Sure, he could get the 92, which is more powerful (you can tell this easily by comparing how quickly the 92 can graph 3d functions compared to the 89), but they're not allowed on many college entrance exams, nor accepted universally by all teachers. I made my way through intermediate multi variable calculus with a TI-83 and a TI-86 for homework and borrowing a neighbor's 89 for exams.
The main thing for/. to remember here is that we're talking about a high school student, not somebody that's doing graduate-level work. For all practical purposes, the 89 is more than enough calculator to get someone through undergraduate exams. Hell, I sat next to someone for my multi variable final whose calculator wasn't even a graphing calculator.
I find that the most technical people I've met are in Accounting. Sure, engineers and the like can give you physics and scientific information, but it's in the accounting department that holds the glue of the company together. It's the accounting departments that help say what the *company* can do and can't do, rather than what a *product* or *service* can do or can't do. There's a reason why the big accounting firms are so powerful. One of the good points is that they can help management figure out how to maximize the shareholders' ROE. One of the bad points is that it has the capacity to hide very important information from the rest of the world (and even its own department) - Just take a look at the Enron fiasco.
Which excel features are you refering to? Or are you just guessing? I've used both in professional engineering projects ( don't ask why the engineer wasn't using CAD?!?) The only problems I ran into were third party excel add ons that obviously didn't work with excel.
Once I finish my time at the University, my goal is to work at the Federal Reserve. Whether I work in a branch that supervises corporate bank branches or deals with economic forecasting is beyond me right now, but one thing I can assure you is that once I finish my studies I am going to be using a plethora of financial functions that 99.9% of Excel users havn't heard of or don't use.
Star Office would be a more appropriate replacement because the PHB's would see that they could call up a company and have some support rather than posting something on a mailing list should the shit hit the fan. I use the latest version of Star Office and have no complaints other than it doesn't print presentation slides as nice as PowerPoint does. But then again, I'm a student, so I don't need the most powerful software out there. I know that once I'm out of the university and in the work force I'm going to have to rely on the intricacies of Excel to get any work done, so I'd also chalk that up for another "No" reason.
If the sea level rises, that means more area covered by water, which means the Navy's importance increases. That also means less coast-line, so the Coast Guard's prowess deminishes. It also means less land area, so the Army suddenly becomes unnecessary. That leaves the Air Force. Nobody really cares about the Air Force as it is because the Navy's air force could kick the Air Force's Air Force. And the Marines? SEALs can take care of them. Moral of the story: Don't piss off the Navy
I don't believe there should be a ban on this game, but I do believe that it's one of the worst ideas of a video game. One can only imagine the reaction (and thus consequencly the publicity) a game would provoke and receive if it was about the ascention of Hitler or Mussolini through the eyes of a supporter. Like I said before, I don't think there should be a de jure ban on the game, but there is definately going to be a de facto ban on the game.
Seeing that Microsoft's 2005 revenues are 39.788 Billion and that their net income is 12.254 Billion, both of those numbers are a significant chunck of the United States's 2005 GDP of 12455.8 Billion. Microsoft's net income for 2005 is.098% of the United States's GDP and its total revenues for 2005 are.319% of the United States's GDP. Think about that for one second: one company. If you add 3M to Microsoft you get total revenues of 60.955 Billion 39.788+21.1670 billion). Now let's add P&G. Suddenly, you've got an additiona, 56.7410 billion to bring three companies total revenues up to 117.696, or damn near 1% of the nation's GDP. Simply put, Microsoft, along with the (relatively) few other gigantic corporations are virtually untouchable because they are too large of a portion of our economy to collapse without significantly harming the economy.
It's obvious that telecommutting kills job prospects if you want to move up the corporate ladder. If you telecommute, it becomes increasingly more difficult to prove to your superiors at work that you should belong in management. It doesn't matter which branch of the company you are in; if you can't prove you can belong in management, you're going to get stuck somewhere along the way.
I know it's redundant, but...
Seeing as to how my university caps all users' total bandwidth (combined upstream & downstream) to 5GB per any 7 consecutive days, this would take over 4 weeks to download if I did not share at all. I say over 4 weeks because I still require some bandwidth for my typical habits like listening to distant radio stations and downloading software updates. Now, if I were to download this on bittorrent, it would take at least 6 weeks if I'm a jerk, 9 weeks if I'm nice and get my ratio back up to 1. At this rate, I'd rather just buy the damn disc than wait 2+ months. Then again, the only HDTV I have is at my family's home, and I'm too poor to buy the 360's HD-DVD player, and I'm also not sure that my computer can handle outputting something at that high of a resolution without losing frames. Anywho, I suppose I should buy a DVIHDMI cable sometime before this summer so I can play Pro Evo on the new TV, but that would also require a new video card.... New video card or a month's rent, hrmm.....
At first I was like *DAMN* that thing's big! But then I realized the guy was holding up four of them at once.... I also don't understand why they have a VGA plug at all. It's not that hard to get an adapter to convert from DVI to VGA....
With the majority of the movie industries supporting Bluray and the adult movie industry supporting HD-DVD, isn't this just more motivation to get a player that plays both instead of having to choose between one or the other? I think this just means that the PS3 is not going to be the primary video player for households that get porn in disk format.
Lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors.
Now, nobody in their right minds would say that Gran Turismo is offensive or too grotesque for minors, but how does it apply to any of four categories in a serious manner?
When we're working on quantum physics and teleportation, why are we focusing on something as slow as the speed of light? If we've already teleported information via cables in the sewers beneath the Danube, why care about the speed of light, let alone anything less than it?
Going from 12mpg to 30 mpg will save more gasoline than 30 to 40 mpg
The rational you express is simply described as horrible. How much money you "save" by still using a more inefficient mode of transportation still costs you money. Think of it as opportunity cost. It's exactly the same mentality as when someone buys something they won't ever use for the sole basis that it's marked 30% off some mark-up price they never considered.
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Isn't this what we said about the 360 adopters when it first came out? Replace things like Gran Turismo with Halo and you've got the mirrored story.
Honestly, out of all of the /. crowd, you think there's at least two dozen people that read the story?
You must be new here....
Sure, he could get the 92, which is more powerful (you can tell this easily by comparing how quickly the 92 can graph 3d functions compared to the 89), but they're not allowed on many college entrance exams, nor accepted universally by all teachers. I made my way through intermediate multi variable calculus with a TI-83 and a TI-86 for homework and borrowing a neighbor's 89 for exams. The main thing for /. to remember here is that we're talking about a high school student, not somebody that's doing graduate-level work. For all practical purposes, the 89 is more than enough calculator to get someone through undergraduate exams. Hell, I sat next to someone for my multi variable final whose calculator wasn't even a graphing calculator.
I find that the most technical people I've met are in Accounting. Sure, engineers and the like can give you physics and scientific information, but it's in the accounting department that holds the glue of the company together. It's the accounting departments that help say what the *company* can do and can't do, rather than what a *product* or *service* can do or can't do. There's a reason why the big accounting firms are so powerful. One of the good points is that they can help management figure out how to maximize the shareholders' ROE. One of the bad points is that it has the capacity to hide very important information from the rest of the world (and even its own department) - Just take a look at the Enron fiasco.
Once I finish my time at the University, my goal is to work at the Federal Reserve. Whether I work in a branch that supervises corporate bank branches or deals with economic forecasting is beyond me right now, but one thing I can assure you is that once I finish my studies I am going to be using a plethora of financial functions that 99.9% of Excel users havn't heard of or don't use.
Star Office would be a more appropriate replacement because the PHB's would see that they could call up a company and have some support rather than posting something on a mailing list should the shit hit the fan. I use the latest version of Star Office and have no complaints other than it doesn't print presentation slides as nice as PowerPoint does. But then again, I'm a student, so I don't need the most powerful software out there. I know that once I'm out of the university and in the work force I'm going to have to rely on the intricacies of Excel to get any work done, so I'd also chalk that up for another "No" reason.
If the sea level rises, that means more area covered by water, which means the Navy's importance increases. That also means less coast-line, so the Coast Guard's prowess deminishes. It also means less land area, so the Army suddenly becomes unnecessary. That leaves the Air Force. Nobody really cares about the Air Force as it is because the Navy's air force could kick the Air Force's Air Force. And the Marines? SEALs can take care of them. Moral of the story: Don't piss off the Navy
porn?
