And thanks to Verisign's new technologies, votes which cannot be read properly will be redirected to a candidate that Verisign has chosen. How nice of them to help us out...
When deciding where their next store location should be, McDonalds spends all kinds of money on market research. Then as soon as they settle on a new location, Burger King just plops one next door.
Is that illegal? Nope. Is it quite similar to this case? I personally think so.
In my mind, reverse engineering involves viewing something that one would not normally be able to view readily.
Remember? Real time doesn't mean 60 fps or "CLICK->DONE!"
Real time means that they can predict with 100% accuracy how long a given operation will take to complete. In this case, they say that they can render each frame in.4 sec, so that IS real time.
I've clicked on more banner ads from Slashdot and oreilly.com than any other sites I currently visit. These sites cater directly to my demographic -- computer geeks who like toys and like to learn. Delivering such relevant advertising is worth lots of money to advertisers.
Some people don't like to hear this solution, but I truly think it works better than anything else proposed.
USER REGISTRATION
Get web users to reveal some details about themselves. In return, offer them a quality web experience with non-intrusive advertisements that they may truly be interested in! And finally, give them an opportunity to change their profile easily, and allow them to opt-in (NOT OPT-OUT! Big difference) to other types of ads, like e-mails.
Web advertising is supposed to accomplish 3 things:
- Strengthen their brand recognition
- Drive traffic
- Drive Internet sales
These goals cannot be met without targeting the people who may be interested in your product/service!
If someone has an ad for a new Asus P4 motherboard with SDRAM support or a special deal on that new Acura RSX Type-S, damnit I WANT TO SEE IT! However, I DO NOT want to see ads for baby diapers or Retirement Monthly.
I (like most people) always have about 10-15 browser windows open with different things I'm working on.
I HATE it when I try to click on one browser window (to focus so I can use my crappy Microsoft scrolly thing) and I accidentally clicked on a skyscraper ad which hadn't rendered yet!!!
Although I'll take those ads over friggin pop-ups any day.
I did a somewhat similar study in college. I worked with a mixed group of 3-6 grade kids in an inner city school teaching them about computers and the Internet.
To make a long story short, I was able to conclusively show that computers have a very positive affect on classroom learning when properly worked into the curriculum. We even had a few special needs students who did better than the regular ed students -- The computers helped to focus their attention more than their classroom teachers ever could without them!
This is just an educated guess, but I would think that college students have already learned to focus (when they want to).:) So there goes that conclusion.
Your study is certainly valid, but you may need to get a very large sample population to help offset the different groups which may prove to be problematic to your study (creating outliers in your statistical analysis):
- Students (educationally talented or not) who just play games all the time and do not take their education seriously. (My ex-roommate was unbelievably smart in electrical engineering, but he spent all day on MUDs and dropped out)
- Students who just aren't that good at the type of game you decide to use in your study. I drive circles around lots of people in driving simulations, and I can frag pretty well in Quake and Delta Force LW. But, for some reason my friends kick my ass up, down, and sideways in Starcraft.
My only other suggestion is: Before you start, make sure you have a well-documented plan of exactly what you plan to prove (or disprove) and explain how you will test your subjects to truly show (in an unbiased way) the correlation between score in the game and grade in the class.
Good luck! Make sure you post and let us know how it goes!
Check www.compgeeks.com. I bought the keyboard a few weeks ago for $22. They had the mouse for about that price also, but I already had a nice Logitech corded mouse.
I was at a Dave & Busters restaurant last Thursday in Providence, RI, and the waitress told me that they had just cleared a few tables for Metallica and Eve 6.. Eve 6 had just played an outdoor concert that night, and Metallica was in town. By the time we left, they still hadn't arrived.
I don't know what would have been funnier -- seeing Metallica ride up an escalator randomly in a mall, or seeing the looks on their faces after asking for their autographs... on a CD-R labeled Metallica MP3's.
