I think it *IS* hard to warn people that "what you're doing is potentially risky".
That's because all the user sees is a bright eye-catching yellow box that says "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah [OK]".
The website where they downloaded the thing has soothing instructions and screenshots that when a yellow bar appears you just click "OK" on it, with "OK" helpfully circled in the screenshots. Whom will the user trust -- a bizarre yellow box with words they don't understand and concepts they don't care about, or a soothing website which has anticipated their problem well enough to walk them through it?
If you have two identical pieces of music and you require people to rank them in order of preference, then the results will necessarily be perfectly random. This provides a built-in calibration.
Conversely, if the results are not random, then the people could necessarily tell differences in them.
Imagine if you merely asked people to say whether they perceived a difference but without asking them which one they prefer. Such a design would have no built-in "calibration", in the sense that it has no objective way of signalling when two pieces are identical.
It sounds like you didn't notice the "NOT" in the second sentence. It says "Inventive and creative [sic] would *NOT* ground to a halt without government intervention". The article introduced the old saw solely to knock it down. That appears to be exactly your position too.
I recently bought "Beatles Rock Band". It's a great game, really well done, with much more enjoyable music than any other karaoke game I've played on any console.
So I for one am quite happy that some of the proceeds from the game go back to some of the people who created the music in the first place.
Those flu trends were interesting. The US, Canada, Hungary and Japan showed huge spikes this year. Every other country (France, Germany, Australia, New Zealend, Sweden,...) showed normal activity. I wonder why?
It's especially ironic that the people who advocate "make your income by providing support" are so often the same ones that hate users, who call them "lusers", who joke about LARTs.
Personally, I'm enough of a marxist/capitalist to believe that the world will produce things in proportion to how much is spent on them, and I'm happy that the world is currently spending money on the creation of software (not just on providing support).
There isn't an "endless" number of movies. The number is finite, and if you limit yourself to freely viewable movies then that's a tiny fraction. So I think it's dodgy for the ISP to talk about "unlimited movie downloads".
Likewise for music, if you limit yourself to freely downloadable music then it's a tiny fraction of what's available.
Games? I don't know, but I bet that if we consider the total number of *bytes* of all free and non-free games that you can download, then the non-free games take up more than 99%. That's mainly because non-free games have more art and audio in them.
I often use Firefox to browse. I'll ctrl-click on maybe 20 links to load in the background.
Firefox ALWAYS freezes up. Sometimes it freezes so I can't even ctrl+click on links. Sometimes it freezes when I'm reading one of those links so I can't scroll down.
I wonder if the freezing is due to loading Flash on each page? I guess there are lots of these single-threaded bottlenecks within Firefox.
I don't really care about javascript speed so long as no one frame can freeze the other frames: process isolation is more important than speed.
As far as I understand, it's the researchers who study TCP that are arguing against using QoS for what it was intended for. That's because if a router prioritizes traffic based on QoS then it's not behaving optimally or fairly.
QoS (and large router buffers) seem to be the engineering solution of throwing resources at the obvious spot, rather than doing the maths to find the more subtle but more correct place to tweak.
Presumably you know enough about your test to know how well it correlates with normal domestic resumes, yes? -- in which case, just skip the test for domestic applicants.
Or if you don't know how well your test correlates with the more common measures -- then yes, as a prospective employee, I wouldn't trust your test.
If he switches to Windows 7, its "Picture library" is a sort of virtual folder that encompasses multiple filesystem folders and can arrange the photos independently of those filesystem folders. It might help.
The US cellphone providers *WANT* you to think it's apples to oranges. They want you to get lost in the details of calling plans, perks, special cases, unlimited calling, times of day, all that rubbish.
The simple fact (which this study found) was that a typical moderate user pays a heck of a lot more in the US than anywhere else. This is a simple and honest comparison. It's like how physicists count how much energy went into a system and how much energy went out, without having to fuss about details like friction or leaks or whatever.
Can't you? Doesn't your bank have an online "bill-pay" system? Mine does. They normally do payment by having the bank write a check and posting it to the recipient.
But if you want to send money to a friend's bank account, then it first gets sent as a check from your bank to your friend's bank, and on subsequent payments they do it electronically if they can.
Everything is a worse problem than poor antivirus -- because viruses are so rare, if you're sensible.
In my past 16 years of running Windows machines with IE, I haven't once had my antivirus report anything. The standard precautions are enough -- use Proxomitron or don't visit dodgy websites; don't run pirate software; don't open attachments unless you were expecting them and you trust the competence of the sender.
I have had "antivirus" problems where the antivirus software interacts badly with the OS, e.g. keeping an executable open when my compiler wants to overwrite it. Nowadays I leave the antivirus switched off, and only turn it on when needed to connect to corpnet.
You know, if the default behavior of typical FTP clients were to make the files on your hard-disk publicly sharable (in addition to doing the FTP transfer itself), and if FTP clients were so easy to use that novice computer users ended up using the client and sharing the files, then yes I'm sure they'd also ban FTP clients.
