The suit here is so that they can figure out who it is and avoid giving the person tickets in the future.
If the AMPA was seriously concerned about security, they would have kept track of who was receiving what tickets (e.g., Maggie Q will be in Row K Seat 35). If they would have kept track over who received which seats they wouldn't have had to sue anyone.
I would agree with your point if you didn't use the example of "A criminal defense lawyer prominent enough to represent a wealthy Saudi defendant."
Do you honestly believe that this prominent lawyer is flying coach class? This lawyer is flying on a private jet and spends absolutely no time on an airport seat. Most likely, the Saudi defendant owns the plane and sent it over for him or her to use.
If it's illegal to convert a legally purchased recording into mp3 format and place it into a shared folder, does that mean that it is illegal to convert a legally purchased mp3 into CD format and place it into the cd player of a car that I share with someone else?
Personally, I'm excited to check out my $1,000 genome map. Imagine how convenient it will be when Google crawls my genome map and places relevant text ads that can cure any problems I may have.
Yeah, the title of this headline is completely misleading. The Usability Professionals' Association has been surveying professionals for several years. Go to their homepage and under News is the results (pdf warning) for the 2005 survey.
Are these two surveys different? Yes. My point is that the title of this headline is completely misleading.
Subway sponsors the American Heart Association and in return, Subway's food is now endorsed by the AHA as heart healthy. I hope to see the USC bring Jared and his cronies down!
I'm a bit confused about the claims that the author is making:
"And Gore's lecture succeeded too. Somehow, I'm not sure how, this documentary changed the way Americans look at global warming...It's now late 2006 and the debate has moved from 'is global warming happening?' to 'it's happening, we've caused it, and what if anything should we do about it?' Most of the warming-deniers left are the real extremists out in Rush Limbaugh territory. We're not yet all the way to a serious, scientifically-informed debate, but somehow, overnight, this film pulled most of the fence-sitters over to where the scientists were years ago. "
Is there any proof that America's view of global warming has changed? How many people in America actually saw this movie? I didn't see the movie, nor did anyone in my family or circle of friends. Regardless of how small or politically affiliated my circle may be, I do not think you can make a blanket statement about America's opinion changing because of a movie when a large chunk of America has not seen the movie.
I'd also like to know how the author is accounting for the large part of the population who really is uninformed or just doesn't really care.
The danger of conducting surveys is that the answer to a question often times varies from what a user will really do in the real world.
Take the topic of "...the New Threshold for Acceptability..." as an example, the survey asks the question: "Typically, how long are you willing to wait for a single web page to load before leaving the site?" 31% of users said that they were willing to wait less than 5 seconds for a page to load before leaving. I am willing to bet that if you were to evaluate the metrics of online retailers you would find that the number of people leaving your site after a sub 5 second page load is less than 31%.
On a similar note, this survey fails to tell us whether this is something a user is willing to put up with only once or on every page load. It is my suspicion that a one time page load of 5 - 6 seconds is not going to cause "A full one-third of online shoppers with a broadband connection..." to abandoned the page; however, I would be willing to accept that if every page took 5 seconds or more to load on a broadband connection you would see a large amount of users abandoning the site.
Finally, I found it very interesting that the survey limited the answers to 6 possibilities (sub 1s, 1-2s, 3-4s, 5-6s, 6+). In my opinion, they made a big assumption in choosing 6s as the threshold of acceptability...where did that number come from/why was it chosen as the cap? I think the survey would have been able to benefit from having a higher range, perhaps to 10s as suggested by Jakob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html)
Right now Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man are welcoming Mario and Luigi into the "deadly products blatenetly targeted to childern" club.
I can only hope they are handing out candy cigarettes for party favors...
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The suit here is so that they can figure out who it is and avoid giving the person tickets in the future.
If the AMPA was seriously concerned about security, they would have kept track of who was receiving what tickets (e.g., Maggie Q will be in Row K Seat 35). If they would have kept track over who received which seats they wouldn't have had to sue anyone.
