Quote: "If you buy into the watching-violence-causes-violence thing"
What amazes me is that many people believe that what we watch DOESN'T affect us.
If only there were real, irrefutable, evidence of that then television, radio, newspapers, and internet would cease to exist as we know them.
The fact is that there is plenty of very good evidence that what we see/hear/read affects us. That's why you can make HUGE amounts of money by advertising. It would be irrational (IMO) to believe that what we see affects us only in how we spend, and not in our other behaviors.
Note that this doesn't place the blame for bad behavior (or the praise for good behavior) on the people that create stuff for us to see/hear/read. (ie. It's not my fault if you kick the dog after reading this.)
Don't forget the town called Rio Grande. In the middle of Ohio. (When they applied to the USPS for the name way back when it was supposed to be a joke, but the USPS didn't have the required sense of humor, so they got stuck with it.)
What about early versions of Linux? How much memory did 1.0 require?
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I think that if you read the story post again you'll get some interesting information.
You say 91 Mb, the GP says 91 MB, but the story says 91 mb. I am very interested in the compression algorithm that fits any.mov file into less than an 80th of a byte. I would like to fit my entire music collection on my Atari 800, or my TI-82 graphing calculator.
OK, I don't like to post things that are insulting to a particular person, but I don't have much option here.
He uses several paragraphs to agree with a statement that prayer cannot tested with scientific rigor, and doesn't even know that he's agreeing. Then he uses his lack of knowledge about existing irrefutable evidence of divine interaction as proof on non-interaction. Then he goes back and spends a couple more paragraphs using very bad non-working examples to support his argument in favor of the post he thinks he's disagreeing with.
In addition, fyngyrz completely misunderstands "you have to take my word for it." The rest of the world would understand this as "there is no evidence other than my word." Fyngyrz translates it to a demand that he believe.
The questions are: Was fyngyrz just trolling? Does he always have reading comprehension problems. Is this what happens when you use preconceptions instead of your brain?
"If only Hardy had let him continue to work in India"
IMO: He could not have worked in India. He needed a lot of personal tutoring and contact with first-rate mathematicians, and there haven't been many mathemeticians as first-rate as G. H. Hardy.
Whether the early death was worth (to the world or to Ramanujan) the growth (to math, to Ramanujan, and to Hardy) that came from the Ramanujan-Hardy collaboration, I don't know.
As a math graduate student student I was invited to watch the presentations of the people applying for a graduate faculty position at the university. I was only able to make it to one of the presentations, but it was an unforgetable experience for me.
The applicant gave a very interesting presentation. I got lost during the first 5 minutes when he was still giving background, but it was still interesting. His presentation was on - assuming that I remember any of the very little that I may have understood - some specific behaviors of the infinite boundaries of n-dimensional manifolds.
The best part was when he said, "In case you think that this is just esoteric and 'out there,' I want you to know that this stuff has real applications in topology."
There were about 6 other grad students and 15 math faculty there and I think I was the only one to notice how funny that was, so I'm sorry if you don't get the joke.
It appears to me that Ramanujan's name was left out purposely to help understanding and spark interest.
Most/. readers who care who'd care would know exactly who was meant. And for those who didn't know about Ramanujan, "a self-taught math genius from India" was more informative and more memorable than just the name.
Also, the fact that the link to the bio was included seems to indicate that "anonymous reader" does know and care who "the Indian math guy" was.
I apologize in advance for the following rant: The sad thing is that much of readership of/. is a little low on reading comprehension skills and misses things like this.
I think of myself as fairly geeky, but poor. The only reason I have any CPU faster than P233MMX is that I have been given two computers in the past 5 years. I would love a computer faster than 1GHz (slot Athlon), but I have no NEED for one, so it doesn't become a spending priority.
Maybe if I had money to burn on $40 games I would feel a need for more expensive hardware and a newer OS, but I'm perfectly satisfied with the $10 shelves at Wal-Mart. If the game was any good when it was new then it will still be good when I can afford it. And if it was very good then by the time I can afford the game then the hardware may even be free.
This past couple of weeks I have been playing Ghengis Khan, and it's fun. System requirements included FILES=15 (or more) in the config.sys, at least 384K free RAM, and if I want to install it on the hard drive I need to have at least 850K free there. Why would I buy new hardware or OS for that?
I also keep a Win98 machine around in order to play some games that are picky about having access to a pure DOS environment (Wing Commander Privateer is a good example).
"in the last 10 years there hasn't been that much advancement in the ui department of the 'common' household/office apps - "
I use WordPerfect8 for my word processing at home, and Word 2000 at work, and have used Word 2003, and there is NO important difference.
There are minor differences, such as WP8 is much less bloated (loads faster), and I'm used to it, and it has better WYSIWYG, and it's been around long enough to have all the necesary patches, and it reads all my old documents better than Word, and I already own it, so why buy new MS Office when I could buy another computer for less money.