On the other hand, the Kennel Club's ideas about "improvement" just mean that their committee picked an arbitrary and unhealthy dog aesthetic and then got breeders to breed towards it. There was no "improvement" in it at all...
"The Kennel Club has introduced new standards for 209 breeds, following concerns about ill health in pedigree dogs caused by years of in-breeding. Last year, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pulled out of Crufts, saying breeding to exaggerate certain features, such as bulldogs' jowls, had led to painful deformities. Now new rules designed to prevent exaggeration and incestuous breeding have been brought in.
"Ryan O'Meara, from the K9 dog magazine, said the changes were long overdue. "When we breed dogs to a set of physical standards and ignore the health consequences, it's really unforgivable," he told the BBC News website. Mr O'Meara said the bulldog was "a vivid illustration of how wrong we can get it". "Bulldogs have been bred to a point where they die at about seven years of age - in human terms that's just 45 or 46," he said. "They can't breathe properly. They can't support themselves because their heads are too big. They have terrible skin conditions. "The public must be educated to see dogs not for their aesthetic appeal but to think about their health."
My experience is that it's the opposite. Project failures always come from the same sources (bad expectations and bad specifications and bad process control).
But project success comes from many different reasons most of them unexpected -- and often it's enough for just a couple of these "success wildcards" to arise in order for the project to succeed. Sometimes a star programmer pulled it off, sometimes a star manager, sometimes the solution just fell out instantly, sometimes the team happened accidentally on the right architecture at the start by blind luck, sometimes there was the right synergy of people, sometimes the project got enough key parties excited about it, sometimes the right person left at the right moment to let someone else take over, sometimes re-architecting was right, sometimes it was wrong.
That said, my experience is too limited for me to draw conclusions. I'm curious what led you to your opposite conclusion, and about what other people have found.
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I think it *IS* hard to warn people that "what you're doing is potentially risky".
That's because all the user sees is a bright eye-catching yellow box that says "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah [OK]".
The website where they downloaded the thing has soothing instructions and screenshots that when a yellow bar appears you just click "OK" on it, with "OK" helpfully circled in the screenshots. Whom will the user trust -- a bizarre yellow box with words they don't understand and concepts they don't care about, or a soothing website which has anticipated their problem well enough to walk them through it?
"I have a theory about why X happened"
"What's your theory?"
"That we don't know why X happened"
It's a fine test design...
If you have two identical pieces of music and you require people to rank them in order of preference, then the results will necessarily be perfectly random. This provides a built-in calibration.
Conversely, if the results are not random, then the people could necessarily tell differences in them.
Imagine if you merely asked people to say whether they perceived a difference but without asking them which one they prefer. Such a design would have no built-in "calibration", in the sense that it has no objective way of signalling when two pieces are identical.
It sounds like you didn't notice the "NOT" in the second sentence. It says "Inventive and creative [sic] would *NOT* ground to a halt without government intervention". The article introduced the old saw solely to knock it down. That appears to be exactly your position too.
I recently bought "Beatles Rock Band". It's a great game, really well done, with much more enjoyable music than any other karaoke game I've played on any console.
So I for one am quite happy that some of the proceeds from the game go back to some of the people who created the music in the first place.
I tried this on my RAID-1 system and it got converted to RAID-0.
Microsoft Word+Sharepoint allows collaborative editing of documents, with an arbitrary number of people, although not simultaneous editing.
Microsoft One-Note allows collaborative simultaneous editing of documents.
Those flu trends were interesting. The US, Canada, Hungary and Japan showed huge spikes this year. Every other country (France, Germany, Australia, New Zealend, Sweden, ...) showed normal activity. I wonder why?
In Word, View>FullScreen (Alt-V,U). This will get rid of status bar, menu bar, window borders and everything so you see just the page.
You can put all the toolbars and menus wherever you want, horizontally at the top or vertically at the side.
I remember the British electoral campaign slogan "TOUGH ON CRIME, TOUGH ON THE CAUSES OF CRIME".
You're advocating "TOUGH ON BAD DRIVING, LAX ON THE CAUSES OF BAD DRIVING."
It's especially ironic that the people who advocate "make your income by providing support" are so often the same ones that hate users, who call them "lusers", who joke about LARTs.
Personally, I'm enough of a marxist/capitalist to believe that the world will produce things in proportion to how much is spent on them, and I'm happy that the world is currently spending money on the creation of software (not just on providing support).
There isn't an "endless" number of movies. The number is finite, and if you limit yourself to freely viewable movies then that's a tiny fraction. So I think it's dodgy for the ISP to talk about "unlimited movie downloads".
Likewise for music, if you limit yourself to freely downloadable music then it's a tiny fraction of what's available.
Games? I don't know, but I bet that if we consider the total number of *bytes* of all free and non-free games that you can download, then the non-free games take up more than 99%. That's mainly because non-free games have more art and audio in them.
I wonder if Google will put advertising banners at the top of the sidewiki bar, as another way to make themselves money off other people's content?
I often use Firefox to browse. I'll ctrl-click on maybe 20 links to load in the background.
