Because Egyptian hieroglyphics actually meant something to the Egyptian people.
I know, right? Just the other day I was telling my Egyptologist friend: "Eagle snake foot pharoah-on-a-throne-holding-out-his-hand, wheat!", and he laughed and said, "Eye cat eagle ibis... eye-of-Ra!" It was a riot!
I'm not a linguist, as I'm probably about to demonstrate, but the development of written language went (very) roughly like: pictograms -> consonants -> vowels -> punctuation
It is steep because people have a hard time trudging up a steep hill, and said hill curves upwards. So if you absolutely had to equate that sense of "curve" with the mathematical sense of "curve", then if difficulty = steepness = dy/dx, and difficulty means higher effort put in for lower reward, then y = effort and x = reward. If, that is, you were enough of a pedant to insist that a learning curve was a mathematical entity and not a metaphor:)
Say what you do, and do what you say. I don't think you need software for that. What my company did was have a central document repository and a documentation standard, and everything boiled down to saying what we did, and doing what we said.
femto (10^-15) = Danish femtem (15),
atto (10^-18) = Danish atten (18),
zepto (1000^-7) = French sept (7) but with a z,
yocto (1000^-8) = the Greek okto (8) with a y I guess to differentiate from 8,
...then it stands to reason the next prefix (1000^-9) will come from some language's 9, preferably one with a t in it. These could be:
French: neuf
Greek: ennea
Latin: novem
Albanian: nente
Russian: devyat
Many Slavic languages: devet
The autopayment system that I use allows you to set a rule such as "If bill is under $X then pay in full." If the bill is over, then I have to examine the bill and pay the appropriate amount myself. I set X to the average plus a sigma or so.
Of course, if some robot at a company decides to go nuts and start sending the same bill every day, the exception will never occur and my account will get emptied in a hurry. But then that hasn't actually happened in the 15+ years I've been using this same system.
Will we see the death of Microsoft's.lit format [microsoft.com] in favor of Kindle's.azw?
Oh, I hope not. Both formats suck compared to epub, and azw (i.e. mobipocket) is an extremely stripped-down version of html. Lit at least has more html functionality. But I hope both formats die.
My own take is that Microsoft wants to put out an ebook reader which will probably use Amazon's patents, so Microsoft probably told Amazon "Nice patent portfolio you got here. Be a shame if it burned down. You should have insurance!"
I always check first, via riaaradar.com. If the artist is represented by the RIAA, then I don't buy the CD, I don't buy the song on iTunes, nor do I pirate it, either. There are plenty of non-RIAA artists to lavish my limited funds on.
The iPad can run iPhone apps, and the SDK is available now. App developers will be falling over each other to be first with new apps taking advantage of the larger screen.
Isn't it the case that yes, the SDK is available, but you would still have to go through the app store to get your app into the hands of The People? And that means jumping through the Apple app store hoops?
True, perhaps his seed ratio was 2. But then there are the people who seeded it from his seed, and so on. 2^12 is 4096, so you need nearly 12 levels of seeding going on. Of course, that assumes that 4096 people were actually interested in the songs.
I read the attached paper on arxiv, and from what I could tell, they passed a DC current through the thing, which caused the small engine beam to expand, causing it to heat up and move the mass. The piezoelectric effect causes the resistance in the small engine beam to change, which causes the beam to cool down and move the mass back with help from the larger spring beam. Rinse, repeat. Effectively a thermoelectric buzzer. The buzzing of this particular device was measured to be about 1.255 MHz at a DC current of 1.045 mA.
Unlike what the Technology Review article says, the paper shows no application of an AC current to get the thing vibrating. In fact, the measured voltage is alternating because the resistance is alternating. The current remains the same. There is no complicated application of a DC current and an AC current. There's just an applied DC current.
Back when NYTimes had set up a paywall/registration-required site, I never wanted to go through the hoops to get to an article. After they stopped doing that, it was just sort of habit not to read articles on the site. So why change now?
Does it make sense to invest in their training if they will do their major work elsewhere?
Well, the US is a major exporter of education. See, for example, Fareed Zakaria's book, The Post-American World. The US graduates the most PhD's in the world, and students from all over the world are fighting to get into the US for higher education. However, once that degree is earned, the paradigm changes: now it's all about what to do post-education. And if the landscape is beginning to look better outside the US, then it's no surprise that people start leaving.
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At 10-12 inches. As Jobs said in the speech.
I know, right? Just the other day I was telling my Egyptologist friend: "Eagle snake foot pharoah-on-a-throne-holding-out-his-hand, wheat!", and he laughed and said, "Eye cat eagle ibis... eye-of-Ra!" It was a riot!
