A 100% margin of error on a 72 out of 100 statistic... wouldn't that be impossible?
No, the margin of error is dictated by the size of your sample versus the size of the entire population. If you are trying to discover the buying habits of 280 million Americans, you must poll 2000 at random (something like 2,000), in order to get a +-5% error margin. If you are trying to poll the residents of a town of 100,000 then your sample must include 200 people chosen at random (or some similar number, someone whose stats class was less than 15 years ago, feel free to provide the correct sample sizes) to get +-5%.
If you poll 16 people out of 280 million, then your margin of error may well be close to 100%, regardless of the percentage of those 16 who answered 'a suffusion of yellow'.
Advertisers already know the income breakdown of their audiences. Nielsen doesn't just give a 'share' number to the advertisers; a lot of demographic data goes with it (race, income, gender, education-level, etc). So no, this won't give the advertisers better data. It will just lock them out of advertising to the poor.
Don't neglect the bread-and-circuses value of TV for the poor. Right now, they watch 5+ hours of cheap, mindless entertainment every night. If you take that away, what are they going to do with those 5 hours? They might just wake up and realize how much they are being crapped on by our economic and legal systems. They might decide that there is a small group of people at the top who are responsible.
It IS impressive that Java can run floating point ops at the speed of C++.
No, it isn't impressive. That just means that the JVM isn't performing the floating point ops at all. The JVM was coded in C or C++, and calling a floating point op in Java just runs that chunk of C or C++ (which probably hands the work off to the CPU's floating point hardware.) The fact that calling a chunk of C/C++ code incurs a 6% penalty actually kind of sucks.
Don't get me wrong, I use Java. If you want a GUI app (esp. cross-platform), then the penalties of Java might be well outweighed by the benefits. None of the C++ GUI toolsets that I have tried have a good enough combination of power + ease-of-use (note, I mean business-app, widget-oriented toolsets; SDL kicks ass for game dev). Java with Swing or SWT offers the ease-of-use of Visual Basic, with a great object-oriented language, less vendor lock-in (and less odius vendor(s)), and is cross-platform. But if you need raw perfomance, stick with C++ (or C if you have unlimited developer resources, tightly constrained hardware resources, and extreme performance requirements.)
In particular, something could be morally wrong but legal and profitable. The executives of a public company would face a stockholder suit for NOT doing it.
Hence the old statement that "a capitalist will knowingly sell you the bullets to shoot his own grandmother." If he doesn't, somebody else will. Either way he loses a grandmother; why miss-out on the profits?
M$'s VC-1 is very heavily encumbered by patents! Like MPEG (1,2, & 4), you can't use VC-1 without paying royalties to license the use of the patents, even if someone gives you perfect Free Software source code that is not encumbered by copyright!
I was playing 'Elite II' and trying to navigate to Mercury... the task was impossible, as I flew up and down, each time missing and ending up 1+ AU on the other side.
You go to school for 7 years, get an advanced degree, and work hard in your field. Then answer stupid grade-school science questions from someone who doesn't believe that we went to the moon, thinks the earth was created in 144 hours, believes that their cat was abducted by aliens six times (thus explaining her six litters), and doesn't remember which way the heliocentric vs geocentric affair turned out. Repeat every two or three days for several years. Let's see if you don't start talking down to people.
Yeah, I couldv'e accepted that the English language has been figuratively 'raped'. It turns out I was wrong, the the rape was both literal and criminal.
In Ireland at least, the warning that piracy (of films in particular) supports terrorism, is quite true. While those actually pirating the stuff themselves aren't, those who buy pirated movies at the market, etc., are most likely buying from the equivalent of an IRA high street store
BitTorrent is a high-tech weapon in the war against Terrorism! By downloading movies and music from the Internet, we can deprive Terrorists of their ability to fund operations. We're at threat-level yellow: rev up your downloaders!
BTW, al Qaeda is also supposed to support their operations by selling bootlegs.
Property - Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title: properties such as copyrights and trademarks.
Even if we don't dismiss this definition as having been mechanically separated from someone's rectum: copyright would only be theft of 'Property' if I stole their actual copyright, and thus prevented them from further distributing the software in question. That would be a theft of their Property.
