it's probably not worth jumping to paranoid conclusions based on a bad summary of an idea which is barely even embryonic.
despite the shitty orwellian wording, this could be something as benign as ad-hoc peering protocols which incentivize people to not ddos, without monitoring content or mandatory registration which everyone is abstractly afraid of but really has been in place for decades.
it is true that everyone has in them their own pantheon of chthonic gods and daemons of every stripe, playing out in the theatre of their mind a psychopomp of unbearable weight and poignancy.
the trick is to ignore that shit and just sell them bullshit apps and trinkets when they're too tired to think too hard. technically, they "want" them since they wouldn't buy them otherwise, right?
i really doubt that it's pure charity or even pure nepotism. if businesses were not making more money from the increased reach (or even just selling out their audience), they wouldn't be doing it. even if they only got 20% (which btw is not true), 20% of something is still more than 0% of the same thing.
it's probably not a viable long-term strategy, but, hey, it's what the boom-and-bust cycle does.
sure, user experience is great, as long as it doesn't add even 1% overhead to the timetable or budget. it's provably more efficient (i.e. more short-term profit) to just shovel shit faster than the other guy.
that's not laziness. that's how "free" services get funded nowadays. most of that has nothing to do with rendering the actual content; it's to farm statistics and show ads, which is where the vast majority of the money comes from.
because the applications are doing different (sometimes actually better) things now and people want shiny shit rather than plain text, but they're not willing to (shudder) pay money for software, so a bunch of ads have to load also, in order to pay for the service, and those are not really cpu-bound but i/o-bound, and really when the value-add is in networking and information exchange why would you expect the CPU to be the bottleneck anyway?
exactly this. i had an occasion where i noticed something out of the corner of my eye and turned to see some "urban youths" (literally! i was in harlem so it was dumb black kids. if it had been where i grew up, it would have probably been dumb white kids) across the street come walking over. they were clearly going to start some shit, maybe not robbery but still nothing i was interested in, so i just stood and stared generally in their direction. it was not threatening, but i made it very clear that i knew what they were up to. they soon dispersed awkwardly, which was sort of hilarious; they all tried to casually walk off in separate directions as though it had never happened and then nervously regrouped a block away.
there simply aren't that many hardened criminals doing street robbery nowadays (outside certain very limited areas at least), because sooner or later you end up in prison. it's mostly dumb kids or crimes of opportunity.
probably the more effective way to avoid being confronted on the street is to just act like you're schizophrenic, lol. few people have the nerve to do it, but, trust me, no one wants to bother a crazy person. it just isn't worth the trouble. and if that sounds ridiculous to you, just remember: it's how we won the cold war.
LOL, yeah, that's one way to put it. acting as an intermediary between russian intelligence and the business world has been almost their entire business model for the past decade, so their passive voice is a bit disingenuous now.
"i am shocked, shocked!, to find gambling in this establishment."
sure i am. they're becoming a pure luxury lifestyle company. i can't blame them really, as it's easy money, but it does make their products less useful to me.
but seriously, you already knew that the iPad "Pro" isn't for you. you and i and most of slashdot didn't "need" this "review" at all.
and, yes, Apple is going to the shitter. shame really; i have ubuntu on my desktop and am not looking forward to having that be my daily computing experience. but such is life.
yeah, it seems like a typical tech marketing-way to say they slightly upgraded the components. if someone reads that as saying it can replace a laptop, then it's probably true for that person...
one of my classmates in an ivy league applied math ph.d. program had a weird sticker on his laptop, so i asked him what it meant.
he told me that it was there to disperse the harmful radiation, so i promptly asked him how the fuck he thought it worked. of course, his response was that his girlfriend had given it to him and that at least it wasn't doing any harm. then i told him that he had to get the ones with a hologram on them because they work better, lol.
anyway, don't underestimate the irrationalizing power of pussy.
not everything scales the same way as software development; in fact, software development is a huge outlier in terms of industries, so extrapolating from one book about it is kind of fucking stupid. also it is not very clear how much of a future there really is in software development (as we currently know it).
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Dumb TVs are also more expensive because they're not partially-subsidized by an industry practically aching to put a microphone inside you.
"and often beyond that which may be legally required"
lol, dumbfuck. lrn2read.
(yes, they're probably lying about that too, but your "analysis" is just sad. +4, Insightful? what is this, a cable news channel?)
