The company I work for uses a third party (bazaarvoice) for our reviews so we cannot do such shenanigans. Since we don't just sell one brand we actually want the customer to know which product is the best so that they continue to buy from us. I'm sure this is how all resellers operate so what I suspect actually happened is that the review did make it to the site but the manufacturer probably had someone log in as a bunch of separate users and mark the review as objectionable so that it was taken down.
As others have already mentioned; you can't trust reviews. My personal policy with this is ignore the 1 star - "was broken when I got it" and the 10 star - "changed my life" reviews since they don't actually have any useful information. Also, a lot of sites track user submissions so you can guess that if a person writes an unusually long review about how great their new $30 vacuum is but they've never written another review that it's probably bogus.
But a tool like this is only going to be as good as the people who use it.
I understand your pain at work since I have the same email problem as you. People use email as a substitute for a meeting and try to come to a consensus all while constantly asking everyone else for input. So you end up with an email chain 50 replies long with more questions than you started with and somehow you have to decipher what people meant when they said, "yeah, let's do that."
Our signal to noise ratio probably won't be any better with Google Wave but at least everything will be in one place so if you have a project manager they can hopefully moderate the discussion in a meaningful direction.
I shudder to think of the bandwidth pipewise and processorwise that this protocol will take and am sufficiently awed at Google's sheer audacity to do such a deed.
Granted, I am in the top 1 percentile intelligence-wise.
I'm guess the other 99% of people were just as, if not more bored than you were. Plus, just mentioning that percentage when you're agreeing with a system where no one would be ranked like that isn't very unschoolish of you.
Okay, the parent linked article says FUD, you say FUD, and the article you link to says FUD. I admit there's uncertainty and doubt but where's the fear?
The simple truth is that Theroa has a lot of catching up to do which is completely fair since it's up against a codec family which has been in constant development for, well, ever. In my experience it has a hard time keeping up with motion which is not something which can be shown with single frames like your linked article does. I don't think we'll see the Internet embrace Theroa until its quality is truly comparable to h.264 or when h.264 starts charging for use. Just saying we should use it without any compelling reason other than that it's free isn't going to win any converts since it is always going to be free for the client.
Thanks for jogging my memory. I've been trying to find a good sci-fi author to read now that I'm caught up on Ian Banks and Neal Stephenson and I'd forgotten all about Vernor Vinge.
The quote is from "Fire Upon the Deep" for anyone who's interested.
I think the reason you see so many people with a "nasty Euros" attitude is that this is being reported as being driven by opera.
Opera is seen as running to the government to level the playing field. Not a horrible thing from a user choice perspective but we have another browser, firefox, which has already almost dethroned ie by simply providing better software. So, IMHO the main issue people have with this is why opera couldn't stand on its own merits.
Plus, as others have noted, the browser wars are over. The real battle is in search.
That brings me back. I remember that adjusting some apple II games' code to include three nops (xxxx:ea ea ea) was a typical cheat code to get around code branches checking for collisions and such.
Are people's obsession with conspiracy theories growing?
The culture of secrecy is not an Apple exclusive. Any company that has an inventory which needs to be sold would be foolish to open it's future product line to the public's eyes.
Any company which has a carefully crafted public image will not suffer just anyone to make public announcements about them. This goes double (well, a few billion times actually) for companies which are publicly traded.
Anyone who is upset about a so called "deliberate untruth" regarding someone's health is a total jackass. This article is almost too stupid to respond to.
Quote still stands (and is hilarious to boot). There's no reason to mention linux at all as a solution to this problem.
Using your own content is a solution, buying a different e-reader is a solution, buying the actual book is a solution. Installing an OS which is already on the device as a solution is not going to fix anything since it's not the OS which is to blame here, it's the kindle software which controls the content.
Regarding the text-to-speech comment, is anyone really disappointed with how this hasn't gotten much better? My 1mhz Apple IIe could do a pretty good job with plain text so why can't our dual-core multi-ghz computers do any better?
If you place a live lobster on the dry sand on on the beach and then approach it like you would underwater the dumb thing will use its same reflexes and try and swim away.
