I don't think cultural inertia plays such a big part on the internet and in IT in general. Altavista, hotmail, infoseek were not saved by it, they died very quickly as soon as better services appeared. And these better services weren't that ridiculously better. While cultural intertia can carry social site far, this is not true for utility sites. Sites which provide tangible or measurable services.
I won't leave myspace for facebook, cause I have a lot of friends on myspace, but I will be quick to change search engines if it will provide me with better results. Cause I have not social or emotional ties to my homepage or search engine.
If someone came up with a better search engine tomorrow it would quickly spread I guarantee you. Within a month almost every IT professional would have switched to it. Within 6 months it would be true for every advanced computers user.
I can it's true for myself, if you told be there's a better search engine, I would be quick to change my homepage, and add it to the quicksearch in firefox.
Which cultral aspect would prevent me from doing so?
You could spam government records. Send a lot fake mails and make a lot of phonecalls using the keywords that would mess with their filters/scanners. End every sentence with dangerous keyword Bin Laden Or even create a legend of yourself Al qaeda So when sometime in future aliens scan these records from your e-mail and phone calls they realize you were the earths first and only superhero. assassinate bush.
I don't really care let them have my data, I have nothing to hide,necrophilia is nothing to be ashamed of.
If your forum deals with a POPULAR topic. Boards about obscure topics don't need as much (or any) moderation cause spammers don't visit them, and annoying immature trolls, don't know such things exist let alone there are msg boards about them.
Try having an unmoderated Microsoft board.
Mind you, the only two forums i am regular at are unmodarated. Granted they are quite uninformative, and there is certain kind of community policing.
But moderation is required, however as slashdot has proven a moderation mainly based on rewarding then punishing works much better.
I think slashdot is best example of moderation, if you think mods are unfair you can alway surf at -1 and see all the posts.
I think the problem here isn't the existence of 'free will' but with out definition and our perception of it. Just because a definition exists it doesn't mean it can't redefined or proclaimed as invalid.
So maybe the title should be 'Brain Study Calls current definition of Free will into question.', but that's not as sensational.
but after rtfa, I must say it is pretty cool.
The spit based tests would make the trip to hospitals whole lot less stressful. However what is not mentioned is reliability of these tests, or mainly how many false positives it gives for let's say breast cancer.
If 100% of women with breast cancer have a certain protein, but also 60% of women who don't have breast cancer have that same protein, it makes the test...well less effective.
Before the revolution of digital distribution
The artist(s),engineers and producers had to sit down, write/plagirise the lyrics figure out the chords, make the musical arrangements record the song.
The industry had to take care of the printing of the actual cd's its physical distribution to certain stores etc etc etc..in short it had to do a decent amount of work
After the revolution of digital distribution
The artist(s),engineers and producers had to sit down, write/plagirise the lyrics figure out the chords, make the musical arrangements record the song. Basically do the same amount of work.
The industry has less cd's to distribute and print, and most of the distribution can be done via websites. Which once created and designed, require a relatively simple upload of a certain album/song which can be done by well trained cat and dog tandem.
So the artist does the same amount of work as before, the recording industry less work then before....and the artist gets paaaaid less....hmm makes sense.
If by using linux they learn about dependencies, compiling, advanced use of CLI, proper system of permissions and the advantage of
proper documentation. I think they'll do just fine with the 'next...yes I agree...next...next...finish why the hell doesn't it work' nature of windows.
The best thing about linux, is that encourages you to attempt to solve the problem on your own.
When a problem occurs on windows, and you don't have an internet connection to search the forums, you're pretty much screwed.
After few months of forum search for linux problems, I was able to solve problems which I hadn't encountered before, because I knew where to start looking.
After years of forum searching for windows problems, I am still clueless about it.
but that's just me.
Linux might not be ready for your secretary or clueless business manager, but it sure as hell is ready for the classroom.
...there are going to be dozens of posts about how WoW sucks, and (game x) is so much better.
