And there's a long history of governmnet run utiities that do well. Dallas Water Utilities is a surprisingly good operation. And TXU was much better before "deregulation" and privatization.
The government often does it better, but those examples are ignored by the ignorant and dumb.
Much like The US/UK let friendly ships be sunk to prevent it from being known that they had broken Enigma. With the knowledge it was broken elsewhere, they can claim they broke into the Snowden files, not the NSA files, when the reality is the opposite.
I grew up with http://www.fwmuseum.org/omni-t... and it's considered an OMNIMAX by the definitions here, but I've never once heard that theater called that. It was the Omni Theater, or just The IMAX.
I've never been to an IMAX movie. I didn't want the disappointment. I grew up with http://www.fwmuseum.org/omni-t... and the IMAX versions of Jurassic World aren't the same thing.
It is being diluted by being used as a generic reference to large-screen movies.
It's being diluted by being used as a generic reference to IMAX brand (TM) (R) screens, and IMAX (R) (TM) comparisons to regular screens. If that's dilution, it's being done by IMAX, not Ars.
IMAX is compelled to send you a cease and desist to show that they are actively protecting their trademark.
No, they are not. That is a common misconception held by those on Slashdot, but is incorrect. Unfortunately, I've seen it so often here that I don' t think I'll ever convince anyone of the truth, though your misunderstanding of reality doesn't change it.
They certainly don't make the news anymore, and they are never used by the White NRA as an example how more guns cuts violence, as the victims of drive by's are often armed. And known armed victims is supposed to stop crime, right?
That's not a counter example. I didn't prove my point mathematically because the mathematicians are more lawyer than human. Math is about proofs, not reality.
Your counter example has a gap from -1 to 1, same as there'd be for x/x^2, where the limit as you approach from opposite sides is not the same. If the limit is the same from both sides, and well-behaved on both sides, why is interpolation logically (not mathematically) incorrect?
The mathematicians will argue that math is logical and math says no, which is an argument that math = logic so apply math, not logic, but not that there's a logical fault in the interpolation.
But when you look at places that don't have guns, and have never had a prevalent gun society, the US has more crime. Of course the gun nuts claim it's racial differences, rather than legal ones that make Japan so much safer without guns than the US is with them.
These notable examples of white men running amok are the outliers.
Outliers? Perhaps the category of crime is, but not the perpetrators of it. Of US-born bomb makers, how many are non-white? The top 2 names for that category are Ted and Timothy, both white fellas who bombed people or places. Or the last 10 or so mass shootings (usually school shootings)?
Yes, the category of crime is an outlier, but in that category, "white men" isn't the outlier.
But yes, NRA members are not the problem.
Yes, they are. The death penalty should be used for those who allow their guns to be stolen. This, and other recent mass shootings were done by people who were known by family to be unstable, but the family had loose firearms available for the taking. If you don't have your guns in a gun safe when they are stolen, you should be charged as an accessory (which in most places, using the anti-gun rules, is murder).
And like I said, yes, if you have a single definite two-sided limit on a discontinuity, then for most practical applications you'll probably be fine using the limit as the actual value.
I didn't take your previous post as agreement, though your follow up is explicit abou 100% agreement, even if also in an argumentative tone.
I never said anything about equations that tend to infinity, split or otherwise. I limited my comments to equations that had continuous vanues on both sides of 0 with a discontinuity at 0 by definition. For the original question, if you capture a divide by zero error, for 100% of user cases (and yes, violating mathematical rules) if you evaluate the equation at 0.00001 and -0.00001 and the values are equal, presenting the answer for "0" as the limit as x approaches zero, you'll give the user the answer they want/need in 100% of cases (except for those trying to generate an error). What is wrong with presenting x/x as "1" at zero? When would that ever cause a problem in an application?
Ah yes, the "if I can't think of it in 10 seconds, it must be impossible" answer.
