Although I am pretty convinced by the previous answer here, there's been so much discussion on it and whether 3x0.333... is equal to 1 or 0.999... that I felt compelled to offer this one:
A = 0.999... B = 1.0
This simplifes the question to whether A = B. Now:
C = 10 * A = 10 * 0.999... = 9.999... D = C - A = 9.999... - 0.999... = 9.0
At this point, we've worked out that C is equal to the sum of 10 A's, and then we've turned around and subtracted out one of those A's, calling this D. Logically this means that D would be left with 9 A's. To find out whether 9 A's are equal to 9 B's, we can divide by B and if the answer is 9 exactly, that is math's way of telling you that B == A.
Yeah, right, TV won't have the same problem 3G has where it sends the same information to everyone in a wide broadcast - because TV was the one that used localized cells to re-use the same bandwidth. Huh, I guess the rest of the world had that backwards.
Facebook hasn't exactly earned the trust necessary or shown the kind of respect for user privacy that would make me want to route everything I say to everyone else through them.
Yeah, this is stupid, especially since the 'destination', weightlessness, lasts 'a few minutes' and costs $200,000. What a waste - with all the expense of getting them up there, would it really have costthat much more to give them an hour or so? If they're really weightless, it wouldn't even require fuel to keep them up, though maneuvering would be more complicated over a longer flight.
We already decided as a nation, over 200 years ago. I'm not having a hard time walking the line between freedom and oppression, nor is anyone else who is not in a position to lose power if freedom wins. Ben Franklin was right.
If this actually made any moral or political sense, they wouldn't restrict it to NGOs outside the US. But it's just a PR stunt, and clearly labelled as such by the narrowness of the change.
Not only must they live with that (..BOOK being a generic term for social networking services), but if there's such an obvious association, they should be thankful that they will be getting free advertising indefinitely, the way the big G does every time someone tells you to go google something.
There should probably be a mandatory draft in the US if the US goes to war or the war lasts longer than 6 months.
IF the US goes to war? When have we not been at war? We go to war all the time, it don't mean shit these days. And some of these wars are, to put it kindly, not worth wasting our money on, let alone our lives. At least there was some kind of theoretical justification to starting that war beyond 'the president feels like it' with Afganistan, but if we haven't won there yet, we aren't going to. The US habit of staying and invading and killing in foreign countries beyond all reason makes me want to never consider joining the armed forces. If rural kids want to join up, well, frankly IMO that's sad but to each their own.
I've never heard of a US war lasting less than 6 months, hell the US takes 6 months just to come up with a plan on how it's going to get troops out of a place. If wars were always fought in response to an attack, if we were even usually clearly the good guys, I'd be happy to enlist and fight for a cause I perceived as good. These days it's not that simple.
And throwing in a draft, not a good idea. I don't think I'd be an effective soldier if it were involuntary, I'd be pretty resentful that my time and potentially my life was being wasted. I wouldn't want to help use military force to impose our will on other countries, I don't trust that it would usually be worthwhile, because it my lifetime, it typically hasn't been. A draft plus wars people don't believe in turns the military into a prison - where all the prisoners have guns.
I've heard of some stupid shit from copyright lawyers, but this is record breaking - and it should be record making. Imagine if this had great songs written about it and compiled into a record.. The record has to be given away free, of course.
second option: I'd donate to a legal fund that does nothing but publicly out anyone mentally challenged enough to donate to an anti-1st-amendment fund.
Considering the way they've been giving away 2 phones for the price of one, this isn't a useful measure. How about comparing how many actual sales were made?
Vaporizers are a whole lot healthier when comparing with smoking for medical marijuana, there's no reason they shouldn't be much healthier with tobacco also. The ALA looks pretty stupid here, a couple more moves like this and they'll seem as intelligent as those 'birthers' who refuse to believe Hawaii officials about who was born there.
Saying "baud rate" is like saying "symbols/time/time" as if the data rate is accelerating. 2400 baud is already equivalent to 2400 symbols/second./pedant
Really? Does Speed Rate mean the same thing as Acceleration?
Even the worst community college I've ever seen has been better than 95% of the High Schools as far as potential to learn. The whole "you're locked in here against your will" thing never really appealed to me, and I found it distracting to say the least.
I took a test at 15 to do exactly this, the California High School Proficiency Exam, left HS the day after I turned 16, and have never once regretted it.
Let's save the whole prison treatment for those that need it to learn (assuming/pretending there is anyactual value in doing so), and let the intelligent kids move on to college where students are treated with respect.
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Look, I know we're talking large time scales here, but the word 'soon' is not appropriate to use with a wait time of 18 years.
Although I am pretty convinced by the previous answer here, there's been so much discussion on it and whether 3x0.333... is equal to 1 or 0.999... that I felt compelled to offer this one:
A = 0.999...
B = 1.0
This simplifes the question to whether A = B. Now:
C = 10 * A = 10 * 0.999... = 9.999...
