Yelp houses an asinine number of these people who will judge an entire business (small, large, chain, etc.) on single experiences.
That's why the smart way to use Yelp is to look at the average score and trends. A lot of places have a decent number of samples.
Like everything else on the Internet, you have to take it with a grain of salt. You also have to consider that what bothers you may not bother other people and vice-versa. I know of at least one thing on Yelp that I gave a favorable review. Other people panned it. It's also happened in the other direction.
That doesn't mean my "review based on one experience" is bad. It's a datum. Yelp is data.
Does the return on bitcoin mining equal or better the return on stock in the local utility? In the US, many utility stocks yield 5%. There's always some risk of the stock going down, but computer equipment is guaranteed to depreciate.
As with any money-making scheme, "show me the numbers".
My back of the envelope calculations tell me that situations like this are why you keep old ideas around. If you don't know what an envelope is, or how it could be used to perform calculations, there may come a time when that causes problems.
It's a bit early to tell, but which revolution would you prefer to be a part of: Egypt or Libya?
You know the 4 boxes: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Use them in that order. Well, even though China makes it hard to use the Soap Box, they're doing this in the right order. I applaud the bravery of the shoe-thrower. I don't think much of trigger-happy people who are probably sitting comfortably in some country that doesn't have as big a problem.
Fascists like fascism. Film at 11. SCOTUS ruling against it at 12, revolution at 1 AM if the SCOTUS refuses to rule against something that's unconstitutional by inspection.
Really though, revolution some time in the late 90s. The *IAA have already been lined up against the wall and shot. This is just the action of a twitching corpse. It's the corpse of a raptor mind you, so mind the slashing tail; but it's still a corpse.
I'd like the people who guard deadly shit to have a psychological profile that comports with being effective at their jobs and not prone to insane outbursts.
IANApsychologist, but I think humor-less and boring people might be prone to snap at some point.
That's the thing about these studies. They're statistical. There might be a correction factor for smoking too. There isn't a correction factor for your entire genome. Do they even do basic genetic screening on the participants?
Some participants could have an unknown gene combination that allows coffee to suppress cancer. Others may not. Others might even have an unknown gene combination that does the opposite. Now add environmental history. Maybe coffee only reduces cancer if you've got European genes and have been exposed to moderate ammounts of environmental lead as a child.
There's truth to both viewpoints. The Soviets felt a need to maintain a competitive military, at great expense. Simultaneously, they were trying to do it under a dysfunctional communist system. It was actually kind of quaint, the way the USSR stayed true to its ideals. Gorbachev wanted to do what China did. If he had succeeded, it might have been frighteningly different.
Shame on you for coming in on a student visa, getting involved with a gang and having a shoot-out. Plainly, your entire American dining experience was at a university dining hall, a hospital, and prison.
There are some things government can do. This is not one of them.
The best thing the government can do to establish "facts" is to arbitrate disputes involving facts. We're already doing that. We have laws against libel and fraud. Enforce them. End of story.
While it may be a tragedy that some people believe the president was born at an alien base in the African jungle, this doesn't rise to the level of fraud or libel. At least, it hasn't been put to the test AFAIK. Any attempts to outlaw fantasy masquerading as truth would run afoul of free speech and religion.
Let's not go down that road. You're retired, Mr. Clinton. It sounds like you should stay that way.
It's a tablet. It's a phone. It's something in between. Meh.
Cut to the chase and offer custom sizes.
The obvious "why not", is that you can't just take a knife and slice some real estate off a full sized screen. You'd have to source screens in multiple sizes, possibly from different vendors.
The value of fiat money is ultimately based on the ability of the issuing power to point weaponry at you if you mess with it
That, and the tendancy of the issuing power to collect taxes to pay for the guns, and to not use those guns foolishly. Failure on both counts is a large part of the reason that the US Dollar peaked around y2k and has been on a general downward trend ever since.
virus always represents itself as the original program you think it is
Then don't authorize the application. Authorize a secure hash of the application's executable, which is computed when it's loaded into memory. It shouldn't add that much time to application startup on modern hardware.
