Oh, I wasn't aware of the need for a tv licence to view iPlayer content.
Luckily there is one for the house I'm in. Guess I better get a license when I move out. Seems daft to do so, since I haven't owned a tv for years, but there we are.
Probably. The biggest 'problem' with wikipedia and it's ilk is that it takes readership away from the monetised publishers who previously held sway on the provision of information.
Yes, sometimes it sucks. But sometimes books do too, and the edition on your shelf won't magically correct its errors and ommisions if you wait a few days. For that you need to buy a new edition, and hope the problems are gone.
That's the trouble with statistics, you can make any number mean anything.
Actually, over the last few weeks I've been using wikipedia a lot, and I was struck by how often the pages I was reading had editorial comments/requests (for citations, discussion and the like). I took this as meaning the editorial bods take their work seriously. It also highlighted the articles which were less rigorous.
To me, this means decent supervision, without wikipedia would be useless. To a statistician with an agenda, its the ugly claw of elitism exerting control over the 'open' encyclopedia.
I had my first ever taste of domestic UK flight last year.
I was rather annoyed by the whole 'ZOMGH! Your kid is carrying half bottle of flavoured water!' that the couple in front of me went through, followed by a bag search as a reward for their kid being, well, a kid.... They were hugely embarrassed. I mean, what the bleep is up with that? I found the whole 'you are suspicious because you are flying with us today' thing irritating.
Since then I've taken trains. It takes longer for some journeys, but its a lot less hassle.
Like me, many of these 1.5 million are people who where breifly confused into thinking they needed silverlight in order to access the microsoft site. I took advantage of their dreamspark initiative, and encountered a 'you need to install silverlight' message. Turns out this was for a small silverlight animation, nothing to do with the main content.
Since then I've not been back. Nor would I intentionally seek to develop for that platform. Why bother? There's javascript and flash already.
True, that does seem a bit sad. However some of the lecturers and professors I know well don't give a pair of foetid dingoes kidneys how well funded a student is. They care about the quality of the work which results.
Of course this then reflects on them well, meaning they find it easier to get research funding, and career prospects are better because they get good publications as a result. I fall into this category myself, although I am currently not working in academia as I am writing up my thesis. Well I'm working, but research only, and I'm not getting paid.
However, for those I consider friends, money is not the prime mover. I also know some who do look at things mainly from the financial viewpoint, and I don't regard them well. Nor, in my experience, did many students.
From what I have been able to gather, the US educational system (at least university level and above) is very competitive. I guess this does mean you get people being nasty to get better status.
However, the post grad careers options are also correspondingly better in the US then they are in the UK where I live (certainly in the academic field). That means more people want that option, so competition again increases. You can't have that without having barstards taking advantage of the system.
Things aren't always better here in the UK for students though. You often find that to get the best projects (or more importantly, project supervisors) as an undergrad, you can't just sit in line, you have to stand out. That means getting the good grades. Same goes for phd places. Unless you really stand out, you won't have nearly as much chance of being able to pick and choose. That's too much pressure for some, and they resort to cheating or underhand behavior.
I had several phd offers, and could take my time selecting the one I wanted. I had to work like a slave for years to make sure I got those offers though. Had I not done this I probably would have been stuck on the pile of applicants at some other university, which is not a good negotiation position. I know others cheated to try and get the same results as I and some friends were obtaining through sweat, tears, and a lack of beer. It's too tempting not to for some. Unfortunately people who serially cheat also find final exams cripplingly hard, so it sort of balances out.
yes indeed, there's not many ways to describe that but cheating.
Had that happened on the course I taught I'd have removed the assignment and replaced it with a test the students had to sit. The people who set it up would have been in hot water. I'd press for punishment too, perhaps removal of lab rights, or a max C on the course, but nothing harsher.
Moores law can also be applied to the correlation between the increase in ones Unix knowledge, and the corresponding decrease in ones attractiveness to the opposite sex.
Couldn't they just low-level image it and give the drives back?
