I believe it goes well beyond what can be done with IM.
In Twitter I can post on a subject, and see what hundreds of other people around the world are saying about the same subject. I can reply to what they say, and they can reply to what I say. All this in real time. I can also refer back to what was said after that fact, and link to it.
This can be done via web, SMS, or any of a dozen client apps. I can also follow individuals and subjects via RSS feeds.
A cool recent trend is that many organisations now monitor and use Twitter as a PR exercise. I once casually commented on Twitter about a missing piece of information on an obscure government website, and a week later got a reply from a government worker saying it had been fixed. I commented about how a restaurant chain had removed an item I liked from its menu, and got a reply from the restaurant with a recommendation. A friend wished out loud how much they would like this new video camera they had just heard about, and within an hour the manufacturer replied telling them of a contest in which they were giving a way a hundred of the cameras.
Trying to ride on the coat-tails of Felicia Day's hit indie geeky music video (Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar, which shot to the top of iTunes/Amazon/YouTube on Monday. How very sad.
The fact is that only 20% of the Earth's land area outside the polar regions is in a natural state.. The rest is in human use somehow.
Are you sure of that stat? Whenever I pick an arbitrary spot on Google map and zoom in, 90-95% of the time I see absolutely no indication of human use.
Want to know what's happening right now in that major sporting event (or get an update on a somewhat more obscure sporting event)? Want to hear people's views on that great episode of the TV show you just watched, or the latest takes and interesting links on the world's breaking news events.
If there's buzz about anything or anyone worth buzzing about, you can get it in real time. The world's opinions, raw and unfiltered, aggregated instantly.
I've been plodding around the Internet for 15 year, and this is the closest I've seen to something that lets you feel the pulse of the beast.
To a certain extent, it depends on what statistics you are measuring, and how you are measuring them. In my house, I have two PCs and two laptops, all running Linux, and nothing else. But I am usually only using on one of them at any given time. Some methodologies would count that as four Linux installs, while others might count it as one Linux user or client.
Techies with multiple computers are the people most likely to be using Linux, so I can see why these estimates could be so varied.
This is of course a centuries old debate. GPL projects have the patience, confidence, and self-respect to wait for the right business to come along, one that will make a real commitment to a long-term relationship and honour its responsibilities. Only then does it get the source.
On the other hand you've got the projects with the much more liberal BSD or Apache licenses, projects so desperate for attention that they'll jump into bed with any business, and give up their source at the drop of a hat, not caring if it gets mistreated. Sure they can be convenient if you need some quick and dirty code, but mother always warned me about projects like that.
Perhaps. But it seems to me that the experience of these things going dark would be very similar to the common everyday experience of simply putting on a pair of sunglasses, something I've done in just about every lighting condition, and usually while driving. The only time I can recall it ever being a problem is when I've done it at night (cue Corey Hart).
It was 1999, and I was still using DOS with Win3.x, having refused to jump to a Windows-based OS. I had been eyeing linux for a while, but there was one Win3 killer app that I didn't want to abandon - Visual Batch Script, a scripting language for connecting and automating GUI applications. With VBS, you could get info on all the open windows, scrape their text areas for content, and feed them mouse clicks and keystrokes, which meant that you could automate just about anything. My Linux-guru buddy insisted that scripting was linux's greatest strength and that I could do similar things with tcl-tk. So I bought a new computer, installed Mandrake, and starting migrating everything over.
Of course as I discovered, linux had nothing even close to VBS, and ten years later it still doesn't. But I learned to embrace what linux could do, and left VBS and Windows behind. I now use KDE's DCOP for GUI automation, which is horrifyingly limiting and frustrating, but then life is full of compromises.
the scientists added another component to both models, which they call cognitive dissonance, and can also be thought of as wishful thinking. The idea is that people tend to believe that their opponent will make the same choice that they do
You've got two rational people given the exact same problem to solve, so why is it wishful thinking that they arrive at the same conclusion? It's called symmetry. The classical analysis of the Prisoner's Dilemna completely ignores this.
All I see from this research is that the average person has a better intuitive understanding of logic than your average researcher.
This story raises many difficult and complex moral questions. What we need to do is take a step back, and calmly ask ourselves, "what would Brian Boitano do?"
But the abstract you cite is even more vacuous. It reference patients, particularly a 'non-deluded woman', without even telling us what country they are in.
Thus, researchers are always on the lookout for situations that can distinguish between the two. Novel situations where instincts wouldn't be expected to apply, pathological situations where instincts would fail if applied, etc.
I wonder, do researchers do this instinctively or is it a cognitive process? If they are always on the lookout for these situations, then that suggests to me that it is instinctive, and that these instincts have helped lead them to succeed as researchers.
Channels?! How quaint. Do you also have a camera that needs film, a rotary phone, and a pager?
Dude, my home server automatically records every show that I care about, and my bedroom PC serves them up, commercials edited out, on a 24" widescreen, by pushing one button on a remote control.
And you don't want to know what some of the other buttons do.
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Of course it's not the radius that matters. It's the diameter.
I believe it goes well beyond what can be done with IM.
In Twitter I can post on a subject, and see what hundreds of other people around the world are saying about the same subject. I can reply to what they say, and they can reply to what I say. All this in real time. I can also refer back to what was said after that fact, and link to it.
This can be done via web, SMS, or any of a dozen client apps. I can also follow individuals and subjects via RSS feeds.
