... you can always tell the abstracts that were written by the authors - because they read as a sales pitch for the article and don't include the experimental results - usually to the annoyance of the reader. Descriptive abstracts, which are a summary of the article and include the results, are often written by others (even a "professional abstractor/interer" at times.)
Dave Barry's blog is a good example of the former, Fark.om of the latter. In this story the editor should have added the results in the abstract.
In the cash-strapped days of AOL's 1990s, before unlimited Internet access was even an option, AOL decided it would be a great idea to offer unlimited dial-up access (without any timely upgrades to their network) to raise some cash. The result was a disaster. You were pretty much guaranteed a busy signal unless you tried to dial repeatedly for about one hour. AOL offered refunds for a few months of service, but the damage was done, especially to those using business accounts that lost out on a lot more than two months access because they couldn't read clients' mail.
Steve Case responded with what I remember as the phone booth analogy. He said essentially that just because you have unlimited access doesn't mean you should make use of it.... Google... finds... this:
Beset by a network outage and lawsuits filed by an increasing number of disgruntled customers (and their settlement-sniffing lawyers) in several US states, Case sent yet another whiny message to the now 8-million-strong AOL membership last week. While the press latched onto his promises of an extra $100 million devoted to network upgrades, and his embarrassing decision to immediately halt all television advertising, we were chortling over his suggestion that members adopt a World War II rationing approach to their Net access. "Just as you would be sensitive about using a public phone booth if others were waiting in line to use it (although you are entitled to use it as long as you want, most people are considerate of the people waiting to get a turn), it would be helpful if you could be considerate of the needs of other members of the AOL community," was Case's Mr. Rogers-ish advice. Perhaps those critics who lampooned the company as "America Offline" after its major network outage last fall were merely ahead of their time?
BTW if you're interested in information technology you may want to check this out. There's also several other full-fledged LIS news sources on the Web.
Maine also has the world's largest Revolving/Rotating Globe, 41 feet in diameter, at the DeLorme map company office. They make the state atlases that are based on topo maps (good for camping and stuff).
There are no natural categories (a tree is a tree because we say it is a tree, not because it possesses some insubstantial and altogether imaginary quality of "treeness"*), so you're welcome to call a monkey whatever you'd like. You may as well use the kosher clean/unclean classification system, it's just as arbitrary.
Yes the biological classification system is supposedly more developed based on evolutionary trees and other measurable traits, but it's been rewritten so many times that it's not much more than a constructed schema.
So aside from consistent categorization rules, there's not much more than can be done. Given any amount of individuals to classify, there always exist an infinite number of mutually incompatible taxonomies that can do so. So like in the Pluto as a planet debate, we're left with the rule, as Supreme Court Justice William Brennan said on the definition of pornography, that "I know it when I see it."
* If you feel like arguing with this, please, I implore you, never take a course dealing with ontology (be it principles of philosophy or library cataloging), you'll just piss off everyone around you.
here. And yes, starting with Sputnik really does make sense, that little tin ball spurned more scientific research (and translation Russian services) that some people realize.
Earlier this month, said Ralsky, somebody told the Chinese government that a Web company from which he leases e-mail servers in Beijing was sending messages critical of Chinese policy.
Police promptly raided the business and confiscated Ralsky's servers. Although they were returned a few days later, Ralsky now tries to cover his tracks better, so opponents won't know what companies and servers he's using.
Linford said he heard of the raid. "It wasn't us that caused it," he said. "But there are a lot of anti-spam activists, and apparently some of them on their own started organizing a campaign to get the Chinese government to think that Ralsky was supporting" the Falun Gong, an outlawed spiritual group the Chinese government considers subversive. "We didn't endorse that, but it shows you how deep the anti-Ralsky feelings are."
Affiliate tags aside, according to OCLC's WorldCat about 450 libraries have this book available for lending free of charge. If you library doesn't, you can still usually order it through an interlibrary loan service.
It will stop, right? I mean, if the marathon record gets 10 minutes shorter every few years, for example, that doesn't necessarily mean that 100 years from now we'll be running a 20 minute marathon.
Aren't there limits to materials and stuff like that, or do we come up with Infinite Probability Drives, Dimensional Transfunctioners, Flux Capacitors, Heisenberg Compensators, Ludicrous Speeds....
Yes, *that* John Ashcroft, as a Senator in 1997, said in a piece titled "KEEP BIG BROTHER'S HANDS OFF THE INTERNET":
"There is a concern that the Internet could be used to commit crimes and that advanced encryption could disguise such activity. However, we do not provide the government with phone jacks outside our homes for unlimited wiretaps. Why, then, should we grant government the Orwellian capability to listen at will and in real time to our communications across the Web?
The protections of the Fourth Amendment are clear. The right to protection from unlawful searches is an indivisible American value. Two hundred years of court decisions have stood in defense of this fundamental right. The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights."
