The article and summary are in disagreement. Choosing to assume the article is more likely to be right, it is 60% right guesses vs expected 50% right guesses.
However, also omitted from the summary is 42 guessers guessing on the 30 dress-up-women in the study. That's 42x30 guesses, with a 60% correct guess rate overall. 60% with more than a thousand sample points is well within the usual scientific standard for statistically significant. And it's analysis like this which explains why nobody on Slashdot will be having sex with any of the 60%
The Blackberry and Treo are lousy phones, and only slightly better organizers/email platforms.
iPhone makes them both look like something from the Soviet era. Yeah, when I was listening to my streaming internet radio broadcast (via pTunes) on my stereo bluetooth headphones on my Treo this morning, I was thinking the same thing. Again, when I was watching the episode of House I had recorded (on the Neuros 2+) on the TCPMP video player. Once more, when I caught up on my work email (via Goodlink). And again when I had to make a quick edit on an MS Word document (with Documents 2 Go) someone had sent me. When I was using Verichat to IM my friends the same thoughts came to mind. Likewise when I was using it as a Bluetooth modem to let me connect my laptop to the internet. When I checked my personal email on Snapper someone mentioned 'iPhone' so I fired up the browser to see what all this hysteria was about. And all for a $10/month unlimited data connection. Oh, and the phone works too.
My Treo looks positively anemic in comparison. It is enough to overcome my disgust for Cingular too. You need to update your Treo then. I don't see much this can do that I haven't already been doing on my Treo for the last couple of years. Except my Treo screen wont' be covered in greasy finger prints after all the emails I write. I love how "controlling everything with your fingers" is a selling point ! I'll stick with my one-handed, 5-way nav button thanks.
And my unlimited internet access is $10 a month. I'll bet Cingular is at least 3 - 5 times more expensive.
I love when people claim Fox News biased and then never cite examples, particularly of this "politically motivated view on global warming" that you claim (let me guess, they're "petrol-funded?"). Like this ?
So why should i spend my money on something that i will not ever fully use?
Why? Do you ever fully use the engine in your car ? How far do you ever drive at top speed ?
For those of you who don't know the episode is based on Hachiko the famous Japanese Dog who returned to the Shibuya train station in Tokyo for 11 years in an attempt to greet his dead master. Or it may have been based on Greyfriar's Bobby
No, bullshit. Sorry. This is NOT marketing, and in fact it's borderline deceiveing. I don't give two shits if they call it viral marketing, or astroturfing, or whatever. This is hardly a new concept, even on the interweb. The Blair Witch Project is the obvious example that springs to mind, but there are countless others. It's not any worse, or any more convincing, than the Post-It notes that appear in some of the magazines on ad pages ("Thought you should read this - Bob").
Hehe... Mercedes 240D dudes...$20CAD to fill the tank and that's good for a month for my fairly light driving needs. Hybrids rule i admit but a nice vintage diesel is still my preference. Cool. Now if you could just stop giving people cancer with all those particulates you are emitting...
You'd have to be an utter imbecile to accept the 600,000 figure. In which case the US Government is imbecilic as it quite happily accepts figures, such as the number of deaths in the Sudan, which have been calculated using a similar technique used to derive the 600,000.
It's just when it's inconvenient for them that they question the validity of such statistics.
You mean the same rest of the world who went with the appeasement strategy when Hitler started becoming beligerent?Yes - that would be them. Also, the same rest of the world who were fighting Hitler for a number of years before the USA decided to join us. What's your point ?
There is something that's worse than the MPAA regulating home theaters. And that's Slashdot posting a link to an obvious satire piece and a great many of its readers (and possibly a certain editor) not having the intelligence to realize that its satire.
Do Americans not have manual gearboxes, or are you saying they're stupid? How do they get down steep hills without engine braking? How do they select the highest possible gear when driving in icy conditions? How do you accelerate quickly to overtake without dropping a gear and flooring it? What are automatics actually good for?
The vast majority of America cars do not have manual gearboxes. As well as the regular "Drive" setting (which engages the automatic gear shifting), there are normally a couple of low gear settings available which can be selected when, for example, towing, or driving on very steep hills. If you do want to drop a gear to overtake, you do, indeed, just floor it. This engages the kickdown switch which drops down a gear or two to give you better acceleration.
I have never verified the truth of this story, but I believe in the 40s or 50s, automatic transmissions were introduced for the female population because some of the vehicle manufacturers thought manual transmissions were too difficult for a woman to operate.
At least in my state of Connecticut, if you learn to drive and pass your test in an automatic, you are still entitled to go and drive a stick shift without any further instruction. Unlike the UK (where I'm from originally) where passing a test in an automatic only allows you to drive an automatic.
I'd love to - unfortunately, as a green card holder, it's not allowed. Sure, I'm allowed to pay taxes, but have no say in how they are spent. Taxation without representation; sounds familiar.
Yes you can say that a lot of people would murder, but some people would NEVER murder because they have empathy. It's that simple, if this story is true, Mr. Reiser had no empathy at all, and this was his wife.
So if a person with empathy had a terminally ill spouse undergoing tremendous pain before they died, would they pull the plug on the life support system ?
It would be an empathetic thing to do. In the US, it would also constitute murder.
You are too damn young. Five, Sroking Kirk's Dick, the Shatner directed desecration of Trek where Kirk confronts God and wins, is the walk-out movie of choice.
And you, sir, are too damned old. The entire point of the movie was that the being in question was not God. It was a force, trapped on a planet, needing a starship to help it escape.
What seals the deal is being implemented with SSL POP access... so the dinosaurs who refuse to budge don't have to.
GMail's POP access is the single most broken implementation I have ever had the misfortune to use, designed purely with the intention of forcing the user to log-in regularly to reset it (and, therefore, be exposed to the ads).
A smart engineer can learn in 6months how to be a manager, a manager though would take 10 years to be as good as an engineer.
Oh, if only this was true. And I'm speaking as an engineer here, btw. I have encountered numerous examples of 'smart engineers' in management who have no clue what management entails, and no desire to learn. Of course there are clueless, MBA type managers out there too, but I have to laugh when I read comments like this.
Good managers are like good engineers. They are continuously enhancing their skills and learning from their mistakes.
I thought the problem was about the addiction factor and accessibility. But one could of course argue if the alternative legal forms are much better. However, where I live, there have reportedly been more cases of addiction since online gambling entered the scene. And that's a cost for society to manage if such addictions start implying criminal activity.
The hypocrisy, of course, lies in the fact that they want to ban it on the basis of addiction, while at ther same time, exempting state lotteries and the like.
In most places where self-checkout is available (Home Depot, Albertson's, to name two) you'll find that most people are purchasing many more items than self-checkout was designed for, yet there is no sign indicating a suggested item limit for best results...they've always driven me crazy because I try to move too fast for them - so I hear a lot of "Please place item in the bagging area" and "you have removed an item from the bagging area, then it locks up and the cashier has to come over anyway.
In our local Stop & Shop supermarket, they run self-checkout like regular checkouts i.e. they have a couple of lanes for 12 items or less, and a couple of lanes for 'regular' loads. Seems to wrok pretty well, although I am with the other posters in that if there is *anybody* in front of me I will just go straight to a live person.
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If what they claim is true, i.e. that they aren't doing anything illegal now, why do they need to escape to anywhere ?
And my unlimited internet access is $10 a month. I'll bet Cingular is at least 3 - 5 times more expensive.
Last week Dvorak was an idiot, but today he's the best tech columnist in the world.Even a broken watch is right twice a day.
You'd have to be an utter imbecile to accept the 600,000 figure. In which case the US Government is imbecilic as it quite happily accepts figures, such as the number of deaths in the Sudan, which have been calculated using a similar technique used to derive the 600,000.
It's just when it's inconvenient for them that they question the validity of such statistics.
You mean the same rest of the world who went with the appeasement strategy when Hitler started becoming beligerent?Yes - that would be them. Also, the same rest of the world who were fighting Hitler for a number of years before the USA decided to join us. What's your point ?
There is something that's worse than the MPAA regulating home theaters. And that's Slashdot posting a link to an obvious satire piece and a great many of its readers (and possibly a certain editor) not having the intelligence to realize that its satire.
, P.T. Barnum never even said it.
