Like at most expensive private schools (Ivy League schools in particular) the vast majority of students are on some form of financial aid. People accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in loans cannot afford to go to such a conference unless they are sponsored (ie have a real reason to be there).
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When did chipsets start containing ethernet controllers, USB ports, PCI slots, and firewire ports in them? Last I checked, these are all contained in the motherboard, not the chipset.
Accuracy and Slashdot: Why do they never go together?
I have to say that you either went to a horrible university, or you took engineering math courses. Engineering courses aren't really math courses, they're applying formulas classes. Real math classes require proofs, not lots of computation.
The problem with mathworld is that you really need to know what you're looking for to use it. Also, it really helps to know the notation. That said, I'm a math major who uses mathworld at least twice a day; it is a truly excellent resource.
One major problems with digitalized photo libraries is that the storage media will degrade over time. There is a reason that archaeologists still use regular archival quality photos for their records: CDs have a thirty year expected lifetime. While recopying the family photo collection every twenty-five years may not seem like such a big, it is any easy thing to forget to do.
As an orhtodox jew, i can safely say that no jew refers to G-d as "Yahwe" or any phonetic equivalent thereof. "Yahwe" comes from a transliteration of the word formed by the hebrew letters Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey, which together spell G-d's four letter name. This is a combination of the word for "past" (Hay-Yud-Hav), "present" (Hey-Vav-Hey"), and "future" (Yud-Hey-Yud-Hey), which arises from G-d's description of himself to moses at the burning bush. No Jew pronounces this phoneticly, but instead, pronounces it the same as another word for G-d, which means "my master."
Are you seriously espousing the goldbacker stance? You do realize that the US economy would not have been able to grow as it has under a gold or precious metals standard.
Redistributing materials to students is one thing. Storing a copy of a webpage from three years ago and redistributing that copy publicly, for purposes other than things like instruction, is something completely different. Hell, I think the limits on what percentage of a book may be redistributed to students are draconian.
One of the problem with archiving is simple copyright violation. If I make a site, regardless of the fact that HTTP is open, it is legally very questionable (understatement) to save a copy of it and redistribute it without my permission.
[Begin Translation] I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a?!
I am a snooty parisian. Je parle français. I eat snails, but they are not just snails; they are escargot. It is not our fault the germans raped us. We built the Maginot line. It is not our fault the Nazi's drove around it. Go back to America and drink your second rate wines! And my beret does not look homosexual.
We are more cultured than you American slobs. Ignore the luddites that fill our country and the rude Parisians who have made voyeurism a profession since the flaneurs over 100 years ago. Also, we have le Tower de Eiffel, which is not a big shiny lightning rod/phallic symbol.
It is time for me to go back my job at the cafe, spitting at stupid english speaking tourists. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time. [End Translation]
Q: Why don't they have fireworks at Euro Disney? A: Because every time they shoot them off, the French try to surrender.
Why the hell would you brag about being French? That's like saying, "I am a snooty man who does not bathe and who would prefer surrendering without a fight." The Warsaw ghetto withstood the Nazis longer than your entire nation.
Q: What's the French battle cry? A: "We surrender!"
I completely agree. I know numerous people who gave up on linux because they didn't want to waste their time matching dependencies and such. While a GUI-only installer may cause problems for terminal users, a terminal based installer could be included (remember old DOS game installers?).
This does have one major problem, though: different distros need different things. In order to make a generic GUI-based installer feasable, a lot of work needs to be done to get the various distros on similar directory structures. There really is no good excuse for the fragmented nature of linux distrobutions.
A more minor issue facing a graphical installer is size. This can be addressed in several ways, the simplest of which is to include all of the installer software in the base distro and have it execute installation scripts (ala.msi files). However, I'd like to think that for most people's desktops systems, a 500k increase (yes, i know it's excessive) in installation size isn't really that big a deal. How many people don't either have their computer on a cable modem or better, have their computer networked to another pc with such a connection, or have another computer with a good connection and a cd burner?
"Sol" means "Sun." Naming our sun "Sol" is mostly the result of science fiction writers needing a name for it. Have you ever read an astronomy book that refered to "Sol?"
