It's the quadratic formula. And it's really hard to derive in my experience, so I'm surprised that you both a) can do it and b) forget what it's called.
120. That way everyone gets 3 and the people who are extra hungry can nab the ones from the people who didn't eat theirs. And everyone will eat the sprinkles, even if they don't like them.
No, because it's not profitable for capitalists to feed everybody, and no, they can't just all get jobs, because there can never be full employment. Why? When unemployment falls workers have more bargaining power against employers, and wages go up, so profits fall. Investment falls and people are out of jobs. It happens every time.
You say they should just "get off their asses and work." Ever heard of the Great Depression? People were working, all day long as hard as they could, for less money than it took to eat. Employers could keep this going because if the workers quit there were legions outside waiting to replace them. That's what it's like in much of the third world.
We can't just be feeding people so they go on to reproduce and we end up with more hungry people. At some point you have to look at how to break the cycle.
Apparently we can, however, ignore the fact that according to the UN more than enough food is produced each year to feed everyone, and it is just economics (read capitalism) that prevents it from getting to people.
A school with "engineers" and millions for so called amature sports, and no one can cob job their own desks back together?...not trying to flame, but really............organize a dang fix up party with your buds
Because the stuff being broken was really the cause of the bad education, not having teachers who didn't care and were incoherent. It's of course absolutely impossible that someone could be mentioning such things as broken desks and leaky ceilings merely to show an example of what the school's priorities are; they must have been complaining about the broken stuff. Of course, getting together to fix broken desks is a great idea because it will cause all the root problems to just disappear!
Therefore a lot of effort is placed in learning formal proofs, finite automata, turing machines, etc, which define what is possible with computing machines. A computer science degree should help you become an expert on the fundamentals of computing machines capabilities and uses, not make you a better web developer.
Who would you rather have doing your web development, someone who uses methods that they've theoretically proven to work or someone who just does whatever seemed to work pretty well in the past? Who do you think is going to have a better grasp on how to fix things when they go wrong? This is the difference between a CS major and someone with a more vocationally oriented education.
I was enrolled at a private technical college in the CIS program for a little over a year. Their program basically consisted of learning languages (3 semesters VB and 3 semesters C++ required to graduate) and current standards and software (A+, NET+ and Win2k administration courses also required) but with absolutely no teaching of theory. The students had no idea how to solve problems. They knew what various commands did but generally had no idea how to string them together to accomplish something unless it was markedly similar to a previous example. I ended up dropping out because I was learning nothing.
Now the folks who got their degrees there are going to spend their entire careers being incompetent programmers. Sure, they mostly got good jobs as soon as they got out, but what they learned has ever-diminishing usefulness. VB may have been hot then, it may even still be hot now but it won't be in 10 years, everything I learned in Win2k admin has already been superseded, and at the end of the day that's these students' ENTIRE education. If they had instead been taught how to organize data structures, and how to understand what the computer is thinking, they could always study a book for 6 weeks and take a cert on whatever they needed to know for the job market. The stuff you learn in classes that show you on a fundamental level why things are being done the way they are, while not directly applicable, will last you for the rest of your life rather than just until a new set of languages becomes hot.
Prithee, dyvulge unto us audiense, watt mannere of tyre this be, whether ye olde saxone tyre or rather yon scots tyre, or mayhaps off clime unknoan, that doth as thou sayest "blowout".
Way to be down on the US man, except you forgot one thing - 28th out of fourty just doesn't work out to being in the bottom third, no matter what country you are from!
Yes it does. A third of 40 is 13 & 1/3. Times 2 is 26 & 2/3. We'll round that off to 27, and you still have to rank 27th or better to be in the top two-thirds. 28th is the highest member in the bottom third (unless we count 27th as the bottom third as well...in which case 28th is just more securely in the bottom third...)
In your last interview you talked about not being able to handle all the things in linux that are tough to configure, and having given up. I'm wondering, have you tried Linux lately? And which distros have you used? Most have made great strides in usability and configurability, but some lag behind, so I'm sure it makes a great difference in how much hassle it is which distro you're using, and what version.
Also, someone said you prefer the Gnomes to Bavaria. Is this true? Why not Discordia?
Re:8:35 and it's still there...
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Conclusion: It's not a defacement. It's their new corperate motto.
Complete with the sub-slogan, "hacked by realloc("!
