I'm glad I got my Alpha when I had the chance, a 21066 chip on a Digital AXPpci 33 motherboard. Sure, it's not one of the fastest ones out there, but I paid $150 for it and it works fine with RH 6.something.
One of these days, I want to snatch up one of several Alpha's on eBay and they have some really nice ones for not much money at all.
For example at this auction, with 5 hours left (at the time I'm writing this) you can get a dual 533MHz Alpha with everything you need for $520, install an OS and you're ready to go. I'd only want to exchange the 6 4.3GB drives for bigger capacities.
I guess if you don't have a loving woman around, a cold, mechanical, expensive robot will have to suffice, eh?
I couldn't resist.
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Have you yet realized that you spelled ability wrong, "Abilitity"? Before you start mocking mentally handicapped people, at least take a second and correct your spelling. If you don't, and you spell words incorrectly, then you'll look like a jackass. What am I saying, you *are* a jackass, even if you spelled ability wrong or right.
The point of my reply is that he chose the career to get attention, dipshit. Believe it or not, but people do enter careers they are not trained/educated for, for many different reasons, money, power, attention, etc... What a moron.
About your weak attack, I'm not doing this to get attention at all. I'm not waving my arms around and touting some stupid medial accomplishment that's only important in my own eyes. I answered the parents question, simple as that. You're the kind of troll just looking for a reason to argue and stroke it.
Maybe you should grow some balls and post under a registered nickname, Coward.
What exactly motivates people to do all these crazy things in the name of a piece of electronics?
I say attention. He has to surround himself by beautiful women (the one picture on wired.com with the girl behind the Mac desk, then the photography gallery that someone else posted the link to) then he also has to take all these Mac's and do something with them. Instant personal gratification and attention.
I did compare QWERTY vs. Dvorak in another post in the thread I started. About the remark, if it seems like I said that, I didn't mean to. All that I was saying is when comparing scientific calculator users to graphical calculator users, the scientific people can't rely on their calculators as much as graphical people. That means scientific people can do calculations faster in their head and are more confident in their answers.
But yes, in the long run, as long as you get the right answer when before time is up, then the method is moot.
To create another analogy, imagine someone that is learning a second language. Sure that second language may be smaller to write and can pass along the same information (chinese or japanese?) compared to the native language, but your native language seems more natural and takes much less effort than translating into the new format.
But I'm done with this, I'm not trying to convert RPN people to traditional, it just seems like a waste of time to do RPN and the gains people have mentioned are miniscule.
Do what you want, as long as you get the right answer.
Your example of the algebraic calculator and RPN calculator figuring that simple equation is pretty weak in the nature that people that use algebraic calculators know how their calculators behave. Algebraic calculator owners know the perils of entering an equation like that without explicitly using grouping symbols. In fact people that use algebraic calculators are better at doing math in their mind, so using a calculator becomes irrelevant. Sure, you and I and others could do that example, but what about more complex examples, including fractions? A friend of mine in some of the same classes up until recently had only a solar scientific calculator and he could simplify faster than most people. True, he had to use Cramer's Rule to solve simultaneous equations. He recently bought a TI-89 to do matrices and simultaneous equations much faster and he doesn't have to deal with Cramer's Rule on tests now.
I do understand how RPN behaves just by this thread of posts that my original post is the parent for. I feel that RPN is an unnecessary step to solving math equations. It may save a few keys here but lose some keys there, but the time it takes to learn RPN and use it seems like a waste. I'm waiting for someone to tell me how RPN would improve my engineering career (I'm a Computer Engineer, junior year). If you could tell me "well, RPN will save you half the time on type X problems" then that would really say something about RPN notation and change my fundamental position on RPN, but I haven't seen that yet and I'd still like to.
No, I said 3 simultaneous equations, that means 1 3x3 identity matrix, invert that, multiply it times the answer 1x3 matrix to get your solution matrix (you probably know the steps, but for anyone watching). Finding the solution to 2 simultaneous equations is much easier than for 3.
Great, 10 keys on one example. How much time does it really save, 8 seconds? If you need 8 seconds, you shouldn't be doing math. Math isn't something you do when seconds count. Speed makes mistakes.
Anyway, how does it stack up when I'm trying to solve 3 simultaneous equations with imaginary parts (doing sinusoidal stead state analysis with RLC circuits)? I can use the cSolve() function on my TI-89 and enter in the equations as I see them which means no intermediate step to convert conventional equations to RPN and that means very little chance of making a mistake.
I'm genuinely interested in how an experienced RPN user would handle this.
I agree with this parent. Who really needs RPN? I'm doing electrical engineering in my junior year in my BS and I haven't seen hide nor hair of it. RPN is just a toy that nerds use to separate themselves from "the common folk". Kind of like the language twins invent so they can isolate themselves from everyone else.
