Oh, you'll loath some of the bullshit that gets added to math curricula to pad out the vocab lists...
Hey kids, because it's fucking pointless, we are going to be learning about 'proper fractions', 'improper fractions' and 'mixed numbers'!... All of these are basically just division problems that are being left unevaluated for reasons of convenience, or because the resulting decimal representation may not be entirely well behaved, so this shit is pointless; but it will be on the quiz.
Getting added? I learned that in the third grade fifty years ago, it isn't something new that they're adding now. We learned fractions before learning division; it makes division much easier to learn if you understand breaking groups into fractions of a group first. Also, back then first you learned addition and subtraction, then fractions, then multiplication and dividion, THEN decimals.
Oh, and you missed one. 2/3 proper fraction 3/2 improper fraction 1 2/3 mixed number 1 3/2 retarded number
WTF, an AC links to the urban dictionary rather than Webster's or wikipedia, and gets modded informative? It's offtopic, racist, and sexist; we're talking about the candy, not ghetto slang for a black woman's nipples,
No wonder slashdot is going for the new universally hated design, they're pandering to the army of idiots from 4chan and reddit who have invaded our beloved nerd site.
Tootsie Rolls have been introduced to Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Aruba, United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Panama, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Australia, and New Zealand.
So how in the hell can someone not know what a tootsie roll is? How in the hell can someone not google for a piece of information that shouldn't have to be explained in a/. summary?
More tinfoil than me... I at least carry a phone. I do use open source when possible (which is almost always when I'm not at work). A landline can be tapped, too, so unless he has no land line he hasn't thought it through. If the feds want in, they'll get in.
Except not today! The tea party shut the whole damned government down (which is always their #1 priority anyway).
Funny, but incorrect. Somewhere at the bottom is the assembler that the first compiler was written in, and the hand-assembled machine code the first assembler was written in... then you have to trust Intel and AMD to not install NSA back doors in their chips. Build your own computer out of discrete components and it will cost a fortune, take a large building to hold, and be very slow compared to chips.
True, but one can understand everything about something, and enough of everything to get by. If you know how electricity and electronic components work, how logic gates and ALUs work, know assembly and higher level languages you can pretty much understand enough.
The secret is reading LOTS of books and then practicing. Unfortunately, 97% of the population are aliterate -- they can read, but don't. I don't understand those people! Probably never will.
You are correct. It has to be implanted and be a machine or electronic device. My eye's lens replacement I got back in 2006 counts - unlike the old style lenses, it sits on struts and will focus, powered by the eye's muscle. People with artificial joint implants are cyborgs. A pacemaker or a cochlear implant makes you a cyborg. A prosthetic or Google Glasses or sewing a useless chip under your skin does not.
Most cyborgs are geezers. You will be assimilated... if you're lucky.
Warwick's no cyborg, he's a loon. Mann doesn't seem to be playing with a full deck, either.
You're looking at this like it was a legitimate business, rather than the thievery that it is. This is like coming home to find your central air unit ruined because thieves stole the copper. The thieves net maybe a hundred bucks, you're out ten times that much. It isn't like the bot herders PAID for the electricity and use of the machines, they broke in and stole that electricity.
Except he's not a real cyborg. No artificial knees or hips, no eye lens or cochlear implants, not even a pacemaker. I, on the other hand, was assimilated in 2006 when I had a focusable lens implanted in my left eye to replace the natural lens. I was severely nearsighted all my life and wore thick glasses, then had contacts AND reading glasses in middle age. Now not only do I no longer need corrective lenses, I have better than 20/20 vision. I see better than a kid, and I'm 61.
Resistance is futile? When the time comes there will be no resistance, you'll beg to be assimilated. I love being a cyborg! Beats the hell out of wearing coke bottle glasses!
The scene in that one STNG where there's a closeup of a needle going into Picard's eye? Yeah, that actually did happen to me (only it was a human named Dr. Yea that stuck the needle in... and yes, I was awake. Freaky but painless).
It bottoms out at $35. Still a great deal, beats the hell out of AT&T. A phone like mine (waterproof Kyocera Android Jellybean), $50 signup fee and first month's payment is about $200 total. All it's missing is a front facing camera (the rear facing one is pretty good, 5.5 megapixels). Boost Mobile, I've been with them for years and are happy with them.
Like earbuds. Not exactly high fidelity, but what earbud is? I'm wondering how well they handle high frequencies, though, which magnetic buds do easily. Thermoacoustic seems like it would be quite a bit slower than electromechanical.
I wonder what manufacturing costs are compared to magnetic earbuds?
Interesting concept, though, whether or not it's really practical.
What does that have to do with robots, inspecting ship's ballast tanks (which unless I'm mistaken a careless captain wouldn't damage), how dangerous it is for human inspectors?
Not even anything about how cool that thing looked rolling around corners upside down? This was one FA that was worth looking at, I was impressed. The video is a must-see.
