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  1. Re:Oh, just great on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    Yes, you leftists do enjoy playing word games so that the perception of your practices hides what's going on underneath.

    The truth is that many left-wing practices are not about progress at all. Quit hijacking a useful word.

  2. Re:I've never given money to a web site before on WikiLeaks Releases Cache of 400,000 Iraq War Documents · · Score: 1

    I think the point is that you won't be able to get the government to do that without armed revolution.

    (Not that I necessarily agree but it's definitely up for debate)

  3. Re:might i say on Tesla Signs $60 Million Contract With Toyota · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm thinking this might be a "woosh" event. Subtly done if so.

  4. False inferences. on Small Startup Prevails In Server Cooling 'Chill Off' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The testing accidentally highlighted the opportunity for additional energy savings, when the Clustered Systems unit continued to operate during a cooling failure that raised the chiller plant water temperature from 44 to 78 degrees F.

    Nonsense. I've seen equipment continue to function during AC failures with very high temperatures. It's how much the lifetime of the equipment is reduced during those failures that's the real test. Not unusual to see higher levels of hard drive failures months after the event.

  5. Re:This is just faulty math on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    And I notice that your reply isn't an invitation to discuss further but rather a thinly veiled attack on me. Indicating my surmization of the situation is correct. Winners all round. I don't wast my time and you can go on thinking that mathematical symbols represent mechanistic operations.

  6. Re:This is just faulty math on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    You're wrong. But it'll do you more good to work out why you're wrong than for me to spend time walking you through it.

    If you can't concede the possibility that you're wrong, it would be a waste of my time anyway.

  7. Re:Polarizing TV on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    Yes. I'm imagining the filter. Though there may be other ways.

    LCD screens need polarizing filters in any case as far as I'm aware. So it may just be a case of tweaking that somehow.

  8. Re:This is just faulty math on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. No idea what the GP makes of e^(i*PI)=-1

  9. Re:Finally on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    I see someone else has said something similar. I'll have to look into hyperreals. Wikipedia doesn't really support you from what I read but that could be lack of clarity on Wikipedia's part or lack of background on mine. Either way, not applicable in this situation.

  10. Re:This is just faulty math on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    When you multiply 5 by 5, do you add 5 to 0 five times or do you just put 5x5=25?

    Same thing. You're working with symbols, not the actual numbers.

  11. Re:Finally on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    And by nothing, I mean "Nothing useful" and not zero (nor 0.000... or delta either)

  12. Re:Finally on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    Infinitesimals do indeed exist (at least for mathematical purposes). However, "0.000...1" is simply nonsense. It represents nothing and thus cannot be added to anything.

  13. Re:I went one further on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    In which case, your sqrt() is only loosely related to x^2 forms and your proof becomes invalid as soon as you attempt to use it.

  14. Re:Price and glasses, most likely on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    For example, a new standard arises for operation of the 3D glasses and everyone stops producing the old style ones, making replacing broken ones an expensive proposition. Or similar. Though I'm hoping if 3D does get going (which I have doubts of), we'll see polarized glasses as standard (which still leads to crying)

  15. Re:This is second place on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    It's sort of like trying to convince everybody that the grass that they've seen every day of their life is rarely if ever green.

    Is this locations specific or some kind of statistical thing? I'm fairly sure that the grass I grew up around in England was green year-round but the only green grass I saw in California was heavily irrigated and here in Tennessee it's starting to turn brown.

  16. Re:3D TV To Watch What??? on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    Yep. 3D needs its "Love Over Gold" or "The Matrix". So does Blu-ray come to that. (Though I believe that as physical media, it's a "dead man walking" anyway.

  17. Re:Can't wait for this fad to die... on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    And the 80s. I still have my "Tomorrow's World" 3D glasses around somewhere.

    Roll on 2040...

  18. Re:Old Success Stories on Microsoft Admits OpenOffice.org Is a Contender · · Score: 1

    Microsoft Word Viewer is free. I have also been able to cut from that and into Open Office fairly successfully when needed.

  19. Re:Price and glasses, most likely on Huge Shocker — 3D TVs Not Selling · · Score: 1

    And then the standard changes and they're crying about how they wasted all that money.

  20. Re:Finally on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    0.000...1

    No such thing. Invalid notation.

  21. Re:I went one further on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work when x is a real number either. Square roots return two values (except for sqrt(0))

  22. Re:(0.999...)st Post! on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Floor, and, to a lesser extent, ceiling, are extremely useful in many situations. It's all about context.

  23. Re:It's understandable. on Unseen Moon Landing Video Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, we could get there again. It's just that these days, if we want to go to a derelict hell-hole, we have Detroit.

  24. Re:Digital remaster scheme on Unseen Moon Landing Video Released · · Score: 1

    But there's no sound in space.

  25. Re:Courier-imap on Best Way To Archive Emails For Later Searching? · · Score: 1

    Also easy to search and sort. And I don't mean with a mail client's search features but truly powerful tools like find, grep and xargs.

    +1 for IMAP/Maildir.