More disinterested in young minds who are disinterested in learning. I'm currently tutoring a friend's son who is miserably failing his physics class. I'm also aquanted with his professor (no, I'm not a teacher, but I do work at at a university often) who has a standing retake policy.
My friend's son hasn't shown up to his office once to earn full credit. In fact, the majority of students don't show up for retakes, despite the tantalizing offer of taking a test for full credit one-on-one with your teacher helping you through it.
Yes, this is the same HFT you describe and Yes, it's cheating. All these guys do is act as an unwanted and anonymous middle man, forcing you to sell for less and buy for more. It's just that they have access to better computers or something, any of us could do that, but they actually have faster and higher priority direct access to the exchange itself. It's as if they've got a pipe right from their computer to the exchange on their own private intranet. Talk about good ole' boys club.
I personally don't give a rat's ass about these guys, and I can't wait until the pendulum swings and puts them out of business. So long as I have to pay the same fees and play by the same rules, it's cheat and should be illegal, but like all things these days, stealing mere millions isn't anything compared to billions.
I suppose it's nice that I'm no longer breaking the Law, but personally, I never really liked the idea of UPS telling me what I can and can't do with the package I ordered... and my Satellite provider, plastic DVD from Best Buy, or DRM MP3s are all delivery mechanisms for stuff I bought just as is UPS dropping off a package, except it's information instead of a physical thing. Maybe it's easier for me to understand the concept of information as an abstract?
In parlance, I still can't watch TV how I want to watch it (recorded on my computer). I still can't listen to music unless it's on a Zune/iPod/et. all. I still can't put HD movies on my media computer "legally," just to watch how I want to watch. Yet it's totally legal to sit on my couch and record TV with a handy-cam, or rerecord my music with a microphone. Apparently there's some kind of difference to idiot lawyers and lawmakers.
To me, all DMCA is a law saying UPS can not only deliver my new shower curtains to my house, but can also tell me in what bathrooms and with what curtain rods I can use it in. Maybe a bad analogy, but that's the way I see it at least.
DMCA is one of the few proactive laws in America, and why we hate it so. I can build a bomb, buy a cannon, and do all sorts of crazy stuff. I'm only breaking the law once I intend/plan to do harm, or actually blow up a building, or disturb the peace, or...
In other words, we normally punish the actual crime, not the possible crime (such as possibly violating copyright by potentially uploading to the pirate bay)
No, I'm still mad that the jock who beat me up banged the girl who sat next to me who let me hold her comb. I protected that comb like it was a baby. I cleaned it, I bathed it, and she wouldn't go to prom with me!?!? Then I found out I went an all boys school... talk about awkward.
In other news... the sky is blue, and the sun is hot.
Also, I think I've heard it said to be a carcinogen. Don't know squat about that though, other than a colleague ranting about those ion-air filter gizmos.
The teacher told me it's result described an area where it was more probable to find an electron.
Oddly enough, it makes it less probable to find your car keys:(
Nobody really knows this stuff anyway. I still don't know what the heck an electron or photon is and I blast millions of them at tiny little samples all day.
If you are curious, I'd suggest Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland or Einstein's Dreams... two very small, and very fun books for everyone.
This is precisely what makes it not graduate level physics, because graduate level physics *is* trying to train physicists. I'm all for teaching people about physics on a layperson sort of level; I think it is a phenomenally great thing to do. I'm not in favor of lying to them about just what it is that they are learning.
I concede you have a point, for sure a valid one. I kinda ranted because of a similar story to the other one I shared that happened not too long ago, although of an opposite nature.
My cleaning lady told me she needed to find a dentist, and asked for a recommendation. Turns out, she and her previous dentist got into it over X-rays. "What do I care, it's her kid, and who knows maybe she's right?"
But what stuck in my craw, was her explanation that it was 'the frequencies,' and her following rant on microwaves.
I tried to explain that microwave ovens are perfectly safe, that compared to the SEM and XPS machines I work with every day, the radiation is quite minuscule, the exposure in all cases in nill, and I haven't grown and belly button eyes or nipple arms. It didn't work, and I didn't push it for fear of upsetting her, though I did research the dental X-ray on my own and learned that the intensity was less than what I suffered a boy growing up in the Rocky's.
So, my point was more to the nature of, so long as they wont be expecting someone to derive any concepts, to explain them in proofs so to speak, that even if they touched on the basics of QED et. all, then it's all good.
But you are right, this isn't training an engineer of physicist, but it may be a start for someone out there who catches the bug.
What's with all the negative comments? Anyone look at the lecture 1 PDF? Anyone actually do physics for a living?