Grow up, if RPN was important, they'd teach me by now. Well, they didn't so it's not. If you can't deal with parenthesis, you shouldn't be doing math.
In talking to students who have HP calculators, I have not found one who knows the rpn algorithm.
For something to be popular, it doesn't need to be better. Dvorak or other keyboard layouts have been proven to let the learned user type faster than QWERTY layouts, but what layout does the majority of keyboards use, that's right, QWERTY. If you want RPN to be the standard, get teachers to teach it instead of traditional equations. If you want Dvorak or another keyboard layout to be used more, build and sell the keyboards for less than QWERTY's.
On a side note, I love my TI-89 more than HP calculators if only for the fact that the TI-89 has a much better resolution, the 49G has the same resolution TI-82's had and it feels like I'm in the 6th grade.
More people need to use common sense these days. Our laws are based on ethics and morality but when I hear about companies like this ISP basically putting in the TOS clauses that indemnify against every conceivable act (acts of God not withstanding) then I gotta wonder. If their accounting software is at fault, and I mean truly at fault, and she genuinely lost a $65,000 contract from it, then they have an obligation (not legally, but morally) to repair what happened. They messed up and they gotta pay.
The problem here is that this company, like other companies with a contract try and use legal clauses to excuse them out of moral responsibilities because of "their own fault" and "shit happens" attitudes. We need Terms of Service that say basically "if we screw up, we claim responsibility and make repairs". People don't want to take the wrap for anything, they just want to pass the blame on to someone else.
Another problem that arises is that customers don't shop around for the best term of service agreement that ISP's that service their area have. They don't have printouts and organize the agreements saying "ah ha, this one has expressed oral consent whereas this one has implied written consent". All they do is become influences by commercials, colleages and friends as to "what's the cheapest and best (as in least busy calls if by analog modem, or however you define best) ISP out there.
Batman sucks. If you take the majority of enemies that Superman has fought and placed Batman in his place, Batman would be no more.
Also, Superman can hear and see through buildings (read: women's bathroom) and hear people talking from across a city, that's pretty impressive. What does Batman have, the Bat-grappling-hook as a poor substitution for flying.
Batman is just a pet project of Bruce Wayne, just another toy of the rich. Superman has to be Superman 24/7 and he does it in fine style. I'd be Superman if I could get it on with Teri Hatcher.
Superman. Superman is The Man of Steel and can do anything he wants. Batman is just a guy in a costume, no special powers, just gadgets with names that start with Bat-. Batman also had his sidekick, Robin to help the illusion that Batman was a real superhero.
Agreed, but that's still the fault of the parent. Some parents say yes because they believe if they say yes, their kid will like them more and it all goes downhill. Next thing you see are these 9 year old stupid kids on Sally Jessie Raphael that have pulled out knives on their parents.
The parents (almost always moms because dads leave) come on crying saying "I don't know what happened, I don't know what to do!". I want to hit all those parents and kids and shout in the parents ears "you did it, you're an unfit parent!"
haha, if I were a moderator I'd give you points. That's happened to me too a few times so I can sympathize. I also liked how empty the sarcasm sounded, "no really, i'm not bitter...". Great stuff.
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I agree with your general position, but here's my perspective on my thoughts.
be a good parent and ensure they don't play them until they're old enough.
I agree with you that the parents are at fault, it's their responsibility, not game makers. Parents have to distance themselves (kids need some measure of privacy) but still pay attention to what the kids do. Also, pay attention to who your kid hangs out with, see if they may influence your kid to violence too.
No kid should be playing GTA3 under 16 or older anyway because those kids lack the grip on reality that older people have.
Parents and kids need to assume responsibility and act like human beings and think for themselves. Don't let the media (and other associated folks) blame video game makers for not raising their kids the way the parents want.
I think video games introduce kids to violence. If you take a kid and they grew up without violence in their face (like video games, friends that were violent, being bored or interested in violence on the internet, seeing Jackass/cKy, etc...) the chances are smaller than if they have seen all those things.
I think violence shows kids this stuff exists and it's left up to them if they want to act on it. That to me supports the idea of correlation but not causality.
You don't need Quicktime Pro, do these steps and roll your own conversion:
1. Install Quicktime 4 (from PC game CD's or elsewhere) 2. Install TMPGEnc mpeg encoder somewhere and get the QTReader.vfp plug-in for TMPGEnc. 3. Open the file and press convert. 4. You now have an MPEG-1 stream of the video, if you want DivX, get FlasKMPEG and convert to DIVX. You shouldn't need a big bitrate because there is little motion in the clip.
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I'm glad I got my Alpha when I had the chance, a 21066 chip on a Digital AXPpci 33 motherboard. Sure, it's not one of the fastest ones out there, but I paid $150 for it and it works fine with RH 6.something.
