I liked selection sort the best. Musically, the "piece" constantly seems to accelerate leading to a pleasing conclusion.
But merge sort was a more complex piece.
They *could be* self-sufficient maybe, but are they really? Do dairy farmers in Wisconsin drink orange juice? Do orange growers in Florida eat wheat bread?
Apparently, toxoplasmosis causes infected rodents to *stop fearing* and avoiding the smell of cat urine, causing the rodents to be more likely to be eaten by cats, completing the cycle by getting the toxoplasma back into cats where they can reproduce. (Rats eat cat turds in the other side of the cycle). Sorry if you're eating while reading this! Toxoplasmosis is the reason why pregnant women should not clean out cat litter boxes. It can cause a serious infection in the unborn or newborn baby. Also, it may cause infected humans to engage in more risky behavior, like driving behavior that leads to increased car accidents. (Or even schizophrenia?) Heard about it on NPR's Radiolab. Cool show. Get the podcasts.
Magic 8-ball computing.
As I see it, yes
It is certain
It is decidedly so
Most likely
Outlook good
Signs point to yes
Without a doubt
Yes
Yes - definitely
You may rely on it
Reply hazy, try again
Ask again later
Better not tell you now
Cannot predict now
Concentrate and ask again
Don't count on it
My reply is no
My sources say no
Outlook not so good
Very doubtful
FYI: diamond is not "C4". A diamond is one huge molecule of carbon, all covalently and tetrahedrally bonded. Graphite is also covalently bonded carbon, all in a plane, like chicken wire, with the sheets stacked on top of one another. Graphene is just a single sheet of the same. And fullerenes (buckyballs) are (roughly) spherical carbon molecules, with formulas like C60 (same pattern as a standard soccer ball!). The closest thing to a "C4" would be butyne or butadiene (C4H6). If you could remove a hydrogen atom from one of those you could have a radical with a formula of C4H5, but it would be very short-lived. If by the 4 you were referring to the isotope (i.e. 4C), well no such thing exists. Most carbon is 12C, and there are small amounts of 13C (1%) and 14C (parts per trillion, as in carbon-14 dating) around, but those don't affect the chemistry of the carbon (how it combines with other atoms). Probably more chemistry lesson than you wanted.
We have considered your request and have come to the conclusion that the white, yellow, and brown tones provided by your proposed inkjet ink components would not provide a sufficient color gamut for home or office printing, particularly on the most common print medium of white paper.
Please feel free to share any other ideas you may have in the future and we will consider them.
Most music after about 1957 sucks if you ask me. Everyone has an opinion. Yours and mine are in the minority. Popular music is popular because more people like it than other music. We just have to live with that.
I know you were (at least in part) joking, but I do not subscribe to the view that either "maths" or "math's" is the proper abbreviation for mathematics, especially the latter, but one can imagine a way of getting from "mathematics" to "math's", analogous to "you've", and this apparent process is what I was explaining.
Both This American Life and Radiolab did stories about that guy. Apparently, he had to move his business overseas due to FDA or some other regulations.
Thermodynamics = thermo in my experience. Likewise, p-chem for physical chemistry, unit ops for unit operations, biochem for biochemistry, and psych for psychology. Materials science was always materials science though.
Are you trying to say that the reason Yahoo hasn't been more successful is that their employees, led astray by the bad educational system, are lousy at math and this affects Yahoo's performance? Or are you just replying to the wrong story?
Larger dies generally cost more because it's more likely that they'll have a defect.
That and more importantly, the fact that you get fewer chips per wafer with larger die. Costs are close to the same per wafer (only litho exposure steps take longer with more die and this not usually gating) but if you double the number of chips per wafer by making them half as large (70% shrink in each axis) you effectively cut their cost in half. (except for the amortized capital expense of all the new scanners etc. you need to make and inspect the smaller features).
EUV lithography is still being worked on and not just by Intel. It's getting closer all the time.
Wow. My son died at 17 months age while waiting for a heart transplant, so I appreciate what you've been through and have done. Every now and then, well, OK, once or twice, a Slashdot comment has the power to bring tears to my eyes. This is one of them.
An option?! To replace every last AC-powered device in the country with DC-powered or install huge inverters or motor-generators all over the place? Edison spins in his grave at 60Hz!
I don't think it makes sense to adapt the curriculum to fit an arbitrary grading scheme. It makes more sense to teach what needs to be learned, test for it effectively, and THEN set the grades to reflect what was learned. Designing classes and/or tests to fit the grading scheme is bass ackwards, IMO. Of course, if one school district or state does this, and all the others maintain status quo, it puts those students, even though they may have learned more, at a disadvantage when it comes to college acceptance. I guess that's what makes grade inflation so hard to undo.
Yeah, people will attach it in emails and forward it to a dozen people, saying something like "I normally don't forward these kind of things, but I thought you should see this...."
Why have two different letter grades that both mean 0.0? Sure they could adjust the other grades to cover 0-4, but then you'd have C=1.33 and B=2.67. And you wouldn't want to adjust everything down so that A=3.0, B=2.0, etc. because it wouldn't be compatible with the rest of the world's grading system. Dropping D's is reasonable.
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Then he would have obviously been 1,000,000,000 times more knowledgeable than he actually was.
Thus the saying: Never trust Greeks bearing gifts.
I liked selection sort the best. Musically, the "piece" constantly seems to accelerate leading to a pleasing conclusion. But merge sort was a more complex piece.