Firefox ALWAYS freezes up. Sometimes it freezes so I can't even ctrl+click on links. Sometimes it freezes when I'm reading one of those links so I can't scroll down.
I wonder if the freezing is due to loading Flash on each page? I guess there are lots of these single-threaded bottlenecks within Firefox.
I don't really care about javascript speed so long as no one frame can freeze the other frames: process isolation is more important than speed.
As far as I understand, it's the researchers who study TCP that are arguing against using QoS for what it was intended for. That's because if a router prioritizes traffic based on QoS then it's not behaving optimally or fairly.
QoS (and large router buffers) seem to be the engineering solution of throwing resources at the obvious spot, rather than doing the maths to find the more subtle but more correct place to tweak.
Presumably you know enough about your test to know how well it correlates with normal domestic resumes, yes? -- in which case, just skip the test for domestic applicants.
Or if you don't know how well your test correlates with the more common measures -- then yes, as a prospective employee, I wouldn't trust your test.
If he switches to Windows 7, its "Picture library" is a sort of virtual folder that encompasses multiple filesystem folders and can arrange the photos independently of those filesystem folders. It might help.
The US cellphone providers *WANT* you to think it's apples to oranges. They want you to get lost in the details of calling plans, perks, special cases, unlimited calling, times of day, all that rubbish.
The simple fact (which this study found) was that a typical moderate user pays a heck of a lot more in the US than anywhere else. This is a simple and honest comparison. It's like how physicists count how much energy went into a system and how much energy went out, without having to fuss about details like friction or leaks or whatever.
Can't you? Doesn't your bank have an online "bill-pay" system? Mine does. They normally do payment by having the bank write a check and posting it to the recipient.
But if you want to send money to a friend's bank account, then it first gets sent as a check from your bank to your friend's bank, and on subsequent payments they do it electronically if they can.
Everything is a worse problem than poor antivirus -- because viruses are so rare, if you're sensible.
In my past 16 years of running Windows machines with IE, I haven't once had my antivirus report anything. The standard precautions are enough -- use Proxomitron or don't visit dodgy websites; don't run pirate software; don't open attachments unless you were expecting them and you trust the competence of the sender.
I have had "antivirus" problems where the antivirus software interacts badly with the OS, e.g. keeping an executable open when my compiler wants to overwrite it. Nowadays I leave the antivirus switched off, and only turn it on when needed to connect to corpnet.
When I used Cingular a few years ago, I could turn it off.
Now that I use T-Mobile, I can turn it off. (I just did it this morning).
You know, if the default behavior of typical FTP clients were to make the files on your hard-disk publicly sharable (in addition to doing the FTP transfer itself), and if FTP clients were so easy to use that novice computer users ended up using the client and sharing the files, then yes I'm sure they'd also ban FTP clients.
On the other hand, the Kennel Club's ideas about "improvement" just mean that their committee picked an arbitrary and unhealthy dog aesthetic and then got breeders to breed towards it. There was no "improvement" in it at all...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7828455.stm
"The Kennel Club has introduced new standards for 209 breeds, following concerns about ill health in pedigree dogs caused by years of in-breeding. Last year, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pulled out of Crufts, saying breeding to exaggerate certain features, such as bulldogs' jowls, had led to painful deformities. Now new rules designed to prevent exaggeration and incestuous breeding have been brought in.
"Ryan O'Meara, from the K9 dog magazine, said the changes were long overdue. "When we breed dogs to a set of physical standards and ignore the health consequences, it's really unforgivable," he told the BBC News website. Mr O'Meara said the bulldog was "a vivid illustration of how wrong we can get it". "Bulldogs have been bred to a point where they die at about seven years of age - in human terms that's just 45 or 46," he said. "They can't breathe properly. They can't support themselves because their heads are too big. They have terrible skin conditions. "The public must be educated to see dogs not for their aesthetic appeal but to think about their health."
An odd list. Why include NT4 but not NT3.5 or Server2003 or Server2008 or Server2008R2? Why include ME but not Win98 or Win95?
Same sort of selective list shows that every other integer is divisible by 3:
2 - not divisible
3 - divisible by 3
5 - not divisible
6 - divisible by 3
7 - not divisible
8 - looks a bit like two "3"s facing each other
Why do you think the principle is the same?
My experience is that it's the opposite. Project failures always come from the same sources (bad expectations and bad specifications and bad process control).
But project success comes from many different reasons most of them unexpected -- and often it's enough for just a couple of these "success wildcards" to arise in order for the project to succeed. Sometimes a star programmer pulled it off, sometimes a star manager, sometimes the solution just fell out instantly, sometimes the team happened accidentally on the right architecture at the start by blind luck, sometimes there was the right synergy of people, sometimes the project got enough key parties excited about it, sometimes the right person left at the right moment to let someone else take over, sometimes re-architecting was right, sometimes it was wrong.
That said, my experience is too limited for me to draw conclusions. I'm curious what led you to your opposite conclusion, and about what other people have found.