Comment Re:Steve and his FUD (Score 1) 514
He said "less than 1 per 100". That's between 0 and 1.
Well, yes - if you are naive enough to believe that he would also have said "less than 1 per 100" if the rate was 0,1%.
He said "less than 1 per 100". That's between 0 and 1.
Well, yes - if you are naive enough to believe that he would also have said "less than 1 per 100" if the rate was 0,1%.
And once again, I should have used preview. Everything after the first paragraph is my text, even though it appears as a second level quote.
The log shows that iP4s drops calls at less than 1% greater rate than the 3GS. And when I'm given hard numbers like that, even from a CEO, I tend to believe them rather than not.
The whole point which you seem to miss, is that you are not given this number by the CEO. You are given another number, carefully spinned to make you think you heard the number you claim to have heard.
Please understand the difference between:
1. One more missed call per 100 calls.
2. 1% more dropped calls.
If the usual rate of dropped calls is 2%, just to take an example, #1 is actually 50 times worse than #2. #1 means that the rate is increased by 1 percentage point to 3%. #2 means that the rate is increased by 0.02 percentage point to 2.02%.
Hm. Apparently, not all chars go well with Slashdot. I posted N/m2 with an uplifted 2 (Alt-253), but the 2 was stripped.
Um, no. Pressure isn't measured in gram
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Pressure is measured in Newton per square meter.
This is almost tragic. So much discussion of the correct unit for pressure, yet nobody seems to realize that the "pressure" described in the article is not a pressure. It is the total force acting on the sail.
So the correct unit is neither pounds, gram nor N/m. It is N.
Is this asshole still a cop who is allowed to drive, or has he been turned into a meter maid?
I assume his drivers license was revoked after he died in the accident.
He never claimed to pay 60% of his total earnings.
Actually he did. He said he was paying 60% tax. Go up the thread a little. If by "60%" he meant "on some of my income, but not all", then he was using the wrong words.
I had read it when I wrote my comment.
I repeat:
He never claimed to pay 60% of his total earnings.
The "of his total earnings" is purely guesswork by you.
He pays 60% of the earnings which are relevant for what was discussed. Everybody who understands the problem being discussed can clearly see that, and there no point in spelling it out.
Clearly, once you hit that income of $59001, you will not be charged 60% in taxes. Your effective tax rate will slowly increase as you earn more and more money, but unless there's another, higher tax rate over 60% you will (by definition) never be taxed at 60%.
Please, this is simple stuff. I don't know how you can fail to understand it.
Once he hits that income of $59001, he will be charged 60% in taxes of of every earning beyond those $59001. He never claimed to pay 60% of his total earnings.
The tax of the last earning is what you need to consider, when you have to decide between these two alternatives:
1. Work one extra day for money and then use the money to hire help for work at your household.
2. Do the work at your household yourself.
The GP is completely right.
In some countries centuries are actually labelled in that fashion.
I live in one of the three countries mentioned in your Wikepedia link. We use the same sequence numbering of centuries as the rest of the world: the 19th century, the 20th century, etc.
If this is what is meant with "ordinal numbering" in the Wikepedia article, then this part of the article is wrong: "In Swedish, Danish and Finnish centuries are typically not named ordinally".
But we ALSO have another informal way of saying it as described in the link, just as the English speaking do.
Well, as a native from one of the countries in that link - our way sometimes bleeds through when doing on-the-top-of-your-head translations. In Sweden the correct description of the years 1900-1999 is "nittonhundratalet" - literally translated as "the nineteenth century".
I know enough Swedish to know that this is a very bad translation.
The word "nittonhundratalet" is better translated into "the nineteen hundred age". Note that this says nothing about nittonhundratalet's position in a sequence of centuries in the same way as "the nineteenth century" does.
He will Tavel 1m/s as he approches 0 but he will never arive at 0, so no he will not reach the end of the bridge
So you actually think you have proven that the rabbit will never overtake the turtle?
He also married one of the world's most awesome women, Anna Kang. On their honeymoon, she let a pair of computers be set up in the hotel room so that he could program when the mood struck him. No woman I know would allow such a thing to happen.
why two?
When you have female company it may actually be possible to have both hands free for using one or more computers.
I like Apple, but let me be the first to say they they do need a team of physics PHDs to work on antenna design...
Apparently, they let a team of PHBs work on a press release instead.
No, ISPs do not record what sites you visit. At least none that I know of (and I work in the industry). Why would they ?
Because they are required to do so?
I don't know about the rest of the EU, but the Danish implementation of the directive requires ISPs to record what sites I visit.
I don't know if this is one of the requirements that are voluntary for the member states to implement, though.
hey, i can see that the docs are bad, and i have NO idea what they should say - should I fix it? would you want me to fix it?
That's how wikis work.
I hope that is not how wikis work. I hope that wiki articles are written by those who actually know something on a subject - not by those in search of knowledge on a subject.
But perhaps this is open source documentation in a nutshell. If we all create what we need ourselves and share it with the world, documentation will be created by those who don't know how the software works - otherwise they would not need the documentation.
IN MY OPINION anyone interested in improving himself should not rule out becoming pure energy. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