Integers can be sorted in O(N) time (actually, so can floats, but unless you're sorting trillions of items, go with the O(n*log(n)) algorithms.
The algorithm for integers is simple (no value is passed for x on execution): 1. If the list contains 0 or 1 element, return. 2. Set a counter to 0, unless a value is given for x, set x=2^(n-1), where your ints have n bits. 3. Iterate through the list:
3a. If !(a[i] & x), then
3aa. swap a[i] and a[j]
3ab. increment j. 4. Apply algorithm to the sub-array a[0..j-1] and a[j..n].
This impliments nicely in C where pointers take care of the dirty work involved in passing parts of arrays (pass a pointer to the middle of the array).
Mathematicians don't make names for themselves by disproving things. They earn fame for proving new things (or outstanding conjectures). If Theorem A has a valid proof, than there cannot be a counterexample to it, or the system is flawed. Since it is most likely that most of mathematics is not done in a flawed system, there is no way to disprove something once once it has been proven mathematically.
R^3 (the minimal space in which the n=3 case exists) is rather odd. In R^0, R^1, and R^2, most things are pretty simple. In R^4+, there's enough room to avoid problems (in R^4 or higher, for example, you can neglect any countable set of 3 dimensional spaces while integrating, etc.). R^3 is probably the hardest space of finite integral dimension in which to work, which is unfortunate, because that's where almost all of engineering takes place.
One can easily define a cross product in R^4. It would however operate on three vectors, not 2. In fact, it is quite simple to define a function CrossP(v1,v2,...,vn) that returns a vector normal to v1,...,vn in R^(n+1) (what length you give the vector is a slightly different matter).
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Methinks /. has hit a new proofreading low.
Like at most expensive private schools (Ivy League schools in particular) the vast majority of students are on some form of financial aid. People accumulating tens of thousands of dollars in loans cannot afford to go to such a conference unless they are sponsored (ie have a real reason to be there).
When did chipsets start containing ethernet controllers, USB ports, PCI slots, and firewire ports in them? Last I checked, these are all contained in the motherboard, not the chipset.
Accuracy and Slashdot: Why do they never go together?
I have to say that you either went to a horrible university, or you took engineering math courses. Engineering courses aren't really math courses, they're applying formulas classes. Real math classes require proofs, not lots of computation.
Don't forget higher (real) algebra, dynamical systems, PDEs (preferably in several complex variables), combinatorics, number theory, and logic.
The problem with mathworld is that you really need to know what you're looking for to use it. Also, it really helps to know the notation. That said, I'm a math major who uses mathworld at least twice a day; it is a truly excellent resource.
One major problems with digitalized photo libraries is that the storage media will degrade over time. There is a reason that archaeologists still use regular archival quality photos for their records: CDs have a thirty year expected lifetime. While recopying the family photo collection every twenty-five years may not seem like such a big, it is any easy thing to forget to do.
As an orhtodox jew, i can safely say that no jew refers to G-d as "Yahwe" or any phonetic equivalent thereof. "Yahwe" comes from a transliteration of the word formed by the hebrew letters Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey, which together spell G-d's four letter name. This is a combination of the word for "past" (Hay-Yud-Hav), "present" (Hey-Vav-Hey"), and "future" (Yud-Hey-Yud-Hey), which arises from G-d's description of himself to moses at the burning bush. No Jew pronounces this phoneticly, but instead, pronounces it the same as another word for G-d, which means "my master."
That wasn't a Troll. It was flamebait. Silly moderator.
I think it's safe to assume that almost every slashdot reader knew what the headline is about. If you didn't, you're dumb.
Are you seriously espousing the goldbacker stance? You do realize that the US economy would not have been able to grow as it has under a gold or precious metals standard.
That would be Russell's Antinomy, not Cantor's Paradox. Russell's is just the Greek Barber problem in the language of set theory. Cantor's paradox deals with the carninality of the universal set.
Redistributing materials to students is one thing. Storing a copy of a webpage from three years ago and redistributing that copy publicly, for purposes other than things like instruction, is something completely different. Hell, I think the limits on what percentage of a book may be redistributed to students are draconian.
