On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:12:54AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
| Then perhaps lean to write. If you're measuring a different
| phenomenon, one that has different units, then it's a distinctly
| different *calculation* becuase you're measuring a distinct collection
| of objects. One may as well add up a restaurant bill, leave out the
| tax and tip, and say "it's unchanged because I used the same plus
| signs".
No different measurement, nothing has changed. Your tax+tip example
is off; day one you just have soup, the next day you have soup plus a
main course. The *price* changed, not the tax rate or the tip rate.
With a changed price, the final sum is different but the calculation
is exactly the same. You're not arguing that the calculation is
different because the outcome changes, are you ? If that's your point
then I'm not really sure what you're doing here; that's just inane.
These days there's more processes on a machine, including those kernel
threads, you know...the ones with non-random (ie sequential) PIDs that
also do work. Also, the speed of the system has changed. Units do
not change; variables change (just like the amount of work a machine
does over the course of 1, 5 or 15 minutes) but the calculation does
not: it gathers some variables and outputs a neigh meaningless number.
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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