Can be found out using a relatively short Perl script and some math knowledge.
First, find the first 1, 3, 7, or 9 after the first ten digits after the decimal. Take the preceding 9 digits, and run it through a Prime Number Checker. (The algorithm is in the source).
Really, the hardest part is determining the farthest decimal points of e. Here's the formula: limn->infinity (1 + 1/n)n.
It's lazy, impatient, and full of hubris! BTW, I get a finder's fee.
First, I've had economics, math, IT, and philosophy profs who were Republicans, and they would beg to differ with the idea that all professors are Democrats.
Second, the republican party platform includes funding for new nuclear weapons research to improve national security and a Mars and Moon program with no long-term funding guarantees. Christian Conservatives have both opposed evolution and stem cell research, as has the Republican presidential candidate.
Finally, the purpose of having a political party is to generalize. It's a group of people with similar political goals. However, saying all professors are Democrats because they're teachers is a false generalization.
As for my second paragraph, I'm just trying to illustrate why a majority of scientists support Democratic Candidates.
If we don't get rid of the cockroaches, we'll have a population gap!
With apologies to Mr. Kubrick
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Professors at universities have NEVER been Republican - republicans ask for accountability and aren't necessarily for higher teacher pay. The teacher associations are the single biggest democratic support = bias
My Republican economics, math, IT, and philosophy profs would beg to differ.
But in terms of actual, well, science (physics, astronomy, biology), yeah most of them oppose the Republicans. Mostly because they want to take physics and make more nuclear weapons (to stop other countries from getting nuclear weapons), ignore astronomy for 'flags and footprints,' and eliminate biology altogether by claiming that evolution is a myth and stem cells are people.
Many current switchers, according to chatter heard in Apple's Support Forums, have switched because of their experience with the iPod. Whether it was from walking into an Apple Store to buy an iPod and getting a chance to actually *use* a Mac, or seeing how much thought was put into the iPod, from how the scroll wheel accelerates to how rugged the design is to the neat way the backlight fades on and off.
If iTMS is a loss-leader for the iPod, then the iPod is a leader for Macs. I'm all for Apple making a headless eMac. But until they do the eMac, which is itself an incredibly capable machine for its price, will probably be the first Mac many people own.
I don't have a PC, but I use Pod2Go to do a whole bunch of neat stuff, including keeping an auto-synced backup of my important files, like my iPhoto library.
OLEDs can be made much bigger and lighter than CRTs without sacrificing performance. This means the elderly can run Firefox with 72 point fonts so they can read them and still fit a page width on the screen.
The idea that wind power can somehow reverse global warming is so far beyond asinine its hard to put into words.
First, global warming means the atmosphere has more energy than before, which means the wind blows harder, which means that if you could slow down the wind, you're removing some of the energy, which means you may lessen the severity of weather patterns.
Second, global warming is caused by an excess of CO2, which is primarily generated by power plants that burn fossil fuels and, to a lesser extent, automobiles. By decreasing the number of fossil fuel power plants, you're decreasing the excess CO2 that's being spewed in to the atmosphere, which slows down the rate of climate change.
Don't say goodbye to coal and oil, yet, though; unless cell technology increases substantially, when we run out of oil we will convert coal to synthetic fuel.
My father-in-law worked with John Rich, a man who started a company that turns culm, the unuseable rocks that come out of coal mines, into diesel and other fuels. There are huge piles of this stuff sitting in northeast PA, and it's a blight on the landscape. While the process does put out CO2, it prevents us from having to drill/import/strip mine more to fulfill our energy needs.
To think that economic growth can continue unabated is autistic. That is, it shows a person wholly obsessed with one thing, and ignorant of all others. Economic growth is the increase in the amount of capital. Capital, being resources or work, is finite: There's only so much stuff on the Earth or, indeed, in the universe. What happens when it's all turned to capital? Economic growth ceases, and we better start recycling as much as we can, because entropy will start turning things into unusable forms, and the amount of wealth will decrease at an ever-accelerating rate until everyone is dead.
The first key to insane economic growth is a strong space program. Of course, if you have a lunar or Martian colony, they're kinda hard for a totalitarian government to control.
IIRC, Apple also introduced the palmrests into the Powerbook line, making it the first laptop with a mouse, and the first with the standard "laptop" form factor.
Forget surfer dudes, imagine the problems with an Aussie using rhyming slang! Or a Cockney accent! Most people can't even understand them if they don't speak it themselves.
It's racketeering. That's what's wrong with it. Pay Microsoft more money, and you'll find out about security stuff first. If you don't pay, you won't know until the other shmucks, and by then it'll probably be too late.
Autofill. That's the only reason I use Safari on my Mac. If there was an autofill extension for Firefox that linked to my vcard in Address Book, I'd switch and never look back.
