Well, as I thought would happen, my post gets modded flamebait by idiotic mods that can't handle the truth. I tried to remain as factually accurate as possible in my post, as well as making it clear that the people who are the problem are *Islamists* that is, people who claim to practice Islam but instead practice a perverted and distorted version of it -- hence my refain from using the term "Muslim" which would be like saying "American" instead of "Neonazi Americans."
Yet again we have a demonstration of small-minded reactionary mods who, instead of reading a post for what it is, mod it as "troll" or "flamebait" because they are pissed off by the *facts* presented in the post.
I think the proverbial "Those who can't handle the truth try to silence it instead" applies.
It's no coincidence that this vote was made on behalf of the "Organization for the Islamic Conference." These are the extremist Islamic nations who are pushing their brainless mouthpieces in the UK, the Netherlands and the rest of Europe to rally all like them to a Jihad against Europe, the goal being to turn Europe into a "medieval theocratic hellhole" like the nations that constitute the "Islamic Conference."
When people are rallying in the streets shouting *threats*, which are not free speech, and which this vote aims to protect, like "Europe your annihilation is on its way!", "Take lesson with Theo van Gogh!" and "You will pay with your blood!" you really have to wonder wonder why they choose to live there in the first place.
It's now completely apparent that the U.N. -- the "United" Nations -- are really just a bunch of idiotic morally bankrupt dickheads who are willing to allow themselves to be cowed into voting that the hateful, threat mongering, murdering minority of extremist Islamists should have a privileged position, immune from criticism -- criticism that they can't stand because at its core, such free speech is just the thing which would cause these movements to collapse.
Free speech represents one of the *pillars of human civilization.* The fact that the U.N. would engage in such slander of it is just more proof that the organization needs to be dissolved and replaced with something better -- there is no diplomacy in those halls, fear; hate and corruption apparently overpowered civilized and peaceful discourse long ago.
First came the MHz Wars, then came the Core Wars, now come the On-Board Memory Controller Wars.
When Intel "innovated" and gave Nehalem on-board DDR3 memory controllers, they did something else as well : they made a "mine is bigger than yours" move by adding 1 more memory controller and thereby giving AMD's Shanghai the one-up. Well, AMD apparently isn't taking that lightly as next year they'll be releasing an upgrade to Istanbul ( which will ship this year ) which uses Socket G34 as well as a 12-core Socket G34 "chip" -- codenamed Magny-Cours -- which will basically be an MCM of 2 Istanbuls/Sao-Paolos. Socket G34 will purportedly support processors with 4 independent DDR3 memory controllers -- AMD's "mine is bigger than yours" riposte to Intel.
What a wonderfully ironic and serendipitous spelling error! Add an "or" in the right place and you get "Decoratur" -- Latin for "He is honored/glorified".
Even better would be "Se decorant" : "They glorify themselves" -- I think that sums it up pretty nicely.
just do this : "sudo echo -n 'disk' >/sys/power/state "
Actually, that won't work. The > is interpreted by the shell, which means the "echo" command will run as root, but the shell redirection will run as the user -- the exact opposite of what you want.
I've taken to doing things like this:
echo -n disk | sudo tee/sys/power/state
The extra output can be suppressed, if you really care, with a >/dev/null at the end.
Heh. Oops. Having done this many times, I should have remembered ( one of ) the correct command sequences -- seems my brain is running slow again.;)
For the record, I usually use sudo sh -c 'echo -n disk >/sys/power/state' -- for some reason I forgot to put in the 'sh -c'. Anyway
Anybody heard of "suspend to disk"? If you're running Linux on your laptop/notebook/mobile-pc then just do this : "sudo echo -n 'disk' >/sys/power/state " or, use your GUI of choice.
Other than the not-so-novel "bistable" ( "zero power" ala e-ink ) display, what's the big deal? And why the fuss about zero standby current when in S3 sleep ( standby ) mode it's measured in microamps?
Except each 285 has it's own cooler. The 295 shares it's cooler between two chips. Sure, the cooler is probably more efficient, but there's a limit to the amount of heat you can remove with just air in a two-slot cooler, and you'll hit that limit a lot sooner with a 295 than a 285.
Yeah, I was going to mention that, but you beat me to the punch.:) Anyway, this is exactly why you need one of these. Custom designed for solving the above mentioned problem.
