While bourne shell indeed comes with every Unix and Linux (and today probably also with Macs), the huge majority of computers still run Windows. And I strongly doubt that Windows comes with a bourne shell...
10 Maybe he also advocates beginners to write English exactly one sentence a line. 20 Because, after all, it's much easier to understand this way. 30 You don't have to look out for those small, easy to overlook dots. 40 Instead you know exactly where your sentence ends. 50 Because it always ends at the end of the line. 60 Of the current line, that is. 70 Only in advanced English you should go to the trouble of sentences continuing on the next line. 15 Of course with line numbers. 16 That also makes it easier to later insert something in the middle of the text. 16 That also makes it easier to later insert or change something in the middle of the text. 80 Because beginners will only be confused by those multi-line sentences. 75 Or sentences beginning and ending in the middle of a line.
Well, there's a perfectly well payment system already in use: Dollar bills and coins. After all, from what I understand, the lecture is meant for the students taking his course, who normally are on the campus anyway. So why not have them pay directly, and give them a burnt CD-R with the content (a CD-R is still cheaper than that service). Or alternatively have it on a server on the campus which is protected with some one-time token system, and those tokens can be bought by the students directly from the professor. As a bonus, the professor gets to see his students at least once (when buying the lecture recording).
Well, if the party says nonexisting books can burn, of course they can. Ah, and did you know that the year 1983 was directly followed by 1985? Yes, that's right, there was nothing in between.
Hey, that gives me a great idea: I'll apply for a patent on marketing by sending unsolicited emails to millions of people, and then I'll collect big pay from all the spammers out there;-)
Don't forget the regular chair throwing competitions. After all, chair throwing is a key competence if you want to make it into the upper management at Microsoft.
It is too an improvement. I'm British and I've never even heard the word "milliard" so we can see how successful that system was in education.
That's a complete non-argument: The reason the system changed in GB is probably being flooded with "US-billions", and the absolute worst thing is if you never know if the "billion" you read is 10^9 or 10^12. And the fact that you never heared "milliard" may simply be due to not being old enough.
Also note that in France the "-ion/-iard" scheme was the successful one, despite both being used there fore some time, too. Indeed, according to Wikipedia, most European countries use the "-ion/-iard" scheme, so probably your argument could be turned quite away
I agree that the "N+1" argument is a weak one, too. However, due to several re-edits I managed it to come through differently than originally intended: I never intended it to imply that the "N" vs. "N+1" makes it simpler for the average person (who normally won't get past the 10^12 anyway). Basically the "simple" here was not so much meant as "simple to use", but "simple" as in mathematical elegance.
But yes, I consider it easier to think about "-ion/-iard". But given that you've grown up with the "billion" and I grew up with the "milliard", that's no surprise. After all, if someone had grown up with a base 12 number system, he probably wouldn't consider the decimal system particularly easy either.
That's the opposite of an improvement: With the "old British" system you need to learn less words for the same number range. You just have to remember that a thousand "-ions" are one "-iard".
Moreover it's simpler: From the billion on, the prefix is named after latin numer names: bi->2, tri->3 etc. With the "old British" system, an "n-ion" is a million to the power of n. Quite simple. With the US system, an "n-ion" is thousand to the power of (n+1). An extra complication. Not much, but still.
Thanks for the link. So basically what I missed was that the heat does more than just providing electrons to scatter from, it also provides the scattered photons with extra energy on average.
I don't know how you imagine what god blowing snot out of his nose looks, and especially sounds like. I think that event is quite well described by the term "big bang".
While I understand the scissors and can well imagine the Nintendo (though I don't know it), I can't understand why spiral notebooks should be a major problem. If the spiral is left or right just depends on whether you write on the "front" or "back" side of the sheets. Since the sheets usually have lines/square on both sides, that's entirely up to you to decide (BTW, I usually write on both sides anyway, so half the pages I use have the spiral on the "wrong" side, and I never experienced any problem with it).
And who really cares about the direction of the text written on a pencil? This text may be interesting before you pick the pencil (there handedness doesn't come into play anyway), but is completely irrelevant during usage of it. It would clearly be a waste of money to make separate "left-handed pencils" by writing the stuff the other way round. I couldn't care less if some pencil maker started to print everything in the other direction, however.
Now pens are a different matter, because there's indeed some serious assymmetry involved. And I'm pretty sure that I've already seen pens for left-handed people somewhere.
As a physicist (but no cosmologist or astrophysicist), I'm surprised that shadowing was expected. As far as I understood the article, the shadowing effect is expected not due to absorption/inelastic scattering (where I could understand the shadow effect), but due to elastic scattering (the photons just change their direction).
Now it is obvious that the number of photons reaching us from behind is reduced by the elastic scattering process. However one of the basic properties of the cosmic background radiation is that is is nearly isotropic. And that means there should be an about equal amount of radiation scattered into our direction which would not have reached us otherwise.
Only the basic operations. The user interface starts to function improperly if it runs continuously for a few days. It regularly needs quite some downtime in order to function correctly. During that downtime, you don't get anything but strange "screensavers" commonly known as dreams, and even those don't run all the time.
But what about starting the work on Wikibooks, and then after there's enough material, make an "academic version" where the academics go over the whole text, correct any mistakes there may be, and (besides adding those improvements on Wikibooks) publish that separately (which they of course are allowed to do under the GFDL). The separate version would have the advantage of stability, and you could be sure that academics have approved all of it. I think this way you would get the best of both worlds.
Second function of this post: Demonstration of possibility of avoidance of verbs anyway. Result: No need of conjugation of verbs. Implication: Avoidance of patent problems. Disadvantage: Overuse of colon.
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While bourne shell indeed comes with every Unix and Linux (and today probably also with Macs), the huge majority of computers still run Windows. And I strongly doubt that Windows comes with a bourne shell ...
10 Maybe he also advocates beginners to write English exactly one sentence a line.
20 Because, after all, it's much easier to understand this way.
30 You don't have to look out for those small, easy to overlook dots.
40 Instead you know exactly where your sentence ends.
50 Because it always ends at the end of the line.
60 Of the current line, that is.
70 Only in advanced English you should go to the trouble of sentences continuing on the next line.
15 Of course with line numbers.
16 That also makes it easier to later insert something in the middle of the text.
16 That also makes it easier to later insert or change something in the middle of the text.
80 Because beginners will only be confused by those multi-line sentences.
75 Or sentences beginning and ending in the middle of a line.
Well, there's a perfectly well payment system already in use: Dollar bills and coins.
After all, from what I understand, the lecture is meant for the students taking his course, who normally are on the campus anyway. So why not have them pay directly, and give them a burnt CD-R with the content (a CD-R is still cheaper than that service). Or alternatively have it on a server on the campus which is protected with some one-time token system, and those tokens can be bought by the students directly from the professor. As a bonus, the professor gets to see his students at least once (when buying the lecture recording).
Well, if the party says nonexisting books can burn, of course they can.
Ah, and did you know that the year 1983 was directly followed by 1985? Yes, that's right, there was nothing in between.
And of course that in Soviet Russia, Slashdot dupes YOU, that in Korea only old people read Digg, and of course the business plan ...
You'll get the stock of that competitor cheaper than ever.
Hey, that gives me a great idea: I'll apply for a patent on marketing by sending unsolicited emails to millions of people, and then I'll collect big pay from all the spammers out there ;-)
Yes, but they get bonus points for missing them.
Well, then maybe the students will learn to associate "Microsoft" with "outdated tech"
Don't forget the regular chair throwing competitions. After all, chair throwing is a key competence if you want to make it into the upper management at Microsoft.
Indeed.
That's a complete non-argument: The reason the system changed in GB is probably being flooded with "US-billions", and the absolute worst thing is if you never know if the "billion" you read is 10^9 or 10^12. And the fact that you never heared "milliard" may simply be due to not being old enough.
