According to the TFA, the performer was the manager of the bar. So they probably went to arrest the guy in his quality of manager of the bar, not because he was the performer.
Actually i wonder what will be the hardest : Getting people in developed nations to cut down their energy usage or Getting nations to find a common ground and pay for the sunshade ?
When you see how much time it took them to build the ISS, you know this kind of project has absolutely no chance of happening (and you wonder why some people waste time thinking about this kind of stuff).
We all know Wikipedia has its flaws. However there is a sentence in TFA that i think quite interesting:
The assumption is that, if they make it as far as Good Article review, they're probably quite good.
I dont blame Wikipedia's admins or users for not having thought about that before...I think i would have probably assumed the same thing in their position.
That's something that could be changed easily. It may be interesting to set up a commitee that is in charge of double-checking the informations in the article before actually allowing people to vote for or against the tag "Good Article" based on the style and the quantity of information in the article (What seems the main criteria to differenciate a normal and a good article).
First the kind of advertising you get on the web is very different from the one you get on a TV.
Usually what you get on the Web is : Video Games, Movies, IT solution, Websites... Things people who surf are interested in.
And you get on TV : Food, Detergent, Soap, Cars,... Things a whole family needs on a day-to-day basis.
Additionnally, TV got some help from the web : Now everytime a major TV serie come out, there is a dedicated website to create a buzz and provide some informations to get more people in front of their TV (Lost comes in mind).
Forcing precision on the mouse action requires finer movement, greatly increases the likelyhood of unintentionally selecting something, and is generally far more stressful. This is why the users seem to get anxious and want to click. They really want to avoid this horrid new interface that, for some reason, some jackass is trying to force on them.
I dont think this is the reason why its hard not to click. I think thats because Mice are nice toys : They are little things in our hands who do a really nice "click" sound when you press them. Moreover i think the mousewheel is also a really nice toy...
I m sure many of you already clicked for no reason at all while reading a long and boring webpage or thinking about the bug you cant solve in your program.
If you read a bit further than the main page you find this:
Relaxations
* In lieu of a self-extracting archive, a decompressor program decomp8.exe plus a compressed file archive8.bhm may be published, where decomp8.exe produces data8 from archive8.bhm. In this case, the total size is S:= length(decomp8.exe)+length(archive8.bhm).
7zip is less than 0.9MB and i guess you could strip it down to less than that by removing a lot of useless features (GUI, Support for others formats). So that's a not big overhead, and you re free of the "self-extracting" rule.
Who are the people who are most likely to download a new browser right after its release ? The guys who read IT news everyday with great interest...Call them Geeks, Devellopers, or typical Slashdot's reader it doesn t matter...
The point is : do theses guys use IE as their main browser ? No.
Are they using Firefox as their main browser ? The majority of them does.
Therefore they are more likely to get Firefox 2.0 than IE7 (although many of them will get both in case they stumble upon a IE-only website). So its absolutly normal that the initial rush is in favor of Firefox...In the same way that Firefox's RC were more used than IE7's RC. Actually if Firefox had a lower download rush i would have quite worried for them.
I sense a great disturbance in the Force
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Of course Slashdot's Vistu is bad...The site is full of the Dark Spirits of No-life Geeks and Noob-bashers.;)
Previous sites with "crappy homemade videos" were most of the time only updated by their admins. Youtube allowed anyone to upload his own video easily and even add them to their website.
Before Youtube if you wanted to make a website with videos (something like askaninja.com) you had to have a lot of bandwidth/disk space...Now you just need to upload the videos in Youtube and put the links in your website. Your site gets the people, Youtube get the bandwidth's costs.
About the others sites...Atomfilms isn t for your homemade video, iFilm is nearlly unknown. Between Google Video and Youtube i agree that the difference is smaller. However, IMHO, Google Video's player is loosy compared to Youtube's player : for example if you click by mistake on a part of the video which isn t buffered yet, GV forgets what it buffered before and start buffering from where you clicked...i find this very annoying. Moreover, in Google Video, i often find that the "related" videos are totally unrelated to the one i m watching.
We all know writting code in assembly language is really tricky.
However, since most of the jobs as programmers deal with high-level languages, learning assembly may not be a good idea.
If you re doing things that are near the hardware level such as programming a robot which needs to respond fast with limited ressources, ok being a good ASM programmer will help you.
But if you re doing a high level Object-Oriented Program in C++/Java, you re not thinking in the same way as in ASM and therefore trying to be good in ASM wont be useful.
Slashdot is a "website for nerds" about computers and related subjects. As a slashdot reader, you re supposed to be interested in theses fields and already know quite a lot. Aibo is a robot dog, one of the best commercial robot we ever saw, who have been used as a mascot for some years by Sony. So Aibo is a high-tech robot made by a well-known company : i think we can conclude that most of slashdot readers know what it is.
