There are several studies showing that winning the lottery is the most common way to get rich if born into poverty. And even most non-lottery-winners that made it have only one big bump in their fortune history. After that, their fortune grows similar to that of someone who just bought some common bonds and cashed in on the interest.
Replying to myself: Most insects don't transport much of their oxygene via the blood anyway, they have tracheae, which basicly connect the inner parts of the body directly to the outside. The role of the blood in insects is more akin to that of the lymph in vertebrae.
That's why it's called shrimplike. It's definitely no shrimp, it's not even a crustacea, it's an animal that was close to the common ancestor of insects, crustaceans and spiders.
It actually is not. This has been thoroughly tested with studio equipment (including the headphones) and with music professionals and semi-professionals as testers. While 128 kbps can be told apart, it gets close to random chance with 192 kbps, and with 256 kbps, only some people with impaired(!) hearing can tell the difference, because the physical properties of their ears are quite different to a normal public, and the compression algorithms are not adapted to the acoustic properties of their hearing abilities. At 320 kbps, no one will hear any difference even on high end studio equipment.
I've got about a dozen recordings on both CD and vinyl. My own experience is that vinyl has different timbre, which many describe as "warmer" than the CDs I have. It certainly feels more... I dunno what words best describe it... "organic" maybe? It's definitely different. But is it better? That's up to you.
Yes, that "warmer" sound is called "low pass filtered". As a vinyl recording is limited to about 60 dB, while a CD has 96 dB, the vinyl recording is missing lots of higher frequencies (and some of the very low ones too). You can easily simulate the "warmer" sound of vinyl by just low pass filtering the CD signal. And the "better" sound in this case is more likely "what I was listening to when my listening taste developed". As the turnover from vinyl and MC to CD happened between 1980 and 1995, older people born before 1975 tend to like the low pass filtered sound better, while younger people who were never that much exposed to the 60 dB sound of vinyl, think it just sounds hollow or muffled, if they hear it now.
(Real, live music has a much higher share of high frequency noise than both vinyl and CD, but it gets mastered and filtered to the tastes of the listening public.)
More like the fact that until affordable 3D printing comes along, there is no point in having CAD software targeted at non-professionals. Intuitive CAD software is missing because there never was any demand for it outside of people who actually liked to write CAD packages as a hobby.
I am not the developer, I am merely the user, and I have to use what's installed on the systems, because that's their maintenance interface, and I am not going to develop an own interface in my free time.
You can say a lot of bad things about Java, but the JVM really neatly solves this problem.
It solves the problem so neatly that we keep several VMs around with different Java versions, just to maintain older systems that were developed with Java 1.3 or 1.4 and break as soon as you install Java6 oder Java7.
Mandating standards is so stupid, that every vendor uses its own plugs, has his own specification for power, his own definition of racks... This fosters innovation, right?
No. Having standards is actually a precondition for competition. Your product can only compete with another product if there is any base for comparision. And that base is called a standard. There are governmentally mandated standards, and there are industry standards, but they are standards nonetheless. If you want to know how horrible a situation without standards can get, look at the U.S. railway system before 1850. For a trip from Philadelphia to Charleston, you had to change trains seven times, because eight different companies were operating the tracks inbetween, each one with a different gauge. Governmentally regulated standard gauges changed that, and just this improved services on all train services, because only now a waggon could go across the tracks of different operators.
Yes, standards can become entrenched and starting to hinder innovation if being to rigid and not allowing for flexibility in the areas where most of the innovation happens, but that's a problem one can attack of the situation arises. Until then having a standards is at first a blessing for both producers and consumers alike.
Respect won't help me pay my bills. Why should I invest money and innovate when I will get absolutely nothing tangible in return?
Because of the fun doing so? If you plant flowers in your front yard and mow the lawn inbetween and repaint the facade, it looks nice for everyone walking along. But you are not entitled any remuneration of the passers-by. So why you are doing it anyway?
Red Hat has nothing to do with ODF. StarOffice, the venerable predecessor of OpenOffice and LibreOffice back in the day, had their headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. And ODF is the native file format of OpenOffice and LibreOffice. (And even the database engine has german roots: It's the old SAP DB, originally developped by Software AG and then bought by SAP, both being german companies).
