is it just me, or does anybody else find it hilariously funny that the woman was tracked down because her name was hidden deep in the Word file ShowOffYourSkills.doc, even though she had 'deleted' it (she thought). When will people stop trusting Microsoft with anything of importance?
Can anybody who is familiar with some of the functional languages recommend for someone with a few years experience with Java, Python, and XSL (yes, it is a Turing complete declarative language)? Basically, I would just like to play around with some functional language. I'm thinking about OCaml and Haskell. Any thoughts about which is better for pedagogical purposes?
...when the mythical 'paperless' office arrives and everybody telecommutes and all corporations are 'virtual corporations', and we have strong AI -- I'm not holding my breath.
the only advice I can give you is to just give up! I suggest that if you do not have a Ph. D. from MIT, you just scurry back into the hole whence you came.
Everybody knows that everything of any importance exists because of an MIT Ph. D.
Seriously, save us all the disappointment, and just give up now. It is true that Shakespeare, Newton et al. didn't have a Ph. D. from MIT, but they lived in simpler times. We, today, know that without the tutelage of former MIT Ph. D.'s, and the hard work that culminates in an MIT Ph. D., we will all fail in the end, struggling to remember if that algorithm was O(log n) or O(log log n) -- 'tis sad, but true. Save yourself a lot of heartache, friend, and give up now.
You have to escape < with <, because otherwise the parser wouldn't be able to tell when an element tag was beginning or you meant less than. > isn't required to be escaped for this reason, because it is clear whether it is closing a tag or not. You also have to escape the ampersand, because otherwise the parser would have to scan ahead to know if you were specifying an entity like or you just meant & and whatever.
And I guess my point -- perhaps lost in the sarcasm -- was that the student does not really understand what calculus is. Saying that the music of Bach is like four people singing "michael, row the boat" doesn't convey anything meaningful about Bach's music. And I would argue that the same is true of your hypothetical algebra student. They don't have a clue what calculus is, though they may be able to repeat your words to you and may understand (sort of) the concepts of slope and area.
And as for the four-year old, I think I could convey to the kid what slope is vaguely about (in the sense that you conveyed something to the algebra student) by showing her how her velocity changes as a function of the slope of a big slide, and how the area of a thin metal disc is how many M & M's it can hold. Voila. Now, she knows slope and area, and I can teach her calculus if you can teach the algebra student.
that is brilliant! How I wish somebody would have explained that to me before I laboured through calculus.
You know how an apple falls when you drop it? Calculus lets you find the velocity with which it hits the floor; it also lets you know how much water you could store in the ball.
Newsflash: I can teach calculus to 4-year olds in less than three minutes.
Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that I have been trolled?
Oh, in case anybody else would like to install gestures on mozilla, see here. It takes just a few seconds to install. The last remaining Opera feature that I would like to see in mozilla is the ability to search in the address bar, like "g bill gates sucks" to send "bill gates sucks" to google, or "z programming for linux" to search amazon.
Yes, Opera definitely deserves an A. It is a really well-designed piece of software. I just noticed in this thread that gestures are available in mozilla, so i've just switched over to mozilla full-time for a while (and it has a password manager and handles my school's automatic proxy configuration page which I couldn't get to work with Opera).
I'm curious how Opera sent you a thank-you email when you say that you never gave them any personal info, not even an email address.
I knew that they were a kick-ass company, but even the Internet Detective isn't that good at tracking people down!
Seriously, though, Opera is a great browser, and tabbed browsing is pretty cool, but what sets Opera apart is navigation by mouse gestures. After you've done it for a couple of days, you wonder why Netscape didn't do it in 1997. It makes it worth the $, and I never thought a browser would be worth paying for.
Opera does have its problems though. There are certain pages that cause it to immediately crash (reproducible every time). I seem to hit at least once of these a day. Also, every single day when I go to my school website, I have to enter my username and password again, because Opera doesn't have the ability to store this information like every other browser on the planet. I don't know why they still haven't added such an obvious feature. Lastly, the built-in newsreader application lacks a keyboard shortcut for 'next unread', which is a sorely needed feature.
Yes! I lived in HK for a year and loved the Octopus card, and I gave no personal information whatsoever to get it. I don't know if I would get one now though.
The great thing about the card is that you don't even need to take it out of your purse, wallet, or even backpack to use it. Just get it within a few inches of the machine and it works. I was very disappointed with the BART system when I moved to the bay area. Maybe they'll move into the new millinnium one day.
What I think people don't realize (enough) is that there is no such thing as television as a (free) service -- there is just networks doing whatever they can to get more advertising dollars. It is incidental to the pursuit of more advertising $ that a good show comes out every now and then. They just want your attention, which is to say that the advertisers want your money.
Television in the united states is akin to a company providing a free email service so that they can spam you relentlessly and regularly. You think it's about the email service or the television program, but the spam and the commercials are what it's all about!
John Stenbit, an assistant secretary of defense and the Defense Department's chief information officer, said Microsoft has said using free software with commercial software might violate the intellectual-property rights of companies such as Microsoft. Stenbit said the issue is legally "murky."
Can any lawyers tell us how in the hell this might even be remotely plausible? Is it possible that there might be *anything* to such a claim that using both free and non-free commercial software might violate the IP rights of the commercial vendor? This sounds like good old MS FUD, but usually there is some tiny scrap of reality at the base of their sand castle. I can't believe this might be true, but IANAL.
i just downloaded from it less than 15 minutes ago. You're right though. I just tried again and got the following error message:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, jis@MIT.EDU and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Normally, I don't go off correcting other people's grammar (it's fast way to piss off people - watch my karma drop to 47 for a demonstration)...
Regarding your parenthetical: it's not good way to express your thought. Nine out of ten snobs love 'em.
