The trick is to remember that the worst possible person may read every word you write. For example, before you decide to detail your sexual proclivities, imagine them being dinner table conversation at the next Thanksgiving. Recreational crack smoker? Imagine your cop neighbor stumbling across your drugblog. Just use common sense, you know? Don't put anything online that you don't want everyone to know about.
Odd that Apple, iPod, and iTunes aren't tags for a story about a bug in their software?
Is it a bug in their software? If they call some dosomething() function as per the published docs and it causes a BSOD, then it's not their fault. I'm not saying that's what happened, but you and I don't know that it's actually faulty Apple software causing the problem.
I think it is reasonable for google news to ignore articles without dates.
Sure! All it had to do was look at the <originallypublished> tag. It's not like Google would need natural language parsing and artificial intelligence to pull the date out of the contents.
I bought the laptop to run exactly one specific medical practice management application. Right now, it runs OK (albeit slowly) under Vista. I do not think that adding abstraction layers is likely to make it faster or more reliable.
So, you believe "13-year-old griefers" have poisoned the well against the specific combination of "black, unreasonable request".
I didn't say I believed that, just wondered if that was possible. I'm not sure I agree with their premise, though:
For one, avatar skin tone did not influence compliance in the control condition, yet presumably it would have done so if it triggered an attributional bias against a user who would choose an unusual skin tone.
For example, if I'm walking into a store, I'll hold the door for anybody. If the person happens to look frightening, I probably wouldn't agree to give them a ride home afterward.
I completely disagree with the concluding sentence of the paragraph you quoted. Perhaps it has avatarshadingist implications, but I wouldn't be quick to translate that to racism.
Again, maybe I'm wrong, but I'd be interested in a followup study that explored the question.
Also, once the solar cells have degraded, thats it. You can't repair them, they must be replaced. A nuclear reactor could have new shipments of fuel sent up.
Would that be less difficult than sending more solar cells?
Besides, there are other forms of solar electricity than photovoltaic. Make something really hot, plant a heat sink deep under the lunar surface where it's nice and cold, and use the heat difference to get electricity.
A lot of trolls have poisoned the well for dark skin colors in games (Slashdot analog: GNAA). If you see a giant black guy avatar, there's a pretty good chance that it's piloted by a 13-year-old griefer in his parent's basement.
This would also explain the results. When the black avatar asks for a small favor, participants went along with the request. Even if it's a griefer, we can all be civil, right? And then out comes the big request which confirms it - yep, troll - and the would-be helper runs the other way.
I'd like to see the same study with non-human avatars. What would the results be for, say, Hello Kitty versus a giant sex organ?
The revised zune has taken the mp3 market by storm has it? Taken a chunk out of iPod sales? Oh wait, it hasn't.
Just to quantify that statement, as of this writing, Amazon's bestselling MP3 player list has iPods in the top 5 places, and 16 out of the top 25. There are also 2 Creative players and 6 SanDisks, along with a Zune at #16.
I don't think Apple is too worried just yet.
(PS: I don't own an iPod, so "fanboi!" whines don't hold much traction.)
I think it's not much different than the current pizza hut/hardies ads where they pretend to be much more upscale than they really are - like serving their burger in an actual(or fake) upscale restaurant.
But those ads don't start with "Pizza Hut is horrible! I can't stand it!" Their theme seems to be "you knew it was good, but did you know it was this good?"
I appreciate the thought, but I'm not too worried about that here. This is the machine my wife uses to enter her electronic medical records after she sees patients. I'm much more interested in protecting the laptop's contents than placating anyone.
I got it, but it goes against every marketing tactic I've ever heard to start off by bashing your own products - even if you plan to prove the complaints wrong by the end of the commercial.
Note that I didn't say jack about OSes. You're the one who brought up that whole bit. I just think it's a stupid, poorly planned ad.
No Google Desktop (and indexing turned off), AVG antivirus in "scan nightly" mode, and 2GB of RAM on a Core 2 Duo. The one bottleneck is that I've installed TrueCrypt 6.0a for whole-disk drive encryption (because it holds medical data and I don't ever want to be "that guy"), but even stuff that doesn't really touch the disk just feels sluggish.