-------------------------- "S'cuse me, Lars, could you sign this please?" [HACK][COUGH]"WHAT THE.."[CHOKE]
Are those the soft cushy Sennheiser headphones that just kinda hug your head and sound better than just about any speakers on the market? OOooooohhh.. I like them! I can't find them anymore, though. Sennheiser put out a new line of headphones, and they all sound like ass!
And yeah, I'm with ya there. I can certainly notice a difference between the highest quality MP3 and a CD. It's not so easy to distinguish between a CD and the 24 bit 48khz files I use for digital recording, though. I just trust it.:)
Can we organize our own unbiased testing, disclosing hardware, OS, all configuration tweaks, patches, etc. and come up with a standard testing method that's doable with reasonably available hardware (that people have available at home or work)? Between all of us loyal readers, I'm sure we've got access to just about any configuration possible.
I'm not looking to determine which config can serve up 1 billion hits per second and 2 terabytes per minute here.. Let's just see where the loads/cpu times start to peak out, if we can establish that.
We all know the costs of most of the hardware and software, so we can make our own cost comparisons. I'm just really interested to see how the different platforms stack up. So far I'm really happy with our UltraSparc Solaris running NES, but I'd prefer Linux/Apache for development. I'd like to see some numbers on this, and I'd like to help generate them.
Slashdot isn't just a collection of links with funny polls.. The reader base is far too well educated and experienced for that. Let's get something accomplished!
Anyone have input on this, or am I asking too much?
Why couldn't this have come out a few months ago?
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Then I wouldn't have had to buy the Sam's book "24 Hours of Samba Hell that will save you hundreds of dollars in Windows NT licenses - and your networked software will never know the difference" -- Paraphrased, obviously...:)
Joe
"Just remember, Things could always be worse.. You could be veal."
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Just be sure to apply the recent hotfix for a pretty nasty vulnerability.
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/98576
I'll let these guys and gals make the final call on what style I use when I write.
How many of you were forced to sign/agree to an Employee Handbook which has lovely little tidbits like this:
- Both the employee and the employer may terminate employment at will, with or without cause, at any time (with exceptions for union contracts)
And thanks to Verisign's new technologies, votes which cannot be read properly will be redirected to a candidate that Verisign has chosen. How nice of them to help us out...
When deciding where their next store location should be, McDonalds spends all kinds of money on market research. Then as soon as they settle on a new location, Burger King just plops one next door.
Is that illegal? Nope. Is it quite similar to this case? I personally think so.
In my mind, reverse engineering involves viewing something that one would not normally be able to view readily.
Remember? Real time doesn't mean 60 fps or "CLICK->DONE!"
.4 sec, so that IS real time.
Real time means that they can predict with 100% accuracy how long a given operation will take to complete. In this case, they say that they can render each frame in
I've clicked on more banner ads from Slashdot and oreilly.com than any other sites I currently visit. These sites cater directly to my demographic -- computer geeks who like toys and like to learn. Delivering such relevant advertising is worth lots of money to advertisers.
Some people don't like to hear this solution, but I truly think it works better than anything else proposed.
USER REGISTRATION
Get web users to reveal some details about themselves. In return, offer them a quality web experience with non-intrusive advertisements that they may truly be interested in! And finally, give them an opportunity to change their profile easily, and allow them to opt-in (NOT OPT-OUT! Big difference) to other types of ads, like e-mails.
Web advertising is supposed to accomplish 3 things:
- Strengthen their brand recognition
- Drive traffic
- Drive Internet sales
These goals cannot be met without targeting the people who may be interested in your product/service!
If someone has an ad for a new Asus P4 motherboard with SDRAM support or a special deal on that new Acura RSX Type-S, damnit I WANT TO SEE IT! However, I DO NOT want to see ads for baby diapers or Retirement Monthly.
I (like most people) always have about 10-15 browser windows open with different things I'm working on.
I HATE it when I try to click on one browser window (to focus so I can use my crappy Microsoft scrolly thing) and I accidentally clicked on a skyscraper ad which hadn't rendered yet!!!
