A boycott will not work because people are too addicted to the mass marketed shit out there. Not only that, but what is the market share of the slashdot readers? Those teeny boppers will never agree to a boycott....they are too spoiled.
And don't just look at one part of the screen. I've had trouble getting some screens to look good over the entire display. It's easy to overoptimize the settings for just one corner.
The local AM radio station (cough... 780) said that the exact value of pi is not currently known. Hell, maybe they'll know that when we have the exact value of sqrt(2). I guess old stuffy AM radio farts are just that.
Hi, I wasn't trolling. I like to use samba to let non root users mount and unmount net partitions at will. From what I understand, this isn't possible with NFS.
In Atlantic City, it is illegal for a casino to kick out a card counter. The authors of KO Blackjack said that Ken Uston was responsible for a law in AC that outlawed banning card counters.
I used to think that people were just abusive of Katz for no good reason. I am totally wrong.
Could it be that computers have greater complexity to TV's? Could it be that midwesterners are younger than northeasterners? Could there be more urgent issues at hand than this? Geez, so what if technological consumer goods are mysterious to the consumer. How many of you understand how any medical treatment works? Yet, the number of consumers of medical services and goods are ever so increasing.
You are kidding, right? The US government has done many fucked up things in the past (maybe even now). Blind faith in any government is idiocy. Patriotism is given to a country, not the governing power. Don't buy all the hype.
You raise a good point. From my observations, it is a cultural trait for Chinese to avoid conflict with a governing power. And, in general, to avoid hassles or complications. I know that this is a broad generalization, but considering that this is the birthplace of the bureaucracy, it can be explained in the history of China.
Don't get me wrong, this is a cultural aspect, not racial. Obediance to the government (or strong fear of it) is a strong part of Chinese culture, even for first generation immigrants in the States.
I hope that everyone understands that the revolt started because the government told them that job placement would no longer be facilitated by the government after they graduated. Ironic, isn't it?
It's bad science, and it's only an afterthought: they plainly thought up their "equation" first, and then set out to prove it. That's the Scientific Method in reverse, people.
No it's not. It's called applying a statistical test to a hypothesis. Of course, you can never prove things with statistics, only disprove them.
But, I agree with you that the other points (forced subjects, no control, etc) you make are very valid.
Sadly enough, this is another case of stupid dumb-ass American marketeers determining what is good for us all.
They either assume that people don't read subtitles (which is probably true, lazy fucks that we all are), or need some Americanization (e.g. dumbing down to joe six-pack) of every fucking show or product that is imported to this country.
Maybe we should just get direct feeds from other countries and hope that they have closed captioning.
Seems like you are in an engineering-centric program. Get out if it and find a more theoretical program. It's just me, but I find engineering classes very boring. Sheesh, how many filters does one need to program?
Not really, '==' could be asymmetric by simply using it in a map that works that way. Bah, this is getting tiring and I'll save math for the classroom.
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A boycott will not work because people are too addicted to the mass marketed shit out there. Not only that, but what is the market share of the slashdot readers? Those teeny boppers will never agree to a boycott....they are too spoiled.
And don't just look at one part of the screen. I've had trouble getting some screens to look good over the entire display. It's easy to overoptimize the settings for just one corner.
That's the problem with graphic designers doing statistics.
Let's tax all political contributions!
Bribes must be doubly taxed!
The local AM radio station (cough ... 780) said that the exact value of pi is not currently known. Hell, maybe they'll know that when we have the exact value of sqrt(2). I guess old stuffy AM radio farts are just that.
What will they use in future Cray machines? It would suck if they used Pentiums in them. Sort of like James Bond driving a Lincoln.
But, at least we are allowed to vote. People complain about no choices when voting but forget about write-in votes. Try that in China or Iraq.
Hi, I wasn't trolling. I like to use samba to let non root users mount and unmount net partitions at will. From what I understand, this isn't possible with NFS.
Is there a better way to let users mount network partitions than using samba?
I thought that in Romanized Japanese the 'r' sound was actually pronounced like an 'l' sound but slightly cut-off.
In Atlantic City, it is illegal for a casino to kick out a card counter. The authors of KO Blackjack said that Ken Uston was responsible for a law in AC that outlawed banning card counters.
Could it be that computers have greater complexity to TV's? Could it be that midwesterners are younger than northeasterners? Could there be more urgent issues at hand than this? Geez, so what if technological consumer goods are mysterious to the consumer. How many of you understand how any medical treatment works? Yet, the number of consumers of medical services and goods are ever so increasing.
Not only that, but what good is a broadband connection if many of the inhabitants have trouble reading?
Not all NP problems, just NP-Complete. NP-hard problems have no known log-space polynomial time reductions to an NP-Complete problem.
Is it just me or are all EE Times articles that fluffy? Do I get static cling protection with that?
You are kidding, right? The US government has done many fucked up things in the past (maybe even now). Blind faith in any government is idiocy. Patriotism is given to a country, not the governing power. Don't buy all the hype.
You raise a good point. From my observations, it is a cultural trait for Chinese to avoid conflict with a governing power. And, in general, to avoid hassles or complications. I know that this is a broad generalization, but considering that this is the birthplace of the bureaucracy, it can be explained in the history of China.
Don't get me wrong, this is a cultural aspect, not racial. Obediance to the government (or strong fear of it) is a strong part of Chinese culture, even for first generation immigrants in the States.
I hope that everyone understands that the revolt started because the government told them that job placement would no longer be facilitated by the government after they graduated. Ironic, isn't it?
...but these people chose this form of government...
No, it is a clear case of a minority dictating to the majority. The nationalists just got their asses kicked. That's all.
Most in China will secretly tell you that their government sucks, but they are too afraid to do anything about it.
I think Fortran generates code that is still a bit faster than the C code on Crays (t90s at least).
Isn't most of the BLAS stuff like LINPACK still based on Fortran code? Whenever I compile octave, I see alot of Fortran code being compiled.
It's bad science, and it's only an afterthought: they plainly thought up their "equation" first, and then set out to prove it. That's the Scientific Method in reverse, people.
No it's not. It's called applying a statistical test to a hypothesis. Of course, you can never prove things with statistics, only disprove them.
But, I agree with you that the other points (forced subjects, no control, etc) you make are very valid.
Not only that, but most anime fans will not ever touch a dubbed version of a show.
Sadly enough, this is another case of stupid dumb-ass American marketeers determining what is good for us all.
They either assume that people don't read subtitles (which is probably true, lazy fucks that we all are), or need some Americanization (e.g. dumbing down to joe six-pack) of every fucking show or product that is imported to this country.
Maybe we should just get direct feeds from other countries and hope that they have closed captioning.
Seems like you are in an engineering-centric program. Get out if it and find a more theoretical program. It's just me, but I find engineering classes very boring. Sheesh, how many filters does one need to program?
Not really, '==' could be asymmetric by simply using it in a map that works that way. Bah, this is getting tiring and I'll save math for the classroom.