For example the integral of [ e^nx * e^-mx dx] is 1/(m-n)[e^nx * e^-mx] when n=m this requires dividing by zero but if you spot the mathematical trick that m=n is a special case when you are integrating [0 dx] and so get x
Plus, I'm not sure how reading a typed message from someone is any different from reading it out of a textbook.
Except that you can ask the person to clarify. I mean, yes this is funny. But it's not that goddamn funny. Or alarming at all.
The doctor in England had done the procedure before, presumably successfully, whereas the textbook could make no such guarantee. Plus, as you said, the doctor in the DRC could ask him to clarify.
And you're right, it's not that funny, or alarming. What it is is fraking badass and awesome. I mean, they both had the skills to pull off an amputation by text message. That's some serious medical street cred right there, on both sides!
Plus, they saved a kid's life. Good for both of them! *raises glass*
She should have been sued for wrongful death. She would have spent the rest of her life paying whatever she makes to the family of that little girl and the rest of us wouldn't have had our rights trampled in the process.
BINGO. It's called a civil suit. That's how they got OJ when he beat his criminal charges, that's how they can get Lori Drew without messing everything up for the rest of us.
I know it's bad form to reply to my own post, but I thought I should correct myself. I checked Google Maps, did a few back-of-the-napkin calculations, and figured out that given that trajectory and assuming the meteor was traveling at about 10 km/sec, the Earth wouldn't have rotated enough during the meteor's flight to put Edmonton under its path.
Although, maybe it broke up between Oklahoma and Canada, with one fragment careening off west. Certainly a plausible theory.
What a great idea! Ice Cube should be Google's new spokesman. Geeks everywhere would recognize him from "Ghosts of Mars".
(A highly underrated movie, if you ask me. Not only is Cube one of the main characters, the movie also features two bomb-ass blondes and Jason Statham to boot.)
"Punk [playaz] bailin' every time that I use Chrome" - Cypress Hill, "Till Death Comes"
Granted, B-Real is talking about firearms here, but good for Google. It'd be interesting to see browser usage stats on machines that ship with both IE and Chrome preinstalled, although it wouldn't surprise me to see IE retain a majority share, just on name recognition alone.
After all, DHS doesn't exist to arrest college kids carrying a bong, is it?
You're not too far off, dude. DHS exists to keep the American public in a constant state of fear so we'll comply with whatever asinine, insane laws our masters want to push on us. If that requires arresting college kids carrying a bong, so be it./half-hearted response//coffee hasn't kicked in yet... please excuse me.
You can't keep your arms up for an hour -- your shoulders aren't built for it. Ten minutes of using hand gestures, and you'll be too exhausted to work anymore.
Who says you have to keep your arms up? You could have something like a Surface to replace the keyboard and mouse that sit on the (real, physical) desktop, and also make the screen itself touchable. It might be weird switching between the two, but I'm imagining something like a kiosk, perhaps with an adjustable-height "keyboardish" surface.
Otherwise, we're giving up the notion that we're actually trying to teach anything and accepting that all we're looking for is some basic cookie-cutter standards for well-disciplined automotons.
Uh... that's exactly what American public schools are intending to create: a populace comprised of well-disciplined, subservient sheep. Don't question authority. Don't think for yourself. Do what you are told. Obey. Consume. That kind of thing.
Arrrgh, I selected the Pirate option, and me sides hurt from laughing so hard, ye scurvy dog! Hopefully they'll be leavin' it as an option after today.
I work for a computer consulting firm, and we've known about this for months now. In fact, we've switched from selling almost all Dell systems to almost all HP systems because of it; our clients just don't want Vista, and this is a really convenient way to satisfy them. I actually thought HP was doing us a favor shipping the XP systems because we do so much business with them, but I guess it's standard policy!
I hope HP continues to offer this option, because if we're any indication, the OEMs and resellers *really* appreciate it.
Would it be safe if we towed launch vehicles out in the middle of the ocean? How much ocean water would it take to block the rays? Would there be any ionizing radiation to produce fallout?
Uh, I always thought that the Orion system was intended to be used in space (where fallout isn't exactly a problem), rather than for getting the vehicle off the ground. That said, and I digress here, it would actually be a decent answer to the whole nuclear proliferation problem:
1. US and Russia draw up specs for nuke-propelled ships.
2. US and Russia point all their remaining ICBMs straight up, instead of at each other (I'm sure that's where they're still aimed), and launch them into orbit. Maybe dock them at the ISS or something.
3. When we need to launch a mission, we send up the ship either on a conventional rocket or via a space elevator. Ship maneuvers to the ISS, picks up a bunch of ICBMs. Ship then maneuvers away from ths ISS (and everything else) and lights one of the ICBM payloads behind it.
4. BOOM. (Yeah, I know, in space, nobody can hear you detonate your nuclear weapons. Bear with me here.) Ship is now traveling very fast away from point of detonation.
Do you think that a woman wearing a hijab (the headscarf thing), much less a fraking burqa (the full-body black bag thing), would be allowed anywhere near a commercial jet without a serious amount of searchage?
That's a honeypot if I ever saw one. Slap an IP logger on there and you've got a big ol' list of "terrorist suspects". I, for one, will not be clicking the link, even though I'm genuinely curious about what's in it.
