But if your understanding of infinity is correct, I can never hit the submit button, and you'll never read this. In order for me to scroll down to submit button, I have to move my mouse a distance we can call X. But before I can move it X, I have to travel half of X. But before I can travel through half of X, I have to travel through half of half of X, and so on through an infinite number of distances. But an infinite number of distances cannot be covered in a finite amount of time, so the submit button never gets hit.
Of course, unless my boss walked in on me, I did in fact manage to move the mouse the distance needed to hit submit. For more objections to this view of infinity, see here.
As for nothing coming of nothing, perhaps nothing isn't very stable. More importantly, I think in this context nothing means specifically no space/time/matter/energy. What that leaves is the big question mark, but from a physics point of view it's as close to nothing as anything.
Right now, every computer Dell makes has a hard drive in it with Windows installed
This is 100% verifiably false. Currently, Dell is offering the Precision Workstation 690 with Red Hat WS v4. The base model is 59 dollars cheaper than an identical base model with Windows XPSP2. As for keeping track of which computers have Windows on them and which don't, surely this is easier than keeping track of which computers have had a Windows refund issued? (Here's an idea... just don't put the Windows OEM sticker on the computers that don't have Windows installed.)
Whenever I am pricing a Dell system, I will go in through the various choices of Home, Small Business, Large Business, etc. They run different specials under each system and don't ask for proof that you are a large or small business to let you order from those categories. Every now and then, under one category but not the others, they offer one of their lower end desktop systems (which generally aren't available installed with Red Hat) with FreeDos as an option for the OS, for a savings of about 60US$ less than with XP Home. It's pretty clear Dell sets the retail value of OEM Windows at around 60 dollars.
Well, it is true that gun owners concentrate regionally the same way that life jacket owners concentrate near water. But, if I am near water, I am statistically less likely to drown if I own a life jacket than if I don't. Same logic applies with the epipen. For guns, the relevant statistic you want would be: Within areas with high gun ownership, are gun owners less likely to be shot than non-gun owners?
95th percentile in the US would be 15 million people, right? If you enter the same figure into the Global Rich list, it says there are 20 million people worldwide who earn that much. Not that large a discrepancy. Very few people outside the US are in that income range. Especially when you consider that they are calculating from a percentage (ie, 150K is in the top 0.33%, 0.33% of 6billion is the 20million figure). So the numbers (for anything under 200K anyway) probably aren't exact, but certainly the right order of magnitude, and I'd bet not off by much more than 10%.
This is also why anything over 200K generates the same result... they don't go past 0.01%.
Also, I'm having trouble finding personal income stats on census.gov. I see mostly household income numbers, and most US households have 2 income earners. Can you link to the stat you cited?
But that's exactly one of the problems with the current system. Current so-called copyright laws do more to protect the corporate distribution systems than the content creators. If you own any CDs or other physical media, go read the label and see who owns the copyright. It's not the content creator.
If the current system is useless, what is lost by throwing it away?
I recently completed an conversion from Novell's GroupWise (6.0, released in what, 2000?) to Exchange (2003 SP1) for our small network (300 clients). Granted, we don't use all the features of Exchange, nor do we have very many power users, but we lost far more features than we gained, and there are several features which worked smoothly and easily in GroupWise which are clunky or just don't work or don't exist in Exchange/Outlook. Also, the GroupWise server was rebooted about 5 times in as many years, while the Exchange server is rebooted pretty much weekly.
Most of the users love it though, because it looks purtier.
I'm not aware of any content that is available in this format only. Please enlighten. It must be a real niche item to be available as wmv but not DVD or some other format.
There's one little problem with that analogy. If you didn't ride the railroad baron's trains, chances were there literally was no other choice. Can you name one single piece of software that Microsoft sells for which there is no other alternative? Excepting Access (and possibly Excel for certain uses which I am thankfully unfamiliar with), I can't even think of a Microsoft offering that is better than the alternatives. (Note that this does not change the fact that they are a defacto monopoly in many markets.)
Squirrels can remember 10,000 places they've hidden nuts (they can find them again by memory, not by smell or some other means). If a person can remember 100, does that make them 10% as smart as a squirrel? The point is that there is no such thing as generic intelligence. Intelligence is as diverse among different species as other traits. A lobster claw is much better at opening a clam shell than a bare human hand, but it's pretty useless at screwing the toothpaste cap back on.
Or, to add a bad car analogy: Saying that a dog is smarter than a dolphin makes about as much sense as saying that a dual core processor is faster than a Porsche.
Often, the desired result of the smear tactic is to convince people not to vote. The parties know that the party faithful will show up at the polls and vote for them, and they have a pretty good idea of what percentage they are on either side. If they can just get all the independent voters to stay home, all they need is for their faithful voters to outnumber the other sides faithful by one voter.
easy it is to find pr0n online. I've heard this is a growing concern. That's an interesting choice for a link to stats regarding online pr0n. I especially like the second from the last:
43% of American women suffer from Female Sexual Dysfunction - 57% are ready to party at the drop of a hat
It's not just you. I was pretty much disappointed with both of the novels by him that I've read (American Gods, Neverwhere). I'm not sure if this is because Sandman is actually that much deeper and more satisfying than those novels, or if it's because there are a lot more great novels to choose from than there are great graphic novels and comics. Personally, I think it is more the former.
