A study wants to find participants. They place an advertisement in the local newspaper, asking people to participate in their study. The study consists of surveys, mailed to the participants every year. Two-hundred people respond.
This is a typical scenario that takes place in thousands of University psychology studies all over the country. My fiancee is a PhD student, and this is how most of them work.
There are factors to consider, though. Your analyses rely on certain variables, which allow you to filter out any that don't meet the requirements. A simple example would be: if you're looking at women only, then don't run the analyses on the men.
The Yahoo! article ends with a mention about this guy's (from AdTI) upcoming book. It sounds to me as if his claims are nothing more than a publicity stunt, generating interest in his book.
Unfortunately, I don't get to watch the Cubs games as video. I'm stuck with the MLB.com or Sportsline web coverage. I seem to recall watching a Quicktime video (redvsblue!) behind another window. I'll take a look at it on Monday and see what happens.
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this story. I use Vitrite on my desktop at work. It's great for watching the Cubs game through my coding window. When we win, that is...
"I'd like to hear what the buying public has to say..."
And you're asking Slashdot?
Seriously, my only experience with Suse was my attempt to install it. Failure! It wouldn't recognize half of my hardware, including my network card. So I couldn't install it via the network install (which seemed to be the only way I was allowed to do it). I gave up and installed Mandrake in record time - it recognized everything right away and has worked beautifully.
And people claim Linux is easy to install/use/learn. If Suse is representative of Linux, we're in trouble. Mandrake and Knoppix are what I use to show off Linux.
I'd defend the rights of Rush Limbaugh, KKK, Nazis, Libertarians, Conservatives, Liberals, sexists, etc. Because their rights are my rights too. I can disagree with what they say, but their right to say it is something I will defend. Your rights only exist because your enemies' rights do.
Every time someone says this, a bunch of people come out and claim it's a myth and that MS makes money or breaks even. I've never seen any numbers on this - my Google searches never turned up anything, either. Anyone have a reliable source on that?
More on-topic: I've been holding off on buying a dedicated piece of hardware for this... I don't want to pay for a service and I can't afford to spend that much. This looks like a hell of a package to slap onto a cheap PC (and hide behind my TV!).
First, the DMCA contradicts fair use - one that makes it illegal and one that makes it legal.
Just because it's a law doesn't mean it's not wrong; if you're not willing to question the law then it's open to abuse (such as the DMCA). Your duty as a citizen is to participate in the governing of the country, not to blindly accept everything handed to you. Unless, of course, you live in a shitty country where you aren't afforded reasonable rights. Then it's your own damn fault.
Also, I own maybe 40 DVDs - and I've had several of them scratched, broken, lost, or stolen. A backup (provided by fair use) would solve any of those. I copy all of my CDs to play in my car (one of the only places I play CDs) - if they get stolen, I'm not out anything but the relatively minimal cost of the backups.
I'll play Devil's advocate for a moment: Those artists wouldn't be where they are (playing on your radio, or downloadable on your Kazaa) without the support for the label. They certainly wouldn't have had the recording time, staff of engineers/producers/marketing folks, the distribution, the advertisements, or the promotion without those evil labels. As much as I hate it, the 50 cents that goes to the artist (which is much more than most estimates I've heard) isn't really a fleecing.
Think about it: who did the hard work? Who made it possible for them to go from "starving artist" to "pop star?" Other than writing (sometimes) and performing (some of it) the songs, the artist is not the one laboring.
Some of my favorite artists were able to survive without a label (but they never got huge). Others got huge on a label, but were wise with their money and started their own as soon as they could.
"So, once again, think about what you install on your computer just like you would think about what you eat or who you have sex with. If you don't know, trust or suspect that software/food/person, then either screen them or think twice."
The Slashdot folks obviously think alot about what kinds of food they eat (everything) and who they have sex with (nobody).
I've been thinking about the Turing test lately and I wonder if it's not inherently flawed. It requires human perception, which is fallible and inconsistent, to validate the quality of AI. I certainly think it's an important component - that is, drawing from human ability to recognize animated life - but being able to fool a human being isn't the same as artificially intelligent.
