It's like asking someone why they appear reversed left-to-right in a mirror, but not top-to-bottom, and saying there's an inconsistency in the foundation of physics.
So, would a species with 2 eyes arranged vertically instead of horizontally see itself reversed top-to-bottom and not left-to-right?
Wasn’t trolling, just making a fair point that a $10,000 debt, in this case unusually (normally it would) does not imply a $10,000 investment by the debt-holder in order to lend that much credit – or anything even remotely close to $10,000. In fact, it is almost zero.
You make a salient point, though, that to the debtor this is a rather severe situation in which they are allowed (with little warning) to accumulate $10,000 in debt. However, you are looking at it slightly different:
This puts people in the bad position of choosing between paying an unreasonable amount of money for service, and defaulting on a debt (and having their credit history tarnished).
Whereas my reaction is more of “That’s just ridiculous, that debt should be invalid and no such steep levy should be placed on the person who supposedly owes that absurd amount. They owe perhaps a small fraction of that.”
I’m running out the door at the moment but I might add more later.
I’m not quite sure I understand your comment. You think I was trolling, maybe? I wasn’t.
If you were selling, say, oranges, which cost you fifteen cents an orange and which you sell for 50 cents, and someone somehow buys 5,000 oranges from you on credit, according to your logic you have given them a $2500 line of credit. However, it didn’t cost you that much... it only cost you $750. Sure, the rest of the $2500 is unrealized profit, but I think it’s more fitting to use the $750 figure when gauging how much it’s costing you to give them that much on credit.
But that’s a physical product that costs money...
What’s the unit cost for the telco per text message? If you send 5000 text messages in a month, did that actually cost them substantially more than if you had sent none at all?
Basically my point is, it’s easy to give someone a “$10,000 line of credit” when your product has basically zero unit cost and your unit price is almost entirely profit.
Some of the new features: - High-resolution color display (384*216 pixels with 2^16 colors) - USB 2.0 support - 16 MB flash memory - Picture Plot functionality
It's insane that cell phone companies are effectively giving people $10,000 lines of credit
You make it sound like it’s actually costing them that much to keep their network switches and routing equipment running slightly warm because of your conversations...
So that would be an unlimited plan, priced at $500, right?
No, that would be “your normal plan, plus extra charges for exceeding your contract which will never cause your total bill to go over $500, at which point we’ll disconnect your service until the billing cycle resets.”
The FCC's proposed rules would require carriers to send text or voice alerts before and when minutes are used up.
That way you can use up more minutes listening to the alert, which they will charge you for, but not without sending another alert to tell you about the minutes used up by the last alert so that you won’t be surprised when you get your bill and notice that they charged you $5000 for the thousands of alerts that you got.
the dos window still won't let you highlight-copy text without a visit to the top-left dropdown menu and over to the sub-menu two times. (edit>>mark and then edit>>copy)
You can also select the image (Ctrl-A), drag the upper-left corner into place to crop off the top/left, affix the floating selection (Esc), and then drag the lower-left corner to trim off the bottom/right.
If there's one thing I've learned from being a part of large [group]... anyone claiming to speak for the group is either speaking about himself, making broad generalizations, or talking out of his ass - either way he's revealing more about himself than he is about the group.
Any time you hear a soldier, cop, or politician speak about their field of work, they tell you more about themselves than they do about the organization.
I wasn't speaking about the qualities or opinions of others.
So you were talking about yourself... RIGHT. And I fail at reading comprehension. Or basic logic. RIGHT!
For instance, people couldn't vote to override the constitution or anything like that.
People already can’t vote to override the constitution. And lawmakers can’t vote to override the constitution. And the supreme court can’t rule in direct contradiction to the constitution. Except... how can you keep any of that from happening, in practice?
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However, strictly, 1/3 = 0.3333... needs to be proved as well.
a = 1 / 3
1 / 3 = ((1 * 10) / 3) / 10
((1 * 10) / 3) / 10 = (10 / 3) / 10
(10 / 3) / 10 = ((9 + 1) / 3) / 10
((9 + 1) / 3) / 10 = (3 + 1 / 3) / 10
(3 + 1 / 3) / 10 = 0.3 + (1 / 3) / 10
0.3 + (1 / 3) / 10 = 0.3 + a / 10
Hence,
a = 0.3 + a / 10 = 0.3333...
Any child can see that 0.99... will never be 1 because it is always separated by 0.0...1.
Where did that 1 come from? 0.9...0 would be separated by 0.0...1, but 0.99... is not.
It's like asking someone why they appear reversed left-to-right in a mirror, but not top-to-bottom, and saying there's an inconsistency in the foundation of physics.
So, would a species with 2 eyes arranged vertically instead of horizontally see itself reversed top-to-bottom and not left-to-right?
And 2+2=0 for sufficiently big values of 0.
Wasn’t trolling, just making a fair point that a $10,000 debt, in this case unusually (normally it would) does not imply a $10,000 investment by the debt-holder in order to lend that much credit – or anything even remotely close to $10,000. In fact, it is almost zero.
