I'm a failing engineering student at Iowa State University- or at least I was.. My failing point: math. I can out code some of the instructors in my classes, but I can't do math or memorize functions and derivitives of trigonometric functions.
If this book pans out, it would ultimately change Calculus for the better and might allow me to pass my classes- I wonder if I figured out how to apply this book to my classes and came up with the correct answers despite having worked the problems with his methods, if I'd still pass the class?
right, but so why didnt they arrest the ebay purchaser too?
presuming the guy who bought the laptop to sell on ebay didn't know it was stolen goods, the guy who bought it on ebay is just as guilty. (this is sort of supposed to be a sarcastic type question ultimately asking why they arrested the seller)
With $100m, you'd think they could have a website that shows me why its different from windows XP in clear concise bullet/check list.
The current site says a lot without really saying anything... 'Its faster, better, more concise!', but how, why, what's -really- different? Optimized code? Complete rewrite?
The last beta of Windows Vista I peeked at (Still Longhorn then), it looked indistinguishable from Windows XP.
Is it worth my money? Why would I really want to upgrade?
VB spoiling in terms of GUI stuff- yeah, vb definately sucks all around in terms of power, but for Rapid Application Development in the business environment, it had its uses.
As far as windows programming goes- I haven't really used VB since VB6 was out, then I switched to C# when VS.NET came out.
As far a unix programming goes, I've done lots of classwork and jobwork in C++/C for unix environments, but never got around to GUI code.
I guess it's time for me to learn how to do gui programming C++ and GTK? I've been spoiled with C# and VB for so long... I know unix based C++ and C, but not gui programming. This should be fun!?
True, OPEC isnt the sole factor in gas prices- the disabling of US refineries in the southeast has been a large factor- but certainly OPEC seems to set the pace and atmosphere.
We are fortunate to have subsidized fuel prices in the US, and I am thankful for that, otherwise I'm not sure I'd be able to afford to drive to work with prices like Europe is seeing.
Whether or not the Bush family has a stake in Exxon (I do not know the answer, do you?), the President is not someone who would jeopardize the livelihood of hundreds of millions of americans for a little profit. This gets right back to the us versus them post I made earlier- you sound like one who is convinced Bush is the devil. Do you give him no credit for anything whatsoever? It is one thing to disagree, and another to make wild accusations of treason and other irreprehensible behavior.
"Bush doesn't care about black people" "Bush is raising gas prices so he can make a profit" "Bush is the worst president this country has ever had" and on and on and on.
This man may not be the worlds most perfect speaker and certainly has a knack for making slip-ups as far as phrasing goes, but you know, I think he truly has good intentions even if his beliefs and priorities don't line up 100% with yours. Millions of people like you are waking up every day and not only saying that they disagree, but that they feel the president more or less has it in for this country. That's exactly what is sending this country down the tubes (you'll have to take a peek at my other post). Just remember, the president is privy to more information than most of us even want to know - think: "You can't handle the truth". I trust that he has our best interests in mind and at a minimum, knows more about the status of the world than I do.
I hope our next president is one that everyone can put their faith in, regardless of whether or not they 100% believe in all of his decisions being what they would do.
While I don't like this policy, it is definately not terrorism. It is the difference between the principal of a high school saying they will expel anyone known to have weapons on campus and the principal expelling anyone for any reason he feels like. Now we're certainly not in high-school, and this isn't a world class example- most certainly riddled with flaws and counter examples- but I think it makes my point.
I think that the intent of the policy is to allow a pre-emptive (most likely non-nuclear) strike against a country who is flexing their nuclear muscles against the US in a way that delivers clear intent of destruction while saying. I think this policy is about saying "we'll beat you to the punch if you think about using those bad boys against us" and hoping that the knowledge that not only do we have the capability physically and that we have the capability beaurocratically as well will ultimately deterr most possible agressors.
The problem ultimately with such legislation is that we have to be very careful about who we put in office since the wrong president could abuse such powers.
I keep hoping for someone with no background in politics, but with high intelligence, education, and common sense- perhaps a professor of some kind. Unfortunately, the smart and untainted (by politics) people are too smart to want to be president or to be involved in the politics and 'favor exchange'. Perhaps someday, eh?
