[..] has sparked much debate over it's validity which makes it a valuable contribution. Even if it's incorrect, it has enough merit to provoke criticism, not dismissal.
You mean, like Intelligent Design..?
Anyone can put up anything in these times we live in, and have it accessible to a reasonable audience in terms of numbers with the right kind of 'marketing'. Some of them deserve stinging criticism followed by a dismissal.
I see all these comments saying "But Hulu shows only American adverts!!11".
If Hulu can determine so easily where you're coming from, how hard would it be for them to do some analytics on viewership for a particular show and tailor the ad prices accordingly? Additionally, how are these ads served up? Are they transcoded into the video being viewed? If not, dynamically change the ads being displayed to the user based on his/her region.
Win-win-win-win. Hulu gets more money from global advertisers. More companies get to shove their ads into what has become fairly hot online real estate. Global viewers get access to shows they otherwise would have to get from (what is considered) shady sources. And the show-makers/'content providers' make more money (not sure of this though - do they make money from Hulu views?)
Am I missing something obvious here? Is there a reason this is so hard it hasn't been done yet?
What if you wanted to learn about Internet Explorer? You need to go to microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx. Who could have guessed that without a search engine?
It's not that clear a case of movie studios wanting to bring a wonderful book to movie and being stymied by the author's estate.
In 1969, JRR himself signed a movie deal contract with United Artists stating what his estate gets, and what level of control they have. While the copyright implications are still distasteful, this is a case of folks just plain not honouring their contract, in clear bad faith.
Have you tried using Readability on that page? Doesn't really work - truncates the article for some reason. I went off on a rant only after exhausting most sane options:)
I can't believe a tech magazine has gone OUT OF ITS WAY to make this article practically unreadable.
Nothing works - Single page view still shows me about 65% page-width of sidebar, there is no print view to speak of, only a "Print" option that I could use to make a PDF, except even that is too shittily formatted to read, and for some reason the text column decides it's a good idea to get even narrower at some point after the insanely difficult-to-decipher timeline image. Of which a convenient PDF download is linked to, which is THREE FRAKKIN MEGABYTES and still a total disaster to read.
Is this some sort of test about who RTFA and who doesn't?
Well, even TFA is one meandering, rambling muse better suited for a blog, which is a real pity, as the writer Alfred Nordmann has two reasonably well written essays up on his site. *sigh* Some people are just better at papers than articles with word-limits.
In one of my "Intro to C" mid-term exam, one of the (sit down in the 'puter lab and spew code type) assignments was a simple string manipulation exercise. After I was done with the program, while sitting around waiting for the output-verifying lab drone to come over to my place, I noticed all she was doing for the other folks with the same assignment question was key in the same series of words as test inputs. I saw this, and quickly whipped up another little program that basically displayed a prompt, and did a printf("{hard-coded desired output for same set of words}"); and ran this piddly little pile of 'code' when she stopped by my machine.
Any time you add/access for the first time a Facebook app you have to click through a disclaimer screen that explicitly says the app can have access to pretty much any aspect of your Facebook profile, including your friends network, and whatever you can access on your contacts' FB profiles.
It really isn't "abject insecurity" when a window manufacturer says the panes they make can be broken easily by a hammer, and someone does precisely that. No point chiding the manufacturer then - they told you so!
The last time I faced a similar problem (specific to this, sites responding to ping but not accessible through a browser) my ISP tech support (!!) made me tweak the MTU size.. registry do-able, but makes more sense to use something like DrTCP.
Who has it paid off for, really? As a result of their (sic) "bonifide job offer", I (and possibly a few more people) have now heard of The Ski Channel.
Free advertising by riding on a current "15 minutes" news item? Sign me up!
I know there's quite a bit of hate in the comments about the late submission, but here are my comments on the actual news bit:
[See comment subject]
Also, I hope Randall doesn't dick his reader fan-base by pullng a Scott Adams and pulling the content that's made its way into the book, OFF his site.
Dear Scott, I know you want to make bajillions of moneys through book deals, but you lost this reader when you sold out to your publisher and removed all the blog posts that went into your book. "Oops" just doesn't cut it.
p.s: Slash-CSS is seriously fucked. I really doubt paragraph line-spacing needs to be that massive.
*I* would be curious to know this: if there WERE a difference in the stats, how can you know it's because of the Apple Store? How would you adjust for other factors?
Tragedy of the commons. Seriously, what's the deal with 'studies' like this even being done?
In any system that requires order, a certain amount of entropy is desirable. But when the factors contributing to this entropy are 'given permission' to increase, then the system breaks down into complete chaos.
Isn't that just great? Now jerkwad drivers can justify themselves quoting this study: "But I was just trying to be the 40% of helpful guys!"
Of course no drug is completely safe -- my friend Charlie had to be operated on for a perforated intestine that her doctor said was caused by taking too much naproxin.
"No drug is completely safe" is what you took away from that? Dude, I think the lesson there is that TOO MUCH of any drug is not safe..
Vineet Nayar does not 'belong' to HTC. he is the CEO of HCL Technologies. HTC is a Taiwan-based mobile handset manufacturer (among other things), and a pretty good one at that.
They didn't believe that "a few" remained - the prevailing belief was that "few" were left to be discovered, which translates to "practically nothing".
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You mean, like Intelligent Design..?
Anyone can put up anything in these times we live in, and have it accessible to a reasonable audience in terms of numbers with the right kind of 'marketing'. Some of them deserve stinging criticism followed by a dismissal.
I see all these comments saying "But Hulu shows only American adverts!!11".
If Hulu can determine so easily where you're coming from, how hard would it be for them to do some analytics on viewership for a particular show and tailor the ad prices accordingly? Additionally, how are these ads served up? Are they transcoded into the video being viewed? If not, dynamically change the ads being displayed to the user based on his/her region.
Win-win-win-win. Hulu gets more money from global advertisers. More companies get to shove their ads into what has become fairly hot online real estate. Global viewers get access to shows they otherwise would have to get from (what is considered) shady sources. And the show-makers/'content providers' make more money (not sure of this though - do they make money from Hulu views?)
Am I missing something obvious here? Is there a reason this is so hard it hasn't been done yet?
I guess a lot of people around here agree with you - that site seems to be Slashdotted! ;)
Amen. Such a contrast, eh?
As someone else's sig says around here, never forget.
You DID try out microsoft.com/ie before posting though, right?
It's not that clear a case of movie studios wanting to bring a wonderful book to movie and being stymied by the author's estate.
In 1969, JRR himself signed a movie deal contract with United Artists stating what his estate gets, and what level of control they have. While the copyright implications are still distasteful, this is a case of folks just plain not honouring their contract, in clear bad faith.
First post! Wait, what? Dammit! If only I knew how to use more than one finger to type and had learned this invaluable skill in high-school..
Like usage of the metric system?
Have you tried using Readability on that page? Doesn't really work - truncates the article for some reason. I went off on a rant only after exhausting most sane options :)
I can't believe a tech magazine has gone OUT OF ITS WAY to make this article practically unreadable.
Nothing works - Single page view still shows me about 65% page-width of sidebar, there is no print view to speak of, only a "Print" option that I could use to make a PDF, except even that is too shittily formatted to read, and for some reason the text column decides it's a good idea to get even narrower at some point after the insanely difficult-to-decipher timeline image. Of which a convenient PDF download is linked to, which is THREE FRAKKIN MEGABYTES and still a total disaster to read.
Is this some sort of test about who RTFA and who doesn't?
Well, even TFA is one meandering, rambling muse better suited for a blog, which is a real pity, as the writer Alfred Nordmann has two reasonably well written essays up on his site. *sigh* Some people are just better at papers than articles with word-limits.
Seeing as how I'm getting flamed for bringing up what is obviously a touchy topic, two things have to be said:
Similar story.
In one of my "Intro to C" mid-term exam, one of the (sit down in the 'puter lab and spew code type) assignments was a simple string manipulation exercise. After I was done with the program, while sitting around waiting for the output-verifying lab drone to come over to my place, I noticed all she was doing for the other folks with the same assignment question was key in the same series of words as test inputs. I saw this, and quickly whipped up another little program that basically displayed a prompt, and did a printf("{hard-coded desired output for same set of words}"); and ran this piddly little pile of 'code' when she stopped by my machine.
Sadly, I passed..
GOTO :-) (or is that two..?)
Just like us early-adopter sub-mega-UID folks!
Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.
Toughest tag to parse, EVAR!
Any time you add/access for the first time a Facebook app you have to click through a disclaimer screen that explicitly says the app can have access to pretty much any aspect of your Facebook profile, including your friends network, and whatever you can access on your contacts' FB profiles.
It really isn't "abject insecurity" when a window manufacturer says the panes they make can be broken easily by a hammer, and someone does precisely that. No point chiding the manufacturer then - they told you so!
Pardon me kind sir, what is this Vee See Arr that you talk of?
The last time I faced a similar problem (specific to this, sites responding to ping but not accessible through a browser) my ISP tech support (!!) made me tweak the MTU size.. registry do-able, but makes more sense to use something like DrTCP.
Who has it paid off for, really? As a result of their (sic) "bonifide job offer", I (and possibly a few more people) have now heard of The Ski Channel.
Free advertising by riding on a current "15 minutes" news item? Sign me up!
I know there's quite a bit of hate in the comments about the late submission, but here are my comments on the actual news bit:
[See comment subject]
Also, I hope Randall doesn't dick his reader fan-base by pullng a Scott Adams and pulling the content that's made its way into the book, OFF his site.
Dear Scott, I know you want to make bajillions of moneys through book deals, but you lost this reader when you sold out to your publisher and removed all the blog posts that went into your book. "Oops" just doesn't cut it.
p.s: Slash-CSS is seriously fucked. I really doubt paragraph line-spacing needs to be that massive.
Not trolling dude, genuinely want to know..
Tragedy of the commons. Seriously, what's the deal with 'studies' like this even being done?
In any system that requires order, a certain amount of entropy is desirable. But when the factors contributing to this entropy are 'given permission' to increase, then the system breaks down into complete chaos.
Isn't that just great? Now jerkwad drivers can justify themselves quoting this study: "But I was just trying to be the 40% of helpful guys!"
"No drug is completely safe" is what you took away from that? Dude, I think the lesson there is that TOO MUCH of any drug is not safe..
Vineet Nayar does not 'belong' to HTC. he is the CEO of HCL Technologies. HTC is a Taiwan-based mobile handset manufacturer (among other things), and a pretty good one at that.
Linky.