I wrote a mighty big long dissertation, much to the head shaking disapproval of my classmates, who held that the more you wrote, the more mistakes you would make. Made like 2 errors in 20 pages.
That example has nothing to do with your point. Had you only written 10 pages, you may well have had only one error. Besides, the GP was stating that if you doubled the number of coders, it would double the bugs. Have one of your classmates help you write that dissertation, and I'll be impressed if you come out with fewer than 4 (i.e. twice the number of) errors.
You are correct that the articles were chosen for similar length, but the pair of Wikipedians were saying that the studied articles were longer in Wikipedia vs. EB.
Both parties were looking at the same set of articles, and came to differing conclusions on the comparison of length.
Wikipedians claim the entries are longer, the study claims similar length.
FTFA - "All entries were chosen to be approximately the same length in both encyclopaedias. In a small number of cases some material, such as reference lists, was removed to make the lengths of the entries more similar."
modern biology is impossible to explain without evolution.
Apparently, you're missing the whole point of a _Creator_.
I'll buy into the possibility of evolution being an Origin of Species when someone can document a series of reactions starting with non-organic, naturally-occurring compounds that results in an organism capable of spontaneous, sustainable reproduction, and documents a statistically significant possibility of conditions capable of producing that series of reactions occurring in the history of the earth.
Until that point, evolution remains nothing more than Natural Selection, which is repeatable and documentable, but not an origin of species.
So the trusted nations will get the more powerful blue and green ray versions, but the evil nations will be stuck with the first generation red-laser versions?
At least that way you'll be able to tell them apart during battle...
Somebody who bought three Ford Pintos and somehow manage to survive when they all burst into flames would probably think long and hard before buying a fourth one.
The manufacturer told them they just had to change the oil regularly and it wouldn't catch on fire anymore, so they bought 10 more.
It will continue to take a long time, simply for the fact that most power companies are revenue-stability based. Venturing into broadband is a risky venture, one that shareholders of power-utility companies don't want to take.
Exactly. I wouldn't judge the effectiveness of a search engine by the number of results returned for 2 randomly chosen dictionary words, let alone only those pairs which returned 1000 results.
Besides, who ever said more results were better? I mean, yeah, your car can have 400HP, but that doesn't change the fact that there are still stoplights every 50 ft. Give me a car with a remote to change the light to green, and now we're talking! They should focus on making the search results better, not larger.
but the current state of IE is that it is inferior in almost every way that matters to Firefox.
Except one. Compliance with existing base of websites. I ran into problems with enough websites that were coded badly as to not like Firefox that I just plain switched back. When it was between one browser and 2, I chose a single browser. Put IE together with safe browsing habits, and some skill with Alt-Tab, and it is sufficient for my (admittedly non-taxing) browsing requirements.
I've grown out of the phase where I considered the web to be an exploratory medium. It's just not safe for that anymore (both in terms of virii and in terms of content, most of what's out there I don't WANT to see). I now use the web as a productivity tool (Amazon/Ebay/Banking/News). It's no longer geeky to find some obscure web-site as it was 8-10 years ago.
This is exactly how I learned it, except on a kinda parallel path. Learning assembly on a Motorola embedded process that had A/D converters, pulse width modulater, other cool features that let you actually *build* stuff with it, and learning C at the same time. Good old standard C. I think that's a very good building block, and apparently others have agreed, considering the popularity of it's descendants (C++, Java, C#, etc etc) It made it really easy to pick up OO-languages, because you could focus on the concepts, and not the syntax.
Right, but you want to force them to at least build their own p2p network. Yeah, it doesn't catch the big guys, but imagine if having a secure line, free from tapping by the FCC/FBI/whatever was as easy as calling up Vonage/Skype? Every 2 bit criminal and their mother would have 'secure' lines.
The best part about the 2 free rentals you get with Blockbuster Online is they are good for video games too, which is worth about $14/month around here ($6.99 video game rental x2) So, I was basically paying $.99 for the 3 at a time movies. Granted, that's going up now, but not enough to change the economics.
With all the crappy video games out there I'd like to try for less than the $50 tag, this works out nicely.
Yeah, women are under-represented in professional football as well. Guys are under-represented in swimsuit catalogs, but I don't think that's something to get all upset about.
Personally, I'm all for women being in top levels of government and industry, because I think they can be just as good at being lying, greedy sleaze-balls as guys are. However, my point being that I don't think the goal of 'equality of the sexes' should not be equal representation in any given job field, as I think we should be taking advantage of the relative strengths and weaknesses in each gender.
True, but think of the nightmare trying to implement that on a wide scale.
Business A follows gov't regulation Business B decides to go 1/2 way and stay all year round. Business C changes 1 week later than everyone else. Business D ignores it altogether. Business E decides to change 2 hours instead of 1.
