Yes pronunciation is difficult. You will find that many non-native speakers have far more difficulty with idioms. Typically, we have a lot of rules in English, and we follow very few of them. I before E except after C and whenever the hell else we feel like it. Ed makes a word past tense except when we use t or a different spelling altogether.
That kind of thing that requires memorization... and of course pronunciation which is never consistent.
I never said they disregarded reason... just that it wouldn't matter to them if the works were "written by the same person" because people of faith already recognize that it wasn't directly written by God or whatever name they call their god. They do, however, accept those books as the "word of God".
I meant that people who have "faith" don't necessarily need confirmation of their faith. They don't believe in God because of a book, they believe in God because they feel something and God is how they explain that something.
Most people with such beliefs don't need confirmation from some "outside source" as to whether their beliefs are well founded. That's why they call if faith.
I think you will find that if someone did "confirm" that many biblical works were plagiarized or whatever, that believers would not care. In their minds, the Bible (or whatever particular work they believe in) is the "word of God" and it doesn't matter who put it to paper. They will accept that one person could have been inspired to write several different things and won't care.
English is considered by linguists to be one of the hardest languages to learn, because it doesn't really follow any of its own rules. I'll agree we should be ashamed as native English speakers that more of us can't speak other languages.
Comparing early 90s tuition rates to current rates is a bit silly. As others have mentioned tuition rates have been outpacing inflation rates by 2 to 1 for the last 10 years or so. 8K was considered a fair amount of debt for an undergraduate degree in the 90s. Debt in the 20-40K range was considered astronomical in the early 90s and you were expected to have gone to an Ivy league or similar to accumulate such debt at that time.
You are seriously deluded or you've never had a job other than a summer job as a teenager. Or possibly you just have no life?
1) Nonsense... there are actually very few "pirates" actively trying to copy movies, especially using a laptop. 2) Also unlikely as people would use cell phones for those types of applications if they were such "addicts". 3) Not everyone owns a car. In fact most of the inhabitants of large cities around the world don't own cars. They do go see movies and many have laptops. Why the hell is "went to movie directly after work" not a valid reason? Because you wouldn't do it? Again, nonsense. a) Not everyone works from the office every day of the week. I work from home at least one day a week. As such, I often meet with friends out after work that night. I do carry my laptop with me though, because I work from home the following day. b) Plenty of people don't immediately go home and change clothes before going out. I dare say most people meeting up with friends or whatever do just the opposite, they stay in their work clothes and meet friends for drinks, dinner, movies, whatever, directly from work.
So, to summarize... you are very short sighted or very inexperienced or both if you use those as your reasons why you might bring a laptop to a movie theater. It's a stupid policy that has no basis in any sort of real threat to anyone's movie-going experience or the health of the movie industry as a whole.
Or further, the $100 will be annihilated, the debt will reduce to $900 and then go up to $915 (or some other number.) That most definitely is negative (at least with respect to whomever owes the original $1000.)
Fundamental principles like the earth being the center of the solar system?
Or like earth being flat?
Or like...
Plenty of options for understanding beyond being confident in things we've got right. We only assume they're right because they haven't been proven wrong, yet. Others already pointed that out.
As the original post mentioned Dell suggesting people upgrade to these things, it makes sense that at least the Win7 and processor will benefit from OEM pricing schemes. The office license is another issue, but it's not impossible to get good processors in systems from HP or Dell at reasonable prices.
We can theorize ways to travel faster than light but not to communicate faster than light? Really? Those two don't mesh, for me. Obviously if there are ways we can travel faster than light we'll be able to communicate at such speeds as well.
Exactly! There's a reason people used to buy 45s instead of LPs. When you only want certain songs, it's cheaper to buy songs individually. This is just another way for record companies to repackage a bunch of crap consumers don't want with the few things they do and then charge a higher price.
As others have mentioned, food, water, raw materials all come to mind. Also, plenty of electronics for ballistics have been designed to survive higher acceleration rates.
You imply that you're working on experimental evidence. How about not spouting off until you have proof rather than hypothesis? Maybe it's just me, but I've heard a lot of hypothesis in the past that turned out to be total crap. "It should be given" that you don't profess results without proof to back up those results.
Theoretical physics has a lot of crap in it too, but at least they try to back up their claims with math and verified evidence. You are doing neither.
