Yeah the author and commenters are ignoring many aspects of skill involved in WoW.
PvP combat, for example, is highly skilled in that there are thousands of potential combinations between spells, tactics, items, and talent distribution. Players can and have beaten others several levels higher, myself included, by using effective combat strategies targeted to my character's class.
The author downplays grouping, but effective group membership is an oft-overlooked skill that is essential for effective players to acquire. Tanking, pulling, healing, and crowd control are tactical skills that do vary in quality from player to player, and groups will suffer or succeed as a result. They aren't quantified as some in-game skill value obviously, but they exist nontheless. Not to mention effective leadership, marketing and recruitment (guilds, groups, raids), and social norms within guilds and parties (the WoW demographic is noticably lacking on understanding social norms).
Another important area not mentioned is the economy, which offers a significant amount of market-oriented information that requires skill, and ultimately this area is highly applicable to the real world. Competitive pricing, value-added production, supply and demand, speculation, market monopoly, bidding strategies, Auctioneer baiting, etc. - this is an extremely rich area.
National surveys typically have 1500 participants, which will yield a respectable margin of error of about 3%. If you read the article, it states at the bottom that the 1399 internet users who responded gives a margin of error of 3%. It's rare to find a national survey will a smaller margin of error.
"When I do the math, 92% of 2200 is 2024. This means that Pew/Internet is saying that more people are confident with their web searching skills than actually use the Internet. Saying that something is wrong here just doesn't cover it."
The article says "92% of web searchers" not 92% of the respondents. Only 1399 respondents used the internet, and it is possible that some of those don't do web searches. The submitter of this article is an idiot.
It's not a Catch-22: there are a lot of ways to get experience without being elected, and running for president isn't really the best office to run for if you still need experience. I agree that running for local offices is the way to go.
There's an integer-only version of Ogg Vorbis as well. From what I have heard AAC and Ogg Vorbis are basically equivalent in terms of filesize, quality, and encoding algorithm.
From this I conclude that these technology companies should invest research dollars into enlarging the standard pocket size of clothing. Surely it would be cheaper to make pockets larger than complex electronic devices smaller. Is the standard pocket size a conspiracy by clothing manufacturers to reduce sales of consumer electronics and shift demand to textiles? Only time will tell.
While nice in theory, this is ultimately a naive perspective of the world. 90% of people have no concept of principles or sacrificing for your beliefs. They don't buy cds because they can get them free online. Never attribute to morality that which is adequately explained by economics.
True that. Another thing to mention is that the awards page is 225kb! Maybe someone who can actually design a web site should start handing out the awards...
Hell I'd read the articles if they weren't slashdotted 90% of the time, such as the current story.
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Ah true, I see your point.
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That's not any safer than enabling register_globals, because register_globals will extract $_GET at the beginning, before any local variables have been created. The skipping functionality is only necessary if you try to extract $_GET manually (i.e. after you have created local variables).
If your cds last you 3 to 6 minutes, you should reconsider your cd-purchasing abilities. Here's a hint: don't buy a cd just because you saw an advertisement for it. Do rational things like: listen to a song or two on the radio or download them (p2p or from the band's website). You can even borrow a friend's cd! Then there are further possibilities such as attending a concert to asking the opinions of friends with similar tastes.
(1) If I say something must have a cause, it has a cause.
(2) I say the universe must have a cause.
(3) Therefore, the universe has a cause.
(4) Therefore, God exists.
Hey do you think you could change your url to point to http://www.utacm.org? acm.csres.utexas.edu has been deprecated and may stop working sometime soon. I'm the webmaster for utacm.org and have been trying to get any links to the old page updated (I noticed your link on our tracker). Thanks.
You can't access a list of websites a viewer has visited using Javascript. History.back/go/forward are using to navigate a user's history, but the website can never learn that those urls actually are.
Apache logs aren't viable because companies would have to sift through and parse their huge apache logs in tandem. If they use different log formats or different web servers (some people do use IIS you know, this becomes even harder.
Two flawed ideas doesn't equal an infinite amount of ways.
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Take a computer architecture class, son. When chips scale in clock frequency CPI (cycles per instruction) goes up, but pipeline improvements will yield a higher throughput for most software, plus there are logic optimizations, larger caches, faster ram, etc. In programs where instructions are highly dependent on nearby instructions, pipeline performance benefits will be reduced.
Yeah that is completely wrong. KIDS are the ones who will adopt new technology the quickest; adults will be very slow to incorporate technology into their social networks. Just look at the instant messaging use, as an example. IM is entirely integrated into the teenage dating structure yet adult usage is abysmal.
One important point about the airplanes only seating a handful of people is that they probably wouldn't be subject to the new airline security standards. At least, this is what I'm guessing; does anyone know for sure? It doesn't really seem like hijacking a 5-person flight would be that attractive to terrorists.
My whole argument is that these are industry standards but are not supported by many browsers. Therefore, the parent's claim that coding to standards magically gives you support on all browsers is incorrect.
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Yeah the author and commenters are ignoring many aspects of skill involved in WoW.
PvP combat, for example, is highly skilled in that there are thousands of potential combinations between spells, tactics, items, and talent distribution. Players can and have beaten others several levels higher, myself included, by using effective combat strategies targeted to my character's class.