Tom Cruise is that you? On Slashdot? Wow.
They *could be* self-sufficient maybe, but are they really?
Do dairy farmers in Wisconsin drink orange juice?
Do orange growers in Florida eat wheat bread?
Apparently, toxoplasmosis causes infected rodents to *stop fearing* and avoiding the smell of cat urine, causing the rodents to be more likely to be eaten by cats, completing the cycle by getting the toxoplasma back into cats where they can reproduce. (Rats eat cat turds in the other side of the cycle).
Sorry if you're eating while reading this!
Toxoplasmosis is the reason why pregnant women should not clean out cat litter boxes. It can cause a serious infection in the unborn or newborn baby.
Also, it may cause infected humans to engage in more risky behavior, like driving behavior that leads to increased car accidents. (Or even schizophrenia?)
Heard about it on NPR's Radiolab. Cool show. Get the podcasts.
That falls under the generalization of (3).
(1) Threat/intimidation/violence
(2) Exploit a careless mistake
(3) Bribery/persuasion
I suppose (1) and (3) even could blur together into "influence" (negative and positive).
Magic 8-ball computing.
As I see it, yes
It is certain
It is decidedly so
Most likely
Outlook good
Signs point to yes
Without a doubt
Yes
Yes - definitely
You may rely on it
Reply hazy, try again
Ask again later
Better not tell you now
Cannot predict now
Concentrate and ask again
Don't count on it
My reply is no
My sources say no
Outlook not so good
Very doubtful
FYI: diamond is not "C4". A diamond is one huge molecule of carbon, all covalently and tetrahedrally bonded. Graphite is also covalently bonded carbon, all in a plane, like chicken wire, with the sheets stacked on top of one another. Graphene is just a single sheet of the same. And fullerenes (buckyballs) are (roughly) spherical carbon molecules, with formulas like C60 (same pattern as a standard soccer ball!). The closest thing to a "C4" would be butyne or butadiene (C4H6). If you could remove a hydrogen atom from one of those you could have a radical with a formula of C4H5, but it would be very short-lived.
If by the 4 you were referring to the isotope (i.e. 4C), well no such thing exists. Most carbon is 12C, and there are small amounts of 13C (1%) and 14C (parts per trillion, as in carbon-14 dating) around, but those don't affect the chemistry of the carbon (how it combines with other atoms).
Probably more chemistry lesson than you wanted.
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All we can say for sure is that they will be powered by humans encased in and plugged into pods filled with transparent goo.
Maybe he meant CueCat. Could those connect to internets?
Most music after about 1957 sucks if you ask me. Everyone has an opinion. Yours and mine are in the minority. Popular music is popular because more people like it than other music. We just have to live with that.
I know you were (at least in part) joking, but I do not subscribe to the view that either "maths" or "math's" is the proper abbreviation for mathematics, especially the latter, but one can imagine a way of getting from "mathematics" to "math's", analogous to "you've", and this apparent process is what I was explaining.
Both This American Life and Radiolab did stories about that guy. Apparently, he had to move his business overseas due to FDA or some other regulations.
Thermodynamics = thermo in my experience.
Likewise, p-chem for physical chemistry, unit ops for unit operations, biochem for biochemistry, and psych for psychology. Materials science was always materials science though.
Are you trying to say that the reason Yahoo hasn't been more successful is that their employees, led astray by the bad educational system, are lousy at math and this affects Yahoo's performance?
Or are you just replying to the wrong story?
The same way we arrive at "you've" from "you have". The apostrophe substitutes for the missing letters.
Larger dies generally cost more because it's more likely that they'll have a defect.
That and more importantly, the fact that you get fewer chips per wafer with larger die.
Costs are close to the same per wafer (only litho exposure steps take longer with more die and this not usually gating) but if you double the number of chips per wafer by making them half as large (70% shrink in each axis) you effectively cut their cost in half. (except for the amortized capital expense of all the new scanners etc. you need to make and inspect the smaller features).
EUV lithography is still being worked on and not just by Intel. It's getting closer all the time.
I stand corrected. I do think there are significant barriers to widespread use of HVDC though.
Wow.
My son died at 17 months age while waiting for a heart transplant, so I appreciate what you've been through and have done.
Every now and then, well, OK, once or twice, a Slashdot comment has the power to bring tears to my eyes. This is one of them.
An option?! To replace every last AC-powered device in the country with DC-powered or install huge inverters or motor-generators all over the place? Edison spins in his grave at 60Hz!
I don't think it makes sense to adapt the curriculum to fit an arbitrary grading scheme. It makes more sense to teach what needs to be learned, test for it effectively, and THEN set the grades to reflect what was learned. Designing classes and/or tests to fit the grading scheme is bass ackwards, IMO.
Of course, if one school district or state does this, and all the others maintain status quo, it puts those students, even though they may have learned more, at a disadvantage when it comes to college acceptance. I guess that's what makes grade inflation so hard to undo.
Yeah, people will attach it in emails and forward it to a dozen people, saying something like "I normally don't forward these kind of things, but I thought you should see this...."
Why have two different letter grades that both mean 0.0? Sure they could adjust the other grades to cover 0-4, but then you'd have C=1.33 and B=2.67. And you wouldn't want to adjust everything down so that A=3.0, B=2.0, etc. because it wouldn't be compatible with the rest of the world's grading system. Dropping D's is reasonable.