kimono brand is noticeably better than the standards, but of course nowhere near unwrapped. they're usually underneath the major brands and kind of hard to notice (shelf placement is auctioned).
You're right, and as a matter of fact, these studies often involve an intervention to educate the subjects in risk avoidance, &c. That is to say, they intentionally seek to modify the behavior of the group (which is, of course, done "blind": without regard to case/control status).
There are two reasons for this: first, it provides a moral figleaf; since everyone nominally benefits at least slightly from participating, the sense of dooming the placebo group is mitigated since, strictly speaking, they are still on average better off than if they had not participated. It defends against the criticism that someone in the placebo group may tell themselves that they MIGHT have the active drug, and thus be more promiscuous.
Second, for technical reasons, a lower overall rate is more efficient for hypothesis testing, though I doubt that this is very significant.
I played through PiD on basiliskII a few years ago. the graphics are...well, just think of them as cel-shaded.:-P It does look notably better than Wolfenstein 3D, and is much more immersive imho.
The story and some of the puzzles were very impressive. I liked the scarcity of ammunition and special items.
not if they're god's lulz. see the doctrines of calvinism, specifically "total depravity" and "limited atonement," as well as the westboro baptist church.
Cooks Illustrated (a very good magazine) taste-tested several real vanilla extracts vs. synthetics (vanillin). Although the natural ones performed much better in lightly-flavored custards and ice creams, synthetic vanillin came out slightly ahead in baked goods.
Also, "florist paste" is a weird and misleading term (florists sell flowers; if anything, it should be "baker paste"). It's more commonly called "gum paste," for obvious reasons.
Here in the US, fondant is more common and also more pleasant to eat. Unless you need very precise or free-standing decorations, fondant's probably a better choice. Either one is easy to buy in bulk and much cheaper than marzipan, in addition to not triggering nut allergies.
and a friend of mine got, from his uncle, for christmas, an insulated mug from shoney's with his name added in black vinyl letter-stickers.
now, seriously, i think that getting a usb drive full of weird software that doesn't work with "the computer" i use (i.e. windows) would be even below that in terms of cool. i say this as a long-time linux user.
I agree. I use facebook responsibly (I think), and i'm more pissed that I can't get the dirt on others, than I am pleased that my own small blemishes are "protected". it's in quotes because of course they're still accessible to Them, just not us.
who cares? the distributions of scores between the two languages differ with p=0.015, and so it's pretty clear what 6/6 in favor of perl means.
if you want to compensate for having performed two tests, just double the p-value (bonferroni correction), which is conservative. you're still <5%.
the real criticism here would be that the six tests are not actually independent of each other, which throws any simple p-value straight out the window, but what did anyone really expect from southern illinois university?
heh, i just noticed today that even my android phone (froyo) apparently can't or won't multiplex sounds; the email notification totally silences the mp3 audio.
apple gets most of this stuff right, i'm glad i switched. still even with the flaws, i'd take linux any day over ms windows.
yeah. i thought everything was fine, but then a year later i realized that one of the many apt upgrades had fubar'ed the external microphone. nothing i could do to fix it; tried every config file and every config utility. ah well.
wifi might be okay (depends on the chipset, so just do the homework first). however, thanks to unending "progress" like pulseaudio (or shoddy distro packagings of pulseaudio, depending on who you believe), sound is STILL touchy on linux. at least on ubuntu, there's no guaranteed way to keep the sound stable, it just changes too fast.
If you want solid service and don't want a Macbook, then Lenovo Thinkpad is it. The support is domestic/insourced (my service center was in Georgia). As long as you're under warranty (comparable or cheaper in price to Applecare, but a larger number of somewhat confusing choices), they'll overnight you a mailer which gets overnighted back. After the service (which in my experience was very fast), they overnight the laptop to you. It can't get better than that without local repair centers (=apple stores).
This was with an X61s, but I think it would hold for all real Thinkpads (business-class), i.e. not Ideapads which are junk anyway.
Caveats: touchpad/nipple not as nice as macbook unless you really like the nipple; the AC adapter will probably fail within 2 years (although they'll replace this for you); mine died 2 months after the end of the 3-year warranty.
System76 is the only other option I'd consider, but I have no experience with them. I wanted an ultraportable, which they didn't have.
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kimono brand is noticeably better than the standards, but of course nowhere near unwrapped. they're usually underneath the major brands and kind of hard to notice (shelf placement is auctioned).
You're right, and as a matter of fact, these studies often involve an intervention to educate the subjects in risk avoidance, &c. That is to say, they intentionally seek to modify the behavior of the group (which is, of course, done "blind": without regard to case/control status).
There are two reasons for this: first, it provides a moral figleaf; since everyone nominally benefits at least slightly from participating, the sense of dooming the placebo group is mitigated since, strictly speaking, they are still on average better off than if they had not participated. It defends against the criticism that someone in the placebo group may tell themselves that they MIGHT have the active drug, and thus be more promiscuous.
