pen and paper arithmetic is just as much "not math" as punching numbers on a calculator, it is just slower, and therefore more of a waste of time.
The benefit I received from learning pen and paper arithmetic is that I understood what we were doing when we programmed multiplication with the primitive ALUs we designed in CS. If future generations' arithmetic knowledge is restricted to calculator use, then calculator/computer design will stagnate.
Sure it will, after some diligent hackers create the drivers and a firmware loader. Assuming, of course, that Broadcom hasn't spent their research dollars purposefully obfuscating the thing.
oldbar is the closest approximation of the old location bar's function. Close enough that I finally made the jump to FF3 (the mid Dec deadline helped a little too).
My university _pays_a_salary_ for a guy to do what you're doing. The brass here also thinks SL might be big some day, and that distance education will happen via SL. I think they're bonkers and should be focusing on video-phone type software instead.
In the days when the 1GHz barrier was breached for commodity hardware, I was using a dual CPU 300MHz workstation that seemed faster than the 1GHz single CPU boxes running the same version of redhat. It was then that realized I always wanted more than one CPU in my personal machines to combat context switching. Multi-core may be bad for supercomputers, but it rocks for workstations.
also mention using chairs and blocks of wood as test equipment. Is it just me, or does it sound like scientific research in Sweden is ridiculously underfunded?
That article says that poor college students get lesser grants than rich ones. In my experience the opposite is true: those universities that have money to give give it all away in need-based grants instead of nepotism or merit scholarships.
But the two or three most expensive private institutions probably unbalance the scales.
Not sure, but you might be able to do similar adjustments on Windows in the registry:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management"
How about emotional pressure (appealing to one's feelings), social pressure (you will be shunned/respected by your peers), flight (as in - run away)?
Reason (This isn't Star Trek's Vulcan; emotions and reason are intertwined)
Reason (why the social pressure works)
Force (physical removal of problem).
With no guns you're limited mostly to using methods that require more physical strength.
Which is GP's point. Anecdote: I was chatting with an elderly gentleman who had a bandaged wound and asked what happened. He was shot in the arm during a mugging (he dodged). According to him, he gave better than he got: he shot the mugger in the forehead, killing him instantly. No question of who shot first. Of course, the old man was army trained, so he may have been the "killer" of the two, but he was also the law abiding citizen.
The line "only criminals have guns" doesn't mean there are few guns. It means gun ownership is a crime; hence people who respect the law more than their lives will not own a gun. Many will be "criminals" only by virtue of owning a gun. These guns will necessarily be unregistered, and will go unreported if stolen by _real_ criminals.
That makes me wonder how much they got for the guard rails, and if they'd get paid more to install the guard rails. Cutting up that much metal can't be easy.
You really think the internet cafes are going to compile _everything_ from source? The binaries are undoubtedly compiled from non-open source code. China has more guns than the FSF.
Reading the Wikipedia entry for "The Return of Starbuck", I read about an unproduced script for a follow up episode titled "The Wheel of Fire" which has brought closure and healing. I always wanted to know what happened to Starbuck.
Wow, mods are stupid this month. I was not flamebaiting in Parent.
I see this regularly: HR passes over good candidates because the company can't pay for experienced candidates. Newly educated kid is hired because kid will accept any starting price. Hence: Education is valued more than experience. It's even how I was initially hired.
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pen and paper arithmetic is just as much "not math" as punching numbers on a calculator, it is just slower, and therefore more of a waste of time.
The benefit I received from learning pen and paper arithmetic is that I understood what we were doing when we programmed multiplication with the primitive ALUs we designed in CS. If future generations' arithmetic knowledge is restricted to calculator use, then calculator/computer design will stagnate.
Earliest Godwin Evar!
Sure it will, after some diligent hackers create the drivers and a firmware loader. Assuming, of course, that Broadcom hasn't spent their research dollars purposefully obfuscating the thing.
I'd work for Pokemon cards. Apparently you haven't seen the exchange rate lately.
oldbar is the closest approximation of the old location bar's function. Close enough that I finally made the jump to FF3 (the mid Dec deadline helped a little too).
My university _pays_a_salary_ for a guy to do what you're doing. The brass here also thinks SL might be big some day, and that distance education will happen via SL. I think they're bonkers and should be focusing on video-phone type software instead.
/. should turn idle into "TMZ for nerds"
Lisp, for real men.
In the days when the 1GHz barrier was breached for commodity hardware, I was using a dual CPU 300MHz workstation that seemed faster than the 1GHz single CPU boxes running the same version of redhat. It was then that realized I always wanted more than one CPU in my personal machines to combat context switching. Multi-core may be bad for supercomputers, but it rocks for workstations.
also mention using chairs and blocks of wood as test equipment. Is it just me, or does it sound like scientific research in Sweden is ridiculously underfunded?
Ikea is Swedish, right?
And sometimes they do end up wearing you.
Only if edible.
Or linux and firefox.
FYI:
SYMPTOMS: Presence of the: "%ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\npbasic.dll" Not linux unless you're running the win32 version in wine.
That article says that poor college students get lesser grants than rich ones. In my experience the opposite is true: those universities that have money to give give it all away in need-based grants instead of nepotism or merit scholarships.
But the two or three most expensive private institutions probably unbalance the scales.
IT folk: File this and other blunders so that you can (hopefully) force your company's marketing department to have their ideas vetted by IT.
Not sure, but you might be able to do similar adjustments on Windows in the registry:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management"
Damn she's got a nice pair of...
"Pig!" *SLAP*
As long as credit companies collapse, I'm a supporter. Waaiit... credit companies are collapsing!
With no guns you're limited mostly to using methods that require more physical strength.
The line "only criminals have guns" doesn't mean there are few guns. It means gun ownership is a crime; hence people who respect the law more than their lives will not own a gun. Many will be "criminals" only by virtue of owning a gun. These guns will necessarily be unregistered, and will go unreported if stolen by _real_ criminals.
That makes me wonder how much they got for the guard rails, and if they'd get paid more to install the guard rails. Cutting up that much metal can't be easy.
You really think the internet cafes are going to compile _everything_ from source? The binaries are undoubtedly compiled from non-open source code. China has more guns than the FSF.
Reading the Wikipedia entry for "The Return of Starbuck", I read about an unproduced script for a follow up episode titled "The Wheel of Fire" which has brought closure and healing. I always wanted to know what happened to Starbuck.
Wow, mods are stupid this month. I was not flamebaiting in Parent.
I see this regularly: HR passes over good candidates because the company can't pay for experienced candidates. Newly educated kid is hired because kid will accept any starting price. Hence: Education is valued more than experience. It's even how I was initially hired.
How is parent off topic? Percentage of web-hits _is_ the topic. RTFA mods. Of course, _this_ post is off topic. ;)