If it really would improve the economy enough to offset the costs, then the economy should be able to bear the cost of building it through the ticket prices.
Even if they believe that no private company will take the risk, they should expect to get their investment back directly, instead of making it a make-work subsidy. We've got the same problem with make-work programs here in the states, the only one of which you'll find actually worked out was the TVA, which not coincidentally, has been showing a profit for quite some time.
No, it was a clear Kharma-whoring sneak-in. It's just a "joke" because he got caught. I, too, don't understand the why though. It's not like there's a number anymore, or that it's hard to get Excellent Kharma. All you gotta do is like five posts or so that people find useful.
If you think your kharma is too low, just refrain from posting unless you have something to say. Even things that are counter to the "groupthink" get modded up if they're at least one of well-written, insightful, or refrain from excessive name-calling.
Math is a kind of language. A language for communicating some intuitive, and some rather non-intuitive ideas, all of which can be helpful. What are you teaching them?
Although you can say that BD is perpendicular to the plane AA_1C, I'm not convinced that this means that you can say that BD is perpendicular to A_1C, since in addition to lying in one plane that happens to be perpendicular to BD (AA_1C), A_1C also lies in an infinite number of planes that are not perpendicular to BD.
I think that problem is indicative of shallow understanding of geometry on the part of the examiner.
I also wonder about comparing only one problem from each exam and claiming that they're representative.
No, read it again and look over the figure again. There are a few triangles, which happen to share a couple vertexes, but the angles at those vertexes are not the same.
Triangle ADC; 90 degree angle at vertex, 'D' and Triangle AED; 90 degree angle at vertex, 'E'
also you could consider DEC, but the point is that the 90 degree angle is at intersection E for one triangle, and D for the other, despite sharing vertex D, and one other vertex.
Now what I want to know is what's the deal with part (i)? BD doesn't intersect A1C, so how can you say that they're perpendicular? I suppose you could say that BD is perpendicular to plane AA1C, or that it is perpendicular to the projection of A1C in plane ABCD (which happens to be AC), but to say that the two lines are perpendicular despite the fact that they never intersect is confusing to me.
Same thing with part (iii). The question sounds meaningless to me. Am I just rusty?
Yes, but if you design a compressor to split files well, it will do that, and if you want it to do something else, you'll have to program that in as well.
If you design it to work on streams, it can do anything with streams that you have utilities for. Including splitting across volumes. For instance, iirc, you can pipe through tar and get the ability to change media. Or, growisofs will, i believe, do the same thing for DVDs, with a bit of command line fu.
Nobody cares about McCain anymore. Probably not even his constituents. My guess is they voted for "the guy that by now has enough seniority to maybe get us some pork."
Plus, what do you do when the copyright holder seems insistent on destroying his own work. For instance, Lucas' treatment of the OT on last years DVD release: "We had to use the Laserdisk version because the original no longer exists after the remastering."
Well, that kinda depends on whether we can convince Russia to help us build the Invade-US tube in Alaska, and whether we can convince them to look at our missile defense plans.
No, that's not what a law is at all. Newton's laws for instance are clearly incomplete from a theory point of view. He was, for instance, able to describe gravity's effects pretty well, but he made no attempt to describe what gravity was.
Physical Laws are analogous to mathematical axioms. We use them to derive theories and learn about the universe. They are declared assumptions.
Unfortunately, he BSs about a vast number of other kinds of E, in a manor that is less entertaining and more, assholish, often insulting other cast members or the audience.
I think your point that you responded to was that the French don't go out and buy expensive foreign wines. They buy the local stuff, and it's good. Their "local stuff" is our "fancy imported brands." But there isn't anything to say that it's really any better than your own local stuff. I live five miles from a winery whose wines I enjoy very much. It's inexpensive (but not box-o cheap), but I'd put it up against wines costing twice as much. I also live five miles from two other wineries whose wines are absolutely terrible.
I have weird taste in wines though. Probably very American, depending on what you think American taste in wines is. I prefer to taste the grapes rather than the barrel, so I don't think it's necessarily so much of a sin to age in stainless casks. I absolutely despise Cabernet, for instance, because the smoky barrel taste is so overpoweringly strong it's like drinking liquid jerky.
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Well that's some poor economic logic.
If it really would improve the economy enough to offset the costs, then the economy should be able to bear the cost of building it through the ticket prices.
Even if they believe that no private company will take the risk, they should expect to get their investment back directly, instead of making it a make-work subsidy. We've got the same problem with make-work programs here in the states, the only one of which you'll find actually worked out was the TVA, which not coincidentally, has been showing a profit for quite some time.
One word, a number, and some math glyphs.
Reflectivity 70%.
Old saying? Wasn't that one of Richard Feynman's quotes?
So.. was the fraud corrected, or re purposed?
So... what MS shareholders want most is for MS to go out of business?
And you do that by casting dispersions on a guy that is actually donating his time to teach math to the underprivileged?
I guess I'm missing something. Perhaps some tonal quality that doesn't translate very well to a text-only medium.
No, it was a clear Kharma-whoring sneak-in. It's just a "joke" because he got caught. I, too, don't understand the why though. It's not like there's a number anymore, or that it's hard to get Excellent Kharma. All you gotta do is like five posts or so that people find useful.
If you think your kharma is too low, just refrain from posting unless you have something to say. Even things that are counter to the "groupthink" get modded up if they're at least one of well-written, insightful, or refrain from excessive name-calling.
Math is a kind of language. A language for communicating some intuitive, and some rather non-intuitive ideas, all of which can be helpful. What are you teaching them?
Which brings to mind an excellent question: Why burn the disks at all? Why not just disconnect the drive and put that in your station wagon?
Although you can say that BD is perpendicular to the plane AA_1C, I'm not convinced that this means that you can say that BD is perpendicular to A_1C, since in addition to lying in one plane that happens to be perpendicular to BD (AA_1C), A_1C also lies in an infinite number of planes that are not perpendicular to BD.
I think that problem is indicative of shallow understanding of geometry on the part of the examiner.
I also wonder about comparing only one problem from each exam and claiming that they're representative.
I doubt it's 7 9s. I can't imagine that over the course of a decade, all the downtime would add up to less than half a minute.
No, read it again and look over the figure again. There are a few triangles, which happen to share a couple vertexes, but the angles at those vertexes are not the same.
Triangle ADC; 90 degree angle at vertex, 'D'
and
Triangle AED; 90 degree angle at vertex, 'E'
also you could consider DEC, but the point is that the 90 degree angle is at intersection E for one triangle, and D for the other, despite sharing vertex D, and one other vertex.
Now what I want to know is what's the deal with part (i)? BD doesn't intersect A1C, so how can you say that they're perpendicular? I suppose you could say that BD is perpendicular to plane AA1C, or that it is perpendicular to the projection of A1C in plane ABCD (which happens to be AC), but to say that the two lines are perpendicular despite the fact that they never intersect is confusing to me.
Same thing with part (iii). The question sounds meaningless to me. Am I just rusty?
Doesn't a PS3 have 6 CPUs?
Yes, but if you design a compressor to split files well, it will do that, and if you want it to do something else, you'll have to program that in as well.
If you design it to work on streams, it can do anything with streams that you have utilities for. Including splitting across volumes. For instance, iirc, you can pipe through tar and get the ability to change media. Or, growisofs will, i believe, do the same thing for DVDs, with a bit of command line fu.
Nobody cares about McCain anymore. Probably not even his constituents. My guess is they voted for "the guy that by now has enough seniority to maybe get us some pork."
Is.. Ought.
You ought to be your own property. But you are not. At best, you're renting you. For the price of taxes. With some restrictions.
What makes you think that your question turns it around?
You are someone's property. Either your own, or someone else's. If you don't own you, then who does?
What is it with rich people always getting discounts on things.
Plus, what do you do when the copyright holder seems insistent on destroying his own work. For instance, Lucas' treatment of the OT on last years DVD release: "We had to use the Laserdisk version because the original no longer exists after the remastering."
Well, that kinda depends on whether we can convince Russia to help us build the Invade-US tube in Alaska, and whether we can convince them to look at our missile defense plans.
Advice which would've held a lot more weight if they weren't unethically benefiting from the status quo. And also if they'd given it.
Refusing to join an armed conflict is not the same as predicting its future problems.
No, that's not what a law is at all. Newton's laws for instance are clearly incomplete from a theory point of view. He was, for instance, able to describe gravity's effects pretty well, but he made no attempt to describe what gravity was.
Physical Laws are analogous to mathematical axioms. We use them to derive theories and learn about the universe. They are declared assumptions.
Unfortunately, he BSs about a vast number of other kinds of E, in a manor that is less entertaining and more, assholish, often insulting other cast members or the audience.
I think your point that you responded to was that the French don't go out and buy expensive foreign wines. They buy the local stuff, and it's good. Their "local stuff" is our "fancy imported brands." But there isn't anything to say that it's really any better than your own local stuff. I live five miles from a winery whose wines I enjoy very much. It's inexpensive (but not box-o cheap), but I'd put it up against wines costing twice as much. I also live five miles from two other wineries whose wines are absolutely terrible.
I have weird taste in wines though. Probably very American, depending on what you think American taste in wines is. I prefer to taste the grapes rather than the barrel, so I don't think it's necessarily so much of a sin to age in stainless casks. I absolutely despise Cabernet, for instance, because the smoky barrel taste is so overpoweringly strong it's like drinking liquid jerky.