MOD ME DOWN!!!! my post hasn't been "+4 informative"... i got the definition of the median wrong and thus my calculation was wrong too... MOD ME DOWN PLEASE!!! so my post, and my mistake, is burried forever, no need for scandals!...
well no... asuming that you only use natural numbers and don't allow fractions, then both the mean and the mode will be 98 in which case 98% of values will be average and ***won't*** be above average! whereas the median will be 3 and such will be not representative of the average... however, if you use fractions, that's a different story... what example would you have used... i didn't want to list a 100 numbers 'cos that'd be tedious both for me and the reader...
you really shouldn't be thinking altruistic as you say you do with bandwidth; the way i understand bittorrent, when you download something you're already contributing bandwidth to others, so once you've recieved what you wanted, that's it, you've given back as much as you got so leave it and don't try to be overgenerous.... redhat is a billion dollar company, they can afford to distribute their material even if they market it as "community" stuff, whereas you are just a guy with a residential subscription who shares his bandwidth with his neighbourhood... leave it to the big guys of bandwidth on the internet and trust that they are many, the network will survive without you and the likes of you... don't be a damn annoyance to your neighbours, and aside from the readiness to interpret their actions as mean-spirited, do you really want residential networks to have their bandwidth strangulated by unnecessary junk, i don't... i'd understand the part of you downloading but stop leaving it on for others, please... and it's good that ISPs are taking action to prevent such things happening...
well... i think what's most interesting about it is that they use the "median"... now guys, remember your statistics... there are 3 kinds of an "average" value; the mean, the mode, and the median... the mean is essentially what is commonly understood as an average, which is the sum of values in a distribution divided by the number of values, then there comes the mode, which is the value that occurs the most in a distribution, and then there's the median, which is simply the middle value in a distribution... the median is the least useful expression of an average and is rarely used except in certain situation because, say out of a 100 values you have 98 * 5, 1 * 3 and 1 * 1, this will leave you with a median of 3!... now that'd leave you with a distribution in which 98% of values are above average!!! (average as defined by the median)...
i really don't know about sleep, but i wonder if farting in bed would help the situation...
a somewhat unsexy habit on earth may prove lifesaving in space... just gotta wonder if chicken paste and freezedried strawberries they had for dinner will give them enough gas to repressurize the cabin...
"Coalescent spans history from the Roman era to 20,000 years in the future, and examines the beginnings and evolution of a strange form of human society. " isn't that basically the twist of almost all science fiction novels...
what language do bedouin speak... and what's the (no kidding) for...
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yes, i remember that japan and germany were mentioned as some of the few nations where you can claim a citizenship on the basis of ancestry even if your ancestors had left the country ages ago and you've never been there...
same here, that's what instantly occured to my mind... sounds like someone thinks you're in desperate need for a toothpaste, tic tacs, and deodorants.... and unless they buy them for you you won't buy them...
i totally agree... use a PDA if must or just a pen and paper... you might discover the tranquility of doodling with a pen and paper under a tree near a water stream on a sweet afternoon and how it's much nicer than electronic jitters and caffience jolts...
it also won the privilige of being on a recent list of "movies which menstruate" that included, among others... ; "28 days", "28 days later", "red dawn", ""blood on the moon", "sunday bloody sunday", and "my bloody valentine"
and all the nonstop nonsense by people who make it sound so essential...
if you guys have too much disposable income why not give it to some charity organizations that provide food, water and basic healthcare to the poor or the deprived in 4th world nations...
morocco is a francophone country, french is very widely spoken there, and spanish is a romance language just like french... so that 30m might've been 30 milliare rather than 30 million...
i think i know what the sort of confusion might be... it might just be in the translation... 'cos in the Arab world the world billion is often used interchangeably with another word that i think might be spelt as milliare... billion being what is used in regions with anglosaxon influence and milliare is what is used in regions with a francophone and other european influence... so a milliare is a 1000 million, same as a billion... the word milliare is actually a latin word, of roman origin, and considering that the spanish language is a romance language derived from latin, it might share that usage of the word too, though i'm not sure 'cos i don't speak spanish, but i just know there are anyway commonalities between spanish and arabic...
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MOD ME DOWN!!!! my post hasn't been "+4 informative"... i got the definition of the median wrong and thus my calculation was wrong too... MOD ME DOWN PLEASE!!! so my post, and my mistake, is burried forever, no need for scandals!...
well no... asuming that you only use natural numbers and don't allow fractions, then both the mean and the mode will be 98 in which case 98% of values will be average and ***won't*** be above average! whereas the median will be 3 and such will be not representative of the average... however, if you use fractions, that's a different story... what example would you have used... i didn't want to list a 100 numbers 'cos that'd be tedious both for me and the reader...
you really shouldn't be thinking altruistic as you say you do with bandwidth; the way i understand bittorrent, when you download something you're already contributing bandwidth to others, so once you've recieved what you wanted, that's it, you've given back as much as you got so leave it and don't try to be overgenerous.... redhat is a billion dollar company, they can afford to distribute their material even if they market it as "community" stuff, whereas you are just a guy with a residential subscription who shares his bandwidth with his neighbourhood... leave it to the big guys of bandwidth on the internet and trust that they are many, the network will survive without you and the likes of you... don't be a damn annoyance to your neighbours, and aside from the readiness to interpret their actions as mean-spirited, do you really want residential networks to have their bandwidth strangulated by unnecessary junk, i don't... i'd understand the part of you downloading but stop leaving it on for others, please... and it's good that ISPs are taking action to prevent such things happening...
well... i think what's most interesting about it is that they use the "median"... now guys, remember your statistics... there are 3 kinds of an "average" value; the mean, the mode, and the median... the mean is essentially what is commonly understood as an average, which is the sum of values in a distribution divided by the number of values, then there comes the mode, which is the value that occurs the most in a distribution, and then there's the median, which is simply the middle value in a distribution... the median is the least useful expression of an average and is rarely used except in certain situation because, say out of a 100 values you have 98 * 5, 1 * 3 and 1 * 1, this will leave you with a median of 3!... now that'd leave you with a distribution in which 98% of values are above average!!! (average as defined by the median)...
i really don't know about sleep, but i wonder if farting in bed would help the situation...
a somewhat unsexy habit on earth may prove lifesaving in space... just gotta wonder if chicken paste and freezedried strawberries they had for dinner will give them enough gas to repressurize the cabin...
"Coalescent spans history from the Roman era to 20,000 years in the future, and examines the beginnings and evolution of a strange form of human society. "
isn't that basically the twist of almost all science fiction novels...
the "artists" actually make much less money from music downloads, practically a zero cost product, than they make from CDs... thanks to the RIAA...
a recent 232 articles' thread on usenet's misc.writing and rec.arts.comics.strips had the "Subject: what are the most annoying cliches"...
what language do bedouin speak... and what's the (no kidding) for...
yes, i remember that japan and germany were mentioned as some of the few nations where you can claim a citizenship on the basis of ancestry even if your ancestors had left the country ages ago and you've never been there...
"2. There is something on Mars which hates space probes!"... i'll go with the second possibility as i doubt anyone likes to be probed..
sounds like a typical british attitude
same here, that's what instantly occured to my mind... sounds like someone thinks you're in desperate need for a toothpaste, tic tacs, and deodorants.... and unless they buy them for you you won't buy them...
best is pen and paper... then a palm PDA... then those intel-compatible via epia CPUs that are so low-wattage that they don't require a fan...
i totally agree... use a PDA if must or just a pen and paper... you might discover the tranquility of doodling with a pen and paper under a tree near a water stream on a sweet afternoon and how it's much nicer than electronic jitters and caffience jolts...
what city
you can afford a powerbook but you can't afford a car!
get a cheap car and a mediocre laptop and stop jogging to bus stops...
as for your powerbook, the damage might not be apparent yet, just give it some time and the effects of that concussion will become apparent...
i don't why i misread it as "2.4 kernel maintainer marcelo tosatti died"....
for once at least i'm wishing i don't prove to be psychic....
is that diary in welsh
hahaha.. i deliberately forgot that... typed it in then then cut it out
it also won the privilige of being on a recent list of "movies which menstruate" that included, among others... ; "28 days", "28 days later", "red dawn", ""blood on the moon", "sunday bloody sunday", and "my bloody valentine"
thanks to everyone, now i hate music....
and all the nonstop nonsense by people who make it sound so essential...
if you guys have too much disposable income why not give it to some charity organizations that provide food, water and basic healthcare to the poor or the deprived in 4th world nations...
morocco is a francophone country, french is very widely spoken there, and spanish is a romance language just like french... so that 30m might've been 30 milliare rather than 30 million...
heh, i think i'm right... the french word for billionaire is milliardaire... a milliardaire is basically a billionaire
i think i know what the sort of confusion might be... it might just be in the translation... 'cos in the Arab world the world billion is often used interchangeably with another word that i think might be spelt as milliare... billion being what is used in regions with anglosaxon influence and milliare is what is used in regions with a francophone and other european influence... so a milliare is a 1000 million, same as a billion... the word milliare is actually a latin word, of roman origin, and considering that the spanish language is a romance language derived from latin, it might share that usage of the word too, though i'm not sure 'cos i don't speak spanish, but i just know there are anyway commonalities between spanish and arabic...