This is no different than the Nielsen ratings... users opt in, and results are based on those who choose to opt. Unfortunately you are part of a minority of sites that gets negatively affected by Alexa ratings, due to your audience's reluctance to participate... just like certain TV shows that get affected by Nielsen, regardless of how good they are. Suck it up and find a better metric for your boss.
Put an iambic paddle on that cell phone and bang out text messages faster than those whippersnappers:)
A previous post argued the difference is that morse streams, while SMS is sent as a message, but I'd still bet even if you streamed SMS, or waited for complete sentances with morse, morse would win easily. Morse avoids the hunting and pecking, your finger and thumb is always on the key (or paddle)...
Morse or SMS?, a competition on the Late Show with Jay Leno.
Q codes, internationally recognized 3 letter codes beginning with the letter Q. Used in the Ham community, but there are Q codes for aeronautical, nautical, etc. use as well. It is possible to hold a meaningful conversation with someone, regardless of what language you speak.
If it were so easy, then why is the promoter not making the million dollars a week instead of making cheesy commercials.
I'm not saying all late-night TV schemers are legit (few are, imo). But once you've made your first million or so, you are pretty much set (Invest 3/4 of it and your RoR on a mediocre year is over 50k). You might as well train the 'next generation' with the understanding you get to tap a few % of what they make as overhead.
just because students don't do weather simulations
My wife got her Masters in Meteorology and did this. I'm an Aerospace Engineer and basically consumed 100% of my computers' resources (dual core AMD x5200) for a month and a half doing runs for my thesis. (and yes, the simulation was multi-threaded)
I agree with your premise. While this machine will work for people just interested in social networking, anything beyond that will leave the user lacking.
Of course, as polluted as some of the great lakes already are, at least if we did this it would have some good effect.
That was my thought. At first I was going to propose Lake Michigan, but eh, Superior is between Canada and Minnesota, let them deal with it.
love,
Wisconsin.
He didn't write glibc, ls, find, or Gnome, for that matter.
I don't have half those things on my computer. (Slackware... I don't install gnome and I'm not sure I have find either to tell you the truth). That's the point - they are accessories to the operating system. So many slashdotters complain about the extra functionality in Windows - media player, search etc - and that it isn't part of the operating system - shouldn't the same standard hold to Linux?
Edit a photo? I don't know about your company, but I have never worked in a place where every employee had a Photoshop license.
Maybe not photoshop, but yea, I've seen it. Along with full copies of Acrobat. And other software. Even people that just use it once or twice a year. The loss of productivity just isn't worth it in some industries.
Streaming of their favorite music channel is the same, click the link, and hope that the network admins let you use streaming media.
All things being equal that is not the issue, the issue is the codec's on the users machine. Now, while I can get windows media files to play on my linux box, the average joe might not find it so easy.
I don't know what SharePoint is. Sorry.
Sharepoint is everything the other poster said, and more. I actually had to help migrate a project server from linux LAMP to SharePoint last year. It is a full featured project server, with integration with Outlook, etc. It's amazing, really, so far as productivity is concerned.
They are accustomed to _not_ having a consistent look, and _not_ having a consistent behavior, shortcuts, etc, in Windows apps
Except for Winamp and Media Player, my apps look consistent.... but try cross-loading KDE, GTK apps sometime...
You are using arguments from the nineties.
Unfortunately, I don't think much has changed. It has been the year of the desktop for how many years?
Don't get me wrong, I know Linux. I use it on a daily basis - here at work, I have a Linux and a Windows box. At home, the same, 2 computers, 1 linux 1 windows. Linux is great for some things, Windows is naturally better at others.
If they have coverage in your area, Alltel has basic phones and pretty good pay-by-the-minute rates if you are an infrequent user ($0.15/minute but no monthly charges, and no minute expiration dates). That's my wife's emergency cell phone. For $80 we got a basic no-frills phone, $20 worth of minutes that never expire (the only service charge is $4 a month if you don't use it... I call her once a month to make sure that doesn't happen).
