However, the biggest difference may be that the online reviews tend to be posted after the course grade is known. That can have unintended consequences.
Surely it would make sense to close the reviews system at the date that the scores are posted? That way, the final grade would not be able to influence the reviews...
"Wait. They did not fully cooperate. They kept balking and stalling at the inspection sites. They even went as far as to kick out the inspectors a few years ago. If they had fully complied, the inspections would have been completed 10 years ago."
Why is it that the story about Iraq kicking our weapons inspectors has been so easily accepted?
Some contrasting news reports on the weapons inspectors leaving Iraq:
Example 1 - ABC
The U.N. orders its weapons inspectors to leave Iraq after the chief inspector reports Baghdad is not fully cooperating with them.
-- Sheila MacVicar, ABC World News This Morning, 12/16/98
To bolster its claim, Iraq let reporters see one laboratory U.N. inspectors once visited before they were kicked out four years ago.
--John McWethy, ABC World News Tonight, 8/12/02
Example 2 - USA Today
Russian Ambassador Sergei Lavrov criticized Butler for evacuating inspectors from Iraq Wednesday morning without seeking permission from the Security Council.
--USA Today, 12/17/98
Saddam expelled U.N. weapons inspectors in 1998, accusing some of being U.S. spies.
--USA Today, 9/4/02
Example 3 - New York Times
But the most recent irritant was Mr. Butler's quick withdrawal from Iraq on Wednesday of all his inspectors and those of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors Iraqi nuclear programs, without Security Council permission. Mr. Butler acted after a telephone call from Peter Burleigh, the American representative to the United Nations, and a discussion with Secretary General Kofi Annan, who had also spoken to Mr. Burleigh.
--New York Times, 12/18/98
America's goal should be to ensure that Iraq is disarmed of all unconventional weapons.... To thwart this goal, Baghdad expelled United Nations arms inspectors four years ago.
--New York Times editorial, 8/3/02
There are plenty more at:
http://www.fair.org/extra/0210/inspectors.html I wonder why the press changed their story from 'inspectors pulled out due to lack of cooperation' to 'Iraq threw inspectors out' over the course of 4 years?
I wonder why we, the public, let them get away with it?
Surely the spammers could just use the same technique of forwarding whatever the test is on to the freepornaholic?
E.g. if the word X in line Y approach was used, the spammers would just forward the text and X and Y on to their visitors.
I guess the way the arms race would go is that the mail sites would do things like splitting the captcha across multiple images, using Javascript to juggle them etc etc etc while the spammers will try to keep up by finding ways to forward the test to their freepornaholics and get the correct response back to the mail site.
Whatever test is sent to the spammer is going to be able to be forwarded on - it's all just data at the end of the day. It's just like the spammers.
I guess the best approach for the mail sites would be to make captchas that can be answered really quickly, so they can set the timeout really short.
the problem with that plan is that resolume (while a fantastic package for live control of video) doesn't output audio at all.
The pioneeer DVDJs are clearly aimed at DJs who currently mix on CDJs who (pioneer seem to think) will be moving to mixing DVDs
The most likely success area I see for these is in cheesy clubs where the DJs don't really scratch or other more advanced techniques. They just want to crossfade between chart music, perhaps with a bit of beat matching. Well, they will now be able to mix between the videos to the tunes that they mix (a lot of mainstream chart clubs are installing plasma screens and projectors nowerdays)
Outside of chart music, there just aren't enough releases that have pre-made videos, so I don't see these doing very well. There will be people who will make their own DVDs to use with them, but that's hardly going to be a mass market.
Do you really think that anyone uses the edit-password on a word processor as legal proof that a document has not been tampered with?
Do you really think that MS will use this sort of weak approach to protecting documents (which doesn't actually encrypt the document at all - just tells word not to let the user edit it) when they roll out full DRM?
We did some aerial shooting using a bunch of helium ballons to carry a cheap,light wireless camera.
We then attached the receiever to a camcorder video in to record the results.
You could just as well use a corded camera (we used the wireless one because we had it) but you would have to allwo for the weight of the wire with an extra balloon or two.
The biggest problem is keeping the camera stable but when there isn't too much wind, the balloons provide a nice platform to hang the camera from.
When it comes down to it, an opinion is just a statement of someone's belief on something.
All opinions are valid - you can't stop someone believing what they believe.
BUT
Any opinion that you might hold about their opinion is also valid. You might believe that what someone says their opinion is is not really what they believe. You might believe that what they believe is at odds with the laws of the universe, the teachings of your religion or some arbitary rule you made up over breakfast.
The important thing is that validity is not the same as usefulness. An opinion only becomes useful when sufficient people assign value to it.
