Interestingly enough, I used to take a handful of classes at Germanna. To add to the list, I would say that Wolfram Alpha can be helpful, because it can be used to break down more complicated integrals and derivatives into steps when you don't understand them. Just don't become dependent upon them. Also, one thing that can be helpful is to go to Yahoo Answers and answer math related problems. Break everything down into steps, explain the theorems needed, and bask in the knowledge that teaching is a good way to learn. By breaking things down for people who may not have a good understanding of math, you will help build up your own understanding too. I actually used this while taking various Calc classes to help practice what I knew, and help break down how exactly I knew it and thought about it.
My dad got a degree in a technical field--CS or something related, IIRC--and he never even had to take a calculus class at all. He took classes overseas while in the military through UMUC. It does happen.
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Another thing that you might want to brush up, in addition to those things the parent post mentions, would be trigonometry. A healthy portion of the various calc courses I've taken have used trig identities fairly heavily. It also helps to remember the values of trig functions for common angles. Depending on the college, you may have to be decent at mental arithmetic. My school frowned upon using calculators in class.
The weakness of any constitution, be it American, French, Greek, or Japanese, is that it is merely a piece of paper. It does not contain within it the means of enforcing itself, and its interpretation is often left to the entity it is supposed to limit. The enforcement, then, is left to the people, but who is willing to engage in a violent strike on a government over minor injustices? Very few. As time goes on, these injustices become accepted as the way the world is, and more are added, with the result of a transformation over time that causes the end product to look very little like what it started as. Washington needed Congress to raise the militia and go to war; he had no standing army. The presidents of the nuclear age need no approval to launch a civilization ending nuclear attack, to engage in war in far away places that most Americans cannot find on a map.
And it'll happen despite a warning from the guy's father or other intelligence sources all because two intelligence agencies can't figure out the meaning of the word "sharing," Because of their blunder, we will have to submit to even more onerous restrictions that will probably have nothing to do with how the guy tried to kill people, and the people who failed in the intel community will get promotions and more responsibility.
You will note that he said often. That leaves exceptions, such as those you mention (if indeed Jihad Jane is convicted; I haven't followed her story at all), but it still leaves them harassing 'evil' brown skinned people.
I think some of that is due to the fact that most of the dictatorships in the world are dirt poor and full of many uneducated people. For them, the cost of cleaning up may be the cost of dinner. I do wonder if the track record would be the same if a more industrialized nation was led by a dictator. I would gladly volunteer for the position!
Government is a monopoly, and is in fact the ultimate monopoly. The State has final say on justice and taxation in a certain geographical area; anything less than that would not be a state. Unlike the telco monopoly where you can elect to just not buy their service, you are required by the state to partake in it by virtue of exiting a birth canal in a certain area, or exiting the birth canal of those deemed to be under its jurisdiction (depending on the state in question). Attempting to not obey a state (or found another one) typically does not lead to very happy results, ranging from everything to fines to imprisonment or, in extreme cases, even death. Now, there are many people (most, even) who believe that a state is a required part of life, but it's hard to escape the fact that a state is a monopoly. It's just one that most of us are willing to tolerate, because we feel that it would be in our best interests.
Food prices are set, for the most part, by the market, and have been for a long time. In that time, food prices have plummeted dramatically. People today eat like the kings of the Dark Ages (at least in the West). There is now enough food to feed billions more than in the past. When food prices are set by something other than the market, such as they were in the USSR, things go to hell very quickly. There are very often unintended side effects, shortages, etc.
whatever happened to "Obama is going to take our guns!!!!"?
Oh, that. That's right over there next to the two wars that just ended and the big pile of predator drones that they stopped using to bomb Pakistan. The Rush Limbaugh bots weren't the only ones that had delusions about the man and what he was after. I wish people would have opinions related of the man that lie somewhere between seeing him as a deity or as the anti-Christ.
The Census isn't exactly an open source library you can just add the header to and compile into your code. It costs a lot of money (and is not generated by those who pay for it), and the information requested is given to an organization with a record of abuses of privacy. I would much rather answer the questions for X_medical_researcher than for Uncle Sam.
Most of the younger generation (such as my self) has either never heard of C64 or never used one. I've never used one of these machines before; I might be interested in getting a modern remake if it was just as limited as the original, just to see how far we've come since that time period, but the brand means very little to me in a modern computer. The all-in-one design would be very hard for me to use on a day to day basis because of my desk arrangement, and the same applies to many of my friends' desks as well. I concur that this will flop.
You can pick up some ARM stuff if you want to play around with alternative architectures. You can even get some nice boards, like a BeagleBoard to play around with.
You do realize that raising the prices of goods hurts everybody, right? Tariffs don't just magically punish producers in China (assuming that is the target); the higher costs will be passed along to everyone. The only ones that will benefit are the special interest groups that are having trouble competing. If you are targeting the other government with the tariffs, good luck with that. It's been tried all throughout history and has failed numerous times. Castro is still in power, the DPRK still exists, the Mullahs never lost power in Iran, Napoleon didn't defeat Britain with his attempts at blocking trade, China didn't make the US stop selling weapons to Taiwan with the threat of tariffs, etc. etc.
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Interestingly enough, I used to take a handful of classes at Germanna. To add to the list, I would say that Wolfram Alpha can be helpful, because it can be used to break down more complicated integrals and derivatives into steps when you don't understand them. Just don't become dependent upon them. Also, one thing that can be helpful is to go to Yahoo Answers and answer math related problems. Break everything down into steps, explain the theorems needed, and bask in the knowledge that teaching is a good way to learn. By breaking things down for people who may not have a good understanding of math, you will help build up your own understanding too. I actually used this while taking various Calc classes to help practice what I knew, and help break down how exactly I knew it and thought about it.
