"Whether you've always been overweight, have been on a roller coaster of dieting and regaining, or have just recently added some excess poundage, the key resources you need to achieve and maintain whatever weight and health goals you set for yourself are the same as you need to accomplish anything else worthwhile in life:
* An eye firmly fixed on the goal.
* Will power.
* A high tolerance for pain."
The problem is most people don't have two out of three of those requirements.
>If it all comes at once, we could see a massive loss of life and property, especially as the
>problematic area lies in some of the poorest parts of the globe.
New solution for poverty!
>MMOs, games hosted on servers, software as a service, selling support for software or expertise, >etc. are all examples of how to deal with this. And yeah, custom software has always been expensive.
Which probably explains why I've never paid for any of the examples you cited.
>Its probably better to just accept reality & deal with it.
I suspect the reality will be less people publishing infinitely distributable goods.
>If what you produce is infinitely redistributable, then you can expect to get paid only for the first copy.
This means that you would have to charge an exorbitant amount for that first copy. This is like going back to the old days when great works of art were only made by artists with wealthy patrons.
>Hi, I'm a physics professor. I say, take your notes on paper. Math is the most computer-incompatible >writing system ever designed. You'll never ever be able to type equations fast enough to keep >up with me on the blackboard.
OK, I'm too late to this thread and this probably won't get seen, but I'll jump in here anyway.
Your thread is one of many that I have seen that says, "Just use pen and paper, it's too hard to use computers to write maths!"
What a bunch of Luddites!
Yes, we all get that it is very hard to write math notes on a computer - that was the point of the original poster's question - how to do this better and more efficiently!
For all of my non-science classes, I found using a computer to take notes to be FANTASTIC! Why? I can touch-type. So I can take notes without ever taking my eyes off of the professor. I can also type faster than I can write. So I'm faster at taking notes. My type-written notes are also far more legible than my handwriting. My electronic notes are more space-efficient, and are electronically searchable. I can also share them with anyone anywhere in the world instantly.
The benefits for english-language note taking on a computer are, for me, absolutely indisputable.
If it wasn't so fucking hard to write mathematical and/or scientific and/or engineering symbols on a computer, we could enjoy the same benefits there!
So the answer to the question is NOT, "use a pencil", but rather to find a more efficient way to to it.
I believe the technical challenges you have raised concerning solid rocket motors can be addressed.
My understanding is that solid motors are a lot less complicated than liquid motors. You eliminate all the turbomachinery and related hardware and piping for fuel and oxidizer management, for one.
>The flu shot is not about preventing you from dying. It's to avoid you from >getting sick and infecting other people who may have weaker immune >systems and have higher risk of dying if they get sick.
It's been a long time since biology classes in high school.
I hate getting on the web with my Blackberry Pearl through T-Mobile. It hearkens me back to the dial-up BBS days it is so slow. I also hate finger typing. I will only use it to get on the web if I am out somewhere and absolutely have to get a phone number or address or some other critical data off of a web site. I don't have the patience for it.
Believe me, when I shelled out $280 for my HP28S in 1989 or so, it was money I happily spent to have a hand-held computer that could help me do calculus.
It's not the money that has stagnated calculator design. It is making them "exam certified". Schools are wise now to the power of these calculators. The ones that still allow calculators to be used at all have a list of acceptable calculators that can be used. Only calculators below a certain computational power level will be allowed. Anything more powerful won't be allowed, and, consequently, there is no market for it.
In my view, Internet access is more important and powerful than the postal and library services combined. Surely if the government provides those basic services through taxation, a basic Internet communications infrastructure should also.
>It's really hard for me to see how TI has a case under the DMCA at all. They're claiming >the anti-circumvention clause, but it doesn't seem to apply here.
They are going to claim anything and everything, because there is a lot of money at stake. If people crack one of TI's "exam approved" line of calculators such that anyone can download a new, unapproved OS (or other data) onto it, odds are good that schools will yank that entire line of calculators off of the "exam approved" list.
The "legal list of allowable calculators" is precisely why the scientific calculator development is pretty much stagnant. I have an HP50G but it is basically a repackaged HP48 with a marginally better screen. But even the 48G was not allowed in the last math class I took that allowed calculators.
I started using an HP28S in college back in 1988. Back then, many teachers did not know what the calculators were capable of. Of course, I had one professor who did, and in fact LOVED them, and so made the tests that much harder to be used in conjunction with said devices.
Anyway my point is the calculator manufacturers are definitely in a pickle. They can't make their calculators too good, or their primary market - college students - can't use them.
If people can hack the OS of "approved" calculators, you can, as you note, basically sneak in anything in what appears to be a normal calculator.