Maybe we just need to nominate and fund someone with real potential?
Since when does Nuclear Weapon == Tonka Truck?
We're not talking about a little kid (presumably the US) taking toys from anyone. We're talking about the toddler's leverage against the bully with the brass nuckles.
I agree that we're not handling things the way we should be, but I think that no matter who is president, there are always things that no one will like and things that half of the people will hate.
What I'm deathly afraid of, and what seems to be becoming a reality day by day, is another civil war. It seems that the democrats and the republicans are getting further and further apart and at the same time increasing the hatred and the generalizations. I live in a very democrat heavy town (and in Iowa no less) and the bumper stickers, posters, newspaper articles, everything all seem to have degenerated into an us versus them thing where everyones backed into thinking the President is a schmuck with no regard for humanity nor a single shred of intelligence, or thinking that he's doing everything 100% right.
The dissent is growing, the economy is going down the tubes, gas prices are going through the roof, a fair chunk of the country is now a 3rd world disaster area, and I don't see things getting better anytime soon. We're spending Billions on disaster recovery every year, if it isn't Katrina, it's Ivan or Andrew, or tornados in the midwest, earthquakes in the west, blizzards in the east.
I am starting to believe that if OPEC squeezes their fist just a little tighter, the overall stress level in the country will go up just enough to bring us to the brink of some kind of internal war- perhaps not with guns however. I think that if you add up the stress of gas, race relations, democrats versus republicans, terrorism, and the job market, we're being torn apart at the seams and the terrorists are winning.
I keep getting visions of $6-8+ gallons of gas, inflation, and chaos.
Maybe this is all a bit of an exaggeration, but it certainly seems like things are heading for certain disaster.
Anyway, for the good of all of us, please stop, research and let go of your pre-conceptions before you join into the us versus them choir.
oh, but the stealth cloaking technology should take care of that, they wont even know its there!
but realisticly: flying at night, they'd be deadly silent and all but invisible to everything but radar (unless they flew low enough?). I guess you trade speed, armor and agility for stealth.
I suppose it depends on who you know, I know quite a lot of techie people who don't use it, including myself.
In general, blanket statements don't work (perhaps including this one).
As for Trillian, last I knew, it was a multi-protocol messenger that could use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, etc? As a caveat, I don't recall it supporting MS Messenger, so I think that adds some validation to your statement about the guy switching from Trillian.
I'd like to clarify/add to what I said.. It's hillarious because not only is it hard to reconcile against reality, but it's like watching the meth lab down the street burning down and the people running it are trying to put it out with dixie cups filled with water.
I never thought I'd say this, but China's leaders need to keel over and die due to 'natural causes', with the help of a few allied governments' militaries.
I'm usually all for leaving other countries' governments alone, but I'm starting to feel like there's a certain threshold which you can stifle people's rights, and China is well past that and needs to be dismantled/reshaped.
Btw, I should note, that I don't feel like this solely due to Skype - I could care less about skype.. Watching a country try and make information and self-education disappear is both hillarious and saddening. It is hillarious because they will never succeed in the long run, it is saddening that they have succeded in general for now and succeeded in limiting so much other information.
I (as well as other slashdotters probably) have varying levels of 'reading'. My first pass, I probably read about 40% of it, my second pass I probably read about 75% of it, and perhaps if I get a chance Ill do a more focused read and take in all of it.
As for my original post, it does bug me when there's someone who writes about their first and yet somehow definitive experience with something. I really did not intend to sound like a troll, but I suppose my wording left a stabbing tone- again 100% unintended.
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I'm a failing engineering student at Iowa State University- or at least I was.. My failing point: math. I can out code some of the instructors in my classes, but I can't do math or memorize functions and derivitives of trigonometric functions.
If this book pans out, it would ultimately change Calculus for the better and might allow me to pass my classes- I wonder if I figured out how to apply this book to my classes and came up with the correct answers despite having worked the problems with his methods, if I'd still pass the class?
right, but so why didnt they arrest the ebay purchaser too?
presuming the guy who bought the laptop to sell on ebay didn't know it was stolen goods, the guy who bought it on ebay is just as guilty. (this is sort of supposed to be a sarcastic type question ultimately asking why they arrested the seller)
With $100m, you'd think they could have a website that shows me why its different from windows XP in clear concise bullet/check list.
