Whoa, whoa, whoa! Back up. You were about to reply saying it's bullshit, OK, I'm with you that far. What went wrong then? As far as I can tell, you performed some sort of factual verification maneuver? But why?
What is this "actual numbers to back me up" that you speak of?
Perhaps it's your low-numbered UID -- I do not comprehend your ways. You have earned my fearful awe and respect, O reality-based one.
Good question. For the love of God, everyone, it is Cringely. The continued misspelling of the guy's name (props for the correct headline, editors) is a bizarre phenomenon in the tech-writing world.
From TFA: "It is no surprise that many Yahoo insiders felt like the Yankee fans - no matter what they did, they were going to be overshadowed by Google."
Does this analogy make sense to anyone? Are these the same Yankee fans that support the richest, most successful team in baseball history? (And I say that as a Red Sox fan.) Perhaps Mets fans would have been a better comparison -- or maybe there's another breed of "Yankee fans" out there that I'm missing entirely.
... from a site designer who can't even spell "bandwidth"? (Or at least spell it twice...)
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Malcolm Gladwell and James Surowiecki (author of The Wisdom of Crowds) discussed the relative merits of snap decision-making and collective decision-making in a recent Slate "Book Club."
My wife likes to surprise me with games, and last night I went though an Electronic Botique with her and pointed out what games were made by EA, and that I made it clear I didn't want any of them.
According to the BBC FAQ linked in the parent post, the tsunami won't hit tomorrow as the story submitter implied. In fact, there will be a decent amount of warning:
When will the volcano on La Palma collapse?
The collapse of the western flank of the Cumbre Vieja volcano, on the southern half of La Palma, is not going to happen tomorrow or next week. Tourists should not cancel their holidays to the Canary Islands, or to the east coast of the United States or the Caribbean.
What scientists are predicting is that the collapse is likely to happen any time within the next few thousand years. Scientists also know that a collapse will not happen without any warning. They will be able to alert people to possible danger several weeks in advance.
I agree, citizens won't tolerate any complications in their voting system. Especially Americans, who are just too accustomed to the straightforward, ultra-simple, intuitive U.S. electoral college to comprehend anything complex.
Newtendo has hit the big times! However, earthlink just let me know that if I get much more traffic this month, I'm gonna be shut down until next month.
The pricey Herman Miller Aeron chair may have become a symbol of dot-com excesses, but to call it "dumb" is going overboard -- it's a great chair. It's gotten somewhat of a bum rap because many people never take the five minutes to adjust the chair to their body shape. Once you make the proper adjustments, it's heaven. I never understood why you wouldn't properly calibrate a "peripheral" that you use 100% of the time while you're working. Treat your ass with respect!
Why do Slashdotters insist on bastardizing this guy's name in submission after submission? It's "Cringely." One tipoff is the enormous red letters at the top of the article that read "I, Cringely." Perhaps if they were more enormous, or more red.
I suppose this is where I should say something like, "The iTunes Music Store wouldn't exist without the cooperation of the recording industry, so even if the music companies had little to lose, they deserve some credit for having faith in Steve Jobs' business model."
Good point. It would only apply here, though, if the sentence read, "The quality offered...isn't better quality." That would still be awkward, but it would be logical. As is, the sentence, with quality resulting in quality, is a muddle.
Is this the beginning of a trend where companies recognize that the quality offered by relocation to cheaper centers around the world doesn't result in customer appreciation and better quality?
Is this the end of a trend in which Slashdot submitters conclude with a supposedly pithy question that is indecipherable/meaningless?
I wish.
1. The quality offered doesn't result in better quality? Huh?
2. I doubt companies were ever under the impression that moving call centers overseas would result in greater "customer appreciation." They were hoping for "customer tolerance."
From the article: If students are mistakenly identified as violating the school's policy, the burden is on them to justify what they are researching, invading their privacy in the process, [EFF attorney Jason] Schultz said.
In other words, innocent until proven guilty. What kind of intellectual environment is there at a university that intimidates students from conducting research? Now, you could argue that there are not many research projects that would be helped by P2P applications, but the school's definition of violations is so ethereal that the cautious, not-so-tech-savvy will be left afraid of his/her computer. Will downloading that PDF violate the bandwidth rules? Is this FTP server a file-sharing network? Your average students won't know for sure, and they won't test the limits for fear of losing their Internet privileges. These scare tactics will inevitably hinder valid academic pursuits.
I know the big media organizations have a justifiably bad rap amond slashdotter, but how does the story submitter imagine that MPAA could ban text messaging? Perhaps a kind letter would do it.
"Dear Telecom Equipment Manufacturer:
Your products' ability to 'text message' is interfering with our cynical behavior of 'buying our gross' -- that is, putting out an ad blitz to compensate for what we know to be an inferior product. Please disable text messaging so that both products can be inferior. Then: ????, Profit!
The story is pretty useless until we get an idea of the quantity of shipping G5s we're talking about here. I'm betting it's just a trickle. When the PowerBook G4s first came out, the backorder queue remained quite long for weeks after Apple claimed the 'Books were "shipping," because the actual number of units being shipped was relatively small. I hope there's a flood of G5s making their way from Apple's factory in Taiwan, but from previous experience, I bet that isn't the case.
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I'm as shocked as you are, but I aim to please.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Back up. You were about to reply saying it's bullshit, OK, I'm with you that far. What went wrong then? As far as I can tell, you performed some sort of factual verification maneuver? But why?
