I don't watch CW and won't watch because Internet culture is on it. But it's probably a good thing, in the short term, for a quirky Web-only product (albeit with major names doing it) to become a feeder for big money entertainment. I think.
What TV should learn:
-- we should let creative people do things creatively without focus groups and demographic analysis
What TV will learn.
-- More goggles! We need more goggles!
"why should a group/team that has been working for ages, all of a sudden have to stop and change and stifle themselves just because a woman is joining the group?"
Because that team is missing out on 50% of the potential talent pool. Because making people feel threatened or excluded is wrong.
"It is your responsibility, not your career's to keep you physically active."
Isn't choosing a career that aligns with her/his goals a way of taking responsibility? You spend more time working than ANYTHING ELSE EVER. If it's not basically pleasant, and you have an option to change that, then do it.
"We all pay lip service to the idea that most users never change the default settings in software, but we rarely follow this through to its logical conclusion."
That most users are ignorant?
You seem to have Slashdot still set to the default "vapid elitism" setting.
This question has many parallels to "Why do all the browsers suck?" circa 2002. Similar answer: end users' interests are not aligned with commercial ventures, thus commercial entities fail to address the need. Governments, for similar reasons, are not welcome as solution providers.
Mozilla has a potentially gamechanging solution in alpha. It is inherently user controlled and FLOSS. It's also intended to be very easy to use by building user-controlled personas into the browser, allowing single sign in without revealing sign-in habits to a third party. Developers and testers welcome.
Killing the most important nodes in a network is going to weaken the network. The trick is knowing which ones matter, and where to find them. The lesson from this isn't going to be "more drones", it's going to be "more electronic spying".
3D printing is neat and all, and congrats on a new use for the tech. But can we please put these one some people and run them around before saying bullshit like "Apparently the shoe can improve performance by 3.5%"?
HuffPo's comment system most closely analogous to a role playing game. You earn status and level up based on feats, crowd interaction and persistence. Like D&D but the dungeon is Washington and the only weapon class is snark.
My wife and I have a 10MB TrueCrypt vault containing a text file with a list of all our online service passwords.
It has grown over time to be a list of all kinds of access keys, secret stuff and routing information. It's shared in a commercial cloud drive, which allows us to get it from anywhere, but only decrypt via TrueCrypt + a nice long key. This is a convenience thing, but would solve OP's legacy question by keeping the encryption key on paper with your will, and instructions on where to find the vault. Unlike storing actual accounts/passwords with the will, your vault will be up to date.
We used to do this on paper but password resets and account sprawl kept the data evolving till a softcopy was easier to keep up to date. I worried a little about fire, or losing the notebook.
Critical analysis from outsiders is a great thing for a foundation, and they don't get enough of it, because most of the people best able to criticize are also lining up for funding.
That said: this shouldn't make you feel bad about Gates as a person. The Gates Foundation has moved (relatively) fast, been (relatively) willing to make unpopular decisions and has been (relatively) willing to risk high profile failure. This is all pretty normal in the tech world, and completely atypical in the philanthropic world.
The limbic "OMG they aren't perfect on the first try" response serves to make foundations progressively more risk averse and slow to act. Less of that please.
Yes. Phonographs had resistance from the entrenched music distributor of it's day: sheet music sales. This was how "pop" music fads were propagated before recordings.
For extra bonus points: any way we can do this off a currently available phone? For discussion purposes, I'll scale back the reqs to merely a browser and a text editor.
Why the fuck should they change? It's their network, they get the ability to see who you are talking to and what you are saying. The pay phone was replaced with your smartphone, don't like their policy, use your own phone. Stop whining about a perk. You get them on their terms.
As someone who has been paid to worry about talent recruitment and retention, you are insane. I would burn out this attitude out of my company like it was a pile of smallpox blankets. We pay people to perform. You suggest that they have to leave the building every time they need to manage childcare, health issues and the rest of their lives because... we're worried about what exactly? Sloth? These are professionals, not pieceworkers. Too many bits over the Intarweb? We don't pay by the byte, dude.
