Can business get any more dehumanizing? I don't think so.
"Welcome, welcome to City 17, you have chosen or been chosen to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I have been proud to call City 17 my home. So whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to City 17. It's safer here."
I think the larger story is, really, that management education in the United States is a colossal failure. There is no reason that a large and previously successful company needs to decline and fail when other civilizations created empires and institutions that lasted for hundreds and thousands of years. But as it is, in America, as soon as a founder leaves a company, the MBAs get in and these "professional managers" slowly sink the ship. It doesn't have to be this way, but it will be this way until we get some serious curriculum changes at our management schools.
That's right: HARVARD, WHARTON, YALE AND OTHER MBAS : YOU F---- SUCK!
I did my PhD in Computer Science, and I teach MBA's (who have to make a thesis and ideally publish it). The first thing I say in class is that "science is too important to be left in the hands of scientists, so in this course there will be no quick formulas or little case studies". We will study science, including the mathematical and computational aspects. Is anyone able to program a computer in, say, java? Is anyone a mathematician or engineer?
Here's what is sad: (i) almost all other professors will be gossiping like a mexican soap opera about you, and how you don't understand things; (ii) most students, INCLUDING those skilled, seem to want an easier ride. Almost all see programming as undesirable, something for lower-level people. Others want to go to, you've guessed it, finance. By the way, my course is on cognitive science and decision-making, and we move from behavioral economics to computational modeling, AI, and math models of the brain.
The thing that one needs to remember is that anyone, no matter who they are, who questions Apple or points out any problem with Apple's behaviour, is evil. Apple is always right. We are fortunate to be living at the same time that Apple exists.
Precisely. How would we know what we need without Apple? How would we have any idea of what we want without it? Without Apple, is would be a slippery slope to nihilism. Thank you, my dear Apple benefactors!
castrodisticcowboy (6 days ago) +1 Reply
3:20-"my big cock"?
DylanMakesNoise (2 days ago) -3 Reply......what the fuck did i just watch??
what the FUCK are those things with little ponytails??
god thats DISGUSTING.
obviously not one of God's creations!
hightek669 (2 days ago) +1 Reply
Wow, what a heartless thing to say. These "freaks" were real people (real people like me & you)-- just people with deformities. This was a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers-- real people in which had the same feelings as you & I, do what we do on a day-to-day basis (eat, sleep, breathe). I sure as hell would hate to see how you react to mentally-challenged people.
DylanMakesNoise (2 days ago) 0 Reply
i knew the rest of em were, just not those ponytailed freaks..
they scare the shit out of me
ririmja (1 day ago) +1 Reply
i agree with you completely people like you are rare stay cool
aufer21 (3 days ago) 0 Reply
Why are people presuming that the program will be limited to yes/no answers?
Q: Will you answer no to this question?
A: It's rather unlikely.
(Or, "I doubt it" or any of several different answers.)
Q: What made you think it's rather unlikely? kernel panic
Please note: Wolfram did not promise computing that *correctly* answers questions. Tribute to Douglas Adams: Perhaps his next endeavor should involve providing the question that goes with the answer.
You look for an answer until you find it or give up.
Oh, so (i) you don't understand the question, then (ii) you look for an answer, (iii, A) you find it (how? how will you know you found it?), or (iii, B) you give up.
Just wanted to make sure that this thread was really about this. Here's a new low, even for slashdot.
It wasn't too long ago that pulp fiction sold for less than $0.25 a copy.
Actually, I don't miss that at all, since that does not account for the carbon in your hand and in your atmosphere. And everyone, even the poor, can pay a little more than 25cents.
Not a legal case, no. Particularly not an analysis posted on Slashdot, because they'll only accept stories that fit the "open source good, microsoft evil" bias.
BUT THAT'S BECAUSE open source is really good and microsoft is really evil!!!!11!
This is to be expected, as the follow the RIAA MPAA desperation road. And a giant backlash against ms, of course.
Netbooks are a serious threat to them, and they know it. To follow the netbooks will be larger machines with limited processing for the avg joes out there.
On a personal note, I find it very delightful that a company that Embraced, Enhanced, Extinguished, might be brought down by a tiny, cheap machine called EEE.
...they're finally getting a new theme?
Seriously, of all the things to mention in the summary, you focus on the not-brown?
There's a page long rant about cloud computing, about the eucalyptus project, and why the release is named koala. And you mention that, like every release, there's talk of it possibly not being brown?
An important precedent has been set. The uproar created by the community, including some people cancelling their Facebook memberships, caused the Terms of Service to be reverted. We must remember this. It should be a rallying cry: "Remember Facebook".
Perhaps a better strategy is just to update their wikipedia page with this info, fully documented, and keep the fight in there. Companies *detest* criticism in wikipedia. It is, after all, their privacy exposed this time.
Slashdot Mirror
Can business get any more dehumanizing? I don't think so.
"Welcome, welcome to City 17, you have chosen or been chosen to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. I thought so much of City 17 that I elected to establish my administration here, in the Citadel so thoughtfully provided by our benefactors. I have been proud to call City 17 my home. So whether you are here to stay, or passing through on your way to parts unknown, welcome to City 17. It's safer here."
I think the larger story is, really, that management education in the United States is a colossal failure. There is no reason that a large and previously successful company needs to decline and fail when other civilizations created empires and institutions that lasted for hundreds and thousands of years. But as it is, in America, as soon as a founder leaves a company, the MBAs get in and these "professional managers" slowly sink the ship. It doesn't have to be this way, but it will be this way until we get some serious curriculum changes at our management schools. That's right: HARVARD, WHARTON, YALE AND OTHER MBAS : YOU F---- SUCK!
