You're paying for it? No, actually, you're not. Your tutition dollars (and note, I'm assuming you go to, say Harvard Business or something else...it'd be even MORE true at a cheaper school) don't cover the cost of your education. Not even close. The school's endowment (perhaps other stuff like corporate donations) pays for it. You're asked to contribute some to counter some of the costs, but you do NOT pay your professor's salary. As it happens, I'm typing this in CS class on a laptop on wireless internet--for the ultimate in irony--and my professor's salary is paid for by a chair endowed by Joseph Platt (bonus points to anyone who can name my current professor!)
Are you right or wrong that a professor should respond to what you want? That's another issue. But don't bring up arrogant bullshit about it being your money paying his salary.
Um...no. Learn statistics before you make statistical claims. Seriously, as much as I hated stat this year in college, it was a damn useful class, and everyone should have to take it in high school. Until you actually know a bit about how this stuff works, it's surprising how misinformed you can be. All sorts of stuff is masqueraded as "statistics" in the media, when a lot of it's just plain BS. People have so many misconceptions about stat it's not even funny.
And yes, it's still true that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
This looks damn cool. But I've seen similar things before--friends have had mp3 players with video screens, and so on, and in all cases, video had to be reencoded to be watched. Is that still true? Because I've got a couple hundred gigabytes of...ahem...perfectly legal video data ripped off DVDs I own as backups...and while it'd be awesome to be able to just seamlessly drop my Scrubs/Buffy/NIN videos onto a new iPod and watch it (2 inch screen isn't great, but better than nothing) if I have to reencode it for a couple hours first, then count me out...
True that. Calculators are basically completely useless in even my *freshman* special relativity course--because you don't get a meaningful answer for stuff like sqrt(1-10^-9)--which you get a lot.
Considering the recent treatment by the courts of free speech/the like in public schools, you have *no idea* how right you are...
Re:This would be great for fencing.
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As a fellow fencer, you are an *idiot*.
To start with, fencing is getting unpopular enough as it is, you want to start shocking people?
More importantly, it wouldn't make it better sport. Short of the simple roman circus value, it wouldn't make any difference w/r/t "realism". the flick may be an extremely unrealistic move, but in many cases, it is simply the best move to hit someone. Unless we actually change the rules in foil/sabre to get rid of right-of-way, it will remain so. Do you want to get rid of right-of-way?
And to any confused non fencers, just read the first line and skip the rest.
Another nice trick is l33tsp34k. (Hey, it's gotta be good for something!) While it ain't random--or even that close--you can get quite decent and *very* rememberable passwords by incompletely leetspeeking words. My boss, a car guy, used to use "maraud4r" as a password. Mine at home (for most non-critical uses) are a variety of nonexistent words from sci-fi and fantasy novels, l33tspeaked--one old one, for example, cuell1nd4r. Not in any dictionary (not even one which uses l33t!) and quite easy to remember.
Well, no. My father is a film (and english, but that's irrelevant) professor at a pretty decent college--he does this kind of thing all the time. If he's writing a paper--or having his students write papers--about a film, and wants to discuss one scene, it's great to have that scene be *right there*.
On the other hand, one of the large factors as to why it *was* so cheap was because the PC-Clones could exist. Know why they could? I'll tell you. The PC architecture was open (AFAIK) and could be copied. Macs, that wasn't allowed.
Try that again.
X is black, O is white, - is nothing.
-O-O OOOO XXXX X-X-
Assume equal captures. Each side has two points of territory. Any move in this state is instantly captured. No matter what, the game is over and tied. And while it's not *likely* to occur, it is *legal.*
OK. Think of this, in 4x4 Go. Yes, it's uberly trivial. Yes, this'll never happen. yet, it is a tied game--move passing or no.
X is black, O is white, - is nothing.
-O-O
0000
XXXX
-X-X
Assume equal captures.
