This is a pretty big change of topic from your anti-corporate post. Yes, people who come up with shit are important, but their contributions would be wasted without the "greedy corporations" you rail about.
Great fucking point. Imagine how great all of these things would still be without big companies! Nothing could be better than reading an article about the one guy in Pennsylvania who has electricity, or the neighbors in New Jersey who can call each other. Brilliant!
What leads you to the conclusion that consumer's aren't dumb? H.L. Mencken famously observed,"No one ever lost money overestimating the stupidity of the American public" and I haven't seen anything to convince me otherwise (especially your post).
What do you mean by first principals? Kepler's laws of motion are fairly simple to derive, particularly if you've studied, say, Hamiltonian or Langrangian mechanics.
This isn't hard bud, just think. If I have a patent detailing a procedure that is important to my business, and it is granted by the patent office, it gives me an immense advantage if I am sued for infringement following my own patent. That's not hard to understand is it?
Inaightful? Please. If you hold a patent for something, and implement it, it is impossible for someone to sue you for that implementation.
In other words, you don't have to worry about Eolas coming along, patenting something you're using, and suing you. How would you, oh insightful one, suggest preventing the situation otherwise?
I think what you're proposing is exactly what I was saying. I mentioned the sin/cos derivatives, and ln x. I also said that the derivation should be understood, but not used in a day to day basis.
Anything more than that, however, and I think you're crippling yourself in the future.
A poor test? I'm not talking about testing the calculator, and can only make assumptions about the type of mindset that proposal suggests.
If you're interested in thinking, I stand by might statement. If you're interesting in calculator debugging, I'm sure whatever you learned at ITT Tech is better than anything I know.
This is a real problem - any calculus class that asks you to memorize any derivative or integral (besides, I'd say lnx 1/x and sinx cos x, although you should also understand the derivation) is doing you a TREMENDOUS disservice.
Many of my classmates in advanced math and physics classes are extremely bright, but struggle with simple integrals and derivatives because theyve forgotten something they only ever knew by integration.
This kind of bs is just as bad as not knowing sin(0). If you haven't proven Picard's Theorem, but are solving diffeq's, I defy you to tell me how this is different.
Insightful? The word and number on slashdot is the ENTIRE review. Game reviews have paragraphs of text. Adding a word would be asinine (cf. parent post for example).
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this is going to have a similar capacity? If so, IPOD should be out of business with that price difference.
Okay, I have to admit I like you more after this post. In light of that, I'll change tremendous to rather large.
You are a tremendous drain on humanity.
That's more of a book about Michael Lewis's affinity for Billy Beanes Jock
This post is also completely bullshit.
You obviously didn't read the column.
If no one has ever heard of your school, chances are it's not the height of reputability.
For heaven's sake, I live about 20 min from it and haven't heard of it.
Here's a column I wrote a day ago about this subject for the Stanford Daily:
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This is a pretty big change of topic from your anti-corporate post. Yes, people who come up with shit are important, but their contributions would be wasted without the "greedy corporations" you rail about.
Great fucking point. Imagine how great all of these things would still be without big companies! Nothing could be better than reading an article about the one guy in Pennsylvania who has electricity, or the neighbors in New Jersey who can call each other. Brilliant!
But what happens when they buy their next computer? This isn't really hard to figure out.
What leads you to the conclusion that consumer's aren't dumb? H.L. Mencken famously observed,"No one ever lost money overestimating the stupidity of the American public" and I haven't seen anything to convince me otherwise (especially your post).
What do you mean by first principals? Kepler's laws of motion are fairly simple to derive, particularly if you've studied, say, Hamiltonian or Langrangian mechanics.
This isn't hard bud, just think. If I have a patent detailing a procedure that is important to my business, and it is granted by the patent office, it gives me an immense advantage if I am sued for infringement following my own patent. That's not hard to understand is it?
Inaightful? Please. If you hold a patent for something, and implement it, it is impossible for someone to sue you for that implementation.
In other words, you don't have to worry about Eolas coming along, patenting something you're using, and suing you. How would you, oh insightful one, suggest preventing the situation otherwise?
Shit, I'd contribute.
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They could do everything they wanted, but they'd probably just fuck schoolgirls with tentacles.
I think what you're proposing is exactly what I was saying. I mentioned the sin/cos derivatives, and ln x. I also said that the derivation should be understood, but not used in a day to day basis.
Anything more than that, however, and I think you're crippling yourself in the future.
A poor test? I'm not talking about testing the calculator, and can only make assumptions about the type of mindset that proposal suggests.
If you're interested in thinking, I stand by might statement. If you're interesting in calculator debugging, I'm sure whatever you learned at ITT Tech is better than anything I know.
This is a real problem - any calculus class that asks you to memorize any derivative or integral (besides, I'd say lnx 1/x and sinx cos x, although you should also understand the derivation) is doing you a TREMENDOUS disservice. Many of my classmates in advanced math and physics classes are extremely bright, but struggle with simple integrals and derivatives because theyve forgotten something they only ever knew by integration.
This kind of bs is just as bad as not knowing sin(0). If you haven't proven Picard's Theorem, but are solving diffeq's, I defy you to tell me how this is different.
Not to be a dick, but if you don't not what sin(0) is, you don't know what sin means, and thats pretty poor.
Not that weird. Look up taylor series sometime.....
Insightful? The word and number on slashdot is the ENTIRE review. Game reviews have paragraphs of text. Adding a word would be asinine (cf. parent post for example).