+1 to Godel Escher Bach Unknown Quantity by Derbyshire, I believe he has another book out for Riemann's Hypothesis anything by Martin Gardner (may be more appropriate to younger students, but definately interesting!)
I had the same reservations about joining a gym-- that I was going to be laughed at by people in much better shape than me. Turns out most people in the gym wouldn't even notice you- they don't concentrate on anything but their workouts. And for me, spending money on the gym made me want to go, to get my money's worth.
The article compares Apple's revenue and profits to Dell/HPs, and concludes that Apple is getting the high end computer market.
While this may be true, this is not a good comparison. You cannot compare Apple's profits to HPs in this way. HP does not have Apple's iPod profits, nor does Apple have HP's consulting and ink jet businesses
Of course, the most important component of a CD is the artist's effort in developing that music.
Notice "most important", not largest
Artists spend a large portion of their creative energy on writing song lyrics and composing music or working with producers and A&R executives to find great songs from great writers.
Notice the mention of executives, I wonder who is taking the bigger cut
Then come marketing and promotion costs -- perhaps the most expensive part of the music business today. They include increasingly expensive video clips, public relations, tour support, marketing campaigns, and promotion to get the songs played on the radio.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "marketing and promotion" WHAT THE RIAA COMPANIES DO? This is Hollywood accounting, charging a profit as an expense, I'll bet that no movie has made a profit, no CD has made a profit.
For many artists, a costly concert tour is essential to promote their recordings.
Which are, of course, free and not paid for by the concert goers (sarcasm)
Clearly there are many costs associated with producing a CD, and despite these costs the price of recorded music to consumers has fallen dramatically since CDs were first introduced in 1983. Between 1983 and 1996, the average price of a CD fell by more than 40%. Over this same period of time, consumer prices (measured by the Consumer Price Index, or CPI) rose nearly 60%. If CD prices had risen at the same rate as consumer prices over this period, the average retail price of a CD in 1996 would have been $33.86 instead of $12.75.
Clue: nobody cares about CD prices in 1996. In 1996 there was no Napster, no Kazaa, no Bittorrent, no iTunes, and no controversy over piracy
I think CD prices have fallen a bit in the last few years, but the only reason for that is competition from iTunes
1) there is a difference between "feature rich" and "simple interface", google has many features (showtimes, weather, maps) but they are all accessible through the google search box
2) hypothesis: these complicated devices with 150+ features are not about "ease of use" or utility. TFA says it all when it talks about the switch whose function not even the salesperson knows-- any switch whose function you don't know is by definition "unusable". these complicated devices are status symbols ("look at me, I can afford a toaster with 175 blinking dials!")
this was why I switched back to qwerty: all the application hotkeys assume your on a qwerty typewriter: even with emacs we have things like C-x C-c. I was also playing roguelike games back then, you can imagine the havoc a dvorak keyboard would wreak on THAT. It wasn't worth it for me to find new keymappings for EVERY application
A few years ago I heard a CD made with this (or a similiar) technology.
The way the technology was described to me was as follows: as you know a piano works by having a small hammer attached to each key. The recording technology has a modified piano where below each hammer is a pool of mercury. When the key is struck the hammer enters the pool, completing an electrical circuit, this causes a line to be drawn (???) on a piece of paper. Another modified piano will read the piece of paper like a player piano.
We listened to music performed by Richard Strauss. It was very cool.
When I was living in Los Angeles Verizon charged a "Federal Interstate Calling Fee" which was about 6 or 7 dollars. I tried telling them that I will never make interstate calls on this line and they gave me some BS about it being required by law.
this reminds me of the stable marriage algorithm. In that system the men are not guaranteed their best choice, but the women are. Interestingly, the stable marriage algorithm was also developed for hospitals (and interns).
In this system, the hospital is guaranteed of the best (lowest priced) labor, but the worker is not guaranteed of the highest pay.
Does this answer the poster's question of whether this system is fair for the nurses? On one hand they are not getting the best deal possible, on the other hand, without this system they might not get the extra work and pay at all. I don't know, I'm just enjoying the comparison to CS451
for my part, I drink beer for the taste, and I am a lightweight (have trouble doing 2 beers in a night) so I tend to go for the upscale stuff: Hitachino White, Unibroue Terrible, and Delirium Tremens
Your Program May Vary, and I studied Computer Science and Mathematics when I was in school, so mine definately varied.
