"Digital Content will be deemed licensed to you by Amazon under this Agreement unless otherwise expressly provided by Amazon."
Try as i may there's only one way I can successfully parse that sentence: "Digital Content will be deemed licensed to you by Amazon under this Agreement unless [said content is] otherwise expressly provided by Amazon."
The content is certainly expressly provided by Amazon. Whether the qualifier "otherwise" applies or not is anybody's guess. They might well have been trying to say "unless [some other condition is] expressly provided by Amazon" but they don't say that; and the sentence is surely ambiguous enough for such meaning not to be taken as read. IAABAL (...anything but a...), but I imagine that when it comes to enforcing a contract, if a sentence is complete gibberish it is simply ignored.
You do realise there's such a thing as a skew normal distribution? Your examples might be skewed bell curves but they're still bells, not inverted bells as 4D6963 was hypothesising. Their cumulative probability is still a nice smooth S curve. Does their being skewed change how many people fall within the limits you've set for your definition of average? Nope. The majority of people are still average and that applies to all walks of life.
Playing the devil's advocate here: aren't those two works you cite, The Hobbit and LOTR, exactly what we're talking about? They haven't made a film of the Silmarillion yet to my knowledge.
In English we don't put a space. But if dargaud is French, for example, that's the way he and every single one of his countrymen have always written question marks.
Nah it's not that big an assumption. Just a statistical one. The population is way large enough to assume with BIGNUMBER% certainty that it follows a normal distribution. If you do that, of course, you have to set upper and lower boundaries for your definition of average. Maybe that's the road you were going down.
That is truly an amazing post. I tip my hat to you and hereby hire you to work for the BBC.
On a more serious note, the original poster should be ashamed not knowing that Australia and Austria are two entirely different countries. Austria is in Africa. Everyone knows that.
Thanks for expanding on my "no one really goes to live performances for the technical quality of the music". You managed to mention just about everything i was implying.;)
The quality of live performances certainly is almost* always worse than studio recordings, sometimes even dreadful. But no one really goes to live performances for the technical quality of the music do they?
* folk and classical music spring to mind as exceptions.
I wholeheartedly agree. I don't agree with a lot of stuff in the post but it definitely was thought provoking. Some people need to look up the definition of troll.
Clue: it's more than just having an alternative viewpoint.
Why Microsoft fails in the music market is they have next to no leverage. The only crowbar MS has ever had is their OS monopoly, and that has already jacked up as much weight as it can without bending.
In markets where they have to compete without leverage, they have never been able to dominate. The gaming market (hardware and software) is one example and music looks like going the same way. I wonder if they themselves seriously believe they have a future outside of the Windows lock-in world.
I use Office 2003 and I'm not intending to stop - because nobody is making me stop. Come on now, folks, let MS do what they like with their new stuff. Why the hell should you care? If you want the new stuff and like it, fine. It won't stop my 6-year old version working, no more than it will stop my 6-year old microwave oven working.
I've tried the ribbon and rejected it. So what. I still have a decent, intuitive, unencumbered version of Office. Hard luck on those that haven't.:shrug:
Nearly all those big French demonstrations you see are motivated by unions or by the left wing parties. I'd be surprised if they gave a shit about this law, and I'm not sure there'll be a big enough public outcry for people to do so spontaneously.
Hopefully (for France AND Europe's sake) I'm mistaken.
Please, call her anything but that. She has next to no musical talent. She's just a model who got the idea into her head she can sing. Her songs are truly sleep inducing.
When interviewed, these people state beliefs in the most outlandish and bizarre pieces of propaganda. Situations like women absolutely convinced that if they touch dropped pamphlets from the South (through air campaigns to spread information to the people) that their hands will rot off. When asked, if they really felt it was true, they state that they really believed it.
Then they are incredibly stupid. Kids in the West get brainwashed into believing Santa Claus exists, but how many carry that belief with them into adulthood when no one ever told them the brutal truth about the fat red guy?