Linux has nothing to do with it, because it's just a kernel. Kernels don't have anything to do with office packages.
Linux is an operating system. A distribution may choose to contain the GNU userland. from kernel.org: "Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net."
_if_ and only if you already use OpenOffice and Firefox, changing to, for example, a GNU/Linux distribution is not traumatic at all, if even noticed.
That's a completely outlandish statement. Of course it will be traumatic. While office may be where employees spend a vast majority of their time, what happens when they have to edit a photo? Stream their favorite music channel? What happens when they want Exchange-like server functionality? Or SharePoint? Etc. What about a constant, consistent theme in programs? There are plenty of things to *notice*.
I'll probably do my Ph.D. in LaTeX - but at the time I was writing my thesis I was doing a lot of travel, and didn't have a notebook. I was at the mercy of the computers I found:) and you know what I found.
For math-type hopework, if it needs to be typeset, I generally use MathCad. Easy to whip out, visually, without taking your hands off the keyboard.
Now, do three different page numbering formats in two different header and footer locations, resetting the count just once, and placing the title page number for each chapter in a third location.
**that** is not very intuitive, and ill-documented at that. Almost arcane knowlege, passed down from grad student to grad student who chose to write their thesis in Word instead of LaTeX.
Slashdot Mirror
...because digg.com is beating slashdot.org :)
Want a little cheese, Taco?
... users opt in, and results are based on those who choose to opt. Unfortunately you are part of a minority of sites that gets negatively affected by Alexa ratings, due to your audience's reluctance to participate ... just like certain TV shows that get affected by Nielsen, regardless of how good they are. Suck it up and find a better metric for your boss.
This is no different than the Nielsen ratings
Put an iambic paddle on that cell phone and bang out text messages faster than those whippersnappers :)
...
Morse or SMS?, a competition on the Late Show with Jay Leno.
A previous post argued the difference is that morse streams, while SMS is sent as a message, but I'd still bet even if you streamed SMS, or waited for complete sentances with morse, morse would win easily. Morse avoids the hunting and pecking, your finger and thumb is always on the key (or paddle)
we do :)
Q codes, internationally recognized 3 letter codes beginning with the letter Q. Used in the Ham community, but there are Q codes for aeronautical, nautical, etc. use as well. It is possible to hold a meaningful conversation with someone, regardless of what language you speak.
Rutan is well along in years. He was born in 43, that makes him ... 64? Retirement, baby.
... I don't know his motives, exactly, but I'm sure his age factors into it.
$4.5B can win it ... With all the potential this band has, that might just be a piss in the lake compared to what a big telcom might throw at it.
Supposedly, over 1 million so far, all for a profit.
Right? Wrong? I'm the one with the spam ...
If it were so easy, then why is the promoter not making the million dollars a week instead of making cheesy commercials.
I'm not saying all late-night TV schemers are legit (few are, imo). But once you've made your first million or so, you are pretty much set (Invest 3/4 of it and your RoR on a mediocre year is over 50k). You might as well train the 'next generation' with the understanding you get to tap a few % of what they make as overhead.
wow. I think that's the first time I've seen an 'obligatory' ATHF.
But yes. very applicable. (make the homies say ho, and the girlies wanna SCREAM!)
Thanks, that was my First Laugh (FL) of the day :P
just because students don't do weather simulations
My wife got her Masters in Meteorology and did this. I'm an Aerospace Engineer and basically consumed 100% of my computers' resources (dual core AMD x5200) for a month and a half doing runs for my thesis. (and yes, the simulation was multi-threaded)
I agree with your premise. While this machine will work for people just interested in social networking, anything beyond that will leave the user lacking.
Of course, as polluted as some of the great lakes already are, at least if we did this it would have some good effect.
That was my thought. At first I was going to propose Lake Michigan, but eh, Superior is between Canada and Minnesota, let them deal with it.
love,
Wisconsin.