As for policy: we tell people that they are explicitly invited to have their personal email open whenever, because that keeps them from using their work email for hookups, bootlegs and a host of other shit I don't want to know about. We tell them that their work email will be managed and shared with others, and they should treat it with no expectation of privacy: if you go under a bus, we share accounts as needed.
And no, I've never spied on HTTPS, and would make horrified-meme-face at anyone who suggested it. My first thought would be that if done poorly it opens our staff up to phishing, and I'd rather not, thanks.
...Anything except whistling at the other gender, which is forbidden for men but permitted for women. Bunch of moms whistling at the Disney boy du jour = "oh come on, the boy likes it"; bunch of dads whistling at the Disney girl du jour = "OMG perverts! Go to jail!"...
Examine your rage, dude, because this wasn't the silliest thing in newspapers this week, but it is the one you and half of Slashdot chose to freak out about. It's a pattern.
Simple leads to different results because it usually means something more like "quality". Simple is in itself not an absolute value. Instead, the simplicity of something is a ratio of its value to its sucking. So what they're really saying is "I'd like to achieve high value outcomes with the least amount of sucking along the way." There's a lot of ways to do that.
Publishing houses are unfathomably bad at editorial workflow. Consider all the official, licensed ebooks with OCR problems. The publishers didn't have a soft copy of their own books. Staggering.
Now consider that managing the editorial workflow is their only value add, and ask yourself if there's a way to short stock on the publishing industry. Direct to consumer can't come soon enough.
It takes a special person to decide the real problem with design is too much user input. By all means, enjoy your city-of-things. But for the love, please don't bring any of it back to the real world until you run it by some humans.
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I don't watch CW and won't watch because Internet culture is on it. But it's probably a good thing, in the short term, for a quirky Web-only product (albeit with major names doing it) to become a feeder for big money entertainment. I think.
What TV should learn:
-- we should let creative people do things creatively without focus groups and demographic analysis
What TV will learn.
-- More goggles! We need more goggles!
"why should a group/team that has been working for ages, all of a sudden have to stop and change and stifle themselves just because a woman is joining the group?"
Because that team is missing out on 50% of the potential talent pool.
Because making people feel threatened or excluded is wrong.
Pick one.
"It is your responsibility, not your career's to keep you physically active."
Isn't choosing a career that aligns with her/his goals a way of taking responsibility? You spend more time working than ANYTHING ELSE EVER. If it's not basically pleasant, and you have an option to change that, then do it.
"We all pay lip service to the idea that most users never change the default settings in software, but we rarely follow this through to its logical conclusion."
That most users are ignorant?
You seem to have Slashdot still set to the default "vapid elitism" setting.
This question has many parallels to "Why do all the browsers suck?" circa 2002. Similar answer: end users' interests are not aligned with commercial ventures, thus commercial entities fail to address the need. Governments, for similar reasons, are not welcome as solution providers.
Mozilla has a potentially gamechanging solution in alpha. It is inherently user controlled and FLOSS. It's also intended to be very easy to use by building user-controlled personas into the browser, allowing single sign in without revealing sign-in habits to a third party. Developers and testers welcome.
https://login.persona.org/
http://identity.mozilla.com/
Killing the most important nodes in a network is going to weaken the network. The trick is knowing which ones matter, and where to find them. The lesson from this isn't going to be "more drones", it's going to be "more electronic spying".
> When every conceivable want and desire is met, what is left but to be generous to your fellow man?
That or Seastedding.
Many sports have moved to using either officially issued equipment or regulations on various attributes. No wing suits in ski jumping, for example.
http://www.olympic.org/ski-jumping-equipment-and-history?tab=equipment
3D printing is neat and all, and congrats on a new use for the tech. But can we please put these one some people and run them around before saying bullshit like "Apparently the shoe can improve performance by 3.5%"?
HuffPo's comment system most closely analogous to a role playing game. You earn status and level up based on feats, crowd interaction and persistence. Like D&D but the dungeon is Washington and the only weapon class is snark.
I heard you like aggregators, so I got Slashdot to clip a story that clips a story about aggregators.
