Actually, mathematicians are reasonably confident that they know what Fermat's proof was, and it is flawed. So, either he was having a joke or he hadn't thought about the hole in his 'proof'.
I just recently purchased my first laptop. The primary reason was that the Australian Tax Office considers that laptops are work-related while desktops aren't. Thus, I can purchase a laptop and have it fully deductable from my taxable income - even if I never do a day of work on it. It's like the government paying for half my laptop. At those sort of prices its a no-brainer.
While these sort of tax distortions continue laptops market shares are going to keep growing and growing.
Why? I would say that being able to keep you coffee warm while you work would make them the ideal coffee shop machines. Just add a steam spout to the liquid cooled ones and you have your own coffee shop machine right there!
I think you answer your own point - "the thousands of self built systems out there". It would have to be hundreds of thousands to make a dent in the statistics.
The plural of anecdote is not data - no matter how many friends you have.
Standard normal distribution tables - the same ones that tell you that, for example, there is a 95% chance that the true result is within 2 standard deviations of the outcome. These are the same ones that are used when polling companies say that "52% of people support the administration of twinkies to minors in life threatening circumstance - the margin of error was +/- 2%"
Oxytocin is in fact the hormone that is released by women during labour. It helps to progress labour and act as a pain killer. I don't know how they first made the link between a childbirth hormone and trust - but there you go!
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Not necessarily.
The standard deviation of a binomial distribution is sqrt(n.p.(1-p)) where n is the number of subjects and p is the probability of maximal trust.
Thus, out of a sample of 29 people and with p=0.21 the standard deviation is 2.2.
Thus, 13 is 3.2 standard deviations away from 6. There is only a 0.07% chance that these are from the same distribution.
Thus, they can conclusively conclude that this spray had a statistically significant effect on trust.
You can make it more complicated if you wish but the basic fact remains that you can get statistically significant results from small samples. In this case there is only a 0.07% chance that they are wrong.
The best way to be effective is to give both consumers and manufacturers an incentive to be efficient. If the consumer is charged a disposal fee they'll put them in dumpsters. If they are paid a fee and given enough moral suasion they will probably participate.
To fund the consumer fee and any payment to recyclers you put a tax on computers sold in the state. Then, rather than forcing manufacturers to take their computers back (they are good at putting them together, not necessarily taking them apart) put it out to tender and the most efficient recycler will get the job. That way everyone has the right incentives to participate. If the most efficient recycler happens to be a computer manufacturer, so be it. But you don't need to force that.
And don't forget that this tells you nothing about installed stocks. Just because Windows managed to sell as much this quarter as UNIX doesn't mean that they have the same market share. Not even close.
About the only way that sales can indicate market shares is if what you are purchasing is a consumable that deteriorates before the next survey period. This might be true for Coke vs Pepsi but servers? (OK, it might be true for Windows servers, but UNIX servers?) Servers should be expected to last a little bit longer than one quarter.
Sheesh! You would think that people could get that right once in a while.
Another clear problem from the data you quote is the rate of inflation. Between the time the first stage hits your cows to the time you sell it the Rouble has depreciated by about 50,000 times (i.e. 50,000 Roubles when you sell the first stage buys as much as 1 rouble did when it hit your cows).
Presuming that they manage to sell these parts within a year, that sort of inflation is extraordinary. I'm sure it means something. I plan on doing my PhD on this effect to try to discover "the inflationary consequences of near-earth suborbital heavy metal bombardment of bovine targets". I plan to get a grant from the US govenment. God bless America!
...or did you just make those numbers up? Nevermind, I'm sure I can get my paper published all over the place and earn lots of money from the talk show circuit before it gets discovered. God bless America!
...and then I can make even more money on the talk show circuit talking about how I mislead the public and it all came down to one poorly attributed posting on Slashdot. God bless America!
Speaking as an economist I can tell you that the only thing that tariffs do in the long run is make you pay more for things than they are really worth. Maybe enrich a few politically connected companies. But that's it.
Consider the sugar tariffs you have in place in America becuase of your ideological objections to Cuba's existence. The result is that sugar is hugely expensive in the US. Thus, US sugar farmers (actually concentrated in a few wealthy corporations that make extensive political donations) make bucketloads of money at the expense of the ordinary US consumer. Furthermore, to avoid the sugar tarifs, most confectioners use high fructose corn syrup which is the closest thing to sugar they can find that does not get hit with the tariff. Frankly it tastes awful if you compare it with real sugar. Thus, as a result of the sugar tariffs, the US has higher prices for sugar than anywhere else in the world, has confectionary and soft drinks made with HFCS which taste awful, and enriches a few politically connected corporations as a result of it.
Now, dumping. Why should I object if someone wants to sell me something below cost? Normally you call that a bargain. If you manage to find a hard-drive below cost you would be crowing about it here. But do that in international trade an somehow its bad? Ooh, that's dumping, that's evil? You seem to presume that when you loose your, lets say, sugar industry you will be overcharged by that overseas monopoly. I hate to break it to you, but there is more to the world than "The US" and "The Rest". If you lost your domestic sugar industry you could buy sugar on the world market from any of a number of countries. Dumping is more the result of intense competition than monopoly.
Convicts are users when they go into prision and are users shortly after parole.
What's jail got to do with it? You still seem to be presuming that you lock up all substance abusers. Maybe if you stopped them from going to jail (or killing themselves) in the first place you might have a chance.
Why should I consider Austraila as a shining example of liberty?
Because it's a veritable light on the hill compared to the United States of America where you worry about 20-year-olds mail-ordering a $240 case of wine instead of getting the cheapest malt liquor they can find in the local bottle shop.
Sure you'll find a burger in a fancy restaurant - but it won't be called a burger.
Imagine if you will, a fine steak tartare just lightly grilled on a wood-fired stove served with fresh vegetable crudites, some pomme frittes and a lightly toasted petite boule!
Yum! Just don't ask for any tomato sauce.
And I do know that grilling a steak tartare kind of defeats the purpose but it was the most high-falutin way I could think of saying mince meat.
You seem to presume that the only thing a government can do in response to substance abuse is to make it illegal. In fact you suggest that treatment could be a better use of funds. Well, why don't you put two and two together and wonder if the government has any reason to be involved in treatment and harm-minimisation strategies.
Consider some of the examples of Australian responses to problems with
petrol sniffing or chroming. These seem to be directly related to your examples of spray paint and gasoline. Yes, people are considering restrictions on gasoline and spray paint as a way of dealing with the problems of substance abuse.
Governments may not be good nannies but they are a damn side better than most people at taking care of themselves.
I'm fuzzy on the precise timing but Logan's Run predates Star Wars and Blake's 7 may.
Logan's Run had a great premise even if it was pretty much Star Trek serial fare. But...
Blakes 7 was awesome. Terry Nation was a scriptwriting genius. None of this self-contained small story junk that Star Trek, Battlestar, Logan's etc. did but a long overarching theme. A plot that extended beyond one episode. A universe where men were real men, women were real women and small fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri.
Note the quotes and compare it with the article. It's not a precise statement just a reference to an earlier use of the term.
As for my view - it's 50 year old technology in the same way that the automobile is 100 year old technology and computers are 150+ year old technology (if you want to go back to Babbage)
While the Titan's might be '50 year old technology' they are much better at launching payloads into space than the much newer shuttles. In fact, there has been a lot of criticism about America's unhealthy focus on reusable vehicles i.e. the shuttles. They are relatively wimpy in the payloads they can lift (they can barely get satellites to geosynchronous orbit and don't go there themselves). So, newer is not necessarily better.
The number of times I have used Google News and clicked on the top link only to get some barely literate ramblings are too many to count.
Recently it seems that some San Francisco Real Estate site was getting high ranks for its barely literate ramblings on news topics that had nothing to do with real estate. This isn't about squashing the small guy - this is about getting a news story that is literate. I, for one, will welcome a day when I don't have to scroll down to the 153rd link on a story to find something useful (the first 152 would contain 143 duplicates of the AP story and 9 illiterate pieces of junk).
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Actually, mathematicians are reasonably confident that they know what Fermat's proof was, and it is flawed. So, either he was having a joke or he hadn't thought about the hole in his 'proof'.
While these sort of tax distortions continue laptops market shares are going to keep growing and growing.
Why? I would say that being able to keep you coffee warm while you work would make them the ideal coffee shop machines. Just add a steam spout to the liquid cooled ones and you have your own coffee shop machine right there!
Dude! Get a Mac!
When I were a lad, we had portables that could barely play Adventure let alone this new fangled Zork thing.
Kids these days don't know how good they have it.
The plural of anecdote is not data - no matter how many friends you have.
Either way...
Standard normal distribution tables - the same ones that tell you that, for example, there is a 95% chance that the true result is within 2 standard deviations of the outcome. These are the same ones that are used when polling companies say that "52% of people support the administration of twinkies to minors in life threatening circumstance - the margin of error was +/- 2%"
Oxytocin is in fact the hormone that is released by women during labour. It helps to progress labour and act as a pain killer. I don't know how they first made the link between a childbirth hormone and trust - but there you go!
The standard deviation of a binomial distribution is sqrt(n.p.(1-p)) where n is the number of subjects and p is the probability of maximal trust.
Thus, out of a sample of 29 people and with p=0.21 the standard deviation is 2.2.
Thus, 13 is 3.2 standard deviations away from 6. There is only a 0.07% chance that these are from the same distribution.
Thus, they can conclusively conclude that this spray had a statistically significant effect on trust.
You can make it more complicated if you wish but the basic fact remains that you can get statistically significant results from small samples. In this case there is only a 0.07% chance that they are wrong.
To fund the consumer fee and any payment to recyclers you put a tax on computers sold in the state. Then, rather than forcing manufacturers to take their computers back (they are good at putting them together, not necessarily taking them apart) put it out to tender and the most efficient recycler will get the job. That way everyone has the right incentives to participate. If the most efficient recycler happens to be a computer manufacturer, so be it. But you don't need to force that.
