jammaloo
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
An example of this was the PS3, being able to run linux. The US Air Force bought ~1700 PS3s, and built a supercomputer. At launch, the PS3 reportedly lost Sony about $300 per console sold, so that one example alone could have cost a half million dollars.
"All this happened, more or less." - Slaughterhouse-Five
It's actually meant to say if someone provides an exception, e.g. "No parking on Wednesdays", then that proves the existence of another rule, e.g. "Parking is allowed". Since an exception, without a rule, makes no sense.
But, in my experience, people do use it to mean "Oh, this one thing is wrong, but that proves everything else is right", which does not track.
Extinct animals also work, including the dinosaurs!
If we're 6 orders of magnitude off, then we need to double our speed 20 times (2^20 = 1,048,576), which would give us speeds approximately in line with 40 years ago. Unless my understanding is completely off.
If they picked a random day of the week, and there was only one boy, then there is only a 1/7 chance of a boy being born on that day.
If they have one boy, who was born on a Tuesday, and that is why they picked the day, then there is a 100% chance of a boy being born on that day, so no additional information is conferred.