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According to the TFA, the performer was the manager of the bar. So they probably went to arrest the guy in his quality of manager of the bar, not because he was the performer.
Actually i wonder what will be the hardest : Getting people in developed nations to cut down their energy usage or Getting nations to find a common ground and pay for the sunshade ?
When you see how much time it took them to build the ISS, you know this kind of project has absolutely no chance of happening (and you wonder why some people waste time thinking about this kind of stuff).
We all know Wikipedia has its flaws. However there is a sentence in TFA that i think quite interesting :
The assumption is that, if they make it as far as Good Article review, they're probably quite good.
I dont blame Wikipedia's admins or users for not having thought about that before...I think i would have probably assumed the same thing in their position.
That's something that could be changed easily. It may be interesting to set up a commitee that is in charge of double-checking the informations in the article before actually allowing people to vote for or against the tag "Good Article" based on the style and the quantity of information in the article (What seems the main criteria to differenciate a normal and a good article).
First the kind of advertising you get on the web is very different from the one you get on a TV.
... Things a whole family needs on a day-to-day basis.
Usually what you get on the Web is : Video Games, Movies, IT solution, Websites... Things people who surf are interested in.
And you get on TV : Food, Detergent, Soap, Cars,
Additionnally, TV got some help from the web : Now everytime a major TV serie come out, there is a dedicated website to create a buzz and provide some informations to get more people in front of their TV (Lost comes in mind).
Remember : Google is your friend.
A search on "The Hole Man" would have told you that the author is the well-know S.F writer Larry Niven ( http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/Ebook635.htm )
More about him on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven
Forcing precision on the mouse action requires finer movement, greatly increases the likelyhood of unintentionally selecting something, and is generally far more stressful. This is why the users seem to get anxious and want to click. They really want to avoid this horrid new interface that, for some reason, some jackass is trying to force on them.
I dont think this is the reason why its hard not to click. I think thats because Mice are nice toys : They are little things in our hands who do a really nice "click" sound when you press them. Moreover i think the mousewheel is also a really nice toy...
I m sure many of you already clicked for no reason at all while reading a long and boring webpage or thinking about the bug you cant solve in your program.
If you read a bit further than the main page you find this :
:= length(decomp8.exe)+length(archive8.bhm).
Relaxations
* In lieu of a self-extracting archive, a decompressor program decomp8.exe plus a compressed file archive8.bhm may be published, where decomp8.exe produces data8 from archive8.bhm. In this case, the total size is S
7zip is less than 0.9MB and i guess you could strip it down to less than that by removing a lot of useless features (GUI, Support for others formats). So that's a not big overhead, and you re free of the "self-extracting" rule.
Who are the people who are most likely to download a new browser right after its release ? The guys who read IT news everyday with great interest...Call them Geeks, Devellopers, or typical Slashdot's reader it doesn t matter...
The point is : do theses guys use IE as their main browser ? No.
Are they using Firefox as their main browser ? The majority of them does.
Therefore they are more likely to get Firefox 2.0 than IE7 (although many of them will get both in case they stumble upon a IE-only website). So its absolutly normal that the initial rush is in favor of Firefox...In the same way that Firefox's RC were more used than IE7's RC. Actually if Firefox had a lower download rush i would have quite worried for them.
Of course Slashdot's Vistu is bad...The site is full of the Dark Spirits of No-life Geeks and Noob-bashers. ;)
Previous sites with "crappy homemade videos" were most of the time only updated by their admins. Youtube allowed anyone to upload his own video easily and even add them to their website. Before Youtube if you wanted to make a website with videos (something like askaninja.com) you had to have a lot of bandwidth/disk space...Now you just need to upload the videos in Youtube and put the links in your website. Your site gets the people, Youtube get the bandwidth's costs. About the others sites...Atomfilms isn t for your homemade video, iFilm is nearlly unknown. Between Google Video and Youtube i agree that the difference is smaller. However, IMHO, Google Video's player is loosy compared to Youtube's player : for example if you click by mistake on a part of the video which isn t buffered yet, GV forgets what it buffered before and start buffering from where you clicked...i find this very annoying. Moreover, in Google Video, i often find that the "related" videos are totally unrelated to the one i m watching.
We all know writting code in assembly language is really tricky. However, since most of the jobs as programmers deal with high-level languages, learning assembly may not be a good idea. If you re doing things that are near the hardware level such as programming a robot which needs to respond fast with limited ressources, ok being a good ASM programmer will help you. But if you re doing a high level Object-Oriented Program in C++/Java, you re not thinking in the same way as in ASM and therefore trying to be good in ASM wont be useful.
Slashdot is a "website for nerds" about computers and related subjects. As a slashdot reader, you re supposed to be interested in theses fields and already know quite a lot. Aibo is a robot dog, one of the best commercial robot we ever saw, who have been used as a mascot for some years by Sony. So Aibo is a high-tech robot made by a well-known company : i think we can conclude that most of slashdot readers know what it is.