Literally, "I don't know what", figuratively, like an x-factor (as used to describe, say, fashion models or actors, and not the comic-book mutant kind). Ah hell, Merriam-Webster, Free Dictionary, Wiktionary explain it better...
Except I'm not, and you are. Average. If you read the post I was replying to (and corrected), you might have understood what I was saying. Of course, given your post:
(Arithmetic) Mean == Average, Median != Mean.
maybe you won't.
TL;DR; There are 3 kinds of "average": (arithmetic) mean, median and mode. Most people say "average" but actually mean "(arithmetic) mean".
The mean can be higher than 99% of the population. For example, take 99 ordinary people and 1 Bill Gates. His fortune alone makes everyone else's below the mean.
FTFY. Both mean and median are averages. Mode as well.
Web applications, ever heard of them? Server-side applications? Here, read a bit: Application software. Besides, TFA doesn't say it's an "application". In fact, it never used that word. The article does imply that Lifebrowser is intended to be used privately, but we've seen what good intentions look like after the corporate grinder.
is they barely interact with anything. The fact they barely interact with anything makes them hard to detect. Even places like the LHC need to generate assloads of neutrinos to see them.
I'm not familiar with that unit of measurement. Is it specific to neutrino quantities or can it be used for other things? Oh, and could you give a conversion to something more familiar, like Libraries of Congress or Football Fields?:D
Actually, no, it isn't like hurricane or tornado scales. There are 5 letters that indicate the order of magnitude of the flare's x-ray (100-800 pm) flux (in W/m^2): A (<10^-7), B (10^-7 to 10^-6), C (10^-6 to 10^-5), M (10^-5 to 10^-4) and X (>10^-4). The number after the letter is a multiplier, so an M6 has an x-ray flux of 6x10^-5 W/m^2.
The scale is open ended, with the largest measured flare (2003-11-04) estimated at X45 (4.5x10^-3 W/m^2). We only have an estimate because the flare saturated the GOES detectors.
The Carrington Event is generally regarded as the largest flare in recorded history. It caused telegraph systems to catch fire and visible aurorae at least as far south as the Caribbean
I have, and I do. There's a lot of politics involved, and consequently, some bad science. People fudge, so you have to look at methodology and analysis. See what the researchers set out to prove. As far as I can tell, the least-fudged results from the better-designed peer-reviewed studies indicate that low-carb diets are good for you, and really do help you burn fat and/or lose weight in a healthy, non-self-cannibalistic way; dietary cholesterol isn't bad for you; dietary saturated fat isn't bad for you (trans-fats are bad, however); dietary sodium isn't bad for you; and that in general, carbs are bad for you. Yes, fiber (also a carb) is good. Yes, fruits, in moderation, are good. However, too much fructose damages your liver. And wheat, rice, corn, potatoes, bread, pasta, cereal, beyond a certain amount (much, much less than the usual recommended), is bad, bad, bad. The science is simple, it's nutritional biochemistry 101. All non-fiber carbs (basically starches), when digested, break down into sugar. Now, imagine taking the equivalent amount of sugar, instead of those carbs. That's what the standard recommended diet is doing to us, because when that stuff hits your bloodstream, it's glucose. Sugar. Nothing more, nothing less, and your body doesn't know the difference. How much dietary sugar would you consider healthy?
Like I said, look up the Protein Power blog. Dr. Eades covers a lot of ground there, including critiquing various studies. He and his wife have decades of experience treating nutritional and metabolic problems, so they're not just making this stuff up either. That site is a good source for links, both pro and con, and makes it easier to find stuff.
-1 Misinformed. Seriously, read Taubes. Or Protein Power, that has a section on the science of the insulin response. Heck, Google for the Protein Power blog, there's a lot of good info and links there.
it's worthless because it devalues everything. yes, I miss the days when I saw real dinosaurs in exhibits.
When did they ever have *real dinosaurs* in exhibits? Most fossils aren't the real thing, but mineralized casts, and I'm pretty sure there aren't any whole frozen dinosaurs.
but it's important to explain to people who don't know better that they too should find it worthless.
...snip
it's not I who finds it worthless. it actually is worthless.
Contradict yourself much? How about a citation as to the actual worthlessness you keep referring to?
the fact that someone can be conduced into attributing value to the item doesn't actually ascribe that value. it just fakes that value. and faked values are called bubbles in the finance world, and much much worse things in the biological world.
"Value" is a matter of perception and relative to context, and therefore subjective. It's all "fake". On that note, what exactly are "faked values" in the biological world, and what are they called? I'm curious.
You opinions, no matter how strongly you feel about them, are not facts. When you learn the difference, your arguments will make much more sense.
Perhaps you assume (what I've often seen) the typical Win* user fires up full-blown Word instead of Notepad to create a five line text file?
Sadly, yes, they do. The browser is the Internet, and Word is for typing anything. That about sums up the vast majority of Windows users. Oh, I forgot Paint, for drawing. Of course, some users use Paint to write notes (no, I'm serious, I've seen people do that). My dad, he's hard-core -- he doesn't use Paint to draw. He draws in Word.:(
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Literally, "I don't know what", figuratively, like an x-factor (as used to describe, say, fashion models or actors, and not the comic-book mutant kind). Ah hell, Merriam-Webster, Free Dictionary, Wiktionary explain it better...
Lawyers first. That takes out a lot of politicians too. Add lobbyists and bankers to the list.
Except I'm not, and you are. Average. If you read the post I was replying to (and corrected), you might have understood what I was saying. Of course, given your post:
(Arithmetic) Mean == Average, Median != Mean.
maybe you won't.
