or North? Or half the suites in Atwood? Or half the suites in Linde? HMC probably turns out the highest proportion of alcoholics of any school in the country. And you are dead on, the drunkest are almost across the board the most successful. Study hard party harder, the heavy drinkers are the only ones with an outlet to counter Mudd's curriculum. And yes by the way I did get A's on finals I took while still drunk from the night before. stipe42
I'm rather partial to odd occurences, patterns and facts about numbers and number theory. But I could not find anything on any of the linked pages that could explain why this is interesting. All it seems to be is a variation on: 'well if you take this really convoluted and arbitrary iterating test, every number will work with enough iterations. Except for this one number.' It seems to me that just about any arbitrary iterating test will work for all numbers except for a handful. In order to differentiate the test there must be something unique about it. Are the numbers useful? Do the numbers correspond with numbers found by another test, like every other prime number or something? If not it's just very complicated numerical eeny-meenie-minie-moe.
Snort. We'd love it if the government was for the free market. We're running into the problem of the government being for closed markets defined by vested interests. The invisible hand is vastly preferable to the visible hand they're using to smack down competition. stipe42
Just don't get it engraved at all. It's easier to pawn off an unengraved one when she leaves you a few months before the wedding. signed, the voice of experience
I just finished college last year and I spent over $3000 on books during the four years. The roughly $800 for frosh books alone would have bought a low level laptop right up front with the cash I had to have in hand anyway. stipe42
I decided to save $1200 a year by ditching cable tv and cable modem. Since I've got a cell phone and only get telemarketers on the landline, I got rid of the landline to save another $250 per year (ie, no I can't get free dialup). So when I needed to email a word document I've got at home to someone today, I put it on one of those magic floppies and brought it to work.
It's the same situation that Windows users find themselves in all the time, but this time it happens in the Linux world and we wonder what the fix is....
Yeah those silly Linux users, conditioned to think that problems in the OS should be fixed. Next thing you know they'll think rebooting every two hours in unreasonable. stipe42
Actually it was a rather hostile takeover by Boeing. I have spoken to employees of McDonnell Douglas, and the owners of Boeing took the decades of competition very seriously and took the scorched earth policy when taking over McDonnell Douglas. Anything with the name 'McDonnell Douglas' was wiped out, lots of people canned, so on and so on. stipe42
Working at a small company with only a couple servers and over a hundred clients, I can testify to how much money we would be willing to pay for binaries guaranteed to work because they have been compiled for our exact setup without having to actually compile them on our setup.
If I had mod points, I'd put them down right here. Even long running projects like FreeCiv are extremely disappointing compared to the slick status of KDE and Gnome. If I wanted to play 10 year old games I'd just get an SNES+games off of ebay. stipe42
Contractors don't build houses, the workers do. You're bitching about somebody being a lousy handyman, when the book is dealing with managing the building of the house, not building it bit by bit with your own incompetent hands.
stipe42
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Or if you have no intention of ever printing the photos out, you can just set the camera to save them as 1MB jpegs. They look exactly the same on the screen and are way way smaller. stipe42
I'm not sure of this is a troll but . . . why wouldn't rockets work in space? A rocket in simplest terms possible: throw something out the back, the rocket accelerates forward due to conservation of momentum.
I'm not sure if this is a troll . . . why wouldn't rockets work in space? To put it in the simplest terms possible: throw something out the back of the ship, the ship accelerates forward due to conservation of momentum.
Well Luke thought his father was dead, so why not his mother too? Darth Padme will be in a black leather get up complimenting Vader's attire. And don't forget the computer generated Leia-Padme lightsaber battle.
We actually did this in High School physics. Our teacher always gave examples using Roadrunner, so our final project was to construct a sequence of events that might happen in a Roadrunner cartoon, along with a calculated breakdown with assumptions, etc, proving that it could happen. We had a list of twenty or so physical situations that we had studied, and had to use 15 of them in the project.
Nitpicking: When you're spending hundreds of dollars, sales tax becomes a major factor very quickly. Typical California sales tax is 7.5%. An even $500 becomes $537.50 at the register, so the tax is going to cost you as much as that video card. It's not a huge factor to be sure, but it's easy to forget about it, and when you're on a tight budget it's not really an option to go 7.5% over budget.
That was the stupidist of the suggestions. The solution to 'I wish my digital camera had as much storage as an iPod' is not to plug the iPod into the camera, it's to put a 10GB drive into the camera.
There is even already a standard for doing that: they're called laptop hard drives. I think that it would be nice (but not particularly innovative) if a standard was created for those laptop hard drives so they could be simply swapped between portable devices (mp3 players, cameras, etc) the way flash ram is right now.
They already have those. It's not playing an mp3, but it plays the Barney themesong (or some other noxious dreck) for two minutes. Then the kid knows it's time to stop brushing.