One of these days, I want to snatch up one of several Alpha's on eBay and they have some really nice ones for not much money at all.
For example at this auction, with 5 hours left (at the time I'm writing this) you can get a dual 533MHz Alpha with everything you need for $520, install an OS and you're ready to go. I'd only want to exchange the 6 4.3GB drives for bigger capacities.
I think the term you are groping for is "tactile response".
I guess if you don't have a loving woman around, a cold, mechanical, expensive robot will have to suffice, eh?
I couldn't resist.
Have you yet realized that you spelled ability wrong, "Abilitity"? Before you start mocking mentally handicapped people, at least take a second and correct your spelling. If you don't, and you spell words incorrectly, then you'll look like a jackass. What am I saying, you *are* a jackass, even if you spelled ability wrong or right.
The point of my reply is that he chose the career to get attention, dipshit. Believe it or not, but people do enter careers they are not trained/educated for, for many different reasons, money, power, attention, etc... What a moron.
About your weak attack, I'm not doing this to get attention at all. I'm not waving my arms around and touting some stupid medial accomplishment that's only important in my own eyes. I answered the parents question, simple as that. You're the kind of troll just looking for a reason to argue and stroke it.
Maybe you should grow some balls and post under a registered nickname, Coward.
I say attention. He has to surround himself by beautiful women (the one picture on wired.com with the girl behind the Mac desk, then the photography gallery that someone else posted the link to) then he also has to take all these Mac's and do something with them. Instant personal gratification and attention.
I did compare QWERTY vs. Dvorak in another post in the thread I started. About the remark, if it seems like I said that, I didn't mean to. All that I was saying is when comparing scientific calculator users to graphical calculator users, the scientific people can't rely on their calculators as much as graphical people. That means scientific people can do calculations faster in their head and are more confident in their answers.
But yes, in the long run, as long as you get the right answer when before time is up, then the method is moot.
To create another analogy, imagine someone that is learning a second language. Sure that second language may be smaller to write and can pass along the same information (chinese or japanese?) compared to the native language, but your native language seems more natural and takes much less effort than translating into the new format.
But I'm done with this, I'm not trying to convert RPN people to traditional, it just seems like a waste of time to do RPN and the gains people have mentioned are miniscule.
Do what you want, as long as you get the right answer.
Your example of the algebraic calculator and RPN calculator figuring that simple equation is pretty weak in the nature that people that use algebraic calculators know how their calculators behave. Algebraic calculator owners know the perils of entering an equation like that without explicitly using grouping symbols. In fact people that use algebraic calculators are better at doing math in their mind, so using a calculator becomes irrelevant. Sure, you and I and others could do that example, but what about more complex examples, including fractions? A friend of mine in some of the same classes up until recently had only a solar scientific calculator and he could simplify faster than most people. True, he had to use Cramer's Rule to solve simultaneous equations. He recently bought a TI-89 to do matrices and simultaneous equations much faster and he doesn't have to deal with Cramer's Rule on tests now.
I do understand how RPN behaves just by this thread of posts that my original post is the parent for. I feel that RPN is an unnecessary step to solving math equations. It may save a few keys here but lose some keys there, but the time it takes to learn RPN and use it seems like a waste. I'm waiting for someone to tell me how RPN would improve my engineering career (I'm a Computer Engineer, junior year). If you could tell me "well, RPN will save you half the time on type X problems" then that would really say something about RPN notation and change my fundamental position on RPN, but I haven't seen that yet and I'd still like to.
No, I said 3 simultaneous equations, that means 1 3x3 identity matrix, invert that, multiply it times the answer 1x3 matrix to get your solution matrix (you probably know the steps, but for anyone watching). Finding the solution to 2 simultaneous equations is much easier than for 3.
Great, 10 keys on one example. How much time does it really save, 8 seconds? If you need 8 seconds, you shouldn't be doing math. Math isn't something you do when seconds count. Speed makes mistakes.
Anyway, how does it stack up when I'm trying to solve 3 simultaneous equations with imaginary parts (doing sinusoidal stead state analysis with RLC circuits)? I can use the cSolve() function on my TI-89 and enter in the equations as I see them which means no intermediate step to convert conventional equations to RPN and that means very little chance of making a mistake.
I'm genuinely interested in how an experienced RPN user would handle this.
I agree with this parent. Who really needs RPN? I'm doing electrical engineering in my junior year in my BS and I haven't seen hide nor hair of it. RPN is just a toy that nerds use to separate themselves from "the common folk". Kind of like the language twins invent so they can isolate themselves from everyone else.
Grow up, if RPN was important, they'd teach me by now. Well, they didn't so it's not. If you can't deal with parenthesis, you shouldn't be doing math.
I found an interesting web page (http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~mleach/revpol/)and I'd like to quote from it:
In talking to students who have HP calculators, I have not found one who knows the rpn algorithm.