I would agree with your point if you didn't use the example of "A criminal defense lawyer prominent enough to represent a wealthy Saudi defendant." Do you honestly believe that this prominent lawyer is flying coach class? This lawyer is flying on a private jet and spends absolutely no time on an airport seat. Most likely, the Saudi defendant owns the plane and sent it over for him or her to use.
If it's illegal to convert a legally purchased recording into mp3 format and place it into a shared folder, does that mean that it is illegal to convert a legally purchased mp3 into CD format and place it into the cd player of a car that I share with someone else?
Personally, I'm excited to check out my $1,000 genome map. Imagine how convenient it will be when Google crawls my genome map and places relevant text ads that can cure any problems I may have.
I'm curious if any other companies have experienced this kind of growth. Does anyone have any examples?
Yeah, the title of this headline is completely misleading. The Usability Professionals' Association has been surveying professionals for several years. Go to their homepage and under News is the results (pdf warning) for the 2005 survey. Are these two surveys different? Yes. My point is that the title of this headline is completely misleading.
Funny enough, the Hong Kong government is already a part owner of Hong Kong Disneyland. So, does that mean that they are stealing from themselves?
Subway sponsors the American Heart Association and in return, Subway's food is now endorsed by the AHA as heart healthy. I hope to see the USC bring Jared and his cronies down!
I'm a bit confused about the claims that the author is making:
"And Gore's lecture succeeded too. Somehow, I'm not sure how, this documentary changed the way Americans look at global warming...It's now late 2006 and the debate has moved from 'is global warming happening?' to 'it's happening, we've caused it, and what if anything should we do about it?' Most of the warming-deniers left are the real extremists out in Rush Limbaugh territory. We're not yet all the way to a serious, scientifically-informed debate, but somehow, overnight, this film pulled most of the fence-sitters over to where the scientists were years ago. "
Is there any proof that America's view of global warming has changed? How many people in America actually saw this movie? I didn't see the movie, nor did anyone in my family or circle of friends. Regardless of how small or politically affiliated my circle may be, I do not think you can make a blanket statement about America's opinion changing because of a movie when a large chunk of America has not seen the movie. I'd also like to know how the author is accounting for the large part of the population who really is uninformed or just doesn't really care.
The danger of conducting surveys is that the answer to a question often times varies from what a user will really do in the real world.
Take the topic of "...the New Threshold for Acceptability..." as an example, the survey asks the question: "Typically, how long are you willing to wait for a single web page to load before leaving the site?" 31% of users said that they were willing to wait less than 5 seconds for a page to load before leaving. I am willing to bet that if you were to evaluate the metrics of online retailers you would find that the number of people leaving your site after a sub 5 second page load is less than 31%.
On a similar note, this survey fails to tell us whether this is something a user is willing to put up with only once or on every page load. It is my suspicion that a one time page load of 5 - 6 seconds is not going to cause "A full one-third of online shoppers with a broadband connection..." to abandoned the page; however, I would be willing to accept that if every page took 5 seconds or more to load on a broadband connection you would see a large amount of users abandoning the site.
Finally, I found it very interesting that the survey limited the answers to 6 possibilities (sub 1s, 1-2s, 3-4s, 5-6s, 6+). In my opinion, they made a big assumption in choosing 6s as the threshold of acceptability...where did that number come from/why was it chosen as the cap? I think the survey would have been able to benefit from having a higher range, perhaps to 10s as suggested by Jakob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com/papers/responsetime.html)
I'm curious, is this lawsuit at all similiar to the lawsuit Peter Jackson brought up against New Line for not receiving bids from other entertainment companies?
Right now Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man are welcoming Mario and Luigi into the "deadly products blatenetly targeted to childern" club. I can only hope they are handing out candy cigarettes for party favors...
Does the creation of an antispyware tool by Microsoft mean that your team has failed in their role of creating secure software?