use the 'free' power from the turnpike wind turbines.
4) More people drive on turnpike.
5) Repeat.
The question becomes, will this reach an equilibrium or oscillate out of control? This is kind of like using lottery profits to fund education.
How many lives does one person need? Most folks don't even have a first life.
Before you go about deciding what file system you need, you need to spend some time thinking about what kinds of files your customers are storing. RDBMS data? Large graphics/audio/video files that rarely if ever change? Scanned documents? Large numbers of small files? Small numbers of large files? You get the idea.
Then you can start looking at solutions. 'Optimal File System' can mean many things to many people, and everyone here is going to have a different viewpoint. You need to decide what features of a file system makes it optimal for you. Then you can go looking for a solution.
Nice to see the US doesn't have a monopoly on the government telling people how to be parents.
Seriously. Spend your money on getting a really good FM transmitter. Then any radio you can buy becomes a speaker for the system. No wires to run, no hassles.
We have term limits. They are called 'elections'.
Sounds a lot like the old Apple ][ game called Evolution. So, even though it sounds cool and all, I wouldn't call it too revolutionary.
UMR did this many moons ago.
No, no. That's just your Linux box acting in self defense.
Actually, it's more like suprnova.org being mirrored by Milli Vanilli...
do they have a valid Windows license? I really, REALLY hope the BSA does an audit to find out.
Why is this under the 'Microsoft' topic and not 'Humor'?
BTW - LOL on the department...
The win against Pitt State was awesome. They were ranked #1 in the nation at the time and we beat them on their home turf. The next year (we played them every stinkin' year), the coach for Pitt State said nothing for a pre-game pep-talk. He simply walked up to the chalkboard in the front of the lockerroom and wrote their record from the previous year: 11-1. And then he circled the '1'. Needless to say, UMR lost that game...
For those of you who don't know, UMR has about 5000 students, abour 3800 of those are full-time undergrads (at least those are the numbers last I looked; might be less now). For a school of this size, this is some choice recognition, especially it was chosen as having the most unhappy student population in the latest Princeton Review.
Some of the other lovely competitions that UMR competes in every year include the concrete canoe races (people actually build canoes out of concrete and race them) and mucking (old time mining).
BTW, for those of you who don't know the difference between UMR and Mizzou (UM-Columbia), here are two things to remember:
(and if you don't like my speling, just remember: UMR is an engineering school, not a spelling school)
The top, purple band is the realm where QGP can exist, at very high temperatures above 1,000,000,000,000 degrees.
Is that in Celsius or Fahrenheit?