The square root of your increase in sex appeal from posting that comment is 0, since the increase is 0 and the square root of that is 0. Now, the square root of my score (assuming it will be negative due to the fact im making fun of your terrible math skills) WILL be a complex/imaginary number
Much of math, especially easy math like in high school, is hard to learn if you do not have the right mindset for it. It is a type of common sense that some people just have less of than others.
Not a diss at all, but it is just far harder for some to learn math than others, bceause of how they think.
A good source of help for the "math-disabled" is some textbooks with answers and patience. Or start taking some math courses, several times if necessary until you can grasp the whole concepts, not just memorize the formulas. Once you can figure out things like WHY derivatives give us certain values, instead of just memorizing HOW to obtain the value, you are off to the races.
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Imaginary numbers are hardly "nothing"
For every solution in two space or three space there are a number of complex solutions, and equations which have no solution in two or three space could have a complex solution. While its not as practical as two or three space math which we commonly use (like what is the area of this paper, what is the volume of this cup), complex numbers still have an important role in mathematics and engineering. It is hardly "nothing".
Useful for who?
Wear a hat, a fake beard and don't look up if you are that concerned!
What in the world would you be afraid of being seen by cameras for? They are 99% not monitored, they arent in any way linked so that someone could determine where you were going, and who cares where you are going anyways!
I hope people are spending time and money videotaping me, because its only going to damage their equipment:P
At least morse code is secure! Except when those damn fools stole the enigma! BAH! If it work wasnt done and it wasnt saint paddy's day, I think I would concern myself with this new sploit.
But there is green beer to be drank, and those 31337 0day haq0rs have had this in their hands for a while...
Really, what "good" use does joe blow have for having anything faster than about 100kb/sec, especially if you are including on their cellphone/pda/etc. The main things an overload of bandwidth brings with it is
1. More porn downloading. And higher res!
2. More games/movies/mp3 downloading...now I can download the 4.3 gig version (one dvd) of the movie still in theaters instead of the measely 1.2 gig version (2cds)
3. Abuse. Hey...now I can packet you.
To be completely serious now, bandwidth does have its advantages. I also notice a large difference between surfing the internet @ work *cough*, and surfing the internet at home.
But, all I would like to bring across is that if you give someone a truckload of bandwidth, they are going to abuse it. Just like if you give someone a billion dollars, they wont be as economically sound with it as they would with a thousand dollars. After all, more bandwidth is nice, but it costs more somewhere, it doesnt magically appear.
(I also do not condone/perform any of those 3 items on my list, excluding 1-3 which I may be known to sometimes do sometimes)
And happy Saint Paddy's Day! Green beer for all, and possibly a presidential announcement that iraq is going to get blown up. At least the pres will be drunk during it.
It worked for underpants gnomes...and really who are we to judge them. They had a whole lot of underpants.
So, I think the business model can and DOES work, what I think is your steps are too complicated
1: Write free software
2: ???
3: Profit!
Your listen to more bullshit about fuel cells could fall in category 2. Along with lots of people using your free software, you not making any money from it whatsoever, and you working your ass off to improve the free software, losing your job, your car, and your blow-up wife.
This is one of those old-time-memories that you forget about until something like this brings it back. I remember reading this comic every Saturday morning, often thinking "what the f^%#" is going on, but laughing a lot. I really love the cat, how wierd it looks, and the content of the strips was such that if you didn't laugh, there must be a physical reason as to why you cannot laugh...perhaps you are heavily medicated in a coma. Of all days, St. Paddy's day, I have another reason to turn green today.
On a side note, have an extra pint of green tonite to celebrate the second coming of bloom county
well run a website on that account
then we will/. you and you will be selling yourself on the street to pay for it
and think about movies...can you really download too many?
the best browser innovation already occurred did it not?
When that 3 year old (possibly 15 or something) won that contest in Europe for making the browser which sped up browsing time by 50000000% (i actually remember reading that it was 300%, but any faster and it crashed or something, but he had the ability to go infinitely faster)
What ever came of THAT!!! I assume he was bought up by microsoft, who then realized it was a farse, and kept it out of the news to maintain stock value.