A cool recent trend is that many organisations now monitor and use Twitter as a PR exercise. I once casually commented on Twitter about a missing piece of information on an obscure government website, and a week later got a reply from a government worker saying it had been fixed. I commented about how a restaurant chain had removed an item I liked from its menu, and got a reply from the restaurant with a recommendation. A friend wished out loud how much they would like this new video camera they had just heard about, and within an hour the manufacturer replied telling them of a contest in which they were giving a way a hundred of the cameras.
Try doing that with IM.
Trying to ride on the coat-tails of Felicia Day's hit indie geeky music video (Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar, which shot to the top of iTunes/Amazon/YouTube on Monday. How very sad.
Instead of creating new domains, they should be recycling old ones.
One could argue that since they are not losing any soldiers, they are not being decimated at all.
I'm pretty sure they use people who've got the right... uhm, what do they call that stuff?
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that the rules of business are much like the rules of an RPG simulation. Some can be bent, others can be broken.
Oh shit, no. Sorry, I learned that watching The Matrix.
Great way to connect with local people of like minds.
The fact is that only 20% of the Earth's land area outside the polar regions is in a natural state.. The rest is in human use somehow.
Are you sure of that stat? Whenever I pick an arbitrary spot on Google map and zoom in, 90-95% of the time I see absolutely no indication of human use.
http://search.twitter.com/
Want to know what's happening right now in that major sporting event (or get an update on a somewhat more obscure sporting event)? Want to hear people's views on that great episode of the TV show you just watched, or the latest takes and interesting links on the world's breaking news events.
If there's buzz about anything or anyone worth buzzing about, you can get it in real time. The world's opinions, raw and unfiltered, aggregated instantly.
I've been plodding around the Internet for 15 year, and this is the closest I've seen to something that lets you feel the pulse of the beast.
To a certain extent, it depends on what statistics you are measuring, and how you are measuring them. In my house, I have two PCs and two laptops, all running Linux, and nothing else. But I am usually only using on one of them at any given time. Some methodologies would count that as four Linux installs, while others might count it as one Linux user or client.
Techies with multiple computers are the people most likely to be using Linux, so I can see why these estimates could be so varied.
Except that would be l33t for "hiney"
This is of course a centuries old debate. GPL projects have the patience, confidence, and self-respect to wait for the right business to come along, one that will make a real commitment to a long-term relationship and honour its responsibilities. Only then does it get the source.
On the other hand you've got the projects with the much more liberal BSD or Apache licenses, projects so desperate for attention that they'll jump into bed with any business, and give up their source at the drop of a hat, not caring if it gets mistreated. Sure they can be convenient if you need some quick and dirty code, but mother always warned me about projects like that.
Don't you know that a licking kid is what started this?!
Perhaps. But it seems to me that the experience of these things going dark would be very similar to the common everyday experience of simply putting on a pair of sunglasses, something I've done in just about every lighting condition, and usually while driving. The only time I can recall it ever being a problem is when I've done it at night (cue Corey Hart).
It was 1999, and I was still using DOS with Win3.x, having refused to jump to a Windows-based OS. I had been eyeing linux for a while, but there was one Win3 killer app that I didn't want to abandon - Visual Batch Script, a scripting language for connecting and automating GUI applications. With VBS, you could get info on all the open windows, scrape their text areas for content, and feed them mouse clicks and keystrokes, which meant that you could automate just about anything. My Linux-guru buddy insisted that scripting was linux's greatest strength and that I could do similar things with tcl-tk. So I bought a new computer, installed Mandrake, and starting migrating everything over.
Of course as I discovered, linux had nothing even close to VBS, and ten years later it still doesn't. But I learned to embrace what linux could do, and left VBS and Windows behind. I now use KDE's DCOP for GUI automation, which is horrifyingly limiting and frustrating, but then life is full of compromises.
From TFA:
the scientists added another component to both models, which they call cognitive dissonance, and can also be thought of as wishful thinking. The idea is that people tend to believe that their opponent will make the same choice that they do
You've got two rational people given the exact same problem to solve, so why is it wishful thinking that they arrive at the same conclusion? It's called symmetry. The classical analysis of the Prisoner's Dilemna completely ignores this.
All I see from this research is that the average person has a better intuitive understanding of logic than your average researcher.
Snap!
This story raises many difficult and complex moral questions. What we need to do is take a step back, and calmly ask ourselves, "what would Brian Boitano do?"
But the abstract you cite is even more vacuous. It reference patients, particularly a 'non-deluded woman', without even telling us what country they are in.
The ancient Egyptians had very detailed records of the great flood, carved into stone. Unfortunately they sank.
It sounds like an urband legend to me.
Thus, researchers are always on the lookout for situations that can distinguish between the two. Novel situations where instincts wouldn't be expected to apply, pathological situations where instincts would fail if applied, etc.
I wonder, do researchers do this instinctively or is it a cognitive process? If they are always on the lookout for these situations, then that suggests to me that it is instinctive, and that these instincts have helped lead them to succeed as researchers.
Channels?! How quaint. Do you also have a camera that needs film, a rotary phone, and a pager?
Dude, my home server automatically records every show that I care about, and my bedroom PC serves them up, commercials edited out, on a 24" widescreen, by pushing one button on a remote control.
And you don't want to know what some of the other buttons do.