Recent content by rraja

I think nurture is one of the factors. My dad is really obstinate about wanting words to be pronounced the way the dictionary specifies it, and I think that influenced the way I talk.

I don't really agree with the person in the video. On a personal level, I was mainstreamed for my entire school career and I don't think I would have gotten into MIT if I was in a slower-paced special ed class. My teachers were all really good so that probably helped though. It would be...

Cool, I was kind of worried it would be delayed again. Do you know how long it takes to process the orders?

OpenOffice has actually been forked due to complaints that Oracle is stifling attempts to add features, so you might want to try Home » LibreOffice. It's pretty similar, but has some additional features such as being able to make the MS Office 2007 file formats.

I tried installing ArchBang on an old computer the other day, but it didn't work for some reason - it kept messing up when I tried to create a user account, so I was only able to log in as root. I read somewhere that it was a bug in that particular version of the CD. It's probably fixed by now I...

I was reading an article about how a person can increase their reading speed and the concept of subvocalization came up. The idea is that typically, when a person reads, they "say" the words in their brain, and this slows them down; speedreaders try to suppress this process to become more...

As far as I know, there's only this guy: Professor Calculus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :lol:

I started off with Ubuntu and dabbled with Debian, but recently on a whim I backed up my /home and installed Mint Debian. It's working fine so far and I like the user interface better too. I also made sure to install /home on its own partition so I can distro hop without losing data :D I was...

It's a good deal harder to trick a user into running a virus though, since files downloaded from the internet generally need to be chmod'ed before they can be executed, and someone who can't tell the difference between regular programs and malware will probably have no idea how to do that...

Balancing equations is harder because you can't really just plug and chug. You have to think about what steps are most intelligent. There's kind of a methodical pattern though. For example, here's a step-by-step way to do the reaction ember was talking about. We start with: _Rb + _RbNO3...

The article said she was planning to try to bulk up to 1000 pounds - that sounds REALLY wasteful!

I think it's very important that evolution be taught - it's arguably the most important concept in biology as it logically connects the other areas in the field and explains the origins of complex organisms. Intelligent design really would be better suited in a social science or history class...

I would recommend Microsoft Security Essentials and MalwareBytes. Another option is to run Linux and you won't need antivirus :D

For graphing you first want to isolate Y using the methods that tigersharkdude described. After that, pick 2 values for X and for each one, solve the equation to get the corresponding value of Y. Any 2 values of X will work, so you can pick numbers like 0 or 1 that make the math easy. Then plot...

Personally, I can count one one hand the times I have actually needed to use caps lock. Maybe if I feel the need to shout at someone over the internet? I actually set my computer to swap the ctrl and caps lock keys since I use ctrl way more often.