"In the absence of specific guidance, is there any way to know what the average boss would want you to work on?"
Take a look at what you think your company needs, and in particular focus on areas where productivity can be enhanced with the least effort. Then, do the opposite.
Bad news: The answer is "If you have to ask the question, you probably won't understand the answer."
OK, I'll give it a serious shot...
I used to love Windows in the 95/98/2k era, and Mac OS was kinda so-so at the time. (System 7/8/9). My 1 GHz PIII with 256 MB RAM ran W2K like a Swiss watch. My day job was Mac support and they were OK but I always liked Windows more.
Then XP came out and started getting worse and worse and worse*, an around the same time OS X came out and just got better and better and better, and also around that time Mac hardware became cheaper, and over the course of a few years I totally switched and I've never looked back.
And now we have Windows 10 with basically un-turn-off-able updates, telemetry, and ads. I liked OS X more in the 10.6-10.8 days but the current macOS is still light-years better than MS's current offering.
Long story short, Macs do what I want in the way I want them to, and Windows doesn't. If you've happy with Windows and it works for you, great! Stick with it.
* And I'm just talking about from one version of XP to the next. Luckily I've never had to deal much with the Vista/7/8/10 shitshow. I have one Win7 machine at work that I barely use and I've turned off as many dumb effects as possible. I had a tablet PC (remember those?) with XP and it was pretty nice, and then after updating to XP SP2 its wireless went to hell. Found a network! Connected! Signal strength -- EXCELLENT! *air guitar* Network connection dropped. Found a network! Connected! ... repeat forever...
We may have a couple good points against DRM, but there have been good points against LOTS of things that are still in place. As long as the people with money and power want DRM and think* it helps, we'll have DRM.
* Note: it doesn't have to ACTUALLY help. All that matters is what the people on top think.
I imagine only teenage girls would be superficial enough that they'd feel the need to dress and undress in front of an Internet-connected camera so their outfits could be.......
hang on, I need to order 10 of these and a copy of ORA's "Hacking the IoT".
"Thanks to horrible Adobe Photoshop defaults, it's very easy to unknowingly include this metadata in your final image assets."
If you're saving for the web, use the "save for web and devices" option and it should strip out most, if not all, extraneous data. That's why it's there. If you just do File -> Save As it'll include other stuff.
> It's a consolation prize for not winning the bigger reward and accepting very > high probability of a publicly-destroyed career, lots of humiliation and public hate.
Oh boo fucking hoo. LOTS of people have had their careers "destroyed" for one reason or another but we don't give them all $200 million. A typical person might work (very rough numbers) 40 years at an average of $50k/year -- that's TWO million dollars in THEIR WHOLE LIFE. And I'm supposed to feel somehow bad for this 42-year-old who has ONE HUNDRED TIMES that much money?
Poor baby, has a bad reputation and can't work. She'll have to spend the rest of her life, sitting alone in her apartment, looking at want ads, wishing she could work, scraping by with just 100x as much money as a typical working slob will ever see. Boo hoo hoo.
Say she has $200M today. Loses $100M to taxes so she has $100M left. Invests it in CDs at her bank for 1%. That's $1M/year. She is literally at the "live off the interest" level. You could do a LOT of bad things to me if "never have to work again" was the prize.
"No Longer a Dream" -- oh really? Can I buy one? Can anyone? No? THEN IT'S STILL A FUCKING DREAM.
Oh, you have a prototype? Well then, excuse the fuck out of me.
There are so many obstacles before we will have lots of people in flying cars. Creating "a vehicle that flies" is the easy part, and it's getting easier every year. It's little things like "it takes an order of magnitude mre energy to fight gravity than to roll on the ground" and "prevent it from falling on people when ONE critical component fails" and "prevent nimrods from crashing into stuff" that will be hard to solve.
Other than that, yeah, no longer a dream. Great. Now we can work on world peace and curing cancer.
LOLOL - I actually RTFA (yeah, I'm new here) and caught this gem: "... designed to operate over water..." Fucking fantastic. So as long as you live in Foster City or Atlantis you're fine. (Sorry, Venice, no plans to sell outside the US.) I guess if you live in the port of Oakland and work on the Embarcadero it's also viable.
