Zebra striping becomes more useful the further apart the key row is from the data in the row. It also becomes more important if there are no lines between the rows and columns. It's practically essential when you're trying to view a wide table where the key must be scrolled off screen to view the pertinent data.
In this study, the key row was the tolerance in grams, and the data was the factory outlet boolean. They were an inch and a half apart from each other, and there was no necessity to interpret multiple values in a row, but only vertically scan the key column and test for the existence of a row that has yes in the factory outlet column right next to it.
These people are spreading misinformation. The study was so contrived to support the premise, and so consciously avoidant of the actual situations where zebra striping becomes useful, that it's difficult to believe it wasn't intentionally done. If nothing else, there was far, far too little study done to make any conclusion whatsoever.
Whoever is behind article this should be working at MacDonalds.
The more we learn, the more obvious it becomes that life, far from being a unique or rare thing in the universe, is actually an inevitable natural process, and will consistently and repeatedly erupt under environmental conditions that are actually very common across the universe.
No, it makes you inferior. It makes you mewling dependents who can't care for yourselves, like babies with nukes. It makes your desperate grasping for dominion understandable, in a pathetic sort of way. Unfortunately, it doesn't make it excusable, or sustainable. There is a lot of hardship and death in your future. Fortunately.
It would make more sense to create a mailing list, and have emails sent to the list forwarded to all ten members. Then they could administer their folders as they see fit.
With 10 people on one email account, it's hardly surprising that it turned into a clusterfuck.
.I am amazed at how they make some of those old cars still work with no parts available...
Do you realize that is a sign of how far your country has fallen? It was when people said that of your people that your country was great. Now, you rely on exploitative economics and war where once you relied on yourselves, and marvel that a people could take care of themselves.
Why don't they use OS X? I seem to remember seeing an article here on/. that Steve Jobs had offered OLPC a version of OS X for free, would definitely be closer to Linux than Windows XP.
That would be much better. You can't have kids running around with ball and chains that aren't trendy, or all the people in the chat rooms will tease them. What kind of an iLife is that for a child?
Yeah, they're "fixing our government"? Is that what you call killing 3000 innocent civilians in one day?
I sure as hell don't call them innocent. People have been in the streets protesting the actions perpetrated by the people working in that building around the globe for many, many years. They got what they deserved.
Geeks can't find women because they tend to research things instead of going with their gut, and end up believing women who didn't realize they were lesbians until ten years after their book was published.
No... when you can teach these things to assemble into a 50 Mars Rovers, trundle across the desert, then have the lot of them reconfigure themselves into a Hubble Telescope, THAT is when it will be something to yell about.
Speak for yourself, I grew up entering programs into my VIC-20 and Commodore 64 from the back of magazines, saving them onto cassette tapes and 5 1/4 inch floppies. That's how I learned to program.
You can call bullshit all you want. I was in Melbourne, Australia, and they have gated communities there and a great deal more separation than they do in North America, like little Chinatowns.
You don't know a damned thing about what you're talking about.
Well, I have to say, having worked in businesses full of young Jews as in the religion, and heard them whinging and complaining about how they can't date, sleep with or marry any of the girls they meet because they're not Jewish, and knowing that this is a core part of their religion, a systematic thing... it just seems really funny to be defending them on the basis of prejudice.
That's not even touching on the recent political agendas of Israel, which you seem to think cannot be criticized in any way without it being a matter of vile racism.
It's really funny, this whole selling out business.
When I first started using Linux, I used Debian because of apt and because the ideology appealed to me. Then I immediately started making compromises in the name of getting shit done and having a difficult time installing and maintaining those compromises.
Ubuntu lets me make the choice to sell out in the name of getting shit done. Through the restricted and multiverse repositories, it makes it easy to do so. But it also lets me see exactly where I'm doing so, and makes it easy to stop doing so if I should wish, though of course not without consequences.
People who wish to be uncompromising in their principles or need the capacity to roll out systems with the confidence that they are not legally encumbered can do so, while people who respect the ideals but are ready to compromise can do so with foreknowledge and a minimum of fuss.
This is showing a great deal of respect for the positions of a great many users and would-be users.
I would say your argument amounts to "It doesn't matter that I don't really understand what I'm supposed to do precisely, as long as someone understands how I'm supposed to be punished properly."
Here's a piece of wisdom for you: A system is supposed to suit its participants. The less it suits its participants, the more enforcement cost is involved, until a tipping point is reached, at which point the system collapses.
How do you think your current system measures up? Consider, your nation imprisons and executes more of its citizens that just about any other. It can't even manage to rally its people to work together effectively in the face of a natural disaster, which is something most humans are hard-wired to agree is important enough to set petty differences aside. Your birth rates have been below replacement levels for decades. Does this really sound like something that is working, and serving your interests?
Clearly, in a system where people have the capacity to wield their political power without the possibility for corruption, they would want to get rid of economic power, which is unilaterally wielded to the detriment of the common good.
If there was a properly operating democratic system that doesn't contain within it convoluted mechanisms to separate people from their political power, then there would be no need to let Mr Smiths boss push people around.
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Why do you blindly assume that intelligence is a characteristic that increases the survival chances of a species?
I don't see any proof of that.
As a matter of fact, I can see lots of evidence to support the theory that too much intelligence reduces the survival chances for a species.
It seems that way, doesn't it?
Zebra striping becomes more useful the further apart the key row is from the data in the row. It also becomes more important if there are no lines between the rows and columns. It's practically essential when you're trying to view a wide table where the key must be scrolled off screen to view the pertinent data.