I saw the headline and just remembered that my Dad always told me that Biafra was the world's sob spot for a brief time in the 60's (kind of like Somalia in '92...you know, been starvation there for decades, still is, just for a brief while people actually notice) and I guess it's somewhere that's not called Biafra anymore. Don't really know much about it. Just thought it was funny to read the headline and think that was what it was about.
To put it in classic Slashdot form: 1)Waste hours of life building scale star-destroyer model. 2)Post star-destroyer for sale on ebay. 3)Post story on/. with link to auction 4)PROFIT!!!!
Shall we explore why you'd puss out if a date developed into something sexual?
Well, I'm a virgin, which shouldn't surprise anyone seeing as I'm posting on slashdot, and there are a very limited number of women to whom I would be comfortable entrusting my defloration. All two of whom have boyfriends. It just wouldn't feel right with someone I didn't know really, really well. I imagine I would feel it was an awkward situation if a girl started touching me in that way and I would probably ask her to stop and leave as soon as i could. I'm not really sure why I feel this way, given that I fantasize about having sex with many girls. I guess a significant part of it is that I've long harbored a romantic attachment to my virginity. I'm also pretty awkward generally when it comes to girls. When it comes to interacting with someone I'm interested in romantically, I always get worried that I'm breaking some social code that I'm not familiar with, which largely turns out to be true. It's a code I'm unfamiliar with largely because it pertains to actions and situations I haven't been able to observe people in. So when an unfamiliar situation comes up, I never know what to do and I try to duck out of it...unless it involves a girl I really like a lot, enough to be worth risking humilition and hurt for, and I don't know any such girls at the moment who aren't romantically predisposed.
I would have to second this comment. I think if my gf bought me a HD or a thinkgeek t-shirt i would be kind of disapointed because those are things that i would just go out and buy if i need.
I would be disappointed for a different reason. For a geek, those really aren't very thoughtful gifts. Those are "he's a geek, buy him one of these" types of gifts. It doesn't take much thought to see that as a geek I could use a hard drive. I would expect my girlfriend to have discerned that I would appreciate things like teas or essential oils, or even flowers, which I am dearly fond of. These are also much more personal gifts...every time I drink that particular tea or use that oil I'll remember that she got it for me on that valentine's day, whereas I'm not going to think of her every time I boot my computer, but more importantly, these are not just gifts you could get any random geek, and show that she's thinking of me as an individual rather than just a fit for the geek mold. I would also hope I could find something equally personal to give her. If we didn't know each other well enough to get such individual gifts, then I don't think it would be that appropriate for us to be exchanging gifts at that stage of our relationship.
But that's just me, and what it would be like if I were fortunate enough to have a girlfriend looking to buy me presents. I think whatever you end up getting, you need to remind your geek how lucky he is.
Presumptious to think that a date ends in a BJ, don't you think.
I presumed no such thing, sweet. The presumption that a date is a step on the path to a potential, eventual BJ (or series thereof) is an altogether different matter from the presumption that a date ends in one, and a reasonable one to infer from your post. And personally I think it's far more presumptuous to think that a post like mine following a post like yours would lead to hooking up irl...also a presumption I don't make in earnest. I was just having a bit of fun with the thread, that's all.
In fact, I really don't give a shit about BJs, my post being merely a stock response to the parent that I figure might as well be posted because nobody had yet posted it. I'd much rather have a girl who listens to and understands me than one who gives me head, if I had to choose between the two. And as far as Valentine's day dates go, I'd be more than glad to even have one, just for the company, if nothing else. That's what matters. If my date seemed about to develop into anything sexual I'd probably just puss out anyway.
you just posted on slashdot, and you posted about oral sex. i dont think its possible to count the number of slashdot guys who want to be your valentines day date right now.
Yeah, where do you live, vabeachgirl? How about I pick you up at 7?
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It's the quadratic formula. And it's really hard to derive in my experience, so I'm surprised that you both a) can do it and b) forget what it's called.
120. That way everyone gets 3 and the people who are extra hungry can nab the ones from the people who didn't eat theirs. And everyone will eat the sprinkles, even if they don't like them.
No, because it's not profitable for capitalists to feed everybody, and no, they can't just all get jobs, because there can never be full employment. Why? When unemployment falls workers have more bargaining power against employers, and wages go up, so profits fall. Investment falls and people are out of jobs. It happens every time.
