You'd be shocked to hear my actual regatta resume. Generally a basic wind forecast is all we need to pick our sails (light, heavy) because local wind is so specific to the area, and most lakes are smaller than the data you can get. When wind is light, I've regularly seen the wind clock 180 degrees, then back again on a particular lake here in Dallas. Generally you're looking for fronts that will blow through, and if the front is going to come through during your regatta. Again, this requires looking at 1000 miles of data, as fronts are generally 200-300 miles wide at their smallest.
Wind maps + 7 day forecasts of the world's oceans are widely avalible. When you're sailing you're looking at the big picture of what's causing the wind and where it's headed, so a fine detail tool like Google Maps is sort of a moot point. Wind maps only really make sense on a scale of 1000 miles or more.
This is not a phrase I associate with eink, can the posted post some evidence that this is a problem? I've never, ever heard of an eink display cracking
AFAICT, the US Mfg sector exists to make office furniture, cars, airplanes, and prototypes. There's the defense industry, but they're completely unrelated. Everything else is made overseas either due to cheaper labor, or that we no longer have the faclities to create that part en masse (PCBs and Raspberry Pi come to mind for England)
Agreed, but from a certain business perspective, one might ask why that percentage didn't stay flat as overall internet use went up, after all they did have an early lead. Which might cause some business people to think that there is much larger room for improvement in terms of revenue/traffic when there's really not.
I think your karma took a hit because, if the article you linked to is any indication, your writing has a tendency to meander all over the place without making any clear, defined points, and the few that you do aren't really backed up by the rest of your story.
I'll have to check that one out. A good friend of mine switched off Slashdot and tried out news.ycombinator.com and even bought a membership on metacritic but while he was initially impressed with those, I haven't heard him mention either of them or send me a link from one of those in probably 18+ months.
Well, Cory's BoingBoing gets picked up on Google News occasionally (at least, it shows up for me) which is a great way to get huge, if temporary, bumps in traffic. I don't know if Cory pioneered the use of terrible, misleading and downright leading headlines, but his headlines seem to follow a very similar formula to what is featured on Slashdot these days. I don't know if they hired BoingBoing as a traffic consultant, or if they're using the same SEO company, but there's definitely some sort of unholy trinity loosely linking the two sites' traffic increasing tactics.
I haven't seen Slashdot pop up on Google News in a long, long time. Someone posted an article 2-3 years ago saying that Slashdot is no longer a leader in driving internet traffic, and is way down from their peak of 2-3% in the early 2000's and now down to something like 0.01%. I think this has more to do with the fact that the internet is no longer full of early adopters and more mom & sis & grandpa on facebook.
Louis CK's segment on that doesn't really apply here though, we're discussing the long, slow slide in to uselessness and obscurity through bad editorial management. It used to be that people would complain about the occasional duplicate story, but things have really gone down hill in the quality and headline department in the last year.
It's not like Slashdot or even tech blogs are a new thing, Slashdot is well over 10 years old at this point. We aren't complaining about slashdot's loading times, we're talking about editorial standards, which are something like 200+ years old (not sure how old The Times is, but I think daily publication started before 1800).
Slashdot needs a strong editorial guiding hand, and Malda did an excellent job of that for a decade, which is why the Washington Post was so eager to get him on their payroll. Slashdot was as big of a fish as this pond can really support (besides the more general Reddit type sites). Some PHB MBA saw Slashdot and, without understanding it's community or userbase thought, "we can apply some standard practices like shitty headlines to double click through rate on headlines and increase overall viewership" without thinking about how to retain their core userbase. I'm not sure what the term for this fallacy is, but it seems to happen a lot, and few companies are able to survive it and get back on track before the PHB destroys the company by alienating their core userbase.