Which service pack added this easy to use wizard to regedit?
(You can click through the control panel applet to change the notification settings for Security Center items, such as virus protection. But AFIK there is no gui interface for turning off all the damn annoying dialog balloons, such as new network notification, new program installed, etc., etc., etc.)
This is a completely false dichotomy, especially given the way district line are redrawn to help maintain incumbent advantage. (The incumbancy reelection rate is something like 98% these days.) In many elections, the result is foregone conclusion. In those instances, I would actively encourage people to vote for whatever third party candidate they choose as a protest, even if there is no third party candidate they actually like. If it's a close race, then sure, go ahead and throw your vote away on the republicrat who is the lesser of two evils.
On the ballot I will cast this November, the Senate race is no contest, Hillary will win in a landslide. I will find a third party candidate to vote for. The congressional race in my district is actually quite close, so I will be choosing one of the major party candidates (hint: it's not the pro-Iraq war pro-wiretapping incumbent).
That's kind of ignoring the fact that if they hadn't made their projects open source, the COMMUNITY wouldn't have had any free software to contribute to.
To add another anecdote, I have a very old laptop with somewhat short battery life under the best of circumstances. It dual boots Win98 and DSL. Under Windows, doing light web surfing and such, the battery will last under an hour. Under DSL, doing the same sort of tasks, the battery life is generally around an hour and a half.
I actually worded it that way to intentionally try not to imply cause, rather a description of the end result. Conjunction does not imply cause, so the question remains open.
Besides, the difference between the two phrasings is a difference of the mechanism at work, not of root cause. Either way, there is something fubared about a system that ends with this result.
The 1% sociopoath theory presented above doesn't work either. In the case of the unintended bagel experiment, the discrepancy was too large to be accounted for, even if one were to consider that all the sociopaths working at the company in question had made it to upper management.
There is a story in the book "Freakonomics" that may be informative to this point.
A man ran a bagel delivery service, wherein he would deliver bagels, cream cheese, butter, etc. to customers each morning. Payments were on the honor system, and a box was placed next to the bagels for this purpose. On average, people shorted him by a small percentage, but not enough that the system didn't work.
One business that used this service was a bit unusual. It was a three story building, with the top management on the top floor, middle management and such on the second, and regular working stiffs on the first. Seperate bagel drop offs were made to each floor. Without fail, the third floor's payments were always short by the largest percentage.
There is something inherently wrong with the system when those who rise to the top are more likely to be dishonest than the general population.
Shadow copy actually shipped with Windows 2003 at launch. You have to install the shadow copy client on your XP machines to add the previous versions tab, which I'm sure is the same with R2.
Incidentally, a similar capability was available in NetWare at least as far back as 4.11 (which is what, 10 years ago?). Windows Shadow Copy doesn't create restore files as efficiently as NetWare did (Windows Shadow copy runs as a scheduled task, Netware's salvage created restorable copies whenever a file was changed or deleted), but it does handle restoring whole directories, which NetWare, at least last time I used it, could not do.
Already done, with at least one spinoff. These are based off of XP or 2003, but I'm sure someone is at work on a Vista version. Also, hardware detection sucks compared to Linux live CDs.
Losing an existing trait does not require there to be an advantage to losing it. All that is required is that having the trait no longer provides an advantage.
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It's not like your computer is going to become unusable because Word crashed.
Except, tfa states that that is exactly what does happen. Though there still ought to be a name for it other than DoS.
In order for me to scroll down to submit button, I have to move my mouse a distance we can call X. But before I can move it X, I have to travel half of X. But before I can travel through half of X, I have to travel through half of half of X, and so on through an infinite number of distances. But an infinite number of distances cannot be covered in a finite amount of time, so the submit button never gets hit.
Of course, unless my boss walked in on me, I did in fact manage to move the mouse the distance needed to hit submit. For more objections to this view of infinity, see here.
As for nothing coming of nothing, perhaps nothing isn't very stable. More importantly, I think in this context nothing means specifically no space/time/matter/energy. What that leaves is the big question mark, but from a physics point of view it's as close to nothing as anything.
Or that the universe you are currently sitting in could be the result of the 64735th roll of the dice.
This is 100% verifiably false. Currently, Dell is offering the Precision Workstation 690 with Red Hat WS v4. The base model is 59 dollars cheaper than an identical base model with Windows XPSP2. As for keeping track of which computers have Windows on them and which don't, surely this is easier than keeping track of which computers have had a Windows refund issued? (Here's an idea... just don't put the Windows OEM sticker on the computers that don't have Windows installed.)
Whenever I am pricing a Dell system, I will go in through the various choices of Home, Small Business, Large Business, etc. They run different specials under each system and don't ask for proof that you are a large or small business to let you order from those categories. Every now and then, under one category but not the others, they offer one of their lower end desktop systems (which generally aren't available installed with Red Hat) with FreeDos as an option for the OS, for a savings of about 60US$ less than with XP Home. It's pretty clear Dell sets the retail value of OEM Windows at around 60 dollars.