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or North? Or half the suites in Atwood? Or half the suites in Linde? HMC probably turns out the highest proportion of alcoholics of any school in the country. And you are dead on, the drunkest are almost across the board the most successful. Study hard party harder, the heavy drinkers are the only ones with an outlet to counter Mudd's curriculum. And yes by the way I did get A's on finals I took while still drunk from the night before.
stipe42
care to elaborate? That sounds interesting.
stipe42
I'm rather partial to odd occurences, patterns and facts about numbers and number theory. But I could not find anything on any of the linked pages that could explain why this is interesting. All it seems to be is a variation on: 'well if you take this really convoluted and arbitrary iterating test, every number will work with enough iterations. Except for this one number.' It seems to me that just about any arbitrary iterating test will work for all numbers except for a handful. In order to differentiate the test there must be something unique about it. Are the numbers useful? Do the numbers correspond with numbers found by another test, like every other prime number or something? If not it's just very complicated numerical eeny-meenie-minie-moe.
stipe42
Snort. We'd love it if the government was for the free market. We're running into the problem of the government being for closed markets defined by vested interests. The invisible hand is vastly preferable to the visible hand they're using to smack down competition.
stipe42
I don't get it.
Just don't get it engraved at all. It's easier to pawn off an unengraved one when she leaves you a few months before the wedding.
signed,
the voice of experience
I just finished college last year and I spent over $3000 on books during the four years. The roughly $800 for frosh books alone would have bought a low level laptop right up front with the cash I had to have in hand anyway.
stipe42
I decided to save $1200 a year by ditching cable tv and cable modem. Since I've got a cell phone and only get telemarketers on the landline, I got rid of the landline to save another $250 per year (ie, no I can't get free dialup). So when I needed to email a word document I've got at home to someone today, I put it on one of those magic floppies and brought it to work.
stipe42
Yeah those silly Linux users, conditioned to think that problems in the OS should be fixed. Next thing you know they'll think rebooting every two hours in unreasonable.
stipe42
Actually it was a rather hostile takeover by Boeing. I have spoken to employees of McDonnell Douglas, and the owners of Boeing took the decades of competition very seriously and took the scorched earth policy when taking over McDonnell Douglas. Anything with the name 'McDonnell Douglas' was wiped out, lots of people canned, so on and so on.
stipe42
Working at a small company with only a couple servers and over a hundred clients, I can testify to how much money we would be willing to pay for binaries guaranteed to work because they have been compiled for our exact setup without having to actually compile them on our setup.
stipe42
If I had mod points, I'd put them down right here. Even long running projects like FreeCiv are extremely disappointing compared to the slick status of KDE and Gnome. If I wanted to play 10 year old games I'd just get an SNES+games off of ebay.
stipe42
Athlon1800+Motherboard combo=$210
[onboard sound,video,network]
40GB Hard Drive=$80
Fan=$10
512MB DDR RAM=$85
Floppy=$10
Case=$25
CDRW=$50
There, $470 and we didn't even have to resort to that Celeron crap.
stipe42
Contractors don't build houses, the workers do. You're bitching about somebody being a lousy handyman, when the book is dealing with managing the building of the house, not building it bit by bit with your own incompetent hands.
stipe42
Or if you have no intention of ever printing the photos out, you can just set the camera to save them as 1MB jpegs. They look exactly the same on the screen and are way way smaller.
stipe42
I'm not sure of this is a troll but . . . why wouldn't rockets work in space? A rocket in simplest terms possible: throw something out the back, the rocket accelerates forward due to conservation of momentum.
stipe42
I'm not sure if this is a troll . . . why wouldn't rockets work in space? To put it in the simplest terms possible: throw something out the back of the ship, the ship accelerates forward due to conservation of momentum.
stipe42
What masses outside of metro areas? According to the US census bureau, about 88% of the population lived in metropolitan counties.
stipe42
Well Luke thought his father was dead, so why not his mother too? Darth Padme will be in a black leather get up complimenting Vader's attire. And don't forget the computer generated Leia-Padme lightsaber battle.
stipe42
We actually did this in High School physics. Our teacher always gave examples using Roadrunner, so our final project was to construct a sequence of events that might happen in a Roadrunner cartoon, along with a calculated breakdown with assumptions, etc, proving that it could happen. We had a list of twenty or so physical situations that we had studied, and had to use 15 of them in the project.
stipe42
If you spelled as badly as you did math, that post would be like reading a comic strip dedicated to Charlie Brown's parents.
stipe42
Nitpicking: When you're spending hundreds of dollars, sales tax becomes a major factor very quickly. Typical California sales tax is 7.5%. An even $500 becomes $537.50 at the register, so the tax is going to cost you as much as that video card. It's not a huge factor to be sure, but it's easy to forget about it, and when you're on a tight budget it's not really an option to go 7.5% over budget.
stipe42
a knot is a unit of speed not distance.
16 knots, not 16 knots/hour
stipe42
That was the stupidist of the suggestions. The solution to 'I wish my digital camera had as much storage as an iPod' is not to plug the iPod into the camera, it's to put a 10GB drive into the camera.
There is even already a standard for doing that: they're called laptop hard drives. I think that it would be nice (but not particularly innovative) if a standard was created for those laptop hard drives so they could be simply swapped between portable devices (mp3 players, cameras, etc) the way flash ram is right now.
stipe42
They already have those. It's not playing an mp3, but it plays the Barney themesong (or some other noxious dreck) for two minutes. Then the kid knows it's time to stop brushing.
stipe42