And I would cry tears of joy if I thought for one second that there were teachers out there who would recognize this student as a prize, and not punish them.
Huh? Calculus is all about sparking the gap, solving problems you've never actually seen. College math never stops being about that. This isn't the kind of math where you can "memorize answers." On the other hand, there are ways to solve calc problems that give correct answers, but the work doesn't show an understanding of the calculus principles that a particular course/section is about. I've seen this myself, plenty. There are plenty of situations where I'd (TA) have to take off points for a correct answer with valid work but the "wrong idea".
Your wife's math teacher might be a total ignorant prick, don't get me wrong, but I wonder just how "intuition or innovative thinking" compares to the material at hand.
I've found that a community college is often better for early math, because the teachers there tend to be the actual professors, where at universities, the teaching responsibility is handed to grad students. This is hit or miss, but often miss.
The bible comes this close to giving us the square root of 2.
Rev 21:16 -- And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
And this close to giving us pi.
2 Chron 4:2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
That was the fist thing I noticed too, and assumed we were just seeing the early result of cheating on math homework using a calculator.
I agree on RPN but I've had that lament since at least 1975. We've been having the same argument since the SR-50 and the HP-35 were new. Yeah, I went to a school full of nerds.
You can teach a curious enough six year old to understand Sine. I don't buy this "afraid of algebraic notation" crap. But then, those who can't learn or refuse to learn or aren't even curious enough about their world, can go to the workhouses instead of school for all I care.
If the intention was nothing more than to make this information known, we would know the information and never have heard the name Julian Assange. There are countless ways he could have made it happen. But his objective was clearly more than just making information known. He also wanted it to be clear that it was he who made that information known. And there is where his problems begin, assuming he considers them problems.
>While that is true, it still makes for an awesome will.
No argument there, and I would personally see it carried out if it fell to me. I'd be careful putting stuff like that in an actual legal will, because probate process is ugly and in the best cases can destroy family relationships that had been healthy... for generations... I've seen it.
I don't know where you get the idea that corpses and burial apparatus in modern burials don't decay. They may not decay fast enough for you (what's your hurry?) but they do decay. The whole thing decays. The outer cement cask decays once it loses its watertight seal. The steel casket oxidizes. As for embalming chemicals, it's not much and well within the carrying capacity of that much soil.
>One of the perks of being >a cemetery caretaker >(former)
You got fired for stealing tombstones? (j/k)
I had some paving stones that were "outtakes" from a gravestone cutter near Austin Texas. One of them was lovely, with colorful hot air baloons on it. There must have been a quality control problem because it wasn't completed. They sold these by the pound and it was a lot cheaper than regular quarried granite. I'd be surprised if the new owner moved those stones or even would recognize what they are:-)
I saw one of these in Rome, and it was breathtaking. It was such an excellent thing to see that I didn't find it creepy, but then I have a really thick skin and a hungry eye for anything weird.
>i'm sure there is an inverse curve here where as the quality of the media approaches sensory limits, the contents of the media would >approach irrelevancy.
We passed that threshold with audio quality a long time ago, to the point where the listening environment is far more important than the recording. I wonder what the equivalent plateau is with video. I'm not suggesting that "you will literally believe the moving image is real" any more than a concert recording will make you believe you are at a concert and not listening to your stereo in your living room. But there are plateaus where differences in media quality are lost beyond a threshold of human perception (and in the case of audio, we have passed dog perception but not bats.)
T-Shirts, not recordings. And I think they already know the counterfeit T-shirts have been made. They probably even have some names, since the business is something of an organized crime that goes on at event after event, season after season, year after year. It's not Slashdot news when the NFL goes after the same counterfeiters. It was unfortunate that the title said "bootleggers" which usually refers to audience recording.
That's a bit tricky, though. Railroad Earth and Keller Williams specifically encourage audience taping. Other artists are adamantly against it. But we're not talking about audience recordings here. Go to Dime or Etree for that.
If they already know or suspect that the shirts are being made (e.g., the same thing happened at the last festival), there's not really a good reason they shouldn't be able to start the civil process and then start taking names. I'm actually with the promoters on the whole "use of their trademark" thing.
