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We live in a 4 dimensional universe.

The metric that describes a 4 dimensional universe is:

g_{uv}dx^u dx^v = ds^2

where u, v goes from 0 to 3. The index 0 is usually taken as time. Although time is often regarded as
special and distinct from the 3 space dimensions, in the theory of relativity, this distinction does not exist and
space and time can be rotated into each other analogously to how the x dimension can be rotated into the y dimension and the
y dimension can be rotated into the x dimension in the usual euclidean space. In general relativity, such rotations are referred to
as local lorentz transformations.

I thought that I should add a few more points that the op missed:

Men have higher IQ's than women. About 1/3 standard deviation difference

Men have larger brains that women even after accounting for body size.

Women have thicker skulls than men. Female skulls are about 7.6mm thick while male skulls are about 6.5mm thick

ebamma: Still on the matter the price of garri remains the same

I don't mean to spoil show here but there may be some connection with the price of garri here as follows:

1) people use money that they can save up to do beta thing and patronize onye njakili

2) onye njakili use his over valued position to buy big motor.

3) Over valued comodity is also known as arbitrage in financial economics. Arbitrage is never good for the ecomomy
because it makes it more volatile:

Now with regard to the matter on the affect of garri price

4)Money that could be spent buying garri is spent on frivolous overvalued onye njakili,

5) Price of garri drop because of artificial drop in demand. But as it is well known, there is constant demand for garri.

6) Drop in garri price kills biz for some garri hawkers. They get out of the biz therefore less competition.

7) Patronizers of onye njakili remember that garri is more important than onye njakili, they need to buy garri, but now there is less competition among seller and so they raise the price.

Conclusion: New BMW of onye njakili affect price of garri and also hurt the poor man because he don chop money for onye njakili and make price of garri go up.

Such wholesale ban on such an integral element of the Lagos economy with what seems to be no regard of consequence is a betrayal of the man's stupidity. For example, no okada == more time wasted in traffic =decreased productivity = less goods per naira. Just one of **very** many effects.

This sounds like mostly hype. The simplest arrangement of falling bodies that take drag into account would be a reasonably large body with flat surfaces, then your standard k*v^2 is ok. To know if this so called breakthrough is worthy of celebration we need to know what are his assumptions about the falling body. Does his "analytical solution" apply to arbitrary bodies?(Probably no solution possible) Even for everyday boring shaped bodies, solving for tragectories would involve an account consisting of many coupled nonlinear pde's.

I don't think that this news deserves the killing of cow.

All Hail innoson. All Hail ndi Anambra. My own go soon pass that one though

Beaf: The African is the Africans worst problem.

There is [b]nothing [/b]intrinsically wrong with us, aside from the fact that we have failed miserably to deal with the twin trauma's of colonisation and the slave trade. Therefore, the average African exhibits a distinct lack of self belief, is clannish/bigoted, weak willed, quick to point fingers, loudmouthed, over-dressed etc. These factor all combine in a way that appears to give the African a lower IQ than the Global average.

We do not have a lower IQ; rather, we have a continent in emotional turmoil and a population plagued by a continent wide low self-esteem.

The reasons Africa has been unable to overcome the trauma's of the slave trade and colonisation is simple to figure out. The most powerful families who make up the upper echelons of the political classes across the continent were direct beneficiaries of the twin evils. They either took part in the slave trade or sold out to the colonial powers.
With these people continously recycled in the continents politics, there is little hope for rebirth. Traitors and the wicked cannot lead a rebirth, nor can they heal the trauma they are a part of. Congo that saw the worst violence (with 10 - 12 million massacred) will continue to be at war and to regress into the abyss.
As long as those families remain in power, they will block rebirth. And any they allow to rise to their stratospheric level will be beasts of their breed who will not rock the boat.

One example that stands out like a beacon to most of Africa is Ghana. That is one country that has successfully come to terms with its past as a slave center. It has apologised to Africans in the diaspora and offered free land and resettlement schemes; it has also undegone all sorts of traditional cleansing. All of these things impinge on the national psyche and have propelled Ghana forward on the democratic and developmental scales.
It is easy to bet that Ghana will become the first developed W. African state.

