$9 of electricity is about 100 KWh at national average rates. Passing that in 9 minutes gives you an average rate of 1.2 megawatts. What the hell knid of household has the circuit to handle that?
You could buy a device (e.g. another capacitor) that would sit in your garage and trickle charge all day over your existing power lines. Then the device quick-charges your battery when you plug it in to your car over thicker cable.
The teacher says something obscure, and the students want to know what it is, they can chat among their peers instead of disturbing the lecture. If no one knows in the class, they can interrupt the teacher.
Any good teacher welcomes an interruption to clarify something that the students don't understand. That's the whole point of paying tuition instead of just buying books and learning at home. Human interaction can fill in the knowledge gaps more efficiently than staring at a book. The only problem is convincing the students that their teacher really is a human and can answer questions just like a classmate (and hopefully, better than the classmate).
All talking would be logged so the teacher can see who's abusing the system after class.
Likewise, any good college-level teacher wants to spend no time doing babysitting of this sort, and without some kind of on-topic enforcement, it is almost guaranteed to degenerate into useless noise.
The Discovery Institute holds that all natural science, not just evolution, is fundamentally contrary to the Christain faith and therefore must be wiped out. They believe that ever since the scientific revolution, faith has suffered as more and more natural explanations are discovered for phenomena that used to be attributed to God (for instance, diseases are caused by microbes and not God's wrath).
The so-called Wedge Strategy is to use the issue of evolution (chosen because it is already poorly understood by the general public) to build public distrust of scientists. After intelligent design becomes mainstream, they plan to plow over the remainder of science, i.e. everything that we have learned in the past 400 years.
So yeah, the US looks to be headed in the anti-science direction.
Reduces line count by 1 or 2 and completely removes the religious debate about brace location.
In Java, the brace (or any other formatting) debate should be over, since Eclipse lets you auto-format the code however you like with one keystroke. It's amazing how quickly I can douse the fire of one of these arguments by demonstrating something as simple as Ctrl + Shift + F.
Of course, this is ineffective on the crowd that believes "real men don't use IDE's", and who choose their formatting not for ease-of-reading, but for ease-of-typing.
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Me and a friend of mine in college made money doing the "practical" assignments for friends from university. They understood the principles of software engineering, but however, could not write a line of code.
Maybe they would have learned how to write code better if you didn't help them cheat their way to a degree. Now they're out in the world, helping to make software suck more by the minute. Thanks.
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, says that runoff voting will necessarily be unfair in one of 5 different ways. However, just about any runoff voting scheme would be more fair than the Australian ballot, which by design keeps anyone from voting for a third party.
To use (secret key) encryption to communicate, the sender and receiver must both know the key at some point strictly before they want to send a message. The ciphertext is what must be sent to communicate a plaintext message that is unknown to both parties at the time the key is generated (otherwise, if it were known at that time, there would be no need for encryption, since the key must be communicated in secret anyway, the plaintext could be as well).
Perhaps you meant, "the entropy of the plaintext given the ciphertext is equal to the entropy of the plaintext given the key, which is equal to the unconditioned entropy of the plaintext".
DefCon is run every year at the same time as Black Hat, by the same people, with half of the same speakers. It costs about $40 (or did in 1998). Most of the cmopanies that send people to Black Hat tell them to stay for DefCon as well.
If you're that concerned about getting info from Black Hat, talk to one of the people at DefCon who went and ask if you can photocopy his or her notes. They're the best thing you get for your $1000 Black Hat registration anyway.
Did you read the article? The fitness was determined by maximizing the "ease" of typing a list of English words. You could just as easily throw the same algorithm at a list of non-English words.
In most American states, waiters and waitresses can (and often do) legally get half of minimum wage, on the assumption that their tips will make up for it. If I only got US$2.50/hour for doing my job, I wouldn't do my job without a bribe either.
History is full of shortsighted people telling us what scientists can't possibly do, sometimes only months before they do it.
