If you think of the number line as a circle rather than a straight line, you find that many functions that were previously non-continuous actually are.
Think of a circle.. at the bottom, is 0, on the left side is -1, on the right side is +1, at the top is infinity.
That's your number line. Halfway between 0 and +1 is 1/2, Halfway between 1 and infinity is 1*2.
2 is the inverse of 1/2. infinity is the inverse of 0.
Plot your tangent function. Then roll the paper into a cylinder. You'll see the function is now continuous. You just need to change the way you think of it.
This is where "imaginary" numbers succeed tremendously, and "nullity" fails miserably.
Oh give me a break.
Here's two equations:
x * 0 = 6 z * z = -1
You'd actually argue that the first equation, which actually has a simple answer, violates basic mathematics while the second one, which cannot possibly have a real answer is valid because mathematicians made up an imaginary number?
The answer to the first equation is 6/0 (or 6*nullity if you wish to write it that way.. nullity being 1/0). Here's my proof: 6/0 * 0 = 6; 0 cancels out, and you get 6=6. You'd complain that you can't divide by zero, but I'd claim that if I had written a/b * b = c you wouldn't think twice about canceling b out. It doesn't matter if b = 0 or not.
Therefore x/0 does exist, it is a valid construct and, exactly like imaginary numbers, it's really only useful if it's used in an equation that cancels it out.
Stange that there is no mention of hime calibrating the Wii to make it as accurate as possible.
Yeah, this guy's entire review was obviously based off 5 minutes of playing at E3. He complains about a fishing tutorial in zelda, when there isn't a fishing tutorial in the version currently on store shelves... he talks about Metroid, which isn't even available for reviewers yet.
Why didn't he write this review 6 months ago? Because that's obviously the last time he played it.
The reason you won't see that with Sunday's launch of the Wii is because you'll be able to just walk up to a shelf and pick up a Wii!
Oh how I wish that were true. We went to the two 24hr walmarts in town at around 9pm saturday, and there were lines... already longer than the number of available consoles.
There are a lot of people camping out at the Target down the street from me, waiting for it to open 11 hours later.. and all 60 consoles at that target have been spoken for.
Boy, everyone here seems so dead sure that stuff in linux infringes on microsoft's patents. If that was the case, why get angry at novell for trying to protect their customers? Instead, find and fix the infringing code.
Nothing is changed, microsoft can sue redhat et al for patent infringement regardless of this deal with novell.
The amount of knee-jerk chicken littling here on slashdot is disgusting.
"interpersonal skills" AKA "how to be a brown nose", "Backstabbing go getter" more of a Managerial type of person...
No, more like "can speak to people without mumbling". A lot of programmers we bring in for interviews are so introverted that you look at their resume and wonder if they weren't lying. You need to be assertive, and you need to be able to speak confidently about the things you put on your resume.
Gone are the days when the programmer was stuck in a dark dungeon, and didn't talk to anyone. Today you need to communicate with co-workers, team members, and clients. (Clients are getting smarter, and they often want to talk to someone technical and not just a sales guy).
It would amaze me if the bot writers weren't already using JavaScript-capable bots.
It's more difficult than that, since javascript so often manipulates the DOM.
In order for your javascript bot to work, you'd be rolling all of Gecko into your bot.. now your bot is huge and slow and not even guaranteed to work after all of that.
I would think AJAX would be a huge hamper to them as well.
I think so too. The article says they don't want to require javascript to submit the form though.
I was thinking about ways to check for real browsers without requiring javascript. What about having a css file, or an image that is really a php script which logs your IP as being "OK". If you submit the form, but the server sees you didn't load the css or image or whatever, it ignores you.
After somebody has been developing for 5-10 years, if they are smart and sharp it's fairly straightforward to pick up a new programming language or paradigm
Then why haven't they? 95% of the people we get applying for jobs only know Java. They haven't even tried learning anything else. They teach java at the Univeristy, and java is all they think they need to know.
I'm not going to hire anyone who isn't curious enough to learn a few languages on their own.. just to see what's out there.
My phone has been ringing off the wall and everyone is asking me, "What should we switch to now?" No one I know wants to have anything to do with this abomination.
Yeah yeah, we heard the same thing when redhat spun off Fedora. I'm sick of the chicken little portion of the open source movement.
The sky isn't falling, and any patent claims will be dealt with the way they've been dealt with in the past (the creation of PNG for example).
Millions of dollars put into a shuttle and it can't even interpret the date correctly. Might as well just plug in my cell phone.
Except that next year your cellphone, and computer, won't get the time correctly either, what with congress monkeying around with daylight saving time.
Making sites screen-reader friendly is very easy and very rare. The only barrier is ignorance.
Why do people keep saying this? It has to be ignorance. You have until the end of the day to take the slashdot homepage and make it Section 508 compliant. I'll even make it easier for you, you only have to do the html, not slashcode.
The web was designed as a network of electronic documents. Anything that is not a document should not try to be shoehorned into such a framework
Well in that case, Target shouldn't even have an online store. And slashdot certainly shouldn't exist. Making comments online certainly doesn't fit in with your view of how the web should work.
Apart from special cases, designing a run-of-the-mill business website so that it's accessible is easy. The technology is already built into HTML and CSS.
Oh, are you volunteering to retrofit everyone's website now? It's easy is it? Slashdot's new comments aren't ADA compatible... nothing that uses AJAX is.
These people should be suing the developers of their screenreaders before going after Target. Not only do their screenreaders not handle javascript, they aren't even smart enough to *skip over* it! Stupid screenreaders will happily read everything between script tags. Fix the obvious problems with the screenreaders first before you go around suing websites.