> Trump got in to office by being lucky enough to run against Hillary Clinton... > Now that said, any democrat who wasn't named Clinton would have wiped the floor with Trump.
Imagine if we had two qualified, likable candidates in the same election. I wonder what that would be like?
In all my life, whenever someone said "eating salty food makes me thirsty", I don't think one of them ever meant "eating salty food makes me consume more water over a multi-month period." I'm pretty sure what they meant was "When I eat salty food, I want something to drink right goddamn now!" One thing I know for sure: every time I've expressed that sentiment, I was referring to the current moment.
dictionary.com says "thirsty [thur-stee] adjective, 1. feeling or having thirst; craving liquid." See? FEELING thirsty. CRAVING liquid. A feeling you're having RIGHT NOW. No mention of how much water you actually drank over the course of the next 105 days.
I'd love to see more details of the study. Maybe the ones who had salty food had more water with their meals but then the science kicked in and they had less water over the course of the day? It's entirely possible.
Great idea -- EXCEPT that it would totally screw you. I don't think Google makes a distinction between what goes in the "answer" box and what goes in the regular results summary -- so yeah, it'd be funny to see Kanye's net worth listed as "$0.35 and a half a bag of Doritos" in the big "answer" box at the top of the screen, but when a user figured out that the data is bad and scrolled down the page, they'll see your page in the regular listing with the same bad data showing. What shows up at the top would also show up at the bottom and therefore you wouldn't be doing yourself any good. http://i.imgur.com/DslvwL6.png (And in that particular case, the numbers don't match anyway -- the one at the top came from Wikipedia. So it might be the case that ONLY your actual listing would show the worthless data.)
Sadly, native controls are getting dumber. I've got a couple controls on the steering wheel for the radio (station or track, and volume) but everything else is on a touchscreen.
Climate controls used to be an array of different physical buttons and levers; now it's a bunch of nearly identical buttons in a row. You actually CAN'T use the climate control in my current car WITHOUT looking at it -- but I could on cars I owned 30 years ago.
Fabulous points, all. But in the end, you should go ahead and take advantage of a rewards program because they're too popular to stop and you're already paying for it anyway.
It's like when phones used to be on subsidized two-year contracts -- your bill was going to stay the same in the 25th month, so if you didn't get a phone each time you were eligible, you were just leaving money on the table.
I ran my own calculations and only came up with 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999, 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999, 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999.
Wait, sorry, I started counting at zero. Yup, it checks out.
As a security expert, I'm still okay with the low risk of leaving such vulnerabilities open, as long as they aren't able to be used as staging for other attacks.
Well, yeah... it's not a problem, until it is, and then it's too late to solve. One prank per decade, and then they start running continually while a dozen other attacks are happening.
Most of the times when someone is telling me about a dog bite, the story contains the line "... and the owner said the dog had never bitten anyone before." Right. A dog never bites anyone, until the first time they do. I'm all for arts programs, but important infrastructure needs to be maintained at least somewhat.
"Databreaches.net, which investigated the breach with ZDNet, believes this as a teachable moment. "Before you give your personal or health insurance information to telemarketers or firms that call to offer you supplies for diabetes or back pain or other conditions, think twice."
I have a simpler takeaway: nobody should ever buy anything from any telemarketer, ever. I can't wait until we, as a society, treat "buying from a telemarketer" as a universally-recognized obviously bad decision, right up there with "chewing some gum you found stuck under a table." Seriously -- fuck them and all their ilk. They are parasites, but nobody ever is going to have the balls to just ban them, so the next best thing is if it just becomes simply impossible to make any money in that business.
AT BEST, they are selling some shit you probably don't need, AT WORST -- and, in fact, IN GENERAL -- they are selling products that are of dubious value, if not outright scams. God knows there's enough advertising in the world, so it's basically impossible for there to be a product you haven't heard of. In the off chance that they're selling something you need, you can get it elsewhere. I don't know of a single product that telemarketers have a monopoly on.
I have a simple phone rule: I don't answer unrecognized numbers. If an unrecognized number is a legit call, they can leave a message. If they don't, I don't need them. Period. All that's left to do is delete the occasional "THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE" scam robocall.
