I think you're right about the age, but at that level you aren't even doing anything more complicated than addition. I didn't start subtraction until the end of first grade, and I didn't do it very much until the second. I actually didn't start multiplication or division until third grade, and I didn't use them substantively until fourth.
In first grade, I hated math too. Now I like it a lot (although I'm not totally hard core; I finished calculus in high school but didn't move beyond that, although I use math in many forms in my programming -- read Knuth). I hate anything that is boring and repetitive, which is exactly what learning the stupid addition tables in first grade is.
Trust me, she won't start to like math until at *least* third grade. For me, learning how to multiply and divide was pretty cool, and all of a sudden I went bonkers and tried to multiply and divide every number I could find. My teacher even gave me special homework, because all of a sudden I did more math than the rest of my class. Like I said, before third grade, I hated it and how stupid and boring 6+7=13, 13-7=6 was.
However when a bunch of people claim that they proved wrong the theory of special relativity with some cheap coax cables
Go back and read that article again. Nobody was claiming that they broke relativity. No information was being transmitted faster than light, only the peak of the wave. If you have one wave with a slightly different frequency than the other, the waves will cancel each other out in a way that the peak of the combined wave is faster or slower (think of dissonant sound waves). The wave itself, and the energy and information in the wave, still goes the speed of light.
Oops, thanks. I have to admit I didn't really read the instructions or the rest of the page, I just tried it out. Besides those issues, I have to say what you have done is pretty damn nifty.
I still don't know what's making it so slow though. Is there a Bugzilla issue about it - maybe some generic Javascript problem on some machines? Could the fact that I'm running Linux make a difference?
Keep your mouth shut for the time being, and build your case for a future lawsuit. If they don't want to pay you legitimately, you can forget about seeing your money for at least until the courts will give it to you.
From what I've seen with startups, they might not really *have* the money to pay you at the moment, even if you were to win a suit (maybe this isn't the case; you know better than I). If they can get venture capital, then they will be able to pay you comfortably. I'd say *encourage* the VC to invest, and only after that happens, fire all of your ammo.
If you don't think you can build a court case, then you need to ask, "Why can't the contract be enforced?" That leads to, "Did I really fulfill my contractual obgligations?" If you have to answer those questions, then I suppose revenge is your only recourse.
Remember your career, though. Don't burn bridges, because taking revenge *will* come back to haunt you. Do this legitimately, through the courts, and you probably win both ways.
You will silently and efficiently lose 15 minutes of work.
Not to mention that the 15 minutes really should have been only 2, because even on my Athlon 1.4GHz it takes almost a second for any character I type to appear on the screen. Sorry, but there are some things that Javascript just isn't supposed to do.
And it doesn't even show a cursor. I totally agree that they should just try to use XUL and other "real" Mozilla stuff -- technology that was actually designed to provide user interfaces of this type.
The other question is, what's wrong with Mozilla Composer? It's built into the browser, and provides WYSIWYG editing already.
More than that, I'm sure the reviewers would have to have signed a contract stipulating that they did not tamper with the unit or extract the music, and they would get sued for all they're worth. After all, nothing is worse than a pirate/terrorist.
Yeah, anyone is going to carry an inverter, the hub, the hub's AC->DC converter, and, of course, the CAR BATTERY THAT WEIGHS 30 POUNDS, all along with a laptop case.
Seriously, somebody else posted a link to a genuine battery-powered hub. You should check that out. You should also get your head checked out:)
Privacy invasion? I fail to see how the zip codes and Congressional Mappings aren't public information. All he needs is a list of that information in a single place.
Presumably he already has a database of people addresses. All he needs to do is figure out which congressmen correspond to each of those addresses, based on their zipcodes. Nobody's asking for a list of the addresses, congressmen, and sexual orientation of every person in the country.
Furthermore, even if you consider his mailings as "junk mail", how is it an invasion of your privacy to recieve it? Unless he puts a little wireless camera in every envelope, the only bad thing that can come of it is a little more junk in the landfills.
Really now.