Who else other than Cisco can buy PC133 sticks of RAM in bulk for probably $10 a pound, stick a "Cisco Certified" sticker on them, then sell it to you for $450 a stick, and make you feel like you're getting a good deal?
Apple's almost as bad. $75 for 256MB of DDR333 for the eMac. That's over three times what I paid for the same RAM to upgrade my Mother-in-law's eMac.
Is your point that governent should give money back to the townspeople? Try cutting taxes its much easier! Again not everyone wants broadband service, don' make them pay for your urge to play Doom III over a phat connection. Some people need money to do important things like eat and go to the doctor!
I don't play Doom III. I telecommute. Unless I can get broadband, I can't work in that town. If companies can't get broadband, they won't move into the municipality. Since Verizon et al won't move into the town because there's no *profit* in it, that town *will* die. If you want to have a fancy-pants "information" economy, you need to have the infrastructure to move that information around! Imagine the industrial revolution without rail or roads; it wouldn't have happened!
To reiterate: If you want an economy based on information and creativity, cities and towns need to be able to move that information quickly, easily, and cheaply. Government utilities can provide cheap, high-speed internet access, as has been shown in communities from Palo Alto, CA to Kutztown, PA. The *only* reason this bill is being introduced is because Verizon and Comcast don't want people to see how much profit they're making, because then no one will pay for their crappy service.
Would you rather one government monopoly that has zero accountability, or several companies that have to earn customers through fair prices and quality service?
Comcast *doesn't* provide fair prices or quality service, but they're the only game in town if you want truly broadband over 1Mbps. They are a de facto monopoly because it is so difficult to create the infrastructure to provide the service they give. And because people are already paying $50/month for it, they see no reason to lower rates.
If FedEx and UPS had to build the roads that provided their service, there would only be one delivery service, and no service to people who lived in the Boonies. It would cost to much to pave a road for those people. What Kutztown and others are doing is, in effect, paving their own roads to their town so that they can get a service that Comcast *will not provide* them. What is wrong with this?
I have Comcast's High Speed Internet, complete with their crappy Mac support, grumpy installers, and asynchronous speeds, because I have three computers in the house that share the Internet, and Verizon (or any other DSL provider) *can't* get me the service I need, and there are *no* alternatives. It's not as if there is one grocery store that always has rotten fruit and I can drive to another one. There *is* no other grocery store. Short of starting my own broadband coop, there's no way for me to get good, quality service at a reasonable price. And now Comcast et al want to stop me from even doing that, because there is no way in hell I'll get venture capital for this, and no way I'll be able to raise enough money for donations to build a $400 million network.
PP&L is a private company, but they're also the utility provider, which means they are heavily regulated by the government. I would not mind a government-regulated utility providing broadband at reduced rates and higher speeds over fiber optics. Then providers could lease lines from the utility or the government to provide their services.
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First, find the first 1, 3, 7, or 9 after the first ten digits after the decimal. Take the preceding 9 digits, and run it through a Prime Number Checker. (The algorithm is in the source).
Really, the hardest part is determining the farthest decimal points of e. Here's the formula: limn->infinity (1 + 1/n)n.
It's lazy, impatient, and full of hubris! BTW, I get a finder's fee.
Second, the republican party platform includes funding for new nuclear weapons research to improve national security and a Mars and Moon program with no long-term funding guarantees. Christian Conservatives have both opposed evolution and stem cell research, as has the Republican presidential candidate.
Finally, the purpose of having a political party is to generalize. It's a group of people with similar political goals. However, saying all professors are Democrats because they're teachers is a false generalization.
As for my second paragraph, I'm just trying to illustrate why a majority of scientists support Democratic Candidates.
With apologies to Mr. Kubrick
My Republican economics, math, IT, and philosophy profs would beg to differ.
But in terms of actual, well, science (physics, astronomy, biology), yeah most of them oppose the Republicans. Mostly because they want to take physics and make more nuclear weapons (to stop other countries from getting nuclear weapons), ignore astronomy for 'flags and footprints,' and eliminate biology altogether by claiming that evolution is a myth and stem cells are people.
I drink realbeer. Does this mean I can drink as much as I want?
But I agree that low-carb/lite beer is the worst stuff you can put in your body. That is, if you don't mind being a jerk or a sissy.
Never trust a man who drinks Coors Light.
Real informative there... It looks like it's broken.
If iTMS is a loss-leader for the iPod, then the iPod is a leader for Macs. I'm all for Apple making a headless eMac. But until they do the eMac, which is itself an incredibly capable machine for its price, will probably be the first Mac many people own.
I don't have a PC, but I use Pod2Go to do a whole bunch of neat stuff, including keeping an auto-synced backup of my important files, like my iPhoto library.
