The student learned how to solve the problems they are expected to be able to solve, which seems like a victory for education.
Except in 1 or 2 years they'll be completely lost. How do you think someone who googled all the answers to their algebra 1 homework and tests will do in algebra 2 or precalc? Or in life?
As for calculators, they should not be allowed on exams at all, or in classrooms. Math is not about pushing buttons
The important parts of math are abstract, not computational. It's a good thing to get rid of the tedious computation that you mastered back in 3rd grade. Removing calculators would be an artificial barrier to learning, like making students scan through paper volumes of trig tables.
If you're going to allow calculators at all, graphing calculators are definitely the best option. My TI-89 has scrollback, symbolic computation (I would die without free variables), pretty printing, copy and paste, and algebraic factoring/expansion.
Unless you're in 7th grade or something, all of those make it much easier to focus on the real problem rather than getting caught up in the algebra.
What, you can still write programs for the included BASIC interpreter, you just can't run your own code on the hardware (no C/assembly allowed). So they have no ground to stand on in terms of testing integrity, and it's obvious that they're unjustly trying to control people's hardware after they buy it.
It's hard to imagine a pre-industrial world being able to make (or even discover) ethanol fuel without oil-powered industry behind them. Keep in mind that humans have been around for many thousands of years and only in the last few decades have we discovered that all this corn lying around is good for fuel. It takes an advanced level of technology to exploit more subtle resources like ethanol.
My guess is that at some point (back when mailboxes had a 3MB limit or whatever) during some cutback someone decided that storing too many files is a good target for a push to conserve resources, so they had the brilliant idea of jacking up prices to get departments to use less. The very idea of conserving space as if it's some limited resource is so ludicrous that I can barely type it, but it's also very believable in an office setting.
How do you question a witness in a case of mail fraud, or wire fraud?
They just need an expert witness to testify that the proof is inconclusive. There's also probably some mechanism for not having to show the same thing a thousand times in court.
If you're going to spend $10 billion on a process, you'd better make sure that the product it makes isn't infringing any patents. This isn't a helpless small developer; nvidia is the biggest of the big.
I just had a really cool idea.. what if a part of the bus were directly tied into the CPU bus? So you could connect two devices and machine A could be the master and it would have direct access to other CPU. Some time-expensive operation? Make B do it, and set up the flags so that B's cpu looks into A's memory to do memory operations.
What's most exciting is when you think of low-power devices like phones and ipads. Have a computationally-intensive task for your device? Walk up to your desktop computer, or a coffee shop lunch-box-sized booster server box, plug in the cable, and your device is instantly 10,000 times faster. No need to install the software performing this difficult task onto the server, no need to transfer data files or results. It simply makes your device super fast, and you interact with it normally.
USB and HDMI cables have to be really short anyway, isn't optical overkill? I mean, you have copper on both ends, having an ultra-high-bandwidth hybrid laser in the middle isn't going to perform any miracles. Just run parallel wires instead of serializing everything and you have all the throughput anyone could possibly use.
Are you serious? There are over a hundred seeders on the complete series torrent alone, according to isohunt. There's even a series 7 only torrent for people too stupid to realize you can select which files you want.
Two peoples private machines sitting there serving only you unpopular content for free out of good will isn't enough for you? 2 seeders is plenty, especially with hard-to-find content.
The report gave the percentage of legal torrents as so low that some CC music site alone exceeds their entire sum of legal torrents on the entire internet. That doesn't mean that really only 98% of torrents are illegal, that means that their dataset is ludicrously inaccurate and the entire study is completely invalidated.
The piles of console trash that fill up brick-and-mortar stores have always been terrible. Remember that the vast majority of game releases in the 90s were garbage; you just recall the great ones like Half-Life, Quake 3, and UT99. Well the 2000s have seen many more quality releases.
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This too if you read TFS...
Why would you expect a browser plugin to check the user agent to find its own version?
Count me in. Lets give this thing the force of an internet petition.
Why:
You know the platform is bad when people refuse to install it on principle.