In this study, the key row was the tolerance in grams, and the data was the factory outlet boolean. They were an inch and a half apart from each other, and there was no necessity to interpret multiple values in a row, but only vertically scan the key column and test for the existence of a row that has yes in the factory outlet column right next to it.
These people are spreading misinformation. The study was so contrived to support the premise, and so consciously avoidant of the actual situations where zebra striping becomes useful, that it's difficult to believe it wasn't intentionally done. If nothing else, there was far, far too little study done to make any conclusion whatsoever.
Whoever is behind article this should be working at MacDonalds.
But the real question is, is there any such thing as bad publicity?
This whole drama seems manufactured to get attention for another *yawn* codec.
The more we learn, the more obvious it becomes that life, far from being a unique or rare thing in the universe, is actually an inevitable natural process, and will consistently and repeatedly erupt under environmental conditions that are actually very common across the universe.
No, it makes you inferior. It makes you mewling dependents who can't care for yourselves, like babies with nukes. It makes your desperate grasping for dominion understandable, in a pathetic sort of way. Unfortunately, it doesn't make it excusable, or sustainable. There is a lot of hardship and death in your future. Fortunately.
It would make more sense to create a mailing list, and have emails sent to the list forwarded to all ten members. Then they could administer their folders as they see fit.
With 10 people on one email account, it's hardly surprising that it turned into a clusterfuck.
Every follower of malignant leadership in history has made the same headsman's apology.
.I am amazed at how they make some of those old cars still work with no parts available...
Do you realize that is a sign of how far your country has fallen? It was when people said that of your people that your country was great. Now, you rely on exploitative economics and war where once you relied on yourselves, and marvel that a people could take care of themselves.
Why don't they use OS X? I seem to remember seeing an article here on /. that Steve Jobs had offered OLPC a version of OS X for free, would definitely be closer to Linux than Windows XP.
That would be much better. You can't have kids running around with ball and chains that aren't trendy, or all the people in the chat rooms will tease them. What kind of an iLife is that for a child?
Yeah, they're "fixing our government"? Is that what you call killing 3000 innocent civilians in one day?
I sure as hell don't call them innocent. People have been in the streets protesting the actions perpetrated by the people working in that building around the globe for many, many years. They got what they deserved.
Well, why don't you take responsibility for fixing your government so terrorists don't have to do it for you? It's your mess.
No, I equated you with Tom Cruise. But I'm not surprised you got confused. Fucking retard...
Geeks can't find women because they tend to research things instead of going with their gut, and end up believing women who didn't realize they were lesbians until ten years after their book was published.
Ahhh... but does it run Linux. /* Insert stupid joke about Beowulf here */
No... when you can teach these things to assemble into a 50 Mars Rovers, trundle across the desert, then have the lot of them reconfigure themselves into a Hubble Telescope, THAT is when it will be something to yell about.
Yeah... you understand it all right... just like Tom Cruise understands Scientology...
Fuckin retard...
That is the point. All you have to do is disable the multiverse and restricted repos and you're there.
Speak for yourself, I grew up entering programs into my VIC-20 and Commodore 64 from the back of magazines, saving them onto cassette tapes and 5 1/4 inch floppies. That's how I learned to program.
So the truth is, you just don't want people to be judgmental of your kin, and if that means turning a blind eye, then that's what it means.
You can call bullshit all you want. I was in Melbourne, Australia, and they have gated communities there and a great deal more separation than they do in North America, like little Chinatowns.
You don't know a damned thing about what you're talking about.
Well, I have to say, having worked in businesses full of young Jews as in the religion, and heard them whinging and complaining about how they can't date, sleep with or marry any of the girls they meet because they're not Jewish, and knowing that this is a core part of their religion, a systematic thing... it just seems really funny to be defending them on the basis of prejudice.
That's not even touching on the recent political agendas of Israel, which you seem to think cannot be criticized in any way without it being a matter of vile racism.
You're a very ignorant fellow.
It's really funny, this whole selling out business.
When I first started using Linux, I used Debian because of apt and because the ideology appealed to me. Then I immediately started making compromises in the name of getting shit done and having a difficult time installing and maintaining those compromises.
Ubuntu lets me make the choice to sell out in the name of getting shit done. Through the restricted and multiverse repositories, it makes it easy to do so. But it also lets me see exactly where I'm doing so, and makes it easy to stop doing so if I should wish, though of course not without consequences.
People who wish to be uncompromising in their principles or need the capacity to roll out systems with the confidence that they are not legally encumbered can do so, while people who respect the ideals but are ready to compromise can do so with foreknowledge and a minimum of fuss.
This is showing a great deal of respect for the positions of a great many users and would-be users.
I'm going to assume you're Jewish.
So... being that you're one of those tolerant people who makes the rest of us racists look bad, tell me something.
Would you marry someone who wasn't Jewish?
I would say your argument amounts to "It doesn't matter that I don't really understand what I'm supposed to do precisely, as long as someone understands how I'm supposed to be punished properly."
Here's a piece of wisdom for you: A system is supposed to suit its participants. The less it suits its participants, the more enforcement cost is involved, until a tipping point is reached, at which point the system collapses.
How do you think your current system measures up? Consider, your nation imprisons and executes more of its citizens that just about any other. It can't even manage to rally its people to work together effectively in the face of a natural disaster, which is something most humans are hard-wired to agree is important enough to set petty differences aside. Your birth rates have been below replacement levels for decades. Does this really sound like something that is working, and serving your interests?
Clearly, in a system where people have the capacity to wield their political power without the possibility for corruption, they would want to get rid of economic power, which is unilaterally wielded to the detriment of the common good.
If there was a properly operating democratic system that doesn't contain within it convoluted mechanisms to separate people from their political power, then there would be no need to let Mr Smiths boss push people around.