I second this, but not because of his evil laugh (which I have never heard), but because he is changing the world and doing amazing things.
I could see Space-X do a space station, or a moon base. Pretty quickly to boot. Once they get manned mission approval (2-3 years?) and first stage recovery (hopefully in 2016) down I think they will do some very interesting things.
Keep in mind he also needs a miniature version of himself to complete the narrative (unless I have my movie memories seriously messed up).
Satellite/remote/foreign offices are always referred to as family. It's been part of the parlance of our times for decades (I believe the Dude said that).
Yeah, it's a bastardization of the word, but it is being properly used. I would say using "family" in this manner is more like getting married. Groupon basically divorced the office's in the countries/territory listed (and they probably owe a bit of alimony as part of the deal, certainly in Puerto Rico I would think).
I would actually recommend dedicated optimization resources. I'm on a small architecture team and this is just the sort of thing we deal with.
I like to ask both developers and business users "What sucks the most?" and "What makes you feel like a robot?". The last question identifies repeating tasks, in most cases automation can be applied.
Most of the time, developers and business users stick to the status-quo and suffer with crap processes. I always look for process optimizations, in many cases a bit of effort (under 40 hours for one person) can save many hours per week once addressed. I usually don't ask permission to address these situations, just do it and everyone is happier (including management once they hear about it - this is a good way to get on an architecture team...).
In this case the site itself is like a semi-truck full of stolen goods. It can be taken and then documented for the trial.
A truck full of stolen goods would certainly be seized.
The participants are innocent until proven guilty, but the assets regarding such prosecution can certainly be taken (look into asset forfeiture, it's a much more terrible version of this situation).
I have to assume this entire story occurred because Slashdot hasn't been sold from Dice.
I made an attempt to start a conversation about the community purchasing the site, but it languished in the Firehose (it got the right color, and fast, but not the posting): http://slashdot.org/submission...
Either Dice is compensating Bennet for inane commentary, or Bennet is paying Dice to have a platform from which to speak, inanely.
You can get used unlocked Nexus 5 phones for around $170 (full HD screen, 16GB storage, 2GB RAM) on Swappa. We have bought 4 phones off the site (all Nexus 5's), my wife tends to break the screens (we still have the broken ones - touch screen still works - in case of a failure, just swap the SIM and suffer for a bit).
It's a great site with good buyer protection (you only risk their $10 fee, I've had to return a phone and it was no problem).
I don't think I'll ever purchase a new phone again, but I don't have unlimited data...
These are items we would have otherwise bought at the grocery or Wally World. And the prices are comparable for that purposes and I don't have to make a special trip to the store (usually for toilet paper).
The Dash buttons basically provide continuity of availability without hassle (going shopping). And it's more efficient than the "subscription" model since our usage of some products is variable over time (the day after Thai food sees a spike in TP usage in the house...).
If the prices are comparable, Amazon can have a couple of $$$, shoot, they even drop it off at my door, that's worth something to me. I'm very unlikely to comparison shop for toilet paper as I have a preference for a certain type.
Pressing the button does nothing if there is a pending order or an order in transit. I've tested this (I didn't care if a bunch of toilet paper showed up).
We have three Dash buttons and last night while my wife was doing laundry my phone informed me that laundry detergent had been ordered via the Dash button.
We realize they aren't pushing the cheapest priced products, it's the convenience we are looking for (prices are comparable to grocery stores, a bit higher than Wally World, at least for the things we use them for).
The article goes on and on about instant gratification and the delay between pressing the Dash button and receiving the product. Comes off as whining to me.
Are you me? Your first line is part of my biography. TI's Extended Basic was where it was at, and I did quite a bit of coding on Commodore's as well.
I don't believe you are in a position to claim that ageism in IT has been a problem for 30 years though, you would have been around 10 years old then. Unless you are claiming that 10 year old's were getting jobs rather than proper adults.
Is there an imaging solution that covers these use cases:
* 6-10 sheets of paper on my desk and compare and contrast all of them at once (potentially from different documents).
* Easily mark up paper.
* What if I need to mark 1 page in 10 documents for review (where the documents are considered a set)? And review all at one time?
Until we have desk surfaces that can meet some of these use cases, paper will be king. I've watched a couple of projects implement imaging, while I knew they would fail because of these or similar use cases. People's productivity plummeted since they could see 2-4 pages at a time (if see 4 pages the application was covered up), markup was difficult, and making a set of review pages over multiple documents was impossible.
I've sketched out how this could be done with 4K touch screen monitors as desk surfaces, but I can't afford to actually build out a prototype. I've also designed a multi-PDF viewer that auto scales to the # of monitors it finds (2 pages per monitor), allowing for page tagging and having each page displayed sourced from a different document (example, show all tagged pages).
I'm assuming you've never been on the bottom economically.
I volunteered at a food bank for a few years.
