Steven Kan wrote On 07/03/06 09:46,: >I suppose we're way off in the weeds, here, but is the noise actually >unbounded? Or does it just behave in a Gaussian-like manner within the realm >of times/rates that matter for shipping product? I suppose if I sat in my >chair for long enough, a truly unbounded system might cause a gold bar to >pop into existence on my desk, but my empirical GBR (gold-bar rate) is >currently 0. > > Steve, that's only because your observation period is too short. Call me in about 10e12 years, and I'll help you count your gold bars. -- Alan Hilton-Nickel Signal Integrity Engineer Sun Microsystems Inc. Netra Systems and Networking Newark, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List FAQ wiki page is located at: http://si-list.org/wiki/wiki.pl?Si-List_FAQ List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.org List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu