Glad I looked more closely at the summary before proceeding with my original thought for a comment -- I was going to link to that exact article. The key point for those who don't RTFAs:
WHAT SHOULD MICROSOFT DO? Choose between devices and services. The problem with pursuing both, as Microsoft is doing, is that strategy taxes are inevitable. If you favor your devices by giving them better services, you are by definition limiting your services on competing devices. Meanwhile, by offering your services on competing devices, you are limiting the competitive advantage of your devices.
You're currently at a 3. How did you possibly get a mod point awarded to your comment? You do realize, fun though it may be, that there's no PRACTICAL way to throw someone out of an airplane at 30,000 feet?
Because of importanter-than-thou shitheads who fly MUST make this phone call RIGHT DAMN NOW DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM AND HOW MUCH I MAKE? For assholes like that, "policy" isn't enough, it needs to be law.
Fuck that guy, he can wait. Or, he can make calls from his office and fly overnight.
I have a link that says they WILL get rid of Classic when THEY THINK the new version is good enough. Which, given what we've seen in the last several months, is NOWHERE NEAR what current users want.
> I believe they do have some intelligence as in > hmm people hate it with a passion then maybe > just maybe we should not put this style in?
We shall see. But "beta" has been out since last Fall and it still sucks out loud, and they've gotten tons of feedback in the last 4 months, but here we are -- STILL with a sucky-ass new system. We are just letting them know, in the clearest possible terms, that we don't like what they're doing.
"There is no prescribed format or frequency for these conversations, and managers don't complete any forms or use any technologies to guide or document what happens during such conversations. They are simply expected to have regular check-ins to convey what is expected of employees, give and get feedback, and help employees with their growth and development plans."
So instead of having some ridiculous regimented (10-question, 2 page form weekly! monthly! quarterly!) bullshit, they're going to let their managers be humans, and let them manage their employees? What a ground-breaking idea. Let me jot that down somewhere.
The fact is, you are NOT listening. If you WERE listening, you would know there are exactly TWO acceptable options:
1) Pull the plug on the new style
2) Keep it, but keep "classic" Slashdot available FOREVER for those who want it.
Anything else == NOT listening. Not doing these things and saying you ARE listening is a lie. (Or, technically, I guess you could be listening, but not caring. Same diff.)
There are plenty of things that could be done to improve Slashdot. NOTHING in Beta is an improvement.
This. Start with smart quotes and en- and em-dashes so I can copy and paste things from the articles (I read them sometimes -- I'm new here) without it shitting all over itself.
After that, add a rich-text editor for comments (or at least support markdown) so I don't need to actually write <em>code</em> just for bold and ital, and we'd be all set. Bonus: let comments be editable. I know that brings with it some issues, but once in a while it'd be nice to fix a typo.
The moral of BlackBerry's demise is, "Don't make be a show-moving turd and make crappy decisions when you're not the the world's most valuable and profitable company at the same time." I think Apple has a bit of a cushion before Mr. Cook is commiserating with Messrs. Lazaridis and Balsillie.
Seeing as how Apple managed to survive without ever shipping a Mac running Windows, I doubt we'll ever see Apple-made hardware leaving the factory with Android installed. That said, it's a neat idea, but it's about as pointless as wishing Ford would ship a Mustang with a Corvette engine.
You had the unfortunate luck of having your story picked up during the middle of the slashdot beta shitfest, so most of the comments here will be about that. My condolences. (Also: the new beta sucks.)
Explain that jquery is not a hack or a workaround. It is a framework that is itself written in -- ta da! -- 100% valid javascript. Tell them it is nothing more than a collection of well-written, consistent, standards-based, heavily-reviewed and -tested code, and all it does is contain some pre-written libraries to make it easier to do common tasks.
It is sponsored by many large companies, including Wordpress, BlackBerry, Intel, Mozilla, and Adobe, to pick just the most recognizable names from that page.
According to this, it is used by Google, Facebook, AOL, ESPN, and whitehouse.gov. This 20-month old page also has a big list: WordPress.com, Pinterest, Reddit, MSN.com, WordPress.org, Amazon, Yandex, Microsoft.com, GO.com, Ask.com, ESPN, Craigslist, About.com, Go Daddy, Stack Overflow, Huffington Post, Instagram, Slideshare, Fox News, The Guardian, Etsy, LiveJournal, and Weather.com
I'll be very sad if Slashdot gets flushed down the tubes. Like everyone else, I come here for the comments. (Certainly not for the summaries, or timely news.) I can find neat stuff anywhere (reddit!) but nowhere else has anywhere NEAR the level of discussion that you find here. At the other end of the scale, HN and Quora get dominated by a few heavy writers and they're way too serious most of the time. I LOVE Slashdot's patented mix of light, informative, funny stuff.
