At the same time I don't want to spend 20 minutes working out an integral I know I can do when a calculator will give me the same answer in seconds. I'm a physicist, not a mathematician. I don't need to work out every problem. I just need to know that I'm capable of doing it.
Thanks Russ. In a sense I already new the answers to all those but when you read them it makes it clear. I'll ask another question.
Why would you want to buy stock into a very highly valued company? The giants like Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, etc. I understand my money is 'safe' with...
From personal experience I can say that there is a big difference between singing and talking and I am not just talking about pitch or rhythm.
I have a moderate stutter and there are times when I speak that I am unable to get any words across. However I have NEVER stuttered while singing. I...
I need to have some things cleared up about stock, dividends and earnings.
What incentive is there for me to buy a share of a company? Or probably what my real question is, what influences stock price?
If a company issues dividends then I understand somewhat. People are going to want to...
That's interesting because I consistently saw RISC processors with lower clock speeds compared to CISC processors with higher clock speeds. And yet you say it uses more clock cycles to do the same work. Have I been duped this whole time?
RISC processors dominate the embedded market and gaming consoles. Even Microsoft ditched the x86 processor in favor of PowerPC for the XBOX 360. In high performance computing 4 of the top 5 fastests supercomputers are based on the PowerPC.
So why has there been this aversion to RISC...
My main problem with Apple is that it doesn't offer anything in between. It's either entry-level iMacs or high performance MacPro. I just want something like an iMac where it's not impossible to swap out the hard drive or upgrade the ram without madd haxx0r5 skiilz!
Whatever happened to that graphing software that came with the MacOS? I think it was a basic version and you paid if you wanted a premium version that allowed implicit functions. It was very pretty.
Like some of the other people have said, if you want to make a closed source system based on open source work then do it off of BSD. GPL simply won't allow it. However I have read some misconceptions here. You are allowed to modify GPL's code and sell it. However you must include the source...
Are you sure you didn't mean the GRE math test? As far as I know there is no specialized GMAT test for math and the math portion of the GMAT is so simple that I don't know how you could prove you know enough for graduate school with it.
I don't know if this is the right place to post it but I'm doing it.
I remember reading a bio on someone who earned a physics Ph.D at Cambridge without having a bachelor's degree. I think he got into the program by impressing Einstein or some prominent physicist by exchanging ideas by mail...
Feynman Lectures won't help you solve problems. I think of it as an advanced popular science series. However as far as helping you understand what's going on and methods on approaching original problems I say it's good. It's not a necessity for your education though. I found it most useful...