On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:09:23PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Everything involves Pascal's triangle somewhere :-) > > >thanks for the refresher! > > Sorry, my grad schooling is in Mathematical Probability and Statistics. > I almost got a Ph.D (a kid suddenly came along, and I had to get a > real job), but was in a program which only made Ph.Ds, > so I didn't wind up with an MSc. along the way, which I have certainly > exceeded the normal requirements for :-( >
Please don't appologize Mike, It refreshing to look at how the hardware works (or doesn't). I passed (but really failed statistics). I was doing my degree in nursing. Going into the final exam I needed 180% to pass. I passed; what was the probability? Go figure. It came back to bite me in my pathology final: the prof 'bell curved' the results because too many people failed the course. He printed raw score and bell score. My raw was 98%. My bell was 65%. I couldn't find the error in his bell (apparently his software 'wrapped' people who were beyond some deviation somewhere). Go figure. I hate statistics. I'll take the low-tech approach: the drive will fail. If it hard fails, its dead and nothing I do ahead of time will change that, so have another copy somewhere else. If it soft fails, and I have prepared FEC somehow, I could get it back because theres a chance that both drives soft fail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
