I'm not trying to force words into anyones mouth man:) Your statement implies that youtube has adopted the like/dislike system to mimic facebook.
What I was saying is that the rating mechanism has been changed because of another reason -> five options rating is not working, two options rating might work.
Adding a like/dislike style to the system makes all the sense in the world because: 1. The like system is hugely familiar to millions of users 2. The like system is hugely popular. If you ask me, it's already embedded in popular culture so people can easily relate to that.
What would have been the difference if instead of like/dislike they would have named it +/- or Love/Hate?
Also, god damn... the google background experiment pissed the hell out of me.
Your assumption regarding the rating system of youtube is wrong. The like/dislike system was adopted as a consequence of the rating habits of youtube users not in an attempt to mimic facebook. The majority of the videos on youtube were either 1* or 5* with mostly nothing in between.
The like/dislike mechanism is an evolution of a system that is trying to adapt itself to its user base.
I don't honestly think that you can compare games for preadolescence girls like the "Imagine" series with games for big hairy men like the "Splinter Cell" series:)
They do pump out some trash games but the title you chose is completely irrelevant.
There's nothing to see here... This kind of audio/video cutup is old as hell and it surprises me how people still find it novel:) three examples come to mind now: coldcut & hexstatic - timber from 1998 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8-QDCKdVO4
I use mainly the Yahoo IM protocol since all my friends use it. I have ditched their official client for about 8 months since I consider it adware/spyware/bloatware. I have been using Pidgin since and I believe that it is the best alternative however there is one downside that completely pisses me off: file transfer does not work, and this absolutely sucks. I don't miss the audio/video capabilities of Y!M, nor the IMviroments and the craptacular audibles, but not having efficient file transfer capabilities kind of feels like regression. Meh... I guess I'll just live without it since I will never install Y!M on my computer again. I hope Microsoft buys them off and buries them so everybody can move to an open standard IM protocol:)
pure historical data. At least it looks that way to me. I find it hard to believe that one can predict accurately the outcome of a war. Think about the super technologies that the involved parties may keep in secret just to have the surprise factor in a war. That could definitely screw up the statistics:)
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I'm not trying to force words into anyones mouth man :) Your statement implies that youtube has adopted the like/dislike system to mimic facebook.
What I was saying is that the rating mechanism has been changed because of another reason -> five options rating is not working, two options rating might work.
Adding a like/dislike style to the system makes all the sense in the world because:
1. The like system is hugely familiar to millions of users
2. The like system is hugely popular. If you ask me, it's already embedded in popular culture so people can easily relate to that.
What would have been the difference if instead of like/dislike they would have named it +/- or Love/Hate?
Also, god damn... the google background experiment pissed the hell out of me.
Your assumption regarding the rating system of youtube is wrong. The like/dislike system was adopted as a consequence of the rating habits of youtube users not in an attempt to mimic facebook. The majority of the videos on youtube were either 1* or 5* with mostly nothing in between.
The like/dislike mechanism is an evolution of a system that is trying to adapt itself to its user base.
You can read more about this on the official youtube blog - http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/09/five-stars-dominate-ratings.html
Cheers.
I don't honestly think that you can compare games for preadolescence girls like the "Imagine" series with games for big hairy men like the "Splinter Cell" series :)
They do pump out some trash games but the title you chose is completely irrelevant.
I bought them for 5 euros on Steam some weeks ago, they had the same weekend deal :)
As much as I hate Steam for doing some dubious price changes, most their weekend deals are usually dirt cheap and worth it.
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jesus, man. seems like one in every 10 news is twitter related. we should at least create its own icon for the articles :)
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There's nothing to see here... This kind of audio/video cutup is old as hell and it surprises me how people still find it novel :) three examples come to mind now:
coldcut & hexstatic - timber from 1998 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8-QDCKdVO4
hexstatic - telemetron from 2003 http://vodpod.com/watch/174667-video-hexstatic-telemetron-3d-hexstatic-telemetron-dailymotion-share-your-videos
dj shadow - midnight in a perfect world from 2002 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2s3k_dj-shadow-midnight-in-a-perfect-wor_music
All of these use more than just samples as opposed to the mother of all funk chords but the principle is still the same.
We didn't smoke our way through high school.
wait.... you guys stopped smoking? and what is this byte you keep talking about?
I use mainly the Yahoo IM protocol since all my friends use it. I have ditched their official client for about 8 months since I consider it adware/spyware/bloatware. :)
I have been using Pidgin since and I believe that it is the best alternative however there is one downside that completely pisses me off: file transfer does not work, and this absolutely sucks. I don't miss the audio/video capabilities of Y!M, nor the IMviroments and the craptacular audibles, but not having efficient file transfer capabilities kind of feels like regression. Meh... I guess I'll just live without it since I will never install Y!M on my computer again. I hope Microsoft buys them off and buries them so everybody can move to an open standard IM protocol
p.s. here's a table with a comparison of IM clients http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_instant_messaging_clients
pure historical data. At least it looks that way to me. I find it hard to believe that one can predict accurately the outcome of a war. Think about the super technologies that the involved parties may keep in secret just to have the surprise factor in a war. That could definitely screw up the statistics :)
if not redundant, here's a mirror of pogue's video http://youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8