Corbett isn't just the Attorney General who filed suit against the President trying to get a federal law (that hasn't even gone into effect yet) declared unconstitutional. Corbett is also the Republican candidate for Governor. If his skin is this thin, he's going to have a rough patch coming on. Corbett is also a Goober.
I was talking about this with my doctor yesterday and we agreed that while there are arguments for becoming informed about your own diseases and conditions, it's very difficult to look at the big picture when you don't know what the other half-dozen or so variables may be. I'm fortunate to have a family physician who will take the time to discuss the big picture with me as it pertains to me but I'd never be so foolish as to think I know everything about it.
I didn't learn history in High School; I learned the accepted myths which may well have had some factual basis. Covering nuance would confuse too many people so there are items that get smoothed over and simplified. Texas wants to put its own mythology out in front. This is a long-standing Texas tradition because, in my experience, people from Texas often look and act like people from anywhere else until something happens which makes them feel obliged to defend the honor of Texas, the honor of Texas women, or any one of a dozen or more of the basic precepts covered in "What it means to be a Texan" which is part of the unwritten curriculum of every Texas public school.
Texans generally believe that the USA is God's chosen beacon to the world because Texas can't do it all by themselves. But they don't want anyone doing anything that threatens their sense of Texanhood so they will have their own books if that's what it takes.
Microsoft CAN'T go along with standards. If they did, then when they release a new version and change the file format to yet another proprietary variant it wouldn't force everyone to upgrade when their early-adopting friends (who probably got it free from MS) send them a document or spreadsheet in the new format and they can't open it, modify it, and send it back without buying an upgrade. Ka-CHING! We got another one Jocko!
In 1991, our general manager was fond of blaming "stray cosmic rays" for hard-to-reproduce bugs in our software. I never found a case where the bug was not reproducible but there were many when it took a lot of communication with the customer to tease out the necessary preconditions. (In one case it required having them ship one of their workstations to us and it turned out to be a lying graphics adapter that claimed it was a type with a known refresh rate when its refresh rate was different. Combine that with an overly ambitious developer who wrote his own graphics i/o code to improve performance and you get total system lockup.)
My guess is that there is a set of conditions that causes loss of significance resulting in division by nearly zero and producing a number large enough to be interpreted as "Floor it!".
Thou shalt not worship the.05 level.
Correlation does not imply causation -- you need to have some idea of HOW the values are correlated.
Linear regression is only valid when the relationship is in fact linear.
The more variables added to a multivariate statistical model, the greater the likelihood that there will be a spurious correlation.
SPSS will always find something when you tell it to look hard enough.
I think it started as an attempt to continuously monitor air-fuel ratios to improve efficiency and reduce pollution from unburned hydrocarbons. But now that everyone has to talk on the phone when they're driving, the car needs to do more and more for them.
If they lived in Houston, they'd be dealing with a Home Owners Association which would levy a fine and if they didn't pay the fine the HOA would institute foreclosure proceedings and sell their house out from under them.
Magic eh? Good magic -- like Glinda finally telling Dorothy about the magic ruby slippers or DARK MAGIC that enslaves Death Eaters to the Dark Lord who determnes what apps they are allowed to buy from the AppStore in Diagon Alley?
It's even worse when a major anti-virus/internet protection application named after a pioneer of MS-DOS utilities throws a false positive and declares your CSS to be malware.
In 1980 I was T.A.-ing an introductory course. A senior journalism major's essay was so poorly written that I couldn't tell for sure what it said but I was generous and gave it a 'C'. When the student came to complain, the excuse was that I was "just taking off for grammar" and the notion that there was nothing in the essay which indicated that the student knew the material was simply unthinkable. I didn't budge but the student went to the professor (who was a notorious soft touch for women with short skirts) raised it to an 'A'.
Makes me miss my 1965 VW even more. My first car with a computer was in 1983 -- it was defective and there were no replacements in the supply chain. Dealer tried swapping out with one from a different car (same model but different equipment) with no success. At least with my VW I could do the maintenance myself with some wrenches and a timing light.
Whatever Apple is selling, they can keep it. Started when I discovered I needed to use their software with their iPod devices compared to a competitor which looks like a standard USB drive whatever system I plug it in to. Then they came up with the AppStore. It's all downhill from there.
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Corbett isn't just the Attorney General who filed suit against the President trying to get a federal law (that hasn't even gone into effect yet) declared unconstitutional. Corbett is also the Republican candidate for Governor. If his skin is this thin, he's going to have a rough patch coming on. Corbett is also a Goober.