The clients mostly consisted of: 1. Veterans on the streets because of mental problems. 2. Mothers/Grandmother's looking after their children's kids (many of the "children" and spouses were in prison for various crimes) 3. Drug/alcohol addicts with no options for treatment (because of no $) 4. People working minimum wage but not making enough to live 5. People with physical disabilities including disfigurement (someone with heavy facial burn scaring isn't likely to get a retail position).
Many of them wanted to and were capable of work and were very happy to take very occasional menial work at the church's events (dish washing for example). They just didn't have opportunities available. The average high school student would get the job before them.
Anyway, to me, there is an entire class of people that we shouldn't kick. I feel that welfare should provide these people with, at a minimum, the same level of services provided to our prisoners. People that have harmed society are treated better than those who are just unfortunate in the US.
Are you saying they stopped coverage at some point?
I cut the cord from cable and CNN's website is absolutely terrible (can't even pause the videos any more, appears to have happened late last week or early this week). It used to be my primary news site, but now I don't even follow Google News links to CNN.
Ashley Madison... (not really an issue yet other than for the site, but it is the nuclear option regarding privacy and the internet, it's DEFCON-1, WOPR says you shouldn't have played...).
I use,Net scaling features for the other direction, WPF apps that are easier for older eyes.
Uniform scaling for forms that aren't 1080 size is very much appreciated by those that want/need it.
And it's trivial to add to WPF forms. And fully independent scaling (user selected rather than resizing by dragging) is also easy as it is simple to add scroll bars to an application. I haven't done this yet but looked into it.
It's also a fantastic demo moment (everyone with imperfect eyes goes "Ohhh!").
The only people that won't appreciate it are picky UX test subjects, they ask about the empty columns when the form's aspect ratio changes (preventing this is a bit tricky, but certainly doable).
It's interesting to look back, I recall the downfall started with a UI redesign (cough, cough, Slashdot owners). I know that's when I stopped visiting the site.
Slashdot Mirror
That's called cable television, right down to your last sentence.
I second this, but not because of his evil laugh (which I have never heard), but because he is changing the world and doing amazing things.
I could see Space-X do a space station, or a moon base. Pretty quickly to boot. Once they get manned mission approval (2-3 years?) and first stage recovery (hopefully in 2016) down I think they will do some very interesting things.
Keep in mind he also needs a miniature version of himself to complete the narrative (unless I have my movie memories seriously messed up).
Shoot they did a PSA sheet on it after some deaths:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
The little images are classic, my favorite is the person who appears to be jumping in front of a train while taking a selfie.
I put in the first submission for the story and the title just stated that Warner didn't own the song.
The title was:
Federal Judge Rules Warner Doesn't Own Happy Birthday
Submitted at least an hour ahead of the other ones. A bit annoying actually. It is interesting though.
http://slashdot.org/submission...
Satellite/remote/foreign offices are always referred to as family. It's been part of the parlance of our times for decades (I believe the Dude said that).
Yeah, it's a bastardization of the word, but it is being properly used. I would say using "family" in this manner is more like getting married. Groupon basically divorced the office's in the countries/territory listed (and they probably owe a bit of alimony as part of the deal, certainly in Puerto Rico I would think).
Well at least they can only fool a company once... Shame on both parties for even that.
I would actually recommend dedicated optimization resources. I'm on a small architecture team and this is just the sort of thing we deal with.
I like to ask both developers and business users "What sucks the most?" and "What makes you feel like a robot?". The last question identifies repeating tasks, in most cases automation can be applied.
Most of the time, developers and business users stick to the status-quo and suffer with crap processes. I always look for process optimizations, in many cases a bit of effort (under 40 hours for one person) can save many hours per week once addressed. I usually don't ask permission to address these situations, just do it and everyone is happier (including management once they hear about it - this is a good way to get on an architecture team...).
In this case the site itself is like a semi-truck full of stolen goods. It can be taken and then documented for the trial.
A truck full of stolen goods would certainly be seized.
The participants are innocent until proven guilty, but the assets regarding such prosecution can certainly be taken (look into asset forfeiture, it's a much more terrible version of this situation).
I have to assume this entire story occurred because Slashdot hasn't been sold from Dice.
I made an attempt to start a conversation about the community purchasing the site, but it languished in the Firehose (it got the right color, and fast, but not the posting):
http://slashdot.org/submission...
Either Dice is compensating Bennet for inane commentary, or Bennet is paying Dice to have a platform from which to speak, inanely.
You can get used unlocked Nexus 5 phones for around $170 (full HD screen, 16GB storage, 2GB RAM) on Swappa. We have bought 4 phones off the site (all Nexus 5's), my wife tends to break the screens (we still have the broken ones - touch screen still works - in case of a failure, just swap the SIM and suffer for a bit).
It's a great site with good buyer protection (you only risk their $10 fee, I've had to return a phone and it was no problem).
I don't think I'll ever purchase a new phone again, but I don't have unlimited data...
