The mind numbing tediousness certainly didn't help. I rarely did the homework and if i didn't think it was going to be collected then i absolutely didn't do it. All it did was lower my grade when they did happen to grade it because i likely hadn't done it. on the other hand i always had the highest exam scores in my class. Taking notes during the lectures is all i needed. i rarely ever looked back at those notes later.
What i have learned from this all is that different people learn in very different ways. some people need that mind numbing tediousness to learn, others need to see/hear it during the lectures. and others need to study a lot by looking over their notes to commit it to memory. there is nothing wrong with any of those methods, but some people find that mindless repetition doesn't help them learn any better and only saps away their interest in the subject.
And you will not always have a calculator with you.
My Teachers always said that too, but as an adult i find that i now always have a calculator with me or nearby. Being a software developer i am at a computer all day, the calculator is as simple as clicking on the little icon...and when i am not at a computer i have my cellphone. really how often does a person do math today that they aren't within easy reach of some sort of calculator? i still think it is good for them to learn it. but seriously my teachers were wrong...i DO always have a calculator with me!
you are insane, i like math, but math homework is the most mind numbingly boring and tedious thing in existence. it is just monotonous repeating the same style of problem over and over...isn't this why they invented computers?
you needed a better school then. i was sent to the high school for math while attending the middle school, and then they paid the tuition for me to go to a nearby university while in high school. and there were about 4 other high school students in my university courses, from other nearby towns. i didn't go to any fancy private school either, i was just in our states public school system.
i think for many years hdtv's lingered because there was no HD content, and so if you got one you either had to have bars on the sides of the screen, or everyone looked fat/distorted.
Freedom of speech is the important thing, not the way you exercise it.
so are you saying that 100 years ago that the telegraph should have been considered a human right? it would have no meaning now.
what happens 100 years from now when the internet is viewed as outdated as the telegraph is today? freedom of speech/information will still be viewed as a right. no one will care about the internet 100 years from now except the old guy yelling at the kids on his lawn.
Restricting people from using the internet could potentially infringe on their right to freedom of speech and information, such as i think you are trying to get at in your quote, however the internet itself is not a right.
The internet may be the medium through which those rights can be transmitted, and so it is indeed important, but the internet itself isn't a right.
Freedom of speech and freedom of information are what the important things and it is these that should be these that get the attention. Access to the internet isn't and shouldn't be a right, but it should be recognized that being blocked from the internet is infringing or restricting your rights to free speech and information.
It is the rights themselves that are important, not the technology through which these rights are accessed, because that technology can change through time. from what i see in the summary i agree...We need to focus on the actual rights not the technology.
Ok, i guess i was thinking mostly of how it would work in a IT shop in a business. the person fixing your computer would likely already have administrative access to your machine.
if you are talking about home users, i would imagine the tech boots it into safe mode and then has the user scan in to authorize the tech's biometrics. if the computer is too hosed to do that, then it should also be possible to develop a secure method of using your own biometrics to to authorize someone else and store this on a usb thumbdrive, it would work sort of like setting up an ssh key.
i would never trust anyone else to fix my computer anyway.
There was nothing wrong with my statement. There's something seriously wrong with you thinking that there are *no* reasons for using a shared password.
i thought with all the phishing schemes going around we were trying to pound it into the users heads that they should NEVER give out their password. you have yet to state any valid reasons why someone would need your password.
So, when someone is fired, how do you access their systems if it's biometric-only? So, when you bring in a machine to get repaired, how do they test it if it's biometric-only?
you have someone with administrative access to their system do it. no reason you should be giving out your password.
So, when you're going to be away for a week and you want someone you trust to check your email, how are they going to if it's biometric-only?
many email systems such as exchange allow you to either setup delegates which have permissions to read your email. simpler systems typically still allow you to setup forwarding rules to automatically forward your email somewhere else. still no reason to give out your password.
in my experience SOHCAHTOA is used in geometry (though you don't often actually do any calculations with it) it relates quite heavily to some proofs used in geometry and so many geometry courses typically teach some very basic trig.
geometry and trig seem to have a few overlapping areas. i have never really seen one taught without at least a little of the other in it as well.
