In the UK the new Radiohead costs £12.99 in the shops and £8.49 from Amazon. Then the record industry complains that people aren't buying CDs anymore and places the entire blame on internet piracy.
Just a thought but could there be a problem with overpricing or even the effects of the global downturn?
Nah, on second thoughts it couldn't be anything as far out as that - must be internet piracy.
1. Quit your job and move to a more enlightened company. 2. Go on strike if its not illegal in your country. 3. Live in a country that protects its employees. For example France or some other European country with laws to protect the rights of workers.
Kids don't want to program any more because there already are programs to do most of the things kids want to do.
That's the difference not a lack of tools. Let's face it there's loads of tools out there (GCC, Delphi, FreePascal, VB.NET, C#.NET etc. etc.) that you can get for free. And when we were all programming C64/Speccie/Beeb we had to be pretty damn resourceful. It was much harder to start with those machines than to start with a modern PC.
I think that what we learn from all this is that mathematicians are not very good at making jokes. These jokes are all terrible...or is that the whole point of jokes?
Note that I am a mathematician so I feel justified to slag off my fellow maths types.
I hope that the US set up a form of democracy in Iraq that is closely based on the US model. It's clear from reading these posts that it is the best and fairest democracy in the world. I hope that the rest of the world adopts it soon. What would the rest of the world be like without us helpful benevolent western nations? Surely they could not run themselves well without us telling them how to do it. In fact why don't we all join the USA? I guess the flag would have to be changed to fit all the extra stars on.
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What would be interesting would be some analysis of the distribution of the "less than one dollar" part of your change.
By this I mean the part of your change that is given in coins assuming that the whole dollars are returned as bills.
The news item said:
Shallit assumed that every amount of change between 0 and 99 cents is equally likely.
But in reality this is not the case. With prices like $1.99 so common you are much more likely to get a cent back than 99 cents.
Incidentally, there is no need to consider 0 cents change since it doesn't matter what coins are available!
I was recently in the states and as a European found the 25 cent coin rather confusing. Because I'm used to European denominations 1,2,5,10,20,50 I found it really hard to do the sums. For example 37=25+10+1+1 rather than 37=20+10+2 feels odd to me and I have to think very hard to do it. It's amazing how such seemingly small things throw you.
What's the strangest set of coin denominations in use today?
Well go ahead, burn a flag next to the town hall. I dare you. But you won't because you know what will happen. You might win the court case in 4 years time but you will be done over in the meantime.
You should have included the entire dictionary.com entry which reads:
1. Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective: random movements. See Synonyms at chance.
2. Mathematics & Statistics. Of or relating to a type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.
3. Of or relating to an event in which all outcomes are equally likely, as in the testing of a blood sample for the presence of a substance.
So, your statement "If the coin is biased, the process is not random." is contradicted by definition 2. In fact definition 2 and 3 contradict each other.
Mathematicians, probabilists and statisticians do indeed take the view expressed in definition 2 - random processes have outcomes which are more likely than others.
If any sequence is impossible, or any more likely than another, it would not be random.
Sorry to be a total pedant but this should read "If any sequence is impossible, or any more likely than another, it would not be uniformly distributed."
A biased coin is an example of a random process for which some outcomes are more likely than others.
If the prestigious and world famous Department of Informatics at Wollongong University have taken this decision then I'm pretty sure the rest of the world will follow suit in short order.
This story is typical Slashdot. Small university department moves to Linux (= big story); Multinational Company switches from Sun to Microsoft (=no news).
Are you saying that with the implicit "to" the title would read "HP to heavily to support and..."? That doesn't make sense to me so I guess you mean something else. How should the title read with the implicit "to" made explicit?
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Anyone got a view on whether GPL software meets this definition of "open source software"?
If it doesn't then the bill is rather pointless.
In the UK the new Radiohead costs £12.99 in the shops and £8.49 from Amazon. Then the record industry complains that people aren't buying CDs anymore and places the entire blame on internet piracy.
Just a thought but could there be a problem with overpricing or even the effects of the global downturn?
Nah, on second thoughts it couldn't be anything as far out as that - must be internet piracy.
