I have no clue how you get to your Win8 to Unity comparison.
Probably because many of the people that have Windows 8 did not choose Windows 8 -- they got it because it is virtually impossible to buy a computer without it, so the number of computers running Windows 8 is not a measure of its popularity (i.e. how many people actually want it). In contrast, anyone with Linux on their computer made an effort to put it there. Hence, as Anne put it, there is no meaningful way to compare the data.
You would never be able to use it on an airplane -- the seat in front of you would keep you from getting it open far enough for a decent viewing angle.
Anyone remember that old pre-Match.com-bought OkCupid analysis using Match.com's own #s showing they had a lower marriage rate than the general population?
I think you mean this (courtesy of user "mib" a little farther down).
The problem here is that if you are Average Joe and try asking out Supermodels Ann, Barbara and Cheryl, you're unlikely to get a reply. Well, not a printable one, anyway. So coming up with yet another supermodel for you to sob over isn't a lot of help.
This assumes that the goal of the dating site is to find you a mate. It isn't. The goal is to get you to pay as much as possible in subscription fees, or view as many ads as possible so they can make money. If you find a mate, you quite subscribing and quit visiting the site, so that's no good. What keeps you on the site is the illusion that you've got at chance at that supermodel. The optimal situation for the dating site is to give you hope without success.
Go to a site like Match.com. Want to look around to see if there is anyone you would want to date? No problem, just create an account -- it's free! Of course, when other people see your account they will have no idea that you haven't paid the subscription fee and won't be able to read any of the emails they send to you unless you pay. So Match.com has new profiles popping up to give their subscribers hope, but the emails those subscribers are wasting their time sending aren't even seen. Perfectly OK to waste your time as long as it keeps you paying.
Canada, with by far the most sole-country proposals, seems like it is up to something.
Doesn't the raw number of sole-country proposals seem like the wrong metric? It seems more sensible to divide the number of sole-country proposals by the total number of proposals for that country to see what fraction of its proposals have no support from other countries. From the next to last graph, it seems that Canada has both a lot of sole-country proposals and a lot of joint proposals. If the fraction of Canada's proposals that are sole proposals is not particularly high, the large number of Canadian sole-country proposals would just reflect them making a lot of proposals in general -- you might conclude that they are just putting more effort into getting the treaty right (in their opinion) than other countries. I only skimmed the article -- did I miss something?
Anyway, interesting analysis. Unfortunate that the Washington Post didn't make the graphs available in a format that is large enough to read the labels.
I wonder if they get paid for all those ad "impressions" that occur when the Slashdot tab I'm not looking at is refreshing itself all day long... A factor of four seems too small, though.
GoToMeeting is a sales tool and thus is not applicable here.
Well, GoToMeeting is a desktop sharing service, and that's what the original post asked for, but that's beside the point. The point is that Citrix is a spammer, so people that dislike spammers might not want to do business with them in any capacity (GoToMeeting or GoToAssist).
I PAY for GoToAssist Express therefore I do not receive any spam from Citrix.
I'm not sure "therefore" is appropriate in the sentence above, but even if it is, what is your point? Everyone should pay for a Citrix service for every email address they have so they can have the luxury of not being spammed by Citrix?
Which is why I chose to purchase Citrix GoToAsssist Express
My company has been using Citrix GoToMeeting for a few years now, and while it has worked well I've been rather annoyed lately with the spam I've received advertising GoToMeeting. The spam was sent to an email address that was never used for any transactions with Citrix. I've forwarded the spams to privacy@citrixonline.com and asked for an explanation several times. I hoped that they would tell me the spams were sent by some rogue affiliate advertiser who would be terminated, but I received no explanation. So, since I dislike spammers I will be looking for an alternative when our current contract expires.
which never end up killing the site like dissatisfied users claim
Ahem, Digg.com. Admittedly, the v4 update was more than just a new layout, but the rate of collapse was amazing. It was a social news site (sound familiar?) where the number of comments on the articles dropped by an order of magnitude in days.
Google car: Will be named the "Beta." It will work great for the first three years, then Google will shut it down. If you have any problems, you will find that there is no customer support number.
Microsoft car: Will be named "Ding." You'll be cruising down the highway when the control panel suddenly says "Rebooting to install updates in 9...8...7..." Owners of the first few versions will have close encounters with telephone poles. Nobody will sell you car insurance.
