there are occasional misleading statements that a beginner probably won't recognize as such.
Even one example would have greatly bolstered the reviewer's argument here.
When no examples are given, we do not have any idea in what way the author is "misleading," on which topics the author is liable to slip, or how serious the problem is.
There are about 166 million residential phone numbers in the United States, the FTC said, and the wireless industry estimates
there are more than 147 million U.S. cell phone numbers.
Cell phones aren't supposed to be called by telemarketers at all, since the recipient of the call pays.
16.867% of residential numbers have already been added to the federal Do Not Call list.
it would probably mean that people with something intelligent to say about the article, will actually read all of it and think about what they want to say instead of just pressing "reply" in the hopes of not being bumped to post #132
$ != intelligence
The new subscriber benefits do not reward insightful/informative/funny posts. Instead of ignoring some of the earliest comments for being likely "First post!" trolls, some may wish to avoid twice as many of the first comments when this kicks in, because then we may have the blowhards who paid to get an early comment in, followed by the trolls.
Static link to dynamic content? Surely someone had figured out how to send a query to a search engine.
Also, there are the "What's New" pages, which were very popular before 1996. Here's a FAQ from 1995 that mentions several "What's New" sites. Surely this isn't the earliest. GNN had a "What's New" page in April 1995 at the latest, and the WWWW (World Wide Web Worm) at Colorado was also around by April 1994 at the latest.
If the powers that be at AMIBIOS are hellbent on doing this, will users of your company's BIOS be able to upgrade/update without being forced to include the Big Brother "features"?
I think it is the concept this guy speaks of( can't get to the article ). The idea was that you had a file format which allowed application data to be stored together with many applications all in one file
No, what Gelernter is talking about is actually an alternative metaphor for document management. Files, he says, are soooooo 1946. So what he proposes is an Internet-accessible "information structure" that is visual, three-dimensional, and based on time. Instead of the filing cabinet metaphor, what you would have as a method of organizing and retrieving data would be a "3-D stream of electronic documents flowing through time." So, apparently there are still discrete units in this proposal, but they are organised by date and time.
Since he teaches computer science at the university level, he had better know the difference between an operating system and user interface. Gelernter says:
An operating system connects the user (and the user's software) to the ensemble of machines we call a computer.
So far, so good.
Unfortunately, he goes on to immediately add:
But nowadays users no longer want to be connected to computers. They want to be connected to information
This blurs the distinction between OS and UI, and implies that the main job of the operating system is to somehow mystically "connect" users to the computer. It makes the human user sound like a peripheral. It is a simplification that borders on demagoguery. Yes, people want information. But something or someone has to handle the low-level tasks of co-ordinating all those 1s and 0s. Those users who don't want to be "connected" to computers certainly would not want to spend their time on this. It would be better to hand this job off to software. Gee, that sounds like an operating system.
What blows me away is not the racist speech blocking, but the fact that they're blocking anti-abortion websites from google's listings...
I don't see a reference to abortion anywhere on the Harvard web site summarizing the study. The supposition that jesus-is-lord.com was blocked because it is anti-abortion may be a conjecture by Declan McCullagh. The site in question is vehemently anti-Catholic. Might it be over the line as far as French or German law is concerned, and regarded as inciting hatred?
Now it is merely a redirect to a web hosting company. But it used to be a Wotanist site, 14 Word Press. (If this site doesn't look like much, view source.) It was white supremacist at least. They called for the establishment of an exclusive White nation, to preserve "the beauty of the White Aryan woman." The "14 words" are a recently coined white supremacist slogan.
The story you mention is in the Linux Journal. Which is fairly cool for those of the geek persuasion. A hated law (DMCA), free speech issues, and a search engine favored by many.
There has also been a roundup story about Scientology v. Google at Search Engine Watch. Possibly before Google started directing censored results to Chilling Effects. This is of interest to SEOs and, more generally, to those who are curious about search engines.