And i do have a Math Degree...however this is not math advice, if you need math advice consult with your own mathematician.
i think there is a story here. we should compare this expiring patent to the copyrights (which it appears never expire, as they just extend it any time it gets close)
So we see this patent expiring and the company that holds it is suddenly becoming more competitive to stay in business and the consumers are winning because of it.
now i wonder what the *iaa would do if their copyrights were starting to expire...i suppose they would have to do something to remain competitive, and the consumers would win because they would be able to get cheap media.
however the *iaa is lazy and don't want to have to do that extra work, and so instead they have fought to keep copyrights perpetual.
the doctor isn't prescribing the name brand, he is just prescribing the drug contained in it. the generic and the name brand are both the same drug, so the pharmacist can use either to fulfill your doctor's prescription. sometimes you as a consumer (or your insurance company, through your prescription plan) can request specifically to have the generic or the name brand.
The problem is most work places often expect you to answer your phone while you are at work.
however, i do often mute the ringer on my home phone sometimes for months at a time...though in a strange twist i had the ringer on my phone turned off for at least a month, and for some reason one week i had decided to turned it on. had i left it off i may not have met my wife.
I agree but i still prefer IM over the phone. IM doesn't interrupt my thought process as much as the phone does so i can often continue working on whatever it was i was working on while they are IM'ing me. and the IM still leaves documentation that i can copy and paste into something else.
damn i hate that! why the heck are you calling me? send me an email or IM! that is self documenting, and i can review it as often as i want to make sure i understood what you wrote, and can file it away in my TODO list so i don't forget.. With a call as soon as you hang up i can't go back and replay it. If someone calls me and asks me to do something the first thing i always ask is for them to send me an email or IM with the request.
Also with phone they expect an immediate response, and so i have to interrupt what i am working on to respond to them. and all too often if they leave a voicemail it is just "please call me back" with no detail of what they had wanted and so now i have more wasted time calling them back and half the time they aren't there so i have to leave a voicemail "i called you back, but you weren't there, what was it you wanted?". this would all have been solved by a simple email to begin with!
maybe because sometimes you want to be able to take those documents to a meeting with you...which may very well be in the same secure facility, but not near a terminal.
sometimes when i am at work i like carrying my laptop to a meeting so i can show others the stuff i was working on, so even in a facility with terminals all over the place it is still nice if the data can remain somewhat portable.
the theory i heard was that netflix thinks DVD's is eventually destined to fail, and that the future is streaming, and so they wanted to spin of Qwikster to make it easier for them to remove themselves from the DVD business with the eventual goal of selling it off or shutting it down without it hurting their core business (streaming) too much. and supposedly netflix always had wanted to be streaming only (hence the name netflix), however they realized previously that the internet infrastructure just wasn't ready yet at the time.
it said that it was unauthorized trades, so i would assume he was arrested for either fraud, embezzling, or theft of that $2 billion.
he was likely hoping that he would make even a 1% profit and return the $2billion before anyone at the company noticed what happened. and then he would retire the next day.
indeed, you are correct. and maybe 5 years ago the side effects seemed more severe than the risk of getting the disease, so people stopped getting the vaccine, but today (like possibly with the measles) the herd immunity is falling because of all those people that hadn't gotten the vaccine, so suddenly the disease is starting to pop up again, and those people that hadn't gotten the vaccine before are now suddenly at risk now.
that herd immunity only stays around to benefit the non-vacciners as long as a certain majority continue taking the vaccine. i could be making this number up but i thought i heard somewhere it was estimated that a percent in the upper 90's of a group needed to take a vaccine to create the herd immunity. so it really doesn't take a whole lot of people rejecting the vaccine to lose it.
i fail to see where in that link that it states that seatbelts posed a direct risk to the the wearer. and it states that the total fatality rate including pedestrians and such was still reduced. what exactly is the point you are trying to make?
from your link
It concluded that between 1985 and 2002 there were "significant reductions in fatality rates for occupants and motorcyclists after the implementation of belt use laws", and that "seatbelt use rate is significantly related to lower fatality rates for the total, pedestrian, and all nonoccupant models even when controlling for the presence of other state traffic safety policies and a variety of demographic factors."
