But they did exert control. They did not randomly pick articles. They picked articles that would likely be more evolved and less error prone (intentionally or not). This makes the results not representative of Wikipedia's error rate in general. So, no, that wasn't the point.
I think you would also need to take into consideration the maturity of the chosen articles, since Wikipedia's content evolves continuously rather than on set publication dates. Newer articles probably would have a higher error rate.
The company gave no specifics on launch date beyond saying it would be sometime in 2006.
For those not paying close attention, please note that this is a Microsoft launch date. You'll be lucky if you can still hear music by the time they actually get this launched.
You smell that? Do you smell that? **Beatles-Beatles bullshit, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of **Beatles-Beatles bullshit in the morning.
This article contains absolutely nothing novel and is like 100 other introductory AJAX articles. I even recognize code snippets. Why is it on Slashdot?
Yeah. I turned it off. It also seems buggy. When I first saw it I tried to browse/edit my feeds, and it wouldn't show any potential feeds nor the ones that were on by default. When I logged in next time it worked, though.
Yeah. All I need is black text and hyperlinks so I can cite my source from within my document. I'm tired of web developers bastardizing HTML by using hyperlinks for navigation of some multi-dimensional document (aka 'a site'). Get rid of all those fancy extras like colors, images, tables, and forms.
But, if you would, please keep the marquee element.
Yeah, or god forbid you want to check the weather on weather.com. (Although, not having flash installed, I don't really know what weather.com is using Flash for. I assume maybe the radar imagery?)
You need to change policy, not spend more money. Change the cache settings on clients. Insert caching proxy servers. Make sure mail, DNS, etc. is local. Et cetera. You should find a solution that does not have a linear (at best) relationship with the number of users.
Web pages are getting larger. It might be what is causing your increase in utilization, but to me it's hard to believe (although if your users are viewing a lot of embedded videos, that's another story). And, if it's hard for me to believe, it's probably going to be hard for your PHB to believe, too.
I know that pimping one's own stuff is severely looked down upon here, but I actually do a pretty good job of pointing out the caveats in my AJAX chapter in Professional LAMP by Wrox/Wiley, just released a few days ago. I also point out the likeness of AJAX misuses to the misuses of Flash.
Basically, there is a lot of hype because that's what gets out first. Books don't really create hype. Articles and articles about articles create hype. These have quick turnaround, so they get out first. Then you get a wave of articles about the other side. It takes more room to talk about both sides, and this usually happens in books, which have a much longer production cycle.
In other words, I think we're definitely over the crest of the hype wave. Now we can get onto actually using AJAX for useful things.
Burn, karma! Burn! (At least I didn't post the amazon link with my associate code, which I've seen many fellow pimps do.)
Of course. But you aren't just stating the obvious. You are bashing the use of statistics. This, in my mind, can only be because of a complete misunderstanding of how modern science works.
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But they did exert control. They did not randomly pick articles. They picked articles that would likely be more evolved and less error prone (intentionally or not). This makes the results not representative of Wikipedia's error rate in general. So, no, that wasn't the point.
I think you would also need to take into consideration the maturity of the chosen articles, since Wikipedia's content evolves continuously rather than on set publication dates. Newer articles probably would have a higher error rate.
... cheap advertising. All that was missing was a "step right up" intro.
It's a joke. Literally speaking, their suing people for piracy led me to hear about the movie.
The company gave no specifics on launch date beyond saying it would be sometime in 2006.
For those not paying close attention, please note that this is a Microsoft launch date. You'll be lucky if you can still hear music by the time they actually get this launched.
humans may not even reach (emotional) adulthood until well into their 30s
Seeing that slashdot lacks a large female presence, I'll have to fill in with the obligatory female retort:
"I actually know a lot of guys in their mid- to late- 40s who still haven't reached that stage."
So then instead of discussing intelligent design ad nauseum, we can argue about whether humans were really given domain over all animals. Great.
Get this book.
I hadn't heard of this movie until this story. Further proof that piracy helps the movie industry.
You smell that? Do you smell that? **Beatles-Beatles bullshit, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of **Beatles-Beatles bullshit in the morning.
I'll give you $5 to stop posting Beatles-Beatles linkwhore stories.
This article contains absolutely nothing novel and is like 100 other introductory AJAX articles. I even recognize code snippets. Why is it on Slashdot?
Yeah. I turned it off. It also seems buggy. When I first saw it I tried to browse/edit my feeds, and it wouldn't show any potential feeds nor the ones that were on by default. When I logged in next time it worked, though.
Great. I guess we can bank on seeing this story about 350,000 more times. We get slashdot dupes with events that span only a couple months.
Yeah. All I need is black text and hyperlinks so I can cite my source from within my document. I'm tired of web developers bastardizing HTML by using hyperlinks for navigation of some multi-dimensional document (aka 'a site'). Get rid of all those fancy extras like colors, images, tables, and forms.
But, if you would, please keep the marquee element.
Yeah, or god forbid you want to check the weather on weather.com. (Although, not having flash installed, I don't really know what weather.com is using Flash for. I assume maybe the radar imagery?)
"Everything will be in Macromedia Flash soon." - 1999
You need to change policy, not spend more money. Change the cache settings on clients. Insert caching proxy servers. Make sure mail, DNS, etc. is local. Et cetera. You should find a solution that does not have a linear (at best) relationship with the number of users.
Web pages are getting larger. It might be what is causing your increase in utilization, but to me it's hard to believe (although if your users are viewing a lot of embedded videos, that's another story). And, if it's hard for me to believe, it's probably going to be hard for your PHB to believe, too.
I know that pimping one's own stuff is severely looked down upon here, but I actually do a pretty good job of pointing out the caveats in my AJAX chapter in Professional LAMP by Wrox/Wiley, just released a few days ago. I also point out the likeness of AJAX misuses to the misuses of Flash.
Basically, there is a lot of hype because that's what gets out first. Books don't really create hype. Articles and articles about articles create hype. These have quick turnaround, so they get out first. Then you get a wave of articles about the other side. It takes more room to talk about both sides, and this usually happens in books, which have a much longer production cycle.
In other words, I think we're definitely over the crest of the hype wave. Now we can get onto actually using AJAX for useful things.
Burn, karma! Burn! (At least I didn't post the amazon link with my associate code, which I've seen many fellow pimps do.)
Right, because I just heard the other day that Google is having a really tough time getting people interested in working there.
Of course. But you aren't just stating the obvious. You are bashing the use of statistics. This, in my mind, can only be because of a complete misunderstanding of how modern science works.
Yeah, nice looking headlines, ignoring consequences, and being the primary inertia in modern science.
Here we go again with the rehash of 'ALL STATISTICS ARE USLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
I'd like to see an experiment that doesn't use statistics and results in higher predictive power.
This study sucks, but your anti-stats kneejerk is useless surface-feeding.
Saying he could outsmart the person who was caught builds his ego more than saying he simply wouldn't do it.
what happens if one of these tornadoes gets away?
Um, I'll tell you what happens. We finally have a response to Canadians who bitch at us Americans about sending pollution their way.