They may have paid too much for their "how to bring more traffic to your blog by creating more drama when there is none" seminar paid by Cory "World's Most Annoying Self-Promotionist" Doctorow
The number of crap, negative and leading headlines, along with "the answer is no" question headlines has really spiked since Malda left slashdot. Some PHB decided that they can further monetize Slashdot as a mainstream blog by destroying what little culture Slashdot has and alienating their core long time userbase. Good luck with that, assholes. I've already started looking for a replacement to Slashdot.
I've probably spent $2000 in physical copies of the NYT over the last three years. I usually read them on my lunch break. I have little remorse for what I do.
B&N has a deal where if you buy a year's "digital subscription" to the NYT, you get their e-ink reader for free. I'm looking at buying one of those. No idea if that allows me to bypass their paywall on the PC though.
There's a thing in SEO called "bounce rate" which you can choose to use or ignore. There's no official standard definition, but it ranges from 2-30 seconds of viewing time. It's up to the webmaster to decide how to measure this. I'm sure bounce rate is measured differently for ecommerce than it is for news sites. I'm sure their business team looked very carefully at the bounce rate among many other factors and metrics before deciding to drop it down to 10 articles per month. The web is the future of their $234mm company, you don't make those decisions lightly.
I just open all NYT and WSJ articles in "incognito mode" or whatever it's called on your favorite browser.
I like to think of it as a game, where you lose one life each time you accidentally click on an article without opening it in incognito mode. If you lose all 10 lives, you "lose" the game and can't read good journalism for the remainder of the month.
I am pretty sure my mom uses her phone for web browsing more than she does her desktop. She always had a hatred for desktops, but she finds her slow, 2nd gen 2.1 crappy android phone rather likable for some reason.
Myself, and most people I know just carry their debit card and ID around with them, along with $20 cash for incidentals. This works out ok even going to bars, because between two people, $40 will generally pay the cover for a small group of people, and you end up being paid in return with drinks. I'll keep $100 at the house for emergencies, but any place that requires more than $20 for a single transaction will take plastic these days.
Yes, tax law has always specified that taxes are paid in the locale that the goods are delivered to.
I used to work for a company that would ship things nation-wide. We were located in Texas, incorporated in New Jersey, the manufacturer was in Arkansas, shipped to New Mexico and billed to Arizona. New Mexico's state tax laws (the shipping address) were the ones we followed.
Roughly the same amount of heat accumulated during a skydive from 10,000 ft. You're coming in to contact with the same number of atoms per hour as you do with normal skydiving, which slows your fall the entire way. Your absolute terminal velocity changes along the way, but your relative tV stays the same. It's not like he's jumping out of the ISS, already doing 17,000mph, where he might actually burn up.
I'm sure they're withholding it until he does the final big jump for maximum effect. It'll probably be in the documentary, as well. If you go to their website they have quite a bit of footage that they've released so far.
The private sector always pays more. Companies pay through the nose for director of X federal agency. They're buying that person's rolodex so that they can secure future federal contracts. It's a very lucrative business. All sorts of white house staffers end up on the board of directors of defense contractors and what have you.
Yes, really. Bring candy, handouts and don't forget one humorous story in the first third, and a joke right before the final conclusion. People like stories, especially if they're in context with the presentation. It gives the less technical people something to relate to when all you're doing is spewing numbers about money saved and man hours reduced. The candy amps up their blood sugar so they stay awake, and the handout is so they have something to reference if they fall behind in the presentation, or try to remember what you said later.
For comparison, The Pentagon is 6.5 million square feet. Maybe I'm just jaded, but is the CIA more efficient, or is this building grossly undersized for the task it's designed for? Looking ahead 50 years, it would seem that the CIA's importance is going to dwarf the military's as we continue the long slow slide in to a permanent cold war with the rest of the world.
I am glad, however, that they're moving some of these larger installations off the east coast. Too many major federal buildings are located within 100 miles of the capitol building.
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So are you down to a 2.6hr boot time? Or there-abouts?