The current site says a lot without really saying anything... 'Its faster, better, more concise!', but how, why, what's -really- different? Optimized code? Complete rewrite?
The last beta of Windows Vista I peeked at (Still Longhorn then), it looked indistinguishable from Windows XP.
Is it worth my money? Why would I really want to upgrade?
Now if the guy who bought it from the lady was arrested, you'd think they could go after the ebay guy too...
Do you have any proof or references at all?
It's very easy to say and believe such things, but is there any real proof? If there is, I'll happily absorb it and become more enlightened.
This seems to be the best solution offered in terms of both speed (or perhaps code-quality) and cross-platform flexibility.
VB spoiling in terms of GUI stuff- yeah, vb definately sucks all around in terms of power, but for Rapid Application Development in the business environment, it had its uses.
As far as windows programming goes- I haven't really used VB since VB6 was out, then I switched to C# when VS.NET came out.
As far a unix programming goes, I've done lots of classwork and jobwork in C++/C for unix environments, but never got around to GUI code.
I just realized you said 'for each distro'.. oh well..
;o)
i guess my point was, there may not be 7 versions for each distro, but its still just as confusing to get into linux
Yeah, instead there's Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mandriva, Knoppix, Lindows, Caldera, Ubuntu, Xandros, aLinux, Arch Linux, Beehive Linux, Black Cat Linux, Symphony OS, BSD, Open Solaris, and many many others..
;o)
So much more simple
I guess it's time for me to learn how to do gui programming C++ and GTK? I've been spoiled with C# and VB for so long... I know unix based C++ and C, but not gui programming. This should be fun!?
True, OPEC isnt the sole factor in gas prices- the disabling of US refineries in the southeast has been a large factor- but certainly OPEC seems to set the pace and atmosphere.
We are fortunate to have subsidized fuel prices in the US, and I am thankful for that, otherwise I'm not sure I'd be able to afford to drive to work with prices like Europe is seeing.
Whether or not the Bush family has a stake in Exxon (I do not know the answer, do you?), the President is not someone who would jeopardize the livelihood of hundreds of millions of americans for a little profit. This gets right back to the us versus them post I made earlier- you sound like one who is convinced Bush is the devil. Do you give him no credit for anything whatsoever? It is one thing to disagree, and another to make wild accusations of treason and other irreprehensible behavior.
"Bush doesn't care about black people"
"Bush is raising gas prices so he can make a profit"
"Bush is the worst president this country has ever had"
and on and on and on.
This man may not be the worlds most perfect speaker and certainly has a knack for making slip-ups as far as phrasing goes, but you know, I think he truly has good intentions even if his beliefs and priorities don't line up 100% with yours. Millions of people like you are waking up every day and not only saying that they disagree, but that they feel the president more or less has it in for this country. That's exactly what is sending this country down the tubes (you'll have to take a peek at my other post). Just remember, the president is privy to more information than most of us even want to know - think: "You can't handle the truth". I trust that he has our best interests in mind and at a minimum, knows more about the status of the world than I do.
I hope our next president is one that everyone can put their faith in, regardless of whether or not they 100% believe in all of his decisions being what they would do.
"that by definition is terrorism"
While I don't like this policy, it is definately not terrorism. It is the difference between the principal of a high school saying they will expel anyone known to have weapons on campus and the principal expelling anyone for any reason he feels like. Now we're certainly not in high-school, and this isn't a world class example- most certainly riddled with flaws and counter examples- but I think it makes my point.
I think that the intent of the policy is to allow a pre-emptive (most likely non-nuclear) strike against a country who is flexing their nuclear muscles against the US in a way that delivers clear intent of destruction while saying. I think this policy is about saying "we'll beat you to the punch if you think about using those bad boys against us" and hoping that the knowledge that not only do we have the capability physically and that we have the capability beaurocratically as well will ultimately deterr most possible agressors.
The problem ultimately with such legislation is that we have to be very careful about who we put in office since the wrong president could abuse such powers.
I keep hoping for someone with no background in politics, but with high intelligence, education, and common sense- perhaps a professor of some kind. Unfortunately, the smart and untainted (by politics) people are too smart to want to be president or to be involved in the politics and 'favor exchange'. Perhaps someday, eh?
