My TI-85 was banned from exams shortly after I finished A-Levels (I think it was the poly solver which did it as the TI-83 (or 82, not sure) was similar but didn't have a poly solver and was still allowed). But that was back in 97, I guess things could only get stricter though.
Did a maths degree after A levels... where ALL calculators were banned for ALL maths department courses (to be fair they're not really necessary at that level).
...for silly things like solving a quadratic for the 56th time...
Didn't the TI-85 have a built-in quadratic solver? The button called 'POLY'? Anyway I agree it was great to write programs to do the mundane tasks - and the less than mundane tasks, mine could do all sorts of advanced (well, for an 18 year old) tasks. It taught me to program in a mathematically rigorous way and to easily transfer between math on paper and computational/'intelligent algorithms' which I went on to do a lot more of at uni - a programming language is the most advanced tool when it comes to math short of a pencil.
Yet you were still using M$ Word? Is this because OO was such a hog of system resources and so slow you couldn't be bothered with it, or is it because of the superior functionality of M$ Word? I've never had Word XP crash in 2 years of usage, despite daily working with large documents including live links to Excel and other apps.
If anyone agrees to a contract (whether they have read it or not) they deserve to be bound by it. I am in no mind to defend people who agree to contracts they have not read; rather I think we should fight spyware that is true spyware - installed without warning, contract, etc, and hard to uninstall - there is plenty of this about, including from the likes of Gator.
But Ryu, and playing Ryu, was so boring. Undoubtably he was the best character, but his moves, style, combinations, were so dull and uninspiring. The only reason people played him was because they wanted to win, rather than have fun in the fight.
Dhalsim, Chun Li, Blanka, Guile... so much more fun.
The point is because they have an employee compensation scheme (plus lots of VC investors) that lets so many employees 'invest' in the company the SEC will treat them like a listed company. That is fact. So if they are going to be treated like a listed company and get none of the benefit why not just get listed.
That is what the parent said. It doesn't matter that no one can invest in it... it is treated as having the entire public as potential investors by the SEC (the reason being lots of people (mainly staff by numbers) have an investment in the company).
To suggest nearly nobody reads reports, though, is pathetic. Share options in your employer, your annual insurance and savings plan reports... If you don't look after your money I hope you don't cry to the government when someone does funny things with it (WorldCom, Putnam, who else?)...
Fingerprinting an exploded bomb is commonly done though, and I wouldn't doubt DNA testing also being done. Whatever it is - the casing, schrapnel, components... discrete parts usually remain allowing fingerprinting, even on 1000lb bombs.
Of course figerprinting a live bomb it is great (easier to find parts that may have prints, and reduces the uncertainty 'just in case'), but fingerprinting exploded bombs is done and is very successful.
The article concludes explaining that when San Francisco and Seattle ended their RFID pilot programs, they 'switched back to bar-code systems, saying the radio systems were unnecessary.'
Unions opposing progress huh? I could go on a rant about how I could track someone's luggage (if I were close enough, or hacked the national RFID reader infrastructure (the FEDs built it to track us man!)). But I won't as I'm not a paranoid retard. I would just be happy if the plain vanilla retard baggage handlers lost my luggage a little less.
A nice community idea. The site seems/.ed so I can't check... but what prevents someone/some company with low moral standards heading over there, getting ideas and patenting them/slightly changing them and pretending they came out of the R+D department?
It does not happen today for one simple reason: the artificially low cost of travelling by car and by air (thanks to subsidies on roads and on fuel).
Interesting argument. Not sure if this would mean more cities, those cities smaller in population but higher in density (using simple von Thuman or Henderson medols), but it would be a really interesting (and positive IMHO) thing to see.
But I completely agree about the subsidy on fuel. People who complain about fuel tax simply don't seem to understand the cost of their using fuel is born on others (both in the present and the future). Increasing the cost of fuel makes the true cost apparant to the comsumer. Pity the government don't realise the other part of the equation that this revenue fuel should be addressed to the cost of it (improving 'green' technologies, actual quantification, perhaps international repatriation).
...for a train to be anywhere near as convenient for a car... ROTFLEM!