But I imagine many computer science programs would require Discrete Mathematics or its equivalent, since many algorithms such as "shortest path" are based on it. I would not be surprised if Matrix Algebra was required depending on what you study. Number theory is required for Cryptography
Hint: be prepared to do proofs. If your HS program included Euclidean Geometry (prove these two triangles are congruent), be prepared for more of that.
ObLaymans: Matrix Algebra: doing arithmetic on "grids" of numbers. If Memory Serves Google multiplies gigantic grids of numbers to be Google
Discrete Mathematics: proving things about "discrete" or individual entities, things you can pick up and look at one by one. This includes combinatorics ("if you have eight choices for toppings, how many different pizzas can you make with three or fewer toppings"), and graph theory "here's the map of where Southwest flies to, how many ways are there of flying from NY to LA"
Number Theory: proving things about whole numbers (which numbers multiplied together will give you this number?) Seems dry but RSA and many other encryption techniques are based on it.
Sorry, it's not just that PCs are cheap. IMHO Sun has forgot how to design a CPU. Or a chipset. Sorry, 1.2 GHz just doesn't cut it, no matter what IPC you have.
Apple, and Sun, also say you are a victim of Intel's marketing propaganda
And who knows that the X.Org libraries won't be made GPL incompatible in the future? At least with the XFree86 libraries, we know David Dawes is willing to compromise for the sake of the communitty
This is FUD. If X.org's license can be changed to be GPL-Incompatible, so can any other project, so your argument can be applied to any X Server, or any Open Source Project.
And when and if that happens, we'll just do what we did here, take the code from before the license change, and run with it.
I'm going to have to upgrade my machines, but am NOT going to pay $179 to do it, but can't trust the possibility of Fedora adding/removing/changing things willy-nilly
What exactly do you mean by "adding/removing/changing things willy-nilly"???
Fedora gives you the ability (IIRC) to sync to the development branch of the latest software. You are under no obligation to do this. You are under no obligation to update to Fedora 2, 3, 5, 8, or 13.
"[it depends on whether you trust the scientists or the priests] and I would rather trust the scientists than the priests. They actually can work miracles, not just point to alleged past ones or promise future ones.
"Are we still living in caves and wearing tin pans for protection? You can have fire by lighting a match, light by flipping a switch. You will never have to worry about dying from pneumonia and the plague, and if you catch those you'll go to a hospital and get some antibiotics and get better. Your mother did not have a 30% chance of dying in childbirth. You did not have a 70% of dying by the age of three. Your parents will live into their eighties and you will live into your nineties. This weekend you will travel a distance which once took months of perilous journey in a matter of hours, and you will do it by FLYING THROUGH THE AIR. These are all MIRACLES. Science has accomplished in 150 years what religion cannot in thousands of years. That is because Science recognizes its mistakes and learns from them instead of adapting a head in the sand mentality to them."
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+1 to Godel Escher Bach
Unknown Quantity by Derbyshire, I believe he has another book out for Riemann's Hypothesis
anything by Martin Gardner (may be more appropriate to younger students, but definately interesting!)
http://xkcd.com/511/
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I had the same reservations about joining a gym-- that I was going to be laughed at by people in much better shape than me. Turns out most people in the gym wouldn't even notice you- they don't concentrate on anything but their workouts. And for me, spending money on the gym made me want to go, to get my money's worth.
well, duh, there will always be a bottleneck, I believe it follows from the Well Ordering Principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-ordering_principle
http://web.archive.org/web/20060426175941/http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~maronj/text/roach.html
The article compares Apple's revenue and profits to Dell/HPs, and concludes that Apple is getting the high end computer market.
While this may be true, this is not a good comparison. You cannot compare Apple's profits to HPs in this way. HP does not have Apple's iPod profits, nor does Apple have HP's consulting and ink jet businesses
this is all based on work shamefully stolen from Dr Curt Connors of Empire State U.
I think CD prices have fallen a bit in the last few years, but the only reason for that is competition from iTunes
1) there is a difference between "feature rich" and "simple interface", google has many features (showtimes, weather, maps) but they are all accessible through the google search box
2) hypothesis: these complicated devices with 150+ features are not about "ease of use" or utility. TFA says it all when it talks about the switch whose function not even the salesperson knows-- any switch whose function you don't know is by definition "unusable". these complicated devices are status symbols ("look at me, I can afford a toaster with 175 blinking dials!")
