they'd try to turn Yahoo! into another Microsoft division and destroy what they were after in the first place.
That, I totally agree with. I've already submitted a letter to Yahoo's feedback page letting them know that I won't be using their many services anymore if the MS deal goes through, because I know that a service decline is inevitable. What good can come of letting a company that's already been proven incompetent running a similar business run your business?
I think you may have read that wrong. In the case I mentioned. They IM me. It would seem kind of silly to reply saying "Could you email me that 'Hey, what's up?'?" And just because I occasionally get IMs from people that I can't/don't feel like talking to right at that moment, that's not really a reason to NEVER use IM. My main form of communication with my husband (who lives in a different state right now) is IM. A lot of the time I can/do want to talk to whoever IMs me. Other times I have time for one or two conversations but not one more. I have no idea why the fact that occasionally I get an IM that I can't respond to immediately means I should give up the medium entirely.
The problem is people DON'T know about this stuff. It's being reported by the tech news sites, not anyone read by more than a small fraction of the population.
But you do still have a point - given better choices, people still use Comcast. In my area, there's Comcast or RCN for cable. In my building of seven units, I'm the only one with RCN. A couple have dishes, I don't know how they get internet, but I know for sure that several have Comcast. What baffles me is that for internet access, Comcast is about $20/month more than RCN, and yet they still get marketshare. Their "bundle" package of phone, internet, and TV is also about $25 more. RCN does a lot of direct mail advertising, but comcast also has billboards and radio and TV ads - obviously advertising works.
On my service provider's homepage, it takes a half an hour for me to just find the place to pay my bill, and it moves every couple of months. If such an option is available, I doubt anyone has ever actually found it to activate it! (Luckily, I don't have comcast, and am in a rare area with two cable providers, the OTHER of which is comcast, so I'm hoping RCN won't pull this crap because they actually could lose customers and are already second-place.)
I agree. I have no problem leaving a new IM sitting there for five minutes or a couple hours until I'm ready to respond, or just closing it altogether without responding if I know I'll never get around to it. Or leaving myself in Away if I don't want to be bothered in general but want to IM my husband. And so far I've never offended anyone that I know of - I know I've certainly IMed most of my friends and not gotten a response one time or another, I think everyone leaves it on when they're actually busy sometimes.
I also don't know that I buy the introverted argument. I get the feeling I'm not AS introverted as the author, but I definitely don't find IMing to be draining in the same way face-to-face interactions can be sometimes. Mainly BECAUSE I can just ignore it if I don't feel like dealing with that person right now. Maybe it's some combination of introversion and people-pleasing that does it.
I was about to ask the same question. I use mail, tv, weather, movies, and maps on yahoo all the time. I will not be using any of these any longer if MS buys them. Who do I email to let them know this?
From the summary, I thought that the ebook company was the one paying people to take notes they could then resell. I didn't realize they were suing someone FOR doing that. Still questionable on the suing, but not as completely ludicrous as I thought.
And watch grades plummet. I don't take notes to read them later. I only refer to my notes later in rare classes. I take notes because the act of writing something down helps me remember it - I highlight articles for similar reasons, because it helps me focus, not because I only want to read the highlighted parts later.
Not to mention, it keeps me actively engaged and AWAKE. I don't think I could sit through most lectures without doing something active. Plus, if all of the information needed is in these notes and a student taking notes wouldn't find anything extra to add, what's the point in going to lecture?
And I won't even get started on modern learning theory and the fact that you actively construct knowledge rather than simply absorbing it, and how note-taking (while only a small step in the right direction) can help facilitate that...
... Spoken by someone who has obviously never tried to do research via surveys. A return rate of over 50% is pretty hard to get. Heck, I once gave out a survey to kids in classrooms, a captive audience, and some of them didn't fill out the whole thing.
I was about to post the same thing. I'm just a lowly grad student, and I was handed a Powerbook with full admin access that I have to give back either when I graduate or when it breaks and I need a new one. If I were better than a grad student, I would have gotten a newer model (instead of a hand-me-down) and possibly some say in what model. If anything goes wrong or I need an upgrade or some dept-paid-for software, I hand it to the IT guy and get it back the next day.
There are signs in the department lab asking that you not install outside software, but there's no enforcement. But then, it's an all-Mac dept, so worries of viruses are minimal. I can't imagine that would be feasible in a Windows dept.
Yeah, that's why I jumped at the chance to get a free copy of Office to replace NeoOffice, which I couldn't deal with anymore. And why I pirated a copy of Photoshop Elments instead of downloading a perfectly-legal copy of the GIMP. And why the ONLY thing keeping me using Scribus is that I'm making newsletters for a large nonprofit group who probably wouldn't want me using pirated software to do it. There's no way I'd keep using it for a day beyond what I have to if it weren't for that. It does the things I need it to, but in the most painful fashion imaginable.
I'm not sure in what way these pieces of software "trounce" their competition. Not that all free software is worse than its competition. I really like Imagewell as a miniature alternative to Adobe products for very, very basic things like just cropping. But that's about as far as its usefulness goes, and I hear that Preview 10.5 can do that stuff too.
