"We believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive."
The dumpster behind 701 First Avenue, Sunnydale, California is technically "outside of the company", and I'm sure that there are plenty of resources there.
If you get there before the next pickup you may even find about six hundred recently laid-off people looking for jobs. I'm sure that some of them may want to do some "resourcing".
They are all at MIT?! I'd have studied harder in highschool if they'd only told us.
The MIT recruiting video sent to my high school might have convinced you.
A pair of serious undergrads, one male and one female, are working in a lab. The glassware is very impressive and filled with bubbling food coloring or whatnot. The lights are low to draw attention to the Science. Then the two look at each other knowingly, sweep the contents of a benchtop onto the floor and start making out atop it to the wail of an electric guitar.
Grandmas that download a few songs. They were heavy pirates, it's just that they were prosecuted for a subset of songs. The heaviest pirates are targeted with lawsuits, it doesn't make sense to take random Grandmas to court. But I realize that the tech sites like Slashdot didn't report on that little tidbit and I will probably be voted down for mentioning it.
Plenty of grandmas were sued, and this has been widely publicized, but they chose to settle. The difference between the people who went to court and those who did not was a willingness to settle, not the sympathy of the RIAA.
For reference, this award to Oracle is about the same as a jury would award based on the Thomas case if SAP had shared 100 gigabytes of music, which isn't much more than what the average college student shared on the network at my school.
I have no problem believing that so many students would cheat, if they had half a chance to do so.
I don't quite get (nor does TFA adequately explain) how such a large number had that chance to cheat, however - And on a midterm exam, at that? What, did he hand them out and leave the room?
There are colleges where they do precisely that in order to encourage student...um...hmm. To show the students trust. And then most of the students cheat, from what I've seen.
AKA The Bad Astronomer. Read Death from the Skies with your kid - it's quite entertaining and has a persistent message that rational thought is superior to sensationalism.
The core is negative/neutral mass and the orbit is positive mass. Naturally, anti-matter electrical conductors conduct positive particles rather than negative. The questions of behavior that need to be answered is what exactly causes i.e. electroconductivity. Reversing the charges, in theory, won't affect the behavior insomuch as you have X mobile particles and Y non-mobile particles setting up orbits that should be the same (the nature of electrical charge attraction doesn't change), so anti-copper should conduct positrons like copper conducts electrons etc. The reality... we don't know, of course.
It would be a big thing if someone created anti-copper AND it didn't behave exactly like copper when supplied with an anti-potential from an anti-battery.
Weird post unless you meant for it to be a joke that I didn't get.
We don't know that the assumption that anti-H behaves like H is true, and there's value in experimentally examining as many aspects of its behavior as we can. I'm not sure why you seem to indicate otherwise.
But then you go on to imply that electrical properties of anti-copper are the really interesting topic of anti-matter study. You seem to realize how incredibly difficult that would be. I don't understand why you declare one experiment to be uselessly redundant and the other a "big thing."
Just fill in the blanks, and you'll realize that it's a silly question. The article could have just said, "people are abusing CGI, please stop". Of course, that wouldn't have been as interesting.
If people start shooting long takes just for the sake of it, It'll probably become just as annoying as CGI.
Closures the antidote to temporary objects? Yeah, sure.
Long takes aren't quite the same as CGI. The only reason they call attention to themselves is because they're rare in film, but unlike short takes (or nanotakes, like in the idiotic Michael Bay movies), they're an instinctively familiar mode of perception. When you wake up in the morning you begin a long take that ends when you go to sleep. That's what perception as an individual entity is.
Short takes can be powerful because they diverge from that continuous perception in a sort of temporal cubism or a flipbook of Italian Futurist paintings, but in excess they're alienating. Long takes almost can't be used in excess because the more we see them the more natural they seem.
When you go to a play do you have the urge to run around the stage while blinking rapidly? Maybe/. is the wrong place to ask that question...
It is, by far, the busiest travel day of the year in the US, so that might be worth something, but I agree that an ongoing boycot is the only real way.
Then again, the airlines would probably just blame the 20% on the economy and ask for a bailout.
The idea of National Opt-Out Day is to get people sitting around with their families the next day talking and building awareness of the problem. There just aren't enough people who know about it to make an impact yet.