Each side has two points of territory. Any move in this state is instantly captured. No matter what, the game is over and tied. And while it's not *likely* to occur, it is *legal.*
Well, I can imagine a tied position (though it's never happened in my play, and with optimal play, I doubt it's likely...)
Just think of any board position where each side controls (undisutably) equal amounts of territory.
Am I the only one ***OUT OF THE PEOPLE HERE WHO KNOW HOW TO PLAY*** who is slightly confused after a cursory glance at that site as to who exactly *wins* in 5x5 go? Obviously if it's solved, it's either a black win, a tie, or a white win (as I said, I'm not sure, though I'd guess one of the first two.)
....and private companies which have no interest in science at all, but instead are *officially* in pursuit of the bottom line, as compared to congress which at least in principle should want to do science the right way, will do that much more science?
I'm not saying private spaceflight is evil; it's just that privitization isn't the solution to everything. Virigin Galactic or the like, frankly, doesn't give a shit what the universe looked like 14 billion years ago, and have even less reason than Congress to fund a telescope to find out.
Handguns, yes. OTOH...I'm reminded of some webcomic-or-another (I forget which, if someone could remind me, That'd be great...) which ran a strip approximating this:
Kid: I'd like a copy of Quake III Arena and a shotgun.
Salesman: You know I can't sell you that, it's dangerous. 12 or 16 gauge?
Seriously, hunting rifles or GTA--which would you prefer the sixteen year old you pass on the street--or who lives in your house--or is your kid--to have?
Problem is, won't work without the chloride (or the sodium.) You need a positive *and* a negative ion. And yes, I'm aware your being snide. Perhaps something like Ba(OH)2 would work? LD 50 about a gram, IIRC, though I'm not sure if it's soluble enough to work.
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In the physics building here on campus, many of the labs have signs on their doors reading "Do Not Look Into Laser with Remaining Eye."
Don't you mean "download-to-pretend-you-own" given the certain level of DRM?
You're paying for it? No, actually, you're not.
Your tutition dollars (and note, I'm assuming you go to, say Harvard Business or something else...it'd be even MORE true at a cheaper school) don't cover the cost of your education. Not even close. The school's endowment (perhaps other stuff like corporate donations) pays for it. You're asked to contribute some to counter some of the costs, but you do NOT pay your professor's salary. As it happens, I'm typing this in CS class on a laptop on wireless internet--for the ultimate in irony--and my professor's salary is paid for by a chair endowed by Joseph Platt (bonus points to anyone who can name my current professor!)
Are you right or wrong that a professor should respond to what you want? That's another issue. But don't bring up arrogant bullshit about it being your money paying his salary.
Um...no.
Learn statistics before you make statistical claims.
Seriously, as much as I hated stat this year in college, it was a damn useful class, and everyone should have to take it in high school. Until you actually know a bit about how this stuff works, it's surprising how misinformed you can be. All sorts of stuff is masqueraded as "statistics" in the media, when a lot of it's just plain BS. People have so many misconceptions about stat it's not even funny.
And yes, it's still true that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Not to mention anyone at Tunguska.
This looks damn cool. But I've seen similar things before--friends have had mp3 players with video screens, and so on, and in all cases, video had to be reencoded to be watched. Is that still true? Because I've got a couple hundred gigabytes of...ahem...perfectly legal video data ripped off DVDs I own as backups...and while it'd be awesome to be able to just seamlessly drop my Scrubs/Buffy/NIN videos onto a new iPod and watch it (2 inch screen isn't great, but better than nothing) if I have to reencode it for a couple hours first, then count me out...
True that. Calculators are basically completely useless in even my *freshman* special relativity course--because you don't get a meaningful answer for stuff like sqrt(1-10^-9)--which you get a lot.
Would you like someone to call the waaaaaambulance?
Well, to some extent, already happened (the sex mod, not the banhammering)...know how many games have nude mods for the hot chicks?
what the FUCK?
A little. I think it's just the natural thought that however good or bad it was, *that was it*.
