Median Household income in the US is about 50k USD. That's across the whole US, podunk cow towns to NYC. The Australian "capital territories" are averaging 60k USD per household. Across all of Australia it's 43k USD.
Not 43k USD, 67k AUD which is around 64k USD. The 43k USD figure you've quoted is adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP) - it already takes into account the higher prices in Australia. So just looking at income, you're right that Australian incomes aren't double the US, but they are actually quite a lot higher.
In any case you've used different metrics for each country. This table shows equivalent metrics for each country. Australians clearly earn more, but are just a little behind on PPP. Of course, that table shows 2010 data, and Australia's economy is doing quite a lot better than the US - I would be surprised if Australia hadn't already overtaken the US on PPP.
I would also point out that most people are assuming that the death rate is related to things like traffic laws, quality of roads, quality of drivers etc. Another big factor in whether you survive a bad accident is the health care that you receive (1) from the paramedics, and (2) in hospital, including the timeframe for primary and definitive care. I would much prefer to have a bad accident in a major Western city than anywhere else.
Anyone with decent recommendations, aside from R's own website, where to do a quickstart when you're a SAS geek?
About Quick-R
R is an elegant and comprehensive statistical and graphical programming language. Unfortunately, it can also have a steep learning curve. I created this website for both current R users, and experienced users of other statistical packages (e.g., SAS, SPSS, Stata) who would like to transition to R. My goal is to help you quickly access this language in your work.
The recipient of the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, had harsh words for the intervention of NATO in a country's internal affairs, as did many other prominent intellectuals.
So... the recipient of a prize instituted by a dictator had harsh words for the people bringing about the downfall of that same dictator? This proves what about Obama?
Papers for Mac is a really great way of organising and viewing scientific papers. For me it was the killer app that made me switch from Linux to Mac as my main operating system.
The iPad version looks great and syncs with the Mac, providing a very nice solution - easily the best I've seen. A number of my colleagues read most of their papers on their iPad using Papers (usually when they're in a boring meeting!). There's also a version for the iPhone for those with good eyesight... I don't know how well it works without a Mac but according to the website it looks pretty easy to get documents in there from various sources.
'DRM increases not decreases consumer value', such as by enabling people to rent content at a lower price than ownership
This is such bullshit. The price differential between "renting" and "owning" is almost purely profit, and is specifically enabled by DRM. This decreases value, by allowing them to charge us more for something that costs them the same to provide. How stupid do they think we are?
Doctors haved recognised for a long time that the elderly tend to have lower body temperatures than young people. Perhaps that's partly because those with lower body temperatures tend to live longer, and thus make it to "elderly"...
Just so you know it's pomes, as in Prisoners Of Mother England
Not sure where you got that from, but it's also not correct.
From the Macquarie Dictionary (revised 3rd edition): PomcolloquialPommy Pommy=Pommie - 1. a person who is resident in or has migrated from the British Isles, especially England. 2. British, especially English. [abbreviation of POMEGRANATE, rhyming slang for immigrant]
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has much the same explanation, but suggests that "pomegranate" may actually be rhyming slang for "Jimmy Grant", itself slang for English immigrants (who received land grants - hence the derogatory "pommy").
A pome is an (apple-like) fruit, an orb, or a poem.
Actually, there's good documentary evidence that the Japanese offered to surrender before any nuclear bombs were dropped. The US refused to accept this surrender because it was not "unconditional" (Japan wanted to keep their Emperor). So the bombs were dropped. Japan then repeated the same offer of conditional surrender, and it was accepted. So the bombs effectively made no difference in terms of ending the war.
Additionally, as jedigeek pointed out, choosing to drop the bombs on cities was pretty unnecessary.
I think that the dropping of atomic bombs on Japanese cities were the 2 greatest war crimes of all time.
... monkeys will be prevented from accessing the machines... Which is un-constutional: Our president has the right to vote too!
... which leads me to plug my favourite political humour site
For those who haven't seen it before, it's hilarious. From the site: "Welcome to the "George W. Bush or Chimpanzee" webpage. This is a little project I decided to start once I realized how much George W. Bush looks like a chimpanzee. I'm not a member of any political party, and I have nothing in particular against the man. I just think he kind of looks like a chimpanzee. -Bill Feldspar"
Yeah I used to have that problem (with distros becoming out of date, and hence unsupported).
Then I changed to Gentoo - and I'll never look back. Its package management system is both elegant and highly effective. I don't imagine I'll ever use an RPM-based distro again.
