It's intensely creepy, I thought, because they seemed to put furry legs and hooves on the thing! Very borg-like. I just felt sad for the trunk and head of the creature they slaughtered for its legs.
What should I consider suspicious? People who use computers to: "...obtain photos, maps, or diagrams of transportation, sports venues, or populated areas."
At least Seamonkey isn't doing the version number jumps, and also seems to be leaving the interface alone for the time being. And, I still appreciate being given a choice to upgrade or not, if I happen to check. Seamonkey just feels more "mozilla-ish" to me than firefox does any more.
Geez, modded down from 1 to 0 for "over-rated?" Apparently we need a moderating choice of "-1 Not as funny as poster thought!" Or, maybe just "-1 Not Funny At All." Boy, am I bummed out!
I fully understand the used game market hurts the developers;
WRONG WRONG WRONG. I'm sorry, but you've been bamboozled...
But, if I go out with the intention of buying a certain game, and my choices are to buy it new or used, it would seem that buying it used is exactly identical to the developer NOT receiving money for one new game off the shelf. Granted, a used game is usually older, and most buyers would only consider paying for a used (cheaper) copy, but his statement isn't all that wrong.
Damn right I paid for winzip! As well as many other shareware titles, why not send some $$ to people doing good utilities? People spend $5 on a cup of mocha latte supremo but won't reward an excellent app, it's sad.
I'm curious, since I've recently bought a new laptop with win7. What new features (other than visual eye-candy) does one lose when switching to windows classic?
I'm a high school math teacher with ~28 years experience, have a master's in math, never wanted to teach but fell into it, and have no doubt I'm much smarter than mr. obvious above. Of the 200 or so posts I've read on this topic, yours, willy_me, is about the only one that hits the nail on the head. The TI's are great tools, if you already know math. They are indeed fun to program. I don't allow them on most tests. One quick anecdote, I had a student a few years back who could not tell you the median of a list of five numbers, since he had only done so using his TI-83.
But, I do very much enjoy the whining of the kids who were graded down for not showing their work!
I think there's a huge psychological affect from not printing the 'u,' actually, and I'd bet there's some study that's looked at this question! It's slightly less offensive to the eye.
Well put.
But another very simple reason why receiving a call is dangerous is that studies repeatedly show that they are! Research finds that using a cell phone, including hands-free cell phone use, seem to impair driving reactions and response time as much as alcohol impairment. Whether one thinks they're driving impaired is a non-issue.
So am I a complete anomaly in that I turn my machines off daily? And, I really don't care how long it takes to boot up? I put my apple powerbook to sleep because it comes up immediately, but my windows boxes I shut down overnight or whenever I'm not home. I mean, come on, it takes what, a minute or so? Time is that precious?
As a 28 year veteran public school math teacher, I'd mod your comment up. The biggest difficulty with teaching has a lot to do with the first line of your second paragraph.
The Washington Post found it's OWN paper had some very small bias towards the number of stories for Obama versus McCain. That's it, the FA only refers to the Post. The majority of the comments seem to have really made this bias a universal thing, which no one has demonstrated or found.
I know what you mean. I stayed with communicator until netscape 7 came out, and still use seamonkey with no issues. If nothing else, I still like the sidebar and being able to put a drop-down bookmark tab on my personal toolbar.
It's very simple for someone to be "into quite a few things" but give each subject of interest their complete focus at any given time. I bet that's true for all the people named. Having a variety of interests doesn't necessarily relate to multitasking, and talking about a variety of subjects isn't multitasking at all.
The letter is interesting, the full version even more so, but it would be very helpful to read the letter that he is responding to. It sounds to me as if he's answering a specific question.
I also wonder if this whole issue as to what einstein's religious beliefs were isn't driven almost entirely by his famous god and dice quote? That single very well-known quote, and his iconic position as "greatest science genius ever" is what makes these revelations concerning his true beliefs news.
And please, moderators, don't encourage all these pointless sophomoric attempts at metaphysics, they're off-topic and tiresome, it's like Philosophy 101.
"I'm real but you're not!"
"Nothing's real unless we think it is!"
Please. It's real. It's out there. Get over your own puny monkey-brain thoughts already, would ya?
What it is about the symbol for pi that makes it special, and much more special than the symbol '3,' is that pi is transcendental and 3 is just an integer. There, question answered! And while much mathematical symbolic manipulation can be done simply using the symbol, very little math can be done without acknowledging the fact of pi's value, as in cos(pi) = -1. Here (as in most applications, this is of course trivial) pi can not be just a symbol.
Much of the thread so far is pointless discussions which hinge on the definition of the 'value' of pi, or of how to 'express' pi. Yes, the value of pi is exactly the ratio of the diameter to the ratio of a circle. No, the numeric value of pi can not be explicitly expressed in any number system, not to mention that base pi is not meaningful.
Pi is so cool as to be above these petty comments! e^(i*pi) = -1, believe it and be humbled!
As for expressing pi, I like pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7... There, again, question answered.
You know, that is a very real possibility and not a joke. The only constraints on running a VM for every app are speed and storage, and today's numbers are always absurdly slow and small after a year or so. If suitable performance was available for each VM, why not? I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers running one app at a time (with a data disk!) and thought that was pretty cool.
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What is this "rest of the web" of which you speak?