The overclocking potential of the GeForce GTX 285 & reduced power consumption might make a three-way 285 setup preferrable to a dual 295 setup (for enthusiasts)
You do know that the GeForce GTX 295 has the same overclocking potential and reduced power consumption
as the 285 because both use the same chip(s)?.
If you thought the Radeon 4870 X2 was overkill, then you need a new word to describe the monstrosity that Nvidia has just released. Here's what Nvidia has done :
Taken the GT200 GPU and shrunk the die to a 55nm process. ( to match the AMD/ATI's 55nm RV770 )
Basically slapped together 2 complete and independent graphics cards, that is, the GTX 295 is composed of 2 PCB's with their "topsides" facing each other and a huge heatsink between them.
They've linked the two "cards"/PCBs via an SLI bridge ( or is it a PCIe bridge? )
Compare this to the Radeon 4870 X2 : 2 55nm RV770 GPUs on the same PCB connected by a PCIe bridge although the card has a "Crossfire X Sideport" interlink ( which I think is Hypertransport, although I may be wrong ) that directly connects the two GPUs, which isn't enabled in their drivers at the moment. (you can see it on the PCB -- a set of horizontal traces directly linking both GPUs ) One might wonder if they've delayed enabling the direct link because they knew Nvidia would respond this way.
Anyway, it's always great when two companies battle it out, as the consumer always wins.
The issue I was discussing had nothing to do with research priorities, but, with scientists who would dispense with manned space travel altogether to the benefit of their own research -- such scientists, no matter how "intelligent", would be ignorant fools, with no regard for the big picture. To quote the OP :
"scientists say, kill manned space [travel] and fund our research instead."
Such scientists would be poor representatives of Human Civilization and should reconsider their role in society. You see, at the core of Science ( from Latin "Scio"/"scire" -- "to know" ) lies the principle reason why Humans explore Nature : Our ingrained drive to map out the limits of our knowledge and push those limits back. As the late Arthur C. Clarke put it : "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." . If a society stagnates, and stops reaching beyond the possible -- stops exploring -- then searching History will show, time and time again, that such a society will inevitably collapse.
Given the above, and given the geological record's testament to the finite probability of life on this planet being periodically ( not completely ) destroyed, and given the new factor that Human Civilization may be responsible for its own destruction, one may logically deduce from the basic laws of probability that our chance of extinction is an ever increasing number, slowly but surely approaching 1, and that the following quote from the late Carl Sagan rings true, now more than ever : "All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct."
I bought one of these several months ago and set it up as a USB modem quite easily. AT&T gives you the instructions for tethering this device using PPP and Windows Dialup Networking. Specifically, they give you the modem initialization string, the username and password, and the number you have to "dial" to set up your connection. All of this can easily be moved over to Linux. I easily got it working using KPPP and a 'sudo route add default ppp0' command. The connection is great : 3G with an average downstream bandwidth of 1.5 - 2.0 Mbps , plus where I am, I get 4 bars -- eg. max signal strength.
We're pretty close ( ~20-30 years ) to making Human Suspended Animation a reality. Assuming Humanity doesn't destroy itself in the next 50 years, and assuming free thought, genius, and scientific progress continues in some part of the world during that time, there's a good chance that within my lifetime I could be put into suspended animation, for, say, 500 years. After waking up, and taking into account current trends in IQ decline and general stupidity, I'd be welcomed as a God on Earth because the entire Human population would have (de)-evolved into a bunch of borderline retarded idiots.
I live ~30 miles north of Houston, Texas, and we got pounded by Hurricane Ike. The worst part of the storm was the wind, with sustained speeds around 90-100 MPH and gusts around 110-120 MPH. The power was out in our neighborhood for at least 4 days. (I can't remember exactly how long, just that it felt like a long time) Fortunately, the outage didn't really affect us that much as we had a 2000 watt Honda EU2000iA generator. You might think that 2000 watts isn't enough power to be useful, but not so. It was enough to continuously run the refrigerator/freezer, enough to run the microwave, enough to continuously run several fans, and enough to continuously run all our computers. We didn't have to stock up on much gas as this line of generators has a great and indispensable feature which Honda calls "Eco-Throttle". Basically, the generator monitors the load put on it and and sets the engine speed accordingly. This means that most of the time the generator is running in a very low gas consumption state and is very quite -- we had it on our backyard patio and all you could hear was a low murmur. What's even better is that you can daisy-chain these generators for more power. They come in 1000-6500 watt versions, all with the Eco-Throttle feature. Other than having to string heavy-duty power cords throughout our house, we had no problems. I'd highly recommend one of these -- best bang for your buck.