I can see the utility of satnavs, but speaking for myself, I don't really see any need for one. Yes it could avoid my taking a wrong turn from time to time. But unless I was a gadget freak, would it really be worth my while carrying yet another piece of junk around in my car to save maybe 10 minutes a year finding my way back onto the right road?
As for maps (road maps that is), of course they are indispensable if you're going some place you don't know. If I want to get to Szekesfehervar I have to at least have an idea where the damned place is before I set out. By any stretch of the imagination, I don't see how using a map is severing me from a real place and reducing the world to lines on a piece of paper.
What's the problem? The expression is perfectly parsable. Let me explain: ten times ten is a hundred, right?. So if something costs 10 bogodollars, ten times less means 100 bogodollars less, i.e., you get the solar panel and a 90 bogodollar cashback. Hey, I'm having one of them things!
My problem with ID cards is EXACTLY the cards themselves. I don't want one cluttering up my possessions. I don't want to fill forms in to get one. I don't want to pay for a piece of plastic I have no use for. I don't want people to tell me what I have to carry around with me. I don't want to have to reapply for YET ANOTHER compulsory piece of red tape shit if ever I get my wallet stolen.
In summary, I don't want to encourage anyone to imagine for one second they have any designs whatsoever on my personal space. Don't waste time arguing the pros and cons with me. If you're pro you're arguing I should bend over, and I'm intransigent that I won't. If you're con, I don't need any additional arguments, thanks.
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"Digital Content will be deemed licensed to you by Amazon under this Agreement unless otherwise expressly provided by Amazon."
Try as i may there's only one way I can successfully parse that sentence:
"Digital Content will be deemed licensed to you by Amazon under this Agreement unless [said content is] otherwise expressly provided by Amazon."
The content is certainly expressly provided by Amazon. Whether the qualifier "otherwise" applies or not is anybody's guess. They might well have been trying to say "unless [some other condition is] expressly provided by Amazon" but they don't say that; and the sentence is surely ambiguous enough for such meaning not to be taken as read.
IAABAL (...anything but a...), but I imagine that when it comes to enforcing a contract, if a sentence is complete gibberish it is simply ignored.
You do realise there's such a thing as a skew normal distribution?
Your examples might be skewed bell curves but they're still bells, not inverted bells as 4D6963 was hypothesising. Their cumulative probability is still a nice smooth S curve.
Does their being skewed change how many people fall within the limits you've set for your definition of average? Nope. The majority of people are still average and that applies to all walks of life.
Playing the devil's advocate here: aren't those two works you cite, The Hobbit and LOTR, exactly what we're talking about?
They haven't made a film of the Silmarillion yet to my knowledge.
In English we don't put a space.
But if dargaud is French, for example, that's the way he and every single one of his countrymen have always written question marks.
Nah it's not that big an assumption. Just a statistical one. The population is way large enough to assume with BIGNUMBER% certainty that it follows a normal distribution.
If you do that, of course, you have to set upper and lower boundaries for your definition of average. Maybe that's the road you were going down.
You, Sir, circletimessquare, are my hero. Without even trying you have managed to make about fifteen people look like fools with their answers. :)
This could indeed be a record-breaking post.
That is truly an amazing post. I tip my hat to you and hereby hire you to work for the BBC.
On a more serious note, the original poster should be ashamed not knowing that Australia and Austria are two entirely different countries. Austria is in Africa. Everyone knows that.
Well, everyone who's seen an Austrich knows that.
Thanks for expanding on my "no one really goes to live performances for the technical quality of the music". ;)
You managed to mention just about everything i was implying.
The quality of live performances certainly is almost* always worse than studio recordings, sometimes even dreadful. But no one really goes to live performances for the technical quality of the music do they?
* folk and classical music spring to mind as exceptions.
I wholeheartedly agree. I don't agree with a lot of stuff in the post but it definitely was thought provoking. Some people need to look up the definition of troll.
