British psychologist Richard Wiseman may be more attuned to Friday the 13th than anyone. His landmark survey of 4,000 adults in 2003 found that a quarter of them said the number 13 was unlucky, 64 percent crossed their fingers for luck and 49 percent refused to walk under ladders.
Not walking under ladders seems eminently sensible to me. Especially if there's somebody up there holding a pot of paint.
Of course if you're the one up the ladder then not having people walking under and into it is also a good idea.
Sounds great. What are the operations outside the US like? I live in Thailand, but I still consume US and UK television on satelite. Are you heading that far down the tail?
At the moment I end up paying a lot to buy DVDs of shows when I'm back in the UK because all the ones I want to watch just aren't available over here. I guess that does get counted somewhere, but I'm also guessing it isn't data that Nielsen are selling anybody.
Wonder if either of them will actually manage to get the long tail of consumption recorded? Then maybe the rest of us won't have to put up with all of the rubbish that passes entertainment in the mass market.
Ten minutes? That sounds like luck more than programming. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer to think about a problem before jumping in with some half-baked idea of what software to write.
Of course if you do go for the half baked idea then with a room full of people trying their own versions I suppose at least a few of them are bound to work.
There's always a better tool to use unless there are no other tools available. Old systems which only have BASIC are probably the only place these days to be using it. Assembly on these systems probably isn't a better choice though.
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Sounds great. What are the operations outside the US like? I live in Thailand, but I still consume US and UK television on satelite. Are you heading that far down the tail?
At the moment I end up paying a lot to buy DVDs of shows when I'm back in the UK because all the ones I want to watch just aren't available over here. I guess that does get counted somewhere, but I'm also guessing it isn't data that Nielsen are selling anybody.
Wonder if either of them will actually manage to get the long tail of consumption recorded? Then maybe the rest of us won't have to put up with all of the rubbish that passes entertainment in the mass market.
Ten minutes? That sounds like luck more than programming. Maybe it's just me, but I prefer to think about a problem before jumping in with some half-baked idea of what software to write. Of course if you do go for the half baked idea then with a room full of people trying their own versions I suppose at least a few of them are bound to work.
There's always a better tool to use unless there are no other tools available. Old systems which only have BASIC are probably the only place these days to be using it. Assembly on these systems probably isn't a better choice though.