That's why I love that particular expression: addition, multiplication, exponentiation, the additive identity, the multiplicative identity, equality, everybody's two favorite irrationals, and the imaginary unit, all in one beautiful package.
"With these ten amendments: the right to assembly; the right to bear arms;...; ah, eleven amendments: the right...; ah, twelve--Everybody out! We'll start over!"
I gave up on spelling bees in 6th grade when I lost the class bee because the teacher thought "atmosphere" was spelled "atomosphere" and refused to let me get the dictionary and prove I was right. I realize real bees are checked and double-checked both before and during the competition, but that episode so turned me off that I decided never to waste my time memorizing lists of words.
In any case, I'm not preaching "slowing down" (I didn't think I was preaching at all), but encouraging you to think about what you're about to do, weigh the risks vs. gains where possible. It's a quantitative version of "look before you leap."
I've used small-group discussions in calc & pre-calc, but full-class works better for lit. Even so, for the discussion to do any good, there should be some professorial moderation, so there's a limit both on the size of any group and the number of groups. I could take attendance on a class of thirty-five in under a minute (and I also used the "quiz attendance" proxy), although I had no mandatory attendance policy.
My wife is a professor of English lit, and her reaction was the same: if your class is so large that you can't take attendance by hand in a few seconds, then it's too large for discussion, and if it's not a discussion class, who cares if you attend?
So your "separate bill" would require insurance companies to cover everyone, regardless of pre-existing conditions. Great! Now I won't even bother getting insurance and paying those pesky premiums until I have a condition that is really unaffordable without it.
What's that you say? Nobody healthy has insurance, so premiums are skyrocketing? How unfair is that?
It's a three-legged stool: If you require insurance companies to cover anyone who applies, then you must require even healthy people (yes, everyone) to be in the insured pool (the whole idea of true insurance is to spread risk), and if everyone must buy insurance, then some people are going to require subsidies to help them pay the premiums, because they're too poor to afford them otherwise. (And the penalty for not buying insurance must be at least as great as the least expensive premium, or it's just a cost of not doing business.)
Take away any leg, and it falls over.
The rest of the bill is (mostly) working out how to make insurance available, how much the subsidies and penalties are, plus a bunch of programs that will attempt to rein in costs: when we see which ones work (and which ones don't), we'll promote those in the future.
Pull the battery? There's this thing under the hood called the fuse box--pull the horn fuse. On my Saturn, at least, the horn has its own fuse. I know, because one night, it started honking all by itself.
Agreed! PK crypto, block ciphers, etc., was in my Elementary Number Theory textbook (1984, Kenneth Rosen). No freakin' way NSA didn't know how to do that before 1983--as he said, if it's not in a title, then they called it something else.
I can 100% back you up. I've been coding for over thirty years, in everything from Z80 machine code to C#, written compilers, you name it, and somewhere in those thirty years I took a required semester of Pascal.
Write code. Read other code. Decide if it's good or bad. Take the good, excise the bad, write code and read code. Someone up the chain said, "typing, lots and lots of typing."
Learn algorithms and data structures (I'm a mathematician, I have to say that). Sure, there's libraries to do the scutwork, but you have to decide which structure is going to work for your problem.
Yeah, but what's the average highway trip (think commuting to and from your daily workplace--not the total trip, just the highway)?
Look, the hazard comes from changing lanes in traffic; most heavy traffic is at commute times in and near cities; and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the median highway trip was under ten miles.
Back to TFA, though, I consider "for (ss = s->ss; ss; ss = s->ss)" canonical C (although, yes, I would *probably* have used slightly more descriptive variable names and field names).
I don't know if AC's get notifications when someone responds, but I'll recommend a couple of SF books by Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow and Children of God. In the first, extraterrestrial life is discovered, and the Jesuits have a plan! She deals deeply with the question of whether non-humans have souls, etc.
It can't be arbitrarily short, just really short. You have to have it long enough to accurately measure the returned wavelength. Anything less than half a cycle is a guaranteed failure.
I'm guessing that the automated ships that seeded the universe with gates had instructions to leave gate addresses somewhere around the DRD for the exploration ships that (like "Destiny") were expected to follow, on autopilot, opening for twelve hours when they found one of the seeded gates. Rush & Wallace are going because they know what to look for and should be able to find the return address. Hey, that sounds just like the premise for a movie...
elfprince13 might not, but since you ask, I'll be happy to oblige.:)
"Its" means "belonging to it;" "It's" means "it is."
Macs, not Mac's.
(Wow! You managed to get apostrophes wrong both ways. As Dave Barry once wrote, an apostrophe doesn't mean, "Look out! Here comes an 's'!")
Projector, not -er. However, you get it right in a later post. You spell adapter both ways, too (in the same post, no less); either is allowed, but most people pick one and stick with it.
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Where are my mod points. ++Funny.
That's why I love that particular expression: addition, multiplication, exponentiation, the additive identity, the multiplicative identity, equality, everybody's two favorite irrationals, and the imaginary unit, all in one beautiful package.
"With these ten amendments: the right to assembly; the right to bear arms; ...; ah, eleven amendments: the right ...; ah, twelve--Everybody out! We'll start over!"
