Hey all, I've been wanting to tell people about the awesomeness that is SSS (Starving Student Software), but I wanted to make sure they could get to it okay before referring them to the site links. Unfortunately, the links don't appear to be working. I remember someone mentioning to the list about wanting to know where the SSS went... I don't know if their questions was answered or not so...
Where oh where did the SSS link go? Oh where oh where can it be? (And can the links on the site be duly updated?) Another thing: I think I've been member of the day for the last week(?) and I'm starting to feel really self-conscious. (I dunno if this is just a defect of MY computer to refresh itself, or if others are noticing this same abnomality.) Please let me fizzle into the bkgd noise in peace. Cordially yours, Danelle ;D ------------------------------------ The Physicists' Bill of Rights (author Unknown) We hold these postulates to be intuitively obvious, that all physicists are born equal, to a first approximation, and are endowed by their creator with certain discrete privileges, among them a mean rest life, n degrees of freedom, and the following right s which are invariant under all linear transformations: 1. To approximate all problems to ideal cases. 2. To use order of magnitude calculations whenever deemed necessary (i.e. whenever one can get away with it). 3. To use the rigorous method of "squinting" for solving problems more complex than the addition of positive real integers. 4. To dismiss all functions which diverge as "nasty" and "unphysical". 5. To invoke the uncertainty principle when confronted by confused mathematicians, chemists, engineers, psychologists, dramatists, and other lower scientists. 6. When pressed by non-physicists for an explanation of (4) to mumble in a sneering tone of voice something about physically naive mathematicians. 7. To equate two sides of an equation which are dimensionally inconsistent, with a suitable comment to the effect of, "Well, we are interested in the order of magnitude anyway." 8. To the extensive use of "notations" where conventional mathematics will not work. 9. To invent fictitious forces to delude the general public. 10. To justify shaky reasoning on the basis that it gives the right answer. 11. To cleverly choose convenient initial conditions, using the principle of general triviality. 12. To use plausible arguments in place of proofs, and thenceforth refer to these arguments as proofs. 13. To take on faith any principle which seems right but cannot be proved. ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
