You're arguing that people should user proper English on the Interne because it's for the greater good? If everyone thought like that, communism might would work. The fact is, most people don't think like that.
I totally agree with you though. Typing an extra couple of letters is not hard. I wonder if there is a correlation between Internet speak and literacy. Are literate people less likely to use Internet speak? Does the use of Internet speak impair literacy in children? Intuition says Yes and Yes, but I'd be interested seeing studies confirm these guesses.
I don't really know about the Neilsen system, but isn't the point of being monitored to make sure that the television companies can more accurately give you TV that you want to watch (of coures, so they can sell more ads)?
By sabotaging your input to Neilen, aren't you sabotaging your own 'vote' to the TV agencies? or maybe I'm just naieve =)
I'm not being cynical, this is just economics talking. I had an econ prof who had us do a neat little in-class experiment that dramatically illustrated this phenomenon. It is why companies pay so much for market research.
You said 'neat' on slashdot. You have aroused my curiosity and now I need to know what the experiment was. =)
Sure it does. Assume there is a web page that has some invlaid markup. According to the standard, all user agents (i.e. web browsers) should handle the errors in a consistent way. Internet Explorer demonstrates the importance of these rules. Instead of handling an error in a predeictable way, Internet Explorer tries to guess what the author intended to write. This may sound like a good idea, but the problem is that people will write bad code,view it with IE and assume that is how everyone will see their page. But since IE's error correcting process is proprietary and inconsistent, other browsers cannot will display the page as the author intended.
Of course this assumes that you are using a standards complient browser.
Who said anything about firefox? All modern webbrowsers have had tabbed interfaces for years already. This is like Microsoft trying to sell you a car and advertising that the MS2007 will come with air bags!
I believe that last.fm takes this effect into account. I believe the matching algorithm is based on the lucene search engine. The effect that you describe is called the long tail effect. I'm told that the last.fm matching algorithm counteracts this effect by putting less weight on the site-wide top 300 artists.
If you listen to obscure music, then the system will try to match you up with other user's who listen is obscure music. From there, you can check out those profiles and see if they have music that you haven't listened to.
Of course it's not perfect and will go against some people's music preferences. But you knew that.
So how do you do the analysis of all possible webpages against the Gecko codebase?
I mean, "..all webpages that pass the W3C validator" is a really big set of input. It might even be an infinite set. Maybe we can try induction on that. From what I understand, doing formal analysis on code is really really expensive. Expensive as in, it's the kind of activity that NASA and nuclear power plants to on the most important safety critical portions of their code.
Specifying a standard isn't just a feature set. It also involves specifying how feature sets interact with each other and what to do with invalid input. And you're not specifying aganist some fixed set of well formed input. You're specifying an engine that must run against every person with access to notepad.exe, a geocities account, and a belief that they can make a webpage.
The above post should be read with a curious/questioning tone and should not be interpreted as mocking. btw, I don't know who you are, so if you turn out to be the founder of WC3 or the creator of Zen Garden or something, I'm going to slap myself.
And that's the genius of it all! It explains the real reason behind MS restricting supply of xBox360s. MS knows that we're going to label them as greedy and manipulative if they restrict the supply of xBox260s before the holiday season. MS is really performing a widespread beta test of the system and managing to hide that fact by the perception that they are just really greedy.
Not only are they using you (xBox360 owners) as beta testers, they're using you (xBox360 detractors) to hide their real plans! When MS comes out with the xBox361 just in time to pre-empt any competetor's release, we'll see the true .
While your idea may be true for some** companies, I am not as cynical about betas coming from good companies.
What is happening here is the public has gotten used to software development in the form of the waterfall model. They understand that it takes time to design, produce, and test software. They have become accustomed to updates during the maintainance phase of a product's lifecycle. <CarAnalogy premise="Software versions are like year models">
The source of the misunderstanding is that the development industry has moved on to other models like the Iterative Model, while the general public is still expecting waterfall-style releases. Why has the software industry moved on without bringing public expectation with it? Because we can. You cannot expect the public to keep up with the difference between old methodologies and the new ones. This is true in any industry where there are people with specialized knowledge. <CarAnalogy premise="Car designers know a lot more about cars than you do">
"Beta" is a transitionary device for the public to understand that the software industry has changed. The public will find out that just because a product is released, it doesn't mean that the programmers are done with working on it. Just that they have part of it working. Of course this is possible because of the declining cost of distribution (The Internet gives us this).
