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iWatch Prototypes Could Be Ready, Apple Hires Fitness Physiologists For Tests
SmartAboutThings writes "Recently, Apple has been on a hiring spree, allegedly adding to its 100+ team of members of the iWatch team a sleep expert, a former expert in pulse oximetry and many others. Now, according to a recent job listing on Apple's own website, it seems that Cupertino is looking for physiologists for fitness and energy tests. In my opinion, this can only mean that the iWatch is nearing its final stage and that experts are required to assess how it fares."
Considering the news is days to weeks old the only value here is the COMMUNITY. We do not clap for your poorly worded couple paragraph news scrapes like a bunch of mindless buffoons, we are here to debate, and find a common ground on topics that we find interesting.
There is plenty of things to fix on slashdot, beta does not address a single one of them and makes the site pointless to visit. Your move...
Try us Slashdot.... if you want to proceed with Beta then let's do the following test:
1.) Disable comments for a day
2.) Post stories that are "more accessible" for your "wider audience" to consume
3.) Watch your stats (we know you are obsessing over them.)
4.) Tell us how you like your numbers
Don't screw this up DICE... I've enjoyed Slashdot as a community for 16 years but I am not afraid to move and it sounds like much of the community feels the same way.
#IamSlashdot
If you think this contributor won't pack up and leave when things get sucky, just hop on over to my Flickr page and note the date of my last picture.
Lotsa luck getting that ad revenue without contributors. News aggs plastered with ads are a dime a dozen. You're Digg4ing your grave.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Don't forget that Apple has been offering fitness accessories with Nike since 2006.
What does that have to do with the Beta?
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a Republican.
F' beta.
Why in Odin's name would a company buy a site whose user base was historically so anti M$ and expect that they could make money from it by changing it to a M$/advertising oriented site. It reeks of affluenza enhanced megalomania. Someone's gonna buy this site for pennies in a few months.
And have you noticed the polls? 1 out of 4 has something to do your employment status or conditions. Can you spell market research? I'll bet your resumes' IP, writing style and any other identifying data is being matched to slashdot accounts so this employment company can give the employer a little bit of extra info about you. As they teach their kids in that part of Ohio where I had to live in exile for 15 years, (said with a Dutch/Amish accent) "Expect the worst from anybody friendly, you won't be disappointed."
I wish I could be happy. I haven't seen this much backlash against the establishment since the 60's. But you should be targeting NASA! vaca louca!
they tried to load Slashdot Beta on the iWatch and it exploded, taking out several hipster Apple testers.
Let's give them a chance, folks.
We did. BozoBeta has been around for quite some time. Aside from a few minor cosmetic changes and a few (very few) functional improvements, it's been the same pile of fail. There have been precious few positive comments about it. When Slashdot started pushing the Beta design, the negative comments became more numerous, more strident and more detailed.
So what we get from Timothy is a bit of marketing babble liberally sloshed on to a smidgen of comprehension.
The ball is in your court, Slashdot. Figure it out, it's not really all that hard.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
No, we need to keep the pressure on.
I learnt a important lesson about a decade ago. Here in the UK there were fuel price protests which _really_ scared the government of the day.
However, the protesters let the momentum disappear after some promises were made and by the time they realised their mistake and organised another protest, the new protest display turned out to be only a shadow of the original protests and nothing really got changed.
I've never forgotten that lesson.
So, I was logged in and didn't get to see the beta so I just checked it out. I have to ask something. Why oh why has light grey on lighter-grey become the new trendy style for UI? Do people no longer wish to be able to read the shit that is on a page and just mindlessly stare at a whitewashed screen? You do realize that some contrast is OK right? There is a reason that people use black type on paper. The Kindle isn't coming out with a light grey on white version to make it cooler. Fuck! It was bad enough when I first opened my iOS 7 mail on my company iPhone. Now I have to see the same shit mimicked on the last semi-intelligent website on the internet? First Yahoo fucks up my homepage that I've been using for the last decade and now Slashdot has to go and screw up my favorite website since 90's. Damn you guys! Keep this shit readable! New for the sake of "new" is not better!