Second, for technical reasons, a lower overall rate is more efficient for hypothesis testing, though I doubt that this is very significant.
In RMS' defense, if I had to listen to that bloviating twerp, I might be willing to do anything to distract myself.
I played through PiD on basiliskII a few years ago. the graphics are...well, just think of them as cel-shaded. :-P It does look notably better than Wolfenstein 3D, and is much more immersive imho.
The story and some of the puzzles were very impressive. I liked the scarcity of ammunition and special items.
Does the pope shit in the woods?
"we have but 5 cds and 2 dvds, unless we go to best buy."
taking the 5 cds and 2 dvds, and looking up to bittorrent, He ripped them and shared them and kept downloading to set before his disciples.
and they did watch and listen, and were satisfied, and the unwatched files filled twelve hard drives.
not if they're god's lulz. see the doctrines of calvinism, specifically "total depravity" and "limited atonement," as well as the westboro baptist church.
yeah, it's called calvinism.
Cooks Illustrated (a very good magazine) taste-tested several real vanilla extracts vs. synthetics (vanillin). Although the natural ones performed much better in lightly-flavored custards and ice creams, synthetic vanillin came out slightly ahead in baked goods.
Also, "florist paste" is a weird and misleading term (florists sell flowers; if anything, it should be "baker paste"). It's more commonly called "gum paste," for obvious reasons.
Here in the US, fondant is more common and also more pleasant to eat. Unless you need very precise or free-standing decorations, fondant's probably a better choice. Either one is easy to buy in bulk and much cheaper than marzipan, in addition to not triggering nut allergies.
yeah, it tastes great until it hits the building pipes (which, of course, vary).
at any rate, someone noticed your point, and came up with this http://peopleareamazing.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/tapdny-bottled-water-must-think-youre-stupid although i think they've stopped production.
and a friend of mine got, from his uncle, for christmas, an insulated mug from shoney's with his name added in black vinyl letter-stickers.
now, seriously, i think that getting a usb drive full of weird software that doesn't work with "the computer" i use (i.e. windows) would be even below that in terms of cool. i say this as a long-time linux user.
a mild concern.
i'm not surprised, and I don't really care.
no i'm not. I choose my friends carefully and maintain damage control (not that this has been necessary yet).
I agree. I use facebook responsibly (I think), and i'm more pissed that I can't get the dirt on others, than I am pleased that my own small blemishes are "protected". it's in quotes because of course they're still accessible to Them, just not us.
the face was richard james (aphex twin). somewhat sadly, it's just an off-the-shelf software that does the encoding. kind of wanky, really.
i've heard that part of the assessment lies in how you handle not knowing the answer. if true, i find some merit in this.
not if they give the same problems to all applicants.
he said it about as clearly as it could be said without dumbing down the idea beyond recognition.
english is fine; take a statistics class.
who cares? the distributions of scores between the two languages differ with p=0.015, and so it's pretty clear what 6/6 in favor of perl means.
if you want to compensate for having performed two tests, just double the p-value (bonferroni correction), which is conservative. you're still <5%.
the real criticism here would be that the six tests are not actually independent of each other, which throws any simple p-value straight out the window, but what did anyone really expect from southern illinois university?
heh, i just noticed today that even my android phone (froyo) apparently can't or won't multiplex sounds; the email notification totally silences the mp3 audio.
apple gets most of this stuff right, i'm glad i switched. still even with the flaws, i'd take linux any day over ms windows.
yeah. i thought everything was fine, but then a year later i realized that one of the many apt upgrades had fubar'ed the external microphone. nothing i could do to fix it; tried every config file and every config utility. ah well.
oh, what i meant by "mine" was that my thinkpad died after the warranty ended, not the AC adapter.
wifi might be okay (depends on the chipset, so just do the homework first). however, thanks to unending "progress" like pulseaudio (or shoddy distro packagings of pulseaudio, depending on who you believe), sound is STILL touchy on linux. at least on ubuntu, there's no guaranteed way to keep the sound stable, it just changes too fast.
If you want solid service and don't want a Macbook, then Lenovo Thinkpad is it. The support is domestic/insourced (my service center was in Georgia). As long as you're under warranty (comparable or cheaper in price to Applecare, but a larger number of somewhat confusing choices), they'll overnight you a mailer which gets overnighted back. After the service (which in my experience was very fast), they overnight the laptop to you. It can't get better than that without local repair centers (=apple stores).
This was with an X61s, but I think it would hold for all real Thinkpads (business-class), i.e. not Ideapads which are junk anyway.
Caveats: touchpad/nipple not as nice as macbook unless you really like the nipple; the AC adapter will probably fail within 2 years (although they'll replace this for you); mine died 2 months after the end of the 3-year warranty.
System76 is the only other option I'd consider, but I have no experience with them. I wanted an ultraportable, which they didn't have.