Beta shields people who are used to the old model from the truths of iterative development. Software is never done until it's perfect, but we can't hold out and wait until it's perfect, or we will never get anywhere. <CarAnalogy type="Nobody has the perfect car">
*All car analogies are left as an exercise for the reader.
**I agree with parent when it comes to bad/copycat companies. They're doing it because it's hip/they're lazy.
Used the sidebar for a while. I never did anything useful with it. So it's disabled now.
As a student, searching through pdfs is pretty useful. For most of my courses, my porfs release PDFs of the lecture slides. These slides often contain examples or formulae that I'll need during an assignment. I have directories full of slides named lecture1, lecture2, etc. I use GDS to search inside the pdfs for a specific topic or phrase that I'm looking for. It's much easier than opening up each one, searching through it, finding it's not the one that I want and repeating. Once I have a list of the PDFs with the phrase in them, I can find that lecture in my handwritten notes.
Pepsi Cola corporation is proud to announce that it has offically the number one soda reccommended by homeless people, inmates, and third world nations!
Developers spend less time re-inventing the wheel and use a common implmentation of an often used function. You don't see the benefit to this?
It means that developers can spend more time on implementing features. The developers will spend less time n implementing these common actions. They will spedn less time debugging that code. You will have less worry about the security of their homebrew code (assuming Microsoft's implementation is secure).
In my high school, extra-curricular activities were a privilege. If you did not retain good academic standing or were doing illegal activities, that privilege could be taken away from you. Students participating in extra-curricular activities often compete outside of the school. Thus, they are representatives of the school itself.
maybe you could put your a link to your site in your articles... Like this review originally from http://blah./
It won't stop them from copying it but at least you'll get credit for writing it.
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I totally agree with you though. Typing an extra couple of letters is not hard. I wonder if there is a correlation between Internet speak and literacy. Are literate people less likely to use Internet speak? Does the use of Internet speak impair literacy in children? Intuition says Yes and Yes, but I'd be interested seeing studies confirm these guesses.
Hilarious! Have you educated your daughter about using her powers for Good? or for Awesome?
By sabotaging your input to Neilen, aren't you sabotaging your own 'vote' to the TV agencies? or maybe I'm just naieve =)
You said 'neat' on slashdot. You have aroused my curiosity and now I need to know what the experiment was. =)
And people who can read instructions should be modded up.
Sure it does. Assume there is a web page that has some invlaid markup. According to the standard, all user agents (i.e. web browsers) should handle the errors in a consistent way. Internet Explorer demonstrates the importance of these rules. Instead of handling an error in a predeictable way, Internet Explorer tries to guess what the author intended to write. This may sound like a good idea, but the problem is that people will write bad code ,view it with IE and assume that is how everyone will see their page. But since IE's error correcting process is proprietary and inconsistent, other browsers cannot will display the page as the author intended.
Of course this assumes that you are using a standards complient browser.
Who said anything about firefox? All modern webbrowsers have had tabbed interfaces for years already. This is like Microsoft trying to sell you a car and advertising that the MS2007 will come with air bags!
I believe that last.fm takes this effect into account. I believe the matching algorithm is based on the lucene search engine. The effect that you describe is called the long tail effect. I'm told that the last.fm matching algorithm counteracts this effect by putting less weight on the site-wide top 300 artists.
If you listen to obscure music, then the system will try to match you up with other user's who listen is obscure music. From there, you can check out those profiles and see if they have music that you haven't listened to.
Of course it's not perfect and will go against some people's music preferences. But you knew that.
But why should I pay more attention to things like secial pleasantries and dramatic relationships? I can read about that stuff in a book or something!
