I think the general point to take away from what you've said is that, if the BBC want to keep Doctor Who going indefinitely (and they'd be stupid not to), they'll think of a way of giving the Doctor more regenerations.
"Is this a cunning way to encourage people to sign in while they search, thus providing Google with a richer set of data that can be mapped to specific user accounts?"
Of course it is. But as a Google fangirl with no sense of privacy, I have to say, is this really a bad thing? Greater knowledge about their users will lead to more accurately targeted adverts. Is it such a bad thing that Google are increasing their potential earnings?
Google get more money, advertisers get more potential customers, and publishers get more money from adverts, and the customers get pointed to more sites they're likely to be interested in. Who loses?
I'm a Google fangirl, but that doesn't mean that I've boycotted all products for which Google provides an alternative. (Well, not anymore).
Personally, I tend to use Google Spreadsheets most of the time, simply because the sorts of things I'm likely to need a spreadsheet for are the sorts of things I'm likely to want access to wherever I am.
I use Open Office for my main word processor for the simple reason that it's so much easier to format my documents with it than it is in Google Docs. That, and I find Open Office's Formula very useful for maths based stuff.
I haven't found the need to do any presentations for a while, so I can't really comment on that, but I'd presume I'm more likely to do that in Open Office, based on the assumption that I'm going to be bringing my laptop with me wherever I do a presentation.
This is typical poor reporting of a scientific study. From the evidence provided in the article, it's possible to provide several explanations of the observed results. Most obviously that younger people use more brain activity than older people when using a search engine. However, they have leapt to the conclusion that the key factor is whether or not the individuals are "internet savvy". Surely it would have been possible to obtain people from all walks of life with differnt levels of internet experience. There's plenty of older folk who have used Google!
This is either irony of such a high level that it went straight over my head, or typical Slashdot non-reading-of-article + bad summary.
According to the article, "His team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no Web experience. Otherwise, the groups were similar in age, gender and education."
Compare this to what the/. summary says: "The test had two groups, young people who used the Internet, and older people who had never been online."
I don't blame you for not reading the article; like most of Slashdotters, I rarely do either. Had the summary accurately summarised the article, you'd have had a perfectly valid point (and one that I was about to make).
Well I'm off to uni in about a month, and I need to know Java for that.
I've been using Netbeans IDE, and I've been reading Java How to Program by Deitel. ISBN: 978-0132222204
It's an expensive book, but if you can get one second hand it's not too bad. If you don't know any Java at all, then you don't necessarily need the latest Edition. I'm using the 6th Edition.
I only have VB and basic PHP knowledge, so I'm probably not the best person to give advice. But that's the book that uni recommended for people who have a good programming experience.
they made everyone study for GCSE french at my place, but not everyone was entered. they were weird like that. and (and A level) GCSE IT is a joke anyway, so there wasn't much you missed.
but i'm still of the opinion that it'd be so much easier if everyone was just taught english and chinese from an early age. that'd be shiny.
Really? It looked more like a Portuguese A with ~ than the non-existent Spanish A of which you speak. But then, I failed Portuguese and Spanish, so I could be speaking complete pelotas.
But anyway, as far as I'm aware, many if not all of Google's services let you export all the data. For example, Reader lets you export the list of feeds you're subscribed to. Notebook lets you export each notebook.
It's all a bit tedious though, but it wouldn't be too hard to code something to do it all for you. I don't think anyone's done one yet, but if you have a look round sourceforge you might find something interesting.
The layout of the search results is an interesting concept. It seems to work well in that respect.
However, it's not going to keep me away from Google. The content just isn't good enough. I did a few searches, and many of the results were uninteresting or irrelevant. And one search said it had many many results, but once I clicked on the second page it couldn't find anything at all.
But then, I'm a Google fangirl so take anything I say about this with a pinch or seven of salt.
It's only the teasers that we get to see on Earth. These are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for level 5 planets and buzz them, meaning that they find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one's going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.
