/sci/ - Science & Math

>spending close to $200 on a clunky device that is essentially a AAA-powered, handheld Apple IIe with some math software installed
>not using the same money to buy a cheap laptop/netbook with about 1000x the capabilities and install a pirated copy of mathematica

Buying a graphing calculator for any reason other than "My professor made me" is retarded, and even then, bragging about having a superior one is like bragging that you have the 10th edition of your overpriced, worthless Calculus textbook instead of the 9th like everyone else.

>>4313727
Yes, NASA and the NIH are what caused the national debt.

>>4261850
>sure. it's still helping sell. that was the entire motive of the series.

That's the entire motive of every television show ever. Even if there isn't a show-specific toy line, the show is there to sell whatever the commercials are advertising.

>bronies aren't restricted to derpy hooves, you know.

But she *is* the most popular character that doesn't already have a pre-written personality and life story.

>>4125599
>>4125573
>nobel prize winning physicist makes flippant remark to the effect that philosophy is useless
>nitpick the phrasing to try and make it look like he's actually advocating philosophy

>>4109940
>If you want to grab your build process by the balls and make it do exactly what you want to do, then Makefiles/GCC are the way to go.

...and if you want to actually design a program that does something useful, instead of dicking around with pointless crap that the end user couldn't give less of a fuck about, then VS is the way to go.

>>2611130
Yeahhhh, the physicist who got his deliberately nonsensical article published in a sociology journal was the loser, and the ones who claimed "E=mc^2" is sexist and that <span class="math">\sqrt{-1}[/spoiler] is a penis came out as the winners.

>>2389731

>>2315415
...using so many hidden assumptions that it's not even funny.

>>2066692
>Mathematical Challenge Twenty-three: What are the Fundamental Laws of Biology?
>Mathematical
>Biology

>implying the entire raw output of Hubble can be fit on a CD

>>1849936
>yellow chalk on black (green really) is easier to read than black marker on white

Whiteboards are easier to read, easier to write on, easier to see, less noisy, etc. etc.

The only people who prefer chalkboards are 60 year old profs who grew up with them and weirdo students who have some dream of being a tweed-jacket wearing, pipe smoking old-school academic type.

/sci/ without homework threads would be nothing but Carl Sagan, "300k starting", and "HAI GAIZ WAT'S UR MAJOR LOL?"

At least hw threads give you something to think about.

>>1766437

They are both pretty cool guys.

>implying anyone on /sci/ has or will ever have a wife or even a gf

>>1664708
>Number theory = philosophy

>Aristotle first stated the law of the excluded middle and modus ponens 3000 years ago
>Mathematicians use that shit all the time!
>Therefore math is really just philosophy and philosophers should get credit for everything science has ever accomplished.

>>1643017
bragging about the $150 calculator you got for your calculus class is like bragging about the $150 textbook you bought for your calculus class. neither one is worth the money, and neither one will be worth anything to you outside of school.

>>1574683
It has more than twice as many heads than tails after 1 flip, tard.

>>1505436
>4) Teachers are failures and don't give a fuck. So you don't learn anything and are fucking stupid compared to everyone else.

>implying people take 90% of their classes to "learn" and not just fulfill graduation requirements

>>1308721
kk, post the answer first.

>>1248243

http://xkcd.com/435/

http://xkcd.com/about/
> Who are you?

>I'm a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Before starting xkcd, I worked on robots at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia.