You're assuming that the encryption is one-to-one, which is not necessarily true. For instance, it could be that x+x yields y and x*x yields z, but either y or z decrypts as 4.
The press release was worded very carefully to not explicitly pin down the offer. I'll bet the subscription fee is for unlimited low-fi streaming, plus the ability to download an unlimited number of MP3 formatted files at the low low price of XX each.
They may not be able to help a spacewalker in the first 30 seconds, but leaving the mic on gives Houston and the rest of the crew 30 more seconds to initiate getting help to them! I too can't believe they do this without something more than anecdotal evidence.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. After countless problems with their WG302 series access points and several models of switches, coupled with abysmal customer support we've not only completely sworn off NetGear where I work but have budgeted to replace all of our NetGear equipment en masse this fiscal year.
With income of just over $14 billion for the fiscal year ended July 2007, Microsoft will make back a $500 million dollar investment in a bit less than two weeks. Compared to most businesses, this investment is a bit like buying new mops for the janitorial staff.
Had the same problem, especially here in the Chicago area where blank spots on the dial are almost non-existant. Since I don't really ever listen to radio I unscrewed the antenna from the body of the car. Problem solved, although the signal to noise ratio is still pitiful.
Dell's hardware (at least on the server side) has always been well supported in Linux thanks to their work with Red Hat. I'm hoping this latest move makes their management utilities work better with SuSE.
A few months back I mentioned to our Sr. Dell rep that I wished they supported SuSE (preferably by releasing tarballed sources) with their management utilities. The "Red Hat only" afacli RAID management RPM installs and runs great on SuSE, but installing the other management stuff (specifically for the DRAC management) is a pain in the arse. She seemed really interested in my comment and kept asking me questions regarding my experiences with SuSE on Dell. Makes me wonder if she either knew something was coming down the pipe or if she was actually high-level enough at Dell to be one of the instigators of this.
I had considered that probability actually;)
The point is that the importation occured somewhere else entirely. The job of Customs officials is to keep the stuff out in the first place, and should not be to go from store to store across the country watching it be removed from shelves. It's an amazing waste of time and resources to do so when they could simply send out bulletins to the retailers to return the product. The few hundred or so toys that slip through would do less harm to the economy than flying customs agents all over the nation.
I mean, if a toy is found to cause spontaneous decapatations of children under the age of 5 the CPSC doesn't send agents to every store to take those off the shelf, they just issue a flyer to the stores to stop selling/return stock - and that is a MUCH worse issue. OK, maybe for spontaneous decapitations they would send people out. More likely they would just issue a bulletin to let local police handle it.
Similarly, nothing can happen without a cause. The cup cannot fall off the table on it's own, and if the cup was on the table and is now shattered on the ground, then something happened to cause it to do that.
Yes, you've successfully proven that the cup has no free will - this is a well known fact that has little to do with quantum level events. Once you enter the macro level above the quantum level everything follows physical law due to the smoothing effect of there being an uncountable number of quantum events. This was Schrodinger's entire point with his cat experiment. At the macro-level (physical reality), even before you observe the event, the cat is obviously either alive or dead and not in some silly indeterminate state between the two.
Likewise, at the macro-level, you can observe and react to events without having to worry about such things as randomness. You can make a decision that is best for you and then go and do the exact opposite. You are not a quantum-level particle.
I think this Pakistani professor needs to spend a little time in the US herself, at the very least she needs to stop making broad over-generalizations.
We don't hate Muslims. I had a good friend in college who was Muslim. The guy down the street who sells me cigarettes everyday is Muslim, and people are treating him exactly as kindly today as they did on Monday.
We have sick people in our country, but most of us are sane. We don't dance in the streets when 4,000+ innocent Muslims die.
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You're assuming that the encryption is one-to-one, which is not necessarily true. For instance, it could be that x+x yields y and x*x yields z, but either y or z decrypts as 4.
The press release was worded very carefully to not explicitly pin down the offer. I'll bet the subscription fee is for unlimited low-fi streaming, plus the ability to download an unlimited number of MP3 formatted files at the low low price of XX each.
They may not be able to help a spacewalker in the first 30 seconds, but leaving the mic on gives Houston and the rest of the crew 30 more seconds to initiate getting help to them! I too can't believe they do this without something more than anecdotal evidence.
It should be possible to count exactly the number of atoms in one of the roughly 9cm silicon spheres to define the unit.
That has got to be the most tedious, boring job ever!
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. After countless problems with their WG302 series access points and several models of switches, coupled with abysmal customer support we've not only completely sworn off NetGear where I work but have budgeted to replace all of our NetGear equipment en masse this fiscal year.
It's not so much impractical as pointless. Plus the swallow would not enjoy the experience.
Just being off topic, doesn't make you wrong
With income of just over $14 billion for the fiscal year ended July 2007, Microsoft will make back a $500 million dollar investment in a bit less than two weeks. Compared to most businesses, this investment is a bit like buying new mops for the janitorial staff.
Had the same problem, especially here in the Chicago area where blank spots on the dial are almost non-existant. Since I don't really ever listen to radio I unscrewed the antenna from the body of the car. Problem solved, although the signal to noise ratio is still pitiful.
Dell's hardware (at least on the server side) has always been well supported in Linux thanks to their work with Red Hat. I'm hoping this latest move makes their management utilities work better with SuSE.
A few months back I mentioned to our Sr. Dell rep that I wished they supported SuSE (preferably by releasing tarballed sources) with their management utilities. The "Red Hat only" afacli RAID management RPM installs and runs great on SuSE, but installing the other management stuff (specifically for the DRAC management) is a pain in the arse. She seemed really interested in my comment and kept asking me questions regarding my experiences with SuSE on Dell. Makes me wonder if she either knew something was coming down the pipe or if she was actually high-level enough at Dell to be one of the instigators of this.
I had considered that probability actually ;)
The point is that the importation occured somewhere else entirely. The job of Customs officials is to keep the stuff out in the first place, and should not be to go from store to store across the country watching it be removed from shelves. It's an amazing waste of time and resources to do so when they could simply send out bulletins to the retailers to return the product. The few hundred or so toys that slip through would do less harm to the economy than flying customs agents all over the nation.
I mean, if a toy is found to cause spontaneous decapatations of children under the age of 5 the CPSC doesn't send agents to every store to take those off the shelf, they just issue a flyer to the stores to stop selling/return stock - and that is a MUCH worse issue. OK, maybe for spontaneous decapitations they would send people out. More likely they would just issue a bulletin to let local police handle it.
Imported from Auburn, Washington?
Yes, you've successfully proven that the cup has no free will - this is a well known fact that has little to do with quantum level events. Once you enter the macro level above the quantum level everything follows physical law due to the smoothing effect of there being an uncountable number of quantum events. This was Schrodinger's entire point with his cat experiment. At the macro-level (physical reality), even before you observe the event, the cat is obviously either alive or dead and not in some silly indeterminate state between the two.
Likewise, at the macro-level, you can observe and react to events without having to worry about such things as randomness. You can make a decision that is best for you and then go and do the exact opposite. You are not a quantum-level particle.
I think this Pakistani professor needs to spend a little time in the US herself, at the very least she needs to stop making broad over-generalizations.
We don't hate Muslims. I had a good friend in college who was Muslim. The guy down the street who sells me cigarettes everyday is Muslim, and people are treating him exactly as kindly today as they did on Monday.
We have sick people in our country, but most of us are sane. We don't dance in the streets when 4,000+ innocent Muslims die.