You just do some research to determine who doesn't participate.
Friend, what we're talking about is a program that allows a choice to be turned off. If the results are reported, they'd have to be reported as "nnn people came to this website, 50% of which allowed gender tracking, out of which 80% were male." Thats FINE, and says that 40 out of 100 said they were male, 10 said they were female, 50 we don't know. What is skewed research is claiming that 80% of website visitors are male - based on the 50% who allowed their gender to be tracked.
Lucky for us you're not running the FDA.
Yeah, I sure hope the FDA has a slightly more expansive policy than one paragraph. Come on. Drug trials are (for the most part) targeted at a general human populace, with expected responses being quite similar across the board. And when they're not, as you say, they pay people of the right background to participate in surveys. Nobody's paying anybody here... its just a program that installs on your computer.
Unfortunately, if they give the users a choice to turn it off, you can't qualify the statistics obtained from users who allow information to be logged as good - e.g. who's to say whether guys may be more inclined to turn it off than girls - or conversely, women feel more threatened about privacy... in either case your stats will be skewed.
In any case most users (myself, certainly) would turn it off - I am supremely uncomfortable with some random company knowing anything about what I do on my computer.
... will probably be supplying Intel chips. Strangely, Intel's had far more heat-dissipation issues than AMD in the recent past; probably because they concentrated a bit too much on clock speed?
If you take a grad school AI course, they'll make you do proofs the way a computer does it... maybe using propositional logic. The idea is to break up the problem into a set of statements that looks quite ridiculous (e.g. NOT engine AND train AND NOT moving), and then taking pairs of these statements and mixing and matching. The result is that you determine your sequence steps by simple trial and error or by trying to combine the propositional symbols (AND, NOT etc) and the variables (train etc). Once you generate a proof, its just a list of such statements which evaluates to a FALSE or a TRUE value but if you want to understand the proof, its hopeless.
I doubt the human proof system will go away completely - even if we can check nasty theorem proofs using computers, we still need humans to sit and explain what they mean.
I doubt the cost is the real reason. People in rural villages have access to some form of elecricity, but none to modern PDAs. The idea of the Simputer was to have local content and software in local languages (accounts, agri-software, basic communications) so that the learning curve for people using it wouldn't be very steep.
I suppose the biggest hurdle was getting people to pay for it in the first place and as is not uncommon in India, funds allocated to village budgets for buying these things may have mysteriously disappeared.
Point #4 says, "Let a professional make your next playlist. Having an FM radio lets you put your player on autopilot as you mountain bike, cycle, or rollerblade."
Just buy a radio player, then! Avoids Windows, too.
From the ClamXAV website - a free virus checker for Mac OS X:
"Back in the days before OS X, the number of viruses which attacked Macintosh users totalled somewhere between about 60 and 80. Today, the number of viruses attacking OS X users is...NONE! However, this doesn't mean we should get complacent about checking incoming email attachments or web downloads, for two reasons. Firstly, there's no guarantee that we Mac users will continue to enjoy the status quo, but more importantly, the majority of the computing world use machines running MS Windows, for which an enormous quantity of viruses exist, so we must be vigilant in checking the files we pass on to our friends and colleagues etc."
There you have it, from someone whom I'd give far more credibility because first, they're making security software and second, they aren't trying to sell it.
you probably wouldn't believe it - i didn't at first - but some banks have a single password policy... thats right; there's just a single password for every user - get that out somehow and you have access to virtually everything
Show them an Apple. And show them the cool stuff. Some ideas: Solid software like "delicious library", which can scan in a bar-code via a webcam of your book or DVD, connect to the net and download the image and relevant details.
And how about Bluetooth with a Sony Ericcson phone being used to act as a remote control and running iTunes on a powerbook from the back of the room!
i think it'll become easier for hackers - just find a way to have skin contact and immediately get all sorts of information!
girls are going to have a NICE time...
What if people all over the net started changing parameters and predicting doomsday? somebody would have to actually check out the claims in case they were true?
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You just do some research to determine who doesn't participate.
Friend, what we're talking about is a program that allows a choice to be turned off. If the results are reported, they'd have to be reported as "nnn people came to this website, 50% of which allowed gender tracking, out of which 80% were male." Thats FINE, and says that 40 out of 100 said they were male, 10 said they were female, 50 we don't know. What is skewed research is claiming that 80% of website visitors are male - based on the 50% who allowed their gender to be tracked.
