I'm not a US citizen, so I have a couple of questions about this stuff.
So, organizations like MPAA enforce the "nocopy" rules on digital content, but what about quality assurance? If you've bought a movie and it turned out to be crappy, can you go back to store and get a 100% money back? Or if I downloaded a movie from the internet and it was crap, why should I pay for it? Will they give you a 100% money back in the movie theatre, if you didn't like what you see? If not, don't you think this is unfair?
Run the study again, but tell them there's a $100 payoff for scores over 125, and watch the scores jump.
Tell people, that you are going to kill them unless they score higher than 150 and watch the scores jump. I mean in special circumstances everybody will do *MUCH* better.
Although, I agree that women are far less competitive than men, and may be simply less interested in this IQ idea, which can't measure anything in the real world anyway.
Sending your PCs unique CPUID along with every HTTP request would be ideal for this.
I understand that you are being ironic, but in fact, CPUID won't be a silver bullet either. These researchers are trying to calculate the amount of different persons visiting the site, not the amount of different CPU's.
Reading your comment, I came out with another idea: If this j-o-m can determine what is "jerkish talk", why can't it somehow transform into some pleasant talk? (Imagine how sex phone services and tech supports can profit from this)
This would be great for getting the percieved "attitude" out of tech support calls.
Actually, this can can have a practical use in tech support. With this device tech support chiefs can control how their workers talk to customers, and fire the jerks. Of course, this device has to be tested first.
One thing with people who only do it for the money is that I tend not to trust them not to make things unnecessarily complex in order to earn the service/consulting money.
I thinks this is almost always the case, because you can make software for money or for people. If you make it for money, it is very complex for people. You definitely can do both, if you try hard, but since you already have money, why bother?
If you are about to wash a keyboard with some dishwasher or washing powder -- don't forget to use some antistatic agent. Otherwise in just a couple of days your keyboard will become dirtier than ever.
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25 serious bugfixes for Mozilla, while only 13 (for the same period) for IE. So who does better job finding and fixing bugs?
productive people working for the sake of slackers.
I always thought that really productive people are working for the sake of their work, just because they like it. No money issues involved.
Looks like the time has come for OpenHardware and OpenMusic...
Amen!
Try not to let my sig scare you too much.
Splitting into @_ is deprecated!
Speak up, please!
This changes the very concept of a computer mouse, because it is no longer simply an input device
I want a computer mouse that can cook for me, do my laundry and clean the house. Now, that's what I call a "change of the concept"!
Two Linux Engineers were fired for having a public kde-gnome e-mail flamewar
Can you imagine them working together?
...open document formats do not allow embedded video or audio in the document
They can open their format to fix that problem.
I'm not a US citizen, so I have a couple of questions about this stuff.
So, organizations like MPAA enforce the "nocopy" rules on digital content, but what about quality assurance? If you've bought a movie and it turned out to be crappy, can you go back to store and get a 100% money back? Or if I downloaded a movie from the internet and it was crap, why should I pay for it? Will they give you a 100% money back in the movie theatre, if you didn't like what you see?
If not, don't you think this is unfair?
I can give you several reasons:
I mean, go explain that to your Mom.
Run the study again, but tell them there's a $100 payoff for scores over 125, and watch the scores jump.
Tell people, that you are going to kill them unless they score higher than 150 and watch the scores jump. I mean in special circumstances everybody will do *MUCH* better.
Although, I agree that women are far less competitive than men, and may be simply less interested in this IQ idea, which can't measure anything in the real world anyway.
Sending your PCs unique CPUID along with every HTTP request would be ideal for this.
I understand that you are being ironic, but in fact, CPUID won't be a silver bullet either. These researchers are trying to calculate the amount of different persons visiting the site, not the amount of different CPU's.
Thanks you, people, for removing cookies, so all this "we watch you" stuff doesn't work.
I'm too lazy to do it myself...
"It is the time, that you've wasted for your rose, that makes your rose so important" (Saint-Exupery)
Reading your comment, I came out with another idea: If this j-o-m can determine what is "jerkish talk", why can't it somehow transform into some pleasant talk? (Imagine how sex phone services and tech supports can profit from this)
This would be great for getting the percieved "attitude" out of tech support calls.
Actually, this can can have a practical use in tech support. With this device tech support chiefs can control how their workers talk to customers, and fire the jerks. Of course, this device has to be tested first.
A PROfessional will not need it at all.
Mostly because PROfessional will not need PHP at all...
However it was this guy's last name -- Jamieson -- that confused me.
"The page cannot be displayed" looks cool! Since it is the page which explorer visits most often it is very important to make it look cool.
And I'm happy to see that cmd still doesn't show directory names properly.
GO Longhorn!
One thing with people who only do it for the money is that I tend not to trust them not to make things unnecessarily complex in order to earn the service/consulting money.
I thinks this is almost always the case, because you can make software for money or for people. If you make it for money, it is very complex for people. You definitely can do both, if you try hard, but since you already have money, why bother?
Since most of their kernel seem to be written in Visual Basic, they definitely should make it a default shell!
This should drive salaries up...
This is exactly why IBM doesn't want IT employee shortage to happen.
If you are about to wash a keyboard with some dishwasher or washing powder -- don't forget to use some antistatic agent. Otherwise in just a couple of days your keyboard will become dirtier than ever.