It's not very interesting to note that there will be an inflection point before h'(t) goes positive if h''(t) is negative,
What is interesting is that unless the real world function has an infinite domain or range, which in this case it doesn't -- companies exist for a finite time, one might say everything does -- h''(t) must be negative sometime if the company experiences a downturn.
That is, assuming the company doesn't start out in a downturn ie. its existence is one big downturn shaped eg. like an upside-down parabola and also assuming realistic behavior eg. no perfectly linear growth etc.
I've been studying advanced mathematics ( at the graduate/doctoral level now ) for over a decade.
Most graduate programs I've seen require completion of the degree for which one is a candidate within 5 years, maybe 6. The reader may reasonably infer from your claim that a) you've had enough time to earn such a degree twice over, and b) that you have not done so because having done so would give you an honest claim even greater than the one you've actually made here.
The reader may also reasonably infer from your statements about my level of education and my honesty wherein you imply that I'm a fraud in the former and a liar in the latter that you've started out your "argument" with a baseless directed personal attack, which, in the light of your posting anonymously, lends great credence to the possibility that you are a hypocritical Troll.
Also, the fact that you put forth an extremely narrow definition of the verb "to study" raises the question of whether you have a problem with naivety. According to your definition of "study" anything outside Academics such as going to a class or doing homework etc. is not "studying". Perhaps the blame should partially lie with me, as a better choice of words would be, say, "had experience with". Nonetheless, your narrow, close-minded, thought-suppressing definition of "study" is incorrect. If it is correct then the only time one "studies" anything is during the short timespan of Academic indoctrination -- any thought, reading, or experimentation outside of that timespan is not "studying". By your definition Einstein was not "studying" anything when at age 12 he came up with a novel proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Also, by your definition Andrew Wiles was not "studying" during the arduous 10 year period it took him to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Indeed if all mathematical and scientific progress was required to fit your definition of "study" many, nay, almost all of the achievements mankind has made in the past 2500 years would not have occurred, and modern civilization would not exist.
I fully realize that the question of having such a degree is orthogonal to the question of possessing competence-- period--,
Then you must also realize that by calling into question my level of education and my integrity and then proceeding with an attempt to defraud the reader into thinking that your intentions are not malicious with the above statement that you further strengthen the possibility of your being a Troll, and one who has appointed himself moral authority at that, as well as one that clearly is begging the reader that "Thou art wiser".
and this illustrates in part why one should never argue from authority.
And the above illustrates your own hypocrisy again.
But we're talking about elementary calculus here,
not topology or algebras or anything so rarefied.
Indeed we are not, but I'd be happy to discuss your knowledge concerning the aforementioned "rarefied" subjects -- subjects so rarefied that their use is almost ubiquitous in the physical sciences, such as the "rarefied" sciences of Quantum Mechanics and Solid State Physics which spell out the laws by which it is possible for the computer you are using to operate.
There's no reason to berate the claim about the [local] minim[um] value of h(t):
Please always have an English dictionary handy when you're trying to defame someone as your definition of "berate" is quite incorrect :
"To rebuke or scold angrily and at length."
I did not berate neither did I intend to berate the OP. I was merely explaining my use of the of the term "inflection point".
...for the past year or more the derivative has been negative, and growing more negative.
(Emphasis mine.)
I disagree: h(t) has units of "per
An inflection is where the 2nd derivative of a function changes sign ie the curvature is zero.
I think the summary meant minima, that's where the first derivative is zero if the curve is smooth. That would mean it changes from going down to going up.
Err, no shit sherlock.:) You probably mean no offense, but I've been studying advanced mathematics ( at the graduate/doctoral level now ) for over a decade.
Anyway, I meant inflection point.
If you take AMD's health as a function of time , say , h(t), then for the past year or more the derivative has been negative, and growing more negative. If the Phenom II launch is indeed the catalyst for an AMD "turn around", then naturally the derivative h'(t) will reverse sign and begin to increase. This represents AMD's "putting their gears into reverse" and "stepping on the gas" -- they have to dissipate their accumulated downward momentum in order to eventually gain positive, increasing momentum.