FUD
http://www.google.com/search?hs=PXD&hl=en&lr=&saf
First link is to dpreview, which is not selling cameras
(they carry ads to camera stores, but that is not the same)
this was why I switched back to qwerty: all the application hotkeys assume your on a qwerty typewriter: even with emacs we have things like C-x C-c. I was also playing roguelike games back then, you can imagine the havoc a dvorak keyboard would wreak on THAT. It wasn't worth it for me to find new keymappings for EVERY application
A few years ago I heard a CD made with this (or a similiar) technology.
The way the technology was described to me was as follows: as you know a piano works by having a small hammer attached to each key. The recording technology has a modified piano where below each hammer is a pool of mercury. When the key is struck the hammer enters the pool, completing an electrical circuit, this causes a line to be drawn (???) on a piece of paper. Another modified piano will read the piece of paper like a player piano.
We listened to music performed by Richard Strauss. It was very cool.
When I was living in Los Angeles Verizon charged a "Federal Interstate Calling Fee" which was about 6 or 7 dollars. I tried telling them that I will never make interstate calls on this line and they gave me some BS about it being required by law.
Bleah. Monopolies
Or octopodes if you want to impress people/be thought of as weird...
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2005/03/08
this reminds me of the stable marriage algorithm. In that system the men are not guaranteed their best choice, but the women are. Interestingly, the stable marriage algorithm was also developed for hospitals (and interns).
In this system, the hospital is guaranteed of the best (lowest priced) labor, but the worker is not guaranteed of the highest pay.
Does this answer the poster's question of whether this system is fair for the nurses? On one hand they are not getting the best deal possible, on the other hand, without this system they might not get the extra work and pay at all. I don't know, I'm just enjoying the comparison to CS451
so, what do people out there drink?
for my part, I drink beer for the taste, and I am a lightweight (have trouble doing 2 beers in a night) so I tend to go for the upscale stuff: Hitachino White, Unibroue Terrible, and Delirium Tremens
In case you haven't noticed, Fedora is "positioned" at developers and enthusiasts, i.e. "Linux geeks"
Your Program May Vary, and I studied Computer Science and Mathematics when I was in school, so mine definately varied.
But I imagine many computer science programs would require Discrete Mathematics or its equivalent, since many algorithms such as "shortest path" are based on it. I would not be surprised if Matrix Algebra was required depending on what you study. Number theory is required for Cryptography
Hint: be prepared to do proofs. If your HS program included Euclidean Geometry (prove these two triangles are congruent), be prepared for more of that.
ObLaymans:
Matrix Algebra: doing arithmetic on "grids" of numbers. If Memory Serves Google multiplies gigantic grids of numbers to be Google
Discrete Mathematics: proving things about "discrete" or individual entities, things you can pick up and look at one by one. This includes combinatorics ("if you have eight choices for toppings, how many different pizzas can you make with three or fewer toppings"), and graph theory "here's the map of where Southwest flies to, how many ways are there of flying from NY to LA"
Number Theory: proving things about whole numbers (which numbers multiplied together will give you this number?) Seems dry but RSA and many other encryption techniques are based on it.
Apple, and Sun, also say you are a victim of Intel's marketing propaganda
This is FUD. If X.org's license can be changed to be GPL-Incompatible, so can any other project, so your argument can be applied to any X Server, or any Open Source Project.
And when and if that happens, we'll just do what we did here, take the code from before the license change, and run with it.
What exactly do you mean by "adding/removing/changing things willy-nilly"???
Fedora gives you the ability (IIRC) to sync to the development branch of the latest software. You are under no obligation to do this. You are under no obligation to update to Fedora 2, 3, 5, 8, or 13.
"X Windows" is not correct. The correct name is "The X Window System"
XFree86+XFree86
no warning either.
it is very strange
To quote my Wise and Eloquent Friend:
"[it depends on whether you trust the scientists or the priests] and I would rather trust the scientists than the priests. They actually can work miracles, not just point to alleged past ones or promise future ones.
"Are we still living in caves and wearing tin pans for protection? You can have fire by lighting a match, light by flipping a switch. You will never have to worry about dying from pneumonia and the plague, and if you catch those you'll go to a hospital and get some antibiotics and get better. Your mother did not have a 30% chance of dying in childbirth. You did not have a 70% of dying by the age of three. Your parents will live into their eighties and you will live into your nineties. This weekend you will travel a distance which once took months of perilous journey in a matter of hours, and you will do it by FLYING THROUGH THE AIR. These are all MIRACLES. Science has accomplished in 150 years what religion cannot in thousands of years. That is because Science recognizes its mistakes and learns from them instead of adapting a head in the sand mentality to them."