Linux has one big advantage and that is that it has so many drivers that it did overtake Windows a while ago. You may find cases where you miss a driver for Linux for your pet device
... like my video camera - not recognized, my multi-function color laser (says on the box that it works with linux, but it doesn't), laptop wireless (broken twice in 2 updates, now looks to be perma-dead). Hardware video acceleration (broken in an update, never recovered). Cellphone fs not recognized. They all "just work" under Windows. Driver support under Linux is a real mess.
The real work is finding the vehicles - which is why they'll work with car dealership employees to get a print-out of recent sales. They nailed 2 guys at one used-car auction house here with several hundred copies of keys, along with the list of names and addresses, makes and models, and where they worked (from the credit application) for all the sales for the year.
That makes it really easy... just find it parked at their job, drive it away with the spare key, and they won't even know it's gone for hours...
They couldn't prove that the auction house owner was in on it - but he does have a criminal record, and it sure stinks to you-know-what.
Most theft is an inside job.
I know one guy (We'll call him "Ernie", because that's his name) who was sweet-talked into buying a new car by the saleswoman at a Chrysler dealership, and 2 weeks later, it was gone. So, after the insurance paid, he bought another one from the same place. A month later, same thing. The insurance company wasn't happy about it, paid him and told him to go elsewhere in the future.
Well, stupid is as stupid does (he was going through a divorce, and obviously thinking with his dick) - he went back to the same place a 3rd time, bought another car from the same saleswoman, had it insured with the "insurer of last recourse" - for liability only, since he could no longer get theft insurance because nobody would touch him... and sure enough, it was stolen a month later.
One of those "more money than brains" things, I guess. At least, that's what we all told ourselves.
To be accurate, though, the surface of a cube (such as a die from a pair of dice) has 26 "centers" around which the entire surface can be "peeled away like a banana" to the corresponding opposite "center".
The center of each die face = 6
The center of each corner = 8
The center of each chord connecting 2 corners = 12
The thing all the above "centers" have in common is that they are points around which the die is symmetrical. The surface of a sphere, of course, being symmetrical from every point on its' surface, has an infinite number of centers of the surface.
The sphere isn't the only body that shows this behaviour. A paper ring in a perfect circle has an infinite number of "centers of its surface" along a line drawn drawn parallel to the edges at the midpoint between each edge.
So what? Someone looking to save big bux on a used engine and transmission isn't going to look too closely. Also, that wouldn't be an aftermarket gas tank - it would be OEM, complete with the pump and float. Someone whose car was rear-ended is going to want that gas tank, along with the rear quarter panels, bumper, rear windshield, trunk lid, rear lights, etc. Bonus if the "new" parts are already the right color.
First, there's no competition - biker gangs take care of that. A lot of this is stolen to order - someone needs a whole front end and engine, so a car gets grabbed, and whatever's left over gets fenced - and there are LOTS of buyers. People who want to profit from their insurance claim or not pay a high deductible, and lots of small body shops that know who to call.
You're the one who is making the implication that there can only be one center of a surface, not me. How am I responsible for your faulty phrasing of the question? Also, if you think "center of a surface" is meaningless when applied to a sphere, why did you ask the question... oh, wait - you didn't realize that the surface of a perfect sphere can have a center, multiple centers, an infinite number of them. Oh well... not my problem that you asked what you thought was a silly question thinking you wouldn't get a proper answer.
Proof that a any point on the surface of a sphere can be considered the center of the surface - just pick a point, and go to the opposite side, and start peeling it back evenly, like a banana, until you arrive at the point you picked. So spheres have an infinite number of "centers of their surface". A cube, on the other hand, only has 6 points where this works - the centers of each face. That's reality.
If any point on the surface of a sphere is as much a center as any other point, then the term "center" doesn't really mean anything.
I'm sorry, but that's not my fault. You specifically asked what the center of the surface of a sphere was, and I demonstrated that every point on the surface qualifies. That you abuse the term "center", and apply it in a context where it is ill-suited (surfaces as opposed to solids or enclosed 3-dimensional spaces), isn't my fault either. Given the context, the answer I gave is correct.
