Not at all. I've been writing code professionally for 14 years and in that time I've used Calculus exactly twice. Maybe if you did engineering involving a lot of physics but I seriously doubt those jobs are common. It looks good on a resume and all things being equal an employer would probably pick the applicant with the better math skills but then again the same can be said of just about any skill.

Anyways good luck.

What the Hell? How did they miss this option?

I could be wrong on this but I doubt their main goal in this was "winning". Elon Musk is a smart guy. I'm sure he's fully aware of the Streisand Effect. Top Gear showing an episode painting Tesla in a less than flattering light can't be suppressed. But what they can change is that every time someone googles "Top Gear Tesla" a ton of articles also show up detailing exactly why Top Gear was full of shit on this one.

Well now I'm curious. It turns out whenever the word 'cost' appears in a Google search the results tend to point to online shops. But here's what I found: http://www.vincelewis.net/vikingsword.html
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/Small-Breed-Milk-Cows.aspx

So a good Viking sword was worth 12 milk cows, and each milk cow is apparently worth about $2500 so $30000. Well that's assuming the value of a milk cow is constant throughout history. Not quite a Lexus, maybe an Acura.

Two conclusions I can draw from that video:

1. The stereotype of blacksmiths looking like body builders must be pretty accurate.

2. A good sword must have cost as much as a shitty car.

Homer: Son, come here. Of course I'm not mad. If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the garage next to your short-wave radio, your karate outfit, and your unicycle, and we'll go and watch TV.

Bart: What's on?

Homer: It doesn't matter.

The difference is the poster probably doesn't have powerful lobbying groups to make it that way.

At first I thought this was irrelevant, at best a distraction from the serious topics that need to be addressed, such as freedom vs security, the importance of the second amendment, how we as a society treat the mentally ill.

Then I considered his words and I did some research and it turns out he was on the right track he just didn't take the idea far enough. Allow me to sum up firearm history. Around the third century the Roman Empire adopted Christianity. A few centuries later the Chinese invent the first firearms. Since then firearm deaths have increased roughly 2.9 billion percent!

The only rational conclusion is that our rejection of European polytheistic religions and religious philosophy caused this tragic event. To prevent future gun violence we as a nation must return to worshiping the Polytheistic gods of our ancestors. Obviously not all of them, that would be chaos. I'd recommend the Celtic gods but I'm obviously biased since I'm of English/Irish descent. A strong case can be made for the Norse gods since their movies tend to gross higher in the box office.

1. The cost of electricity is not going to stay the same for 15-30 years. It will almost certainly rise quite a bit. That needs to be factored in.

2. Paying for 30 years up front? That's why God made HELOCS.

I'm not sure how it is in your neck of the woods but I have a system in Las Vegas and there it's actually illegal for HOAs to object to solar panels.

I can't tell if this is a serious question or if this is part of certain members of Slashdot's bizarre disdain for anything new but here goes:

I have a Galaxy Note 2. It has a 5.5 inch screen. This makes for a pretty large phone and when I'm carrying it I'm pretty aware that it's in my pocket. If it were flexible it would conform to the curve of my leg enough that it would be more comfortable to carry. So there, I hope that helps.

But I have to say that when I was in school, the fact that I did pretty well academically is always something that earned me respect. I run ins with my fair share of bullies and shitheads but really it didn't seem to have much to do with my intellect. Stupid kids got bullied just as much.

I have to wonder if this whole concept of "nerd persecution" is concocted by nerds who don't want to admit that maybe they have obnoxious personalities and kind of had it coming.

for all the blacks and latinos who voted against Romney solely because he's white? This problem goes both ways.

I think I'll choose to be optimistic. Look at all the Star Wars novels. It's a huge universe with lots of stories to tell. Disney easily has a lot of material to release a new movie every few years. Also, how it anything they make possibly be worse than Attack of the Clones?

I see where you're coming from. On the other hand, getting maimed in a wreck isn't something that costs only you. Even in the US a lot of public funds go into the health care system. So if wearing a piece of Tupperware on your head is the difference between the taxpayers paying for a few broken bones or years as a vegetable then yeah, I'd say the government can make the decision for you.