You'd be shocked to hear my actual regatta resume. Generally a basic wind forecast is all we need to pick our sails (light, heavy) because local wind is so specific to the area, and most lakes are smaller than the data you can get. When wind is light, I've regularly seen the wind clock 180 degrees, then back again on a particular lake here in Dallas. Generally you're looking for fronts that will blow through, and if the front is going to come through during your regatta. Again, this requires looking at 1000 miles of data, as fronts are generally 200-300 miles wide at their smallest.
Wind maps + 7 day forecasts of the world's oceans are widely avalible. When you're sailing you're looking at the big picture of what's causing the wind and where it's headed, so a fine detail tool like Google Maps is sort of a moot point. Wind maps only really make sense on a scale of 1000 miles or more.
7 day wind forecast of the South Atlantic
This is not a phrase I associate with eink, can the posted post some evidence that this is a problem? I've never, ever heard of an eink display cracking
AFAICT, the US Mfg sector exists to make office furniture, cars, airplanes, and prototypes. There's the defense industry, but they're completely unrelated. Everything else is made overseas either due to cheaper labor, or that we no longer have the faclities to create that part en masse (PCBs and Raspberry Pi come to mind for England)
Agreed, but from a certain business perspective, one might ask why that percentage didn't stay flat as overall internet use went up, after all they did have an early lead. Which might cause some business people to think that there is much larger room for improvement in terms of revenue/traffic when there's really not.
I think your karma took a hit because, if the article you linked to is any indication, your writing has a tendency to meander all over the place without making any clear, defined points, and the few that you do aren't really backed up by the rest of your story.
I'll have to check that one out. A good friend of mine switched off Slashdot and tried out news.ycombinator.com and even bought a membership on metacritic but while he was initially impressed with those, I haven't heard him mention either of them or send me a link from one of those in probably 18+ months.
Well, Cory's BoingBoing gets picked up on Google News occasionally (at least, it shows up for me) which is a great way to get huge, if temporary, bumps in traffic. I don't know if Cory pioneered the use of terrible, misleading and downright leading headlines, but his headlines seem to follow a very similar formula to what is featured on Slashdot these days. I don't know if they hired BoingBoing as a traffic consultant, or if they're using the same SEO company, but there's definitely some sort of unholy trinity loosely linking the two sites' traffic increasing tactics.
I haven't seen Slashdot pop up on Google News in a long, long time. Someone posted an article 2-3 years ago saying that Slashdot is no longer a leader in driving internet traffic, and is way down from their peak of 2-3% in the early 2000's and now down to something like 0.01%. I think this has more to do with the fact that the internet is no longer full of early adopters and more mom & sis & grandpa on facebook.
Louis CK's segment on that doesn't really apply here though, we're discussing the long, slow slide in to uselessness and obscurity through bad editorial management. It used to be that people would complain about the occasional duplicate story, but things have really gone down hill in the quality and headline department in the last year.
It's not like Slashdot or even tech blogs are a new thing, Slashdot is well over 10 years old at this point. We aren't complaining about slashdot's loading times, we're talking about editorial standards, which are something like 200+ years old (not sure how old The Times is, but I think daily publication started before 1800).
Slashdot needs a strong editorial guiding hand, and Malda did an excellent job of that for a decade, which is why the Washington Post was so eager to get him on their payroll. Slashdot was as big of a fish as this pond can really support (besides the more general Reddit type sites). Some PHB MBA saw Slashdot and, without understanding it's community or userbase thought, "we can apply some standard practices like shitty headlines to double click through rate on headlines and increase overall viewership" without thinking about how to retain their core userbase. I'm not sure what the term for this fallacy is, but it seems to happen a lot, and few companies are able to survive it and get back on track before the PHB destroys the company by alienating their core userbase.
I have to agree with this.
They may have paid too much for their "how to bring more traffic to your blog by creating more drama when there is none" seminar paid by Cory "World's Most Annoying Self-Promotionist" Doctorow
The number of crap, negative and leading headlines, along with "the answer is no" question headlines has really spiked since Malda left slashdot. Some PHB decided that they can further monetize Slashdot as a mainstream blog by destroying what little culture Slashdot has and alienating their core long time userbase. Good luck with that, assholes. I've already started looking for a replacement to Slashdot.
