83 minutes vs. 90 minutes. A lot of people have made good points about conncetion speed. one problem with the conclusion (that people aren't as interested in internet) is the assumption that we are measuring the same group of people.
i mean who is in their sample group? i would guess that the people who were surfing the net in the past were more computer oriented and therefore more inclined to use the computer for longer. now you've got grandma surfing alongside the star trek geek. do you think grandma's going to stay online for as long as CmdrTaco?
this plan will never work. eventually there will be a national ID card, like most european countries i've been to.
the question is how do you balance a persons right not to be identifiable to anyone against society's right to secure itself. i don't happen to think that society's rights exceed individual ones in this case but there are cases when this is true. no one is arguning that you should be able to board a plane with no ID. it's just a question of where you draw the line.
Here's what they are claiming to use. Seems like this is a way to descirbe data multidimensionally in a way that isn't readily assimilated digitally.
note that last line of the excerpt i give below.
what i thinkis, if you're going to use binary data, you've got to follow the rules of the road -- shannon's law.
check it out on this website
Examples of Kolmogorov Complexity
1. Pi is an infinite sequence of seemingly random digits, but it contains only a few bits of information: the size of the short program that can produce the consecutive bits of pi forever. Informally we say the descriptional complexity of pi is a constant. Formally we say K(pi) = 0(1), which means "K(pi) does not grow".
2. A truly random string is not significantly compres;sible; its description length is within a constant offset of its length. Formally we say K(x) = Theta(|x|), which means "K(x) grows as fast as the length of x".
For such a historic guitar company, Gibson has put out so much crap in the last ten years it's not funny. I used to work ina guitar store and have to deal with these idiots all the time. some of what they think are good marketing ideas include:
Slashdot Mirror
the article has a lot about acceleration but virtually no info about the ineveitable deceleration....
I wonder if that's what was happened to the books "trashed" at chicago's sulzer library a while back.
check it
if books are free money then better keep an eye on our librarians
83 minutes vs. 90 minutes. A lot of people have made good points about conncetion speed. one problem with the conclusion (that people aren't as interested in internet) is the assumption that we are measuring the same group of people.
i mean who is in their sample group? i would guess that the people who were surfing the net in the past were more computer oriented and therefore more inclined to use the computer for longer. now you've got grandma surfing alongside the star trek geek. do you think grandma's going to stay online for as long as CmdrTaco?
try buying a beer in boston with an illinois DL.
this plan will never work. eventually there will be a national ID card, like most european countries i've been to.
the question is how do you balance a persons right not to be identifiable to anyone against society's right to secure itself. i don't happen to think that society's rights exceed individual ones in this case but there are cases when this is true. no one is arguning that you should be able to board a plane with no ID. it's just a question of where you draw the line.
perhaps on might append the state name to the ID number.
Here's what they are claiming to use. Seems like this is a way to descirbe data multidimensionally in a way that isn't readily assimilated digitally.
note that last line of the excerpt i give below.
what i thinkis, if you're going to use binary data, you've got to follow the rules of the road -- shannon's law.
check it out on this website
Examples of Kolmogorov Complexity
1. Pi is an infinite sequence of seemingly random digits, but it contains only a few bits of information: the size of the short program that can produce the consecutive bits of pi forever. Informally we say the descriptional complexity of pi is a constant. Formally we say K(pi) = 0(1), which means "K(pi) does not grow".
2. A truly random string is not significantly compres;sible; its description length is within a constant offset of its length. Formally we say K(x) = Theta(|x|), which means "K(x) grows as fast as the length of x".
For such a historic guitar company, Gibson has put out so much crap in the last ten years it's not funny. I used to work ina guitar store and have to deal with these idiots all the time. some of what they think are good marketing ideas include:
this
and also
this!
besides the "tax" Bill Gates collects? on transactions?
From personal experience. it's a lttle unsettling to have to tell the police whenever you decide to move.
see subject line
Taliban haven't murdered anyone
only if fellow afhganis don't count as "anyone". read the newspaper for more info!
to realnowhwereman:
look at this. (this discussion needs the taliban like dick cheney needs another grilled cheese sandwich)
wow, comparing someone who sells software to a group that murders its own people (not to mention us, at least indirectly).
very insightful.