Well, it is true that gun owners concentrate regionally the same way that life jacket owners concentrate near water. But, if I am near water, I am statistically less likely to drown if I own a life jacket than if I don't. Same logic applies with the epipen. For guns, the relevant statistic you want would be: Within areas with high gun ownership, are gun owners less likely to be shot than non-gun owners?
This is also why anything over 200K generates the same result... they don't go past 0.01%.
Also, I'm having trouble finding personal income stats on census.gov. I see mostly household income numbers, and most US households have 2 income earners. Can you link to the stat you cited?
But that's exactly one of the problems with the current system. Current so-called copyright laws do more to protect the corporate distribution systems than the content creators. If you own any CDs or other physical media, go read the label and see who owns the copyright. It's not the content creator. If the current system is useless, what is lost by throwing it away?
Most of the users love it though, because it looks purtier.
I'm not aware of any content that is available in this format only. Please enlighten. It must be a real niche item to be available as wmv but not DVD or some other format.
There's one little problem with that analogy. If you didn't ride the railroad baron's trains, chances were there literally was no other choice. Can you name one single piece of software that Microsoft sells for which there is no other alternative? Excepting Access (and possibly Excel for certain uses which I am thankfully unfamiliar with), I can't even think of a Microsoft offering that is better than the alternatives. (Note that this does not change the fact that they are a defacto monopoly in many markets.)
Or, to add a bad car analogy: Saying that a dog is smarter than a dolphin makes about as much sense as saying that a dual core processor is faster than a Porsche.
Often, the desired result of the smear tactic is to convince people not to vote. The parties know that the party faithful will show up at the polls and vote for them, and they have a pretty good idea of what percentage they are on either side. If they can just get all the independent voters to stay home, all they need is for their faithful voters to outnumber the other sides faithful by one voter.
I think you mean aesthetics. An ascetic wouldn't care what color the tubes were.
- 43% of American women suffer from Female Sexual Dysfunction - 57% are ready to party at the drop of a hat
Huh?!?It's not just you. I was pretty much disappointed with both of the novels by him that I've read (American Gods, Neverwhere). I'm not sure if this is because Sandman is actually that much deeper and more satisfying than those novels, or if it's because there are a lot more great novels to choose from than there are great graphic novels and comics. Personally, I think it is more the former.
(You can click through the control panel applet to change the notification settings for Security Center items, such as virus protection. But AFIK there is no gui interface for turning off all the damn annoying dialog balloons, such as new network notification, new program installed, etc., etc., etc.)
On the ballot I will cast this November, the Senate race is no contest, Hillary will win in a landslide. I will find a third party candidate to vote for. The congressional race in my district is actually quite close, so I will be choosing one of the major party candidates (hint: it's not the pro-Iraq war pro-wiretapping incumbent).
That's kind of ignoring the fact that if they hadn't made their projects open source, the COMMUNITY wouldn't have had any free software to contribute to.
To add another anecdote, I have a very old laptop with somewhat short battery life under the best of circumstances. It dual boots Win98 and DSL. Under Windows, doing light web surfing and such, the battery will last under an hour. Under DSL, doing the same sort of tasks, the battery life is generally around an hour and a half.
Well, if you must have libertarianism, then Agorism is a better fit for the slashdot/open source ideology.
Besides, the difference between the two phrasings is a difference of the mechanism at work, not of root cause. Either way, there is something fubared about a system that ends with this result.
The 1% sociopoath theory presented above doesn't work either. In the case of the unintended bagel experiment, the discrepancy was too large to be accounted for, even if one were to consider that all the sociopaths working at the company in question had made it to upper management.
A man ran a bagel delivery service, wherein he would deliver bagels, cream cheese, butter, etc. to customers each morning. Payments were on the honor system, and a box was placed next to the bagels for this purpose. On average, people shorted him by a small percentage, but not enough that the system didn't work.
One business that used this service was a bit unusual. It was a three story building, with the top management on the top floor, middle management and such on the second, and regular working stiffs on the first. Seperate bagel drop offs were made to each floor. Without fail, the third floor's payments were always short by the largest percentage.
There is something inherently wrong with the system when those who rise to the top are more likely to be dishonest than the general population.
Incidentally, a similar capability was available in NetWare at least as far back as 4.11 (which is what, 10 years ago?). Windows Shadow Copy doesn't create restore files as efficiently as NetWare did (Windows Shadow copy runs as a scheduled task, Netware's salvage created restorable copies whenever a file was changed or deleted), but it does handle restoring whole directories, which NetWare, at least last time I used it, could not do.
Already done, with at least one spinoff. These are based off of XP or 2003, but I'm sure someone is at work on a Vista version. Also, hardware detection sucks compared to Linux live CDs.
Losing an existing trait does not require there to be an advantage to losing it. All that is required is that having the trait no longer provides an advantage.