I don't believe there should be a ban on this game, but I do believe that it's one of the worst ideas of a video game. One can only imagine the reaction (and thus consequencly the publicity) a game would provoke and receive if it was about the ascention of Hitler or Mussolini through the eyes of a supporter. Like I said before, I don't think there should be a de jure ban on the game, but there is definately going to be a de facto ban on the game.
Seeing that Microsoft's 2005 revenues are 39.788 Billion and that their net income is 12.254 Billion, both of those numbers are a significant chunck of the United States's 2005 GDP of 12455.8 Billion. Microsoft's net income for 2005 is .098% of the United States's GDP and its total revenues for 2005 are .319% of the United States's GDP. Think about that for one second: one company. If you add 3M to Microsoft you get total revenues of 60.955 Billion 39.788+21.1670 billion). Now let's add P&G. Suddenly, you've got an additiona, 56.7410 billion to bring three companies total revenues up to 117.696, or damn near 1% of the nation's GDP. Simply put, Microsoft, along with the (relatively) few other gigantic corporations are virtually untouchable because they are too large of a portion of our economy to collapse without significantly harming the economy.
Wouldn't that solution, uh, solve all three?
The solution for this bullshit is simple: Have everyone post on the blog as anonymouscoward.
It's obvious that telecommutting kills job prospects if you want to move up the corporate ladder. If you telecommute, it becomes increasingly more difficult to prove to your superiors at work that you should belong in management. It doesn't matter which branch of the company you are in; if you can't prove you can belong in management, you're going to get stuck somewhere along the way.
I know it's redundant, but... Seeing as to how my university caps all users' total bandwidth (combined upstream & downstream) to 5GB per any 7 consecutive days, this would take over 4 weeks to download if I did not share at all. I say over 4 weeks because I still require some bandwidth for my typical habits like listening to distant radio stations and downloading software updates. Now, if I were to download this on bittorrent, it would take at least 6 weeks if I'm a jerk, 9 weeks if I'm nice and get my ratio back up to 1. At this rate, I'd rather just buy the damn disc than wait 2+ months. Then again, the only HDTV I have is at my family's home, and I'm too poor to buy the 360's HD-DVD player, and I'm also not sure that my computer can handle outputting something at that high of a resolution without losing frames. Anywho, I suppose I should buy a DVIHDMI cable sometime before this summer so I can play Pro Evo on the new TV, but that would also require a new video card.... New video card or a month's rent, hrmm.....
What the hell? Quit looking at my wife! Oh, by the way, your wife was a fox last night!
Are we sure it's not 3cm, or 3mi? How about 3"?
So how often do Dell and Microsoft get calls because some script kiddie broke someone else's computer?
At first I was like *DAMN* that thing's big! But then I realized the guy was holding up four of them at once.... I also don't understand why they have a VGA plug at all. It's not that hard to get an adapter to convert from DVI to VGA....
So, this sat was damaged either by a giant "Laser beam" or sharks with lasers attached to their heads....
For the most part, have you ever heard of a SIM card?
With the majority of the movie industries supporting Bluray and the adult movie industry supporting HD-DVD, isn't this just more motivation to get a player that plays both instead of having to choose between one or the other? I think this just means that the PS3 is not going to be the primary video player for households that get porn in disk format.
Now, nobody in their right minds would say that Gran Turismo is offensive or too grotesque for minors, but how does it apply to any of four categories in a serious manner?
When we're working on quantum physics and teleportation, why are we focusing on something as slow as the speed of light? If we've already teleported information via cables in the sewers beneath the Danube, why care about the speed of light, let alone anything less than it?
and why is it a related link? Is there something special about dido@@@imperium...ph?
The rational you express is simply described as horrible. How much money you "save" by still using a more inefficient mode of transportation still costs you money. Think of it as opportunity cost. It's exactly the same mentality as when someone buys something they won't ever use for the sole basis that it's marked 30% off some mark-up price they never considered.