In the context of the latest developments in a complex context and the necessary political support for a certain cause, we are considering marking certain Tweets with a hashtag for emergencies which signifies that it has to do with something very important which needs the world's attention. #EMERGENCY or something like that. We have to try and make sure that dramatic developments in the world get the necessary attention.
Honestly, when did the humble RSS feed or - heaven forfend - an actual webpage become an unacceptable way of disseminating information?
First, take a perfectly basic function of some Internet feature or other that is already available to everyone without there being any need for your proposed service to exist. Lets think... here's one: web pages can have various colors on them! Now dilute that feature right down to just the barest, minimal, infinitesimally useful level... a web page that is just a blank space of a user configurable color. Crippling this basic functionality that folks had access to already makes your service seem edgy, sleek and modern! Giving our default color palette some snappy names like "emo purple" or "douchey green" will make users feel like there's a new cultural or linguistic fad here to get stuck into.
Slap on a "friends" feature to give it a little of that social networking pizazz and add a nonsense-word domain name of the type that you might overhear on an episode of The Tellytubbies, lets say, "flibubu" and you've got yourself a vehicle capable of launching a whole new 6-month-long Internet fad!
Fascinating link, ty. Since the study finds some impact from both video games and movies I'd love to see similar work done regarding the effect (or otherwise) of observing news broadcasts and documentaries about violence, written fiction, and "acceptable" actual violent behaviour (hockey, boxing, etc).
Proving that violent videogames and movies make folks temporarily less likely to aid others might be all the basis lawmakers need to rule in a whole bunch of crazy censorship ideas I'm sure we can all imagine. If there was proof that the lunchtime news, a documentary about WWII or a saturday afternoon sports show had just as much impact, that could throw interesting contrast into the argument.
Your perspective is skewed somewhat by the number you chose there.
Even assuming just expensive SSDs in your analogy (rather than dirt cheap flash). your $50 notional device is going to be at least 50% of the cost of the thing it's tagging.
Were this the case with beef cattle in the US you'd be talking a tag that cost around $45/cwt - or say in the region of $300. In reality these things cost as little as $1. Government mandated massive deployment would likely force the price down further.
So, your analogy of an enforced extra 50% expense in reality translates to an extra expense well below half a percent - which doesn't seem as grim.
TBH I'm unsure if the idea is good, but device cost specifically is likely not much of a factor.
You're not kidding! In a statistical sense a sample of 30 from the global set "people who use a computer keyboard regularly" is utterly meaningless.
So "What convinced them to make the size-change was doing some tests" gives a misleading impression. If a sample of 30 was enough to make them feel validated about their design choice, then someone had already made the decision long ago. Any tests made were irrelevant and the decision itself was based purely on asspiration (ie. pulling the idea out of one's ass).
it's unclear that there website was commercial - given the "free", I'm guessing not.
Not necessarily correct.
(Also "their", sorry, couldn't help myself.)
Try searching for "free [term]" and you'll find dozens of sites with the word "free" in their domain, with the word "free" plastered all over their page and with absolutely nothing being provided for free except the ability to look at the price list.
Let's get a quick example, googling "free ringtone" shows these guys on result page #1:
The word "free" appears no less than 20 times on the front page of the site and the domain name itself is fairly unequivocal. Looks like lots of content and all free. Click any item of content and you'll get a signup page which wants your credit card and $10 a month.
You'll find similar sites for "free [term]" where [term] is just about any popular online consumer item.
It's obviously tempting just to think "but who the hell would PAY for lego porn anyway?!?". Though, again, another similar google search "porn [term]" for almost any random word you can imagine might make you think otherwise!;-)
Had Savana been suspected of having illegal drugs that could have posed a far greater danger to herself and other students, the strip search, too, might have been justified, the majority said, in an opinion by Justice David H. Souter.
Holy forking schnitt.
We like to have a good ol' joke and whinge about government and judiciary living in la-la-land and, true enough, they can often look fairly freakin' "out there" but from exactly how high do you need to have been dropped on your head as a baby to think that strip-searching school children is ever appropriate behaviour?!
Were your hypothesis correct then there should be a visibly greater level of non-clinical IT adoption in tolerably resourced, state-funded healthcare schemes - eg the UK.
marijuana is still less harmful than alcohol and nicotine
And yet strangely none of the top 10 topics on Obama's forum are suggestions to ban alcohol or tobacco.
Does this hint at the reality that people don't care about the possibility of societal harm or benefit one iota - only about whether they get their personal, favorite lollipop or not?
I'm guessing this is why the English have been, for centuries, known around the world for their ignorant, rude, brashness whilst the Americans are recognized far and wide for their dainty manners and eccentric etiquette?