But 2500 is far less than multiple millions. I don't believe the "pirating" of songs and videos has a large impact on the bottom line of these companies, and I wouldn't care if it did, to be honest, but to say it has no impact is just not true. The question of whether that impact is good or bad is simply a matter of perspective.
Really? I only know a handful of people who actually have pirated software on their computers. Most people I know, especially the non-geeks, which is the majority, don't buy any software for their computers except games and only use what comes pre-installed. The rest buy the software they use because they need that particular piece of software. The few people I know who do have pirated software are generally college kids who can't afford the ridiculous price of CS to do simple picture and manipulation or folks who have a cracked copy of the full final cut instead of final cut express, for which they have legit licenses.
That might work well in India where all the people are 5 feet 2 but if I tried to walk through a "standard metal detector" that had steps I'd bang my head on the top of it. It would be better to just make the damn things actually work properly.
Just one more reason to book flights, hotels, etc in separate bookings. Why give more information than you need to? For that matter, just create the booking then cancel it within the appropriate time and call another directly. Misinformation works for you too.
Not to put too much emphasis on this failing, but I can easily carry 2 50 pound bags of rice and do squats and I'm not even considered strong. My buddy could quite easily carry 4 and do squats and walk around. Having one person who can and one who can't doesn't really prove the suit is doing the "heavy lifting" portion of that task.
I'm sure it's significantly augmenting the lifting, but it doesn't really prove anything about able-bodied versus disabled. Someone who can walk but can only walk short distances will probably benefit from this, but I doubt it's at a stage (yet) to help someone get up out of a wheelchair. The suit uses sensors that trigger based on electrical signals from the brain to the muscles. For most people who are truly handicapped, the signals don't get there, which is the source of their handicap. Until it reads the brain impulse at the source, instead of at the destination, it won't help truly handicapped people.
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Yes pronunciation is difficult. You will find that many non-native speakers have far more difficulty with idioms. Typically, we have a lot of rules in English, and we follow very few of them. I before E except after C and whenever the hell else we feel like it. Ed makes a word past tense except when we use t or a different spelling altogether.
That kind of thing that requires memorization... and of course pronunciation which is never consistent.
I never said they disregarded reason... just that it wouldn't matter to them if the works were "written by the same person" because people of faith already recognize that it wasn't directly written by God or whatever name they call their god. They do, however, accept those books as the "word of God".
I meant that people who have "faith" don't necessarily need confirmation of their faith. They don't believe in God because of a book, they believe in God because they feel something and God is how they explain that something.
Most people with such beliefs don't need confirmation from some "outside source" as to whether their beliefs are well founded. That's why they call if faith.
I think you will find that if someone did "confirm" that many biblical works were plagiarized or whatever, that believers would not care. In their minds, the Bible (or whatever particular work they believe in) is the "word of God" and it doesn't matter who put it to paper. They will accept that one person could have been inspired to write several different things and won't care.
English is considered by linguists to be one of the hardest languages to learn, because it doesn't really follow any of its own rules. I'll agree we should be ashamed as native English speakers that more of us can't speak other languages.
Clearly you're not a woodworker. Small measurements are where the metric system shines... large measurements people just estimate anyway.
Comparing early 90s tuition rates to current rates is a bit silly. As others have mentioned tuition rates have been outpacing inflation rates by 2 to 1 for the last 10 years or so. 8K was considered a fair amount of debt for an undergraduate degree in the 90s. Debt in the 20-40K range was considered astronomical in the early 90s and you were expected to have gone to an Ivy league or similar to accumulate such debt at that time.
It's the same way here in the US. People just don't want to mention that because it implies paperwork for them. All 5 minutes worth of paperwork.
You are seriously deluded or you've never had a job other than a summer job as a teenager. Or possibly you just have no life?
1) Nonsense... there are actually very few "pirates" actively trying to copy movies, especially using a laptop.
2) Also unlikely as people would use cell phones for those types of applications if they were such "addicts".
3) Not everyone owns a car. In fact most of the inhabitants of large cities around the world don't own cars. They do go see movies and many have laptops. Why the hell is "went to movie directly after work" not a valid reason? Because you wouldn't do it? Again, nonsense.
a) Not everyone works from the office every day of the week. I work from home at least one day a week. As such, I often meet with friends out after work that night. I do carry my laptop with me though, because I work from home the following day.
b) Plenty of people don't immediately go home and change clothes before going out. I dare say most people meeting up with friends or whatever do just the opposite, they stay in their work clothes and meet friends for drinks, dinner, movies, whatever, directly from work.
