This paper looked at how the citing of academic papers follows a power law distribution - that many papers are never cited, some are cited a few times, but a tiny percentage get cited a massive number of times.
My dissertation actually looked at whether this could be applied to the more general concept of ideas: whether there are lots of good ideas, some never catch on, some catch on a little bit, whilst a tiny proportion explode with popularity. I wrote a little java app to model it.
Just a thought - when did an being an artist (be it recording, writing, whatever) come with it the automatic right to make loads of cash, or even make a living from it too?
No matter how much people lend/borrow/sell copies of anything, it is never going to detract from the pieces of art in question.
Worse than growing up and finding out you were an accident, this kid grows up, and finds out he is illegal!
Nice.
I never said I was, but...
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> That's why when a release is made and put on a > site, no announcement goes out: this is to allow > at least a day for it to get to all the mirrors
Surely surely surely, the people who run mirrors should have their own ftp accounts, they should not be using an anonymous acount. So then all these people could be told about the new release, go and get it, etc. If the kde folk didn't want anonymous logins clogging there server, they wouldn't put the new files available to anonymous users.
And sorry for calling you Shirley.
Re:Give them a chance...
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Surely if they didn't want people to get it yet, it wouldn't be visible on the ftp site yet! There are simple ways to allow the mirrors to get hold of copies before joe public, if they wanted to.
How about giving the developers a bit of credit - I'm sute they know exactly what they are doing. I wouldn't be surprised if they leaked this "scoop" themeselves;o)
> it would be a pleasure to pick > a music CD or a game, make a copy, and > go out...
Nothing new - it's like photocoping a magazine in the newsagents, then putting it back... at the end of the day it would be up to the store to enforce their policy, and you to use your own moral judgement.
Exactly what makes it a killer anyway? It's smaller? Woohoo. Yes, and I'm sure it has lots of other great features too, but please. I'm sure I don't need to list reasons why a newish, unheard of Office suite is not going to sign the death warrant of the most popular, (whether you like it or not), virtually defecato, Office suite in the world today.
Throwing round headlines liek this ain't gonna help anybody, except maybe make Gobe look like they have failed when it doesn't live up to such outrageous claims, rather than congratulating them for improving their product the best they can.
I'm assuming that in the past, writers have been fairly well protected form this sort of thing. Why is it that all of the *new* media content has attracted so much bad practise - I guess people spotted there was money to be made. But if it's the case that it's now spreading to standard publishing contracts... surely such a mature profession will not stand for this?
Next thing they'll be campaigning to close the libraries...
At work, we are generallyrequired to use PGP for *all* project releated email, it's usually in the contract with the client. We use PGP 7, which, 99% of the time, works flawlessly with MS Outlook whn installed properly.
The problem comes when the person at the other end doesn't grasp public key encryption - which still seems a sticking point for a lot of people. Maybe they should teach it at High school?
Maybe a smells a bit of conspiracy-theory, but this article at The Register opens the floor to the idea that NIA's decision isn't entirely due to commercial factors, and in fact looks a bit "fishy".
Quite an interesting point - why would they give up on such a good product like this? And who could gain from them giving up a product like this?
But the problem with most email-handling phones at the mo is that you have to dial up to collect, which has got to be one of the most painful experience in the world... This device has an always-on mail connection.
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I did a dissertation on something similar a while back, due to a paper by S. Redner:
Redner, S. (1998). How popular is your paper? An empirical study of the citation distribution.
This paper looked at how the citing of academic papers follows a power law distribution - that many papers are never cited, some are cited a few times, but a tiny percentage get cited a massive number of times.
My dissertation actually looked at whether this could be applied to the more general concept of ideas: whether there are lots of good ideas, some never catch on, some catch on a little bit, whilst a tiny proportion explode with popularity. I wrote a little java app to model it.
I wanted to generate one on this comment and see how it handled recursion...
It would make it easier to get funding.
> now Google will log every search from your
> automated application
And why shouldn't they?
No matter how much people lend/borrow/sell copies of anything, it is never going to detract from the pieces of art in question.
I hate to ask, but what does this entail - I was planning on upgrading soon...
Here in the UK its 11:52am - last thing I want is more stories about crazy bio-tech to put me off my lunch...
Nice.
> That's why when a release is made and put on a
> site, no announcement goes out: this is to allow > at least a day for it to get to all the mirrors
Surely surely surely, the people who run mirrors should have their own ftp accounts, they should not be using an anonymous acount. So then all these people could be told about the new release, go and get it, etc. If the kde folk didn't want anonymous logins clogging there server, they wouldn't put the new files available to anonymous users.
And sorry for calling you Shirley.
Surely if they didn't want people to get it yet, it wouldn't be visible on the ftp site yet! There are simple ways to allow the mirrors to get hold of copies before joe public, if they wanted to.
How about giving the developers a bit of credit - I'm sute they know exactly what they are doing. I wouldn't be surprised if they leaked this "scoop" themeselves ;o)
> it would be a pleasure to pick
> a music CD or a game, make a copy, and
> go out...
Nothing new - it's like photocoping a magazine in the newsagents, then putting it back... at the end of the day it would be up to the store to enforce their policy, and you to use your own moral judgement.
Yup I agree.
> instead of $16.95 for a new CD,
Compared to the the UK, that's not bad - £16 for a cd anyone?
> Is that like singing in "shit tone"?
That's what you get for ranting without checking your typing...
> Well, the article states it had a little problem importing some word documents,
Then unfortunately, it'd not gonna do so well...
The ironic thing is that MSWord rarely formats documents it created the same way twice, but there you go...
Exactly what makes it a killer anyway? It's smaller? Woohoo. Yes, and I'm sure it has lots of other great features too, but please. I'm sure I don't need to list reasons why a newish, unheard of Office suite is not going to sign the death warrant of the most popular, (whether you like it or not), virtually defecato, Office suite in the world today.
Throwing round headlines liek this ain't gonna help anybody, except maybe make Gobe look like they have failed when it doesn't live up to such outrageous claims, rather than congratulating them for improving their product the best they can.
*The* most important thing with new Office suite, is compatibility. Near 100% compatibility.
;o)
Oh, 1st post too
You've now got 10,000 readers hovering over the link, "Ooh, should I, shouldn't I?", then thinking f**k it and clicking anyway.
/.'ing ;o)
A slow, painful, prolonged,
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;o)
There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Understated, I like it
[Scientists] "Right, we'd like some funding to build a map of the universe"
[Investor] "Sounds good. How are you going to go about it?"
"Well, we are going to get a really big camera..."
"click......"
I'm assuming that in the past, writers have been fairly well protected form this sort of thing. Why is it that all of the *new* media content has attracted so much bad practise - I guess people spotted there was money to be made. But if it's the case that it's now spreading to standard publishing contracts... surely such a mature profession will not stand for this?
Next thing they'll be campaigning to close the libraries...
At work, we are generallyrequired to use PGP for *all* project releated email, it's usually in the contract with the client. We use PGP 7, which, 99% of the time, works flawlessly with MS Outlook whn installed properly.
The problem comes when the person at the other end doesn't grasp public key encryption - which still seems a sticking point for a lot of people. Maybe they should teach it at High school?
Maybe a smells a bit of conspiracy-theory, but this article at The Register opens the floor to the idea that NIA's decision isn't entirely due to commercial factors, and in fact looks a bit "fishy".
Quite an interesting point - why would they give up on such a good product like this? And who could gain from them giving up a product like this?
But the problem with most email-handling phones at the mo is that you have to dial up to collect, which has got to be one of the most painful experience in the world... This device has an always-on mail connection.
And we'll get this in Europe when?