I'm sorry but "Copyright Infringement" is synonymous with "Theft of Intellectual Property" under bother US and UK law at the very least.
You're statement is incorrect, because (at least) under U.S. law, there is no such thing as "Intellectual Property". There is copyright law. There is patent law. There is a legal treatment of trade secrets. There are laws regulating trademark and service marks. There are no laws governing "Intellectual Property". IP is not a legal concept.
You should remember this the next time someone, for example, breaks into your house and steals your posessions. Because then you will know what it feels like to be stolen from. If this does not bother you then, by all means, keep on stealing!
You describe two different crimes: breaking/entering and theft. If a copyright infringer broke into Adobe's campus to copy some software, most people would agree that that is a more serious offence that downloading a copy from the Internet. If someone can drive by my house and make a copy of my television, without entering my home, then I have no problem with that.
I support copyright laws as long as they remain within the Constitutional objective "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". I do not support perpetual copyright, nor the use of incorrect terms (piracy, theft) for copyright infringement.
Once the decision is made to initiate a war with a country, it is preferable to bomb rather than focus on ground invasion. The focus is in (a) winning and (b) keeping our own guys alive.
I absolutely agree with you. Once we are in a war, a commander (Lt -> CIC) has a responsibility to his or her own soldiers first. But maybe we should weigh the likely number of civilian deaths before we decide to go to war. Shouldn't knowingly entering into a conflict where we are likely to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians, when you are not defending yourself against an attack, be a war crime?
The MPAA/RIAA is a group of people abusing the laws and the legislature to maintain an obsolete business model. Wheras Saddam is a Dorito eating, kindly old man who kind of / sort of murdered a few hundred thousand people. Obviously the MPAA/RIAA is evil, and Saddam is merely misunderstood.
Congratulations, now *we* have murdered a few hundred thousand innocent Iraqis. So G.W.Bush is basically the same as Saddam, except that Bush would choke on the Doritos.
This is/., where using the correct versions of there/their, too/to/two, and its/it's in one post gets you moderated "-1 Prig". But good luck in your quest.
Here's a theory: Manners and refined language are an attempt to impress (and thus bed) members of the fairer sex. Since most/.'ers are predestined to die virgins, their decision to communicate via the point-and-grunt method has no negative consquences.:-)
Either that, or REQUIRE that every piece of legislation be read in full on the House floor by Gilbert Gottfried, and on the Senate floor by Ben Stein before it gets voted into law. If you haven't heard it both screamed and droned, it can't be signed into law.
While the penalty phases of the proposed law are demonstrated in pantomime on CarrotTop (House) and Daryl McBride (Senate). Such a provision would have the unfortunate side-effect of making torture seem much less Cruel and Unusual (or at least, much less Cruel).
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No, the margin of error is dictated by the size of your sample versus the size of the entire population. If you are trying to discover the buying habits of 280 million Americans, you must poll 2000 at random (something like 2,000), in order to get a +-5% error margin. If you are trying to poll the residents of a town of 100,000 then your sample must include 200 people chosen at random (or some similar number, someone whose stats class was less than 15 years ago, feel free to provide the correct sample sizes) to get +-5%.
If you poll 16 people out of 280 million, then your margin of error may well be close to 100%, regardless of the percentage of those 16 who answered 'a suffusion of yellow'.
Don't neglect the bread-and-circuses value of TV for the poor. Right now, they watch 5+ hours of cheap, mindless entertainment every night. If you take that away, what are they going to do with those 5 hours? They might just wake up and realize how much they are being crapped on by our economic and legal systems. They might decide that there is a small group of people at the top who are responsible.
No, it isn't impressive. That just means that the JVM isn't performing the floating point ops at all. The JVM was coded in C or C++, and calling a floating point op in Java just runs that chunk of C or C++ (which probably hands the work off to the CPU's floating point hardware.) The fact that calling a chunk of C/C++ code incurs a 6% penalty actually kind of sucks.
Don't get me wrong, I use Java. If you want a GUI app (esp. cross-platform), then the penalties of Java might be well outweighed by the benefits. None of the C++ GUI toolsets that I have tried have a good enough combination of power + ease-of-use (note, I mean business-app, widget-oriented toolsets; SDL kicks ass for game dev). Java with Swing or SWT offers the ease-of-use of Visual Basic, with a great object-oriented language, less vendor lock-in (and less odius vendor(s)), and is cross-platform. But if you need raw perfomance, stick with C++ (or C if you have unlimited developer resources, tightly constrained hardware resources, and extreme performance requirements.)
Hence the old statement that "a capitalist will knowingly sell you the bullets to shoot his own grandmother." If he doesn't, somebody else will. Either way he loses a grandmother; why miss-out on the profits?
On most recent US keyboards, it is between the left Ctrl key and the left Alt key.
M$'s VC-1 is very heavily encumbered by patents! Like MPEG (1,2, & 4), you can't use VC-1 without paying royalties to license the use of the patents, even if someone gives you perfect Free Software source code that is not encumbered by copyright!
It's a real shame. I used to play the original Elite on an Apple ][e. Vectorish-graphics aside, it was enthralling.
What part of 'elusive planet' was unclear?
Man, a post like that takes balls. Oops, nevermind.
You go to school for 7 years, get an advanced degree, and work hard in your field. Then answer stupid grade-school science questions from someone who doesn't believe that we went to the moon, thinks the earth was created in 144 hours, believes that their cat was abducted by aliens six times (thus explaining her six litters), and doesn't remember which way the heliocentric vs geocentric affair turned out. Repeat every two or three days for several years. Let's see if you don't start talking down to people.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
Yeah, I couldv'e accepted that the English language has been figuratively 'raped'. It turns out I was wrong, the the rape was both literal and criminal.
And the student was enlightened.
When next week's headline is: 'Bats Cripple Wireless Web Access', that is not a dupe. Different rodent, different medium.
BitTorrent is a high-tech weapon in the war against Terrorism! By downloading movies and music from the Internet, we can deprive Terrorists of their ability to fund operations. We're at threat-level yellow: rev up your downloaders!
BTW, al Qaeda is also supposed to support their operations by selling bootlegs.
Even if we don't dismiss this definition as having been mechanically separated from someone's rectum: copyright would only be theft of 'Property' if I stole their actual copyright, and thus prevented them from further distributing the software in question. That would be a theft of their Property.
You're statement is incorrect, because (at least) under U.S. law, there is no such thing as "Intellectual Property". There is copyright law. There is patent law. There is a legal treatment of trade secrets. There are laws regulating trademark and service marks. There are no laws governing "Intellectual Property". IP is not a legal concept.
You describe two different crimes: breaking/entering and theft. If a copyright infringer broke into Adobe's campus to copy some software, most people would agree that that is a more serious offence that downloading a copy from the Internet. If someone can drive by my house and make a copy of my television, without entering my home, then I have no problem with that.
I support copyright laws as long as they remain within the Constitutional objective "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". I do not support perpetual copyright, nor the use of incorrect terms (piracy, theft) for copyright infringement.
I absolutely agree with you. Once we are in a war, a commander (Lt -> CIC) has a responsibility to his or her own soldiers first. But maybe we should weigh the likely number of civilian deaths before we decide to go to war. Shouldn't knowingly entering into a conflict where we are likely to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians, when you are not defending yourself against an attack, be a war crime?
Congratulations, now *we* have murdered a few hundred thousand innocent Iraqis. So G.W.Bush is basically the same as Saddam, except that Bush would choke on the Doritos.
Wire we even talking about this?
Here's a theory: Manners and refined language are an attempt to impress (and thus bed) members of the fairer sex. Since most /.'ers are predestined to die virgins, their decision to communicate via the point-and-grunt method has no negative consquences. :-)
Actually, the rumor came from the Millinery Division of Reynolds Aluminum.
While the penalty phases of the proposed law are demonstrated in pantomime on CarrotTop (House) and Daryl McBride (Senate). Such a provision would have the unfortunate side-effect of making torture seem much less Cruel and Unusual (or at least, much less Cruel).
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