It sounds like they are more than just "worried", but they are addressing specific people who have in the past sold counterfeit merchandise with their trademarks, and they are preparing for a repeat of the problem.
The funny part of it to me, is that people actually buy meta-merch in the first place.
For some artists, the free distribution of audience-generated recordings is an extremely valuable asset -- most of their marketing in fact -- and they specifically allow it. A few actually put audience recording into their contract riders. I see two or three of these in the Mile High lineup. (And I also realize that the suit is about counterfeit merchandise, not audience recording.)
The slashdot post made me aware of the festival... if I lived in Denver I might be tempted to go.
I think his point is rather that in some places, being "merely attractive" or "merely talented" aren't enough to ensure career prospects. It's not about obsession with superlatives, but more of a signal-to-noise problem.
In Sweden you don't stand out for being six feet tall and blonde. In Russia, your 1700 chess rating means you sometimes win casual games.
>If I write a book and you take it and pretend that it's yours, most people would call that stealing.
Rational people would call that copyright infringement, and recognize it as the main abuse that copyright protects you from! Copyright is a very poor weapon for punishing someone for reproducing your work, but is a very good one in defense of someone who claims your work as his own (and proceeds to sue you for damages.)
>The cease-and-desist will claim some intellectual property violation and it will be up to you to give in to the intimidation or >resist by contacting your host to get your site back online.
You need a hosting provider that won't act without a court order.
Make sure your contract with them puts them in breach if they shut you down without a lawful reason.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm afraid that this story is going to drive FUD against Java, Oracle *AND* Google, and it's going to make things difficult for me at work.
The good die young.
8+3*4
One or more "8's" followed by zero or more "3's" followed by a "4"
>you could put sqrt(49) in there?
And I would cry tears of joy if I thought for one second that there were teachers out there who would recognize this student as a prize, and not punish them.
But I do not think that. I know what's out there.
Huh? Calculus is all about sparking the gap, solving problems you've never actually seen. College math never stops being about that.
This isn't the kind of math where you can "memorize answers." On the other hand, there are ways to solve calc problems that give correct answers, but the work doesn't show an understanding of the calculus principles that a particular course/section is about. I've seen this myself, plenty. There are plenty of situations where I'd (TA) have to take off points for a correct answer with valid work but the "wrong idea".
Your wife's math teacher might be a total ignorant prick, don't get me wrong, but I wonder just how "intuition or innovative thinking" compares to the material at hand.
I've found that a community college is often better for early math, because the teachers there tend to be the actual professors, where at universities, the teaching responsibility is handed to grad students. This is hit or miss, but often miss.
The bible comes this close to giving us the square root of 2.
Rev 21:16 -- And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
And this close to giving us pi.
2 Chron 4:2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Oh well.
>So if half of all students are of below average intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation
That was the fist thing I noticed too, and assumed we were just seeing the early result of cheating on math homework using a calculator.
I agree on RPN but I've had that lament since at least 1975. We've been having the same argument since the SR-50 and the HP-35 were new. Yeah, I went to a school full of nerds.
You can teach a curious enough six year old to understand Sine. I don't buy this "afraid of algebraic notation" crap. But then, those who can't learn or refuse to learn or aren't even curious enough about their world, can go to the workhouses instead of school for all I care.
If the intention was nothing more than to make this information known, we would know the information and never have heard the name Julian Assange. There are countless ways he could have made it happen. But his objective was clearly more than just making information known. He also wanted it to be clear that it was he who made that information known. And there is where his problems begin, assuming he considers them problems.
I can see antialiasing artifacts in 300dpi, but I also think dynamic range in tone and colour will be equally important if not more so.
>While that is true, it still makes for an awesome will.
No argument there, and I would personally see it carried out if it fell to me. I'd be careful putting stuff like that in an actual legal will, because probate process is ugly and in the best cases can destroy family relationships that had been healthy... for generations... I've seen it.
