Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: A very good book Product review: Emmeche's slim book is a great intro for those interested in this new & theoretical science. It is well-written, with a constant eye towards the philosophical side of the emerging discipline of "artificial life". Crucial to this discipline is the idea that "form"--a self-organized pattern in space--takes precedence over the material substrate of which it is made. As Emmeche emphasizes throughout his narrative, computer scientists have gained better results at modeling artificial life with the "bottom-up" approach (in contrast to "top-down" attempts to legislate global behavior of these systems). This is a good book for those who might want to study the amazing work of Chris Langton and Stuart Kaufmann. Those chapters in particular are excellent.
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Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: NetSlaves -- Misleading and Disappointing Product review: Hyped as some insiders' view of the new Net workplace, "NetSlaves" provides a limited view of a limited number of people. Most of these people are NOT related to the Web or the Net of the late 90's. As such, the book is completely irrelevant.The annoying manner of slightly changing or disguising company names just adds to the impression that many of the stories are totally fiction (but still not entertaining).If you're looking for a funny, timely book about real people working in web development, maintenance, support, marketing, etc. -- look elsewhere. You'll be disappointed with "NetSlaves."
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Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: ex-software engineer Product review: I had a very similar watch for 10-12 years that finally died. I liked the watch so I bought this (I think it's the same model) to replace it. Within a few days of getting it, the buttons quit working. So I'm returning it. After reading some of the reviews of the watch, I'm afraid to get another. I think that Timex may have switched to cheap manufacturing over quality in the last 12 years. Too bad.
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Q: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Biosilk... Product Product review: I'm used to buying it at a Salon and for whatever reason this appeared to be old as it does not blend like it always has before when you get a scoop out of the container, some of it blends but some is very sticky and won't spread thru hair!!!
