Re:Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Se...
by praxulus on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:40PM
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Actually, if you want to interpret "endless possibilities" literally, that still doesn't indicate you can use it however you wish. Sets can be infinite in size without containing everything there is.
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Re:Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Se...
by Amadou on Monday August 12, 2013 @05:48PM
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"Endless" literally means without an end. Servers are a very explicit end.
Re:Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Se...
by danellis on Monday August 12, 2013 @06:28PM
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Imagine the integers were all the things you could do with the service. Imagine that those odd ones involved hosting a server, while the even ones didn't. The set of even numbers is limitless, even though it excludes all the odd numbers.
Re:Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Se...
by Amadou on Monday August 12, 2013 @06:31PM
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So what? If we are going to be pedants about the literal definition of endless then coming up with mathematical analogies is not in the spirit of pedantry. Limitless may be a definition of endless but it is not the only definition.
edit: Wow, down-voted for out pedanting the pedants. That's some cognitive dissonance there.
Re:Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning “Se...
by danellis on Friday August 16, 2013 @03:44AM
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I wasn't being pedantic; I was merely explaining praxulus's point.