I gave up on spelling bees in 6th grade when I lost the class bee because the teacher thought "atmosphere" was spelled "atomosphere" and refused to let me get the dictionary and prove I was right. I realize real bees are checked and double-checked both before and during the competition, but that episode so turned me off that I decided never to waste my time memorizing lists of words.
So, let's be clear: For you, 65 MPH is slow?
In any case, I'm not preaching "slowing down" (I didn't think I was preaching at all), but encouraging you to think about what you're about to do, weigh the risks vs. gains where possible. It's a quantitative version of "look before you leap."
I've used small-group discussions in calc & pre-calc, but full-class works better for lit. Even so, for the discussion to do any good, there should be some professorial moderation, so there's a limit both on the size of any group and the number of groups. I could take attendance on a class of thirty-five in under a minute (and I also used the "quiz attendance" proxy), although I had no mandatory attendance policy.
My wife is a professor of English lit, and her reaction was the same: if your class is so large that you can't take attendance by hand in a few seconds, then it's too large for discussion, and if it's not a discussion class, who cares if you attend?
So your "separate bill" would require insurance companies to cover everyone, regardless of pre-existing conditions. Great! Now I won't even bother getting insurance and paying those pesky premiums until I have a condition that is really unaffordable without it.
What's that you say? Nobody healthy has insurance, so premiums are skyrocketing? How unfair is that?
It's a three-legged stool: If you require insurance companies to cover anyone who applies, then you must require even healthy people (yes, everyone) to be in the insured pool (the whole idea of true insurance is to spread risk), and if everyone must buy insurance, then some people are going to require subsidies to help them pay the premiums, because they're too poor to afford them otherwise. (And the penalty for not buying insurance must be at least as great as the least expensive premium, or it's just a cost of not doing business.)
Take away any leg, and it falls over.
The rest of the bill is (mostly) working out how to make insurance available, how much the subsidies and penalties are, plus a bunch of programs that will attempt to rein in costs: when we see which ones work (and which ones don't), we'll promote those in the future.
Amazing what TiVo is capable of. Miss one payment...
Pull the battery? There's this thing under the hood called the fuse box--pull the horn fuse. On my Saturn, at least, the horn has its own fuse. I know, because one night, it started honking all by itself.
Agreed! PK crypto, block ciphers, etc., was in my Elementary Number Theory textbook (1984, Kenneth Rosen). No freakin' way NSA didn't know how to do that before 1983--as he said, if it's not in a title, then they called it something else.
"But don't you touch my Medicare!"
I can 100% back you up. I've been coding for over thirty years, in everything from Z80 machine code to C#, written compilers, you name it, and somewhere in those thirty years I took a required semester of Pascal.
Write code. Read other code. Decide if it's good or bad. Take the good, excise the bad, write code and read code. Someone up the chain said, "typing, lots and lots of typing."
Learn algorithms and data structures (I'm a mathematician, I have to say that). Sure, there's libraries to do the scutwork, but you have to decide which structure is going to work for your problem.
Google "displacement." Or "eureka." Sea ice doesn't change sea levels.
The problem is not sea ice, but land ice (Greenland, Antarctica). As all that trapped water slides down into the ocean, then sea levels will rise.
If by "a bunch" you mean "just over three", I agree. But I'd have called that "a few."
Yeah, but what's the average highway trip (think commuting to and from your daily workplace--not the total trip, just the highway)?
Look, the hazard comes from changing lanes in traffic; most heavy traffic is at commute times in and near cities; and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the median highway trip was under ten miles.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html
I wish I had mod points. Pick your favorite books, and in the acknowledgements, see how often the author thanks his or her editor.
LOL. Wish I had mod points.
Back to TFA, though, I consider "for (ss = s->ss; ss; ss = s->ss)" canonical C (although, yes, I would *probably* have used slightly more descriptive variable names and field names).
I don't know if AC's get notifications when someone responds, but I'll recommend a couple of SF books by Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow and Children of God. In the first, extraterrestrial life is discovered, and the Jesuits have a plan! She deals deeply with the question of whether non-humans have souls, etc.
It can't be arbitrarily short, just really short. You have to have it long enough to accurately measure the returned wavelength. Anything less than half a cycle is a guaranteed failure.
As in Dusty Springfield, perhaps?
I'm guessing that the automated ships that seeded the universe with gates had instructions to leave gate addresses somewhere around the DRD for the exploration ships that (like "Destiny") were expected to follow, on autopilot, opening for twelve hours when they found one of the seeded gates. Rush & Wallace are going because they know what to look for and should be able to find the return address. Hey, that sounds just like the premise for a movie...
I believe the poster means "obtainable."
Anybody watch "Castle"? "He also murdered the English language." LOL.
elfprince13 might not, but since you ask, I'll be happy to oblige. :)
"Its" means "belonging to it;" "It's" means "it is."
Macs, not Mac's.
(Wow! You managed to get apostrophes wrong both ways. As Dave Barry once wrote, an apostrophe doesn't mean, "Look out! Here comes an 's'!")
Projector, not -er. However, you get it right in a later post. You spell adapter both ways, too (in the same post, no less); either is allowed, but most people pick one and stick with it.
I'm sure I could find more if I felt like it.