If you haven't tried Gentoo (or equivalent), do yourself a favour - it's easy to install, and VERY easy to maintain - you'll wish you'd done it sooner!
This is what I've done for my home entertainment system. The entire box (which is nice and small and pure black) is fanless, and in fact has no moving parts at all. It boots into freevix over the network, and accesses my server's music via NFS. I control it with a LIRC remote control, so it's basically just like another component in the stereo system - except with about 40 gigs of music. Very cool!
According to plenty of legal definitions tomatos are in fact vegetables and not fruit...
The reason for the reclassification of tomatos by the biologists was that they started to buy into the evolutionary classification schemes. So the taxonomy was redefined to fit the new theory.
So let me get this straight - what you're saying is that legal classifications (based on older scientific understanding) are more valid than (newer) scientific ones? Why?
What if the Law told you that the Earth was flat? Or that the world was created a few thousand years ago, in seven days?
Whilst the listening test is interesting, look at the styles of music tested:
1) "Rock" 2) Solo Harpsichord 3) Quiet intro with acoustic and electric guitars followed by loud metal riffs 4) IDM [??] 5) Electronic mix 6) Metal, complete with screeching vocals 7) drums and bass in the far left, guitar in the far right. Female vocal in the center. 8) rock/metal riffs 9) Drums and ride cymbals intro, followed by bass and female vocals. 10) Intro consists of guitar in far left with male vocal in center.
Hardly a broad range of music! This test tells me essentially nothing about which encoder would be best for piano music, orchestral music, opera, jazz, speech, etc.
I seriously doubt the Chinese government cares much about how well the open source community's values sit with its own. This is not a political statement, it's a sensible, practical decision.
IMO what the Chinese government cares about, when choosing linux, is:
1. Cost - both (a) immediate, obvious costs, and (b) potential long-term costs - what happens to the pricing of MS products when the exchange rate changes dramatically? and what happens when they become dependent on one vendor's product and then that vendor decides to screw every last cent... er, yuan... out of them?
2. Access to source code - otherwise they have to trust Microsoft (or some other, probably American, vendor) to keep their secrets. If you were a country known to be an enemy/competitor (economically, politically and potentially militarily) to the United States, would you want your government agencies to use an American closed-source software solution? Unless you could trust the vendor 100%, no. "Trust Microsoft 100%" - think about that for a while...
(Anyone who used Windows98 (tm) much will remember how easy it was for IE to corrupt the whole OS).
And WindowsME, and Win2k, and WinXP.
Just on Monday night a mate brought over his Win2k laptop, which had been reinstalled that very day, so that he could grab a few gigs of music from my server. IE , which was idle in the background, spontaneously crashed. This then caused Explorer to have an unintelligible error, causing CPU usage to rise to about 85% (we were doing nothing except copying files over smb)! Exlorer continued to copy files for about 20 mins ("256118237 minutes remaining"), then crashed, causing his file transfer to be stuffed up. This all happened while we watched, with our hands off the computer, running a newly installed OS which was doing nothing at all except for copying files over the network.
I just can't believe that people use Windows as a server OS! But getting back to my original point, IE can do a lot of damage in all Windows versions, not just Win98.
Finally got onto the official Mandrake site, and you're correct - the MD5s that I posted are wrong! That's pretty damn weird, since they came from ftp.planetmirror.com which is listed as an official mirror.
It turns out that the dates on those files I posted are 19 September. So planetmirror must have renamed the -RC3 ISOs to final, even though they're not./me is very confused.
Anyway, please mod down my original post since it's wrong.
To repeat, the _correct_ MD5s, direct from the Mandrake website are:
In a way I'm kind of relieved, since those files are the ones I got (named -rc3) a couple of days ago, so technically I'm already running 9.0!:-) (btw it's really, really good)
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Median Household income in the US is about 50k USD. That's across the whole US, podunk cow towns to NYC. The Australian "capital territories" are averaging 60k USD per household. Across all of Australia it's 43k USD.
Not 43k USD, 67k AUD which is around 64k USD. The 43k USD figure you've quoted is adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP) - it already takes into account the higher prices in Australia. So just looking at income, you're right that Australian incomes aren't double the US, but they are actually quite a lot higher.
In any case you've used different metrics for each country. This table shows equivalent metrics for each country. Australians clearly earn more, but are just a little behind on PPP. Of course, that table shows 2010 data, and Australia's economy is doing quite a lot better than the US - I would be surprised if Australia hadn't already overtaken the US on PPP.