Although I'll take those ads over friggin pop-ups any day.
I did a somewhat similar study in college. I worked with a mixed group of 3-6 grade kids in an inner city school teaching them about computers and the Internet.
:) So there goes that conclusion.
To make a long story short, I was able to conclusively show that computers have a very positive affect on classroom learning when properly worked into the curriculum. We even had a few special needs students who did better than the regular ed students -- The computers helped to focus their attention more than their classroom teachers ever could without them!
This is just an educated guess, but I would think that college students have already learned to focus (when they want to).
Your study is certainly valid, but you may need to get a very large sample population to help offset the different groups which may prove to be problematic to your study (creating outliers in your statistical analysis):
- Students (educationally talented or not) who just play games all the time and do not take their education seriously. (My ex-roommate was unbelievably smart in electrical engineering, but he spent all day on MUDs and dropped out)
- Students who just aren't that good at the type of game you decide to use in your study. I drive circles around lots of people in driving simulations, and I can frag pretty well in Quake and Delta Force LW. But, for some reason my friends kick my ass up, down, and sideways in Starcraft.
My only other suggestion is: Before you start, make sure you have a well-documented plan of exactly what you plan to prove (or disprove) and explain how you will test your subjects to truly show (in an unbiased way) the correlation between score in the game and grade in the class.
Good luck! Make sure you post and let us know how it goes!
Check www.compgeeks.com. I bought the keyboard a few weeks ago for $22. They had the mouse for about that price also, but I already had a nice Logitech corded mouse.
I was at a Dave & Busters restaurant last Thursday in Providence, RI, and the waitress told me that they had just cleared a few tables for Metallica and Eve 6.. Eve 6 had just played an outdoor concert that night, and Metallica was in town. By the time we left, they still hadn't arrived.
I don't know what would have been funnier -- seeing Metallica ride up an escalator randomly in a mall, or seeing the looks on their faces after asking for their autographs... on a CD-R labeled Metallica MP3's.
--------------------------
"S'cuse me, Lars, could you sign this please?"
[HACK][COUGH]"WHAT THE.."[CHOKE]
Microsoft's Attorney: His name is Duke Neukom!
I love it!
If only the DoJ had Laura Croft on prosecution...
Are those the soft cushy Sennheiser headphones that just kinda hug your head and sound better than just about any speakers on the market? OOooooohhh.. I like them! I can't find them anymore, though. Sennheiser put out a new line of headphones, and they all sound like ass!
:)
And yeah, I'm with ya there. I can certainly notice a difference between the highest quality MP3 and a CD. It's not so easy to distinguish between a CD and the 24 bit 48khz files I use for digital recording, though. I just trust it.
Let's do something about this!
Can we organize our own unbiased testing, disclosing hardware, OS, all configuration tweaks, patches, etc. and come up with a standard testing method that's doable with reasonably available hardware (that people have available at home or work)? Between all of us loyal readers, I'm sure we've got access to just about any configuration possible.
I'm not looking to determine which config can serve up 1 billion hits per second and 2 terabytes per minute here.. Let's just see where the loads/cpu times start to peak out, if we can establish that.
We all know the costs of most of the hardware and software, so we can make our own cost comparisons. I'm just really interested to see how the different platforms stack up. So far I'm really happy with our UltraSparc Solaris running NES, but I'd prefer Linux/Apache for development. I'd like to see some numbers on this, and I'd like to help generate them.
Slashdot isn't just a collection of links with funny polls.. The reader base is far too well educated and experienced for that. Let's get something accomplished!
Anyone have input on this, or am I asking too much?
Then I wouldn't have had to buy the Sam's book "24 Hours of Samba Hell that will save you hundreds of dollars in Windows NT licenses - and your networked software will never know the difference" -- Paraphrased, obviously... :)
Joe
"Just remember,
Things could always be worse..
You could be veal."