In particular, figured 3C, 3D, 3E. Of course this isn't exactly what GP was saying. It's more like "Real wages for American male workers below the 50th percentile declined rapidly through the early 80s and have not fully recovered."
There are an infinite number of alternatives that CBS could have chosen but its desire to shock and offend is crystal clear in this decision.
I don't think we should take writing advice from someone who doesn't know the meaning of the word "infinite."
Well, unless a whole LOT of new words were added to human language without me knowing about it...
Not words, alternatives. Multi-word phrases are allowed and there are an infinite number of those:
Poop My Dad Says
Fecal Matter My Dad Says
The word that should go here offends some idiots, so to play it safe our title will just make no sense My Dad Says
The possibilities are actually endless... oh, you were trying to convey meaning?
I'm amazed you were actually able to return a game to a store for that reason.
'Round these parts (Central Ontario) most stores only accept returns on software because of defective media, and usually even then all they're willing do is exchange it for another copy. It's been that way for about 15 years, to my recollection.
I've been running a Linksys WRT54G for many years and I've never had any connection problems with any of my Macs or Windows PCs. I'm going to stick with Linksys if I ever upgrade and get a faster router.
Interesting... the router I had to do the firmware upgrade on was also a WRT54G.
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At the very least, step 1 is not so absurd.
A while back, the girlfriend bought a Macbook, which was the first Apple device that ever tried to connect to my router over WiFi. Even 6" away from the router, the Macbook would not connect; any PC we tried would work all (15 feet) across the apartment.
I was prepared to chalk it up to shoddy Apple networking hardware, but on a whim tried a firmware upgrade. Lo and behold, after the router rebooted the Macbook immediately recognized it and connected without issue.
I have no idea what/where the actually problem was, but if Apple had suggested the exact same list of steps to me they would've been right on the money.
Various economists argue that the efficiency of a market ought to be clearly evident in the returns it produces. They say that the more efficient it is, the more random its returns will be and a perfect market should be completely random.
I'd really like to see a citation for this. I've studied a fair deal of economics in my day, and I don't remember anything even like a claim that a perfect market is completely random. Maybe I just studied the wrong (or maybe right, in this case) economics, but I can't think of any theoretical foundation for that.
If anyone can point me in the direction of real research on this, I'm very interested.
This reminds me of one of my favourite (accidental) strategies in Alien Crossfire many moons ago.
Half way through a game, I realized that there was an entire continent that had not been inhabited at all, as the Pirates (most powerful faction by far) controlled all the water around it, so no transports could get in. I created airborne colony pods, which were badass enough, but after I had begun to settle the continent needed a way to get units back and forth. I created a clean air transport, which I named the "Air Bitch", and it served my purposes very well.
Here's where it gets good: later on, one of the AI factions took over one of my cities with mind control, and that city had a handful of Air Bitches sitting there. The AI must have thought Air Bitches were the best thing since sliced bread, because for the rest of the game they produced nothing else by way of military units. As other AIs ran into the Air Bitch, they got the same idea. I ended up winning the game solely because all the AIs were too stupified to actually build combat units, and this remained a strategy I kept up my sleeve for when things really started going south.
You're completely right. It wouldn't be Slashdot if my correction to a comment did not itself require a correction.
My reply took for granted that we were dealing with cross-sectional data, rather than time-series data. So not an increase for one person, but an increase from person to person across a population.
By way of a pithy excuse for my sloppy thinking, my background in stats comes from economics; economists love to confuse cross-sectional and time-series data.
All they are saying is that they noted Correlation, not implying causation.
Yet the summary is written as such. Such a shock for a/. editor not to read something before it's put on the front page.
No, it doesn't.
The summary says "more likely"; that is, as internet use increases, the probability of depression increases. That is the definition of correlation.
Implying causation would be using a word like "cause". (I know, tricky concept) Which the summary doesn't.
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In particular, figured 3C, 3D, 3E. Of course this isn't exactly what GP was saying. It's more like "Real wages for American male workers below the 50th percentile declined rapidly through the early 80s and have not fully recovered."
There are an infinite number of alternatives that CBS could have chosen but its desire to shock and offend is crystal clear in this decision.
I don't think we should take writing advice from someone who doesn't know the meaning of the word "infinite." Well, unless a whole LOT of new words were added to human language without me knowing about it...