Advanced species know that Earth is mostly harmless, so they tend not to bother with it.
It's not a problem for readers, but you can see why it's attractive for a company like Google. They could never put out a Wikipedia for fear of being seen as The Enemy by people who think the moon landings are fake or that cellphones are making the bees return to their home planet.
I always thought the marker for material being quoted as it was spoken or written was [sic].
For example,
'John be [sic] tripping. He always [sic] doin' shit like that.'
In this case, the [sic] denotes the use of the infinitive of the copula verb in African-American English Vernacular (AAEV) to mean a habitual action; the second is used to mark the elision of the copula verb in the sentence.
Just my two cents' worth (former English grad student and undergrad seminar leader/paper grader).
Yes. While this is true, the article does point out that this sounds out of place in this context.
My $0.02 on the matter is that typos should probably be corrected, but grammar should not be. There are of course many many exceptions, depending entirely on the nature of the quote and the purpose of the article.
that actually sounds like quite a sensible idea. the anaesthetized part, not the naked part. it'd mean that they don't need to keep us entertained for the duration of the flight.
More guys have to go gay, and those societies reproduce less and die out. What's the problem with that? The girls get an absolute win in this situation because guys are willing to bend over backwards to get one of the few girls around.
Sounds like a good society to live in to me! Although by your logic, lesbians would probably have to straighten up a little.
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I think the general point to take away from what you've said is that, if the BBC want to keep Doctor Who going indefinitely (and they'd be stupid not to), they'll think of a way of giving the Doctor more regenerations.
I'll give you a hint:
we like huge diamonds cut into the shape of shoes! But we tend to settle for chocolate.
If you name it CAN-SPAM, you can't seriously expect it to have any effect, can you?
And I'll say it again.
Great idea. Much better to be taxed up front in my opinion than to be potentially sued.
Except for the fact that will never work.
I find that more awesome than it really should be.
*runs off and rick rolls her code*
Does it matter if it happened or not? Even as a hypothetical example, it's worth hearing.
"Is this a cunning way to encourage people to sign in while they search, thus providing Google with a richer set of data that can be mapped to specific user accounts?"
Of course it is. But as a Google fangirl with no sense of privacy, I have to say, is this really a bad thing? Greater knowledge about their users will lead to more accurately targeted adverts. Is it such a bad thing that Google are increasing their potential earnings?
Google get more money, advertisers get more potential customers, and publishers get more money from adverts, and the customers get pointed to more sites they're likely to be interested in. Who loses?
I'm a Google fangirl, but that doesn't mean that I've boycotted all products for which Google provides an alternative. (Well, not anymore).
Personally, I tend to use Google Spreadsheets most of the time, simply because the sorts of things I'm likely to need a spreadsheet for are the sorts of things I'm likely to want access to wherever I am.
I use Open Office for my main word processor for the simple reason that it's so much easier to format my documents with it than it is in Google Docs. That, and I find Open Office's Formula very useful for maths based stuff.
I haven't found the need to do any presentations for a while, so I can't really comment on that, but I'd presume I'm more likely to do that in Open Office, based on the assumption that I'm going to be bringing my laptop with me wherever I do a presentation.
Well it does appear to be running windows, assuming that the control panel and the main system are one and the same computer.
This is typical poor reporting of a scientific study. From the evidence provided in the article, it's possible to provide several explanations of the observed results. Most obviously that younger people use more brain activity than older people when using a search engine. However, they have leapt to the conclusion that the key factor is whether or not the individuals are "internet savvy".
Surely it would have been possible to obtain people from all walks of life with differnt levels of internet experience. There's plenty of older folk who have used Google!
This is either irony of such a high level that it went straight over my head, or typical Slashdot non-reading-of-article + bad summary.
According to the article, "His team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no Web experience. Otherwise, the groups were similar in age, gender and education."
Compare this to what the /. summary says:
"The test had two groups, young people who used the Internet, and older people who had never been online."
