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In a sense that's what BC and AD do now, if only for the fact that using that particular dating system is a major development for the past few thousand years. Besides, dividing our history into too many segments would just be confusing. And we always have problems with what constitutes development. Does the western world have to be changing to consitute a new time period or the eastern world? Cause they didn't always go through developmental periods together. Agreed.

matt, would you be able to show what an explicit proof for this problem looks like?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/07/24/spacewalk.for.sale.ap/index.html Assuming money wasn't an issue, would you be interested in going for a day-trip to space or would you prefer to stay on firmly planted on Earth? This is a public poll.

I was going to suggest putting one of those portable air conditioners in that window right in front of you. You could get a nice breeze blowing right on you when it gets warm in there. Plus, that should cut down a little on the sunlight getting into the room. I don't know how much they cost though. Maybe as a last resort. Or just get a big block of ice to sit on as YT suggested.

Is air conditioning out of the question?

Why do I get the impression that involves ingenuity though... I wouldn't have any idea where to start on such a project.

The cassette is an option though not what I was talking about. This one actually plays through the radio. You set the frequency on the device to one (mine's set to 88.7) and then tune your car radio to the frequency. I recomended this one for two reasons: 1) Many people (like myself) don't have a cassette player in their car. 2) The cassette player broadcasts through the headphone jack. This means the volume is controled through both your ipod and the car stereo. Sometimes you'll forget and it can come on blasting or other times it'll be too soft to hear. Then you're always fiddling with volume (not always recomended while driving through heavy traffic...). The radio one doesn't use the headphone jack so it's only controlled by the car stereo which means that when you're listening to it outside the car you can set the volume to whatever you want and then when you get in the car you just press play and it's the same as the last time you were in the car. No unpleasent surprises.

Yeah, and as long as that gravity force isn't countered by an exactly opposite force, it will move.

I would imagine the chances of you placing it in absolute equilibrium are almost zero.

Part of my job this summer is to write a program that imports data into matlab, does a bunch of manipulations and makes some graphs and stuff and then exports it all into a Word document. I'm trying to make this as independent of the user as possible (I don't want the user to have to copy and paste everything into word themselves.) Does anyone know how I could go about exporting data from Matlab into Word? For example, I'd like a table like the following: x | (x1) | (x2) | (x3) | ___________________ y | (y1) | (y2) | (y3) | This is really simplified, but anyway...I want the user to type in a bunch of inputs, Matlab runs some programing and opens up word and put variables x1,x2,x3,y1,y2,y3 in their places in the table so in the end I just end up with a clean, presentable table of values. I think if anyone can help me get this far I can expand on that to include the graphs and charts and everything I'm going to need. Anyone have any ideas?

Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew or could help derive the formulas for rotations around an axis in cartesian coordinates. For example, let's say I have the point (x,y,z). I want to rotate the whole coordinate system around the x-axis. I can rotate it 90 degrees and switch the y and z axis. That one I just make the new coordinate (x,z,y). But what about rotations other than multiples of 90? Can anyone help me derive the formulas for those? Thanks

Can you explain what a narcissist believes with respect to mortality?

x2y2z=1 Find the points on the surface given above that are closest to the origin. z=x-2y-2 =>we just have to minimize D=x2+y2+(x-2y-2)2 I did this and got that all the critical numbers satisfy the equation x=y...doesn't seem right...can anyone verify or refute that?

Is there any room for any kind of creative expression in your society? How do you plan on moving forward when all the classes are taught by scientists? You'll quickly end up with a bunch of genious kids but ones that can't think outside of this little world of science you've developed.

Ummmm...Cap'n, what do I do at speedfan? What am I supposed to click on to see if my CPU is too hot?

Yes, I understand that. But is it harmful to the computer to be operating at 100% all the time? I can't imagine that's good for it...

It's operating at such a high percent because I am running one of those background computer programs (mine happens to deal with prime numbers). But is that ok? Or should it be something a bit lower, like 50-75%?

Is it bad if it says under windows task manager that my CPU usage is at 100% and that it never deviates from that?

Let x equal tan^6.

I'd like to see this thread used to develop the ideal system for hiring a new position in a company. The job and company dont' have to be anything particular (but it's probably best not to talk about cashier as McDonalds). Personally I see a lot of flaws in America's current system and wonder if anyone else has any issues with it and if we can come up with some improvements and/or way to instate these improvements. For one, I find grades a terrible reflection of ability to perform well in a position. I would much rather see grades have no reflection on a person when aplying for a job. Instead, I would propose in depth interviews and/or actual demostrations of one's abilities be used to hire for a position. Any thoughts?

I think my flaw as I've figured out was that I forgot the fact that player two's set would be infinite. I'm sure you've heard the story before about the guy who puts 10 balls into a hat and then takes out ball 1. Then 10 more and take out ball two and does this infinite times. And the thing is there are no balls left in the hat when he's done. This is because no matter which ball you try to tell me is left in the hat, I can tell you which step it was actually taken out at. I thought my case was the same sort of logic: no matter what series you give me I can create my list long enough to encompass yours. But I guess I lost sight of the fact that the sets are infinte.

Sweet find! and sweet idea too. I'm beginning to think this might be getting a little too complex to fit into time constraints...but I'm gonna look into it. There's another idea I have that will be slightly less time consuming. And I would like red and blue for the viens but it says the red only glows very briefly and there isn't much blue at all on the site. And green blood would be kinda weird... ah the joys of under under strict time constraints...

I can't prove any of it in formal math as you have done. I've only made it through calc III. But my argument is this: We can play the game so that every infinite set of 0's and 1's is covered. Do this by first covering all possible combonations of the first digit...namely 0 and 1. Then fill out each infinite sequence with 0's or 1's so it looks like this. 00000000000... 10000000000... 01111111111... 11111111111... Then we do this for the first two numbers... 00000000000... 11000000000... 01000000000... 10000000000... 00111111111... 11111111111... 01111111111... 10111111111... and now you can even notice that four of these eight are the same as the first four I contructed. So if we continue this pattern I can contruct it so that no matter what move player two makes I have already it covered. And the fact that player player two could always make a sequence not covered by player one was the basis of my professor's proof of Cantor's argument. So I want to know where/if I went wrong. All my professor told me was "something seems wrong there..." and couldn't tell me what. I'm not suggesting that Cantor's argument was wrong, just that the proof provided here is.

Thanks Phi, rope lighting is decent but doesn't have the liquidy feel I'm going for. I'll have to look into phosphorescent paint...that might work really well.