How about this: you thought that the pythagoreum theorem was a^2+b^2+c^2=d^2 (obviously incorrect). Later, you're told that it's actually simply a^2+b^2=c^2. This takes less physical memory in place of the wrong equation, and there's no reason to retain the knowledge of that incorrect equation. Therefore, the information of the correct theorem is negative information; you physically know less information when quantized.
I was migrating some code between assignments of my Assembler class at school, and I was able to basically dump an entire routine from one to the other with very slight changes, mostly to the label names.
Upon recieving it back after it was graded, I was reminded by the TA that my comments, which were great the first time around (referring to musical instrument sales) were not as apt when referring to kegs of beer sales (one of the course instructors was an old drunk). Since, I've always tried to check through my comments, but it's always more of an afterthought.
As for your first point, I think that's a matter of preference, equivalent to someone learning better by listening or taking notes, etc. Our neighbor swears by fleshing out problems with comments first, but myself and my roommate (probably dirtier programmers) have far more success commenting after we have some reasonable semblance of a program to run. I think it's because of the openness; we're not limiting ourselves by only thinking beforehand (that's really more of an excuse), and are able to think on the fly, most of the time typing faster than we can think (which resolves to forgetting a few lines of code...really, who needs an else{} statement?).
I rather preferred..."Define interesting." "Oh god, oh god, we're all going to die?"
As for sci-fi picking it up...from what I read, which is based entirely off comments I've read in other threads, Fox has some kind of insane contract which makes picking ip Firefly impossible; it stipulates there being no new episodes. However, it didn't say anything about a movie, so, here's a movie!
Someone more informed should correct me about the contract if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's not that far off the mark.
It already is questionable. A problem has occured once out of 100+ times. During every lunch debris is knocked loose, due to the fact that the shuttle is being launched by a terrifyingly forceful controlled explosion.
I believe it's because past L1, there is more influence of gravity from the moon than from the Earth, so it's rather inefficient for a tug to take something all the way to the moon and have to fight against its gravitational pull, thus expending full is doesn't need. It's not that it can, it just doesn't want to.
well, that would pose a problem. There is so much New Republic era material out there in the form of novels, lucas would be stepping on toes unless he jumps to something like 50 years after RotJ, and even then I'd cry foul if he didn't follow strictly to everything that had happened (peace with Empire, Vong, etc.).
So while at work, I could sneak one of these babies in, and have something 'questionable' going on at the side view, and when they storm up, I'll just be working. It will freak them all out!
Actually, demand high performance, do everything you can to help them achieve it, and then, when they do, they will really have something to feel good about themselves for. They will have a sense of achievement.
Looking at it in hindsight, I do believe that this is how it used to work. However, as sympathetic people became teachers and couldn't stand to chastise kids for not keeping up (not knowing if it was a real lack of understanding or just damned laziness).
I myself can't think of a way to determine between those who can't learn well, and those who don't care to learn well. I, myself, very nearly became one who didn't want to apply myself at homework, but that's changed now that I can see it as a mark of pride to know more than others and have something to show for it (I should be happy enough just having learned it, but really, I want to inflate my ego). If there was just a cleaner, healthier, but still desirable reward for learning...
I concur, it'd be interested to host, say, a webserver off a phone through a.mobi address. Perhaps something set up with a camera phone where as, instead of sending the photos to a website from the phone, it would place them on a page hosted through the phone.
Perhaps, through a php/mysql setup, have a phonebook setup where you can add/view from both the phone and web, so when at a full keyboard it'd be far easier to add in names and numbers.
Not sure about the costs of this, however. I don't even know the standard costs for checking email, etc. It might be a rather exorbitant fee to have near constant connections. Perhaps a smaller fee for incoming connections, so that this would be feasible?
Nice to look at? Did you see the scene where they were going to bed? I almost threw up! I mean, seriously, she looked like a psychotic whore, with the smile, the makeup, and the clothes. She looked fine at the end and the beginning of the movie; just that one part...I remember from the premiere my entire row just saying as one, "Uhh!"
