Cities like Birmingham and Atlanta are different. The ground surface temperature is warmer, so any amount of snow generally melts and converts to ice quickly. The people up north don't know/understand this, so they make ignorant comments to feel superior.

May I ask a favor? Could you please bring this racial curiosity to the attention of the school administration so you or they might recruit one or two non-Asians to participate in your program? You could teach this class for years with no black/white/Hispanic students participating, but why not set a personal goal of getting just one or two non-Asians to participate every year? You don't have to move mountains, just don't let the students decide their fate so early. Helping one interested student is enough (as a start :)

I used to teach a summer school in math in Koreatown (Los Angeles). All the students were Korean, and they all refused to participate on their school's math team because "they're all Chinese nerds with coke-bottle glasses." I'm black, so I was a little shocked because I never saw this in real-life before (Asians being intimidated by other Asians). Alas, I ignorantly grouped Asians together. Anyway, black, white, and Hispanic students experience the same intimidation. They need a little push to get over it.

In a word, funding. A school district might provide iPads for every student, while many teachers curiously have to provide their own paper for making photocopies. The "technology and shit" budget for K-12 and community colleges is infinite in comparison to budgets for basic fundamentals. If you want to get sustained funding for any program, it may help to disguise it in buzzwords like "innovative" and "21st century". Unfortunately, a lot of bullshit gets in this way.

...if it's not too controversial. Research and find a better system, such as LOC or the like. Find some old smartphones to use as bar code readers with wifi capability connected to a Debian server running MariaDB or Postgresql. Dude! I can't wait to visit.

His statements about race relations sound fresher than anything you will ever hear today. If listening to discussions about race tends to give you a headache, try to read as much (non-fiction) James Baldwin as you can. You may still get a headache, but at least you finally get to hear it straight. And it may lead you to reading his (and others) important fiction books.

Suffering from a chest cold when I read this, all the congestion came up spewing onto the keyboard.

Because bool sounds cool.

The "anonymous" in the patent claim is not anonymous either. It refers to using an "address" which is anonymous in the sense that it is not obviously tied to any personal information. It is less anonymous than Bitcoin even, if my reading of the patent is correct.

You're missing the point. Businesses who do transactions with Bitcoin might be sued for infringing claims in the patent, even if the patent itself has nothing to do with Bitcoin. I read the patent and couldn't find anything I recognized as new. Just a very detailed description of a simple electronic financial transaction. The detail given seems to try to obscure instead of clarify, in my opinion, because there is so much of it that is not necessary. An excerpt from claim 155 of the patent:

...storing, in a computer memory at a host server, payer information and instructions; and accessing the computer memory using a computer processor to retrieve the payer information...

Now, is there an electronic financial transaction which does not infringe on this?

How are the cameras and higher resolution worth anything to a man in his 70s who just wants to read e-mail and watch movies?

Higher resolution improves detail, which makes it easier for a person with imperfect eyesight (like myself) to read. Eyestrain for me is largely nonexistent with high resolution displays. I think your assumptions are incorrect.

The future of academia is one-year to five-year contracts with non-tenured faculty. If you can bring in research contract money, your academic salary will still be reasonably competitive, at least in engineering and the hard sciences. If your research contracts dry up, your contract won't be renewed, and you'll need to move on.

I think this provides even more incentive to fabricate research results. If not getting funding means losing your job and the ability to provide for family, I wouldn't consider you crazy for thinking of cheating a little. Tenure is good for many reasons people on this board never think of.

Please. 99% of the people downloading the book won't bother to read it. They're just downloading because they can.

It's true the author of the post hasn't done any research, but the answers to the question (like use GNU MPFR) are valuable to others.

It looks like the new generation of kids is redefining "several" to mean "seven". Generally, "several" is used to mean more than three, but not much more than 3. The progression is "a couple" (2), "a few" (3), "several" (more than 3, but not too many), and "many".

Several != Seven