You make a salient point, though, that to the debtor this is a rather severe situation in which they are allowed (with little warning) to accumulate $10,000 in debt. However, you are looking at it slightly different:
This puts people in the bad position of choosing between paying an unreasonable amount of money for service, and defaulting on a debt (and having their credit history tarnished).
Whereas my reaction is more of “That’s just ridiculous, that debt should be invalid and no such steep levy should be placed on the person who supposedly owes that absurd amount. They owe perhaps a small fraction of that.”
I’m running out the door at the moment but I might add more later.
I’m not quite sure I understand your comment. You think I was trolling, maybe? I wasn’t.
If you were selling, say, oranges, which cost you fifteen cents an orange and which you sell for 50 cents, and someone somehow buys 5,000 oranges from you on credit, according to your logic you have given them a $2500 line of credit. However, it didn’t cost you that much... it only cost you $750. Sure, the rest of the $2500 is unrealized profit, but I think it’s more fitting to use the $750 figure when gauging how much it’s costing you to give them that much on credit.
But that’s a physical product that costs money...
What’s the unit cost for the telco per text message? If you send 5000 text messages in a month, did that actually cost them substantially more than if you had sent none at all?
Basically my point is, it’s easy to give someone a “$10,000 line of credit” when your product has basically zero unit cost and your unit price is almost entirely profit.
Somehow I doubt that Casio officially unveiled it with a forum post.
And if we did have to link to a forum post (for some unknown reason) instead of something more official, this would have been better anyway...
Official website: http://www.casioeducation.com/prizm
edu.casio.com: http://edu.casio.com/products/cg_series/fxcg10_20
Manual download: http://edu.casio.com/products/cg_series/data/fxcg10_20_E.pdf
Models: fx-CG 10*/20
* North America only
Some of the new features:
- High-resolution color display (384*216 pixels with 2^16 colors)
- USB 2.0 support
- 16 MB flash memory
- Picture Plot functionality
It's insane that cell phone companies are effectively giving people $10,000 lines of credit
You make it sound like it’s actually costing them that much to keep their network switches and routing equipment running slightly warm because of your conversations...
So that would be an unlimited plan, priced at $500, right?
No, that would be “your normal plan, plus extra charges for exceeding your contract which will never cause your total bill to go over $500, at which point we’ll disconnect your service until the billing cycle resets.”
The FCC's proposed rules would require carriers to send text or voice alerts before and when minutes are used up.
That way you can use up more minutes listening to the alert, which they will charge you for, but not without sending another alert to tell you about the minutes used up by the last alert so that you won’t be surprised when you get your bill and notice that they charged you $5000 for the thousands of alerts that you got.
the dos window still won't let you highlight-copy text without a visit to the top-left dropdown menu and over to the sub-menu two times. (edit>>mark and then edit>>copy)
What?!
Command-menu, “Defaults”, “Options” tab, “Edit Options” box, “QuickEdit Mode” enabled.
Click & drag to select; Esc to clear selection; Enter to copy selection. No muss, no fuss. It’s worked since at least Windows XP...
You can also select the image (Ctrl-A), drag the upper-left corner into place to crop off the top/left, affix the floating selection (Esc), and then drag the lower-left corner to trim off the bottom/right.
I can remember seeing it a few times... like 2 years ago. Sort of like this story...
7 did absolutely nothing I needed that XP didn't, and had plenty of quirks that drove me crazy.
Nothing?! They made the digital camera interface usable, and someone finally added a “crop” function to Paint...
Really? I named mine “virus”...
Until proven otherwise I’m assuming that’s entirely due to the recent viral self-replicating tweet.
Yeah, I’m sure it’s just loads of trouble keeping these things on the ground where they belong.~
A single increase from A to B is always exponential if you use the right exponent...
No... thank you. It’s nice to have a reminder every now and then that yes, there was in fact a very good reason that I had added you to my Foes list.
No, this is pie in ASCII
<)
Perhaps you meant binary?
If there's one thing I've learned from being a part of large [group] ... anyone claiming to speak for the group is either speaking about himself, making broad generalizations, or talking out of his ass - either way he's revealing more about himself than he is about the group.
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You’re in a hole. Quit digging.
You seem to think that there is a difference between “information” and “evidence”.
Any time you hear a soldier, cop, or politician speak about their field of work, they tell you more about themselves than they do about the organization.
I wasn't speaking about the qualities or opinions of others.
So you were talking about yourself... RIGHT. And I fail at reading comprehension. Or basic logic. RIGHT!
For instance, people couldn't vote to override the constitution or anything like that.
People already can’t vote to override the constitution. And lawmakers can’t vote to override the constitution. And the supreme court can’t rule in direct contradiction to the constitution. Except... how can you keep any of that from happening, in practice?
If a few restrictions are put into place, it is no longer a democracy.
And they did put a few restrictions into place: they made a democratic republic.