Is this another nail in the coffin of paid content on the internet?
It would be refreshing if Slashdot returned to a place where honest debates, with positions stated openly, were welcome. Instead, we get troll bait quetions like the one on the end of this "article".
Why didn't you just post your manifesto?
** "paid content" belongs in a coffin because in general it is a Bad Thing.
** Eventually some sea change will occur, after which everyone will "get a clue" and will stop trying in vain to receive compensation for the efforts of their labor.
** Bad Corporations pay enough attention to each other and use the behavior of other corporations as indicators of the way they should behave in the future.
I paid for local calls outside my university exchange to down the street, here in the United States. That put a big crimp in my budget for ramen noodles and peanut butter. One more reason to move off-campus.
I had the same problem. I switched to the "America's Choice" plan, which is a bunch of roaming agreements with other carriers, and now I don't have low signal strength in my house. Apparently I'm close enough to someone else's cell site that I'm "roaming" in my house. My bill actually went down, too.
This is completely foreign to my experience! A general manager creating something other than a spreadsheet or a headache?
I'm inclined to believe a person was promoted to general manager for technical chops they earned in the past, or maybe even because of this wonderful invention. But was this person a general manager *when they created* this device? Not likely! I want to work at that company.
The user wants the computer to have an interface that is intuitively obvious upon first use. This is unrealistic. The programmer / developer / marketer / tech support person wants the user to have the same worldview that they do, such that things intuitive to the person who designed the system are intuitive in the same way to the audience. This is unrealistic. The middle ground is that the tech support people remember that without users, their job would go away; and, that the user remember that they need to take responsibility to learn a complex system in a way analogous to driving a car. Most users would agree that driving tests are necessary. Many users spend more time "driving" the computer interface than they do behind the wheel, yet few of them make the effort to learn in a structured way. There is a danger here that the finger pointing will go on endlessly, with the tech support pointing at the clueless user and the user pointing at the esoteric system designer. The finger pointing stops when it becomes a cooperative effort where people help each other learn and feedback is built into the system. And I'm not just talking about MicroSoft's Wish List.
I'm glad he's willing to rise above the capitalist incentive of his residuals and tell us what he really thinks. I wonder if he fought at all during the filming to make the lines better, though? It is a little sad that more people don't respect the fact that not everything in this world has to be deep. There is a place for mindless entertainment.
I think it's great that the project will offer these other features, as long as they are similarly open source. I would love to see an extensible framework that would incorporate not just the IRC and IM stuff, but whatever else people want to write as plugins. This would hopefully encourage a best-of-breed accretion such as is happening in the KDE / GNOME space because the programs plug in easily and "cross-pollenate".
Hmm. My karma is -2 and I've hardly ever posted. It says that my last post had a score of 0. I thought everyone started with a 0 karma. Shouldn't a negative karma go back to 0 after awhile? Isn't there a way to redeem oneself?
Someone else here mentioned that these kinds of comments are off-topic, and that he felt the need to put them in anyway. I agree. Why is it that when I read this article, and I look at the posts, the ones that were moderated up really high are "nice" replies to a bunch of things that are -1? The whole point here is that I want to get rid of the noise! While Tom's remarks are moving, they are not on topic any more than this post is. What we really need is a place to talk ABOUT Slashdot. Anybody registered www.metaslash.org yet? Also, why are these "off-topic" posts moderated up so high? Perhaps it's because the "insightful" label means so many things to so many people, and is frequently used whether or not the on-topic condition is met.
Computerworld says "Many Linux developers would consider it a show of faith if Intel were to release the I2O specification. But what most people don't realize is that Intel doesn't actually have the right to unilaterally release the I20 spec. It's owned and managed by a consortium of companies under the I2O Special Interest Group (I20 SIG)." So number one, its not just up to Intel whether I2O works with Linux. Number two, I2O is being challenged [PC Week] by another industry consortium with an incompatible spec. Fragmenting the speedy IO market would be irrational, it would work against Intel's market share in the high end server/workstation market. Why would Intel strong arm Red Hat (taking for granted that they could, since you believe in evil corporate greed) to fork Linux into a smaller market? If anything, Intel probably would have a goal to EXPAND the market for workstation class machines using Intel hardware.
I think it depends on how you define "manager". If one is the "lead from the front" kind of manager who sucks a good idea from the group and represents it as one's own, then in my experience one isn't technical. Most people either spend time studying people or studying technology. Few people split their attention.
If on the other hand, one is the "influence from within" kind of "manager", one sets an example of technical excellence which the group admires and follows of their own free will.
