Well, I think most countries have some food that is considered repulsive by others. Swedes have surströmming. Chinese have preserved duck eggs. Koreans have kim-chi (which I love, but I have heard others denigrate it severely). Scots have haggis. Americans have McDonalds.
But the putrid substance called "surströmming" (a.k.a. "pure evil in a can") is considered repulsive even by the Swedes themselves!
"When a trait is universal" chances are that you're looking at a small, homogenous group. Enter a theatre, and you'll find a large group of people all actors. Are people genetically disposed towards acting?
My point being: How many cultures had monotheistic religions before they came into contact with the west?
I've got a 10 mbps LAN connection, I live in Sweden and pay the equivalent of $28 a month. Though, that is a student price, twice that for non-students.
Yes, I used to spend countless hours tweaking and overclocking my computer in order to get those extra FPS in CS Source and HL2. Now i just really don't care - I'm still 18, the "peak" age that everybody wants to market to, but I just lack the time or desire to pour hours on end into video games. School, life, and girls are more important to me now, and this videogaming thing has been slipping away.
I used to play 4 hours of video games a day back when I was a "hardcore gamer", it's just not worth it anymore. Has anybody else feel their killer instinct slip away?
Can't say I disagree. I'm 20. However, for me the most deterring factor for me is the decline in PC game quality. There used to be great titles like Thief and Deus Ex. Then all of the sudden everything had to be lobotomized so that it could be played on consoles as well as PCs. Wroooong move. Atleast I don't find a lobotomized point-and-drool interface that a chimpanzee could use very appealing.
One one hand, a bunch of Iraqis with burns they can claim was caused by the Great Satan's hellfire gun is about the last thing we need. On the other hand, it's better than giving them a sudden case of lead poisoning.
How about getting out of Iraq and leaving those poor people to mend their shattered country themselves?
Well, as a maths student, I would prefer to ban degrees and keep radians. Radians are actually useful to work with.
Exactly. If I'm at the grocery store, and I need to integrate a trigonometric function in order to determine how much milk I should buy (seeing as how you can roughly approximate the demand during the day with a sine curve), and I'm stuck with degrees, it'll be hell to integrate, when compared to radians.
Just because it takes alot of energy to create the fuel, doesn't mean the fuel isn't usable on cars. You don't see a whole lot of space shuttles running on coal.
My space shuttle has a coal furnace you insensitive clod!
Technically you could not do this. Remember, infinity is not a number, it is a concept meaning an unbounded limit. There are rules for including it in algebraic equations, but it is still not a "number."
Sets of hyperreal numbers extends R with infinite numbers (amongst other things).
The answer to a / 0 is defined as the limit for a / x when x approaches 0.
So you've proved that f(x) = 0/x is continuous?
lim x->0 (23 / x) lim x->0 (-5 / x)
Neither of these exist.
It's a bad example, because even outside of R, the left and right limits are not the same (one diverges to minus infinity and the other plus infinity).
lim x->0 (23 / |x|)
is better. It is undefined because it exceeds R, one could technically define a set of numbers which includes +=infinity, in which division by zero would be defined.
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But the putrid substance called "surströmming" (a.k.a. "pure evil in a can") is considered repulsive even by the Swedes themselves!
Ah, just tivo it... eh wait.
"When a trait is universal" chances are that you're looking at a small, homogenous group. Enter a theatre, and you'll find a large group of people all actors. Are people genetically disposed towards acting?
My point being: How many cultures had monotheistic religions before they came into contact with the west?
But... but... that would be un-american! You're not one of them terrists are you?
It's gonna be cloudy tonight you insensitive clod!
Well then, I challenge you to explain this: http://www.google.com/trends?q=salmon+rice&ctab=2
No, that's how you make a death ray.
Wok, ball point pen, chewing gum... yeah, that's a death ray.
Wok, a froze chicken and duct tape, that's a satellite dish.
Figured some price comparisons were in order:
I've got a 10 mbps LAN connection, I live in Sweden and pay the equivalent of $28 a month. Though, that is a student price, twice that for non-students.
How about you?
The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
If one argues that that hyperlinks are interactive, that would effetively be what this bill does.
But... does it run Linux?
I for one welcome our new ringed black hole overlords...
Can't say I disagree. I'm 20. However, for me the most deterring factor for me is the decline in PC game quality. There used to be great titles like Thief and Deus Ex. Then all of the sudden everything had to be lobotomized so that it could be played on consoles as well as PCs. Wroooong move. Atleast I don't find a lobotomized point-and-drool interface that a chimpanzee could use very appealing.
WHAT? Does this mean Zapp Brannigan can't come?
How about getting out of Iraq and leaving those poor people to mend their shattered country themselves?
Well, technically, photons have kinetic energy too (even though they have no mass): E=hf.
Exactly. If I'm at the grocery store, and I need to integrate a trigonometric function in order to determine how much milk I should buy (seeing as how you can roughly approximate the demand during the day with a sine curve), and I'm stuck with degrees, it'll be hell to integrate, when compared to radians.
I'm stuck behind a terminal you insensitive clod.
So... 40x25!
19574811 227958 31819326 you insensitive clod!
It isn't the flying that's the hard part, it's landing with the bones in your body intact.
Brand new market springs to light, really, it's the latest fad to have a tiny tin foil hat on your cellphone.
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My space shuttle has a coal furnace you insensitive clod!
Sets of hyperreal numbers extends R with infinite numbers (amongst other things).
It's a bad example, because even outside of R, the left and right limits are not the same (one diverges to minus infinity and the other plus infinity).
lim x->0 (23 / |x|)
is better. It is undefined because it exceeds R, one could technically define a set of numbers which includes +=infinity, in which division by zero would be defined.