You take (sales in 1999) - (sales in 2010) = $8B, the loss in sales for one year, and compare it to $58B, which is over an unspecified time period. This comparison does not make sense. Maybe it's more clear in the video, but I didn't watch it, because I can't skim it.
I'm no fan of the recording industry, but come on, don't be disingenuous about this.
Ok, so there are several "isomers" of silica? Don't they all have different properties? What's the problem with distinguishing between them? I don't see how making this distinction is very different than making the distinction between diamond and graphene.
You missed the "there is some number N" and "sufficiently large complete graph" - the implication is that, for a long enough musical piece, some repetition can be found. But you need to figure out the appropriate value of N for a given class of musical compositions, before you can claim that a particular piece can not be pattern free.
I think we need new English words to represent these concepts more concisely: an adjective for "not authorized to speak publicly on the matter", and a verb for "confirmed under condition of anonymity".
I don't know what people do with their keyboards that causes such trouble. I bought a $12 rosewill keyboard 4 years ago and it still works perfectly. Generally, I understand the desire for well-built devices, but personally I just don't need that in a keyboard - it sits on my solid wood desk 100% of the time. If I DO need a really solid keyboard, I'll buy a slim aluminum Apple keyboard for $50, and it will last the rest of my life.
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I suppose it's closer to infinite than, say, the color green is.
You take (sales in 1999) - (sales in 2010) = $8B, the loss in sales for one year, and compare it to $58B, which is over an unspecified time period. This comparison does not make sense. Maybe it's more clear in the video, but I didn't watch it, because I can't skim it.
I'm no fan of the recording industry, but come on, don't be disingenuous about this.
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Ok, so there are several "isomers" of silica? Don't they all have different properties? What's the problem with distinguishing between them? I don't see how making this distinction is very different than making the distinction between diamond and graphene.
Quartz has a regular crystal structure, glass doesn't.
Can't you put a hood on a laser so that it would only be visible within a vary narrow angular range? You can't really do that with a muzzle flash.
Every two years, when I buy a new one?
That sounds unusable.
You missed the "there is some number N" and "sufficiently large complete graph" - the implication is that, for a long enough musical piece, some repetition can be found. But you need to figure out the appropriate value of N for a given class of musical compositions, before you can claim that a particular piece can not be pattern free.
That doesn't really make any sense at all.
I know what quaternions are. What does that have to do with arbitrarily assigning rigid ordinal labels to degrees of freedom that we can experience?
I don't think voxels contain perspective information.
There is no "the" 4th dimension. A dimension is a degree of freedom. Time can be described as "a" dimension.
A dimension is nothing more than a degree of freedom. There is no "the" 4th dimension. Space and time together consist of 4 degrees of freedom.
Why not?
So you get bank and credit card papers in the mail instead? Is that more secure?
Well, it's still a lifetime supply, in the same way that 0 condoms is a lifetime supply, which it is for some people...
Why would a static magnetic field interfere with the electrical signal?
Why is it 50 million miles away? If it's at a Lagrange point, at 60 degrees offset, shouldn't it be 93 million miles away?
Does anyone actually think this is funny?
Why stop there? Why not extend it to other platonic solid puzzles? Archimedean solid puzzles? Don't forget the square one.
Have you ever met someone who plays wow? I had a friend who definitely played much more than 6 hours a day while he was unemployed.
I think we need new English words to represent these concepts more concisely: an adjective for "not authorized to speak publicly on the matter", and a verb for "confirmed under condition of anonymity".
I agree, and frankly it surprises me to see that others who are picky about keyboard don't share this preference.
I don't know what people do with their keyboards that causes such trouble. I bought a $12 rosewill keyboard 4 years ago and it still works perfectly. Generally, I understand the desire for well-built devices, but personally I just don't need that in a keyboard - it sits on my solid wood desk 100% of the time. If I DO need a really solid keyboard, I'll buy a slim aluminum Apple keyboard for $50, and it will last the rest of my life.