See Betteridge's law.
No, Betteridge doesn't even approach a 90% hit ratio.
You can only apply it if you already know the answer.
I very much doubt this. Citation please.
I would also point out that most people are assuming that the death rate is related to things like traffic laws, quality of roads, quality of drivers etc. Another big factor in whether you survive a bad accident is the health care that you receive (1) from the paramedics, and (2) in hospital, including the timeframe for primary and definitive care. I would much prefer to have a bad accident in a major Western city than anywhere else.
Anyone with decent recommendations, aside from R's own website, where to do a quickstart when you're a SAS geek?
About Quick-R
R is an elegant and comprehensive statistical and graphical programming language. Unfortunately, it can also have a steep learning curve. I created this website for both current R users, and experienced users of other statistical packages (e.g., SAS, SPSS, Stata) who would like to transition to R. My goal is to help you quickly access this language in your work.
http://www.statmethods.net/index.html
The recipient of the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, had harsh words for the intervention of NATO in a country's internal affairs, as did many other prominent intellectuals.
So... the recipient of a prize instituted by a dictator had harsh words for the people bringing about the downfall of that same dictator? This proves what about Obama?
Papers for Mac is a really great way of organising and viewing scientific papers. For me it was the killer app that made me switch from Linux to Mac as my main operating system.
The iPad version looks great and syncs with the Mac, providing a very nice solution - easily the best I've seen. A number of my colleagues read most of their papers on their iPad using Papers (usually when they're in a boring meeting!). There's also a version for the iPhone for those with good eyesight... I don't know how well it works without a Mac but according to the website it looks pretty easy to get documents in there from various sources.
I agree...
'DRM increases not decreases consumer value', such as by enabling people to rent content at a lower price than ownership
This is such bullshit. The price differential between "renting" and "owning" is almost purely profit, and is specifically enabled by DRM. This decreases value, by allowing them to charge us more for something that costs them the same to provide. How stupid do they think we are?
Doctors haved recognised for a long time that the elderly tend to have lower body temperatures than young people. Perhaps that's partly because those with lower body temperatures tend to live longer, and thus make it to "elderly"...
Guess it doesn't work too well then :-P
Just so you know it's pomes, as in Prisoners Of Mother England
Not sure where you got that from, but it's also not correct.
From the Macquarie Dictionary (revised 3rd edition):
Pom colloquial Pommy
Pommy=Pommie - 1. a person who is resident in or has migrated from the British Isles, especially England. 2. British, especially English. [abbreviation of POMEGRANATE, rhyming slang for immigrant]
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has much the same explanation, but suggests that "pomegranate" may actually be rhyming slang for "Jimmy Grant", itself slang for English immigrants (who received land grants - hence the derogatory "pommy").
A pome is an (apple-like) fruit, an orb, or a poem.
AFAIK pohm is not a word.
Actually, there's good documentary evidence that the Japanese offered to surrender before any nuclear bombs were dropped. The US refused to accept this surrender because it was not "unconditional" (Japan wanted to keep their Emperor). So the bombs were dropped. Japan then repeated the same offer of conditional surrender, and it was accepted. So the bombs effectively made no difference in terms of ending the war.
Additionally, as jedigeek pointed out, choosing to drop the bombs on cities was pretty unnecessary.
I think that the dropping of atomic bombs on Japanese cities were the 2 greatest war crimes of all time.
Too bad he didn't use the built in spell checker on either one of them when he wrote his review
He tried, but it was taking too long...
... monkeys will be prevented from accessing the machines...
... which leads me to plug my favourite political humour site
Which is un-constutional: Our president has the right to vote too!
For those who haven't seen it before, it's hilarious. From the site: "Welcome to the "George W. Bush or Chimpanzee" webpage. This is a little project I decided to start once I realized how much George W. Bush looks like a chimpanzee. I'm not a member of any political party, and I have nothing in particular against the man. I just think he kind of looks like a chimpanzee. -Bill Feldspar"
Yeah I used to have that problem (with distros becoming out of date, and hence unsupported).
Then I changed to Gentoo - and I'll never look back. Its package management system is both elegant and highly effective. I don't imagine I'll ever use an RPM-based distro again.
If you haven't tried Gentoo (or equivalent), do yourself a favour - it's easy to install, and VERY easy to maintain - you'll wish you'd done it sooner!
In case the network booting didn't work, that is!