But for computer illiterates, stuff like files and folders are baffling - not to mention what happens when they're faced with the control panel.
Thanks for the tip. If I ever decide to become a computer illiterate, I'll keep that in mind.
OTOH, I understand why people want appliances to "just work". I certainly wouldn't want Windows on my microwave. It's a single-purpose device. If you look at the phone as being somewhere on the spectrum between single-purpose devices like a microwave, and general-purpose devices like a computer or a robotic arm then letting the company make decisions for you makes sense.
In other words, sometimes I want a device I can fully control. Sometimes I don't care.
Locate Congress in an small guarded isolated community in an inaccessible place like the north coast of Alaska. Move it every year, to places like Mt Whitney and Bikini Island, to prevent the buildup of fixed communities of camp followers.
Let me guess. You're a lobbyist working for an association of airlines and adventure travel guides.
I don't mean that as an insult to Cowboys or Butchers. I'm a Cowboy and I'm not ashamed of it. I can bang stuff out. I can get things done. I welcome and recognize the other guys--the Butchers. They're the maintenance coders. They're the guys who don't mind writing design documents post-facto, knowing that nobody will read them. They don't mind meating with managers. Of course, if you want to disparage the Butchers you could say that Butchers, well... butcher. You didn't hear that from me though. In order to put meat on the table, you need Cowboys and you need Butchers.
I've always thought that assigning negatives and postivies to Slashdot mod categories was limited. I'd like to see mutiple axes of moderation, with the axes you want to view left up to the users.
For example, I might really enjoy viewing (-2*Troll+Funny) as opposed to the default (Funny-Troll).
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Yelp houses an asinine number of these people who will judge an entire business (small, large, chain, etc.) on single experiences.
That's why the smart way to use Yelp is to look at the average score and trends. A lot of places have a decent number of samples.
Like everything else on the Internet, you have to take it with a grain of salt. You also have to consider that what bothers you may not bother other people and vice-versa. I know of at least one thing on Yelp that I gave a favorable review. Other people panned it. It's also happened in the other direction.
That doesn't mean my "review based on one experience" is bad. It's a datum. Yelp is data.
Following Google, which follows Microsoft (It is the Bing-ization of their search to which I refer) to stupidity.
Does the return on bitcoin mining equal or better the return on stock in the local utility? In the US, many utility stocks yield 5%. There's always some risk of the stock going down, but computer equipment is guaranteed to depreciate.
As with any money-making scheme, "show me the numbers".
My back of the envelope calculations tell me that situations like this are why you keep old ideas around. If you don't know what an envelope is, or how it could be used to perform calculations, there may come a time when that causes problems.
We could create a massive installation architecture that requires whole new networks and languages.
Or, we could just seek out reputable sources, download executables, and run stuff.
Whatever happened to Tucows...hmmm... it's still in business. Their "spotlight program" is Registry Booster 2011. So sad.
Ditto. This is the first I've heard of him. Let me wiki that for you.
It's a bit early to tell, but which revolution would you prefer to be a part of: Egypt or Libya?
You know the 4 boxes: soap, ballot, jury and ammo. Use them in that order. Well, even though China makes it hard to use the Soap Box, they're doing this in the right order. I applaud the bravery of the shoe-thrower. I don't think much of trigger-happy people who are probably sitting comfortably in some country that doesn't have as big a problem.
OK. I think I know what you mean.
Fascists like fascism. Film at 11. SCOTUS ruling against it at 12, revolution at 1 AM if the SCOTUS refuses to rule against something that's unconstitutional by inspection.
Really though, revolution some time in the late 90s. The *IAA have already been lined up against the wall and shot. This is just the action of a twitching corpse. It's the corpse of a raptor mind you, so mind the slashing tail; but it's still a corpse.
I'd like the people who guard deadly shit to have a psychological profile that comports with being effective at their jobs and not prone to insane outbursts.
IANApsychologist, but I think humor-less and boring people might be prone to snap at some point.
That's the thing about these studies. They're statistical. There might be a correction factor for smoking too. There isn't a correction factor for your entire genome. Do they even do basic genetic screening on the participants?
