You can't just go and add 0.22 years to 0.17 fun units and 0.153 persons, etc.
The units should, of course, be normalized first. Perhaps some nondimensional quantities should be used. Both age and duration have units of time, so there could be some correlation there. Also, stimulation and fun factor are clearly not orthogonal quantities.
At the minimum the equation should be presented as: a(0.22 pfg/yr) + f(0.17 pfg/fun) + n(0.153 pfg/person) +...
a number of years back, os/2 users jambed the virtual ballot box of Infoworld's annual product of the year awards. They changed the rules after that incident (and invalidated the results).
I recently asked a MS rep if if there was going to be a Fortran.Net. He said, no, at least not soon. Fortran has evolved significatantly since F77, and is a great language for scientific computing.
If it is only a patent issue, then there is nothing to prevent anyone from reverse engineering the it. It's actually quite lawful, but not really necessary since you can just read the patent.
You couldn't sell your own version, but, you could let everyone know how to build one themselves...
One of the big problems with artificial hearts is preventing damage to the blood cells the the pump inflicts on them. The rate of destroying blood cells has to be less that the body's ability to replace them. Mechanical pumps are brutal on blood cells.
Drexel called me (an alumni) last night asking for money for the wireless network. Heck, I can't justify upgrading my P90/16M/33.6k modem for goodness sakes. Just have the students all use Juno, or Bluelight, or whatever. They're all just downloading mp3s all nightlong anyway.
Any real engineering student shouldn't need more than a 1.44M floppy for his/her programs anyway. Wireless, my ass, just stick a floppy in your back pocket.
When I started as a freshman, the upperclassemen were all toting stacks of cards around - now every damn kid needs the latest and greatest computer gizmo. I bet they'll all be reading/. and looking a porn on their wireless connected laptops instead of paying attention in physics lecture likey they should be.
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That's a good one - the multidiciplinary aspect (Medical, Sports, Math) puts it in the super-geek category. Made me laugh at least.
You can't just go and add 0.22 years to 0.17 fun units and 0.153 persons, etc.
The units should, of course, be normalized first. Perhaps some nondimensional quantities should be used. Both age and duration have units of time, so there could be some correlation there. Also, stimulation and fun factor are clearly not orthogonal quantities.
At the minimum the equation should be presented as: a(0.22 pfg/yr) + f(0.17 pfg/fun) + n(0.153 pfg/person) +...
LOL... Oh, what I wouldn't give for a few mod points right now.
1.2, boy are you lucky. We are still using 1.1.8.
a number of years back, os/2 users jambed the virtual ballot box of Infoworld's annual product of the year awards. They changed the rules after that incident (and invalidated the results).
I recently asked a MS rep if if there was going to be a Fortran.Net. He said, no, at least not soon. Fortran has evolved significatantly since F77, and is a great language for scientific computing.
You couldn't sell your own version, but, you could let everyone know how to build one themselves...
Back in the waning days of the 20th century I keep a slide rule on my desk. When asked about it I said that this engineer was y2k compliant.
One of the big problems with artificial hearts is preventing damage to the blood cells the the pump inflicts on them. The rate of destroying blood cells has to be less that the body's ability to replace them. Mechanical pumps are brutal on blood cells.
Any real engineering student shouldn't need more than a 1.44M floppy for his/her programs anyway. Wireless, my ass, just stick a floppy in your back pocket.
When I started as a freshman, the upperclassemen were all toting stacks of cards around - now every damn kid needs the latest and greatest computer gizmo. I bet they'll all be reading /. and looking a porn on their wireless connected laptops instead of paying attention in physics lecture likey they should be.