So how comes that in every group with about the same number of males and females, the average number of sexual partners of the opposite sex is the same for males and females? (And yes, this is a statistical necessity, no point in arguing against. To be more specific, if there are m males and f females in a group, then the average number of sexual partners of the opposite sex for a male is f/m times the average number for females.)
Actually entities have occasionally (though it is rare) been sued by the FSF for doing "anything" with Linux; violating the GPL.
Actually those entities have not been sued because of the type of application they developed or who they were. Those entities have been sued because they violated the license of the code they used but didn't develop themselves -- an entirely different thing.
A logical first step would be to switch over to VOIP just before the last-mile, to allow people to keep their existing phones - which (I think) would kill dial-up and faxes.
No, it doesn't. If the actual voice encoding is for instance G.711, it works fine with Fax and Dial-Up. Alternatively one could use T.38 for Fax.
The big advantage with "free" is that every work has to be done only once. It can be done several times, and this doesn't hurt either. Differently than with walled gardens, where you have lots of small little boxes with something in it, free creates a large body of knowledge and solutions and results. Microsoft once used to similar: A single but huge heap of solutions, where you could find something. Not necessarily the best, not necessarily the most advanced, but something was there. But by now they don't have the manpower anymore to compete everywhere against free combined with good search algorithms to find solutions.
In practice, with the advent of ABS, most people drive faster, thus the general braking distances might be longer. But from the same speed, there is only one situation where an ABS causes longer braking distances: If the ground is not solid, but consists of sand, gravel or freshly fallen snow: Then blocking wheels will cause a fair amount of material to collect in front of the wheels and thus causing better contact to the ground.
You are barking up the wrong tree. I am all for secret voting. It was the grand parent who was saying:
I guess I'm broken. I'd rather have my open vote count, than my private vote lost.
There is no point in counting open votes, because they have no value at all. If you run into troubles for not voting publicly, this is equivalent to running into trouble for voting for the wrong person.
To actually get an asynchronous motor in a car working and to control the speed you need some sophisticated electronics which weren't available when the gas pressure cars were initially developed.
They were first developed to be used in environments, where sparks could lead to an explosion (e.g. chemical plants or refineries). There you can't use electric cars.
Solutions to problems can also be invented in Mathematics.
Take the real numbers. There are several ways to describe their "continuity", or the idea that any infinite decimal fraction always denotes a well-defined real number. For instance we have Bolzano-Weierstrass, we have Dirichlet, we have Cauchy. All try to tackle the same problem, and from an axiomatic point of view they are equivalent: Given one, we can prove the others. The fact that all those approaches are equivalent, was surely discovered. But the approaches themselves are invented.
The question of excising names from archives has not yet been resolved by the German courts, he said.
There is no such concept as precedence in the German law. Every judge and every court is free to decide based solely on the current law and the merits of the case. There is something called prevailing opinion, but this is not obligatory, it is rather used as a shortcut by judges to reach a decision. Only decisions by the highest courts (BVG = Federal Constitutional Court and BGH = Federal Court of Justice) are binding.
We are talking Micro Black Holes here, and those appear in our atmosphere quite often. So no, we don't need to look at far away galaxies to make some observations.
This sounds like a major obstacle to me. One professional, presumably paid, driver to every eight vehicles sounds expensive and pretty impractical.
No, the driver is not there to wait for cars wanting to form a road train. The professional driver is there because he has to drive the route anyway, transporting freight or whatever. Road trains will be formed spontaneously, when someone decides to join the truck and tailgate it. And as soon as the leading truck is heading somewhere else, you are free to leave the road train again.
Ok, my last year's running time over 5000 m was 27:16 min, this year I finished in 20:26 min. Any further questions? And no, I don't run regularly. I guess my whole distance run this year so far is less than 50 km.
I have often the GPS showing me my current speed, and I also have a digital speedometer. I guess that the intervals for updating the current speed are about one second at the speedometer and about 10 seconds at the GPS.
No, the Germans named all their awards the same and make a difference just by the level. The Federal Cross of Merit thus has nine levels. (I am still trying to find out which level he got.)
I'm sure lots of scribes were pretty pissed that some asshole German and his machine not only stabbed their profession in the heart, but did it with what was really a substandard result (look at illuminated manuscripts and then look at the Gutenberg Bible, it's the 128bit MP3 of its day!)
I hate to correct you, but Gutenberg's 42-lines-Bible of 1455 is among the most beautiful foliants ever edited, and till today it's the gold standard of typography (though it lacks some of today's features as pagination, indention and paragraph breaks). It surely ranks among the best of all mediaval books.
Hm... Am I that old? I had my first web site in 1994, and I handcompiled Mosaic for OSF/1, AIX and HP/UX at the same time. But then... my first self written web server (although a very limited one) launched late in 1996 or 1997... so maybe I am not that new anyway.
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So how comes that in every group with about the same number of males and females, the average number of sexual partners of the opposite sex is the same for males and females?
(And yes, this is a statistical necessity, no point in arguing against. To be more specific, if there are m males and f females in a group, then the average number of sexual partners of the opposite sex for a male is f/m times the average number for females.)
Actually entities have occasionally (though it is rare) been sued by the FSF for doing "anything" with Linux; violating the GPL.
Actually those entities have not been sued because of the type of application they developed or who they were. Those entities have been sued because they violated the license of the code they used but didn't develop themselves -- an entirely different thing.
