That's right. You'd pick the average number of votes for each canditate and use it as an approximation to the actual number of votes. However, this leads to the question of how good that approximation is. To determine that you'd have to analyze the distribuition of the counts and come up with a margin of error or confidence interval, which leads right back to the original poster's comments on statistical ties.
especially if one of those secret deals were made.
If the Big Oil players wanted to make secret anticompetitive deals to widen their profit margins, they would not have needed a war in order to do so. I'm pretty sure that a a controversial war which puts their business practices under the microscope and could seriously affect their supply of crude is precisely what they would not want.
Which is exactly the point. The more expensive the oil, the more money Bush and his cronies make.
The article that you're quoting isn't talking about the price that consumers pay for oil--it's talking about the price that the oil companies pay. If you read a bit further, you get to the part that says "oil was cheaper for US oil companies and the world as a whole under the UN's Oil-for-Food program. Now that Saddam is gone, this program no longer exists. If this war was about oil, you'd see either an extension of the program, or even sanctions lifted (in return for secret deals to use Iraq's oil). Yet, neither happened."
In other words, it now costs US oil companies more to buy oil that they can process and sell to the consumer. Sure, the oil companies will pass that excess price on to the consumer, but they won't be making more money because of it.
The TI-83+ probably only gives an approximation for large factorials. That's what the TI-85 does. The factorial function on my 85 is very fast for values up to 449! (the last integer with factorial less that 10^1000). However, the result isn't exact--it's truncated after 11 digits or so.
If all she needs is a cheap device she can type on, then why not consider a TRS-80 Model 100 or 102? They are super-cheap, have a full-size keyboard, and an RS-232 port for uploading the notes to her desktop machine.
I see two possible downsides: The keyboard doesn't have as good of a feel as a new laptop, and the small amount of RAM (32 KB) might be a problem. (I have no idea how many KB a day's worth of notes would be.) However, the websites about the Model 100 and 102 claim that there are a lot of writers who use them as portable text-entry machines, so it might be a decent solution.
Butthead: "hey Beavis...i heard that pretty soon, they're gonna have, like, 500 channels. That's gonna be cool." Beavis: "really? that would be cool." Butthead: "you know what would be really cool, though? if like, one of the channels didn't suck."
Popular Electronics (or one such magazine) had a couple articles on this.
I remember reading those articles. A bit of googling turned up references to one of the articles: "Build the Lawn Ranger" in the June 1990 issue of Radio Electronics.
That's a raw deal. The way I see it, if you submitted your article before the other persons' article appeared in the literature, then it should have been given full consideration.
They should have a 1-week time-limit for referees.
I can see your point, but a week isn't realistic. Most (if not all) scientific journals use volunteer referees, and most of these guys are profs with busy schedules, and you can't expect them to drop everything and give the paper a thorough proofreading. Even if they did, a week probably wouldn't be long enough -- checking all the proofs and reviewing the literature to determine whether the results are new can also be a very time-consuming process. That said, I'll agree that there should be some sort of time limit on the referee. I once had a paper spend a year and a half in the refereeing process.
Okay. I think I see why we are in disagreement. I think we are using the word "rich" differently.
I was using the usual definition of "rich", meaning having great wealth or a lot of disposable income. In this sense of the word, it's quite possible to get an advanced degree without being rich or having rich parents.
After reading your last post, I believe that you are using "rich" on the scale of a global economy. With this definition, I'd think that people who live at the poverty level in the very prosperous countries (with housing, running water, better medical care) to be richer than the average people in some extremely poor developing countries. Using this definition of "rich", I'd say that you have a valid point -- I'm sure that there are many people in economically depressed societies who cannot afford to spend the years required to obtain a secondary education, let alone a graduate education.
What it takes to get a pHD is rich parents (and the discipline to limit keggers to weekends) - or even richer parents - in which case the keggers matter less
This is a load of crap. Do rich parents make it easier? Sure. Are they required? Of course not. I know plenty of people, myself included, who completed PhDs and definitely do NOT have rich parents.
pHD are the perpetuation of wealth as much as intelligence.
PhDs don't guarantee people to make a lot of money. A large fraction of PhDs become university professors -- a group not generally known for being rich. (Sure the big names get rich, but that's generally after putting in tons of work and doing world-class research.)
and the answer to the question - what does it take to get a pHD will continue to be "Rich Parents."
This isn't true either. The real answer is discipline. If someone has the self-discipline to complete an undergraduate program with high marks, they can typically get assistantships to get them through graduate school. Sure, they don't pay a whole lot, but they usually come with a partial or full tuition waiver. The total package is generally enough for a disciplined person to get by on.
The fact that there are an infinite number of integers doesn't, by itself, imply the infinitude of the primes, the twin primes, or the perfect numbers. Seeing a bunch of them is good evidence, but in order to know that they are infinite, a proof is required. There are many proofs of the infinitude of the primes; there are an infinite number of perfect numbers, but this was not known for a fact until Euclid proved it. Thus far, no one has been able to produce a proof that there are infinitely many twin primes, and thus it is still at the conjecture stage. If this guy's proof is good, then it is definitely newsworthy.
