I am almost certain that there is no industry standard.
One problem is that it would depend very much on the type of website and thus the type of users you had. If you have a B2B website, and most of your visitors are from companies, your (unique user):(unique IP) ratio will look very different to a site with mostly home visitors coming through large ISPs.
The industry seems to be more concerned with developing more and more reliable versions of the half-hour timeout metric. Of course, they're chasing the wind. (And furthermore, all the different versions of their metric are then not comparable -- see this study from Xerox PARC (PDF, 228kb).)
"These problems are not really
new to the web -- they are present just as much in print media too. For example, you only know how many magazines you've sold, not how
many people have read them. In print media we have learnt to live with these issues, using the data which are available, and it would be
better if we did on the web too, rather than making up spurious numbers."
It doesn't seem to me that this is a new problem. People have always had the ability to choose what to read or listen to. Should governments force them to read both left- and right-wing newspapers, for example?
Of course, even if an opposing point of view is stated, we humans tend to remember evidence that corroborates our own previously-held point of view, and forget evidence that casts doubt on it. This is a powerful argument against both religious belief and religious unbelief, for example.
Does anyone in Redmond think the/. crowd will
feel like they got real answers out of this?
You know, apart from question 8, I was surprised to find that I do feel like I got real answers. Of course, it's Microsoft's own special view of the world -- but I still feel that it was answering the questions clearly and coherently. Don't confuse a different point of view from your own with a failure to truly answer the question.
why not try a notebook? They tend to have more sensitive keypads, due to the lack of space
They are also typically ergonomically disastrous, because they are designed to be compact and light, not ergonomically sound. I would definitely not advice anyone with bad wrists to use them. In fact, I would not advise anyone to use them as their main keyboard.
There seems to be a lot of confusion about this. How can it be an invasion of privacy to be seen or recorded when you're in public?
If you're walking down a public street, you can expect to be seen by anyone. If you're on someone else's property, you can expect to be seen by them.
If the police started recording me in my home, that would be different. But no-one would stand for that. In fact, such evidence isn't even admissible in court.
In the UK, we're not citizens. [...] We have people making laws that have
been given that right just because some great-great ancestor happened to be a very useful thug on a battlefield (the House of
Lords, hereditary peers).
Hereditary peers no longer speak or vote in the House of Lords.
Also the UK doesn't have a written constitution. Any English or Scots lawyers care to make a comment on this point?
Yes, we do: just not in a single document in the American sense. Of course, this is normally in a parliamentary democracy (take Canada as another example [1]).
Personally I'd rather have parliament be sovereign than end up with the courts trying to apply a constitution written 225 years ago to circumstances its writers never dreamed of.
[1] Note to Canadians: the Bill of Rights doesn't count even as a partial constitution because Parliament could revoke it if it chose.
One relatively mild step, Friedman explains, is to force you to reboot your computer. Since the fastest reboot is about six minutes [...] Forcing a six-minute pause between each attack "shifts the advantage from the offense to the defense," Friedman maintains.
Presumably requiring a six minute reboot cycle precludes developing a Linux or Mac version.
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I think Britain
has actually won more noble prizes in total than the US
Trinity College, Cambridge has won more than France. Err... that wasn't really relevant, was it?
The real, more subtle reason copyright
terms are infinite is that bills keep getting passed to lengthen them. At the current rate, it is happening fast enough to allow
even copyrights that are currently very old never to expire.
The rumour I heard was that every time Mickey Mouse was about to go out of copyright, Disney paid -- sorry, lobbied -- to extend the term.
Honestly, since the command name will
probably be the same regardless of the name the project uses (lets see them try to patent command names..)
Trademark, not patent.
It's not at all clear to me that one can't trademark command names. Is there any legal precedent on this? If you want to find out, try releasing a program called "Excellent Game" with command name "Excel" and see what happens.
When you've implemented the HTML standards in a browser, then the implementation work really starts. Take a browser
that merely implements the standards, and doesn't try to fix up broken HTML. Point it at CNN. Laugh.