Considering the recent treatment by the courts of free speech/the like in public schools, you have *no idea* how right you are...
As a fellow fencer, you are an *idiot*. To start with, fencing is getting unpopular enough as it is, you want to start shocking people? More importantly, it wouldn't make it better sport. Short of the simple roman circus value, it wouldn't make any difference w/r/t "realism". the flick may be an extremely unrealistic move, but in many cases, it is simply the best move to hit someone. Unless we actually change the rules in foil/sabre to get rid of right-of-way, it will remain so. Do you want to get rid of right-of-way? And to any confused non fencers, just read the first line and skip the rest.
Another nice trick is l33tsp34k. (Hey, it's gotta be good for something!)
While it ain't random--or even that close--you can get quite decent and *very* rememberable passwords by incompletely leetspeeking words. My boss, a car guy, used to use "maraud4r" as a password. Mine at home (for most non-critical uses) are a variety of nonexistent words from sci-fi and fantasy novels, l33tspeaked--one old one, for example, cuell1nd4r. Not in any dictionary (not even one which uses l33t!) and quite easy to remember.
Well, no. My father is a film (and english, but that's irrelevant) professor at a pretty decent college--he does this kind of thing all the time. If he's writing a paper--or having his students write papers--about a film, and wants to discuss one scene, it's great to have that scene be *right there*.
On the other hand, one of the large factors as to why it *was* so cheap was because the PC-Clones could exist. Know why they could? I'll tell you. The PC architecture was open (AFAIK) and could be copied. Macs, that wasn't allowed.
Happy? Now black has three territory, white has two...and the bonus equalizes it. I don't claim ties are likely. BUT THEY ARE POSSIBLE.
As strange as it may sound, I can still pull a circuit breaker when the power's live.
Try that again. X is black, O is white, - is nothing.
Assume equal captures. Each side has two points of territory. Any move in this state is instantly captured. No matter what, the game is over and tied. And while it's not *likely* to occur, it is *legal.*OK. Think of this, in 4x4 Go. Yes, it's uberly trivial. Yes, this'll never happen. yet, it is a tied game--move passing or no. X is black, O is white, - is nothing. -O-O 0000 XXXX -X-X Assume equal captures. Each side has two points of territory. Any move in this state is instantly captured. No matter what, the game is over and tied. And while it's not *likely* to occur, it is *legal.*
Well, I can imagine a tied position (though it's never happened in my play, and with optimal play, I doubt it's likely...) Just think of any board position where each side controls (undisutably) equal amounts of territory.
Am I the only one ***OUT OF THE PEOPLE HERE WHO KNOW HOW TO PLAY*** who is slightly confused after a cursory glance at that site as to who exactly *wins* in 5x5 go? Obviously if it's solved, it's either a black win, a tie, or a white win (as I said, I'm not sure, though I'd guess one of the first two.)
....and private companies which have no interest in science at all, but instead are *officially* in pursuit of the bottom line, as compared to congress which at least in principle should want to do science the right way, will do that much more science? I'm not saying private spaceflight is evil; it's just that privitization isn't the solution to everything. Virigin Galactic or the like, frankly, doesn't give a shit what the universe looked like 14 billion years ago, and have even less reason than Congress to fund a telescope to find out.
Handguns, yes. OTOH...I'm reminded of some webcomic-or-another (I forget which, if someone could remind me, That'd be great...) which ran a strip approximating this: Kid: I'd like a copy of Quake III Arena and a shotgun. Salesman: You know I can't sell you that, it's dangerous. 12 or 16 gauge? Seriously, hunting rifles or GTA--which would you prefer the sixteen year old you pass on the street--or who lives in your house--or is your kid--to have?
Problem is, won't work without the chloride (or the sodium.) You need a positive *and* a negative ion. And yes, I'm aware your being snide. Perhaps something like Ba(OH)2 would work? LD 50 about a gram, IIRC, though I'm not sure if it's soluble enough to work.