I've had similar good experience with them; I got the $19.99 a month broadbandoffers.com deal. It's incredibly fast (esp. compared to the Verizon DSL alternative) and I've had only 1 service outage; it was for about 2 hours one day immediately after a huge thunderstorm. Also, I got an install tech 2 days after I first called. The price is high once the 6 months $19.99 deal ends (especially if you don't have cable TV service), but since I'm only planning on living in this location for 9 months, my average cost is still lower than DSL for vastly better service.
He probably thought that was subtle. He's, sadly, one of the less-nerdy ECE/CS people here at CMU. I know he leaves his room at least once a week to go to quiz bowl practice, automatically making him more socially adept than many of his peers.
You're absolutely right. Ken Jennings has been active on the quiz bowl circuit for quite some time, where questions as easy as those on Jeopardy! would be laughed out of the room in certain tournaments. He is a member of National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC where they have an announcement about him on their front page.
Try listening to Total Information Awareness on Wednesdays from 6-7 pm EST, webcast at wrct.org. WRCT is Carngie Mellon's student run radio station. They did a special edition last Friday from Summercon 2004.
Godel proved a good deal more than that. The original paper was on "PM and related systems", but he later proved that any formal system strong enough to contain basic arithmetic was incomplete. The reason he did not have this full result initially was that there was no precise defintion of "formal system" yet (1931). So yes, first-order propositional logic is complete, but no "interesting" (i.e. mathematical) system is.
Said faculty member had been listening to the loop of 3 songs for several hours before unplugging the machine. His office is separated from the machine by only a thin door and a few feet of hallway. Those of us in classes nearby were also quite grateful. (Having to sit through the first 2 hours of a 3 hour class listening to that was bad enough, 1 more and people would have been jumping out the window.)
Maybe for you, but have you ever met a guy from Carnegie Mellon? Probably not, since they never leave their rooms where their precious bandwidth is....
I wholheatedly agree. The most interesting and valuable class I have ever taken was an introductory physics course in which the professors (a husband-wife team) had written the textbokk specifially for that course. The book is also used in several other introductory physics courses, but its insightfulness is only really appreciated by students of the authors, since the lecture material is so well-coordinated with what we read in the book. Fortunate as it would be, it is unrealitic to expect all professors to care about their students to that degree. Sadly, for most professors (particulary at research universities), teaching is just something they have to do so they will be able to do their research.
damn politicians, leaving all those cylindrical structures open.....
If you are going to make vast, unfounded and incorrect generalizations, you could at least spell them correctly.
pole -->poll
thru -->through
alot --> a lot
not to mention the grammar....
Maybe if it was Gore's budget instead of Bush's, there would be funding to educate people so they would perhaps have informed opinons and be able to express them coherently.
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I've had similar good experience with them; I got the $19.99 a month broadbandoffers.com deal. It's incredibly fast (esp. compared to the Verizon DSL alternative) and I've had only 1 service outage; it was for about 2 hours one day immediately after a huge thunderstorm. Also, I got an install tech 2 days after I first called. The price is high once the 6 months $19.99 deal ends (especially if you don't have cable TV service), but since I'm only planning on living in this location for 9 months, my average cost is still lower than DSL for vastly better service.
He probably thought that was subtle. He's, sadly, one of the less-nerdy ECE/CS people here at CMU. I know he leaves his room at least once a week to go to quiz bowl practice, automatically making him more socially adept than many of his peers.
You're absolutely right. Ken Jennings has been active on the quiz bowl circuit for quite some time, where questions as easy as those on Jeopardy! would be laughed out of the room in certain tournaments. He is a member of National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC where they have an announcement about him on their front page.
Try listening to Total Information Awareness on Wednesdays from 6-7 pm EST, webcast at wrct.org. WRCT is Carngie Mellon's student run radio station. They did a special edition last Friday from Summercon 2004.
Godel proved a good deal more than that. The original paper was on "PM and related systems", but he later proved that any formal system strong enough to contain basic arithmetic was incomplete. The reason he did not have this full result initially was that there was no precise defintion of "formal system" yet (1931). So yes, first-order propositional logic is complete, but no "interesting" (i.e. mathematical) system is.
Said faculty member had been listening to the loop of 3 songs for several hours before unplugging the machine. His office is separated from the machine by only a thin door and a few feet of hallway. Those of us in classes nearby were also quite grateful. (Having to sit through the first 2 hours of a 3 hour class listening to that was bad enough, 1 more and people would have been jumping out the window.)
Already been done... one of CMU's Mac clusters is called the Apple Orchard.
I can't... Explorer keeps crashing.
I don't recall the exact dates...which came out first, AOL 8 or RedHat 8?
Maybe for you, but have you ever met a guy from Carnegie Mellon? Probably not, since they never leave their rooms where their precious bandwidth is....
I wholheatedly agree. The most interesting and valuable class I have ever taken was an introductory physics course in which the professors (a husband-wife team) had written the textbokk specifially for that course. The book is also used in several other introductory physics courses, but its insightfulness is only really appreciated by students of the authors, since the lecture material is so well-coordinated with what we read in the book. Fortunate as it would be, it is unrealitic to expect all professors to care about their students to that degree. Sadly, for most professors (particulary at research universities), teaching is just something they have to do so they will be able to do their research.
If you are going to make vast, unfounded and incorrect generalizations, you could at least spell them correctly.
pole -->poll
thru -->through
alot --> a lot
not to mention the grammar....
Maybe if it was Gore's budget instead of Bush's, there would be funding to educate people so they would perhaps have informed opinons and be able to express them coherently.