Arguably, I have more proof that the events of Star Trek or Lord of the Rings happened than anything in the bible.
I dunno, as far as Star Trek, we only have a few things which could have happened so far to lend it credence. First, are we missing two whales and one marine biologist? Secondly, was there a big boom in electronics due to a timeship crashing on Earth?
Have I missed any? I don't recall any other time travel episodes/movies that have happened already.
If Slashdotters reproduced, at some period of time they'd reach a critical mass where first Slashdot, and then the World, would not be able to handle them. In essense, they would first slashdot Slashdot, and then slashdot the earth!!
Vaccinations prevent, not cure. In fact, if you were afflicated by an ailment and injected with the vaccine, in many cases it would make the matter worse. However, it's pretty hard to make ebola worse.
They get around it by saying that just by using the software, you agree to their EULA, which makes some sense. In an establishment, you agree to conduct yourself by their rules, lest you get removed from said establishment. Here, they would be threatening to remove your right to use the product or get support for the product, if you violated their policy.
You have to have time to switch between sending out pwned/dispwned letters to the mode of repelling the hordes of angry parents whose children they know should've been accepted, and there must have been some sort of mistake.
I hate that sound. No matter how much it is supposed to be a joke, it shocks me when I hear it in a movie that I thought might be above it for once. It distracted me from seeing all the cool parts of that space battle the first time as I fumed (but don't worry avid fans, I caught every tidbit in my later viewings of the film!).
Not really. She goes on to become President of the New Republic, and doesn't really learn that much about the Force during that time. She does step down eventually, and learns a bit, but she's never as strong as her brother.
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Yeah, i hear there's no respawn points in RL.
How about this: you thought that the pythagoreum theorem was a^2+b^2+c^2=d^2 (obviously incorrect). Later, you're told that it's actually simply a^2+b^2=c^2. This takes less physical memory in place of the wrong equation, and there's no reason to retain the knowledge of that incorrect equation. Therefore, the information of the correct theorem is negative information; you physically know less information when quantized.
that's all BS, but it might be correct BS
I was migrating some code between assignments of my Assembler class at school, and I was able to basically dump an entire routine from one to the other with very slight changes, mostly to the label names.
Upon recieving it back after it was graded, I was reminded by the TA that my comments, which were great the first time around (referring to musical instrument sales) were not as apt when referring to kegs of beer sales (one of the course instructors was an old drunk). Since, I've always tried to check through my comments, but it's always more of an afterthought.
As for your first point, I think that's a matter of preference, equivalent to someone learning better by listening or taking notes, etc. Our neighbor swears by fleshing out problems with comments first, but myself and my roommate (probably dirtier programmers) have far more success commenting after we have some reasonable semblance of a program to run. I think it's because of the openness; we're not limiting ourselves by only thinking beforehand (that's really more of an excuse), and are able to think on the fly, most of the time typing faster than we can think (which resolves to forgetting a few lines of code...really, who needs an else{} statement?).
I rather preferred..."Define interesting." "Oh god, oh god, we're all going to die?"
As for sci-fi picking it up...from what I read, which is based entirely off comments I've read in other threads, Fox has some kind of insane contract which makes picking ip Firefly impossible; it stipulates there being no new episodes. However, it didn't say anything about a movie, so, here's a movie!
Someone more informed should correct me about the contract if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's not that far off the mark.
It already is questionable. A problem has occured once out of 100+ times. During every lunch debris is knocked loose, due to the fact that the shuttle is being launched by a terrifyingly forceful controlled explosion.
Maybe she's not tied to her party lines, and instead is saying what she actually believes?
Or maybe she just hates Slashdotters...
has seen Batman Begins a few too many times.
I believe it's because past L1, there is more influence of gravity from the moon than from the Earth, so it's rather inefficient for a tug to take something all the way to the moon and have to fight against its gravitational pull, thus expending full is doesn't need. It's not that it can, it just doesn't want to.