Can you demonstrate why it's incorrect - WITHOUT at the same time making the term "center of the surface of an object" meaningless and rendering your question also meaningless?
What next - this old one?
The next sentence is false.
The previous sentence is true.
Are you kidding? Containers are $2k - stick a ramp in it to give two of the strippers room to get under the car quickly while everyone else works beside, inside, or on top, roll the car in, and get to work.
6 guys can strip a car bare in well under 2 minutes - including the power train - a lot quicker than the demos you see on the net with 3 body shop employees working without all the right stuff, like a pair of torches for the 2 guys to go underneath cutting through the exhaust, mounting bolts, etc., and a rail-mounted chain hoist overhead.
2 minutes, the car is stripped of everything, including the windshield, instrument cluster, steering column, seats, engine, transmission, rad, gas tank, quarter panels, doors, hood, trunk lid, bumpers, lights, battery, then they roll the frame back on the street, the wheels are finally popped off if the rims and tires are "interesting", and they're driving to the next one.
I guess you never saw the video where a gang in a truck with a chain hoist, compressor, and air guns stripped a car of the engine, doors, hood, trunk, and seats in 30 seconds right in the street.
I use "The Club" as icing on the cake combined with a hidden switch that turns off the PATS RFID antenna [1] and another switch for the fuel pump. If a thief gets past that, that is what insurance is for. But, they are going to fight for what they steal.
I agree -- The Club can be defeated easily. But it forces a thief to have to deal with it, and time is their enemy
[1]: The reason I turn off the PATS antenna is that for more sophisticated thieves, it will throw them off the scent, because all attempts they try at key cloning will not work. Of course, if that gets bypassed, the fuel pump switch ensures they won't go far.
Tow truck, shove into a cheap used metal shipping container, dismantle at your leisure - no tracking device will be able to get a signal through the steel walls.
Dump the stripped frame and body, buy it at the insurance auction, get the pink slip, and put the engine, transaxle, wheels, seats, etc. back in an sell it.
And yes, people DO do this. It's one reason insurance companies have begun crushing "strippers".
Well, it was to me. What happened, someone trick you with it in the past and you figured you'd throw it in here for the fun of it? It really is obvious - the confusion for most people is the failure to make the distinction between what the word center means when applied to a surface, as opposed to a solid. Once you get past that (the dice example should be sufficient), the rest falls into place.
As for time, there's no paradox in going back and killing your grandfather before your father was ever conceived, just as there's no "meaning" to the word "center of time" because time is not linear.
So, take a 12-sided die - the surface has 12 centers. Now take a 20-sided die - the surface has 20 centers. Keep going - the surface of a die with an infinite number of faces (aka a sphere) has an infinite number of centers - pick any one.
I don't see why anyone wouldn't see the obvious answer with a seconds thought - it's rather obvious.
To say that something is the center means that there is only one center
False. Only when talking about the center of a single solid body, and not the "center of a surface". Example: How many centers are there on the faces (as opposed to the solid body) of a pair of dice? 12.
You keep changing your story... you claim that Microsoft and Oracle bribe and that you've seen it. Then you claim that you saw it when you worked for the banks, telcos and insurance cos.... now you're not even an employee, just a contractor.... which means you were never employed by any of them, just some small 3rd party vendor that did what - fill the coke machines in the cafeteria?
AND it gets better (or worse)... you STILL claim you've seen Microsoft and Oracle bribe, and you still refuse to give a single instance of where you've personally seen it, even though both companies have policies in place, including firing the people involved.
So it's simple - you're either part of the problem yourself, or you're a liar. Or both. I'd tell you to get lost, but you already are.
but wouldn't it be fair that each person could register a single site without a fee? and that fees should be applied to domains after the first?
Why? Then you'd have people who say "what the heck, it's free, I'll squat on one."
How do you decide who gets first pick? And which.tlds do you apply this to. And with 7 billion people, that's a lot of domains that just won't resolve to a real website, so it's a waste of infrastructure. So how is that fair? Why should someone who has 2 domains subsidize someone who has one that they're not even using?