As for boycotting air travel, I doubt that it would achieve anything. It's like saying that we should fight the RIAA by choosing not to buy their music: the result is the RIAA buying more politicians to support the "piracy and piracy alone is killing us" mindset. I think a reasonable goal for the current TSA problems would be to have a large fraction, say half, of all randomly selected passengers opt for the frisk and then have a lot of them file complaints with the TSA, the airlines, and their representatives (by phone, not email).
"that humans must begin colonizing another planet as a hedge against a catastrophe on Earth"
I wonder what fraction of the populace cares about the continuation of the human race. Do you? If a rogue planet were to one day pass through our solar system and smash earth on its way by, would you care about colonists on Mars continuing our culture and genetics? If you do care, why? If not, why not?
Read your link. It's mostly anecdotes about how hard it is to buy one of these phones because of how quickly they sold out despite ugly store displays without working examples.
Another fabulous slashdot article summary - comparing the sales on the first day of the WP7 phone with 6 months of sales for the G1? Seriously? I'm no Microsoft fanboy (I've got a G1 sitting on my desk 8 inches from me right now), but c'mon. It would be much more interesting to know how many G1's were sold the first day, the first week, and the first month, and compare that to WP7.
Someone (Ars? Dailytech?) yesterday said that the G1 sold 100k in its first weekend. So compared to the Android debut, it seems like WP7 is roughly equivalent in initial sales.
Undergrads at prestigious universities are just the suckers that pay for all the R&D the grad students do. Do yourself a favor and research the undergrad programs in your state. There's a good chance you'll find an excellent program at a fraction of the cost. Of course you won't get the brand name recognition.. But you also won't be in debt the rest of your life.
Prestigious universities are often much cheaper than state schools because they offer better financial aid, and the Ivies, for instance, replaced all student loans with university grants years ago. I actually suggest the opposite, that an "elite" undergraduate institution is a particularly good choices for college, because it tends to involve a stronger out-of-major education, which can have a major enriching effect for the rest of a person's life. In grad school, your research group matters the most, then your department, and only then the school itself.
Just because all the applications are amazing doesn't mean they have to accept all of them. Maybe they don't have the resources to support that many amazing students. There's no incongruity here.
The notable bit is that the colleges are putting out weird press releases stating that the pool has expanded and the applicants were amazing, when the real change that comes along with the pool expanding is the average applicant quality decreasing. However, the larger pool essentially has no effect: the same couple thousands kids will be admitted. The expanded pool, to a large extent, is just expanding the list of rejected students. The biggest change occurred about a decade ago, when widespread online applications made it easy to apply to more reach schools without much extra effort.
The Ivy League is the worst. Getting into MIT is hard, but so is going to MIT. (Despite this, if you get into MIT, you have a 90% chance of graduating.) Getting into the Ivy League schools is hard, but then you can make contacts and coast on academics. George Bush Jr. went to Yale and Harvard, after all.
(I went to Stanford, in CS, in the 1980s. The education was at best mediocre.)
That ceased to be true at Yale in 1969, just after W left, when the school began admitting women as undergraduates. Since then, academics of admission and attendance are quite competitive. The idea that you can "make contact and coast" may fly in movies, but not in the current real world.
Which is why I applied to exactly ONE college, where I knew I would get in wanted to go. Half the people I know apply to Stanford and crap just so their parents can brag about it, and brag even more if they get accepted. They have no intention of actually going there.
But frankly, the elephant in the room is that the students they DO accept get stuck with loans they can't pay off--proving their education was wildly overpriced. Being from a Big-Name School these days just isn't worth the extra $50,000. It's insane.
The biggest name schools aren't so expensive. The Ivies, and I assume Stanford, won't leave you with more than ~$20k of debt, and places like Yale and Princeton replaced loans with grants a few years back, leaving you with 0 debt. If you made the mistake of having a college fund, though, the amount they expect you to pay will magically increase by exactly the size of that fund.
My prediction: Expect the economy to improve and Obama take the credit.
Quite possibly. The republicans will take the credit too. However, the economy doesn't respond that quickly to government actions. The real government influences that will matter in this recovery will be actions taken by various governments over the last few decades. Of course, most voters seem to think that turning around the economy should be doable in the course of a television season, so if the economy doesn't improve, they'll blame the last people they voted in. Maybe that means the Republicans, maybe it means Obama. It all depends on which corporate media outlets have the most successful spin going into 2012.
