So far as I can tell, the 'hot' side is much closer to the 'cold' side. How this helps is certainly beyond me.
Did anyone else wonder how on earth they're actually moving the heat? Seems like "We've made a device that can move destructive heat a very small distance from where it's generated!", which I don't get the point of. Wouldn't this, at best, create a more uniform distribution of the heat? Doesn't say anything about where it goes...
Well, maybe they're using a big peltier on top of the chip and using these little things to move heat over to it. Maybe.
Senator 1:Ah'd like to introduce the Incredibly Dense and Verbosely Named Act here...
Senator 2:ALL j00r bAse ar3 b3l0ng t00 us!!
Senator 3:Mod this up!
Senator 2:Richard Stallman fucks goats!
Senators 4-99:Windows Sucks!
Senator 100:[Insightful and penetrating response to the proposal] Jon Katz:In our POST-COLUMBINE SOCIETY, it's important to remember how right everything I say is.
Senator 2:Penis birds! Natalie Portman!
Senator 2:I bent my Wookie.
And so on.
Ugh... you probably meant that what Congress needs is Dave Touretzky (whose name I've certainly misspelled) in office.
No, I'm pretty glad for the medical science right now, since I still have my balls in a sling from a sudden testicular torsion last weekend. Seeing stiches on your scrotum isn't nearly as weird as you'd think it would be.
Damn it, that's not divine retribution!
Besides, I never said I knew jack about medicine or law. How much easier is it to say "No you can't!" than "I can!" -- and how much easier is that than the actual action? Why did everyone replying to my post assume I thought I was the Nietzschean Antichrist? Is someone not bowing and scraping and apologizing for their talent such a threat?
There's a world of difference between "I don't matter" and "I'm worthwhile. Other people are too." Both viewpoints don't strike out and proclaim their megalomaniacal prowess. But one comes from self-abnegation.
I was told for a long time to let my achievements speak for themselves. I'm through with that. I'm willing to sing my own praises, make all the good arguments in discussion and point out the teacher's mistakes. In return, I'm willing to look at my own flaws and have my own mistakes pointed out. There's no big bubble to burst; I know where I stand.
I didn't, I just didn't put as much effort in. Getting the extra three points in every class would have required twice as much work as was needed to fly through the tests and do nothing extra on the labs.
Oh, but assuming all blacks act black, wear gold jewelry and play loud rap music is an improvement?
From one side: we're all one big multicultural family and color doesn't matter! From the other: we're all different and must have pride in our 'heritage'.
Pfft. I know you're ragging on consumerism, but this is something that pisses me off to no end.
Wasn't Gauss, he of the famous first grade Gauss's Theorem, the first thing they teach you to prove by induction, the prodigy you meant?
Of course, I have no idea what Godel did in his younger years, I just know he proved the incompleteness of formal systems, especially Principia Mathematica
No, I actually was. Smarter than everyone else if you count standardized tests, smarter than ninety-seven percent of my class if you count rank. I was the kid who begged my math teacher to go on to the next chapter when we finished the curriculum early, when everyone else just wanted to play TriBond. When everyone I talked to said the infinitude of primes was unproven,.damn it, I did it myself. And, of course, found out that I'd duplicated Euclid's work, and hit myself in the forehead for how simple it was.
I lacked social skills. I didn't understand people; I didn't understnd myself. And I had no pride whatsoever in myself. I refused to sing my own praises, because people would accuse me of being conceited. I'm only now learning to say "I'm pretty damned smart. Anything I don't know, I can learn in relatively short prder." Ego had never been a problem. Lack of geek pride was.
Weren't the "engineers" -- thinking of McDonnell-Douglas here -- largely beaurocrats who grew fat on government military-industrial largesse, then were crestfallen to find that they really *weren't* engineers?
People down the hall are amazed how I flip through minimizing and switching between windows in '95 or '98, because they're all addicted to the mouse. And I owe it all to bash...
Wait -- you're saying that if education isn't a prize the very few can attain, then many people will become educated, and some of them will produce crap.
Sturgeon's Law, anyone?
The presence of bad art doesn't preclude the presence of good art. If anything, there's more good stuff out there. Of course, you have to be a *critic* (oh, the pain) and judge for yourself what's worthwhile...
China has CITIES bigger than the entire population of the USA.
Um, no. The largest city in the *world* is Mexico City, around 25 million. The US has a population at least ten times that. Yes, there are a lot of Chinese. No, there aren't *that* many. Check your facts.
There is not a week that goes by without some similar skills problem being reported. Worse still is that these users refuse further training.
You don't suppose this could have anything to do with the stigma placed on people lacking basic skills, do you?
I mean, really! What are your options if you've just taken the 'computer' thing out of the box and connected the similarly colored cables? Of *course* extremely-newbies seem like idiots to us, we've been using these things since we were four.