Maybe (game x) is better by some specific subjective metric, but in terms of the overall 'package', I'd have to say that in this case Adam Smith's measurement is the best objective general measure of value.
maybe as a commercial model, but not as gaming experience.
Using the same logic windows is the best operating system around
Best music in late 90s and early 2000s was performed by Brittney Spears.
WoW has hit critical mass, and new players are not joining it because it's still the best game around, but because they want to know what's all the fuss about. If you never played an MMORPG, and you wanted to play one, which one would you pick? WoW, of course. But not because it IS the best game around but because it's the most played game around. You would use the 'well 10 million people can't be wrong' logic, in picking your first MMORPG.
That's classic example of herd mentality, not quality.
science -The investigation of natural phenomena through observation, theoretical explanation, and experimentation, or the knowledge produced by such investigation.
so...yes.
The students also located other potential objects that may be asteroids, and are currently conducting follow-up research.
this leaves with the impression this guys just got lucky. It's like they identified each faint dot as an asteroid, and one just turned out to be exactly that.
I imagine they just pointed at each dot
Students:Is this an asteroid? someone knowledgeable:No Students:Is this an asteroid? someone knowledgeable:No Students:Is this an asteroid? someone knowledgeable:No..wait Yes Students: Ha we are smart!
However I do give the students credit for initiative, it's refreshing to see that some kids still have interest in science (other then computing)
I am sure some people wondered in 1600s 'why is that newton guy researching gravity he is such a fool, I know if i drop an apple it falls. What does it matter how fast it falls, that won't help my crops grow.'
There is no useless knowledge. There is knowledge we don't know how to use yet but no useless knowledge. Time will show, determining mass of a galaxy might turn out to be an essential calculation 300 years from now on, given civilization continues to evolve until then.
My dad actually bought that car, we sold our old VW Golf (mark 2) and bought Yugo. Damn that was like driving in a milk carton. My dad sold it, figured it's better not to own a car than have a 'car' like that.
Horrible horrible contraption.
Then again, there is whole yugo modification culture, with ingenious ideas such as this
MIAU just cause of it's name.
From what I read, I kind of skimmed over the article, this is more of internet regulation law, then internet censorship law. I think some from of such law should exist.
I can upload on you tube, the panic on the airplane as we crash. Or IM my closes friends
Martian_Kyo:Hi!
Friend:Hey, what's up?
Martian_Kyo: Well, me...but not for long;)
Friend: Heheh What do you mean?
Martian_Kyo:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Ar3A11G01n9+oD1e
Friend:?
Martian_Kyo has signed out
Is the death of newspapers, death of journalism?
I appreciate the fact that the quality of average newspaper article far surpasses the quality of the average blog. In addition that a lot of news online directly and indirectly originates from newspaper articles.
However it is possible to have a website, that has the same quality writers and same quality articles as your favorite newspaper, with its investigative journalist and all. The real problem is, tab surfing. Internet surfers have shorter attention span (or div, hehe lame joke) then a TV watcher, let alone newspaper reader. Long articles are hard to read online, that's the real problem. Actually any text that has more then 200 words is bothersome to read online, I bet a lot of people thought, 'wow long reply I will skip this one', when they saw this reply.
In fact, speaking of internet killing the newspaper (internet killed the newspaper star), what about slashdot? While it doesn't have much original material it acts as a very good filter for geeky news, and that's how I see newspapers primarily as a filter. Slashdot has pretty much replaced my need for buying computer magazines. Although I still buy few magazines, but mainly for the columnist and not news.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think cultural inertia plays such a big part on the internet and in IT in general.
Altavista, hotmail, infoseek were not saved by it, they died very quickly as soon as better services appeared. And these better services weren't that ridiculously better. While cultural intertia can carry social site far, this is not true for utility sites. Sites which provide tangible or measurable services.
I won't leave myspace for facebook, cause I have a lot of friends on myspace, but I will be quick to change search engines if it will provide me with better results. Cause I have not social or emotional ties to my homepage or search engine.