There's a perfectly valid alternate design for Slashdot already:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000305021033/http://slashdot.org/
Still looks great -- I prefer it to this design and to Beta. Admins, please bring back the design used around 2000. There is little whitespace, so little wasted space, larger clearer fonts, and still a lot on each page, and little or no JavaScript cruft. Besides those significant improvements, it looks warmer and more classic.
BETA SUCKS. FUCK BETA.
Systemd: the PulseAudio of init systems
WE HEAR YOU We did tell you we wanted feedback. Here's our response.
Your response shows that you didn't hear. The beta is an experiment that has failed. Accept that and move on.
"this can only mean that the iWatch is nearing its final stage and that experts are required to assess how it fares"
Or alternately, they're getting physiologists in at the early design stage so it's actually designed around user needs not marketroid fantasies.
Somewhat unlike the process that led to Beta.
Why in Odin's name would a company buy a site whose user base was historically so anti M$ and expect that they could make money from it by changing it to a M$/advertising oriented site. It reeks of affluenza enhanced megalomania.
Because sites like Slashdot were VERY influential in communicating public opinion on just how bad Vista was.
Microsoft recognized that, and engaged Waggener Edstrom and Burson-Marsteller to manage Social Media Marketing (SMM) for Windows 7 onwards. They used huge numbers of sock-puppet teams to quash any suggestion that Microsoft products were not stable or optimum in their roles. As well as promoting Microsoft, they heavily attacked competitors like Firefox, Google, Linux, Libre Office, Android etc. Any posting of FOSS or alternative products attracted a storm of FUD talking points that made it impossible to have a rational discussion.
Because the discussions became so polluted with marketers, most of Slashdot's readership left the site in the years between the Windows 7 release and now. The marketers have stayed though, and still post and moderate to present as rosy a view of their sponsors proprietary products as possible, while spewing FUD about Open Source. If you look at Slashdot's current demographic, most visitors are from call-centers in Mumbai and Pune in IndiaMumbai and Pune in India. They rarely contribute directly to discussions, but copy/paste/post the SMM talking points at every opportunity and moderate their partners into visibility and competitors to oblivion.
Dice gets most of their income from companies like Microsoft, Apple etc who pay for their products to receive favorable and frequent attention.
I've been a slashdot reader for a good 15 years now and I really hope that the new beta design changes substantially before being pushed to production.
1) FAR too much white space, only two or three stories fit on my screen! This is not Windows 8 and most of us don't have the attention span of a goldfish....
2) Titles have the same background as the story text. This makes it much more difficult to quickly skim the site. Look at this, I made three paragraphs and there's about an INCH of space between them!
3) The comment system has been thoroughly broken.
Launch a poll for the new design and see what happens...
nice features?
the threading is shit. the use of space on screen is shit. (NONE of the article pictures are relevant!)
loads of empty space where there used to be useful links and snippets of nerdy information.
even the javascript is broken. (the advert only pops on when scrolling a bit down, when header goes into sticky mode)
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
"Dice gets most of their income from companies like Microsoft, Apple etc who pay for their products to receive favorable and frequent attention."
Do not forget Google (How many GoogleGlass Articles this week?).
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If history is any sort of an indicator, any rights we sell today, our children must buy back with blood tomorrow
Apollo 13 was kind of Beta...
There's a perfectly valid alternate design for Slashdot already:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000305021033/http://slashdot.org/
Still looks great -- I prefer it to this design and to Beta. Admins, please bring back the design used around 2000. There is little whitespace, so little wasted space, larger clearer fonts, and still a lot on each page, and little or no JavaScript cruft. Besides those significant improvements, it looks warmer and more classic.
BETA SUCKS. FUCK BETA.
Dear Slashdot management,
Can we please get a button, located at the top of each thread next tot he 'Post' button, that filters out any posts with the word 'Beta' in them when you press it?
Sincerely,
Those rest of us.
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow