But Mr Corbyn hasn't actually saluted the "indefatigability" of the Russian leader has he?
I do hope your friends meant "different perspective" rather than unbiased.
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To expand on the Washington treaty angle. And making it a bit simpler along the way.
The British had a choice pre-war while complying with the treaty: either go with 14-inch guns and have the ships probably built before it all kicked off, or wait until it was clear the treaty was done for (with the out break of war) and build bigger gunned ships which wouldn't be ready for a couple of years.
As the idea was to prevent war, the British couldn't be seen to abandon the treaty. The US being neutral at start of war had time after the collapse of the treaty limits but before entering the war to build 16-inch gunned ships.
The treatment for ulcers was milk diets, antacids and bismuth. Which worked up to a point
Since prevailing view was that bacteria would not thrive in stomach, there was no expectation that an antibacterial treatment was an avenue worth pursuing.
Its not until Marshall et al in the 80s challenge view and prove existence and role of helicobacter pylori (as it is now known) that antibiotic (with acid suppression) therapy adopted.
Possibly complicating pre-Marshall situation/data is fact that bismuth compounds do have an antibacterial action on h pylori.
Different equipment, different sampling, different processing are three of the most common ways for two entities trying to measure the same thing.
So far as I can tell from reading the published paper, the issue is how to make the modern measurements consistent - as in if you took your modern telescope back in time you would get the same result as the 18th century astronomer - with older measurements so that then you can see if there has been a trend change.
Given there are standards, then the question must be how to get them used/specified in production.
My lab work is under iso/iec 17025. my client uses my analysis for their work. They pay a bit extra than someone else doing similar analysis because its accredited.
They make a decision based on my work with confidence (99.5%) because that's what the accreditation means. if there's a problem then I can show from my records that I and my colleagues and my accredited suppliers did everything right. And if records show we didn't then someone a) has to make correction/recompense and b) improve the system (if possible) to stop it happening again.
Now routine analysis is a long established business, relatively simple, with clear objectives, and there's a demand for accuracy and consistency, so analysis to 17025 is easily specified by a client, may be a legal requirement, there's competition among suppliers and so doesn't carry much premium.
By comparison, with programming/software development I'm guessing there aren't the same drivers to make an accredited output. And as there isn't a physical property as such it would be harder for companies to develop and market accredited sections of code for others to use without having lots of black box components. ( compare with me buying 25g of certified standard - once its gone I have to buy another)
I'm guessing the printers are cheaper to buy because some of the true cost is spread over the price of the refills.
But HP don't want to make refills cheaper and printers more expensive because in that case they would expect fewer printer sales - the average home user buying on upfront cost rather than running costs.
Following on the point about measuring the time split. How much is change from one form to other, and how much by increases in the availability of the newcomer.
Is this because in the past, we spent the journey on the tube to work looking at the newspaper or fellow commuters stubble, spent 8 hours on the corporate Windows PC (including an hour of lunch playing solitaire) then went home to watch CoronationEndersFarm.
Now we watch videos on our Android phone/iphone the tube on the way to work, spend 7 hours on corporate PC (and one hour on the phone checking social media), more social media on the way home and then the rest of the evening showing cat videos to our partners with one eye on the happenings in E17/Weatherfield/the Dales.
The budget was only BBC2 sized. But that vehicle manufacturers (or the owners of cars), the British Armed Forces etc would be prepared to make things available probably made things a lot easier.
Consider the regular challenges. Filming costs aside many of them didn't spend much on the raw material the "buy a mid-engine sports car for £500" sort of thing.
Not everything was made for the BBC on the basis of perpetual ownership.
With the older stuff made in a time before VHS let alone DVD the actor, writer contracts etc were based on one or two showings. While a sum would be paid upfront for this, if there were further showings, then repeat fees were due to those involved.
Hence if material from the archive is to be shown then there may be (admittedly small) cheques to be made out to the actors (or in the case of Daleks, Terry Nation's estate).
"But neither side will tell me what that message needs to say..."
Something along the lines of.
"This website uses cookies so that the adverts (and it's Google that decides what they are not me) that appear while you are reading it should be relevant to you. That means that I get paid more for including those ads, which means I can afford to let you read this stuff for free.
If you are not happy with targeted ads, then you are welcome to go and look at other websites, perhaps they've got what you want. I'd like to make an exception - I'm certain you're a nice person - but website hosting costs money."
I had an unholy stack off the side of my A500+
A memory expansion, an HD, and then the huge lumpen CDROM (A520?) on the end.
As a testament to the home-builderynessability of the Amiga, it was a SCSI HD on a SCSI board that some people I knew had built and written their own drivers (or whatnot) for.
This is based on the reactions to the perception to how the researchers played and the associated voice. But they did not include a control group - they had the data there potentially but didn't use it.
They also seem to have tried to compensate for any differences in their playing style (and that of the other players) in the statistics rather than in attempting more standardization (or a larger dataset). What's that phrase about changing the experiment by interacting with it?
The dataset size does not seem to have been determined prior to the experiment (actual size was N = 126). One interpretation of the statement in the report " We stopped at 163 as this is a substantial time effort." is they ran out of time/got tired/got bored/had something else they needed to do rather than X games is the right amount to play to get good answers.
That leaves open the question as to whether the experiment had sufficient power - a good statistics treatment of research should discuss this in the paper - in the first place for a significant difference to be found. If you throw enough permutations at an data block, something will stick, even if just due to the random distribution of the data. As exemplified by "scientists say X will give you cancer" interpretations by newspapers.
I also note they are reusing data from a previous experiment - " Kuznekoff and Rose’s (2013) original study" - http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/4/541 New Media & Society June 2013 (first published online in 2012) so there's a second element to the possibility that a better study would have been done if they had designed their experiment and got new data rather than try and fit an experiment to previous work.
Personal declaration of my own skillset in this area - reading some books (No Starch publishing's Statistics Done Wrong), and listening to the radio (Radio4's More or Less: Behind the Stats), and a large dash of cynicism.
I think they see it in terms of the middle classes listening to Radio 2, 3, 4 during the day, and in the evening watching the News, Only Connect, Springwatch etc while the low incomes only go to BBC1 to watch Eastenders before changing over to watch Emmerdale, New Faces/Opportunity Knocks Britains Got Talent etc on the other side.
I think I can compensate for your lack of awareness in that I bought four CDs (Arizona Bay - what if California fell into the sea - was one) of his material and [I think] a VHS.
I ought to dig them out again. While his material was edgy at the time, it seemed to come from a genuine philosophy to hold the subject matter up to critical inspection rather than a simple desire to shock.
He used paradox in an interesting way. His response to menacing redneck Christians after a gig where he poked fun at Jesus - "so, forgive me" (he of course told it better)
" that its spam filter's rate of false positives is down to less than 0.05 per cent."
but that's just a single statistic. an average across all mailboxes. Without knowing something more descriptive (such as the Coefficient of Variance) you can't really measure their success as experienced by users.
You could get 0.05% by having 99 users with an exceptional 0.01% false positives and one unlucky sod with 4% falsely identified
Probably a better descriptor would be the Positive predictive value (http://www.networkworld.com/article/2336754/software/spam-and-statistics.html)
http://windowsitpro.com/patch-tuesday/windows-update-business-better-says-microsoft
an article drawing on an interview with Stella Chernyak, "Senior Director at Microsoft"
"Microsoft isn’t replacing WSUS or SCCM, only providing an additional mechanism that the company believes will be better. Stella suggested that Windows Update for Business is like WSUS Lite. It’s Windows Update with some of the controls of WSUS, particularly different is where the updates are delivered from and where they are stored"
So it seems to be aimed at companies without an on-site WSUS installation. presumably the sort using lots of cloudy services
"50% mark of cashless transactions earlier this year"
But that includes all use of debit cards etc and not just contactless. And with everyone already happy with doing chip and pin, why would they swap to contactless.
I don't know how significant contactless use is. I suspect it must all be going on in advanced civilisation such as exists in London. Out here in the sticks I have yet to notice anyone doing a contactless payment.
That would make sense in this case. Staying in the safe place effectively reinforcing the distance between that place and the outside world.
Is there any indication that this youth will receive help? we hear Canada has good medical provision, but I've never heard anything about quality of its mental health services.