If a merchant refuses to take cards without identification, Visa/MC will terminate their merchant account.
You're right about the rules, but nine times out of ten, large retailers will deny you if you don't show ID, just because the clerks don't know better. Visa is not about to terminate the merchant account of a Macys or Best Buy. (Yes, I've even complained with Visa about it, but I have given up on this one.) They are allowed to check your signature against the card, of course.
I'm in my fifth *year* of graduate school in a first-tier history department. I am not anti-American. None of my good friends in the department are anti-American, and nor are any of my advisors or any of the faculty I've worked closely with.
I can think of a couple of students who would qualify. I can also think of a lot more students and faculty who spend more time than maybe you're comfortable with criticizing things that America has done in the past. Maybe you consider that anti-American. I don't.
I agree that there is a problem in the derivation, but "The original problem (x^x^x^x... = 2) simply has no solution at all" is incorrect. Try the sequence sqrt(2), sqrt(2)^sqrt(2), sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2), etc. The limit of that sequence is the only reasonable definition of sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^... and it is clearly approaching 2.
I agree that the derivation is problematic, but the result is correct.
Let the number of prisoners (n) be 10, let the number of times each prisoner is called be 1, and let the number of times the king can flip the chalice (n) be a billion.
Clearly, in this case, the state of the chalice tells the prisoners absolutely nothing. Therefore I submit that the puzzle is impossible, unless I have misinterpreted something.
No, you have to boot from the install media to install the OS. You might be able to find a way around that, but more importantly, you cannot install it on a pre-FireWire iMac, anyway.
He also said that he could understand how somebody else could like the changes. Give the guy a break; calling him a "big whiner" after an overwhelmingly positive review because he has a few problems is unfair.
Personally, I have no problem with the new Mail widgetz, but I also don't understand why they felt the need to change them.
Vendors are so responsible. That's why online retailers check that your address matches what's on the credit card when they send out an expensive order, etc.
Here in LA, almost every retailer asks for ID when you use a credit card; restaurants are the exception. They don't want to get stuck. In the midwest, where I'm from, I never even got the signature checked, much less ID.
This assumes, of course, that people rationally apply this equation. While no expert, my understanding is that all the sociological research indicates that they do not. Harsher penalties help to a point, but they do little good after about a year of prison time. A year in prison is enough punishment that people won't risk it if they think there is any chance of being caught.
The only effective way to reduce crime, then, is to raise prob_penalty_being_applied. Since that's expensive even when we know how to do it, politicians opt for the ineffective "penalty" part instead.
granted, my knowledge of this springs only from undergrad-level sociology, so who knows...
Maybe because (1) the G4 PowerBooks are very, very good; (2) there is no indication that G5 PowerBooks will come out soon, and some reason to believe it could be 2006; and (3) other than the 1337 'G5' name, there wouldn't actually be a huge advantage to them anyway?
Oh, and of course, (4) if you need a computer to actually get some work done, you buy it when you need it. Not according to guesses about future release schedules.
You get to keep them. They are not encrypted, they are standard mp3s.
The catch? The service is just not authorized by any record companies or artists, and is probably illegal. Not that I care one way or another.
SBC recently started blocking outgoing port 25, at least for me -- but they will unblock it for an individual if you ask them to. You can even do it through a web form, but for some reason it's the "report abuse" web form. That wouldn't have occured to me, and it took 10 minutes with the tech support guy before he finally told me how to do it; for the record, it's at http://help.sbcglobal.net/servabuse.php
iPod does not convert everything to aac. It plays mp3, as well as several lossless formats (aif, wav, apple lossless) without converting anything at all.
It does not play ogg or wma, true. But that does not make it dependent on 1 format.
Actually alchemy had more or less died out by then; people had begun calling themselves chemists a few decades before Newton's writings on the subject. Newton was one of the last holdouts, and even he didn't really *practice* alchemy (he didn't have a large laboratory, as the old alchemists did) as much as he just wrote about it.
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If a merchant refuses to take cards without identification, Visa/MC will terminate their merchant account.
You're right about the rules, but nine times out of ten, large retailers will deny you if you don't show ID, just because the clerks don't know better. Visa is not about to terminate the merchant account of a Macys or Best Buy. (Yes, I've even complained with Visa about it, but I have given up on this one.) They are allowed to check your signature against the card, of course.
Yes. And unless you got modded +3 or higher, most people would never even see your profile!
I can think of a couple of students who would qualify. I can also think of a lot more students and faculty who spend more time than maybe you're comfortable with criticizing things that America has done in the past. Maybe you consider that anti-American. I don't.
I agree that there is a problem in the derivation, but "The original problem (x^x^x^x... = 2) simply has no solution at all" is incorrect. Try the sequence sqrt(2), sqrt(2)^sqrt(2), sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^sqrt(2), etc. The limit of that sequence is the only reasonable definition of sqrt(2)^sqrt(2)^... and it is clearly approaching 2. I agree that the derivation is problematic, but the result is correct.
ummm... do you pay for internet service?
Let the number of prisoners (n) be 10, let the number of times each prisoner is called be 1, and let the number of times the king can flip the chalice (n) be a billion. Clearly, in this case, the state of the chalice tells the prisoners absolutely nothing. Therefore I submit that the puzzle is impossible, unless I have misinterpreted something.
No, you have to boot from the install media to install the OS. You might be able to find a way around that, but more importantly, you cannot install it on a pre-FireWire iMac, anyway.
Personally, I have no problem with the new Mail widgetz, but I also don't understand why they felt the need to change them.
Vendors are so responsible. That's why online retailers check that your address matches what's on the credit card when they send out an expensive order, etc. Here in LA, almost every retailer asks for ID when you use a credit card; restaurants are the exception. They don't want to get stuck. In the midwest, where I'm from, I never even got the signature checked, much less ID.
Not that this is an ideal solution, but if your keyboard has an eject button, you can also hit eject and option-eject for the different drives.
The only effective way to reduce crime, then, is to raise prob_penalty_being_applied. Since that's expensive even when we know how to do it, politicians opt for the ineffective "penalty" part instead.
granted, my knowledge of this springs only from undergrad-level sociology, so who knows...
Maybe because (1) the G4 PowerBooks are very, very good; (2) there is no indication that G5 PowerBooks will come out soon, and some reason to believe it could be 2006; and (3) other than the 1337 'G5' name, there wouldn't actually be a huge advantage to them anyway? Oh, and of course, (4) if you need a computer to actually get some work done, you buy it when you need it. Not according to guesses about future release schedules.
You get to keep them. They are not encrypted, they are standard mp3s. The catch? The service is just not authorized by any record companies or artists, and is probably illegal. Not that I care one way or another.
SBC recently started blocking outgoing port 25, at least for me -- but they will unblock it for an individual if you ask them to. You can even do it through a web form, but for some reason it's the "report abuse" web form. That wouldn't have occured to me, and it took 10 minutes with the tech support guy before he finally told me how to do it; for the record, it's at http://help.sbcglobal.net/servabuse.php
iPod does not convert everything to aac. It plays mp3, as well as several lossless formats (aif, wav, apple lossless) without converting anything at all. It does not play ogg or wma, true. But that does not make it dependent on 1 format.
Sounds like a fair trade to me. Have you played WoW?
Actually alchemy had more or less died out by then; people had begun calling themselves chemists a few decades before Newton's writings on the subject. Newton was one of the last holdouts, and even he didn't really *practice* alchemy (he didn't have a large laboratory, as the old alchemists did) as much as he just wrote about it.