It's intensely creepy, I thought, because they seemed to put furry legs and hooves on the thing! Very borg-like. I just felt sad for the trunk and head of the creature they slaughtered for its legs.
What should I consider suspicious?
People who use computers to: "...obtain photos, maps, or diagrams of transportation, sports venues, or populated areas."
At least Seamonkey isn't doing the version number jumps, and also seems to be leaving the interface alone for the time being. And, I still appreciate being given a choice to upgrade or not, if I happen to check. Seamonkey just feels more "mozilla-ish" to me than firefox does any more.
Geez, modded down from 1 to 0 for "over-rated?" Apparently we need a moderating choice of "-1 Not as funny as poster thought!" Or, maybe just "-1 Not Funny At All." Boy, am I bummed out!
Just like it's spelled, "SQL."
To look it up yourself, here's a nice good old hypertext page on global temperatures.
And some excellent graphs.
I fully understand the used game market hurts the developers;
WRONG WRONG WRONG. I'm sorry, but you've been bamboozled. ..
But, if I go out with the intention of buying a certain game, and my choices are to buy it new or used, it would seem that buying it used is exactly identical to the developer NOT receiving money for one new game off the shelf. Granted, a used game is usually older, and most buyers would only consider paying for a used (cheaper) copy, but his statement isn't all that wrong.
Damn right I paid for winzip! As well as many other shareware titles, why not send some $$ to people doing good utilities? People spend $5 on a cup of mocha latte supremo but won't reward an excellent app, it's sad.
I'm curious, since I've recently bought a new laptop with win7. What new features (other than visual eye-candy) does one lose when switching to windows classic?
+5 for a relevant informative post, I find that info amazing but easy to believe. This is the free market at its best, right?
But, I do very much enjoy the whining of the kids who were graded down for not showing their work!
I think there's a huge psychological affect from not printing the 'u,' actually, and I'd bet there's some study that's looked at this question! It's slightly less offensive to the eye.
Well put. But another very simple reason why receiving a call is dangerous is that studies repeatedly show that they are! Research finds that using a cell phone, including hands-free cell phone use, seem to impair driving reactions and response time as much as alcohol impairment. Whether one thinks they're driving impaired is a non-issue.
So am I a complete anomaly in that I turn my machines off daily? And, I really don't care how long it takes to boot up? I put my apple powerbook to sleep because it comes up immediately, but my windows boxes I shut down overnight or whenever I'm not home. I mean, come on, it takes what, a minute or so? Time is that precious?
As a 28 year veteran public school math teacher, I'd mod your comment up. The biggest difficulty with teaching has a lot to do with the first line of your second paragraph.
Teachers also have no choice in the matter of how much of the year they work. Feel free to enter the teaching profession if it sounds so good to you.
Pardon me, but where would you get the ridiculous idea teachers don't pay into their retirement package?
The Washington Post found it's OWN paper had some very small bias towards the number of stories for Obama versus McCain. That's it, the FA only refers to the Post. The majority of the comments seem to have really made this bias a universal thing, which no one has demonstrated or found.
I know what you mean. I stayed with communicator until netscape 7 came out, and still use seamonkey with no issues. If nothing else, I still like the sidebar and being able to put a drop-down bookmark tab on my personal toolbar.
Who do I see for the hemp desk job?
It's very simple for someone to be "into quite a few things" but give each subject of interest their complete focus at any given time. I bet that's true for all the people named. Having a variety of interests doesn't necessarily relate to multitasking, and talking about a variety of subjects isn't multitasking at all.
The letter is interesting, the full version even more so, but it would be very helpful to read the letter that he is responding to. It sounds to me as if he's answering a specific question.
I also wonder if this whole issue as to what einstein's religious beliefs were isn't driven almost entirely by his famous god and dice quote? That single very well-known quote, and his iconic position as "greatest science genius ever" is what makes these revelations concerning his true beliefs news.
And please, moderators, don't encourage all these pointless sophomoric attempts at metaphysics, they're off-topic and tiresome, it's like Philosophy 101.
"I'm real but you're not!"
"Nothing's real unless we think it is!"
Please. It's real. It's out there. Get over your own puny monkey-brain thoughts already, would ya?
What it is about the symbol for pi that makes it special, and much more special than the symbol '3,' is that pi is transcendental and 3 is just an integer. There, question answered! And while much mathematical symbolic manipulation can be done simply using the symbol, very little math can be done without acknowledging the fact of pi's value, as in cos(pi) = -1. Here (as in most applications, this is of course trivial) pi can not be just a symbol.
Much of the thread so far is pointless discussions which hinge on the definition of the 'value' of pi, or of how to 'express' pi. Yes, the value of pi is exactly the ratio of the diameter to the ratio of a circle. No, the numeric value of pi can not be explicitly expressed in any number system, not to mention that base pi is not meaningful.
Pi is so cool as to be above these petty comments! e^(i*pi) = -1, believe it and be humbled!
As for expressing pi, I like pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 ... There, again, question answered.
You know, that is a very real possibility and not a joke. The only constraints on running a VM for every app are speed and storage, and today's numbers are always absurdly slow and small after a year or so. If suitable performance was available for each VM, why not? I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers running one app at a time (with a data disk!) and thought that was pretty cool.