Apple car: Will be named "iDrive." The car will cost $300k and will look modern and sexy. Build quality will be excellent. No matter what destination you enter, you'll end up in Camden because it uses Apple maps.
Oracle car: Will be named "Oracle Car." The car will cost $400k and you'll need an expensive consultant to make it work.
It does not appear that it was submitted to any closed, for-profit journals (like Science).
But they did submit a bogus paper to Science. It was titled "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" The paper lacked a control group, but Science published it anyway in spite of its obvious failure to measure up to scientific standards.
The ironic thing is that even with the benchmark booster disabled, the Note 3 still comes out faster than the G2 in this test. If the intent behind the boosting was simply to ensure that the Note 3 came out ahead in the benchmark race, it doesn't appear to have been necessary in the first place.
Apparently the "damning" part was completely fabricated by the submitter.
According to the summary, OpenSUSE 13.1 is not the one that will default to btrfs, so I don't know why you are saying not to install 13.1.
The openSUSE 13.1 release is due out in November and is still using EXT4 by default, but after that the developers are looking at having openSUSE using Btrfs by default on new installations.
The recent disclosure of spying programs like Prism makes it riskier than ever before to share important personal data with electronic devices.
This may seem like nitpicking, but it is not the disclosure of spying programs that makes it risky, it is the existence of spying programs that makes it risky. Disclosure just highlights the risk that was already there. If anything, disclosure makes it less risky because people are less likely to pull such shit when users are more aware of the possibility (i.e. more likely to notice).
My prediction is that Microsoft will almost give away phones when they own Nokia's handset business. Micorsoft realizes that they are in danger of an entire generation learning that they don't need a PC running Windows and that this is complete disaster for Microsoft in the making.
The same logic would apply to their Surface tablets, but it hasn't happened. Of course, things may change when Ballmer is gone.
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I have no clue how you get to your Win8 to Unity comparison.
Probably because many of the people that have Windows 8 did not choose Windows 8 -- they got it because it is virtually impossible to buy a computer without it, so the number of computers running Windows 8 is not a measure of its popularity (i.e. how many people actually want it). In contrast, anyone with Linux on their computer made an effort to put it there. Hence, as Anne put it, there is no meaningful way to compare the data.
Did you really delete your Facebook account, or just deactivate it?
Verizon Wireless has a 41% profit margin
You would never be able to use it on an airplane -- the seat in front of you would keep you from getting it open far enough for a decent viewing angle.
Anyone remember that old pre-Match.com-bought OkCupid analysis using Match.com's own #s showing they had a lower marriage rate than the general population?
I think you mean this (courtesy of user "mib" a little farther down).
The problem here is that if you are Average Joe and try asking out Supermodels Ann, Barbara and Cheryl, you're unlikely to get a reply. Well, not a printable one, anyway. So coming up with yet another supermodel for you to sob over isn't a lot of help.
This assumes that the goal of the dating site is to find you a mate. It isn't. The goal is to get you to pay as much as possible in subscription fees, or view as many ads as possible so they can make money. If you find a mate, you quite subscribing and quit visiting the site, so that's no good. What keeps you on the site is the illusion that you've got at chance at that supermodel. The optimal situation for the dating site is to give you hope without success.
Go to a site like Match.com. Want to look around to see if there is anyone you would want to date? No problem, just create an account -- it's free! Of course, when other people see your account they will have no idea that you haven't paid the subscription fee and won't be able to read any of the emails they send to you unless you pay. So Match.com has new profiles popping up to give their subscribers hope, but the emails those subscribers are wasting their time sending aren't even seen. Perfectly OK to waste your time as long as it keeps you paying.
For anyone that is looking for it, the table was added in this blog post, not on the Washington Post site.
Canada, with by far the most sole-country proposals, seems like it is up to something.
Doesn't the raw number of sole-country proposals seem like the wrong metric? It seems more sensible to divide the number of sole-country proposals by the total number of proposals for that country to see what fraction of its proposals have no support from other countries. From the next to last graph, it seems that Canada has both a lot of sole-country proposals and a lot of joint proposals. If the fraction of Canada's proposals that are sole proposals is not particularly high, the large number of Canadian sole-country proposals would just reflect them making a lot of proposals in general -- you might conclude that they are just putting more effort into getting the treaty right (in their opinion) than other countries. I only skimmed the article -- did I miss something?
Anyway, interesting analysis. Unfortunate that the Washington Post didn't make the graphs available in a format that is large enough to read the labels.
