The true dark side of merit based pay is it promotes cheating. It's why California canceled a program to give $25,000 bonuses to the best teachers -- many teachers were caught altering student tests to improve grades. There was a lot of concern that bonuses were going to the teachers that were the best at cheating, not the best at teaching.
If you create an incentive based on an outcome, you should be aware of all possible methods.
The big names are on The Pirate Bay because they're well known - and the internet makes it easier for new artists to become well known by removing the previous barriers of entry small bands once had to go through to be broadcast to the general public.
You have to find a better way to sell yourself. Magnatunes is an example of independent artists jumping over those barriers of entry to make their music available to the world at large.
We walked ten miles, uphill, both ways, in the snow, and we liked it!
You're going to feel really old when all of your kids are buzzing around in 3D interfaces and you're still using your 2D Luddite display.
The research probably involved a large set of subjects volunteering to have their phone calls recorded. After each call, they could fill out a form or send a text message rating how satisfied they were with that call.
It's not too hard to imagine this being actual research, rather than immediately considering it subjective junk science -- but I agree that the article is crap for not giving any details. Is there a newsier, nerdier article available?
In a similar breakthrough, scientists discovered the perfect Slashdot post consists of twenty-five words and contains a slight jab at the validity of the article.
Headlines are short to grab attention, not to save ink or printing space. Anything longer than ten words is often ignored.
That, and a headline is parsed so that it tells the reader it is a headline. Headline structure modified, many frustrated.
The evolutionary process occurs at the level of the individual due to forces acting against the individual, not at the level of the species due to the needs of the species to adapt. An individual's ability to produce varied offspring isn't the sort of trait that seems selectable for survival or reproduction, but an individual's ability to resist deadly forces in an environment is.
And don't forget that the 'rate of mutation' is determined by how well a species resists mutation, coupled with ever changing environmental factors that cause mutation.
Instead of writing a paper, maybe you should just read a few.
This article was primarily about Google's problems with Ad-Sense, specifically how parked domains are sucking up money from advertisers and giving them very little back.
More specifically, the article was about how Google keeps upgrading their algorithms for Ad-Sense to look good for Wall Street, but how these new algorithms are causing problems, and Google isn't taking any responsibility for an algorithm misbehaving. The article also noted Google's launch of Goog411, after discussions with Free411 on a buyout, and how killing tiny businesses is evil.
So no, this article was not, "Google as the Next Monopoly," which so many of you are arguing about - this article is, "Google as the Next Oversized, Inept, and Mean IT Company." Whether Google is a monopoly or not (and it is vertical monopoly by the way), this article is about Google making bad decisions for money, then not owning up to them.
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The true dark side of merit based pay is it promotes cheating. It's why California canceled a program to give $25,000 bonuses to the best teachers -- many teachers were caught altering student tests to improve grades. There was a lot of concern that bonuses were going to the teachers that were the best at cheating, not the best at teaching. If you create an incentive based on an outcome, you should be aware of all possible methods.
The big names are on The Pirate Bay because they're well known - and the internet makes it easier for new artists to become well known by removing the previous barriers of entry small bands once had to go through to be broadcast to the general public. You have to find a better way to sell yourself. Magnatunes is an example of independent artists jumping over those barriers of entry to make their music available to the world at large.
We walked ten miles, uphill, both ways, in the snow, and we liked it! You're going to feel really old when all of your kids are buzzing around in 3D interfaces and you're still using your 2D Luddite display.
The research probably involved a large set of subjects volunteering to have their phone calls recorded. After each call, they could fill out a form or send a text message rating how satisfied they were with that call.
It's not too hard to imagine this being actual research, rather than immediately considering it subjective junk science -- but I agree that the article is crap for not giving any details. Is there a newsier, nerdier article available?
In a similar breakthrough, scientists discovered the perfect Slashdot post consists of twenty-five words and contains a slight jab at the validity of the article.
Headlines are short to grab attention, not to save ink or printing space. Anything longer than ten words is often ignored. That, and a headline is parsed so that it tells the reader it is a headline. Headline structure modified, many frustrated.
I know you're trying to be hilarious, but it's Limeade. And it tastes like chalk.
The evolutionary process occurs at the level of the individual due to forces acting against the individual, not at the level of the species due to the needs of the species to adapt. An individual's ability to produce varied offspring isn't the sort of trait that seems selectable for survival or reproduction, but an individual's ability to resist deadly forces in an environment is.
And don't forget that the 'rate of mutation' is determined by how well a species resists mutation, coupled with ever changing environmental factors that cause mutation.
Instead of writing a paper, maybe you should just read a few.
This article was primarily about Google's problems with Ad-Sense, specifically how parked domains are sucking up money from advertisers and giving them very little back.
More specifically, the article was about how Google keeps upgrading their algorithms for Ad-Sense to look good for Wall Street, but how these new algorithms are causing problems, and Google isn't taking any responsibility for an algorithm misbehaving. The article also noted Google's launch of Goog411, after discussions with Free411 on a buyout, and how killing tiny businesses is evil.
So no, this article was not, "Google as the Next Monopoly," which so many of you are arguing about - this article is, "Google as the Next Oversized, Inept, and Mean IT Company." Whether Google is a monopoly or not (and it is vertical monopoly by the way), this article is about Google making bad decisions for money, then not owning up to them.