Yeah, I mean what has art and literature ever contributed to the quality of life? Close all the art museums, who needs those worthless buildings full of pictures and sculptures. Literature? Hah, let them all read math and science books because no ideas from literature ever filter into math and science. Let's all be dull geeks who have nothing outside of our techno-babble to talk about 'cause, you know, that isn't being productive or innovative.
We must have different real lives. In the Universe in which I live, very few problems can be simply looked up for formulaic solutions. The real world is kind of like that, complicated. And if physics is just applying formulas, could you please tell the physicists that so they can quit their jobs and start some gainful employment somewhere?
Math isn't about simplification and simplification is relative rather than subjective. Math doesn't really give a rat's ass about simplification, it cannot because there is no objective standard, it depends on the form of the solution you need. Learn Laplace transforms sometime. Some problems get simple depending upon which domain you express them in, however if you need the solution in other domain for other considerations, then you learn to live with the complexity and math still doesn't give a rat's ass which form you need.
"All learning is, at some level, an interaction--a conversation--between student and teacher."
I don't believe this, maybe it is because I always preferred independent courses where I rarely saw the teacher. I think teachers can at best organize and properly thread the material, but they cannot "teach" you in the sense of making you understand. Understanding a deeply personal notion, you have to work out the relationships for yourself in a manner you can grok. That cannot be "taught" because no one else has quite your perspective.
I vigorously despise on-line teaching tools, oddly enough. They are brittle, prone to direct you as only a machine can. This latter is the problem. If your approach is outside the program, your are SOL. With a teacher, you can some patient (hopefully) interaction that may very well validate your approach to a problem or at least show you things you should also consider. I would think the problem would only get worse for English programs rather than something more formal like math. Physics to me is between Math and English, it is very connected to the world in a way math and machines (in the abstract sense) are not.
Spoken like someone without a major health problem, because if you did and found yourself on Medicaid, you'd be wanting the Fed, Gov. to get every penny lest they tell you they can no longer afford you.
Lilly estimated it cost them a billion to bring a new drug to market, and that was years ago. I think they were talking about drugs for major diseases. First, they have to find a promising compound, that isn't easy. Most compounds they try are worthless. They get some help from biologicals, but it only the first step. They must figure out how to synthesize it because there are not enough green plants to do the job. There are trials, and your drug can get dinged from any of these. The FDA in the U.S. requires at least a semi-trailer full of documentation on your drug (it is probably more now). And your drug must compete against all the other drugs for the same ailment. And once your drug goes generic, there goes your revenue stream because generic drug companies do not support research.
Actually it was probably trying to trademark a name they feared some other entity would trademark and then cause them grief. If it couldn't be trademarked, Apple doesn't care since then no one else will be able to either.
Have you been killed dead by pencil sharpeners? If so, please dial our number immediately, you may be entitled to reasonable compensation for your death. We here at Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe are trained in keeping your interest and payout for the pain and agony your death has caused. Pencil sharpeners have been shown to be virtual harbingers of death, cruelly subjecting innocent people to the business end of sharpened pencils. The FDA has issued a ruling requiring pencil sharpener manufacturers to fund a fund for the innocent victims of this vicious device, this is money you are ENTITLED to and we can help you get it.
We will leave no stone unrolled in our efforts to acquire just compensation.
No one is paying attention to what Lil' Kim is saying (except you). The U.S. military watches for troop movements, equipment positioning, missile priming...you know, the things that actually count if you wish to start a war. If the Norks start that, the U.S. has already promised to ramp up.
At most they want to drop 250,000, mostly Army and Marines. The Air Force and the Navy (forgetting the Marines) aren't that big. Not massive, only in your imagination.
China is worried about U.S. loss of influence because now S. Koreans and Japanese are opening wondering if they shouldn't have a nuclear umbrella all for their very own and not have to rely on the U.S. The head of the Joint Chiefs said something similar when explaining the B2 flights from the U.S. to the S. Korean target practice island and back, i.e., that we needed to show S.K. and Japan they could still count on the U.S.
He ripped it up because at the end of the Clinton administration, it had become so clear the Norks were reneging on their nuclear deal that Clinton State Dept told the incoming Bush Administration that the deal was effectively kaput.
I saw that broadcast too. And this fellow was arguing against a native Korean about N. Korean behavior. It just showed how naive the Clinton administration was. And Obama was just as naive when he got into office. He's since changed but only because the Norks have been too obtuse to take him to the cleaners.
No, you just tax the rest of the states by making your business laws so lax that companies incorporate in Delaware where they are immune to things like bankruptcy laws...if you can call those laws you have "bankruptcy laws". Your bankruptcy courts make it easy for scum like SCO and their fellow travelers to make out like bandits after screwing their customers and anyone else they could throw a sueball at.
Delaware is a disgusting state that should be disbarred from the Union.