No, they will want to keep the drives in case something changes in the analysis technology, and they can extract more information. When you live in an environment which has a vested interest in suspicion, niceties rarely get much attention.
All this proves, even if true, is that the Wikipedians are human, just like the rest of us, and like to swing the lead or get something nice on expenses when possible.
All they're really doing is saying that IE8 is now pretty much equivilent to the other browsers. Of course these features already exists in other browsers, they know this, or they wouldn't have bothered. They left IE6 alone for ages until Firefox got a foothold. They're hardly going to put that in a way that makes it sound like its just a catch up exercise though, are they, it has to sound exciting and new. After all, to them, and most IE only users, it *is* new.
Actually, any improvement over IE's favorites system would be a good thing, I have to use it from time to time, and it's quite badly implemented.
As far as I recall, the US have the ability to add in snooping technology to underwater cables without such a distraction. Plus they can do it in much deeper water than was the case.
I'd be more worried about the effect of policies like this on the long term economic growth of the US.
In the short term some politicians get enough of the electorate pleased to get their votes. In the longer term, the quality of scientists, or even normal people with a decent understanding of science drops, and the US starts to fall behind other countries.
I'm in the UK, and I'm still worried about the effect of this on the US. After all, we're pretty major partners.
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6*9 was the proof that the arrival of the GolgaFrinchans messed up the experiment in prehistory.
Oh, I wasn't aware of the need for a tv licence to view iPlayer content.
Luckily there is one for the house I'm in. Guess I better get a license when I move out. Seems daft to do so, since I haven't owned a tv for years, but there we are.
Probably. The biggest 'problem' with wikipedia and it's ilk is that it takes readership away from the monetised publishers who previously held sway on the provision of information.
Yes, sometimes it sucks. But sometimes books do too, and the edition on your shelf won't magically correct its errors and ommisions if you wait a few days. For that you need to buy a new edition, and hope the problems are gone.
That's the trouble with statistics, you can make any number mean anything.
Actually, over the last few weeks I've been using wikipedia a lot, and I was struck by how often the pages I was reading had editorial comments/requests (for citations, discussion and the like). I took this as meaning the editorial bods take their work seriously. It also highlighted the articles which were less rigorous.
To me, this means decent supervision, without wikipedia would be useless. To a statistician with an agenda, its the ugly claw of elitism exerting control over the 'open' encyclopedia.
I had my first ever taste of domestic UK flight last year.
I was rather annoyed by the whole 'ZOMGH! Your kid is carrying half bottle of flavoured water!' that the couple in front of me went through, followed by a bag search as a reward for their kid being, well, a kid.... They were hugely embarrassed. I mean, what the bleep is up with that?
I found the whole 'you are suspicious because you are flying with us today' thing irritating.
Since then I've taken trains. It takes longer for some journeys, but its a lot less hassle.
I predict our descendants will be thoroughly confused when the first message from another intelligence is a request for some salsa dip.
yup, but if they can convince some judge who doesn't understand the issue that it is a hack, it is.
Is Adobe a monopoly? Don't think so.
And anyway, what is the problem with them. They produced some hugely successful technology, we use it all the time, willingly.
Oh wait, their PROPRIETARY!!!!!11111one
Yeah, because no proprietary company ever produced anything worth using....
[koff] Blizzard] [/koff]
Like me, many of these 1.5 million are people who where breifly confused into thinking they needed silverlight in order to access the microsoft site. I took advantage of their dreamspark initiative, and encountered a 'you need to install silverlight' message. Turns out this was for a small silverlight animation, nothing to do with the main content.
Since then I've not been back. Nor would I intentionally seek to develop for that platform. Why bother? There's javascript and flash already.
True, that does seem a bit sad. However some of the lecturers and professors I know well don't give a pair of foetid dingoes kidneys how well funded a student is. They care about the quality of the work which results.
Of course this then reflects on them well, meaning they find it easier to get research funding, and career prospects are better because they get good publications as a result. I fall into this category myself, although I am currently not working in academia as I am writing up my thesis. Well I'm working, but research only, and I'm not getting paid.
However, for those I consider friends, money is not the prime mover. I also know some who do look at things mainly from the financial viewpoint, and I don't regard them well. Nor, in my experience, did many students.
That thought occurred to me too. Sort of a way of going by the rules and gaming the system at the same time.
From what I have been able to gather, the US educational system (at least university level and above) is very competitive. I guess this does mean you get people being nasty to get better status.
However, the post grad careers options are also correspondingly better in the US then they are in the UK where I live (certainly in the academic field). That means more people want that option, so competition again increases. You can't have that without having barstards taking advantage of the system.
Things aren't always better here in the UK for students though. You often find that to get the best projects (or more importantly, project supervisors) as an undergrad, you can't just sit in line, you have to stand out. That means getting the good grades. Same goes for phd places. Unless you really stand out, you won't have nearly as much chance of being able to pick and choose. That's too much pressure for some, and they resort to cheating or underhand behavior.
I had several phd offers, and could take my time selecting the one I wanted. I had to work like a slave for years to make sure I got those offers though. Had I not done this I probably would have been stuck on the pile of applicants at some other university, which is not a good negotiation position. I know others cheated to try and get the same results as I and some friends were obtaining through sweat, tears, and a lack of beer. It's too tempting not to for some. Unfortunately people who serially cheat also find final exams cripplingly hard, so it sort of balances out.
yes indeed, there's not many ways to describe that but cheating.
Had that happened on the course I taught I'd have removed the assignment and replaced it with a test the students had to sit. The people who set it up would have been in hot water. I'd press for punishment too, perhaps removal of lab rights, or a max C on the course, but nothing harsher.
Why so many? Is it so there is almost no chance the student can get away with them all?
come up with something more recent than 1985 and I might be interested in arguing.
Micheal Moore only spoke about their health care system, not the other social problems.
Mind you, with decent free health care, they have something fundamentally good that Americans don't, and the way things are going, never will have.
How many people in the US can't change jobs because of losing health insurance if they do?
I have known a few myself, doesn't seem either fair or pleasant.
Moores law can also be applied to the correlation between the increase in ones Unix knowledge, and the corresponding decrease in ones attractiveness to the opposite sex.
Dammit.
Couldn't they just low-level image it and give the drives back?
No, they will want to keep the drives in case something changes in the analysis technology, and they can extract more information. When you live in an environment which has a vested interest in suspicion, niceties rarely get much attention.
Sssssssshhhh! Do not give the IDers any ammunition with which to bullshit the public.
Since they live in the information equivilent of a closed and shackled ecosystem, this could hardly do any damage.
All this proves, even if true, is that the Wikipedians are human, just like the rest of us, and like to swing the lead or get something nice on expenses when possible.
Shock Story! Wikipedia moderators also human!
News at 11...
All they're really doing is saying that IE8 is now pretty much equivilent to the other browsers.
Of course these features already exists in other browsers, they know this, or they wouldn't have bothered. They left IE6 alone for ages until Firefox got a foothold. They're hardly going to put that in a way that makes it sound like its just a catch up exercise though, are they, it has to sound exciting and new. After all, to them, and most IE only users, it *is* new.
Actually, any improvement over IE's favorites system would be a good thing, I have to use it from time to time, and it's quite badly implemented.
oh you are so going to hell for that one....
As far as I recall, the US have the ability to add in snooping technology to underwater cables without such a distraction. Plus they can do it in much deeper water than was the case.
I'd be more worried about the effect of policies like this on the long term economic growth of the US.
In the short term some politicians get enough of the electorate pleased to get their votes. In the longer term, the quality of scientists, or even normal people with a decent understanding of science drops, and the US starts to fall behind other countries.
I'm in the UK, and I'm still worried about the effect of this on the US. After all, we're pretty major partners.
You have to admit it's a novel approach, making a product so bad that hardly anyone is interested in cracking it.
Who cares about a crack, I wouldn't run Vista if microsoft gave it away free, and I *like* windows...