Whiny mid-level mafia manager bemoans that his big city mafia has chased away business. Maybe if cities focused on becoming good places to do business again, business might move back. Just a thought.
Maybe they could if people with money didn't flee to the suburbs all the time. There are only so many trees left to cut down. Once all the virgin land is gone, what do we do then? The problems of cities need to be addressed, not ignored and abandoned.
What percentage of twitter is marketing teams using each other to up their numbers? Where I work, most employees who are customer facing were told to double their twitter followers. They all followed hundreds of accounts that automatically follow you back. Check, good work says the marketing team. This is just another of the many bogus internet trends that will collapse under its own weight.
Taxpayers are footing the bill. Or did you miss the recent media attention about all the people who work at Wal-Mart, McDonald's etc and have to get food stamps and other government assistance to make ends meet. This isn't the rhetorical lazy bum leeching off welfare or unemployment benefits, there are people being good citizens and actually working.
Three of the Walmart exec/founders are in the top 10 richest people in the world. Walmart is a blight and an embarrassment for all of America.
Steve Jobs had a salary of $ 1 per year. He shared in the success of the company because he owned a good chunk of it.
That, I have no problem with.
Until you understand that the $1 a year is one of the most egregious tax dodges today. You pay tax on salary, not on "capital gains." You then borrow against your stocks if you need cash.
People who don't understand networking think that all machines should be on a single flat address space, that is, every machine can directly address every other machine. IP4 has a lovely thing called private address spaces, which increase the number of devices significantly. You also don't need a public IP to be a server. A single IP on a web server can handle any number of web site names. There has never been an IP4 address crisis, ISPs just have to use them more efficiently. In the simplest network, all you need are two addresses. I will let you figure it that out.
It's kind of like the difference between an alphabet and a logographic system like kanji.
Kanji seem like an awesome idea at first. You make a picture of the sun, and voila, you have the sun! And then a picture of the moon, and you have that idea. Moonlight? Combine kanji for moon plus kanji for light and you probably have moonlight!
Awesome right? Yeah it's just fucking great until you realize you have to start making 30 strokes for one word, and that small pics start looking like each other, and that unless you know that very specific kanji, you have no clue how to write it out. And unlike the english alphabet which has 26 letters and once you learn them and combination you can sound out most words, you have to memorize thousands of kanji and even more kanji combinations or you'll get hung up reading highschool level newspapers.
There is zero difference between memorizing some additional kanji radicals (strokes or series of strokes) and memorizing a series of letter on a horizontal line to form a word, especially with all the different non-phonetic spellings in English. One is in a box shape, the other a horizontal series. Besides, it is not the English alphabet. It is the Roman alphabet, and lots of other languages use those letters.
Beta Sucks Join the boycott Feb 10-17. If Beta is still here on the 18th I will not return. Do not fix what is not broken.
Please stop with this boycott nonsense. It accomplishes nothing except letting you "think" that you are doing something when you are powerless to do anything.
How you you show them Beta sucks? You drop their ad impressions! Keep Classic/Fix Beta, or we walk.
No, keep visiting and bitching until the last day. Then remove the link, and enjoy the new sites as they appear. I wonder which will win the "slashdot replacement" race?
As has been mentioned elsewhere, Dice is getting almost no ad revenue from slashdot because most of the users either don't click on ads or use adblock (complete write-off for FY13). So not visiting the site just reduces the site load and saves them a little bit of operating cost.
Exactly. This boycott idea is idiotic. It accomplishes nothing. Either stay or leave, the choice is yours.
Time for the mad scramble for low IDs on the new sites!
Give it up guys. You know that no stories are going to be discussed. Today is the end of the old Slashdot. Start sending out resumes, since this is going down in a blaze of glory.
Hey, the first story we should get on the replacement site when set up is an interview with Rob and Roblimo on why they really left Slashdot and left these incompetents in charge.
I will be joining in the Slashcott from Feb 10-Feb 17. No on-topic replies today!
Wow, what a whiny waste of time. "I'll take my ball and go home I hate you guys but I'll be back tomorrow." You are NOT a paying customer. This means squat to Dice.
There are only two solutions: 1 - Hell freezes over and Dice sets Slashdot free to be hosted somewhere else 2 - Someone forks the public slashcode and sets up an alternate.
I'm betting on the latter. Really, this is NOT an expensive site to host. Small database, low bandwidth, crowd supplied stories and discussions, crowd moderated.
Slashdot 594 Howard St Suite 300 San Francisco, CA 94105
So they are no longer in Michigan? Is that just an empty office/mailing address? That is right by the BART Montgomery station. I think I will stop by tomorrow and see if any actual people are there.
It's not even a close decision - it's pretty much unanimous amongst the users - the ones that provide 90+% of any meaningful content on this particular site in particular.
Maybe we are not the customers any more. This is happening on cheezburger too. Every month they get rid of more sites with intelligent posting and replace it with something with fart jokes.
Stop fearing your district's loss of seniority by electing new people. Vote them all out. If we do it piece meal, career bureaucrats and career politicians will just co-opt the new members. Remove the leverage.
All that will do is make the next batch of puppets cheaper to own. Until corporations are muzzled, nothing will change.
Unless you're very careful to give teachers a strong voice in management decisions --- through, e.g., strong, local, democratic unions --- "fire bad teachers" will become "fire teachers who take on difficult students/subjects, and think outside the test."
The problem is, if you *do* give strong teacher unions all the power, "fire bad teachers" becomes "never fire teachers at all, under any circumstances."
Yes, there will always be bad teachers, and even a few horrible ones. But you cannot put the emphasis on getting rid of them, when the solution is to disenfranchise all the good teachers. Since every teacher is under scrutiny to produce test numbers or else lose their job, morale is in the toilet, and the good ones are all quitting. Don't worry about the few that don't deserve the pay, and concentrate on getting those good teachers back.
I don't know what world you live in where Japan has a healthy work culture. Abuse of psychology for net harm of workers is considered normal.
Several points: 1 - These studies usually look at general office workers, like public service or marketing departments, where there is no real way to gauge competence. So people think they need to put on the APPEARANCE of working 12 hour days to advance. 2 - These workers also SLEEP at their desks. That's right. It's not about actually doing productive work. Many young Japanese workers stay up all night, catch a few winks on the train, and a nap or two at work. 3 - People often take 2 hour lunch breaks to do shopping or whatever. It's all about arriving before the boss, and leaving after him. 4 - Respectable tech jobs are no better or worse than they are in the US. People generally work overtime when needed, but at enjoyable work.
This is the same as the statistics that said that Japanese live ridiculously long. It turns out that the general practice is to lie about age of death to get more government money. There's what people tell you, and reality, and they can be very different.
I did read anywhere in the article that taking vitamin E makes you die younger. This is more like the contraceptive pill argument. If you think you are susceptible to certain cancers, avoid. Otherwise, the benefits may be worth it.
In many Asian countries, people are polite enough to not talk on a phone when on a bus or train. In America, everyone feels entitled to be an ass whenever they want.
down the tubes.. or into the vacuum as the case may be. The ISS has no major accomplishments other than being a gravy train for aerospace contractors. Is there research going on up there that provides sufficient return to justify a cost of $8.2 million per day if it were not funded through tax dollars? Now that the station is being serviced commercially it is time to pull the plug. If IBM or Intel or Merck or Pfizer or whomever want a research lab in space let them form a consortium with Boeing et al and build one that suits their needs. And if they are really in love with the existing station, sell it to them and get some tax money back.
This is going to be inflammatory, but I have good karma to burn.
You sad sick fuck. The world is not beholden to the economic views of market capitalism. Science and knowledge expansion requires the expenditure of resources that are NOT tied up in making the elite more elite. It's your viewpoint that has destroyed what was once the greatest scientific community and left nothing but a corpse picked over by weasels and hyenas.
I'm curious how much they'll be able to infer, though. Nuclear reactors (and reactions) are viciously non-linear. If you make it too small, you'll get no (self-sustaining) reaction at all.
This is not "let's melt down a core and we'll learn all about meltdowns." They are probably looking for a few specific data points to help their modeling.
The paradigm where engineers attempt to make sure it never happens has its limits. Looking at what happens during the failure will allow engineers to develop meaningful "defense in depth" measures.
That was understood decades ago, and has been SOP for that long in other safety critical applications like aircraft. The fact that it wasn't done before this is extreme negligence.
To test a meltdown scenario is to admit that it is possible. This is not something that big power ever wanted to do, until it happened of course.
Slashdot Mirror
Whiny mid-level mafia manager bemoans that his big city mafia has chased away business. Maybe if cities focused on becoming good places to do business again, business might move back. Just a thought.