Trap sprung, nerd!
I've probably spent $2000 in physical copies of the NYT over the last three years. I usually read them on my lunch break. I have little remorse for what I do.
B&N has a deal where if you buy a year's "digital subscription" to the NYT, you get their e-ink reader for free. I'm looking at buying one of those. No idea if that allows me to bypass their paywall on the PC though.
There's a thing in SEO called "bounce rate" which you can choose to use or ignore. There's no official standard definition, but it ranges from 2-30 seconds of viewing time. It's up to the webmaster to decide how to measure this. I'm sure bounce rate is measured differently for ecommerce than it is for news sites. I'm sure their business team looked very carefully at the bounce rate among many other factors and metrics before deciding to drop it down to 10 articles per month. The web is the future of their $234mm company, you don't make those decisions lightly.
I just open all NYT and WSJ articles in "incognito mode" or whatever it's called on your favorite browser.
I like to think of it as a game, where you lose one life each time you accidentally click on an article without opening it in incognito mode. If you lose all 10 lives, you "lose" the game and can't read good journalism for the remainder of the month.
Once you're in the door, you can usually pay for your drinks with plastic. For whatever reason, you still have to pay cash for the cover charge.
I am pretty sure my mom uses her phone for web browsing more than she does her desktop. She always had a hatred for desktops, but she finds her slow, 2nd gen 2.1 crappy android phone rather likable for some reason.
Myself, and most people I know just carry their debit card and ID around with them, along with $20 cash for incidentals. This works out ok even going to bars, because between two people, $40 will generally pay the cover for a small group of people, and you end up being paid in return with drinks. I'll keep $100 at the house for emergencies, but any place that requires more than $20 for a single transaction will take plastic these days.
Yes, tax law has always specified that taxes are paid in the locale that the goods are delivered to.
I used to work for a company that would ship things nation-wide. We were located in Texas, incorporated in New Jersey, the manufacturer was in Arkansas, shipped to New Mexico and billed to Arizona. New Mexico's state tax laws (the shipping address) were the ones we followed.
Roughly the same amount of heat accumulated during a skydive from 10,000 ft. You're coming in to contact with the same number of atoms per hour as you do with normal skydiving, which slows your fall the entire way. Your absolute terminal velocity changes along the way, but your relative tV stays the same. It's not like he's jumping out of the ISS, already doing 17,000mph, where he might actually burn up.
I'm sure they're withholding it until he does the final big jump for maximum effect. It'll probably be in the documentary, as well. If you go to their website they have quite a bit of footage that they've released so far.
Yes!!! Freeware apps are totally relevant to 99.999% of corporate IT presentations. I back this suggestion whole-heartedly.
The private sector always pays more. Companies pay through the nose for director of X federal agency. They're buying that person's rolodex so that they can secure future federal contracts. It's a very lucrative business. All sorts of white house staffers end up on the board of directors of defense contractors and what have you.
Yes, really. Bring candy, handouts and don't forget one humorous story in the first third, and a joke right before the final conclusion. People like stories, especially if they're in context with the presentation. It gives the less technical people something to relate to when all you're doing is spewing numbers about money saved and man hours reduced. The candy amps up their blood sugar so they stay awake, and the handout is so they have something to reference if they fall behind in the presentation, or try to remember what you said later.
For comparison, The Pentagon is 6.5 million square feet. Maybe I'm just jaded, but is the CIA more efficient, or is this building grossly undersized for the task it's designed for? Looking ahead 50 years, it would seem that the CIA's importance is going to dwarf the military's as we continue the long slow slide in to a permanent cold war with the rest of the world.
I am glad, however, that they're moving some of these larger installations off the east coast. Too many major federal buildings are located within 100 miles of the capitol building.