Have you got any idea how difficult it is to refute an experimental outcome?
I think the GP's point was nicely summed up by Winston Churchill:
"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is."
If the research is junk, the best it can hope for is 15 minutes of fame. Great research (Skinner, Bandura, etc) will be around forever because it captured something TRUE.
The IANA exists because to have an Internet, you need an Authority to Assign Numbers. Without that, the meaning of "slashdot.org" or "216.34.181.45" depends on the whim of your friendly neighborhood routing table.
Feel free to debate who the authority is, but acknowledge that we need some authority.
The internet is not some "thing" that needs to be administered. It is not a public resource! There are millions of private networks and we all agree to use TCP/IP and DNS to interoperate.
To think that filesize and price are correlated is absurd. It's the production cost and value of those bits that determines price.
Replace "MP3" with "software" and this becomes obvious. A bargain-bin game might cost you $5/GB, whereas a specialized 10 MB medical/industrial program could cost $10,000 per seat.
I've never heard of them. A quick Google search turns up nothing either. [...]
So they can't really be all that popular internationally - not many people are mentioning them online or linking to pages that do.
HINT: Translate "Calypso Band" into Brazilian Portuguese.
Banda Calypso shows 1.5 million results in Google, the topmost of which is a YouTube video of them playing to a packed stadium. They seem pretty popular to me...
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Have you got any idea how difficult it is to refute an experimental outcome?
I think the GP's point was nicely summed up by Winston Churchill:
"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is."
If the research is junk, the best it can hope for is 15 minutes of fame. Great research (Skinner, Bandura, etc) will be around forever because it captured something TRUE.
The IANA exists because to have an Internet, you need an Authority to Assign Numbers. Without that, the meaning of "slashdot.org" or "216.34.181.45" depends on the whim of your friendly neighborhood routing table.
Feel free to debate who the authority is, but acknowledge that we need some authority.
The internet is not some "thing" that needs to be administered. It is not a public resource! There are millions of private networks and we all agree to use TCP/IP and DNS to interoperate.
That would be a nice idea if newegg.com actually delivered anywhere useful.
So by "useful," you mean somewhere other than:
- Canada
- The US
- US territories
- AFO/FPO
Seems like a pretty decent shipping policy to me.
Mod parent up.
To think that filesize and price are correlated is absurd. It's the production cost and value of those bits that determines price.
Replace "MP3" with "software" and this becomes obvious. A bargain-bin game might cost you $5/GB, whereas a specialized 10 MB medical/industrial program could cost $10,000 per seat.
See Danger Mouse for details.
I've never heard of them. A quick Google search turns up nothing either. [...] So they can't really be all that popular internationally - not many people are mentioning them online or linking to pages that do.
HINT: Translate "Calypso Band" into Brazilian Portuguese.
Banda Calypso shows 1.5 million results in Google, the topmost of which is a YouTube video of them playing to a packed stadium. They seem pretty popular to me...