D = C - A = 9.999... - 0.999... = 9.0
At this point, we've worked out that C is equal to the sum of 10 A's, and then we've turned around and subtracted out one of those A's, calling this D. Logically this means that D would be left with 9 A's. To find out whether 9 A's are equal to 9 B's, we can divide by B and if the answer is 9 exactly, that is math's way of telling you that B == A.
D / B = 9.0 / 1.0 = 9.0.
Check and mate.
Yeah, this does seem like a contest result, it's difficult to think of a stupider thing to get people to believe without getting into politics..
Until we remove ALL legal penalties for senior developers who learn new technologies,
this situation is and will remain totally unfair.
This is great for those of us in the database community who are purists about only using one row of data.
Does the author work for a law firm?
as long as it's impossible to make an electronic circuit without government help.
Yeah, right, TV won't have the same problem 3G has where it sends the same information to everyone in a wide broadcast - because TV was the one that used localized cells to re-use the same bandwidth. Huh, I guess the rest of the world had that backwards.
Facebook hasn't exactly earned the trust necessary or shown the kind of respect for user privacy that would make me want to route everything I say to everyone else through them.
So true. mod parent up.
Thanks, I was trying to find the right way to word it, yours was precise.
Yeah, this is stupid, especially since the 'destination', weightlessness, lasts 'a few minutes' and costs $200,000.
What a waste - with all the expense of getting them up there, would it really have costthat much more to give them an hour or so? If they're really weightless, it wouldn't even require fuel to keep them up, though maneuvering would be more complicated over a longer flight.
If this happened, the merged company should be called Adobe. MS would do best to try to leave it's past behind. And it's present.
We already decided as a nation, over 200 years ago. I'm not having a hard time walking the line between freedom and oppression, nor is anyone else who is not in a position to lose power if freedom wins. Ben Franklin was right.
Mod parent up, it's nowhere near flamebait. WTF!
If this actually made any moral or political sense, they wouldn't restrict it to NGOs outside the US. But it's just a PR stunt, and clearly labelled as such by the narrowness of the change.
Not only must they live with that (..BOOK being a generic term for social networking services), but if there's such an obvious association, they should be thankful that they will be getting free advertising indefinitely, the way the big G does every time someone tells you to go google something.
There should probably be a mandatory draft in the US if the US goes to war or the war lasts longer than 6 months.
IF the US goes to war? When have we not been at war? We go to war all the time, it don't mean shit these days. And some of these wars are, to put it kindly, not worth wasting our money on, let alone our lives. At least there was some kind of theoretical justification to starting that war beyond 'the president feels like it' with Afganistan, but if we haven't won there yet, we aren't going to. The US habit of staying and invading and killing in foreign countries beyond all reason makes me want to never consider joining the armed forces. If rural kids want to join up, well, frankly IMO that's sad but to each their own.
I've never heard of a US war lasting less than 6 months, hell the US takes 6 months just to come up with a plan on how it's going to get troops out of a place. If wars were always fought in response to an attack, if we were even usually clearly the good guys, I'd be happy to enlist and fight for a cause I perceived as good. These days it's not that simple.
And throwing in a draft, not a good idea. I don't think I'd be an effective soldier if it were involuntary, I'd be pretty resentful that my time and potentially my life was being wasted. I wouldn't want to help use military force to impose our will on other countries, I don't trust that it would usually be worthwhile, because it my lifetime, it typically hasn't been. A draft plus wars people don't believe in turns the military into a prison - where all the prisoners have guns.
I've heard of some stupid shit from copyright lawyers, but this is record breaking - and it should be record making. Imagine if this had great songs written about it and compiled into a record.. The record has to be given away free, of course.
second option: I'd donate to a legal fund that does nothing but publicly out anyone mentally challenged enough to donate to an anti-1st-amendment fund.
Considering the way they've been giving away 2 phones for the price of one, this isn't a useful measure. How about comparing how many actual sales were made?
Vaporizers are a whole lot healthier when comparing with smoking for medical marijuana, there's no reason they shouldn't be much healthier with tobacco also. The ALA looks pretty stupid here, a couple more moves like this and they'll seem as intelligent as those 'birthers' who refuse to believe Hawaii officials about who was born there.
Saying "baud rate" is like saying "symbols/time/time" as if the data rate is accelerating. 2400 baud is already equivalent to 2400 symbols/second. /pedant
Really? Does Speed Rate mean the same thing as Acceleration?
Here here!
Even the worst community college I've ever seen has been better than 95% of the High Schools as far as potential to learn. The whole "you're locked in here against your will" thing never really appealed to me, and I found it distracting to say the least.
I took a test at 15 to do exactly this, the California High School Proficiency Exam, left HS the day after I turned 16, and have never once regretted it.
Let's save the whole prison treatment for those that need it to learn (assuming/pretending there is anyactual value in doing so), and let the intelligent kids move on to college where students are treated with respect.
Of course! Put the microphone in your ear, and the speaker in your mouth.