if you're dealing with 500000 tons of something a hundred millionth of a pound is [not] going to matter.
In any practical case I can think of, this is true.
and in the real world 10000000 + 0.00000001, might as well be 10000000.
That's a huge jump to make. These two quantities are not equal, and shouldn't be treated as such. Suppose that you have the molecular mass of a compound, but you're off by a factor of 10^(-15) (roughly the same error as your example). If you use this value to calculate the mass of a few moles of the compound, you're going to run into some serious error.
That's an interesting idea, but I don't think it could replace a joystick/gamepad because the momentum of the ball would make it hard to control in games that require fast movement. The toy plane doesn't have that problem because it constrains the ball to one axis.
I think it would make a good specialty controller for certain games where you control a character's balance or tilt a surface to make a ball roll around.
That's allowed all the time today, and with good reason. The primary reason that math homework is given isn't so that it can be graded. It's to give the students some guided practice using the concepts that they'll be required to know.
That's interesting. I use my thumb for the command key, but I've never thought about it before, but it makes a lot of sense for the main special key to be thumb-activated.
It allows you to easily use command-tab and command-backtick easily with thumb+pinky, while cut, copy, paste, and undo are still easy using the thumb and index, bird, or ring finger. It also makes things like command-shift-s easy to do with one hand.
I guess Windows makes use of this with the Alt key for application switching.
I went to public school in Alabama, and we diagrammed sentences quite a bit in the 9th grade (1989). My English teacher that year gave us an intense semester of rigid grammar. Much of it seemed pointless at the time, but in retrospect it was very beneficial.
When I look back, I see sentence-diagramming as being no different from any other string-parsing procedure. (For instance, the subject-verb-object sentence can be seen as three tokens. The subject and object can be a single-word token (i.e. a noun) or a multi-word token (such as a gerund phrase or infinitive phrase)).
With all the parallels between grammar and formal languages/theory of compilers, I'm surprised that grammar is regarded as little as it is among CS people.
C isn't useless--it does the work of both s and k, so I say get rid of s and k instead. That way we still have the ch sound. Sure, we lose sh, but we can use t to get that sound, like in "ratio".
I'm unfamiliar with the expert opinions, but if most or all of the grandmasters belive that the outcome is a draw then I'd believe that they are probably right. However, mathematically speaking, if it hasn't been proven then we can't claim one way or the other--we can only make a conjecture.
This is not known to be the case. Because we do not know the optimal strategy for playing chess, we can't know the outcome of a game between two perfect players.
A "perfect" player could not beat you unless you made a mistake.
If two perfect players always draw their game, then this is true; however, if the game favors white, then there's nothing that black can do--even if he knows the optimal strategy--to win the game.
Here's another picture where you can see what appears to be multiple images of the same plane. Well, actually in this picture you can only see it once, but if you scroll east you can see it five more times, each one progressively higher.
It could be five different planes, but I doubt it.
Slashdot Mirror
I thought it was pretty slick too. I think that one of my professors mentioned it to me when I was in college.
When I need to implement rounding, I add .5 and then truncate. I believe (perhaps naively) that this is efficient because of the lack of branching.
if you're dealing with 500000 tons of something a hundred millionth of a pound is [not] going to matter.
In any practical case I can think of, this is true.
and in the real world 10000000 + 0.00000001, might as well be 10000000.
That's a huge jump to make. These two quantities are not equal, and shouldn't be treated as such. Suppose that you have the molecular mass of a compound, but you're off by a factor of 10^(-15) (roughly the same error as your example). If you use this value to calculate the mass of a few moles of the compound, you're going to run into some serious error.
I teach my students this one:
Some Old Hippy
Comes Around Here
Tripping On Acid.
That's an interesting idea, but I don't think it could replace a joystick/gamepad because the momentum of the ball would make it hard to control in games that require fast movement. The toy plane doesn't have that problem because it constrains the ball to one axis.
I think it would make a good specialty controller for certain games where you control a character's balance or tilt a surface to make a ball roll around.
