Ha. Just you wait. Once I build my anti-graviton field generator, all will be subjected to laws governing gravitational freedom (which I invent, and through blackmail of government officials, get passed). Whether you walk, fly off into the heavens or become crushed into the ground is up to me.
Who will be shipping the second half of 2010? Furthermore, shouldn't we be afraid that terrorists might try and sabotage these shipments and hold time hostage, leaving us to teeter on the precipice at 11:59 December 31, 2009?!
Far more terrorist related deaths have occurred in countries other than the US. Everyone should stop referring to a single incident as if it is the defining moment which makes all fear-mongering justified.
As someone who will graduate with a degree in engineering this May, I feel that I can comment.
As far as textbooks go, I have had some good textbooks and some bad ones. For undergraduate courses, professors will often post lecture notes online, such that these notes and the textbook can be cross-referenced with each other. If I ever had problems understanding a textbook, I would turn to the lecture notes. On few occasions have I had to consult other textbooks (I never really talked to my profs).
I agree 100% that better students can end up getting lower grades due to supportive friends. I never had many friends in my discipline, and as such, did all my assignments alone. Meanwhile, at least 90% of the students worked together on assignments. This was not so much as constructive collaboration as it was 'You do question 1, I'll do question 2 and Bob will do question 3. Then we'll copy each other'. The result is that these students also have more free time, as they are doing only a portion of the work. This allows them more time to study more for midterms and finals. This final semester I had 7 courses, one being a project (which did and still is consuming between 6 and 10 hours per week) and another being a thesis (which required much more work than the coursework of an average course). The result was that I usually only had the night before to study for my midterms.
'Anything' that can help is not necessarily welcome. Maybe it can cure the brain cancer. But who says it doesn't develop into a virus that ends up killing more people per year than the brain cancer was killing?
Nanoradio is not a 'buzzword'. It literally is what its name says. Look it up in a journal like nano letters or nature's nanotechnology.
The physical apparatus is simply a carbon nanotube mounted on a cathode, with the tip being some distance from an anode. When an incoming signal (the modulating carrier wave) is at its resonant frequency (which is 'tuned' through changing the length of the tube), the nanotube begins to vibrate with a relatively large amplitude, while the pattern of the field emission acts as a demodulator. In essence, this acts as a antenna/tuner/amplifier/demodulator all rolled into one.
Actually, the original statement does imply that. It should instead read
"Since the moon's orbital rotation matches the Earth's axial rotation, the Earth will always appear to be in the same spot if seen by an astronaut standing on the moon."
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I think you meant jeans.
no, its 1010/1010/11111011010
So that's how Moses did it...
Some people, they go to bed; they think everything's fine, everything's good. Then they wake up and their crotch is on fire.
Ha. Just you wait. Once I build my anti-graviton field generator, all will be subjected to laws governing gravitational freedom (which I invent, and through blackmail of government officials, get passed). Whether you walk, fly off into the heavens or become crushed into the ground is up to me.
Why is this insightful? Maybe funny, but most likely flamebait.
...you are now officially a religion.
Perhaps the editors should update the summary. Maybe everyone can stop holding their breath for Vernor, then...
New Slogan: Palm: Like watching a hand cleaving thin strips off the side of a head.
Who will be shipping the second half of 2010? Furthermore, shouldn't we be afraid that terrorists might try and sabotage these shipments and hold time hostage, leaving us to teeter on the precipice at 11:59 December 31, 2009?!
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Far more terrorist related deaths have occurred in countries other than the US. Everyone should stop referring to a single incident as if it is the defining moment which makes all fear-mongering justified.
As someone who will graduate with a degree in engineering this May, I feel that I can comment. As far as textbooks go, I have had some good textbooks and some bad ones. For undergraduate courses, professors will often post lecture notes online, such that these notes and the textbook can be cross-referenced with each other. If I ever had problems understanding a textbook, I would turn to the lecture notes. On few occasions have I had to consult other textbooks (I never really talked to my profs). I agree 100% that better students can end up getting lower grades due to supportive friends. I never had many friends in my discipline, and as such, did all my assignments alone. Meanwhile, at least 90% of the students worked together on assignments. This was not so much as constructive collaboration as it was 'You do question 1, I'll do question 2 and Bob will do question 3. Then we'll copy each other'. The result is that these students also have more free time, as they are doing only a portion of the work. This allows them more time to study more for midterms and finals. This final semester I had 7 courses, one being a project (which did and still is consuming between 6 and 10 hours per week) and another being a thesis (which required much more work than the coursework of an average course). The result was that I usually only had the night before to study for my midterms.
first post!
'Anything' that can help is not necessarily welcome. Maybe it can cure the brain cancer. But who says it doesn't develop into a virus that ends up killing more people per year than the brain cancer was killing?
As if millions of twitters suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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Nanoradio is not a 'buzzword'. It literally is what its name says. Look it up in a journal like nano letters or nature's nanotechnology. The physical apparatus is simply a carbon nanotube mounted on a cathode, with the tip being some distance from an anode. When an incoming signal (the modulating carrier wave) is at its resonant frequency (which is 'tuned' through changing the length of the tube), the nanotube begins to vibrate with a relatively large amplitude, while the pattern of the field emission acts as a demodulator. In essence, this acts as a antenna/tuner/amplifier/demodulator all rolled into one.
"Since the moon's orbital rotation matches the Earth's axial rotation, the Earth will always appear to be in the same spot if seen by an astronaut standing on the moon."
Won't somebody think of the microbes?!
1st RULE: You do not talk about THE SWARM. 2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about THE SWARM.
I, for one, welcome our socially accepted robotic overloads
ROFL MOD PARENT UP
...in space...
In Soviet Russia, conclusions jump to you