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Arcade Fire releases album on USB fidget spinner for £79/$105
Canadian indie outfit Arcade Fire has released an album on a USB-flash-drive-packing fidget spinner. The limited edition of the band's fifth album, Everything Now, costs a considerable £79 (~US$105). That's a whopping £72 premium over the cassette edition, £69 more than the CD, £61 more than the basic vinyl edition and …
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Tuesday 1st August 2017 10:47 GMT MyffyW
Re: Finite and Infinite
In percentage or multiple terms you are correct, however the author didn't use those terms for any of the other comparisons (Cassette / CD / Vinyl), so my criticism is valid albeit really, really, really picky.
Personally speaking I'm no great fan of ads, I rather like album sleeves and my only previous knowledge of Arcade Fire was their co-opting of the late, great David Bowie to do a version of "Life on Mars" live with them. Not brilliant but it didn't totally suck.
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Tuesday 1st August 2017 17:32 GMT Jan 0
Re: Finite and Infinite
I'm not sure that zero is allowable as numerator or denominator in fractions. Fractions were a halting, but useful, attempt to bridge the gap between integers and real numbers. Saying that any arbitrary value is infinitely larger than zero, is true but, is not useful.
Percentages are the ratio of parts out of one hundred parts. Anyone using percentage values well above one hundred is just parading their innumeracy.
MyffyW was correct in this instance, although his reference to "1.79%"* in a recent post is as inappropriate as others who** talk of percentages of hundreds or more.
* I'd call this a bastard number! I think they meant a bit less than 2%.
** Yes, journalists, excluding some technical journalists, are worse at this than most El Reg Readers.
Dons down(vote-proof) coat and retires to see what mathematicians have to say.
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Wednesday 2nd August 2017 14:21 GMT John Robson
Re: Finite and Infinite
0/10 is perfectly reasonable as a fraction.
It's x/0 which becomes dodgy - and if x=0 it becomes really interesting because it's absolutely 0,1 or infinity depending on how you approached the 0/0.
And if I am a loan shark^H^Hpayday loan company then I charge you 1000% interest. That's an entirely correct (if immoral) use of percentages above 100%.
Fractions are a perfectly good way of representing any rational number (of which there are an infinite selection between 0 and 1), it's only when numbers become irrational than they fall down (unfortunately there are an infinite number of irrational numbers inbetween each pair of rational numbers IIRC).
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Tuesday 1st August 2017 07:20 GMT Chris G
Ooh Rocky
Described as a rock band and definitely in a rocky place.
I am surprised they have lasted long enough to produce a fifth album, if what I just listened to is anything to go by.
Noise/volume ~ talent I guess. Still, a USB fidget spinner!
I want , well, anything else but that, maybe a USB bottle opener or a USB sonic screwdriver. How do you fidget with it when it's plugged in?
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Tuesday 1st August 2017 21:27 GMT MonkeyCee
Danger!
" a danger to a kids development. "
That seems a little over the top. There's some pretty good evidence that they (and other fiddle habits) help those with ADD deal with in a way that doesn't involve us walking out or getting on the speed.
Personally I doodle, so for a 2 hour dull lecture I'll fill three or four sides of A4. Beats falling asleep or playing video games/facebook as I still have enough attention for the useful ten minutes of lecture they slip in.
The issue is that when something is boring enough that I end up sketching, often the people around me become more interested in my drawing than the lecture. Even when I stick to abstracts rather than nudes...
So even if the spinners help the kid with ADD focus, it'll still distract others, so it's value as a classroom treatment is questionable. Don't think it'll be a threat to their development either way.
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