The story today is in the New York Times. Essentially the same story, but the audience is different. PHBs might read the NYT. Academics read the NYT. It is a mainstream publication with a reputation for quality.
printing was banned in most of the modern world. This was because the good prople of the church knew that only they could speek the word of the gospal
Bull. The first book printed in the West with movable type was the Gutenberg Bible. You may have heard of it. It was a Catholic Bible. The Protestants for their part had no reason to ban the printing press, as it was far too handy a tool for mass production of broadsheets and books.
In the US, nearly 70% of people who downloaded music burned the songs on to a CD-R disc, while 35% of people downloading more than 20 songs per month said they now buy less music as a result.
So, in other words, 65% of the people in the U.S. who download the most music off the 'Net either:
buy more music,
buy the same amount as before, or
don't know how their music buying now compares to their earlier purchases.
So overall it appears as though downloads might not be to blame for cutting into sales. One would want to know, for example, how much more and how much less these subgroups bought, and whether they were heavy music buyers before.
This is a rather clumsy blunder in a press release intended (apparently) to scare the music industry and raise sympathy for their plight among their friends in government. A minority of the heaviest users of a new technology are buying less. Hard to feel sorry for the industry.
PHB: Pointy-Haired Boss. It's a reference to the cartoon Dilbert.
TCO: Total Cost of Ownership. Corporate-speak. Said of IT components. Recognition that an upfront price tag is not the whole story. There are other costs in the long run: hardware and software, maintenance, support, staff, licensing, etc.
Depends who you ask. Some people believe that the "Vikings" (actually, a fourteenth-century band of Goths and Norwegians) made it as far inland as west central Minnesota.
Look up the Kensington Runestone. This is controversial, however; some people think it is a hoax.
When consumers first insert a new DVD (this does not apply to subsequent insertions), Windows Media Player goes up to Windowsmedia.com (WMC) and gets the chapter information....
When the player contacts WMC, it sends a cookie that includes no personal identifying information. This allows WMC to personalize the radio tuner and measure--in general terms--how many users are
connecting to it.
So it appears that completely disabling cookies is not the only way to stop Windows Media Player from phoning home. You could also add windowsmedia.com to your HOSTS file or to ad-blocking software like Internet Junkbuster.
Slashdot Mirror
YMMV, but currently SCO is #11 on a list of litigious bastards. This uses an IP number in the Canopy Group netblock rather than domain name.
Quoth Zork the Almighty:
Watch this get +4 insightful.
Off-by-one error.
Lowering prices is a good step. But are they audio CDs, or are they silvery copy-restricted discs?
there are occasional misleading statements that a beginner probably won't recognize as such.
Even one example would have greatly bolstered the reviewer's argument here.
When no examples are given, we do not have any idea in what way the author is "misleading," on which topics the author is liable to slip, or how serious the problem is.
romec wrote:
I wonder what percentage 28 million is of household phone numbers.
RTFS.*
Cell phones aren't supposed to be called by telemarketers at all, since the recipient of the call pays.
16.867% of residential numbers have already been added to the federal Do Not Call list.
* Sidebar.
Now Slashdot will be hearing from the Church of Scientology, because /. used the phrase "rat brain" in a headline.
"Let's go ahead and /. that one right now"
Done!
tcdk opined:
$ != intelligence
The new subscriber benefits do not reward insightful/informative/funny posts. Instead of ignoring some of the earliest comments for being likely "First post!" trolls, some may wish to avoid twice as many of the first comments when this kicks in, because then we may have the blowhards who paid to get an early comment in, followed by the trolls.
Static link to dynamic content? Surely someone had figured out how to send a query to a search engine.
Also, there are the "What's New" pages, which were very popular before 1996. Here's a FAQ from 1995 that mentions several "What's New" sites. Surely this isn't the earliest. GNN had a "What's New" page in April 1995 at the latest, and the WWWW (World Wide Web Worm) at Colorado was also around by April 1994 at the latest.
If the powers that be at AMIBIOS are hellbent on doing this, will users of your company's BIOS be able to upgrade/update without being forced to include the Big Brother "features"?
Locutus guessed,
No, what Gelernter is talking about is actually an alternative metaphor for document management. Files, he says, are soooooo 1946. So what he proposes is an Internet-accessible "information structure" that is visual, three-dimensional, and based on time. Instead of the filing cabinet metaphor, what you would have as a method of organizing and retrieving data would be a "3-D stream of electronic documents flowing through time." So, apparently there are still discrete units in this proposal, but they are organised by date and time.