My reality trumps your opinion. Since you've announced that your mind is closed, there's nothing I could say that would convince you otherwise.
In my case, I bought an "unlocked" phone that wasn't. I had to download a crack that was big. That you brag about not having a modern phone just proves you don't understand. And yes, I understand the poor experience, but not for the time I needed a new bootloader/firmware for my phone when I moved out of the US to get away from pretentious assholes like you. The only computing device you own is not a "toy". The only fool here is you.
I can't find an example where that's true. Graph x/x, and you get a solid line at 1 from -infinity to +infinity with a discontinuity at 0, by definition. It's only definition that makes that a required gap. If one were to fill in that gap with 1, no earth shaking problems would happen, and for most user requirements, 1 is much more accurate than "undefined".
No, they don't. How do I download a 100 MB phone update? Or are the poor supposed to not use phones? When I was traveling, I couldn't get a place for free wireless that lasted long enough for a 100 MB update needed to get the phone to work locally. I ended up having to download a download manager, and split up the download over multiple days, with the download manager resuming from previously suspended points in the download process.
That's the "poor" experience. You get services, they just aren't usable, and designed to repel you.
What's the ratio of hammer sales to table saws, 0/0... is 0 the right answer? Infinity? 10?
The answer to all non-mathematicians is 0. The sales are all zero, so the answers are all zero.
If I want to know the ratio of black pixels to white pixels for a set of images, and I get an all black image, is 0 the right answer? No, 0 is the wrongest answer.
Ratio? x:y is a ratio. 1:0 is the correct ratio, and requires no divide by zero. You just present it in a more accurate manner.
I think if you don't want to check by div 0, and div 0 is a possibility, you are asking the wrong question.
What if you don't mind checking for div by zero, but that the answers are useful in some (or all) cases of div by zero, and you don't want to halt or refuse to let the user put in an all black image.
Usability allows for div by zero, then gives a useful (even if not mathematically correct) answer.
This isn't about "easy". This is about error handling. What do you do when the answer is 7/0? Crash the program? Set the answer to some number? Why crash the program when we could come up with a meaningful answer?
Mathematicians don't know which rule has precedence for 0/0,
So all those times I worked out x/y where x and y both equal zero, for "as x approaches zero" weren't math. Funny, I think they were in my Differential Equations class.
0/0 is undefined, but f(y)/f(x) where f(x)=0 isn't necessarily undefined.
If it's got the ability to hit lunar escape velocity, and has any ability to aim, it can hit Earth. If it isn't aimable, it's not going to be in the exact right orientation.
Something with a high launch velocity and weaker maneuvering thrusters wouldn't be able to hit the Earth, but could hit any other object in the Solar System. Like the "aimable bullets" people are coming out with will let you hit something that's in your field of fire, but not outside it. It would be impossible to hit yourself with one. So use something similar fired from the moon (pointed away from the Earth).
Though yes, you should be able to hit the Earth firing around the Sun or other gravity well as a slingshot. But the idea is to make it impossible for a direct, well aimed shot at the Earth from the moon.
Please define the word "fugitive". References preferred. Snowden did flee prosecution, but didn't "escape", and isn't in "hiding". So he doesn't meet the definition of "fugitive" from any definition I found.
"profit" is everything left over after every expense. When you make $100,000 and spend $55k a year on housing, and another $30k on basic necessities, you have about $15k in disposable income. You can buy some toys, part of a car, or save for a kids school. 1% of that $15k is $150. The AT&T fine is about the same as $150 on someone who makes $100,000 a year.
The problem is that you think corporate profits are the same as personal gross income. Either compare profits of both, or gross income of both.
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And there's a long history of governmnet run utiities that do well. Dallas Water Utilities is a surprisingly good operation. And TXU was much better before "deregulation" and privatization.
The government often does it better, but those examples are ignored by the ignorant and dumb.