Note to self:
Stage 1: Develop software that fakes being fast
Stage 2: ???
Stage 3: PROFIT!
You have to throw them to find out, if they spin clockwise its a male (the genetilia weighs it that way) and if they spin counter clockwise its a female.
Like flushing a toilet to see what hemisphere you are in, but more fun.
This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where homer is the food critic, he says he loves everything and gives everything about 9 thumbs up. Everyone gets really fat.
I wonder if everyone of/.'s readers are actually buying books, and their bookshelves are overflowing:)
But a serious warning here, the critic police are going to come to you and warn you not to like everything, so you will have to be really snooty and hate everything good like movie critics, and your daughters will stop writing the reviews for you.
Pr0n and really gory stuff has been on tv for ages, and I never was subjected to it as a kid. I guess my parents didnt use the TV to babysit me. I was outside playing and doing sports, visiting friends, building stuff with my dad, etc when I was young. This is a poor bill for poor parenting. But I do feel for the young kids whose parents do not look after them, and they do need some protection.
However, the key to sucess is finding the one out of a million things that sounds too good to be true; and grasping onto that. Of course you have to rely on people being greedy, lazy, and lacking common sense, that is how you take advantage of the masses with one of these too good to be true items.
Currently I am working on a "jump to conclusions mat"...although it is quite idealistic and may sound too good to be true, I plan on marketing it in office spaces worldwide:P
As a student, I know that I dont have much money in the bank. So, that being said, my school has a great strategy for dealing with bandwidth useage!
If you go over a certain amount, ours being 500meg in 10 days or less, you get knocked down to a lower bandwidth region, and you can get at max 2k/sec. You can still view webpages and everything, just not download movies/etc.
This is annoying at times...however when you are in the fast bandwidth region, the speed jumped up considerably after, and internet access in general is much better when its super fast.
Even if I wanted to do some casual downloading, it was not a problem as long as I did not exceed my limit, and intranet bandwidth was not included.
It is a great idea, way better than the pay for more (for students).
Of course I am just teasing. I live in Canada, grew up with the metric system, but I know im 5'9" and not how many centimeters...I know I weigh 165 or so pounds but no idea of kg's...and my dad measures everything with the imperial system because his supplies and reference books both come from the US. However, I talk about weather in 'C, and use the metric system for most things. Occasionally I drive the number of miles per hour the speed limit is listed in kilometers per hour, but just when I am in a hurry...
Building more nuclear bombs so you can blow the earth up 50 times over instead of 30 will stop terrorism
Linking the world together in a research and engineering goal will not stop terrorism
I most have lost my grasp on the clue...
I am not an expert but why would terrorists focus on the USA instead of lets say Canada or Norway? It must not be the US's history of encouraging countries to conform or providing the group they support with arms.
But you are the expert. You can cut and paste and take out of context in one foul swoop.
The only issue arises when you need that information available on the internet, lets say to have online course registrations. Then you dump that info on a different box, firewall it like hell and have a secure connection to the front end box.
They could have paid me a few dollars to save them millions in embarassment and lost info:P
our university goes by random numbers, unfortunately they use the year you are supposed to graduate! so my student id 2003###### looks out of place in all the first year classes I am in, hopefully the young females dont notice....:P
But I would prefer that to having my identity stolen and have horrible credit, depending on the girls.
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You engineers always were slow learners werent you....
Fear the mathemagicians (spelling intentional) because they can do with numbers only what you dream of!
Evil Laugh!
I must say it again, mathemagicians.
On a serious note. University upper year profs take offense to "mathemagicians". But I am paying enough to make them take offense, and like it.
Come on now, get your math humour right.
The square root of your increase in sex appeal from posting that comment is 0, since the increase is 0 and the square root of that is 0. Now, the square root of my score (assuming it will be negative due to the fact im making fun of your terrible math skills) WILL be a complex/imaginary number
Remember the assumption. The scapegoat of math.