With the decline of Usenet and and the rise of a huge heterogeneous, chaotic and tangled network of Web "Forums" to take its place we have a problem :
The loss of any standardized search capability, no consistent archiving mechanism, the necessity that one have a separate profile password and username etc. for each forum, no standard interchange format,(eg. different posting, editing, and formatting rules) and a jumbled mass of different rules, Terms of Service, and copyright policies.
I submitted a story which asked the question of how this problem might be addressed, but it was rejected unfortunately. Nonetheless there needs to be a discussion on this matter in the Internet standards community. Excepting the voluntary adoption of OpenID, I haven't seen any other solutions to these problems proposed, and now they are starting to bite us.
What's hindering them from developing a civilization soon ( In geological time of course;) is the fact that their lifespans are so short. For example, I believe that the Giant Pacific Octopus only lives for about 4-5 years. It's saddening that such beauty and intelligence only graces this Earth for such a short time.:(
HGTV -- Home and Garden Television : The bane of many a married man's existence. Maybe they should design octopus habitats that adhere to the principles of Feng Shui : "Oh my god! That's perfect! It just balances out the energy of the algae encrusted rock in the center!"
7 of 9 to patient "You are damaged. In order to repair you I need to inject you with modified nanoprobes from my bloodstream."
patient to 7 of 9 "Modified in what way?"
7 of 9 to patient "Your condition necessitated that I reprogram my cortical and ocular implants..."
patient to 7 of 9 "Implants!!?? Oh man baby I thought those were real! But it's still good!"
7 of 9 to patient "What are you referring to? Your statement lacks any consistent semantic structure. You seem to exhibiting some signs of delirium. Lay your head on its side. This injection requires that I use my assimilation tubul..."
patient to 7 of 9 "Tubule!!??? I wouldn't have thought from the looks of you! HA! Oh yeah! I usually don't swing that way but for you baby, inject me all you want!"
7 of 9 to patient "What? I do not understand. Obviously the delirium is progressing. I will now proceed..."
patient to 7 of 9 "Oh yeah!!! PROCEED! But only if I get to inject you with my tubule!"
That is, if we were to have developed the A-Bomb 5 years earlier we could have saved over 62 million lives. Of course, by dropping it we would of course have caused German civilian casualties, unless we used it only in the war zones. But, as Spock said : "The good of the many outweighs the needs of the few"
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Well, as I thought would happen, my post gets modded flamebait by idiotic mods that can't handle the truth. I tried to remain as factually accurate as possible in my post, as well as making it clear that the people who are the problem are *Islamists* that is, people who claim to practice Islam but instead practice a perverted and distorted version of it -- hence my refain from using the term "Muslim" which would be like saying "American" instead of "Neonazi Americans."
Yet again we have a demonstration of small-minded reactionary mods who, instead of reading a post for what it is, mod it as "troll" or "flamebait" because they are pissed off by the *facts* presented in the post.
I think the proverbial "Those who can't handle the truth try to silence it instead" applies.
jdb2
To quote Pat Condell : "Free Speech is my religion"
It's no coincidence that this vote was made on behalf of the "Organization for the Islamic Conference." These are the extremist Islamic nations who are pushing their brainless mouthpieces in the UK, the Netherlands and the rest of Europe to rally all like them to a Jihad against Europe, the goal being to turn Europe into a "medieval theocratic hellhole" like the nations that constitute the "Islamic Conference."
When people are rallying in the streets shouting *threats*, which are not free speech, and which this vote aims to protect, like "Europe your annihilation is on its way!", "Take lesson with Theo van Gogh!" and "You will pay with your blood!" you really have to wonder wonder why they choose to live there in the first place.
It's now completely apparent that the U.N. -- the "United" Nations -- are really just a bunch of idiotic morally bankrupt dickheads who are willing to allow themselves to be cowed into voting that the hateful, threat mongering, murdering minority of extremist Islamists should have a privileged position, immune from criticism -- criticism that they can't stand because at its core, such free speech is just the thing which would cause these movements to collapse.
Free speech represents one of the *pillars of human civilization.* The fact that the U.N. would engage in such slander of it is just more proof that the organization needs to be dissolved and replaced with something better -- there is no diplomacy in those halls, fear; hate and corruption apparently overpowered civilized and peaceful discourse long ago.
jdb2
First came the MHz Wars, then came the Core Wars, now come the On-Board Memory Controller Wars.