If you add in self-preservation as a requirement (Asimov) perhaps it would be a better test.
VoIP over port 80. Unless they're monitoring traffic for specific packets (not just blocking ports)... then again, I have a feeling that these planes won't also be equipped with a sysadmin and Packeteer. Then again... that would explain the costs.
Your complaint is really strange - the web is almost entirely client/server. You've obviously no problem using Slashdot, and that's not much different.
Not that I can really blame him, but this interview is simply a promotion of his new OSRM company. Like posting an interview with your favorite movie star (who spend the entire time plugging his or her new film). It just doesn't seem like "news" as much as it is a commercial.
We use a 7x duplicator for our under 500 jobs. Anything more and we usually send it off. A glass master press is too expensive for small jobs like that.
The thing has paid for itself a hundred times over - the markup on CDs is amazing, and with the demand for small runs we make a tidy side profit from our normal business. The duplicator sits on our multimedia developer's desk and he can run about 500 almost unconsciously.
For some research, I agree. But it still takes time to figure out exactly where to look and how to get it from there in a library.
Where in the library are you? Is the Who's Who book right behind you, or on the second floor? Do you need to get the Ciardi translation of Dante's Inferno? It's on the 9th floor.
It can take ten minutes to look up, track down, and find the resource you need. At least, in some libraries. The ones I'm most familiar with are University libraries with many floors and slow elevators.:)
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Consider this scenario:
A study wants to find participants. They place an advertisement in the local newspaper, asking people to participate in their study. The study consists of surveys, mailed to the participants every year. Two-hundred people respond.
This is a typical scenario that takes place in thousands of University psychology studies all over the country. My fiancee is a PhD student, and this is how most of them work.
There are factors to consider, though. Your analyses rely on certain variables, which allow you to filter out any that don't meet the requirements. A simple example would be: if you're looking at women only, then don't run the analyses on the men.
As opposed to what? Are you joking? You can't force people to take a survey. All surveys (with the exception of a census, I guess) are voluntary.
The Yahoo! article ends with a mention about this guy's (from AdTI) upcoming book. It sounds to me as if his claims are nothing more than a publicity stunt, generating interest in his book.
Unfortunately, I don't get to watch the Cubs games as video. I'm stuck with the MLB.com or Sportsline web coverage. I seem to recall watching a Quicktime video (redvsblue!) behind another window. I'll take a look at it on Monday and see what happens.
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this story. I use Vitrite on my desktop at work. It's great for watching the Cubs game through my coding window. When we win, that is...
"I'd like to hear what the buying public has to say..."
And you're asking Slashdot?
Seriously, my only experience with Suse was my attempt to install it. Failure! It wouldn't recognize half of my hardware, including my network card. So I couldn't install it via the network install (which seemed to be the only way I was allowed to do it). I gave up and installed Mandrake in record time - it recognized everything right away and has worked beautifully.
And people claim Linux is easy to install/use/learn. If Suse is representative of Linux, we're in trouble. Mandrake and Knoppix are what I use to show off Linux.
OMG LOL!!!!1
Another month-day switchup post, none of which are funny and all of which are annoying.
iTunes is only required if you want to take advantage of the largest (fullscreen) size. You can still open up the others in your browser.
I'd defend the rights of Rush Limbaugh, KKK, Nazis, Libertarians, Conservatives, Liberals, sexists, etc. Because their rights are my rights too. I can disagree with what they say, but their right to say it is something I will defend. Your rights only exist because your enemies' rights do.
all while MS makes a loss on the XBox.
Every time someone says this, a bunch of people come out and claim it's a myth and that MS makes money or breaks even. I've never seen any numbers on this - my Google searches never turned up anything, either. Anyone have a reliable source on that?
More on-topic: I've been holding off on buying a dedicated piece of hardware for this... I don't want to pay for a service and I can't afford to spend that much. This looks like a hell of a package to slap onto a cheap PC (and hide behind my TV!).
