For Christ's sake all the US Govt did was put him on a watch list
No, the LATEST thing the US did was put them on watchlists, causing them to lose access to their money. It's not the only thing they've done.
This is much the same way that spam blacklists work. Someone who runs the list puts an IP address on it for whatever reason. Others choose to subscribe to the lists and use the list to filter connections to their email server. It's not the list operator's fault that your email doesn't go through. They're only publishing information.
No,.999... is infinitely approximate to 1. Or more accurately, it's 1- 0.000...;...001...
The problem is that there are an infinite number of zeros, so you never get to the digit 1 at the end. You've effectively reduced it to 0.999... = 1 - 0.000... [typo fixed]
Or rather for any given instance of 0.999.... there is an equivalent instance of 0.000....01 such that 0.999... + 0.000..01 = 1. In both cases an infinite number of a digit is used.
Only true when you're talking about a finite number of digits in any given instance. For an infinitely repeating decimal, putting a number after the infinite number of digits is like saying "take the complete decimal representation of pi, and put a 1 at the end". There isn't an end. You might as well say 1.000...0007 as since there are an infinite number of zeros, the last digit is meaningless and might as well be any number.
the definition of the term 0.9999.... is ambiguous to many, so our intuition is that it falls short of 1 when in fact it is in some sense defined not to.
I understand that. I was pointing out the actual flaw with saying that 1 = 1.000...0001. As there are an infinite number of zeros it's wrong to say "oh, and throw a 1 at the end" because there isn't an end.
The neat thing about floor and ceiling are their advanced uses. Let's say you want to take the average of two numbers. For sake of argument, let's use a simple number like 1. If you have two 1 digits, it's easy to see that the average must be 1 but let's say you have to do it the hard way.
Trivial. Since we know that 0.999... = 1, the solution is easy:
average of 1 and 1 = average of 0.999... and 0.999... average of 1 and 1 = floor(0.999...) + ceiling(0.999...) average of 1 and 1 = 0 + 1 average of 1 and 1 = 1
No,.999... is infinitely approximate to 1. Or more accurately, it's 1- 0.000...;...001...
The problem is that there are an infinite number of zeros, so you never get to the digit 1 at the end. You've effectively reduced it to 0.999... = 1 = 0.000...
If you are willing to admit that one-third and.333... are the same thing, it would seem to follow that.999... has to equal one, since it equals.333... times 3.
That's awesome. You've reduced it to a three-line proof:
For some reason, it's a lot more intuitive to the average person as we're comfortable equating 1/3 with the repeating decimal 0.333... so it's no stretch to reach the conclusion that 0.999... is, in fact, 1.
While it's easy to shift blame onto the user, this completely overlooks the fact that a system designed with the capability of executing foreign code without any kind of privilege escalation check is just asking for trouble. No one should have to worry about those puppies or that porn in the first place.
It's the dancing bunnies problem in computer security. The nutshell is that even with Linux, users will open up a terminal and follow the magic script which includes all these bizarre cryptic invokations like gunzip, tar, chmod, sudo, and other weird things because they want to see their dancing bunnies, dammit!
I learned 10x more from Civilization (and the research I did on my own making historically accurate start maps) than I learned from all of the history classes I took K-college. Probably logged more hours on it too.
Same here. What really surprises me is all the lies they teach in school. None of the textbooks I had indicated that Genghis Khan became the ruler of the world, developed space technology, and colonized Alpha Centauri.
Or you could just do as what many are doing and refuse to follow laws not written for the people but paid for by treasonous bribery.
Right. Because everybody who downloads Minority Report from The Pirate Bay does so for ideological reasons. "Stick it to the corporations! I'm going to punish myself by sitting down and watching their filth that I'm ideologically opposed to... and I'm not going to pay for it! That'll teach those fuckers for only paying Tom Cruise $25,000,000 for Minority Report!"
Next I suspect you'll claim that punks who sneak into the theaters without paying are doing so as a form of social protest and that statues should be erected in their honor and placed right next to Rosa Parks?
But don't accuse me of "just wanting a free ride" just because you want to suck the corporate penis.
Hahaha... that's a good one. So how many creative works have you authored and released into the public domain, tough guy?
Ever seen the "standard" recording contract? I have, and it is a joke. They rob the artist blind.
Yet aspiring artists willingly sign these contracts. Perhaps artists enjoy getting their bottoms stuffed more than you give them credit for. Have you explored the possibility that this is the source of your rage? That your poop chute isn't getting equal attention?