As I write this, I'm staring at a whiteboard drawing of three equations in my den; E=mc^2, E=hc/lambda, r=2GM/c^2. They are there show my 13 year old niece how much energy a human body is equal to, a question she asked after watching K-PAX two nights ago on Netflix. Then she asked how much energy is in a single photon, then she asked how much energy is in a black hole. All questions a little girl might ask had she been exposed to basic ideas in modern physics, aka television.
Does she fully understand quantum mechanics, probably not. Does she she understand the jist with her pre-algebra background, sort of. Did she learn something and does she feel 'smarter' now... you betchya!
She annoyed my sister for hours about how a tree could power the whole world, or a tiny little bug could drive her car for years. My explanations, her worlds, and now a scientist in the making.
My point, you don't need to be able to derive Maxwell from F=ma, as my advisor's advisor did while backpacking across the Rocky Mts., to understand nature at its most simple, what you see is what you get, level. You also don't need to be some bearded mystic holed up in a university to appreciate, understand, or even contribute to our vastly poor knowledge of nature.
After many years, decided to finally register and and clarify my ^^^ post ^^^ for all/. Landlubbers.
When you've got a 1,000 foot long, 200 foot wide ship bouncing around the ocean, they tend to not notice small craft in close proximity. 65 feet in the open sea is about 1 foot on land. Consider this a 'do-not touch' sign on a cattle fence. Let me clarify, boats do not have breaks.
Anderson Cooper does not own the oil booms, he does not own the water, he does not have the right to touch or interfere with property at sea.
This is to prevent stupid Richy-rich journalists from borrowing a boat and getting keel-hauled under 1,000 feet of tanker. This is to prevent do-gooders from getting tangled up in an oil slick and drowning, forcing ALL NEARBY CRAFT to LEGALLY come and rescue them, abandoning whatever efforts they were currently exerting to stop the mess.
You see, to us old salts, these types of people are just annoying pricks who will sue you for crushing them, breaking them, or drowning them after they screw up and wreck your boat, your property, and your life.
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More disinterested in young minds who are disinterested in learning. I'm currently tutoring a friend's son who is miserably failing his physics class. I'm also aquanted with his professor (no, I'm not a teacher, but I do work at at a university often) who has a standing retake policy.
My friend's son hasn't shown up to his office once to earn full credit. In fact, the majority of students don't show up for retakes, despite the tantalizing offer of taking a test for full credit one-on-one with your teacher helping you through it.
I think they are? Expensive. No guarantee of success, whatever that means. Plethora of disinterested professors living in a publish-or-perish culture.
Anyway, study hard. You're at a fine school. Learn everything you can, have a good time, graduate and go save the world. No pressure.
Yes, this is the same HFT you describe and Yes, it's cheating. All these guys do is act as an unwanted and anonymous middle man, forcing you to sell for less and buy for more. It's just that they have access to better computers or something, any of us could do that, but they actually have faster and higher priority direct access to the exchange itself. It's as if they've got a pipe right from their computer to the exchange on their own private intranet. Talk about good ole' boys club.
I personally don't give a rat's ass about these guys, and I can't wait until the pendulum swings and puts them out of business. So long as I have to pay the same fees and play by the same rules, it's cheat and should be illegal, but like all things these days, stealing mere millions isn't anything compared to billions.
I suppose it's nice that I'm no longer breaking the Law, but personally, I never really liked the idea of UPS telling me what I can and can't do with the package I ordered... and my Satellite provider, plastic DVD from Best Buy, or DRM MP3s are all delivery mechanisms for stuff I bought just as is UPS dropping off a package, except it's information instead of a physical thing. Maybe it's easier for me to understand the concept of information as an abstract?
In parlance, I still can't watch TV how I want to watch it (recorded on my computer). I still can't listen to music unless it's on a Zune/iPod/et. all. I still can't put HD movies on my media computer "legally," just to watch how I want to watch. Yet it's totally legal to sit on my couch and record TV with a handy-cam, or rerecord my music with a microphone. Apparently there's some kind of difference to idiot lawyers and lawmakers.
To me, all DMCA is a law saying UPS can not only deliver my new shower curtains to my house, but can also tell me in what bathrooms and with what curtain rods I can use it in. Maybe a bad analogy, but that's the way I see it at least.
DMCA is one of the few proactive laws in America, and why we hate it so. I can build a bomb, buy a cannon, and do all sorts of crazy stuff. I'm only breaking the law once I intend/plan to do harm, or actually blow up a building, or disturb the peace, or...
In other words, we normally punish the actual crime, not the possible crime (such as possibly violating copyright by potentially uploading to the pirate bay)
So this seems to be the catch. Same capacity, twice the weight.
