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Offline Styxx

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Reply #40 on: May 02, 2002, 12:14:01 pm
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Its disneyland. Although i think its not "disney".


Hm, isn't Disneyland the one in California? :p
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Offline Zeronet

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Reply #41 on: May 02, 2002, 12:33:16 pm
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Hm, isn't Disneyland the one in California? :p


I wouldnt know.
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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #42 on: May 02, 2002, 12:40:27 pm
EEp.

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Offline Redfang

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Reply #43 on: May 02, 2002, 01:22:00 pm
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nah, a happy, happy, lonely man! :p :D Who needs people when you have math and a computer!

 
Hmm... :blah: :doubt:
 
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:blah:  Sure...

 
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Reply #44 on: May 02, 2002, 02:02:31 pm
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Hm, isn't Disneyland the one in California? :p
Yup. Disneyworld is the one in Florida. :p
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Offline Zeronet

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Reply #45 on: May 02, 2002, 03:23:40 pm
World, land no real difference.
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Offline Kellan

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Reply #46 on: May 02, 2002, 03:50:38 pm
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Make sure you hit up Key Largo and John Pennenkamp State Park.  It's the best snorkling you'll find in the state.


I'll try...I like snorkeling. And I am going to Universal and MGM, not the crappy "Magic Kingdom" :p

I've also been to Cape Canaveral before, and seen Atlantis takeoff last time. Awesome sight.
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Offline VW-Dynamo

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Reply #47 on: May 02, 2002, 07:59:01 pm
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I'll try...I like snorkeling. And I am going to Universal and MGM, not the crappy "Magic Kingdom" :p


Actually, I'd rather go to Magic Kingdom over Universal. Magic Kingdom has a few cool rides but most of the stuff at Universal sucked IMHO. Jaws is just cheezy, the T2 show is kinda lame, as is King Kong. The only thing that was decent there was the Back to the Future ride but it's by far the longest wait for the shortest ride. (The Jurrasic Park water ride is awesome, but it wasn't finished when we were there. I rode the one in LA though)

Magic Kingdom has Space Mountain which is pretty cool still, as well as Thunder Mountain and some kind of alien encounter thing too. Plus the Magic Kingdom has better food (Universal studios food tasted like crap plus it was expensive. Magic Kingdom is just expensive) and better ambiance IMHO (Disney puts on a hell of a fireworks show).

Just my $.02 though.
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Offline Corsair

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Reply #48 on: May 02, 2002, 09:26:43 pm
THUNDER Mountain? Never went on it and never actually heard of it. We have our own here though. :D
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Reply #49 on: May 09, 2002, 05:35:04 am
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World, land no real difference.


That's what j00 think, foo! :p

Disneyland (in Calif) is quite small compared to Disneyworld. :D Plus, I grew up in Florida. :D
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Reply #50 on: May 09, 2002, 09:36:38 am
The Calculus BC test took place on the day before yesterday; it was fairly easy, but extremely poorly designed. The focus of the test was not how much of the subject material you actually knew, but how fast you could do things; heck, the test is not even designed to allow people to finish all of the problems. The were a numbers of problems that I knew how to do right after glancing at them, but which I skipped due to time constraints. This is really nonsense; when working on a problem later on in life (which are much harder and complicated than these test ones), you have your whole life to work on them. :p These College Board guys should be hit over head repeatedly with a textbook. The Physics C test on Tuesday better be properly designed.

Also, the test seemed to favor putting answers as decimals. Screw numerical approximations, I like exact answers. :p The value of the Gaussian integral is Öp, not 1.772. bah :p
 

Offline Kellan

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Reply #51 on: May 09, 2002, 09:39:01 am
Welcome to the world of tests. They do tend to be based on how fast you can regurgitate information onto a page, not what you know...

That's why coursework is better. But harder.
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Reply #52 on: May 09, 2002, 11:54:44 am
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you have your whole life to work on them. :p

 
Well, probably, but I'd rather not work my whole life on one problem. :p
 

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Reply #53 on: May 09, 2002, 12:12:49 pm
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when working on a problem later on in life (which are much harder and complicated than these test ones), you have your whole life to work on them.


Hmmm, no. You most certainly won't have your whole life to work on any problem, unless your life is really, really short. ;)
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Reply #54 on: May 09, 2002, 12:19:56 pm
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That's why coursework is better. But harder.


Do you mean college coursework? The high school assignments for the most part were so bad that I even preferred these bad tests to them... :p

A good test would be something like where they only gave one really difficult problem that combined all of the concepts, and unlimited time to do it. ;) And get rid of those stupid approximations. :p :D

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Hmmm, no. You most certainly won't have your whole life to work on any problem, unless your life is really, really short. ;)


Many people in history have done that actually, but I wouldn't want to work on a very specific problem the whole time either. ;)
 

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Reply #55 on: May 09, 2002, 09:23:06 pm
Man i get out of School on the 31st Woohoo.
then in september i'll Be a senior and i won't have to Put up with little Freshmen annoying the hell out of me. :lol:

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Reply #56 on: May 09, 2002, 10:00:34 pm
me and setekh finished this week our half-yearly exams; he's taking his last one after lunch. unfortunately, our school requires our presence for the next eight or nine weeks, which really sucks. Then again, we just had holidays, two weeks ago...

CP: you're right, exact values are much better than approximations. you have to waste time finding the later, instead of working with the pure state of the former... too much fiddling with numbers.

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Reply #57 on: May 09, 2002, 10:14:08 pm
Ugh.  I just looked at the calendar and realized that of the three weeks of vacation I get this year, I spent two of them in January taking paternity leave :blah:

On the plus side, I work for a dot-com, so I frequently get to drink beer while I am coding :cool:

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Reply #58 on: May 09, 2002, 10:38:02 pm
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(too many crappy time-taking assignments, way too much social interaction needed, work wasn't nearly challenging enough and overall the whole thing was extremely inefficient and nobody learned anything; and this is at what is supposed to be one of the top ten schools in the nation...bah :p)


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Reply #59 on: May 10, 2002, 01:14:41 am
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CP: you're right, exact values are much better than approximations. you have to waste time finding the later, instead of working with the pure state of the former... too much fiddling with numbers.


I think the reason they do that is that some of the integrals cannot be expressed in terms of elementary functions and require special functions to calculate (which are not taught at all in first three years of calculus for some reason), but then they shouldn't give those type of problems in the first place. :p As you said, there simply is not enough time to perform big numerical operations (which simply require mad calculator skillz :p).
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