I would recommend picking up The Chicago Manual of Style which speaks about some of the finer points of formal, idiomatic English.
Are you being sarcastic here? This flacid prose makes the passive sound like Hemingway. It speaks about?! 'Speak to' would be much more idiomatic here, in keeping with your naive, pedantic, i-believe-everything-i-learned-in-3rd-grade-gramma r-class attitude.
Perhaps you are a grammar teacher. They always are the worst writers. If only slavish obedience to rule conduced to good writing...!
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And don't forget about the 'History' feature that Internet Explorer has. Has anybody ever heard of such a revolutionary concept in a web browser?
is it just me, or does anybody else find it hilariously funny that the woman was tracked down because her name was hidden deep in the Word file ShowOffYourSkills.doc, even though she had 'deleted' it (she thought). When will people stop trusting Microsoft with anything of importance?
Can anybody who is familiar with some of the functional languages recommend for someone with a few years experience with Java, Python, and XSL (yes, it is a Turing complete declarative language)? Basically, I would just like to play around with some functional language. I'm thinking about OCaml and Haskell. Any thoughts about which is better for pedagogical purposes?
laksdjf!
The Oxford English Dictionary doesn't know what egantagious means. Care to enlighten us all?
...when the mythical 'paperless' office arrives and everybody telecommutes and all corporations are 'virtual corporations', and we have strong AI -- I'm not holding my breath.
Did your wife buy that excuse when you tried it on her?
the only advice I can give you is to just give up! I suggest that if you do not have a Ph. D. from MIT, you just scurry back into the hole whence you came.
Everybody knows that everything of any importance exists because of an MIT Ph. D.
Seriously, save us all the disappointment, and just give up now. It is true that Shakespeare, Newton et al. didn't have a Ph. D. from MIT, but they lived in simpler times. We, today, know that without the tutelage of former MIT Ph. D.'s, and the hard work that culminates in an MIT Ph. D., we will all fail in the end, struggling to remember if that algorithm was O(log n) or O(log log n) -- 'tis sad, but true. Save yourself a lot of heartache, friend, and give up now.
You have to escape < with <, because otherwise the parser wouldn't be able to tell when an element tag was beginning or you meant less than. > isn't required to be escaped for this reason, because it is clear whether it is closing a tag or not. You also have to escape the ampersand, because otherwise the parser would have to scan ahead to know if you were specifying an entity like or you just meant & and whatever.
And as for the four-year old, I think I could convey to the kid what slope is vaguely about (in the sense that you conveyed something to the algebra student) by showing her how her velocity changes as a function of the slope of a big slide, and how the area of a thin metal disc is how many M & M's it can hold. Voila. Now, she knows slope and area, and I can teach her calculus if you can teach the algebra student.
You know how an apple falls when you drop it? Calculus lets you find the velocity with which it hits the floor; it also lets you know how much water you could store in the ball.
Newsflash: I can teach calculus to 4-year olds in less than three minutes.
Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that I have been trolled?
don't forget the free speech movement.
i think 'what looks to be' is pretty close to 'may be.' the writeup isn't definitive.
See here for a page that links to about 15 reviews of ANKOS. My favorite is this review for the Mathematical Association of America.
Thanks a lot for the great tip. Now Mozilla has _everything_ I want.
Oh, in case anybody else would like to install gestures on mozilla, see here. It takes just a few seconds to install. The last remaining Opera feature that I would like to see in mozilla is the ability to search in the address bar, like "g bill gates sucks" to send "bill gates sucks" to google, or "z programming for linux" to search amazon.
Long live mozilla, the new king!
I knew that they were a kick-ass company, but even the Internet Detective isn't that good at tracking people down!
Seriously, though, Opera is a great browser, and tabbed browsing is pretty cool, but what sets Opera apart is navigation by mouse gestures. After you've done it for a couple of days, you wonder why Netscape didn't do it in 1997. It makes it worth the $, and I never thought a browser would be worth paying for.
Opera does have its problems though. There are certain pages that cause it to immediately crash (reproducible every time). I seem to hit at least once of these a day. Also, every single day when I go to my school website, I have to enter my username and password again, because Opera doesn't have the ability to store this information like every other browser on the planet. I don't know why they still haven't added such an obvious feature. Lastly, the built-in newsreader application lacks a keyboard shortcut for 'next unread', which is a sorely needed feature.
The great thing about the card is that you don't even need to take it out of your purse, wallet, or even backpack to use it. Just get it within a few inches of the machine and it works. I was very disappointed with the BART system when I moved to the bay area. Maybe they'll move into the new millinnium one day.
Ever heard of trolls?
Television in the united states is akin to a company providing a free email service so that they can spam you relentlessly and regularly. You think it's about the email service or the television program, but the spam and the commercials are what it's all about!
Can any lawyers tell us how in the hell this might even be remotely plausible? Is it possible that there might be *anything* to such a claim that using both free and non-free commercial software might violate the IP rights of the commercial vendor? This sounds like good old MS FUD, but usually there is some tiny scrap of reality at the base of their sand castle. I can't believe this might be true, but IANAL.
at http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html, but you can bet that i'm gonna download it again right now and burn the installer onto a CD.
Regarding your parenthetical: it's not good way to express your thought. Nine out of ten snobs love 'em.
I would recommend picking up The Chicago Manual of Style which speaks about some of the finer points of formal, idiomatic English.
Are you being sarcastic here? This flacid prose makes the passive sound like Hemingway. It speaks about?! 'Speak to' would be much more idiomatic here, in keeping with your naive, pedantic, i-believe-everything-i-learned-in-3rd-grade-gramma r-class attitude.
Perhaps you are a grammar teacher. They always are the worst writers. If only slavish obedience to rule conduced to good writing...!