Which also brings up another good point; inventing. According the the European world, Christopher Columbus discovered North America in 1492. Discovered by the Europeans, that is. I find it very hard to discover land with human inhabitants. More than one group of people could have figured out the concept of zero, or discovered North America, or invented the telephone (Elisha Gray v. Alexander Graham Bell).
Like I said, I could be wrong. I was quite certain it was the Incas or the Aztecs, but I was wrong.
No, we have one word for Indians but many meanings. They also used a system that I've heard of as Casting out the nines which is pretty much how we figured out 2's compliment allowing us to do all this fancy work on $3000 calculators.
I can see what you're saying, but when the testor put 5 objects up, they had a margin of error. Even a young child who hasn't learned formal mathematics can go one-for-one (see object on table, place object on table. Rinse, repeat)
The Incas (I believe) were the first people to come up with the concept of Zero. Before that, (and during that time) nobody else could understand no objects. They were the first ones to come up with the word, but that was due to being the only ones who understood it. Intersting question now that I think of it is do these tribes understand zero?
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I live in the US, I had no idea you guys in Europe were dying. Even though I have cable, I can pretty much count on 2.5MB download. I get pretty solid downloads from congested mirrors at around 200KB/s late at night....Man, Mbps here is no big deal for cable, everybody I know with cable has it. Wow, talk about me being blissfully unaware.
5 Times as much? That's a bit over exaggerating. Not counting totally free (NetZero, Juno), the lowest I've seen is $9.95, $10 to make it easy. NetZero / Juno Premium is $15-$20, and some people have an extra phone line ($20). So right now we're talking $35, that's if they don't have MSN or AOL ($24.95). Also, you can have multiple people online with DSL/cable...ever try splitting 28.8k, I have and it sucks. I can see what you're saying, half an hour a month isn't really worth changing over, but most webpages; especially portal sites (Yahoo, MSN) load painfully slow over dialup. My mom who is tech deficient wanted cable because 28.8 wasn't cutting it for email / browsing anymore.
Good point. Isn't that one of those things that you learn in Statistics class; to make a valid sample and make sure it's not contaminated? Then again, statistics can be made to say whatever you want them to.
95% of all Statistics are made up;)
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Which also brings up another good point; inventing. According the the European world, Christopher Columbus discovered North America in 1492. Discovered by the Europeans, that is. I find it very hard to discover land with human inhabitants. More than one group of people could have figured out the concept of zero, or discovered North America, or invented the telephone (Elisha Gray v. Alexander Graham Bell).
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Like I said, I could be wrong. I was quite certain it was the Incas or the Aztecs, but I was wrong.
No, we have one word for Indians but many meanings. They also used a system that I've heard of as Casting out the nines which is pretty much how we figured out 2's compliment allowing us to do all this fancy work on $3000 calculators.
I can see what you're saying, but when the testor put 5 objects up, they had a margin of error. Even a young child who hasn't learned formal mathematics can go one-for-one (see object on table, place object on table. Rinse, repeat)
The Incas (I believe) were the first people to come up with the concept of Zero. Before that, (and during that time) nobody else could understand no objects. They were the first ones to come up with the word, but that was due to being the only ones who understood it. Intersting question now that I think of it is do these tribes understand zero?
There are 0 spoons
I live in the US, I had no idea you guys in Europe were dying. Even though I have cable, I can pretty much count on 2.5MB download. I get pretty solid downloads from congested mirrors at around 200KB/s late at night....Man, Mbps here is no big deal for cable, everybody I know with cable has it. Wow, talk about me being blissfully unaware.
5 Times as much? That's a bit over exaggerating. Not counting totally free (NetZero, Juno), the lowest I've seen is $9.95, $10 to make it easy. NetZero / Juno Premium is $15-$20, and some people have an extra phone line ($20). So right now we're talking $35, that's if they don't have MSN or AOL ($24.95). Also, you can have multiple people online with DSL/cable...ever try splitting 28.8k, I have and it sucks. I can see what you're saying, half an hour a month isn't really worth changing over, but most webpages; especially portal sites (Yahoo, MSN) load painfully slow over dialup. My mom who is tech deficient wanted cable because 28.8 wasn't cutting it for email / browsing anymore.
Good point. Isn't that one of those things that you learn in Statistics class; to make a valid sample and make sure it's not contaminated? Then again, statistics can be made to say whatever you want them to. 95% of all Statistics are made up ;)