Why, under this story, do I see these totally unrelated "related links"? - Donald Trump Wins US Presidency - Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get - Out Of My Country!' - VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work - Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive - Russia Unveils 'Satan 2' Missile Powerful Enough To 'Wipe Out UK, France Or Texas'
Despite Slashdot having posted about a zillion stories that relate to Samsung, LG, and/or marketing, none of them were picked by Slashcode's AI/GS* system.
Holy fucking fuck, what a bullshit article. Did movie studios pay for that? How can ANYONE possibly believe the BULLSHIT they wrote?
A mere 20 comments here so far and already 5 people have demolished the list in much the same way. Allow me to pic ONE point from TFA itself:
Focus... In the movie theater, all you have is your chair, any snacks you brought or bought, and the movie youâ(TM)re there to watch.
ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH? What planet do you watch movies on? Fucking LIAR! Yeah, there are no distractions in the theater... except for idiots talking, and idiots who bring kids and babies to loud-ass grown-up movies late at night, and people using their phones, and people going in and out in front of you, and the doors in the back opening and letting in light and sound, and people messing with their leg position in the newly-installed powered recliners, and...
Fuck you, The Verge. That article is thoroughly dishonest and does not deserve to be called journalism. As an opinion piece, it is EASILY picked apart. As anything else, it doesn't even qualify.
Come on, editors! 200 comments and the summary still has this shit:
vendors say they would lose money on each sale if they met WalmartÃ(TM)s demands. Brands that agree to play ball with Walmart could expect better distribution and more strategic help from the giant retailer. And to those that didnÃ(TM)t?
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"In the absence of specific guidance, is there any way to know what the average boss would want you to work on?"
Take a look at what you think your company needs, and in particular focus on areas where productivity can be enhanced with the least effort. Then, do the opposite.
Good news: The answer is short.
Bad news: The answer is "If you have to ask the question, you probably won't understand the answer."
OK, I'll give it a serious shot...
I used to love Windows in the 95/98/2k era, and Mac OS was kinda so-so at the time. (System 7/8/9). My 1 GHz PIII with 256 MB RAM ran W2K like a Swiss watch. My day job was Mac support and they were OK but I always liked Windows more.
Then XP came out and started getting worse and worse and worse*, an around the same time OS X came out and just got better and better and better, and also around that time Mac hardware became cheaper, and over the course of a few years I totally switched and I've never looked back.
And now we have Windows 10 with basically un-turn-off-able updates, telemetry, and ads. I liked OS X more in the 10.6-10.8 days but the current macOS is still light-years better than MS's current offering.
Long story short, Macs do what I want in the way I want them to, and Windows doesn't. If you've happy with Windows and it works for you, great! Stick with it.
* And I'm just talking about from one version of XP to the next. Luckily I've never had to deal much with the Vista/7/8/10 shitshow. I have one Win7 machine at work that I barely use and I've turned off as many dumb effects as possible. I had a tablet PC (remember those?) with XP and it was pretty nice, and then after updating to XP SP2 its wireless went to hell.
Found a network!
Connected!
Signal strength -- EXCELLENT! *air guitar*
Network connection dropped.
Found a network!
Connected!
... repeat forever...
We may have a couple good points against DRM, but there have been good points against LOTS of things that are still in place. As long as the people with money and power want DRM and think* it helps, we'll have DRM.
* Note: it doesn't have to ACTUALLY help. All that matters is what the people on top think.
Share movies online, OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
Lameness filter, blah blah blah.
I imagine only teenage girls would be superficial enough that they'd feel the need to dress and undress in front of an Internet-connected camera so their outfits could be.... ...
hang on, I need to order 10 of these and a copy of ORA's "Hacking the IoT".
"Thanks to horrible Adobe Photoshop defaults, it's very easy to unknowingly include this metadata in your final image assets."
If you're saving for the web, use the "save for web and devices" option and it should strip out most, if not all, extraneous data. That's why it's there. If you just do File -> Save As it'll include other stuff.
> It's a consolation prize for not winning the bigger reward and accepting very
> high probability of a publicly-destroyed career, lots of humiliation and public hate.
