Well, Ancient Greek is certainly known for compound words, in a style that would allow them a lot of very long words. However, English inherits many such words from German, Latin, and Ancient Greek itself. I can't imagine a valid way to compare, but my gut tells me we dwarf them on that count too.
If I remember correctly, there were about 20,000 words in the ancient Greek language. There are over 300,000 and counting in English. I think it's safe to say we're practically cheating. The problem was probably impossible in their time, but not in ours.
Er, no. From just the summary, this sounds more like a hybrid using internal combustion -> electricity -> electrolysis -> hydrogen -> energy than anything like what you described. As I didn't RTFA myself, I can't complain there-- but at least RTFSummary. kkthxbye.
As a human being, you are using a flawed definition of "a lot" of energy. The earth could not possibly notice the amount of energy borrowed from the system in this way. It's as silly as the theories that using tidal energy would pull the moon out of orbit.
The data may be around forever. However, there are (and have always been) two major caveats to this...
1.) The media may not last forever, so you are responsible for backups.
2.) The format the data is in may not work with your next device, so you are responsible for transfers.
I will say, though, that the silly steps we have to go through to do such transfers with DRMed files is unreasonable. We'd all prefer our files weren't locked. You know what they say about wishes and horses, though.
Like any other "format war" you just have to do your best to guess who the winner will be... or suffer through manual transfers later. It isn't really a big deal, and certainly not unique to digital audio.
You may be missing that the relevant thing here (to the people conducting and using the study) is whether Apple will be able to increase sales by adding to their userbase.
That is why I said that we aren't the right people to trust anecdotes from. With a geek, you have a situation where a new computer is used as part of a pool by an individual. In every situation you are describing in your counterexamples, a new "seat" (in licensing/marketing terms) has been added.
You just described a family, not a single person. Which generally means someone switched and someone got a hand-me-down, or someone got their first computer.
You're not the right person to trust anecdotal evidence from, in this case. None of us here on Slashdot are. The average user doesn't have an arsenal of machines, he has one. So, from a macro-sales point of view, each Windows user who buys a Mac is switching. (Even if 100% of them aren't actually doing so.)
I stand corrected. It looks like this wasn't a mistake, just an unclear wording. It probably makes more sense to people closer to the subject than I am.
Neither is Apple. What the heck are you talking about?
Do you mean the $150 million dollar investment on non-voting shares of Apple that Microsoft made in 1997, and sold off years ago? The one that they made as a settlement for a variety of patent lawsuits that Apple had against them?
This is a pretty naive conclusion. The reason a person will say they did something for, when asked, may be different from what really caused them to do it. Of course someone who believes in the Linux cause will say that they came over on the merits of the operating system. The real causes may have been much more political or emotional. Asking someone why they did something can only tell you what they want you (and maybe themself) to think.
The only way to legally burn a CD from your digital music in Australia is the iTunes store. Because when you buy a song from iTunes, you get a license from the label via Apple to do certain things with the music. Fair use isn't necessary if you have a license from the owner.
Bathing an area in high levels of IR would require a metric butt ton of energy, most of it showing up in the form of heat. You'd basically have to turn the area into a toaster oven.
So what this actually means is that women are intelligent in different ways, and we men happen to do better on tests that we probably designed. Shock and dismay!
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Well, Ancient Greek is certainly known for compound words, in a style that would allow them a lot of very long words. However, English inherits many such words from German, Latin, and Ancient Greek itself. I can't imagine a valid way to compare, but my gut tells me we dwarf them on that count too.
Honestly, my only sources are vague memories from Greek classes in college about seven years ago.
If I remember correctly, there were about 20,000 words in the ancient Greek language. There are over 300,000 and counting in English. I think it's safe to say we're practically cheating. The problem was probably impossible in their time, but not in ours.
Er, no. From just the summary, this sounds more like a hybrid using internal combustion -> electricity -> electrolysis -> hydrogen -> energy than anything like what you described. As I didn't RTFA myself, I can't complain there-- but at least RTFSummary. kkthxbye.
As a human being, you are using a flawed definition of "a lot" of energy. The earth could not possibly notice the amount of energy borrowed from the system in this way. It's as silly as the theories that using tidal energy would pull the moon out of orbit.
1.) The media may not last forever, so you are responsible for backups.
2.) The format the data is in may not work with your next device, so you are responsible for transfers.
I will say, though, that the silly steps we have to go through to do such transfers with DRMed files is unreasonable. We'd all prefer our files weren't locked. You know what they say about wishes and horses, though.
Like any other "format war" you just have to do your best to guess who the winner will be... or suffer through manual transfers later. It isn't really a big deal, and certainly not unique to digital audio.
We all know why. They are trying to engineer a "shortage" to pump up demand for the product. It's a marketing manoevre.
Didn't think of that, did you?
You may be missing that the relevant thing here (to the people conducting and using the study) is whether Apple will be able to increase sales by adding to their userbase.
That is why I said that we aren't the right people to trust anecdotes from. With a geek, you have a situation where a new computer is used as part of a pool by an individual. In every situation you are describing in your counterexamples, a new "seat" (in licensing/marketing terms) has been added.
I heard the new Nikes are Snappier(TM).
You just described a family, not a single person. Which generally means someone switched and someone got a hand-me-down, or someone got their first computer.
"Apple: Going out of business since 1984"
You're not the right person to trust anecdotal evidence from, in this case. None of us here on Slashdot are. The average user doesn't have an arsenal of machines, he has one. So, from a macro-sales point of view, each Windows user who buys a Mac is switching. (Even if 100% of them aren't actually doing so.)
I stand corrected. It looks like this wasn't a mistake, just an unclear wording. It probably makes more sense to people closer to the subject than I am.
Open Source is Not a Platform.
Open Source is Not a Platform.
Open Source is Not a Platform.
Do you mean the $150 million dollar investment on non-voting shares of Apple that Microsoft made in 1997, and sold off years ago? The one that they made as a settlement for a variety of patent lawsuits that Apple had against them?
Because, really, I don't think that's relevant.
Indeed, it usually means what he wants it to mean. It's not his fault that someone confused a form of "pry" with "prize".
Congratulations. You just made what may be the first accidental goatse.cx reference.
This is a pretty naive conclusion. The reason a person will say they did something for, when asked, may be different from what really caused them to do it. Of course someone who believes in the Linux cause will say that they came over on the merits of the operating system. The real causes may have been much more political or emotional. Asking someone why they did something can only tell you what they want you (and maybe themself) to think.
You are deeply, deeply missing the point.
The only way to legally burn a CD from your digital music in Australia is the iTunes store. Because when you buy a song from iTunes, you get a license from the label via Apple to do certain things with the music. Fair use isn't necessary if you have a license from the owner.
Bathing an area in high levels of IR would require a metric butt ton of energy, most of it showing up in the form of heat. You'd basically have to turn the area into a toaster oven.
*See the above sentence for use of clauses.
I believe a coveted No Prize would be more traditional than an "At-a-boy".
So what this actually means is that women are intelligent in different ways, and we men happen to do better on tests that we probably designed. Shock and dismay!