That's why I assume that 2 + 2 = 3 half the time, and the rest of the time it's 5. Seriously, spare us the homespun Zen-lite woowoo philosophy.
"Yes, you can call it that. Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious. "
One, he's only religious by his rather non-standard definition of the word. Two, it's an argument from authority, which is a fallacy.
The first set was clearly marked as a beta. We told that to marketing, but did they listen? No, we need to ship it now they said, or the Zoroastrians will beat us to market just like the Jews did. But we do admit it took us too long to get the service pack out.
However, what they really mean is that they don't want a "poorly designed all-in-one device".
The problem is that when you try to shoehorn too many functions (or perhaps certain combinations of functions) into one device, the design's odds on to be either bad or terrible.
At least in my experiance when poeople text they don't bother about spelling right or using punctuation or full forms of words. They abbriviate as much as possible.
Buttons have been proliferating like mad on "smart phones for years, and it's not helping them sell to the broader market. Why? Well, the devices intimidate some users.
And those Iran-supplied weapons you speak of? How do they compare to US-supplied frag bombs dropped by US-supplied F-16s? Do they have US-supplied GPS targetting? Do they have US-supplied laser guidance systems?
You seem to consider having military strength as a bad thing. Are you French, by any chance?
1) Hezbollah fired a bunch of low tech rockets at Israel.
2) Israel responded by dropping thousands of 1-ton bombs
Given that anyone with an IQ above his shoe size could work out that 2) was a fairly likely response, why did Hezbollah start it in the first place? Are they completely stupid, or do they care about the ordinary Lebanese people even less than the Israelis do?
Now you're discriminating against autistic savants [...] See you in court.
That's assuming you actually turn up, and don't get distracted on the way counting how many bricks there are in the town hall or something. Which is what that kind of 'tards do, apparently.
I almost put something along the lines of "code never needs an oil change". I didn't because I thought it was over pedantic and stating the obvious. Sigh.
My car works now, but it needs gas and oil ocassionally [...] air and fuel filters [...] Granted, code does not break down.
But it would seem that analogies, if pushed too far, do.
Sometimes a new feature needs to be added.
If something needs to be added, then logically it doesn't work without it. Whether or not it worked for the situation at some time in the past is competely irrelevant.
"Your not paying 2,799.00 for the hard drive" OK, maybe it's a typo.
"your paying it for the bigger screen" Hmm. Seems not.
"failed your case since that runs just about right to all of the other 17 laptop manufacturers" Not an idiomatic expression. Several decidely unidiomatic ones, in fact.
"you would STILL have a smaller HD to the MPB" Smaller than.
"I ended up paying less than 2000 with the educator discount." Please tell me you got that through someone else. Please.
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Indeed, imagine if that crapped on your car.
What you're aying is totally correct. Nonetheless, the headline was clumsily worded and confusing.
KSorrys,
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Is the water treated with chlorine? That's pretty corrosive.
Hydrogen peroxide? You want to put an oxidising agent in contact with steel & copper? Red and green sure look pretty.
What's Latin for WHOOOOSH?
1) Hezbollah fired a bunch of low tech rockets at Israel.
2) Israel responded by dropping thousands of 1-ton bombs
Given that anyone with an IQ above his shoe size could work out that 2) was a fairly likely response, why did Hezbollah start it in the first place? Are they completely stupid, or do they care about the ordinary Lebanese people even less than the Israelis do?
Difficult to believe but no, IANAL.
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I think it lost something in the translation from Klingon.
Have you called tech support recently?
"Your not paying 2,799.00 for the hard drive"
OK, maybe it's a typo.
"your paying it for the bigger screen"
Hmm. Seems not.
"failed your case since that runs just about right to all of the other 17 laptop manufacturers"
Not an idiomatic expression. Several decidely unidiomatic ones, in fact.
"you would STILL have a smaller HD to the MPB"
Smaller than.
"I ended up paying less than 2000 with the educator discount."
Please tell me you got that through someone else. Please.
In [certain parts of] Soviet Russia, eyes mutate before animals!!!!!
Presumably you left before the bit where they teach what anecdotal evidence and statistical significance are?