Where said blogger is an editor at a magazine that just did a cover feature on the same style of meterial being used on some internal rooms and potentially causing wifi problems. Which one would hope would actually mean they have a little bit of short term knowledge in order to base their still flimsy guesses on. Of course that article might have been all guesswork as well, it's not a magazine I read to know.
And he doesn't just describe it as "foil-like" he also provides the product spec sheet that states that is has an aluminium layer which, while you might disagree, the rest of will continue to believe is a metal.
Their core business is online advertising. You really expect them to make a browser that limits online advertising? Before they start losing market share to browsers that do have it?
No one gives a crap that your eyesight or brain is defective and can't handle being pushed slightly outside the normal experience. Just like no one gives a crap that deaf people can't hear the musical score.
Of course they would. If you did what I said and gave it a suitable name. Say World of Warcraft. If you called it Warcraft IV I'm pretty sure you'd see some complaining
It is so much cheaper and more efficient than traditional storefronts
Arguable. A local store gets a relatively large shipment of merchandise to sell, so the cost (in terms of money, environmental damage, traffic, etc.) of shipping is spread over the entire lot. A customer may make several purchases (including from neighboring shops) on a single trip, which spreads the cost of driving over the number of items. Some customers might even walk or bike to the local store, or stop by on the way home, further minimizing that segment of the cost.
In the on-line version, if you buy everything from Amazon, in some cases they can hold shipment until all the items are complete, but in many cases even stuff you purchased at the same time are shipped separately. If you don't buy everything from Amazon, or if the order actually goes to some associate/affiliate (whatever they call it, those third party merchants) of amazon.com, then certainly they will ship separately. If you and your neighbor both buy something on-line, but one ships UPS and the other FedEx, then there'd be two trucks coming to your block instead of one. Not terribly efficient at all.
But that is efficient. It's competition, sure in the short term is would be much much more efficient to only have one delivery company, and one phone company, and one grocery store, and one make of car, and one internet provider, and so on. But in the longer term the efficiency costs of the duplicated work are more than covered by competition driving productivity.
And the Fedex trucks in my neighbourhood are pretty full so I don't think there's any efficiency loss anyway, given multiple UPS and multiple Fedex trucks pass by anyway (so if there was only Fedex they'd have to have more to carry the stuiff the UPS trucks are carrying). And no huge trucks in this resedential area would not be an improvement over multiple small ones.
And Fedex doesn't send one truck out to Amazon, pick up one package, and take it to the shipping center, and then drive back to Amazon to pick up the next package. It really makes no difference in terms of transport efficiency if your order components are shipped separately since there will be hundreds of other orders to be picked up by the same truck and delivered to the same sorting center. Packaging wise I guess it does, but given the amazingly large boxes for amazingly small items I receive I doubt that's a big contributor...
if people are forced to pay sales tax on purchases [...], then that is going to lower the economic incentive to purchase online.
Do you realize that this statement could not be true unless on-line shopping is actually less efficient and more expensive? If on-line shopping is really "so much cheaper and more efficient" even after taxes were properly assessed, why would anybody stop?
Lower incentive != stop. You seriously think that raising prices won't decrease demand? I buy stuff from newegg sometimes, yet they charge me sales tax - oh look lower incentive that doesn't take it to 0.
And those taxes could add enough cost to make something that is currently cheaper and more efficient become not so. The local store has compliance costs for dealing with one sales tax system, an online store has compliance costs to deal with thousands of different sales tax systems. Even if it becomes per-state and they all agree on the same rate, the online store has to do the paperwork with all the involved states, the local store just the one.
"not a lot" and yet the next link you provide states they made a top 10 list for retail boxed game sales. Just how many sales does there need to be for you to consider it to be "a lot".
If EA releases Tiger Woods Gold 2012 there would be complaints if it was actually a NASCAR simulator? If the next Modern Warfare was a turn based role playing game there'd be complaints?
No shit, sherlock.
But if the new game isn't given the same damn name and put in the same damn franchise then it can be completely different. If you want it to be "blurring" but within the same main gameplay then give it a name that indicates that and no one (well there will always be someone) will complain
Obviously you can't take a closed book test and just run it open book. You need to write the test so that it is designed to be done open book.
Lots of the classes I did way back when I was at uni used open book tests. The students didn't get higher marks in them than the ones that did not use open book tests.
if you are good at rote learning and memorizing than you want closed book tests, since you'll do better on average in them. If you are good at finding stuff in books quickly then you want open book tests.
