The question is not whether you'll spend all of your time applying math. The question is whether there will come a time where strong math knowledge will help you solve problems which others cannot solve. There are any number of specialties which this applies to. Do you really need parsing abilities? Database abilities? Filesystem abilities? Network abilities? Image-processing? No, of course not - except that if you have them, you will find them helpful at unexpected times.

Unfortunately, it is usually not the case that someone will be weak in a subject AND they will still be able to identify that their skills are not up to the problem. Rather, what usually happens is they just keep hacking away, oblivious to what they're missing, spewing bugs in all directions.

Totally. It would also be easier to just say 2+2==4, it's more obvious than having to say it is equal to 5.

How much volume did Pixel Qi do last year? One week of iPad3 sales? One day? One *hour*?

Hell, even OLED displays have beaten these guys into volume production, and I didn't think that would ever happen.

Wait, slashdot has ads?

The fee should have an N^2 or 2^N or N! factor, where N is the number of years since expiration.

In many cases, public schools would do better if they *did* think of themselves as a daycare with an educational component. Right now it seems in vogue to imagine schools as sort of mini-universities, treating the kids as little informed consumers (at best - at worse, the kids are treated like waldos remotely operated by their parents. I never could figure out how teachers expected me to change minor quirks in my child's school-time behavior). But, well, even motivated and curious 3rd graders simply don't have the attention span to learn for more than a half hour at a time. For young kids, things like gym, art, and music are not nice-to-have once-a-week extras, they are sanity-preserving essentials that should be used to break up the day.

But, well, I don't think it's clear that the US public school system is about educating future Americans. It's about being a huge political football.

How about you just don't make ANYTHING unless it is using high quality components? A sucky 3D movie is somewhat more annoying because of the extra $3, but it's not like spending $10 to see a sucky 2D movie is a great alternative.

And yet ... with all that awesome technical know-how, we were unable to replace it with a next-gen manned launch vehicle before end-of-lifing it.

I'm not saying your wrong about knowledge bit-rot, but it is entirely possible that the vast experience we had developed was hindering future developments rather than helping them. It's also likely that expecting coherent development from a political program is expecting too much.

Odd, I've always heard it as that you hold the fob under your chin.

While you're in the movie, someone else could drive your car around! You aren't using it, and the gas is already paid for!

While you're at work, we could use your house for storage!

Or while you're waiting in line to checkout, you could stock shelves!

Or, more likely, consciousness explains quantum theory.

The article quotes a supporter:

"But on Monday, Senate floor sponsor Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, said in some states children are being indoctrinated in socialism via some curriculum."

They're making an entire law without backing up their statements over there, I bet that will have more ramifications than an editorializing slashdot submitter.

I think that every male should ask for the pat-down, and then make little moans as the officer reaches the promised land. Non-violent resistance indeed!

I totally want them to make a Footfall movie and really use a Project Orion craft. Usually they just have a technobabble solution for how the humans beat the aliens, but in that case you didn't need to use technobabble. The humans really did have a big stick, they were going to kick your ass, and there wasn't anything you were going to be doing about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footfall