TL;DR; There are 3 kinds of "average": (arithmetic) mean, median and mode. Most people say "average" but actually mean "(arithmetic) mean".
The mean can be higher than 99% of the population. For example, take 99 ordinary people and 1 Bill Gates. His fortune alone makes everyone else's below the mean.
FTFY. Both mean and median are averages. Mode as well.
Web applications, ever heard of them? Server-side applications? Here, read a bit: Application software. Besides, TFA doesn't say it's an "application". In fact, it never used that word. The article does imply that Lifebrowser is intended to be used privately, but we've seen what good intentions look like after the corporate grinder.
The size of the surface area has no bearing on the amount of pressure that can be applied because pressure is force per unit area.
Try again. Try harder.
is they barely interact with anything. The fact they barely interact with anything makes them hard to detect. Even places like the LHC need to generate assloads of neutrinos to see them.
I'm not familiar with that unit of measurement. Is it specific to neutrino quantities or can it be used for other things? Oh, and could you give a conversion to something more familiar, like Libraries of Congress or Football Fields? :D
I can't find the setting to show the thread scores. And YES MUTHAFUCKERS, I've looked everywhere.
Did you check the Britannica? ;p
or a scapegoat... :D
It sucks for sorting. 01APR, 01AUG, 01DEC, 01FEB...
5 miles is 8 kilometers, not 6.4.
Ugh, link got eaten. Carrington Event.
Actually, no, it isn't like hurricane or tornado scales. There are 5 letters that indicate the order of magnitude of the flare's x-ray (100-800 pm) flux (in W/m^2): A (<10^-7), B (10^-7 to 10^-6), C (10^-6 to 10^-5), M (10^-5 to 10^-4) and X (>10^-4). The number after the letter is a multiplier, so an M6 has an x-ray flux of 6x10^-5 W/m^2.
The scale is open ended, with the largest measured flare (2003-11-04) estimated at X45 (4.5x10^-3 W/m^2). We only have an estimate because the flare saturated the GOES detectors.
The Carrington Event is generally regarded as the largest flare in recorded history. It caused telegraph systems to catch fire and visible aurorae at least as far south as the Caribbean
Talking to yourself again, eh?
I have, and I do. There's a lot of politics involved, and consequently, some bad science. People fudge, so you have to look at methodology and analysis. See what the researchers set out to prove. As far as I can tell, the least-fudged results from the better-designed peer-reviewed studies indicate that low-carb diets are good for you, and really do help you burn fat and/or lose weight in a healthy, non-self-cannibalistic way; dietary cholesterol isn't bad for you; dietary saturated fat isn't bad for you (trans-fats are bad, however); dietary sodium isn't bad for you; and that in general, carbs are bad for you. Yes, fiber (also a carb) is good. Yes, fruits, in moderation, are good. However, too much fructose damages your liver. And wheat, rice, corn, potatoes, bread, pasta, cereal, beyond a certain amount (much, much less than the usual recommended), is bad, bad, bad. The science is simple, it's nutritional biochemistry 101. All non-fiber carbs (basically starches), when digested, break down into sugar. Now, imagine taking the equivalent amount of sugar, instead of those carbs. That's what the standard recommended diet is doing to us, because when that stuff hits your bloodstream, it's glucose. Sugar. Nothing more, nothing less, and your body doesn't know the difference. How much dietary sugar would you consider healthy?
Like I said, look up the Protein Power blog. Dr. Eades covers a lot of ground there, including critiquing various studies. He and his wife have decades of experience treating nutritional and metabolic problems, so they're not just making this stuff up either. That site is a good source for links, both pro and con, and makes it easier to find stuff.
-1 Misinformed. Seriously, read Taubes. Or Protein Power, that has a section on the science of the insulin response. Heck, Google for the Protein Power blog, there's a lot of good info and links there.
Try using the whole url with protocol specifier in your link: <a href="http://www.solarmovie.eu">link</a>
Carve out your data in stone. That should be solar-storm-proof. :)
They make Microsoft jumpy.
Nah, you just didn't understand it because it was encrypted 78 times.
it's worthless because it devalues everything. yes, I miss the days when I saw real dinosaurs in exhibits.
When did they ever have *real dinosaurs* in exhibits? Most fossils aren't the real thing, but mineralized casts, and I'm pretty sure there aren't any whole frozen dinosaurs.
but it's important to explain to people who don't know better that they too should find it worthless.
...snip
it's not I who finds it worthless. it actually is worthless.
Contradict yourself much? How about a citation as to the actual worthlessness you keep referring to?
the fact that someone can be conduced into attributing value to the item doesn't actually ascribe that value. it just fakes that value. and faked values are called bubbles in the finance world, and much much worse things in the biological world.
"Value" is a matter of perception and relative to context, and therefore subjective. It's all "fake". On that note, what exactly are "faked values" in the biological world, and what are they called? I'm curious.
You opinions, no matter how strongly you feel about them, are not facts. When you learn the difference, your arguments will make much more sense.
What has been seen cannot be unseen, even in your mind's eye. :D
Perhaps you assume (what I've often seen) the typical Win* user fires up full-blown Word instead of Notepad to create a five line text file?
Sadly, yes, they do. The browser is the Internet, and Word is for typing anything. That about sums up the vast majority of Windows users. Oh, I forgot Paint, for drawing. Of course, some users use Paint to write notes (no, I'm serious, I've seen people do that). My dad, he's hard-core -- he doesn't use Paint to draw. He draws in Word. :(
whoosh much?
+5 On the Mark