It seems to me that this is a fairly simple illusion: the frequent event is "more interesting" hence the brain focuses on that. Color change in this example is happening slower than rotation hence motion is favored instead of colors.
In small companies most of the time it is not really worth the money to invest time and money in test suites and engineers. It does not make sense to operate in such a manner and is very frustrating but the goal of the owner is just to make money. You can start charging him by the bug, but then the way you are describing this is a trivial software so he will find someone else who will work the old way.
The article falsely gives a sense of "increasing junk"
- Since there is tangible progress in the field of medicine (don't know about others), we must be doing something right.
- Clearly the total scientific output is increasing and the junk is bound to increase. What matters is percentage, not the absolute count.
- The New Yorker article cites a few hand picked cases, that's all this 5 page article is based on?
It's interesting how some people are suggesting using encryption. I wouldn't be surprised to see an email like this;
"Dear Eli, attached is the encrypted document.
Regards,
Your laywer
PS: the password is zomg!1billion"
So you're saying Georgia Tech is a bad school because it does not offer law classes compared to for example Harvard.
Everyone has their agenda and plan their research accordingly. IBM having a larger area of interest doesn't make them better quality.
No point in comparing IBM research to MS research through their websites. They both employ well respected researchers, and I do not mean Google Labs when I say researchers, these are academically well-respected people. MS research is highly respected in academic community and so is IBM research.
Clearly MS won't follow this since it does not fit their business model. Like most of their patents they are patenting this so others wont be able to do it easily.
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It seems to me that this is a fairly simple illusion: the frequent event is "more interesting" hence the brain focuses on that. Color change in this example is happening slower than rotation hence motion is favored instead of colors.
As if my coworker in the next cubicle talking to his wife on the phone is not enough, now he will be talking to his computer all day long.
In small companies most of the time it is not really worth the money to invest time and money in test suites and engineers. It does not make sense to operate in such a manner and is very frustrating but the goal of the owner is just to make money. You can start charging him by the bug, but then the way you are describing this is a trivial software so he will find someone else who will work the old way.
The article falsely gives a sense of "increasing junk"
- Since there is tangible progress in the field of medicine (don't know about others), we must be doing something right.
- Clearly the total scientific output is increasing and the junk is bound to increase. What matters is percentage, not the absolute count.
- The New Yorker article cites a few hand picked cases, that's all this 5 page article is based on?
It's interesting how some people are suggesting using encryption. I wouldn't be surprised to see an email like this; "Dear Eli, attached is the encrypted document. Regards, Your laywer PS: the password is zomg!1billion"
So you're saying Georgia Tech is a bad school because it does not offer law classes compared to for example Harvard. Everyone has their agenda and plan their research accordingly. IBM having a larger area of interest doesn't make them better quality.
No point in comparing IBM research to MS research through their websites. They both employ well respected researchers, and I do not mean Google Labs when I say researchers, these are academically well-respected people. MS research is highly respected in academic community and so is IBM research.
Does google have to log the IPs? IIRC some libraries are not keeping the logs/keeping a limited log of who borrowed which book.
Clearly MS won't follow this since it does not fit their business model. Like most of their patents they are patenting this so others wont be able to do it easily.
http://research.microsoft.com/~pablo/avalanche.asp x