It's no coincidence. The Beach Boys were big admirers of Chuck Berry, and "Surfin' USA" was a cover of "Sweet Little 16" with different lyrics. Check out the opening to some Beach Boys songs like "Fun, Fun, Fun". It's the classic Chuck Berry riff that opens many of Berry's songs, such as "Roll Over Beethoven" and "Johnny B Good."
According to the article, USA, China, UK, Japan and France lead the world in broadband lines added in 2005 Q1. For overall number of broadband lines, the leaders are USA, China, Japan, South Korea, and France in order.
Hey! Anybody remember that thing? You know, it came with that something, and then you'd press that button, and then it would do that thing? And it came in this package with the squiggly in the back? I don't quite remember the name... something with an S or a T or a C maybe... or maybe not. I remember I bought it at this store... you remember that store? It was off the freeway on the number 3, next to that furniture place?
Yeah, so if anybody remembers, please enlighten me.
An article about the Simpsons, and 19 of the first 20 replies are about pi and the other one's about how hot a blue-haired, yellow-skinned cartoon character is.
There was an interesting article on this topic on Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2082960) two years ago. The article points out that the stereotype of the mathematician as a youthful prodigy is no longer the rule but the exception. It includes an interesting quote by mathemtician Henri Poincaré: "[L]ogic and intuition have each their necessary role. Each is indispensable." By logic, I'm guessing he means a more deliberate method of arriving at an answer, something that does require those years of learning and research, while intuition refers to that singular moment of clarity, the very thing that might've struck a twenty-year old mathematician a hundred years ago. So what's changed? Like Poincaré says, both are indispensable. You can stay in school for twenty-years, memorizing every theorem, every proof, every fundamentals of mathematics to heart, but if you don't have the capacity for intuition, you are never going to come upon something new. Likewise, even if the potential for greatness is in you, you won't be able to achieve it without first laying out your foundations. And that's all there is to it. There's simply more to learn, and without that learning, you'll never have a chance to exercise your intuition.
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And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
And thou shalt fling thyself from trees in a pathetic attempt at flying, and thou shalt hurtle towards the earth faster than thou canst say, "Holy Crap!", and men shall laugh and point fingers and cry out, O, silly snakey pooh!
Erm, "paraphrased" from Gen 3:14
That's not the point. Of course users, in an ideal world, should be responsible for their own machines. But the fact is, we dont live in an ideal world. Many owners are not responsible, and unfortunately, their irresponsibility has consequences for the rest of the world. That's why the rest of the world sometimes has to take actions to fix that breach in responsibility.
Same manner of thinking for why the developed nations often help the undeveloped nations with money, food, etc. Not all of it's PR or some "inherent" sense of duty or morality. The greater reason is that helping the poorer countries contributes at least somewhat to a stabler political arena.
Like most places, the US population is concentrated in the coastal cities. Looking at your population map of the US, it looks like roughly half of the country has a population density less than 10 people per square mile. Your argument would be more coherent if you noted that China is roughly equal to the US in size but has more than four times as many people. So it's not really a matter of how the population density is divided since both countries are divided pretty similarly. China is simply a much denser country.
Anyway, I think most people are missing the point. Everybody seems to be taking a defensive approach, quick to note that China has a much bigger population. This isn't so much about the US falling back as much as China catching up. India has more than a billion people; how many of them do you think have broadband access? How about Indonesia, which has a population similar to that of the US? China is still considered a developing country and broadband access is one of those perks of society that naturally is associated with the developed countries, but the point is, China is making some headway.
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It's no coincidence. The Beach Boys were big admirers of Chuck Berry, and "Surfin' USA" was a cover of "Sweet Little 16" with different lyrics. Check out the opening to some Beach Boys songs like "Fun, Fun, Fun". It's the classic Chuck Berry riff that opens many of Berry's songs, such as "Roll Over Beethoven" and "Johnny B Good."
yeah, that's probably true... but the thing is, i don't want to die, period.
According to the article, USA, China, UK, Japan and France lead the world in broadband lines added in 2005 Q1. For overall number of broadband lines, the leaders are USA, China, Japan, South Korea, and France in order.
Hey! Anybody remember that thing? You know, it came with that something, and then you'd press that button, and then it would do that thing? And it came in this package with the squiggly in the back? I don't quite remember the name... something with an S or a T or a C maybe... or maybe not. I remember I bought it at this store... you remember that store? It was off the freeway on the number 3, next to that furniture place? Yeah, so if anybody remembers, please enlighten me.
An article about the Simpsons, and 19 of the first 20 replies are about pi and the other one's about how hot a blue-haired, yellow-skinned cartoon character is.
Since we're talking about building toys, search for erector. I dare ya.
There was an interesting article on this topic on Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2082960) two years ago. The article points out that the stereotype of the mathematician as a youthful prodigy is no longer the rule but the exception. It includes an interesting quote by mathemtician Henri Poincaré: "[L]ogic and intuition have each their necessary role. Each is indispensable." By logic, I'm guessing he means a more deliberate method of arriving at an answer, something that does require those years of learning and research, while intuition refers to that singular moment of clarity, the very thing that might've struck a twenty-year old mathematician a hundred years ago. So what's changed? Like Poincaré says, both are indispensable. You can stay in school for twenty-years, memorizing every theorem, every proof, every fundamentals of mathematics to heart, but if you don't have the capacity for intuition, you are never going to come upon something new. Likewise, even if the potential for greatness is in you, you won't be able to achieve it without first laying out your foundations. And that's all there is to it. There's simply more to learn, and without that learning, you'll never have a chance to exercise your intuition.
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And thou shalt fling thyself from trees in a pathetic attempt at flying, and thou shalt hurtle towards the earth faster than thou canst say, "Holy Crap!", and men shall laugh and point fingers and cry out, O, silly snakey pooh! Erm, "paraphrased" from Gen 3:14
That's not the point. Of course users, in an ideal world, should be responsible for their own machines. But the fact is, we dont live in an ideal world. Many owners are not responsible, and unfortunately, their irresponsibility has consequences for the rest of the world. That's why the rest of the world sometimes has to take actions to fix that breach in responsibility. Same manner of thinking for why the developed nations often help the undeveloped nations with money, food, etc. Not all of it's PR or some "inherent" sense of duty or morality. The greater reason is that helping the poorer countries contributes at least somewhat to a stabler political arena.
Like most places, the US population is concentrated in the coastal cities. Looking at your population map of the US, it looks like roughly half of the country has a population density less than 10 people per square mile. Your argument would be more coherent if you noted that China is roughly equal to the US in size but has more than four times as many people. So it's not really a matter of how the population density is divided since both countries are divided pretty similarly. China is simply a much denser country.
Anyway, I think most people are missing the point. Everybody seems to be taking a defensive approach, quick to note that China has a much bigger population. This isn't so much about the US falling back as much as China catching up. India has more than a billion people; how many of them do you think have broadband access? How about Indonesia, which has a population similar to that of the US? China is still considered a developing country and broadband access is one of those perks of society that naturally is associated with the developed countries, but the point is, China is making some headway.