ATLEASTWERENOTGOINGBACKTOTHAT
PHASEOFWRITINGWHENEVERYTHINGWAS
INMAJUSCULEANDTHEREWASNOSPACING
BETWEENWORDS
ANDWHENREADINGACTUALLYMEANT
OUTLOUDEVENIFYOUWEREALONE
Seriously, is Limewire even relevant anymore?
Next on Slashdot... BatBoy sighted on ChatRoulette, and Cmdr Taco has love child by alien visitor.
It is steep because people have a hard time trudging up a steep hill, and said hill curves upwards. So if you absolutely had to equate that sense of "curve" with the mathematical sense of "curve", then if difficulty = steepness = dy/dx, and difficulty means higher effort put in for lower reward, then y = effort and x = reward. If, that is, you were enough of a pedant to insist that a learning curve was a mathematical entity and not a metaphor :)
Sure, why not? Written by my fingers.
So that not even the little buggers themselves can remember their own name.
Say what you do, and do what you say. I don't think you need software for that. What my company did was have a central document repository and a documentation standard, and everything boiled down to saying what we did, and doing what we said.
femto (10^-15) = Danish femtem (15),
atto (10^-18) = Danish atten (18),
zepto (1000^-7) = French sept (7) but with a z,
yocto (1000^-8) = the Greek okto (8) with a y I guess to differentiate from 8,
...then it stands to reason the next prefix (1000^-9) will come from some language's 9, preferably one with a t in it. These could be:
French: neuf
Greek: ennea
Latin: novem
Albanian: nente
Russian: devyat
Many Slavic languages: devet
My money's on devto.
The autopayment system that I use allows you to set a rule such as "If bill is under $X then pay in full." If the bill is over, then I have to examine the bill and pay the appropriate amount myself. I set X to the average plus a sigma or so.
Of course, if some robot at a company decides to go nuts and start sending the same bill every day, the exception will never occur and my account will get emptied in a hurry. But then that hasn't actually happened in the 15+ years I've been using this same system.
No thanks is too much for asking that question.
Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur. -- Unknown
...let me show you it.
Oh, I hope not. Both formats suck compared to epub, and azw (i.e. mobipocket) is an extremely stripped-down version of html. Lit at least has more html functionality. But I hope both formats die.
My own take is that Microsoft wants to put out an ebook reader which will probably use Amazon's patents, so Microsoft probably told Amazon "Nice patent portfolio you got here. Be a shame if it burned down. You should have insurance!"
I always check first, via riaaradar.com. If the artist is represented by the RIAA, then I don't buy the CD, I don't buy the song on iTunes, nor do I pirate it, either. There are plenty of non-RIAA artists to lavish my limited funds on.
Any advice from a woman about what they would like?
Also, Valentine's Day isn't just for a man to do something nice for a woman. A woman could do something nice for a man.
Or, y'know... a man for a man. If both men are into that kind of thing. Because if he's not, then it will sure be a surprise, and not the good kind.
As well as delicious.
Isn't it the case that yes, the SDK is available, but you would still have to go through the app store to get your app into the hands of The People? And that means jumping through the Apple app store hoops?
GSM only, no Verizon possible. NOT SOLD.
True, perhaps his seed ratio was 2. But then there are the people who seeded it from his seed, and so on. 2^12 is 4096, so you need nearly 12 levels of seeding going on. Of course, that assumes that 4096 people were actually interested in the songs.
I read the attached paper on arxiv, and from what I could tell, they passed a DC current through the thing, which caused the small engine beam to expand, causing it to heat up and move the mass. The piezoelectric effect causes the resistance in the small engine beam to change, which causes the beam to cool down and move the mass back with help from the larger spring beam. Rinse, repeat. Effectively a thermoelectric buzzer. The buzzing of this particular device was measured to be about 1.255 MHz at a DC current of 1.045 mA.
Unlike what the Technology Review article says, the paper shows no application of an AC current to get the thing vibrating. In fact, the measured voltage is alternating because the resistance is alternating. The current remains the same. There is no complicated application of a DC current and an AC current. There's just an applied DC current.
Am I understanding the paper correctly?
Back when NYTimes had set up a paywall/registration-required site, I never wanted to go through the hoops to get to an article. After they stopped doing that, it was just sort of habit not to read articles on the site. So why change now?
So... um.... what uh... what happened to the dog?
Well, the US is a major exporter of education. See, for example, Fareed Zakaria's book, The Post-American World. The US graduates the most PhD's in the world, and students from all over the world are fighting to get into the US for higher education. However, once that degree is earned, the paradigm changes: now it's all about what to do post-education. And if the landscape is beginning to look better outside the US, then it's no surprise that people start leaving.