Much of math, especially easy math like in high school, is hard to learn if you do not have the right mindset for it. It is a type of common sense that some people just have less of than others.
Not a diss at all, but it is just far harder for some to learn math than others, bceause of how they think.
A good source of help for the "math-disabled" is some textbooks with answers and patience. Or start taking some math courses, several times if necessary until you can grasp the whole concepts, not just memorize the formulas. Once you can figure out things like WHY derivatives give us certain values, instead of just memorizing HOW to obtain the value, you are off to the races.
Imaginary numbers are hardly "nothing"
For every solution in two space or three space there are a number of complex solutions, and equations which have no solution in two or three space could have a complex solution. While its not as practical as two or three space math which we commonly use (like what is the area of this paper, what is the volume of this cup), complex numbers still have an important role in mathematics and engineering. It is hardly "nothing".
Useful for who?
:P
Wear a hat, a fake beard and don't look up if you are that concerned!
What in the world would you be afraid of being seen by cameras for? They are 99% not monitored, they arent in any way linked so that someone could determine where you were going, and who cares where you are going anyways!
I hope people are spending time and money videotaping me, because its only going to damage their equipment
At least morse code is secure! Except when those damn fools stole the enigma! BAH! If it work wasnt done and it wasnt saint paddy's day, I think I would concern myself with this new sploit.
But there is green beer to be drank, and those 31337 0day haq0rs have had this in their hands for a while...
Really, what "good" use does joe blow have for having anything faster than about 100kb/sec, especially if you are including on their cellphone/pda/etc. The main things an overload of bandwidth brings with it is
1. More porn downloading. And higher res!
2. More games/movies/mp3 downloading...now I can download the 4.3 gig version (one dvd) of the movie still in theaters instead of the measely 1.2 gig version (2cds)
3. Abuse. Hey...now I can packet you.
To be completely serious now, bandwidth does have its advantages. I also notice a large difference between surfing the internet @ work *cough*, and surfing the internet at home.
But, all I would like to bring across is that if you give someone a truckload of bandwidth, they are going to abuse it. Just like if you give someone a billion dollars, they wont be as economically sound with it as they would with a thousand dollars. After all, more bandwidth is nice, but it costs more somewhere, it doesnt magically appear.
(I also do not condone/perform any of those 3 items on my list, excluding 1-3 which I may be known to sometimes do sometimes)
And happy Saint Paddy's Day! Green beer for all, and possibly a presidential announcement that iraq is going to get blown up. At least the pres will be drunk during it.
haha sorry to respond to an old post, but i was busy
I am reminded of "I cant do it captain! We dont have enough uranium crystal!!! "
Warp 7 is just too much!!! She wont hold together!
Making outrageous claims is the key to success.
It worked for underpants gnomes...and really who are we to judge them. They had a whole lot of underpants.
:D
So, I think the business model can and DOES work, what I think is your steps are too complicated
1: Write free software
2: ???
3: Profit!
Your listen to more bullshit about fuel cells could fall in category 2. Along with lots of people using your free software, you not making any money from it whatsoever, and you working your ass off to improve the free software, losing your job, your car, and your blow-up wife.
Real software deserves real dollars
This is one of those old-time-memories that you forget about until something like this brings it back. I remember reading this comic every Saturday morning, often thinking "what the f^%#" is going on, but laughing a lot. I really love the cat, how wierd it looks, and the content of the strips was such that if you didn't laugh, there must be a physical reason as to why you cannot laugh...perhaps you are heavily medicated in a coma. Of all days, St. Paddy's day, I have another reason to turn green today.
On a side note, have an extra pint of green tonite to celebrate the second coming of bloom county
if you include yourself, and my entire development floor, she "cares" about at least 201 developers....
Ya, seriously!
I would love to have one and plug it in any empty connection at school/work/etc
I could host everything from there!
well run a website on that account /. you and you will be selling yourself on the street to pay for it
then we will
and think about movies...can you really download too many?
the best browser innovation already occurred did it not?