Now if only all browser manufacturers had agreed not to display anything for pages which failed an HTML validation. Then people would have to write true HTML, or they wouldn't even be able to see it themselves!
Spam used to really anger me. I complained to all the proper authorities whenever I got some spam. But the only effect was to raise my blood pressure. I learnt that the only thing to do was to hit 'D'. Call me a pessimist or a fatalist or whatever, but it really is the only solution.
Yes, the comparison is silly, because results blackouts during elections are for a predefined short time for a specific purpose. The integrity of the election is more important than being allowed to publish the results a few hours earlier.
Interested in reading it or writing it? Of course, lots of people would be interested in being able to consult it. The problem with trying to write it in a "bazaar" (not bizarre:) way would be to make it authoritative, i.e. have good coverage and be accurate. Even a few errors could seriously undermine the community's confidence in it.
In elections for the European Union parliament, different countries vote on different days. In the UK, for example, we vote on Thursday, whereas many countries vote the following Sunday.
It is illegal to publish results until all countries have finished polling, so we don't know the results of our vote until several days later.
But we don't regard this as an erosion of our right to free speech. We regard it as a fundamental democratic safeguard. Maybe some other countries could learn something from this.
How do you feel about the amount of publicity Linux has got in the press in the last couple of years, as opposed to the relatively low profile of the *BSDs?
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One problem is that it would depend very much on the type of website and thus the type of users you had. If you have a B2B website, and most of your visitors are from companies, your (unique user):(unique IP) ratio will look very different to a site with mostly home visitors coming through large ISPs.
The industry seems to be more concerned with developing more and more reliable versions of the half-hour timeout metric. Of course, they're chasing the wind. (And furthermore, all the different versions of their metric are then not comparable -- see this study from Xerox PARC (PDF, 228kb).)
I leave you with this thought from my essay How the Web Works:
Of course, even if an opposing point of view is stated, we humans tend to remember evidence that corroborates our own previously-held point of view, and forget evidence that casts doubt on it. This is a powerful argument against both religious belief and religious unbelief, for example.
a. n. A person of much or varied learning; one acquainted with various subjects of study.
b. adj. Very learned.
(OED)
Do you see Linux as a threat to Microsoft?
Will those of us in the rest of the world (UK, in my case) be able to see anything as Mir re-enters?
Thank you for the clarification re Canada. I stand corrected.
If you're walking down a public street, you can expect to be seen by anyone. If you're on someone else's property, you can expect to be seen by them.
If the police started recording me in my home, that would be different. But no-one would stand for that. In fact, such evidence isn't even admissible in court.
Personally I'd rather have parliament be sovereign than end up with the courts trying to apply a constitution written 225 years ago to circumstances its writers never dreamed of.
[1] Note to Canadians: the Bill of Rights doesn't count even as a partial constitution because Parliament could revoke it if it chose.
It's not at all clear to me that one can't trademark command names. Is there any legal precedent on this? If you want to find out, try releasing a program called "Excellent Game" with command name "Excel" and see what happens.
Spam used to really anger me. I complained to all the proper authorities whenever I got some spam. But the only effect was to raise my blood pressure. I learnt that the only thing to do was to hit 'D'. Call me a pessimist or a fatalist or whatever, but it really is the only solution.
People with laptops.
People with >= 2 operating systems.
Yes, the comparison is silly, because results blackouts during elections are for a predefined short time for a specific purpose. The integrity of the election is more important than being allowed to publish the results a few hours earlier.
Interested in reading it or writing it? Of course, lots of people would be interested in being able to consult it. The problem with trying to write it in a "bazaar" (not bizarre :) way would be to make it authoritative, i.e. have good coverage and be accurate. Even a few errors could seriously undermine the community's confidence in it.
It is illegal to publish results until all countries have finished polling, so we don't know the results of our vote until several days later.
But we don't regard this as an erosion of our right to free speech. We regard it as a fundamental democratic safeguard. Maybe some other countries could learn something from this.
How do you feel about the amount of publicity Linux has got in the press in the last couple of years, as opposed to the relatively low profile of the *BSDs?