Try driving into Central London. Cars really suck for mass transport. Around 10% of traffic comes into Central London by car in a typical week. Replace the residual (mainly taken up by over or underground trains) with cars and prepare for chaos. Convenient, huh?
Shame you are modded as Troll. Mods must not realse the 3.6GHz spectrum would be quite useful for longer distance communication, for example it would make a wireless net (literally) covering low population density areas a lot more feasible - i.e. te 'country'.
Haven't you noticed ay degregation in the quality of results recently? What I could phrase as a simple search a year ago now needs lots of exclude and include factors. Many searches are OK, but a (quickly growing) amount of searches take me 3-4 goes to succeed.
Yeah, Google used to be a great thing, but it is disappointing thay a great thing can become a good thing only - as websites learn to get better points on the Pagerank system those that have a profit incentive 'abuse' it and the academic and more impartial/unbiased results get squeezed down.
If you don't have trouble finding what you want on Google you are probably searching for what is easily found or in a real niche.
A bit lik Google these days then. Not that Google gets paid, just cripled... by kelkoo, pricewatch, et al, who destroyed what was an efficient search engine.
Can you even begin to think about the privacy implications of something like this? I know that I will never buy a car with RFID tracking capabilities built into it! What happens when the government agencies that don't care so much about your rights--CIA, FBI, NSA, police, whatever--decide that this system can be very useful for them? There's a million things that could go wrong
The Man is out to get us guy. But I got my M-16. The only way they'll put RFID in my car is by prying away my cold, dead hands.
I absolutely agree. I guess the problem was compounded where I was as the programmers were cluless dead wood (they didn't know how to make the old system, just maintain them).
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My TI-85 was banned from exams shortly after I finished A-Levels (I think it was the poly solver which did it as the TI-83 (or 82, not sure) was similar but didn't have a poly solver and was still allowed). But that was back in 97, I guess things could only get stricter though.
Did a maths degree after A levels... where ALL calculators were banned for ALL maths department courses (to be fair they're not really necessary at that level).
...for silly things like solving a quadratic for the 56th time...
Didn't the TI-85 have a built-in quadratic solver? The button called 'POLY'? Anyway I agree it was great to write programs to do the mundane tasks - and the less than mundane tasks, mine could do all sorts of advanced (well, for an 18 year old) tasks. It taught me to program in a mathematically rigorous way and to easily transfer between math on paper and computational/'intelligent algorithms' which I went on to do a lot more of at uni - a programming language is the most advanced tool when it comes to math short of a pencil.
I've never once had a crash in OpenOffice....
Yet you were still using M$ Word? Is this because OO was such a hog of system resources and so slow you couldn't be bothered with it, or is it because of the superior functionality of M$ Word? I've never had Word XP crash in 2 years of usage, despite daily working with large documents including live links to Excel and other apps.
Recycling is good. Infact it is +5 Insightful.
Spiralx, Anti-Slash, or other?
Do you suggest a quiz on the EULA to be answered?
If anyone agrees to a contract (whether they have read it or not) they deserve to be bound by it. I am in no mind to defend people who agree to contracts they have not read; rather I think we should fight spyware that is true spyware - installed without warning, contract, etc, and hard to uninstall - there is plenty of this about, including from the likes of Gator.
But Ryu, and playing Ryu, was so boring. Undoubtably he was the best character, but his moves, style, combinations, were so dull and uninspiring. The only reason people played him was because they wanted to win, rather than have fun in the fight.
Dhalsim, Chun Li, Blanka, Guile... so much more fun.
Will of Smith?
The point is because they have an employee compensation scheme (plus lots of VC investors) that lets so many employees 'invest' in the company the SEC will treat them like a listed company. That is fact. So if they are going to be treated like a listed company and get none of the benefit why not just get listed.
That is what the parent said. It doesn't matter that no one can invest in it... it is treated as having the entire public as potential investors by the SEC (the reason being lots of people (mainly staff by numbers) have an investment in the company).