Except in 1 or 2 years they'll be completely lost. How do you think someone who googled all the answers to their algebra 1 homework and tests will do in algebra 2 or precalc? Or in life?
The important parts of math are abstract, not computational. It's a good thing to get rid of the tedious computation that you mastered back in 3rd grade. Removing calculators would be an artificial barrier to learning, like making students scan through paper volumes of trig tables.
If you're going to allow calculators at all, graphing calculators are definitely the best option. My TI-89 has scrollback, symbolic computation (I would die without free variables), pretty printing, copy and paste, and algebraic factoring/expansion.
Unless you're in 7th grade or something, all of those make it much easier to focus on the real problem rather than getting caught up in the algebra.
What, you can still write programs for the included BASIC interpreter, you just can't run your own code on the hardware (no C/assembly allowed). So they have no ground to stand on in terms of testing integrity, and it's obvious that they're unjustly trying to control people's hardware after they buy it.
It's hard to imagine a pre-industrial world being able to make (or even discover) ethanol fuel without oil-powered industry behind them. Keep in mind that humans have been around for many thousands of years and only in the last few decades have we discovered that all this corn lying around is good for fuel. It takes an advanced level of technology to exploit more subtle resources like ethanol.
I think that if the sun disappears then we have worse problems than food supply.
One way streets brah.
My guess is that at some point (back when mailboxes had a 3MB limit or whatever) during some cutback someone decided that storing too many files is a good target for a push to conserve resources, so they had the brilliant idea of jacking up prices to get departments to use less. The very idea of conserving space as if it's some limited resource is so ludicrous that I can barely type it, but it's also very believable in an office setting.
And was there an emergency vehicle behind you honking over and over to make you run the light?
How do you question a witness in a case of mail fraud, or wire fraud?
They just need an expert witness to testify that the proof is inconclusive. There's also probably some mechanism for not having to show the same thing a thousand times in court.
If you're going to spend $10 billion on a process, you'd better make sure that the product it makes isn't infringing any patents. This isn't a helpless small developer; nvidia is the biggest of the big.
The point is that they have to prove you did it. Fundamental tenant of criminal justice, etc.
I just had a really cool idea.. what if a part of the bus were directly tied into the CPU bus? So you could connect two devices and machine A could be the master and it would have direct access to other CPU. Some time-expensive operation? Make B do it, and set up the flags so that B's cpu looks into A's memory to do memory operations.
What's most exciting is when you think of low-power devices like phones and ipads. Have a computationally-intensive task for your device? Walk up to your desktop computer, or a coffee shop lunch-box-sized booster server box, plug in the cable, and your device is instantly 10,000 times faster. No need to install the software performing this difficult task onto the server, no need to transfer data files or results. It simply makes your device super fast, and you interact with it normally.
Just an idea
USB and HDMI cables have to be really short anyway, isn't optical overkill? I mean, you have copper on both ends, having an ultra-high-bandwidth hybrid laser in the middle isn't going to perform any miracles. Just run parallel wires instead of serializing everything and you have all the throughput anyone could possibly use.
Are you serious? There are over a hundred seeders on the complete series torrent alone, according to isohunt. There's even a series 7 only torrent for people too stupid to realize you can select which files you want.
Two peoples private machines sitting there serving only you unpopular content for free out of good will isn't enough for you? 2 seeders is plenty, especially with hard-to-find content.
The report gave the percentage of legal torrents as so low that some CC music site alone exceeds their entire sum of legal torrents on the entire internet. That doesn't mean that really only 98% of torrents are illegal, that means that their dataset is ludicrously inaccurate and the entire study is completely invalidated.
Who modded this interesting?
And you didn't catch segue?
The piles of console trash that fill up brick-and-mortar stores have always been terrible. Remember that the vast majority of game releases in the 90s were garbage; you just recall the great ones like Half-Life, Quake 3, and UT99. Well the 2000s have seen many more quality releases.
Try looking at the context. Read GGP and GGGP
The batteries were unnecessarily gigantic though; we have much better Li batteries today.