Bitter: No. Busy: Yes. I have to wade through the communication of students in course sections with as many as 350 seats. Write clearly and to the point and I will respond to you. I don't have time or the inclination to parse all of these spurious acronyms and abbreviations to try to bother with a relatively easy one: 'yo, ill b l8 4 class. TTYL.'
Also, even though I teach cultural geography, I am still preparing these people to go out into the world -- usually the business world -- and they have to communicate effectively. My university is a highly respected institution and I don't want to be on a plane and say "Oh, I teach at X," hearing carping about how Mr. Businessman hired a kid who was a plate of sausages when it came to communication skills.
I start out with a statement: "Chat speak" is not permitted in any form and is defined it as using punctuation symbols or shorthand as cognates for words and concepts that are normally expressed with letters. To wit, Using "@" for "at" or "2" for "to" or "too" or "U" for "you" is not permitted and not limited to those examples. Abbreviations are permitted as long as an abbreviation appears in Webster's New World College Dictionary and conforms either to the Chicago or APA styles. Any usage of "chat speak" in any communication to me in query to this class or through the normal course of instruction, test answer for grade or essay submitted for grade will result in my ignoring the communication and automatically marking the answer as incorrect or marking the grade down on the essay.
Stops that "Hey prof U are keepin me outta grad skool can i meet U @ yr office 2 talk?;) thx" bullshit in its tracks.
I turned down a job offer from them. Choice: Family or Google. That's what did it. Funny thing: It wasn't that great a raise and the stock options weren't as forthcoming as people tend to think. Just saying.
Horseshit. She wrote popular books, smoked cigarettes and was pissed because nobody read her philosophy texts. She was picked up by neocons who aren't sharp enough to grasp Leo Strauss. I'm thinking Karl Rove here...
Read the entry on 'Capitalism.' It is a paean to Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman in direct conflict with the historical fact that most countries in the world do not practice Uncle Miltie's brand of capitalism and Ayn Rand is one of the most hysterically bad 'philosophers' ever.
AirTrain. G.A.P (2/3) 6 minutes to Atlantic Terminal (2 bucks). LIRR to Jamaica Station 19 minutes (3.50). AirTrain monorail to Terminal 10 minutes ( 5 bucks). $10.50. 35-40 minutes. Comparison: Town Car to JFK from Prospect Heights ($35 - $40) with no guarantee that it will be anything less than 35 minutes.
The monorail is a good idea for custom destinations like an airport where you have to build above ground level to connect to other public trans. Any other use seems to be nothing more that gee-whiz novelty stuff.
Three words: Mass Extinction Events. Just because there is life left behind afterward doesn't mean that life will be anything approaching what you may consider 'normal.'
Another thing: How do you derive equilibrium in such a complex system? The term is meaningless.
Fact: anthropogenic global climate change is occuring and is characterized by higher temperatures during a period when the Earth should be cooling into another Ice Age as indicated by long-term climate data collected from ice coring.
The problem I have is that he selected a very small distribution of songs. Bump the n up to 30 or 40 and you will see that the nominal data (-,1,2,3,4,5) will make the use of the normal distribution make sense. My prediction is the curve would probably suffer from some kurtosis with song rank taken into account, but would rapidly approach a normal distribution with either a longer test period or a larger distribution.
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Umm, it isn't illegal but violates AUPs with any number of ISPs along the way.
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Bitter: No. Busy: Yes. I have to wade through the communication of students in course sections with as many as 350 seats. Write clearly and to the point and I will respond to you. I don't have time or the inclination to parse all of these spurious acronyms and abbreviations to try to bother with a relatively easy one: 'yo, ill b l8 4 class. TTYL.'
Also, even though I teach cultural geography, I am still preparing these people to go out into the world -- usually the business world -- and they have to communicate effectively. My university is a highly respected institution and I don't want to be on a plane and say "Oh, I teach at X," hearing carping about how Mr. Businessman hired a kid who was a plate of sausages when it came to communication skills.
