I took notes in law school by typing and in undergrad by hand. The reason had nothing to do with availability of technology, but was entirely driven by what was the most efficient solution for the classes I was taking. In law school, good notes take the form of copious amounts of prose, and I can type very quickly and accurately without as much focus as it takes to write both slower and less legibly. In my undergraduate classes, which were predominantly math and computer science, good notes took the form of complicated formulas and the like, and I could write them by hand faster than I could ever type the equivalents (especially that day in Cryptological Mathematics when we ran out of Latin and Greek letters for the variables in a particular problem and had to start using Arabic and Hebrew characters).
Long story short: Use the best tool for the job. For some jobs, pen and paper are unbeatable and will always be unbeatable. If you really want a nicely-typeset formula later on, you can transcribe your notes as needed. No typing-based solution is going to be as accurate (in the sense that you can spot and correct mistakes at a glance later on) as writing them out by hand, and using a digitizer slows you down more than just using pen and paper would because of the transition time back and forth. If you are really taking hard math classes, you probably don't have time to switch from typing to digitizing and back in the heat of the moment.
To be fair, the "frickin' fantastic" quote was directed to the flight control crew, and was in the form of "You all did frickin' fantastic." It had no bearing whatsoever on the rocket's flight at all.
The problem is people in general. I have observed that there is no bias with respect to age, experience, type of distraction available, geography, weather, etc. Everyone sucks at driving, all the time, everywhere. There are a few exceptions, but the chance of meeting any of them on the road is slim. If you are personally an exception (and no, people are not qualified to judge that for themselves - 90% of people believe they are above-average drivers), then the chance of meeting another while driving drops to zero.
Your point is, of course, valid, but when a site has been online for just shy of 15 years, including a decade in Yahoo!'s hands, I am probably far from the only person who didn't think to archive all the useful pages he found there. This is particularly true since the types of sites that I'm talking about were probably useful to me one day in 2003 and may again be useful to me in 2012, but I have no recollection of their existence or importance in the interim.
Yahoo! should consider selling a Geocities archive CD. I'd imagine that, once you compress every blink tag and marquee tag down to one byte each and only include one copy of the under construction animated GIF, it wouldn't take up all that much space.
I am hopeful that any information I may need that was only ever hosted on some guy's Geocities site (probably in SiliconValley) has been archived. There is a lot of it, from information about microcontroller programming to Old English word lists and grammar lessons, that up to last week I ended up at some geocities.com address for. It hosted a lot more than just nested blink and marquee tags.
It was a bit of a joke, hence the reference to having burned the book. But another cocktail book I've perused had some joking commentary on the modern state of the martini: Even a dead rat in a martini glass would be called "martini."
I once read that the earliest martinis were made with vodka, because gin hadn't yet been invented or some such reason. I'd tell you the name of the book, but it's hard to read through the charring.
That would be more of a correction if it actually disputed anything that I said. But it is indeed good information for anyone who doesn't already know the various names the moon has had.
I took a class on trademark once and nearly stayed awake through it. I seem to recall that you look at, among other things, how confused consumers are likely to be. The two marks being identical doesn't matter.
Later still, scientists discovered that all of these experiments with flies were actually memories implanted into the scientists' brains by their evil fly overlords.
One of the smart things my high school's English department did was make us watch Star Wars: A New Hope, in the context of epic poetry and the like. More so than Sci-Fi books made into movies, including a few movies just to compare and contrast with the books is a valid use of time. Although some of the book-to-movie examples are worth discussing, as well, such as Starship Troopers: what changed and why? or Dune: why is this movie so much harder to get through than the book?
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I took notes in law school by typing and in undergrad by hand. The reason had nothing to do with availability of technology, but was entirely driven by what was the most efficient solution for the classes I was taking. In law school, good notes take the form of copious amounts of prose, and I can type very quickly and accurately without as much focus as it takes to write both slower and less legibly. In my undergraduate classes, which were predominantly math and computer science, good notes took the form of complicated formulas and the like, and I could write them by hand faster than I could ever type the equivalents (especially that day in Cryptological Mathematics when we ran out of Latin and Greek letters for the variables in a particular problem and had to start using Arabic and Hebrew characters).
