That's not really a very relevant indicator, though. For you, the "electronics package" seemed to consist of only things you found helpful. In, I suspect, a great many cases, the "electronics package" contains a few tremendously useful things, and a handful of fluff things. There's no indication of which particular features purchasers of the "electronics package" actually care about.
I would love to be on your side on this argument. Do you have any references for your claim of "...brilliant drug warriors recently... sending tens of thousands of people away from doctors... and into the arms of heroin dealers"? The implication is that you are referring to a specific incident or government decision, which I would like to know more about.
Since when do you sue the user of a product (in this case, corporations hosting HTTPS-enabled websites) rather than the implementer of the product (whoever wrote the web server's crypto stack)?
If I build an electric shaver that violates Braun's patents and sell it to some people, Braun has grounds to sue me. Do they really have grounds to sue the people to whom I sold my infringing product?
Your answer turned out to be incorrect? Just change the question!
Can't tell if this is part of the sarcasm implied in the first sentence. Changing the question when the answer doesn't work pretty much is what science is.
A good idea in theory, but that "unmodifiable" version will quickly become out-of-date. What happens when the showstopping bug is discovered in that rushed-to-market-we-can-issue-updates snapshot? Revert to the snapshot and then update from the internet? The hole so neatly plugged by having a ROM copy is now reopened by the update process.
I'm inclined to agree with you in part: Both period and frequency are absolute measures and can be used reciprocally. However, "short" and "slow" are comparative, not absolute ("slow" does not mean "time over distance"). "Short" by itself is meaningless. If Bob is "half as short" as Ann, is Bob taller or shorter than Ann? Is Bob half Ann's height? Twice Ann's height? 150% of Ann's height? Without any additional information, it's up to the hearer's interpretation of what "half" of a comparative measure means, and all three absolute conclusions could be considered correct.
It's the same with "young," the misuse of which is gaining popularity when stating age (and really grates on my senses). "I'm 25 years young." No, you aren't. You're 25 years old. "Years old" (the two words together) are an absolute measure of the duration of someone/thing's life. "Years young" just doesn't mean anything at all.
To conclude, you can't have something "100 times less expensive" unless you know what "less expensive" means. If Solution B is a penny less expensive than Solution A, you can say Solution C is 100 times less expensive than A compared to B, and that would mean Solution C is $1 less expensive than A. But without a common reference, it's meaningless. 100 times what?
...is to bloody well leave some children behind. Not everybody has to be good at all the same things, and that's okay! Not everybody needs a formal education to be a productive member of society, especially when it comes at the cost of hampering the ones that are really good at a particular thing.
Shotgun. Your argument is invalid. Otherwise there would be countless deaths from skeet shoots every year. I have personally been at gun ranges and listened to the rain of pellets falling out of the sky onto the roofs of the shooting benches. Nothing life-threatening at all about it.
...about removing the insides from one box and putting them in another box in a much poorer, haphazard, looks-like-a-bomb-to-stupid-people way? Ahmed certainly shouldn't have been arrested for his act, but he sure as heck doesn't deserve any STEM-oriented praise, either.
your question is in the area of: "you claim the sun is bright. show me your sources!!!"
No, his question is in the area of "you claim the sun illuminates this patch of ground better than this 12kW arc lamp. show me your sources!!!" Sure, the sun is bright. So is a 12kW arc lamp. Making the claim that one illuminates an area better than another requires supporting evidence in the form of luminous intensity measurements.
Since you put it another way, I will too:
"Water is wet." Sure, but is water wetter than alcohol? Ferrocene? Sodium laureth sulfate? His claim is that it's the best, which is, as the saying goes, an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence.
Nintendo's virtual console roms for the Wii being MD5 hash matches with well known rom dumps from the internet.
You say that as though you would expect them to differ. Of course they're matches--they're dumps of the same ROMs. Neither pirate nor Nintendo has any reason to twiddle bits in the image.
Citation, please? It astounds me how many/. posters (all of whom it should be considered rational to presume to be absurdly pedantic neckbeards) post arguments and/or quotations without citations. We should all know better. In the mean time, in the absence of a citation, I shall assume you are pulling that IMAX quote directly from your well-exercised excretory region.
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Did you notice why all Apple products connects to Apple Inc.. servers 24/7 ?
Yes, this is how push notifications work and is openly documented here: https://developer.apple.com/li... Relevant section:
Each device establishes an accredited and encrypted IP connection with APNs and receives notifications over this persistent connection.
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What do you have against the mellowtron? It was a fantastic invention in its day!
Do you disagree?
Your banana-hammock might get you a pro boner attorney!