Since he teaches computer science at the university level, he had better know the difference between an operating system and user interface. Gelernter says:
So far, so good.
Unfortunately, he goes on to immediately add:
This blurs the distinction between OS and UI, and implies that the main job of the operating system is to somehow mystically "connect" users to the computer. It makes the human user sound like a peripheral. It is a simplification that borders on demagoguery. Yes, people want information. But something or someone has to handle the low-level tasks of co-ordinating all those 1s and 0s. Those users who don't want to be "connected" to computers certainly would not want to spend their time on this. It would be better to hand this job off to software. Gee, that sounds like an operating system.
chillingeffects.org is about First Amendment rights. That means it's about the United States.
McCart42 says,
What blows me away is not the racist speech blocking, but the fact that they're blocking anti-abortion websites from google's listings...
I don't see a reference to abortion anywhere on the Harvard web site summarizing the study. The supposition that jesus-is-lord.com was blocked because it is anti-abortion may be a conjecture by Declan McCullagh. The site in question is vehemently anti-Catholic. Might it be over the line as far as French or German law is concerned, and regarded as inciting hatred?
Blockquoth the poster:
Now it is merely a redirect to a web hosting company. But it used to be a Wotanist site, 14 Word Press. (If this site doesn't look like much, view source.) It was white supremacist at least. They called for the establishment of an exclusive White nation, to preserve "the beauty of the White Aryan woman." The "14 words" are a recently coined white supremacist slogan.
You'd better hope your debugger doesn't start singing this ditty.
NewbieSpaz guesses:
Sure they will. Didn't you read the article? Just as long as the registrars can verify their credentials.
There has also been a roundup story about Scientology v. Google at Search Engine Watch. Possibly before Google started directing censored results to Chilling Effects. This is of interest to SEOs and, more generally, to those who are curious about search engines.
The story today is in the New York Times. Essentially the same story, but the audience is different. PHBs might read the NYT. Academics read the NYT. It is a mainstream publication with a reputation for quality.
The NYT story recommends searching for "helatrobus." Or you can search for Xenu vainquit (no quotes). Then look at the bottom of the results.
oliverthered burbled,
Bull. The first book printed in the West with movable type was the Gutenberg Bible. You may have heard of it. It was a Catholic Bible. The Protestants for their part had no reason to ban the printing press, as it was far too handy a tool for mass production of broadsheets and books.
The press release from the IFPI says in part,
So, in other words, 65% of the people in the U.S. who download the most music off the 'Net either:
So overall it appears as though downloads might not be to blame for cutting into sales. One would want to know, for example, how much more and how much less these subgroups bought, and whether they were heavy music buyers before.
This is a rather clumsy blunder in a press release intended (apparently) to scare the music industry and raise sympathy for their plight among their friends in government. A minority of the heaviest users of a new technology are buying less. Hard to feel sorry for the industry.
FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Marketing tactic. If your product is not competing strongly, or even not existent, you let on how something awful is about to befall your competitor.
PHB: Pointy-Haired Boss. It's a reference to the cartoon Dilbert.
TCO: Total Cost of Ownership. Corporate-speak. Said of IT components. Recognition that an upfront price tag is not the whole story. There are other costs in the long run: hardware and software, maintenance, support, staff, licensing, etc.
In the future, you might try the Jargon File.
marjine says,
Depends who you ask. Some people believe that the "Vikings" (actually, a fourteenth-century band of Goths and Norwegians) made it as far inland as west central Minnesota.
Look up the Kensington Runestone. This is controversial, however; some people think it is a hoax.
BigBir3d says,
Not true. Claimants St. Brendan the Navigator and Leif Ericson were Christian.
Microsoft's response to the issue, mentioned above, lets it slip that Windows Media Player tries to connect to windowsmedia.com:
So it appears that completely disabling cookies is not the only way to stop Windows Media Player from phoning home. You could also add windowsmedia.com to your HOSTS file or to ad-blocking software like Internet Junkbuster.