The Soapbox company specializes in portable connectivity. They mainly do political events, but from their info page it looks like they could set up pretty much anywhere.
The next flying vehicle to take out a skyscraper won't be piloted by a suicidal terrorist, it'll be piloted by some asshat yuppie on a cell phone.
Unlicensed people piloting aircraft is definitely a big concern, but I seriously doubt that an M400 or similar craft could take out a skyscraper, thanks to its relatively small size and fuel capacity. The Empire State Building survived a direct hit by a B-25, which is much heavier than an M400.
Exposé doesn't do it for me either. It's a cool feature, and every once in a while I'll use it, but I'd trade it in a second for built-in virtual desktops. (The third-party virtual desktop programs are okay, but none that I've tried act like the ones I'm used to using in Xwindows.)
That's interesting. In the Atlanta area, Bellsouth won't sell DSL service without regular phone service, or at least they wouldn't do it last summer. I don't really understand why. The regular phone service costs another $30/month, driving the monthly phone/internet bill up to around $80. For single people who use only a cellphone, this make cable internet at $45/month a much better option. Bellsouth is losing customers because of this.
That was my first thought, too. However, I don't think it'd be an automatic bust. There's nothing saying that a TiVo subscriber can't hook his unit up at someone else's place, record programs for a while, then bring it back home. If they wanted to get more sohpisticated, I suppose that if they really wanted to, they could use caller id to determine where the TiVo is when making daily calls and then look that address up with the cable or satellite company.
Reading the HHGTHG robs a person of the chance to experience the wonderful world of Douglas Adams *first hand*
No it doesn't. The books weren't the original version of the story, but since they were written by DNA himself, they do give DNA's first-hand account of the story.
What you describe sounds much like Samuel Taylor Coleridge's writing of the poem Kubla Khan. The poem came to him in a dream. When he awakened, he began writing it down, but was interrupted by someone visiting on business. After the visitor left, Coleridge couldn't remember the rest of the poem and it remains an unfinished work.
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When SS1 is flying, from the right angle it looks a bit like R2D2 flying through the air.
That's right. You'd pick the average number of votes for each canditate and use it as an approximation to the actual number of votes. However, this leads to the question of how good that approximation is. To determine that you'd have to analyze the distribuition of the counts and come up with a margin of error or confidence interval, which leads right back to the original poster's comments on statistical ties.
especially if one of those secret deals were made.
If the Big Oil players wanted to make secret anticompetitive deals to widen their profit margins, they would not have needed a war in order to do so. I'm pretty sure that a a controversial war which puts their business practices under the microscope and could seriously affect their supply of crude is precisely what they would not want.
Which is exactly the point. The more expensive the oil, the more money Bush and his cronies make.
The article that you're quoting isn't talking about the price that consumers pay for oil--it's talking about the price that the oil companies pay. If you read a bit further, you get to the part that says "oil was cheaper for US oil companies and the world as a whole under the UN's Oil-for-Food program. Now that Saddam is gone, this program no longer exists. If this war was about oil, you'd see either an extension of the program, or even sanctions lifted (in return for secret deals to use Iraq's oil). Yet, neither happened."
In other words, it now costs US oil companies more to buy oil that they can process and sell to the consumer. Sure, the oil companies will pass that excess price on to the consumer, but they won't be making more money because of it.
And Dothan is on Hwy 231, about 100 miles south of Montgomery.
well my TI83+ does 50! more or less instantly
The TI-83+ probably only gives an approximation for large factorials. That's what the TI-85 does. The factorial function on my 85 is very fast for values up to 449! (the last integer with factorial less that 10^1000). However, the result isn't exact--it's truncated after 11 digits or so.
If all she needs is a cheap device she can type on, then why not consider a TRS-80 Model 100 or 102? They are super-cheap, have a full-size keyboard, and an RS-232 port for uploading the notes to her desktop machine.
I see two possible downsides: The keyboard doesn't have as good of a feel as a new laptop, and the small amount of RAM (32 KB) might be a problem. (I have no idea how many KB a day's worth of notes would be.) However, the websites about the Model 100 and 102 claim that there are a lot of writers who use them as portable text-entry machines, so it might be a decent solution.
500 Channels and there's nothing on!
Butthead said it best:
Butthead: "hey Beavis...i heard that pretty soon, they're gonna have, like, 500 channels. That's gonna be cool."
Beavis: "really? that would be cool."
Butthead: "you know what would be really cool, though? if like, one of the channels didn't suck."
Popular Electronics (or one such magazine) had a couple articles on this.
I remember reading those articles. A bit of googling turned up references to one of the articles: "Build the Lawn Ranger" in the June 1990 issue of Radio Electronics.
It'd be like the nerd version of Convoy.