Not crazy, it turns out 12 bits is just perfect for motor control. More than that and you are just shuffling noise, less and you don't have the resolution. It was so popular that Intersil (don't know whatever happened to them) produced a PDP-8 microprocessor.
Well, the U.S. cared about Iraq and the echo chamber here resounded with "tut-tut, even WE know better". Personally, I think knocking over a tyrannical dictator is always a good think in the long run. In the short run, things get messy.
On a different note, the Arabs and Persians are killing each other in a civil war started in 600's when some relative of Muhammed got whacked long after the M boy scarpered to that Great Food Bowl in the Sky claiming (gee, who'd have guessed) "no prophet will arise after me". Nothing the U.S. or Europe can do will stop that civil war because both sides believe political power spews out of a religious book and not from the people for the people's sake. And that controversy is as old as the golden age of Greece. Even Israel is football in their civil war, both sides believe if they are the ones to solve Hilter's Jewish Problem, not only will they get 71 virgins who don't know what small means, they'll get to vanquish the other side.
"This is another example of it; they're turning their people ever so slightly against America to help unify them." While that is true, I doubt it will be as effective as it has been in the past. My sense is that the internet causes tripwires for manipulation, people don't like being manipulated and when there are other sources of information that what is spewed from government, government spew tends to look dumb. The Chinese people, if what I read currently is correct, are already establishing a sort of underground language for talking about their government spew. They use words and phrases to mean things different than their dictionary definition. So while the Chinese spew-masters may think they are unifying the people, they may be unifying them in a way they never intended.
Given a bit more time, machines will make China's population irrelevant to producing widgets. When that happens, it will be cheaper for U.S. manufacturers to produce in the U.S. It won't necessarily increase employment by a big whack in the U.S., but it will make securing designs and company secrets easier and also make manufacturing more flexible.
Let's visit the FDA, they prevent Joe's FIsh Bait and Heart Disease Pills from selling you death in a bottle. OSHA prevents your employer from introducing those innovations that can kill you. NiH performs and funds research on disease that might actually kill people, such as you. NTSB does the investigations on airline crashes that help prevent your ass from falling out of the sky because the airlines cut a few corners. The list goes on, take off your blinders.
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Yeah, I mean what has art and literature ever contributed to the quality of life? Close all the art museums, who needs those worthless buildings full of pictures and sculptures. Literature? Hah, let them all read math and science books because no ideas from literature ever filter into math and science. Let's all be dull geeks who have nothing outside of our techno-babble to talk about 'cause, you know, that isn't being productive or innovative.
We must have different real lives. In the Universe in which I live, very few problems can be simply looked up for formulaic solutions. The real world is kind of like that, complicated. And if physics is just applying formulas, could you please tell the physicists that so they can quit their jobs and start some gainful employment somewhere?
Math isn't about simplification and simplification is relative rather than subjective. Math doesn't really give a rat's ass about simplification, it cannot because there is no objective standard, it depends on the form of the solution you need. Learn Laplace transforms sometime. Some problems get simple depending upon which domain you express them in, however if you need the solution in other domain for other considerations, then you learn to live with the complexity and math still doesn't give a rat's ass which form you need.
"All learning is, at some level, an interaction--a conversation--between student and teacher."
I don't believe this, maybe it is because I always preferred independent courses where I rarely saw the teacher. I think teachers can at best organize and properly thread the material, but they cannot "teach" you in the sense of making you understand. Understanding a deeply personal notion, you have to work out the relationships for yourself in a manner you can grok. That cannot be "taught" because no one else has quite your perspective.
I vigorously despise on-line teaching tools, oddly enough. They are brittle, prone to direct you as only a machine can. This latter is the problem. If your approach is outside the program, your are SOL. With a teacher, you can some patient (hopefully) interaction that may very well validate your approach to a problem or at least show you things you should also consider. I would think the problem would only get worse for English programs rather than something more formal like math. Physics to me is between Math and English, it is very connected to the world in a way math and machines (in the abstract sense) are not.
Yep, it is all the Republicans fault. The fact that demographics alone will decimate those programs has nothing to do with it.
Spoken like someone without a major health problem, because if you did and found yourself on Medicaid, you'd be wanting the Fed, Gov. to get every penny lest they tell you they can no longer afford you.
Don't forget that universities generating drug cure also generate new companies to profit from those drug cures.
Lilly estimated it cost them a billion to bring a new drug to market, and that was years ago. I think they were talking about drugs for major diseases. First, they have to find a promising compound, that isn't easy. Most compounds they try are worthless. They get some help from biologicals, but it only the first step. They must figure out how to synthesize it because there are not enough green plants to do the job. There are trials, and your drug can get dinged from any of these. The FDA in the U.S. requires at least a semi-trailer full of documentation on your drug (it is probably more now). And your drug must compete against all the other drugs for the same ailment. And once your drug goes generic, there goes your revenue stream because generic drug companies do not support research.