Of course people when placed under water for a short amount of time, say a couple of minutes, will attempt to breath normally. This of course fails because humans are too stupid to stop breathing.
Neither crabs nor lobster if you chase them will take into consideration what you might do next. they just scoot "away" even to the point of bouncing off random objects as they flee.
Reminds me of the time I was at a party and we all discovered the basement was on fire. I basically scooted away from that without much thought. Rational thought has no place in life and death situations since it's much too slow. So when the Titans come back and one of them is reaching down to grab you I'd like to know what plan you come up with.
Isn't this why we have libraries like jQuery? In my experience IE isn't alone in it's quirks. Most browsers aren't going to treat events 100% the same so using a js library to process events seems like a no brainer to me.
I've been very annoyed that the CDs I get of the cassettes I used to own have never sounded quite right. I try to adjust the equalizer to make it sound the way I remember but it's not quite right. Nice to know that the artifacts which I hate in mp3s are music to someone else's ears.
Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Intel yes, Microsoft no. Microsoft is creating the entire stack for their OS. Apple uses what you could basically call Unix but they have a pretty shell on top of it which just coincidentally looks like Windows.
As we move to more parallel computing something like this might be useful. Kind of like how the Minority Report (book not movie) would throw out results which were out of step with the majority we could have chips with cores running the same code in parallel and then throw out the bad results.
Of course it wouldn't be right all the time. But don't blame it! You're the one who wanted it 7x faster.
What precedent? Are you talking about the precedent of holding someone responsible for harassing their neighbor? Because I'm all for that. Are you suggesting that just because she did it online and under a false identity means that she shouldn't be held accountable? She did get off pretty much with just a hand slapping since she got nothing more than misdemeanors which is far less than she deserved.
As an aside a friend of mine brought up a good point. He thinks that Lori Drew was just taking the blame for her daughter. I hope he's right because it seems insane to think that she did something so childish and hurtful.
Most people would've just used the date library included with the language they're using. Apparently that wasn't an option here so it looks like this was a hearty helping of copy pasta with a small modification for leap years. Interesting that if they had left the check for days > 366 out it would have worked and looked so much more symmetrical too.
Personally I've written so many infinite loops that I don't even use "while" anymore unless I write unit tests which walk though every branch.
Your post is right on the money. I always come away from Jobs' demos with the same confidence I get from one of my friends telling me about a product they love. He follows a very simple formula to do this. During the keynotes he'll be giving the usual product spiel that you would expect. But then he does a demo and shows you that it's not all talk. They actually have a working product which is simple enough for the CEO of a fortune 100 company to demo but it's also simple enough for your parents too.
It's obvious that Jobs uses his company's product unlike those pesky auto execs who probably drive golf carts more often than they drive their classic European sports cars. Sorry, was that too bitter?
Open source is not an advantage. It's just a different model and it doesn't make the code better or more complete. All it means is that you don't have to steal anything. Well, except for XP in this case. I kid, I kid...
Her mistake was trying to get the professors on her side. Being a professor is a pretty sweet deal and they're not going to screw that up by fighting against a change, especially when that change is getting two more days off per semester. That change would only make their sweet deal even sweeter.
She needs to realize that the only way this college is ever going to care is if she and a few thousand other students leave. Until then she can scream at the top of her lungs all she wants but no one will ever listen. I don't want to argue about how some people seem to think that having (mostly) free speech is like a magical spell which will stop the evils of the world. But the sad truth is that even when we know the truth we don't do anything about it. College students are mostly trying to do as little as possible while still convincing their parents that they're working hard (I apologize to the flower generation and the 5% of you who aren't) so they're the worst kind of people to try to get riled up. Free speech is basically wasted on them. Bong hits 4 Jesus indeed.
Sadly the story reminds me of how my college went from 40 days a quarter to a more rational 48 day semester. I mean, why have a 120 day school year when you can have a 96 day one and charge more because semester sounds so much better. It's really win/win since everyone gets to spend less time in class.
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One single apple advocate may not want to play the popularity card.
There, fixed that for you.