One of the problem with archiving is simple copyright violation. If I make a site, regardless of the fact that HTTP is open, it is legally very questionable (understatement) to save a copy of it and redistribute it without my permission.
[Begin Translation]
I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a?!
I am a snooty parisian. Je parle français. I eat snails, but they are not just snails; they are escargot. It is not our fault the germans raped us. We built the Maginot line. It is not our fault the Nazi's drove around it. Go back to America and drink your second rate wines! And my beret does not look homosexual.
We are more cultured than you American slobs. Ignore the luddites that fill our country and the rude Parisians who have made voyeurism a profession since the flaneurs over 100 years ago. Also, we have le Tower de Eiffel, which is not a big shiny lightning rod/phallic symbol.
It is time for me to go back my job at the cafe, spitting at stupid english speaking tourists. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
[End Translation]
Q: Why don't they have fireworks at Euro Disney?
A: Because every time they shoot them off, the French try to surrender.
Why the hell would you brag about being French? That's like saying, "I am a snooty man who does not bathe and who would prefer surrendering without a fight." The Warsaw ghetto withstood the Nazis longer than your entire nation.
Q: What's the French battle cry?
A: "We surrender!"
I completely agree. I know numerous people who gave up on linux because they didn't want to waste their time matching dependencies and such. While a GUI-only installer may cause problems for terminal users, a terminal based installer could be included (remember old DOS game installers?).
.msi files). However, I'd like to think that for most people's desktops systems, a 500k increase (yes, i know it's excessive) in installation size isn't really that big a deal. How many people don't either have their computer on a cable modem or better, have their computer networked to another pc with such a connection, or have another computer with a good connection and a cd burner?
This does have one major problem, though: different distros need different things. In order to make a generic GUI-based installer feasable, a lot of work needs to be done to get the various distros on similar directory structures. There really is no good excuse for the fragmented nature of linux distrobutions.
A more minor issue facing a graphical installer is size. This can be addressed in several ways, the simplest of which is to include all of the installer software in the base distro and have it execute installation scripts (ala
"Sol" means "Sun." Naming our sun "Sol" is mostly the result of science fiction writers needing a name for it. Have you ever read an astronomy book that refered to "Sol?"
How do you reconsile the infinite worlds hypothesis with a finite universe?
I'm not a Christian (though several have tried to convert me), and even i see this as total flamebate. Somebody mod this guy down.
Actually, Beowulf is killed by the Wyrm. Thiss occurs after he kills Grendel (the monster) and Grendel's pissed off mother.
Integers can be sorted in O(N) time (actually, so can floats, but unless you're sorting trillions of items, go with the O(n*log(n)) algorithms.
The algorithm for integers is simple (no value is passed for x on execution):
1. If the list contains 0 or 1 element, return.
2. Set a counter to 0, unless a value is given for x, set x=2^(n-1), where your ints have n bits.
3. Iterate through the list:
3a. If !(a[i] & x), then
3aa. swap a[i] and a[j]
3ab. increment j.
4. Apply algorithm to the sub-array a[0..j-1] and a[j..n].
This impliments nicely in C where pointers take care of the dirty work involved in passing parts of arrays (pass a pointer to the middle of the array).
Mathematicians don't make names for themselves by disproving things. They earn fame for proving new things (or outstanding conjectures). If Theorem A has a valid proof, than there cannot be a counterexample to it, or the system is flawed. Since it is most likely that most of mathematics is not done in a flawed system, there is no way to disprove something once once it has been proven mathematically.
R^3 (the minimal space in which the n=3 case exists) is rather odd. In R^0, R^1, and R^2, most things are pretty simple. In R^4+, there's enough room to avoid problems (in R^4 or higher, for example, you can neglect any countable set of 3 dimensional spaces while integrating, etc.). R^3 is probably the hardest space of finite integral dimension in which to work, which is unfortunate, because that's where almost all of engineering takes place.
One can easily define a cross product in R^4. It would however operate on three vectors, not 2. In fact, it is quite simple to define a function CrossP(v1,v2,...,vn) that returns a vector normal to v1,...,vn in R^(n+1) (what length you give the vector is a slightly different matter).