Less Vrrooommm at the expense of less tick-tock tick-tock my battery is charging? I don't really get it either.
It also looks like you can get 120,000 theoretical miles before battery issues, assuming a 200 mile battery 'tank.'
Don't know if we're just fishing for gaffs or trolling for comments, but some people sure have a whale of a time with their puns around here.
No, I'm still mad that the jock who beat me up banged the girl who sat next to me who let me hold her comb. I protected that comb like it was a baby. I cleaned it, I bathed it, and she wouldn't go to prom with me!?!? Then I found out I went an all boys school... talk about awkward.
In other news... the sky is blue, and the sun is hot.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question493.htm
Also, I think I've heard it said to be a carcinogen. Don't know squat about that though, other than a colleague ranting about those ion-air filter gizmos.
The teacher told me it's result described an area where it was more probable to find an electron.
Oddly enough, it makes it less probable to find your car keys :(
Nobody really knows this stuff anyway. I still don't know what the heck an electron or photon is and I blast millions of them at tiny little samples all day.
If you are curious, I'd suggest Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland or Einstein's Dreams... two very small, and very fun books for everyone.
This is precisely what makes it not graduate level physics, because graduate level physics *is* trying to train physicists. I'm all for teaching people about physics on a layperson sort of level; I think it is a phenomenally great thing to do. I'm not in favor of lying to them about just what it is that they are learning.
I concede you have a point, for sure a valid one. I kinda ranted because of a similar story to the other one I shared that happened not too long ago, although of an opposite nature.
My cleaning lady told me she needed to find a dentist, and asked for a recommendation. Turns out, she and her previous dentist got into it over X-rays. "What do I care, it's her kid, and who knows maybe she's right?"
But what stuck in my craw, was her explanation that it was 'the frequencies,' and her following rant on microwaves.
I tried to explain that microwave ovens are perfectly safe, that compared to the SEM and XPS machines I work with every day, the radiation is quite minuscule, the exposure in all cases in nill, and I haven't grown and belly button eyes or nipple arms. It didn't work, and I didn't push it for fear of upsetting her, though I did research the dental X-ray on my own and learned that the intensity was less than what I suffered a boy growing up in the Rocky's.
So, my point was more to the nature of, so long as they wont be expecting someone to derive any concepts, to explain them in proofs so to speak, that even if they touched on the basics of QED et. all, then it's all good.
But you are right, this isn't training an engineer of physicist, but it may be a start for someone out there who catches the bug.
What's with all the negative comments? Anyone look at the lecture 1 PDF? Anyone actually do physics for a living?
As I write this, I'm staring at a whiteboard drawing of three equations in my den; E=mc^2, E=hc/lambda, r=2GM/c^2. They are there show my 13 year old niece how much energy a human body is equal to, a question she asked after watching K-PAX two nights ago on Netflix. Then she asked how much energy is in a single photon, then she asked how much energy is in a black hole. All questions a little girl might ask had she been exposed to basic ideas in modern physics, aka television.
Does she fully understand quantum mechanics, probably not. Does she she understand the jist with her pre-algebra background, sort of. Did she learn something and does she feel 'smarter' now... you betchya!
She annoyed my sister for hours about how a tree could power the whole world, or a tiny little bug could drive her car for years. My explanations, her worlds, and now a scientist in the making.
My point, you don't need to be able to derive Maxwell from F=ma, as my advisor's advisor did while backpacking across the Rocky Mts., to understand nature at its most simple, what you see is what you get, level. You also don't need to be some bearded mystic holed up in a university to appreciate, understand, or even contribute to our vastly poor knowledge of nature.
After many years, decided to finally register and and clarify my ^^^ post ^^^ for all /. Landlubbers.
When you've got a 1,000 foot long, 200 foot wide ship bouncing around the ocean, they tend to not notice small craft in close proximity. 65 feet in the open sea is about 1 foot on land. Consider this a 'do-not touch' sign on a cattle fence. Let me clarify, boats do not have breaks.
Anderson Cooper does not own the oil booms, he does not own the water, he does not have the right to touch or interfere with property at sea.
This is to prevent stupid Richy-rich journalists from borrowing a boat and getting keel-hauled under 1,000 feet of tanker. This is to prevent do-gooders from getting tangled up in an oil slick and drowning, forcing ALL NEARBY CRAFT to LEGALLY come and rescue them, abandoning whatever efforts they were currently exerting to stop the mess.
You see, to us old salts, these types of people are just annoying pricks who will sue you for crushing them, breaking them, or drowning them after they screw up and wreck your boat, your property, and your life.