This is a bad article and the editors should feel bad.
Don't blame the editors, stories are voted up or down by logged-in users. Nobody made you click the link, go play in the firehose if you want to affect what's posted.
I was at work so didn't see it, but I'd have voted "funny".
He must be really tired from trying to stay relevant.
Probably more like stoned out of his mind. I wonder how slow this tech will make your computer?
That line in TFS, "experimenting with chemicals"... I did that as a kid. When I almost burned the house down my dad took away my chemistry set. Someone needs to turn in their nerd license. Call a spade a spade, it isn't "experimenting with chemicals" it's "abusing drugs." An eight year old making gunpowder is experimenting with chemicals.
McAffee is a loon. Does he really think he can outwit the NSA'a army of network engineers and computer scientists? If the NSA wants your communications, they'll have them. McAfee's as well (and most likely already have the plans to his device with countermeasures already in place).
I just said pretty much the same thing to someone who took offense at the comment. "Deviant" shouldn't have a negative spin, charity is deviant behavior. Mother Theresa exhibited deviant behavior. People shouldn't be so uptight about words and instead look at the word as communicating exactly what the dictionary says it communicates.
FWIW I pity gays because of the bigotry they're subjected to. I especially dislike the "God hates fags" preachers and feel especially sorry for a gay that wanders into one of their churches. God loves everyone and your sins are no worse than mine or anyone else's and are none of my business.
Obviously nowadays, even for people who are aware of this, we still put quite personal things into our emails.. stuff that we wouldn't quite say in public.
I believe you misunderstand me, rather than being binary there's not much difference between the mainstream parties. I smoke pot, do you think I'd vote for someone who wants me in prison? Neither the Greens nor the Libertarians want me in jail.
And that's not the only objection I have to the single party with two names, patent and copyright law being two. I want the Pirate Party to take root here.
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Oh, you'll loath some of the bullshit that gets added to math curricula to pad out the vocab lists...
Hey kids, because it's fucking pointless, we are going to be learning about 'proper fractions', 'improper fractions' and 'mixed numbers'!... All of these are basically just division problems that are being left unevaluated for reasons of convenience, or because the resulting decimal representation may not be entirely well behaved, so this shit is pointless; but it will be on the quiz.
Getting added? I learned that in the third grade fifty years ago, it isn't something new that they're adding now. We learned fractions before learning division; it makes division much easier to learn if you understand breaking groups into fractions of a group first. Also, back then first you learned addition and subtraction, then fractions, then multiplication and dividion, THEN decimals.
Oh, and you missed one.
2/3 proper fraction
3/2 improper fraction
1 2/3 mixed number
1 3/2 retarded number
WTF, an AC links to the urban dictionary rather than Webster's or wikipedia, and gets modded informative? It's offtopic, racist, and sexist; we're talking about the candy, not ghetto slang for a black woman's nipples,
No wonder slashdot is going for the new universally hated design, they're pandering to the army of idiots from 4chan and reddit who have invaded our beloved nerd site.
For the GP, Pictures and description of a tootsie roll here. They don't export the things? Wait a minute...
So how in the hell can someone not know what a tootsie roll is? How in the hell can someone not google for a piece of information that shouldn't have to be explained in a /. summary?
I guess I should metamoderate...
That would be me. Fittingly, the story is a humorous fantasy about corrupt cops and a corrupt mayor and an intelligent whirlwind.
More tinfoil than me... I at least carry a phone. I do use open source when possible (which is almost always when I'm not at work). A landline can be tapped, too, so unless he has no land line he hasn't thought it through. If the feds want in, they'll get in.
Except not today! The tea party shut the whole damned government down (which is always their #1 priority anyway).
Funny, but incorrect. Somewhere at the bottom is the assembler that the first compiler was written in, and the hand-assembled machine code the first assembler was written in... then you have to trust Intel and AMD to not install NSA back doors in their chips. Build your own computer out of discrete components and it will cost a fortune, take a large building to hold, and be very slow compared to chips.
We're screwed.
There is no way we can understand everything.
True, but one can understand everything about something, and enough of everything to get by. If you know how electricity and electronic components work, how logic gates and ALUs work, know assembly and higher level languages you can pretty much understand enough.
The secret is reading LOTS of books and then practicing. Unfortunately, 97% of the population are aliterate -- they can read, but don't. I don't understand those people! Probably never will.
You are correct. It has to be implanted and be a machine or electronic device. My eye's lens replacement I got back in 2006 counts - unlike the old style lenses, it sits on struts and will focus, powered by the eye's muscle. People with artificial joint implants are cyborgs. A pacemaker or a cochlear implant makes you a cyborg. A prosthetic or Google Glasses or sewing a useless chip under your skin does not.
Most cyborgs are geezers. You will be assimilated... if you're lucky.
Warwick's no cyborg, he's a loon. Mann doesn't seem to be playing with a full deck, either.