If you want to kiss the corporate booty go right ahead, nobody is stopping you.
Oh I see. Paying for entertainment is kissing the corporate booty. That's awesome. I'll remember that next time I go to a movie with some friends. I'll think about you, sitting there in your mother's basement all alone and angry... and then I'll laugh.
let us say for the sake of argument everyone does EXACTLY as you suggest, nobody downloads copyrighted anything and refuses to buy from the cartels
Now you're making assumptions. I never suggested refusing to buy anything. Even if copyright were slashed to the 15 year term you suggest, few people are going to wait 15 years to see movies they want to see.
If you enjoy the entertainment that companies put out then buy it, where "buy" can be: paying to see a showing in a theater, paying to rent the video, or paying for the DVD (I know... with the contents that are licensed to you, spare me the lecture). If you don't enjoy it or don't like the terms on which it's offered then don't waste your time with it.
If you really care that much, try and get the laws changed or (if that's as futile as you suggest) make your own movies and put them in the public domain after a time you believe to be reasonable and/or convince others to do so with their movies. The law can't stop you from saying "I spent $50 million of my own money making this movie and you're free to do whatever you want with it" just as it can't stop Linus Torvalds from collaborating with others to build and give away an operating system. Why not show some balls and put your money where your mouth is? Otherwise you just sound like someone who wants a free lunch.
It is NOT clear WHY Apple would pay a lot more money than they needed to just to have contiguous land for their data center. This is especially true when you take into account we are talking about ONE SINGLE ACRE amongst probably thousands of acres in the vicinity not owned by the fortunate $1.7 million recipients.
We don't know the reasons why Apple was motivated to build on that particular location. Perhaps it was easy access to nearby power and/or upstream internet without having to negotiate right of way, perhaps someone at Apple rolled bones into a cup and it told them to build on that spot. However, let's say they weren't particularly tied to that one location and could easily have chosen many other locations. Now they need to do two things: go about acquiring even more land and offloading the land they had already acquired.
Because people in the area know it's Apple vying for their land the prices will be even higher, likely increasing the acquisition cost well beyond an additional $1.7M. Additionally, they're now going to want to get rid of the other land. With real estate these days, I'd bet they would take a bath on that too. And that's even assuming that the thousands of other acres in the area would even be suitable... what would it cost to lay fiber optic cable for a few Gbps of bandwidth and power lines to supply a few megawatts of power? Possibly more than $1.7M.
But the biggest factor is the additional time to negotiate additional land purchases, close the deals, provide suitable time for existing owners to move, and so on. They're spending a billion dollars to build this new datacenter in order to alleviate capacity issues and every day costs money, so the cheapest thing they could do is to cough up a few million and be able to move forward with certainty. The opportunity cost of any other course of action would dwarf what they paid for the land.
Actually I'd argue (although not the AC, as I hate ACs and think one should stand by your words) that your "legit content" IS the broken windows economics, not the other. The whole point of the copyright system as it was envisioned here in the USA was to encourage the creation of more works for a larger public domain by giving artists an incentive to actually work not to give media companies a way to lock our culture and history behind a paywall.
I agree that current copyright terms are too long and a more reasonable length should be imposed. However, it's not currently legal to download any movie you want at will. The solution is to either get the law changed or to encourage people to download legal material, rather than condoning copyright infringement simply because it has a side effect of causing growth of various internet technologies.
This is a dangerous myth (Mythbusters, here's some new material) that it all burns off. Especially in an oven, where is the alcohol gonna go? Into the food!
It's dangerous for diabetics, pregnants, and young children (studies show it inhibits brain development) mostly though. 1/4 cup of vodka is a blip to everyone else.
That 1/4 cup in a pie crust typically gets cut into 8 slices. So each slice has 1/32 of a cup or about 7.4 mL. According to the wikipedia article, if you cook the pie for only 15 minutes 40% of the alcohol remains which means 4 mL per pie slice. I suppose that could still be dangerous to some, but it's nothing like serving 1/4 cup straight to a person.
ok...lets shut down the things that are making the internet and technology grow...that is a smart idea. While we are at it why don't we go back to using horses because there are too many cars in the world.
Dear obvious troll: I never suggested any such thing. My flippant comment about The Pirate Bay was a joke (I even included a smiley so dullards like you wouldn't miss it) and I'm not about to explain the joke for slow minds such as yours. I can just picture you rolling your eyes and foaming at the mouth as you typed that. Try not to take life so seriously next time, okay?