The author downplays grouping, but effective group membership is an oft-overlooked skill that is essential for effective players to acquire. Tanking, pulling, healing, and crowd control are tactical skills that do vary in quality from player to player, and groups will suffer or succeed as a result. They aren't quantified as some in-game skill value obviously, but they exist nontheless. Not to mention effective leadership, marketing and recruitment (guilds, groups, raids), and social norms within guilds and parties (the WoW demographic is noticably lacking on understanding social norms).
Another important area not mentioned is the economy, which offers a significant amount of market-oriented information that requires skill, and ultimately this area is highly applicable to the real world. Competitive pricing, value-added production, supply and demand, speculation, market monopoly, bidding strategies, Auctioneer baiting, etc. - this is an extremely rich area.
Actually at the bottom of the article it states that it was a telephone-based survey.
Do you have some proof that targeted advertisements are not relevant to the search terms?
National surveys typically have 1500 participants, which will yield a respectable margin of error of about 3%. If you read the article, it states at the bottom that the 1399 internet users who responded gives a margin of error of 3%. It's rare to find a national survey will a smaller margin of error.
"When I do the math, 92% of 2200 is 2024. This means that Pew/Internet is saying that more people are confident with their web searching skills than actually use the Internet. Saying that something is wrong here just doesn't cover it."
The article says "92% of web searchers" not 92% of the respondents. Only 1399 respondents used the internet, and it is possible that some of those don't do web searches. The submitter of this article is an idiot.
It's not a Catch-22: there are a lot of ways to get experience without being elected, and running for president isn't really the best office to run for if you still need experience. I agree that running for local offices is the way to go.
There's an integer-only version of Ogg Vorbis as well. From what I have heard AAC and Ogg Vorbis are basically equivalent in terms of filesize, quality, and encoding algorithm.
From this I conclude that these technology companies should invest research dollars into enlarging the standard pocket size of clothing. Surely it would be cheaper to make pockets larger than complex electronic devices smaller. Is the standard pocket size a conspiracy by clothing manufacturers to reduce sales of consumer electronics and shift demand to textiles? Only time will tell.
Well, if I had a IIc, I'd make a macpack and ditch my regular ol' backpack.
While nice in theory, this is ultimately a naive perspective of the world. 90% of people have no concept of principles or sacrificing for your beliefs. They don't buy cds because they can get them free online. Never attribute to morality that which is adequately explained by economics.
Actually it was an out of court settlement so there was no government intervention involved. RTFA
True that. Another thing to mention is that the awards page is 225kb! Maybe someone who can actually design a web site should start handing out the awards...
Hell I'd read the articles if they weren't slashdotted 90% of the time, such as the current story.
Ah true, I see your point.
That's not any safer than enabling register_globals, because register_globals will extract $_GET at the beginning, before any local variables have been created. The skipping functionality is only necessary if you try to extract $_GET manually (i.e. after you have created local variables).
If your cds last you 3 to 6 minutes, you should reconsider your cd-purchasing abilities. Here's a hint: don't buy a cd just because you saw an advertisement for it. Do rational things like: listen to a song or two on the radio or download them (p2p or from the band's website). You can even borrow a friend's cd! Then there are further possibilities such as attending a concert to asking the opinions of friends with similar tastes.
Why does something have to create "nature" or be outside of "space"? You are perfectly willing to accept that "god" has always existed.
Here I will cite ...Therefore, God Exists:
2. COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
(1) If I say something must have a cause, it has a cause.
(2) I say the universe must have a cause.
(3) Therefore, the universe has a cause.
(4) Therefore, God exists.
Actually the classic MS/Linux argument is that MS has usability and Linux has security/stability/features/performance.
Hey do you think you could change your url to point to http://www.utacm.org? acm.csres.utexas.edu has been deprecated and may stop working sometime soon. I'm the webmaster for utacm.org and have been trying to get any links to the old page updated (I noticed your link on our tracker). Thanks.
You can't access a list of websites a viewer has visited using Javascript. History.back/go/forward are using to navigate a user's history, but the website can never learn that those urls actually are.
Apache logs aren't viable because companies would have to sift through and parse their huge apache logs in tandem. If they use different log formats or different web servers (some people do use IIS you know, this becomes even harder.
Two flawed ideas doesn't equal an infinite amount of ways.
Here's google's html version.
Take a computer architecture class, son. When chips scale in clock frequency CPI (cycles per instruction) goes up, but pipeline improvements will yield a higher throughput for most software, plus there are logic optimizations, larger caches, faster ram, etc. In programs where instructions are highly dependent on nearby instructions, pipeline performance benefits will be reduced.
Yeah that is completely wrong. KIDS are the ones who will adopt new technology the quickest; adults will be very slow to incorporate technology into their social networks. Just look at the instant messaging use, as an example. IM is entirely integrated into the teenage dating structure yet adult usage is abysmal.
One important point about the airplanes only seating a handful of people is that they probably wouldn't be subject to the new airline security standards. At least, this is what I'm guessing; does anyone know for sure? It doesn't really seem like hijacking a 5-person flight would be that attractive to terrorists.
My whole argument is that these are industry standards but are not supported by many browsers. Therefore, the parent's claim that coding to standards magically gives you support on all browsers is incorrect.