The Official Rant Thread

[Zieon Eslador]

Doesn't help. I already did that, and I'm now stuck. I don't know how to solve a equation with three variables, and get actual numbers out of it.

Try subtracting variables from each side to isolate A, B and O for each of the three equations and then plugging them into another equation.

*Click, ...what?

[CaptainPoopface]

English is important. Programmers and engineers are notoriously terrible at verbal communication. Many professionals I know spend more of their time commenting and writing reports than actually coding, so people can understand their work. It's no good saying "just read the code." Studying Renaissance authors and analyzing literary devices is more obscure, but your communication will suffer if you don't know the difference between a transitive and intransitive verb, or a subject and an object. How you express yourself verbally is a benchmark to other people (right or wrong) for how intelligent you are. So it could end up hurting you.

I agree with JacksonCougar and say focus on it now and try to test out of it in college, if you go. The purpose of a college degree is not so much to give you the immediate knowledge to do whatever job you get, but to show at a glance that a) you are capable of learning, b) you can focus and accomplish a long term goal, and c) you have a well rounded education in language, math and science. Because anyone who can do those things can do most jobs that require a brain. The "at a glance" part is very important, because if you fail the glance test, you're often out of the running for the good jobs, right or wrong.

I know one person who dropped out of high school and became a programming consultant. He makes plenty of money and gets to be his own boss. Like every computer programmer I know or have met, he's a major asshole who is very talented and lazy. So that might work for you too, but it's an unnecessary gamble toward slim probability. I say stick with school and maximize your degrees of freedom.

[JacksonCougar]

Let's take the last two equations.

5O + 7A + 2B = 44
1O + 3A + 5B = 26

Multiple the bottom one by 5.

50 + 15A + 25B = 130

And then subtract it from the top equation.

(5O + 7A + 2B = 44)
- (50 + 15A + 25B = 130)
_______________________
-8A - 23B = -86

Now you have an equation with only two variables.

Do the same thing with two other equations to get another equation with the same two variables. Then subtract, or add, those two equations together so that another variable cancels out.

This.

[NotZachary82]

I'm not even sure what the fuck you're saying Click. You barely seem to know any algebra at all. Please stay away from problems such as these. Aumaan's method is the correct way to go.

[troymac1ure]

Doesn't help. I already did that, and I'm now stuck. I don't know how to solve a equation with three variables, and get actual numbers out of it.

You cannot combine like terms. If you have 3 oranges (3o) and 5 bananas (5b) you can't say 3o + 5b = 8ob or 8f (f = Fruits) Impossible. The answer is 3o + 5b. Read it like so: "Three oranges, and five bananas." Damn. I hope that's what your talking about. If not. Excuse me. :p

Although I'd prefer the other way around so you have positive amounts of fruit,
(50 + 15A + 25B = 130)
- (5O + 7A + 2B = 44)
_______________________
8A + 23B = 86

Click, Basically what he's saying is that if you have 50 Oranges, 15 Apples, 25 Banannas in one group and 50 Oranges, 7 Apples, 2 Banannas in another group, you can ignore the oranges as they will have the same weight in both groups and focus on just the weight differences in the Apples & Banannas.

....unless one group had chinese oranges and one group had normal oranges. Then they would have different weights

[XZodia]

The technical way of doing this is by using a matrix and "elementary row operations"...(basically the same as Anubis was saying but it supposedly makes it easier...)

Heres you matrix:
3 2 1 15
5 7 2 44
1 3 5 26

By using the row operations your aiming to get a triangle of 0's in the bottom left like this:
x1 y1 z1 a1
0 y2 z2 a2
0 0 z3 a3

Thus giving you, z3 = a3 which can be substituted in to y2 z2 a2 to get y2 and then again to get x1

But its more hassle than its worth IMO.

[xxpenguinxx]

R = oranges A = apples B = bananas

oranges = 1
apples = 5
bananas = 2

3R + 2A + B = 15
3(1) + 2(5) + (2) = 15
3 + 10 + 2 = 15

5R + 7A + 2B = 44
5(1) + 7(5) + 2(2) = 44
5 + 35 + 4 = 44

R + 3A + 5B = 26
(1) + 3(5) + 5(2) = 26
1 + 15 + 10 = 26

I just kind of thought of random numbers and checked them... It was easier then solving by subtracting/adding.

Those must be some pretty big apples.

I'm wondering why not one of my math teachers have shown us that... It's obvious once I looked at it but still...

[Zieon Eslador]

I have the biggest hypocrite of a math teacher ever. I got a 57 on a math test yesterday because 10pi divided by 9 is apparently not THE SAME as 3.49 Radians, pi divided by 9 is not QUITE THE SAME as 20 degrees, and 380 degrees is not THE EXACT SAME as 19pi divided by 9. All this because she supposedly told the whole class to answer in radians. So now it is my fault that I couldn't hear a word she said because she put me in the back corner of the room. Where I'm on the other side of two girls who have yet to go a full 30 seconds without talking? Seriously? She put me back there for "talking too much," while several others kids constantly yell across the room to each other, even as she was telling me to move. Public school is modern mankind's biggest failure.

