I agree with this as well. I know several people who are in actuality rathre intelligent, but since they hunt-and-peck type they hack words to abbreviate. I did as well, until I learned to touch type, because hunt and pecking a fully worded message takes alot longer and breaks up the flow of conversation
I got to use my TI-89 calculator in calculus, and I agree that it's help probably hindered me in memorizing a certain amount of things. However I could also check my answers with it, which is certainly a good thing.
Also, I ask you this-- In my junior and senior engineering courses why in the world should I be forced to work out the time consuming calculus or algebra part by hand when that's not even the concept being taught? It wastes my time, and the instructor's time, and greatly increases the chance of missing an answer due to a mistake somewhere. Graphic calculators have their place at school, and that is to let you bypass things that are, at that point in your studies, more or less mundane.
I suppose it really depends on how granular you're being with your definition of trivia. It also somewhat depends on your direciton of study, as trivia to an EE could well be holy writ to an arts major.
I guess I segregate factoids into trivia categories depending on how relevant they are. Of course something I call trivia is probably relevant to someone, but --well, for example, knowing how to do a laplace transform on a circuit is something I do, and highly technical, but knowing when Laplace first published a paper (1771) isn't really useful in any sort of context without more information--trivia.
You're correct. However trivia is knowing alot of little bits about different things. None of those bits are necessarily useful by themselves unless you're in a trivia competition.
Knowledge of a subject implies you understand it and can implement or apply, not spout a handful of factoids
The last canon I had , a bubblejet, was a flaming piece of shit. Got it for christmas along with a scanner cartrige several years ago, and in its lifetime it probably printed about 20 pieces of paper, if that. Ink simply would not come out of the printer after a certain amount of time, regardless of newness of the ink carts. The scanner cart however, worked fine.
I suppose it depends on how the stop lights are timed.
Where I am (Charlotte, NC) they're either 3 or 5 second depending on the speed limit of the area. I've never had trouble making a stop, but I have seen some poeple get into trouble by flooring it thinking they can make it and then slamming on the brakes at the last minute.
When someone around here bothers to complain about the light cameras, if you talk abit what you typically come to find out is they really mean "I've already got my radar detector so that I can speed down the highways I want to be able to speed through intersections and run lights as well"
One could make perhaps a cynical observation in charlotte- The red light cameras are in the classy areas of town (people more likely to just pay the ticket?) and absent from the university area and apartments surrounding.
I like the idea of doing the survey, however as NC has been noted as having the most USELESS driving test ever i'm not sure i'd trust whatever the handbook has to say as being accurate or up to date. I'm curious how they did the survey though. If you assume a light is 3-second yellow, how do you go about recording data...take teh posted speed limit and then figure out how far from the light you have to start braking to stop safely and compare to the light time?
The fact that more people are running lights couldn't possibly be the fault of the drivers could it?
Any camera system i've encountered will not flash unless your car is crossing the stop line when the light is red. If you are going the speed limit you should have no trouble making that stop safely. If you are in the intersection or on top of it when the light turns yellow you have nothing to worry about
On the official WOW forums I've seen some griping by university students in Washington stating that basically they are unable to play due to Blizzard's bittorrent distribution method conflicting with state law (using state resources to upload bits of a commercial game to others)
Anyone elsewhere running into something like that?
Towns are bad enough with 1 server's worth of people on them. Can you imagine the slowdown occuring when you walk into Ironforge or Orgimmar with 20-40 server's worth of population crammed into one city?
I agree thinking Bliz should let you have a 1 time character transfer to another server, but I don't think it's technically possible to make it really one world and have the game still be enjoyable
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So in other words, if I graduated from a small private college, I'm fucked cause he's too lazy to look something up?
SBC Yahoo DSL is about on par service wise with AOL. I have yet to hear a positive user experience regarding them.
I agree with this as well. I know several people who are in actuality rathre intelligent, but since they hunt-and-peck type they hack words to abbreviate. I did as well, until I learned to touch type, because hunt and pecking a fully worded message takes alot longer and breaks up the flow of conversation
Because the point of lifting weights is to lift weights.
The point of Network Theory or Physics is not to prove that you can do calculus.
He may have meant that, but he said "High school exams" and "University"
I got to use my TI-89 calculator in calculus, and I agree that it's help probably hindered me in memorizing a certain amount of things. However I could also check my answers with it, which is certainly a good thing.
Also, I ask you this-- In my junior and senior engineering courses why in the world should I be forced to work out the time consuming calculus or algebra part by hand when that's not even the concept being taught? It wastes my time, and the instructor's time, and greatly increases the chance of missing an answer due to a mistake somewhere.
Graphic calculators have their place at school, and that is to let you bypass things that are, at that point in your studies, more or less mundane.
Disk imaging man. Norton ghost makes reformat reinstall sessions take about an hour tops.
Zonealarm and Norton (the AV part at least) both have very little to do with spyware detection. I wonder what else you were doing differently?
I suppose it really depends on how granular you're being with your definition of trivia. It also somewhat depends on your direciton of study, as trivia to an EE could well be holy writ to an arts major.
I guess I segregate factoids into trivia categories depending on how relevant they are. Of course something I call trivia is probably relevant to someone, but --well, for example, knowing how to do a laplace transform on a circuit is something I do, and highly technical, but knowing when Laplace first published a paper (1771) isn't really useful in any sort of context without more information--trivia.
I hope that made some sense.
You're correct. However trivia is knowing alot of little bits about different things. None of those bits are necessarily useful by themselves unless you're in a trivia competition.
Knowledge of a subject implies you understand it and can implement or apply, not spout a handful of factoids
You're also smart enough to get your schoolwork done quickly and still have time for that.
The problem pointed out here is when the rest of your classmates put in the same amount of gaming time as you do and their grades suffer for it.
Bleeping in southpark is as much a gimmick as the rest of the show. I imagine they'd do it even if they didn't have to.
The last canon I had , a bubblejet, was a flaming piece of shit. Got it for christmas along with a scanner cartrige several years ago, and in its lifetime it probably printed about 20 pieces of paper, if that. Ink simply would not come out of the printer after a certain amount of time, regardless of newness of the ink carts. The scanner cart however, worked fine.
I suppose it depends on how the stop lights are timed.
Where I am (Charlotte, NC) they're either 3 or 5 second depending on the speed limit of the area. I've never had trouble making a stop, but I have seen some poeple get into trouble by flooring it thinking they can make it and then slamming on the brakes at the last minute.
When someone around here bothers to complain about the light cameras, if you talk abit what you typically come to find out is they really mean "I've already got my radar detector so that I can speed down the highways I want to be able to speed through intersections and run lights as well"
One could make perhaps a cynical observation in charlotte- The red light cameras are in the classy areas of town (people more likely to just pay the ticket?) and absent from the university area and apartments surrounding.
I like the idea of doing the survey, however as NC has been noted as having the most USELESS driving test ever i'm not sure i'd trust whatever the handbook has to say as being accurate or up to date. I'm curious how they did the survey though. If you assume a light is 3-second yellow, how do you go about recording data...take teh posted speed limit and then figure out how far from the light you have to start braking to stop safely and compare to the light time?
The fact that more people are running lights couldn't possibly be the fault of the drivers could it?
Any camera system i've encountered will not flash unless your car is crossing the stop line when the light is red. If you are going the speed limit you should have no trouble making that stop safely. If you are in the intersection or on top of it when the light turns yellow you have nothing to worry about
That's longer than I would have thought it would have purchased.
I suspect debate on that matter will be horribly skewed, as 500 is a pittance in medical terms in the US.
5 years of care is no small thing though, regardless of how much it costs
Depends, how far does that go in India?
That doesn't help if the college's IT department has blocked BT at the firewall anyway.
Which never, ever was the case.
nice try.
since when again was it wrong to try to keep people from illegally obtaining/using your work?
Yeah except I said *legally* obtain. Making one like your buddy did is a felony, as was stated elsewhere in the thread.
.22 and had it do anything but blow up or catch fire when you fired the weapon
I find it hard to believe you put a paper roll on anything bigger than a
Just cause they dont care doesnt mean they have the means and intelligence to get or make one.
Would be funny, except silencers are extremely expensive and nearly impossible to legally obtain.
On the official WOW forums I've seen some griping by university students in Washington stating that basically they are unable to play due to Blizzard's bittorrent distribution method conflicting with state law (using state resources to upload bits of a commercial game to others)
Anyone elsewhere running into something like that?
Towns are bad enough with 1 server's worth of people on them. Can you imagine the slowdown occuring when you walk into Ironforge or Orgimmar with 20-40 server's worth of population crammed into one city?
I agree thinking Bliz should let you have a 1 time character transfer to another server, but I don't think it's technically possible to make it really one world and have the game still be enjoyable