The company I work for uses a third party (bazaarvoice) for our reviews so we cannot do such shenanigans. Since we don't just sell one brand we actually want the customer to know which product is the best so that they continue to buy from us. I'm sure this is how all resellers operate so what I suspect actually happened is that the review did make it to the site but the manufacturer probably had someone log in as a bunch of separate users and mark the review as objectionable so that it was taken down.
As others have already mentioned; you can't trust reviews. My personal policy with this is ignore the 1 star - "was broken when I got it" and the 10 star - "changed my life" reviews since they don't actually have any useful information. Also, a lot of sites track user submissions so you can guess that if a person writes an unusually long review about how great their new $30 vacuum is but they've never written another review that it's probably bogus.
But a tool like this is only going to be as good as the people who use it.
I understand your pain at work since I have the same email problem as you. People use email as a substitute for a meeting and try to come to a consensus all while constantly asking everyone else for input. So you end up with an email chain 50 replies long with more questions than you started with and somehow you have to decipher what people meant when they said, "yeah, let's do that."
Our signal to noise ratio probably won't be any better with Google Wave but at least everything will be in one place so if you have a project manager they can hopefully moderate the discussion in a meaningful direction.
I shudder to think of the bandwidth pipewise and processorwise that this protocol will take and am sufficiently awed at Google's sheer audacity to do such a deed.
Perhaps they meant the fix was easy...
if (password == account.password);
logUserIn(account);
Anything above "4" is represented as "A Suffusion of Yellow"
Granted, I am in the top 1 percentile intelligence-wise.
I'm guess the other 99% of people were just as, if not more bored than you were. Plus, just mentioning that percentage when you're agreeing with a system where no one would be ranked like that isn't very unschoolish of you.
Okay, the parent linked article says FUD, you say FUD, and the article you link to says FUD. I admit there's uncertainty and doubt but where's the fear?
The simple truth is that Theroa has a lot of catching up to do which is completely fair since it's up against a codec family which has been in constant development for, well, ever. In my experience it has a hard time keeping up with motion which is not something which can be shown with single frames like your linked article does. I don't think we'll see the Internet embrace Theroa until its quality is truly comparable to h.264 or when h.264 starts charging for use. Just saying we should use it without any compelling reason other than that it's free isn't going to win any converts since it is always going to be free for the client.
Thanks for jogging my memory. I've been trying to find a good sci-fi author to read now that I'm caught up on Ian Banks and Neal Stephenson and I'd forgotten all about Vernor Vinge.
The quote is from "Fire Upon the Deep" for anyone who's interested.
I think the reason you see so many people with a "nasty Euros" attitude is that this is being reported as being driven by opera.
Opera is seen as running to the government to level the playing field. Not a horrible thing from a user choice perspective but we have another browser, firefox, which has already almost dethroned ie by simply providing better software. So, IMHO the main issue people have with this is why opera couldn't stand on its own merits.
Plus, as others have noted, the browser wars are over. The real battle is in search.
That brings me back. I remember that adjusting some apple II games' code to include three nops (xxxx:ea ea ea) was a typical cheat code to get around code branches checking for collisions and such.
On a related note, cheating thusly, I was very sad to find that Spy's Demise never ended.
The culture of secrecy is not an Apple exclusive. Any company that has an inventory which needs to be sold would be foolish to open it's future product line to the public's eyes.
Any company which has a carefully crafted public image will not suffer just anyone to make public announcements about them. This goes double (well, a few billion times actually) for companies which are publicly traded.
Anyone who is upset about a so called "deliberate untruth" regarding someone's health is a total jackass. This article is almost too stupid to respond to.
Quote still stands (and is hilarious to boot). There's no reason to mention linux at all as a solution to this problem.
Using your own content is a solution, buying a different e-reader is a solution, buying the actual book is a solution. Installing an OS which is already on the device as a solution is not going to fix anything since it's not the OS which is to blame here, it's the kindle software which controls the content.
Regarding the text-to-speech comment, is anyone really disappointed with how this hasn't gotten much better? My 1mhz Apple IIe could do a pretty good job with plain text so why can't our dual-core multi-ghz computers do any better?
Irregardless, what does someone in Italy selling bootleg CDs 20 years ago have to do with the Italy's legal branch considering a trial?