I was talking about this with my doctor yesterday and we agreed that while there are arguments for becoming informed about your own diseases and conditions, it's very difficult to look at the big picture when you don't know what the other half-dozen or so variables may be. I'm fortunate to have a family physician who will take the time to discuss the big picture with me as it pertains to me but I'd never be so foolish as to think I know everything about it.
I didn't learn history in High School; I learned the accepted myths which may well have had some factual basis. Covering nuance would confuse too many people so there are items that get smoothed over and simplified. Texas wants to put its own mythology out in front. This is a long-standing Texas tradition because, in my experience, people from Texas often look and act like people from anywhere else until something happens which makes them feel obliged to defend the honor of Texas, the honor of Texas women, or any one of a dozen or more of the basic precepts covered in "What it means to be a Texan" which is part of the unwritten curriculum of every Texas public school. Texans generally believe that the USA is God's chosen beacon to the world because Texas can't do it all by themselves. But they don't want anyone doing anything that threatens their sense of Texanhood so they will have their own books if that's what it takes.
I was just following orders dontcha know?
Cause and effect? Reducing one man-made pollutant exacerbates the effects of another man-made pollutant. Therefore what???
I read the RSS headline as "Wi-Fi caused...".
Apple will just modify their devices to use their new iWhatchallit search engine and to change any http request from Google to iWhatchallit.
Songbird is the name of Sky King's airplane.
Microsoft CAN'T go along with standards. If they did, then when they release a new version and change the file format to yet another proprietary variant it wouldn't force everyone to upgrade when their early-adopting friends (who probably got it free from MS) send them a document or spreadsheet in the new format and they can't open it, modify it, and send it back without buying an upgrade. Ka-CHING! We got another one Jocko!
I thought this was an April Fool prank. What an annoyance!
In 1991, our general manager was fond of blaming "stray cosmic rays" for hard-to-reproduce bugs in our software. I never found a case where the bug was not reproducible but there were many when it took a lot of communication with the customer to tease out the necessary preconditions. (In one case it required having them ship one of their workstations to us and it turned out to be a lying graphics adapter that claimed it was a type with a known refresh rate when its refresh rate was different. Combine that with an overly ambitious developer who wrote his own graphics i/o code to improve performance and you get total system lockup.)
My guess is that there is a set of conditions that causes loss of significance resulting in division by nearly zero and producing a number large enough to be interpreted as "Floor it!".
Thou shalt not worship the .05 level.
Correlation does not imply causation -- you need to have some idea of HOW the values are correlated.
Linear regression is only valid when the relationship is in fact linear.
The more variables added to a multivariate statistical model, the greater the likelihood that there will be a spurious correlation.
SPSS will always find something when you tell it to look hard enough.
Our operation uses GroupWise because it would cost too much to switch to Exchange.
You're _starting_ to hate Symantec? I've been hating them for 7 dog years.
I think it started as an attempt to continuously monitor air-fuel ratios to improve efficiency and reduce pollution from unburned hydrocarbons. But now that everyone has to talk on the phone when they're driving, the car needs to do more and more for them.
If they lived in Houston, they'd be dealing with a Home Owners Association which would levy a fine and if they didn't pay the fine the HOA would institute foreclosure proceedings and sell their house out from under them.
Magic eh? Good magic -- like Glinda finally telling Dorothy about the magic ruby slippers or DARK MAGIC that enslaves Death Eaters to the Dark Lord who determnes what apps they are allowed to buy from the AppStore in Diagon Alley?
...now all you need to do is build a fence and connect it to either end.
I re-invented Proxy and Composite but I did it before GOF published DP
This reminds me of some company in Houston that was trading energy.
It's even worse when a major anti-virus/internet protection application named after a pioneer of MS-DOS utilities throws a false positive and declares your CSS to be malware.
Only your lawyer knows for sure -- and that's only one opinion.
In 1980 I was T.A.-ing an introductory course. A senior journalism major's essay was so poorly written that I couldn't tell for sure what it said but I was generous and gave it a 'C'. When the student came to complain, the excuse was that I was "just taking off for grammar" and the notion that there was nothing in the essay which indicated that the student knew the material was simply unthinkable. I didn't budge but the student went to the professor (who was a notorious soft touch for women with short skirts) raised it to an 'A'.
Makes me miss my 1965 VW even more. My first car with a computer was in 1983 -- it was defective and there were no replacements in the supply chain. Dealer tried swapping out with one from a different car (same model but different equipment) with no success. At least with my VW I could do the maintenance myself with some wrenches and a timing light.
Whatever Apple is selling, they can keep it. Started when I discovered I needed to use their software with their iPod devices compared to a competitor which looks like a standard USB drive whatever system I plug it in to. Then they came up with the AppStore. It's all downhill from there.