Many free apps are also basically ad platforms, though. They are hoovering up your deets, and serving you custom ads. The app is the candy that gets the rat to press the lever.
Heh, that would solve it! They could install a second trackpad button, and then label it 'ctrl,' so that it isn't *really* a second trackpad button. Come to think of it, they could build ctrl keys into their mice as well.
I third that. I quite happily wrote ten thirty-page chapters for my diss, only to find that when I pasted them together into one doc, just before I was to hand in the final draft to my committee, the formatting got screwed up in a bazillion unpredictable ways and I had to go through the whole thing and reformat by hand. It took hours. iWork may be basic, but it can't possibly be more *shite* than Office.
assuming you're flying e-w or w-e, 7-8 hours will take you through a few time zones. so: on getting on the plane, set your watch for the target time zone and try to synch your body clock asap - either take caffeine if you're supposed to stay awake, or something like melatonin if you are supposed to be asleep. try and be either awake or asleep according to the clock of your destination time zone.
if you play games, watch movies, eat the shitty food, blag all the free drinks (which are cheap shit), you will generally feel like crap after doing any combo of us-eur-jap. seriously! this is a pain if you have a connection or will be spending any time on ground transportation at the other end...
anyway if you are in coach there's hardly room to use a lappy anyway. hopefully you're in business!
the front page just now indicated a total of 666 comments for this story... wonder what the 666th was - and who posted it, eh, eh? sadly, since then great 'first post reforms' of 2001 we can not tell (or at least not easily...). ok back to work.
the situation, post depression but pre ww2, was that there were three economic powers - us, uk, germany. strategically it was thought that the easiest way for anyone to win was to form an alliacne with one other. the uk for instance was, using high level connections between british and german aristocracy, negotiating economically with germany right up until the outbreak of ww2. (the u.s. also had economic ties throughout ww2, e.g. ibm providing punch card readers to facilitate concentration camp administration.)
what happened however is that the u.s., partly as a consequence of its geographical location, waited out the first part of ww2, and would probably have not entered it but for pearl harbour. after this, as mr. partridge points out it was then in a position to bring the best (nazi/concentration camp supported) scientific minds to the us, to work on the u.s. technology (think werner von braun and the apollo space programme).
ok some military spending produces spin offs that are public benefit, but the vast majority of it is wasted, not least because the knowledge associated with it is siloed off into confidential realms and is not made public. military spending also has a wider impact, e.g. it was the u.s. govt.'s printing of money to pay for the vietnam war that (a) led to a good deal of the inflation ion the 70s and (b) also led nixon to take the u.s. off the gold standard (in 1971 i think), to abandon the direct link between gold and currency, and to floating exchange rates and currency speculation.
the real question should be, what would have been the benefits if a portion of that r+d had been spent on civilian research instead.
focusing your national tech efforts on research other than military research also benefits the wider economy. spending increasingly large chunks of your gdp - as seems to be occuring in the us - on non-productive military projects removes resources - brains, research dollars - from the civilian economy. no coincidence i think that two of the emergent economic and technological powers afer world war 2 were germany and japan, countries pretty much forbidden to spend money on military r+d. and don't forget the destablising effect that the vietnam war had on the world economy in the 1970s...
what you have there is more like a normal distribution, around 1.5 or so, than a zipf distribution.
what you really need to do - depending on how long a break you want to take from work;) - is take every single post (all 210 as i write) from this discussion and calculate the length of each one, e.g. by counting the number of characters in each post. your post has 241 characters in it without the spaces, my one before that 572 without the spaces (exclude spaces cuz cutting and pasting from browser to word processor to count, introduces spaces, e.g. for indents).
when you get lengths of each of the 210 posts, you can rank all your results, e.g. from shortest to longest, print out the graph, and bingo you should have zipf curve.
no, but seriously, you could count things like the length of each post (e.g. by counting # of characters), there would be a few very long posts and many many short posts, with the average length of post being quite short. maybe you could also do this with the # of posts in each discussion, with there being a few discussions with 1000's of posts and the majority being below 150/200 or so.
i've done this in other research, it checks out, it's pretty neat to calculate the length of posts/conversations etc, rank them and graph them, and see a zipf distribution pop out. anybody else out there doing this?
I was in one conveyor belt sushi bar - for the uninitiated these are where plates of sushi whizz around on conveyor belts, you pick the piece you want, and then keep a growing stack of plates at your side for counting. Different coloured plates carry different priced sushi, so a typical check out is something like three red, two blue, eight green, OK, you owe us 8000 yen or whatever.
Anyway I was in this one conveyor belt sushi bar where the plates had different patterns, but instead of counting them the waitress came over with something that looked like a bar code scanner, but no laser, she waved it vaguely at the pile of plates from several feet away, and the thing printed out an itemised list of everything we had eaten... (and yes I did check there were no obvious marks on the rims of the stack of plates). Just had to give her the cc and we were off. Often wondered exactly how that was done, guess it's embedded stuff again...
As someone who flunked physics, I was wondering if a black painted case would cool better - would absorb more heat inside and radiate more heat out? Similarly does the white paint increase heat reflection back into the case? Or is this a dumb question...?
not really postmodern... the theory was drawn up as a theory of language by the linguist ferdinand de saussure at the beginning of the 1900s. de saussure never published this although he did teach it and after his untimely death his students went back over their class notes and put a book together. guess this would not happen these days... the theory was influential in a number of fields including with the anthropologist claude levi-strauss.
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i guess it's because 'ambivolous' is not a recognised word.