Maybe they could if people with money didn't flee to the suburbs all the time. There are only so many trees left to cut down. Once all the virgin land is gone, what do we do then? The problems of cities need to be addressed, not ignored and abandoned.
What percentage of twitter is marketing teams using each other to up their numbers? Where I work, most employees who are customer facing were told to double their twitter followers. They all followed hundreds of accounts that automatically follow you back. Check, good work says the marketing team. This is just another of the many bogus internet trends that will collapse under its own weight.
Taxpayers are footing the bill. Or did you miss the recent media attention about all the people who work at Wal-Mart, McDonald's etc and have to get food stamps and other government assistance to make ends meet. This isn't the rhetorical lazy bum leeching off welfare or unemployment benefits, there are people being good citizens and actually working.
Three of the Walmart exec/founders are in the top 10 richest people in the world. Walmart is a blight and an embarrassment for all of America.
Steve Jobs had a salary of $ 1 per year. He shared in the success of the company because he owned a good chunk of it.
That, I have no problem with.
Until you understand that the $1 a year is one of the most egregious tax dodges today. You pay tax on salary, not on "capital gains." You then borrow against your stocks if you need cash.
People who don't understand networking think that all machines should be on a single flat address space, that is, every machine can directly address every other machine. IP4 has a lovely thing called private address spaces, which increase the number of devices significantly. You also don't need a public IP to be a server. A single IP on a web server can handle any number of web site names. There has never been an IP4 address crisis, ISPs just have to use them more efficiently. In the simplest network, all you need are two addresses. I will let you figure it that out.
It's kind of like the difference between an alphabet and a logographic system like kanji.
Kanji seem like an awesome idea at first. You make a picture of the sun, and voila, you have the sun! And then a picture of the moon, and you have that idea. Moonlight? Combine kanji for moon plus kanji for light and you probably have moonlight!
Awesome right? Yeah it's just fucking great until you realize you have to start making 30 strokes for one word, and that small pics start looking like each other, and that unless you know that very specific kanji, you have no clue how to write it out. And unlike the english alphabet which has 26 letters and once you learn them and combination you can sound out most words, you have to memorize thousands of kanji and even more kanji combinations or you'll get hung up reading highschool level newspapers.
There is zero difference between memorizing some additional kanji radicals (strokes or series of strokes) and memorizing a series of letter on a horizontal line to form a word, especially with all the different non-phonetic spellings in English. One is in a box shape, the other a horizontal series. Besides, it is not the English alphabet. It is the Roman alphabet, and lots of other languages use those letters.
Yep. I'm so stupid to increase my money by 4X in less than a year...
No you are stupid to gamble. You will not be so lucky next time.
Don't forget that Apple has been offering fitness accessories with Nike since 2006.
What does that have to do with the Beta?
Beta Sucks
Join the boycott Feb 10-17.
If Beta is still here on the 18th I will not return.
Do not fix what is not broken.
Please stop with this boycott nonsense. It accomplishes nothing except letting you "think" that you are doing something when you are powerless to do anything.
If you hate Beta, DO NOT VISIT Slashdot on 2/7!!
How you you show them Beta sucks? You drop their ad impressions!
Keep Classic/Fix Beta, or we walk.
No, keep visiting and bitching until the last day. Then remove the link, and enjoy the new sites as they appear. I wonder which will win the "slashdot replacement" race?
As has been mentioned elsewhere, Dice is getting almost no ad revenue from slashdot because most of the users either don't click on ads or use adblock (complete write-off for FY13). So not visiting the site just reduces the site load and saves them a little bit of operating cost.
Exactly. This boycott idea is idiotic. It accomplishes nothing. Either stay or leave, the choice is yours.
Time for the mad scramble for low IDs on the new sites!
Give it up guys. You know that no stories are going to be discussed. Today is the end of the old Slashdot. Start sending out resumes, since this is going down in a blaze of glory.
Hey, the first story we should get on the replacement site when set up is an interview with Rob and Roblimo on why they really left Slashdot and left these incompetents in charge.
I will be joining in the Slashcott from Feb 10-Feb 17. No on-topic replies today!
Wow, what a whiny waste of time. "I'll take my ball and go home I hate you guys but I'll be back tomorrow." You are NOT a paying customer. This means squat to Dice.
There are only two solutions:
1 - Hell freezes over and Dice sets Slashdot free to be hosted somewhere else
2 - Someone forks the public slashcode and sets up an alternate.