You say they should just "get off their asses and work." Ever heard of the Great Depression? People were working, all day long as hard as they could, for less money than it took to eat. Employers could keep this going because if the workers quit there were legions outside waiting to replace them. That's what it's like in much of the third world.
We can't just be feeding people so they go on to reproduce and we end up with more hungry people. At some point you have to look at how to break the cycle.
Apparently we can, however, ignore the fact that according to the UN more than enough food is produced each year to feed everyone, and it is just economics (read capitalism) that prevents it from getting to people.
...a Beowulf cluster of these?
A school with "engineers" and millions for so called amature sports, and no one can cob job their own desks back together?...not trying to flame, but really............organize a dang fix up party with your buds
Because the stuff being broken was really the cause of the bad education, not having teachers who didn't care and were incoherent. It's of course absolutely impossible that someone could be mentioning such things as broken desks and leaky ceilings merely to show an example of what the school's priorities are; they must have been complaining about the broken stuff. Of course, getting together to fix broken desks is a great idea because it will cause all the root problems to just disappear!
Therefore a lot of effort is placed in learning formal proofs, finite automata, turing machines, etc, which define what is possible with computing machines. A computer science degree should help you become an expert on the fundamentals of computing machines capabilities and uses, not make you a better web developer.
Who would you rather have doing your web development, someone who uses methods that they've theoretically proven to work or someone who just does whatever seemed to work pretty well in the past? Who do you think is going to have a better grasp on how to fix things when they go wrong? This is the difference between a CS major and someone with a more vocationally oriented education.
I was enrolled at a private technical college in the CIS program for a little over a year. Their program basically consisted of learning languages (3 semesters VB and 3 semesters C++ required to graduate) and current standards and software (A+, NET+ and Win2k administration courses also required) but with absolutely no teaching of theory. The students had no idea how to solve problems. They knew what various commands did but generally had no idea how to string them together to accomplish something unless it was markedly similar to a previous example. I ended up dropping out because I was learning nothing.
Now the folks who got their degrees there are going to spend their entire careers being incompetent programmers. Sure, they mostly got good jobs as soon as they got out, but what they learned has ever-diminishing usefulness. VB may have been hot then, it may even still be hot now but it won't be in 10 years, everything I learned in Win2k admin has already been superseded, and at the end of the day that's these students' ENTIRE education. If they had instead been taught how to organize data structures, and how to understand what the computer is thinking, they could always study a book for 6 weeks and take a cert on whatever they needed to know for the job market. The stuff you learn in classes that show you on a fundamental level why things are being done the way they are, while not directly applicable, will last you for the rest of your life rather than just until a new set of languages becomes hot.
Until he/she has a tyre blowout
Prithee, dyvulge unto us audiense, watt mannere of tyre this be, whether ye olde saxone tyre or rather yon scots tyre, or mayhaps off clime unknoan, that doth as thou sayest "blowout".
Way to be down on the US man, except you forgot one thing - 28th out of fourty just doesn't work out to being in the bottom third, no matter what country you are from!
Yes it does. A third of 40 is 13 & 1/3. Times 2 is 26 & 2/3. We'll round that off to 27, and you still have to rank 27th or better to be in the top two-thirds. 28th is the highest member in the bottom third (unless we count 27th as the bottom third as well...in which case 28th is just more securely in the bottom third...)
In your last interview you talked about not being able to handle all the things in linux that are tough to configure, and having given up. I'm wondering, have you tried Linux lately? And which distros have you used? Most have made great strides in usability and configurability, but some lag behind, so I'm sure it makes a great difference in how much hassle it is which distro you're using, and what version.
Also, someone said you prefer the Gnomes to Bavaria. Is this true? Why not Discordia?
Conclusion: It's not a defacement. It's their new corperate motto.
Complete with the sub-slogan, "hacked by realloc("!
I saw the headline and just remembered that my Dad always told me that Biafra was the world's sob spot for a brief time in the 60's (kind of like Somalia in '92...you know, been starvation there for decades, still is, just for a brief while people actually notice) and I guess it's somewhere that's not called Biafra anymore. Don't really know much about it. Just thought it was funny to read the headline and think that was what it was about.
Sounds like someone just wanted to use the most general geeky prefix and the most general geeky suffix together in one word.
