Given how exceptional has been used lately, my first thought after reading that was, "too late", because the way some people use it they seem to mean by it that the United States is superior to all other countries in every way imaginable. Though I'm not sure that it's become normal for every country to claim exceptionalism.
The law of diminishing returns states that in all productive processes, adding more of one factor of production, while holding all others constant, will at some point yield lower incremental per-unit returns.
There are three basic resources or factors of production: land, labour, and capital.... Materials and energy are considered secondary factors in classical economics because they are obtained from land, labour and capital.
Is only one factor of production being changed? The prices of microchips have gone down, (capital) one can fit more transistors in a given amount of space, and more space is devoted to computers.
If a computer that you describe as not very powerful can calculate most of their nuclear weapons needs, then I would say that computers are underrated.
But his statement is based on the fact that many software sellers don't have a version of their software for anything else but Windows. In the cell phone space you are more likely to find something you want done in both iOS and Android. There are also more apps you can use in Android than in iOS because you are not limited to the Google app store.
I always find it strange when people say the autonomous cars should have the same problems detecting things than a human, mainly because autonomous cars can be fitted with sensors that detect light regions that pass through ice and rain which are undetectable to human eyes.
No, it means I'm not familiar with Call of Duty and the options it gives players. It seems it has a poor matchmaking system if it can't pair users of the same skill level that often.
Nowhere in my posts do I indicate the lack of need for societal norms and laws. I have merely indicated that the current societal norms and laws can be improved and the direction I think they should go to be improved,
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
Where an Anonymous Coward says that he is a "creative professional" and that whoever arrives at stuff that "creative professionals" arrive at should own it forever and it's hard work.
I suggest he find easier work and let people who find that sort of thing easy do their thing. http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
Claim by fyngyrz that people infringe copyright because the abstraction that someone actually put some valuable time into the work is too abstract for them to grasp. Also, individuals violating copyright on a "I copied this work to use for myself" level is antisocial
I point out that people put "valuable time" into lots of things. Doesn't mean they should get paid for it. And with people throwing around concepts like "the universe creates itself", I'm not sure anyone has a workable meaningful definition of what create or design actually means.
Fyngyrz claims that the whole copyright debacle is the most trivial of ethical mazes.
Bzipitidoo says " I disagree that copying is antisocial. Copying is a natural right, and has a long history. It is only our current customs that push the idea that copying is harmful, and attempt to regulate it and restrict it by fiat."... Might as well argue that children should not receive the fruits of knowledge that our civilizations have produced over the millennia, without paying for the "privilege".
I've kind of lost interest in mining previous discussion I participated in, but there's more in those links that make for interesting reading.
No I don't want an answer from someone who: can speak for everyone and has polled a "representative sample". I want you to stop talking as if you had that information.
As for "whatever that is", I typed poll representative sample into Bing and it suggested the search what is representative sample in a poll. http://www.investopedia.com/te... is first in the results.
Well, he got you to reply with "Let me know how that works out for you." Seriously, it's like when my mom asks a rhetorical question when something she doesn't like happens and she says something like, "Why does x happen?" and I say, "To make you ask questions."
You are not everyone and do not speak for everyone, nor have you polled a representative sample, so quit saying things that don't make sense unless you do the poll.
I don't follow. It appears that when you use the word consequences and I use the word consequences we are talking about different things. There are good and bad consequences to everything we do. I used to post my full name, address, and phone number on my user page on Wikipedia. Now the city I live in is still there, but circumstances of vandalism have as a consequence caused me to curtail the information there. I had to choose between two different consequences. I avoided one set of consequences, but I did not avoid "the" consequences of my actions; I chose among certain consequences.
I didn't say I didn't believe in keeping secrets I said I didn't believe in governments keeping secrets. The social security number shouldn't have the property of needing to be kept secret. Social Security numbers have taken on a role that they shouldn't have.
Then there are the languages like VB.NET which came from VB which came from QB, which came from GW-BASIC but QB is compatible with GW-BASIC but the first two are incompatible with each other as well as with the latter two, but QB64 which can do a lot of what VB.net can do out of the box, is pretty well backwards compatible with QB and GW-BASIC and getting more robust.
Except sometimes Nunzio comes around, but it all goes to the Great Skeeve, who uses magic to keep the Fairy Godfather from taking even more money from you. Oddly enough the Fairy Godfather's niece, Bunny, is the Great Skeeve's accountant, but we won't go too far into that.
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Given how exceptional has been used lately, my first thought after reading that was, "too late", because the way some people use it they seem to mean by it that the United States is superior to all other countries in every way imaginable. Though I'm not sure that it's become normal for every country to claim exceptionalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
... Materials and energy are considered secondary factors in classical economics because they are obtained from land, labour and capital.
The law of diminishing returns states that in all productive processes, adding more of one factor of production, while holding all others constant, will at some point yield lower incremental per-unit returns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
There are three basic resources or factors of production: land, labour, and capital.
Is only one factor of production being changed? The prices of microchips have gone down, (capital) one can fit more transistors in a given amount of space, and more space is devoted to computers.
If a computer that you describe as not very powerful can calculate most of their nuclear weapons needs, then I would say that computers are underrated.
I've seen trains carrying truck trailers so that they can just attach the trailer to the tuck quickly and be done with it.
Yes, but he appears to be attacking a straw man with his nonsense about "demonic powers".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's a bit confusing to me, but it seems to make it sound plausible that the problem may be vulnerable to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But his statement is based on the fact that many software sellers don't have a version of their software for anything else but Windows. In the cell phone space you are more likely to find something you want done in both iOS and Android. There are also more apps you can use in Android than in iOS because you are not limited to the Google app store.
But it's what cars crave!
I always find it strange when people say the autonomous cars should have the same problems detecting things than a human, mainly because autonomous cars can be fitted with sensors that detect light regions that pass through ice and rain which are undetectable to human eyes.
I don't understand what you think are weasel arguments.
You haven't seen any of the amateur Star Trek material easily found on YouTube, have you?
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
Star Trek Continues
Star Trek: Intrepid
Starship Exeter
Star Trek: Unity
Star Trek: New Voyages
No, it means I'm not familiar with Call of Duty and the options it gives players. It seems it has a poor matchmaking system if it can't pair users of the same skill level that often.
Nowhere in my posts do I indicate the lack of need for societal norms and laws. I have merely indicated that the current societal norms and laws can be improved and the direction I think they should go to be improved,
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
... Might as well argue that children should not receive the fruits of knowledge that our civilizations have produced over the millennia, without paying for the "privilege".
Where an Anonymous Coward says that he is a "creative professional" and that whoever arrives at stuff that "creative professionals" arrive at should own it forever and it's hard work.
I suggest he find easier work and let people who find that sort of thing easy do their thing.
http://yro.slashdot.org/commen...
Claim by fyngyrz that people infringe copyright because the abstraction that someone actually put some valuable time into the work is too abstract for them to grasp. Also, individuals violating copyright on a "I copied this work to use for myself" level is antisocial
I point out that people put "valuable time" into lots of things. Doesn't mean they should get paid for it. And with people throwing around concepts like "the universe creates itself", I'm not sure anyone has a workable meaningful definition of what create or design actually means.
Fyngyrz claims that the whole copyright debacle is the most trivial of ethical mazes.
Bzipitidoo says " I disagree that copying is antisocial. Copying is a natural right, and has a long history. It is only our current customs that push the idea that copying is harmful, and attempt to regulate it and restrict it by fiat."
I've kind of lost interest in mining previous discussion I participated in, but there's more in those links that make for interesting reading.
What does he mean when he says 'verse'?
No I don't want an answer from someone who: can speak for everyone and has polled a "representative sample". I want you to stop talking as if you had that information.
As for "whatever that is", I typed poll representative sample into Bing and it suggested the search what is representative sample in a poll.
http://www.investopedia.com/te... is first in the results.
As for the rest of your post, it makes no sense.
Well, he got you to reply with "Let me know how that works out for you." Seriously, it's like when my mom asks a rhetorical question when something she doesn't like happens and she says something like, "Why does x happen?" and I say, "To make you ask questions."
An internet search turns up lots of result for my position, but I haven't found any for yours.
The Windows key does nothing on Windows 3.11
You are not everyone and do not speak for everyone, nor have you polled a representative sample, so quit saying things that don't make sense unless you do the poll.
I don't follow. It appears that when you use the word consequences and I use the word consequences we are talking about different things. There are good and bad consequences to everything we do. I used to post my full name, address, and phone number on my user page on Wikipedia. Now the city I live in is still there, but circumstances of vandalism have as a consequence caused me to curtail the information there. I had to choose between two different consequences. I avoided one set of consequences, but I did not avoid "the" consequences of my actions; I chose among certain consequences.
I didn't say I didn't believe in keeping secrets I said I didn't believe in governments keeping secrets. The social security number shouldn't have the property of needing to be kept secret. Social Security numbers have taken on a role that they shouldn't have.
Then there are the languages like VB.NET which came from VB which came from QB, which came from GW-BASIC but QB is compatible with GW-BASIC but the first two are incompatible with each other as well as with the latter two, but QB64 which can do a lot of what VB.net can do out of the box, is pretty well backwards compatible with QB and GW-BASIC and getting more robust.
Except sometimes Nunzio comes around, but it all goes to the Great Skeeve, who uses magic to keep the Fairy Godfather from taking even more money from you. Oddly enough the Fairy Godfather's niece, Bunny, is the Great Skeeve's accountant, but we won't go too far into that.
I see his "shades of gray" world and raise him one with colors.