When that 3 year old (possibly 15 or something) won that contest in Europe for making the browser which sped up browsing time by 50000000% (i actually remember reading that it was 300%, but any faster and it crashed or something, but he had the ability to go infinitely faster)
What ever came of THAT!!! I assume he was bought up by microsoft, who then realized it was a farse, and kept it out of the news to maintain stock value.
Note to self:
Stage 1: Develop software that fakes being fast
Stage 2: ???
Stage 3: PROFIT!
Overused: yes. Effective: yes.
haha voodoo 3.
I would buy all of microsofts stock, do a nasty hostile takeover, and then bankrupt it
Just to stop the the terminator-like future which comes as a result of the current microsoft
Its because the women have beards.
You have to throw them to find out, if they spin clockwise its a male (the genetilia weighs it that way) and if they spin counter clockwise its a female.
Like flushing a toilet to see what hemisphere you are in, but more fun.
HAHA!
/.'s readers are actually buying books, and their bookshelves are overflowing :)
This reminds me of the Simpsons episode where homer is the food critic, he says he loves everything and gives everything about 9 thumbs up. Everyone gets really fat.
I wonder if everyone of
But a serious warning here, the critic police are going to come to you and warn you not to like everything, so you will have to be really snooty and hate everything good like movie critics, and your daughters will stop writing the reviews for you.
I completely agree.
Pr0n and really gory stuff has been on tv for ages, and I never was subjected to it as a kid. I guess my parents didnt use the TV to babysit me. I was outside playing and doing sports, visiting friends, building stuff with my dad, etc when I was young. This is a poor bill for poor parenting. But I do feel for the young kids whose parents do not look after them, and they do need some protection.
Eye, thats the rub [macbeth]
:P
However, the key to sucess is finding the one out of a million things that sounds too good to be true; and grasping onto that. Of course you have to rely on people being greedy, lazy, and lacking common sense, that is how you take advantage of the masses with one of these too good to be true items.
Currently I am working on a "jump to conclusions mat"...although it is quite idealistic and may sound too good to be true, I plan on marketing it in office spaces worldwide
Yes. It was intentional.
ahh like so how many miles your mother has on her
i guess the number is too large in kilometers.
As a student, I know that I dont have much money in the bank. So, that being said, my school has a great strategy for dealing with bandwidth useage!
If you go over a certain amount, ours being 500meg in 10 days or less, you get knocked down to a lower bandwidth region, and you can get at max 2k/sec. You can still view webpages and everything, just not download movies/etc.
This is annoying at times...however when you are in the fast bandwidth region, the speed jumped up considerably after, and internet access in general is much better when its super fast.
Even if I wanted to do some casual downloading, it was not a problem as long as I did not exceed my limit, and intranet bandwidth was not included.
It is a great idea, way better than the pay for more (for students).
Of course I am just teasing. I live in Canada, grew up with the metric system, but I know im 5'9" and not how many centimeters...I know I weigh 165 or so pounds but no idea of kg's...and my dad measures everything with the imperial system because his supplies and reference books both come from the US. However, I talk about weather in 'C, and use the metric system for most things. Occasionally I drive the number of miles per hour the speed limit is listed in kilometers per hour, but just when I am in a hurry...
Oh alright, I see your point.
Building more nuclear bombs so you can blow the earth up 50 times over instead of 30 will stop terrorism
Linking the world together in a research and engineering goal will not stop terrorism
I most have lost my grasp on the clue...
I am not an expert but why would terrorists focus on the USA instead of lets say Canada or Norway? It must not be the US's history of encouraging countries to conform or providing the group they support with arms.
But you are the expert. You can cut and paste and take out of context in one foul swoop.
No doubt.
:P
The only issue arises when you need that information available on the internet, lets say to have online course registrations. Then you dump that info on a different box, firewall it like hell and have a secure connection to the front end box.
They could have paid me a few dollars to save them millions in embarassment and lost info
our university goes by random numbers, unfortunately they use the year you are supposed to graduate! so my student id 2003###### looks out of place in all the first year classes I am in, hopefully the young females dont notice....:P
But I would prefer that to having my identity stolen and have horrible credit, depending on the girls.