Do word processors not make it too easy for writers to write bloated books?
I take the position that word processors have had a detriment on clarity of writing. It's too easy to not have to keep everything in you head when writing with a word processor.
I used to enjoy Asimov, but it seems his later books (after 1980) just got fat and I stopped reading.
And look at college textbooks. Who reads all those pages?
And finally, a project at the University of Catania in Italy was awarded the management prize for demonstrating mathematically that organizations can improve efficiency by promoting people randomly.
This research deserves a far better prize than the Ig Nobel. Just look at the management in companies! An algorithm far worse than random is being used to select the worst of the worst to run companies.
I believe most institutions run in spite of management.
All US banks are very happy to offer many years worth of transaction history to any Federal agency that desires this information. Too bad they won't do the same for their putative "customers".
It is Uncle Sam after all. Look how much he gave to the banks recently. How much did you give?
Look at what they did with Nintendo DS. They sneaked up on it through music. People are very emotionally attached to their music, so associating something else with their music would be a good strategy. The start with this social network for music, building a core group of people. Then these people will form a critical mass such that they can bring in non-music things.
Apple has it's strategy right because they are making money from their social network (through music) and can thus outlive the non-profit social networks in existence.
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with remaining eye.
It shows string theory is testable after all.
Even failing still sheds light on what is wrong with our theory (or reality if you're an economist :-).
I don't get it. Work is not school.
This is bad even for a troll. The above (like this response) has nothing to do with the article at hand, not even tangentially.
Read the masters before trolling. It takes practice, and years of refining.
Now where do I install it?
Suppose they were fucking like bunnies and their growth follows the fibonacci sequence. Then what? Radioactive bunnies bunnies taking over the world?
I rest my case
If they care so much about the children then they should be pouring money into all aspects of education. They can't really afford more that $40?
I think they are pervs because they only think of the children in aspects of porn.
The lend once only is very onerous and I have never seen a good reason why. Can anyone tell me?
I lend my book(s) more than once, even to the same person.
I hate it when they try to force non-physical objects to behave like physical objects.
I guess next they will implement missing pages....
It'd be headline news if it had been dentists instead. Now that would be real news!
I met the guy personally at least 4 times in the last 5 years. He was great to get along with and not aloof at all for all his successes.
I'm currently following up on is work in finance (stable distributions).
May he RIP, and may his family consider him resting.
Do word processors not make it too easy for writers to write bloated books?
I take the position that word processors have had a detriment on clarity of writing. It's too easy to not have to keep everything in you head when writing with a word processor.
I used to enjoy Asimov, but it seems his later books (after 1980) just got fat and I stopped reading.
And look at college textbooks. Who reads all those pages?
And finally, a project at the University of Catania in Italy was awarded the management prize for demonstrating mathematically that organizations can improve efficiency by promoting people randomly.
This research deserves a far better prize than the Ig Nobel. Just look at the management in companies! An algorithm far worse than random is being used to select the worst of the worst to run companies.
I believe most institutions run in spite of management.
And don't mod this funny.
All US banks are very happy to offer many years worth of transaction history to any Federal agency that desires this information. Too bad they won't do the same for their putative "customers".
It is Uncle Sam after all. Look how much he gave to the banks recently. How much did you give?
[citation]?
I give you a counterexample: SophistiCalc
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sophistimacalc-programmable/id317192851?mt=8
webkit is exempt.
Written like a true slashdotter who didn't read the article.
Does that count as downloading?
I am looking at this in the context of scriptability.
This would have been the first app had it not been for the stupid restrictions.
Look at what they did with Nintendo DS. They sneaked up on it through music. People are very emotionally attached to their music, so associating something else with their music would be a good strategy. The start with this social network for music, building a core group of people. Then these people will form a critical mass such that they can bring in non-music things.
Apple has it's strategy right because they are making money from their social network (through music) and can thus outlive the non-profit social networks in existence.
I wrote not too long ago that Ping is Facebook's killer, much like the iPod (Touch) was a backdoor to the game market.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1773738&cid=33438624
And they laughed at me.
Please mod me insightful this time.
This sounded like a hammer nailing the first nail into the facebook coffin.
Take my word: Ping is the Next Big Thing(tm)(sm)(c).
Now that's closer to true News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters. Not the Mac fish tanks.
However, I am a little disappointed that he didn't do something with the tower part of his cray. Cooling perhaps? Blinkenlights?
How does it compare in performance with the original?
Does HP really know what it's doing?
They paid too much and were in a gambler's frame of mind.
Why does every invented/imaginary language have so many apostrophies?
Now the whole world knows my combination.