If someone came up with a better search engine tomorrow it would quickly spread I guarantee you. Within a month almost every IT professional would have switched to it. Within 6 months it would be true for every advanced computers user.
I can it's true for myself, if you told be there's a better search engine, I would be quick to change my homepage, and add it to the quicksearch in firefox.
Which cultral aspect would prevent me from doing so?
You could spam government records.
Send a lot fake mails and make a lot of phonecalls using the keywords that would mess with their filters/scanners.
End every sentence with dangerous keyword Bin Laden
Or even create a legend of yourself Al qaeda
So when sometime in future aliens scan these records from your e-mail and phone calls they realize you were the earths first and only superhero. assassinate bush.
I don't really care let them have my data, I have nothing to hide,necrophilia is nothing to be ashamed of.
If your forum deals with a POPULAR topic. Boards about obscure topics don't need as much (or any) moderation cause spammers don't visit them, and annoying immature trolls, don't know such things exist let alone there are msg boards about them.
Try having an unmoderated Microsoft board.
Mind you, the only two forums i am regular at are unmodarated. Granted they are quite uninformative, and there is certain kind of community policing.
But moderation is required, however as slashdot has proven a moderation mainly based on rewarding then punishing works much better.
I think slashdot is best example of moderation, if you think mods are unfair you can alway surf at -1 and see all the posts.
This is NOT a payed advertisement.
What do we get from this, is that future generation of women will have a thing for drunken robots. Well some things never change I guess.
Maybe I should go to Japan, I am an engineer and I could help with the dropping birthrates.
I disagree with that definition of free will.
I think the problem here isn't the existence of 'free will' but with out definition and our perception of it. Just because a definition exists it doesn't mean it can't redefined or proclaimed as invalid.
So maybe the title should be 'Brain Study Calls current definition of Free will into question.', but that's not as sensational.
I suppose if the processing of the spit is cheap enough it could be used as some sort of preliminary test.
but after rtfa, I must say it is pretty cool. The spit based tests would make the trip to hospitals whole lot less stressful. However what is not mentioned is reliability of these tests, or mainly how many false positives it gives for let's say breast cancer. If 100% of women with breast cancer have a certain protein, but also 60% of women who don't have breast cancer have that same protein, it makes the test...well less effective.
on the other side of cyberspace, COMPUTER roleplayers (now there's an oxymoron) are hoping for the removal of nerfs in their games.
The artist(s),engineers and producers had to sit down, write/plagirise the lyrics figure out the chords, make the musical arrangements record the song.
The industry had to take care of the printing of the actual cd's its physical distribution to certain stores etc etc etc..in short it had to do a decent amount of work
After the revolution of digital distribution
The artist(s),engineers and producers had to sit down, write/plagirise the lyrics figure out the chords, make the musical arrangements record the song. Basically do the same amount of work.
The industry has less cd's to distribute and print, and most of the distribution can be done via websites. Which once created and designed, require a relatively simple upload of a certain album/song which can be done by well trained cat and dog tandem.
So the artist does the same amount of work as before, the recording industry less work then before....and the artist gets paaaaid less....hmm makes sense.
If by using linux they learn about dependencies, compiling, advanced use of CLI, proper system of permissions and the advantage of proper documentation. I think they'll do just fine with the 'next...yes I agree...next...next...finish why the hell doesn't it work' nature of windows.
The best thing about linux, is that encourages you to attempt to solve the problem on your own.
When a problem occurs on windows, and you don't have an internet connection to search the forums, you're pretty much screwed.
After few months of forum search for linux problems, I was able to solve problems which I hadn't encountered before, because I knew where to start looking.
Linux might not be ready for your secretary or clueless business manager, but it sure as hell is ready for the classroom.After years of forum searching for windows problems, I am still clueless about it. but that's just me.
...there are going to be dozens of posts about how WoW sucks, and (game x) is so much better.Maybe (game x) is better by some specific subjective metric, but in terms of the overall 'package', I'd have to say that in this case Adam Smith's measurement is the best objective general measure of value.
maybe as a commercial model, but not as gaming experience. Using the same logic windows is the best operating system around Best music in late 90s and early 2000s was performed by Brittney Spears.