Ok, now you not only didn't get the intended savings, but you can't figure out whether Best Buy is open until 8, 9, 10, or 11.
Plus, what if your work changes but your babysitter refuses/cannot? What would you do for that extra hour?
Now THAT gives me a headache. Changing the clocks is the way of mandating the standard.
What does it look like in the morning when we fall back? Don't we have the same lights on in the morning that we would have on at night?
There are 2 issues with this: 1) In the morning, most people only wake up early enough to get to work. This still entails about the same amount of lighting , regardless of sunlight (bathroom, closet, etc.) Even in the dark hours, most morning lighting is subdued to prevent waking of other individuals. So, in any case, the effect is much less than in the evenings.
2) It's also a case of economic dispatch of power plants. In the morning, most people are getting up at a non-peak power time. Many plants are operating at their minimum capacity, just to stay on. Many companies have to find creative uses for night-time power (11PM-7AM ish) or shut plants down overnight, which is not a very nice alternative. Therefore, increased load at 6-7 AM is a relative non-issue since the power is nominally being generated anyway.
You have apparently never seen the typical electric load in the evenings for a large electric utility. Trust me, you can tell the difference between the day before daylight saving time (starts/ends) and the day after. There is a benefit. Personally, I don't think it's worth the hassle, but that's just me being selfish.
In my opinion, evolution is science. ID is not science. It is faith.
Evolution in terms of basic survival of the fittest among current species is a matter of science that can be studied, proven/disproven.
Evolution as the origin of life on this planet is faith, just like Intelligent Design. How do you apply survival of the fittest among individual molecules assembling themselves to form the first organism? That requires just as much faith as ID. Until you can scientifically reproduce life from a pool of amino acids, it's faith. Science is about a creating a reproducable set of experiments.
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I wrote a mighty big long dissertation, much to the head shaking disapproval of my classmates, who held that the more you wrote, the more mistakes you would make. Made like 2 errors in 20 pages.
That example has nothing to do with your point. Had you only written 10 pages, you may well have had only one error. Besides, the GP was stating that if you doubled the number of coders, it would double the bugs. Have one of your classmates help you write that dissertation, and I'll be impressed if you come out with fewer than 4 (i.e. twice the number of) errors.
Is that -40 Celsius or Fahrenheit?
*ducks*
You are correct that the articles were chosen for similar length, but the pair of Wikipedians were saying that the studied articles were longer in Wikipedia vs. EB.
Both parties were looking at the same set of articles, and came to differing conclusions on the comparison of length.
Wikipedians claim the entries are longer, the study claims similar length.
FTFA - "All entries were chosen to be approximately the same length in both encyclopaedias. In a small number of cases some material, such as reference lists, was removed to make the lengths of the entries more similar."
modern biology is impossible to explain without evolution.
Apparently, you're missing the whole point of a _Creator_.
I'll buy into the possibility of evolution being an Origin of Species when someone can document a series of reactions starting with non-organic, naturally-occurring compounds that results in an organism capable of spontaneous, sustainable reproduction, and documents a statistically significant possibility of conditions capable of producing that series of reactions occurring in the history of the earth.
Until that point, evolution remains nothing more than Natural Selection, which is repeatable and documentable, but not an origin of species.
"More than 10 percent of the 90-odd organisations"
1 in 9 is 11.11%, which is more than 10%. I don't see the inconsistency here?
In fact, 10% of 90 organizations would be 9.(yes, I realize it says 90-odd, but still)
More than 9 would imply at least 10 organizations. 10 out of 90-odd is about 1 in 9.
Please begin rampant conjecture and wild speculation.
Now someone needs to create a worm-like vehicle capable of transporting nuc-u-lar weapons to the core to get it spinning at the correct rate!
Forget the space station... take a $1billion ride to THE CORE!!!
So the trusted nations will get the more powerful blue and green ray versions, but the evil nations will be stuck with the first generation red-laser versions?
At least that way you'll be able to tell them apart during battle...
News flash! Parent post decrypted! Details at 11...
Time to go apply for a job at the NSA...
Somebody who bought three Ford Pintos and somehow manage to survive when they all burst into flames would probably think long and hard before buying a fourth one.
The manufacturer told them they just had to change the oil regularly and it wouldn't catch on fire anymore, so they bought 10 more.
It will continue to take a long time, simply for the fact that most power companies are revenue-stability based. Venturing into broadband is a risky venture, one that shareholders of power-utility companies don't want to take.
Damn! I was going to patent every patentable idea MS had ever had and then license the patents back to them
MS has shown that this business model works well.
