I want a phone that makes phone calls, and has a way to store phone numbers. That's all I care about.
Then why was your entire post up to that point complaining about how your new phone doesn't have the features you wanted like being able to easily open with one hand, and a screen on the outside for caller ID?
You have nothing to lose**, and you'll learn heaps doing this stuff - well done!
**apart from stupid lawsuits, angry Dads and potentially the local Fire department:)
At first, I thought you noted 'lose' with asterisks to alert everyone to the first time in the history of Slashdot where someone spelled it correctly. Congratulations!
While perhaps a flop, it was still fun doing the long jump in track and field by grabbing onto the rafters after you jumped and hanging there for a few seconds. The game would know if you waited too long to jump back on that you were cheating.
That is *not* what the of averages states, at least the law of averages that probabilists know about. See Grimmet and Stirzaker in the first chapter for how the law of averages is defined precisely. It has nothing to do with the expectation of the next toss conditional on the previous ones. Also, it has nothing to do with standard deviation. I think you can read most probability books and only see that term brough up once or twice. The domain of our question is definitely in probability, you don't have to use any statistics at all.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Have you ever studied 'almost sure convergence'? My only hope is that you are purposefully trying to spread misinformation at this point. The only way that the distance is going to grow in either direction is *if* the coin is biased. The easiest way to of course solve this is just by trying it. I suggest reading about people who have tried it in 'The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Inference' by Epstein, and then running some simulations on your own, taking larger and larger samples from a binomial distribution. My guess? Your results will follow a normal distribution, and the mean number of heads will be about one half the sample size. Contact me if you want code to run tihs simulation.
Maybe you just need to stop being so cynical. Tonight I've been reading (for homework) papers on AIDS clinical trials. These are on the incredible advances in HIV fighting methods since the 1980's. Where was this research conducted? The USA. Who published these papers? The New England Journal of Medicine. What company made the wonderdrugs to increase AIDS survival so drastically. GlaxoSmithKline, a USA company. Now that's just what I did tonight, an incredibly small portion of all the cool R and D going on in this country. It seems to me the US is still a pretty decent place to live, but I suppose since China is putting Linux on a phone that it's on the 'path of improvement'. Now I'm not blindly cheerleading for the USA, but really, open your eyes. There are tons of opportunities for you in this country, why don't you use some of them?
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As you can see, I wrote a similar reply to our misinformed friend. I'm glad someone other than myself can still read the qualifier "if".:-) It tends to change the meaning of sentences in quite dramatic ways!
Dell is selling you a computer with spyware PRE-INSTALLED
Says who??? The only place it says that is in the write-up submitted to Slashdot. Let's have a look at what spywareinfo has to say...
If you or a family member receive a Dell PC as a gift this Christmas, you may be in for a surprise, if it becomes infected with spyware.
So it sounds like just what the parent of your post claimed; they simply won't help you remove the crap you put on yourself. Try to keep your facts straight next time instead of jumping to unwarranted conclusions. Also, use that advice for all your life's endeavors.
Guess what else costs money? 10,000 students running Kazaa 24 hours a day! It costs *a lot* of money. At the university I used to work with, Kazaa was over 70% of the traffic per day, and that was on school days. On off days, it was well over 90%. You do realize someone has to pay the ISP per Mb used, right? Now whose interest is it in to curb usage of something the network wasn't designed for in the first place.
But can they opt out of purchasing access altogether? No... they are a captive audience.
Of course they can opt out. Don't sign up at the beginning of the year. Get another form of internet access in your room. No one forces you onto the university network, a network to be used for academic purposes only.
Can anyone report how many dollars in bandwidth per month it is costing students/states simply because of Kazaa? Most places keep Mb logs of how much traffic flows over each popular service. I'm guessing at a large university, it is definitely into upper 6 or lower 7 figures for the whole year. That's a dozen senior faculty members' salaries for the year.
Yes, the university network is for RESEARCH and ACADEMICS, period. Most places don't stick to that 100%, but usually the TOS you sign bans even personal e-mails over the network. Of course this is rarely inforced, but the point is that the internet connection just can't be used for whatever the student wants. It is a very standard practice.
Here's just one example I found out of many I remember where the exact kind of think I described in my parent post is going on. Check it out, see for yourself the change in opinion. What people were calling on the RIAA to do years ago (punish the illegal traders individually while I use Napster to download legal mp3's of garage bands) is what the RIAA is now doing.
I remember most Slashdot posts back when the RIAA was trying to get Napster shut down. They were to the effect, "Napster is just a tool, it can be used to share legitimite things too! Go after the actual offenders, not the tool!" Now the RIAA is going after the actual offenders. Guess the general opinion has changed since those Napster days. I called bullshit back then too, we all knew Napster was all about illegal file-sharing back then. Don't believe me? Go back and look through the Slahdot stories covering those issues, you'll see what I mean.
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I want a phone that makes phone calls, and has a way to store phone numbers. That's all I care about.
Then why was your entire post up to that point complaining about how your new phone doesn't have the features you wanted like being able to easily open with one hand, and a screen on the outside for caller ID?
I for one salute our science community. Keep up the good work folks.
The science community thanks you for your support. We are currently accepting cash donations.