That's why he should study topology. He'll learn about all kinds of knots there.
My dad got a degree in a technical field--CS or something related, IIRC--and he never even had to take a calculus class at all. He took classes overseas while in the military through UMUC. It does happen.
Another thing that you might want to brush up, in addition to those things the parent post mentions, would be trigonometry. A healthy portion of the various calc courses I've taken have used trig identities fairly heavily. It also helps to remember the values of trig functions for common angles. Depending on the college, you may have to be decent at mental arithmetic. My school frowned upon using calculators in class.
And what field might that be in? Not all fields will have much use for calculus in the real world, but I am still curious.
In other news, large, politically connected organizations have been found to manipulate laws to their own advantage.
The weakness of any constitution, be it American, French, Greek, or Japanese, is that it is merely a piece of paper. It does not contain within it the means of enforcing itself, and its interpretation is often left to the entity it is supposed to limit. The enforcement, then, is left to the people, but who is willing to engage in a violent strike on a government over minor injustices? Very few. As time goes on, these injustices become accepted as the way the world is, and more are added, with the result of a transformation over time that causes the end product to look very little like what it started as. Washington needed Congress to raise the militia and go to war; he had no standing army. The presidents of the nuclear age need no approval to launch a civilization ending nuclear attack, to engage in war in far away places that most Americans cannot find on a map.
And it'll happen despite a warning from the guy's father or other intelligence sources all because two intelligence agencies can't figure out the meaning of the word "sharing," Because of their blunder, we will have to submit to even more onerous restrictions that will probably have nothing to do with how the guy tried to kill people, and the people who failed in the intel community will get promotions and more responsibility.
You will note that he said often. That leaves exceptions, such as those you mention (if indeed Jihad Jane is convicted; I haven't followed her story at all), but it still leaves them harassing 'evil' brown skinned people.
Most of the Western world is some form of a republic.
The end in itself is freedom, but I invite you to come up with a society that implements that without democracy.
Various shades of anarchism, maybe?
I think some of that is due to the fact that most of the dictatorships in the world are dirt poor and full of many uneducated people. For them, the cost of cleaning up may be the cost of dinner. I do wonder if the track record would be the same if a more industrialized nation was led by a dictator. I would gladly volunteer for the position!
Government is a monopoly, and is in fact the ultimate monopoly. The State has final say on justice and taxation in a certain geographical area; anything less than that would not be a state. Unlike the telco monopoly where you can elect to just not buy their service, you are required by the state to partake in it by virtue of exiting a birth canal in a certain area, or exiting the birth canal of those deemed to be under its jurisdiction (depending on the state in question). Attempting to not obey a state (or found another one) typically does not lead to very happy results, ranging from everything to fines to imprisonment or, in extreme cases, even death. Now, there are many people (most, even) who believe that a state is a required part of life, but it's hard to escape the fact that a state is a monopoly. It's just one that most of us are willing to tolerate, because we feel that it would be in our best interests.
Food prices are set, for the most part, by the market, and have been for a long time. In that time, food prices have plummeted dramatically. People today eat like the kings of the Dark Ages (at least in the West). There is now enough food to feed billions more than in the past. When food prices are set by something other than the market, such as they were in the USSR, things go to hell very quickly. There are very often unintended side effects, shortages, etc.
You also have to account for all of those people who have never even had a computer before.
whatever happened to "Obama is going to take our guns!!!!"?
Oh, that. That's right over there next to the two wars that just ended and the big pile of predator drones that they stopped using to bomb Pakistan. The Rush Limbaugh bots weren't the only ones that had delusions about the man and what he was after. I wish people would have opinions related of the man that lie somewhere between seeing him as a deity or as the anti-Christ.
The Census isn't exactly an open source library you can just add the header to and compile into your code. It costs a lot of money (and is not generated by those who pay for it), and the information requested is given to an organization with a record of abuses of privacy. I would much rather answer the questions for X_medical_researcher than for Uncle Sam.
Hey, I'm a bacterium, you insensitive clod!
My laptop would not fit where my keyboard is, because of the design of the desk. The keyboard tray is very small. I'd even call it too small.
Most of the younger generation (such as my self) has either never heard of C64 or never used one. I've never used one of these machines before; I might be interested in getting a modern remake if it was just as limited as the original, just to see how far we've come since that time period, but the brand means very little to me in a modern computer. The all-in-one design would be very hard for me to use on a day to day basis because of my desk arrangement, and the same applies to many of my friends' desks as well. I concur that this will flop.
No, he'll be putting them on the IBM team just after they start development of the Warp drive.
You can pick up some ARM stuff if you want to play around with alternative architectures. You can even get some nice boards, like a BeagleBoard to play around with.
I don't like the new RWW! I put in my username and password and it doesn't work here!!!! WHY DOESN"T IT WORK?!?!?!?1/1/!?!?
You do realize that raising the prices of goods hurts everybody, right? Tariffs don't just magically punish producers in China (assuming that is the target); the higher costs will be passed along to everyone. The only ones that will benefit are the special interest groups that are having trouble competing. If you are targeting the other government with the tariffs, good luck with that. It's been tried all throughout history and has failed numerous times. Castro is still in power, the DPRK still exists, the Mullahs never lost power in Iran, Napoleon didn't defeat Britain with his attempts at blocking trade, China didn't make the US stop selling weapons to Taiwan with the threat of tariffs, etc. etc.
I didn't want to be brought back!