But it's not (always) actual stupidity, but real lack of knowledge that makes people computer-illiterate. And it certainly doesn't help that the only response they can get is guffaws and "You idiot!". Seems like the "digerati"'s way of perpetuating its monopoly on knowledge.
Predominately white schools in affluent neighborhoods don't always get better funding but they do get parents who know the value of an education and hold their children to higher standards.
Ouch. I take issue here. Doesn't it make sense that affluent parents not scrambling to work two jobs each to pay the bills would be able to invest more time in their children? I take issue with your implication that rich white folks make better parents. My parents were/are working-class white folks, just like two thirds of the people where I grew up. So why are only forty of us from an original class of two hundred doing the same? Parents make a difference -- no matter how little they make, parents can always invest their concern in a child's schoolwork. The wealthy just have the option of hiring someone else to do so...
The most important factor in the outcome is the parent. The next factor is the teacher. Funding is lower on the list (you don't need a new computer to teach physics or chemistry)
Good Lord, man! Have you been to college recently? You *do* need textbooks, and they're damned freakin' expensive. Unfortunately, high schools can't bleed the students dry for them, so they're frequently stuck with outdated, obsolete textbooks.
And, ironically, I'm sure that these turgid towers of commerce and entertainment will be giving reporters sound bites about how 'democratic' the internet has allowed them to be. Something about diluting the meaning of a word comes to mind -- re: 'freedom'...
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Can we institute the death penalty for anyone who writes 'lol' and 'rofl' in random spots lol?
I swear, if AOLamers actually talked like that, they'd be institutionalized... or shot...
-grendel drago
Bingo!
I can strip down to icewm and run Opera. Can a WinXP user strip down to a non-bloaty interface and not run IE6?
-grendel drago
Sorry, no subscription, but isn't strong AI an NP problem? Eek, the implications!
Boy, this sounds exciting. Too bad it'll probably turn out to be nothing so cool if I get to read the full article...
-grendel drago
They do that, it's called Slot {1,2,A,Z,whatever}.
-grendel drago
So far as I can tell, the 'hot' side is much closer to the 'cold' side. How this helps is certainly beyond me.
Did anyone else wonder how on earth they're actually moving the heat? Seems like "We've made a device that can move destructive heat a very small distance from where it's generated!", which I don't get the point of. Wouldn't this, at best, create a more uniform distribution of the heat? Doesn't say anything about where it goes...
Well, maybe they're using a big peltier on top of the chip and using these little things to move heat over to it. Maybe.
-grendel drago
We need some Slashdotters in Congress, I guess...
I can just imagine...
Senator 1:Ah'd like to introduce the Incredibly Dense and Verbosely Named Act here...
Senator 2:ALL j00r bAse ar3 b3l0ng t00 us!!
Senator 3:Mod this up!
Senator 2:Richard Stallman fucks goats!
Senators 4-99:Windows Sucks!
Senator 100: [Insightful and penetrating response to the proposal]
Jon Katz:In our POST-COLUMBINE SOCIETY, it's important to remember how right everything I say is.
Senator 2:Penis birds! Natalie Portman!
Senator 2:I bent my Wookie.
And so on.
Ugh... you probably meant that what Congress needs is Dave Touretzky (whose name I've certainly misspelled) in office.
-grendel drago
No, I'm pretty glad for the medical science right now, since I still have my balls in a sling from a sudden testicular torsion last weekend. Seeing stiches on your scrotum isn't nearly as weird as you'd think it would be.
Damn it, that's not divine retribution!
Besides, I never said I knew jack about medicine or law. How much easier is it to say "No you can't!" than "I can!" -- and how much easier is that than the actual action? Why did everyone replying to my post assume I thought I was the Nietzschean Antichrist? Is someone not bowing and scraping and apologizing for their talent such a threat?
-grendel drago
Hey, you missed my 'understnd' typo.
What kind of spelling nazi are you?
Pfft.
-grendel drago
Hey, I never said I was smarter than everyone.
There's a world of difference between "I don't matter" and "I'm worthwhile. Other people are too." Both viewpoints don't strike out and proclaim their megalomaniacal prowess. But one comes from self-abnegation.
I was told for a long time to let my achievements speak for themselves. I'm through with that. I'm willing to sing my own praises, make all the good arguments in discussion and point out the teacher's mistakes. In return, I'm willing to look at my own flaws and have my own mistakes pointed out. There's no big bubble to burst; I know where I stand.
-grendel drago
I didn't, I just didn't put as much effort in. Getting the extra three points in every class would have required twice as much work as was needed to fly through the tests and do nothing extra on the labs.
Yep, I was lazy.