P.T. Barnum was right.
If you are referring to this quote http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html
Do Americans not have manual gearboxes, or are you saying they're stupid? How do they get down steep hills without engine braking? How do they select the highest possible gear when driving in icy conditions? How do you accelerate quickly to overtake without dropping a gear and flooring it? What are automatics actually good for?
The vast majority of America cars do not have manual gearboxes. As well as the regular "Drive" setting (which engages the automatic gear shifting), there are normally a couple of low gear settings available which can be selected when, for example, towing, or driving on very steep hills. If you do want to drop a gear to overtake, you do, indeed, just floor it. This engages the kickdown switch which drops down a gear or two to give you better acceleration.
I have never verified the truth of this story, but I believe in the 40s or 50s, automatic transmissions were introduced for the female population because some of the vehicle manufacturers thought manual transmissions were too difficult for a woman to operate.
At least in my state of Connecticut, if you learn to drive and pass your test in an automatic, you are still entitled to go and drive a stick shift without any further instruction. Unlike the UK (where I'm from originally) where passing a test in an automatic only allows you to drive an automatic.
go vote if you have not voted yet. no excuses
I'd love to - unfortunately, as a green card holder, it's not allowed. Sure, I'm allowed to pay taxes, but have no say in how they are spent. Taxation without representation; sounds familiar.
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Why would it be on slashdot, or any other social news site, then?
Exactly. Why would it be ? That was my question. "Too early to tell" is just a non-story.
Iran has also exploded a nuclear bomb. Or something. We're not really sure. Coulda been anything really.
Seriously though - is this really news ? Shouldn't we wait until it's confirmed one way or the other before it makes sense to comment on it ?
Yes you can say that a lot of people would murder, but some people would NEVER murder because they have empathy. It's that simple, if this story is true, Mr. Reiser had no empathy at all, and this was his wife.
So if a person with empathy had a terminally ill spouse undergoing tremendous pain before they died, would they pull the plug on the life support system ?
It would be an empathetic thing to do. In the US, it would also constitute murder.
You are too damn young. Five, Sroking Kirk's Dick, the Shatner directed desecration of Trek where Kirk confronts God and wins, is the walk-out movie of choice.
And you, sir, are too damned old. The entire point of the movie was that the being in question was not God. It was a force, trapped on a planet, needing a starship to help it escape.
The movie did really blow chunks though.
What seals the deal is being implemented with SSL POP access... so the dinosaurs who refuse to budge don't have to.
GMail's POP access is the single most broken implementation I have ever had the misfortune to use, designed purely with the intention of forcing the user to log-in regularly to reset it (and, therefore, be exposed to the ads).
A smart engineer can learn in 6months how to be a manager, a manager though would take 10 years to be as good as an engineer.
Oh, if only this was true. And I'm speaking as an engineer here, btw. I have encountered numerous examples of 'smart engineers' in management who have no clue what management entails, and no desire to learn. Of course there are clueless, MBA type managers out there too, but I have to laugh when I read comments like this.
Good managers are like good engineers. They are continuously enhancing their skills and learning from their mistakes.
I thought the problem was about the addiction factor and accessibility. But one could of course argue if the alternative legal forms are much better. However, where I live, there have reportedly been more cases of addiction since online gambling entered the scene. And that's a cost for society to manage if such addictions start implying criminal activity.
The hypocrisy, of course, lies in the fact that they want to ban it on the basis of addiction, while at ther same time, exempting state lotteries and the like.
Money - use it in cash transactions. If you remove their ability to collect data...
...they will RFID the money.
In most places where self-checkout is available (Home Depot, Albertson's, to name two) you'll find that most people are purchasing many more items than self-checkout was designed for, yet there is no sign indicating a suggested item limit for best results...they've always driven me crazy because I try to move too fast for them - so I hear a lot of "Please place item in the bagging area" and "you have removed an item from the bagging area, then it locks up and the cashier has to come over anyway.
In our local Stop & Shop supermarket, they run self-checkout like regular checkouts i.e. they have a couple of lanes for 12 items or less, and a couple of lanes for 'regular' loads. Seems to wrok pretty well, although I am with the other posters in that if there is *anybody* in front of me I will just go straight to a live person.