When Intel "innovated" and gave Nehalem on-board DDR3 memory controllers, they did something else as well : they made a "mine is bigger than yours" move by adding 1 more memory controller and thereby giving AMD's Shanghai the one-up. Well, AMD apparently isn't taking that lightly as next year they'll be releasing an upgrade to Istanbul ( which will ship this year ) which uses Socket G34 as well as a 12-core Socket G34 "chip" -- codenamed Magny-Cours -- which will basically be an MCM of 2 Istanbuls/Sao-Paolos. Socket G34 will purportedly support processors with 4 independent DDR3 memory controllers -- AMD's "mine is bigger than yours" riposte to Intel.
Business as usual it seems.
jdb2
Google is your friend :
http://www.thedailytube.com/video/16698/www.youtube.com
jdb2
2nd hit when googling for "hologram commercial".
http://www.froggertv.com/content/hologram-commercial
jdb2
What a wonderfully ironic and serendipitous spelling error!
Add an "or" in the right place and you get "Decoratur" -- Latin for "He is honored/glorified".
Even better would be "Se decorant" : "They glorify themselves" -- I think that sums it up pretty nicely.
jdb2
just do this : "sudo echo -n 'disk' > /sys/power/state "
Actually, that won't work. The > is interpreted by the shell, which means the "echo" command will run as root, but the shell redirection will run as the user -- the exact opposite of what you want.
I've taken to doing things like this:
The extra output can be suppressed, if you really care, with a >/dev/null at the end.
Heh. Oops. Having done this many times, I should have remembered ( one of ) the correct command sequences -- seems my brain is running slow again. ;)
/sys/power/state' -- for some reason I forgot to put in the 'sh -c'. Anyway
For the record, I usually use sudo sh -c 'echo -n disk >
jdb2
Anybody heard of "suspend to disk"? If you're running Linux on your laptop/notebook/mobile-pc then just do this : "sudo echo -n 'disk' > /sys/power/state " or, use your GUI of choice.
Other than the not-so-novel "bistable" ( "zero power" ala e-ink ) display, what's the big deal? And why the fuss about zero standby current when in S3 sleep ( standby ) mode it's measured in microamps?
jdb2
Except each 285 has it's own cooler. The 295 shares it's cooler between two chips. Sure, the cooler is probably more efficient, but there's a limit to the amount of heat you can remove with just air in a two-slot cooler, and you'll hit that limit a lot sooner with a 295 than a 285.
Yeah, I was going to mention that, but you beat me to the punch. :) Anyway, this is exactly why you need one of these. Custom designed for solving the above mentioned problem.
jdb2
The overclocking potential of the GeForce GTX 285 & reduced power consumption might make a three-way 285 setup preferrable to a dual 295 setup (for enthusiasts)
You do know that the GeForce GTX 295 has the same overclocking potential and reduced power consumption as the 285 because both use the same chip(s)?.
jdb2
Compare this to the Radeon 4870 X2 : 2 55nm RV770 GPUs on the same PCB connected by a PCIe bridge although the card has a "Crossfire X Sideport" interlink ( which I think is Hypertransport, although I may be wrong ) that directly connects the two GPUs, which isn't enabled in their drivers at the moment. (you can see it on the PCB -- a set of horizontal traces directly linking both GPUs ) One might wonder if they've delayed enabling the direct link because they knew Nvidia would respond this way.
Anyway, it's always great when two companies battle it out, as the consumer always wins.
jdb2
"scientists say, kill manned space [travel] and fund our research instead."
jdb2
Such scientists would be poor representatives of Human Civilization and should reconsider their role in society. You see, at the core of Science ( from Latin "Scio"/"scire" -- "to know" ) lies the principle reason why Humans explore Nature : Our ingrained drive to map out the limits of our knowledge and push those limits back. As the late Arthur C. Clarke put it : "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." . If a society stagnates, and stops reaching beyond the possible -- stops exploring -- then searching History will show, time and time again, that such a society will inevitably collapse.
Given the above, and given the geological record's testament to the finite probability of life on this planet being periodically ( not completely ) destroyed, and given the new factor that Human Civilization may be responsible for its own destruction, one may logically deduce from the basic laws of probability that our chance of extinction is an ever increasing number, slowly but surely approaching 1, and that the following quote from the late Carl Sagan rings true, now more than ever : "All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct."
jdb2
I bought one of these several months ago and set it up as a USB modem quite easily. AT&T gives you the instructions for tethering this device using PPP and Windows Dialup Networking. Specifically, they give you the modem initialization string, the username and password, and the number you have to "dial" to set up your connection. All of this can easily be moved over to Linux. I easily got it working using KPPP and a 'sudo route add default ppp0' command. The connection is great : 3G with an average downstream bandwidth of 1.5 - 2.0 Mbps , plus where I am, I get 4 bars -- eg. max signal strength.