After 17 years here (HOLY CRAP!), I have no idea what I'll do if (when?) it goes.
Dear DICE: Can you PLEASE not fuck this up and turn it into some shitty Business Insider clone or something? Can you possibly just let a good thing stay as it is?
> My first job out of school was in the insurance industry. > There is no better example of clueless IT. The whole > industry is run by and for the benefit of the commissioned salespeople.
Have you had any other jobs? Many industries are like that.
Many years ago, ice was very expensive and rare. It was cut from frozen lakes in the north and was shipped all over. Unimaginable now, and not everyone could have ice. Then, refrigeration came along and anyone, anywhere could have virtually unlimited ice for just the price of a machine, the cost of its maintenance, and electricity and water. Being able to preserve food (and medicine) is one of the single biggest contributors to lifespan and overall quantity of life the planet has ever seen. Being able to keep things arbitrarily and efficiently cool is also a key component of many manufacturing processes. Or anything else we currently take for granted -- imagine Google trying to keep their servers cool with harvested ice!
But what if the ice companies of the past were as powerful as the energy companies of today? What if they got laws passed that made creating your own ice just as expensive as the older, horribly inefficient methods, for no reason other than "we're rich and we want to stay that way, but we don't want to have to compete with progress"? Imagine if it was prohibitively expensive to buy a refrigerator, and illegal or expensive to make your own. Where would we, as a society and a planet, be?
(The same argument can be applied to stifling IP laws as well.)
Slashdot Mirror
> Slushdot: come for the misleading summaries,
> stay for the uninformed commentary!
Yup. Only the power of The Beta can drive us away. :-)
Glad I looked more closely at the summary before proceeding with my original thought for a comment -- I was going to link to that exact article. The key point for those who don't RTFAs:
WHAT SHOULD MICROSOFT DO?
Choose between devices and services. The problem with pursuing both, as Microsoft is doing, is that strategy taxes are inevitable. If you favor your devices by giving them better services, you are by definition limiting your services on competing devices. Meanwhile, by offering your services on competing devices, you are limiting the competitive advantage of your devices.
You're currently at a 3. How did you possibly get a mod point awarded to your comment? You do realize, fun though it may be, that there's no PRACTICAL way to throw someone out of an airplane at 30,000 feet?
Because of importanter-than-thou shitheads who fly MUST make this phone call RIGHT DAMN NOW DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM AND HOW MUCH I MAKE? For assholes like that, "policy" isn't enough, it needs to be law.
Fuck that guy, he can wait. Or, he can make calls from his office and fly overnight.
I have a link that says they WILL get rid of Classic when THEY THINK the new version is good enough. Which, given what we've seen in the last several months, is NOWHERE NEAR what current users want.
> I believe they do have some intelligence as in
> hmm people hate it with a passion then maybe
> just maybe we should not put this style in?
We shall see. But "beta" has been out since last Fall and it still sucks out loud, and they've gotten tons of feedback in the last 4 months, but here we are -- STILL with a sucky-ass new system. We are just letting them know, in the clearest possible terms, that we don't like what they're doing.
Quote: "we want you to know that Classic Slashdot isn't going away until we're confident that the new site is ready"
If you can understand written English, you'll see that they ARE planning to get rid of classic slashdot. THAT'S why we're complaining.
"There is no prescribed format or frequency for these conversations, and managers don't complete any forms or use any technologies to guide or document what happens during such conversations. They are simply expected to have regular check-ins to convey what is expected of employees, give and get feedback, and help employees with their growth and development plans."
So instead of having some ridiculous regimented (10-question, 2 page form weekly! monthly! quarterly!) bullshit, they're going to let their managers be humans, and let them manage their employees? What a ground-breaking idea. Let me jot that down somewhere.
... how much did the Beta cost?
The fact is, you are NOT listening. If you WERE listening, you would know there are exactly TWO acceptable options:
1) Pull the plug on the new style
2) Keep it, but keep "classic" Slashdot available FOREVER for those who want it.
Anything else == NOT listening. Not doing these things and saying you ARE listening is a lie. (Or, technically, I guess you could be listening, but not caring. Same diff.)
There are plenty of things that could be done to improve Slashdot. NOTHING in Beta is an improvement.
This. Start with smart quotes and en- and em-dashes so I can copy and paste things from the articles (I read them sometimes -- I'm new here) without it shitting all over itself.
After that, add a rich-text editor for comments (or at least support markdown) so I don't need to actually write <em>code</em> just for bold and ital, and we'd be all set. Bonus: let comments be editable. I know that brings with it some issues, but once in a while it'd be nice to fix a typo.