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You have nothing to lose**, and you'll learn heaps doing this stuff - well done!
:)
**apart from stupid lawsuits, angry Dads and potentially the local Fire department
At first, I thought you noted 'lose' with asterisks to alert everyone to the first time in the history of Slashdot where someone spelled it correctly. Congratulations!
While perhaps a flop, it was still fun doing the long jump in track and field by grabbing onto the rafters after you jumped and hanging there for a few seconds. The game would know if you waited too long to jump back on that you were cheating.
Having a large bisceps can be trained in far more satisfying games than pumping a gamepad.
What you say???!!!
That is *not* what the of averages states, at least the law of averages that probabilists know about. See Grimmet and Stirzaker in the first chapter for how the law of averages is defined precisely. It has nothing to do with the expectation of the next toss conditional on the previous ones. Also, it has nothing to do with standard deviation. I think you can read most probability books and only see that term brough up once or twice. The domain of our question is definitely in probability, you don't have to use any statistics at all.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Have you ever studied 'almost sure convergence'? My only hope is that you are purposefully trying to spread misinformation at this point. The only way that the distance is going to grow in either direction is *if* the coin is biased. The easiest way to of course solve this is just by trying it. I suggest reading about people who have tried it in 'The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Inference' by Epstein, and then running some simulations on your own, taking larger and larger samples from a binomial distribution. My guess? Your results will follow a normal distribution, and the mean number of heads will be about one half the sample size. Contact me if you want code to run tihs simulation.
The fact that this post got modded to +5 has shown that almost all , if not, all logical reasoning and analytical ability has left this place.
This study stinks!
If people don't like the music, then why are they downloading it to listen to?
Maybe you just need to stop being so cynical. Tonight I've been reading (for homework) papers on AIDS clinical trials. These are on the incredible advances in HIV fighting methods since the 1980's. Where was this research conducted? The USA. Who published these papers? The New England Journal of Medicine. What company made the wonderdrugs to increase AIDS survival so drastically. GlaxoSmithKline, a USA company. Now that's just what I did tonight, an incredibly small portion of all the cool R and D going on in this country. It seems to me the US is still a pretty decent place to live, but I suppose since China is putting Linux on a phone that it's on the 'path of improvement'. Now I'm not blindly cheerleading for the USA, but really, open your eyes. There are tons of opportunities for you in this country, why don't you use some of them?
http://gotapex.com
Uhm, I don't think so. Wait, "got apex", whew.
I'm sorry, if my teammates are groping, I'm quitting.
As you can see, I wrote a similar reply to our misinformed friend. I'm glad someone other than myself can still read the qualifier "if". :-) It tends to change the meaning of sentences in quite dramatic ways!
Dell is selling you a computer with spyware PRE-INSTALLED
Says who??? The only place it says that is in the write-up submitted to Slashdot. Let's have a look at what spywareinfo has to say...
If you or a family member receive a Dell PC as a gift this Christmas, you may be in for a surprise, if it becomes infected with spyware.
So it sounds like just what the parent of your post claimed; they simply won't help you remove the crap you put on yourself. Try to keep your facts straight next time instead of jumping to unwarranted conclusions. Also, use that advice for all your life's endeavors.
Holy pi hole!
Tolkien wrote his works for a narrow literate audience
You've just inspired me. I am going to try the opposite strategy and write a book for a large illiterate audience. Looks like I just found calling.
Guess what else costs money? 10,000 students running Kazaa 24 hours a day! It costs *a lot* of money. At the university I used to work with, Kazaa was over 70% of the traffic per day, and that was on school days. On off days, it was well over 90%. You do realize someone has to pay the ISP per Mb used, right? Now whose interest is it in to curb usage of something the network wasn't designed for in the first place.
But can they opt out of purchasing access altogether? No... they are a captive audience.
Of course they can opt out. Don't sign up at the beginning of the year. Get another form of internet access in your room. No one forces you onto the university network, a network to be used for academic purposes only.
Can anyone report how many dollars in bandwidth per month it is costing students/states simply because of Kazaa? Most places keep Mb logs of how much traffic flows over each popular service. I'm guessing at a large university, it is definitely into upper 6 or lower 7 figures for the whole year. That's a dozen senior faculty members' salaries for the year.
Yes, the university network is for RESEARCH and ACADEMICS, period. Most places don't stick to that 100%, but usually the TOS you sign bans even personal e-mails over the network. Of course this is rarely inforced, but the point is that the internet connection just can't be used for whatever the student wants. It is a very standard practice.
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/12/08/0752248.shtm l
Here's just one example I found out of many I remember where the exact kind of think I described in my parent post is going on. Check it out, see for yourself the change in opinion. What people were calling on the RIAA to do years ago (punish the illegal traders individually while I use Napster to download legal mp3's of garage bands) is what the RIAA is now doing.
I remember most Slashdot posts back when the RIAA was trying to get Napster shut down. They were to the effect, "Napster is just a tool, it can be used to share legitimite things too! Go after the actual offenders, not the tool!" Now the RIAA is going after the actual offenders. Guess the general opinion has changed since those Napster days. I called bullshit back then too, we all knew Napster was all about illegal file-sharing back then. Don't believe me? Go back and look through the Slahdot stories covering those issues, you'll see what I mean.