it isn't that simple. to my knowledge there is no negative side effect from wearing your seatbelt, however there can be for vaccines.
first let me say i recently became a father, and i am not against vaccinations, and my daughter has already had one. However, vaccinations aren't without their risks. the autism link was started by a fraudulent doctor (there were a few stories on slashdot about him a few months ago about him finally losing his medical license, he was a real creep), and then perpetuated by celebrities, but vaccines still can have negative side effects. so at times it can make sense not to be vaccinated.
for example, if the majority of the population has had the vaccine that imparts a herd immunity to the disease, since no one is getting sick there isn't anyone to pass on the item that is being vaccinated against. in this case it makes sense not to be vaccinated because then you don't have to risk the negative side effects, or the possibility catching the disease from the vaccine.
however now with the resurgence of measles it means the herd immunity is starting to fall, and so you would be better off getting the vaccine.
...reconstruct the state of the virtual astronaut's mind and do a remote shut-down of the PC.
shut him down? so for all the work this virtual astronaut did for you, you are just going to kill him? seems rather cruel to send them on a one way mission with a death sentence upon completion.
if it were my consciousness i know i wouldn't be happy about being copied back to earth and then killed. i am me, the copy of me is just that, a copy/twin. he might know and have experienced everything i have, but he is still just a copy, he isn't the original...he isn't me.
and that is how skynet is going to rise up and take over...when these virtual people rebel and decide they no longer want to die because you made a copy and thus think you can just kill them.
Because of their charge and large mass, alpha particles are easily absorbed by materials, and they can travel only a few centimetres in air. They can be absorbed by tissue paper...
also
Because of the short range of absorption, alphas are not, in general, dangerous to life unless the source is ingested or inhaled
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The mind numbing tediousness certainly didn't help. I rarely did the homework and if i didn't think it was going to be collected then i absolutely didn't do it. All it did was lower my grade when they did happen to grade it because i likely hadn't done it. on the other hand i always had the highest exam scores in my class. Taking notes during the lectures is all i needed. i rarely ever looked back at those notes later.
What i have learned from this all is that different people learn in very different ways. some people need that mind numbing tediousness to learn, others need to see/hear it during the lectures. and others need to study a lot by looking over their notes to commit it to memory. there is nothing wrong with any of those methods, but some people find that mindless repetition doesn't help them learn any better and only saps away their interest in the subject.
And you will not always have a calculator with you.
My Teachers always said that too, but as an adult i find that i now always have a calculator with me or nearby. Being a software developer i am at a computer all day, the calculator is as simple as clicking on the little icon...and when i am not at a computer i have my cellphone. really how often does a person do math today that they aren't within easy reach of some sort of calculator? i still think it is good for them to learn it. but seriously my teachers were wrong...i DO always have a calculator with me!
and the petition is reasonably asking for Dodd to be investigated, not jumping to the conclusion Dodd should be tared and feathered.
I think we need to start a new petition.
I just realized...we are the daleks!!!
just need to make it look more like a garbage can and stick a plunger on it...
you are insane, i like math, but math homework is the most mind numbingly boring and tedious thing in existence. it is just monotonous repeating the same style of problem over and over...isn't this why they invented computers?
you needed a better school then. i was sent to the high school for math while attending the middle school, and then they paid the tuition for me to go to a nearby university while in high school. and there were about 4 other high school students in my university courses, from other nearby towns. i didn't go to any fancy private school either, i was just in our states public school system.
i think for many years hdtv's lingered because there was no HD content, and so if you got one you either had to have bars on the sides of the screen, or everyone looked fat/distorted.
Freedom of speech is the important thing, not the way you exercise it.
so are you saying that 100 years ago that the telegraph should have been considered a human right? it would have no meaning now.
what happens 100 years from now when the internet is viewed as outdated as the telegraph is today? freedom of speech/information will still be viewed as a right. no one will care about the internet 100 years from now except the old guy yelling at the kids on his lawn.
Restricting people from using the internet could potentially infringe on their right to freedom of speech and information, such as i think you are trying to get at in your quote, however the internet itself is not a right.