-grendel drago
Like elliptic geometry?
Oh, but assuming all blacks act black, wear gold jewelry and play loud rap music is an improvement?
From one side: we're all one big multicultural family and color doesn't matter! From the other: we're all different and must have pride in our 'heritage'.
Pfft. I know you're ragging on consumerism, but this is something that pisses me off to no end.
-grendel drago
Wasn't Gauss, he of the famous first grade Gauss's Theorem, the first thing they teach you to prove by induction, the prodigy you meant?
Of course, I have no idea what Godel did in his younger years, I just know he proved the incompleteness of formal systems, especially Principia Mathematica
-grendel drago
[I don't care if it's a troll, damn it.]
No, I actually was. Smarter than everyone else if you count standardized tests, smarter than ninety-seven percent of my class if you count rank. I was the kid who begged my math teacher to go on to the next chapter when we finished the curriculum early, when everyone else just wanted to play TriBond. When everyone I talked to said the infinitude of primes was unproven,.damn it, I did it myself. And, of course, found out that I'd duplicated Euclid's work, and hit myself in the forehead for how simple it was.
I lacked social skills. I didn't understand people; I didn't understnd myself. And I had no pride whatsoever in myself. I refused to sing my own praises, because people would accuse me of being conceited. I'm only now learning to say "I'm pretty damned smart. Anything I don't know, I can learn in relatively short prder." Ego had never been a problem. Lack of geek pride was.
-grendel drago
Weren't the "engineers" -- thinking of McDonnell-Douglas here -- largely beaurocrats who grew fat on government military-industrial largesse, then were crestfallen to find that they really *weren't* engineers?
-grendel drago
Actually, it's the Children's Internet Protection Act.
If you'd have read the article instead of rushing for first post, you'd see that the mistake isn't in the header, it's in the text.
-grendel drago
The zeta function is defined as:
...
Zeta(x)=Sum(n=1 to inf){1/(n^x)}
For instance, Zeta(2) is
1/1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 +
MathWorld probably explained it much better than I could. Sigh.
Exactly!
People down the hall are amazed how I flip through minimizing and switching between windows in '95 or '98, because they're all addicted to the mouse. And I owe it all to bash...
-grendel drago
Blah. That's *YHBT*.
-self
Hey, if Katz himself can be a troll, then everyone here has a little THBT on his forehead...
-grendel drago
Wait -- you're saying that if education isn't a prize the very few can attain, then many people will become educated, and some of them will produce crap.
Sturgeon's Law, anyone?
The presence of bad art doesn't preclude the presence of good art. If anything, there's more good stuff out there. Of course, you have to be a *critic* (oh, the pain) and judge for yourself what's worthwhile...
-grendel drago
China has CITIES bigger than the entire population of the USA.
Um, no. The largest city in the *world* is Mexico City, around 25 million. The US has a population at least ten times that. Yes, there are a lot of Chinese. No, there aren't *that* many. Check your facts.
-grendel drago
There is not a week that goes by without some similar skills problem being reported. Worse still is that these users refuse further training.
You don't suppose this could have anything to do with the stigma placed on people lacking basic skills, do you?
I mean, really! What are your options if you've just taken the 'computer' thing out of the box and connected the similarly colored cables? Of *course* extremely-newbies seem like idiots to us, we've been using these things since we were four.
But it's not (always) actual stupidity, but real lack of knowledge that makes people computer-illiterate. And it certainly doesn't help that the only response they can get is guffaws and "You idiot!". Seems like the "digerati"'s way of perpetuating its monopoly on knowledge.
-grendel drago
Predominately white schools in affluent neighborhoods don't always get better funding but they do get parents who know the value of an education and hold their children to higher standards.
Ouch. I take issue here. Doesn't it make sense that affluent parents not scrambling to work two jobs each to pay the bills would be able to invest more time in their children? I take issue with your implication that rich white folks make better parents. My parents were/are working-class white folks, just like two thirds of the people where I grew up. So why are only forty of us from an original class of two hundred doing the same? Parents make a difference -- no matter how little they make, parents can always invest their concern in a child's schoolwork. The wealthy just have the option of hiring someone else to do so...
The most important factor in the outcome is the parent. The next factor is the teacher. Funding is lower on the list (you don't need a new computer to teach physics or chemistry)
Good Lord, man! Have you been to college recently? You *do* need textbooks, and they're damned freakin' expensive. Unfortunately, high schools can't bleed the students dry for them, so they're frequently stuck with outdated, obsolete textbooks.
-grendel drago
And, ironically, I'm sure that these turgid towers of commerce and entertainment will be giving reporters sound bites about how 'democratic' the internet has allowed them to be. Something about diluting the meaning of a word comes to mind -- re: 'freedom'...
-grendel drago