Oh boo fucking hoo. LOTS of people have had their careers "destroyed" for one reason or another but we don't give them all $200 million. A typical person might work (very rough numbers) 40 years at an average of $50k/year -- that's TWO million dollars in THEIR WHOLE LIFE. And I'm supposed to feel somehow bad for this 42-year-old who has ONE HUNDRED TIMES that much money?
Poor baby, has a bad reputation and can't work. She'll have to spend the rest of her life, sitting alone in her apartment, looking at want ads, wishing she could work, scraping by with just 100x as much money as a typical working slob will ever see. Boo hoo hoo.
Say she has $200M today. Loses $100M to taxes so she has $100M left. Invests it in CDs at her bank for 1%. That's $1M/year. She is literally at the "live off the interest" level. You could do a LOT of bad things to me if "never have to work again" was the prize.
"No Longer a Dream" -- oh really? Can I buy one? Can anyone? No? THEN IT'S STILL A FUCKING DREAM.
Oh, you have a prototype? Well then, excuse the fuck out of me.
There are so many obstacles before we will have lots of people in flying cars. Creating "a vehicle that flies" is the easy part, and it's getting easier every year. It's little things like "it takes an order of magnitude mre energy to fight gravity than to roll on the ground" and "prevent it from falling on people when ONE critical component fails" and "prevent nimrods from crashing into stuff" that will be hard to solve.
Other than that, yeah, no longer a dream. Great. Now we can work on world peace and curing cancer.
LOLOL - I actually RTFA (yeah, I'm new here) and caught this gem: "... designed to operate over water..." Fucking fantastic. So as long as you live in Foster City or Atlantis you're fine. (Sorry, Venice, no plans to sell outside the US.) I guess if you live in the port of Oakland and work on the Embarcadero it's also viable.
I was going to covert that to metric but there's not a single standard size for soccer or rugby fields.
> Trump got in to office by being lucky enough to run against Hillary Clinton...
> Now that said, any democrat who wasn't named Clinton would have wiped the floor with Trump.
Imagine if we had two qualified, likable candidates in the same election. I wonder what that would be like?
I have, like, TONS of 192.168.x.x addresses and I only use a few. How can I sell the rest?
In all my life, whenever someone said "eating salty food makes me thirsty", I don't think one of them ever meant "eating salty food makes me consume more water over a multi-month period." I'm pretty sure what they meant was "When I eat salty food, I want something to drink right goddamn now!" One thing I know for sure: every time I've expressed that sentiment, I was referring to the current moment.
dictionary.com says "thirsty [thur-stee] adjective, 1. feeling or having thirst; craving liquid." See? FEELING thirsty. CRAVING liquid. A feeling you're having RIGHT NOW. No mention of how much water you actually drank over the course of the next 105 days.
I'd love to see more details of the study. Maybe the ones who had salty food had more water with their meals but then the science kicked in and they had less water over the course of the day? It's entirely possible.
Great idea -- EXCEPT that it would totally screw you. I don't think Google makes a distinction between what goes in the "answer" box and what goes in the regular results summary -- so yeah, it'd be funny to see Kanye's net worth listed as "$0.35 and a half a bag of Doritos" in the big "answer" box at the top of the screen, but when a user figured out that the data is bad and scrolled down the page, they'll see your page in the regular listing with the same bad data showing. What shows up at the top would also show up at the bottom and therefore you wouldn't be doing yourself any good.
http://i.imgur.com/DslvwL6.png
(And in that particular case, the numbers don't match anyway -- the one at the top came from Wikipedia. So it might be the case that ONLY your actual listing would show the worthless data.)
Sadly, native controls are getting dumber. I've got a couple controls on the steering wheel for the radio (station or track, and volume) but everything else is on a touchscreen.
Climate controls used to be an array of different physical buttons and levers; now it's a bunch of nearly identical buttons in a row. You actually CAN'T use the climate control in my current car WITHOUT looking at it -- but I could on cars I owned 30 years ago.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8-PH_EP...
Fabulous points, all. But in the end, you should go ahead and take advantage of a rewards program because they're too popular to stop and you're already paying for it anyway.