For something to be popular, it doesn't need to be better. Dvorak or other keyboard layouts have been proven to let the learned user type faster than QWERTY layouts, but what layout does the majority of keyboards use, that's right, QWERTY.
If you want RPN to be the standard, get teachers to teach it instead of traditional equations.
If you want Dvorak or another keyboard layout to be used more, build and sell the keyboards for less than QWERTY's.
On a side note, I love my TI-89 more than HP calculators if only for the fact that the TI-89 has a much better resolution, the 49G has the same resolution TI-82's had and it feels like I'm in the 6th grade.
More people need to use common sense these days. Our laws are based on ethics and morality but when I hear about companies like this ISP basically putting in the TOS clauses that indemnify against every conceivable act (acts of God not withstanding) then I gotta wonder. If their accounting software is at fault, and I mean truly at fault, and she genuinely lost a $65,000 contract from it, then they have an obligation (not legally, but morally) to repair what happened. They messed up and they gotta pay.
The problem here is that this company, like other companies with a contract try and use legal clauses to excuse them out of moral responsibilities because of "their own fault" and "shit happens" attitudes. We need Terms of Service that say basically "if we screw up, we claim responsibility and make repairs". People don't want to take the wrap for anything, they just want to pass the blame on to someone else.
Another problem that arises is that customers don't shop around for the best term of service agreement that ISP's that service their area have. They don't have printouts and organize the agreements saying "ah ha, this one has expressed oral consent whereas this one has implied written consent". All they do is become influences by commercials, colleages and friends as to "what's the cheapest and best (as in least busy calls if by analog modem, or however you define best) ISP out there.
Let me know what you think about this.
Can I see some proof or support to this? I'm interested to where this claim is coming from.
What's this show Stargate?
Why haven't I heard of it?
Why is it in season 7?
Where am I?
What about Ra's Al Ghul?
Batman sucks. If you take the majority of enemies that Superman has fought and placed Batman in his place, Batman would be no more.
Also, Superman can hear and see through buildings (read: women's bathroom) and hear people talking from across a city, that's pretty impressive. What does Batman have, the Bat-grappling-hook as a poor substitution for flying.
Batman is just a pet project of Bruce Wayne, just another toy of the rich. Superman has to be Superman 24/7 and he does it in fine style. I'd be Superman if I could get it on with Teri Hatcher.
Superman. Superman is The Man of Steel and can do anything he wants. Batman is just a guy in a costume, no special powers, just gadgets with names that start with Bat-. Batman also had his sidekick, Robin to help the illusion that Batman was a real superhero.
Agreed, but that's still the fault of the parent. Some parents say yes because they believe if they say yes, their kid will like them more and it all goes downhill. Next thing you see are these 9 year old stupid kids on Sally Jessie Raphael that have pulled out knives on their parents.
The parents (almost always moms because dads leave) come on crying saying "I don't know what happened, I don't know what to do!". I want to hit all those parents and kids and shout in the parents ears "you did it, you're an unfit parent!"
It's the parents fault, not the kids.
haha, if I were a moderator I'd give you points.
That's happened to me too a few times so I can sympathize.
I also liked how empty the sarcasm sounded, "no really, i'm not bitter...".
Great stuff.
slashdot is a source of fun? I didn't get that memo, perhaps you didn't put a cover sheet on it?
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I agree with you that the parents are at fault, it's their responsibility, not game makers. Parents have to distance themselves (kids need some measure of privacy) but still pay attention to what the kids do. Also, pay attention to who your kid hangs out with, see if they may influence your kid to violence too.
No kid should be playing GTA3 under 16 or older anyway because those kids lack the grip on reality that older people have.
Parents and kids need to assume responsibility and act like human beings and think for themselves. Don't let the media (and other associated folks) blame video game makers for not raising their kids the way the parents want.
I think video games introduce kids to violence.
If you take a kid and they grew up without violence in their face (like video games, friends that were violent, being bored or interested in violence on the internet, seeing Jackass/cKy, etc...) the chances are smaller than if they have seen all those things.
I think violence shows kids this stuff exists and it's left up to them if they want to act on it. That to me supports the idea of correlation but not causality.
You don't need Quicktime Pro, do these steps and roll your own conversion:
1. Install Quicktime 4 (from PC game CD's or elsewhere)
2. Install TMPGEnc mpeg encoder somewhere and get the QTReader.vfp plug-in for TMPGEnc.
3. Open the file and press convert.
4. You now have an MPEG-1 stream of the video, if you want DivX, get FlasKMPEG and convert to DIVX. You shouldn't need a big bitrate because there is little motion in the clip.
Okay, well, that's why I'm in Computer Engineering, to learn all these fun facts about gated chips and synchronous data/signal transfers.