I had the same problem with CSS being stripped from a story I submitted. Yes there can be lameness-filter problems with allowing CSS, but the more Taco tightens his grip...
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Why does a "market push" usually occur when your food is so bad you have to change your company name or you raise your fees becuase your stock tanked? I'd say that's what's happening here
too...
... you can always tell the abstracts that were written by the authors - because they read as a sales pitch for the article and don't include the experimental results - usually to the annoyance of the reader. Descriptive abstracts, which are a summary of the article and include the results, are often written by others (even a "professional abstractor/interer" at times.)
Dave Barry's blog is a good example of the former, Fark.om of the latter. In this story the editor should have added the results in the abstract.
In the cash-strapped days of AOL's 1990s, before unlimited Internet access was even an option, AOL decided it would be a great idea to offer unlimited dial-up access (without any timely upgrades to their network) to raise some cash. The result was a disaster. You were pretty much guaranteed a busy signal unless you tried to dial repeatedly for about one hour. AOL offered refunds for a few months of service, but the damage was done, especially to those using business accounts that lost out on a lot more than two months access because they couldn't read clients' mail.
Steve Case responded with what I remember as the phone booth analogy. He said essentially that just because you have unlimited access doesn't mean you should make use of it.... Google... finds... this:
BTW if you're interested in information technology you may want to check this out. There's also several other full-fledged LIS news sources on the Web.
That's not Seth. Seth (90154) knows how to spell his last name.
Maine also has the world's largest Revolving/Rotating Globe, 41 feet in diameter, at the DeLorme map company office. They make the state atlases that are based on topo maps (good for camping and stuff).
There are no natural categories (a tree is a tree because we say it is a tree, not because it possesses some insubstantial and altogether imaginary quality of "treeness"*), so you're welcome to call a monkey whatever you'd like. You may as well use the kosher clean/unclean classification system, it's just as arbitrary.
Yes the biological classification system is supposedly more developed based on evolutionary trees and other measurable traits, but it's been rewritten so many times that it's not much more than a constructed schema.
So aside from consistent categorization rules, there's not much more than can be done. Given any amount of individuals to classify, there always exist an infinite number of mutually incompatible taxonomies that can do so. So like in the Pluto as a planet debate, we're left with the rule, as Supreme Court Justice William Brennan said on the definition of pornography, that "I know it when I see it."
* If you feel like arguing with this, please, I implore you, never take a course dealing with ontology (be it principles of philosophy or library cataloging), you'll just piss off everyone around you.
- U4 for PC
- Graphics Upgrade
- Sound Upgrade
- Quick Reference
There are also some remake projects in the works.Doh, not my day.
Here ya go. Looks like the server is kinda erratic tho.
And with a bit more effort, you can link to the ODP E-Ink category where those links were taken from directly!
Hrm, I usually post whoring comments like this as anon, but no checkbox for some reason... oh well, I did create the ODP category at least.
How about requiring two editors to squash submissions from memebers with decent karma?
... lavender soap. I've heard those two phrases can be difficult to tell apart by a lip reader.
As for computer lip reading, there's a chapter in Hal's Legacy about this very topic.
here. And yes, starting with Sputnik really does make sense, that little tin ball spurned more scientific research (and translation Russian services) that some people realize.
And not the last....
[In case you don't wanna bother or it's Slashdotted, it's about designating bits "evil" or not. Not that funny IMO, compared to some other good RFCs.]
Last 4/1 the editors posted about 15 of these in a row. Moderators got punchy and the whole place went to... well... be prepared.
Anyone care to add up these total sales?
Reminds me of this Doonesbury strip from 1995. The whole week is pretty funny.
Google didn't invent the concept behind PageRank, just its name. See my E2 writeup on citation analysis for more.
A recent survery found that the majority of US Businessess practice some form of computer workplace monitoring.
If this sounds familiar, this may be why. (pointing to archived site as theonion.com seems to have done some housecleaning....
Affiliate tags aside, according to OCLC's WorldCat about 450 libraries have this book available for lending free of charge. If you library doesn't, you can still usually order it through an interlibrary loan service.
It will stop, right? I mean, if the marathon record gets 10 minutes shorter every few years, for example, that doesn't necessarily mean that 100 years from now we'll be running a 20 minute marathon.
Aren't there limits to materials and stuff like that, or do we come up with Infinite Probability Drives, Dimensional Transfunctioners, Flux Capacitors, Heisenberg Compensators, Ludicrous Speeds....
There is a national DMA opt out method (voluntary adherence, tho), but several legally enforcable state do not call lists you can enroll in.
I had the same problem with CSS being stripped from a story I submitted. Yes there can be lameness-filter problems with allowing CSS, but the more Taco tightens his grip...