If you place a live lobster on the dry sand on on the beach and then approach it like you would underwater the dumb thing will use its same reflexes and try and swim away.
Of course people when placed under water for a short amount of time, say a couple of minutes, will attempt to breath normally. This of course fails because humans are too stupid to stop breathing.
Neither crabs nor lobster if you chase them will take into consideration what you might do next. they just scoot "away" even to the point of bouncing off random objects as they flee.
Reminds me of the time I was at a party and we all discovered the basement was on fire. I basically scooted away from that without much thought. Rational thought has no place in life and death situations since it's much too slow. So when the Titans come back and one of them is reaching down to grab you I'd like to know what plan you come up with.
3D Bookmark management?
Wait a second... It's a firefox system! I know this!
Isn't this why we have libraries like jQuery? In my experience IE isn't alone in it's quirks. Most browsers aren't going to treat events 100% the same so using a js library to process events seems like a no brainer to me.
I've been very annoyed that the CDs I get of the cassettes I used to own have never sounded quite right. I try to adjust the equalizer to make it sound the way I remember but it's not quite right. Nice to know that the artifacts which I hate in mp3s are music to someone else's ears.
You'll need to watch Freeman's Mind if you want that.
Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Intel yes, Microsoft no. Microsoft is creating the entire stack for their OS. Apple uses what you could basically call Unix but they have a pretty shell on top of it which just coincidentally looks like Windows.
As we move to more parallel computing something like this might be useful. Kind of like how the Minority Report (book not movie) would throw out results which were out of step with the majority we could have chips with cores running the same code in parallel and then throw out the bad results.
Of course it wouldn't be right all the time. But don't blame it! You're the one who wanted it 7x faster.
What precedent? Are you talking about the precedent of holding someone responsible for harassing their neighbor? Because I'm all for that. Are you suggesting that just because she did it online and under a false identity means that she shouldn't be held accountable? She did get off pretty much with just a hand slapping since she got nothing more than misdemeanors which is far less than she deserved.
As an aside a friend of mine brought up a good point. He thinks that Lori Drew was just taking the blame for her daughter. I hope he's right because it seems insane to think that she did something so childish and hurtful.
Most people would've just used the date library included with the language they're using. Apparently that wasn't an option here so it looks like this was a hearty helping of copy pasta with a small modification for leap years. Interesting that if they had left the check for days > 366 out it would have worked and looked so much more symmetrical too.
Personally I've written so many infinite loops that I don't even use "while" anymore unless I write unit tests which walk though every branch.
Your post is right on the money. I always come away from Jobs' demos with the same confidence I get from one of my friends telling me about a product they love. He follows a very simple formula to do this. During the keynotes he'll be giving the usual product spiel that you would expect. But then he does a demo and shows you that it's not all talk. They actually have a working product which is simple enough for the CEO of a fortune 100 company to demo but it's also simple enough for your parents too.
It's obvious that Jobs uses his company's product unlike those pesky auto execs who probably drive golf carts more often than they drive their classic European sports cars. Sorry, was that too bitter?
Open source is not an advantage. It's just a different model and it doesn't make the code better or more complete. All it means is that you don't have to steal anything. Well, except for XP in this case. I kid, I kid...
Her mistake was trying to get the professors on her side. Being a professor is a pretty sweet deal and they're not going to screw that up by fighting against a change, especially when that change is getting two more days off per semester. That change would only make their sweet deal even sweeter.
She needs to realize that the only way this college is ever going to care is if she and a few thousand other students leave. Until then she can scream at the top of her lungs all she wants but no one will ever listen. I don't want to argue about how some people seem to think that having (mostly) free speech is like a magical spell which will stop the evils of the world. But the sad truth is that even when we know the truth we don't do anything about it. College students are mostly trying to do as little as possible while still convincing their parents that they're working hard (I apologize to the flower generation and the 5% of you who aren't) so they're the worst kind of people to try to get riled up. Free speech is basically wasted on them. Bong hits 4 Jesus indeed.
Sadly the story reminds me of how my college went from 40 days a quarter to a more rational 48 day semester. I mean, why have a 120 day school year when you can have a 96 day one and charge more because semester sounds so much better. It's really win/win since everyone gets to spend less time in class.