I don't know where you get the idea that corpses and burial apparatus in modern burials don't decay. They may not decay fast enough for you (what's your hurry?) but they do decay. The whole thing decays. The outer cement cask decays once it loses its watertight seal. The steel casket oxidizes. As for embalming chemicals, it's not much and well within the carrying capacity of that much soil.
"I know someone whom has in their will to have a viking funeral. Payout of the estate is contingent on this."
If there's no reasonable (legal) way for the beneficiaries to comply, the clause can be voided by a probate judge.
It's not much different from a contract with an invalid clause. It makes a given clause invalid but does release any party from the contract.
In most places you can't obligate someone to commit a crime, certainly not on the basis that you have pre-paid their fines.
>One of the perks of being
>a cemetery caretaker >(former)
You got fired for stealing tombstones? (j/k)
I had some paving stones that were "outtakes" from a gravestone cutter near Austin Texas. One of them was lovely, with colorful hot air baloons on it. There must have been a quality control problem because it wasn't completed. They sold these by the pound and it was a lot cheaper than regular quarried granite. I'd be surprised if the new owner moved those stones or even would recognize what they are :-)
I saw one of these in Rome, and it was breathtaking. It was such an excellent thing to see that I didn't find it creepy, but then I have a really thick skin and a hungry eye for anything weird.
>i'm sure there is an inverse curve here where as the quality of the media approaches sensory limits, the contents of the media would
>approach irrelevancy.
We passed that threshold with audio quality a long time ago, to the point where the listening environment is far more important than the recording. I wonder what the equivalent plateau is with video. I'm not suggesting that "you will literally believe the moving image is real" any more than a concert recording will make you believe you are at a concert and not listening to your stereo in your living room. But there are plateaus where differences in media quality are lost beyond a threshold of human perception (and in the case of audio, we have passed dog perception but not bats.)
T-Shirts, not recordings. And I think they already know the counterfeit T-shirts have been made. They probably even have some names, since the business is something of an organized crime that goes on at event after event, season after season, year after year. It's not Slashdot news when the NFL goes after the same counterfeiters. It was unfortunate that the title said "bootleggers" which usually refers to audience recording.
That's a bit tricky, though. Railroad Earth and Keller Williams specifically encourage audience taping. Other artists are adamantly against it. But we're not talking about audience recordings here. Go to Dime or Etree for that.
When someone dies, their junk mail stops. It's pretty creepy when you notice this.
If they already know or suspect that the shirts are being made (e.g., the same thing happened at the last festival), there's not really a good reason they shouldn't be able to start the civil process and then start taking names. I'm actually with the promoters on the whole "use of their trademark" thing.
It sounds like they are more than just "worried", but they are addressing specific people who have in the past sold counterfeit merchandise with their trademarks, and they are preparing for a repeat of the problem.
The funny part of it to me, is that people actually buy meta-merch in the first place.
For some artists, the free distribution of audience-generated recordings is an extremely valuable asset -- most of their marketing in fact -- and they specifically allow it. A few actually put audience recording into their contract riders. I see two or three of these in the Mile High lineup. (And I also realize that the suit is about counterfeit merchandise, not audience recording.)
The slashdot post made me aware of the festival... if I lived in Denver I might be tempted to go.
I think his point is rather that in some places, being "merely attractive" or "merely talented" aren't enough to ensure career prospects. It's not about obsession with superlatives, but more of a signal-to-noise problem.
In Sweden you don't stand out for being six feet tall and blonde. In Russia, your 1700 chess rating means you sometimes win casual games.
>If I write a book and you take it and pretend that it's yours, most people would call that stealing.
Rational people would call that copyright infringement, and recognize it as the main abuse that copyright protects you from!
Copyright is a very poor weapon for punishing someone for reproducing your work, but is a very good one in defense of someone who claims your work as his own (and proceeds to sue you for damages.)
>The cease-and-desist will claim some intellectual property violation and it will be up to you to give in to the intimidation or
>resist by contacting your host to get your site back online.
You need a hosting provider that won't act without a court order.
Make sure your contract with them puts them in breach if they shut you down without a lawful reason.
It's weird how VLC plays every codec under the sun, but not SHN.
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/632