As Keith Olbermann reminds viewers of "Countdown" regularly, the technical definition of "insanity" is trying the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
I've seen that quote attributed to Ben Franklin, but I am sure that Olbermann could have very easily been the originator.
I believe that quote was from none other than the Geek Godfather himself, Dr. Albert Einstein.
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Don't trash him dude, he's got a PhD in Psychedelic Freakonautics.
The doctor in England had done the procedure before, presumably successfully, whereas the textbook could make no such guarantee. Plus, as you said, the doctor in the DRC could ask him to clarify.
And you're right, it's not that funny, or alarming. What it is is fraking badass and awesome. I mean, they both had the skills to pull off an amputation by text message. That's some serious medical street cred right there, on both sides!
Plus, they saved a kid's life. Good for both of them! *raises glass*
BINGO. It's called a civil suit. That's how they got OJ when he beat his criminal charges, that's how they can get Lori Drew without messing everything up for the rest of us.
I know it's bad form to reply to my own post, but I thought I should correct myself. I checked Google Maps, did a few back-of-the-napkin calculations, and figured out that given that trajectory and assuming the meteor was traveling at about 10 km/sec, the Earth wouldn't have rotated enough during the meteor's flight to put Edmonton under its path.
Although, maybe it broke up between Oklahoma and Canada, with one fragment careening off west. Certainly a plausible theory.
What a great idea! Ice Cube should be Google's new spokesman. Geeks everywhere would recognize him from "Ghosts of Mars".
(A highly underrated movie, if you ask me. Not only is Cube one of the main characters, the movie also features two bomb-ass blondes and Jason Statham to boot.)
Could be, dude. The angle seems about right. I guess it would depend on the observed trajectory over Canada.
You see, all of that makes perfect sense, which is why it will never be implemented.
"Punk [playaz] bailin' every time that I use Chrome" - Cypress Hill, "Till Death Comes"
Granted, B-Real is talking about firearms here, but good for Google. It'd be interesting to see browser usage stats on machines that ship with both IE and Chrome preinstalled, although it wouldn't surprise me to see IE retain a majority share, just on name recognition alone.
You're not too far off, dude. DHS exists to keep the American public in a constant state of fear so we'll comply with whatever asinine, insane laws our masters want to push on us. If that requires arresting college kids carrying a bong, so be it. /half-hearted response //coffee hasn't kicked in yet... please excuse me.
Who says you have to keep your arms up? You could have something like a Surface to replace the keyboard and mouse that sit on the (real, physical) desktop, and also make the screen itself touchable. It might be weird switching between the two, but I'm imagining something like a kiosk, perhaps with an adjustable-height "keyboardish" surface.
Why yes, I have been smoking, how'd you guess?
Uh... that's exactly what American public schools are intending to create: a populace comprised of well-disciplined, subservient sheep. Don't question authority. Don't think for yourself. Do what you are told. Obey. Consume. That kind of thing.
Arrrgh, I selected the Pirate option, and me sides hurt from laughing so hard, ye scurvy dog! Hopefully they'll be leavin' it as an option after today.
Oh, you bastard, now I'm getting weird looks from people in the library because I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING.
Well done, my good man.
AFAIK, no, but I just build the systems, I don't buy 'em. Even if they do, it's apparently worth it to our customers to pay the extra charge.
I work for a computer consulting firm, and we've known about this for months now. In fact, we've switched from selling almost all Dell systems to almost all HP systems because of it; our clients just don't want Vista, and this is a really convenient way to satisfy them. I actually thought HP was doing us a favor shipping the XP systems because we do so much business with them, but I guess it's standard policy!
I hope HP continues to offer this option, because if we're any indication, the OEMs and resellers *really* appreciate it.
"It would be like introducing a bill that allowed the government to take whatever you owned with no warrant and the ability to sell that at auctions."
Sort of like eminent domain?
Uh, I always thought that the Orion system was intended to be used in space (where fallout isn't exactly a problem), rather than for getting the vehicle off the ground. That said, and I digress here, it would actually be a decent answer to the whole nuclear proliferation problem:
1. US and Russia draw up specs for nuke-propelled ships.
2. US and Russia point all their remaining ICBMs straight up, instead of at each other (I'm sure that's where they're still aimed), and launch them into orbit. Maybe dock them at the ISS or something.
3. When we need to launch a mission, we send up the ship either on a conventional rocket or via a space elevator. Ship maneuvers to the ISS, picks up a bunch of ICBMs. Ship then maneuvers away from ths ISS (and everything else) and lights one of the ICBM payloads behind it.
4. BOOM. (Yeah, I know, in space, nobody can hear you detonate your nuclear weapons. Bear with me here.) Ship is now traveling very fast away from point of detonation.
5. ???
6. Profit?
Pics or it didn't happen.
Do you think that a woman wearing a hijab (the headscarf thing), much less a fraking burqa (the full-body black bag thing), would be allowed anywhere near a commercial jet without a serious amount of searchage?
I would pay to see that shit.
That's a honeypot if I ever saw one. Slap an IP logger on there and you've got a big ol' list of "terrorist suspects". I, for one, will not be clicking the link, even though I'm genuinely curious about what's in it.
I believe that quote was from none other than the Geek Godfather himself, Dr. Albert Einstein.
I wonder how many kids will be carried out of theaters convulsing.
Oh, I can't wait to see it firsthand. That'll just add to my experience.
Good God y'all!