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  1. This is completely moronic on "Long Tail Effect" Doesn't Work As Advertised, Say Wharton Researchers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you add an insignificant product to the end of the tail, it obviously increases the proportion of market share of the first X% of products. That's simple math!* If your model of the "long tail" completely fails in the simple case of adding a once-purchased product, maybe your model sucks and Chris Anderson's model was more useful. * Yeah, there's a small requirement of proportional market share of the Xth percentile product vs the insignificant one, but no need to nitpick that.

  2. Re:Yeah this reader's _____ on Google CEO Warns Newspapers Not To Anger Readers · · Score: 1

    Well studies show that FOX is *not* a conservative channel, but in fact lies dead-center in its views (relative to the American population),

    +1, Funny?

  3. Re:Tackle? on Battlestar Galactica's Last Days · · Score: 1

    1. You keep using Baltar as your example.
    2. Baltar is frakking insane!

  4. Re:Slashdot will Remain Second Rate Player on Web on Microsoft's Thumbtack, an Answer To Google Notebook · · Score: 1

    Yes, people do apparently like being forced to use Apple's software. It seems that Apple has captured a good portion of the "want to be forced to use a certain brand of software" market segment.

  5. Re:Well... on Google Exec Hints At Future Open Platform · · Score: 2, Funny

    The planet does not consist of just software.

    I see you took the red pill.

  6. Re:infant care on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    that is what infant care costs....and why many families have two people working.

    There's something wrong with this picture.

  7. Re:Goto is Evil on The Internet Meme Timeline · · Score: 0

    There are always exceptions,

    Exactly! Why use goto when you have try/catch?

  8. Re:Will the quality be any better? on iPhone Nano To Be Launched By Christmas? · · Score: 0

    Hmm. Are you aware that you're an imaginary entity?

  9. Re:Some numbers on Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion · · Score: 0

    That's odd. I get:

    "interspecies gangbang": 7
    "hot topic meets disney world": 3
    "died in a blogging accident": 15,400
    "can boys make babies": 5
    "why does it hurt when I read": 2

    Huh.

  10. Re:A problem with "experts" on Google's Knol, Expert Wiki, Goes Live · · Score: 0

    "This is a special knol where you can write about yourself. It was automatically created when you first signed into Knol, and it is always published (i.e. everyone can see what you are writing here). Please use this knol to tell your readers about yourself. By default, this is the page readers will be directed to when clicking on your name within the Knol environment. If you want to write a knol about something else, please click the [Write a Knol] link."

    Bio pages appear to be a feature of the site.

  11. Re:Monopolization of facts on Google's Knol, Expert Wiki, Goes Live · · Score: 0

    It's more like a free market of facts. Your crappy entry will get modded down, and some better article on the same topic will get the traffic.

  12. Re:More of a blog than an encyclopedia on Google's Knol, Expert Wiki, Goes Live · · Score: 0

    If you'd read past the first section, which was an introduction, you would have found that the rest of the article was much less personal and very informative.

  13. Re:Oh no, it's twitter again. on GDocs vs. ThinkFree vs. Zoho vs. MS Office · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please mod exactly two of parent, grandparent, great-grandparent and child up and the other two down.

  14. Re:Grammar Nazi on Inside Steve's Brain · · Score: 1

    So you think it should be spelled "analyzez"? Interesting.

  15. Re:What the.... on User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace · · Score: 1

    There's no law against tearing the tag off your own mattress. There's a law against tearing the tag off a mattress you're going to sell to a consumer.

    Exactly!

  16. Re:Allergy on Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy · · Score: 1

    Did you know that the number of confirmed cases of this problem tripled in the past year? Good God! If this continues, the population growth will be unsustainable.