Indeed, I expect that should a learning-capable system monitor the posted text from actual teenage females, it should be able to identify aberrations, especially if that system manages to derive proper nouns and verbs. There will certainly be regional variation, variation based on ones' interests, and variation based on maturity, but with a large enough sample size it should be possible to figure out what is average/normal and what is an outlier.
If the same system was also monitoring groups that are not teenage females, it would learn what that group uses for vernacular and over time could track the migration of speech from high school into adulthood and be able to figure out when someone uses too many previous-generation words or expressions and not enough current-generation words or expressions, to then analyze their postings further. Some precocious teenagers will speak like adults, and probably get false-positive tagged, but it's unlikely that adults could pull it off the reverse correctly for any significant length of time. Even those that work around teenagers in schools or elsewhere will most likely fall out of formal speech into their own youth slang, not current youth slang.
At that level of money, it has nothing to do with education or technology, it's about people and knowing the right people and saying and doing the right things.
Nope. One still has to have something to offer in order to command big money. There has to be some defining characteristic to set one apart. Otherwise there'd be a lot more rich sports players, a lot more rich musicians and rappers. Mr. Acton happened to have been in the right place and at the right time, and to also have had that special thing. Had he not had it to build what he built, no one would have given him a cent to buy-out the fruits of his labors.
On the other hand, buying TV or radio time in one's market is a guaranteed way of knowing that the money that you've spent is paying for something that's being properly implemented, as in locally. It's intuitive that a local affiliate station will only broadcast the ad in its geographic area. It's also fairly easy to confirm that one's ad is being played if one buys time during a given timeslot as one can simply listen to the radio or watch TV to confirm.
Buying online advertising is less intuitive. The ad agency may say that the ad is being sent to this or that geographic area, but there's no obvious way for the customer-business to confirm independently. They're stuck relying on the self-reporting of the ad agency. They're also faced with adblocking software that might retrieve the ad but not display it, skewing the results.
As the Frontline documentary said, it's much easier to confirm the success by bringing someone already-successful in to co-opt a bit of their success, to ride on the coat tails as it were. If you watch Jenna Marbles because you want to be like her or want ladies like her, if she mentions a club or venue or bar that she's hanging out at, you're likely to take notice of that. Some will add that organization to their subscriptions and may even patronize it because of it.
The danger is that it starts switching from grass-roots to astroturfing. Look at the extreme press that the various big Comic Cons get, despite them not really being much about comics and really not having different atmospheres than older conventions and even SCA and renfaires have. It's a feeding-frenzy or a feedback loop, not because there's much to really offer, but because it's massively self-referential, and I have a feeling that it too, will pass. Too many seasons of ticket unavailability will start leaving people to look for other places, and eventually another thing will become hot, and they'll stop selling-out memberships as that new thing co-opts.
...does happen, that isn't in of itself actually a surprise, especially when one considers that Mr. Acton had an education and a career that requires either an education or above-average ability (for the sum of humans total).
The thing that I find disappointing is how the nature of overvaluation in emerging software markets (ie, any software or service that isn't showing a profit) is reaching unsupportable levels. What I want to know is, have the users of these sites started truly fundamentally changing how they behave in terms of being led down certain directions as a result of their use of software-based services like Facebook, and if so will this reflect their purchasing habits? If the answer to the second part is no, then this is just a huge bubble as there is no real inherent value in social media from an advertiser's point of view. Given that advertising is the primary means of driving revenue these days, that spells disaster.
There was a documentary on PBS the other night about the nature of social media. It first started with the co-opting of youth culture, repackaging it, and reselling it back in the form of MTV in the early noughties, and contrasted to today, where people strive for "Likes" and "subscribers". Some individuals have made personal money successfully, but it doesn't seem to translate well into the corporate profit engine well. Persons and small businesses are unlikely to afford to buy advertising through social media, so I don't see how Facebook et al are going to profit substantially from this bottom-up form of media.
And I expect the bubble to burst. Both for individual companies (Facebook replaced MySpace, something will replace Facebook) and for the industry as a whole.
...that they consider my area. The two consumer-grade broadband solutions kind of suck even though we were a pilot city for the original cablemodem spec, but oh, I would so love to have fiber to the NID, even if I'd have to buy my own single-mode gbic to make it happen...