The patent in question: 5,838,906, "Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document"
Given the HTML5 video tag - in theory - puts an end to the whole concept of browser's needing to invoke outside (plug-in) help to play video, it would seem that the Eolas patent is not relevant here.
Only one domain on the entire web gets more traffic than yahoo.com and that's obviously google.com.
In various countries in the far-east, Yahoo beats out Google to the #1 spot.
Yahoo is still a vast presence in search-engine-land.
And yep, my granny says "I'll google it" and promptly clicks on her yahoo.com bookmark. The term means "search" to many users, not any specific brand. In much the same way (at least in the UK) that someone might "hoover the room" with their Dyson.
It is? Color me surprised. I wasn't even aware that there was a Silverlight "2" having never actually seen any Silverlight plugin or warning about it on any website ever.
I suppose, in the same sense, we could say that "Safari-for-Windows is gaining on Internet Explorer in all areas". It rose from 0.07% market share on Windows boxes to 0.21% when Apple bundled it in their update for iTunes/Quicktime.
"Pandemic" is not a word which implies anything about lethality or how "damaging" the strain is.
The WHO declaring H1N1 pandemic is not overreaction, hyperbole or scaremongering. The particular strain has reached a specified spread at which point it qualifies for that label.
Now, the news media's choice of tone and language in reporting on H1N1 is another matter entirely.
Spot on. I'm pretty sure this is a general truism of processes which allow users to declare urgency themselves.
Give users the option and every support ticket is critical, every project is urgent, every callout is an emergency, every bug is fatal.
The satisfyingly BoFH-esque response is, of course, that every coffee is critical, every smoke is urgent, every liquid lunch an emergency and every complaint about poor service... fatal.
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In the context of the latest developments in a complex context and the necessary political support for a certain cause, we are considering marking certain Tweets with a hashtag for emergencies which signifies that it has to do with something very important which needs the world's attention. #EMERGENCY or something like that. We have to try and make sure that dramatic developments in the world get the necessary attention.
Honestly, when did the humble RSS feed or - heaven forfend - an actual webpage become an unacceptable way of disseminating information?
More importantly - why?
Well, lets figure it out right here and now eh?
First, take a perfectly basic function of some Internet feature or other that is already available to everyone without there being any need for your proposed service to exist. Lets think... here's one: web pages can have various colors on them! Now dilute that feature right down to just the barest, minimal, infinitesimally useful level... a web page that is just a blank space of a user configurable color. Crippling this basic functionality that folks had access to already makes your service seem edgy, sleek and modern! Giving our default color palette some snappy names like "emo purple" or "douchey green" will make users feel like there's a new cultural or linguistic fad here to get stuck into.
Slap on a "friends" feature to give it a little of that social networking pizazz and add a nonsense-word domain name of the type that you might overhear on an episode of The Tellytubbies, lets say, "flibubu" and you've got yourself a vehicle capable of launching a whole new 6-month-long Internet fad!
And there you have it. What a time to be alive!
If the website was "full" - as you put it - it would be impossible for any subsequent pedants to join. This is not the case.
Fascinating link, ty. Since the study finds some impact from both video games and movies I'd love to see similar work done regarding the effect (or otherwise) of observing news broadcasts and documentaries about violence, written fiction, and "acceptable" actual violent behaviour (hockey, boxing, etc).
Proving that violent videogames and movies make folks temporarily less likely to aid others might be all the basis lawmakers need to rule in a whole bunch of crazy censorship ideas I'm sure we can all imagine. If there was proof that the lunchtime news, a documentary about WWII or a saturday afternoon sports show had just as much impact, that could throw interesting contrast into the argument.
...but gravity is :-)
Your perspective is skewed somewhat by the number you chose there.
Even assuming just expensive SSDs in your analogy (rather than dirt cheap flash). your $50 notional device is going to be at least 50% of the cost of the thing it's tagging.
Were this the case with beef cattle in the US you'd be talking a tag that cost around $45/cwt - or say in the region of $300. In reality these things cost as little as $1. Government mandated massive deployment would likely force the price down further.
So, your analogy of an enforced extra 50% expense in reality translates to an extra expense well below half a percent - which doesn't seem as grim.
TBH I'm unsure if the idea is good, but device cost specifically is likely not much of a factor.
I warned Europeans on this board that protectionism was coming with a Northern Democrat sweep... but oh no
Yep - damn those Europeans for voting Obama in.
You're not kidding! In a statistical sense a sample of 30 from the global set "people who use a computer keyboard regularly" is utterly meaningless.
So "What convinced them to make the size-change was doing some tests" gives a misleading impression. If a sample of 30 was enough to make them feel validated about their design choice, then someone had already made the decision long ago. Any tests made were irrelevant and the decision itself was based purely on asspiration (ie. pulling the idea out of one's ass).
