Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.cellular-phone-tech Subject: Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 22:23:26 +0100 Organization: ~ Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: <0FQBA.80253$zc7.24703@fx09.iad> <2017032712530095731-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <280320171202550086%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com alt.privacy.anon-server:58291 comp.os.linux.advocacy:404547 comp.sys.mac.system:103237 alt.comp.os.windows-10:37727 alt.cellular-phone-tech:274 On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 03:17:26 +0100, Char Jackson wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:45:11 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword" > wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:55:39 +0100, Char Jackson wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:32:54 -0700, Ken Blake >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 12:02:55 -0400, nospam >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> In article , James Wilkinson Sword >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> Except many companies will say "we have 50 years of experience", or at >>>>>> >>>> least "50 years of combined experience" or similar. And it does make >>>>>> >>>> sense. 20 + 30 does equal 50 years of experience. Those two mechanics >>>>>> >>>> have probably learned as much as one working for 50 years. >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> >>> Unlikely. NUMBERS work that way (20+30=50). Experience doesn't. There's >>>>>> >>> no addition there. >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> Yes there is. If you work for 50 years, you accumulate a certain >>>>>> >> amount of experience. Two of you working for 25 years accumulate it >>>>>> >> twice as fast. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > Nope! >>>>>> > All you get in that example is two folks with 25 years experience, not >>>>>> > one with 50 years experience. >>>>>> >>>>>> Two people with 25 years experience are more likely to be able to fix the >>>>>> problem than one of them. They will have learned different things. >>>>> >>>>> that's two people with overlapping 25 years of experience, *not* the >>>>> same as 50 years experience. >>>>> >>>>> taken to extreme, 25 people with 1 year experience is not the same as 1 >>>>> person with 25 years experience. >>>> >>>> >>>> And perhaps most important, at least some of the times, 1 person with >>>> 25 years experience *is* the same as 1 person with 1 years experience. >>> >>> LOL In a previous job, we had a guy who had 26 years in telecom IT, but >>> folks would describe him as having 1 year of experience, repeated 26 >>> times. >> >> My point exactly. The chances of the one person over 50 years repeating things twice is about the same as two people over 25 years learning the same as each other. So 2 x 25 = 50. > > You're still missing the obvious point. 2x25 might very well be less > than 25. How can two people working side by side for 25 years gain LESS experience than one person working for 25 years? -- What's a birth control pill? The OTHER thing a woman can put in her mouth to keep from becoming pregnant.