Boooo! You're right. Slashdot is not Hormel-compliant.
And they even posted an article on that matter:(
Amazon doesn't get the job done
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An IMDb for Books
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· Score: 2, Interesting
For-profit or not, IMDb is MUCH more useful as an informational site than Amazon is. Despite IMDb's tie-in with Amazon, it still is presented in a info first, sell second fashion, in my opinion.
IMDb lists tons of titles which you have absolutely no chance of buying from them.
IMDb has the extremely useful 'home pages' for any actor, director, etc. which you can see their entire body of work and even sort the info in a bunch of different ways. Where is a comparable feature for authors on Amazon?
IMDb does not try to sell me clothing, kitchenware, and other such nonsense on a movie review page. Amazon on the other hand..
A movie's 'home page' is not ridiculously long and bloated like a book's home page on Amazon.
You can do some pretty tremendous things with IMDb's advanced search that I have yet to see in Amason. Character name search for example?
IMDb has a much more pleasant interface. Almost everything on the site is a link to gobs more information.
Amazon is a great online store, but in terms of being a raw informational web database, I feel it leaves a lot to be desired. I think an 'IMDb for books' is something good to strive for. It DOES fill a need.
It is kind of frustrating to read articles like this because the action seen in the Daytona 500 is not indicative of NASCAR racing in general. Since the Daytona 500 is by far the biggest race and thus picks up the most casual viewers, there are many people getting to see true NASCAR action, but the very ugly restrictor place bastardization instead.
There are 36 races in the NASCAR season. Four of them, including the Daytona 500, are run with restrictor plates on the carburetors (which limits the horsepower). The effects that these plates have on the cars and the race are many, but the net effect is that they equalize the cars to a ridiculous degree. What this means is that the draft becomes the only away to get an advantage on another car and so you absolutely need a 'buddy' to run with you if you want to make a pass. This is the phenomenon that is explored in the Slate article.
Now, there are some interesting things that go on during a NASCAR restrictor plate race: the cooperation with opponents, the constant need of strategy, the frequent teamwork, etc. And hey, the game theory applications in the referenced articles are pretty neat. It is indeed a high-speed chess game. But as someone else already said here, one thing is it NOT, is racing.
Rest assured that most of the races in the NASCAR season still boil down to a good old fashioned "run the car as fast as you can, the best man wins". For sure, drafting strategy still comes into play in some of the other races on the larger tracks, but it's not the one and only thing that determines every position on the track. In this poster's opinion, it's a shame that the great Daytona 500 is sullied by restrictor plates.
Note: Restrictor plates were mandated by NASCAR as a safety measure, but the way they equalize everybody's speed causes extremely congested groups of cars, and that has led to some really huge crashes. One could argue that Dale Earnhardt's death is partly attributable to the restrictor plate rule. It's a very controversial issue.
Hmm where to begin here. PageRank is used all the time, it's the main factor in determining the order of your search results.
And yes PageRank is based on how many times a page is linked.
I'm curious to know how you personally have been ranking pages:)
That's right, Tunah. Saying white has been proven to win in chess is an absolute falsehood.
I think a lot of high-level players would speculate that it's more likely that the final outcome is a draw, but regardless, the important point is that nobody knows.
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err, after you just got done describing how those browsers AREN'T affected?
That was a whole lot of shilling before you got to the part where you actually comment on the article.
Even though it's called a patch, that's almost a misnomer. With the features it's offering, It's more like a free, downloadable expansion pack.
Spreading to other sites? Surely you don't think Slashdot 'invented' the Web practice of posting gags on April Fool's day.
Boooo! You're right. Slashdot is not Hormel-compliant.
:(
And they even posted an article on that matter
For-profit or not, IMDb is MUCH more useful as an informational site than Amazon is. Despite IMDb's tie-in with Amazon, it still is presented in a info first, sell second fashion, in my opinion.
IMDb lists tons of titles which you have absolutely no chance of buying from them.
IMDb has the extremely useful 'home pages' for any actor, director, etc. which you can see their entire body of work and even sort the info in a bunch of different ways. Where is a comparable feature for authors on Amazon?
IMDb does not try to sell me clothing, kitchenware, and other such nonsense on a movie review page. Amazon on the other hand..
A movie's 'home page' is not ridiculously long and bloated like a book's home page on Amazon.
You can do some pretty tremendous things with IMDb's advanced search that I have yet to see in Amason. Character name search for example?
IMDb has a much more pleasant interface. Almost everything on the site is a link to gobs more information.
Amazon is a great online store, but in terms of being a raw informational web database, I feel it leaves a lot to be desired. I think an 'IMDb for books' is something good to strive for. It DOES fill a need.
It is kind of frustrating to read articles like this because the action seen in the Daytona 500 is not indicative of NASCAR racing in general. Since the Daytona 500 is by far the biggest race and thus picks up the most casual viewers, there are many people getting to see true NASCAR action, but the very ugly restrictor place bastardization instead.
There are 36 races in the NASCAR season. Four of them, including the Daytona 500, are run with restrictor plates on the carburetors (which limits the horsepower). The effects that these plates have on the cars and the race are many, but the net effect is that they equalize the cars to a ridiculous degree. What this means is that the draft becomes the only away to get an advantage on another car and so you absolutely need a 'buddy' to run with you if you want to make a pass. This is the phenomenon that is explored in the Slate article.
Now, there are some interesting things that go on during a NASCAR restrictor plate race: the cooperation with opponents, the constant need of strategy, the frequent teamwork, etc. And hey, the game theory applications in the referenced articles are pretty neat. It is indeed a high-speed chess game. But as someone else already said here, one thing is it NOT, is racing.
Rest assured that most of the races in the NASCAR season still boil down to a good old fashioned "run the car as fast as you can, the best man wins". For sure, drafting strategy still comes into play in some of the other races on the larger tracks, but it's not the one and only thing that determines every position on the track. In this poster's opinion, it's a shame that the great Daytona 500 is sullied by restrictor plates.
Note: Restrictor plates were mandated by NASCAR as a safety measure, but the way they equalize everybody's speed causes extremely congested groups of cars, and that has led to some really huge crashes. One could argue that Dale Earnhardt's death is partly attributable to the restrictor plate rule. It's a very controversial issue.
I know, it makes no sense. The Internet can do everything a BBS can do, and better. But BBSes were still cooler.
What are these guys doing these days? Maybe they can come up with something to get the BBS scene going again. I miss it.
Hmm. I use the toolbar to an unhealthy degree, and I've never seen those voting buttons. What am I doing wrong?
Hmm where to begin here. PageRank is used all the time, it's the main factor in determining the order of your search results. And yes PageRank is based on how many times a page is linked. I'm curious to know how you personally have been ranking pages :)
That's right, Tunah. Saying white has been proven to win in chess is an absolute falsehood. I think a lot of high-level players would speculate that it's more likely that the final outcome is a draw, but regardless, the important point is that nobody knows.