For most people it doesn't make a difference. Open book tests are more "real world", in that when I'm actually writing a computer program I have the language reference available, etc. Then again part of learning a subject is that there's a subset of it that you should just know without having to look it up.
I still have a fond memory from 1997. While taking Trig, another dinosaur math teacher (they were not in short supply) had a homework assignment: come to class with a list of 15 integer Pythagorean triples. A quick trip to QBASIC, I ran a from 0 to 100, nested b from 0 to 100, looked for integers, and sent the first 15 results to a text file. Prepended my name to the file, printed it, and appended the source code for good measure. Having fulfilled the assignment, she was forced to accept it, but she was nonetheless quite pissed off. I think that earned a phone call to my parents, who were by no means helicopter parents, but would have been in the principal's office if she had refused to accept the assignment out of spite.
A stupid assignement of course, but that seems a equally stupid way of generating them.
If they aren't required to be primitive then it's silly not to do just do
for i = 1 to 10
print 3*i, 4*i, 5*i next
(of whatever the syntax is).
Or just use Euclid's Formula which is much more efficient that your method and doesn't rely on blind chance that the first 15 occur with a and b in the range 0 to 100. And is likely what the teacher hoped you spend 2 minutes looking up to boot (and maybe even a little while understanding).
They stop most people for situations like that. In fact I suspect the only people they wouldn't stop are those ignorant of the law in question.
Example law:
* Using a SSN for *anything* except other than the adminstration of social security and the collection of taxes shall be punishable by a $42 billion fine.
You really a bank is going to use your SSN for anything when that is law? OK then, do you really think after all the banks that did so have filed for bankruptcy due to a trillions of dollars in liability (fine is per SSN after all) that suddenly appeared on their books that the rest are going to?
Neither the GOP nor the Democratic party encourage, endorse, or suggest political violence as a means of solving our problems
The GOP candidate for vice president in the last election used rhetoric that is clearly going to be interpreted as a call to violence by some of the target audience.
Obviously they aren't stupid enough to say something without enough wiggle room that they can pretend they never thought anyone would interpret them like that. And they likely don't actually want any violence to result - they just want to energize via anger and fear a group of people to vote for them.
Quantum chromodynamics, Conformal field theory, and of course Monstrous moonshine though I'm 100% certain you consider that one mental masturbation.
And I don't care about your point, I care about one particular claim you made.
And there's no bug up my butt about string theory. String theory is a load of useless garbage that is not science for the reasons you've mentioned, but that doesn't mean you can ignore the accidental contributions it has made to actual science.
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They aren't criticizing the US for restricting internet freedoms.
They are criticizing the US for whining about China restricting internet freedoms while doing it themselves.
There's a huge and obvious difference.
No idea, as i said I don't read the magazine in question. I'm certainly not going to start so that you don't have to.
Where said blogger is an editor at a magazine that just did a cover feature on the same style of meterial being used on some internal rooms and potentially causing wifi problems. Which one would hope would actually mean they have a little bit of short term knowledge in order to base their still flimsy guesses on. Of course that article might have been all guesswork as well, it's not a magazine I read to know.
And he doesn't just describe it as "foil-like" he also provides the product spec sheet that states that is has an aluminium layer which, while you might disagree, the rest of will continue to believe is a metal.
Fine, but don't come crying when your partner dumps you for someone who did. Well actually do come crying, there's a deluxe model you see...
Their core business is online advertising. You really expect them to make a browser that limits online advertising? Before they start losing market share to browsers that do have it?
Except that it's a completely different thing that solves a completely unrelated problem.
Not using that I didn't even consider as being possible
"chipped in" implies a maority investment?
No one gives a crap that your eyesight or brain is defective and can't handle being pushed slightly outside the normal experience. Just like no one gives a crap that deaf people can't hear the musical score.
-Wparentheses which is included in -Wall which surely no one actually doesn't use...
Of course they would. If you did what I said and gave it a suitable name. Say World of Warcraft. If you called it Warcraft IV I'm pretty sure you'd see some complaining
Of course, them not getting that is what isn't going to fly.
But that is efficient. It's competition, sure in the short term is would be much much more efficient to only have one delivery company, and one phone company, and one grocery store, and one make of car, and one internet provider, and so on. But in the longer term the efficiency costs of the duplicated work are more than covered by competition driving productivity.