These are items we would have otherwise bought at the grocery or Wally World. And the prices are comparable for that purposes and I don't have to make a special trip to the store (usually for toilet paper).
The Dash buttons basically provide continuity of availability without hassle (going shopping). And it's more efficient than the "subscription" model since our usage of some products is variable over time (the day after Thai food sees a spike in TP usage in the house...).
If the prices are comparable, Amazon can have a couple of $$$, shoot, they even drop it off at my door, that's worth something to me. I'm very unlikely to comparison shop for toilet paper as I have a preference for a certain type.
Pressing the button does nothing if there is a pending order or an order in transit. I've tested this (I didn't care if a bunch of toilet paper showed up).
We have three Dash buttons and last night while my wife was doing laundry my phone informed me that laundry detergent had been ordered via the Dash button.
We realize they aren't pushing the cheapest priced products, it's the convenience we are looking for (prices are comparable to grocery stores, a bit higher than Wally World, at least for the things we use them for).
The article goes on and on about instant gratification and the delay between pressing the Dash button and receiving the product. Comes off as whining to me.
Are you me? Your first line is part of my biography. TI's Extended Basic was where it was at, and I did quite a bit of coding on Commodore's as well.
I don't believe you are in a position to claim that ageism in IT has been a problem for 30 years though, you would have been around 10 years old then. Unless you are claiming that 10 year old's were getting jobs rather than proper adults.
Is there an imaging solution that covers these use cases:
* 6-10 sheets of paper on my desk and compare and contrast all of them at once (potentially from different documents).
* Easily mark up paper.
* What if I need to mark 1 page in 10 documents for review (where the documents are considered a set)? And review all at one time?
Until we have desk surfaces that can meet some of these use cases, paper will be king. I've watched a couple of projects implement imaging, while I knew they would fail because of these or similar use cases. People's productivity plummeted since they could see 2-4 pages at a time (if see 4 pages the application was covered up), markup was difficult, and making a set of review pages over multiple documents was impossible.
I've sketched out how this could be done with 4K touch screen monitors as desk surfaces, but I can't afford to actually build out a prototype. I've also designed a multi-PDF viewer that auto scales to the # of monitors it finds (2 pages per monitor), allowing for page tagging and having each page displayed sourced from a different document (example, show all tagged pages).
I would love to work on this type of project.
I'm in the United States, for reference.
I'm assuming you've never been on the bottom economically.
I volunteered at a food bank for a few years.
The clients mostly consisted of:
1. Veterans on the streets because of mental problems.
2. Mothers/Grandmother's looking after their children's kids (many of the "children" and spouses were in prison for various crimes)
3. Drug/alcohol addicts with no options for treatment (because of no $)
4. People working minimum wage but not making enough to live
5. People with physical disabilities including disfigurement (someone with heavy facial burn scaring isn't likely to get a retail position).
Many of them wanted to and were capable of work and were very happy to take very occasional menial work at the church's events (dish washing for example). They just didn't have opportunities available. The average high school student would get the job before them.
Anyway, to me, there is an entire class of people that we shouldn't kick. I feel that welfare should provide these people with, at a minimum, the same level of services provided to our prisoners. People that have harmed society are treated better than those who are just unfortunate in the US.
For these people, time isn't money: Time is Food.
Are you saying they stopped coverage at some point?
I cut the cord from cable and CNN's website is absolutely terrible (can't even pause the videos any more, appears to have happened late last week or early this week). It used to be my primary news site, but now I don't even follow Google News links to CNN.
MST3K made Manos, Hands of Fate not only watchable, but entertaining enough to show my wife.
I don't believe there is anything beyond the MST3K treatment.
Multiple counts as well, if every homeowner whose property was trespassed filed charges.
And if the drone owner was over 18 there could be other criminal charges, things associated with invading the privacy of a minor (peeping Tom stuff).
If you knew who was flying it that would work.
I wonder if Slashdot would allow a story about how Slashdot users could best fund the purchase of the site themselves...
Ashley Madison... (not really an issue yet other than for the site, but it is the nuclear option regarding privacy and the internet, it's DEFCON-1, WOPR says you shouldn't have played...).
I use ,Net scaling features for the other direction, WPF apps that are easier for older eyes.
Uniform scaling for forms that aren't 1080 size is very much appreciated by those that want/need it.
And it's trivial to add to WPF forms. And fully independent scaling (user selected rather than resizing by dragging) is also easy as it is simple to add scroll bars to an application. I haven't done this yet but looked into it.
It's also a fantastic demo moment (everyone with imperfect eyes goes "Ohhh!").
The only people that won't appreciate it are picky UX test subjects, they ask about the empty columns when the form's aspect ratio changes (preventing this is a bit tricky, but certainly doable).
Digg, that brings back some fond memories.
It's interesting to look back, I recall the downfall started with a UI redesign (cough, cough, Slashdot owners). I know that's when I stopped visiting the site.
Obligatory Onion video (one of their best);
http://www.theonion.com/video/...