I guess that means I'm mathematically challenged as well as literately backwards since I failed to think the way every one else does. I guess I just must be an idiot because I'm one of those 1 in 200 people who think through problems differently than the other 199 individuals.

I can't make myself stop ranting, this is the angriest any situation in school has ever made me. Especially since she won't let me spend literally 2 MINUTES to convert my answers into "the correct" format, even though she admits they are correct but not the way she wants them to be. That's the same as telling someone to draw an apple, then telling them they are wrong because they drew a green apple and you were thinking of a red apple.

Jackson, you need to add a new smiley that can display my anger properly. This is the closest so far-

[xxpenguinxx]

Jackson, you need to add a new smiley that can display my anger properly. This is the closest so far-

I'm assuming you need a smiley that displays a screw popping loose in your head and all it takes it 1 degree more of a turn to make you completely snap and go on a killing spree?

[Zieon Eslador]

I'm assuming you need a smiley that displays a screw popping loose in your head and all it takes it 1 degree more of a turn to make you completely snap and go on a killing spree?

I dunno, I've walked away from fights I wanted to break bones in, but for some reason this hits me harder. Not the fact that I did poorly on a test, it's more of the fact that my GPA will follow me the rest of my life. It's made worse by my knowing that the only way I can keep it at the high enough level to suit the profession I'm planning on is to keep suffering through the rest of this pathetic excuse for learning that we call higher education.

[xxpenguinxx]

I wouldn't say High School is "pointless" or a "waist of time". I think I better description is "boring and counterproductive".

Counterproductive because one of the main thing students learn is to detest learning. True knowledge and learning comes by will, not by force.

[Zieon Eslador]

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Well, atleast Demonic agrees with me.

[Remnant Samurai]

Goddamed Borderlands and it's glitchiness. Missed out on 4 achivements from it which add to 65G.

They better fix it by next week.

[xxpenguinxx]

I just moved some of the crap in my room out of the way and now it feels weird sitting here.

[JacksonCougar]

Shit happens

[neodos]

Remnants is kinda dead

[JacksonCougar]

Shit happens, we are pretty much the same as ever.

[OwnZ joO]

I think most of the core members still check it every day. I have a feeling I'm gonna get back into programming again soonish, I haven't wanted a whole lot for a while now.

[socrates]

Shit happens

I use that quote all the time...

I'm ready to fucking kill someone.

this kept me from correcting your various grammar/spelling mistakes; most of which I'm sure were because of you being angry and typing fast/not giving a fuck because you were so pissed off

srsly?
Grim
Gary
penguin

what web browser's do you guys use? do they really not put a red squiggly line under the text that is misspelled? not have spellchecker? or have you really thought a word was spelled right and clicked "add to dictionary"

and BTW English is important for the core concepts, but reading Shakespeare or Emily Dickinson is complete bullshit, hardly anyone can understand the shit without contemplating it for half an hour, much less give a fuck what its about. as much as I hate writing essays, I tend to do pretty well at them, which is important because when it comes to college (not collage...........) a good essay shows a good education, if nothing else put some effort into your essays.. hell I usually read through or as I type it replace common words with less commonly used ones, like: Therefore, in addition to, contrary.. etc. hell I do that on here sometimes too.

however I do understand you Grim, You're wanting to base your future around computers; building and/or designing on them, where you won't need to understand the difference between a predicate adjective and a predicate noun. but I do encourage you to stick with it, let your anger pass with time, but then try to at least understand the concepts in school.

Good luck with Bungie though, I think you've got a good shot. At the very least you've got 1up on your classmates.

[Zieon Eslador]

Iiiiiiiiiii'm baaaaaacckk.

[Gary]

My mom is sick... not sure with what, but the doctor wants her in the hospital...

[socrates]

My Rant
My Point
My Examples
exhibit a
exhibit b
exhibit c
exhibit d
exhibit e
exhibit f
exhibit g

found the "My Point" one in my bookmarks.. thought I'd go ahead and use it...
did a search for penguin's posts that used the word "their" congrats..exactly 50 results..
looked through them and saw which ones were used in-place of they're, one you used they're in place of their... -.- and then narrowed even more cuz it wouldn't really apply if the date was before you said you should stop doing that...
so yeh.. your attempt to better your grammar in one place failed, but I do urge you to keep trying to improve....

and srsly.. is it that hard to look over your posts before hitting "submit" and instead hit "preview" to make sure links worked and also to look for any red squiggly lines? right click usually shows which word you meant...

[Click16]

Wow! you are observant. Although I don't care too much for grammar mistakes like that online. Honestly, who wants to be 100% accurate on a web forum?

My Rant:

My brother is sick, and I am starting to feel bad myself. If I get sick, heads are going through walls...

[Zieon Eslador]

who wants to be 100% accurate on a web forum?

If I get sick, heads are going trough walls...

Obviously not you...

I never realized how long it takes to read 5,120 paper-back pages. My head is going to implode pretty soon...

[Click16]

...My brother is sick, and I am starting to feel bad myself. If I get sick, heads are going through walls...

Happy now jackass?