Then again, if you didn't limit it to moving vehicles, you could do a sort of wifi version of Hands Across America.
someone else had done the same thing a month ago
That's a raw deal. The way I see it, if you submitted your article before the other persons' article appeared in the literature, then it should have been given full consideration.
They should have a 1-week time-limit for referees.
I can see your point, but a week isn't realistic. Most (if not all) scientific journals use volunteer referees, and most of these guys are profs with busy schedules, and you can't expect them to drop everything and give the paper a thorough proofreading. Even if they did, a week probably wouldn't be long enough -- checking all the proofs and reviewing the literature to determine whether the results are new can also be a very time-consuming process. That said, I'll agree that there should be some sort of time limit on the referee. I once had a paper spend a year and a half in the refereeing process.
Okay. I think I see why we are in disagreement. I think we are using the word "rich" differently.
I was using the usual definition of "rich", meaning having great wealth or a lot of disposable income. In this sense of the word, it's quite possible to get an advanced degree without being rich or having rich parents.
After reading your last post, I believe that you are using "rich" on the scale of a global economy. With this definition, I'd think that people who live at the poverty level in the very prosperous countries (with housing, running water, better medical care) to be richer than the average people in some extremely poor developing countries. Using this definition of "rich", I'd say that you have a valid point -- I'm sure that there are many people in economically depressed societies who cannot afford to spend the years required to obtain a secondary education, let alone a graduate education.
What it takes to get a pHD is rich parents (and the discipline to limit keggers to weekends) - or even richer parents - in which case the keggers matter less
This is a load of crap. Do rich parents make it easier? Sure. Are they required? Of course not. I know plenty of people, myself included, who completed PhDs and definitely do NOT have rich parents.
pHD are the perpetuation of wealth as much as intelligence.
PhDs don't guarantee people to make a lot of money. A large fraction of PhDs become university professors -- a group not generally known for being rich. (Sure the big names get rich, but that's generally after putting in tons of work and doing world-class research.)
and the answer to the question - what does it take to get a pHD will continue to be "Rich Parents."
This isn't true either. The real answer is discipline. If someone has the self-discipline to complete an undergraduate program with high marks, they can typically get assistantships to get them through graduate school. Sure, they don't pay a whole lot, but they usually come with a partial or full tuition waiver. The total package is generally enough for a disciplined person to get by on.
The fact that there are an infinite number of integers doesn't, by itself, imply the infinitude of the primes, the twin primes, or the perfect numbers. Seeing a bunch of them is good evidence, but
in order to know that they are infinite, a proof is required. There are many proofs of the infinitude of the primes; there are an infinite number of perfect numbers, but this was not known for a fact until Euclid proved it. Thus far, no one has been able to produce a proof that there are infinitely many twin primes, and thus it is still at the conjecture stage. If this guy's proof is good, then it is definitely newsworthy.
He may be selling some stuff direct, but according to RIAA Radar , his CDs are still being released through the RIAA.
The Soapbox company specializes in portable connectivity. They mainly do political events, but from their info page it looks like they could set up pretty much anywhere.
The next flying vehicle to take out a skyscraper won't be piloted by a suicidal terrorist, it'll be piloted by some asshat yuppie on a cell phone.
Unlicensed people piloting aircraft is definitely a big concern, but I seriously doubt that an M400 or similar craft could take out a skyscraper, thanks to its relatively small size and fuel capacity.
The Empire State Building survived a direct hit by a B-25, which is much heavier than an M400.
Exposé doesn't do it for me either. It's a cool feature, and every once in a while I'll use it, but I'd trade it in a second for built-in virtual desktops. (The third-party virtual desktop programs are okay, but none that I've tried act like the ones I'm used to using in Xwindows.)
The answer is single number, real or otherwise.
Yes. And that number is 9*pi. Anything written using decimals is an approximation.
That's interesting. In the Atlanta area, Bellsouth won't sell DSL service without regular phone service, or at least they wouldn't do it last summer. I don't really understand why. The regular phone service costs another $30/month, driving the monthly phone/internet bill up to around $80. For single people who use only a cellphone, this make cable internet at $45/month a much better option. Bellsouth is losing customers because of this.
That was my first thought, too. However, I don't think it'd be an automatic bust. There's nothing saying that a TiVo subscriber can't hook his unit up at someone else's place, record programs for a while, then bring it back home. If they wanted to get more sohpisticated, I suppose that if they really wanted to, they could use caller id to determine where the TiVo is when making daily calls and then look that address up with the cable or satellite company.
Reading the HHGTHG robs a person of the chance to experience the wonderful world of Douglas Adams *first hand*
No it doesn't. The books weren't the original version of the story, but since they were written by DNA himself, they do give DNA's first-hand account of the story.
What you describe sounds much like Samuel Taylor Coleridge's writing of the poem Kubla Khan. The poem came to him in a dream. When he awakened, he began writing it down, but was interrupted by someone visiting on business. After the visitor left, Coleridge couldn't remember the rest of the poem and it remains an unfinished work.