Maybe we just need to nominate and fund someone with real potential?
Since when does Nuclear Weapon == Tonka Truck? We're not talking about a little kid (presumably the US) taking toys from anyone. We're talking about the toddler's leverage against the bully with the brass nuckles. I agree that we're not handling things the way we should be, but I think that no matter who is president, there are always things that no one will like and things that half of the people will hate. What I'm deathly afraid of, and what seems to be becoming a reality day by day, is another civil war. It seems that the democrats and the republicans are getting further and further apart and at the same time increasing the hatred and the generalizations. I live in a very democrat heavy town (and in Iowa no less) and the bumper stickers, posters, newspaper articles, everything all seem to have degenerated into an us versus them thing where everyones backed into thinking the President is a schmuck with no regard for humanity nor a single shred of intelligence, or thinking that he's doing everything 100% right. The dissent is growing, the economy is going down the tubes, gas prices are going through the roof, a fair chunk of the country is now a 3rd world disaster area, and I don't see things getting better anytime soon. We're spending Billions on disaster recovery every year, if it isn't Katrina, it's Ivan or Andrew, or tornados in the midwest, earthquakes in the west, blizzards in the east. I am starting to believe that if OPEC squeezes their fist just a little tighter, the overall stress level in the country will go up just enough to bring us to the brink of some kind of internal war- perhaps not with guns however. I think that if you add up the stress of gas, race relations, democrats versus republicans, terrorism, and the job market, we're being torn apart at the seams and the terrorists are winning. I keep getting visions of $6-8+ gallons of gas, inflation, and chaos. Maybe this is all a bit of an exaggeration, but it certainly seems like things are heading for certain disaster. Anyway, for the good of all of us, please stop, research and let go of your pre-conceptions before you join into the us versus them choir.
Apparently, no-one... there's a section.. Although it has no bearing on my original submission, I suppose it would have been nice to give a link.
My original submission was early this morning and also had a few extras like "Doesnt anybody remember the W.O.P.R.?
that's got to be the best idea I've seen ;o)
and funny to boot!
oh, but the stealth cloaking technology should take care of that, they wont even know its there!
but realisticly: flying at night, they'd be deadly silent and all but invisible to everything but radar (unless they flew low enough?). I guess you trade speed, armor and agility for stealth.
+3 Frightening?
I suppose it depends on who you know, I know quite a lot of techie people who don't use it, including myself.
In general, blanket statements don't work (perhaps including this one).
As for Trillian, last I knew, it was a multi-protocol messenger that could use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, etc? As a caveat, I don't recall it supporting MS Messenger, so I think that adds some validation to your statement about the guy switching from Trillian.
Original poster mentioned it would be a good intro for a non-techie person. I'd say you're restating the obvious in hopes of a first post.
You're definately correct, I was expressing a feeling more than a, "phone up your senators" sort of thing ;o)
I'd like to clarify/add to what I said.. It's hillarious because not only is it hard to reconcile against reality, but it's like watching the meth lab down the street burning down and the people running it are trying to put it out with dixie cups filled with water.
I never thought I'd say this, but China's leaders need to keel over and die due to 'natural causes', with the help of a few allied governments' militaries.
I'm usually all for leaving other countries' governments alone, but I'm starting to feel like there's a certain threshold which you can stifle people's rights, and China is well past that and needs to be dismantled/reshaped.
Btw, I should note, that I don't feel like this solely due to Skype - I could care less about skype.. Watching a country try and make information and self-education disappear is both hillarious and saddening. It is hillarious because they will never succeed in the long run, it is saddening that they have succeded in general for now and succeeded in limiting so much other information.
You used to work for NASA right?
No worries ;o)
I (as well as other slashdotters probably) have varying levels of 'reading'. My first pass, I probably read about 40% of it, my second pass I probably read about 75% of it, and perhaps if I get a chance Ill do a more focused read and take in all of it.
As for my original post, it does bug me when there's someone who writes about their first and yet somehow definitive experience with something. I really did not intend to sound like a troll, but I suppose my wording left a stabbing tone- again 100% unintended.
-Looking forward to your next post.
(*cuts this sub-thread*)