In comparison, Nigeria has places reknowned for slavery like Badagry, Brass, Arochukwu etc, but we do not give a damn. We have the same old ruling families running our lives, but its business as usual. Is it any surprise that the average Nigerian has no value for the happiness of their neighbour? No nation with such an appalling society can ever develop.

Africans do not have a lower IQ. In fact, the unusually harsh african environment probably biases africans to a higher IQ. I have my reasons for believing so. I believe that the reason that Africans appear "backwards" is because of the harsh african environment. Europeans benefitted from very long, old cultural heritage(most of their knowledge/inventions are actually not european in origin). This is a result of more lenient european environment which thus enabled free flow of information/ideas.

The other reason why europe is the way it is (western europe mostly) is the bubonic plague. One will almost never see this as cited as a reason for the advancement of western europe but most historians agree that this is the main reason why western europe look different from eastern europe. In fact, before the 1200's, 1300's europe did not look much different from africa.

We nerds know more about women than women know about themselves

Congrats to all the winners.

It may be that you misjudged her character before you married her. It happens. My advice, monitor her closely from now on, you may need to start thinking of taking a second wife(assuming that you have the financial capacity to support a polygamous family) but by all(any) means condition your decisions to avoid having to sacrifice too much of your values and future aspirations.

When these kind of people want to bleed a man dry, it usually starts with little sips like this. Today, tattoo, tomorrow boyfriend.

One needs to be very good in maths to be good in computer science, but not nearly so much to be a good programmer

gi na chi ka akalaka di n'aka!

You need to be from benue culture to understand the true meaning of the name.  To tell you the truth, "meat of the ancestors"  does not sound much more alarming as Osunkwo or Osuani, Ogbunike or even "lamb of god" for the benefit of those who now give credit to only those things that are fabricated by the white man.

emmatok:
If you get physical with your wife, i assure you she will be the first to send you to jail.

If you are married to a troublesome woman- Make sure you put all option including Divorce on the table, if the it get worse just separate form her.

If you are not married- Save your-selves the stress, stay single and enjoy your life. You can still have children if you want.

By these comments I come to 2 conclusions, you are either very young or you are very naive for your age.  I can still have children if I want?? What kind of a man will knowingly bear children out of wedlock?  Do you not feel that somehow your position is fundamentally flawed, even though you cannot understand why?  Do you think that the large number of man-lover-man degenerates that populate the western world is not somehow connected with an increase in the number of single mothers?

If the fear of jail puts a man off from exacting discipline in his own house then such a man is a coward.

If situations have devolved to the point that a woman is slapping/beating you and you come here to complain then you are not a real man!! Women are like children, they need to be taught how to behave. If you remove discipline from the rearing of children, then those children will grow up to be animals. If you remove discipline from the training of women, then those women will destroy your family. Sometimes a man must be physical and you will be surprised at how far a swift backhand to the face can cure belligerence. When I am confronted by people who insist that a man must not raise his hand at a woman, I often reply that we do not live in the garden of Eden and sometimes one must do what is necessary for the greater good.

High_Chief:
^^^Well said. Marriage is really overrated these days(especially in 9ja). You see men dying at a very young age about 40-50yrs cos of marriage wahala. No man will survive under the same roof with gals like these ones

How will good children be raised without marriage? Marriage is as important as in the days of our forefathers, in fact, it may even be more important today, given the moral decadence today and the increasing pressures from rubbish western culture. Also like it was in the days of our forefathers, one should be careful when choosing a wife. You are supposed to do research on the girl/family in case she uset to be akwula/ashawo, among other things.

Animashaun Omolara (sexylhara) mobile: 08075770512 e-mail: sexylhara@yahoo.co.uk


When you call/e-mail her, ask her what her father did to her to warrant such disgrace to his name.

Completed Phd in Physics. Concentration in Relativity and cosmology.

tunnytox:
Why are people displaying their ignorance about vocational schools? which functioning vocational school do we have in Nigeria?