What is this "actual numbers to back me up" that you speak of?
Perhaps it's your low-numbered UID -- I do not comprehend your ways. You have earned my fearful awe and respect, O reality-based one.
Good question. For the love of God, everyone, it is Cringely. The continued misspelling of the guy's name (props for the correct headline, editors) is a bizarre phenomenon in the tech-writing world.
From TFA: "It is no surprise that many Yahoo insiders felt like the Yankee fans - no matter what they did, they were going to be overshadowed by Google."
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Does this analogy make sense to anyone? Are these the same Yankee fans that support the richest, most successful team in baseball history? (And I say that as a Red Sox fan.) Perhaps Mets fans would have been a better comparison -- or maybe there's another breed of "Yankee fans" out there that I'm missing entirely.
Sorry for the sports chat on
... from a site designer who can't even spell "bandwidth"? (Or at least spell it twice...)
Malcolm Gladwell and James Surowiecki (author of The Wisdom of Crowds) discussed the relative merits of snap decision-making and collective decision-making in a recent Slate "Book Club."
My wife likes to surprise me with games, and last night I went though an Electronic Botique with her and pointed out what games were made by EA, and that I made it clear I didn't want any of them.
Your wife must be awed by your gratitude.
When the authorities at Lake Superior State University have something to say, I sit up and listen!
They'll have to push that DirecTiVo pretty hard now, since DirecTV has their own ideas.
Sorry, fixed link:
NY Times Link
Essentially, it's a cable card in a box.
i ew .html?res=9C0DE1DB1739F933A05751C1A9629C8B63
http://tech2.nytimes.com/mem/technology/techrev
I'll admit that I'm Mac-curious now
Y'know, some people swing both ways. Don't be afraid to get in touch with your OSX-uality.
I agree, citizens won't tolerate any complications in their voting system. Especially Americans, who are just too accustomed to the straightforward, ultra-simple, intuitive U.S. electoral college to comprehend anything complex.
Newtendo has hit the big times! However, earthlink just let me know that if I get much more traffic this month, I'm gonna be shut down until next month.
Well, it was nice knowing you.
The pricey Herman Miller Aeron chair may have become a symbol of dot-com excesses, but to call it "dumb" is going overboard -- it's a great chair. It's gotten somewhat of a bum rap because many people never take the five minutes to adjust the chair to their body shape. Once you make the proper adjustments, it's heaven. I never understood why you wouldn't properly calibrate a "peripheral" that you use 100% of the time while you're working. Treat your ass with respect!
Why do Slashdotters insist on bastardizing this guy's name in submission after submission? It's "Cringely." One tipoff is the enormous red letters at the top of the article that read "I, Cringely." Perhaps if they were more enormous, or more red.
I suppose this is where I should say something like, "The iTunes Music Store wouldn't exist without the cooperation of the recording industry, so even if the music companies had little to lose, they deserve some credit for having faith in Steve Jobs' business model."
Of course, Jobs already said as much himself.
Good point. It would only apply here, though, if the sentence read, "The quality offered...isn't better quality." That would still be awkward, but it would be logical. As is, the sentence, with quality resulting in quality, is a muddle.
Is this the beginning of a trend where companies recognize that the quality offered by relocation to cheaper centers around the world doesn't result in customer appreciation and better quality?
Is this the end of a trend in which Slashdot submitters conclude with a supposedly pithy question that is indecipherable/meaningless?
I wish.
1. The quality offered doesn't result in better quality? Huh?
2. I doubt companies were ever under the impression that moving call centers overseas would result in greater "customer appreciation." They were hoping for "customer tolerance."
Hahaha -- oops, yes, the exact opposite, guilty until proven innocent. Sorry about that. But the rest of my point remains
From the article: If students are mistakenly identified as violating the school's policy, the burden is on them to justify what they are researching, invading their privacy in the process, [EFF attorney Jason] Schultz said.
In other words, innocent until proven guilty. What kind of intellectual environment is there at a university that intimidates students from conducting research? Now, you could argue that there are not many research projects that would be helped by P2P applications, but the school's definition of violations is so ethereal that the cautious, not-so-tech-savvy will be left afraid of his/her computer. Will downloading that PDF violate the bandwidth rules? Is this FTP server a file-sharing network? Your average students won't know for sure, and they won't test the limits for fear of losing their Internet privileges. These scare tactics will inevitably hinder valid academic pursuits.
I thought I felt something.
I know the big media organizations have a justifiably bad rap amond slashdotter, but how does the story submitter imagine that MPAA could ban text messaging? Perhaps a kind letter would do it.
"Dear Telecom Equipment Manufacturer:
Your products' ability to 'text message' is interfering with our cynical behavior of 'buying our gross' -- that is, putting out an ad blitz to compensate for what we know to be an inferior product. Please disable text messaging so that both products can be inferior. Then: ????, Profit!
Sincerely,
The MPAA."
The story is pretty useless until we get an idea of the quantity of shipping G5s we're talking about here. I'm betting it's just a trickle. When the PowerBook G4s first came out, the backorder queue remained quite long for weeks after Apple claimed the 'Books were "shipping," because the actual number of units being shipped was relatively small. I hope there's a flood of G5s making their way from Apple's factory in Taiwan, but from previous experience, I bet that isn't the case.