Re:In a decade?
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Out of Gas
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Actually, if your read your article you would see: While $2.017 is a record for gasoline, adjusted for inflation the price hit $2.99 a gallon in March 1981, according to the Energy Information Administration
There is this thing called inflation. Perhaps you have heard of it?
"A college calculus teacher will be used to working with struggling students because for many of them, that is the toughest class they will ever have to take. But high school calculus teachers will be more used to working with the top students in the school. If you aren't especially gifted in math, you may find that you don't get what you need from these teachers."
If you are not especially gifted in math, why not take calculus in high school anyway and then retake it in college?
Great, more calculator dependence
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TI-84 Plus Released
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Just look at the apps that come built-in on this thing: Cabri Jr. - now students can use their calculator to get all the answers in Geometry! "Alter geometric objects on the fly to see patterns, make conjectures, and draw conclusions" No longer will students need to learn how to prove things, they can just draw two triangles and say "my calculator says so".
Probability Simulation - "Explore probability theory with interactive animation that simulates the rolling of dice, tossing of coins and generating random numbers on your handheld."
Come on, this is NOT necessary. Every TI I have seen has nCr and nPr function built in. Why not teach the students HOW those work rather than using this shortcut method?
When I was in high school, most of my teachers were really good about not allowing the use of calculators on quizzes or tests. There were a few in the school, however, that gave "use your calculator" as a solution to hard problems. Calculators like this will only add more to this growing problem.
Don't complain about TVA
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DIY HVAC
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· Score: 5, Informative
Complaining about TVA rates? Haha... You are getting some of the cheapest, subsidized electricity in the country.
> It would definately help out those who accuse >NASA of a liberal bias (and if no such bias >exists then they should have nothing to hide, >right?)
Um... What?
1) Who has ever accused NASA of a liberal bias? 2) How is it possible for NASA to have a liberal bias? 3) I guess that the Institute for Creation Science is a right-wing group of wackos, no?
Nonsense. The Earth is bombarded by tons and tons of material from space every day.
Correct me if I am wrong, but as long as the tangential velocity of the Earth stays the same, the mass of Earth is irrelevant based on the equality of Fc = Fg (unless the elliptical orbit changes that).
Perhaps the load could mess with the Earth's rotational inertia but the Earth's mass is on the order of 10^24 kg.
If they had the original assembley source files, think how easy this would be. Code sections already separated from their data sections. All you would need to do is know HOW the hardware worked and translate the assembler files. Yes, there would need to be a few changes, like resolution differences, possible shortage of buttons, etc.
You still have a lot of things to overcome, but it would not be impossible. You would know about code entry points, but what happens when you do something like: mov 5, r1 shl 2, r1 cmp r4, r5 be r1
You would need some sort of emulation going through the whole thing. There could be lots of tricky situations where you are not sure of where branches are going to go.
You could have a software emulator and someone play through the whole game, I suppose, but there is no guarantee you would get all of the branch locations.
There was a tornado in a town. Seven of the radio stations were run by CC. There were 0 live people on staff. Think the warning got out? CC says it won't happen again... Hmm...
The next closest I can think of is possibly some microcontrollers, even that is heavily dominated by US designs. I think Fujitsu and NEC both have some sort of SIMD or somesuch, but that is for supercomputing.
NEC has the wonderful V8xx series of microcontrollers, though they seem to be phasing those out.
"One would think that his time is more valuably spent running important medical institutions, searching for new cancer insights/cures, etc, but the dude's also an English lit major and has a penchant for sci-fi."
Because people who do research that is potentially groundbreaking and life saving are no longer allowed to do things they enjoy, right?
den ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dn) n. 1. The shelter or retreat of a wild animal; a lair. 2. A cave or hollow used as a refuge or hiding place. 3. A hidden or squalid dwelling place: a den of thieves. 4. A secluded room for study or relaxation. 5. A unit of about eight to ten Cub Scouts.
>You don't have to actually write that statement in cursive. It's just that the proctors are too stupid to understand that what you're not supposed to do is write in all caps (like you do for your name, etc). I wrote mine in print, and the scores came through fine.
You are supposed to write in cursive. If there was any sort of incident report filed in your room (ie a moron leaves in the middle of the test, someone accuses you of cheating, etc) I would wager a human would check that and give it a red flag.
The process of starting a club or sport at my school is readily known.
First, you need a sponsoring teacher (or teachers). Even if this isn't required, it would help to have a teacher with you when you approach administration. Maybe you know a computer teacher who would be interested, if not, try a math or science teacher.
Then, you go to administration and ask about it. Basically, the school is just letting you use the building before/after the regular day, so there is no real reason they would deny it. When we started a fencing club, we had to prove it would be safe, but that was all.
I'm interested to know why you want a computer club? If you guys are just going to be doing a LAN party, great, but why do you want school sponsorship? Colleges see right through BS clubs and activities.
Depends what you mean by emulation. There are many varities of emulation, I would expect that it is using some sort of dynamic recompilation on the x86 code.
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Actually, if your read your article you would see:
While $2.017 is a record for gasoline, adjusted for inflation the price hit $2.99 a gallon in March 1981, according to the Energy Information Administration
There is this thing called inflation. Perhaps you have heard of it?
"A college calculus teacher will be used to working with struggling students because for many of them, that is the toughest class they will ever have to take. But high school calculus teachers will be more used to working with the top students in the school. If you aren't especially gifted in math, you may find that you don't get what you need from these teachers."
If you are not especially gifted in math, why not take calculus in high school anyway and then retake it in college?