Well if you lived in the U.S and the high school that you attended was a vocational school where students were taught; carpentry, pottery, fashion design, cosmetology, medical assistant, auto mechanics, auto body works etc. and ended up studying nursing for three years you can't sincerely position yourself as an authority on Nigerian education unless your are a particularly simple somebody so no, I still don't agree with you!!


I am a product of the Nigerian education system when it worked the way that it was designed to work and I believe in it. Even today where we do have problems in the system, it is still functional and not a complete failure as some would have us believe.

Vocational education belongs in a secondary school only as an introductory level just like all other disciplines and indeed that is the way it is done in most parts of the world, including in Nigeria. As children grow, their natural intelligence/aptitudes become more pronounced, for example a child that was mathematically gifted may end up becoming weak in the subject so education at the secondary school level needs to be a sampling of as many fields as possible mostly at the introductory level. There is no point in teaching only advanced maths/engineering in secondary school when at least 98% of those that you are teaching will not use what you are teaching for anything. The same idea applies to vocational education.

If there is no vocational education in Nigeria, then where did all the electricians, mechanics e.t.c that we have no short supply of in Nigeria learn their trade given that they did not school in U.S where they have vocational education but not in "nonsense Nigeria".

I hope that I have been able to make things clearer for you.

razznaija:
I think that we need schools that teach secondary school students trades in Nigeria, do you all agree with me??

Vocational education is already well integrated in Nigerian education system so no, I do not agree with you.

texazzpete:
Precisely why many Nigerian programmers remain dirt poor. Any realist would tell you that this will NOT sell well. Have you any idea how expensive console devkits are? Or the massive amount of time you'd have to spend coding, designing etc and then extensive bug testing to obtain certification for release on consoles. You'll definitely have your work cut out with Nintendo

Then target market comes into play. It seems like a good idea now but you'll find that less than 500 Nigerians will be willing to pay full price for your game. Rampant piracy will cripple you too. Then you'd be left with lacklustre sales and staff salary backlogs.

Realistic targets and plans should be your watchword!

You need to have actually conceptualized, designed/developed, debugged and then marketed a product to realize that your statement is totally false. For starters, this product if successfully developed will be one of its kind in the world and that almost always means success.

As for your objections to the amount of time/coding, I will have you know that all novel projects, even those that seem most trivial take a great deal of time to develop, the rewards come in the later versions, births of the initial investment in time/effort where new products are just modifications/additions to your original produt.

I myself think that the idea is very good and it will be successful if it is launched

engineerd:
LOL, I do both ASIC (Verilog, Vhdl) and VLSI (Digital and Analog), you don't have to be avid jare, I am currently into RF and High-speed Analog circuit design. This is a hot field right now, difficult, not over-saturated and quite lucrative.

Impressive. It is like I breath analog design. I agree that is a lucrative field, given that so few EE's are good at analog design.

Only problem is that it is hard to consolidate business where IC design is main product, so most of us have to settle with discrete components and import IC from China overseas

engineerd:
gosh i am glad u guys like programing, i find it boring though, i wish there were avid integrated circuit designers on nairaland. i feel so alone

How about ordinary circuits designer. I build and sell a variety of electronics that are devoted to energy systems(inverters, charge controllers). I also do some freelance contract stuff. Do you design intergrated circuits? VHDL? VLSI?

engineerd:
why can't some of you guys work on developing a Nigerian game for Nintendo or sony. As in a fighting game where fighters speak local languages and fight Naija action style, like action moves that are totally Nigerian,  Just a thought.

Actually I am working on something similar. A utility system that is very similar to sql but the interface is entirely in Igbo language. I don't intend to sell these but I expect lots of return$$$ from this project

I am working on a utility software that should earn billions for me if my suspicions/expectations are correct.

Think of if as the nigerian version of SQL

bmaninbama:
Good evening. I'm writing a speech honoring a co-worker originally from Nigeria who is leaving for another job. Can someone please translate the following phrase into Yoruba for me:

"Thank you for everything. We will miss you. Godspeed."