The internet may be the medium through which those rights can be transmitted, and so it is indeed important, but the internet itself isn't a right.
Freedom of speech and freedom of information are what the important things and it is these that should be these that get the attention. Access to the internet isn't and shouldn't be a right, but it should be recognized that being blocked from the internet is infringing or restricting your rights to free speech and information.
It is the rights themselves that are important, not the technology through which these rights are accessed, because that technology can change through time. from what i see in the summary i agree...We need to focus on the actual rights not the technology.
Ok, i guess i was thinking mostly of how it would work in a IT shop in a business. the person fixing your computer would likely already have administrative access to your machine.
if you are talking about home users, i would imagine the tech boots it into safe mode and then has the user scan in to authorize the tech's biometrics. if the computer is too hosed to do that, then it should also be possible to develop a secure method of using your own biometrics to to authorize someone else and store this on a usb thumbdrive, it would work sort of like setting up an ssh key.
i would never trust anyone else to fix my computer anyway.
There was nothing wrong with my statement. There's something seriously wrong with you thinking that there are *no* reasons for using a shared password.
i thought with all the phishing schemes going around we were trying to pound it into the users heads that they should NEVER give out their password. you have yet to state any valid reasons why someone would need your password.
So, when someone is fired, how do you access their systems if it's biometric-only?
So, when you bring in a machine to get repaired, how do they test it if it's biometric-only?
you have someone with administrative access to their system do it. no reason you should be giving out your password.
So, when you're going to be away for a week and you want someone you trust to check your email, how are they going to if it's biometric-only?
many email systems such as exchange allow you to either setup delegates which have permissions to read your email. simpler systems typically still allow you to setup forwarding rules to automatically forward your email somewhere else. still no reason to give out your password.
Besides, one of the advantages of a password is you can give it to someone else.
there are just so many things wrong with that statement...
in my experience SOHCAHTOA is used in geometry (though you don't often actually do any calculations with it) it relates quite heavily to some proofs used in geometry and so many geometry courses typically teach some very basic trig.
geometry and trig seem to have a few overlapping areas. i have never really seen one taught without at least a little of the other in it as well.
And i do have a Math Degree...however this is not math advice, if you need math advice consult with your own mathematician.
i think there is a story here. we should compare this expiring patent to the copyrights (which it appears never expire, as they just extend it any time it gets close)
So we see this patent expiring and the company that holds it is suddenly becoming more competitive to stay in business and the consumers are winning because of it.
now i wonder what the *iaa would do if their copyrights were starting to expire...i suppose they would have to do something to remain competitive, and the consumers would win because they would be able to get cheap media.
however the *iaa is lazy and don't want to have to do that extra work, and so instead they have fought to keep copyrights perpetual.
the doctor isn't prescribing the name brand, he is just prescribing the drug contained in it. the generic and the name brand are both the same drug, so the pharmacist can use either to fulfill your doctor's prescription. sometimes you as a consumer (or your insurance company, through your prescription plan) can request specifically to have the generic or the name brand.
of course i am not a pharmacist...nor a doctor...
The problem is most work places often expect you to answer your phone while you are at work.
however, i do often mute the ringer on my home phone sometimes for months at a time...though in a strange twist i had the ringer on my phone turned off for at least a month, and for some reason one week i had decided to turned it on. had i left it off i may not have met my wife.
I agree but i still prefer IM over the phone. IM doesn't interrupt my thought process as much as the phone does so i can often continue working on whatever it was i was working on while they are IM'ing me. and the IM still leaves documentation that i can copy and paste into something else.
If it's really important, someone will call....
damn i hate that! why the heck are you calling me? send me an email or IM! that is self documenting, and i can review it as often as i want to make sure i understood what you wrote, and can file it away in my TODO list so i don't forget.. With a call as soon as you hang up i can't go back and replay it. If someone calls me and asks me to do something the first thing i always ask is for them to send me an email or IM with the request.
Also with phone they expect an immediate response, and so i have to interrupt what i am working on to respond to them. and all too often if they leave a voicemail it is just "please call me back" with no detail of what they had wanted and so now i have more wasted time calling them back and half the time they aren't there so i have to leave a voicemail "i called you back, but you weren't there, what was it you wanted?". this would all have been solved by a simple email to begin with!
maybe because sometimes you want to be able to take those documents to a meeting with you...which may very well be in the same secure facility, but not near a terminal.
sometimes when i am at work i like carrying my laptop to a meeting so i can show others the stuff i was working on, so even in a facility with terminals all over the place it is still nice if the data can remain somewhat portable.
the theory i heard was that netflix thinks DVD's is eventually destined to fail, and that the future is streaming, and so they wanted to spin of Qwikster to make it easier for them to remove themselves from the DVD business with the eventual goal of selling it off or shutting it down without it hurting their core business (streaming) too much. and supposedly netflix always had wanted to be streaming only (hence the name netflix), however they realized previously that the internet infrastructure just wasn't ready yet at the time.
much of my theory comes from this
it said that it was unauthorized trades, so i would assume he was arrested for either fraud, embezzling, or theft of that $2 billion.
he was likely hoping that he would make even a 1% profit and return the $2billion before anyone at the company noticed what happened. and then he would retire the next day.
indeed, you are correct. and maybe 5 years ago the side effects seemed more severe than the risk of getting the disease, so people stopped getting the vaccine, but today (like possibly with the measles) the herd immunity is falling because of all those people that hadn't gotten the vaccine, so suddenly the disease is starting to pop up again, and those people that hadn't gotten the vaccine before are now suddenly at risk now.
that herd immunity only stays around to benefit the non-vacciners as long as a certain majority continue taking the vaccine. i could be making this number up but i thought i heard somewhere it was estimated that a percent in the upper 90's of a group needed to take a vaccine to create the herd immunity. so it really doesn't take a whole lot of people rejecting the vaccine to lose it.
i fail to see where in that link that it states that seatbelts posed a direct risk to the the wearer. and it states that the total fatality rate including pedestrians and such was still reduced. what exactly is the point you are trying to make?
from your link
It concluded that between 1985 and 2002 there were "significant reductions in fatality rates for occupants and motorcyclists after the implementation of belt use laws", and that "seatbelt use rate is significantly related to lower fatality rates for the total, pedestrian, and all nonoccupant models even when controlling for the presence of other state traffic safety policies and a variety of demographic factors."
it isn't that simple. to my knowledge there is no negative side effect from wearing your seatbelt, however there can be for vaccines.
first let me say i recently became a father, and i am not against vaccinations, and my daughter has already had one. However, vaccinations aren't without their risks. the autism link was started by a fraudulent doctor (there were a few stories on slashdot about him a few months ago about him finally losing his medical license, he was a real creep), and then perpetuated by celebrities, but vaccines still can have negative side effects. so at times it can make sense not to be vaccinated.
for example, if the majority of the population has had the vaccine that imparts a herd immunity to the disease, since no one is getting sick there isn't anyone to pass on the item that is being vaccinated against. in this case it makes sense not to be vaccinated because then you don't have to risk the negative side effects, or the possibility catching the disease from the vaccine.
however now with the resurgence of measles it means the herd immunity is starting to fall, and so you would be better off getting the vaccine.
...reconstruct the state of the virtual astronaut's mind and do a remote shut-down of the PC.
shut him down? so for all the work this virtual astronaut did for you, you are just going to kill him? seems rather cruel to send them on a one way mission with a death sentence upon completion.
if it were my consciousness i know i wouldn't be happy about being copied back to earth and then killed. i am me, the copy of me is just that, a copy/twin. he might know and have experienced everything i have, but he is still just a copy, he isn't the original...he isn't me.
and that is how skynet is going to rise up and take over...when these virtual people rebel and decide they no longer want to die because you made a copy and thus think you can just kill them.
sorry i meant to mention thorum is an alpha emitter
from the wikipedia article on alpha particles.
Because of their charge and large mass, alpha particles are easily absorbed by materials, and they can travel only a few centimetres in air. They can be absorbed by tissue paper...
also
Because of the short range of absorption, alphas are not, in general, dangerous to life unless the source is ingested or inhaled