And if any point can be a center of something, then nothing is the center of it.
Not true. Take a long thin strip of paper and tape the ends together. The center would be a line extending all along the strip, equidistant from both sides, just like the center of a road. This demonstrates that the center of a surface is not the same as the center of a solid. In the case of the "center" of a perfect sphere, pick any point of the surface - since you're looking for the center of the surface, not the center of the sphere itself.
Look at it this way - the center of a rectangle is one point. The center of a cube is one point. The center of the surface of a perfect cube is any one of 6 points - all 6 points meed the definition of the center of a surface. Now, continue dividing that cube into more and more sides, until you get an infinite number of sides - a sphere. You have an infinite number of centers of the surface - pick any one.
The universe doesn't have a temporal center; there's no need.
Who says the universe's temporal coordinate is linear? People want to believe that because otherwise it creates time paradoxes - however, the universe is not anthropomorphic - it doesn't "care" about paradoxes, so what to us seem like time paradoxes can exist with no problems.
As for your second question, pick any point and you'll be correct. Remove the word "surface", and you don't have a problem:-)
Even if there were a center to the Universe, it would also have to be the center with respect to time.
If we accept the big bang, then EVERYTHING was at the center of the universe at one time. That includes the stuff we're standing on right now.
Now? Prove we're still not at the center... the odds are extremely high against it, but that's not proof. And, "somewhere" has to be at the center, so given a large enough sample...
I know that XXX domains are $200 a year - that wasn't the question I was replying to. The OP asked why there was any justification to charge ANY fee to register a domain name in ANY.TLD (since it used to be free, until Network Solutions got a monopoly and then started gouging at $100 per name, and finally it was opened up to competition and the price dropped to $50, then $35, then $25, then $20, then $12.50, and now under $10).
The leaders of the religious groups don't want xxx domains because then it will be too easy for their followers to find out they're hypocritical pervs.
The real issue is why ANYONE who doesn't want a xxx domain would pay $200 a year to "reserve" it - THAT looks worse - having a xxx legitimately tied to your school in the WHOIS - than having some ex-alumni registering it to post their frat party pics.
If it were free, people would just register every single name possible; charging a nominal fee (under $10/year) helps prevent that, as well as giving you a more legitimate claim to the name, since you actually paid money for it (unlike gratuitous contracts such as what you get with freemail and antisocial networking sites).
IT's more like you want back, looked at all the evidence and said:
Since the evidence shows the earth moves, it is unlikely that the Earth is the center of the universe.
The earth could move and still be the center of the universe. The center of the universe has to be "somewhere". Who knows - maybe it's here? Do you have any proof to the contrary, such as, for instance, the actual location of the center of the universe?
My point was that the original statement has no logic to it. Saying that "something is unlikely" means we should accept it as "proven not to be true" is garbage.
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"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened."
Read the current article, then the one linked to another interview with Linus. It will become clear.
The real work is finding the vehicles - which is why they'll work with car dealership employees to get a print-out of recent sales. They nailed 2 guys at one used-car auction house here with several hundred copies of keys, along with the list of names and addresses, makes and models, and where they worked (from the credit application) for all the sales for the year.
That makes it really easy ... just find it parked at their job, drive it away with the spare key, and they won't even know it's gone for hours ...
They couldn't prove that the auction house owner was in on it - but he does have a criminal record, and it sure stinks to you-know-what.
Most theft is an inside job.
I know one guy (We'll call him "Ernie", because that's his name) who was sweet-talked into buying a new car by the saleswoman at a Chrysler dealership, and 2 weeks later, it was gone. So, after the insurance paid, he bought another one from the same place. A month later, same thing. The insurance company wasn't happy about it, paid him and told him to go elsewhere in the future.
Well, stupid is as stupid does (he was going through a divorce, and obviously thinking with his dick) - he went back to the same place a 3rd time, bought another car from the same saleswoman, had it insured with the "insurer of last recourse" - for liability only, since he could no longer get theft insurance because nobody would touch him ... and sure enough, it was stolen a month later.