Nicholas of Myra is not the first person, of whom a lot of legends exist with no direct connection to reality. But just telling some very phantastical stories of someone doesn't make him irreal. (And yes, he was always depicted with a red mantle, even in the oldest icons known of him. He was bishop in Myra, and the red dress is the bishop's mantle.)
But Santa is real in the sense that there was a historical person later called St. Nicholas or Santa Claus. He was born in the late 3rd century between 270 and 286 AD, died at Dec 6 probably in one of the years 326 AD, 345 AD, 351 AD or 365 AD. He was buried in Myra (today's Demre in Turkey), and his grave was broken into in 1087 AD, his remains taken and again buried in the Basilica di San Nicola of Bari, Italy. You can still visit his sarcophagus in Demre and his remains in Bari. And yes, he is famous for anonymously sending gifts to people.
You misunderstand the term "filter" here. Information at first glance is just the inverse of probability (see C. Shannon for details). Yes, all information that gets to you is filtered in a sense that you never get the complete information. (Even your senses filter the information.) But on the Internet, there are hundreds and thousands of filters at work, and each one works differently, filters differently and has different flaws. And you can get the same information differently filtered from different sources. In an idealized Internet, all the filters will add some white noise to the information that gets to you, but mainly the different biases will cancel out each other.
Only if a single filter (or a collection of a few filters) gets prevalent, your information in general will be strongly biased.
You realize that "the fall of man" is a) an english term coined long after the original text was published in hebrew, and b) not used in the Bible, yes? And you know that in other languages, the same idea is called "original sin", which is not bound to any gender or sex? (And again, the word "original sin" is not used in the Bible either).
You are just sporting the same misogyny the english Middle Age scholars sported when they coined the term.
You know that copyright itself is not criminal law? It's civil law, and there the concept of "guilt" in a criminal sense doesn't exist. There is damage, and there is the damaged party, and if the damaged party can show they lost something (money, value, integrity), they are entitled the other party stopping whatever caused the damage and compensation for the losses. And for that, preponderance of evidence is sufficient. All you have to show is that you lost something and that the action (or non-action, presence, absence, whatever) of someone else caused you to lose it.
Yes, if there is sufficient evidence that the damage will increase if the other party is allowed to continue, the damaged party is even entitled to demand from the damaging party to immediately stop whatever they are up to, before things are settled in court.
This is a completely false analogy. People became sick all the time and were dying, and contagious spread of illness was wellknown. And even the Sumerians were already theorizing that spreading could be caused by very little animals jumping from person to person, too small to be seen with the bare eye. And sickness befell everyone, independent of the personal belief.
Differently than that, paranormal activity can't be seen by anyone except by people actually believing in paranormal activity.
It isn't. It's called censorship if someone else is hiding information from you or denying access. If you don't use Mozilla because you don't like the head honcho for what reason ever, it's called free choice.
Actually, no. When I was 13, I was busily fighting off nicknames others were trying to hang onto me. My current handle is the nickname that finally stuck, when I was 15.
In a free country, everything the government does, can be spelled as "The goverment forbids...", because in a free country, everything is allowed except for the things that are explicitely forbidden.
Only if it was forbidden before, the government actually can allow something.
Why do advertisers give themselves the right to pollute people's memory long-term with their shit?
With the same right you reserve for you the right to pollute people's memory long-term with your opinion. Advertisement is just the spread of an opinion, that it might be sensible/enjoyable/cool to buy a certain product or brand. You might disagree with the opinion (rightfully so), but in general, the advertiser has the right to spread it, and if some media agree to carry his opinion (even if they are paid to), it's their right.
Yes, you don't have the means or the money to spread your opinion as far and wide as an advertiser with his advertising budget, but on the other hand, the way the advertiser is allowed to spread his opinion is strongly regulated, differently to yours.
We know the conundrum since 350 years, it's written down in Friedrich Spee's "Cautio Criminalis". Torture doesn't yield reliable results, if any. Because even if someone in the know might reveal something useful under torture, someone who isn't, won't, but they might just say anything, if true or not. And if you then, based on those confessions of unclear truth, arrest the next one, what will his interrogation yield? And someone in the know, who knows the unreliability of confessions under torture, might even blatantly lie to the interrogators, causing them to go after false leads and thus winning time for his cause, while someone innocent is taken into custody and tortured without any chance to ever produce something of use for the interrogators. All you get is a huge bunch of white (actually bloodish red) noise, and everthing possibly useful is drowned into lots of worthless or outright false statements.
Torture only works for confessions of things you already knew for sure. Then you can force someone to give up and confess. But as an investigative method, it is just unproductive. If you don't know what the suspect knows, how can you tell if he reveals something of value? And how many not-so-bad guys came under torture because of misleading statements, produced more misleading statements (as they didn't know shit), but when they were released they bore a grudge against their torturers and had firsthand knowledge of their structure, mentality, inner workings and locations?
As she was not even a teenager at the time, that looks to me like very strong compulsion from authority figures.
Actually, she was a teenager. As 13 ends in -teen, she was literally a teen-ager, in this case, she was a thirteen-ager. And yes, that's the meaning of the word. A teenager is someone whose age ends with -teen.
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There are several studies showing that winning the lottery is the most common way to get rich if born into poverty. And even most non-lottery-winners that made it have only one big bump in their fortune history. After that, their fortune grows similar to that of someone who just bought some common bonds and cashed in on the interest.
Replying to myself: Most insects don't transport much of their oxygene via the blood anyway, they have tracheae, which basicly connect the inner parts of the body directly to the outside. The role of the blood in insects is more akin to that of the lymph in vertebrae.
No, they don't. Sponges, medusae and polyps don't have a cardiovascular system for instance.
That's why it's called shrimplike. It's definitely no shrimp, it's not even a crustacea, it's an animal that was close to the common ancestor of insects, crustaceans and spiders.
It actually is not. This has been thoroughly tested with studio equipment (including the headphones) and with music professionals and semi-professionals as testers. While 128 kbps can be told apart, it gets close to random chance with 192 kbps, and with 256 kbps, only some people with impaired(!) hearing can tell the difference, because the physical properties of their ears are quite different to a normal public, and the compression algorithms are not adapted to the acoustic properties of their hearing abilities. At 320 kbps, no one will hear any difference even on high end studio equipment.
I've got about a dozen recordings on both CD and vinyl. My own experience is that vinyl has different timbre, which many describe as "warmer" than the CDs I have. It certainly feels more... I dunno what words best describe it... "organic" maybe? It's definitely different. But is it better? That's up to you.
Yes, that "warmer" sound is called "low pass filtered". As a vinyl recording is limited to about 60 dB, while a CD has 96 dB, the vinyl recording is missing lots of higher frequencies (and some of the very low ones too). You can easily simulate the "warmer" sound of vinyl by just low pass filtering the CD signal. And the "better" sound in this case is more likely "what I was listening to when my listening taste developed". As the turnover from vinyl and MC to CD happened between 1980 and 1995, older people born before 1975 tend to like the low pass filtered sound better, while younger people who were never that much exposed to the 60 dB sound of vinyl, think it just sounds hollow or muffled, if they hear it now.
(Real, live music has a much higher share of high frequency noise than both vinyl and CD, but it gets mastered and filtered to the tastes of the listening public.)
As it seems, they are just vapor and will vanish if you try to catch them.
More like the fact that until affordable 3D printing comes along, there is no point in having CAD software targeted at non-professionals. Intuitive CAD software is missing because there never was any demand for it outside of people who actually liked to write CAD packages as a hobby.
I am not the developer, I am merely the user, and I have to use what's installed on the systems, because that's their maintenance interface, and I am not going to develop an own interface in my free time.
You can say a lot of bad things about Java, but the JVM really neatly solves this problem.
It solves the problem so neatly that we keep several VMs around with different Java versions, just to maintain older systems that were developed with Java 1.3 or 1.4 and break as soon as you install Java6 oder Java7.