You're looking at this like it was a legitimate business, rather than the thievery that it is. This is like coming home to find your central air unit ruined because thieves stole the copper. The thieves net maybe a hundred bucks, you're out ten times that much. It isn't like the bot herders PAID for the electricity and use of the machines, they broke in and stole that electricity.
Except he's not a real cyborg. No artificial knees or hips, no eye lens or cochlear implants, not even a pacemaker. I, on the other hand, was assimilated in 2006 when I had a focusable lens implanted in my left eye to replace the natural lens. I was severely nearsighted all my life and wore thick glasses, then had contacts AND reading glasses in middle age. Now not only do I no longer need corrective lenses, I have better than 20/20 vision. I see better than a kid, and I'm 61.
Resistance is futile? When the time comes there will be no resistance, you'll beg to be assimilated. I love being a cyborg! Beats the hell out of wearing coke bottle glasses!
The scene in that one STNG where there's a closeup of a needle going into Picard's eye? Yeah, that actually did happen to me (only it was a human named Dr. Yea that stuck the needle in... and yes, I was awake. Freaky but painless).
It bottoms out at $35. Still a great deal, beats the hell out of AT&T. A phone like mine (waterproof Kyocera Android Jellybean), $50 signup fee and first month's payment is about $200 total. All it's missing is a front facing camera (the rear facing one is pretty good, 5.5 megapixels). Boost Mobile, I've been with them for years and are happy with them.
Nah, you can get that for free on YouTube.
..what do they sound like?
Like earbuds. Not exactly high fidelity, but what earbud is? I'm wondering how well they handle high frequencies, though, which magnetic buds do easily. Thermoacoustic seems like it would be quite a bit slower than electromechanical.
I wonder what manufacturing costs are compared to magnetic earbuds?
Interesting concept, though, whether or not it's really practical.
What does that have to do with robots, inspecting ship's ballast tanks (which unless I'm mistaken a careless captain wouldn't damage), how dangerous it is for human inspectors?
Not even anything about how cool that thing looked rolling around corners upside down? This was one FA that was worth looking at, I was impressed. The video is a must-see.
How often does the government manage to make anything that is even fit for purpose, never mind better than everything else out there.
Weapons, every time they make a new one, and they spend lavishly. Snowden was pulling in $200k a year, that's serious money.
This is a bad article and the editors should feel bad.
Don't blame the editors, stories are voted up or down by logged-in users. Nobody made you click the link, go play in the firehose if you want to affect what's posted.
I was at work so didn't see it, but I'd have voted "funny".
Also don't use Windows......ever
That's kind of hard to do at work. And if the NSA wants to pwn my Linux box I'm sure they can.
He must be really tired from trying to stay relevant.
Probably more like stoned out of his mind. I wonder how slow this tech will make your computer?
That line in TFS, "experimenting with chemicals"... I did that as a kid. When I almost burned the house down my dad took away my chemistry set. Someone needs to turn in their nerd license. Call a spade a spade, it isn't "experimenting with chemicals" it's "abusing drugs." An eight year old making gunpowder is experimenting with chemicals.
McAffee is a loon. Does he really think he can outwit the NSA'a army of network engineers and computer scientists? If the NSA wants your communications, they'll have them. McAfee's as well (and most likely already have the plans to his device with countermeasures already in place).
Thanks, but it looks like other folks had plenty.
I just said pretty much the same thing to someone who took offense at the comment. "Deviant" shouldn't have a negative spin, charity is deviant behavior. Mother Theresa exhibited deviant behavior. People shouldn't be so uptight about words and instead look at the word as communicating exactly what the dictionary says it communicates.
FWIW I pity gays because of the bigotry they're subjected to. I especially dislike the "God hates fags" preachers and feel especially sorry for a gay that wanders into one of their churches. God loves everyone and your sins are no worse than mine or anyone else's and are none of my business.
Obviously nowadays, even for people who are aware of this, we still put quite personal things into our emails.. stuff that we wouldn't quite say in public.
Sheesh, kids... How naive.
I hope you're wrong and fear you may be right.
We're not in disagreement. I vote neither D nor R, I smoke pot. Why would I vote for someone who wants me in jail?
Patents and copyrights? They're in lockstep.
That was my point, the GP thought it was an Obama thing when it doesn't matter who is in the white house, they're all the same.
I believe you misunderstand me, rather than being binary there's not much difference between the mainstream parties. I smoke pot, do you think I'd vote for someone who wants me in prison? Neither the Greens nor the Libertarians want me in jail.
And that's not the only objection I have to the single party with two names, patent and copyright law being two. I want the Pirate Party to take root here.
Yes, homosexuality isn't unique to our species. And I should have been more clear when I commented.
You can't be for killing one species of animal, and against killing another.
Whales don't poop on my car! And... and... STAR TREK IV!!!
More seriously, I agree with your educators... but then, I love education so...