Yes, Mathematics is important. However, Math doesn't really teach problem solving skills. I have long held the opinion that we should make all 1st year cs/it students take a Physics course -- a course where students are required to build their own solutions to classic problems built out of pre-defined parts. This would teach the real skills required to solve a design problem.
It all depends on what we are counting. These numbers are primarily used for advertising.
I can show your ad once to ten different people or 10 times to one person. Which do you prefer?
Are we counting unique visits or unique visitors? You are correct if the former, but wrong if the latter.
There is a further side effect of the pill. It stops you from having sex with your spouse in any manner other than the missionary position, in bed. Woman on Top, on the couch, is an infringing use for which a secondary license must be purchased.
Kronecker: "God made the integers; all else is the work of man"
0 as a number is an abstract concept. Certainly the concept of nothing or none existed before the invention of 0, but it was considered the lack number, not a number with value=nothing.
Negative integers are really positive integers in the opposite direction. The concept of a number less than zero is just a notation invented to express this idea of directionality.
Please don't open that can of worms!
I hold the view that anything other than the natural number system (Integers greater than zero) is invented.
However, people far more educated than I have been arguing this for centuries.
So, as long as the author is writing something of their own and not reposting someone else's work then they are a journalist?
No, they have to be reasonably reporting the news in the public interest.
Does that open AP wires, written up in other media, not journalistic media?
I'm not sure if I'm reading this correctly, but I'll take a stab at it:
You are confusing journalism with journalist. AP wire stories are journalism. The AP employee who wrote it is a journalist. Posting an AP wire story in my blog doesn't make me a journalist, it makes me an editor. Presumably, if I didn't write the story, I don't have an information on the sources, so the point is moot.
A journalist is someone who makes a bona-fide attempt to report news reasonably seen as in the public interest. For example, reporting or commentary on politics, religion, Tara Reid's breasts is all news.
Reposting an article from the Times is not.
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TANSTAAFL.
The alternator gets harder to turn the more electrical load you put on it. Any load on the electrical system reduces efficiency.
However, we need to know about the catalyzing effect of the hydrogen on Hydrocarbon combustion. There still may be a net benefit.
IANAC (I am not a chemist)
However, it seems possible that one could electrolyze water, and then feed the products (Hydrogen and oxygen) back into the combustion chamber to improve combustion. It's not a perpetual motion machine a we are not producing fuel, but are produce catalysts.
There may very well be something to see here.
Actually, theft is a felony, a crime against the state which is punishable under criminal law.
Copyright infringement, until things went haywire in the last ten years, has historically been a civil suit. You couldn't go to jail for it until you violated court orders, in which case, you would be imprisoned for that.
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Yes, Mathematics is important. However, Math doesn't really teach problem solving skills. I have long held the opinion that we should make all 1st year cs/it students take a Physics course -- a course where students are required to build their own solutions to classic problems built out of pre-defined parts. This would teach the real skills required to solve a design problem.
Do you have a source for this info?
And what does 10 times less/fewer mean?
It all depends on what we are counting. These numbers are primarily used for advertising. I can show your ad once to ten different people or 10 times to one person. Which do you prefer? Are we counting unique visits or unique visitors? You are correct if the former, but wrong if the latter.
Both a grammatical and a math/logic error in the first sentence!
Then why are cheques returned as stale dated when I forget to change the year in January?
Mod parent up. Freakin hilarious.
There is a further side effect of the pill. It stops you from having sex with your spouse in any manner other than the missionary position, in bed. Woman on Top, on the couch, is an infringing use for which a secondary license must be purchased.
Kronecker: "God made the integers; all else is the work of man" 0 as a number is an abstract concept. Certainly the concept of nothing or none existed before the invention of 0, but it was considered the lack number, not a number with value=nothing. Negative integers are really positive integers in the opposite direction. The concept of a number less than zero is just a notation invented to express this idea of directionality.
Please don't open that can of worms! I hold the view that anything other than the natural number system (Integers greater than zero) is invented. However, people far more educated than I have been arguing this for centuries.
So, as long as the author is writing something of their own and not reposting someone else's work then they are a journalist? No, they have to be reasonably reporting the news in the public interest. Does that open AP wires, written up in other media, not journalistic media? I'm not sure if I'm reading this correctly, but I'll take a stab at it: You are confusing journalism with journalist. AP wire stories are journalism. The AP employee who wrote it is a journalist. Posting an AP wire story in my blog doesn't make me a journalist, it makes me an editor. Presumably, if I didn't write the story, I don't have an information on the sources, so the point is moot.
Well, I'd tell you, but then they'd probably force me to reveal my sources.
The courts have very clear tests on the definition of "reasonable". That word was chosen very carefully.
A journalist is someone who makes a bona-fide attempt to report news reasonably seen as in the public interest. For example, reporting or commentary on politics, religion, Tara Reid's breasts is all news. Reposting an article from the Times is not.
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This definition is not limited to traditional works of music but may also include spoken word, lectures, computer generated sounds, sounds of nature or other audible work that may be recorded and distributed by any means.
This definition does not include any interactive work such that the user can influence the sound other than by the normal processes of amplification, equalization and effects. Such interactive works shall be considered software.
To clarify, an album or song is a recorded work. Video game music will be classified as software since the user influences the music through game activities. However, such music may concurrently be released as a linear recording.
Play Back: To play back a recording is to decode the recording into an audible form such that the original work is faithfully reproduced within the limits of technology. License: When a user obtains a recorded work, she obtains the right to use that in any way she sees fit provided that the use is consistent with the rights and obligations outlined below. This license is granted in perpetuity for a fee establish by the producer or for a limitted time only in the case of rentals or loans through a library. This license is not obtained via public performance or broadcast.
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TANSTAAFL. The alternator gets harder to turn the more electrical load you put on it. Any load on the electrical system reduces efficiency. However, we need to know about the catalyzing effect of the hydrogen on Hydrocarbon combustion. There still may be a net benefit.
Yes, because we can all leave our engines running for 3 and a half days without adding gas. I get six hours tops at highway speeds.
IANAC (I am not a chemist) However, it seems possible that one could electrolyze water, and then feed the products (Hydrogen and oxygen) back into the combustion chamber to improve combustion. It's not a perpetual motion machine a we are not producing fuel, but are produce catalysts. There may very well be something to see here.
Actually, theft is a felony, a crime against the state which is punishable under criminal law. Copyright infringement, until things went haywire in the last ten years, has historically been a civil suit. You couldn't go to jail for it until you violated court orders, in which case, you would be imprisoned for that.