All I know is I hardly ever buy music anymore. I don't have to. I don't even have to resort to risky P2P schemes to get it. It's all available for free on YouTube, and there are plenty of web sites out there that will rip YouTube audio to an MP3 file for you. Oh the quality may not always be great, but it's good enough for me.
You could argue that the entire purpose of mankind is to acquire, and then use to his benefit, information. This has been the ongoing work of mankind since the dawn of mankind. Our appetite for information is insatiable, as the ways to benefit from information seem endless.
I already have no privacy on the web. If my government decides they want to eavesdrop on my communications through my ISP, they already do it without a warrant.
If I have no privacy, nobody should have any.
I say everyone who hangs a shingle (domain) on the web site should be accountable for it and their names a matter of public record.
Further, it is the height of arrogance that we sit on an arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons and sit on high and tell the rest of the world, "No, you cannot have nuclear weapons."
I thought "Do as I say, not as I do" was stupid when I was a child, and I still do as an adult.
If I were in charge of a nation and any nation with nuclear weapons tried to tell me I could not have them I would tell them to come back when they have no nuclear weapons themselves.
But, given the nature of American diplomacy today, where we will invade anyone without the bomb in the name of "democracy and freedom", if I were in charge of a nation without the bomb I would make it my nation's highest priority to obtain it so that I would not be the next nation who has American "democracy and freedom" brought to me on the tip of a sword.
Slashdot Mirror
[quote]Did you even play the first game? Half of the plot is fighting in a chaotic (no longer Saudi) Arabia taken over by Muslim terrorists.[/quote]
I've played all the COD games since the first one, except for COD3 which was only for consoles.
But it's been a long time since I played single player so I can't remember the plot line of COD4MW.
The OpFor forces just always struck me as Russian or Russian-backed. I guess it's the Hind helicopters.
The real question for me in the Modern Warfare series is why the bad guys are Russian at all.
Why aren't they the usual terrorist stereotype? You know - Muslims.
Probably because instead of a recall they'd be facing death threats like that Cartoonist fellow.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/subsection1_1_1_0_3.html
"Whether you've always been overweight, have been on a roller coaster of dieting and regaining, or have just recently added some excess poundage, the key resources you need to achieve and maintain whatever weight and health goals you set for yourself are the same as you need to accomplish anything else worthwhile in life:
* An eye firmly fixed on the goal.
* Will power.
* A high tolerance for pain."
The problem is most people don't have two out of three of those requirements.
>If it all comes at once, we could see a massive loss of life and property, especially as the >problematic area lies in some of the poorest parts of the globe. New solution for poverty!
>MMOs, games hosted on servers, software as a service, selling support for software or expertise,
>etc. are all examples of how to deal with this. And yeah, custom software has always been expensive.
Which probably explains why I've never paid for any of the examples you cited.
>Its probably better to just accept reality & deal with it.
I suspect the reality will be less people publishing infinitely distributable goods.
>If what you produce is infinitely redistributable, then you can expect to get paid only for the first copy.
This means that you would have to charge an exorbitant amount for that first copy. This is like going back to the old days when great works of art were only made by artists with wealthy patrons.
>Hi, I'm a physics professor. I say, take your notes on paper. Math is the most computer-incompatible
>writing system ever designed. You'll never ever be able to type equations fast enough to keep
>up with me on the blackboard.
OK, I'm too late to this thread and this probably won't get seen, but I'll jump in here anyway.
Your thread is one of many that I have seen that says, "Just use pen and paper, it's too hard to use computers to write maths!"
What a bunch of Luddites!
Yes, we all get that it is very hard to write math notes on a computer - that was the point of the original poster's question - how to do this better and more efficiently!
For all of my non-science classes, I found using a computer to take notes to be FANTASTIC! Why? I can touch-type. So I can take notes without ever taking my eyes off of the professor. I can also type faster than I can write. So I'm faster at taking notes. My type-written notes are also far more legible than my handwriting. My electronic notes are more space-efficient, and are electronically searchable. I can also share them with anyone anywhere in the world instantly.
The benefits for english-language note taking on a computer are, for me, absolutely indisputable.
If it wasn't so fucking hard to write mathematical and/or scientific and/or engineering symbols on a computer, we could enjoy the same benefits there!
So the answer to the question is NOT, "use a pencil", but rather to find a more efficient way to to it.
I believe the technical challenges you have raised concerning solid rocket motors can be addressed.
My understanding is that solid motors are a lot less complicated than liquid motors. You eliminate all the turbomachinery and related hardware and piping for fuel and oxidizer management, for one.
