Re: [OT] History of debian-user footer.

2003-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 07:14:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do any of your clients ever remind you that the mean is not the > > median? > > Do any of yours remind you that the median is an "average"? OK, people, this is basic stuff they teach in high school freshman pre-algebra. Ronin

Re: [OT] History of debian-user footer.

2003-03-30 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:02:27PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > * John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Cam Ellison wrote: > > > As I remind my clients frequently, when I refuse to recommend a > > > candidate: half the population is below average. > > > > Do any of your clients ever remind yo

Re: [OT] History of debian-user footer.

2003-03-29 Thread Cam Ellison
* John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Cam Ellison wrote: > > As I remind my clients frequently, when I refuse to recommend a > > candidate: half the population is below average. > > Do any of your clients ever remind you that the mean is not the median? Most of them probably understand the

Re: [OT] History of debian-user footer.

2003-03-29 Thread ronin2
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:48:31 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do any of your clients ever remind you that the mean is not the > median? Do any of yours remind you that the median is an "average"? Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: [OT] History of debian-user footer.

2003-03-29 Thread John Hasler
Cam Ellison wrote: > As I remind my clients frequently, when I refuse to recommend a > candidate: half the population is below average. Do any of your clients ever remind you that the mean is not the median? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To U

Re: [OT] History of debian-user footer.

2003-03-29 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 06:43:56AM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote: > > As I remind my clients frequently, when I refuse to recommend a > candidate: half the population is below average. Are they ? More than 95% of people have more thanm the average number of legs, so less than 5% are below average (5%

Re: [OT] History of debian-user footer.

2003-03-29 Thread Cam Ellison
* ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In light of the most recent iteration of the 'users can't unsubscribe' > discussion I thought I would do a bit of research. > > This debate and problem has been going on forever:) I find this > humorous on one level. On another I find it disturbing that as a

[OT] History of debian-user footer.

2003-03-28 Thread ktb
In light of the most recent iteration of the 'users can't unsubscribe' discussion I thought I would do a bit of research. When I started using debian the footer was - Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null There was a huge debate about whether or not to change this to