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Simple: -infinity = +infinity.
Just like -0 = +0
If you think of the number line as a circle rather than a straight line, you find that many functions that were previously non-continuous actually are.
Think of a circle.. at the bottom, is 0, on the left side is -1, on the right side is +1, at the top is infinity.
That's your number line. Halfway between 0 and +1 is 1/2, Halfway between 1 and infinity is 1*2.
2 is the inverse of 1/2. infinity is the inverse of 0.
Plot your tangent function. Then roll the paper into a cylinder. You'll see the function is now continuous. You just need to change the way you think of it.
Oh give me a break.
Here's two equations:
x * 0 = 6
z * z = -1
You'd actually argue that the first equation, which actually has a simple answer, violates basic mathematics while the second one, which cannot possibly have a real answer is valid because mathematicians made up an imaginary number?
The answer to the first equation is 6/0 (or 6*nullity if you wish to write it that way.. nullity being 1/0). Here's my proof:
6/0 * 0 = 6;
0 cancels out, and you get 6=6. You'd complain that you can't divide by zero, but I'd claim that if I had written a/b * b = c you wouldn't think twice about canceling b out. It doesn't matter if b = 0 or not.
Therefore x/0 does exist, it is a valid construct and, exactly like imaginary numbers, it's really only useful if it's used in an equation that cancels it out.
The way I always did it was:
union { int dw; float f; } df; df.f = 1.5f; int i = df.dw;
Yeah, this guy's entire review was obviously based off 5 minutes of playing at E3. He complains about a fishing tutorial in zelda, when there isn't a fishing tutorial in the version currently on store shelves... he talks about Metroid, which isn't even available for reviewers yet.
Why didn't he write this review 6 months ago? Because that's obviously the last time he played it.
Actually, you can set it up so only the primary controller can turn off the power.
Plus you have to hold down the button for a while... pressing it once isn't going to do anything.
According to here, Weather Channel will be open December 20th, and News Channel will be open January 27th.
The Internet Channel won't come until later.. (so sad).
Except nintendo *did* make 1M units available on day 1. They'll have 4 million by the end of the year.
The bundles are only for online. Walmart was selling just the system for $250 in the store, but online they were *only* selling a $650 bundle.
Same goes for Costco, Toys R Us, and Circuit City.
Oh how I wish that were true. We went to the two 24hr walmarts in town at around 9pm saturday, and there were lines... already longer than the number of available consoles.
There are a lot of people camping out at the Target down the street from me, waiting for it to open 11 hours later.. and all 60 consoles at that target have been spoken for.
I call myself a gamer, and ironically, I think my decision to never buy a PS3 only reinforces my gamer status.
There wasn't the technology in 1977 to film long senate orations and a jamaican muppet.
Same here.. there was a class that was all about workflow and we had teams to build a large project from start to finish.
Ironically, the only time I've ever seen a design document was in that class, and I've been programming professionally for over 10 years now.
There is absolutely no way we're going to see a PS3 price cut before 2008.
Boy, everyone here seems so dead sure that stuff in linux infringes on microsoft's patents. If that was the case, why get angry at novell for trying to protect their customers? Instead, find and fix the infringing code.
Nothing is changed, microsoft can sue redhat et al for patent infringement regardless of this deal with novell.
The amount of knee-jerk chicken littling here on slashdot is disgusting.
No, more like "can speak to people without mumbling". A lot of programmers we bring in for interviews are so introverted that you look at their resume and wonder if they weren't lying. You need to be assertive, and you need to be able to speak confidently about the things you put on your resume.
Gone are the days when the programmer was stuck in a dark dungeon, and didn't talk to anyone. Today you need to communicate with co-workers, team members, and clients. (Clients are getting smarter, and they often want to talk to someone technical and not just a sales guy).
It's more difficult than that, since javascript so often manipulates the DOM.
In order for your javascript bot to work, you'd be rolling all of Gecko into your bot.. now your bot is huge and slow and not even guaranteed to work after all of that.
I think so too. The article says they don't want to require javascript to submit the form though.
I was thinking about ways to check for real browsers without requiring javascript. What about having a css file, or an image that is really a php script which logs your IP as being "OK". If you submit the form, but the server sees you didn't load the css or image or whatever, it ignores you.
Then why haven't they? 95% of the people we get applying for jobs only know Java. They haven't even tried learning anything else. They teach java at the Univeristy, and java is all they think they need to know.
I'm not going to hire anyone who isn't curious enough to learn a few languages on their own.. just to see what's out there.
Except that Korn isn't in guitar hero.
Yeah yeah, we heard the same thing when redhat spun off Fedora. I'm sick of the chicken little portion of the open source movement.
The sky isn't falling, and any patent claims will be dealt with the way they've been dealt with in the past (the creation of PNG for example).
Except that next year your cellphone, and computer, won't get the time correctly either, what with congress monkeying around with daylight saving time.
Why do people keep saying this? It has to be ignorance. You have until the end of the day to take the slashdot homepage and make it Section 508 compliant. I'll even make it easier for you, you only have to do the html, not slashcode.
Well in that case, Target shouldn't even have an online store. And slashdot certainly shouldn't exist. Making comments online certainly doesn't fit in with your view of how the web should work.
Oh, are you volunteering to retrofit everyone's website now? It's easy is it? Slashdot's new comments aren't ADA compatible... nothing that uses AJAX is.
These people should be suing the developers of their screenreaders before going after Target. Not only do their screenreaders not handle javascript, they aren't even smart enough to *skip over* it! Stupid screenreaders will happily read everything between script tags. Fix the obvious problems with the screenreaders first before you go around suing websites.