My opinion on legal matters is not as useful as a lawyers opinion, which in turn is not as useful as a judges. The reason why is that society considers the lawyers opinion to be of higher value than mine and the judges opinion to be of higher value than the lawyers.
All of the opinions are valid - we (The judge, the lawyer and I) all have the right to hold our own beliefs about the law, but each opinion has a different weight.
Of course, not everyone will assign the same values to opinions., An anarchist will not believe that the judges and lawyers opinions are worth any more than mine. However, in thsi case the vast majority of society sides with the lawyer and judge, so their opinion counts for more.
Some issues are more divisive. I think that the opinion of scientists matters more than the opinion of relgious ministers, but others believe the opposite. The scientists and ministers both hold valid opinions but I assign more value to one than the other. The majority of society seems to agree with me, so (in the main) the scientists opionions are given more credence.
Ultimately, it is what the majority of society believes, and which opinions are consistent with those beliefs, that matters. Everyones opinion is valid but not all of them will have any impact.
I guess it could be argued that some opinions are not valid because they are self contradictory. For example "I think that black is white" but I think that this ultimately comes down to a a belief thing - the majority of us belive that black is not white.
Monopolies impede the efficiency of the free markey because they remove the element of choice - in order for the free market to work properly, consumers have to have a choice of providers for whatever goods or services they want to buy.
A monopoly can impede transparency by abusing their position to spread false information about any potential competitors, locking their customers into unfairly binding contracts,
A monopoly may also act to make their products difficult to integrate with - this could be seen as acting against transparency - witholding such fundamental information about a product that is (presumably in the case of a trye monopoly) universal would greatly harm a free market.
Also, monopolies tend to arise *because* of a lack of transparency in the market. Intellectual property laws that allow a monolpoly to arise are a good example of this. Thus, in many situations, a monolpoly is a symptom of a lack of transparency as well as a potential cause of it.
I find it difficult to see how a monopoly could arise in a true free market - competitors would always arise. On the other hand, I find it hard to see how a true free market could ever work...
casual forwarding is not a problem, its malicious forwarding it needs to hinder
When I worked in corporateworld, casually forwarded emails made up about 50% of my total email workload - I must have wasted about an hour a day on that crap. Sure it's a problem!
Of course, it doesn't look like this new MS stuff is going to solve that problem, as most people aren't going to bother to specify the 'no forward' option. In fact, I think that there isn't really a technological solution - it's a cultural issue.
so what you're saying is that the solution could come along at any time - since we don't know what the solution is like it could be just around the corner.
Sounds like a good reason to think about how the law would handle it...
On the other hand, I agre with you completely that promises from anyone who claims to know that asolution is only x years away are clearly nothing more than marketing spiel.
As a second gauge of spending, ComScore also looks for trends in the credit card statements that about 30,000 of its panelists view online.
It sends details from credit card statements!!? I wonder how many of the users of this thing are aware that it does this...
This sounds like spyware to me. 'Free security software and software to speed up their internet connection' sounds a bit vague about what this actual does apart from send confidential information to this company.
Not wanting to start another debate on Linux on the desktop, I won't mention that the plan to throw away all the Windows desktops and replace them with Linux sounds a little over ambitious, not least because of the cost of retraining staff. ;-)
I'm glad you didn't want to start such a debate and therefore didn't mention that.
Fine convert the jitter to music... but how is that going to help you beyond what a numeric display would tell you?
Because sometimes looking at a numeric display means looking away from something important.
I think the idea is that using sound as an additional input means that the user is able to concentrate on using their eyes for things that need sight and can use their ears for something that does not (i.e. telling how good the connection is)
E.g. I'm controlling a robot that requires absolute concentration. Obviously, a change in the quality of the connection will require me to change what I'm doing with the robot (as its responsiveness changes) so I need to be aware of the connection quality. At the same time, I don't want to be switching between looking at what the robot is doing and a checking connection.
I don't think this is intended for normal computer users.
Well, I don't know about contrast, but many stations do have ads set at a significantly higher volume than the actual program.
Actually, this is a widely held myth. Some stations may vary the actual volume but most don't - they use compression (limiting the range of frequencies used to give the sounds more impact) to achieve the effect.
If the actual volume was changing then it would be easy to regulate but dynamic range is a much more subjective issue. The sounds are percieved as louder but wouldn't register as having a higher volume on a VU meter.
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One the app is running, the processor is dealing with native, optimised machine code rather than the IL bytecode.
Dan.
Surely it would make sense to close the reviews system at the date that the scores are posted? That way, the final grade would not be able to influence the reviews...
Dan.
"Wait. They did not fully cooperate. They kept balking and stalling at the inspection sites. They even went as far as to kick out the inspectors a few years ago. If they had fully complied, the inspections would have been completed 10 years ago."
Why is it that the story about Iraq kicking our weapons inspectors has been so easily accepted?
