i was listening to npr today (yes yes, i'm a nerd).
there were callers that made many good points, including these two gems:
- no one would write a credible paper with just one source. if you use wikipedia, back it up with other sources. any source can be wrong, even ones bound and published, just like wiki ones.
- think critically while reading wikipedia. think critically while reading newspaper, the internet, etc etc. don't just dump anything straight into memory, assuming it to be fact.
while we're at it...
lets outlaw children from going to public parks since sexual predators go there to find children.
lets outlaw people from having candy in public areas since sexual predators use that to lure small children.
lets outlaw people under the age of 18 from being in public without being handcuffed to their legal parent/guardian to make it harder to abduct them.
because he doesn't want to spend a work week researching and formatting a pieces-of-crap poster when he can pay $5.00 and get a professionally researched and produced one tomorrow?
who buys CDs anymore from the big companies, anyways?
i occasionally buy some from indie lables and such or an artist who really deserves it, but i just don't feel like paying $15+ for a crappy cd.
i went to purchase a rails book the other day and gave this book and the book "Agile Web Developent with Rais" and found the agile development book to be better, imho. and $10 cheaper.
not very. they might disable the print screen functionality, but as long as its outputting to the screen, there should be a way to snag it, as well as the audio.
yes, there are some languages that are obsolete/dead. there are some that are still alive just because they're too entrenched to replace. but there's no one god-language that is better than all others. pretty much every language has SOME facet that is unique/different.
i'm not a seaside expert. i'm not a jsp expert. but i'm sure i could do some research, find differences, and come up with scenarios where jsp would be a better choice. maybe seaside is a better choice in most cases, but there almost definitely ARE cases where jsp is a better choice.
i could turn a screwdriver over and use it to pound in a nail, but a hammer is such a better choice. and yes, i've personally used both to nail in nails.
casual gaming has always been huge. just look at the crossword puzzle in the papers. i wonder how many millions of people in america do the daily crossword puzzle in their local paper. or how many sudoku books have been sold.
this is just porting that popularity into a medium where someone can pay a reasonable price for unlimited access to lots of different types of activities and iterations of these activities.
if i only learned one thing in my later classes in college, it was that a language is a tool. some languages make some tasks easy. some languages are better used given specific circumstances. there are differences between jsp and ruby. sure, maybe ruby does somethings better, but there are also definite advantages on the jsp side, as well.
google is just just trying to keep their monopoly on the internets tubes. imho, they're being pretty greedy and its hurting the consumers. i mean, come on! it took me 5 days for the internets to download at my office!
read an article earlier today about this reporting that they split them up into groups. can't say which one is incorrect, but this article definitely makes it more statistically sound.
40 people? thats not that many.
its just as likely that they got the really good drivers drunk and all the shiat drivers were handed cell phones.
not that i doubt the conclusion, or anything. i hate cellphone-talking drivers. i'm just saying that 40 is kind of a small sample size for something being touted so much by the anti-cellphone-while-driving peoples.
imho, ps3 will be too niche-market to compete well. $600 for the base system and $100 per game is getting quite pricey.
it will be xbox360 vs wii. higher quality graphics, online play vs innovative games and play style. the 360 will be out earlier, but the wii will be released cheaper than the 360 could probably ever become. i'm putting the wii on top with this one. i know i'll be buying one (and not a 360/ps3).
i can remember a few years back when it was the parent's resonsibility to watch their kid; when they would talk to them about stuff like this just like they would tell them to not talk to strangers, especially ones with candy.
did anyone ever sue a mall for being the place in which their child was abducted/abused/etc?
that does sound good, but it is a bit different, as it is an agent you have to download and install. also, couldn't a quick-thinking spam-ish site just include other significant keywords in their page to boost their ranking on cq web?
it does make me wonder if google implements something similar to this. the intrinsic problem is that the less-savvy masses will visit the spammy sites looking for the information and the algorithm will register them as popular because everyone visists them, thus boosting the spammy sites more than the informative ones. imho, the best way is human interaction.
i'm just throwing this out there without doing any legwork on the subject, but my immediate thought would be to hire a large team of people to sort of moderate the search results for, as an example, google. they can look through the results for the larger searches, see which ones are just spammy or bombed results and which one are useful, and moderate the more useful ones up. i'm sure that there's already some sort of popularity algorithm in there somewhere, but most average people just won't wade through 30 pages of crap to find gold. they want their good results up front.
1) Lots of execs from the online search engine industry met
2) They agree that noone is doing it well and there's lots of room for improvement
3) ???
4) Profit!
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google is more than just these two guys, though.
not everyone in google can have or be in charge of the neat, innovative stuff. gruntwork still exists.
i was listening to npr today (yes yes, i'm a nerd).
there were callers that made many good points, including these two gems:
- no one would write a credible paper with just one source. if you use wikipedia, back it up with other sources. any source can be wrong, even ones bound and published, just like wiki ones.