One of those "more money than brains" things, I guess. At least, that's what we all told ourselves.
The center of each die face = 6
The center of each corner = 8
The center of each chord connecting 2 corners = 12
The thing all the above "centers" have in common is that they are points around which the die is symmetrical. The surface of a sphere, of course, being symmetrical from every point on its' surface, has an infinite number of centers of the surface.
The sphere isn't the only body that shows this behaviour. A paper ring in a perfect circle has an infinite number of "centers of its surface" along a line drawn drawn parallel to the edges at the midpoint between each edge.
So what? Someone looking to save big bux on a used engine and transmission isn't going to look too closely. Also, that wouldn't be an aftermarket gas tank - it would be OEM, complete with the pump and float. Someone whose car was rear-ended is going to want that gas tank, along with the rear quarter panels, bumper, rear windshield, trunk lid, rear lights, etc. Bonus if the "new" parts are already the right color.
First, there's no competition - biker gangs take care of that. A lot of this is stolen to order - someone needs a whole front end and engine, so a car gets grabbed, and whatever's left over gets fenced - and there are LOTS of buyers. People who want to profit from their insurance claim or not pay a high deductible, and lots of small body shops that know who to call.
You're the one who is making the implication that there can only be one center of a surface, not me. How am I responsible for your faulty phrasing of the question? Also, if you think "center of a surface" is meaningless when applied to a sphere, why did you ask the question ... oh, wait - you didn't realize that the surface of a perfect sphere can have a center, multiple centers, an infinite number of them. Oh well ... not my problem that you asked what you thought was a silly question thinking you wouldn't get a proper answer.
Proof that a any point on the surface of a sphere can be considered the center of the surface - just pick a point, and go to the opposite side, and start peeling it back evenly, like a banana, until you arrive at the point you picked. So spheres have an infinite number of "centers of their surface". A cube, on the other hand, only has 6 points where this works - the centers of each face. That's reality.
I'm sorry, but that's not my fault. You specifically asked what the center of the surface of a sphere was, and I demonstrated that every point on the surface qualifies. That you abuse the term "center", and apply it in a context where it is ill-suited (surfaces as opposed to solids or enclosed 3-dimensional spaces), isn't my fault either. Given the context, the answer I gave is correct.
Can you demonstrate why it's incorrect - WITHOUT at the same time making the term "center of the surface of an object" meaningless and rendering your question also meaningless?
What next - this old one?
Are you kidding? Containers are $2k - stick a ramp in it to give two of the strippers room to get under the car quickly while everyone else works beside, inside, or on top, roll the car in, and get to work.
6 guys can strip a car bare in well under 2 minutes - including the power train - a lot quicker than the demos you see on the net with 3 body shop employees working without all the right stuff, like a pair of torches for the 2 guys to go underneath cutting through the exhaust, mounting bolts, etc., and a rail-mounted chain hoist overhead.
2 minutes, the car is stripped of everything, including the windshield, instrument cluster, steering column, seats, engine, transmission, rad, gas tank, quarter panels, doors, hood, trunk lid, bumpers, lights, battery, then they roll the frame back on the street, the wheels are finally popped off if the rims and tires are "interesting", and they're driving to the next one.
I guess you never saw the video where a gang in a truck with a chain hoist, compressor, and air guns stripped a car of the engine, doors, hood, trunk, and seats in 30 seconds right in the street.
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Or buy a used hearse.
Not only will nobody steal it, but you get to go through red lights at 10mph with all your friends following you.
Tow truck, shove into a cheap used metal shipping container, dismantle at your leisure - no tracking device will be able to get a signal through the steel walls.
Dump the stripped frame and body, buy it at the insurance auction, get the pink slip, and put the engine, transaxle, wheels, seats, etc. back in an sell it.
And yes, people DO do this. It's one reason insurance companies have begun crushing "strippers".
Well, it was to me. What happened, someone trick you with it in the past and you figured you'd throw it in here for the fun of it? It really is obvious - the confusion for most people is the failure to make the distinction between what the word center means when applied to a surface, as opposed to a solid. Once you get past that (the dice example should be sufficient), the rest falls into place.
