I realize that my explanation was deficient to the point of incorrectness. I was trying to provide a heuristic explanation that would help provide some understanding of the uniqueness clause to those who might not be familiar with it. I assumed that those who were not already familiar with it would not be interested in or not able to understand a more formal, comprehensive, correct explanation.
When you get into complex, non-integer values, most people who do not already understand the concept would not gain any understanding.
I must agree. I remember when GMail first came out, not particularly wanting it since I was not a big fan of webmail. Then I remembered that it was not webmail I didn't like: it was crappy webmail UI! Google does things right, and I appreciate it.
I wouldn't want to run their Web UI if I dealt with massive ammounts of email, I don't think, though.,
That property is also just a factor of the definition:
For a simplified case, consider a set that contains more than one unique factoring. In that case, at least one of the factorings must have been split up into factors and applied different places, and therefore was not prime.
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Worth knowing, yes. It does, however, stem directly from what primacy means.
Basic logic:
for some number, it is either prime or a product of two numbers
those numbers are either prime or a product of numbers
those numbers are either prime or a product of numbers...
and so on. Until all the numbers being multiplied are prime, they can always be factored into numbers that can be factored further (which meet the same criteria) or are prime.
Since primes are integers that cannot be factored, they are clearly going to be the ones left.
Yes, for all those products Best Buy allows returnes of without the UPC...
I mean, really, I have a hard time believing that is a real problem. And reselling on eBay? I'm sorry Best Buy, you occasionally have okay deals, but you are flattering yourself if you think I could ever pull that.
They'll probably use Pre-N...
when it gets any market share whatsoever.
I mean, really, no one is using it yet, Intel isn't going to attempt to set trends in a market they aren't even that interested in. Wireless-G currently dominates, that is bound to be what they use.
I do not know that we can make that comparison. I only have the most basic understanding of switching power supplies (and not the most impressive understanding of other types of power supplies), but it seems like it would be a much simpler product than a hard drive. My hard drives all have upwards of hundreds of billions of important factors. A switching power supply probably has around 1000. It's much simpler technology. There is less to go wrong.
I think we should start looking to get the luxury of non-moving storage drives. I have helped build a computer that uses a compact flash card as a system drive. This particular one did have a fan, but I plan on helping someone construct a computer with no moving parts whatsoever in the near future. I hope solid state storage technology is persued more zealously and that bigger storage amounts for less money will be a reality is the imaginable future.
And why does your PSU need a fan? I've seen up to 480W passively cooled... (granted, I'm not going to pay for it either, but they are pretty cool.)
These speciality pc's are technicians worst nightmare!
In my experience, this is blatently wrong. The easiest computer I have EVER built (well, assembled) was my current Shuttle Barebones I bought a while back. Especially when compared to anything prefab, but even to other mid and full towers I have built in my day.
In the rest of the world a corporation is a distinct legal entity and thus is not treated as a single entity. A corporation is composed of many people, hence it is a collective noun.
This doesn't work. My family are leaving now? The group think so?
A lot of us here are going to be just that way. We love tinkering with them, learning about them, helping others with them. Who says they have to appeal to that crowd?
Plenty of people I know bought one and it just kind of sits there, even maybe getting used reasonably often, until they have a good reason to replace it. They don't see computers as a great tool, fun to mess with, but as this thing they have to deal with. They want an interactive TV... they don't care about power, they don't care about upgradability, they want something stable that can surf the web and write documents. A Geode machine is apt to be quiet and small, just what that crowd would like. Hardware controlled means it has a chance at being stable. This will reach a previously unreached segment.
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I must have forgotten this was
I typically use this kind of nomenclature when I set up a computer for omeone who doesn't know about computers.
Why would Google do any of those things?
Because I like Winamp, and google has never done anything wrong.
It most common form on earth is probably in water or organic hydrocarbons.
/. needs to allow <sub> codes.
Even if so, H2 is not what is on the table.
was almost proved
Almost? I assure you he has a proof! Damn small ledgers...
