If you take that sentence to mean he someday wants to get a PhD and is a Junior it seems pretty much spot on. Some 20+ years ago where I went, 6th semester (3 Calc, 3 DE) was primarily linear PDE's.
Since he doesn't differentiate I was left assuming he's an undergrad with PhD intentions... kind of a big difference but maybe I just misunderstood.
That said, he at least has the right approach. The whole view of 'don't worry about what these equations mean, just memorize them' is completely f*cked up.
By all means get books, but if you're really serious take physics courses like Thermodynamics etc (not the chem variant). If you're really a PhD you should breeze through them but they'll help in the long run.
I know what you mean I turned 41 yesterday and I started reading this and thinking dang... all this due to plasma rockets not being able to grow past a certain.. umm wait.. what ? Stupid teenage hackers.
You betcha... once it comes down to an exact tie on votes Gov Richardson can oversee the Attorney General as he deals cards in a winner take all 5 card stud hand.
That was my initial response but from the article it seems the real discovery wasn't phosphorous induces plant growth.
The real discovery was that nitrogen removal methods in already damaged waters actually exacerbates the problem. Somewhat profound since it appears the common method to fight blooms is to try and reduce nitrogen.
Sort of. 20 some odd years ago my room mate considered combining rugby and chess and called it "full contact chess".
We played beer chess instead. Somebody had a 4'x4' chess board. Pawns were Mickey's, rooks were Fosters, queens were a bottle of wine etc. Every time a chess piece was taken you had to drink it. We rarely lost; against the beer drinker types we just out played them, against the chess player types we'd trade down pieces early and out drink them.
At the arraignment William Jennings Bryant, Max's lawyer, spoke eloquently about the evils of lobbyists for large corporations and the incongruous nature of our current system that rewards company's for buying politician votes for huge sums of money and punishes citizens for humorously suggesting they'll sell theirs.
A spokesperson for the newly formed Women's Christian Temperance Union said "A women has no vote to sell, but if the good Lord would grant us one we will gladly give it away to any candidate that will abolish the evils of alcohol, drugs, abortion and general tom-foolery."
Neither Grover Cleveland nor Benjamin Harrison have commented.
Ass hats.
Have a happy 4th of July weekend... good country, dumb people.
That's not a very good metric. A Model-T in 1908 got 25MPG. The Dymaxion was pretty light. The fabric roof was great on weight but kind of rough in a roll over.
Improvements in fuel efficiency have sadly gone to making bigger, heavier vehicles. For some reason 25MPG seems to be the 'target'.
Belthize ps: Wikipedia seems to think 30MPG was unheard of '33. Not sure I buy that and of course there's no source.
Agreed... They could realize it's not in fact a problem that needs solving.
If even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas is considered factually questionable by some then I wouldn't be overly concerned about the veracity of some biographic page concerning somebody I don't give a damn about anyway.
Or combine them, I'm currently designing my house to be built in NM. It essentially couples solar (passive + potentially active), CEB (compress earth block) and ground loop.
Basic theory is build an efficient structure (CEB), limit heating/cooling needs (site layout, passive solar), provide heating/cooling as efficiently as possible (ground loop).
Sigh, can't anybody even use google anymore. It's tunique... it's where we get the word tunic. In the 13th century a French clothier invented a new shirt style for himself which one of his friends borrowed.
It was originally called a tunique but was anglicized to tunic.
Bad form replying to my own post blah blah blah...
Just google for 'highway slinky effect'. This paper http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel2/3166/8984/00396876.pdf discusses the phenomena and others in decent detail. It references papers dating back to 1960 and even the '39 World's Fair.
I was thinking similar thoughts. I've seen this phenomenon discussed multiple times over the years. I'm sure it dates back to at least the 70's and probably earlier since it's an easily observed and understandable condition. The only thing that's 'news' is that they came up with yet another way to demonstrate it.
Kind of like the article a few days ago regarding the 'physicist' who had 'identified' the fastest way to board a plane. Congrats Skippy, now go stand in line behind the bazillion other mathematicians/physicists/random people who ever boarded a plane who came to the exact same conclusion.
1) How does your GX620 fair running XP... same responsiveness or faster ? For organizations with a 5 or 6 year hardware turnover budgets, discovering Vista will only run on 50% of their hardware (2.5 years old) is rather daunting.
2) Vista is more secure as is than XP as is ? Is there really an objective argument to back that up or is it just that fixing discovered problems in Vista will be easier for Microsoft than XP is because of framework/design issues.
At the risk of sounding like an MBA it's pretty much about risk reward. The pain of upgrading hundreds/thousands of boxes plus the cost of replacing en masse 50% of the hardware has to be offset by some very clear gains.
The project name is EVLA which has at times stood for Enhanced or Expanded.
Currently it's the Expanded Very Large Array as opposed to the Very Large Baseline Array (VLBA) which NRAO also operates. NRAO also operates the Green Bank Telescope which could just as aptly be called the Great Big Telescope. It's a 100 meter single dish scope.