Long story short: Use the best tool for the job. For some jobs, pen and paper are unbeatable and will always be unbeatable. If you really want a nicely-typeset formula later on, you can transcribe your notes as needed. No typing-based solution is going to be as accurate (in the sense that you can spot and correct mistakes at a glance later on) as writing them out by hand, and using a digitizer slows you down more than just using pen and paper would because of the transition time back and forth. If you are really taking hard math classes, you probably don't have time to switch from typing to digitizing and back in the heat of the moment.
To be fair, the "frickin' fantastic" quote was directed to the flight control crew, and was in the form of "You all did frickin' fantastic." It had no bearing whatsoever on the rocket's flight at all.
The problem is people in general. I have observed that there is no bias with respect to age, experience, type of distraction available, geography, weather, etc. Everyone sucks at driving, all the time, everywhere. There are a few exceptions, but the chance of meeting any of them on the road is slim. If you are personally an exception (and no, people are not qualified to judge that for themselves - 90% of people believe they are above-average drivers), then the chance of meeting another while driving drops to zero.
Your point is, of course, valid, but when a site has been online for just shy of 15 years, including a decade in Yahoo!'s hands, I am probably far from the only person who didn't think to archive all the useful pages he found there. This is particularly true since the types of sites that I'm talking about were probably useful to me one day in 2003 and may again be useful to me in 2012, but I have no recollection of their existence or importance in the interim.
Yahoo! should consider selling a Geocities archive CD. I'd imagine that, once you compress every blink tag and marquee tag down to one byte each and only include one copy of the under construction animated GIF, it wouldn't take up all that much space.
I am hopeful that any information I may need that was only ever hosted on some guy's Geocities site (probably in SiliconValley) has been archived. There is a lot of it, from information about microcontroller programming to Old English word lists and grammar lessons, that up to last week I ended up at some geocities.com address for. It hosted a lot more than just nested blink and marquee tags.
It was a bit of a joke, hence the reference to having burned the book. But another cocktail book I've perused had some joking commentary on the modern state of the martini: Even a dead rat in a martini glass would be called "martini."
I once read that the earliest martinis were made with vodka, because gin hadn't yet been invented or some such reason. I'd tell you the name of the book, but it's hard to read through the charring.
That would be more of a correction if it actually disputed anything that I said. But it is indeed good information for anyone who doesn't already know the various names the moon has had.
If the moon were made out of barbecue spare ribs, would you eat it?
I am, in fact, the most modest man alive.
I took a class on trademark once and nearly stayed awake through it. I seem to recall that you look at, among other things, how confused consumers are likely to be. The two marks being identical doesn't matter.
Beware the mole people!
I think Death Magnetic is that way - you lose a lot of irrational-numbered and insane harmonics when you compress the tracks to 16Kbps AAC.
It's called consulting. I hear he's in talks with Dogbert.
A mad scientist or a Burgertown employee with curly hair.
Later still, scientists discovered that all of these experiments with flies were actually memories implanted into the scientists' brains by their evil fly overlords.
Do you have some sources for your particular definition of influenza?
I like that it's still called C++0x. Are they going to publish the final standard in the next 80 days?
I would hope so! I don't think I could trust a brain surgeon who doesn't study his own area of expertise more than 3 hours a week.
bfint identifier;
Placing a test mass next to the beam line and measuring the forces on it as the particles pass by should confirm the theory â" or scupper it entirely.
...or launch the test mass into the wall of the LHC at half the speed of light.
I prefer MC Escher.
It is, in fact, the exact opposite of ironic. Even Alanis and the Robot Devil have a better sense of irony than that.
One of the smart things my high school's English department did was make us watch Star Wars: A New Hope, in the context of epic poetry and the like. More so than Sci-Fi books made into movies, including a few movies just to compare and contrast with the books is a valid use of time. Although some of the book-to-movie examples are worth discussing, as well, such as Starship Troopers: what changed and why? or Dune: why is this movie so much harder to get through than the book?
A single dwarf, whose name was Mini-Dunker.