Further to point 4, because the average life expectancy varies from country to country, an African would have less of a chance of being hit than a European, by virtue of 'buying fewer tickets in the lottery'. This illustrates how the question could be refined further still, depending on how you want to mislead your audience (this is statistics, after all!).
IANARS anyway, but to take issue with your points in order:
That's implicit in the measurement of previous strikes. If we already know how many make it to the ground in a given time period, the amount that break up in the atmosphere and don't make it is irrelevant.
Wouldn't matter - assuming a uniform distribution of strikes across the planet (which probably isn't correct, but that's not the point here), your chances would not vary no matter where you went (ignoring buildings, where the strength of the roof would complicate the equation).
You're talking about the protection afforded by a roof over one's head. I guess you could attempt to average the amount of time people spend outside, and assume that any roof will withstand any meteor strike (or factor roof quality in, complicating things even further). You do raise a good point, and it's beyond me to elaborate further.
Should be implicit in the question. We're either interested in the probability being hit over a time period of the average life expectancy, or some arbitrary period, like 1 in x billion per year per capita. Without specifying a timeframe the question would be void. e.g. "What's the chances of winning (a given) lottery?". It would depend on whether you only play it exactly once, or whether you played it x number of times.
Risking being hit by a meteor is analogous buying a lottery ticket with an extreme probability of not-winning for every second of your life. I say analogous, because I over-simplify the 'every second' bit. An extremely unfortunate person could be hit by two different meteorites in the same second.
But then, someone so unlucky would already have been killed by something else, right;)
Again, not claiming any sort of authority here, maybe someone who IARS will be along soon to hand me my shiny metal ass on a plate, just engaging your point.
It's not a difficult job if you're not rushed, I quite enjoy it when it goes well. Take your time, take stock of what you've got, and make a plan. Take the time to find fault with your plan, and don't be rushed into implementing it if you're not sure. It's when you ARE rushed to do it, when you're NOT supported by your higher-ups when you need to be, that it becomes a nightmare.
Hence resignation. Not long after my co-admin handed his in too. Between us we had 15 years IT experience with the company.
The remaining IT department has less than two years collectively, and includes six people. They're FUCKED now.
Sorry, now that you mention it, I.S.R was a very stupid example on my part, and agree with you in that regard. What unfortunately happens is that because people's sense of humour is so varied, this practice of up/down modding happens on all funny posts. Just about anything that's funny is bound to offend somebody, and to use I.S.R to illustrate that was foolish of me.
No matter how prudent and methodic you are in your filestore-sorting exercise, nothing will stop somebody getting up in arms about something moving or changing. One of the reasons I left my last job was a filestore that was already out of control when I took it on was proving insurmountable, at least with no support from management.
Think medium sized company (considering the country, NZ), acquired at least five other businesses in the last two years, and effectively just chucking the new fileservers on the LAN along with all the others, spilling over into outsourced datacenters when running out of space & aircon in the original server room. Stacks of MS Access apps using hardcoded UNC paths dictating names of servers, etc. Commodity PCs with JBODs tacked on when space and money got tight. ntbackup.exe. Ugghh.
Whooops! Sorry, I thought GP was in reply to the "dick in the mashed potatoes" post, which obviously wasn't as appreciated as the FP. I hang my head in reply-to-self shame.
10 MS workers get to work. Project not necessarily completed on time, might even be mediocre. But those 10 workers know who's paying their bills, and get their heads down. One of them falls out with the rest of his team, and gets replaced immediately.
Day 1. Entire Linux team forks, unable to agree on the name. Half of them want to call it "GIND Is Not a Dam", the other half think it should be called "xkjrtl" and install to/opt/bin. Now two teams of 5e6 workers each.
Day 3. One member expressed his distaste at the brown colour of the bricks they had to use. x teams of 10e6/x
Day 480. 10e6 bricks lie at various positions on the riverbed, all with their own SourceForge page.
No, I'm no MS fanboy. I just dumped Linux after 14 years for an Apple. It's not perfect, but OSX seems to waste the least of my time.