I don't blame you for not reading the article; like most of Slashdotters, I rarely do either. Had the summary accurately summarised the article, you'd have had a perfectly valid point (and one that I was about to make).
Well I'm off to uni in about a month, and I need to know Java for that.
I've been using Netbeans IDE, and I've been reading Java How to Program by Deitel.
ISBN: 978-0132222204
It's an expensive book, but if you can get one second hand it's not too bad. If you don't know any Java at all, then you don't necessarily need the latest Edition. I'm using the 6th Edition.
I only have VB and basic PHP knowledge, so I'm probably not the best person to give advice. But that's the book that uni recommended for people who have a good programming experience.
they made everyone study for GCSE french at my place, but not everyone was entered. they were weird like that.
and (and A level) GCSE IT is a joke anyway, so there wasn't much you missed.
but i'm still of the opinion that it'd be so much easier if everyone was just taught english and chinese from an early age. that'd be shiny.
Really? It looked more like a Portuguese A with ~ than the non-existent Spanish A of which you speak.
But then, I failed Portuguese and Spanish, so I could be speaking complete pelotas.
Perhaps cows just don't like the sun in their eyes?
*someone whispers something about the southern hemisphere in her ear*
Perhaps Australian cows are weird and DO like the sun in their eyes?
No, I'm pretty sure that nukeular power is this generation's nuclear power.
Already been done! We have Wikipedia...
You mean wikibooks? The problem here is that many if not most of these are incomplete. What we need is some way of paying volunteers to contribute.
This sounds worryingly like me!
But anyway, as far as I'm aware, many if not all of Google's services let you export all the data. For example, Reader lets you export the list of feeds you're subscribed to. Notebook lets you export each notebook.
It's all a bit tedious though, but it wouldn't be too hard to code something to do it all for you. I don't think anyone's done one yet, but if you have a look round sourceforge you might find something interesting.
It does make sense though. They are working on the assumption that if you've already found them, then you're not looking for them.
The layout of the search results is an interesting concept. It seems to work well in that respect.
However, it's not going to keep me away from Google. The content just isn't good enough. I did a few searches, and many of the results were uninteresting or irrelevant. And one search said it had many many results, but once I clicked on the second page it couldn't find anything at all.
But then, I'm a Google fangirl so take anything I say about this with a pinch or seven of salt.
It's only the teasers that we get to see on Earth. These are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for level 5 planets and buzz them, meaning that they find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one's going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.
Advanced species know that Earth is mostly harmless, so they tend not to bother with it.
It's not a problem for readers, but you can see why it's attractive for a company like Google. They could never put out a Wikipedia for fear of being seen as The Enemy by people who think the moon landings are fake or that cellphones are making the bees return to their home planet.
Cellphones? I thought it was the Daleks.
I always thought the marker for material being quoted as it was spoken or written was [sic].
For example,
'John be [sic] tripping. He always [sic] doin' shit like that.'
In this case, the [sic] denotes the use of the infinitive of the copula verb in African-American English Vernacular (AAEV) to mean a habitual action; the second is used to mark the elision of the copula verb in the sentence.
Just my two cents' worth (former English grad student and undergrad seminar leader/paper grader).
Yes. While this is true, the article does point out that this sounds out of place in this context.
My $0.02 on the matter is that typos should probably be corrected, but grammar should not be. There are of course many many exceptions, depending entirely on the nature of the quote and the purpose of the article.
that actually sounds like quite a sensible idea. the anaesthetized part, not the naked part. it'd mean that they don't need to keep us entertained for the duration of the flight.
that was my first thought exactly.
you'd think that they'd have some way of knowing that the bracelets were not being worn. but then again, that wouldn't be too hard to fool.
More guys have to go gay, and those societies reproduce less and die out. What's the problem with that? The girls get an absolute win in this situation because guys are willing to bend over backwards to get one of the few girls around.
Sounds like a good society to live in to me! Although by your logic, lesbians would probably have to straighten up a little.