I'm betting on the latter. Really, this is NOT an expensive site to host. Small database, low bandwidth, crowd supplied stories and discussions, crowd moderated.
Slashdot
594 Howard St Suite 300
San Francisco, CA 94105
So they are no longer in Michigan? Is that just an empty office/mailing address? That is right by the BART Montgomery station. I think I will stop by tomorrow and see if any actual people are there.
It's not even a close decision - it's pretty much unanimous amongst the users - the ones that provide 90+% of any meaningful content on this particular site in particular.
Maybe we are not the customers any more. This is happening on cheezburger too. Every month they get rid of more sites with intelligent posting and replace it with something with fart jokes.
Stop fearing your district's loss of seniority by electing new people. Vote them all out. If we do it piece meal, career bureaucrats and career politicians will just co-opt the new members. Remove the leverage.
All that will do is make the next batch of puppets cheaper to own. Until corporations are muzzled, nothing will change.
Screw Beta Slashdot. Stupid dumb asses.
Someone sold this to their bosses, so there is no way they can back down now. 2014, the death of slashdot.
The problem is, if you *do* give strong teacher unions all the power, "fire bad teachers" becomes "never fire teachers at all, under any circumstances."
Yes, there will always be bad teachers, and even a few horrible ones. But you cannot put the emphasis on getting rid of them, when the solution is to disenfranchise all the good teachers. Since every teacher is under scrutiny to produce test numbers or else lose their job, morale is in the toilet, and the good ones are all quitting. Don't worry about the few that don't deserve the pay, and concentrate on getting those good teachers back.
I don't know what world you live in where Japan has a healthy work culture. Abuse of psychology for net harm of workers is considered normal.
Several points:
1 - These studies usually look at general office workers, like public service or marketing departments, where there is no real way to gauge competence. So people think they need to put on the APPEARANCE of working 12 hour days to advance.
2 - These workers also SLEEP at their desks. That's right. It's not about actually doing productive work. Many young Japanese workers stay up all night, catch a few winks on the train, and a nap or two at work.
3 - People often take 2 hour lunch breaks to do shopping or whatever. It's all about arriving before the boss, and leaving after him.
4 - Respectable tech jobs are no better or worse than they are in the US. People generally work overtime when needed, but at enjoyable work.
This is the same as the statistics that said that Japanese live ridiculously long. It turns out that the general practice is to lie about age of death to get more government money. There's what people tell you, and reality, and they can be very different.
I did read anywhere in the article that taking vitamin E makes you die younger. This is more like the contraceptive pill argument. If you think you are susceptible to certain cancers, avoid. Otherwise, the benefits may be worth it.
Has the recipient been arrested for hacking yet?
In many Asian countries, people are polite enough to not talk on a phone when on a bus or train. In America, everyone feels entitled to be an ass whenever they want.
down the tubes.. or into the vacuum as the case may be. The ISS has no major accomplishments other than being a gravy train for aerospace contractors. Is there research going on up there that provides sufficient return to justify a cost of $8.2 million per day if it were not funded through tax dollars? Now that the station is being serviced commercially it is time to pull the plug. If IBM or Intel or Merck or Pfizer or whomever want a research lab in space let them form a consortium with Boeing et al and build one that suits their needs. And if they are really in love with the existing station, sell it to them and get some tax money back.
This is going to be inflammatory, but I have good karma to burn.
You sad sick fuck. The world is not beholden to the economic views of market capitalism. Science and knowledge expansion requires the expenditure of resources that are NOT tied up in making the elite more elite. It's your viewpoint that has destroyed what was once the greatest scientific community and left nothing but a corpse picked over by weasels and hyenas.
I'm curious how much they'll be able to infer, though. Nuclear reactors (and reactions) are viciously non-linear. If you make it too small, you'll get no (self-sustaining) reaction at all.
This is not "let's melt down a core and we'll learn all about meltdowns." They are probably looking for a few specific data points to help their modeling.
The paradigm where engineers attempt to make sure it never happens has its limits. Looking at what happens during the failure will allow engineers to develop meaningful "defense in depth" measures.
That was understood decades ago, and has been SOP for that long in other safety critical applications like aircraft. The fact that it wasn't done before this is extreme negligence.
To test a meltdown scenario is to admit that it is possible. This is not something that big power ever wanted to do, until it happened of course.