By the way, are lists still broken?
Looks like they are. Fix that, too.
The moral of BlackBerry's demise is, "Don't make be a show-moving turd and make crappy decisions when you're not the the world's most valuable and profitable company at the same time." I think Apple has a bit of a cushion before Mr. Cook is commiserating with Messrs. Lazaridis and Balsillie.
Seeing as how Apple managed to survive without ever shipping a Mac running Windows, I doubt we'll ever see Apple-made hardware leaving the factory with Android installed. That said, it's a neat idea, but it's about as pointless as wishing Ford would ship a Mustang with a Corvette engine.
In other news, slashdot beta still sucks.
Nice! Good find.
You had the unfortunate luck of having your story picked up during the middle of the slashdot beta shitfest, so most of the comments here will be about that. My condolences. (Also: the new beta sucks.)
Explain that jquery is not a hack or a workaround. It is a framework that is itself written in -- ta da! -- 100% valid javascript. Tell them it is nothing more than a collection of well-written, consistent, standards-based, heavily-reviewed and -tested code, and all it does is contain some pre-written libraries to make it easier to do common tasks.
It is sponsored by many large companies, including Wordpress, BlackBerry, Intel, Mozilla, and Adobe, to pick just the most recognizable names from that page.
According to this, it is used by Google, Facebook, AOL, ESPN, and whitehouse.gov. This 20-month old page also has a big list: WordPress.com, Pinterest, Reddit, MSN.com, WordPress.org, Amazon, Yandex, Microsoft.com, GO.com, Ask.com, ESPN, Craigslist, About.com, Go Daddy, Stack Overflow, Huffington Post, Instagram, Slideshare, Fox News, The Guardian, Etsy, LiveJournal, and Weather.com
I'll be very sad if Slashdot gets flushed down the tubes. Like everyone else, I come here for the comments. (Certainly not for the summaries, or timely news.) I can find neat stuff anywhere (reddit!) but nowhere else has anywhere NEAR the level of discussion that you find here. At the other end of the scale, HN and Quora get dominated by a few heavy writers and they're way too serious most of the time. I LOVE Slashdot's patented mix of light, informative, funny stuff.
After 17 years here (HOLY CRAP!), I have no idea what I'll do if (when?) it goes.
Dear DICE: Can you PLEASE not fuck this up and turn it into some shitty Business Insider clone or something? Can you possibly just let a good thing stay as it is?
"It seems like a perennial question..."
per-en-ni-al
adjective
1. lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring.
Yeah, that pretty much sums up occurrences of this topic on Slashdot recently.
from Latin per, meaning "through", and annus, meaning "year"
I wish it were only once per year...
> The big cost in publishing is the printing, shipping,
> warehousing, distribution of the dead trees
Wrong, wrong, wrong. "Out of that gross revenue, the publisher pays about $3.25 [12.5% of the example $26 book] to print, store and ship the book"
NY Times, May 2010.
Alternate headline: "Should an article posing this question be posted to Slashdot every month?"
Does the summary make sense to anyone?
Cutting the day into 4 pieces? I'm pretty sure I can guess the time +/- 2 hours without any help.
> My first job out of school was in the insurance industry.
> There is no better example of clueless IT. The whole
> industry is run by and for the benefit of the commissioned salespeople.
Have you had any other jobs? Many industries are like that.
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
Maybe because WHOOSH?
I deal with this every day...
"Can you click on the link to Lync and join the meeting?"
"Hang on, I'll past a link into Lync."
Try saying those out loud. Yes, it's annoying. Damned retards in their naming department.
Many years ago, ice was very expensive and rare. It was cut from frozen lakes in the north and was shipped all over. Unimaginable now, and not everyone could have ice. Then, refrigeration came along and anyone, anywhere could have virtually unlimited ice for just the price of a machine, the cost of its maintenance, and electricity and water. Being able to preserve food (and medicine) is one of the single biggest contributors to lifespan and overall quantity of life the planet has ever seen. Being able to keep things arbitrarily and efficiently cool is also a key component of many manufacturing processes. Or anything else we currently take for granted -- imagine Google trying to keep their servers cool with harvested ice!
But what if the ice companies of the past were as powerful as the energy companies of today? What if they got laws passed that made creating your own ice just as expensive as the older, horribly inefficient methods, for no reason other than "we're rich and we want to stay that way, but we don't want to have to compete with progress"? Imagine if it was prohibitively expensive to buy a refrigerator, and illegal or expensive to make your own. Where would we, as a society and a planet, be?
(The same argument can be applied to stifling IP laws as well.)
What is ML?