Exactly. I wouldn't judge the effectiveness of a search engine by the number of results returned for 2 randomly chosen dictionary words, let alone only those pairs which returned 1000 results.
Besides, who ever said more results were better? I mean, yeah, your car can have 400HP, but that doesn't change the fact that there are still stoplights every 50 ft. Give me a car with a remote to change the light to green, and now we're talking! They should focus on making the search results better, not larger.
but the current state of IE is that it is inferior in almost every way that matters to Firefox.
Except one. Compliance with existing base of websites. I ran into problems with enough websites that were coded badly as to not like Firefox that I just plain switched back. When it was between one browser and 2, I chose a single browser. Put IE together with safe browsing habits, and some skill with Alt-Tab, and it is sufficient for my (admittedly non-taxing) browsing requirements.
I've grown out of the phase where I considered the web to be an exploratory medium. It's just not safe for that anymore (both in terms of virii and in terms of content, most of what's out there I don't WANT to see). I now use the web as a productivity tool (Amazon/Ebay/Banking/News). It's no longer geeky to find some obscure web-site as it was 8-10 years ago.
That's too obscure. Just patent 'Browsing' it covers more area.
This is exactly how I learned it, except on a kinda parallel path. Learning assembly on a Motorola embedded process that had A/D converters, pulse width modulater, other cool features that let you actually *build* stuff with it, and learning C at the same time. Good old standard C. I think that's a very good building block, and apparently others have agreed, considering the popularity of it's descendants (C++, Java, C#, etc etc) It made it really easy to pick up OO-languages, because you could focus on the concepts, and not the syntax.
Right, but you want to force them to at least build their own p2p network. Yeah, it doesn't catch the big guys, but imagine if having a secure line, free from tapping by the FCC/FBI/whatever was as easy as calling up Vonage/Skype? Every 2 bit criminal and their mother would have 'secure' lines.
The best part about the 2 free rentals you get with Blockbuster Online is they are good for video games too, which is worth about $14/month around here ($6.99 video game rental x2) So, I was basically paying $.99 for the 3 at a time movies. Granted, that's going up now, but not enough to change the economics.
With all the crappy video games out there I'd like to try for less than the $50 tag, this works out nicely.
I lived in Indiana for 4 years, I know the mess.
Yeah, women are under-represented in professional football as well. Guys are under-represented in swimsuit catalogs, but I don't think that's something to get all upset about.
Personally, I'm all for women being in top levels of government and industry, because I think they can be just as good at being lying, greedy sleaze-balls as guys are. However, my point being that I don't think the goal of 'equality of the sexes' should not be equal representation in any given job field, as I think we should be taking advantage of the relative strengths and weaknesses in each gender.
True, but think of the nightmare trying to implement that on a wide scale.
Business A follows gov't regulation
Business B decides to go 1/2 way and stay all year round.
Business C changes 1 week later than everyone else.
Business D ignores it altogether.
Business E decides to change 2 hours instead of 1.
Ok, now you not only didn't get the intended savings, but you can't figure out whether Best Buy is open until 8, 9, 10, or 11.
Plus, what if your work changes but your babysitter refuses/cannot? What would you do for that extra hour?
Now THAT gives me a headache. Changing the clocks is the way of mandating the standard.
What does it look like in the morning when we fall back? Don't we have the same lights on in the morning that we would have on at night?
There are 2 issues with this:
1) In the morning, most people only wake up early enough to get to work. This still entails about the same amount of lighting , regardless of sunlight (bathroom, closet, etc.) Even in the dark hours, most morning lighting is subdued to prevent waking of other individuals. So, in any case, the effect is much less than in the evenings.
2) It's also a case of economic dispatch of power plants. In the morning, most people are getting up at a non-peak power time. Many plants are operating at their minimum capacity, just to stay on. Many companies have to find creative uses for night-time power (11PM-7AM ish) or shut plants down overnight, which is not a very nice alternative. Therefore, increased load at 6-7 AM is a relative non-issue since the power is nominally being generated anyway.
You have apparently never seen the typical electric load in the evenings for a large electric utility. Trust me, you can tell the difference between the day before daylight saving time (starts/ends) and the day after. There is a benefit. Personally, I don't think it's worth the hassle, but that's just me being selfish.
The only group I side with in politics is the non-stupid party.
So you're a non-participant, huh?
In my opinion, evolution is science. ID is not science. It is faith.
Evolution in terms of basic survival of the fittest among current species is a matter of science that can be studied, proven/disproven.
Evolution as the origin of life on this planet is faith, just like Intelligent Design. How do you apply survival of the fittest among individual molecules assembling themselves to form the first organism? That requires just as much faith as ID. Until you can scientifically reproduce life from a pool of amino acids, it's faith. Science is about a creating a reproducable set of experiments.