It's $2.56 (a hexadecimal dollar) if you find a new bug in TAOCP. I don't think he's paying for bug hunting in TeX anymore, since he's not really involved with TeX anymore. He has a nice signature. Not that I have one either.
Actually, I was going to ask this too. I mean, it's like saying in the news that someone "suffered an untimely death". Might they have "enjoyed a timely death"?
Except that when "suffer" is used as a transitive verb (which is to say, when it takes an object), it means primarily "to undergo or sustain." Similarly, the primary definition of the noun "success" is "The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted." Evidently, the Debian team was attempting to make this the largest DebConf ever.
I suspect that you'll find that the distribution tends more towards a huge pool of people who are moderately less intelligent than 100, balanced by a few brilliant outlyers that bring the whole average up -- very similar to the distribution of wealth (see http://www.gumption.org/1993/memo/landmarks/percep tions.gif). At least, that kind of distribution would match my (admittedly non-scientific) observations.
Your suspicion is incorrect. IQ's are normally distributed (which, by the way, implies that the average and median coincide). Moreover, IQ 100 is fixed at the average score.
*If you're making your pdfs with LaTeX then you've probably read some of the docs. A good deal of typesetting knowledge went into the design of TeX and much of it is explained in the documentation. Those docs mention something about a recomended number of characters per line for maximum comfort reading. At 10pt, you're either going to have far to many characters or you're going to have huge margins and/or double-spaced text. At which point you've negated the benefits of your 10pt text.**
LaTeX defaults to 10pt fonts and 1.5 inch margins, which look damn pretty. The optimal number of characters on a line is 66. Even if you scale your margins so that you have 66 characters per line at 12pts, you're going to have fewer total characters on a page than at 10pts because of vertical spacing issues. Moving up to 12pt tends to look awful. Then again, as long as I'm paid by the page instead of the word. ..
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I have excellent karma anyway. The moderation system is broken. Specifically, a lot of people with mod points are idiots. The easiest way to fix this is to metamod them all to hell. A few negative metamods, and they can't mod for six months. Another, less straight forward way to help is to troll the living hell out of the forums. Benign trolls, like First Post trolls, work best. Getting people to waste mod points on inane posts keeps them from wasting them on good ones.
Does this appointment pull resources away from the Department of Defense and other, more important uses? Yes. Strangely enough, American resources are finite.
A conflict of interest is clearly betrayed. There are ways to mitigate such conflicts such as recusal, disclosure, and the like, but the current administration has not done so. If a lawyer were to act as unethically, he would have been disbarred long ago. Merely pointing out that there is a conflict of interests is not fallacious.
The appointment of a Piracy Czar during a time of war betrays monied interests. Especially considering the current administration's propaganda regarding terrorism. It is like appointing a Jaywalking Czar during a bout of gang violence.
And why on earth would someone have to talk to 10% of a population to discover a trend? All you have to do is talk to a fairly large random sample -- say, 1500 people. This works regardless of the size of the population.
This argument is moot. There are already communications protocols like the ones you've described for radio use. And they won't replace Morse because they are not human readable. They fill different niches. You would be a fool to try to use some IP-over-ham scheme to transmit information during an emergency. But Morse acts as a lowest common denominator for communication that assures that information can be propagated in almost every circumstance.
But there are non analog methods to sending data with a noise resistant, error correcting modulation algorithms also that work almost just as coode as morse.
But these can't be done by humans realtime unless they can compute congruences very quickly. That's really not easy.
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Either way, NASA should consider outsourcing.
It's $2.56 (a hexadecimal dollar) if you find a new bug in TAOCP. I don't think he's paying for bug hunting in TeX anymore, since he's not really involved with TeX anymore. He has a nice signature. Not that I have one either.
Except that when "suffer" is used as a transitive verb (which is to say, when it takes an object), it means primarily "to undergo or sustain." Similarly, the primary definition of the noun "success" is "The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted." Evidently, the Debian team was attempting to make this the largest DebConf ever.
Largest ptical telescope, perhaps. Arecibo Observatory is still the biggest single telescope, though there are even larger arrays.
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Your suspicion is incorrect. IQ's are normally distributed (which, by the way, implies that the average and median coincide). Moreover, IQ 100 is fixed at the average score.
Oh, you mean an adware app?
And arXiv -- but you've got to be careful there since new papers are preprints. You'll have to separate the wheat from the chaff yourself.
LaTeX defaults to 10pt fonts and 1.5 inch margins, which look damn pretty. The optimal number of characters on a line is 66. Even if you scale your margins so that you have 66 characters per line at 12pts, you're going to have fewer total characters on a page than at 10pts because of vertical spacing issues. Moving up to 12pt tends to look awful. Then again, as long as I'm paid by the page instead of the word. . .
How on earth would you know? Reports like the one in TFA don't exactly give you a random sampling of Tor users.
It's also an accurate empirical observation regarding human nature.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but I have excellent karma anyway. The moderation system is broken. Specifically, a lot of people with mod points are idiots. The easiest way to fix this is to metamod them all to hell. A few negative metamods, and they can't mod for six months. Another, less straight forward way to help is to troll the living hell out of the forums. Benign trolls, like First Post trolls, work best. Getting people to waste mod points on inane posts keeps them from wasting them on good ones.
Or wait for the torrent and get it free.
You fail it.
Does this appointment pull resources away from the Department of Defense and other, more important uses? Yes. Strangely enough, American resources are finite.
A conflict of interest is clearly betrayed. There are ways to mitigate such conflicts such as recusal, disclosure, and the like, but the current administration has not done so. If a lawyer were to act as unethically, he would have been disbarred long ago. Merely pointing out that there is a conflict of interests is not fallacious.
This is an interesting point I had not considered. Thank you.
The appointment of a Piracy Czar during a time of war betrays monied interests. Especially considering the current administration's propaganda regarding terrorism. It is like appointing a Jaywalking Czar during a bout of gang violence.
You clearly haven't studied statistics.
No, that's not what I'm telling you. Read it again.
This argument is moot. There are already communications protocols like the ones you've described for radio use. And they won't replace Morse because they are not human readable. They fill different niches. You would be a fool to try to use some IP-over-ham scheme to transmit information during an emergency. But Morse acts as a lowest common denominator for communication that assures that information can be propagated in almost every circumstance.
Don't tell me -- you're a programmer, right?
Morse is plainly digital. Indeed, there are three discrete characters.
But these can't be done by humans realtime unless they can compute congruences very quickly. That's really not easy.
This is a Unix system. I know this.