I realize that my explanation was deficient to the point of incorrectness. I was trying to provide a heuristic explanation that would help provide some understanding of the uniqueness clause to those who might not be familiar with it. I assumed that those who were not already familiar with it would not be interested in or not able to understand a more formal, comprehensive, correct explanation.
When you get into complex, non-integer values, most people who do not already understand the concept would not gain any understanding.
I must agree. I remember when GMail first came out, not particularly wanting it since I was not a big fan of webmail. Then I remembered that it was not webmail I didn't like: it was crappy webmail UI! Google does things right, and I appreciate it.
I wouldn't want to run their Web UI if I dealt with massive ammounts of email, I don't think, though.,
SPAM! A SPAM! Oooo... It's a SPAM!
That property is also just a factor of the definition: For a simplified case, consider a set that contains more than one unique factoring. In that case, at least one of the factorings must have been split up into factors and applied different places, and therefore was not prime.
Worth knowing, yes. It does, however, stem directly from what primacy means.
Basic logic:
for some number, it is either prime or a product of two numbers
those numbers are either prime or a product of numbers
those numbers are either prime or a product of numbers...
and so on. Until all the numbers being multiplied are prime, they can always be factored into numbers that can be factored further (which meet the same criteria) or are prime.
Since primes are integers that cannot be factored, they are clearly going to be the ones left.
I wrote a program the other day which informed me my phone number was not the sum of two squared primes. My roommate found this somewhat interesting.
That's just a result of the definition of primes.
Yes, for all those products Best Buy allows returnes of without the UPC...
I mean, really, I have a hard time believing that is a real problem. And reselling on eBay? I'm sorry Best Buy, you occasionally have okay deals, but you are flattering yourself if you think I could ever pull that.
The feeling is mutual.
They'll probably use Pre-N... when it gets any market share whatsoever. I mean, really, no one is using it yet, Intel isn't going to attempt to set trends in a market they aren't even that interested in. Wireless-G currently dominates, that is bound to be what they use.
This is new technology that has a good chance of changing a lot, especially in compactness. Most electronics start huge.
I do not know that we can make that comparison. I only have the most basic understanding of switching power supplies (and not the most impressive understanding of other types of power supplies), but it seems like it would be a much simpler product than a hard drive. My hard drives all have upwards of hundreds of billions of important factors. A switching power supply probably has around 1000. It's much simpler technology. There is less to go wrong.
I think we should start looking to get the luxury of non-moving storage drives. I have helped build a computer that uses a compact flash card as a system drive. This particular one did have a fan, but I plan on helping someone construct a computer with no moving parts whatsoever in the near future. I hope solid state storage technology is persued more zealously and that bigger storage amounts for less money will be a reality is the imaginable future.
And why does your PSU need a fan? I've seen up to 480W passively cooled... (granted, I'm not going to pay for it either, but they are pretty cool.)
These speciality pc's are technicians worst nightmare!
In my experience, this is blatently wrong. The easiest computer I have EVER built (well, assembled) was my current Shuttle Barebones I bought a while back. Especially when compared to anything prefab, but even to other mid and full towers I have built in my day.
I think that was a joke. Amazon patented their one-click system.
Slashdot is standards compliant. HTML 3.2 Other than the over 110 deviations on the main page, they are totally compliant.
In the rest of the world a corporation is a distinct legal entity and thus is not treated as a single entity. A corporation is composed of many people, hence it is a collective noun. This doesn't work. My family are leaving now? The group think so?
Why would ports 25 and 80 incoming be blocked? Why would anyone pay for internet service without port 80 incoming?
A lot of us here are going to be just that way. We love tinkering with them, learning about them, helping others with them. Who says they have to appeal to that crowd?
Plenty of people I know bought one and it just kind of sits there, even maybe getting used reasonably often, until they have a good reason to replace it. They don't see computers as a great tool, fun to mess with, but as this thing they have to deal with. They want an interactive TV... they don't care about power, they don't care about upgradability, they want something stable that can surf the web and write documents. A Geode machine is apt to be quiet and small, just what that crowd would like. Hardware controlled means it has a chance at being stable. This will reach a previously unreached segment.
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