A logical first step would be to switch over to VOIP just before the last-mile, to allow people to keep their existing phones - which (I think) would kill dial-up and faxes.
No, it doesn't. If the actual voice encoding is for instance G.711, it works fine with Fax and Dial-Up. Alternatively one could use T.38 for Fax.
Disclaimer: I install VoIP switches for a living.
But this is true for any analog signal on a digital carrier, because down at the wire level (even if the "wire" is glass), the signal is analog.
The big advantage with "free" is that every work has to be done only once. It can be done several times, and this doesn't hurt either. Differently than with walled gardens, where you have lots of small little boxes with something in it, free creates a large body of knowledge and solutions and results.
Microsoft once used to similar: A single but huge heap of solutions, where you could find something. Not necessarily the best, not necessarily the most advanced, but something was there. But by now they don't have the manpower anymore to compete everywhere against free combined with good search algorithms to find solutions.
In practice, with the advent of ABS, most people drive faster, thus the general braking distances might be longer. But from the same speed, there is only one situation where an ABS causes longer braking distances: If the ground is not solid, but consists of sand, gravel or freshly fallen snow: Then blocking wheels will cause a fair amount of material to collect in front of the wheels and thus causing better contact to the ground.
It's the only example I can think of where MS beat a strong competitor the old fashioned way (ie: with a better product).
Excel would be another one.
You are barking up the wrong tree. I am all for secret voting. It was the grand parent who was saying:
I guess I'm broken. I'd rather have my open vote count, than my private vote lost.
There is no point in counting open votes, because they have no value at all. If you run into troubles for not voting publicly, this is equivalent to running into trouble for voting for the wrong person.
You don't need electronic voting to establish a non-FPTP system. Non-FPTP works fine in european states with paper and pencil voting.
As someone who grew up in a country, where "Open Voting" was the norm and using the voting cabin was being frowned upon I tell you: You have no clue.
To actually get an asynchronous motor in a car working and to control the speed you need some sophisticated electronics which weren't available when the gas pressure cars were initially developed.
They were first developed to be used in environments, where sparks could lead to an explosion (e.g. chemical plants or refineries). There you can't use electric cars.
There is only one Hilbert Problem which still doesn't have a solution, and that's the Riemann Hypothesis.
Solutions to problems can also be invented in Mathematics.
Take the real numbers. There are several ways to describe their "continuity", or the idea that any infinite decimal fraction always denotes a well-defined real number.
For instance we have Bolzano-Weierstrass, we have Dirichlet, we have Cauchy. All try to tackle the same problem, and from an axiomatic point of view they are equivalent: Given one, we can prove the others.
The fact that all those approaches are equivalent, was surely discovered. But the approaches themselves are invented.
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The question of excising names from archives has not yet been resolved by the German courts, he said.
There is no such concept as precedence in the German law. Every judge and every court is free to decide based solely on the current law and the merits of the case. There is something called prevailing opinion, but this is not obligatory, it is rather used as a shortcut by judges to reach a decision.
Only decisions by the highest courts (BVG = Federal Constitutional Court and BGH = Federal Court of Justice) are binding.
We are talking Micro Black Holes here, and those appear in our atmosphere quite often. So no, we don't need to look at far away galaxies to make some observations.
This sounds like a major obstacle to me. One professional, presumably paid, driver to every eight vehicles sounds expensive and pretty impractical.
No, the driver is not there to wait for cars wanting to form a road train. The professional driver is there because he has to drive the route anyway, transporting freight or whatever. Road trains will be formed spontaneously, when someone decides to join the truck and tailgate it. And as soon as the leading truck is heading somewhere else, you are free to leave the road train again.
Ok, my last year's running time over 5000 m was 27:16 min, this year I finished in 20:26 min. Any further questions? And no, I don't run regularly. I guess my whole distance run this year so far is less than 50 km.
But sure - exercise alone and diet alone isn't going to lose you weight. You need to do both.
Just eating less worked fine for me. I went from 230 pounds to 200 pounds within two months easily, and I am staying at 200 pounds since them.
The number of 2500 to 3000 kcal is a tad high. If you aren't doing physical work, try 1800 to 2200 kcal a day.
I have often the GPS showing me my current speed, and I also have a digital speedometer. I guess that the intervals for updating the current speed are about one second at the speedometer and about 10 seconds at the GPS.
No, the Germans named all their awards the same and make a difference just by the level. The Federal Cross of Merit thus has nine levels. (I am still trying to find out which level he got.)
I'm sure lots of scribes were pretty pissed that some asshole German and his machine not only stabbed their profession in the heart, but did it with what was really a substandard result (look at illuminated manuscripts and then look at the Gutenberg Bible, it's the 128bit MP3 of its day!)
I hate to correct you, but Gutenberg's 42-lines-Bible of 1455 is among the most beautiful foliants ever edited, and till today it's the gold standard of typography (though it lacks some of today's features as pagination, indention and paragraph breaks). It surely ranks among the best of all mediaval books.
Hm... Am I that old? I had my first web site in 1994, and I handcompiled Mosaic for OSF/1, AIX and HP/UX at the same time. But then... my first self written web server (although a very limited one) launched late in 1996 or 1997... so maybe I am not that new anyway.
Yes, they say who ever has to show around his big dick, compensates for the missing Ferrari in his garage.