The only time percentages come into play is when defining how much you believe either theory is a fact, but that does not change for an instant whether it is truly a fact or not.
There's another problem, and that problem is the edge cases that don't fit the statistics. Statistically speaking, smoking causes cancer and will kill you, and usually does. Despite this, there was a woman (now dead) who was, at the time, the world's oldest human. She had a cigarette every day after lunch until she died at age 112.
That reminds me to the joke where the reporter speaks with the 100 year old. The reporter asks: "What do you think why you got that old?" - "I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I don't have sex." At that moment a loud noise comes from the next room. The reporter: "What was that?" - "That's my father. He's drunken all the time."
Another example is the processor clock frequency. People took the frequency as indication of processor speed, and Intel reacted by making the Pentium do less per clock cycle, so they could increase the number for the same actual speed.
I also guess measuring programmer productivity in lines of code actually encourages not reusing code (after all, if you write basically the same functionality again, you get more lines of code than if you just reuse existing code).
Actually the "counting" problem they mentioned is a categorization problem. Depending how you define your categories, you get different counts. But that's because those are really different categories (they are defined differently). So the question is not really one of counting, but one of the "correct" definition of the category.
As you have no idea of what you are talking about, i will make it simple.
A cube with a side of one meter has one cubic meter
therefore a cube with a side of one million kilometers has the volume of one million cubic kilometers
Wrong. A cube with the side of one million kilometers would have the volume of (one million km)^3 = (one million)^3 km^3 = one quintillion km^3 = one quintillion cubic kilometers.
One million cubic kilometers is the volume of one million cubes with side length 1 km each. From one million such cubes you cannot build a cube with a side length of one million km.
Actually it's co-orelation. Orelation is the raw material from which irony is made. That is, it's something which isn't quite irony, but out of which one could make irony. Co-orelation is when several people orelate together.:-)
AFAIK the blindfold is a metaphor for not looking at who is judged about, but only caring about what he did.
It certainly doesn't mean the judge should literally be blind, just as a double-blind study doesn't mean both the doctor and the patient should have no working eyes.
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I don't think so. There's always an amount which would do. It may just be that no one can afford it.
Because he wants to write a non-GPL player?
Because the name of Eric's son is Theo. :-)
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America is a free country, therefore every government is free to collect any information it wants. :-)
But they were true. We are already living in the Matrix! Or what do you think why we have mobile phones? Exactly: So the phone booths can be removed.
The natural genetic twiddling goes at a much slower rate. Completely new genomes don't just pop up out of nothing.
The natural algae already do this. Even more, they produce oxygen at the same time!
When you quantify your work, don't forget to quantify the work you invest in quantifying your work.
Tell that to Schrödinger's cat. :-)
That reminds me to the joke where the reporter speaks with the 100 year old. The reporter asks: "What do you think why you got that old?" - "I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I don't have sex." At that moment a loud noise comes from the next room. The reporter: "What was that?" - "That's my father. He's drunken all the time."
Another example is the processor clock frequency. People took the frequency as indication of processor speed, and Intel reacted by making the Pentium do less per clock cycle, so they could increase the number for the same actual speed.
I also guess measuring programmer productivity in lines of code actually encourages not reusing code (after all, if you write basically the same functionality again, you get more lines of code than if you just reuse existing code).
Well, 93% of all people think so. But 86% of them are wrong.
Actually the "counting" problem they mentioned is a categorization problem. Depending how you define your categories, you get different counts. But that's because those are really different categories (they are defined differently). So the question is not really one of counting, but one of the "correct" definition of the category.
As you have no idea of what you are talking about, i will make it simple.
A cube with a side of one meter has one cubic meter
therefore a cube with a side of one million kilometers has the volume of one million cubic kilometers
Wrong. A cube with the side of one million kilometers would have the volume of (one million km)^3 = (one million)^3 km^3 = one quintillion km^3 = one quintillion cubic kilometers.
One million cubic kilometers is the volume of one million cubes with side length 1 km each. From one million such cubes you cannot build a cube with a side length of one million km.
Are you kidding? Cloud computing can synergize your enterprise assets!
Bah! I guess it's not even object oriented!
Web sites which consist of a list of the top n things the author thinks are good, bad, useful, useless or whatever.
I predict that this will not fly. :-)
They forgot it. It's the age, you know?
Actually it's co-orelation. Orelation is the raw material from which irony is made. That is, it's something which isn't quite irony, but out of which one could make irony. Co-orelation is when several people orelate together. :-)
Don't tell me it's the same as the combination on my luggage!
In Soviet Russia, your mom asks you.
AFAIK the blindfold is a metaphor for not looking at who is judged about, but only caring about what he did.
It certainly doesn't mean the judge should literally be blind, just as a double-blind study doesn't mean both the doctor and the patient should have no working eyes.
The problem is only people making wrong conclusions about today's Germany from that.
Eyepatches?
Will that be a causation, or merely a correlation?