- think critically while reading wikipedia. think critically while reading newspaper, the internet, etc etc. don't just dump anything straight into memory, assuming it to be fact.
while we're at it... lets outlaw children from going to public parks since sexual predators go there to find children. lets outlaw people from having candy in public areas since sexual predators use that to lure small children. lets outlaw people under the age of 18 from being in public without being handcuffed to their legal parent/guardian to make it harder to abduct them.
because he doesn't want to spend a work week researching and formatting a pieces-of-crap poster when he can pay $5.00 and get a professionally researched and produced one tomorrow?
who buys CDs anymore from the big companies, anyways?
i occasionally buy some from indie lables and such or an artist who really deserves it, but i just don't feel like paying $15+ for a crappy cd.
i went to purchase a rails book the other day and gave this book and the book "Agile Web Developent with Rais" and found the agile development book to be better, imho. and $10 cheaper.
not very. they might disable the print screen functionality, but as long as its outputting to the screen, there should be a way to snag it, as well as the audio.
not this shit again!
big lie? hardly.
yes, there are some languages that are obsolete/dead. there are some that are still alive just because they're too entrenched to replace. but there's no one god-language that is better than all others. pretty much every language has SOME facet that is unique/different.
i'm not a seaside expert. i'm not a jsp expert. but i'm sure i could do some research, find differences, and come up with scenarios where jsp would be a better choice. maybe seaside is a better choice in most cases, but there almost definitely ARE cases where jsp is a better choice.
i could turn a screwdriver over and use it to pound in a nail, but a hammer is such a better choice. and yes, i've personally used both to nail in nails.
casual gaming has always been huge. just look at the crossword puzzle in the papers. i wonder how many millions of people in america do the daily crossword puzzle in their local paper. or how many sudoku books have been sold.
this is just porting that popularity into a medium where someone can pay a reasonable price for unlimited access to lots of different types of activities and iterations of these activities.
not "better", "differently".
if i only learned one thing in my later classes in college, it was that a language is a tool. some languages make some tasks easy. some languages are better used given specific circumstances. there are differences between jsp and ruby. sure, maybe ruby does somethings better, but there are also definite advantages on the jsp side, as well.
google is just just trying to keep their monopoly on the internets tubes. imho, they're being pretty greedy and its hurting the consumers. i mean, come on! it took me 5 days for the internets to download at my office!
i said $100 because i just read an article saying that they were going to average around $99 per game. i didn't exaggerate.
touche, salesman.
read an article earlier today about this reporting that they split them up into groups. can't say which one is incorrect, but this article definitely makes it more statistically sound.
40 people? thats not that many.
its just as likely that they got the really good drivers drunk and all the shiat drivers were handed cell phones.
not that i doubt the conclusion, or anything. i hate cellphone-talking drivers. i'm just saying that 40 is kind of a small sample size for something being touted so much by the anti-cellphone-while-driving peoples.
imho, ps3 will be too niche-market to compete well. $600 for the base system and $100 per game is getting quite pricey.
it will be xbox360 vs wii. higher quality graphics, online play vs innovative games and play style. the 360 will be out earlier, but the wii will be released cheaper than the 360 could probably ever become. i'm putting the wii on top with this one. i know i'll be buying one (and not a 360/ps3).
i can remember a few years back when it was the parent's resonsibility to watch their kid; when they would talk to them about stuff like this just like they would tell them to not talk to strangers, especially ones with candy.
did anyone ever sue a mall for being the place in which their child was abducted/abused/etc?
Were you born vocally gifted, or did you start out like everyone else and practiced to achieve greatness?
maybe routers with windwos are more expensive :) have to cut back somewhere with all this new spending
that does sound good, but it is a bit different, as it is an agent you have to download and install. also, couldn't a quick-thinking spam-ish site just include other significant keywords in their page to boost their ranking on cq web?
it does make me wonder if google implements something similar to this. the intrinsic problem is that the less-savvy masses will visit the spammy sites looking for the information and the algorithm will register them as popular because everyone visists them, thus boosting the spammy sites more than the informative ones. imho, the best way is human interaction.
on a mac, its a prank on windows, its a virus
i'm just throwing this out there without doing any legwork on the subject, but my immediate thought would be to hire a large team of people to sort of moderate the search results for, as an example, google. they can look through the results for the larger searches, see which ones are just spammy or bombed results and which one are useful, and moderate the more useful ones up. i'm sure that there's already some sort of popularity algorithm in there somewhere, but most average people just won't wade through 30 pages of crap to find gold. they want their good results up front.
hmmm....lycos?
1) Lots of execs from the online search engine industry met
2) They agree that noone is doing it well and there's lots of room for improvement
3) ???
4) Profit!
i've heard that there are bears outside...