I was a kid not too long ago, and I wouldn't really wanna play with some big balsa wood, grey-pained thing.
Why, in my day, we would've killed to get ahold of big, balsa wood, grey-painted things!
To put it in classic Slashdot form: /. with link to auction
...!
1)Waste hours of life building scale star-destroyer model.
2)Post star-destroyer for sale on ebay.
3)Post story on
4)PROFIT!!!!
You forgot the
An old adage that governments would be well-served to heed is: You get what you pay for.
Also, am I right in supposing VaBeach is Virginia Beach?
Is that where you live or where you'd like to be?
Shall we explore why you'd puss out if a date developed into something sexual?
Well, I'm a virgin, which shouldn't surprise anyone seeing as I'm posting on slashdot, and there are a very limited number of women to whom I would be comfortable entrusting my defloration. All two of whom have boyfriends. It just wouldn't feel right with someone I didn't know really, really well. I imagine I would feel it was an awkward situation if a girl started touching me in that way and I would probably ask her to stop and leave as soon as i could. I'm not really sure why I feel this way, given that I fantasize about having sex with many girls. I guess a significant part of it is that I've long harbored a romantic attachment to my virginity. I'm also pretty awkward generally when it comes to girls. When it comes to interacting with someone I'm interested in romantically, I always get worried that I'm breaking some social code that I'm not familiar with, which largely turns out to be true. It's a code I'm unfamiliar with largely because it pertains to actions and situations I haven't been able to observe people in. So when an unfamiliar situation comes up, I never know what to do and I try to duck out of it...unless it involves a girl I really like a lot, enough to be worth risking humilition and hurt for, and I don't know any such girls at the moment who aren't romantically predisposed.
btw, it's presumptuous, no i.
I would have to second this comment. I think if my gf bought me a HD or a thinkgeek t-shirt i would be kind of disapointed because those are things that i would just go out and buy if i need.
I would be disappointed for a different reason. For a geek, those really aren't very thoughtful gifts. Those are "he's a geek, buy him one of these" types of gifts. It doesn't take much thought to see that as a geek I could use a hard drive. I would expect my girlfriend to have discerned that I would appreciate things like teas or essential oils, or even flowers, which I am dearly fond of. These are also much more personal gifts...every time I drink that particular tea or use that oil I'll remember that she got it for me on that valentine's day, whereas I'm not going to think of her every time I boot my computer, but more importantly, these are not just gifts you could get any random geek, and show that she's thinking of me as an individual rather than just a fit for the geek mold. I would also hope I could find something equally personal to give her. If we didn't know each other well enough to get such individual gifts, then I don't think it would be that appropriate for us to be exchanging gifts at that stage of our relationship.
But that's just me, and what it would be like if I were fortunate enough to have a girlfriend looking to buy me presents. I think whatever you end up getting, you need to remind your geek how lucky he is.
Presumptious to think that a date ends in a BJ, don't you think.
I presumed no such thing, sweet. The presumption that a date is a step on the path to a potential, eventual BJ (or series thereof) is an altogether different matter from the presumption that a date ends in one, and a reasonable one to infer from your post. And personally I think it's far more presumptuous to think that a post like mine following a post like yours would lead to hooking up irl...also a presumption I don't make in earnest. I was just having a bit of fun with the thread, that's all.
In fact, I really don't give a shit about BJs, my post being merely a stock response to the parent that I figure might as well be posted because nobody had yet posted it. I'd much rather have a girl who listens to and understands me than one who gives me head, if I had to choose between the two. And as far as Valentine's day dates go, I'd be more than glad to even have one, just for the company, if nothing else. That's what matters. If my date seemed about to develop into anything sexual I'd probably just puss out anyway.
What if your geek doesn't drink?
I got beer from my mom for my 21st birthday, and I had to give it away.
you just posted on slashdot, and you posted about oral sex. i dont think its possible to count the number of slashdot guys who want to be your valentines day date right now.
Yeah, where do you live, vabeachgirl? How about I pick you up at 7?
This is 2004, not 1904. If they've been dating for three months, he's already getting blowjobs, or better.
Not necessarily. We geeks can be a bit slow when it comes to women.
Don't agree. A good BJ is not a distraction;
Yeah, anyone who's seen Swordfish knows that it enables a good cracker to break 128-bit encryption in under a minute.