I've proposed a new capital in AZ or NM, with an absolute ban on any form of air conditioning, but then, my home is a state where we only let the legislature meet a couple of months every other year (NV).
Exporting Congress is a great idea . . . but wouldn't the recipients regard it as an act of war?
if i was a school adminstrator i would hire a couple of Linux Geeks and have them remove Windoze from EVERY computer in the schools and have them install Redhat7.1 or 7.2 or 7.3, then i would gather up all the Windoze CDroms and take a knife or similer sharp instrument and score the data side of these Windoze CDroms, then mail them back to Micky$oft and include a letter telling them where they can put their Software licences (where the sun don't shine)...
I don't think you'd have to pay them to do that. The administrator could probably auction off the privilege of doing it.
Low film speed is less sensitive to light. That's why you have to expose the film to light for a longer period of time. The part about the fineness of the grain is a different (although perhaps related) issue.
I was in the last class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to use punched cards to submit our programs. I've always thought it was kind of neat that I had a taste of that technology.
At the time, I really resented having to learn how to use a card punch. I eventually learned that you could sneak into the lab in the next room, and use a text editor on a 24 line by 80 character terminal to create your program, and then have the program punched by an automated card punch. Then, you took the cards back, and inserted them into the card reader.
We had a certain amount of credit in our accounts, and when it ran out, that was it. No more runs. Yes, we did much more careful desk checking "back in the day".
A lot of wrong things make perfect sense if you start with the wrong assumptions.
Check out this page: link, where there is the question:
7.Technically, a "steep learning curve" would be one in which...
no learning whatsoever has occurred
learning has been fast
learning has been slow
learning has been steady, until levelling off
massive forgetting has occurred
The correct answer is "learning has been fast", and the explanation is:
You picked...
learning has been fast
Yes. Contrary to the usual (mistaken) use of this phrase, a "steep" learning curve--one which rises rapidly--would indicate rapid learning. Probably the reason people misuse the phrase "steep learning curve" is that they are influenced by the word "steep," so they think it means difficulty learning, like the difficulty walking up a steep
hill.
The learning curve for Emacs is a bit steeper than Eclipse, as well.
A learning curve is a graph of knowlege as a function of time. So if a curve is "steep" as you say, then after a short amount of time, you have learned a lot.
So that means that Emacs is easier to learn, right?
It annoys me when supposedly techy people who should be familiar with graphs misuse the term "learning curve".
There you have it. $7,800,000,000 ---> $10,000,000. Excite.com is now worth 0.00128 PERCENT of what it was worth two years ago!
I get 0.128 percent.
I dunno, I have come to expect grammatical errors here in slashdot, but I should hope to find percentages calculated correctly, especially when the word is in ALL CAPS.
A learning curve is a graph of time on the horizontal axis and ability on the vertical axis. So a vertical learning curve means that your ability increases very fast with time, which is the opposite of what I think you meant.
A learning curve is a graph of time on the horizontal axis and ability on the vertical axis. So a steep learning curve means that your ability increases very fast with time, which is the opposite of what I think you meant.
Evolution is a scientific dogma that is accepted as fact because people have been told that it is a fact since they were able to look at picture books of dinosaurs. Some people blindly believe in evolution for similar reasons that some other people believe in God, Jesus, etc.
For a critical look at the _theory_ of evolution, and some interesting problems with it, read "Darwin's Black Box" by Michael J. Behe.
I started to hear this phrase (sea change) being used a log about five months ago? When and why did it start getting such wide usage? I see from http://www.m-w.com that it means:
1 archaic : a change brought about by the sea
2 : a marked change : TRANSFORMATION
If you feel like using filtering software, AOL probably has the best and most sophisticated filtering available. Check out the recent Slashdot article on it or find some articles that talk about it.
I don't know about hotel rooms, but cash won't work for rental cars. You have to give them your card number so they can put any extra charges on it, or charge you for damages, etc. They won't take just cash to rent you a car.
What if Linus gets tired of all this Linux stuff and decides to just let Alan Cox take it all over. That would be really bad, because eventually Linux would be renamed to...... Coxix. Ouch!
I'm sure that Wired, like many other magazines, does not number every page just so that you will have to flip forward or backward to get a page number. They want your eyeballs on the ads.
In my current job I had a private office until space got tight and now I have to share a 10' by 10' office with a co-worker. I now know much more about this co-worker's life than I ever wanted to. This co-worker started out quiet and considerate, but now feels quite free to be herself. I hate it. Not the co-worker, I like her, I just wish I wasn't sharing an office with her. It is a constant chafing. We both have to have guests in the office often and that interferes with eachother's concentration. She likes it bright; I like it so that her under-the-shelf lamp doesn't reflect in my monitor. I am at a point in my career where I feel that I am entitled to a more private space to work in. When I leave for greener pastures, the office-sharing will be a reason.
I would rather have a cubicle than be cooped up with another person in a tiny office.
Nitpicking is right! I'm sure that when most people think of an experimental variable plotted against time, they don't bother to apply analysis to the problem and realize that it could be thought of as a delta function. Also, it doesn't seem to me that when the horizontal axis is "number of trials" that a delta function is appropriate. In that case, the horizontal axis has only discrete numbers.
The point is that many, if not most, users of the term "learning curve" that I've seen in Slashdot use the term exactly opposite to its actual meaning.
The last thousand times I have seen the term "learning curve" misused, I let it go. This time I won't. The term comes from psychology, and refers to a graph of amount learned as a function of time. See this and this.
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Great! the US Congress may move to Canada!
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You say that like it's a bad idea. .