Just look at the apps that come built-in on this thing:
Cabri Jr. - now students can use their calculator to get all the answers in Geometry!
"Alter geometric objects on the fly to see patterns, make conjectures, and draw conclusions" No longer will students need to learn how to prove things, they can just draw two triangles and say "my calculator says so".
Probability Simulation - "Explore probability theory with interactive animation that simulates the rolling of dice, tossing of coins and generating random numbers on your handheld."
Come on, this is NOT necessary. Every TI I have seen has nCr and nPr function built in. Why not teach the students HOW those work rather than using this shortcut method?
When I was in high school, most of my teachers were really good about not allowing the use of calculators on quizzes or tests. There were a few in the school, however, that gave "use your calculator" as a solution to hard problems. Calculators like this will only add more to this growing problem.
Complaining about TVA rates? Haha... You are getting some of the cheapest, subsidized electricity in the country.
Read this:
http://www.nemw.org/tvareport.htm
> It would definately help out those who accuse
>NASA of a liberal bias (and if no such bias >exists then they should have nothing to hide, >right?)
Um... What?
1) Who has ever accused NASA of a liberal bias?
2) How is it possible for NASA to have a liberal bias?
3) I guess that the Institute for Creation Science is a right-wing group of wackos, no?
Nonsense. The Earth is bombarded by tons and tons of material from space every day.
Correct me if I am wrong, but as long as the tangential velocity of the Earth stays the same, the mass of Earth is irrelevant based on the equality of Fc = Fg (unless the elliptical orbit changes that).
Perhaps the load could mess with the Earth's rotational inertia but the Earth's mass is on the order of 10^24 kg.
I don't think it would be that big of a hurdle.
They do know factors such as ROM speed (wait states), CPU speed, clock cycles per instruction, etc.
Furthermore, most games time based on interrupts (video or a timer int) rather than just counting from 1 to 1 million or what have you.
If they had the original assembley source files, think how easy this would be. Code sections already separated from their data sections. All you would need to do is know HOW the hardware worked and translate the assembler files. Yes, there would need to be a few changes, like resolution differences, possible shortage of buttons, etc.
You still have a lot of things to overcome, but it would not be impossible. You would know about code entry points, but what happens when you do something like: mov 5, r1 shl 2, r1 cmp r4, r5 be r1
You would need some sort of emulation going through the whole thing. There could be lots of tricky situations where you are not sure of where branches are going to go.
You could have a software emulator and someone play through the whole game, I suppose, but there is no guarantee you would get all of the branch locations.
Borgan has the right to be anti-Clear Channel.
There was a tornado in a town. Seven of the radio stations were run by CC. There were 0 live people on staff. Think the warning got out?
CC says it won't happen again... Hmm...
Have you been in a CD store recentley? Nearly ALL of them let you sample tracks. Hell, my local Wal*Mart off the interstate has an interface for it.
Old console systems used to do the same thing, generally on the title screen.
Hey, if you want to revisit the classics, get to Vegas quick for CGE '03!
http://www.cgexpo.com/
The next closest I can think of is possibly some microcontrollers, even that is heavily dominated by US designs. I think Fujitsu and NEC both have some sort of SIMD or somesuch, but that is for supercomputing.
NEC has the wonderful V8xx series of microcontrollers, though they seem to be phasing those out.
>Just watch "Talking to Americans" on CBC some time, if you get the jokes
Right, because "Talking to Americans" always shows people who get the right answers too.
Right. Because in order to mail a package at the post office, you need to show them on a map where it should go.
"One would think that his time is more valuably spent running important medical institutions, searching for new cancer insights/cures, etc, but the dude's also an English lit major and has a penchant for sci-fi."
Because people who do research that is potentially groundbreaking and life saving are no longer allowed to do things they enjoy, right?
Dictionary.com:
den ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dn)
n.
1. The shelter or retreat of a wild animal; a lair.
2. A cave or hollow used as a refuge or hiding place.
3. A hidden or squalid dwelling place: a den of thieves.
4. A secluded room for study or relaxation.
5. A unit of about eight to ten Cub Scouts.
It was a little more funny when Leno said that last night on the Tonight Show.
>You don't have to actually write that statement in cursive. It's just that the proctors are too stupid to understand that what you're not supposed to do is write in all caps (like you do for your name, etc). I wrote mine in print, and the scores came through fine.
You are supposed to write in cursive. If there was any sort of incident report filed in your room (ie a moron leaves in the middle of the test, someone accuses you of cheating, etc) I would wager a human would check that and give it a red flag.
Would definatley be cool, but think of the instantaneous acceleration a person would need to be exposed to. You have to fight a LOT of wind drag....
If you are looking for more information or a new perspective, check out the actual news release by Georgia Tech.
Georgia Tech Researchers Use Lab Cultures to Control Robotic Device
Go Yellow Jackets!
The process of starting a club or sport at my school is readily known.
First, you need a sponsoring teacher (or teachers). Even if this isn't required, it would help to have a teacher with you when you approach administration. Maybe you know a computer teacher who would be interested, if not, try a math or science teacher.
Then, you go to administration and ask about it. Basically, the school is just letting you use the building before/after the regular day, so there is no real reason they would deny it. When we started a fencing club, we had to prove it would be safe, but that was all.
I'm interested to know why you want a computer club? If you guys are just going to be doing a LAN party, great, but why do you want school sponsorship? Colleges see right through BS clubs and activities.
Depends what you mean by emulation. There are many varities of emulation, I would expect that it is using some sort of dynamic recompilation on the x86 code.