When the first cuts were announced I found it passing strange that the alternate routes necessarily went through UK and US. Looking at maps it's understandable but whether it's best or not isn't as material as that they do.
With the traffic re-routed it's much easier to dump it off for scanning. It's also possible that the cuts can act as a smoke screen for permanent tap placement.
Some folks mentioned there's no need for the permanent taps since we have subs like the Carter... on the other hand some of these cables are in fairly shallow water. Subs like to hide in deep trenches, particularly really expensive one off subs.
I'm not trying to claim this is what's happened... just pointint out alternate theories to the 1) coincidence 2) cut off Iran or 3) Islamic extremist. Particularly since the cuts don't 'cut off Iran' or any other part of the area, they just force a reroute of traffic through the US and UK.
"It may take sometime to fix the cut but we are rerouting the traffic to another cable in the U.K. and U.S., the bandwidth utilization will go down," the official said.
Certainly 3 cuts (or 4 depending on your numbering system) seems awfully strange. If you assume it's intentional the obvious (to me) question is why, to what end ?
Isolation isn't really practical with cell phones etc, the fact that they've rerouted all the way through the US and UK (really ?) implies sniffing. Seems like a fairly cumbersome way to do it, why not just quietly reroute or even duplicate the traffic.
Not saying it was intentional... just pondering the reasoning if it was.
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If you take that sentence to mean he someday wants to get a PhD and is a Junior it seems pretty much spot on. Some 20+ years ago where I went, 6th semester (3 Calc, 3 DE) was primarily linear PDE's.
Since he doesn't differentiate I was left assuming he's an undergrad with PhD intentions... kind of a big difference but maybe I just misunderstood.
That said, he at least has the right approach. The whole view of 'don't worry about what these equations mean, just memorize them' is completely f*cked up.
By all means get books, but if you're really serious take physics courses like Thermodynamics etc (not the chem variant). If you're really a PhD you should breeze through them but they'll help in the long run.
Belthize
I sure wish folks would make it a little clearer when submitting articles that it's from "The Onion".
I love their stuff but it helps with blood pressure if you know it's an Onion article beforehand.
Belthize
Wait ... this *isn't* and Onion piece ... oh good lord.
I know what you mean I turned 41 yesterday and ... all .. umm wait .. what ? Stupid
I started reading this and thinking dang
this due to plasma rockets not being able to grow
past a certain
teenage hackers.
Belthize
You betcha ... once it comes down to an exact tie on votes Gov Richardson can oversee the Attorney General as he deals cards in a winner take all 5 card stud hand.
http://www.koat.com/news/15565471/detail.html?rss=alb&psp=news
McCain will probably lose after he looks at his AKQJT and Obama's 666J2 and say rats I only have an Ace high.
Belthize
You kids and your 20MB hard drives, I have a hand wrapped 100 byte core memory block on my desk (4" cube).
Ugg, just thinking about big CDC platter drives and head crashes gives me the willies, think I'll go have a beer.
Belthize
That was my initial response but from the article it seems the real discovery wasn't phosphorous induces plant growth.
The real discovery was that nitrogen removal methods in already damaged waters actually exacerbates the problem. Somewhat profound since it appears the common method to fight blooms is to try and reduce nitrogen.
Belthize
How do you normally log onto the internet ? Did you check you don't have capslock on that happened to me once. It might just be
A friend of mine said he had the same problem and upgraded to Office 2008, I think he said, and that fixed it.
Belthize
Ahh yes ... from the Ford Prefect book, "How I play Drinking Games: Redefining Success in the Modern Era" ... certainly a viable strategy.
Belthize
Sort of. 20 some odd years ago my room mate considered combining rugby and chess and called it "full contact chess".
We played beer chess instead. Somebody had a 4'x4' chess board. Pawns were Mickey's, rooks were Fosters, queens were a bottle of wine etc. Every time a chess piece was taken you had to drink it. We rarely lost; against the beer drinker types we just out played them, against the chess player types we'd trade down pieces early and out drink them.
Simpler times ...
Belthize
Meh, one too many T's in W.J. Bryan ...
Belthize
a sense of humor we're aware of.
At the arraignment William Jennings Bryant, Max's lawyer, spoke eloquently
about the evils of lobbyists for large corporations and the
incongruous nature of our current system that rewards company's for
buying politician votes for huge sums of money and punishes citizens
for humorously suggesting they'll sell theirs.
A spokesperson for the newly formed Women's Christian Temperance
Union said "A women has no vote to sell, but if the good Lord
would grant us one we will gladly give it away to any candidate that
will abolish the evils of alcohol, drugs, abortion and general tom-foolery."
Neither Grover Cleveland nor Benjamin Harrison have commented.
Ass hats.
Have a happy 4th of July weekend ... good country, dumb people.
Belthize
Phoned home.
Belthize
That's not a very good metric. A Model-T in 1908 got 25MPG. The Dymaxion was pretty light. The fabric roof was great on weight but kind of rough in a roll over.
Improvements in fuel efficiency have sadly gone to making bigger, heavier vehicles. For some reason 25MPG seems to be the 'target'.
Belthize
ps: Wikipedia seems to think 30MPG was unheard of '33. Not sure I buy that and of course there's no source.
Agreed
If even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas is considered factually questionable by some then I wouldn't be overly concerned about the veracity of some biographic page concerning somebody I don't give a damn about anyway.
Belthize
Or combine them, I'm currently designing my house to be built in NM. It essentially couples solar (passive + potentially active), CEB (compress earth block) and ground loop.
Basic theory is build an efficient structure (CEB), limit heating/cooling needs (site layout, passive solar), provide heating/cooling as efficiently as possible (ground loop).
I'm still debating active solar or not.
Belthize
Sigh, can't anybody even use google anymore. It's tunique ... it's where
we get the word tunic. In the 13th century a French clothier invented a new
shirt style for himself which one of his friends borrowed.
It was originally called a tunique but was anglicized to tunic.
Belthize
Bad form replying to my own post blah blah blah
Just google for 'highway slinky effect'. This paper
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel2/3166/8984/00396876.pdf
discusses the phenomena and others in decent detail. It
references papers dating back to 1960 and even the '39 World's Fair.
Belthize
I was thinking similar thoughts. I've seen this phenomenon discussed multiple times
over the years. I'm sure it dates back to at least the 70's and probably earlier since
it's an easily observed and understandable condition. The only thing that's 'news' is
that they came up with yet another way to demonstrate it.
Kind of like the article a few days ago regarding the 'physicist' who had 'identified'
the fastest way to board a plane. Congrats Skippy, now go stand in line behind the
bazillion other mathematicians/physicists/random people who ever boarded a plane who
came to the exact same conclusion.
Belthize
Fair enough ... two questions (with comments).
... same responsiveness or faster ?
1) How does your GX620 fair running XP
For organizations with a 5 or 6 year hardware turnover budgets, discovering Vista
will only run on 50% of their hardware (2.5 years old) is rather daunting.
2) Vista is more secure as is than XP as is ? Is there really an objective
argument to back that up or is it just that fixing discovered problems in Vista
will be easier for Microsoft than XP is because of framework/design issues.
At the risk of sounding like an MBA it's pretty much about risk reward.
The pain of upgrading hundreds/thousands of boxes plus the cost of replacing
en masse 50% of the hardware has to be offset by some very clear gains.
I still have a very hard time seeing the benefit.
Belthize
The project name is EVLA which has at times stood for Enhanced or Expanded.
Currently it's the Expanded Very Large Array as opposed to the Very Large
Baseline Array (VLBA) which NRAO also operates. NRAO also operates the
Green Bank Telescope which could just as aptly be called the Great Big Telescope.
It's a 100 meter single dish scope.
http://www.gb.nrao.edu/
Belthize
Nah it's an open standard(for random definitions of open and standard)
Writing a spec that says 'this portion should conform to Word97/03/xxx'
standards' is a bit lossy but whatteryagonnado.
http://www.noooxml.org/local--files/arguments/TheCaseAgainstOOXML.pdf
Belthize
Not yet but give us time; we've only been around for 200+ years.
I'm sure that in another 100-200 years we can find somebody less
competent as President but more adept at demagoguery and hyperbole.
Belthize
When the first cuts were announced I found it passing strange that the alternate
... on the other hand some of these cables are in fairly shallow
... just pointint out alternate
routes necessarily went through UK and US. Looking at maps it's understandable but
whether it's best or not isn't as material as that they do.
With the traffic re-routed it's much easier to dump it off for scanning. It's
also possible that the cuts can act as a smoke screen for permanent tap placement.
Some folks mentioned there's no need for the permanent taps since we have subs
like the Carter
water. Subs like to hide in deep trenches, particularly really expensive one off
subs.
I'm not trying to claim this is what's happened
theories to the 1) coincidence 2) cut off Iran or 3) Islamic extremist. Particularly
since the cuts don't 'cut off Iran' or any other part of the area, they just force
a reroute of traffic through the US and UK.
Belthize
Maybe....
It's certainly curious having so many chopped cables in 1 week. That
backhoe operator certainly was out of his depth.
Belthize
The thing that jumped out at me was:
... just pondering the reasoning if it was.
"It may take sometime to fix the cut but we are rerouting the traffic to another cable in the U.K. and U.S., the bandwidth utilization will go down," the official said.
Certainly 3 cuts (or 4 depending on your numbering system) seems awfully strange. If you assume it's intentional
the obvious (to me) question is why, to what end ?
Isolation isn't really practical with cell phones etc, the fact that they've rerouted all the way through
the US and UK (really ?) implies sniffing. Seems like a fairly cumbersome way to do it, why not just quietly
reroute or even duplicate the traffic.
Not saying it was intentional
Belthize