Much like The US/UK let friendly ships be sunk to prevent it from being known that they had broken Enigma. With the knowledge it was broken elsewhere, they can claim they broke into the Snowden files, not the NSA files, when the reality is the opposite.
I grew up with http://www.fwmuseum.org/omni-t... and it's considered an OMNIMAX by the definitions here, but I've never once heard that theater called that. It was the Omni Theater, or just The IMAX.
I've never been to an IMAX movie. I didn't want the disappointment. I grew up with http://www.fwmuseum.org/omni-t... and the IMAX versions of Jurassic World aren't the same thing.
It is being diluted by being used as a generic reference to large-screen movies.
It's being diluted by being used as a generic reference to IMAX brand (TM) (R) screens, and IMAX (R) (TM) comparisons to regular screens. If that's dilution, it's being done by IMAX, not Ars.
IMAX is compelled to send you a cease and desist to show that they are actively protecting their trademark.
No, they are not. That is a common misconception held by those on Slashdot, but is incorrect. Unfortunately, I've seen it so often here that I don' t think I'll ever convince anyone of the truth, though your misunderstanding of reality doesn't change it.
They certainly don't make the news anymore, and they are never used by the White NRA as an example how more guns cuts violence, as the victims of drive by's are often armed. And known armed victims is supposed to stop crime, right?
I found no reference to a hostage. He scared a 9 year old out of the house, though. When damaged, the shoplifter was the sole occupant, right?
Like most liberals,
But I'm not a liberal. When your assumptions all your arguments are based on are wrong, so must your logic and conclusions be wrong.
That's not a counter example. I didn't prove my point mathematically because the mathematicians are more lawyer than human. Math is about proofs, not reality.
Your counter example has a gap from -1 to 1, same as there'd be for x/x^2, where the limit as you approach from opposite sides is not the same. If the limit is the same from both sides, and well-behaved on both sides, why is interpolation logically (not mathematically) incorrect?
The mathematicians will argue that math is logical and math says no, which is an argument that math = logic so apply math, not logic, but not that there's a logical fault in the interpolation.
and use some sort of unobtainium lock to prevent it from firing more slowly
Yes, like a railgun launch, or solid rocket stage, both theoretical and without any precedent.
Compare Japan and the US. The US has more lax gun laws, and more crime overall, by far.
But when you look at places that don't have guns, and have never had a prevalent gun society, the US has more crime. Of course the gun nuts claim it's racial differences, rather than legal ones that make Japan so much safer without guns than the US is with them.
These notable examples of white men running amok are the outliers.
Outliers? Perhaps the category of crime is, but not the perpetrators of it. Of US-born bomb makers, how many are non-white? The top 2 names for that category are Ted and Timothy, both white fellas who bombed people or places. Or the last 10 or so mass shootings (usually school shootings)?
Yes, the category of crime is an outlier, but in that category, "white men" isn't the outlier.
But yes, NRA members are not the problem.
Yes, they are. The death penalty should be used for those who allow their guns to be stolen. This, and other recent mass shootings were done by people who were known by family to be unstable, but the family had loose firearms available for the taking. If you don't have your guns in a gun safe when they are stolen, you should be charged as an accessory (which in most places, using the anti-gun rules, is murder).
And like I said, yes, if you have a single definite two-sided limit on a discontinuity, then for most practical applications you'll probably be fine using the limit as the actual value.
I didn't take your previous post as agreement, though your follow up is explicit abou 100% agreement, even if also in an argumentative tone.
I never said anything about equations that tend to infinity, split or otherwise. I limited my comments to equations that had continuous vanues on both sides of 0 with a discontinuity at 0 by definition. For the original question, if you capture a divide by zero error, for 100% of user cases (and yes, violating mathematical rules) if you evaluate the equation at 0.00001 and -0.00001 and the values are equal, presenting the answer for "0" as the limit as x approaches zero, you'll give the user the answer they want/need in 100% of cases (except for those trying to generate an error). What is wrong with presenting x/x as "1" at zero? When would that ever cause a problem in an application?