There are many legitimate, fully legal uses of bandwidth that cause various internet technologies to grow that we don't need the internet equivalent of broken windows economics to spur growth. I know it must be terribly difficult for you to think reasonably about such matters, but do try. And put down the crack pipe. I know you're doing it only because of your desire to spur economic growth in the anti-narcotics industry, but quitting is the best thing for your health and sanity.
So tell me, where it the summary or article does it explain why they needed that particular acre of land, as opposed to the other thousands of acres nearby? I'm sure there is a good reason, but it doesn't say.
From the summary: "Apple's $1.7 million purchase of a 1-acre lot in Maiden, N.C. where it plans to build a $1 billion, 500,000 sq. ft. data center"
So why did Apple need that "1-acre lot in Maiden, N.C."? Because that's "where it plans to build a $1 billion, 500,000 sq. ft. data center". It's hard to make it much clearer than that. A valid question then becomes "why did Apple plan to built the data center in that particular location?" but that's an entirely different question than "why did Apple want that particular lot?" which is the question I was responding to.
Or figure out a way of getting cyber criminals off the net. The problem for quite some time has been that they'll suck up as much bandwidth as they can get, and since they don't pay for it, there's little reason to actually throttle back their operations.
The Universe is defined as something of which no greater can be conceived. Such a thing can be conceived. If there were no such thing in reality, then a greater thing—namely, a thing than which no greater can be conceived, and which exists—can be conceived. Yet nothing can be greater than a thing than which no greater can be conceived. Therefore a thing than which no greater can be conceived—i.e., the Universe—must exist. The Universe is the entity of which nothing greater can be thought. It is greater to be necessary than not. The Universe must therefore be necessary. Hence, the Universe exists necessarily.
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For Christ's sake all the US Govt did was put him on a watch list
No, the LATEST thing the US did was put them on watchlists, causing them to lose access to their money. It's not the only thing they've done.
This is much the same way that spam blacklists work. Someone who runs the list puts an IP address on it for whatever reason. Others choose to subscribe to the lists and use the list to filter connections to their email server. It's not the list operator's fault that your email doesn't go through. They're only publishing information.
0.000...001 (which I don't think exists)
Exactly.
No, .999... is infinitely approximate to 1. Or more accurately, it's 1- 0.000...;...001...
The problem is that there are an infinite number of zeros, so you never get to the digit 1 at the end. You've effectively reduced it to 0.999... = 1 - 0.000... [typo fixed]
Or rather for any given instance of 0.999.... there is an equivalent instance of 0.000....01 such that 0.999... + 0.000..01 = 1. In both cases an infinite number of a digit is used.
Only true when you're talking about a finite number of digits in any given instance. For an infinitely repeating decimal, putting a number after the infinite number of digits is like saying "take the complete decimal representation of pi, and put a 1 at the end". There isn't an end. You might as well say 1.000...0007 as since there are an infinite number of zeros, the last digit is meaningless and might as well be any number.
the definition of the term 0.9999.... is ambiguous to many, so our intuition is that it falls short of 1 when in fact it is in some sense defined not to.
I understand that. I was pointing out the actual flaw with saying that 1 = 1.000...0001. As there are an infinite number of zeros it's wrong to say "oh, and throw a 1 at the end" because there isn't an end.
ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
The aliens are attempting control of our women -- fortunately this one managed to resist before they activated her laser eyes.
Excellent point. I will submit a story about 1/2 = 0.4999999....
Verizon has you beat. They've proven that 0.01 = 0.0001.
The neat thing about floor and ceiling are their advanced uses. Let's say you want to take the average of two numbers. For sake of argument, let's use a simple number like 1. If you have two 1 digits, it's easy to see that the average must be 1 but let's say you have to do it the hard way.
Trivial. Since we know that 0.999... = 1, the solution is easy:
average of 1 and 1 = average of 0.999... and 0.999...
average of 1 and 1 = floor(0.999...) + ceiling(0.999...)
average of 1 and 1 = 0 + 1
average of 1 and 1 = 1
QED.
No, .999... is infinitely approximate to 1. Or more accurately, it's 1- 0.000...;...001...
The problem is that there are an infinite number of zeros, so you never get to the digit 1 at the end. You've effectively reduced it to 0.999... = 1 = 0.000...
1/3 = .333...
1/3 * 3 = 1 .333... * 3 = .999... = 1
If you are willing to admit that one-third and .333... are the same thing, it would seem to follow that .999... has to equal one, since it equals .333... times 3.
That's awesome. You've reduced it to a three-line proof:
1/3 = 0.333...