Some contrasting news reports on the weapons inspectors leaving Iraq:
Example 1 - ABC
The U.N. orders its weapons inspectors to leave Iraq after the chief inspector reports Baghdad is not fully cooperating with them.
-- Sheila MacVicar, ABC World News This Morning, 12/16/98
To bolster its claim, Iraq let reporters see one laboratory U.N. inspectors once visited before they were kicked out four years ago.
--John McWethy, ABC World News Tonight, 8/12/02
Example 2 - USA Today
Russian Ambassador Sergei Lavrov criticized Butler for evacuating inspectors from Iraq Wednesday morning without seeking permission from the Security Council.
--USA Today, 12/17/98
Saddam expelled U.N. weapons inspectors in 1998, accusing some of being U.S. spies.
--USA Today, 9/4/02
Example 3 - New York Times
But the most recent irritant was Mr. Butler's quick withdrawal from Iraq on Wednesday of all his inspectors and those of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors Iraqi nuclear programs, without Security Council permission. Mr. Butler acted after a telephone call from Peter Burleigh, the American representative to the United Nations, and a discussion with Secretary General Kofi Annan, who had also spoken to Mr. Burleigh.
--New York Times, 12/18/98
America's goal should be to ensure that Iraq is disarmed of all unconventional weapons.... To thwart this goal, Baghdad expelled United Nations arms inspectors four years ago.
--New York Times editorial, 8/3/02
There are plenty more at:
http://www.fair.org/extra/0210/inspectors.html
I wonder why the press changed their story from 'inspectors pulled out due to lack of cooperation' to 'Iraq threw inspectors out' over the course of 4 years?
I wonder why we, the public, let them get away with it?
Dan.
Surely the spammers could just use the same technique of forwarding whatever the test is on to the freepornaholic?
E.g. if the word X in line Y approach was used, the spammers would just forward the text and X and Y on to their visitors.
I guess the way the arms race would go is that the mail sites would do things like splitting the captcha across multiple images, using Javascript to juggle them etc etc etc while the spammers will try to keep up by finding ways to forward the test to their freepornaholics and get the correct response back to the mail site.
Whatever test is sent to the spammer is going to be able to be forwarded on - it's all just data at the end of the day. It's just like the spammers.
I guess the best approach for the mail sites would be to make captchas that can be answered really quickly, so they can set the timeout really short.
Dan.
the problem with that plan is that resolume (while a fantastic package for live control of video) doesn't output audio at all.
The pioneeer DVDJs are clearly aimed at DJs who currently mix on CDJs who (pioneer seem to think) will be moving to mixing DVDs
The most likely success area I see for these is in cheesy clubs where the DJs don't really scratch or other more advanced techniques. They just want to crossfade between chart music, perhaps with a bit of beat matching. Well, they will now be able to mix between the videos to the tunes that they mix (a lot of mainstream chart clubs are installing plasma screens and projectors nowerdays)
Outside of chart music, there just aren't enough releases that have pre-made videos, so I don't see these doing very well. There will be people who will make their own DVDs to use with them, but that's hardly going to be a mass market.
Dan.
Do you really think that anyone uses the edit-password on a word processor as legal proof that a document has not been tampered with?
Do you really think that MS will use this sort of weak approach to protecting documents (which doesn't actually encrypt the document at all - just tells word not to let the user edit it) when they roll out full DRM?
Dan.
oops. extraneous space in the link. Here's one you just need to click
The site set up by the author of the paper has more information on his methods.
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http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/cs/staff/g.rugg/vo
We did some aerial shooting using a bunch of helium ballons to carry a cheap,light wireless camera.
We then attached the receiever to a camcorder video in to record the results.
You could just as well use a corded camera (we used the wireless one because we had it) but you would have to allwo for the weight of the wire with an extra balloon or two.
The biggest problem is keeping the camera stable but when there isn't too much wind, the balloons provide a nice platform to hang the camera from.
I like your motives, but just make sure your methods are moral. This mass-mail sounds suspiciously like spamming people who haven't asked you to.
When it comes down to it, an opinion is just a statement of someone's belief on something.
All opinions are valid - you can't stop someone believing what they believe.
BUT
Any opinion that you might hold about their opinion is also valid. You might believe that what someone says their opinion is is not really what they believe. You might believe that what they believe is at odds with the laws of the universe, the teachings of your religion or some arbitary rule you made up over breakfast.
The important thing is that validity is not the same as usefulness. An opinion only becomes useful when sufficient people assign value to it.
My opinion on legal matters is not as useful as a lawyers opinion, which in turn is not as useful as a judges. The reason why is that society considers the lawyers opinion to be of higher value than mine and the judges opinion to be of higher value than the lawyers.
All of the opinions are valid - we (The judge, the lawyer and I) all have the right to hold our own beliefs about the law, but each opinion has a different weight.