Ah yes, the "if I can't think of it in 10 seconds, it must be impossible" answer.
My reality trumps your opinion. Since you've announced that your mind is closed, there's nothing I could say that would convince you otherwise.
In my case, I bought an "unlocked" phone that wasn't. I had to download a crack that was big. That you brag about not having a modern phone just proves you don't understand. And yes, I understand the poor experience, but not for the time I needed a new bootloader/firmware for my phone when I moved out of the US to get away from pretentious assholes like you. The only computing device you own is not a "toy". The only fool here is you.
I can't find an example where that's true. Graph x/x, and you get a solid line at 1 from -infinity to +infinity with a discontinuity at 0, by definition. It's only definition that makes that a required gap. If one were to fill in that gap with 1, no earth shaking problems would happen, and for most user requirements, 1 is much more accurate than "undefined".
No, they don't. How do I download a 100 MB phone update? Or are the poor supposed to not use phones? When I was traveling, I couldn't get a place for free wireless that lasted long enough for a 100 MB update needed to get the phone to work locally. I ended up having to download a download manager, and split up the download over multiple days, with the download manager resuming from previously suspended points in the download process.
That's the "poor" experience. You get services, they just aren't usable, and designed to repel you.
What's the ratio of hammer sales to table saws, 0/0... is 0 the right answer? Infinity? 10?
The answer to all non-mathematicians is 0. The sales are all zero, so the answers are all zero.
If I want to know the ratio of black pixels to white pixels for a set of images, and I get an all black image, is 0 the right answer? No, 0 is the wrongest answer.
Ratio? x:y is a ratio. 1:0 is the correct ratio, and requires no divide by zero. You just present it in a more accurate manner.
I think if you don't want to check by div 0, and div 0 is a possibility, you are asking the wrong question.
What if you don't mind checking for div by zero, but that the answers are useful in some (or all) cases of div by zero, and you don't want to halt or refuse to let the user put in an all black image.
Usability allows for div by zero, then gives a useful (even if not mathematically correct) answer.
This isn't about "easy". This is about error handling. What do you do when the answer is 7/0? Crash the program? Set the answer to some number? Why crash the program when we could come up with a meaningful answer?
Aww, I was hoping for "I don't know" followed by "could you repeat the question"
Mathematicians don't know which rule has precedence for 0/0,
So all those times I worked out x/y where x and y both equal zero, for "as x approaches zero" weren't math. Funny, I think they were in my Differential Equations class.
0/0 is undefined, but f(y)/f(x) where f(x)=0 isn't necessarily undefined.
If it's got the ability to hit lunar escape velocity, and has any ability to aim, it can hit Earth. If it isn't aimable, it's not going to be in the exact right orientation.
Something with a high launch velocity and weaker maneuvering thrusters wouldn't be able to hit the Earth, but could hit any other object in the Solar System. Like the "aimable bullets" people are coming out with will let you hit something that's in your field of fire, but not outside it. It would be impossible to hit yourself with one. So use something similar fired from the moon (pointed away from the Earth).
Though yes, you should be able to hit the Earth firing around the Sun or other gravity well as a slingshot. But the idea is to make it impossible for a direct, well aimed shot at the Earth from the moon.
Please define the word "fugitive". References preferred. Snowden did flee prosecution, but didn't "escape", and isn't in "hiding". So he doesn't meet the definition of "fugitive" from any definition I found.
"profit" is everything left over after every expense. When you make $100,000 and spend $55k a year on housing, and another $30k on basic necessities, you have about $15k in disposable income. You can buy some toys, part of a car, or save for a kids school. 1% of that $15k is $150. The AT&T fine is about the same as $150 on someone who makes $100,000 a year.
The problem is that you think corporate profits are the same as personal gross income. Either compare profits of both, or gross income of both.