I've proposed a new capital in AZ or NM, with an absolute ban on any form of air conditioning, but then, my home is a state where we only let the legislature meet a couple of months every other year (NV).
Exporting Congress is a great idea . . . but wouldn't the recipients regard it as an act of war?
Then we can really "BLAME CANADA!"
if i was a school adminstrator i would hire a couple of Linux Geeks and have them remove Windoze from EVERY computer in the schools and have them install Redhat7.1 or 7.2 or 7.3, then i would gather up all the Windoze CDroms and take a knife or similer sharp instrument and score the data side of these Windoze CDroms, then mail them back to Micky$oft and include a letter telling them where they can put their Software licences (where the sun don't shine)...
I don't think you'd have to pay them to do that. The administrator could probably auction off the privilege of doing it.
Likewise, someone who is drunk, under age, or mentally ill cannot legally enter into a contract.
Great, just get plastered before buying the software, and before clicking the "I agree" button.
Low film speed is less sensitive to light. That's why you have to expose the film to light for a longer period of time. The part about the fineness of the grain is a different (although perhaps related) issue.
I was in the last class at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to use punched cards to submit our programs. I've always thought it was kind of neat that I had a taste of that technology.
At the time, I really resented having to learn how to use a card punch. I eventually learned that you could sneak into the lab in the next room, and use a text editor on a 24 line by 80 character terminal to create your program, and then have the program punched by an automated card punch. Then, you took the cards back, and inserted them into the card reader.
We had a certain amount of credit in our accounts, and when it ran out, that was it. No more runs. Yes, we did much more careful desk checking "back in the day".
Or someone named /. Would that automatically overload the system with requests from all over the world?
Check out this page: link, where there is the question:
The correct answer is "learning has been fast", and the explanation is:
The learning curve for Emacs is a bit steeper than Eclipse, as well.
A learning curve is a graph of knowlege as a function of time. So if a curve is "steep" as you say, then after a short amount of time, you have learned a lot.
So that means that Emacs is easier to learn, right?
It annoys me when supposedly techy people who should be familiar with graphs misuse the term "learning curve".
There you have it. $7,800,000,000 ---> $10,000,000. Excite.com is now worth 0.00128 PERCENT of what it was worth two years ago!
I get 0.128 percent.
I dunno, I have come to expect grammatical errors here in slashdot, but I should hope to find percentages calculated correctly, especially when the word is in ALL CAPS.
Terry Gross hosts the program "Fresh Air". She's not normally on "All Things Considered".
WPFW in Washington, DC is another "truly Public Radio" station. They subsist entirely on individual listener donations and accept NO corporate money.
A learning curve is a graph of time on the horizontal axis and ability on the vertical axis. So a vertical learning curve means that your ability increases very fast with time, which is the opposite of what I think you meant.
A learning curve is a graph of time on the horizontal axis and ability on the vertical axis. So a steep learning curve means that your ability increases very fast with time, which is the opposite of what I think you meant.
Evolution is a scientific dogma that is accepted as fact because people have been told that it is a fact since they were able to look at picture books of dinosaurs. Some people blindly believe in evolution for similar reasons that some other people believe in God, Jesus, etc.
For a critical look at the _theory_ of evolution, and some interesting problems with it, read "Darwin's Black Box" by Michael J. Behe.
I started to hear this phrase (sea change) being used a log about five months ago? When and why did it start getting such wide usage? I see from http://www.m-w.com that it means:
1 archaic : a change brought about by the sea
2 : a marked change : TRANSFORMATION
If you feel like using filtering software, AOL probably has the best and most sophisticated filtering available. Check out the recent Slashdot article on it or find some articles that talk about it.
The Internet does not corrupt people, it only reveals the current level of bad spelling.
That gives me indi _./*. gestion.
I don't know about hotel rooms, but cash won't work for rental cars. You have to give them your card number so they can put any extra charges on it, or charge you for damages, etc. They won't take just cash to rent you a car.
What if Linus gets tired of all this Linux stuff and decides to just let Alan Cox take it all over. That would be really bad, because eventually Linux would be renamed to...... Coxix. Ouch!
I'm sure that Wired, like many other magazines, does not number every page just so that you will have to flip forward or backward to get a page number. They want your eyeballs on the ads.
Shouldn't that be, "No gnews, good gnews."?
In my current job I had a private office until space got tight and now I have to share a 10' by 10' office with a co-worker. I now know much more about this co-worker's life than I ever wanted to. This co-worker started out quiet and considerate, but now feels quite free to be herself. I hate it. Not the co-worker, I like her, I just wish I wasn't sharing an office with her. It is a constant chafing. We both have to have guests in the office often and that interferes with eachother's concentration. She likes it bright; I like it so that her under-the-shelf lamp doesn't reflect in my monitor. I am at a point in my career where I feel that I am entitled to a more private space to work in. When I leave for greener pastures, the office-sharing will be a reason.
I would rather have a cubicle than be cooped up with another person in a tiny office.
Nitpicking is right! I'm sure that when most people think of an experimental variable plotted against time, they don't bother to apply analysis to the problem and realize that it could be thought of as a delta function. Also, it doesn't seem to me that when the horizontal axis is "number of trials" that a delta function is appropriate. In that case, the horizontal axis has only discrete numbers.
The point is that many, if not most, users of the term "learning curve" that I've seen in Slashdot use the term exactly opposite to its actual meaning.
The last thousand times I have seen the term "learning curve" misused, I let it go. This time I won't. The term comes from psychology, and refers to a graph of amount learned as a function of time. See this and this.