When at least 50% of households in the US have more than one cable company to choose from, then maybe we can let the marketplace decide. Because then there will BE a marketplace.
You can't have your cake and eat it too, Comcast. Either you get a government-sanctioned monopoly OR you get to "let the market decide" whether you're doing things that hurt consumers.
The Creativity Achievement Questionnaire, a self-report test that measures creative achievement across 10 domains, was described in 2005 and shown to be reliable and valid when compared to other measures of creativity and to independent evaluation of creative output.
Not saying that this particular test is the gold standard or what was used in this study, but obviously people have come up with ways to measure at least some parts of creativity somewhat well. Most definitions of creativity for research purposes use Torrance's definition and breakdown or something very similar.
Also, remember that colloquial definitions of a construct don't always line up completely with operationalized definitons used by researchers. But that's to be expected - colloquial use of terms is always going to be fluid, changing, and hard to pin down. Whereas to study something empirically, you have to specify exactly what it is you're studying and stick to that definition.
Why, was the study funded by Apple and IBM? Because all I can find on the funding is this:
This research was supported in part by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to Grainne M. Fitzsimons, and from Grant R03MH65250 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to Tanya L.
Chartrand.
Or are you saying that it's biased because it was done by professors who study marketing? Pray tell, who should be doing the research about marketing? By that metric, anyone who tries to do it will automatically be disqualified because they are marketing researchers.
Because obviously if you didn't know about any ways of measuring creativity, it means that there can't possibly be an entire field devoted to creativity research that's spent decades operationalizing aspects of it and developing valid and reliable tests for it?
Which isn't to say we can measure it with 100% accuracy or that there's no debate still about what it is, what should be included, etc etc. But it's so nice of you to completely dismiss out of hand the very idea of measuring it in any way.
For all the people claiming that the US is turning into a fascist state and we're losing all our rights and privacy etc... I, for one, am just damn glad I don't live in the UK.
All the people with types of cancers with 90%+ survival rates would be surprised to hear about this.
No, we don't have the "magic bullet" yet. Yes, current therapies have lots of side-effects, both short-term and long-term, although many modern therapies have fewer than they did 20-50 years ago. But to declare all of cancer research a failure is pretty silly.
Also, I don't know anything about immune systems and antibody or gene therapy, but I'll bet the idea of a clean room hasn't gone completely unexplored. Considering that both donor and allogenic bone marrow transplants are already common treatment for some cancers, and that involves killing off your immune system and regrowing it in a clean room, so it's not like it's a new idea.
You do get a handful of people (not doctors, from my experience, but patients who have read random things) who suggest going low-sugar or low-carb when doing chemo to help with the process, or who take that approach themselves.
(Personally, though, my attitude was "I'm going through fucking chemotherapy, I feel like shit, I will eat whatever the hell I want." Maybe not the most health-conscious approach, but sometimes you have to cling to the little things in life, especially when steroids are making you ravenous.)
You should maybe learn a bit more about how learning works. Yes, there may be a time when the current organizational structures in our schools are antiquated (some would say that time came decades ago) and finally crumble - but that does not mean there will be no need for teachers of any kind. It would be nearly impossible for an individual to accumulate a high school diploma's worth of knowledge - let alone a college degree's worth - without some kind of facilitation of their learning.
And this is being said by someone whose main research interest is non-facilitated learning environments, but I'm not naive enough to think that those could constitute a person's entire education.
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So now any post using sarcasm is flamebait? We're all in trouble.
Probably a web portal that they've managed to not run into the ground quite as badly as MS.
they'd try to turn Yahoo! into another Microsoft division and destroy what they were after in the first place.
That, I totally agree with. I've already submitted a letter to Yahoo's feedback page letting them know that I won't be using their many services anymore if the MS deal goes through, because I know that a service decline is inevitable. What good can come of letting a company that's already been proven incompetent running a similar business run your business?
Do you only give out your phone number to people whose calls you will answer no matter what else you are doing at the time?
I think you may have read that wrong. In the case I mentioned. They IM me. It would seem kind of silly to reply saying "Could you email me that 'Hey, what's up?'?" And just because I occasionally get IMs from people that I can't/don't feel like talking to right at that moment, that's not really a reason to NEVER use IM. My main form of communication with my husband (who lives in a different state right now) is IM. A lot of the time I can/do want to talk to whoever IMs me. Other times I have time for one or two conversations but not one more. I have no idea why the fact that occasionally I get an IM that I can't respond to immediately means I should give up the medium entirely.
But you do still have a point - given better choices, people still use Comcast. In my area, there's Comcast or RCN for cable. In my building of seven units, I'm the only one with RCN. A couple have dishes, I don't know how they get internet, but I know for sure that several have Comcast. What baffles me is that for internet access, Comcast is about $20/month more than RCN, and yet they still get marketshare. Their "bundle" package of phone, internet, and TV is also about $25 more. RCN does a lot of direct mail advertising, but comcast also has billboards and radio and TV ads - obviously advertising works.