About the only way that sales can indicate market shares is if what you are purchasing is a consumable that deteriorates before the next survey period. This might be true for Coke vs Pepsi but servers? (OK, it might be true for Windows servers, but UNIX servers?) Servers should be expected to last a little bit longer than one quarter.
Sheesh! You would think that people could get that right once in a while.
Presuming that they manage to sell these parts within a year, that sort of inflation is extraordinary. I'm sure it means something. I plan on doing my PhD on this effect to try to discover "the inflationary consequences of near-earth suborbital heavy metal bombardment of bovine targets". I plan to get a grant from the US govenment. God bless America!
...or did you just make those numbers up? Nevermind, I'm sure I can get my paper published all over the place and earn lots of money from the talk show circuit before it gets discovered. God bless America!
...and then I can make even more money on the talk show circuit talking about how I mislead the public and it all came down to one poorly attributed posting on Slashdot. God bless America!
Consider the sugar tariffs you have in place in America becuase of your ideological objections to Cuba's existence. The result is that sugar is hugely expensive in the US. Thus, US sugar farmers (actually concentrated in a few wealthy corporations that make extensive political donations) make bucketloads of money at the expense of the ordinary US consumer. Furthermore, to avoid the sugar tarifs, most confectioners use high fructose corn syrup which is the closest thing to sugar they can find that does not get hit with the tariff. Frankly it tastes awful if you compare it with real sugar. Thus, as a result of the sugar tariffs, the US has higher prices for sugar than anywhere else in the world, has confectionary and soft drinks made with HFCS which taste awful, and enriches a few politically connected corporations as a result of it.
Now, dumping. Why should I object if someone wants to sell me something below cost? Normally you call that a bargain. If you manage to find a hard-drive below cost you would be crowing about it here. But do that in international trade an somehow its bad? Ooh, that's dumping, that's evil? You seem to presume that when you loose your, lets say, sugar industry you will be overcharged by that overseas monopoly. I hate to break it to you, but there is more to the world than "The US" and "The Rest". If you lost your domestic sugar industry you could buy sugar on the world market from any of a number of countries. Dumping is more the result of intense competition than monopoly.
Any questions?
May I also say: All your mothers are belong to us; In Soviet Russia your mother sells you; And
1. Sell mother
2. ?????
3. Profit
What have you got against your mom that you want to give her away at a deep discount?
Convicts are users when they go into prision and are users shortly after parole.
What's jail got to do with it? You still seem to be presuming that you lock up all substance abusers. Maybe if you stopped them from going to jail (or killing themselves) in the first place you might have a chance.
Why should I consider Austraila as a shining example of liberty?
Because it's a veritable light on the hill compared to the United States of America where you worry about 20-year-olds mail-ordering a $240 case of wine instead of getting the cheapest malt liquor they can find in the local bottle shop.
You just answered my question.
What question?
Imagine if you will, a fine steak tartare just lightly grilled on a wood-fired stove served with fresh vegetable crudites, some pomme frittes and a lightly toasted petite boule!
Yum! Just don't ask for any tomato sauce.
And I do know that grilling a steak tartare kind of defeats the purpose but it was the most high-falutin way I could think of saying mince meat.
Consider some of the examples of Australian responses to problems with petrol sniffing or chroming. These seem to be directly related to your examples of spray paint and gasoline. Yes, people are considering restrictions on gasoline and spray paint as a way of dealing with the problems of substance abuse.
Governments may not be good nannies but they are a damn side better than most people at taking care of themselves.
Logan's Run had a great premise even if it was pretty much Star Trek serial fare. But...
Blakes 7 was awesome. Terry Nation was a scriptwriting genius. None of this self-contained small story junk that Star Trek, Battlestar, Logan's etc. did but a long overarching theme. A plot that extended beyond one episode. A universe where men were real men, women were real women and small fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small fuzzy creatures from Alpha Centauri.
Buffer overflow within infinite loop?
Is that like a bad parking experience when visiting Steve at Apple headquarters?
As for my view - it's 50 year old technology in the same way that the automobile is 100 year old technology and computers are 150+ year old technology (if you want to go back to Babbage)
While the Titan's might be '50 year old technology' they are much better at launching payloads into space than the much newer shuttles. In fact, there has been a lot of criticism about America's unhealthy focus on reusable vehicles i.e. the shuttles. They are relatively wimpy in the payloads they can lift (they can barely get satellites to geosynchronous orbit and don't go there themselves). So, newer is not necessarily better.
Recently it seems that some San Francisco Real Estate site was getting high ranks for its barely literate ramblings on news topics that had nothing to do with real estate. This isn't about squashing the small guy - this is about getting a news story that is literate. I, for one, will welcome a day when I don't have to scroll down to the 153rd link on a story to find something useful (the first 152 would contain 143 duplicates of the AP story and 9 illiterate pieces of junk).
How many neutron stars do you know that are within 30 light years of earth?