Do we need to start having a basic competency test before letting idiots like this post? Jesus fuck, you newtards are idiots. No wonder CmdrTaco left...
That's hugely unfair. I figured out what it was based on the context. Hmmmm... SoC.. moving algorithms to chips... might it be System-On-Chip?
However, there are plenty of articles here about some pretty heavy physics, particle physics, medical advancements, etc. that are well outside of my own field. It would be nice to have some quality journalism where a term or concept is explained in the summary.
It's not that hard. Another sentence at most. I don't have a problem searching for terms and concepts I don't fully grasp, but it would be nice to have some quality journalism again. Seriously.... grammar and spelling mistakes everywhere now, even at mainstream outlets like CNN. Just once I would like the impression that somebody with an English major was doing actual editing.
They keep reorganizing, firing, and promoting people that by the time the ink is dry on their business cards the extensions no longer work.
I'm not joking. I can go through any contact more than 6 months old and their phone number in their signature is dead. Emailing them entails a 24 hour turnaround time to get the new person assigned to your account to contact you.
Nice people, but very weird communication infrastructure.
Uhhh, if your posterior is sore after a two week junket to Las Vegas I don't think you're doing it right. Unless you have a booth at the AVN or something...
The problem is that IT people always think that nobody but an IT person can possibly manage an IT department, and MBAs can't possibly understand the needs.
Uhhhhh.....
That's true.
It is not arrogance either. According to your logic i dont require an understanding of accounting, finances, etc to manage the accounting department. I can just jump in and fake it till i make it.
That's disrespectful of IT and trivializes their field. If you are not in IT you most likely dont have the breadth of knowledge required to manage the department well.
I could relate anecdotes for hours about shortsighted managers and executives where "not aligned with businesses interests" translates to "i am butthurt because you pointed out technical flaws or the unrealistic cost and time projections of my ideas".
A CIO and CEO can act like mature adults and bring both their skillsets together to find a solution that is both technically feasible and aligned with business interests.
Or we can continue with the stereotypes and attacks and accomplish less. I wonder why there are so many problems.........
You are using hyberbole and an inappropriate comparison.
Hardwoods are extremely expensive. It is the difference between a multithousand dollar piece of furniture, or a decent coffee table for a couple hundred dollars. You can even go so far as p.o.s ikea crap you assemble yourself.
If you pick up some regular wood at homedepot, say poplar or pine, and just stain it you have something reasonably nice and wont break the bank. That is real wood too, not plywood or some other compressed crap.
Your comparison is wrong because the finished product will be quite close to the 3500 dollar version and perform the same.
Probably cost a couple hundred in materials at the high end.
It's not a coffee table you are going to bequeath to your progeny so that in a hundred years they can go on Antiques Roadshow.
Considering the application, I would think you could get away with much less expensive wood, stain it, and still have a nice conversation piece. Certainly not worth $3500, unless you are really really into both Nintendo and fine furniture.
It looks to me like there is no more than $150 worth a wood at HomeDepot. Positive you could get all the wood, materials, and electronics for under $500.
I just tell them that I have no Facebook or Twitter account at all. Sometimes they look at me like I am lying and then I remind them that I am in IT and that we have no friends, as they so often claim:)
Works every time. I don't get asked by marketing to have anything to do with the "Social Networking".
This is the best argument for browsing at -1 that I have ever seen. Even though it looks like it's machine-generated nonsense, it's still one of the best comments ever made on Slashdot.
I wholly agree. It reminds me of Vogon poetry. Butthole is used throughout, quite successfully, as a lubricant for the deep prose sprinkled about. Without it, I believe it would make much less sense. While the statement that "God is a dog's anus farting loudly" was quite provocative as a commentary on the meaning of life, it derailed rather quickly with the nonsequiter introduction of a catfish arriving at noon of all times....
Not the work of a true Vogon master, but I sense much potential.
agreed, its only a matter of 'which year' is the actual death of the freedom
FTFY.
Freedom is not good for the 1%. They have gone by different names in the past of course. It is a cycle. The 1% grows through abuse after abuse, and gradual poolings of influence and resources.
Eventually they will push it too far and either 1) vastly lower their own standards of living by taking out society with it, at which time they tend to migrate somewhere else (like a virus) or 2) society rears up and kills the fuckers.
Either way, we all end up bloody, a lot of drama, and then come the speeches about how we are going to create a new society in which the past will not repeat itself.
Animal Farm is not a book. It is simple observation of repeating patterns.
I just don't understand why a site devoted to geeks has complaints about commercials
It might have something to do with the fact the interested parties (for the success of advertising) are fucking psychotic assholes, hire dick lawyers, find ancient Luddite judges, and come to the conclusion that not watching commercials is stealing and any technology that facilitates it is evil.
Sonicblue used to have a DVR that allowed you to skip those commercials automatically. Nope can't have that. TIVO has been playing around with punishing people for skipping advertisements too.
Hulu is impossible to watch because they make it impossible to skip the commercials, so very unlike a DVR where you can at least manually skip it. For now.