I could just be totally wrong, though.
well, that would pose a problem. There is so much New Republic era material out there in the form of novels, lucas would be stepping on toes unless he jumps to something like 50 years after RotJ, and even then I'd cry foul if he didn't follow strictly to everything that had happened (peace with Empire, Vong, etc.).
So while at work, I could sneak one of these babies in, and have something 'questionable' going on at the side view, and when they storm up, I'll just be working. It will freak them all out!
Actually, demand high performance, do everything you can to help them achieve it, and then, when they do, they will really have something to feel good about themselves for. They will have a sense of achievement.
Looking at it in hindsight, I do believe that this is how it used to work. However, as sympathetic people became teachers and couldn't stand to chastise kids for not keeping up (not knowing if it was a real lack of understanding or just damned laziness).
I myself can't think of a way to determine between those who can't learn well, and those who don't care to learn well. I, myself, very nearly became one who didn't want to apply myself at homework, but that's changed now that I can see it as a mark of pride to know more than others and have something to show for it (I should be happy enough just having learned it, but really, I want to inflate my ego). If there was just a cleaner, healthier, but still desirable reward for learning...
I concur, it'd be interested to host, say, a webserver off a phone through a .mobi address. Perhaps something set up with a camera phone where as, instead of sending the photos to a website from the phone, it would place them on a page hosted through the phone.
Perhaps, through a php/mysql setup, have a phonebook setup where you can add/view from both the phone and web, so when at a full keyboard it'd be far easier to add in names and numbers.
Not sure about the costs of this, however. I don't even know the standard costs for checking email, etc. It might be a rather exorbitant fee to have near constant connections. Perhaps a smaller fee for incoming connections, so that this would be feasible?
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I mean, really, the editors don't dupe on purpose, so why dupe a comment on purpose?
God, I'd love to, it'd be quite awesome to see. I've always wanted to, but I've never been in the state at the right time.
I completely thought the title of the parent was leading up into a "In Soviet Russia, information phishes you!
Nice to look at? Did you see the scene where they were going to bed? I almost threw up! I mean, seriously, she looked like a psychotic whore, with the smile, the makeup, and the clothes. She looked fine at the end and the beginning of the movie; just that one part...I remember from the premiere my entire row just saying as one, "Uhh!"
Arguably, I have more proof that the events of Star Trek or Lord of the Rings happened than anything in the bible.
I dunno, as far as Star Trek, we only have a few things which could have happened so far to lend it credence. First, are we missing two whales and one marine biologist? Secondly, was there a big boom in electronics due to a timeship crashing on Earth?
Have I missed any? I don't recall any other time travel episodes/movies that have happened already.
*coughs* Proton torpedoes here, I believe you mean?
If Slashdotters reproduced, at some period of time they'd reach a critical mass where first Slashdot, and then the World, would not be able to handle them. In essense, they would first slashdot Slashdot, and then slashdot the earth!!
Vaccinations prevent, not cure. In fact, if you were afflicated by an ailment and injected with the vaccine, in many cases it would make the matter worse. However, it's pretty hard to make ebola worse.
They get around it by saying that just by using the software, you agree to their EULA, which makes some sense. In an establishment, you agree to conduct yourself by their rules, lest you get removed from said establishment. Here, they would be threatening to remove your right to use the product or get support for the product, if you violated their policy.
You have to have time to switch between sending out pwned/dispwned letters to the mode of repelling the hordes of angry parents whose children they know should've been accepted, and there must have been some sort of mistake.
I hate that sound. No matter how much it is supposed to be a joke, it shocks me when I hear it in a movie that I thought might be above it for once. It distracted me from seeing all the cool parts of that space battle the first time as I fumed (but don't worry avid fans, I caught every tidbit in my later viewings of the film!).
Not really. She goes on to become President of the New Republic, and doesn't really learn that much about the Force during that time. She does step down eventually, and learns a bit, but she's never as strong as her brother.
I didn't think you could seperate those.