But why not pick at least a few users that didn't like to talk about how much Vista sucked? The "after" part made sense: the previous haters were now lovers. Still, if you leave after the first part of the commercial ("Bathroom break!"), all you'd have heard was how bad Vista is.
You know, that would've been an extremely high-end workstation just a couple of years ago. Of course Vista should run like the wind on that hardware.
Never mind that I have a similar machine and Vista runs like frozen molasses, but can't upgrade to XP because NVidia hasn't released XP-compatible video drivers. I'd switch to Ubuntu in a heartbeat if it weren't for a few critical application I absolutely must have.
Where they invite users to 'try' the newest Microsoft OS, before revealing it's Vista.
I don't get those ads. I could see if the "before" shots were of people saying they'd heard bad things about Vista but had never tried it. However, they went all-out about how Vista is awful and how bad it's reputation is. The very first think you hear is confirmation of the current beliefs.
I mean, I've never heard a McDonald's ad begin with a crowd talking about how much they hate McDonald's. Is this what passes for clever advertising now?
When Webkit can run extensions/plugins without crashing
Is it Webkit that actually runs the plugins? In Chrome, plugins run in their own child processes, so it seems like it would be Chrome and not Webkit that manages them.
As a current web developer, I develop with KHTML. When I like it, I verify that it looks the same under Gecko (and it always does). If it's a major change, I'll check it under MSIE and screw around with the CSS until IE manages to display it without barfing. I don't bother testing with Opera anymore because I've never once seen it fail on a valid page that renders under KHTML - it's just kind of assumed that it will work.
So with all the HTML engines out there, you only have to test two camps: MSIE and everything else. Adding another standards-compliant engine wouldn't increase my workload one iota.
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If it's not legal to ask, why would it be legal to do a web search which is likely to reveal that information?
The former is requiring the candidate to divulge information. The latter is scanning for information that the candidate has already publicly divulged.
No one would ever use their real name.
Ahem.
The trick is to remember that the worst possible person may read every word you write. For example, before you decide to detail your sexual proclivities, imagine them being dinner table conversation at the next Thanksgiving. Recreational crack smoker? Imagine your cop neighbor stumbling across your drugblog. Just use common sense, you know? Don't put anything online that you don't want everyone to know about.
Odd that Apple, iPod, and iTunes aren't tags for a story about a bug in their software?
Is it a bug in their software? If they call some dosomething() function as per the published docs and it causes a BSOD, then it's not their fault. I'm not saying that's what happened, but you and I don't know that it's actually faulty Apple software causing the problem.
Can you write those files with standard drivers? If so, then it's just a hard drive - albeit one that's particular about its contents.
I think it is reasonable for google news to ignore articles without dates.
Sure! All it had to do was look at the <originallypublished> tag. It's not like Google would need natural language parsing and artificial intelligence to pull the date out of the contents.
Centegenarians all look alike.
I bought the laptop to run exactly one specific medical practice management application. Right now, it runs OK (albeit slowly) under Vista. I do not think that adding abstraction layers is likely to make it faster or more reliable.
So, you believe "13-year-old griefers" have poisoned the well against the specific combination of "black, unreasonable request".
I didn't say I believed that, just wondered if that was possible. I'm not sure I agree with their premise, though:
For one, avatar skin tone did not influence compliance in the control condition, yet presumably it would have done so if it triggered an attributional bias against a user who would choose an unusual skin tone.
For example, if I'm walking into a store, I'll hold the door for anybody. If the person happens to look frightening, I probably wouldn't agree to give them a ride home afterward.
I completely disagree with the concluding sentence of the paragraph you quoted. Perhaps it has avatarshadingist implications, but I wouldn't be quick to translate that to racism.
Again, maybe I'm wrong, but I'd be interested in a followup study that explored the question.
Also, once the solar cells have degraded, thats it. You can't repair them, they must be replaced. A nuclear reactor could have new shipments of fuel sent up.
Would that be less difficult than sending more solar cells?
Besides, there are other forms of solar electricity than photovoltaic. Make something really hot, plant a heat sink deep under the lunar surface where it's nice and cold, and use the heat difference to get electricity.
