Actually, the word hydraulic can refer to any liquid.
Literally (from The Free Dictionary): Latin hydraulicus, from Greek hudraulikos, from hudraulis, water organ : hudro-, hudr-, hydro- + aulos, pipe, flute.
I realize Slashdot is the "Yesterday's News for Nerds" site and all, but isn't it about time a story about the death of Stanislaw Lem was posted?
At least in this matter Slashdot doesn't have to be worried about being scooped by Digg, since diggers can't spell "Stanislaw"
Two gratuitous insults and one failure to execute. If you hadn't been so intent on being a smartass you could have posted the story yourself.
"In logic, begging the question is the term for a type of fallacy occurring in deductive reasoning in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in one of the premises."
During the discussion, he would create (on the chalkboard) a running outline of the topics with some details, but not EVERYTHING we talked about. As he wrote on the board, we students wrote in our notebooks, and then went back to the discussion.
Computers in classes are not going away. So, how do we teach and learn with them there? Ideally we would learn at the moment of teaching by attending to the person teaching and not simply being a recording device. But the urge to try and capture what is said is strong; we think that we can learn later. This alternating discussion/chalkboard scheme appears to show a way to bring pleasure to the "teachable moment" and allay the anxiety of walking out of a class with nothing but what is in your head.
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Should have gone with Comparatively Colossal Carrying Projectile.
CCCR. The initials (in cyrillic) for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The old saying is, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating," not "The proof is in the pudding."
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana. Fixed that for you.
Wait for this to be on the IgNobels.
Literally (from The Free Dictionary): Latin hydraulicus, from Greek hudraulikos, from hudraulis, water organ : hudro-, hudr-, hydro- + aulos, pipe, flute.
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Two gratuitous insults and one failure to execute. If you hadn't been so intent on being a smartass you could have posted the story yourself.
"In logic, begging the question is the term for a type of fallacy occurring in deductive reasoning in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in one of the premises."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Computers in classes are not going away. So, how do we teach and learn with them there? Ideally we would learn at the moment of teaching by attending to the person teaching and not simply being a recording device. But the urge to try and capture what is said is strong; we think that we can learn later. This alternating discussion/chalkboard scheme appears to show a way to bring pleasure to the "teachable moment" and allay the anxiety of walking out of a class with nothing but what is in your head.
"...from someone..." Singular. "...correct their first..." Plural. So, "...from someone who had to correct his (or her) first flame..."