On the topic of calculus, don't learn anything past calculus I (well, bits of calculus II are useful). The rest is completely useless and you'll forget about it all in a couple of years anyway because of its uselessness. If you want something that's useful go for discrete math and/or the good bits of linear algebra.
Your comment is completely offbase. Actually, Linear Algebra is about as important as Calculus in many scientific/engineering disciplines.
More importantly, you claim that anything more advanced will be forgotten, but the later courses often serve to reinforce earlier material. For example a course on Fourrier theory reinforces both Linear Algebra and Calculus.
Most math departments have a course somewhere after the introductory sequence which teaches basic proof techniques often by studying the definition of numerical systems from logical axioms.
These basic proof techniques are the very basis of mathematics. The reason so many people get through high school with little understanding of math is that they are never forced to do any proofs outside of Geometry.
In short, if you cannot prove anything, you know practically nothing about mathematics.
Oh sure Justin and Britney and Lars might not sell as many copies of their new singles, but who cares? Fuck Justin and Britney and Lars. br
P2P will never kill music sales. Besides, recorded music sales have never been a way for an artist to make much money. Concerts are better anyway.
I do agree that this legislation has passed because of the coporate control of the politicians. However, it is the people's ignorance of the issues that has allowed these laws to pass. Of course much of that ignorance is due to corporate control of the media.
I do think that you should be a little careful in saying that both the laft and right are controlled by corporations. For instance, greenpiece and Tim McVey (the left and right respectively) are not controlled by corporations. I think you mean that all politicians are controlled by corporations.
One of the main reasons that the DMCA has caused so little controversy in mainstream American society (no, Slashdot is not mainstream) is that the conventional media has pretty much refused to cover it.
I'm just curious but have any Slashdot readers from Germany, Austria, Denmark, Greece, or Italy noticed any significant coverage in the media of these euro-DMCA laws? Also, what does the local reaction seem to be? Do most people know enough about the issues to care?
You are absolutely right. It could just be a natural geologic cycle. On the other hand couldn't we call the increase in the Earth's tempurate global warming no matter what the cause?
Also, it could very well be a problem even if it is a nutral one. People living in low lying areas will be uprooted. Fire-ants and killer bees will spread, etc.
Actually, we can start working on that "insurance" right now by researching space travel as much as we can so that when the sun does die, we can move on to another star system.
Sure it seems far fetched, but that will be millions of years from now.
Not true. Each time a bill is defeated, the case-law against it grows and the more easily a similar bill will be defeated next time barring a major shift in judicial wisdom.
<offtopic>I don't read many stories on games.slashdotdot, but WTF is going on with the color scheme here...
Got to go. My eyes are starting to bleed...</offtopic>
When I navigated the tree, I did not find neandrathals. I know in the past they were considered a sub-species of Homo Sapiens and the tree does not have such fine granularity, but I thought that recent evidence had classified them as a seperate species...
Can anyone with more anthropological training answer this for me?
Well, I think that you're generally right about legal solutions not being appropriate. Uhaul shouldn't be able to have any say in what software people use or how it works...
On the other hand, there are a lot of problems with spyware for which legal solutions could be appropriate. For example, if a user does not agree to a spyware installation, but it is installed through some bug in activeX, the product that installs itself is really no better than say, someone who does a DOS attack (except that the DOS attack is against a corporation with wherewithal to pursue a legal solution).
For example, I was a victim of the Xupiter tool-bar attack. It was so incredibly annoying. It took quite a while to fix... but Xupiter is still around and has had no reprecusions.
You are right the Supreme Court did not put Bush in office. His bro Jeb (gotta love the name) put him in office.
Jeb promised to deliver Florida and he did by appointing a crony as election commisioner and turns blacks and other traditionally democratic groups away from the polls.
I really wish that I could mod you up for such an insightful comment, but the Slashdot gods have not awarded any lately, so I'll reply:
Perhaps you are right that humans have become too short-sighted to embark on any projects to further our species (look at the vast majority of government policies anywhere), but I don't think that we need build such a huge space ship just yet.
I think it will happen, but only after we have developed the technology to conquer our own galaxy. Then when we arive at the next star system, we can actually perhaps make it livable.
I think you are right. The primary problem with Daubert is that it let judges use decide what scientific evidence has merit based on their own discretion. Of course, very few judges are qualified to do that.
The previous standard, Frye, used the more conservative but better standard of admission of general acceptance in the scientific community.
Daubert might not have been so bad, but Joiner (which expanded on Daubert) exacerbated the problem by allowing Appellate courts to overturn the admissibility decision of a trial court only if the trial court abused its discretion. This is really obscene. An admissibility decision can't be overturned if it's horribly wrong, but only if it can be shown that the judge abused his discretion? That's horrible. It quite frankly admits abuse.
Thus if I as an attorney want to prevent my opponents from admitting a particular kind of evidence, all I have to do is get the case heard in a court with a prejudiced judge.
One of the reasons that our legal system works is the system of appeal which gives a certain continuity to the application of the law. Joiner completely screws that.
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On the topic of calculus, don't learn anything past calculus I (well, bits of calculus II are useful). The rest is completely useless and you'll forget about it all in a couple of years anyway because of its uselessness. If you want something that's useful go for discrete math and/or the good bits of linear algebra. Your comment is completely offbase. Actually, Linear Algebra is about as important as Calculus in many scientific/engineering disciplines.
More importantly, you claim that anything more advanced will be forgotten, but the later courses often serve to reinforce earlier material. For example a course on Fourrier theory reinforces both Linear Algebra and Calculus.