Not only that, but my four-year-old G4/400 runs 10.3.5 splendidly, unlike a four-year-old PC with XP or, from what I've heard, Gnome.
OLEDs can be made much bigger and lighter than CRTs without sacrificing performance. This means the elderly can run Firefox with 72 point fonts so they can read them and still fit a page width on the screen.
First, global warming means the atmosphere has more energy than before, which means the wind blows harder, which means that if you could slow down the wind, you're removing some of the energy, which means you may lessen the severity of weather patterns.
Second, global warming is caused by an excess of CO2, which is primarily generated by power plants that burn fossil fuels and, to a lesser extent, automobiles. By decreasing the number of fossil fuel power plants, you're decreasing the excess CO2 that's being spewed in to the atmosphere, which slows down the rate of climate change.
My father-in-law worked with John Rich, a man who started a company that turns culm, the unuseable rocks that come out of coal mines, into diesel and other fuels. There are huge piles of this stuff sitting in northeast PA, and it's a blight on the landscape. While the process does put out CO2, it prevents us from having to drill/import/strip mine more to fulfill our energy needs.
Why couldn't the next economic powerhouse speak something simple, like Esperanto???
The first key to insane economic growth is a strong space program. Of course, if you have a lunar or Martian colony, they're kinda hard for a totalitarian government to control.
History won't repeat, it will rhyme.
Douglas Adams is lucky he's dead. I tried missing the ground and broke my nose.
IIRC, Apple also introduced the palmrests into the Powerbook line, making it the first laptop with a mouse, and the first with the standard "laptop" form factor.
Unless you use a Mac, that is. Then you can't get our music, because you're obviously a drooling fanboy who used our stupid petition to bash us.
I don't believe he wrote this. Maybe he got the questions, and wrote a memo, but it had to have passed through PR before getting to /.
Forget surfer dudes, imagine the problems with an Aussie using rhyming slang! Or a Cockney accent! Most people can't even understand them if they don't speak it themselves.
It's illegal under RICA!
Or civic broadband.
But Civic Broadband is bad and government shouldn't ever compete with business!
/me sarcastic
Autofill. That's the only reason I use Safari on my Mac. If there was an autofill extension for Firefox that linked to my vcard in Address Book, I'd switch and never look back.
Apple's almost as bad. $75 for 256MB of DDR333 for the eMac. That's over three times what I paid for the same RAM to upgrade my Mother-in-law's eMac.
Hell yeah. But only if gets me to orbit.
Cause once you're in orbit, you're halfway to everywhere.
I don't play Doom III. I telecommute. Unless I can get broadband, I can't work in that town. If companies can't get broadband, they won't move into the municipality. Since Verizon et al won't move into the town because there's no *profit* in it, that town *will* die. If you want to have a fancy-pants "information" economy, you need to have the infrastructure to move that information around! Imagine the industrial revolution without rail or roads; it wouldn't have happened!
To reiterate: If you want an economy based on information and creativity, cities and towns need to be able to move that information quickly, easily, and cheaply. Government utilities can provide cheap, high-speed internet access, as has been shown in communities from Palo Alto, CA to Kutztown, PA. The *only* reason this bill is being introduced is because Verizon and Comcast don't want people to see how much profit they're making, because then no one will pay for their crappy service.
Comcast *doesn't* provide fair prices or quality service, but they're the only game in town if you want truly broadband over 1Mbps. They are a de facto monopoly because it is so difficult to create the infrastructure to provide the service they give. And because people are already paying $50/month for it, they see no reason to lower rates.
If FedEx and UPS had to build the roads that provided their service, there would only be one delivery service, and no service to people who lived in the Boonies. It would cost to much to pave a road for those people. What Kutztown and others are doing is, in effect, paving their own roads to their town so that they can get a service that Comcast *will not provide* them. What is wrong with this?
I have Comcast's High Speed Internet, complete with their crappy Mac support, grumpy installers, and asynchronous speeds, because I have three computers in the house that share the Internet, and Verizon (or any other DSL provider) *can't* get me the service I need, and there are *no* alternatives. It's not as if there is one grocery store that always has rotten fruit and I can drive to another one. There *is* no other grocery store. Short of starting my own broadband coop, there's no way for me to get good, quality service at a reasonable price. And now Comcast et al want to stop me from even doing that, because there is no way in hell I'll get venture capital for this, and no way I'll be able to raise enough money for donations to build a $400 million network.
PP&L is a private company, but they're also the utility provider, which means they are heavily regulated by the government. I would not mind a government-regulated utility providing broadband at reduced rates and higher speeds over fiber optics. Then providers could lease lines from the utility or the government to provide their services.