To suggest nearly nobody reads reports, though, is pathetic. Share options in your employer, your annual insurance and savings plan reports... If you don't look after your money I hope you don't cry to the government when someone does funny things with it (WorldCom, Putnam, who else?)...
Fingerprinting an exploded bomb is commonly done though, and I wouldn't doubt DNA testing also being done. Whatever it is - the casing, schrapnel, components... discrete parts usually remain allowing fingerprinting, even on 1000lb bombs.
Of course figerprinting a live bomb it is great (easier to find parts that may have prints, and reduces the uncertainty 'just in case'), but fingerprinting exploded bombs is done and is very successful.
The article concludes explaining that when San Francisco and Seattle ended their RFID pilot programs, they 'switched back to bar-code systems, saying the radio systems were unnecessary.'
Unions opposing progress huh? I could go on a rant about how I could track someone's luggage (if I were close enough, or hacked the national RFID reader infrastructure (the FEDs built it to track us man!)). But I won't as I'm not a paranoid retard. I would just be happy if the plain vanilla retard baggage handlers lost my luggage a little less.
But the Sainsbury's is good.
A nice community idea. The site seems /.ed so I can't check... but what prevents someone/some company with low moral standards heading over there, getting ideas and patenting them/slightly changing them and pretending they came out of the R+D department?
Good idea, but I am cautious.
Oh, you love it... that's why you reply! I am the sadist, you are the masochist and Slashdot is our tool.
If our society has sunk to the point where people think they have the right to force people off the roads, civilisation has long gone.
Is it a right to drive? Why?
It does not happen today for one simple reason: the artificially low cost of travelling by car and by air (thanks to subsidies on roads and on fuel).
Interesting argument. Not sure if this would mean more cities, those cities smaller in population but higher in density (using simple von Thuman or Henderson medols), but it would be a really interesting (and positive IMHO) thing to see.
But I completely agree about the subsidy on fuel. People who complain about fuel tax simply don't seem to understand the cost of their using fuel is born on others (both in the present and the future). Increasing the cost of fuel makes the true cost apparant to the comsumer. Pity the government don't realise the other part of the equation that this revenue fuel should be addressed to the cost of it (improving 'green' technologies, actual quantification, perhaps international repatriation).
Try driving into Central London. Cars really suck for mass transport. Around 10% of traffic comes into Central London by car in a typical week. Replace the residual (mainly taken up by over or underground trains) with cars and prepare for chaos. Convenient, huh?
I, for one, would much rather ride a Maglev monorail...
I, for one, welcome our new Maglev overlords.
Is it the cover of Anathema's Sleepless by Cradle of Filth?
Shame you are modded as Troll. Mods must not realse the 3.6GHz spectrum would be quite useful for longer distance communication, for example it would make a wireless net (literally) covering low population density areas a lot more feasible - i.e. te 'country'.
I just found out Yahoo Finance leaked a Reuters news story which had USD100millions of implications!
Haven't you noticed ay degregation in the quality of results recently? What I could phrase as a simple search a year ago now needs lots of exclude and include factors. Many searches are OK, but a (quickly growing) amount of searches take me 3-4 goes to succeed.
Yeah, Google used to be a great thing, but it is disappointing thay a great thing can become a good thing only - as websites learn to get better points on the Pagerank system those that have a profit incentive 'abuse' it and the academic and more impartial/unbiased results get squeezed down.
If you don't have trouble finding what you want on Google you are probably searching for what is easily found or in a real niche.
what they may do is not the same as how they may do it
A bit lik Google these days then. Not that Google gets paid, just cripled... by kelkoo, pricewatch, et al, who destroyed what was an efficient search engine.
Can you even begin to think about the privacy implications of something like this? I know that I will never buy a car with RFID tracking capabilities built into it! What happens when the government agencies that don't care so much about your rights--CIA, FBI, NSA, police, whatever--decide that this system can be very useful for them? There's a million things that could go wrong
The Man is out to get us guy. But I got my M-16. The only way they'll put RFID in my car is by prying away my cold, dead hands.
I absolutely agree. I guess the problem was compounded where I was as the programmers were cluless dead wood (they didn't know how to make the old system, just maintain them).