1/3 * 3 = 0.333... * 3
1 = 0.999...
For some reason, it's a lot more intuitive to the average person as we're comfortable equating 1/3 with the repeating decimal 0.333... so it's no stretch to reach the conclusion that 0.999... is, in fact, 1.
While it's easy to shift blame onto the user, this completely overlooks the fact that a system designed with the capability of executing foreign code without any kind of privilege escalation check is just asking for trouble. No one should have to worry about those puppies or that porn in the first place.
It's the dancing bunnies problem in computer security. The nutshell is that even with Linux, users will open up a terminal and follow the magic script which includes all these bizarre cryptic invokations like gunzip, tar, chmod, sudo, and other weird things because they want to see their dancing bunnies, dammit!
I learned 10x more from Civilization (and the research I did on my own making historically accurate start maps) than I learned from all of the history classes I took K-college. Probably logged more hours on it too.
Same here. What really surprises me is all the lies they teach in school. None of the textbooks I had indicated that Genghis Khan became the ruler of the world, developed space technology, and colonized Alpha Centauri.
Or you could just do as what many are doing and refuse to follow laws not written for the people but paid for by treasonous bribery.
Right. Because everybody who downloads Minority Report from The Pirate Bay does so for ideological reasons. "Stick it to the corporations! I'm going to punish myself by sitting down and watching their filth that I'm ideologically opposed to... and I'm not going to pay for it! That'll teach those fuckers for only paying Tom Cruise $25,000,000 for Minority Report!"
Next I suspect you'll claim that punks who sneak into the theaters without paying are doing so as a form of social protest and that statues should be erected in their honor and placed right next to Rosa Parks?
But don't accuse me of "just wanting a free ride" just because you want to suck the corporate penis.
Hahaha... that's a good one. So how many creative works have you authored and released into the public domain, tough guy?
Ever seen the "standard" recording contract? I have, and it is a joke. They rob the artist blind.
Yet aspiring artists willingly sign these contracts. Perhaps artists enjoy getting their bottoms stuffed more than you give them credit for. Have you explored the possibility that this is the source of your rage? That your poop chute isn't getting equal attention?
If you want to kiss the corporate booty go right ahead, nobody is stopping you.
Oh I see. Paying for entertainment is kissing the corporate booty. That's awesome. I'll remember that next time I go to a movie with some friends. I'll think about you, sitting there in your mother's basement all alone and angry... and then I'll laugh.
let us say for the sake of argument everyone does EXACTLY as you suggest, nobody downloads copyrighted anything and refuses to buy from the cartels
Now you're making assumptions. I never suggested refusing to buy anything. Even if copyright were slashed to the 15 year term you suggest, few people are going to wait 15 years to see movies they want to see.
If you enjoy the entertainment that companies put out then buy it, where "buy" can be: paying to see a showing in a theater, paying to rent the video, or paying for the DVD (I know... with the contents that are licensed to you, spare me the lecture). If you don't enjoy it or don't like the terms on which it's offered then don't waste your time with it.
If you really care that much, try and get the laws changed or (if that's as futile as you suggest) make your own movies and put them in the public domain after a time you believe to be reasonable and/or convince others to do so with their movies. The law can't stop you from saying "I spent $50 million of my own money making this movie and you're free to do whatever you want with it" just as it can't stop Linus Torvalds from collaborating with others to build and give away an operating system. Why not show some balls and put your money where your mouth is? Otherwise you just sound like someone who wants a free lunch.
It is NOT clear WHY Apple would pay a lot more money than they needed to just to have contiguous land for their data center. This is especially true when you take into account we are talking about ONE SINGLE ACRE amongst probably thousands of acres in the vicinity not owned by the fortunate $1.7 million recipients.
We don't know the reasons why Apple was motivated to build on that particular location. Perhaps it was easy access to nearby power and/or upstream internet without having to negotiate right of way, perhaps someone at Apple rolled bones into a cup and it told them to build on that spot. However, let's say they weren't particularly tied to that one location and could easily have chosen many other locations. Now they need to do two things: go about acquiring even more land and offloading the land they had already acquired.
Because people in the area know it's Apple vying for their land the prices will be even higher, likely increasing the acquisition cost well beyond an additional $1.7M. Additionally, they're now going to want to get rid of the other land. With real estate these days, I'd bet they would take a bath on that too. And that's even assuming that the thousands of other acres in the area would even be suitable... what would it cost to lay fiber optic cable for a few Gbps of bandwidth and power lines to supply a few megawatts of power? Possibly more than $1.7M.