So unless you are willing to spend $50-$100 a month for the Cable source to your DVR, you are left with other options that are being fought tooth and nail over advertising. This is why it is very much a geek complaint, because we have to deal with it in all the technology that we have one way or the other.
I think the biggest problem here is that the TSA at one airport cleared the device for carry-on (not checked) and that another airport goes apeshit when the same device, already approved, is left on the plane.
Where is the communication and common sense here? The TSA should have never let it on the plane as carry-on and checked it, with special instructions if you needed to go that far.
The TSA is responsible for creating the situation here.
Michelle "hehe, I went into law because my hubby said we were done having babies and I should make myself useful in the daytimes before his nightly blowjob" Bachmann
You lost all credibility there at the end with a daily blowjob for a husband.
Is that creepy? Well if I look up your favorite movie, drink, etc., walk into the establishment, sit down close to you and order your favorite drink and start yapping away about that movie.. yes.
Why? Why is it creepy?
In an increasingly connected society in which there exists a strong trend to share information and collect it in realtime, at some point it becomes normal to see somebody and want to access their public information. If only as a matter of curiosity.
If I see an attractive woman, and an application on my portable device can identify her right away and collect all the public information and present it to me, how much information is at my fingertips to determine if I would like to get to know her more?
That is what you do when you get to know somebody in the first place. Collect some information about their likes, dislikes, personality, etc. With technology you are just doing some that before you even speak with them.
Absolutely, there are creeps that will use it, but that does not mean that all people that use it will be creeps. Creeps (or players) will find whatever means are at their disposal to con women.
This reminds me of something I was watching on Netflix recently. East of Eden. In that a group of college students create a program that can identify objects and people in a camera view and created augmented reality. You walk around seeing all public information about that person instantly.
Personally, if everything is public already, I don't find it creepy at all if I look up a girl's profile to find an icebreaker to talk to her. More to the point, I might find reasons I don't want to talk to her. If I saw her smoking for example.
Slashdot Mirror
FU
Not if I get that domain *first* :)
I won't be squatting either. Going right on my business cards.
+5 Funny, Insightful, and Informative.
Do we need to start having a basic competency test before letting idiots like this post? Jesus fuck, you newtards are idiots. No wonder CmdrTaco left...
That's hugely unfair. I figured out what it was based on the context. Hmmmm... SoC.. moving algorithms to chips... might it be System-On-Chip?
However, there are plenty of articles here about some pretty heavy physics, particle physics, medical advancements, etc. that are well outside of my own field. It would be nice to have some quality journalism where a term or concept is explained in the summary.
It's not that hard. Another sentence at most. I don't have a problem searching for terms and concepts I don't fully grasp, but it would be nice to have some quality journalism again. Seriously.... grammar and spelling mistakes everywhere now, even at mainstream outlets like CNN. Just once I would like the impression that somebody with an English major was doing actual editing.
Try dealing with Dell Business.
They keep reorganizing, firing, and promoting people that by the time the ink is dry on their business cards the extensions no longer work.
I'm not joking. I can go through any contact more than 6 months old and their phone number in their signature is dead. Emailing them entails a 24 hour turnaround time to get the new person assigned to your account to contact you.
Nice people, but very weird communication infrastructure.
I prefer...
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Slashdot R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
They're trying to come up with a better name than The Probulator.
Also, every 1 in 100,000 test subjects has a testicle "popped" for no apparent reason (TSA of course says it is 1 in 10,000,000).
Uhhhh.... probably?
I think so. Otherwise, it would be a pretty long wait to find the right paralyzed monkeys for your study.
Uhhh, if your posterior is sore after a two week junket to Las Vegas I don't think you're doing it right. Unless you have a booth at the AVN or something...
Ah yes, that explains it. They're British.....
"No fine, but you promise not to do it again right?"
Of course, if you are not favored it could be worse.
Seriously? A signed paper? That's it? I can see the people at Toshiba rolling their eyes when they got it.
The problem is that IT people always think that nobody but an IT person can possibly manage an IT department, and MBAs can't possibly understand the needs.
Uhhhhh.....
That's true.
It is not arrogance either. According to your logic i dont require an understanding of accounting, finances, etc to manage the accounting department. I can just jump in and fake it till i make it.
That's disrespectful of IT and trivializes their field. If you are not in IT you most likely dont have the breadth of knowledge required to manage the department well.
I could relate anecdotes for hours about shortsighted managers and executives where "not aligned with businesses interests" translates to "i am butthurt because you pointed out technical flaws or the unrealistic cost and time projections of my ideas".
A CIO and CEO can act like mature adults and bring both their skillsets together to find a solution that is both technically feasible and aligned with business interests.
Or we can continue with the stereotypes and attacks and accomplish less. I wonder why there are so many problems.........
Noooooooooooo
You are using hyberbole and an inappropriate comparison.
Hardwoods are extremely expensive. It is the difference between a multithousand dollar piece of furniture, or a decent coffee table for a couple hundred dollars. You can even go so far as p.o.s ikea crap you assemble yourself.
If you pick up some regular wood at homedepot, say poplar or pine, and just stain it you have something reasonably nice and wont break the bank. That is real wood too, not plywood or some other compressed crap.