Lucky for us you're not running the FDA. Yeah, I sure hope the FDA has a slightly more expansive policy than one paragraph. Come on. Drug trials are (for the most part) targeted at a general human populace, with expected responses being quite similar across the board. And when they're not, as you say, they pay people of the right background to participate in surveys. Nobody's paying anybody here... its just a program that installs on your computer.
Unfortunately, if they give the users a choice to turn it off, you can't qualify the statistics obtained from users who allow information to be logged as good - e.g. who's to say whether guys may be more inclined to turn it off than girls - or conversely, women feel more threatened about privacy... in either case your stats will be skewed.
In any case most users (myself, certainly) would turn it off - I am supremely uncomfortable with some random company knowing anything about what I do on my computer.
At least, according to this.
The push into web media comes as a surprise, but I guess the Microsoft angle makes sense (which the article also talks about).
what about
man woman?
Apparently its working. Trying to download the PDF... 10 hours remaining. Not bad for a decade's history, I guess.
I thought that already happened here. Linus quote about MS Office was, in fact, made up!
... will probably be supplying Intel chips. Strangely, Intel's had far more heat-dissipation issues than AMD in the recent past; probably because they concentrated a bit too much on clock speed?
A long time to stand in a theatre far, far away...
If you take a grad school AI course, they'll make you do proofs the way a computer does it... maybe using propositional logic. The idea is to break up the problem into a set of statements that looks quite ridiculous (e.g. NOT engine AND train AND NOT moving), and then taking pairs of these statements and mixing and matching. The result is that you determine your sequence steps by simple trial and error or by trying to combine the propositional symbols (AND, NOT etc) and the variables (train etc). Once you generate a proof, its just a list of such statements which evaluates to a FALSE or a TRUE value but if you want to understand the proof, its hopeless.
I doubt the human proof system will go away completely - even if we can check nasty theorem proofs using computers, we still need humans to sit and explain what they mean.
I doubt the cost is the real reason. People in rural villages have access to some form of elecricity, but none to modern PDAs. The idea of the Simputer was to have local content and software in local languages (accounts, agri-software, basic communications) so that the learning curve for people using it wouldn't be very steep. I suppose the biggest hurdle was getting people to pay for it in the first place and as is not uncommon in India, funds allocated to village budgets for buying these things may have mysteriously disappeared.
Its already the 2nd in Asia. Then, I figured.
Point #4 says, "Let a professional make your next playlist. Having an FM radio lets you put your player on autopilot as you mountain bike, cycle, or rollerblade." Just buy a radio player, then! Avoids Windows, too.
Please... you can't even scroll across pages with the direction keys in xpdf! its a page reader, not a document reader
From the ClamXAV website - a free virus checker for Mac OS X: "Back in the days before OS X, the number of viruses which attacked Macintosh users totalled somewhere between about 60 and 80. Today, the number of viruses attacking OS X users is...NONE! However, this doesn't mean we should get complacent about checking incoming email attachments or web downloads, for two reasons. Firstly, there's no guarantee that we Mac users will continue to enjoy the status quo, but more importantly, the majority of the computing world use machines running MS Windows, for which an enormous quantity of viruses exist, so we must be vigilant in checking the files we pass on to our friends and colleagues etc."
There you have it, from someone whom I'd give far more credibility because first, they're making security software and second, they aren't trying to sell it.
you probably wouldn't believe it - i didn't at first - but some banks have a single password policy... thats right; there's just a single password for every user - get that out somehow and you have access to virtually everything
Show them an Apple. And show them the cool stuff. Some ideas: Solid software like "delicious library", which can scan in a bar-code via a webcam of your book or DVD, connect to the net and download the image and relevant details.
And how about Bluetooth with a Sony Ericcson phone being used to act as a remote control and running iTunes on a powerbook from the back of the room!
I bet somebody in Microsoft is thinking... now why didn't WE think of that?
me, and everyone in my team are just going to spend time reading EULAs all day long. Sounds like its more productive than research anyway.
i think it'll become easier for hackers - just find a way to have skin contact and immediately get all sorts of information! girls are going to have a NICE time...
I think Apple has a lot banking on the iTunes store as well. If not, why go to the trouble of opposing RealNetworks sales of music to iPod owners?
What if people all over the net started changing parameters and predicting doomsday? somebody would have to actually check out the claims in case they were true?
finish your food kiddo... there are hungry astronauts in space.