And the Fedex trucks in my neighbourhood are pretty full so I don't think there's any efficiency loss anyway, given multiple UPS and multiple Fedex trucks pass by anyway (so if there was only Fedex they'd have to have more to carry the stuiff the UPS trucks are carrying). And no huge trucks in this resedential area would not be an improvement over multiple small ones.
And Fedex doesn't send one truck out to Amazon, pick up one package, and take it to the shipping center, and then drive back to Amazon to pick up the next package. It really makes no difference in terms of transport efficiency if your order components are shipped separately since there will be hundreds of other orders to be picked up by the same truck and delivered to the same sorting center. Packaging wise I guess it does, but given the amazingly large boxes for amazingly small items I receive I doubt that's a big contributor...
Lower incentive != stop. You seriously think that raising prices won't decrease demand? I buy stuff from newegg sometimes, yet they charge me sales tax - oh look lower incentive that doesn't take it to 0.
And those taxes could add enough cost to make something that is currently cheaper and more efficient become not so. The local store has compliance costs for dealing with one sales tax system, an online store has compliance costs to deal with thousands of different sales tax systems. Even if it becomes per-state and they all agree on the same rate, the online store has to do the paperwork with all the involved states, the local store just the one.
"not a lot" and yet the next link you provide states they made a top 10 list for retail boxed game sales. Just how many sales does there need to be for you to consider it to be "a lot".
Which has exactly nothing to do with something causing mutations.
If EA releases Tiger Woods Gold 2012 there would be complaints if it was actually a NASCAR simulator?
If the next Modern Warfare was a turn based role playing game there'd be complaints?
No shit, sherlock.
But if the new game isn't given the same damn name and put in the same damn franchise then it can be completely different. If you want it to be "blurring" but within the same main gameplay then give it a name that indicates that and no one (well there will always be someone) will complain
Doing something doesn't make you a hyprocrite. Doing something while advocating the opposite does.
China doesn't criticize others countries for restriciting "internet freedoms" and hence that they do so themselves isn't hyprocritical.
Obviously you can't take a closed book test and just run it open book. You need to write the test so that it is designed to be done open book.
Lots of the classes I did way back when I was at uni used open book tests. The students didn't get higher marks in them than the ones that did not use open book tests.
if you are good at rote learning and memorizing than you want closed book tests, since you'll do better on average in them. If you are good at finding stuff in books quickly then you want open book tests.
For most people it doesn't make a difference. Open book tests are more "real world", in that when I'm actually writing a computer program I have the language reference available, etc. Then again part of learning a subject is that there's a subset of it that you should just know without having to look it up.
A stupid assignement of course, but that seems a equally stupid way of generating them.
If they aren't required to be primitive then it's silly not to do just do
for i = 1 to 10
print 3*i, 4*i, 5*i
next
(of whatever the syntax is).
Or just use Euclid's Formula which is much more efficient that your method and doesn't rely on blind chance that the first 15 occur with a and b in the range 0 to 100. And is likely what the teacher hoped you spend 2 minutes looking up to boot (and maybe even a little while understanding).
Oh and what's a non-integer Pythogorean triple?
They stop most people for situations like that. In fact I suspect the only people they wouldn't stop are those ignorant of the law in question.
Example law:
* Using a SSN for *anything* except other than the adminstration of social security and the collection of taxes shall be punishable by a $42 billion fine.
You really a bank is going to use your SSN for anything when that is law? OK then, do you really think after all the banks that did so have filed for bankruptcy due to a trillions of dollars in liability (fine is per SSN after all) that suddenly appeared on their books that the rest are going to?
Measuring would just a tad more difficult...
The GOP candidate for vice president in the last election used rhetoric that is clearly going to be interpreted as a call to violence by some of the target audience.
Obviously they aren't stupid enough to say something without enough wiggle room that they can pretend they never thought anyone would interpret them like that. And they likely don't actually want any violence to result - they just want to energize via anger and fear a group of people to vote for them.
Quantum chromodynamics, Conformal field theory, and of course Monstrous moonshine though I'm 100% certain you consider that one mental masturbation.
And I don't care about your point, I care about one particular claim you made.
And there's no bug up my butt about string theory. String theory is a load of useless garbage that is not science for the reasons you've mentioned, but that doesn't mean you can ignore the accidental contributions it has made to actual science.
You have a strange definition of "perfect".
The alpha or the beta obviously.