Alright, so junk mail is annoying. But from my impression of his question, this doesn't even sound like email spam. So what if it is? He's not scamming people, or increasing the size of anyone's penis. This would be a list where you specifically ask to recieve information about political, um, stuff.
OK, so I'm making assumptions too. But hopefully you won't jump to such harsh and damning conclusions every time somebody mentions "zip code" and "mailing list" in the same sentence. There *are* legitimate reasons to want this.
Re:There goes some trademarks bust!
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Yes, but the moon rotates (as it orbits around Earth). If you put the telescope on the equator, you'd see just as much of the sky in the course of a month as you would from the equator on Earth -- that is, just about all of it.
Yes, they do come together randomly (within predefined -- by humans -- constraints). They come together randomly so many times that they happen to pick a layout that works. It's no different than if you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters; they would eventually write Shakespear (or however that saying goes).
The scientists just used predefined constraints to accellerate the process toward the end result. I hope you were kidding:)
My optical Intellimouse just died on me this week: first it would start randomly turning off (the light turns off and it stops responding), requiring a cold boot of my whole computer to reset it. Then I switched to USB instead of PS/2, and the problem got worse, except I at least didn't have to cold boot (it would come back on after a few seconds). Now, it will flicker once or twice when I try to use it, but for the most part it just turns off and stays off.
I don't know whether this is indicitave of all Microsoft mice, but I've heard of other people with similar problems. Before this, I'd never had a problem with any Microsoft hardware. Oh well -- too bad it's no longer under warranty.
I didn't have any problems with my wheel though. Two years and it's still clicking and scrolling away like new. It's too bad for the other problem, because now I've bought a Logitech Dual Optical mouse to replace it, and the wheel just feels, well, squishy. I liked the MS wheel a lot better.
You keep saying that. What, is that your new catchphrase?
Making this law is no worse than *city* ordinances banning lound music after 10:00pm, yelling "fire" in a theatre, or any other law basically telling people what they should not do in a public place.
Furthermore, if 99.99% of people agree with the law and would enforce it themselves given the chance, can you really call it "violence of the state"? Violence of the state is stupid laws like the DMCA.
The problem is that, even though nobody wants cell phones in public performances, it's up to the individual establishments to enforce it. Most do anyway, but some don't. So since everybody wants it, why not pass a law to do it?
Or maybe you're one of the people who doesn't turn your phone off in a movie. In that case, fuck you. If not, then don't get so uppety. Move away from New York if you don't like it.
I bet number of non-Lychrels that require 50+ iterations is unbelievably low
But remember that there are an infinite number of numbers, so if there is *any* possibility of this happening, there will be at least one number that does it.
And why would the probability be zero? What if you find a number that requires 49 iterations. What then is mathematically significant about 50?
You can't prove stuff based on your intuitions, especially when those intuitions don't make sense.
some absolutely awful-looking work (OpenOffice, etc.)
I'm glad somebody else noticed! Just type the word "Maybe" in Times. Jeeze. Versions before 1.0 were attrocious, and sometimes I couldn't even tell the difference between a real space and the crappy spacing between normal letters -- I'd type three or four spaces before it looked normal (but then of course it printed with three or four spaces).
The letter only asks that davezilla.com remove the "objectionable imagery and reference to GODZILLA". So maybe (probably) Mozilla would have to get a new non-reptile logo, but Toho seemed to have no problem with the name "zilla" alone.
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I think you're right about the age, but at that level you aren't even doing anything more complicated than addition. I didn't start subtraction until the end of first grade, and I didn't do it very much until the second. I actually didn't start multiplication or division until third grade, and I didn't use them substantively until fourth.
In first grade, I hated math too. Now I like it a lot (although I'm not totally hard core; I finished calculus in high school but didn't move beyond that, although I use math in many forms in my programming -- read Knuth). I hate anything that is boring and repetitive, which is exactly what learning the stupid addition tables in first grade is.
Trust me, she won't start to like math until at *least* third grade. For me, learning how to multiply and divide was pretty cool, and all of a sudden I went bonkers and tried to multiply and divide every number I could find. My teacher even gave me special homework, because all of a sudden I did more math than the rest of my class. Like I said, before third grade, I hated it and how stupid and boring 6+7=13, 13-7=6 was.
