The last time I got a Dell catalog in the mail, I noticed that there was a section for customizing your own computer. It started with a base computer with a PIII (I think) and some flavor of Windows. So I called the sales department at Dell and had some fun. Since the sales lit said that I could get any computer I wanted, I figured I could get an AMD processor instead. The sales guy sputtered something off about Dell doing research and finding that AMD processors don't last as long as Pentiums.
So I guess the computer isn't exactly what I wanted, but maybe I could get a free network card in exchange for keeping Windows. When I suggested this, the sales guy first thought that I was crazy and then said, but Windows comes with the computer for free. I pointed out to him that M$ wasn't going to _give away_ Windows, so it had to cost something. In the end the sales guy decided that I couldn't trade Windows for anything (guess it is worthless).
The moral of the story is that Dell shouldn't send me anymore catalogs since I will never buy from them anyways and I find that being annoying alliviates boredom.
BTW, I won't buy from Dell 'cause their tech support people always yell at me when I call 'cause I put Linux on their pretty little laptop.
Actually, the zeta function is equal to the sum from n=1 to infinity of 1/(n^s) where s = x + iy is a complex number. If you let the imaginary part, y, equal zero than any calc student (hopefully) can tell that this infinite sum diverges for x leq 1. All can be saved though because there is a way to analytically continue the zeta function, except at x = 1 I believe. So someone proved that the analytical continuation of the zeta function had zeros where y=0 and x=-2k for k a postive int.
So when someone tries to solve this function along the line x = 1/2, they are also working on this analytical continuation. I have looked at this and boy is it confusing.
Man, this would be so much easier to type in tex.:)
When Social Security numbers were created, they were not intended to be used as federal identification numbers. Unfortunately, over the years, the line has become blurred and the number has been used for a variety of different uses. For example, there is now a federal law that requires people to give their SSN when they renew their driver's license. You also have to give your SSN when applying for a hunting, fishing or marriage license. This law was passed to track deadbeat dads. I am pretty sure that a) I am not a deadbeat dad (I am a woman sans children) and b) this was not what Roosevelt had intended when he started the program.
Currently, one can buy anyone's SSN on the internet. With this, a person can either steal a person's identity or use this information for stalking. Think of all that someone can do with a SSN. They can discover where you work, apply for credit, or call and demand information on certain types of accounts.
If you are elected president, what specifically will you do to stop the movement towards a national database with the current addresses, fingerprints and DNA of each American. Also, will you suppoprt a movement towards reverting SSNs to their intended purpose?
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The last time I got a Dell catalog in the mail, I noticed that there was a section for customizing your own computer. It started with a base computer with a PIII (I think) and some flavor of Windows. So I called the sales department at Dell and had some fun. Since the sales lit said that I could get any computer I wanted, I figured I could get an AMD processor instead. The sales guy sputtered something off about Dell doing research and finding that AMD processors don't last as long as Pentiums.
So I guess the computer isn't exactly what I wanted, but maybe I could get a free network card in exchange for keeping Windows. When I suggested this, the sales guy first thought that I was crazy and then said, but Windows comes with the computer for free. I pointed out to him that M$ wasn't going to _give away_ Windows, so it had to cost something. In the end the sales guy decided that I couldn't trade Windows for anything (guess it is worthless).
The moral of the story is that Dell shouldn't send me anymore catalogs since I will never buy from them anyways and I find that being annoying alliviates boredom.
BTW, I won't buy from Dell 'cause their tech support people always yell at me when I call 'cause I put Linux on their pretty little laptop.
Actually, the zeta function is equal to the sum from n=1 to infinity of 1/(n^s) where s = x + iy is a complex number. If you let the imaginary part, y, equal zero than any calc student (hopefully) can tell that this infinite sum diverges for x leq 1. All can be saved though because there is a way to analytically continue the zeta function, except at x = 1 I believe. So someone proved that the analytical continuation of the zeta function had zeros where y=0 and x=-2k for k a postive int.
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So when someone tries to solve this function along the line x = 1/2, they are also working on this analytical continuation. I have looked at this and boy is it confusing.
Man, this would be so much easier to type in tex.
When Social Security numbers were created, they were not intended to be used as federal identification numbers. Unfortunately, over the years, the line has become blurred and the number has been used for a variety of different uses. For example, there is now a federal law that requires people to give their SSN when they renew their driver's license. You also have to give your SSN when applying for a hunting, fishing or marriage license. This law was passed to track deadbeat dads. I am pretty sure that a) I am not a deadbeat dad (I am a woman sans children) and b) this was not what Roosevelt had intended when he started the program.
Currently, one can buy anyone's SSN on the internet. With this, a person can either steal a person's identity or use this information for stalking. Think of all that someone can do with a SSN. They can discover where you work, apply for credit, or call and demand information on certain types of accounts.
If you are elected president, what specifically will you do to stop the movement towards a national database with the current addresses, fingerprints and DNA of each American. Also, will you suppoprt a movement towards reverting SSNs to their intended purpose?