So, to summarize... you are very short sighted or very inexperienced or both if you use those as your reasons why you might bring a laptop to a movie theater. It's a stupid policy that has no basis in any sort of real threat to anyone's movie-going experience or the health of the movie industry as a whole.
Or further, the $100 will be annihilated, the debt will reduce to $900 and then go up to $915 (or some other number.) That most definitely is negative (at least with respect to whomever owes the original $1000.)
Fundamental principles like the earth being the center of the solar system?
Or like earth being flat?
Or like ...
Plenty of options for understanding beyond being confident in things we've got right. We only assume they're right because they haven't been proven wrong, yet. Others already pointed that out.
Probably not as hard. It's a lot easier to be motivated as a seller when you're not on top. When you are on top, it's easy to be complacent.
As the original post mentioned Dell suggesting people upgrade to these things, it makes sense that at least the Win7 and processor will benefit from OEM pricing schemes. The office license is another issue, but it's not impossible to get good processors in systems from HP or Dell at reasonable prices.
We can theorize ways to travel faster than light but not to communicate faster than light? Really? Those two don't mesh, for me. Obviously if there are ways we can travel faster than light we'll be able to communicate at such speeds as well.
someone please mod this up. It's funny and insightful at the same time. What more can you ask for in a post?
Exactly! There's a reason people used to buy 45s instead of LPs. When you only want certain songs, it's cheaper to buy songs individually. This is just another way for record companies to repackage a bunch of crap consumers don't want with the few things they do and then charge a higher price.
As others have mentioned, food, water, raw materials all come to mind. Also, plenty of electronics for ballistics have been designed to survive higher acceleration rates.
World's largest potato gun. Cool.
"Maneuvering fuel, food, water, and medicines for example are quite durable under G-force."
Have you ever seen what happens to an apple at 60 mph? I can't imagine what it would do at 6 km/s. Well, at least applesauce still tastes good.
You imply that you're working on experimental evidence. How about not spouting off until you have proof rather than hypothesis? Maybe it's just me, but I've heard a lot of hypothesis in the past that turned out to be total crap. "It should be given" that you don't profess results without proof to back up those results.
Theoretical physics has a lot of crap in it too, but at least they try to back up their claims with math and verified evidence. You are doing neither.
But 2500 is far less than multiple millions. I don't believe the "pirating" of songs and videos has a large impact on the bottom line of these companies, and I wouldn't care if it did, to be honest, but to say it has no impact is just not true. The question of whether that impact is good or bad is simply a matter of perspective.
Really? I only know a handful of people who actually have pirated software on their computers. Most people I know, especially the non-geeks, which is the majority, don't buy any software for their computers except games and only use what comes pre-installed. The rest buy the software they use because they need that particular piece of software. The few people I know who do have pirated software are generally college kids who can't afford the ridiculous price of CS to do simple picture and manipulation or folks who have a cracked copy of the full final cut instead of final cut express, for which they have legit licenses.
That might work well in India where all the people are 5 feet 2 but if I tried to walk through a "standard metal detector" that had steps I'd bang my head on the top of it. It would be better to just make the damn things actually work properly.
Just one more reason to book flights, hotels, etc in separate bookings. Why give more information than you need to? For that matter, just create the booking then cancel it within the appropriate time and call another directly. Misinformation works for you too.
No, but they're big fans of Star Wars.
Not to put too much emphasis on this failing, but I can easily carry 2 50 pound bags of rice and do squats and I'm not even considered strong. My buddy could quite easily carry 4 and do squats and walk around. Having one person who can and one who can't doesn't really prove the suit is doing the "heavy lifting" portion of that task.
I'm sure it's significantly augmenting the lifting, but it doesn't really prove anything about able-bodied versus disabled. Someone who can walk but can only walk short distances will probably benefit from this, but I doubt it's at a stage (yet) to help someone get up out of a wheelchair. The suit uses sensors that trigger based on electrical signals from the brain to the muscles. For most people who are truly handicapped, the signals don't get there, which is the source of their handicap. Until it reads the brain impulse at the source, instead of at the destination, it won't help truly handicapped people.