Most math departments have a course somewhere after the introductory sequence which teaches basic proof techniques often by studying the definition of numerical systems from logical axioms.
These basic proof techniques are the very basis of mathematics. The reason so many people get through high school with little understanding of math is that they are never forced to do any proofs outside of Geometry.
In short, if you cannot prove anything, you know practically nothing about mathematics.
I don't want the RIAA to see any more revenue from this or any other source. I hope those bloodsuckers go out of business.
Have a nice day.
All of this talk about mixing and headroom is interesting, but a bit confusing.
What is headroom and why do you measure it in negative db?
Anybody know of a good mixing/mastering introduction/tutorial?
Please continue.
The lost productivity due to spam is inconsequential compared to the lost productivity due to Slashdot.
"...I'm driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!"
Gotta love that chunnel. BTW, when are we going to get one of those under the Atlantic?
Oh sure Justin and Britney and Lars might not sell as many copies of their new singles, but who cares? Fuck Justin and Britney and Lars.
br P2P will never kill music sales. Besides, recorded music sales have never been a way for an artist to make much money. Concerts are better anyway.
I do agree that this legislation has passed because of the coporate control of the politicians. However, it is the people's ignorance of the issues that has allowed these laws to pass. Of course much of that ignorance is due to corporate control of the media.
I do think that you should be a little careful in saying that both the laft and right are controlled by corporations. For instance, greenpiece and Tim McVey (the left and right respectively) are not controlled by corporations. I think you mean that all politicians are controlled by corporations.
One of the main reasons that the DMCA has caused so little controversy in mainstream American society (no, Slashdot is not mainstream) is that the conventional media has pretty much refused to cover it.
I'm just curious but have any Slashdot readers from Germany, Austria, Denmark, Greece, or Italy noticed any significant coverage in the media of these euro-DMCA laws? Also, what does the local reaction seem to be? Do most people know enough about the issues to care?
I wish I had some mod points for ya. Good post. Infomative.
You are absolutely right. It could just be a natural geologic cycle. On the other hand couldn't we call the increase in the Earth's tempurate global warming no matter what the cause?
Also, it could very well be a problem even if it is a nutral one. People living in low lying areas will be uprooted. Fire-ants and killer bees will spread, etc.
Actually, we can start working on that "insurance" right now by researching space travel as much as we can so that when the sun does die, we can move on to another star system.
Sure it seems far fetched, but that will be millions of years from now.
Not true. Each time a bill is defeated, the case-law against it grows and the more easily a similar bill will be defeated next time barring a major shift in judicial wisdom.
<offtopic>I don't read many stories on games.slashdotdot, but WTF is going on with the color scheme here...
Got to go. My eyes are starting to bleed...</offtopic>
Storage grows probably more quickly than bandwidth.
When I navigated the tree, I did not find neandrathals. I know in the past they were considered a sub-species of Homo Sapiens and the tree does not have such fine granularity, but I thought that recent evidence had classified them as a seperate species...
Can anyone with more anthropological training answer this for me?
The government protects YOUR privacy... err, wait scratch that.
Parent is flamebait ;)
Hmmm....
... but Xupiter is still around and has had no reprecusions.
Well, I think that you're generally right about legal solutions not being appropriate. Uhaul shouldn't be able to have any say in what software people use or how it works...
On the other hand, there are a lot of problems with spyware for which legal solutions could be appropriate. For example, if a user does not agree to a spyware installation, but it is installed through some bug in activeX, the product that installs itself is really no better than say, someone who does a DOS attack (except that the DOS attack is against a corporation with wherewithal to pursue a legal solution).
For example, I was a victim of the Xupiter tool-bar attack. It was so incredibly annoying. It took quite a while to fix
You are right the Supreme Court did not put Bush in office. His bro Jeb (gotta love the name) put him in office.
Jeb promised to deliver Florida and he did by appointing a crony as election commisioner and turns blacks and other traditionally democratic groups away from the polls.
Because of the threads, you can tear a wide piece to be as narrow as you need.
I actually do. I have duct tape wallet and carry an emergency swatch to repair the wallet if something happens to it.
I really wish that I could mod you up for such an insightful comment, but the Slashdot gods have not awarded any lately, so I'll reply:
Perhaps you are right that humans have become too short-sighted to embark on any projects to further our species (look at the vast majority of government policies anywhere), but I don't think that we need build such a huge space ship just yet.
I think it will happen, but only after we have developed the technology to conquer our own galaxy. Then when we arive at the next star system, we can actually perhaps make it livable.
That was a cool article. Thanks.
I think you are right. The primary problem with Daubert is that it let judges use decide what scientific evidence has merit based on their own discretion. Of course, very few judges are qualified to do that.
The previous standard, Frye, used the more conservative but better standard of admission of general acceptance in the scientific community.
Daubert might not have been so bad, but Joiner (which expanded on Daubert) exacerbated the problem by allowing Appellate courts to overturn the admissibility decision of a trial court only if the trial court abused its discretion. This is really obscene. An admissibility decision can't be overturned if it's horribly wrong, but only if it can be shown that the judge abused his discretion? That's horrible. It quite frankly admits abuse.
Thus if I as an attorney want to prevent my opponents from admitting a particular kind of evidence, all I have to do is get the case heard in a court with a prejudiced judge.
One of the reasons that our legal system works is the system of appeal which gives a certain continuity to the application of the law. Joiner completely screws that.
Anyone have the home address for one James F. Lyons?