If they're not charging for drinks, and if they don't advertise that this public house serves alcohol, then they're probably off the hook on false advertising.
We used to have problems with first-year psych students coming to Rocky Horror Picture Show to do some kind of paper or something. They were easy to spot, always showing up in September or October, generally completely oblivious to what goes on. We'd usually hold virgin auctions those nights, auctioning them (as RHPS virgins) to regulars to mess with 'em the whole night.
So "creepy and unethical" can go both ways (given the RHPS reference, pun-intended)
I thought that the best way was to put dozens of iterations of something in the run folder of their start menu. Like that "screen mate" program that launched iterations of rams that walked around on top of the windows and "munched" on GUI items, or Tiny Elvis, which would walk around on the taskbar and comment on how huuuge things were...
Given that there are only a handful of chassis builders, engines are all basically the same displacement (max allowed) regardless of brand, and that restrictor plates and other systems work to equalize things even more, it's more even than one would normally expect.
A friend of mine had a house fire whose origin could not be reliably determined. It's not all that uncommon for the source of a fire to be unresolved. That's almost worse for Tesla as it plants the seed of doubt in a way that can't be readily defended against. Even a citing of some feature of the car could be better as that feature or aspect could be changed, but if the cause isn't determined then there's nothing to do to fix it.
Well, then that's where I do have a problem with the GNU manifesto. Commercial software pays the salaries of developers and ensures that a significant number of developers are trained to produce a pool that can work on open source. Without at least some form of personal profit, I don't see that many people receiving degrees in computer science or an associated field.
Last time I checked, one of the most significant events to impact our society was perpetrated by nineteen individuals, among whom several were amateur pilots.
Yes, I'm well aware that this is a very, very small number of people. On the other hand, everyone that has anything to do with flying has been thoroughly impacted. There is no surprise that pilots have been impacted, and if they want some semblance of sanity, then I suggest they start pushing for sanity for all of us, not just complaints about their own small part of the greater problem.
The goal is to be able to run computers entirely from copyleft software. The fact that some of these were achieved externally is neither here nor there. The GNU project has in fact achieved its major goal: you can now run a computer on completely copyleft software.
If I understand it correctly, that was not the original goal of the GNU project. The original goal was to provide a a free operating environment. The goal was not to replace all commercial applications or to nit-pick free-to-use-but-commercial software, but to provide a medium on which the user could work, consistently and freely, to avoid vendor lock-in where one software company develops a vertical monopoly, where their required applications run only on their operating system, which promotes more of their own applications to the exclusion of other vendors.
If that understanding is wrong, please correct me, but that's my biggest beef with Stallman et al.
If they don't like maintaining the old code base for the interface, they can re-implement something that looks and acts like the current interface. I think it's safe to argue that Slashdot's trademark is this interface, along with the comments system. I can get all of the headlines I want at The Register.
I don't understand why they think it's possible to appeal to a wider audience with Slashdot. I mean, even the friggin' URL is a nerd joke. http:///..org for chrissakes. Besides, right now nerd culture is about as high as it's ever been. One of the most popular TV shows is The Big Bang Theory. Comic-book-adaptation movies are flooding down the pipeline. Science fiction movies are popular. Literature has embraced speculative fiction, dystopian science fiction, and fantasy in ways that we haven't seen in years. Hell, even our nerdfest conventions are more popular than ever! There's no need to try to appeal to a wider audience, the wider audience just needs to be pointed at Slashdot and the admins need to approve more geek culture stories!
Lucky us Dice still doesn't require us to sign in with facebook, disqus, livefyre to comment (TC periodically changes the comment hosting provider).
That would be the end of Slashdot. I would simply stop using the site entirely, and I suspect that just about everyone else would too.
I used Slashdot on my cell phone just fine, when I still had to use the "classic" interface. In fact, there was a clear way to get from the summary of my own posts back to the main page, something that I have not found on the mobile version.
What I REALLY don't get is why they felt that this mobile version was good. It sucks too! Put the smallest readable font on and cram as much stuff on the screen; that's what I need on my small cell phone screen. Don't give me all of 20 words that I can read, put as much on there with as plain a font as possible, using contrast and reverse color to make it work.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow... couldn't pull one over on you, could I?