*rimshot*
That's not really a very relevant indicator, though. For you, the "electronics package" seemed to consist of only things you found helpful. In, I suspect, a great many cases, the "electronics package" contains a few tremendously useful things, and a handful of fluff things. There's no indication of which particular features purchasers of the "electronics package" actually care about.
Reverts to Yakra!!
Not to mention his administration is OVER in another year.
I would love to be on your side on this argument. Do you have any references for your claim of "...brilliant drug warriors recently ... sending tens of thousands of people away from doctors ... and into the arms of heroin dealers"? The implication is that you are referring to a specific incident or government decision, which I would like to know more about.
Since when do you sue the user of a product (in this case, corporations hosting HTTPS-enabled websites) rather than the implementer of the product (whoever wrote the web server's crypto stack)?
If I build an electric shaver that violates Braun's patents and sell it to some people, Braun has grounds to sue me. Do they really have grounds to sue the people to whom I sold my infringing product?
"Flamebait?" Sounds like we've got some mods acting on emotion rather than logic. This post (and its parent) is spot-on.
Can't tell if this is part of the sarcasm implied in the first sentence. Changing the question when the answer doesn't work pretty much is what science is.
A good idea in theory, but that "unmodifiable" version will quickly become out-of-date. What happens when the showstopping bug is discovered in that rushed-to-market-we-can-issue-updates snapshot? Revert to the snapshot and then update from the internet? The hole so neatly plugged by having a ROM copy is now reopened by the update process.
Yeah, that was the design. The implementation falls a bit short, as any number of backhoes have proven over the years.
I'm inclined to agree with you in part: Both period and frequency are absolute measures and can be used reciprocally. However, "short" and "slow" are comparative, not absolute ("slow" does not mean "time over distance"). "Short" by itself is meaningless. If Bob is "half as short" as Ann, is Bob taller or shorter than Ann? Is Bob half Ann's height? Twice Ann's height? 150% of Ann's height? Without any additional information, it's up to the hearer's interpretation of what "half" of a comparative measure means, and all three absolute conclusions could be considered correct.
It's the same with "young," the misuse of which is gaining popularity when stating age (and really grates on my senses). "I'm 25 years young." No, you aren't. You're 25 years old. "Years old" (the two words together) are an absolute measure of the duration of someone/thing's life. "Years young" just doesn't mean anything at all.
To conclude, you can't have something "100 times less expensive" unless you know what "less expensive" means. If Solution B is a penny less expensive than Solution A, you can say Solution C is 100 times less expensive than A compared to B, and that would mean Solution C is $1 less expensive than A. But without a common reference, it's meaningless. 100 times what?
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...is to bloody well leave some children behind. Not everybody has to be good at all the same things, and that's okay! Not everybody needs a formal education to be a productive member of society, especially when it comes at the cost of hampering the ones that are really good at a particular thing.
Shotgun. Your argument is invalid. Otherwise there would be countless deaths from skeet shoots every year. I have personally been at gun ranges and listened to the rain of pellets falling out of the sky onto the roofs of the shooting benches. Nothing life-threatening at all about it.
...about removing the insides from one box and putting them in another box in a much poorer, haphazard, looks-like-a-bomb-to-stupid-people way? Ahmed certainly shouldn't have been arrested for his act, but he sure as heck doesn't deserve any STEM-oriented praise, either.
your question is in the area of: "you claim the sun is bright. show me your sources!!!"
No, his question is in the area of "you claim the sun illuminates this patch of ground better than this 12kW arc lamp. show me your sources!!!" Sure, the sun is bright. So is a 12kW arc lamp. Making the claim that one illuminates an area better than another requires supporting evidence in the form of luminous intensity measurements.
Since you put it another way, I will too:
"Water is wet." Sure, but is water wetter than alcohol? Ferrocene? Sodium laureth sulfate? His claim is that it's the best, which is, as the saying goes, an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence.
Nintendo's virtual console roms for the Wii being MD5 hash matches with well known rom dumps from the internet.
You say that as though you would expect them to differ. Of course they're matches--they're dumps of the same ROMs. Neither pirate nor Nintendo has any reason to twiddle bits in the image.
No mod points... Nice work!
For the love of Pete... If you can spell advertisers correctly with one D, why the frack are you putting two Ds in the abbreviation?!
Passing laws does nothing to curtail the actions of those with no intent to follow the law.
You're not fucking ee cummings.
Are you certain? Some people are really into dead poets...
...the lotion on its skin!
Citation, please? It astounds me how many /. posters (all of whom it should be considered rational to presume to be absurdly pedantic neckbeards) post arguments and/or quotations without citations. We should all know better. In the mean time, in the absence of a citation, I shall assume you are pulling that IMAX quote directly from your well-exercised excretory region.