Not words, alternatives. Multi-word phrases are allowed and there are an infinite number of those:
Poop My Dad Says
Fecal Matter My Dad Says
The word that should go here offends some idiots, so to play it safe our title will just make no sense My Dad Says
The possibilities are actually endless... oh, you were trying to convey meaning?
Iran's firing missiles at the US now?
Somehow I missed that... or could it be, this talk of a defense against Iranian missiles, effective or not, is simply fear-mongering?
Naaaawwww, Obama wouldn't do that. Neither would the New York Times.
Create a GUI interface using Visual Basic. See if you can track an IP address
I'm amazed you were actually able to return a game to a store for that reason.
'Round these parts (Central Ontario) most stores only accept returns on software because of defective media, and usually even then all they're willing do is exchange it for another copy. It's been that way for about 15 years, to my recollection.
I don't mean to reply to myself, but I just realized - even if the math was right, I don't quite get what that equation has to do with anything.
2 + 2 = 3, therefore iPads blow... ?
Especially when the "cred" comes from (300 + 4 * 500) linking to a Wolfram Alpha query for (300 + 6 * 50).
Here's some tips:
4 != 6
500 != 50
I've been running a Linksys WRT54G for many years and I've never had any connection problems with any of my Macs or Windows PCs. I'm going to stick with Linksys if I ever upgrade and get a faster router.
Interesting... the router I had to do the firmware upgrade on was also a WRT54G.
At the very least, step 1 is not so absurd.
A while back, the girlfriend bought a Macbook, which was the first Apple device that ever tried to connect to my router over WiFi. Even 6" away from the router, the Macbook would not connect; any PC we tried would work all (15 feet) across the apartment.
I was prepared to chalk it up to shoddy Apple networking hardware, but on a whim tried a firmware upgrade. Lo and behold, after the router rebooted the Macbook immediately recognized it and connected without issue.
I have no idea what/where the actually problem was, but if Apple had suggested the exact same list of steps to me they would've been right on the money.
But don't stock up too much, because we Jews need that stuff, or else I might have to not drink Coke for a whole eight days.
I think Mandelbrot came up with this decades ago.
Yeah, but most economists never read Mandelbrot. His economic research is very interesting but pretty much unheard of.
Various economists argue that the efficiency of a market ought to be clearly evident in the returns it produces. They say that the more efficient it is, the more random its returns will be and a perfect market should be completely random.
I'd really like to see a citation for this. I've studied a fair deal of economics in my day, and I don't remember anything even like a claim that a perfect market is completely random. Maybe I just studied the wrong (or maybe right, in this case) economics, but I can't think of any theoretical foundation for that.
If anyone can point me in the direction of real research on this, I'm very interested.
People's beliefs hinge on their world-view.
In other words, people's beliefs are determined by their beliefs.
How come I don't get paid the big bucks to do this research? I could've saved them a lot of time.
This reminds me of one of my favourite (accidental) strategies in Alien Crossfire many moons ago.
Half way through a game, I realized that there was an entire continent that had not been inhabited at all, as the Pirates (most powerful faction by far) controlled all the water around it, so no transports could get in. I created airborne colony pods, which were badass enough, but after I had begun to settle the continent needed a way to get units back and forth. I created a clean air transport, which I named the "Air Bitch", and it served my purposes very well.
Here's where it gets good: later on, one of the AI factions took over one of my cities with mind control, and that city had a handful of Air Bitches sitting there. The AI must have thought Air Bitches were the best thing since sliced bread, because for the rest of the game they produced nothing else by way of military units. As other AIs ran into the Air Bitch, they got the same idea. I ended up winning the game solely because all the AIs were too stupified to actually build combat units, and this remained a strategy I kept up my sleeve for when things really started going south.
... and Feb 7 was a Sunday, not a Saturday.
You're completely right. It wouldn't be Slashdot if my correction to a comment did not itself require a correction.
My reply took for granted that we were dealing with cross-sectional data, rather than time-series data. So not an increase for one person, but an increase from person to person across a population.
By way of a pithy excuse for my sloppy thinking, my background in stats comes from economics; economists love to confuse cross-sectional and time-series data.
All they are saying is that they noted Correlation, not implying causation.
Yet the summary is written as such. Such a shock for a /. editor not to read something before it's put on the front page.
No, it doesn't. The summary says "more likely"; that is, as internet use increases, the probability of depression increases. That is the definition of correlation. Implying causation would be using a word like "cause". (I know, tricky concept) Which the summary doesn't.