Thank you for your help.

Da-alu maka ihe nile i' meelu anyi. Anyi ga na cheta kwaa gi. La-a nke oma.

Da-alu maka enye'm aka gi.

Geeky:
I will try to rewrite the lost one. I have a degree in computer science and i can design websites. Well to an extent.What ever i have earned had been through being sharp so to say. If i cant create the website you want, i will get you someone who will. And i get my cut.

Maybe you are simply not competitive when compared to your fellow programmers.  Programming skills is in very high demand in Nigeria today and it is very easy and rewarding for one with real programming skills to be self employed in this country.  Most of the guys that did CS are either working for a company developing code or are self employed **developing code**, mostly database management software.

IT training helps but is really not necessary for success as a programmer.

So when you tell us that the extent of your ability is website design "to an extent", despite your degree in computer science, I can only infer that you are just not competitive, then again I could be wrong but you would have to show us some of the other things that you have done that is more worthy than website design.

Maybe you should reduce your expectations a bit,  like somebody mentioned here don't go for 500k jobs but rather settle for 30k-50k jobs and as you learn more about the industry, maybe you can advance.


Just my thoughts.

davidylan:
going to ignore the question in highlights for now.
I wasnt arguing at all about nigerians and their GPA, i was responding to your claim that GPA does not matter in western countries. It does matter dude. You cant just make blanket statements like that since you do not live in every foreign country.

I have to disagree on this. I went to school in U.S I have to say that GPA is no longer important, and in fact this is the opinion of most of my professors there. They say that GPA today is inflated and that it is now common to see half baked mediocre students coming out with unbelievable GPA. I think that there used to be a time in the past (in the U.S.A) when GPA was important because it correlated closely with academic ability but this is simply not the case today.

I cannot say much about the rest of the western world but some friends that I know that schooled in the UK tell me that the situation is even worse. On of the examples that they give me is the case of Law school where they had to develop aptitude test to screen law school applicants because they got tired of seeing first class people with poor ability to think like a lawyer

omo_to_dun:
Notice that I said "guru", you said "excellent"; there is a huge difference. There are millions of excellent programmers, but few are gurus. If you are a regular on this site, you'd know that most programmers here claim to be the best thing since C++. Instead of telling me that your friends are excellent, show me. What have they done?


Yes I noticed your "guru" but I don't see how that affects what I am objecting to. I had a problem with your suggestion that it was not possible/very unlikely for a guru in programming to have a capacity for analysis, also what you were referring to as analysis resembled very much skills that would be expected in the hard sciences(maths, physics etc)

I don't really know how you want me to show you what I(my friends) have done. Upload code? Not possible. References to some published product/solutions? You should already have realized that we are not software developers. I personally regard C/C++ as just one of various tools to be used in my work, an elementary example is microcontroller programming.

I suppose that this brings back your supposed distinction between "excellent" and "guru". Most excellent programmer can become "gurus" if they choose to specialize in software development (and maybe if they add some business sense)


This quote leads me to think that you do not understand analysis of algorithm, because being good at Math is actually a prerequisite to being good at analysis of algorithm. So I do not understand why you used the phrase "even though". Most renowned Computer Scientists and Software Developers actually majored in those disciplines that you listed. For example, Physics---Richard Stallman & Math---the almighty Donald Knuth.

Actually I consider myself unbeatable in analysis of algorithm and analytical ability in general. My use of the phrase "even though" was caused because I thought that you were distinguishing between "being a software guru" and "being good at analysis". If you say that this is not so, then I stand corrected and this dialog is no longer necessary.

omo_to_dun:

I have friends who are gurus at programming and suck at the analysis and I also have friends who are the exact opposite. Honestly, you'd be hard-pressed to find folks who are good at both. [/i]

I disagree with this. Most of the boys that I studied with are excellent programmers. I enjoy developing software even though my background is Physics/Math/Elect. Eng

I wish that those who know nothing about ndi Igbo to gbachite onu, ka ha we nwelu ike i muta ihe.

Primary school homework!! Such an insult to my IQ.