Your comparison is wrong because the finished product will be quite close to the 3500 dollar version and perform the same.
Probably cost a couple hundred in materials at the high end.
It sells the stain. My point is not to use expensive hardwood for that kind of application. You could do it much cheaper
Why does it have to be good hardwood?
It's not a coffee table you are going to bequeath to your progeny so that in a hundred years they can go on Antiques Roadshow.
Considering the application, I would think you could get away with much less expensive wood, stain it, and still have a nice conversation piece. Certainly not worth $3500, unless you are really really into both Nintendo and fine furniture.
It looks to me like there is no more than $150 worth a wood at HomeDepot. Positive you could get all the wood, materials, and electronics for under $500.
I just tell them that I have no Facebook or Twitter account at all. Sometimes they look at me like I am lying and then I remind them that I am in IT and that we have no friends, as they so often claim :)
Works every time. I don't get asked by marketing to have anything to do with the "Social Networking".
This is the best argument for browsing at -1 that I have ever seen. Even though it looks like it's machine-generated nonsense, it's still one of the best comments ever made on Slashdot.
I wholly agree. It reminds me of Vogon poetry. Butthole is used throughout, quite successfully, as a lubricant for the deep prose sprinkled about. Without it, I believe it would make much less sense. While the statement that "God is a dog's anus farting loudly" was quite provocative as a commentary on the meaning of life, it derailed rather quickly with the nonsequiter introduction of a catfish arriving at noon of all times....
Not the work of a true Vogon master, but I sense much potential.
agreed, its only a matter of 'which year' is the actual death of the freedom
FTFY.
Freedom is not good for the 1%. They have gone by different names in the past of course. It is a cycle. The 1% grows through abuse after abuse, and gradual poolings of influence and resources.
Eventually they will push it too far and either 1) vastly lower their own standards of living by taking out society with it, at which time they tend to migrate somewhere else (like a virus) or 2) society rears up and kills the fuckers.
Either way, we all end up bloody, a lot of drama, and then come the speeches about how we are going to create a new society in which the past will not repeat itself.
Animal Farm is not a book. It is simple observation of repeating patterns.
Mental speedbump in ......
irregardless
Your post was going so well right up to that point :)
Hint: That's not a word.
Otherwise, very interesting.
I just don't understand why a site devoted to geeks has complaints about commercials
It might have something to do with the fact the interested parties (for the success of advertising) are fucking psychotic assholes, hire dick lawyers, find ancient Luddite judges, and come to the conclusion that not watching commercials is stealing and any technology that facilitates it is evil.
Sonicblue used to have a DVR that allowed you to skip those commercials automatically. Nope can't have that. TIVO has been playing around with punishing people for skipping advertisements too.
Hulu is impossible to watch because they make it impossible to skip the commercials, so very unlike a DVR where you can at least manually skip it. For now.
So unless you are willing to spend $50-$100 a month for the Cable source to your DVR, you are left with other options that are being fought tooth and nail over advertising. This is why it is very much a geek complaint, because we have to deal with it in all the technology that we have one way or the other.
Yes, Now let's see how well you handle it!
Egypt Banned Porn, But How Much of the Internet Is That?
Well, let's put it this way.
They can run the entire country on a few dial-up accounts now. Broadband no longer required.
This was found on a plane right??
I think the biggest problem here is that the TSA at one airport cleared the device for carry-on (not checked) and that another airport goes apeshit when the same device, already approved, is left on the plane.
Where is the communication and common sense here? The TSA should have never let it on the plane as carry-on and checked it, with special instructions if you needed to go that far.
The TSA is responsible for creating the situation here.
Michelle "hehe, I went into law because my hubby said we were done having babies and I should make myself useful in the daytimes before his nightly blowjob" Bachmann
You lost all credibility there at the end with a daily blowjob for a husband.
I guess you did not like the new Tron then......
Is that creepy? Well if I look up your favorite movie, drink, etc., walk into the establishment, sit down close to you and order your favorite drink and start yapping away about that movie.. yes.
Why? Why is it creepy?
In an increasingly connected society in which there exists a strong trend to share information and collect it in realtime, at some point it becomes normal to see somebody and want to access their public information. If only as a matter of curiosity.
If I see an attractive woman, and an application on my portable device can identify her right away and collect all the public information and present it to me, how much information is at my fingertips to determine if I would like to get to know her more?
That is what you do when you get to know somebody in the first place. Collect some information about their likes, dislikes, personality, etc. With technology you are just doing some that before you even speak with them.
Absolutely, there are creeps that will use it, but that does not mean that all people that use it will be creeps. Creeps (or players) will find whatever means are at their disposal to con women.
This reminds me of something I was watching on Netflix recently. East of Eden. In that a group of college students create a program that can identify objects and people in a camera view and created augmented reality. You walk around seeing all public information about that person instantly.
Personally, if everything is public already, I don't find it creepy at all if I look up a girl's profile to find an icebreaker to talk to her. More to the point, I might find reasons I don't want to talk to her. If I saw her smoking for example.
I don't think you can find one those. Too short of a half life.