Some participants could have an unknown gene combination that allows coffee to suppress cancer. Others may not. Others might even have an unknown gene combination that does the opposite. Now add environmental history. Maybe coffee only reduces cancer if you've got European genes and have been exposed to moderate ammounts of environmental lead as a child.
I love that analogy because those of us who resist FaceBook and deal with the marauders are knights.
"information superhighway" became mainstream (I hated that term at the time, and still hate it now.)
Then you must remember this
There's truth to both viewpoints. The Soviets felt a need to maintain a competitive military, at great expense. Simultaneously, they were trying to do it under a dysfunctional communist system. It was actually kind of quaint, the way the USSR stayed true to its ideals. Gorbachev wanted to do what China did. If he had succeeded, it might have been frighteningly different.
Shame on you for coming in on a student visa, getting involved with a gang and having a shoot-out. Plainly, your entire American dining experience was at a university dining hall, a hospital, and prison.
There are some things government can do. This is not one of them.
The best thing the government can do to establish "facts" is to arbitrate disputes involving facts. We're already doing that. We have laws against libel and fraud. Enforce them. End of story.
While it may be a tragedy that some people believe the president was born at an alien base in the African jungle, this doesn't rise to the level of fraud or libel. At least, it hasn't been put to the test AFAIK. Any attempts to outlaw fantasy masquerading as truth would run afoul of free speech and religion.
Let's not go down that road. You're retired, Mr. Clinton. It sounds like you should stay that way.
It's a tablet. It's a phone. It's something in between. Meh.
Cut to the chase and offer custom sizes.
The obvious "why not", is that you can't just take a knife and slice some real estate off a full sized screen. You'd have to source screens in multiple sizes, possibly from different vendors.
The value of fiat money is ultimately based on the ability of the issuing power to point weaponry at you if you mess with it
That, and the tendancy of the issuing power to collect taxes to pay for the guns, and to not use those guns foolishly. Failure on both counts is a large part of the reason that the US Dollar peaked around y2k and has been on a general downward trend ever since.
virus always represents itself as the original program you think it is
Then don't authorize the application. Authorize a secure hash of the application's executable, which is computed when it's loaded into memory. It shouldn't add that much time to application startup on modern hardware.
But for computer illiterates, stuff like files and folders are baffling - not to mention what happens when they're faced with the control panel.
Thanks for the tip. If I ever decide to become a computer illiterate, I'll keep that in mind.
OTOH, I understand why people want appliances to "just work". I certainly wouldn't want Windows on my microwave. It's a single-purpose device. If you look at the phone as being somewhere on the spectrum between single-purpose devices like a microwave, and general-purpose devices like a computer or a robotic arm then letting the company make decisions for you makes sense.
In other words, sometimes I want a device I can fully control. Sometimes I don't care.
Locate Congress in an small guarded isolated community in an inaccessible place like the north coast of Alaska. Move it every year, to places like Mt Whitney and Bikini Island, to prevent the buildup of fixed communities of camp followers.
Let me guess. You're a lobbyist working for an association of airlines and adventure travel guides.
What are the units of conformity and success. I'd like to make a graph. Surely there must be an XKCD for that...
I don't mean that as an insult to Cowboys or Butchers. I'm a Cowboy and I'm not ashamed of it. I can bang stuff out. I can get things done. I welcome and recognize the other guys--the Butchers. They're the maintenance coders. They're the guys who don't mind writing design documents post-facto, knowing that nobody will read them. They don't mind meating with managers. Of course, if you want to disparage the Butchers you could say that Butchers, well... butcher. You didn't hear that from me though. In order to put meat on the table, you need Cowboys and you need Butchers.
I've always thought that assigning negatives and postivies to Slashdot mod categories was limited. I'd like to see mutiple axes of moderation, with the axes you want to view left up to the users.
For example, I might really enjoy viewing (-2*Troll+Funny) as opposed to the default (Funny-Troll).
Lesson three: steal your lunch and then whine about it when they say you can't steal. That's how the big boys do it.