However when a bunch of people claim that they proved wrong the theory of special relativity with some cheap coax cables
Go back and read that article again. Nobody was claiming that they broke relativity. No information was being transmitted faster than light, only the peak of the wave. If you have one wave with a slightly different frequency than the other, the waves will cancel each other out in a way that the peak of the combined wave is faster or slower (think of dissonant sound waves). The wave itself, and the energy and information in the wave, still goes the speed of light.
Hit F7...
Oops, thanks. I have to admit I didn't really read the instructions or the rest of the page, I just tried it out. Besides those issues, I have to say what you have done is pretty damn nifty.
I still don't know what's making it so slow though. Is there a Bugzilla issue about it - maybe some generic Javascript problem on some machines? Could the fact that I'm running Linux make a difference?
Keep your mouth shut for the time being, and build your case for a future lawsuit. If they don't want to pay you legitimately, you can forget about seeing your money for at least until the courts will give it to you.
From what I've seen with startups, they might not really *have* the money to pay you at the moment, even if you were to win a suit (maybe this isn't the case; you know better than I). If they can get venture capital, then they will be able to pay you comfortably. I'd say *encourage* the VC to invest, and only after that happens, fire all of your ammo.
If you don't think you can build a court case, then you need to ask, "Why can't the contract be enforced?" That leads to, "Did I really fulfill my contractual obgligations?" If you have to answer those questions, then I suppose revenge is your only recourse.
Remember your career, though. Don't burn bridges, because taking revenge *will* come back to haunt you. Do this legitimately, through the courts, and you probably win both ways.
You will silently and efficiently lose 15 minutes of work.
Not to mention that the 15 minutes really should have been only 2, because even on my Athlon 1.4GHz it takes almost a second for any character I type to appear on the screen. Sorry, but there are some things that Javascript just isn't supposed to do.
And it doesn't even show a cursor. I totally agree that they should just try to use XUL and other "real" Mozilla stuff -- technology that was actually designed to provide user interfaces of this type.
The other question is, what's wrong with Mozilla Composer? It's built into the browser, and provides WYSIWYG editing already.
Yeah, so it's from the Simpsons. And it's even applicable in this case. But it's not even funny! It's not even a quote!
Oh well, I guess I'm just jealous of the karma whores.
More than that, I'm sure the reviewers would have to have signed a contract stipulating that they did not tamper with the unit or extract the music, and they would get sued for all they're worth. After all, nothing is worse than a pirate/terrorist.
Yeah, anyone is going to carry an inverter, the hub, the hub's AC->DC converter, and, of course, the CAR BATTERY THAT WEIGHS 30 POUNDS, all along with a laptop case.
:)
Seriously, somebody else posted a link to a genuine battery-powered hub. You should check that out. You should also get your head checked out
Privacy invasion? I fail to see how the zip codes and Congressional Mappings aren't public information. All he needs is a list of that information in a single place.
Presumably he already has a database of people addresses. All he needs to do is figure out which congressmen correspond to each of those addresses, based on their zipcodes. Nobody's asking for a list of the addresses, congressmen, and sexual orientation of every person in the country.
Furthermore, even if you consider his mailings as "junk mail", how is it an invasion of your privacy to recieve it? Unless he puts a little wireless camera in every envelope, the only bad thing that can come of it is a little more junk in the landfills.
Really now.
Alright, so junk mail is annoying. But from my impression of his question, this doesn't even sound like email spam. So what if it is? He's not scamming people, or increasing the size of anyone's penis. This would be a list where you specifically ask to recieve information about political, um, stuff.
OK, so I'm making assumptions too. But hopefully you won't jump to such harsh and damning conclusions every time somebody mentions "zip code" and "mailing list" in the same sentence. There *are* legitimate reasons to want this.