I did my PhD in Computer Science, and I teach MBA's (who have to make a thesis and ideally publish it). The first thing I say in class is that "science is too important to be left in the hands of scientists, so in this course there will be no quick formulas or little case studies". We will study science, including the mathematical and computational aspects. Is anyone able to program a computer in, say, java? Is anyone a mathematician or engineer?
Here's what is sad: (i) almost all other professors will be gossiping like a mexican soap opera about you, and how you don't understand things; (ii) most students, INCLUDING those skilled, seem to want an easier ride. Almost all see programming as undesirable, something for lower-level people. Others want to go to, you've guessed it, finance. By the way, my course is on cognitive science and decision-making, and we move from behavioral economics to computational modeling, AI, and math models of the brain.
Don't know how I haven't been fired yet.
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The thing that one needs to remember is that anyone, no matter who they are, who questions Apple or points out any problem with Apple's behaviour, is evil. Apple is always right. We are fortunate to be living at the same time that Apple exists.
Precisely. How would we know what we need without Apple? How would we have any idea of what we want without it? Without Apple, is would be a slippery slope to nihilism. Thank you, my dear Apple benefactors!
castrodisticcowboy (6 days ago) +1 Reply 3:20-"my big cock"?
DylanMakesNoise (2 days ago) -3 Reply ......what the fuck did i just watch??
what the FUCK are those things with little ponytails??
god thats DISGUSTING.
obviously not one of God's creations!
hightek669 (2 days ago) +1 Reply Wow, what a heartless thing to say. These "freaks" were real people (real people like me & you)-- just people with deformities. This was a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers-- real people in which had the same feelings as you & I, do what we do on a day-to-day basis (eat, sleep, breathe). I sure as hell would hate to see how you react to mentally-challenged people.
DylanMakesNoise (2 days ago) 0 Reply i knew the rest of em were, just not those ponytailed freaks.. they scare the shit out of me ririmja (1 day ago) +1 Reply i agree with you completely people like you are rare stay cool aufer21 (3 days ago) 0 Reply
Luckily Apple prevented the installation of Rockbox onto iPods with the 6th gen Classic :/
Luckily for WHO? Not for me, at least.
Oh, you must be new here.
can it copy/paste?
I like to assume most Burmese, Liberians and Yankees can figure out the rough conversions themselves.
Deam on, comrade.
This is the most asinine thing I've ever seen on Slashdot.
You've gotta be new here.
Makes you wonder what a windows xp or vista kernel map would look like?
You mean like this?
Don't know about the deja vous, but this site sure can't handle some slashdottin`
Can you at least look at the goddamned timestamp before modding something as "redundant"?? Mine was the second comment in this whole thread!
You must be new here.
Eh? You call me stupid and then don't like getting called on it. Well that's too bad. You already look like an asshole. Indeed, you have confirmed it.
I like this new account of yours. Looking good. Keep it up!
Hi twitter, didn't know it was you.
Why are people presuming that the program will be limited to yes/no answers? Q: Will you answer no to this question? A: It's rather unlikely. (Or, "I doubt it" or any of several different answers.)
Q: What made you think it's rather unlikely? kernel panic
Please note: Wolfram did not promise computing that *correctly* answers questions. Tribute to Douglas Adams: Perhaps his next endeavor should involve providing the question that goes with the answer.
Makes sense now. Thanks.
Wasn't this done? answers.com, askjeeves.com (now ask.com)
the answer to your question is yes.
There's also the pathetic Powerset, which was sold to microsoft for 100 million bucks. Very pleasing see ms burning money on such hyped shit.
You look for an answer until you find it or give up.
Oh, so (i) you don't understand the question, then (ii) you look for an answer, (iii, A) you find it (how? how will you know you found it?), or (iii, B) you give up.
Just wanted to make sure that this thread was really about this. Here's a new low, even for slashdot.
"will you answer no to this question?" kernel panic
Are you trying to say that paying more a the book guarantee that it has less environmental impact than if you'd paid less for it?
Nope; A does not imply B, but Im saying the reverse is true. Books for 25cents cannot be sustainable.
It wasn't too long ago that pulp fiction sold for less than $0.25 a copy.
Actually, I don't miss that at all, since that does not account for the carbon in your hand and in your atmosphere. And everyone, even the poor, can pay a little more than 25cents.
Not a legal case, no. Particularly not an analysis posted on Slashdot, because they'll only accept stories that fit the "open source good, microsoft evil" bias.
BUT THAT'S BECAUSE open source is really good and microsoft is really evil!!!!11!
Netbooks are a serious threat to them, and they know it. To follow the netbooks will be larger machines with limited processing for the avg joes out there.
On a personal note, I find it very delightful that a company that Embraced, Enhanced, Extinguished, might be brought down by a tiny, cheap machine called EEE.
...they're finally getting a new theme? Seriously, of all the things to mention in the summary, you focus on the not-brown? There's a page long rant about cloud computing, about the eucalyptus project, and why the release is named koala. And you mention that, like every release, there's talk of it possibly not being brown?
You must be new to ubuntu.
An important precedent has been set. The uproar created by the community, including some people cancelling their Facebook memberships, caused the Terms of Service to be reverted. We must remember this. It should be a rallying cry: "Remember Facebook".
Perhaps a better strategy is just to update their wikipedia page with this info, fully documented, and keep the fight in there. Companies *detest* criticism in wikipedia. It is, after all, their privacy exposed this time.