+1 Informative can be yours if you remember what the question of the thread is and tell us where you went and whether it was any better ;-)
it's unclear that there website was commercial - given the "free", I'm guessing not.
Not necessarily correct.
(Also "their", sorry, couldn't help myself.)
Try searching for "free [term]" and you'll find dozens of sites with the word "free" in their domain, with the word "free" plastered all over their page and with absolutely nothing being provided for free except the ability to look at the price list.
Let's get a quick example, googling "free ringtone" shows these guys on result page #1:
http://www.free-ringtones.uk.com/
The word "free" appears no less than 20 times on the front page of the site and the domain name itself is fairly unequivocal. Looks like lots of content and all free. Click any item of content and you'll get a signup page which wants your credit card and $10 a month.
You'll find similar sites for "free [term]" where [term] is just about any popular online consumer item.
It's obviously tempting just to think "but who the hell would PAY for lego porn anyway?!?". Though, again, another similar google search "porn [term]" for almost any random word you can imagine might make you think otherwise! ;-)
The majority agrees with that part. From TFA:
Had Savana been suspected of having illegal drugs that could have posed a far greater danger to herself and other students, the strip search, too, might have been justified, the majority said, in an opinion by Justice David H. Souter.
Holy forking schnitt.
We like to have a good ol' joke and whinge about government and judiciary living in la-la-land and, true enough, they can often look fairly freakin' "out there" but from exactly how high do you need to have been dropped on your head as a baby to think that strip-searching school children is ever appropriate behaviour?!
Were your hypothesis correct then there should be a visibly greater level of non-clinical IT adoption in tolerably resourced, state-funded healthcare schemes - eg the UK.
marijuana is still less harmful than alcohol and nicotine
And yet strangely none of the top 10 topics on Obama's forum are suggestions to ban alcohol or tobacco.
Does this hint at the reality that people don't care about the possibility of societal harm or benefit one iota - only about whether they get their personal, favorite lollipop or not?
A well armed society is a polite society.
I'm guessing this is why the English have been, for centuries, known around the world for their ignorant, rude, brashness whilst the Americans are recognized far and wide for their dainty manners and eccentric etiquette?
The patent in question: 5,838,906, "Distributed hypermedia method for automatically invoking external application providing interaction and display of embedded objects within a hypermedia document"
Given the HTML5 video tag - in theory - puts an end to the whole concept of browser's needing to invoke outside (plug-in) help to play video, it would seem that the Eolas patent is not relevant here.
You're already at +5 Insightful so: fascinating insight, thanks!
It's that precious 2% that Bozeman's authorities are looking for you know. ;-)
True. That and "come up with more pointless neologistic terminology like 'life-dangerous' when 'life-threatening' would have done just as well"
May I propose "vivacity-hazardous" as in "Surgeon General's warning: smoking is vivacity-hazardous"
Selling licenses is indeed easy, but consider which of these is worse...
(A) Having to provide support for customers running 1 Microsoft operating system.
(B) Having to provide support for customers running 2 Microsoft operating systems.
(C) Having to provide support for customers running 3 Microsoft operating systems.
There is your driving motivator to get customers off of older versions.
And of course, though we all like to have a giggle at Microsoft's expense, the same would likely be true of any OS or app.
duke@3drealms.com
http://www.alexa.com/topsites
Only one domain on the entire web gets more traffic than yahoo.com and that's obviously google.com.
In various countries in the far-east, Yahoo beats out Google to the #1 spot.
Yahoo is still a vast presence in search-engine-land.
And yep, my granny says "I'll google it" and promptly clicks on her yahoo.com bookmark. The term means "search" to many users, not any specific brand. In much the same way (at least in the UK) that someone might "hoover the room" with their Dyson.
Silverlight is gaining on flash in all areas
It is? Color me surprised. I wasn't even aware that there was a Silverlight "2" having never actually seen any Silverlight plugin or warning about it on any website ever.
I suppose, in the same sense, we could say that "Safari-for-Windows is gaining on Internet Explorer in all areas". It rose from 0.07% market share on Windows boxes to 0.21% when Apple bundled it in their update for iTunes/Quicktime.
"Show us your Warcraft main".
Your case is proven.
"Pandemic" is not a word which implies anything about lethality or how "damaging" the strain is.
The WHO declaring H1N1 pandemic is not overreaction, hyperbole or scaremongering. The particular strain has reached a specified spread at which point it qualifies for that label.
Now, the news media's choice of tone and language in reporting on H1N1 is another matter entirely.
Spot on. I'm pretty sure this is a general truism of processes which allow users to declare urgency themselves.
Give users the option and every support ticket is critical, every project is urgent, every callout is an emergency, every bug is fatal.
The satisfyingly BoFH-esque response is, of course, that every coffee is critical, every smoke is urgent, every liquid lunch an emergency and every complaint about poor service... fatal.