As for time, there's no paradox in going back and killing your grandfather before your father was ever conceived, just as there's no "meaning" to the word "center of time" because time is not linear.
I don't see why anyone wouldn't see the obvious answer with a seconds thought - it's rather obvious.
False. Only when talking about the center of a single solid body, and not the "center of a surface". Example: How many centers are there on the faces (as opposed to the solid body) of a pair of dice? 12.
AND it gets better (or worse) ... you STILL claim you've seen Microsoft and Oracle bribe, and you still refuse to give a single instance of where you've personally seen it, even though both companies have policies in place, including firing the people involved.
So it's simple - you're either part of the problem yourself, or you're a liar. Or both. I'd tell you to get lost, but you already are.
"What a maroon" -- Bugs Bunny.
Why? Then you'd have people who say "what the heck, it's free, I'll squat on one."
How do you decide who gets first pick? And which .tlds do you apply this to. And with 7 billion people, that's a lot of domains that just won't resolve to a real website, so it's a waste of infrastructure. So how is that fair? Why should someone who has 2 domains subsidize someone who has one that they're not even using?
Then they just move to another jurisdiction, like Kanuckistan. Remember, in Canada, domain names are now considered legal property.
Again, I was replying to a poster who questioned why ANY fees are charged for ANY domain name, not the xxx .TLD in particular.
Personally, I would be lobbying to raise it to $20,000 a year. REALLY gouge. It's a tax on stupidity, and that's infinite.
Anyone who bought a .xxx .TLD to "protect their name" is just begging to get gouged as much as possible. It's the ideal sucker list.
Not true. Take a long thin strip of paper and tape the ends together. The center would be a line extending all along the strip, equidistant from both sides, just like the center of a road. This demonstrates that the center of a surface is not the same as the center of a solid. In the case of the "center" of a perfect sphere, pick any point of the surface - since you're looking for the center of the surface, not the center of the sphere itself.
Look at it this way - the center of a rectangle is one point. The center of a cube is one point. The center of the surface of a perfect cube is any one of 6 points - all 6 points meed the definition of the center of a surface. Now, continue dividing that cube into more and more sides, until you get an infinite number of sides - a sphere. You have an infinite number of centers of the surface - pick any one.
The universe doesn't have a temporal center; there's no need.
Who says the universe's temporal coordinate is linear? People want to believe that because otherwise it creates time paradoxes - however, the universe is not anthropomorphic - it doesn't "care" about paradoxes, so what to us seem like time paradoxes can exist with no problems.
As for your second question, pick any point and you'll be correct. Remove the word "surface", and you don't have a problem :-)
If we accept the big bang, then EVERYTHING was at the center of the universe at one time. That includes the stuff we're standing on right now.
Now? Prove we're still not at the center ... the odds are extremely high against it, but that's not proof. And, "somewhere" has to be at the center, so given a large enough sample ...
I know that XXX domains are $200 a year - that wasn't the question I was replying to. The OP asked why there was any justification to charge ANY fee to register a domain name in ANY .TLD (since it used to be free, until Network Solutions got a monopoly and then started gouging at $100 per name, and finally it was opened up to competition and the price dropped to $50, then $35, then $25, then $20, then $12.50, and now under $10).
The real issue is why ANYONE who doesn't want a xxx domain would pay $200 a year to "reserve" it - THAT looks worse - having a xxx legitimately tied to your school in the WHOIS - than having some ex-alumni registering it to post their frat party pics.
If it were free, people would just register every single name possible; charging a nominal fee (under $10/year) helps prevent that, as well as giving you a more legitimate claim to the name, since you actually paid money for it (unlike gratuitous contracts such as what you get with freemail and antisocial networking sites).
The earth could move and still be the center of the universe. The center of the universe has to be "somewhere". Who knows - maybe it's here? Do you have any proof to the contrary, such as, for instance, the actual location of the center of the universe?
My point was that the original statement has no logic to it. Saying that "something is unlikely" means we should accept it as "proven not to be true" is garbage.