On my service provider's homepage, it takes a half an hour for me to just find the place to pay my bill, and it moves every couple of months. If such an option is available, I doubt anyone has ever actually found it to activate it! (Luckily, I don't have comcast, and am in a rare area with two cable providers, the OTHER of which is comcast, so I'm hoping RCN won't pull this crap because they actually could lose customers and are already second-place.)
I also don't know that I buy the introverted argument. I get the feeling I'm not AS introverted as the author, but I definitely don't find IMing to be draining in the same way face-to-face interactions can be sometimes. Mainly BECAUSE I can just ignore it if I don't feel like dealing with that person right now. Maybe it's some combination of introversion and people-pleasing that does it.
I was about to ask the same question. I use mail, tv, weather, movies, and maps on yahoo all the time. I will not be using any of these any longer if MS buys them. Who do I email to let them know this?
From the summary, I thought that the ebook company was the one paying people to take notes they could then resell. I didn't realize they were suing someone FOR doing that. Still questionable on the suing, but not as completely ludicrous as I thought.
Not to mention, it keeps me actively engaged and AWAKE. I don't think I could sit through most lectures without doing something active. Plus, if all of the information needed is in these notes and a student taking notes wouldn't find anything extra to add, what's the point in going to lecture?
And I won't even get started on modern learning theory and the fact that you actively construct knowledge rather than simply absorbing it, and how note-taking (while only a small step in the right direction) can help facilitate that...
... Spoken by someone who has obviously never tried to do research via surveys. A return rate of over 50% is pretty hard to get. Heck, I once gave out a survey to kids in classrooms, a captive audience, and some of them didn't fill out the whole thing.
The $3Billion is what the paper alternative will cost now that the handhelds aren't happening.
There are signs in the department lab asking that you not install outside software, but there's no enforcement. But then, it's an all-Mac dept, so worries of viruses are minimal. I can't imagine that would be feasible in a Windows dept.
LMAO
Yeah, that's why I jumped at the chance to get a free copy of Office to replace NeoOffice, which I couldn't deal with anymore. And why I pirated a copy of Photoshop Elments instead of downloading a perfectly-legal copy of the GIMP. And why the ONLY thing keeping me using Scribus is that I'm making newsletters for a large nonprofit group who probably wouldn't want me using pirated software to do it. There's no way I'd keep using it for a day beyond what I have to if it weren't for that. It does the things I need it to, but in the most painful fashion imaginable.
I'm not sure in what way these pieces of software "trounce" their competition. Not that all free software is worse than its competition. I really like Imagewell as a miniature alternative to Adobe products for very, very basic things like just cropping. But that's about as far as its usefulness goes, and I hear that Preview 10.5 can do that stuff too.
You can't have your cake and eat it too, Comcast. Either you get a government-sanctioned monopoly OR you get to "let the market decide" whether you're doing things that hurt consumers.
The Creativity Achievement Questionnaire, a self-report test that measures creative achievement across 10 domains, was described in 2005 and shown to be reliable and valid when compared to other measures of creativity and to independent evaluation of creative output.
Not saying that this particular test is the gold standard or what was used in this study, but obviously people have come up with ways to measure at least some parts of creativity somewhat well. Most definitions of creativity for research purposes use Torrance's definition and breakdown or something very similar.
Also, remember that colloquial definitions of a construct don't always line up completely with operationalized definitons used by researchers. But that's to be expected - colloquial use of terms is always going to be fluid, changing, and hard to pin down. Whereas to study something empirically, you have to specify exactly what it is you're studying and stick to that definition.
This research was supported in part by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to Grainne M. Fitzsimons, and from Grant R03MH65250 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to Tanya L. Chartrand.
Or are you saying that it's biased because it was done by professors who study marketing? Pray tell, who should be doing the research about marketing? By that metric, anyone who tries to do it will automatically be disqualified because they are marketing researchers.
I'm hoping it's me.
Which isn't to say we can measure it with 100% accuracy or that there's no debate still about what it is, what should be included, etc etc. But it's so nice of you to completely dismiss out of hand the very idea of measuring it in any way.
Seeing as how it's all laid out in the preprint linked to in the summary.
For all the people claiming that the US is turning into a fascist state and we're losing all our rights and privacy etc... I, for one, am just damn glad I don't live in the UK.
No, we don't have the "magic bullet" yet. Yes, current therapies have lots of side-effects, both short-term and long-term, although many modern therapies have fewer than they did 20-50 years ago. But to declare all of cancer research a failure is pretty silly.
Also, I don't know anything about immune systems and antibody or gene therapy, but I'll bet the idea of a clean room hasn't gone completely unexplored. Considering that both donor and allogenic bone marrow transplants are already common treatment for some cancers, and that involves killing off your immune system and regrowing it in a clean room, so it's not like it's a new idea.
(Personally, though, my attitude was "I'm going through fucking chemotherapy, I feel like shit, I will eat whatever the hell I want." Maybe not the most health-conscious approach, but sometimes you have to cling to the little things in life, especially when steroids are making you ravenous.)
O RLY?
Doctors are volunteers in the UK? Pharmaceutical companies are giving away meds now?
And this is being said by someone whose main research interest is non-facilitated learning environments, but I'm not naive enough to think that those could constitute a person's entire education.