1. Quit your job and move to a more enlightened company.
2. Go on strike if its not illegal in your country.
3. Live in a country that protects its employees. For example France or some other European country with laws to protect the rights of workers.
Kids don't want to program any more because there already are programs to do most of the things kids want to do.
That's the difference not a lack of tools. Let's face it there's loads of tools out there (GCC, Delphi, FreePascal, VB.NET, C#.NET etc. etc.) that you can get for free. And when we were all programming C64/Speccie/Beeb we had to be pretty damn resourceful. It was much harder to start with those machines than to start with a modern PC.
I have an alternative joke..... Oh no wait a minute I don't....
I think that what we learn from all this is that mathematicians are not very good at making jokes. These jokes are all terrible...or is that the whole point of jokes?
Note that I am a mathematician so I feel justified to slag off my fellow maths types.
The cross product is defined for pairs of 3-vectors over any field (real, complex, finite etc.)
I hope that the US set up a form of democracy in Iraq that is closely based on the US model. It's clear from reading these posts that it is the best and fairest democracy in the world. I hope that the rest of the world adopts it soon. What would the rest of the world be like without us helpful benevolent western nations? Surely they could not run themselves well without us telling them how to do it. In fact why don't we all join the USA? I guess the flag would have to be changed to fit all the extra stars on.
What would be interesting would be some analysis of the distribution of the "less than one dollar" part of your change.
By this I mean the part of your change that is given in coins assuming that the whole dollars are returned as bills.
The news item said:
Shallit assumed that every amount of change between 0 and 99 cents is equally likely.
But in reality this is not the case. With prices like $1.99 so common you are much more likely to get a cent back than 99 cents.
Incidentally, there is no need to consider 0 cents change since it doesn't matter what coins are available!
I was recently in the states and as a European found the 25 cent coin rather confusing. Because I'm used to European denominations 1,2,5,10,20,50 I found it really hard to do the sums. For example 37=25+10+1+1 rather than 37=20+10+2 feels odd to me and I have to think very hard to do it. It's amazing how such seemingly small things throw you.
What's the strangest set of coin denominations in use today?
I wonder what the outcome would be if iD released Doom3 exclusivly for Linux.
iD would go bust.
.....go and live in Iraq with no money. We would sure lose some weight then.
Well go ahead, burn a flag next to the town hall. I dare you. But you won't because you know what will happen. You might win the court case in 4 years time but you will be done over in the meantime.
Since when have people been entitled to speek freely in the USA. Try burning their flag on US soil. Or ask Jello Biafra about free speech.
You should have included the entire dictionary.com entry which reads:
1. Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective: random movements. See Synonyms at chance.
2. Mathematics & Statistics. Of or relating to a type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.
3. Of or relating to an event in which all outcomes are equally likely, as in the testing of a blood sample for the presence of a substance.
So, your statement "If the coin is biased, the process is not random." is contradicted by definition 2. In fact definition 2 and 3 contradict each other.
Mathematicians, probabilists and statisticians do indeed take the view expressed in definition 2 - random processes have outcomes which are more likely than others.
If any sequence is impossible, or any more likely than another, it would not be random.
Sorry to be a total pedant but this should read "If any sequence is impossible, or any more likely than another, it would not be uniformly distributed." A biased coin is an example of a random process for which some outcomes are more likely than others.
That sounds like a really clear and intuitive idiom...NOT!
If the prestigious and world famous Department of Informatics at Wollongong University have taken this decision then I'm pretty sure the rest of the world will follow suit in short order.
This story is typical Slashdot. Small university department moves to Linux (= big story); Multinational Company switches from Sun to Microsoft (=no news).
Small earthquake in Chile, not many dead.
Yawn.
Could someone please tell me where to download the Opera source?
Will they be able to write without splitting infinitives?
Are you saying that with the implicit "to" the title would read "HP to heavily to support and ..."? That doesn't make sense to me so I guess you mean something else. How should the title read with the implicit "to" made explicit?
Well, I'm entitled to my opinion as you are to yours.
The title of the original post.
Well, I disagree with this. In my opinion the split infinitive sometimes makes comprehension more difficult.
Actually split infinitives make language harder to understand. That's why we have grammar, to help us understand each other.
grammar seems a bit poor in the title....