Of course, not everyone will assign the same values to opinions., An anarchist will not believe that the judges and lawyers opinions are worth any more than mine. However, in thsi case the vast majority of society sides with the lawyer and judge, so their opinion counts for more.
Some issues are more divisive. I think that the opinion of scientists matters more than the opinion of relgious ministers, but others believe the opposite. The scientists and ministers both hold valid opinions but I assign more value to one than the other. The majority of society seems to agree with me, so (in the main) the scientists opionions are given more credence.
Ultimately, it is what the majority of society believes, and which opinions are consistent with those beliefs, that matters. Everyones opinion is valid but not all of them will have any impact.
I guess it could be argued that some opinions are not valid because they are self contradictory. For example "I think that black is white" but I think that this ultimately comes down to a a belief thing - the majority of us belive that black is not white.
Dan.
Monopolies impede the efficiency of the free markey because they remove the element of choice - in order for the free market to work properly, consumers have to have a choice of providers for whatever goods or services they want to buy.
A monopoly can impede transparency by abusing their position to spread false information about any potential competitors, locking their customers into unfairly binding contracts,
A monopoly may also act to make their products difficult to integrate with - this could be seen as acting against transparency - witholding such fundamental information about a product that is (presumably in the case of a trye monopoly) universal would greatly harm a free market.
Also, monopolies tend to arise *because* of a lack of transparency in the market. Intellectual property laws that allow a monolpoly to arise are a good example of this. Thus, in many situations, a monolpoly is a symptom of a lack of transparency as well as a potential cause of it.
I find it difficult to see how a monopoly could arise in a true free market - competitors would always arise. On the other hand, I find it hard to see how a true free market could ever work...
Dan.
What, so actual examples of the next MS operating system working are not worth mentioning?
Pandering to hypoe is one bad thing, but ignoring information about it is just as bad.
Dan.
When I worked in corporateworld, casually forwarded emails made up about 50% of my total email workload - I must have wasted about an hour a day on that crap. Sure it's a problem!
Of course, it doesn't look like this new MS stuff is going to solve that problem, as most people aren't going to bother to specify the 'no forward' option. In fact, I think that there isn't really a technological solution - it's a cultural issue.
so what you're saying is that the solution could come along at any time - since we don't know what the solution is like it could be just around the corner.
Sounds like a good reason to think about how the law would handle it...
On the other hand, I agre with you completely that promises from anyone who claims to know that asolution is only x years away are clearly nothing more than marketing spiel.
Dan.
The article mentions that they have cut a deal with the record companies already.
If they are using an Internet Explorer plugin, they may be able to get access to the text of pages after they have been decrypted and displayed.
The google toolbar can obviously access the text data, as it can do highlighting on it.
I would imagine this data is skewed towards the mid and high-end income brackets, and also away from the older age brackets.
Also, the sample will only include people stupid enough to download their spyware and let it report back on everything they do online.
As a second gauge of spending, ComScore also looks for trends in the credit card statements that about 30,000 of its panelists view online.
It sends details from credit card statements!!? I wonder how many of the users of this thing are aware that it does this...
This sounds like spyware to me. 'Free security software and software to speed up their internet connection' sounds a bit vague about what this actual does apart from send confidential information to this company.
Not wanting to start another debate on Linux on the desktop, I won't mention that the plan to throw away all the Windows desktops and replace them with Linux sounds a little over ambitious, not least because of the cost of retraining staff. ;-)
I'm glad you didn't want to start such a debate and therefore didn't mention that.
Oh, hang on...
There's one here
Fine convert the jitter to music... but how is that going to help you beyond what a numeric display would tell you?
Because sometimes looking at a numeric display means looking away from something important.
I think the idea is that using sound as an additional input means that the user is able to concentrate on using their eyes for things that need sight and can use their ears for something that does not (i.e. telling how good the connection is)
E.g. I'm controlling a robot that requires absolute concentration. Obviously, a change in the quality of the connection will require me to change what I'm doing with the robot (as its responsiveness changes) so I need to be aware of the connection quality. At the same time, I don't want to be switching between looking at what the robot is doing and a checking connection.
I don't think this is intended for normal computer users.
but what are the things that you throw at the verbs if they are not nouns?
I think I'm going to have to read up on this as it sounds interesting.
So why have they chosen to buy software in then?
If it really were so easy and so much better for them to do the job themselves, why didn't they do that?
Actually, this is a widely held myth. Some stations may vary the actual volume but most don't - they use compression (limiting the range of frequencies used to give the sounds more impact) to achieve the effect.
If the actual volume was changing then it would be easy to regulate but dynamic range is a much more subjective issue. The sounds are percieved as louder but wouldn't register as having a higher volume on a VU meter.