From the perspective of a conservative, his is THE most left-leaning and partisan Presidency to date. GWB had a record of reaching across the aisle even with a majority (NCLB is the big one there, written by Ted Kennedy).
NCLB's first generation is arriving in college and they're shockingly unprepared. Never in recent history have entering college students been so inept at writing papers and discussing ideas. They still seem skilled at filling in bubbles, at least. The kids from wealthier or better schools haven't suffered much because their programs exceed the minimum requirements and still cover all the same material. The rural and urban kids, however, are being taught in such a way to ensure funding that's contingent on standardized tests. When a college student has never heard of a bibliography or encountered the idea of writing a paper based on research, I die a little inside. Then I stop whining and try to fill in the gaps.
NCLB was indeed a broad bipartisan effort and it should be a reminder that when the idiots on the left and the idiots on the right agree on something, it might just be due to its overwhelming idiocy.
You're right, I do have more choices...and every one of my choices is a person running under false pretenses who won't do what they say they will.
Not voting breeds apathy, you have no right to complain if you dont, etc. etc....well you know what? Voting for someone just because they aren't a part of the two-party system still puts me on record as having supported that person.
Like I said in my OP, voting for the person who lies the least still means I'm supporting a liar.
Write in a candidate, then. You seem like a liar yourself, so don't vote for Pojut, but find someone trustworthy and give him or her a vote.
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The dumpster behind 701 First Avenue, Sunnydale, California is technically "outside of the company", and I'm sure that there are plenty of resources there.
If you get there before the next pickup you may even find about six hundred recently laid-off people looking for jobs. I'm sure that some of them may want to do some "resourcing".
Sunnydale: http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk30/smgfan777/WALLPAPER%207/SUNNYDALE-HIGH.jpg
Sunnyvale: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Yahoo_Headquarters.jpg
They are all at MIT?! I'd have studied harder in highschool if they'd only told us.
The MIT recruiting video sent to my high school might have convinced you.
A pair of serious undergrads, one male and one female, are working in a lab. The glassware is very impressive and filled with bubbling food coloring or whatnot. The lights are low to draw attention to the Science. Then the two look at each other knowingly, sweep the contents of a benchtop onto the floor and start making out atop it to the wail of an electric guitar.
Mobi is a nonstandard format?
(Yeah, OK, lack of ePub puts me off Kindle too)
I'm taking this further off topic, but check out Calibre for a really nice way to get your ePubs onto your Kindle.
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Please, please, please mod this up.
oh chrome: wrench->options->under the hood->privacy->content settings->cookies->exceptions->add([*.]facebook.com,block). thumb defeated
Alternatively, block all facebook domains in your hosts file.
Grandmas that download a few songs. They were heavy pirates, it's just that they were prosecuted for a subset of songs. The heaviest pirates are targeted with lawsuits, it doesn't make sense to take random Grandmas to court. But I realize that the tech sites like Slashdot didn't report on that little tidbit and I will probably be voted down for mentioning it.
Plenty of grandmas were sued, and this has been widely publicized, but they chose to settle. The difference between the people who went to court and those who did not was a willingness to settle, not the sympathy of the RIAA.
For reference, this award to Oracle is about the same as a jury would award based on the Thomas case if SAP had shared 100 gigabytes of music, which isn't much more than what the average college student shared on the network at my school.
Data: There's a planet orbiting a metal-poor star. ....wait what?
Conclusion: IT COMES FROM OUTSIDE OUR GALAXY.
Datum 1: The star comes from the Helmi Stream, a well understood remnant of a dwarf galaxy consumed by our own.
Datum 2: You've been modded insightful.
Conclusion 1: Neither you, nor the mod, read TFA.
Datum 3: TFA doesn't even mention this.
Conclusion 2: I hadn't read TFA either.
Recommendation: Read http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/11/18/exoplanet-found-from-another-galaxy/#more-24148 for a much better explanation.
I have no problem believing that so many students would cheat, if they had half a chance to do so.
I don't quite get (nor does TFA adequately explain) how such a large number had that chance to cheat, however - And on a midterm exam, at that? What, did he hand them out and leave the room?
There are colleges where they do precisely that in order to encourage student...um...hmm. To show the students trust. And then most of the students cheat, from what I've seen.
Done. Let's wait and see.
I'm dead serious about that. If it will run something I can install KDE onto, I'm sold.
Of course it can. It's a computer.
AKA The Bad Astronomer. Read Death from the Skies with your kid - it's quite entertaining and has a persistent message that rational thought is superior to sensationalism.
The core is negative/neutral mass and the orbit is positive mass. Naturally, anti-matter electrical conductors conduct positive particles rather than negative. The questions of behavior that need to be answered is what exactly causes i.e. electroconductivity. Reversing the charges, in theory, won't affect the behavior insomuch as you have X mobile particles and Y non-mobile particles setting up orbits that should be the same (the nature of electrical charge attraction doesn't change), so anti-copper should conduct positrons like copper conducts electrons etc. The reality... we don't know, of course.
It would be a big thing if someone created anti-copper AND it didn't behave exactly like copper when supplied with an anti-potential from an anti-battery.
Weird post unless you meant for it to be a joke that I didn't get.
We don't know that the assumption that anti-H behaves like H is true, and there's value in experimentally examining as many aspects of its behavior as we can. I'm not sure why you seem to indicate otherwise.
But then you go on to imply that electrical properties of anti-copper are the really interesting topic of anti-matter study. You seem to realize how incredibly difficult that would be. I don't understand why you declare one experiment to be uselessly redundant and the other a "big thing."
Just fill in the blanks, and you'll realize that it's a silly
question. The article could have just said, "people are abusing CGI, please stop".
Of course, that wouldn't have been as interesting.
If people start shooting long takes just for the sake of it, It'll probably become just as annoying as CGI.
Closures the antidote to temporary objects? Yeah, sure.
Long takes aren't quite the same as CGI. The only reason they call attention to themselves is because they're rare in film, but unlike short takes (or nanotakes, like in the idiotic Michael Bay movies), they're an instinctively familiar mode of perception. When you wake up in the morning you begin a long take that ends when you go to sleep. That's what perception as an individual entity is.
Short takes can be powerful because they diverge from that continuous perception in a sort of temporal cubism or a flipbook of Italian Futurist paintings, but in excess they're alienating. Long takes almost can't be used in excess because the more we see them the more natural they seem.
When you go to a play do you have the urge to run around the stage while blinking rapidly? Maybe /. is the wrong place to ask that question...
It is, by far, the busiest travel day of the year in the US, so that might be worth something, but I agree that an ongoing boycot is the only real way.
Then again, the airlines would probably just blame the 20% on the economy and ask for a bailout.
The idea of National Opt-Out Day is to get people sitting around with their families the next day talking and building awareness of the problem. There just aren't enough people who know about it to make an impact yet.
As for boycotting air travel, I doubt that it would achieve anything. It's like saying that we should fight the RIAA by choosing not to buy their music: the result is the RIAA buying more politicians to support the "piracy and piracy alone is killing us" mindset. I think a reasonable goal for the current TSA problems would be to have a large fraction, say half, of all randomly selected passengers opt for the frisk and then have a lot of them file complaints with the TSA, the airlines, and their representatives (by phone, not email).
Next Wednesday: http://www.optoutday.com/
"that humans must begin colonizing another planet as a hedge against a catastrophe on Earth"
I wonder what fraction of the populace cares about the continuation of the human race. Do you? If a rogue planet were to one day pass through our solar system and smash earth on its way by, would you care about colonists on Mars continuing our culture and genetics? If you do care, why? If not, why not?
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Read your link. It's mostly anecdotes about how hard it is to buy one of these phones because of how quickly they sold out despite ugly store displays without working examples.
Another fabulous slashdot article summary - comparing the sales on the first day of the WP7 phone with 6 months of sales for the G1? Seriously? I'm no Microsoft fanboy (I've got a G1 sitting on my desk 8 inches from me right now), but c'mon. It would be much more interesting to know how many G1's were sold the first day, the first week, and the first month, and compare that to WP7.
Someone (Ars? Dailytech?) yesterday said that the G1 sold 100k in its first weekend. So compared to the Android debut, it seems like WP7 is roughly equivalent in initial sales.