I remember the day of hardware keys that would plug into the computer in order to use certain software (though those days were virtually over when I got my first PC). They were never very popular then. I can't imagine them becoming so now.
"For 20 years the desktop computer has stayed about the same size"
I can see 2 reasons right away:
1. People feel more comfortable using things of a certain size.
2. Computers have greatly increased in power.
Also, perhaps desktops haven't gotten much smaller (though the computer on my desk right now would fit about 4 times in a standard AT case), but personal computers have gotten MUCH smaller. Consider a new cellphone. Smaller than a hand, yet more powerful than a standard 386 from 15 years ago.
A car computer (other than the one that runs the car) isn't a need in the first place. As long as you're having the luxury (for fun, to impress geeks, bore women, whatever) you might as well get a dual processor.
I guess that was part of my point in being careful what college you choose.
No, I didn't take any of those.
Some are avoidable by taking AP classes in high school.
Some you can take at a community college, where the tuition is less and the freshman classes are usually better taught (because: no grad students, smaller class size, professional emphasis on teaching rather than research). But make sure it'll transfer.
Perhaps you forget that the Senator does belong to a voluntary organization that includes Hubble repair as one of its jobs. In order to be a senator in the US Congress one needs to be a US citizen. Such citizenship is voluntary. Such citizenship implies a willingness to abide by the rules (read "laws, including tax laws") of the organization, and a willingness to try to improve the rules.
The fact that many of us choose not to live by this implied agreement doesn't mean that the agreement doesn't exist.
I am personally in favor of most rules that fund space science and exploration.
Yeah, I've heard a lot of stupid people use that excuse, but I don't remember a good teacher that couldn't *do*, and the best teachers are nearly always those that can *do* well. (This doesn't mean that you're stupid. You may just like repeating stupid jokes. I know that I do.) I currently work as an actuary.
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Silly me. Now I understand.
WHEN I return the thing - notice, I am not keeping it - is the only criteria for charging the fee, therefore it is, of course, NOT a late fee.
Thank you for clearing that up.
So, you figure that a fee that is charged if and only if the video is late is not a late fee?
It's not a moon.
Quote: "If you buy into the watching-violence-causes-violence thing"
What amazes me is that many people believe that what we watch DOESN'T affect us.
If only there were real, irrefutable, evidence of that then television, radio, newspapers, and internet would cease to exist as we know them.
The fact is that there is plenty of very good evidence that what we see/hear/read affects us. That's why you can make HUGE amounts of money by advertising. It would be irrational (IMO) to believe that what we see affects us only in how we spend, and not in our other behaviors.
Note that this doesn't place the blame for bad behavior (or the praise for good behavior) on the people that create stuff for us to see/hear/read. (ie. It's not my fault if you kick the dog after reading this.)
Don't forget the town called Rio Grande.
In the middle of Ohio.
(When they applied to the USPS for the name way back when it was supposed to be a joke, but the USPS didn't have the required sense of humor, so they got stuck with it.)
What about early versions of Linux?
How much memory did 1.0 require?
I think that if you read the story post again you'll get some interesting information.
.mov file into less than an 80th of a byte. I would like to fit my entire music collection on my Atari 800, or my TI-82 graphing calculator.
You say 91 Mb, the GP says 91 MB, but the story says 91 mb. I am very interested in the compression algorithm that fits any
OK, I don't like to post things that are insulting to a particular person, but I don't have much option here.
He uses several paragraphs to agree with a statement that prayer cannot tested with scientific rigor, and doesn't even know that he's agreeing.
Then he uses his lack of knowledge about existing irrefutable evidence of divine interaction as proof on non-interaction.
Then he goes back and spends a couple more paragraphs using very bad non-working examples to support his argument in favor of the post he thinks he's disagreeing with.
In addition, fyngyrz completely misunderstands "you have to take my word for it." The rest of the world would understand this as "there is no evidence other than my word." Fyngyrz translates it to a demand that he believe.
The questions are: Was fyngyrz just trolling? Does he always have reading comprehension problems. Is this what happens when you use preconceptions instead of your brain?
But, in the US not all murders are equal under the law.
If someone from a protected minority group is killed it can be much more seriouis than a non-minority murder because of "hate-crime" laws.
These laws basically say that the minority status of the victim and the personal beliefs of the murderer affect the seriousness of the crime.
Years from now this will either have blossomed into more comprehensive thought-control laws, or be laughed at.
"If only Hardy had let him continue to work in India"
IMO:
He could not have worked in India. He needed a lot of personal tutoring and contact with first-rate mathematicians, and there haven't been many mathemeticians as first-rate as G. H. Hardy.
Whether the early death was worth (to the world or to Ramanujan) the growth (to math, to Ramanujan, and to Hardy) that came from the Ramanujan-Hardy collaboration, I don't know.