Anyway, that's my 2b'10 cents.
jdb2
You do know that my post was a joke, right?
jdb2
We're pretty close ( ~20-30 years ) to making Human Suspended Animation a reality. Assuming Humanity doesn't destroy itself in the next 50 years, and assuming free thought, genius, and scientific progress continues in some part of the world during that time, there's a good chance that within my lifetime I could be put into suspended animation, for, say, 500 years. After waking up, and taking into account current trends in IQ decline and general stupidity, I'd be welcomed as a God on Earth because the entire Human population would have (de)-evolved into a bunch of borderline retarded idiots.
jdb2
I live ~30 miles north of Houston, Texas, and we got pounded by Hurricane Ike. The worst part of the storm was the wind, with sustained speeds around 90-100 MPH and gusts around 110-120 MPH. The power was out in our neighborhood for at least 4 days. (I can't remember exactly how long, just that it felt like a long time) Fortunately, the outage didn't really affect us that much as we had a 2000 watt Honda EU2000iA generator. You might think that 2000 watts isn't enough power to be useful, but not so. It was enough to continuously run the refrigerator/freezer, enough to run the microwave, enough to continuously run several fans, and enough to continuously run all our computers. We didn't have to stock up on much gas as this line of generators has a great and indispensable feature which Honda calls "Eco-Throttle". Basically, the generator monitors the load put on it and and sets the engine speed accordingly. This means that most of the time the generator is running in a very low gas consumption state and is very quite -- we had it on our backyard patio and all you could hear was a low murmur. What's even better is that you can daisy-chain these generators for more power. They come in 1000-6500 watt versions, all with the Eco-Throttle feature. Other than having to string heavy-duty power cords throughout our house, we had no problems. I'd highly recommend one of these -- best bang for your buck.
jdb2
It's not very interesting to note that there will be an inflection point before h'(t) goes positive if h''(t) is negative,
What is interesting is that unless the real world function has an infinite domain or range, which in this case it doesn't -- companies exist for a finite time, one might say everything does -- h''(t) must be negative sometime if the company experiences a downturn.
That is, assuming the company doesn't start out in a downturn ie. its existence is one big downturn shaped eg. like an upside-down parabola and also assuming realistic behavior eg. no perfectly linear growth etc.
I've been studying advanced mathematics ( at the graduate/doctoral level now ) for over a decade.
Most graduate programs I've seen require completion of the degree for which one is a candidate within 5 years, maybe 6. The reader may reasonably infer from your claim that a) you've had enough time to earn such a degree twice over, and b) that you have not done so because having done so would give you an honest claim even greater than the one you've actually made here.
The reader may also reasonably infer from your statements about my level of education and my honesty wherein you imply that I'm a fraud in the former and a liar in the latter that you've started out your "argument" with a baseless directed personal attack, which, in the light of your posting anonymously, lends great credence to the possibility that you are a hypocritical Troll.
Also, the fact that you put forth an extremely narrow definition of the verb "to study" raises the question of whether you have a problem with naivety. According to your definition of "study" anything outside Academics such as going to a class or doing homework etc. is not "studying". Perhaps the blame should partially lie with me, as a better choice of words would be, say, "had experience with". Nonetheless, your narrow, close-minded, thought-suppressing definition of "study" is incorrect. If it is correct then the only time one "studies" anything is during the short timespan of Academic indoctrination -- any thought, reading, or experimentation outside of that timespan is not "studying". By your definition Einstein was not "studying" anything when at age 12 he came up with a novel proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Also, by your definition Andrew Wiles was not "studying" during the arduous 10 year period it took him to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Indeed if all mathematical and scientific progress was required to fit your definition of "study" many, nay, almost all of the achievements mankind has made in the past 2500 years would not have occurred, and modern civilization would not exist.
I fully realize that the question of having such a degree is orthogonal to the question of possessing competence-- period--,
Then you must also realize that by calling into question my level of education and my integrity and then proceeding with an attempt to defraud the reader into thinking that your intentions are not malicious with the above statement that you further strengthen the possibility of your being a Troll, and one who has appointed himself moral authority at that, as well as one that clearly is begging the reader that "Thou art wiser".
and this illustrates in part why one should never argue from authority.
And the above illustrates your own hypocrisy again.
But we're talking about elementary calculus here, not topology or algebras or anything so rarefied.
Indeed we are not, but I'd be happy to discuss your knowledge concerning the aforementioned "rarefied" subjects -- subjects so rarefied that their use is almost ubiquitous in the physical sciences, such as the "rarefied" sciences of Quantum Mechanics and Solid State Physics which spell out the laws by which it is possible for the computer you are using to operate.
There's no reason to berate the claim about the [local] minim[um] value of h(t):
Please always have an English dictionary handy when you're trying to defame someone as your definition of "berate" is quite incorrect :
"To rebuke or scold angrily and at length."
I did not berate neither did I intend to berate the OP. I was merely explaining my use of the of the term "inflection point".
...for the past year or more the derivative has been negative, and growing more negative.
(Emphasis mine.) I disagree: h(t) has units of "per
This may be an inflection point for AMD...
An inflection is where the 2nd derivative of a function changes sign ie the curvature is zero.
I think the summary meant minima, that's where the first derivative is zero if the curve is smooth. That would mean it changes from going down to going up.
Err, no shit sherlock. :) You probably mean no offense, but I've been studying advanced mathematics ( at the graduate/doctoral level now ) for over a decade.
Anyway, I meant inflection point.
If you take AMD's health as a function of time , say , h(t), then for the past year or more the derivative has been negative, and growing more negative. If the Phenom II launch is indeed the catalyst for an AMD "turn around", then naturally the derivative h'(t) will reverse sign and begin to increase. This represents AMD's "putting their gears into reverse" and "stepping on the gas" -- they have to dissipate their accumulated downward momentum in order to eventually gain positive, increasing momentum.
jdb2
With the decline of Usenet and and the rise of a huge heterogeneous, chaotic and tangled network of Web "Forums" to take its place we have a problem :
The loss of any standardized search capability, no consistent archiving mechanism, the necessity that one have a separate profile password and username etc. for each forum, no standard interchange format,(eg. different posting, editing, and formatting rules) and a jumbled mass of different rules, Terms of Service, and copyright policies.
I submitted a story which asked the question of how this problem might be addressed, but it was rejected unfortunately. Nonetheless there needs to be a discussion on this matter in the Internet standards community. Excepting the voluntary adoption of OpenID, I haven't seen any other solutions to these problems proposed, and now they are starting to bite us.
Usenet is dead. Long live Usenet.
jdb2
What's hindering them from developing a civilization soon ( In geological time of course ;) is the fact that their lifespans are so short. For example, I believe that the Giant Pacific Octopus only lives for about 4-5 years. It's saddening that such beauty and intelligence only graces this Earth for such a short time. :(
jdb2
HGTV -- Home and Garden Television : The bane of many a married man's existence. Maybe they should design octopus habitats that adhere to the principles of Feng Shui : "Oh my god! That's perfect! It just balances out the energy of the algae encrusted rock in the center!"
jdb2
7 of 9 to patient "You are damaged. In order to repair you I need to inject you with modified nanoprobes from my bloodstream."
patient to 7 of 9 "Modified in what way?"
7 of 9 to patient "Your condition necessitated that I reprogram my cortical and ocular implants..."
patient to 7 of 9 "Implants!!?? Oh man baby I thought those were real! But it's still good!"
7 of 9 to patient "What are you referring to? Your statement lacks any consistent semantic structure. You seem to exhibiting some signs of delirium. Lay your head on its side. This injection requires that I use my assimilation tubul..."
patient to 7 of 9 "Tubule!!??? I wouldn't have thought from the looks of you! HA! Oh yeah! I usually don't swing that way but for you baby, inject me all you want!"
7 of 9 to patient "What? I do not understand. Obviously the delirium is progressing. I will now proceed..."
patient to 7 of 9 "Oh yeah!!! PROCEED! But only if I get to inject you with my tubule!"
jdb2
That is, if we were to have developed the A-Bomb 5 years earlier we could have saved over 62 million lives. Of course, by dropping it we would of course have caused German civilian casualties, unless we used it only in the war zones. But, as Spock said : "The good of the many outweighs the needs of the few"
jdb2