But the biggest factor is the additional time to negotiate additional land purchases, close the deals, provide suitable time for existing owners to move, and so on. They're spending a billion dollars to build this new datacenter in order to alleviate capacity issues and every day costs money, so the cheapest thing they could do is to cough up a few million and be able to move forward with certainty. The opportunity cost of any other course of action would dwarf what they paid for the land.
And don't optimize.
The NSF wants to know something about the computer industry and they ask Gartner? Gartner, the company that advocated OS/2 and I-CASE?
To be fair, like any research group Gartner will advocate whatever you pay them to. Within reason, of course.
Actually I'd argue (although not the AC, as I hate ACs and think one should stand by your words) that your "legit content" IS the broken windows economics, not the other. The whole point of the copyright system as it was envisioned here in the USA was to encourage the creation of more works for a larger public domain by giving artists an incentive to actually work not to give media companies a way to lock our culture and history behind a paywall.
I agree that current copyright terms are too long and a more reasonable length should be imposed. However, it's not currently legal to download any movie you want at will. The solution is to either get the law changed or to encourage people to download legal material, rather than condoning copyright infringement simply because it has a side effect of causing growth of various internet technologies.
Of course, it burns off in the oven
This is a dangerous myth (Mythbusters, here's some new material) that it all burns off. Especially in an oven, where is the alcohol gonna go? Into the food!
It's dangerous for diabetics, pregnants, and young children (studies show it inhibits brain development) mostly though. 1/4 cup of vodka is a blip to everyone else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_with_alcohol
That 1/4 cup in a pie crust typically gets cut into 8 slices. So each slice has 1/32 of a cup or about 7.4 mL. According to the wikipedia article, if you cook the pie for only 15 minutes 40% of the alcohol remains which means 4 mL per pie slice. I suppose that could still be dangerous to some, but it's nothing like serving 1/4 cup straight to a person.
Got any sources? Because I've got one that says it ain't so, and that's for damn sure.
What an unfortunate name... from the article you linked: "But the Sheila Dikshit government refuted the party's claim."
ok...lets shut down the things that are making the internet and technology grow...that is a smart idea. While we are at it why don't we go back to using horses because there are too many cars in the world.
Dear obvious troll: I never suggested any such thing. My flippant comment about The Pirate Bay was a joke (I even included a smiley so dullards like you wouldn't miss it) and I'm not about to explain the joke for slow minds such as yours. I can just picture you rolling your eyes and foaming at the mouth as you typed that. Try not to take life so seriously next time, okay?
There are many legitimate, fully legal uses of bandwidth that cause various internet technologies to grow that we don't need the internet equivalent of broken windows economics to spur growth. I know it must be terribly difficult for you to think reasonably about such matters, but do try. And put down the crack pipe. I know you're doing it only because of your desire to spur economic growth in the anti-narcotics industry, but quitting is the best thing for your health and sanity.
So tell me, where it the summary or article does it explain why they needed that particular acre of land, as opposed to the other thousands of acres nearby? I'm sure there is a good reason, but it doesn't say.
From the summary: "Apple's $1.7 million purchase of a 1-acre lot in Maiden, N.C. where it plans to build a $1 billion, 500,000 sq. ft. data center"
So why did Apple need that "1-acre lot in Maiden, N.C."? Because that's "where it plans to build a $1 billion, 500,000 sq. ft. data center". It's hard to make it much clearer than that. A valid question then becomes "why did Apple plan to built the data center in that particular location?" but that's an entirely different question than "why did Apple want that particular lot?" which is the question I was responding to.
Or figure out a way of getting cyber criminals off the net. The problem for quite some time has been that they'll suck up as much bandwidth as they can get, and since they don't pay for it, there's little reason to actually throttle back their operations.
Shut down The Pirate Bay? :)
500,000 square feet == 11.48 acres
== 46 450 m^2
= 1.147842 square furlongs
Good for them. I wonder why apple wanted it so bad?
I wonder why Slashdot posts summaries.
The Universe is defined as something of which no greater can be conceived.
Such a thing can be conceived.
If there were no such thing in reality, then a greater thing—namely, a thing than which no greater can be conceived, and which exists—can be conceived.
Yet nothing can be greater than a thing than which no greater can be conceived.
Therefore a thing than which no greater can be conceived—i.e., the Universe—must exist.
The Universe is the entity of which nothing greater can be thought.
It is greater to be necessary than not.
The Universe must therefore be necessary.
Hence, the Universe exists necessarily.
QED.