In what way was the article short-sighted? The article wasn't saying, "Scientists predict Mars mission impossible" or "Lack of ice on earth prevents testing of system." It just pointed out that a mission so far away will not have as many backup options as one closer to earth, and consequently we had better be doubly certain that no critical systems fail. I agree with that assertion.
There is no Mars race between superpowers in the offing, so going to the Red Planet will be for other reasons
What about China and its recent Mars mission announcement? They might be full of sh&t and wind, but if they actually attempt a Mars mission, don't tell me that that the US and its new pal Russia will sit back and let them take all the glory.
"As a sidenote, shouldn't there be a way for the ground control to override the controls of a hijacked plane?"
Which gives the terrorists another way to hijack a plane. In fact, they don't even have to be suicidal to hijack a plane remotely; it doesn't take much resolve to sit in a barca-lounger on the front lawn with a joystick, a radio transmitter, and a six-pack.
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Any good teacher welcomes an interruption to clarify something that the students don't understand. That's the whole point of paying tuition instead of just buying books and learning at home. Human interaction can fill in the knowledge gaps more efficiently than staring at a book. The only problem is convincing the students that their teacher really is a human and can answer questions just like a classmate (and hopefully, better than the classmate).
Likewise, any good college-level teacher wants to spend no time doing babysitting of this sort, and without some kind of on-topic enforcement, it is almost guaranteed to degenerate into useless noise.
http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html
The Discovery Institute holds that all natural science, not just evolution, is fundamentally contrary to the Christain faith and therefore must be wiped out. They believe that ever since the scientific revolution, faith has suffered as more and more natural explanations are discovered for phenomena that used to be attributed to God (for instance, diseases are caused by microbes and not God's wrath).
The so-called Wedge Strategy is to use the issue of evolution (chosen because it is already poorly understood by the general public) to build public distrust of scientists. After intelligent design becomes mainstream, they plan to plow over the remainder of science, i.e. everything that we have learned in the past 400 years.
So yeah, the US looks to be headed in the anti-science direction.
You don't? How about this xpdf problem that acroread doesn't have:
In Java, the brace (or any other formatting) debate should be over, since Eclipse lets you auto-format the code however you like with one keystroke. It's amazing how quickly I can douse the fire of one of these arguments by demonstrating something as simple as Ctrl + Shift + F.
Of course, this is ineffective on the crowd that believes "real men don't use IDE's", and who choose their formatting not for ease-of-reading, but for ease-of-typing.
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, says that runoff voting will necessarily be unfair in one of 5 different ways. However, just about any runoff voting scheme would be more fair than the Australian ballot, which by design keeps anyone from voting for a third party.
To use (secret key) encryption to communicate, the sender and receiver must both know the key at some point strictly before they want to send a message. The ciphertext is what must be sent to communicate a plaintext message that is unknown to both parties at the time the key is generated (otherwise, if it were known at that time, there would be no need for encryption, since the key must be communicated in secret anyway, the plaintext could be as well).
Perhaps you meant, "the entropy of the plaintext given the ciphertext is equal to the entropy of the plaintext given the key, which is equal to the unconditioned entropy of the plaintext".
DefCon is run every year at the same time as Black Hat, by the same people, with half of the same speakers. It costs about $40 (or did in 1998). Most of the cmopanies that send people to Black Hat tell them to stay for DefCon as well.
If you're that concerned about getting info from Black Hat, talk to one of the people at DefCon who went and ask if you can photocopy his or her notes. They're the best thing you get for your $1000 Black Hat registration anyway.
Did you read the article? The fitness was determined by maximizing the "ease" of typing a list of English words. You could just as easily throw the same algorithm at a list of non-English words.
In most American states, waiters and waitresses can (and often do) legally get half of minimum wage, on the assumption that their tips will make up for it. If I only got US$2.50/hour for doing my job, I wouldn't do my job without a bribe either.
"As a sidenote, shouldn't there be a way for the ground control to override the controls of a hijacked plane?" Which gives the terrorists another way to hijack a plane. In fact, they don't even have to be suicidal to hijack a plane remotely; it doesn't take much resolve to sit in a barca-lounger on the front lawn with a joystick, a radio transmitter, and a six-pack.