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  1. Re:Obvious on Are Graphical Calculators Pointless? · · Score: 1

    I love my calculator even now. (Several years later) Its once of the first things I unpack when I move. Good calculator skills are very useful even if you have more powerful tools.. You do need a shotgun to kill a fly.

  2. Re:Obvious on Are Graphical Calculators Pointless? · · Score: 1

    thats called science class.... you should do both

  3. Re:Obvious on Are Graphical Calculators Pointless? · · Score: 1
    I liked that as a student however there was always one problem with that solution which is very serious and not to be taken lightly.

    When it comes test time. If you missed one particularly long and important equation and did not right it down. Your screwed even if you understand the equation(which is the point).

    Even good students can do this.

  4. Re:Obvious on Are Graphical Calculators Pointless? · · Score: 1

    There is some advantage of being a walking encyclopedia as well. And randomizing a test makes grading the test unfucking manageable. I was friends with a TA who had a prof do that once. It was a nightmare.

  5. Re:Obvious on Are Graphical Calculators Pointless? · · Score: 1

    What gives you the grasp of what would be "useful" to him? Being able to interpret and analyze the works of an author can be just as useful or useless as learning to dig in a pile of written trash on the internet and find a proper answer. Actually they are very much the same skill set.

  6. Re:Well, I can see the tradeoffs. on Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France · · Score: 2

    Realistic question/statement (I do not know the answer). Could contaminating the ocean bed cause spread the toxic chemical to all the worlds oceans? Things tend to precipitate out of the air quicker than they do water, thus im envisioning the ocean spreading the contamination further?

  7. Re:Man up! on Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France · · Score: 1

    per ton its i think always going to be cheaper to just launch the stuff into outer space. Sometimes its the simple solution that works out best.

  8. Re:Man up! on Underwater Nuclear Power Plant Proposed In France · · Score: 1

    You need to re-read the "laws of thermodynamics" to get a better understanding of their implications unless that is of course you like being an un-informed idiot who pretends that they have an idea whats going on.

  9. Re:Please fix the pathing/animations this time. on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Announced for November 2011 · · Score: 1

    No! Ps. I seriously recommend you try role playing a character besides a bishop

  10. Re:Not Temporary, Microeconomics is stubborn on GM Loses Money On Every Volt Built · · Score: 1

    No. No I am not. Indeed R&D can sometimes lower costs however. There is however the is a much higher correlation to the total number of a unit produced of just about any product. The general rule of thumb that I know of is a doubling of net units produced results in around a 20% reduction in manufacturing costs and a 10% reduction in raw material costs.

  11. Re:That's fine... on GM Loses Money On Every Volt Built · · Score: 2

    That information is out there :) There is even a hit of it in the blurb. Batteries are very much an economics of scale technology. I do not understand for the life of me why you would pretend the information is not out there but there is loads of research into this.

  12. Re:That's fine... on GM Loses Money On Every Volt Built · · Score: 1

    lol i hope your joking because that cant be further from the truth.

  13. Re:Not Temporary, Microeconomics is stubborn on GM Loses Money On Every Volt Built · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are right you are in idiot. The batteries do not have a constant cost. They have a decreasing cost as even damn blurb said so "price of consumer lithium-ion cells has fallen 6 to 8 percent annually since their 1989 launchprice of consumer lithium-ion cells has fallen 6 to 8 percent annually since their 1989 launch" Seriously wtf did you put any effort in your ideas at all?

  14. how the hell is this news? on Central Dogma of Genetics May Not Be So Central · · Score: 1

    The blerb is intentionally misleading etc. We have known for a long long long long long while that there are indeed mutations in cells so not ever fricking set of DNA within your own body is exactly identical. ffs does cancer not ring a bell to anyone?

  15. Re:Why have them on Launch Command Preserved In Power Failure, But Nuclear Designs Still Risky · · Score: 1

    "While I understand why, most people under 30 don't fully appreciate the threat of the USSR after WWII as they are fortunate enough to not have lived under it." Bull shit ( I am all for a strong nuclear force etc) but basically Russia had the USA hoodwinked into thinking they were 10* stronger than they actually were. The whole shit with russia was more or less just propagated to further the whole red scare.

  16. Re:Why have them on Launch Command Preserved In Power Failure, But Nuclear Designs Still Risky · · Score: 1

    Do you seriously consider any of those a major act?

  17. Re:This is just embarrassing. on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 1

    "Against the terrarists? No, not really, you cannot really strike back at them with a nuke." Says who?

  18. Re:Middle ages university vs Wiki-University on What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    Meh polytechnics and tech schools are completely different around here.. Tech schools are as you described But some of the polytechnics are often some of the better engineering schools around

  19. Re:Arguably, they already are on What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    "intellectual pollination."?? Some one had sex with your brain?!?!.... That would explain why you think Wikipedia is edible.... :(

  20. a new type of "professorate" wtf?!!? on What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    Is the author knowingly ignoring all of history pre 1900's? Seriously newton maxwell etc were all rich bastards who did since because they figured it was cool.

  21. Re:At first I wondered... on Facebook Billionaire Gives Money To Legalize Marijuana · · Score: 1

    You ever buy diamonds or use any natural resource? ya? go fuck yourself hypocrite

  22. Re:Talk about censorship on Pentagon Makes Good On Plan To Destroy Critical Book · · Score: 1
    for fucks sake be informed people...... This whole issue is made up..... The book contained some information which was not meant for public consumption. IE the names of American operatives. The information being removed is not fundamental to the message of the book. Its just extraneous information which would damage national security. This is not censorship.... this is common fucking sense...

    Im saying this now... you are being a part of the problem not the solution by talking before you get informed....

  23. Re:I'm all for it on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1
    Intel / AMD could sell them at their stock clocks. Overclocking already voids their warantee so presumably this should not effect Intel or AMD at all.

    So the question becomes "why do they do it all if they are no longer responsible and only customers who are very techologicaly oriented will do it any way?"

    The answer is they want to pry more money out of our cold dead hands.. There is no reason for this.

    What you are referring to latter is something called binning. Yes there is reason to sell a quad core with one broken core as a three core.. This is not the same issue with multipliers.

  24. Re:If I could on Is SSD Density About To Hit a Wall? · · Score: 1
    Except for flash drives (my best point of reference) The new generations have been providing increased reliability and performance and reduced costs.

    "For NAND flash larger process sizes are simply better. " I would beg to differ... There are are some disadvantages with going with reduced aspect sizes... But the benefits outweigh the disadvantages... This is true for CPUs etc..

    As as a side point why 99% of consumers could care less about this... Data reliability for flash drives is currently orders of magnitude what the average joe schmo would care about... Even if this comes down dramatically... no one will notice...or care

  25. Re:I'm all for it on Intel Wants To Charge $50 To Unlock Your CPU's Full Capabilities · · Score: 1

    What is to stop you/a program from brute forcing the code......? Its your cpu. You've got all the time you need.