My wife and I have a 10MB TrueCrypt vault containing a text file with a list of all our online service passwords.
It has grown over time to be a list of all kinds of access keys, secret stuff and routing information. It's shared in a commercial cloud drive, which allows us to get it from anywhere, but only decrypt via TrueCrypt + a nice long key. This is a convenience thing, but would solve OP's legacy question by keeping the encryption key on paper with your will, and instructions on where to find the vault. Unlike storing actual accounts/passwords with the will, your vault will be up to date.
We used to do this on paper but password resets and account sprawl kept the data evolving till a softcopy was easier to keep up to date. I worried a little about fire, or losing the notebook.
Thanks for posting.
Critical analysis from outsiders is a great thing for a foundation, and they don't get enough of it, because most of the people best able to criticize are also lining up for funding.
That said: this shouldn't make you feel bad about Gates as a person. The Gates Foundation has moved (relatively) fast, been (relatively) willing to make unpopular decisions and has been (relatively) willing to risk high profile failure. This is all pretty normal in the tech world, and completely atypical in the philanthropic world.
The limbic "OMG they aren't perfect on the first try" response serves to make foundations progressively more risk averse and slow to act. Less of that please.
Yes. Phonographs had resistance from the entrenched music distributor of it's day: sheet music sales. This was how "pop" music fads were propagated before recordings.
The Beam launches next month, so technically no. But a useful post - first I'd heard of it.
It sounds more like this would be a hobby solution.
You do realize this was posted to Slashdot on a Sunday afternoon, right?
For once, a great Ask /. question.
For extra bonus points: any way we can do this off a currently available phone? For discussion purposes, I'll scale back the reqs to merely a browser and a text editor.
Why the fuck should they change? It's their network, they get the ability to see who you are talking to and what you are saying. The pay phone was replaced with your smartphone, don't like their policy, use your own phone. Stop whining about a perk. You get them on their terms.
As someone who has been paid to worry about talent recruitment and retention, you are insane. I would burn out this attitude out of my company like it was a pile of smallpox blankets. We pay people to perform. You suggest that they have to leave the building every time they need to manage childcare, health issues and the rest of their lives because... we're worried about what exactly? Sloth? These are professionals, not pieceworkers. Too many bits over the Intarweb? We don't pay by the byte, dude.
As for policy: we tell people that they are explicitly invited to have their personal email open whenever, because that keeps them from using their work email for hookups, bootlegs and a host of other shit I don't want to know about. We tell them that their work email will be managed and shared with others, and they should treat it with no expectation of privacy: if you go under a bus, we share accounts as needed.
And no, I've never spied on HTTPS, and would make horrified-meme-face at anyone who suggested it. My first thought would be that if done poorly it opens our staff up to phishing, and I'd rather not, thanks.
...Anything except whistling at the other gender, which is forbidden for men but permitted for women. Bunch of moms whistling at the Disney boy du jour = "oh come on, the boy likes it"; bunch of dads whistling at the Disney girl du jour = "OMG perverts! Go to jail!"...
Examine your rage, dude, because this wasn't the silliest thing in newspapers this week, but it is the one you and half of Slashdot chose to freak out about. It's a pattern.
Simple leads to different results because it usually means something more like "quality". Simple is in itself not an absolute value. Instead, the simplicity of something is a ratio of its value to its sucking. So what they're really saying is "I'd like to achieve high value outcomes with the least amount of sucking along the way." There's a lot of ways to do that.
> Young males still use more tech then females though.
This appears to be true, at least for 7th graders. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080312172614.htm
Big egos are just the hallmark of failure.
-- Sent from my iPhone
FTFY
Publishing houses are unfathomably bad at editorial workflow. Consider all the official, licensed ebooks with OCR problems. The publishers didn't have a soft copy of their own books. Staggering.
Now consider that managing the editorial workflow is their only value add, and ask yourself if there's a way to short stock on the publishing industry. Direct to consumer can't come soon enough.
It takes a special person to decide the real problem with design is too much user input. By all means, enjoy your city-of-things. But for the love, please don't bring any of it back to the real world until you run it by some humans.