As a math graduate student student I was invited to watch the presentations of the people applying for a graduate faculty position at the university. I was only able to make it to one of the presentations, but it was an unforgetable experience for me.
The applicant gave a very interesting presentation. I got lost during the first 5 minutes when he was still giving background, but it was still interesting. His presentation was on - assuming that I remember any of the very little that I may have understood - some specific behaviors of the infinite boundaries of n-dimensional manifolds.
The best part was when he said, "In case you think that this is just esoteric and 'out there,' I want you to know that this stuff has real applications in topology."
There were about 6 other grad students and 15 math faculty there and I think I was the only one to notice how funny that was, so I'm sorry if you don't get the joke.
It appears to me that Ramanujan's name was left out purposely to help understanding and spark interest.
/. readers who care who'd care would know exactly who was meant. And for those who didn't know about Ramanujan, "a self-taught math genius from India" was more informative and more memorable than just the name.
/. is a little low on reading comprehension skills and misses things like this.
Most
Also, the fact that the link to the bio was included seems to indicate that "anonymous reader" does know and care who "the Indian math guy" was.
I apologize in advance for the following rant:
The sad thing is that much of readership of
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
"Never underestimate the power of the [fans]."
Elvis is a good example of the strange things people will do for a dead guy. (Except, he's not really dead, right?)
At my work slashdot is blocked.
I think of myself as fairly geeky, but poor. The only reason I have any CPU faster than P233MMX is that I have been given two computers in the past 5 years. I would love a computer faster than 1GHz (slot Athlon), but I have no NEED for one, so it doesn't become a spending priority.
Maybe if I had money to burn on $40 games I would feel a need for more expensive hardware and a newer OS, but I'm perfectly satisfied with the $10 shelves at Wal-Mart. If the game was any good when it was new then it will still be good when I can afford it. And if it was very good then by the time I can afford the game then the hardware may even be free.
This past couple of weeks I have been playing Ghengis Khan, and it's fun. System requirements included FILES=15 (or more) in the config.sys, at least 384K free RAM, and if I want to install it on the hard drive I need to have at least 850K free there. Why would I buy new hardware or OS for that?
I also keep a Win98 machine around in order to play some games that are picky about having access to a pure DOS environment (Wing Commander Privateer is a good example).
In my experience a 386 with 4MB RAM (or a slow 486) didn't run 95, it WALKED it, or maybe crawled. Though a fast 486 with 16MB ran it very well.
"in the last 10 years there hasn't been that much advancement in the ui department of the 'common' household/office apps - "
I use WordPerfect8 for my word processing at home, and Word 2000 at work, and have used Word 2003, and there is NO important difference.
There are minor differences, such as WP8 is much less bloated (loads faster), and I'm used to it, and it has better WYSIWYG, and it's been around long enough to have all the necesary patches, and it reads all my old documents better than Word, and I already own it, so why buy new MS Office when I could buy another computer for less money.
Very interesting example.
Was the irony intended?
I remember the day of hardware keys that would plug into the computer in order to use certain software (though those days were virtually over when I got my first PC).
They were never very popular then. I can't imagine them becoming so now.
"For 20 years the desktop computer has stayed about the same size"
I can see 2 reasons right away:
1. People feel more comfortable using things of a certain size.
2. Computers have greatly increased in power.
Also, perhaps desktops haven't gotten much smaller (though the computer on my desk right now would fit about 4 times in a standard AT case), but personal computers have gotten MUCH smaller.
Consider a new cellphone. Smaller than a hand, yet more powerful than a standard 386 from 15 years ago.
A car computer (other than the one that runs the car) isn't a need in the first place. As long as you're having the luxury (for fun, to impress geeks, bore women, whatever) you might as well get a dual processor.
I guess that was part of my point in being careful what college you choose.
No, I didn't take any of those.
Some are avoidable by taking AP classes in high school.
Some you can take at a community college, where the tuition is less and the freshman classes are usually better taught (because: no grad students, smaller class size, professional emphasis on teaching rather than research). But make sure it'll transfer.
Perhaps you forget that the Senator does belong to a voluntary organization that includes Hubble repair as one of its jobs.
In order to be a senator in the US Congress one needs to be a US citizen. Such citizenship is voluntary. Such citizenship implies a willingness to abide by the rules (read "laws, including tax laws") of the organization, and a willingness to try to improve the rules.
The fact that many of us choose not to live by this implied agreement doesn't mean that the agreement doesn't exist.
I am personally in favor of most rules that fund space science and exploration.
Aren't there several free live linux distros already easily available with the same capability?
Yeah, I've heard a lot of stupid people use that excuse, but I don't remember a good teacher that couldn't *do*, and the best teachers are nearly always those that can *do* well.
(This doesn't mean that you're stupid. You may just like repeating stupid jokes. I know that I do.)
I currently work as an actuary.