No. Having standards is actually a precondition for competition. Your product can only compete with another product if there is any base for comparision. And that base is called a standard. There are governmentally mandated standards, and there are industry standards, but they are standards nonetheless. If you want to know how horrible a situation without standards can get, look at the U.S. railway system before 1850. For a trip from Philadelphia to Charleston, you had to change trains seven times, because eight different companies were operating the tracks inbetween, each one with a different gauge. Governmentally regulated standard gauges changed that, and just this improved services on all train services, because only now a waggon could go across the tracks of different operators.
Yes, standards can become entrenched and starting to hinder innovation if being to rigid and not allowing for flexibility in the areas where most of the innovation happens, but that's a problem one can attack of the situation arises. Until then having a standards is at first a blessing for both producers and consumers alike.
Respect won't help me pay my bills. Why should I invest money and innovate when I will get absolutely nothing tangible in return?
Because of the fun doing so? If you plant flowers in your front yard and mow the lawn inbetween and repaint the facade, it looks nice for everyone walking along. But you are not entitled any remuneration of the passers-by. So why you are doing it anyway?
Red Hat has nothing to do with ODF. StarOffice, the venerable predecessor of OpenOffice and LibreOffice back in the day, had their headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. And ODF is the native file format of OpenOffice and LibreOffice. (And even the database engine has german roots: It's the old SAP DB, originally developped by Software AG and then bought by SAP, both being german companies).
Nicholas of Myra is not the first person, of whom a lot of legends exist with no direct connection to reality. But just telling some very phantastical stories of someone doesn't make him irreal. (And yes, he was always depicted with a red mantle, even in the oldest icons known of him. He was bishop in Myra, and the red dress is the bishop's mantle.)
But Santa is real in the sense that there was a historical person later called St. Nicholas or Santa Claus. He was born in the late 3rd century between 270 and 286 AD, died at Dec 6 probably in one of the years 326 AD, 345 AD, 351 AD or 365 AD. He was buried in Myra (today's Demre in Turkey), and his grave was broken into in 1087 AD, his remains taken and again buried in the Basilica di San Nicola of Bari, Italy. You can still visit his sarcophagus in Demre and his remains in Bari. And yes, he is famous for anonymously sending gifts to people.
Only if a single filter (or a collection of a few filters) gets prevalent, your information in general will be strongly biased.
You are just sporting the same misogyny the english Middle Age scholars sported when they coined the term.
Yes, if there is sufficient evidence that the damage will increase if the other party is allowed to continue, the damaged party is even entitled to demand from the damaging party to immediately stop whatever they are up to, before things are settled in court.
Differently than that, paranormal activity can't be seen by anyone except by people actually believing in paranormal activity.
It isn't. It's called censorship if someone else is hiding information from you or denying access. If you don't use Mozilla because you don't like the head honcho for what reason ever, it's called free choice.
Actually, no. When I was 13, I was busily fighting off nicknames others were trying to hang onto me. My current handle is the nickname that finally stuck, when I was 15.
Only if it was forbidden before, the government actually can allow something.
Why do advertisers give themselves the right to pollute people's memory long-term with their shit?
With the same right you reserve for you the right to pollute people's memory long-term with your opinion. Advertisement is just the spread of an opinion, that it might be sensible/enjoyable/cool to buy a certain product or brand. You might disagree with the opinion (rightfully so), but in general, the advertiser has the right to spread it, and if some media agree to carry his opinion (even if they are paid to), it's their right.
Yes, you don't have the means or the money to spread your opinion as far and wide as an advertiser with his advertising budget, but on the other hand, the way the advertiser is allowed to spread his opinion is strongly regulated, differently to yours.
Torture only works for confessions of things you already knew for sure. Then you can force someone to give up and confess. But as an investigative method, it is just unproductive. If you don't know what the suspect knows, how can you tell if he reveals something of value? And how many not-so-bad guys came under torture because of misleading statements, produced more misleading statements (as they didn't know shit), but when they were released they bore a grudge against their torturers and had firsthand knowledge of their structure, mentality, inner workings and locations?
As she was not even a teenager at the time, that looks to me like very strong compulsion from authority figures.
Actually, she was a teenager. As 13 ends in -teen, she was literally a teen-ager, in this case, she was a thirteen-ager. And yes, that's the meaning of the word. A teenager is someone whose age ends with -teen.