It's like when phones used to be on subsidized two-year contracts -- your bill was going to stay the same in the 25th month, so if you didn't get a phone each time you were eligible, you were just leaving money on the table.
I ran my own calculations and only came up with 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999, 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999, 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999.
Wait, sorry, I started counting at zero. Yup, it checks out.
As a security expert, I'm still okay with the low risk of leaving such vulnerabilities open, as long as they aren't able to be used as staging for other attacks.
Well, yeah... it's not a problem, until it is, and then it's too late to solve. One prank per decade, and then they start running continually while a dozen other attacks are happening.
Most of the times when someone is telling me about a dog bite, the story contains the line "... and the owner said the dog had never bitten anyone before." Right. A dog never bites anyone, until the first time they do. I'm all for arts programs, but important infrastructure needs to be maintained at least somewhat.
"It's alarming that towns are not fully proactive..."
Literally. :-)
"Databreaches.net, which investigated the breach with ZDNet, believes this as a teachable moment. "Before you give your personal or health insurance information to telemarketers or firms that call to offer you supplies for diabetes or back pain or other conditions, think twice."
I have a simpler takeaway: nobody should ever buy anything from any telemarketer, ever. I can't wait until we, as a society, treat "buying from a telemarketer" as a universally-recognized obviously bad decision, right up there with "chewing some gum you found stuck under a table." Seriously -- fuck them and all their ilk. They are parasites, but nobody ever is going to have the balls to just ban them, so the next best thing is if it just becomes simply impossible to make any money in that business.
AT BEST, they are selling some shit you probably don't need, AT WORST -- and, in fact, IN GENERAL -- they are selling products that are of dubious value, if not outright scams. God knows there's enough advertising in the world, so it's basically impossible for there to be a product you haven't heard of. In the off chance that they're selling something you need, you can get it elsewhere. I don't know of a single product that telemarketers have a monopoly on.
I have a simple phone rule: I don't answer unrecognized numbers. If an unrecognized number is a legit call, they can leave a message. If they don't, I don't need them. Period. All that's left to do is delete the occasional "THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE" scam robocall.
Why, under this story, do I see these totally unrelated "related links"?
- Donald Trump Wins US Presidency
- Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get - Out Of My Country!'
- VC, Entrepreneur Says Basic Income Would Work Even If 90% People 'Smoked Pot' and Didn't Work
- Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive
- Russia Unveils 'Satan 2' Missile Powerful Enough To 'Wipe Out UK, France Or Texas'
Despite Slashdot having posted about a zillion stories that relate to Samsung, LG, and/or marketing, none of them were picked by Slashcode's AI/GS* system.
* Artificial Intelligence / Genuine Stupidity
Opinion pieces can contain things that are supposedly facts, eg., the "fact" in this case that there are no distractions in a theater.
Holy fucking fuck, what a bullshit article. Did movie studios pay for that? How can ANYONE possibly believe the BULLSHIT they wrote?
A mere 20 comments here so far and already 5 people have demolished the list in much the same way. Allow me to pic ONE point from TFA itself:
Focus... In the movie theater, all you have is your chair, any snacks you brought or bought, and the movie youâ(TM)re there to watch.
ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH? What planet do you watch movies on? Fucking LIAR! Yeah, there are no distractions in the theater... except for idiots talking, and idiots who bring kids and babies to loud-ass grown-up movies late at night, and people using their phones, and people going in and out in front of you, and the doors in the back opening and letting in light and sound, and people messing with their leg position in the newly-installed powered recliners, and...
Fuck you, The Verge. That article is thoroughly dishonest and does not deserve to be called journalism. As an opinion piece, it is EASILY picked apart. As anything else, it doesn't even qualify.
Never mind -- asked and answered. Sorry, meant to check replies before posting but forgot. Too many tabs open. :-/
Must you post in that mock-ignorant tone? You realize you've been a joke for almost 20 years, right?
http://www.theonion.com/articl...
Come on, editors! 200 comments and the summary still has this shit:
vendors say they would lose money on each sale if they met WalmartÃ(TM)s demands. Brands that agree to play ball with Walmart could expect better distribution and more strategic help from the giant retailer. And to those that didnÃ(TM)t?