Did anyone else read The benefits are that heavy polluters can cut back on their emissions and at the same time make biodiesel
as Now you can produce even more industrial waste, and it might be economically to your advantage to do so?
Perhaps I'm being too cynical... it seems like a great idea, but will it just be a justification for causing more environmental havoc if it is economically viable?
These are all valid concerns. However, when you suspend my internet license, will I still be able to have the weather burned into my toast in the mornings?
Seriously though, you can achieve this sterile utopia youself. It's called a LAN which isn't connected to the internet. Connect it to your friend's LAN if you want via a (backbone-esque) router. But if you decide to let your friend connect to other networks too, you should bear in mind that searching a graph for a spammer is exponentially costly.
With a lot of care and a lot of time important documents can sometimes be recovered from washing piles.
The same can not be said for PDAs, which people also tend to keep in shirt pockets.
remember something long enough just to pass a test, pass it, forget.
This is kind've short sighted. If you're going as far as high school, then fine. You better remember how to change that tyre. I received my postgrad degree yesterday, and one of the speakers said something quite interesting:
I have no doubt that the graduands in front of me will already have forgotten everything your lecturers will have taught you. But I hope that we have taught you one thing: How to think.
If you use long division every day in your maths classes, you don't forget how to do it. If you're using Zorn's lemma every day, you probably won't forget that either. But for many careers the important thing is not that you're a walking encylopedia, but that you can think constructively about a problem and come up with a solution.
More and more education is being transformed into training for the workforce. Whatever happened to learning to learn? Understanding is the abstraction of which knowledge is a trivial subcomponent.
I think you missed the point. The parent said that if you can't buy something then you're free to take it.
I'm not trying to argue theft/infringment here, but trying to point out that it's fundamentally wrong with his/her line of thinking
So, if I walk in the Louvre and help myself to whatever takes my fancy, I'm not stealing the work of great masters, right? I mean, it's not like I can buy any of the works in the museum shop...
Just because you can't obtain something through legal means doesn't make it free!
I was worried about Marvin too, but I also think it fitted in quite well. The Marvin from the TV series was just so extremely slow it held up the dialogue a bit in places.
Having said that, the movie just wasn't that funny. I loved the books, and despite the extremely poor sets/costumes, and even the acting in the TV series, I still prefer it to the movie.
The most important thing about a proof is not that it shows that a proposition is valid in a system, but that it sheds light on the proposition to begin with.
I remember proving that 1+1=2 using Peano arithmetic in a Prolog based theorem prover called Ergo. It took me longer than you'd expect (and I was one of the very few who were able to prove that x+y = y+x for x,y in the natural numbers) and it would've been impossible without doing it, at least in part, by hand first. Everyone knows that 1+1 equals 2, but the trick is that few people know why. And a printout simply stating 'TRUE' does nothing to illuminate this.
You have listened to five minutes of Ashlee Simpson. Please enter your credit card number followed by the hash key so we can charge you for your unauthorised use of this music. If you would simply like to add it to your law suit, press the star key now.
Uh... perhaps you should do some research. Quantum mechanics is not a dump box for everything in physics which is 'weird' or 'cool', it's the formalised theory combining the principles of wave mechanics and matrix mechanics, the two equivalent and independently discovered ways of describing a physical system. Nothing USES quantum mechanics - it's not real. It's a theoretical model of the world. Most electronics, especially semicondutor physics uses the principles from QM to achieve things that we otherwise would not have believed to happen.
I'd be very interested to hear why it's QM that means we can't make chips infinitely small and not something more like thermodynamics - infinitely small implies infinite information density...?
Why would it matter if electrons became entangled in a transistor? How do you think a transistor works?
Except that computers already make heavy use of quantum mechanics - anywhere that things are very small, quantum effects come in to play, and it is the understanding of these principles (or at least, the spooky coherence of reality to our model) which lead to the development of the transistor.
I live in NZ and have had serious problems with my ISP after signing up for an unlimited 128Kbps connection. All was great for some weeks until one day I wake up and there's no connection. I spend 3 days trying to get through to my ISP through various voice mail boxes and automated responses, and when I finally do, the admin tells me in a pretty gruff way: We booted you because you used too much bandwidth.
Now, that's quite possible - my flatmate did have a penchant for downloading movies, but still, when we signed up, it was all you could eat, er, download in 128k.
I told him this, and he replied it was a new policy and that they weren't interested in our custom any more. Fine, I said, and hung up.
As an addendum to this story, I got a call a few weeks ago from this ISP telling me I owed them nearly $300 in fees.
Shall we say I suspect they're not likely to ever call me again.
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Since when has 1860 square kilometers equalled 1860 kilometers squared?
Don't give up hope just yet. It may still be ready for the Longhorn release!
Uh, did you actually read any of these comments?
Did anyone else read
The benefits are that heavy polluters can cut back on their emissions and at the same time make biodiesel
as
Now you can produce even more industrial waste, and it might be economically to your advantage to do so?
Perhaps I'm being too cynical... it seems like a great idea, but will it just be a justification for causing more environmental havoc if it is economically viable?
These are all valid concerns. However, when you suspend my internet license, will I still be able to have the weather burned into my toast in the mornings?
Seriously though, you can achieve this sterile utopia youself. It's called a LAN which isn't connected to the internet. Connect it to your friend's LAN if you want via a (backbone-esque) router. But if you decide to let your friend connect to other networks too, you should bear in mind that searching a graph for a spammer is exponentially costly.
With a lot of care and a lot of time important documents can sometimes be recovered from washing piles. The same can not be said for PDAs, which people also tend to keep in shirt pockets.
Why would you ever need to log in remotely as root?!
How incredibly ironic.
remember something long enough just to pass a test, pass it, forget.
This is kind've short sighted. If you're going as far as high school, then fine. You better remember how to change that tyre. I received my postgrad degree yesterday, and one of the speakers said something quite interesting:
I have no doubt that the graduands in front of me will already have forgotten everything your lecturers will have taught you. But I hope that we have taught you one thing: How to think.
If you use long division every day in your maths classes, you don't forget how to do it. If you're using Zorn's lemma every day, you probably won't forget that either. But for many careers the important thing is not that you're a walking encylopedia, but that you can think constructively about a problem and come up with a solution.
More and more education is being transformed into training for the workforce. Whatever happened to learning to learn? Understanding is the abstraction of which knowledge is a trivial subcomponent.
I think you missed the point. The parent said that if you can't buy something then you're free to take it. I'm not trying to argue theft/infringment here, but trying to point out that it's fundamentally wrong with his/her line of thinking
So, if I walk in the Louvre and help myself to whatever takes my fancy, I'm not stealing the work of great masters, right? I mean, it's not like I can buy any of the works in the museum shop...
Just because you can't obtain something through legal means doesn't make it free!
I was worried about Marvin too, but I also think it fitted in quite well. The Marvin from the TV series was just so extremely slow it held up the dialogue a bit in places.
Having said that, the movie just wasn't that funny. I loved the books, and despite the extremely poor sets/costumes, and even the acting in the TV series, I still prefer it to the movie.
The most important thing about a proof is not that it shows that a proposition is valid in a system, but that it sheds light on the proposition to begin with.
I remember proving that 1+1=2 using Peano arithmetic in a Prolog based theorem prover called Ergo. It took me longer than you'd expect (and I was one of the very few who were able to prove that x+y = y+x for x,y in the natural numbers) and it would've been impossible without doing it, at least in part, by hand first. Everyone knows that 1+1 equals 2, but the trick is that few people know why. And a printout simply stating 'TRUE' does nothing to illuminate this.
Grammer?
There are other search engines?
Surely you forgot a step...
You have listened to five minutes of Ashlee Simpson. Please enter your credit card number followed by the hash key so we can charge you for your unauthorised use of this music. If you would simply like to add it to your law suit, press the star key now.
0.1111 (ad infinitum) * 9 does in fact equal 1. Simply, it's the decimal representation of 1/9. What is (1/9) * 9 if it isn't 1?
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Engineers.
The arts of sushi preparation and origami collide!
Perhaps you should read them both
For your reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
Uh... perhaps you should do some research. Quantum mechanics is not a dump box for everything in physics which is 'weird' or 'cool', it's the formalised theory combining the principles of wave mechanics and matrix mechanics, the two equivalent and independently discovered ways of describing a physical system. Nothing USES quantum mechanics - it's not real. It's a theoretical model of the world. Most electronics, especially semicondutor physics uses the principles from QM to achieve things that we otherwise would not have believed to happen. I'd be very interested to hear why it's QM that means we can't make chips infinitely small and not something more like thermodynamics - infinitely small implies infinite information density...? Why would it matter if electrons became entangled in a transistor? How do you think a transistor works?
Except that computers already make heavy use of quantum mechanics - anywhere that things are very small, quantum effects come in to play, and it is the understanding of these principles (or at least, the spooky coherence of reality to our model) which lead to the development of the transistor.
I live in NZ and have had serious problems with my ISP after signing up for an unlimited 128Kbps connection. All was great for some weeks until one day I wake up and there's no connection. I spend 3 days trying to get through to my ISP through various voice mail boxes and automated responses, and when I finally do, the admin tells me in a pretty gruff way: We booted you because you used too much bandwidth.
Now, that's quite possible - my flatmate did have a penchant for downloading movies, but still, when we signed up, it was all you could eat, er, download in 128k.
I told him this, and he replied it was a new policy and that they weren't interested in our custom any more. Fine, I said, and hung up.
As an addendum to this story, I got a call a few weeks ago from this ISP telling me I owed them nearly $300 in fees.
Shall we say I suspect they're not likely to ever call me again.