WoW has hit critical mass, and new players are not joining it because it's still the best game around, but because they want to know what's all the fuss about. If you never played an MMORPG, and you wanted to play one, which one would you pick? WoW, of course. But not because it IS the best game around but because it's the most played game around. You would use the 'well 10 million people can't be wrong' logic, in picking your first MMORPG.
That's classic example of herd mentality, not quality.
mysql license is real mess, it can be interpreted in so many ways.
science -The investigation of natural phenomena through observation, theoretical explanation, and experimentation, or the knowledge produced by such investigation.
so...yes.
I used google to search for result (I refuse to use google as a verb) and came up with this: http://www.celsias.com/2007/12/23/nanosolar-update-first-panels-now-shipping
this leaves with the impression this guys just got lucky. It's like they identified each faint dot as an asteroid, and one just turned out to be exactly that. I imagine they just pointed at each dot
Students:Is this an asteroid?someone knowledgeable:No
Students:Is this an asteroid?
someone knowledgeable:No
Students:Is this an asteroid?
someone knowledgeable:No..wait Yes
Students: Ha we are smart!
However I do give the students credit for initiative, it's refreshing to see that some kids still have interest in science (other then computing)
I am sure some people wondered in 1600s 'why is that newton guy researching gravity he is such a fool, I know if i drop an apple it falls. What does it matter how fast it falls, that won't help my crops grow.'
There is no useless knowledge. There is knowledge we don't know how to use yet but no useless knowledge. Time will show, determining mass of a galaxy might turn out to be an essential calculation 300 years from now on, given civilization continues to evolve until then.
I often go back to what someone once said,
Practice makes permanent
My dad actually bought that car, we sold our old VW Golf (mark 2) and bought Yugo. Damn that was like driving in a milk carton. My dad sold it, figured it's better not to own a car than have a 'car' like that.
Horrible horrible contraption.
Then again, there is whole yugo modification culture, with ingenious ideas such as this
oh btw yugo was in another movie
'Do not track me when I travel the Internet' will work as well 'dont rob me I am carrying a million dollars'
MIAU just cause of it's name.
From what I read, I kind of skimmed over the article, this is more of internet regulation law, then internet censorship law. I think some from of such law should exist.
If it has an OS can it run other applications? like for playing mp3s?
Doctor: Oh my, you seem to have arrhythmia!
Patient:?!?!
Doctor: Oh sorry i forgot to turn off the mp3 player, that was just a Murcof track, my bad.
how hard we try to 'fix' ourselves.
Most of us aren't really as broken as we think.
I can upload on you tube, the panic on the airplane as we crash. Or IM my closes friends
Martian_Kyo:Hi! ;)
Friend:Hey, what's up?
Martian_Kyo: Well, me...but not for long
Friend: Heheh What do you mean?
Martian_Kyo:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Ar3A11G01n9+oD1e
Friend:?
Martian_Kyo has signed out
Is the death of newspapers, death of journalism? I appreciate the fact that the quality of average newspaper article far surpasses the quality of the average blog. In addition that a lot of news online directly and indirectly originates from newspaper articles.
However it is possible to have a website, that has the same quality writers and same quality articles as your favorite newspaper, with its investigative journalist and all. The real problem is, tab surfing. Internet surfers have shorter attention span (or div, hehe lame joke) then a TV watcher, let alone newspaper reader. Long articles are hard to read online, that's the real problem. Actually any text that has more then 200 words is bothersome to read online, I bet a lot of people thought, 'wow long reply I will skip this one', when they saw this reply.
In fact, speaking of internet killing the newspaper (internet killed the newspaper star), what about slashdot? While it doesn't have much original material it acts as a very good filter for geeky news, and that's how I see newspapers primarily as a filter. Slashdot has pretty much replaced my need for buying computer magazines. Although I still buy few magazines, but mainly for the columnist and not news.