I mean, "..all webpages that pass the W3C validator" is a really big set of input. It might even be an infinite set. Maybe we can try induction on that. From what I understand, doing formal analysis on code is really really expensive. Expensive as in, it's the kind of activity that NASA and nuclear power plants to on the most important safety critical portions of their code.
Specifying a standard isn't just a feature set. It also involves specifying how feature sets interact with each other and what to do with invalid input. And you're not specifying aganist some fixed set of well formed input. You're specifying an engine that must run against every person with access to notepad.exe, a geocities account, and a belief that they can make a webpage.
The above post should be read with a curious/questioning tone and should not be interpreted as mocking. btw, I don't know who you are, so if you turn out to be the founder of WC3 or the creator of Zen Garden or something, I'm going to slap myself.
Not only are they using you (xBox360 owners) as beta testers, they're using you (xBox360 detractors) to hide their real plans! When MS comes out with the xBox361 just in time to pre-empt any competetor's release, we'll see the true .
All hail Bill Gates, Hero of Capitalism!
What is happening here is the public has gotten used to software development in the form of the waterfall model. They understand that it takes time to design, produce, and test software. They have become accustomed to updates during the maintainance phase of a product's lifecycle. <CarAnalogy premise="Software versions are like year models">
The source of the misunderstanding is that the development industry has moved on to other models like the Iterative Model, while the general public is still expecting waterfall-style releases. Why has the software industry moved on without bringing public expectation with it? Because we can. You cannot expect the public to keep up with the difference between old methodologies and the new ones. This is true in any industry where there are people with specialized knowledge. <CarAnalogy premise="Car designers know a lot more about cars than you do">
"Beta" is a transitionary device for the public to understand that the software industry has changed. The public will find out that just because a product is released, it doesn't mean that the programmers are done with working on it. Just that they have part of it working. Of course this is possible because of the declining cost of distribution (The Internet gives us this).
Beta shields people who are used to the old model from the truths of iterative development. Software is never done until it's perfect, but we can't hold out and wait until it's perfect, or we will never get anywhere. <CarAnalogy type="Nobody has the perfect car">
*All car analogies are left as an exercise for the reader.
**I agree with parent when it comes to bad/copycat companies. They're doing it because it's hip/they're lazy.
Many Mods were M2ed to bring us this information.
and as soon as this hypothetical worm appears, ISPs shall be visited by our good friend RNG.
One thing about worms. They tend to destroy networks, white hat or not.
I dunno aboot you, but here in Canada our keyboards have this really cool CAPS LOCK key, eh.
Obligatory meta-funny whore post.
I hope you're happy now.
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DUN DUN DUNNNNN!
In Korea only old people go to first grade.
As a student, searching through pdfs is pretty useful. For most of my courses, my porfs release PDFs of the lecture slides. These slides often contain examples or formulae that I'll need during an assignment. I have directories full of slides named lecture1, lecture2, etc. I use GDS to search inside the pdfs for a specific topic or phrase that I'm looking for. It's much easier than opening up each one, searching through it, finding it's not the one that I want and repeating. Once I have a list of the PDFs with the phrase in them, I can find that lecture in my handwritten notes.
Pepsi Cola corporation is proud to announce that it has offically the number one soda reccommended by homeless people, inmates, and third world nations!
It means that developers can spend more time on implementing features. The developers will spend less time n implementing these common actions. They will spedn less time debugging that code. You will have less worry about the security of their homebrew code (assuming Microsoft's implementation is secure).
I think that if satan wanted to hurt you with The Truth, he would have no qualms about doing so. Or at least I wouldn't. If I were satan that is...
In my high school, extra-curricular activities were a privilege. If you did not retain good academic standing or were doing illegal activities, that privilege could be taken away from you. Students participating in extra-curricular activities often compete outside of the school. Thus, they are representatives of the school itself.
maybe you could put your a link to your site in your articles... Like this review originally from http://blah./ It won't stop them from copying it but at least you'll get credit for writing it.