^^ informed criticism. i wish i could revoke my dumbass comment to just mod this up.
it's probably not worth jumping to paranoid conclusions based on a bad summary of an idea which is barely even embryonic.
despite the shitty orwellian wording, this could be something as benign as ad-hoc peering protocols which incentivize people to not ddos, without monitoring content or mandatory registration which everyone is abstractly afraid of but really has been in place for decades.
it is true that everyone has in them their own pantheon of chthonic gods and daemons of every stripe, playing out in the theatre of their mind a psychopomp of unbearable weight and poignancy.
the trick is to ignore that shit and just sell them bullshit apps and trinkets when they're too tired to think too hard. technically, they "want" them since they wouldn't buy them otherwise, right?
i really doubt that it's pure charity or even pure nepotism. if businesses were not making more money from the increased reach (or even just selling out their audience), they wouldn't be doing it. even if they only got 20% (which btw is not true), 20% of something is still more than 0% of the same thing.
it's probably not a viable long-term strategy, but, hey, it's what the boom-and-bust cycle does.
sure, user experience is great, as long as it doesn't add even 1% overhead to the timetable or budget. it's provably more efficient (i.e. more short-term profit) to just shovel shit faster than the other guy.
that's not laziness. that's how "free" services get funded nowadays. most of that has nothing to do with rendering the actual content; it's to farm statistics and show ads, which is where the vast majority of the money comes from.
correct, if by "circle jerks", you mean "makes money hand-over-fist giving people what they want".
because the applications are doing different (sometimes actually better) things now and people want shiny shit rather than plain text, but they're not willing to (shudder) pay money for software, so a bunch of ads have to load also, in order to pay for the service, and those are not really cpu-bound but i/o-bound, and really when the value-add is in networking and information exchange why would you expect the CPU to be the bottleneck anyway?
uh, the people to whom they don't apply are making way more than $55k.
exactly this. i had an occasion where i noticed something out of the corner of my eye and turned to see some "urban youths" (literally! i was in harlem so it was dumb black kids. if it had been where i grew up, it would have probably been dumb white kids) across the street come walking over. they were clearly going to start some shit, maybe not robbery but still nothing i was interested in, so i just stood and stared generally in their direction. it was not threatening, but i made it very clear that i knew what they were up to. they soon dispersed awkwardly, which was sort of hilarious; they all tried to casually walk off in separate directions as though it had never happened and then nervously regrouped a block away.
there simply aren't that many hardened criminals doing street robbery nowadays (outside certain very limited areas at least), because sooner or later you end up in prison. it's mostly dumb kids or crimes of opportunity.
probably the more effective way to avoid being confronted on the street is to just act like you're schizophrenic, lol. few people have the nerve to do it, but, trust me, no one wants to bother a crazy person. it just isn't worth the trouble. and if that sounds ridiculous to you, just remember: it's how we won the cold war.
LOL, yeah, that's one way to put it. acting as an intermediary between russian intelligence and the business world has been almost their entire business model for the past decade, so their passive voice is a bit disingenuous now.
"i am shocked, shocked!, to find gambling in this establishment."
sure i am. they're becoming a pure luxury lifestyle company. i can't blame them really, as it's easy money, but it does make their products less useful to me.
but seriously, you already knew that the iPad "Pro" isn't for you. you and i and most of slashdot didn't "need" this "review" at all.
and, yes, Apple is going to the shitter. shame really; i have ubuntu on my desktop and am not looking forward to having that be my daily computing experience. but such is life.
yeah, it seems like a typical tech marketing-way to say they slightly upgraded the components. if someone reads that as saying it can replace a laptop, then it's probably true for that person...
sure, but twitter's "style" is actively antagonistic to content... :)
it's just ranting and a link to more ranting about other things.
this would be a new low for slashdot if it weren't for Bennett Haselton's pioneering work.
yeah it's right up there with the bible and talmud.
maybe the police just really hated Ariana Grande fans?
well, i'm sure you could buy some of these; maybe they'll work for you. lemme google.
here you go! http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Qt...
$2.50 each with free shipping! you'll be beating them off with a stick in no time.
one of my classmates in an ivy league applied math ph.d. program had a weird sticker on his laptop, so i asked him what it meant.
he told me that it was there to disperse the harmful radiation, so i promptly asked him how the fuck he thought it worked. of course, his response was that his girlfriend had given it to him and that at least it wasn't doing any harm. then i told him that he had to get the ones with a hologram on them because they work better, lol.
anyway, don't underestimate the irrationalizing power of pussy.
i think he meant the people buying it.
not everything scales the same way as software development; in fact, software development is a huge outlier in terms of industries, so extrapolating from one book about it is kind of fucking stupid. also it is not very clear how much of a future there really is in software development (as we currently know it).
an alternative headline might be "Fathers who Spend More than Six Hours a Week with their Children Raise more Active and Stable Children".
of course that would piss off the Procrustean-egalitarian left, and it would outright terrify the "work 'em 'til they drop" business-friendly right.
so let's invent some totally bogus bullshit about telomeres and autism. wheeeee!