Indeed, I expect that should a learning-capable system monitor the posted text from actual teenage females, it should be able to identify aberrations, especially if that system manages to derive proper nouns and verbs. There will certainly be regional variation, variation based on ones' interests, and variation based on maturity, but with a large enough sample size it should be possible to figure out what is average/normal and what is an outlier.
If the same system was also monitoring groups that are not teenage females, it would learn what that group uses for vernacular and over time could track the migration of speech from high school into adulthood and be able to figure out when someone uses too many previous-generation words or expressions and not enough current-generation words or expressions, to then analyze their postings further. Some precocious teenagers will speak like adults, and probably get false-positive tagged, but it's unlikely that adults could pull it off the reverse correctly for any significant length of time. Even those that work around teenagers in schools or elsewhere will most likely fall out of formal speech into their own youth slang, not current youth slang.
Nope. One still has to have something to offer in order to command big money. There has to be some defining characteristic to set one apart. Otherwise there'd be a lot more rich sports players, a lot more rich musicians and rappers. Mr. Acton happened to have been in the right place and at the right time, and to also have had that special thing. Had he not had it to build what he built, no one would have given him a cent to buy-out the fruits of his labors.
On the other hand, buying TV or radio time in one's market is a guaranteed way of knowing that the money that you've spent is paying for something that's being properly implemented, as in locally. It's intuitive that a local affiliate station will only broadcast the ad in its geographic area. It's also fairly easy to confirm that one's ad is being played if one buys time during a given timeslot as one can simply listen to the radio or watch TV to confirm.
Buying online advertising is less intuitive. The ad agency may say that the ad is being sent to this or that geographic area, but there's no obvious way for the customer-business to confirm independently. They're stuck relying on the self-reporting of the ad agency. They're also faced with adblocking software that might retrieve the ad but not display it, skewing the results.
As the Frontline documentary said, it's much easier to confirm the success by bringing someone already-successful in to co-opt a bit of their success, to ride on the coat tails as it were. If you watch Jenna Marbles because you want to be like her or want ladies like her, if she mentions a club or venue or bar that she's hanging out at, you're likely to take notice of that. Some will add that organization to their subscriptions and may even patronize it because of it.
The danger is that it starts switching from grass-roots to astroturfing. Look at the extreme press that the various big Comic Cons get, despite them not really being much about comics and really not having different atmospheres than older conventions and even SCA and renfaires have. It's a feeding-frenzy or a feedback loop, not because there's much to really offer, but because it's massively self-referential, and I have a feeling that it too, will pass. Too many seasons of ticket unavailability will start leaving people to look for other places, and eventually another thing will become hot, and they'll stop selling-out memberships as that new thing co-opts.
You sure that it wasn't $0.19?
...does happen, that isn't in of itself actually a surprise, especially when one considers that Mr. Acton had an education and a career that requires either an education or above-average ability (for the sum of humans total).
The thing that I find disappointing is how the nature of overvaluation in emerging software markets (ie, any software or service that isn't showing a profit) is reaching unsupportable levels. What I want to know is, have the users of these sites started truly fundamentally changing how they behave in terms of being led down certain directions as a result of their use of software-based services like Facebook, and if so will this reflect their purchasing habits? If the answer to the second part is no, then this is just a huge bubble as there is no real inherent value in social media from an advertiser's point of view. Given that advertising is the primary means of driving revenue these days, that spells disaster.
There was a documentary on PBS the other night about the nature of social media. It first started with the co-opting of youth culture, repackaging it, and reselling it back in the form of MTV in the early noughties, and contrasted to today, where people strive for "Likes" and "subscribers". Some individuals have made personal money successfully, but it doesn't seem to translate well into the corporate profit engine well. Persons and small businesses are unlikely to afford to buy advertising through social media, so I don't see how Facebook et al are going to profit substantially from this bottom-up form of media.
And I expect the bubble to burst. Both for individual companies (Facebook replaced MySpace, something will replace Facebook) and for the industry as a whole.
Couldn't she claim or attempt to claim a workplace-related injury, so that her time off does not come from her regular sick pool?
Or are they good enough to give the pharmacy employees a disproportionate pool of sick time relative to most other employers?
...that they consider my area. The two consumer-grade broadband solutions kind of suck even though we were a pilot city for the original cablemodem spec, but oh, I would so love to have fiber to the NID, even if I'd have to buy my own single-mode gbic to make it happen...