One of these
:)
I could have got a smaller one, but I wanted space for a HD just in case the network booting did. In fact, it works like a dream.
Get a VIA EPIA system
This is what I've done for my home entertainment system. The entire box (which is nice and small and pure black) is fanless, and in fact has no moving parts at all. It boots into freevix over the network, and accesses my server's music via NFS. I control it with a LIRC remote control, so it's basically just like another component in the stereo system - except with about 40 gigs of music. Very cool!
...there is only one or two hardware ogg vorbis players out there.
Actually, depending on what you include/exclude, there are at least 20 such players
See this
According to plenty of legal definitions tomatos are in fact vegetables and not fruit...
The reason for the reclassification of tomatos by the biologists was that they started to buy into the evolutionary classification schemes. So the taxonomy was redefined to fit the new theory.
So let me get this straight - what you're saying is that legal classifications (based on older scientific understanding) are more valid than (newer) scientific ones? Why?
What if the Law told you that the Earth was flat? Or that the world was created a few thousand years ago, in seven days?
When I see things like this [snip David Diamond's gushing question] I'm reminded how clueless 'journalists' are.
Yeah, what would David Diamond know about Linus and Linux? After all, he only co-authored Linus's book
Whilst the listening test is interesting, look at the styles of music tested:
1) "Rock"
2) Solo Harpsichord
3) Quiet intro with acoustic and electric guitars followed by loud metal riffs
4) IDM [??]
5) Electronic mix
6) Metal, complete with screeching vocals
7) drums and bass in the far left, guitar in the far right. Female vocal in the center.
8) rock/metal riffs
9) Drums and ride cymbals intro, followed by bass and female vocals.
10) Intro consists of guitar in far left with male vocal in center.
Hardly a broad range of music! This test tells me essentially nothing about which encoder would be best for piano music, orchestral music, opera, jazz, speech, etc.
I seriously doubt the Chinese government cares much about how well the open source community's values sit with its own. This is not a political statement, it's a sensible, practical decision.
IMO what the Chinese government cares about, when choosing linux, is:
1. Cost - both (a) immediate, obvious costs, and (b) potential long-term costs - what happens to the pricing of MS products when the exchange rate changes dramatically? and what happens when they become dependent on one vendor's product and then that vendor decides to screw every last cent... er, yuan... out of them?
2. Access to source code - otherwise they have to trust Microsoft (or some other, probably American, vendor) to keep their secrets. If you were a country known to be an enemy/competitor (economically, politically and potentially militarily) to the United States, would you want your government agencies to use an American closed-source software solution? Unless you could trust the vendor 100%, no. "Trust Microsoft 100%" - think about that for a while...
(Anyone who used Windows98 (tm) much will remember how easy it was for IE to corrupt the whole OS).
And WindowsME, and Win2k, and WinXP.
Just on Monday night a mate brought over his Win2k laptop, which had been reinstalled that very day, so that he could grab a few gigs of music from my server. IE , which was idle in the background, spontaneously crashed. This then caused Explorer to have an unintelligible error, causing CPU usage to rise to about 85% (we were doing nothing except copying files over smb)! Exlorer continued to copy files for about 20 mins ("256118237 minutes remaining"), then crashed, causing his file transfer to be stuffed up. This all happened while we watched, with our hands off the computer, running a newly installed OS which was doing nothing at all except for copying files over the network.
I just can't believe that people use Windows as a server OS! But getting back to my original point, IE can do a lot of damage in all Windows versions, not just Win98.
bukharin
Then, this looks like cumupets (sp?)
Come-uppance?
Aha!
/me is very confused.
2 f260fc274549 Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.iso9 9f504b231b3 Mandrake90-cd3-i18n.i586.iso
:-) (btw it's really, really good)
Finally got onto the official Mandrake site, and you're correct - the MD5s that I posted are wrong! That's pretty damn weird, since they came from ftp.planetmirror.com which is listed as an official mirror.
It turns out that the dates on those files I posted are 19 September. So planetmirror must have renamed the -RC3 ISOs to final, even though they're not.
Anyway, please mod down my original post since it's wrong.
To repeat, the _correct_ MD5s, direct from the Mandrake website are:
MD5 checksum:
f7a093af34b8cbe1abc165213fea9deb Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso
05a3ccafaacc37d6d1e
1a2fd731fb6e30d39b0b
In a way I'm kind of relieved, since those files are the ones I got (named -rc3) a couple of days ago, so technically I'm already running 9.0!
bukharin