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It would be refreshing if Slashdot returned to a place where honest debates, with positions stated openly, were welcome. Instead, we get troll bait quetions like the one on the end of this "article".
Why didn't you just post your manifesto?
** "paid content" belongs in a coffin because in general it is a Bad Thing.
** Eventually some sea change will occur, after which everyone will "get a clue" and will stop trying in vain to receive compensation for the efforts of their labor.
** Bad Corporations pay enough attention to each other and use the behavior of other corporations as indicators of the way they should behave in the future.
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I paid for local calls outside my university exchange to down the street, here in the United States. That put a big crimp in my budget for ramen noodles and peanut butter. One more reason to move off-campus.
Which country is "our" country?
I had the same problem. I switched to the "America's Choice" plan, which is a bunch of roaming agreements with other carriers, and now I don't have low signal strength in my house. Apparently I'm close enough to someone else's cell site that I'm "roaming" in my house. My bill actually went down, too.
This is completely foreign to my experience! A general manager creating something other than a spreadsheet or a headache?
I'm inclined to believe a person was promoted to general manager for technical chops they earned in the past, or maybe even because of this wonderful invention. But was this person a general manager *when they created* this device? Not likely! I want to work at that company.
The user wants the computer to have an interface that is intuitively obvious upon first use. This is unrealistic. The programmer / developer / marketer / tech support person wants the user to have the same worldview that they do, such that things intuitive to the person who designed the system are intuitive in the same way to the audience. This is unrealistic. The middle ground is that the tech support people remember that without users, their job would go away; and, that the user remember that they need to take responsibility to learn a complex system in a way analogous to driving a car. Most users would agree that driving tests are necessary. Many users spend more time "driving" the computer interface than they do behind the wheel, yet few of them make the effort to learn in a structured way. There is a danger here that the finger pointing will go on endlessly, with the tech support pointing at the clueless user and the user pointing at the esoteric system designer. The finger pointing stops when it becomes a cooperative effort where people help each other learn and feedback is built into the system. And I'm not just talking about MicroSoft's Wish List.
I'm glad he's willing to rise above the capitalist incentive of his residuals and tell us what he really thinks. I wonder if he fought at all during the filming to make the lines better, though? It is a little sad that more people don't respect the fact that not everything in this world has to be deep. There is a place for mindless entertainment.
I think it's great that the project will offer these other features, as long as they are similarly open source. I would love to see an extensible framework that would incorporate not just the IRC and IM stuff, but whatever else people want to write as plugins. This would hopefully encourage a best-of-breed accretion such as is happening in the KDE / GNOME space because the programs plug in easily and "cross-pollenate".
Hmm. My karma is -2 and I've hardly ever posted. It says that my last post had a score of 0. I thought everyone started with a 0 karma. Shouldn't a negative karma go back to 0 after awhile? Isn't there a way to redeem oneself?
Someone else here mentioned that these kinds of comments are off-topic, and that he felt the need to put them in anyway. I agree. Why is it that when I read this article, and I look at the posts, the ones that were moderated up really high are "nice" replies to a bunch of things that are -1? The whole point here is that I want to get rid of the noise! While Tom's remarks are moving, they are not on topic any more than this post is. What we really need is a place to talk ABOUT Slashdot. Anybody registered www.metaslash.org yet? Also, why are these "off-topic" posts moderated up so high? Perhaps it's because the "insightful" label means so many things to so many people, and is frequently used whether or not the on-topic condition is met.
What I want here is interesting "news for nerds". I don't want a bunch of op-ed stuff. If I wanted that, I'd read something else.
Computerworld says "Many Linux developers would consider it a show of faith if Intel were to release the I2O specification. But what most people don't realize is that Intel doesn't actually have the right to unilaterally release the I20 spec. It's owned and managed by a consortium of companies under the I2O Special Interest Group (I20 SIG)."
So number one, its not just up to Intel whether I2O works with Linux.
Number two, I2O is being challenged [PC Week] by another industry consortium with an incompatible spec.
Fragmenting the speedy IO market would be irrational, it would work against Intel's market share in the high end server/workstation market. Why would Intel strong arm Red Hat (taking for granted that they could, since you believe in evil corporate greed) to fork Linux into a smaller market? If anything, Intel probably would have a goal to EXPAND the market for workstation class machines using Intel hardware.
I think it depends on how you define "manager". If one is the "lead from the front" kind of manager who sucks a good idea from the group and represents it as one's own, then in my experience one isn't technical. Most people either spend time studying people or studying technology. Few people split their attention.
If on the other hand, one is the "influence from within" kind of "manager", one sets an example of technical excellence which the group admires and follows of their own free will.