Not wishing to go all pedantic (honest) but the median is the average. But there's different ways of calculating the average (mean, median & mode anybody?)
In a nutshell, Mean is the mathematical average (divide and conquer!) and likely to be skewed in real world situations by extreme values. Median is the value that sits in the center of your values and fits the normal distribution (bell curve) and effectively discard extremes. Mode is just the value that occurs most often and is only really of use in probability related calculations (i.e. recording dice throws).
In this scenario the median is most likely to give you an accurate representation of income.
Basically MS is the OS equivalent of a crack dealer.
Get you hooked on the cheap/free and then put the price up.
The cheap is edu copies etc, the free is the piracy. But eventually, as you say, the WGA starts to kick in and suddenly your OS starts dropping functionality. When faced with operating system cold turkey what can you do?
I assumed this meant matching particular noise patterns/compression/levels etc to particular ccd/body configurations, not this is camera x12345 owned by Paranoid of Pilkington
Plus, on this occasion I thought "So?" was a reasonable response too.
It's not sending personal information, so I'm assuming it's tracking pirated keys stats or something, for which you can't really blame Them (ooh no, not Them!).
The Earth is flat The Earth is the centre of the universe. The human body is composed of the four humors, black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm.
OK, so if this turned out to be true then science gets turned on its head (again) but it's a very arrogant standpoint that a theory can never be proved wrong, since it's happened many, many times as our understanding of the universe (as a race) has increased.
Theory: - A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
Theory is just best guess based on current knowledge. Knowledge increases, theories get revised. It happens.
I, for one, am hoping that accepted theory is wrong on this occassion...
Disturbingly it's probably the ability to consciously commit genocide over a difference of opinion (for example religon) that marks us as human, as opposed to killing for evolutionary survival reasons i.e. territory, survival of young, food.
I never saw a lion go and kill all of the antelopes. It would starve.
Slashdot Mirror
They, for one, should welcome their human overlords...
I think that's more about stopping you giving them to your mates than anything else...
Not wishing to go all pedantic (honest) but the median is the average. But there's different ways of calculating the average (mean, median & mode anybody?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics)
In a nutshell, Mean is the mathematical average (divide and conquer!) and likely to be skewed in real world situations by extreme values. Median is the value that sits in the center of your values and fits the normal distribution (bell curve) and effectively discard extremes. Mode is just the value that occurs most often and is only really of use in probability related calculations (i.e. recording dice throws).
In this scenario the median is most likely to give you an accurate representation of income.
Basically MS is the OS equivalent of a crack dealer.
Get you hooked on the cheap/free and then put the price up.
The cheap is edu copies etc, the free is the piracy. But eventually, as you say, the WGA starts to kick in and suddenly your OS starts dropping functionality. When faced with operating system cold turkey what can you do?
It's very clever...
I assumed this meant matching particular noise patterns/compression/levels etc to particular ccd/body configurations, not this is camera x12345 owned by Paranoid of Pilkington
Nice response....
Plus, on this occasion I thought "So?" was a reasonable response too.
It's not sending personal information, so I'm assuming it's tracking pirated keys stats or something, for which you can't really blame Them (ooh no, not Them!).
But it's good to bash MS anyway...
I'll thank you to leave my anus out of this!
Yeah, but what about the humorless and the fuckers! You're offending them too! Hmmmf.
But surely a Mac is a PC since it is both personal and a computer...
HAHA! That'll get em...
Loadsssssssssssssssssssssssss
(Those s's took mere seconds!)
They would if they wanted to stop somebody else from using it first...
Mod parent funny!
Aaah... those were the days...
Fingers marking 8 previous pages so I could retrace my steps if it went wrong. Papercuts everywhere...
In other breaking news: -
The Earth is flat
The Earth is the centre of the universe.
The human body is composed of the four humors, black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm.
OK, so if this turned out to be true then science gets turned on its head (again) but it's a very arrogant standpoint that a theory can never be proved wrong, since it's happened many, many times as our understanding of the universe (as a race) has increased.
Theory: -
A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
Theory is just best guess based on current knowledge. Knowledge increases, theories get revised. It happens.
I, for one, am hoping that accepted theory is wrong on this occassion...
If I could actually speak a language other than Enlish I may have been able to pull that gag off...
Si
Hurray!
Yeah. Who needs definitions. After all it's not like we need to communicate with each other or anything...
I reckon without definitions nobody would understand anything anybody said. So no change there then...
Disturbingly it's probably the ability to consciously commit genocide over a difference of opinion (for example religon) that marks us as human, as opposed to killing for evolutionary survival reasons i.e. territory, survival of young, food.
I never saw a lion go and kill all of the antelopes. It would starve.
Nope. None at all. I've not got a time machine or nuffink....
And now I'm going to liberally whip you with my soggy sheet...
Yup
Faded in the wash...
Somebody send for the men in white coats.
For goodness sake, get a grip of yourself you poor anonymous coward.
It's just a shame that your parents let the parasite grow up isn't it...
*sigh*
I call troll...
I think that's mostly how science works already...
Unless of course he happens to be an oyster or something...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(biology)
I reckon Eric.
Or Lord Erstwhile HengleBinker III.
Or Uranus. So people can shout "Look, I can see your...." Oh wait. Somebody did that already...