Trademarks are not patents.
half the sky would be blocked by the moon
Yes, but the moon rotates (as it orbits around Earth). If you put the telescope on the equator, you'd see just as much of the sky in the course of a month as you would from the equator on Earth -- that is, just about all of it.
Parents?
Yes, they do come together randomly (within predefined -- by humans -- constraints). They come together randomly so many times that they happen to pick a layout that works. It's no different than if you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters; they would eventually write Shakespear (or however that saying goes).
:)
The scientists just used predefined constraints to accellerate the process toward the end result. I hope you were kidding
Maybe not, but can you say "Chapter 11"? Putting the spammers out of business (for the time being at least), I think, is the point of this case.
My optical Intellimouse just died on me this week: first it would start randomly turning off (the light turns off and it stops responding), requiring a cold boot of my whole computer to reset it. Then I switched to USB instead of PS/2, and the problem got worse, except I at least didn't have to cold boot (it would come back on after a few seconds). Now, it will flicker once or twice when I try to use it, but for the most part it just turns off and stays off.
I don't know whether this is indicitave of all Microsoft mice, but I've heard of other people with similar problems. Before this, I'd never had a problem with any Microsoft hardware. Oh well -- too bad it's no longer under warranty.
I didn't have any problems with my wheel though. Two years and it's still clicking and scrolling away like new. It's too bad for the other problem, because now I've bought a Logitech Dual Optical mouse to replace it, and the wheel just feels, well, squishy. I liked the MS wheel a lot better.
days? or millenia?
On my Gentoo system, it's even worse:
/bin/true
/bin/true /lib/libsandbox.so /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/libdl.so.2 /lib/ld-linux.so.2
[trimmed to fit the little text box]
$ ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10364 Jun 23 03:29
$ ldd
/lib/libsandbox.so =>
libc.so.6 =>
libdl.so.2 =>
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 =>
Who's talking about copper or any other (superconducting) material? The thing is made of carbon nanotubes.
the violence of the state
You keep saying that. What, is that your new catchphrase?
Making this law is no worse than *city* ordinances banning lound music after 10:00pm, yelling "fire" in a theatre, or any other law basically telling people what they should not do in a public place.
Furthermore, if 99.99% of people agree with the law and would enforce it themselves given the chance, can you really call it "violence of the state"? Violence of the state is stupid laws like the DMCA.
The problem is that, even though nobody wants cell phones in public performances, it's up to the individual establishments to enforce it. Most do anyway, but some don't. So since everybody wants it, why not pass a law to do it?
Or maybe you're one of the people who doesn't turn your phone off in a movie. In that case, fuck you. If not, then don't get so uppety. Move away from New York if you don't like it.
I bet number of non-Lychrels that require 50+ iterations is unbelievably low
But remember that there are an infinite number of numbers, so if there is *any* possibility of this happening, there will be at least one number that does it.
And why would the probability be zero? What if you find a number that requires 49 iterations. What then is mathematically significant about 50?
You can't prove stuff based on your intuitions, especially when those intuitions don't make sense.
some absolutely awful-looking work (OpenOffice, etc.)
I'm glad somebody else noticed! Just type the word "Maybe" in Times. Jeeze. Versions before 1.0 were attrocious, and sometimes I couldn't even tell the difference between a real space and the crappy spacing between normal letters -- I'd type three or four spaces before it looked normal (but then of course it printed with three or four spaces).
plop
That's the sound of your girlfriend dumping you onto the street.
MOD PARENT UP!
The letter only asks that davezilla.com remove the "objectionable imagery and reference to GODZILLA". So maybe (probably) Mozilla would have to get a new non-reptile logo, but Toho seemed to have no problem with the name "zilla" alone.
If you call a tech support line, just hope you don't get some bo[o]b in a callcenter sweathouse in India. God knows I can't understand them...
or
). But since you can still type, say, , or in plain text mode, it can't automatically translate your '<' into '<', or else those tags wouldn't work.
What you want is to either type out the '<' and '&', or, probably what you really want is to:
use Extrans or Code modes (Code is just like Extrans except formatted in a fixed-width font). I'm using Extrans to type this message right now, since it has so many '<'s.