I came across this while looking for more information on a French project called Aramis (which was cancelled a while back). Aramis consisted of driverless pods running on tracks controlled by a central computer. Interestingly the Aramis people drew a parallel with packet switching technologies... (i.e. the pods as addressed packets being directed to destinations at switches).
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Many free apps are also basically ad platforms, though. They are hoovering up your deets, and serving you custom ads. The app is the candy that gets the rat to press the lever.
Yup and also let you export more than 500 lines of data at once. This is a restriction which renders it pretty much useless for our site.
Heh, that would solve it! They could install a second trackpad button, and then label it 'ctrl,' so that it isn't *really* a second trackpad button. Come to think of it, they could build ctrl keys into their mice as well.
CTRL-click.
I third that. I quite happily wrote ten thirty-page chapters for my diss, only to find that when I pasted them together into one doc, just before I was to hand in the final draft to my committee, the formatting got screwed up in a bazillion unpredictable ways and I had to go through the whole thing and reformat by hand. It took hours. iWork may be basic, but it can't possibly be more *shite* than Office.
Office is the killer app.
Well, it certainly kills me to use it.
That's hilarious.
Everyone knows AI really stands for 'Almost Implemented' ;)
Tell ya what though if it functions as an indexable voice recorder, it then becomes a legitimate business expense for many people (hee hee).
It's not a study. It's a research centre. It will probably produce studies.
assuming you're flying e-w or w-e, 7-8 hours will take you through a few time zones. so: on getting on the plane, set your watch for the target time zone and try to synch your body clock asap - either take caffeine if you're supposed to stay awake, or something like melatonin if you are supposed to be asleep. try and be either awake or asleep according to the clock of your destination time zone.
if you play games, watch movies, eat the shitty food, blag all the free drinks (which are cheap shit), you will generally feel like crap after doing any combo of us-eur-jap. seriously! this is a pain if you have a connection or will be spending any time on ground transportation at the other end ...
anyway if you are in coach there's hardly room to use a lappy anyway. hopefully you're in business!
the front page just now indicated a total of 666 comments for this story ... wonder what the 666th was - and who posted it, eh, eh? sadly, since then great 'first post reforms' of 2001 we can not tell (or at least not easily...). ok back to work.
what happened however is that the u.s., partly as a consequence of its geographical location, waited out the first part of ww2, and would probably have not entered it but for pearl harbour. after this, as mr. partridge points out it was then in a position to bring the best (nazi/concentration camp supported) scientific minds to the us, to work on the u.s. technology (think werner von braun and the apollo space programme).
ok some military spending produces spin offs that are public benefit, but the vast majority of it is wasted, not least because the knowledge associated with it is siloed off into confidential realms and is not made public. military spending also has a wider impact, e.g. it was the u.s. govt.'s printing of money to pay for the vietnam war that (a) led to a good deal of the inflation ion the 70s and (b) also led nixon to take the u.s. off the gold standard (in 1971 i think), to abandon the direct link between gold and currency, and to floating exchange rates and currency speculation.
the real question should be, what would have been the benefits if a portion of that r+d had been spent on civilian research instead.
focusing your national tech efforts on research other than military research also benefits the wider economy. spending increasingly large chunks of your gdp - as seems to be occuring in the us - on non-productive military projects removes resources - brains, research dollars - from the civilian economy. no coincidence i think that two of the emergent economic and technological powers afer world war 2 were germany and japan, countries pretty much forbidden to spend money on military r+d. and don't forget the destablising effect that the vietnam war had on the world economy in the 1970s ...
... is hollywood's access to people's wallets ;)
what you have there is more like a normal distribution, around 1.5 or so, than a zipf distribution.
what you really need to do - depending on how long a break you want to take from work ;) - is take every single post (all 210 as i write) from this discussion and calculate the length of each one, e.g. by counting the number of characters in each post. your post has 241 characters in it without the spaces, my one before that 572 without the spaces (exclude spaces cuz cutting and pasting from browser to word processor to count, introduces spaces, e.g. for indents).
when you get lengths of each of the 210 posts, you can rank all your results, e.g. from shortest to longest, print out the graph, and bingo you should have zipf curve.
i've done this in other research, it checks out, it's pretty neat to calculate the length of posts/conversations etc, rank them and graph them, and see a zipf distribution pop out. anybody else out there doing this?
But you've reminded me of a joke:
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Anyway I was in this one conveyor belt sushi bar where the plates had different patterns, but instead of counting them the waitress came over with something that looked like a bar code scanner, but no laser, she waved it vaguely at the pile of plates from several feet away, and the thing printed out an itemised list of everything we had eaten ... (and yes I did check there were no obvious marks on the rims of the stack of plates). Just had to give her the cc and we were off. Often wondered exactly how that was done, guess it's embedded stuff again ...
As someone who flunked physics, I was wondering if a black painted case would cool better - would absorb more heat inside and radiate more heat out? Similarly does the white paint increase heat reflection back into the case? Or is this a dumb question ...?
not really postmodern ... the theory was drawn up as a theory of language by the linguist ferdinand de saussure at the beginning of the 1900s. de saussure never published this although he did teach it and after his untimely death his students went back over their class notes and put a book together. guess this would not happen these days ... the theory was influential in a number of fields including with the anthropologist claude levi-strauss.
i guess it's because 'ambivolous' is not a recognised word.
There's an index of innovative transportation technologies at the University of Washington.
I came across this while looking for more information on a French project called Aramis (which was cancelled a while back). Aramis consisted of driverless pods running on tracks controlled by a central computer. Interestingly the Aramis people drew a parallel with packet switching technologies ... (i.e. the pods as addressed packets being directed to destinations at switches).
plus, it'll avoid the /.ing of tonga ...
dang.