Undergrads at prestigious universities are just the suckers that pay for all the R&D the grad students do. Do yourself a favor and research the undergrad programs in your state. There's a good chance you'll find an excellent program at a fraction of the cost. Of course you won't get the brand name recognition.. But you also won't be in debt the rest of your life.
Prestigious universities are often much cheaper than state schools because they offer better financial aid, and the Ivies, for instance, replaced all student loans with university grants years ago. I actually suggest the opposite, that an "elite" undergraduate institution is a particularly good choices for college, because it tends to involve a stronger out-of-major education, which can have a major enriching effect for the rest of a person's life. In grad school, your research group matters the most, then your department, and only then the school itself.
Just because all the applications are amazing doesn't mean they have to accept all of them. Maybe they don't have the resources to support that many amazing students. There's no incongruity here.
The notable bit is that the colleges are putting out weird press releases stating that the pool has expanded and the applicants were amazing, when the real change that comes along with the pool expanding is the average applicant quality decreasing. However, the larger pool essentially has no effect: the same couple thousands kids will be admitted. The expanded pool, to a large extent, is just expanding the list of rejected students. The biggest change occurred about a decade ago, when widespread online applications made it easy to apply to more reach schools without much extra effort.
The Ivy League is the worst. Getting into MIT is hard, but so is going to MIT. (Despite this, if you get into MIT, you have a 90% chance of graduating.) Getting into the Ivy League schools is hard, but then you can make contacts and coast on academics. George Bush Jr. went to Yale and Harvard, after all.
(I went to Stanford, in CS, in the 1980s. The education was at best mediocre.)
That ceased to be true at Yale in 1969, just after W left, when the school began admitting women as undergraduates. Since then, academics of admission and attendance are quite competitive. The idea that you can "make contact and coast" may fly in movies, but not in the current real world.
Which is why I applied to exactly ONE college, where I knew I would get in wanted to go. Half the people I know apply to Stanford and crap just so their parents can brag about it, and brag even more if they get accepted. They have no intention of actually going there.
But frankly, the elephant in the room is that the students they DO accept get stuck with loans they can't pay off--proving their education was wildly overpriced. Being from a Big-Name School these days just isn't worth the extra $50,000. It's insane.
The biggest name schools aren't so expensive. The Ivies, and I assume Stanford, won't leave you with more than ~$20k of debt, and places like Yale and Princeton replaced loans with grants a few years back, leaving you with 0 debt. If you made the mistake of having a college fund, though, the amount they expect you to pay will magically increase by exactly the size of that fund.
My prediction: Expect the economy to improve and Obama take the credit.
Quite possibly. The republicans will take the credit too. However, the economy doesn't respond that quickly to government actions. The real government influences that will matter in this recovery will be actions taken by various governments over the last few decades. Of course, most voters seem to think that turning around the economy should be doable in the course of a television season, so if the economy doesn't improve, they'll blame the last people they voted in. Maybe that means the Republicans, maybe it means Obama. It all depends on which corporate media outlets have the most successful spin going into 2012.
From the perspective of a conservative, his is THE most left-leaning and partisan Presidency to date. GWB had a record of reaching across the aisle even with a majority (NCLB is the big one there, written by Ted Kennedy).
NCLB's first generation is arriving in college and they're shockingly unprepared. Never in recent history have entering college students been so inept at writing papers and discussing ideas. They still seem skilled at filling in bubbles, at least. The kids from wealthier or better schools haven't suffered much because their programs exceed the minimum requirements and still cover all the same material. The rural and urban kids, however, are being taught in such a way to ensure funding that's contingent on standardized tests. When a college student has never heard of a bibliography or encountered the idea of writing a paper based on research, I die a little inside. Then I stop whining and try to fill in the gaps.
NCLB was indeed a broad bipartisan effort and it should be a reminder that when the idiots on the left and the idiots on the right agree on something, it might just be due to its overwhelming idiocy.
You're right, I do have more choices...and every one of my choices is a person running under false pretenses who won't do what they say they will.
Not voting breeds apathy, you have no right to complain if you dont, etc. etc....well you know what? Voting for someone just because they aren't a part of the two-party system still puts me on record as having supported that person.
Like I said in my OP, voting for the person who lies the least still means I'm supporting a liar.
Write in a candidate, then. You seem like a liar yourself, so don't vote for Pojut, but find someone trustworthy and give him or her a vote.