I start out with a statement: "Chat speak" is not permitted in any form and is defined it as using punctuation symbols or shorthand as cognates for words and concepts that are normally expressed with letters. To wit, Using "@" for "at" or "2" for "to" or "too" or "U" for "you" is not permitted and not limited to those examples. Abbreviations are permitted as long as an abbreviation appears in Webster's New World College Dictionary and conforms either to the Chicago or APA styles. Any usage of "chat speak" in any communication to me in query to this class or through the normal course of instruction, test answer for grade or essay submitted for grade will result in my ignoring the communication and automatically marking the answer as incorrect or marking the grade down on the essay.
;) thx" bullshit in its tracks.
Stops that "Hey prof U are keepin me outta grad skool can i meet U @ yr office 2 talk?
Truss it. Oh, wait....
I turned down a job offer from them. Choice: Family or Google. That's what did it. Funny thing: It wasn't that great a raise and the stock options weren't as forthcoming as people tend to think. Just saying.
Please indicate a recent worm on an FOSS operating system.
deep and objective study
Only one of those two adjectives is possible at any given time.
KDE has eye-candy for n00bs, but try getting any real work done on it. Just try.
Just what to you mean by real work?
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Horseshit. She wrote popular books, smoked cigarettes and was pissed because nobody read her philosophy texts. She was picked up by neocons who aren't sharp enough to grasp Leo Strauss. I'm thinking Karl Rove here...
An online degree. - Hmm.
Three years of study on the web or three years of study with parties, drugs, sex and women?
Ummm, we are talking about CS degrees here...
Ayn Rand shouldn't be mentioned at all. If you want a conservative philosopher, try Michael Oakeshott.
Read the entry on 'Capitalism.' It is a paean to Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman in direct conflict with the historical fact that most countries in the world do not practice Uncle Miltie's brand of capitalism and Ayn Rand is one of the most hysterically bad 'philosophers' ever.
Thank you, Karl Popper.
The State should be a reflection of the people governed, not a role model.
So, you're not an American, right?
Do trolls even try anymore?
AirTrain. G.A.P (2/3) 6 minutes to Atlantic Terminal (2 bucks). LIRR to Jamaica Station 19 minutes (3.50). AirTrain monorail to Terminal 10 minutes ( 5 bucks). $10.50. 35-40 minutes. Comparison: Town Car to JFK from Prospect Heights ($35 - $40) with no guarantee that it will be anything less than 35 minutes.
The monorail is a good idea for custom destinations like an airport where you have to build above ground level to connect to other public trans. Any other use seems to be nothing more that gee-whiz novelty stuff.
Ummm. Hi, Larry. Uh, I'm a long time Perl programmer but recently switched to Python. Tell me why I shouldn't.
Oh really? So Perl will be where Python is in, like, 2013?
So why should I stick with Perl?
Oh, it's a matter of personal choice?
So why should I choose Perl?
Because Tom Christiansen said so? Well, fuck that.
2a. ?????
Three words: Mass Extinction Events. Just because there is life left behind afterward doesn't mean that life will be anything approaching what you may consider 'normal.'
Another thing: How do you derive equilibrium in such a complex system? The term is meaningless.
Fact: anthropogenic global climate change is occuring and is characterized by higher temperatures during a period when the Earth should be cooling into another Ice Age as indicated by long-term climate data collected from ice coring.
?mmmmm. Now that's some good old-fashioned homemade country-fried trolling. Mod that puppy up! Doubleplus funny.
Well, so much for intelligent design.
This statement:
Don't try to read anything deep into it.
holds true.
The problem I have is that he selected a very small distribution of songs. Bump the n up to 30 or 40 and you will see that the nominal data (-,1,2,3,4,5) will make the use of the normal distribution make sense. My prediction is the curve would probably suffer from some kurtosis with song rank taken into account, but would rapidly approach a normal distribution with either a longer test period or a larger distribution.