PageRank doesn't actually distinguish between "portals" and "authorities." It "only" does a link-analysis of the web by essentially mutiplying some ranking vector by a matrix representing the links in the web, with a random jump to another location taking place with a certain probability to create a new ranking vector. Once this converges, you have the new "PageRank."
PageRank scores are calculated completely independently of the search query. You are probably thinking of Kleinbergs HITS (or Hubs and Authorities) algorithm which uses an initial search query to prune the search space, and then identifies hubs and authorities in the web. In contrast to PageRank, which only uses forward links to calculate its rankings, HITS uses both forward and "backward" links to figure out its ratings. Furthermore, unlike PageRank, HITS produces different scores for different queries.
The above tells us the following: That Kuro5hin and Slashdot have high pageranks not because of their excessive numbers of outlinks, but because many people point to their frontpages. Similarly, these high PageRanks mean that people that Slashdot or Kuro5hin point to get higher scores as well.
Best Animated Short: 1933-39, 41, 42, 53, 68, 69 At which point they basically stopped making short animated features anyway. In that time period, Disney by far won the plurality of Oscars conferred, and overall has won more Oscars in that category than anyone else.
Source: http://www.wildcoast.org/dvd/oscar.html
Best Score (only listed films that I know for a fact are Disney): 1940, 41, 64, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95
That's nothing new. Titanic won the Best Picture award at the Oscars, while As Good As It Gets swept the Best Actor/Actress awards (although in that case, it could be argued that it was because the wrong movie won best picture).
Try downloading IE 6 on a dialup connection and then check your phone bill
Well, deal here is to make the same extrapolation he did with hard drive space. Don't think about it in terms of 1993 (dial-up) technology. Try broadband. It took me all of 5 minutes to download IE 6, no different from how long it took me to download IE 3.
In 1993, sure you had to pay by the hour to access the Internet. Now, you pay 40 bucks a month and get unlimited use. Again, by making the extrapolation to current standards, you realize that your definition of "bloatware" doesn't stand up.
So while I understand that it's lots of fun to find a site which claims that WinXP is 10% slower and doesn't do the laundry or clean the kitchen and trumpet it on Slashdot, don't let just the one site be your guide.
For example [firingsquad.com] here is a site (and a cite) that claims XP actually offers slight improvements over 2k.
Even some [zdnet.co.uk] lacking benchmarks still claim that XP is faster than 2k.
Come on now, let's do some research before we spread misinformed FUD of our own!
There is actually a theory that Pi is one of those special numbers (whose name escapes me - making this post a little less useful) which is random in all bases.
Your numbers are sort of confusing the issue. They're getting 50 million per annum, or a full 25% of the payout. Not too shabby, considering that regardless of your personal views, most of Napster is flooded with Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys.
See, therein lies the problem. IGN as a whole is not a PS2 fansite. But ps2.ign.comis essentially a fansite. If you've read the various comments, mailbags, etc on each of the ign affiliate sites (n64, dc, psx, ps2, pc) you'll see that the editors and writers for each are different, and they all carry an editorial slant towards whichever console/system their site reports on.
Just FYI
Part of the issue was the wording change in the H1-B visas. They no longer make it explicit that the visas are temporary in that you only stay for six years. Instead, the general impression they give is that the visas are temporary in that you will get a green card eventually.
So what if they're not citizens? Any immigrants start out as visitors. But if they love the country enough - and few will dispute that these immigrants provide a valuable service to our country - let them stay!
Now that's downright unfair... regardless of whether or not this post got moderated as funny, it seems to be echoing a lot of sentiments expressed overall in this discussion.
The reason why so many of these technologies "suck" in the US is that the US paid the penalty of early adoption. When AC electricity started up (in the US), they only had technology to transfer things effectively at 110 Volts. By the time the tech came to transfer electricity at higher voltages (220, for example), enough of the US had already been tied down to 110 to make switching it a difficult proposition at best.
With TV's originally gaining widespread use in the US under the NTSC standard, when PAL came out, too many people were watching and broadcasting in NTSC in the US to make it worthwhile to switch (viz the problems we're having making the switch over to HDTV).
Computer Operating systems that suck. Now, there's something funny... if they suck so much, that the US is stuck using them, how come the rest of the world uses them too?
Ah... but don't stereotype Stephenson as a c-punk author. I'm currently reading a book of his called _Zodiac_... while science-fictiony, its far closer to what it dubs itself on the cover: an "eco-thriller"... basically, its about an environmentalist who does the usual railing against corporate America. Hmm... on second thought, maybe this is book is perfect for the new "rail against the Man" crowd (you open-source types know who you are!)... replace Environmentalist with Linux-geek, and Big Chemical Company with Micro$oft, and voila, you have an honest-to-god current events thriller! I think had Stephenson written this book in the late 90s, as opposed to the late 80s, this is exactly how it wouldve turned out. Well, my two cents on one of my favorite authors.
Slashdot Mirror
PageRank doesn't actually distinguish between "portals" and "authorities." It "only" does a link-analysis of the web by essentially mutiplying some ranking vector by a matrix representing the links in the web, with a random jump to another location taking place with a certain probability to create a new ranking vector. Once this converges, you have the new "PageRank."