[b]There's nothing inherently wrong with adjusting your product for the market your selling in.[/b]
Then there should be nothing inherently wrong with me buying a product in any market available to me to buy from.
What is to stop someone from buying "American" book and reselling them to European customers for, say, only a 10% markup?
Oh, let me guess - no interoperability / not an open format.
>The flu shot is not about preventing you from dying. It's to avoid you from
>getting sick and infecting other people who may have weaker immune
>systems and have higher risk of dying if they get sick.
It's been a long time since biology classes in high school.
Even if I'm immunized, can't I be a carrier?
But by far my favorite is butt-cheek typing.
I hate getting on the web with my Blackberry Pearl through T-Mobile. It hearkens me back to the dial-up BBS days it is so slow. I also hate finger typing. I will only use it to get on the web if I am out somewhere and absolutely have to get a phone number or address or some other critical data off of a web site. I don't have the patience for it.
Don't they find it confusing to differentiate, then, between decimals that represent commas and decimals that represent decimals?
A question: Why do some cultures use decimal points in place of commas?
[b]and it's kept calculator tech advancement practically stagnant.[/b]
Believe me, when I shelled out $280 for my HP28S in 1989 or so, it was money I happily spent to have a hand-held computer that could help me do calculus.
It's not the money that has stagnated calculator design. It is making them "exam certified". Schools are wise now to the power of these calculators. The ones that still allow calculators to be used at all have a list of acceptable calculators that can be used. Only calculators below a certain computational power level will be allowed. Anything more powerful won't be allowed, and, consequently, there is no market for it.
In my view, Internet access is more important and powerful than the postal and library services combined. Surely if the government provides those basic services through taxation, a basic Internet communications infrastructure should also.
>It's really hard for me to see how TI has a case under the DMCA at all. They're claiming
>the anti-circumvention clause, but it doesn't seem to apply here.
They are going to claim anything and everything, because there is a lot of money at stake. If people crack one of TI's "exam approved" line of calculators such that anyone can download a new, unapproved OS (or other data) onto it, odds are good that schools will yank that entire line of calculators off of the "exam approved" list.
Bye-bye sales for that line of calculators.
The "legal list of allowable calculators" is precisely why the scientific calculator development is pretty much stagnant. I have an HP50G but it is basically a repackaged HP48 with a marginally better screen. But even the 48G was not allowed in the last math class I took that allowed calculators.
I started using an HP28S in college back in 1988. Back then, many teachers did not know what the calculators were capable of. Of course, I had one professor who did, and in fact LOVED them, and so made the tests that much harder to be used in conjunction with said devices.
Anyway my point is the calculator manufacturers are definitely in a pickle. They can't make their calculators too good, or their primary market - college students - can't use them.
If people can hack the OS of "approved" calculators, you can, as you note, basically sneak in anything in what appears to be a normal calculator.
All I know is I hardly ever buy music anymore. I don't have to. I don't even have to resort to risky P2P schemes to get it. It's all available for free on YouTube, and there are plenty of web sites out there that will rip YouTube audio to an MP3 file for you. Oh the quality may not always be great, but it's good enough for me.
You could argue that the entire purpose of mankind is to acquire, and then use to his benefit, information. This has been the ongoing work of mankind since the dawn of mankind. Our appetite for information is insatiable, as the ways to benefit from information seem endless.
Consequently, privacy is doomed.
>Sure, but then they and their apologists shouldn't complain when they're called on their treaty violations.
Unless the people doing the calling are likewise busy violating every treaty they can get away with violating, too.
Oh Noes!!!111!!! You mean they signed a TREATY?!?!?
Well Golly. I guess nobody has ever signed a treaty and then gone and done the exact opposite thing before.
I put no stock in treaties. Treaties are something nations sign to give lip-service to a problem and then they make their work secret.
I already have no privacy on the web. If my government decides they want to eavesdrop on my communications through my ISP, they already do it without a warrant.
If I have no privacy, nobody should have any.
I say everyone who hangs a shingle (domain) on the web site should be accountable for it and their names a matter of public record.
The Genie is out of the bottle.
Further, it is the height of arrogance that we sit on an arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons and sit on high and tell the rest of the world, "No, you cannot have nuclear weapons."
I thought "Do as I say, not as I do" was stupid when I was a child, and I still do as an adult.
If I were in charge of a nation and any nation with nuclear weapons tried to tell me I could not have them I would tell them to come back when they have no nuclear weapons themselves.
But, given the nature of American diplomacy today, where we will invade anyone without the bomb in the name of "democracy and freedom", if I were in charge of a nation without the bomb I would make it my nation's highest priority to obtain it so that I would not be the next nation who has American "democracy and freedom" brought to me on the tip of a sword.