A lot of trolls have poisoned the well for dark skin colors in games (Slashdot analog: GNAA). If you see a giant black guy avatar, there's a pretty good chance that it's piloted by a 13-year-old griefer in his parent's basement.
This would also explain the results. When the black avatar asks for a small favor, participants went along with the request. Even if it's a griefer, we can all be civil, right? And then out comes the big request which confirms it - yep, troll - and the would-be helper runs the other way.
I'd like to see the same study with non-human avatars. What would the results be for, say, Hello Kitty versus a giant sex organ?
The revised zune has taken the mp3 market by storm has it? Taken a chunk out of iPod sales? Oh wait, it hasn't.
Just to quantify that statement, as of this writing, Amazon's bestselling MP3 player list has iPods in the top 5 places, and 16 out of the top 25. There are also 2 Creative players and 6 SanDisks, along with a Zune at #16.
I don't think Apple is too worried just yet.
(PS: I don't own an iPod, so "fanboi!" whines don't hold much traction.)
I think it's not much different than the current pizza hut/hardies ads where they pretend to be much more upscale than they really are - like serving their burger in an actual(or fake) upscale restaurant.
But those ads don't start with "Pizza Hut is horrible! I can't stand it!" Their theme seems to be "you knew it was good, but did you know it was this good?"
I appreciate the thought, but I'm not too worried about that here. This is the machine my wife uses to enter her electronic medical records after she sees patients. I'm much more interested in protecting the laptop's contents than placating anyone.
I got it, but it goes against every marketing tactic I've ever heard to start off by bashing your own products - even if you plan to prove the complaints wrong by the end of the commercial.
Note that I didn't say jack about OSes. You're the one who brought up that whole bit. I just think it's a stupid, poorly planned ad.
No Google Desktop (and indexing turned off), AVG antivirus in "scan nightly" mode, and 2GB of RAM on a Core 2 Duo. The one bottleneck is that I've installed TrueCrypt 6.0a for whole-disk drive encryption (because it holds medical data and I don't ever want to be "that guy"), but even stuff that doesn't really touch the disk just feels sluggish.
But why not pick at least a few users that didn't like to talk about how much Vista sucked? The "after" part made sense: the previous haters were now lovers. Still, if you leave after the first part of the commercial ("Bathroom break!"), all you'd have heard was how bad Vista is.
You know, that would've been an extremely high-end workstation just a couple of years ago. Of course Vista should run like the wind on that hardware.
Never mind that I have a similar machine and Vista runs like frozen molasses, but can't upgrade to XP because NVidia hasn't released XP-compatible video drivers. I'd switch to Ubuntu in a heartbeat if it weren't for a few critical application I absolutely must have.
Where they invite users to 'try' the newest Microsoft OS, before revealing it's Vista.
I don't get those ads. I could see if the "before" shots were of people saying they'd heard bad things about Vista but had never tried it. However, they went all-out about how Vista is awful and how bad it's reputation is. The very first think you hear is confirmation of the current beliefs.
I mean, I've never heard a McDonald's ad begin with a crowd talking about how much they hate McDonald's. Is this what passes for clever advertising now?
That's non-trivial.
1.5 seconds to open 30 tabs, especially when compared with how long it'll take just to fetch their contents, is indeed trivial.
I imagine that most people who knew what Chrome is and actually installed it also know what processes are.
Those are standards. Standard are good. A diverse set of products obeying the standards so that they can interoperate is even better.
Why is WebKit worth switching to when Chrome had five vulnerabilities in two days?
For approximately the same reason why Zsh is worth trying, even though Debian had a broken SSL library.
More like Apples to steaming piles of horse crap.
When Webkit can run extensions/plugins without crashing
Is it Webkit that actually runs the plugins? In Chrome, plugins run in their own child processes, so it seems like it would be Chrome and not Webkit that manages them.
As a current web developer, I develop with KHTML. When I like it, I verify that it looks the same under Gecko (and it always does). If it's a major change, I'll check it under MSIE and screw around with the CSS until IE manages to display it without barfing. I don't bother testing with Opera anymore because I've never once seen it fail on a valid page that renders under KHTML - it's just kind of assumed that it will work.
So with all the HTML engines out there, you only have to test two camps: MSIE and everything else. Adding another standards-compliant engine wouldn't increase my workload one iota.