PageRank scores are calculated completely independently of the search query. You are probably thinking of Kleinbergs HITS (or Hubs and Authorities) algorithm which uses an initial search query to prune the search space, and then identifies hubs and authorities in the web. In contrast to PageRank, which only uses forward links to calculate its rankings, HITS uses both forward and "backward" links to figure out its ratings. Furthermore, unlike PageRank, HITS produces different scores for different queries.
The above tells us the following: That Kuro5hin and Slashdot have high pageranks not because of their excessive numbers of outlinks, but because many people point to their frontpages. Similarly, these high PageRanks mean that people that Slashdot or Kuro5hin point to get higher scores as well.
I should hope there's Bayer Aspirin - they invented it and subsequently lost the trademark.
Disney Oscars:
/ PastWinners/score.html
Best Animated Short:
1933-39, 41, 42, 53, 68, 69
At which point they basically stopped making short animated features anyway. In that time period, Disney by far won the plurality of Oscars conferred, and overall has won more Oscars in that category than anyone else.
Source: http://www.wildcoast.org/dvd/oscar.html
Best Score (only listed films that I know for a fact are Disney):
1940, 41, 64, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95
Source: http://www.eonline.com/Features/Awards/Oscars2002
Best Song (again, only listed films that I know are Disney):
1940, 47, 64, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 99
Source: http://www.geocities.com/tsaid3/song.html
Not too shabby for a company that had to "make a category just to win at something"
That's just the point, actually. It is the job of the search process which does eliminate possible, yet very inefficient flights like that.
That's nothing new. Titanic won the Best Picture award at the Oscars, while As Good As It Gets swept the Best Actor/Actress awards (although in that case, it could be argued that it was because the wrong movie won best picture).
Try downloading IE 6 on a dialup connection and then check your phone bill
Well, deal here is to make the same extrapolation he did with hard drive space. Don't think about it in terms of 1993 (dial-up) technology. Try broadband. It took me all of 5 minutes to download IE 6, no different from how long it took me to download IE 3.
In 1993, sure you had to pay by the hour to access the Internet. Now, you pay 40 bucks a month and get unlimited use. Again, by making the extrapolation to current standards, you realize that your definition of "bloatware" doesn't stand up.
So while I understand that it's lots of fun to find a site which claims that WinXP is 10% slower and doesn't do the laundry or clean the kitchen and trumpet it on Slashdot, don't let just the one site be your guide.
For example [firingsquad.com] here is a site (and a cite) that claims XP actually offers slight improvements over 2k.
Even some [zdnet.co.uk] lacking benchmarks still claim that XP is faster than 2k.
Come on now, let's do some research before we spread misinformed FUD of our own!
There is actually a theory that Pi is one of those special numbers (whose name escapes me - making this post a little less useful) which is random in all bases.
Your numbers are sort of confusing the issue. They're getting 50 million per annum, or a full 25% of the payout. Not too shabby, considering that regardless of your personal views, most of Napster is flooded with Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys.
Not at all, my good sir... current numbers: 95% precincts reporting, gore only trails by 20k... they're both locked at 49%...
in a telling statistic, btw, Nader has 87k votes
See, therein lies the problem. IGN as a whole is not a PS2 fansite. But ps2.ign.com is essentially a fansite. If you've read the various comments, mailbags, etc on each of the ign affiliate sites (n64, dc, psx, ps2, pc) you'll see that the editors and writers for each are different, and they all carry an editorial slant towards whichever console/system their site reports on. Just FYI
Actually, the Withers lab has 10 or so Linux machines, and it isn't passcoded... just FYI
Did you actually read the whole article?
Part of the issue was the wording change in the H1-B visas. They no longer make it explicit that the visas are temporary in that you only stay for six years. Instead, the general impression they give is that the visas are temporary in that you will get a green card eventually.
So what if they're not citizens? Any immigrants start out as visitors. But if they love the country enough - and few will dispute that these immigrants provide a valuable service to our country - let them stay!
Don't Turn Your Computer On, or it May Turn Itself Off
Now that's downright unfair... regardless of whether or not this post got moderated as funny, it seems to be echoing a lot of sentiments expressed overall in this discussion.
The reason why so many of these technologies "suck" in the US is that the US paid the penalty of early adoption. When AC electricity started up (in the US), they only had technology to transfer things effectively at 110 Volts. By the time the tech came to transfer electricity at higher voltages (220, for example), enough of the US had already been tied down to 110 to make switching it a difficult proposition at best.
With TV's originally gaining widespread use in the US under the NTSC standard, when PAL came out, too many people were watching and broadcasting in NTSC in the US to make it worthwhile to switch (viz the problems we're having making the switch over to HDTV).
Computer Operating systems that suck. Now, there's something funny... if they suck so much, that the US is stuck using them, how come the rest of the world uses them too?
my two cents, with a dollar loan thrown in.
Ah... but don't stereotype Stephenson as a c-punk author. I'm currently reading a book of his called _Zodiac_... while science-fictiony, its far closer to what it dubs itself on the cover: an "eco-thriller"... basically, its about an environmentalist who does the usual railing against corporate America. Hmm... on second thought, maybe this is book is perfect for the new "rail against the Man" crowd (you open-source types know who you are!)... replace Environmentalist with Linux-geek, and Big Chemical Company with Micro$oft, and voila, you have an honest-to-god current events thriller! I think had Stephenson written this book in the late 90s, as opposed to the late 80s, this is exactly how it wouldve turned out. Well, my two cents on one of my favorite authors.