Also note that in France the "-ion/-iard" scheme was the successful one, despite both being used there fore some time, too. Indeed, according to Wikipedia, most European countries use the "-ion/-iard" scheme, so probably your argument could be turned quite away
I agree that the "N+1" argument is a weak one, too. However, due to several re-edits I managed it to come through differently than originally intended: I never intended it to imply that the "N" vs. "N+1" makes it simpler for the average person (who normally won't get past the 10^12 anyway). Basically the "simple" here was not so much meant as "simple to use", but "simple" as in mathematical elegance.
But yes, I consider it easier to think about "-ion/-iard". But given that you've grown up with the "billion" and I grew up with the "milliard", that's no surprise. After all, if someone had grown up with a base 12 number system, he probably wouldn't consider the decimal system particularly easy either.
If I could get a petaflop supercomputer the size of a George Foreman Grill for $600, I could live with the missing HDMI cable. :-)
That's the opposite of an improvement: With the "old British" system you need to learn less words for the same number range. You just have to remember that a thousand "-ions" are one "-iard".
Moreover it's simpler: From the billion on, the prefix is named after latin numer names: bi->2, tri->3 etc.
With the "old British" system, an "n-ion" is a million to the power of n. Quite simple.
With the US system, an "n-ion" is thousand to the power of (n+1). An extra complication. Not much, but still.
I've often heared that modern games have huge computing demands. But I didn't know it's that bad!
Thanks for the link. So basically what I missed was that the heat does more than just providing electrons to scatter from, it also provides the scattered photons with extra energy on average.
I don't know how you imagine what god blowing snot out of his nose looks, and especially sounds like. I think that event is quite well described by the term "big bang".
While I understand the scissors and can well imagine the Nintendo (though I don't know it), I can't understand why spiral notebooks should be a major problem. If the spiral is left or right just depends on whether you write on the "front" or "back" side of the sheets. Since the sheets usually have lines/square on both sides, that's entirely up to you to decide (BTW, I usually write on both sides anyway, so half the pages I use have the spiral on the "wrong" side, and I never experienced any problem with it).
And who really cares about the direction of the text written on a pencil? This text may be interesting before you pick the pencil (there handedness doesn't come into play anyway), but is completely irrelevant during usage of it. It would clearly be a waste of money to make separate "left-handed pencils" by writing the stuff the other way round. I couldn't care less if some pencil maker started to print everything in the other direction, however.
Now pens are a different matter, because there's indeed some serious assymmetry involved. And I'm pretty sure that I've already seen pens for left-handed people somewhere.
As a physicist (but no cosmologist or astrophysicist), I'm surprised that shadowing was expected. As far as I understood the article, the shadowing effect is expected not due to absorption/inelastic scattering (where I could understand the shadow effect), but due to elastic scattering (the photons just change their direction).
Now it is obvious that the number of photons reaching us from behind is reduced by the elastic scattering process. However one of the basic properties of the cosmic background radiation is that is is nearly isotropic. And that means there should be an about equal amount of radiation scattered into our direction which would not have reached us otherwise.
So is there anything I'm missing?
How can you mention that book without providing a link to the CSS Zen garden?
Only the basic operations. The user interface starts to function improperly if it runs continuously for a few days. It regularly needs quite some downtime in order to function correctly. During that downtime, you don't get anything but strange "screensavers" commonly known as dreams, and even those don't run all the time.
"You marked my solution as wrong. But it's written exactly this way in the text book ... you want my IP? Why?"
But what about starting the work on Wikibooks, and then after there's enough material, make an "academic version" where the academics go over the whole text, correct any mistakes there may be, and (besides adding those improvements on Wikibooks) publish that separately (which they of course are allowed to do under the GFDL). The separate version would have the advantage of stability, and you could be sure that academics have approved all of it. I think this way you would get the best of both worlds.
Easy solution: Usage of a scanner!
:-)
Second function of this post: Demonstration of possibility of avoidance of verbs anyway. Result: No need of conjugation of verbs. Implication: Avoidance of patent problems.
Disadvantage: Overuse of colon.
Sorry, nonability of resistance
But 150% of all statistics habe blatantly obvious errors.