Yeah, SCOTUS just ruled (after Congress voted) that companies can decide you don't get to file a class action suit, forcing you into single arbitration instead. And with AT&T as a model, they don't really have to notify you, they just have to pose an updated EULA that says "continued use of this service...".
So individual citizens are now a lower social caste than corporations, basically.
"I know it's kind of laughable right now, but imagine if Windows Phone or Android make a big dent into Apple's iPhone marketshare."
Imagine if Microsoft had this sort of market share. People would be hiding in bunkers crying. But because it's Apple, hooray!
So setting up a server to remote desktop into your home computer is cloud computing? I have a sinking feeling that "cloud computing" is a lot like web2.0, aka "broadband Geocities".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there about a decade or so there where all the newspapers were fighting hard to have people go online to the free content on the website, which then started to have banner ads, and then pop-ups, and then pop-unders, and so on... it's the newspapers that devalued their own content, and they're just trying to blame it on everyone but themselves. See also: Recording industry watches the surge of online music spending when iTunes and etc hit, and instead of getting on board, they just tried to charge more for their own music. Surprise, sales of physical albums are down while more overall money is being spent online. I bet the same goes here- people probably pay more for news now (paid phone widgets and apps, etc) than they ever have, they just don't spend it on print media.
I can't believe that Slashdot is so uninformed as to believe this tripe (oh wait I can... sssiiigghhhh). This is a 3d animation, with photos from Cassini used as source. During the big zoom-in around 1:30, not a single pixel of the planet moves. Those massive storms blow quickly, the planet was rotating, etc etc.
If there will be a final product using real images, this is just the storyboard. Especially the part where all the moons are magically aligned in one perfect shot- total BS.
It is flabbergasting that the Slashdot audience is this gullib- oh, wait, yeah I do.
Assuming this post will take, becauase this new forum is EFFING AWFUL and I can barely use this site at all anymore but I was just so mad at Slashdotters for being so clueless here. Sigh. People talk as though ants have some sort of path-finding algorith in their head, which is not at all true, ants are really dumb. In fact, individual ants seem to move about in a way that's barely more efficient than random. What ants are good at, however, is leaving and following scent trails. So every single moron leaves behind a faint trail as to everywhere it's gone. Other wandering ants stop, consider this trail, maybe follow it for a second, then drop off and do their own thing. Until, for example, they find food. Then the ant leaves a stronger trail, and tries to get the food home, very inefficiently. But two other ants smell this trail, and they try to take food home too. Minutes later, some ant finally wanders home. Then some other ant is close to home, smells his trail, and makes it home too. Give it a couple minutes, and all of a sudden there's only one trail- the shortest path gets the heaviest scent marking over time, so that eventually the ants are marching single-file on a highway of stink that's completely irresistable to them. When I helped out the University of Kentucky supercomupting department building the KASY0 computer, they had KLAT-2 doing a version of this- simulating random network traffic traveling over KASY0, but over time patterns would be established until you approached a network of shortest paths, you just keep trimming least-used paths until you have the most cost-efficient network. So, this sort of thing has been known for quite a while, the only invention here is adding "Steiner tree" to the discussion, which as someone else pointed out isn't new either. A great solution to shortest-path problems seems to be assuming no intelligence whatsoever, and just adding a little time to the mix. And yes, this means sometimes a colony will not build a shortest path, because maybe an area is too clogged so a bypass naturally grows somewhere else as flustered ants try going off-road. Over time, again, random fluctuations lead to evolution of the paths, and the ants get the most cost-effective network possible- least calories expended to get food back home.
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This post is absolutely iconic for how the average Slashdot viewer sees Microsoft- which is "from about a decade ago, and through anti-MS lenses". Microsoft is a very savvy business. The Xbox console has by far the highest software attach rate among this generation's consoles, and DLC through Xbox Live generates ridiculous revenue, with sublime levels of customer satisfaction- Xbox is saving its branch at Microsoft at this point. When Microsoft launched the Xbox project, they never intended to be here, the whoel project was prepared to chalk up tremendous loss. Microsoft only came up with the Xbox to force Sony out of your living room. Instead of Sony discs on Sony players on Sony TVs with Sony sound systems... the Xbox handles media, and Microsoft now has a foot all up in your entertainment center. Everybody is absolutely obsessed with whatever Apple's doing at the moment, and everyone only views Microsoft from the lens of "but Apple is doing...". That's so far removed from the point. Windows is still the dominant OS, IE is still the dominant browser, Xbox is dominant in virtually all metrics except hardware units sold, and dumbphones are still the real owners of the cell market so it's not that big of a deal if MS is behind there. Microsoft is working hard on all of its weak areas, including leveraging Xbox and the Live platform to turn Windows Phone 7 and Zune into one unified super-platform. For future development, check out what Kinect is doing, and Microsoft's innovations with surface-type technology. Microsoft is a healthy, forward-looking company. They are not Sauron, trying to steal the precious from the hobbitses.
I'm so amazed at Slashdot, and the tech community in general. Microsoft is still the big evil megacorp, doomed in everything they do, always sauntering toward destruction and taking all of us with it. Oh, woe is me, for we are all DOOMED! Oh, by the way, Windows Phone 7 is really neat it has a ton of great features including Xbox and Zune integration that could be absolutely crucial to Microsoft solidifying its overall entertainment plans and pairing with Nokia is an incredibly smart move after how Microsoft got hosed with the Kin series so this is about the most genius deal Microsoft could possibly broken at this juncture to get their platform running in fact when you look at it this is an unprecedented opportunity as Nokia will also be getting in on Xbox branding which opens up all sorts of ridiculously cool options for the future... but other than that, I'm currently pouring a circle of salt around myself to keep the menace of T3H B1LL G4T35 away from me. DAMN HIM AND H- oh, he's not even really running the company anymore. Hm.
Got a "do you want to stop this script" error in IE8. Site looks incredibly low-fi pre-broadband now, which could be nice, but it's not pulled off. The site just looks lame instead of minimalist.
To me, this is the #1 problem with open source development right now- that it's not really any different from closed source, except in where the labor comes from. There's lots of eye candy (that you need strong hardware to view), tons of big features (that aren't necessarily tied together well), and too much concern over marketing (shove that buggy beta out as a release version, make the community fix it for free, make big money off that free labor). Microsoft shoves people in cubes and makes them sign NDAs, but they get paid to do it.
I don't get this line of reasoning. People say, the original sucked. Ergo, I will excuse the new movie for sucking and say the new movie was good. This happens with all Sci-Fi remakes now. Like Transformers- well the TV show was awful, so I really enjoyed the new movie which was also awful. Why does that make sense? Crap is crap. If you didn't like TRON, and you found the new movie to commit all the same errors, you don't like the new movie. End of line.
Everyone does realize that backspace and delete actually have different functions, right? This keeps getting passed over. Backspace erases before the cursor, delete erases after. Forget key combos, both keys have very important functions as they stand. If you want to delete text, you only have to land somewhere in the block instead of clicking at one pre-specified end. Click the middle, backspace a few times, delete the rest, boom. Very convenient. My wife never learned what the Shift key was for until well after she'd learned to type in school. She'd needed a cap, one key said cap on it, logically she pressed the caps key and went from there. To this day, she still thinks of Shift as a punctuation key and Caps Lock as the caps key. She types 60+wpm like that, and it's hard to argue against. If I had learned to type that way, coding would probably be easier. My shift fingers could use some variety.
100% correct. Back in the day, I bought a lot more music, and that was at the height of my music downloading. I tried albums before I bought, I listened to music constantly, and it spurred my buying. (And music piracy does NOT deprive anyone of their own product). Now that I can't download music as freely, I don't purchase as much music either. A large part of that is screw you RIAA, but the larger part is that I just don't participate as much in music when I'm not downloading. Although, all the money I used to spend on albums, I now spend exclusively at the merch tables of my favorite small-label indy-ish bands (GWAR, KMFDM). I'll drop a whole year's music budget on GWAR T-shirts. I want to spend on music, I'm just not spending a damn penny on RIAA if I can possibly help it. They publish this as "piracy has caused us to lose sales", I publish it as "screw you RIAA I'm taking my business elsewhere".
Reading it on other websites does make it more clear, but TFA is worthless. Slashdot's longstanding reputation for always checking its sources with the utmost journalistic yeah I can't keep a straight face any more.
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$2 says your "consent" is buried in the TOS.
Yeah, SCOTUS just ruled (after Congress voted) that companies can decide you don't get to file a class action suit, forcing you into single arbitration instead. And with AT&T as a model, they don't really have to notify you, they just have to pose an updated EULA that says "continued use of this service...". So individual citizens are now a lower social caste than corporations, basically.
And you don't know that keeping a local copy is forbidden?
Apple: We never did anything wrong, but pardon us while we fix it anyway.
"I know it's kind of laughable right now, but imagine if Windows Phone or Android make a big dent into Apple's iPhone marketshare." Imagine if Microsoft had this sort of market share. People would be hiding in bunkers crying. But because it's Apple, hooray!
So setting up a server to remote desktop into your home computer is cloud computing? I have a sinking feeling that "cloud computing" is a lot like web2.0, aka "broadband Geocities".
...except for all the people complaining that it won't lay flat on a table.
There was also like the 40%-ish customer satisfaction rate. IIRC. People like the idea of tablets and netbooks, but that loathe actually using them.
Time to put on my irony hat. Are you aware of Free Beer (freebeer.org?). "Free as in free speech".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there about a decade or so there where all the newspapers were fighting hard to have people go online to the free content on the website, which then started to have banner ads, and then pop-ups, and then pop-unders, and so on... it's the newspapers that devalued their own content, and they're just trying to blame it on everyone but themselves. See also: Recording industry watches the surge of online music spending when iTunes and etc hit, and instead of getting on board, they just tried to charge more for their own music. Surprise, sales of physical albums are down while more overall money is being spent online. I bet the same goes here- people probably pay more for news now (paid phone widgets and apps, etc) than they ever have, they just don't spend it on print media.
I can't believe that Slashdot is so uninformed as to believe this tripe (oh wait I can... sssiiigghhhh). This is a 3d animation, with photos from Cassini used as source. During the big zoom-in around 1:30, not a single pixel of the planet moves. Those massive storms blow quickly, the planet was rotating, etc etc.
If there will be a final product using real images, this is just the storyboard. Especially the part where all the moons are magically aligned in one perfect shot- total BS. It is flabbergasting that the Slashdot audience is this gullib- oh, wait, yeah I do.
Assuming this post will take, becauase this new forum is EFFING AWFUL and I can barely use this site at all anymore but I was just so mad at Slashdotters for being so clueless here. Sigh. People talk as though ants have some sort of path-finding algorith in their head, which is not at all true, ants are really dumb. In fact, individual ants seem to move about in a way that's barely more efficient than random. What ants are good at, however, is leaving and following scent trails. So every single moron leaves behind a faint trail as to everywhere it's gone. Other wandering ants stop, consider this trail, maybe follow it for a second, then drop off and do their own thing. Until, for example, they find food. Then the ant leaves a stronger trail, and tries to get the food home, very inefficiently. But two other ants smell this trail, and they try to take food home too. Minutes later, some ant finally wanders home. Then some other ant is close to home, smells his trail, and makes it home too. Give it a couple minutes, and all of a sudden there's only one trail- the shortest path gets the heaviest scent marking over time, so that eventually the ants are marching single-file on a highway of stink that's completely irresistable to them. When I helped out the University of Kentucky supercomupting department building the KASY0 computer, they had KLAT-2 doing a version of this- simulating random network traffic traveling over KASY0, but over time patterns would be established until you approached a network of shortest paths, you just keep trimming least-used paths until you have the most cost-efficient network. So, this sort of thing has been known for quite a while, the only invention here is adding "Steiner tree" to the discussion, which as someone else pointed out isn't new either. A great solution to shortest-path problems seems to be assuming no intelligence whatsoever, and just adding a little time to the mix. And yes, this means sometimes a colony will not build a shortest path, because maybe an area is too clogged so a bypass naturally grows somewhere else as flustered ants try going off-road. Over time, again, random fluctuations lead to evolution of the paths, and the ants get the most cost-effective network possible- least calories expended to get food back home.
This post is absolutely iconic for how the average Slashdot viewer sees Microsoft- which is "from about a decade ago, and through anti-MS lenses". Microsoft is a very savvy business. The Xbox console has by far the highest software attach rate among this generation's consoles, and DLC through Xbox Live generates ridiculous revenue, with sublime levels of customer satisfaction- Xbox is saving its branch at Microsoft at this point. When Microsoft launched the Xbox project, they never intended to be here, the whoel project was prepared to chalk up tremendous loss. Microsoft only came up with the Xbox to force Sony out of your living room. Instead of Sony discs on Sony players on Sony TVs with Sony sound systems... the Xbox handles media, and Microsoft now has a foot all up in your entertainment center. Everybody is absolutely obsessed with whatever Apple's doing at the moment, and everyone only views Microsoft from the lens of "but Apple is doing...". That's so far removed from the point. Windows is still the dominant OS, IE is still the dominant browser, Xbox is dominant in virtually all metrics except hardware units sold, and dumbphones are still the real owners of the cell market so it's not that big of a deal if MS is behind there. Microsoft is working hard on all of its weak areas, including leveraging Xbox and the Live platform to turn Windows Phone 7 and Zune into one unified super-platform. For future development, check out what Kinect is doing, and Microsoft's innovations with surface-type technology. Microsoft is a healthy, forward-looking company. They are not Sauron, trying to steal the precious from the hobbitses.
I'm so amazed at Slashdot, and the tech community in general. Microsoft is still the big evil megacorp, doomed in everything they do, always sauntering toward destruction and taking all of us with it. Oh, woe is me, for we are all DOOMED! Oh, by the way, Windows Phone 7 is really neat it has a ton of great features including Xbox and Zune integration that could be absolutely crucial to Microsoft solidifying its overall entertainment plans and pairing with Nokia is an incredibly smart move after how Microsoft got hosed with the Kin series so this is about the most genius deal Microsoft could possibly broken at this juncture to get their platform running in fact when you look at it this is an unprecedented opportunity as Nokia will also be getting in on Xbox branding which opens up all sorts of ridiculously cool options for the future... but other than that, I'm currently pouring a circle of salt around myself to keep the menace of T3H B1LL G4T35 away from me. DAMN HIM AND H- oh, he's not even really running the company anymore. Hm.
Google's New Mantra: Do Evil.
Can't read this story due to problems with the new layout, I wonder if this will even post?
The Open Source Community: Because anyone running less than 16gigs of RAM is viewing the web via terminal. Right?
Got a "do you want to stop this script" error in IE8. Site looks incredibly low-fi pre-broadband now, which could be nice, but it's not pulled off. The site just looks lame instead of minimalist.
To me, this is the #1 problem with open source development right now- that it's not really any different from closed source, except in where the labor comes from. There's lots of eye candy (that you need strong hardware to view), tons of big features (that aren't necessarily tied together well), and too much concern over marketing (shove that buggy beta out as a release version, make the community fix it for free, make big money off that free labor). Microsoft shoves people in cubes and makes them sign NDAs, but they get paid to do it.
I don't get this line of reasoning. People say, the original sucked. Ergo, I will excuse the new movie for sucking and say the new movie was good. This happens with all Sci-Fi remakes now. Like Transformers- well the TV show was awful, so I really enjoyed the new movie which was also awful. Why does that make sense? Crap is crap. If you didn't like TRON, and you found the new movie to commit all the same errors, you don't like the new movie. End of line.
Everyone does realize that backspace and delete actually have different functions, right? This keeps getting passed over. Backspace erases before the cursor, delete erases after. Forget key combos, both keys have very important functions as they stand. If you want to delete text, you only have to land somewhere in the block instead of clicking at one pre-specified end. Click the middle, backspace a few times, delete the rest, boom. Very convenient. My wife never learned what the Shift key was for until well after she'd learned to type in school. She'd needed a cap, one key said cap on it, logically she pressed the caps key and went from there. To this day, she still thinks of Shift as a punctuation key and Caps Lock as the caps key. She types 60+wpm like that, and it's hard to argue against. If I had learned to type that way, coding would probably be easier. My shift fingers could use some variety.
100% correct. Back in the day, I bought a lot more music, and that was at the height of my music downloading. I tried albums before I bought, I listened to music constantly, and it spurred my buying. (And music piracy does NOT deprive anyone of their own product). Now that I can't download music as freely, I don't purchase as much music either. A large part of that is screw you RIAA, but the larger part is that I just don't participate as much in music when I'm not downloading. Although, all the money I used to spend on albums, I now spend exclusively at the merch tables of my favorite small-label indy-ish bands (GWAR, KMFDM). I'll drop a whole year's music budget on GWAR T-shirts. I want to spend on music, I'm just not spending a damn penny on RIAA if I can possibly help it. They publish this as "piracy has caused us to lose sales", I publish it as "screw you RIAA I'm taking my business elsewhere".
Reading it on other websites does make it more clear, but TFA is worthless. Slashdot's longstanding reputation for always checking its sources with the utmost journalistic yeah I can't keep a straight face any more.
Data: There's a planet orbiting a metal-poor star. Conclusion: IT COMES FROM OUTSIDE OUR GALAXY. ....wait what?