People have been avoiding the Funny mod for some time now because it only exposes the poster to Karma-burn (because Funny is the only mod that doesn't increase Karma). Even the most pathetic of jokes inevitably get modded to +5, somebody finds them not as funny, and mods them back down (burning the Karma). Another moderator spots an IN SOVIET RUSSIA joke that is not at +5 yet, and mods it back up. Ad infinitum. Just for making a wisecrack that wasn't universally appreciated, your Karma is in the gutter.
tl;dr: Moderation has never worked here. Read at -1 and refuse to moderate.
He's not trolling, he's moderated troll. He's talking about touchy subjects.
Tarballs have no inherent way of specifying package dependencies. Basically, a tarball is/just/ a tarball. Why.deb's? Well, they're prevalent, and seem to have worked well. There's a wealth of utilities for working with them. They're not the only choice, but they wouldn't be a bad one.
Yes, that's what he meant. I don't know if I entirely agree, but I see what he's getting at for sure. While GTK is indeed horrible, getting Gnome on QT just is not going to happen. Gnome will die first.
Exactly, as long as it's a hobby OS, it's always going to look and feel like one. That's what's really giving the commercial OS's the edge here. Bosses. Deadlines. Sackings. All alien to FOSS. Where on one hand you've got a leader taking responsibility for the direction of his team and project, on the other you get faction-ism, infighting and ultimately, forks (which the FOSS crowd talk about like it's a good thing).
I was explaining to my sister the other day that Linux is not one OS, but available though any of thousands of distributions. Yes, thousands. How did there come to be so many? I explained it with an alalogy to the 'parallel universe'. For every single yes/no left/right up/down design consideration, every single distribution forks into exactly two, and goes on to the next design consideration. The process will continue until every single person including Steve Ballmer is running their own distro, and society as we know it will end with each person slicing himself in two while arguing over which suicidal filesystem to use as the default.
Seriously, while I kind of agree with you in principle, this kind of bullshit has gone on for years, to the point "ninerninedollars" rolls off most people's tongues easier than "one hundred" these days. At this stage, they can hardly be blamed, it's what seems to be working for them. People either whinge about contract terms when they get them, or 'unlocked purchase prices' if they pay those, but they only whinge - people seem to keep lapping it up, and it's not illegal
Unbelievable. My first cellphone in 1995 was subsidised, yet still to this day people are still baffled at:
How cheap subsidised cellphones seem to be, and:
How expensive non-subsidised ones are (usually when they've drowned their old phone and need to replace it, yet want to keep the same phone number)
I wonder if every future/. story mentioning cellphones should have some kind of primer reminding people that companies sometimes use deception to make things look like they cost less than they do. And they work. Case in point, it's more profitable to market something for $99 than $100. It's not a hundred bucks, it's under a hundred.
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I mean, it's fine as a desktop OS (grand actually, I'd recommend it to anyone). But Darwin is evil.
Not so much as a link to explain why, though. I'm actually genuinely interested, having recently moved from Linux after 13 years to an OSX box. Most of my time has still been spent getting set up there, haven't had any hard out command line sessions yet, but porting my own apps was a dream.
OT: Can a point go "Whoosh!", like a Joke? If not, how do we describe a point that has attained high velocity and elevation with respect to the observer?
The last thing I'd want in my possession is 35,000 DVDs of data would appear to be encrypted to my captors, and being completely unable to prove otherwise.
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Further to point 4, because the average life expectancy varies from country to country, an African would have less of a chance of being hit than a European, by virtue of 'buying fewer tickets in the lottery'. This illustrates how the question could be refined further still, depending on how you want to mislead your audience (this is statistics, after all!).
Risking being hit by a meteor is analogous buying a lottery ticket with an extreme probability of not-winning for every second of your life. I say analogous, because I over-simplify the 'every second' bit. An extremely unfortunate person could be hit by two different meteorites in the same second.
But then, someone so unlucky would already have been killed by something else, right ;)
Again, not claiming any sort of authority here, maybe someone who IARS will be along soon to hand me my shiny metal ass on a plate, just engaging your point.
Wow, that's the first time I've heard anyone call it 'eraser' burn! If you really got yours from actual erasers you're doing it wrong.
TODAY?
Yeah, I thought 'conf t, int gi0/1, shut, end, wr' seemed a bit easier than diving for a cable.
Hence resignation. Not long after my co-admin handed his in too. Between us we had 15 years IT experience with the company.
The remaining IT department has less than two years collectively, and includes six people. They're FUCKED now.
Sorry, now that you mention it, I.S.R was a very stupid example on my part, and agree with you in that regard. What unfortunately happens is that because people's sense of humour is so varied, this practice of up/down modding happens on all funny posts. Just about anything that's funny is bound to offend somebody, and to use I.S.R to illustrate that was foolish of me.
No matter how prudent and methodic you are in your filestore-sorting exercise, nothing will stop somebody getting up in arms about something moving or changing. One of the reasons I left my last job was a filestore that was already out of control when I took it on was proving insurmountable, at least with no support from management.
Think medium sized company (considering the country, NZ), acquired at least five other businesses in the last two years, and effectively just chucking the new fileservers on the LAN along with all the others, spilling over into outsourced datacenters when running out of space & aircon in the original server room. Stacks of MS Access apps using hardcoded UNC paths dictating names of servers, etc. Commodity PCs with JBODs tacked on when space and money got tight. ntbackup.exe. Ugghh.
Whooops! Sorry, I thought GP was in reply to the "dick in the mashed potatoes" post, which obviously wasn't as appreciated as the FP. I hang my head in reply-to-self shame.
If the post moderation is anything to go by, -1 people so far...
Day 3. One member expressed his distaste at the brown colour of the bricks they had to use. x teams of 10e6/x
Day 480. 10e6 bricks lie at various positions on the riverbed, all with their own SourceForge page.
No, I'm no MS fanboy. I just dumped Linux after 14 years for an Apple. It's not perfect, but OSX seems to waste the least of my time.
... a lesson still not learned by MS years later, AutoRun/AutoPlay alive and well in XP. Hello Conficker!
Yeah, because movie critics don't rubbish flicks, they buy some film, get out there, and prove they can do better! Right?
FOSS need to learn that it's possible for non-developers to have valid criticisms, yet not be able to rectify them directly.
People have been avoiding the Funny mod for some time now because it only exposes the poster to Karma-burn (because Funny is the only mod that doesn't increase Karma). Even the most pathetic of jokes inevitably get modded to +5, somebody finds them not as funny, and mods them back down (burning the Karma). Another moderator spots an IN SOVIET RUSSIA joke that is not at +5 yet, and mods it back up. Ad infinitum. Just for making a wisecrack that wasn't universally appreciated, your Karma is in the gutter.
tl;dr: Moderation has never worked here. Read at -1 and refuse to moderate.
I was explaining to my sister the other day that Linux is not one OS, but available though any of thousands of distributions. Yes, thousands. How did there come to be so many? I explained it with an alalogy to the 'parallel universe'. For every single yes/no left/right up/down design consideration, every single distribution forks into exactly two, and goes on to the next design consideration. The process will continue until every single person including Steve Ballmer is running their own distro, and society as we know it will end with each person slicing himself in two while arguing over which suicidal filesystem to use as the default.
No, it's an iLie.
Seriously, while I kind of agree with you in principle, this kind of bullshit has gone on for years, to the point "ninerninedollars" rolls off most people's tongues easier than "one hundred" these days. At this stage, they can hardly be blamed, it's what seems to be working for them. People either whinge about contract terms when they get them, or 'unlocked purchase prices' if they pay those, but they only whinge - people seem to keep lapping it up, and it's not illegal
Also, that's not what 'tethering' is. Tethering is something people actually want.
I wonder if every future /. story mentioning cellphones should have some kind of primer reminding people that companies sometimes use deception to make things look like they cost less than they do. And they work. Case in point, it's more profitable to market something for $99 than $100. It's not a hundred bucks, it's under a hundred.
WIRESHARK!? You summoned the beast for that!?
Not so much as a link to explain why, though. I'm actually genuinely interested, having recently moved from Linux after 13 years to an OSX box. Most of my time has still been spent getting set up there, haven't had any hard out command line sessions yet, but porting my own apps was a dream.
OT: Can a point go "Whoosh!", like a Joke? If not, how do we describe a point that has attained high velocity and elevation with respect to the observer?
The last thing I'd want in my possession is 35,000 DVDs of data would appear to be encrypted to my captors, and being completely unable to prove otherwise.
Don't fail not to use chained negatives in the future.
And I edited the Wiki entry now that I've got several corroborating sources.