P.S. I'm not Canadian.
Groupon is worth US$6.86 billion right now. In hindsight, turning Google's offer down was a wise move.
That $6.86 billion is after investors pumped $700 million into it in the IPO, so more of a neutral move than a wise one.
I wonder if they get paid for all those ad "impressions" that occur when the Slashdot tab I'm not looking at is refreshing itself all day long... A factor of four seems too small, though.
They store a history of each webpage, not just the most recent version.
GoToMeeting is a sales tool and thus is not applicable here.
Well, GoToMeeting is a desktop sharing service, and that's what the original post asked for, but that's beside the point. The point is that Citrix is a spammer, so people that dislike spammers might not want to do business with them in any capacity (GoToMeeting or GoToAssist).
I PAY for GoToAssist Express therefore I do not receive any spam from Citrix.
I'm not sure "therefore" is appropriate in the sentence above, but even if it is, what is your point? Everyone should pay for a Citrix service for every email address they have so they can have the luxury of not being spammed by Citrix?
Which is why I chose to purchase Citrix GoToAsssist Express
My company has been using Citrix GoToMeeting for a few years now, and while it has worked well I've been rather annoyed lately with the spam I've received advertising GoToMeeting. The spam was sent to an email address that was never used for any transactions with Citrix. I've forwarded the spams to privacy@citrixonline.com and asked for an explanation several times. I hoped that they would tell me the spams were sent by some rogue affiliate advertiser who would be terminated, but I received no explanation. So, since I dislike spammers I will be looking for an alternative when our current contract expires.
Zients said, "By the end of November, healthcare.gov will work smoothly for the vast majority of users."
Yeah,November of which year?
which never end up killing the site like dissatisfied users claim
Ahem, Digg.com. Admittedly, the v4 update was more than just a new layout, but the rate of collapse was amazing. It was a social news site (sound familiar?) where the number of comments on the articles dropped by an order of magnitude in days.
You botched the link. Try here.
Google car: Will be named the "Beta." It will work great for the first three years, then Google will shut it down. If you have any problems, you will find that there is no customer support number.
Microsoft car: Will be named "Ding." You'll be cruising down the highway when the control panel suddenly says "Rebooting to install updates in 9...8...7..." Owners of the first few versions will have close encounters with telephone poles. Nobody will sell you car insurance.
Apple car: Will be named "iDrive." The car will cost $300k and will look modern and sexy. Build quality will be excellent. No matter what destination you enter, you'll end up in Camden because it uses Apple maps.
Oracle car: Will be named "Oracle Car." The car will cost $400k and you'll need an expensive consultant to make it work.
$16 million divided evenly among 330,000 employees works out to $48 per employee.
It does not appear that it was submitted to any closed, for-profit journals (like Science).
But they did submit a bogus paper to Science. It was titled "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" The paper lacked a control group, but Science published it anyway in spite of its obvious failure to measure up to scientific standards.
Here is what the article actually says:
The ironic thing is that even with the benchmark booster disabled, the Note 3 still comes out faster than the G2 in this test. If the intent behind the boosting was simply to ensure that the Note 3 came out ahead in the benchmark race, it doesn't appear to have been necessary in the first place.
Apparently the "damning" part was completely fabricated by the submitter.
According to the summary, OpenSUSE 13.1 is not the one that will default to btrfs, so I don't know why you are saying not to install 13.1.
The openSUSE 13.1 release is due out in November and is still using EXT4 by default, but after that the developers are looking at having openSUSE using Btrfs by default on new installations.
The recent disclosure of spying programs like Prism makes it riskier than ever before to share important personal data with electronic devices.
This may seem like nitpicking, but it is not the disclosure of spying programs that makes it risky, it is the existence of spying programs that makes it risky. Disclosure just highlights the risk that was already there. If anything, disclosure makes it less risky because people are less likely to pull such shit when users are more aware of the possibility (i.e. more likely to notice).
My prediction is that Microsoft will almost give away phones when they own Nokia's handset business. Micorsoft realizes that they are in danger of an entire generation learning that they don't need a PC running Windows and that this is complete disaster for Microsoft in the making.
The same logic would apply to their Surface tablets, but it hasn't happened. Of course, things may change when Ballmer is gone.
This video seems to provide a good explanation of the motivation for Wayland.
According to the follow-up question in the petition by Dale Emmons it is XOR.