What, too much breakdown of CO2? No problem! We could go chop down the rain forest! :)
You are right. I never owned a gameboy until last year (won it at a company party) so I was going off a rusty memory
*shrug* I had comcast 4 years ago, up through a year ago (moved, comcast isn't available where I am) and I access on a Linux box. What's your problem?
He didn't write glibc, ls, find, or Gnome, for that matter.
...
I don't have half those things on my computer. (Slackware... I don't install gnome and I'm not sure I have find either to tell you the truth). That's the point - they are accessories to the operating system. So many slashdotters complain about the extra functionality in Windows - media player, search etc - and that it isn't part of the operating system - shouldn't the same standard hold to Linux?
Edit a photo? I don't know about your company, but I have never worked in a place where every employee had a Photoshop license.
Maybe not photoshop, but yea, I've seen it. Along with full copies of Acrobat. And other software. Even people that just use it once or twice a year. The loss of productivity just isn't worth it in some industries. Streaming of their favorite music channel is the same, click the link, and hope that the network admins let you use streaming media.
All things being equal that is not the issue, the issue is the codec's on the users machine. Now, while I can get windows media files to play on my linux box, the average joe might not find it so easy. I don't know what SharePoint is. Sorry.
Sharepoint is everything the other poster said, and more. I actually had to help migrate a project server from linux LAMP to SharePoint last year. It is a full featured project server, with integration with Outlook, etc. It's amazing, really, so far as productivity is concerned.
They are accustomed to _not_ having a consistent look, and _not_ having a consistent behavior, shortcuts, etc, in Windows apps
Except for Winamp and Media Player, my apps look consistent.... but try cross-loading KDE, GTK apps sometime
You are using arguments from the nineties.
Unfortunately, I don't think much has changed. It has been the year of the desktop for how many years?
Don't get me wrong, I know Linux. I use it on a daily basis - here at work, I have a Linux and a Windows box. At home, the same, 2 computers, 1 linux 1 windows. Linux is great for some things, Windows is naturally better at others.
interesting. Thanks.
haha, thats why we have a landline (Skype) :P
If they have coverage in your area, Alltel has basic phones and pretty good pay-by-the-minute rates if you are an infrequent user ($0.15/minute but no monthly charges, and no minute expiration dates). That's my wife's emergency cell phone. For $80 we got a basic no-frills phone, $20 worth of minutes that never expire (the only service charge is $4 a month if you don't use it ... I call her once a month to make sure that doesn't happen).
Linux has nothing to do with it, because it's just a kernel. Kernels don't have anything to do with office packages.
Linux is an operating system. A distribution may choose to contain the GNU userland. from kernel.org: "Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net."
_if_ and only if you already use OpenOffice and Firefox, changing to, for example, a GNU/Linux distribution is not traumatic at all, if even noticed.
That's a completely outlandish statement. Of course it will be traumatic. While office may be where employees spend a vast majority of their time, what happens when they have to edit a photo? Stream their favorite music channel? What happens when they want Exchange-like server functionality? Or SharePoint? Etc. What about a constant, consistent theme in programs? There are plenty of things to *notice*.
I'll probably do my Ph.D. in LaTeX - but at the time I was writing my thesis I was doing a lot of travel, and didn't have a notebook. I was at the mercy of the computers I found :) and you know what I found.
For math-type hopework, if it needs to be typeset, I generally use MathCad. Easy to whip out, visually, without taking your hands off the keyboard.
gameboy, game boy color, gameboy advance, gameboy advance sp, gameboy micro, say what now mr. Anonymous Coward?
Now, do three different page numbering formats in two different header and footer locations, resetting the count just once, and placing the title page number for each chapter in a third location.
**that** is not very intuitive, and ill-documented at that. Almost arcane knowlege, passed down from grad student to grad student who chose to write their thesis in Word instead of LaTeX.