That would make a good B-movie. The setup is different, but much of the plot would be similar to Phoenix The Warrior.
Shoot me for knowing this.
That's allowed all the time today, and with good reason. The primary reason that math homework is given isn't so that it can be graded. It's to give the students some guided practice using the concepts that they'll be required to know.
These guys build rugged computers, but I don't know if they sell to individuals.
Ray Charles could deliver it quicker.
It's not true. The calendar was modified in 1972 when the first leap second was added.
"Before Repliee Q1, Professor Ishiguro developed Repliee R1 which had the appearance of a five-year-old Japanese girl."
Perhaps he was inspired by the show Small Wonder
Butthead: "hey beavis...i heard that pretty soon, they're gonna have, like, 500 channels.That's gonna be cool."
Beavis: "really? that would be cool."
Butthead: "you know what would be really cool, though? if like, one of the channels didn't suck."
Don't forget the Powerbook's better keyboard.
When I was in college, we did the auditory equivalent of this. We'd write this simple BASIC program something like this:
10 for a=1 to 256
20 sound a,1
30 next
40 goto 10
a would be the frequency of the note played. We'd get 7 or 8 computers doing this out of phase with each other and then leave the lab.
That's interesting. I use my thumb for the command key, but I've never thought about it before, but it makes a lot of sense for the main special key to be thumb-activated.
It allows you to easily use command-tab and command-backtick easily with thumb+pinky, while cut, copy, paste, and undo are still easy using the thumb and index, bird, or ring finger. It also makes things like command-shift-s easy to do with one hand.
I guess Windows makes use of this with the Alt key for application switching.
What's to stop the students from using an ad-hoc network?
I went to public school in Alabama, and we diagrammed sentences quite a bit in the 9th grade (1989). My English teacher that year gave us an intense semester of rigid grammar. Much of it seemed pointless at the time, but in retrospect it was very beneficial.
When I look back, I see sentence-diagramming as being no different from any other string-parsing procedure. (For instance, the subject-verb-object sentence can be seen as three tokens. The subject and object can be a single-word token (i.e. a noun) or a multi-word token (such as a gerund phrase or infinitive phrase)).
With all the parallels between grammar and formal languages/theory of compilers, I'm surprised that grammar is regarded as little as it is among CS people.
C isn't useless--it does the work of both s and k, so I say get rid of s and k instead. That way we still have the ch sound. Sure, we lose sh, but we can use t to get that sound, like in "ratio".
I'm unfamiliar with the expert opinions, but if most or all of the grandmasters belive that the outcome is a draw then I'd believe that they are probably right. However, mathematically speaking, if it hasn't been proven then we can't claim one way or the other--we can only make a conjecture.
Chess is a drawn game by default.
This is not known to be the case. Because we do not know the optimal strategy for playing chess, we can't know the outcome of a game between two perfect players.
A "perfect" player could not beat you unless you made a mistake.
If two perfect players always draw their game, then this is true; however, if the game favors white, then there's nothing that black can do--even if he knows the optimal strategy--to win the game.
Apple's page (the one linked in the post) clearly states that the recall is for the 15 inch aluminum Powerbook only.
Copied directly from Apple's main page:
Important Safety Recall -- Rechargeable Batteries for 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch and 15-inch PowerBook G4
Is Tri-Rail completely above ground?
I agree with your point, but you're making a very common error--confusing converse with inverse.
The conditional statement you assert is "if the hardware and OS are tied together, then things work well." P -> Q
The converse of this would be "if things work well, then the hardware and OS are tied together." Q -> P
The inverse of the original statement would be "If the hardware and the OS are not tied together, then thing do not work well." ~P -> ~Q
Here's another picture where you can see what appears to be multiple images of the same plane. Well, actually in this picture you can only see it once, but if you scroll east you can see it five more times, each one progressively higher.
It could be five different planes, but I doubt it.
I'm ready for OS X Liger. It's pretty much my favorite OS.