First, the DMCA contradicts fair use - one that makes it illegal and one that makes it legal.
Just because it's a law doesn't mean it's not wrong; if you're not willing to question the law then it's open to abuse (such as the DMCA). Your duty as a citizen is to participate in the governing of the country, not to blindly accept everything handed to you. Unless, of course, you live in a shitty country where you aren't afforded reasonable rights. Then it's your own damn fault.
Also, I own maybe 40 DVDs - and I've had several of them scratched, broken, lost, or stolen. A backup (provided by fair use) would solve any of those. I copy all of my CDs to play in my car (one of the only places I play CDs) - if they get stolen, I'm not out anything but the relatively minimal cost of the backups.
I'll play Devil's advocate for a moment: Those artists wouldn't be where they are (playing on your radio, or downloadable on your Kazaa) without the support for the label. They certainly wouldn't have had the recording time, staff of engineers/producers/marketing folks, the distribution, the advertisements, or the promotion without those evil labels. As much as I hate it, the 50 cents that goes to the artist (which is much more than most estimates I've heard) isn't really a fleecing.
Think about it: who did the hard work? Who made it possible for them to go from "starving artist" to "pop star?" Other than writing (sometimes) and performing (some of it) the songs, the artist is not the one laboring.
Some of my favorite artists were able to survive without a label (but they never got huge). Others got huge on a label, but were wise with their money and started their own as soon as they could.
"So, once again, think about what you install on your computer just like you would think about what you eat or who you have sex with. If you don't know, trust or suspect that software/food/person, then either screen them or think twice."
The Slashdot folks obviously think alot about what kinds of food they eat (everything) and who they have sex with (nobody).
I've been thinking about the Turing test lately and I wonder if it's not inherently flawed. It requires human perception, which is fallible and inconsistent, to validate the quality of AI. I certainly think it's an important component - that is, drawing from human ability to recognize animated life - but being able to fool a human being isn't the same as artificially intelligent.
If you add in self-preservation as a requirement (Asimov) perhaps it would be a better test.
VoIP over port 80. Unless they're monitoring traffic for specific packets (not just blocking ports)... then again, I have a feeling that these planes won't also be equipped with a sysadmin and Packeteer. Then again... that would explain the costs.
I started clicking the ones I considered to be "sure bets" - and found there were way too many.
And Steve Case wasn't on my list.
...mountains on Mars as faces?
"Sir, we've got a convicted felon... wait, that's just a bunch of flowers. I hate this stupid program."
Your complaint is really strange - the web is almost entirely client/server. You've obviously no problem using Slashdot, and that's not much different.
Note that I started my post with "I can't blame him" - Perens is doing what I would do in his place... but is it news for Slashdot?
Not that I can really blame him, but this interview is simply a promotion of his new OSRM company. Like posting an interview with your favorite movie star (who spend the entire time plugging his or her new film). It just doesn't seem like "news" as much as it is a commercial.
We use a 7x duplicator for our under 500 jobs. Anything more and we usually send it off. A glass master press is too expensive for small jobs like that.
The thing has paid for itself a hundred times over - the markup on CDs is amazing, and with the demand for small runs we make a tidy side profit from our normal business. The duplicator sits on our multimedia developer's desk and he can run about 500 almost unconsciously.
Man, I sound like a magazine testimonial.
Same here. As much as I want to get away from Comcast, they're my only reasonable high-speed option.
I think it's faster to find a helpful resource via lookup than to browse a few thousand books on that topic.
There was at least one search that used quotes and a + term. Some people are more efficient searchers, you're right.
And you bring up a good point about the accuracy - a respected journal isn't likely to publish your paper if your references are all HTTP://....
For some research, I agree. But it still takes time to figure out exactly where to look and how to get it from there in a library.
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Where in the library are you? Is the Who's Who book right behind you, or on the second floor? Do you need to get the Ciardi translation of Dante's Inferno? It's on the 9th floor.
It can take ten minutes to look up, track down, and find the resource you need. At least, in some libraries. The ones I'm most familiar with are University libraries with many floors and slow elevators.