Actually it was probably trying to trademark a name they feared some other entity would trademark and then cause them grief. If it couldn't be trademarked, Apple doesn't care since then no one else will be able to either.
Have you been killed dead by pencil sharpeners? If so, please dial our number immediately, you may be entitled to reasonable compensation for your death. We here at Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe are trained in keeping your interest and payout for the pain and agony your death has caused. Pencil sharpeners have been shown to be virtual harbingers of death, cruelly subjecting innocent people to the business end of sharpened pencils. The FDA has issued a ruling requiring pencil sharpener manufacturers to fund a fund for the innocent victims of this vicious device, this is money you are ENTITLED to and we can help you get it.
We will leave no stone unrolled in our efforts to acquire just compensation.
No one is paying attention to what Lil' Kim is saying (except you). The U.S. military watches for troop movements, equipment positioning, missile priming...you know, the things that actually count if you wish to start a war. If the Norks start that, the U.S. has already promised to ramp up.
At most they want to drop 250,000, mostly Army and Marines. The Air Force and the Navy (forgetting the Marines) aren't that big. Not massive, only in your imagination.
The Norks just announced they were thinking of closing it should S. Korea insult them again.
Maybe the S. Koreans should just declare the Norks a lunatic asylum and offer psychiatric help.
China is worried about U.S. loss of influence because now S. Koreans and Japanese are opening wondering if they shouldn't have a nuclear umbrella all for their very own and not have to rely on the U.S. The head of the Joint Chiefs said something similar when explaining the B2 flights from the U.S. to the S. Korean target practice island and back, i.e., that we needed to show S.K. and Japan they could still count on the U.S.
He ripped it up because at the end of the Clinton administration, it had become so clear the Norks were reneging on their nuclear deal that Clinton State Dept told the incoming Bush Administration that the deal was effectively kaput.
I saw that broadcast too. And this fellow was arguing against a native Korean about N. Korean behavior. It just showed how naive the Clinton administration was. And Obama was just as naive when he got into office. He's since changed but only because the Norks have been too obtuse to take him to the cleaners.
N. Korea attacked first. History is always an interesting read.
No, you just tax the rest of the states by making your business laws so lax that companies incorporate in Delaware where they are immune to things like bankruptcy laws...if you can call those laws you have "bankruptcy laws". Your bankruptcy courts make it easy for scum like SCO and their fellow travelers to make out like bandits after screwing their customers and anyone else they could throw a sueball at.
Delaware is a disgusting state that should be disbarred from the Union.
Not crazy, it turns out 12 bits is just perfect for motor control. More than that and you are just shuffling noise, less and you don't have the resolution. It was so popular that Intersil (don't know whatever happened to them) produced a PDP-8 microprocessor.
There, there...buy some more tin foil...
Well, the U.S. cared about Iraq and the echo chamber here resounded with "tut-tut, even WE know better". Personally, I think knocking over a tyrannical dictator is always a good think in the long run. In the short run, things get messy.
On a different note, the Arabs and Persians are killing each other in a civil war started in 600's when some relative of Muhammed got whacked long after the M boy scarpered to that Great Food Bowl in the Sky claiming (gee, who'd have guessed) "no prophet will arise after me". Nothing the U.S. or Europe can do will stop that civil war because both sides believe political power spews out of a religious book and not from the people for the people's sake. And that controversy is as old as the golden age of Greece. Even Israel is football in their civil war, both sides believe if they are the ones to solve Hilter's Jewish Problem, not only will they get 71 virgins who don't know what small means, they'll get to vanquish the other side.
Because Democracy is better than tyranny. Learn to think long ball instead of small ball.
"This is another example of it; they're turning their people ever so slightly against America to help unify them." While that is true, I doubt it will be as effective as it has been in the past. My sense is that the internet causes tripwires for manipulation, people don't like being manipulated and when there are other sources of information that what is spewed from government, government spew tends to look dumb. The Chinese people, if what I read currently is correct, are already establishing a sort of underground language for talking about their government spew. They use words and phrases to mean things different than their dictionary definition. So while the Chinese spew-masters may think they are unifying the people, they may be unifying them in a way they never intended.
Given a bit more time, machines will make China's population irrelevant to producing widgets. When that happens, it will be cheaper for U.S. manufacturers to produce in the U.S. It won't necessarily increase employment by a big whack in the U.S., but it will make securing designs and company secrets easier and also make manufacturing more flexible.
Let's visit the FDA, they prevent Joe's FIsh Bait and Heart Disease Pills from selling you death in a bottle. OSHA prevents your employer from introducing those innovations that can kill you. NiH performs and funds research on disease that might actually kill people, such as you. NTSB does the investigations on airline crashes that help prevent your ass from falling out of the sky because the airlines cut a few corners. The list goes on, take off your blinders.