Based on the drivel they publish that makes American grocery store tabloids look like appropriate child bedtime story reading, I assume so.
But does this Miranda modify the previous Miranda? And how does that affect Barry Manilow and Mandy?
I'm so confused!
If they're not charging for drinks, and if they don't advertise that this public house serves alcohol, then they're probably off the hook on false advertising.
We used to have problems with first-year psych students coming to Rocky Horror Picture Show to do some kind of paper or something. They were easy to spot, always showing up in September or October, generally completely oblivious to what goes on. We'd usually hold virgin auctions those nights, auctioning them (as RHPS virgins) to regulars to mess with 'em the whole night.
So "creepy and unethical" can go both ways (given the RHPS reference, pun-intended)
Does tend to make one wonder about the use of the facility off-hours, doesn't it?
...and figured they could get some much-needed F14 parts if they requisitioned planes to be outfitted special for missions...
I thought that the best way was to put dozens of iterations of something in the run folder of their start menu. Like that "screen mate" program that launched iterations of rams that walked around on top of the windows and "munched" on GUI items, or Tiny Elvis, which would walk around on the taskbar and comment on how huuuge things were...
Sorry Dr. Tyson, I don't watch FOX. Not for a long time. Not planning on starting now either.
Given that there are only a handful of chassis builders, engines are all basically the same displacement (max allowed) regardless of brand, and that restrictor plates and other systems work to equalize things even more, it's more even than one would normally expect.
Not in Sochi they wouldn't...
A friend of mine had a house fire whose origin could not be reliably determined. It's not all that uncommon for the source of a fire to be unresolved. That's almost worse for Tesla as it plants the seed of doubt in a way that can't be readily defended against. Even a citing of some feature of the car could be better as that feature or aspect could be changed, but if the cause isn't determined then there's nothing to do to fix it.
I still have a bunch of posters from when Aki Ross made the Hot 100, in Maxim all those years ago.
Some day I'll be able to sell them for tens of dollars!
Well, then that's where I do have a problem with the GNU manifesto. Commercial software pays the salaries of developers and ensures that a significant number of developers are trained to produce a pool that can work on open source. Without at least some form of personal profit, I don't see that many people receiving degrees in computer science or an associated field.
Last time I checked, one of the most significant events to impact our society was perpetrated by nineteen individuals, among whom several were amateur pilots.
Yes, I'm well aware that this is a very, very small number of people. On the other hand, everyone that has anything to do with flying has been thoroughly impacted. There is no surprise that pilots have been impacted, and if they want some semblance of sanity, then I suggest they start pushing for sanity for all of us, not just complaints about their own small part of the greater problem.
If I understand it correctly, that was not the original goal of the GNU project. The original goal was to provide a a free operating environment. The goal was not to replace all commercial applications or to nit-pick free-to-use-but-commercial software, but to provide a medium on which the user could work, consistently and freely, to avoid vendor lock-in where one software company develops a vertical monopoly, where their required applications run only on their operating system, which promotes more of their own applications to the exclusion of other vendors.
If that understanding is wrong, please correct me, but that's my biggest beef with Stallman et al.
I don't understand why they think it's possible to appeal to a wider audience with Slashdot. I mean, even the friggin' URL is a nerd joke. http:///..org for chrissakes. Besides, right now nerd culture is about as high as it's ever been. One of the most popular TV shows is The Big Bang Theory. Comic-book-adaptation movies are flooding down the pipeline. Science fiction movies are popular. Literature has embraced speculative fiction, dystopian science fiction, and fantasy in ways that we haven't seen in years. Hell, even our nerdfest conventions are more popular than ever! There's no need to try to appeal to a wider audience, the wider audience just needs to be pointed at Slashdot and the admins need to approve more geek culture stories!
That would be the end of Slashdot. I would simply stop using the site entirely, and I suspect that just about everyone else would too.
I used Slashdot on my cell phone just fine, when I still had to use the "classic" interface. In fact, there was a clear way to get from the summary of my own posts back to the main page, something that I have not found on the mobile version.
What I REALLY don't get is why they felt that this mobile version was good. It sucks too! Put the smallest readable font on and cram as much stuff on the screen; that's what I need on my small cell phone screen. Don't give me all of 20 words that I can read, put as much on there with as plain a font as possible, using contrast and reverse color to make it work.