Clue: it's more than just having an alternative viewpoint.
Why Microsoft fails in the music market is they have next to no leverage. The only crowbar MS has ever had is their OS monopoly, and that has already jacked up as much weight as it can without bending.
In markets where they have to compete without leverage, they have never been able to dominate. The gaming market (hardware and software) is one example and music looks like going the same way. I wonder if they themselves seriously believe they have a future outside of the Windows lock-in world.
Don't bring the UK into this. I'll have you know only 95.3% of Brits aren't statistics savvy.
The original saying was "my two penn'orth". Nothing to do with a play on words at all, sorry.
My thoughts exactly, although I would probabaly have worded it "Oh do fuck off."
I use Office 2003 and I'm not intending to stop - because nobody is making me stop.
Come on now, folks, let MS do what they like with their new stuff. Why the hell should you care?
If you want the new stuff and like it, fine. It won't stop my 6-year old version working, no more than it will stop my 6-year old microwave oven working.
I've tried the ribbon and rejected it. So what. I still have a decent, intuitive, unencumbered version of Office. Hard luck on those that haven't. :shrug:
Nearly all those big French demonstrations you see are motivated by unions or by the left wing parties. I'd be surprised if they gave a shit about this law, and I'm not sure there'll be a big enough public outcry for people to do so spontaneously.
Hopefully (for France AND Europe's sake) I'm mistaken.
And if it succeeds this time the whole of Europe is going to use it as a pretext to do the same. Mark my words.
It'll soon be time to emigrate to somewhere sensible. I hear some countries manage to get along fine with very few laws.
Bruni is an artist/singer.
Please, call her anything but that. She has next to no musical talent.
She's just a model who got the idea into her head she can sing. Her songs are truly sleep inducing.
And you can't see to put the lights back on!
When interviewed, these people state beliefs in the most outlandish and bizarre pieces of propaganda. Situations like women absolutely convinced that if they touch dropped pamphlets from the South (through air campaigns to spread information to the people) that their hands will rot off . When asked, if they really felt it was true, they state that they really believed it.
Then they are incredibly stupid. Kids in the West get brainwashed into believing Santa Claus exists, but how many carry that belief with them into adulthood when no one ever told them the brutal truth about the fat red guy?
(...waits for funny Santa Claus comments ;)
I can see the utility of satnavs, but speaking for myself, I don't really see any need for one. Yes it could avoid my taking a wrong turn from time to time. But unless I was a gadget freak, would it really be worth my while carrying yet another piece of junk around in my car to save maybe 10 minutes a year finding my way back onto the right road?
As for maps (road maps that is), of course they are indispensable if you're going some place you don't know. If I want to get to Szekesfehervar I have to at least have an idea where the damned place is before I set out. By any stretch of the imagination, I don't see how using a map is severing me from a real place and reducing the world to lines on a piece of paper.
What's the problem? The expression is perfectly parsable.
Let me explain: ten times ten is a hundred, right?. So if something costs 10 bogodollars, ten times less means 100 bogodollars less, i.e., you get the solar panel and a 90 bogodollar cashback.
Hey, I'm having one of them things!
How about ads in a book that advertise advertising services for putting ads in books.
Keep inventing - this could be big!
My problem with ID cards is EXACTLY the cards themselves. I don't want one cluttering up my possessions. I don't want to fill forms in to get one. I don't want to pay for a piece of plastic I have no use for. I don't want people to tell me what I have to carry around with me. I don't want to have to reapply for YET ANOTHER compulsory piece of red tape shit if ever I get my wallet stolen.
In summary, I don't want to encourage anyone to imagine for one second they have any designs whatsoever on my personal space.
Don't waste time arguing the pros and cons with me. If you're pro you're arguing I should bend over, and I'm intransigent that I won't. If you're con, I don't need any additional arguments, thanks.
I just had to see how it interpreted Ã.
It's "Ãf" - LMAO