It's interesting that simply calling something of no intrinsic merit an "achievement" will cause people to expend time in order for it to be bestowed upon them. The particular achievement I'm about to earn is aptly named.
But that's the fun of April Fools day on/. -- figuring out what is legitimate and what's not. There wouldn't be a possibility for fooling at all if everyone knew at the outset that every article had to be a joke.
Interesting. I wonder if that also explains Z2K9? Of course it's also possible that God's hatred for Zunes has nothing to do with his hate for America.
The NPD group are not the owners of the HD-DVD format, they are a market research company. Toshiba is a major client so statements from NPD in regard to HD-DVD should be taken with a grain of salt.
You are naive. Google indexes over four billion Web pages (~40 TB), searches this data a thousand times every second of every day, and with response rates measured in milliseconds.
Only instead of providing links to Web sites, the government's in-house search engine would provide links to users.
Note to science and tech journalists: please stop stringing together "millions" and "billions" in an attempt to make the numbers seem large, impressive, and incomprehensible. Scientific notation and SI exist for a reason.
Exactly! For the thousandth time, let's cut out the exaggerated and sensational writing Slashdot! If I had a dollar for every sensational headline I've read here, not to mention the gazillion overstated comments I read here per day, I'd be a billionaire by now!
Who would use this service? It's like going to a news site where all they do is provide a brief, degraded version of an actual news story..
I'm not sure about imeem, but what if -- get this -- you had a site with degraded news stories *about* degraded services? The news stories could be degraded in just such a way that made the degraded services appear *non-degraded* and really cool. Then, you provide a forum for people to bitch about the service and about how it shouldn't have been covered in first place. What do you think?
Wow. How amazing that the record companies agreed to this. Low quality streaming with loads of ads and a "download" button that sends you to the iTunes store or amazon. The annoying registration box that pops up after listening to 30 seconds of a song (you must register to hear the rest) is a nice touch.
1. Battery life still bombs.
2. Laptops get banged up and broken.
3. They're tough to fix, and they die young.
4. They get lost.
5. They're difficult to secure, digitally and physically...
6.... and security precautions make users nuts.
7. Wi-Fi is still the Wild, Wild West.
8. Laptops spawn a new breed of uber-entitled user.
9. They're too big or too small.
10. Software performance just ain't the same.
IBM is "forecasting" what has already happened and what everyone in the industry already knows. Their study is simply an assessment of the present moment. They are "predicting" -- or rather, strongly encouraging by way of statistical evidence -- that the big corporate laggards in their customer base will/should get with the program, preferably IBM's, as soon as possible.
Now, can someone unfamiliar with a particular field, nay, a sub-discipline of that field, recognize these assumptions for what they are?"
Why should they have too? The general public doesn't care about the truth probability of your research. You must hide from them the debate and uncertainties scientists are concerned with.
Ultimately the public wants to: a) marvel at the discoveries of science; b) be shown how new science might be applied to their life or understanding of the world. They are a different audience and have different expectations than that your colleagues.
Here's the formula for converting scientific writing into popular science: 1) delete any hedges or qualifications, words like "may," "seems," "suggests," "appears to be"; 2) when explaining the science use textbook writing (factual definitions); 3) use language that glamorizes or sensationalizes your findings (e.g. 60% becomes "well over half"); 4) speculate how your research could impact the life or world of your reader.
"Either he succeeds in being intelligible by concealing the core of the
problem and by offering to the reader only superficial aspects or vague
allusions, thus deceiving the reader by arousing in him the deceptive
illusion of comprehension; or else he gives an expert account of the
problem, but in such a fashion that the untrained reader is unable to
follow the exposition and becomes discouraged from reading any
further. If these two categories are omitted from today's popular
scientific literature, surprisingly little remains."
This was written by Einstein in a forward for Linconln Barnett's popularization of the theory of relativity in 1948.
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It's interesting that simply calling something of no intrinsic merit an "achievement" will cause people to expend time in order for it to be bestowed upon them. The particular achievement I'm about to earn is aptly named.
But that's the fun of April Fools day on /. -- figuring out what is legitimate and what's not. There wouldn't be a possibility for fooling at all if everyone knew at the outset that every article had to be a joke.
note that the game costs $4.99 at the app store
Interesting. I wonder if that also explains Z2K9? Of course it's also possible that God's hatred for Zunes has nothing to do with his hate for America.
I live in Obama too, and trust *him* as my personal saviour, not you and your hogwash about Buffet.
thanks to minefield :)
If you don't trust a Kensington cable lock to deter your own colleagues from stealing your computer I suspect you have trust issues.
Not wanting to throw a USB stick into a locked drawer suggests you prefer addressing trivial problems with complicated technical solutions.
1. killing ones wife requires having a wife to kill
2. the accused is a geek
3. geeks cannot have wives
4. the defense rests
Does anyone know if you can upgrade to SP1 if your Vista doesn't pass WGA? This one hour automatic logout is really starting to an
The NPD group are not the owners of the HD-DVD format, they are a market research company. Toshiba is a major client so statements from NPD in regard to HD-DVD should be taken with a grain of salt.
You are naive. Google indexes over four billion Web pages (~40 TB), searches this data a thousand times every second of every day, and with response rates measured in milliseconds.
Only instead of providing links to Web sites, the government's in-house search engine would provide links to users.
Coffee literally came out of my nose. Thanks for that.
1. The Internet Will Melt Down
Very doubtful
2. Social Networks Face Security, Financial Woes
It is decidedly so
3. DRM Is Dead, Jim
Don't count on it
4. Open Software and Open Networks Will Dominate
Ask again later
5. Everything's Going Mobile
You may rely on it
6. Green Is the New Black
Outlook good
7. Hackers Get Political
Without a doubt
8. Google Stumbles
Outlook not so good
9. Microsoft Will Buy Yahoo
Signs point to yes
10. Your Next Pet Will Require Batteries
Cannot predict now
Wow. How amazing that the record companies agreed to this. Low quality streaming with loads of ads and a "download" button that sends you to the iTunes store or amazon. The annoying registration box that pops up after listening to 30 seconds of a song (you must register to hear the rest) is a nice touch.
integrate Microsoft Bob into SP3. problem solved.
1. Battery life still bombs. ... ... and security precautions make users nuts.
2. Laptops get banged up and broken.
3. They're tough to fix, and they die young.
4. They get lost.
5. They're difficult to secure, digitally and physically
6.
7. Wi-Fi is still the Wild, Wild West.
8. Laptops spawn a new breed of uber-entitled user.
9. They're too big or too small.
10. Software performance just ain't the same.
IBM is "forecasting" what has already happened and what everyone in the industry already knows. Their study is simply an assessment of the present moment. They are "predicting" -- or rather, strongly encouraging by way of statistical evidence -- that the big corporate laggards in their customer base will/should get with the program, preferably IBM's, as soon as possible.
Ultimately the public wants to: a) marvel at the discoveries of science; b) be shown how new science might be applied to their life or understanding of the world. They are a different audience and have different expectations than that your colleagues.
Here's the formula for converting scientific writing into popular science: 1) delete any hedges or qualifications, words like "may," "seems," "suggests," "appears to be"; 2) when explaining the science use textbook writing (factual definitions); 3) use language that glamorizes or sensationalizes your findings (e.g. 60% becomes "well over half"); 4) speculate how your research could impact the life or world of your reader.
"Either he succeeds in being intelligible by concealing the core of the problem and by offering to the reader only superficial aspects or vague allusions, thus deceiving the reader by arousing in him the deceptive illusion of comprehension; or else he gives an expert account of the problem, but in such a fashion that the untrained reader is unable to follow the exposition and becomes discouraged from reading any further. If these two categories are omitted from today's popular scientific literature, surprisingly little remains."
This was written by Einstein in a forward for Linconln Barnett's popularization of the theory of relativity in 1948.