Have you ever been at a growing company? At some point an entire team gets replaced by a module in software, but that leads to better jobs elsewhere. When a company makes more money, they hire more people to keep expanding. The automation enables scaling up. Someday this cycle may change, but we're not even close yet.
in the academic world? You do a research paper debunking other, badly written papers. That's what peer review is. That would have been the appropriate response from an academic response.
You show a system is broken not by navigating that system well, but by navigating that system poorly, and succeeding. The papers were not a critique of the ideas they were parodying, but of the people who approve of those ideas.
Use DIP switches INSIDE the battery compartment to disable the Mic, Camera, & GPS.
Oh yes, that would be brilliant. Dial emergency services and... can't tell them your car is on fire because you have to open up the phone and use a safety pin toggle a DIP switch, all so that the dispatcher can hear you.
It's also nice to remotely turn on the dryer an hour before you get home, so you can hang up your clothes without them sitting all wrinkled in the dryer.
That sounds nice, but when you think it through 1) Put load in wash (~45 min) 2) Move load from wash to drier but do not turn on 3) Go do something for up to 12 hours, but make sure you have the time and energy upon arriving back home to take out the load for hanging/folding
Plus, let's be honest, if you are doing laundry for more than one person, you want to get it all done as fast as possible anyway, load after load. Your other scenario, about running when rates are lower was... slightly more realistic, but still runs into the problem of throughput.
I have to agree with the GP. Most smart devices solve problems nobody is having.
I could live without "apps". I could live without social media. I could live without games. I could even live without a browser.
I cannot live without a map - I'd be forever lost or limited to what I could locate without getting lost.
Since getting a smartphone about six years ago, the only thing I have never gotten used to is real time, turn-by-turn directions. I much prefer to look up directions ahead of time and write them down or commit them to memory if brief enough. It makes me feel like I can focus on driving and not on listening to the stupid voice.
So cynical that the company I bought my headphone jack-less phone from included a pair of earbuds that plug directly into the remaining port on the phone. And even included an adapter to allow other, standard headphones to plug into the same port.
Now that's cynical/s
That's called a free sample. Pack-in headphones and small, easily misplaced or lost adapters, are consumables.
Have you ever been in, or at least seen pictures of, a busy Japanese station in rush hour? If you have, I am not sure why you would say
If the most important thing is absolute throughput, then you need to pack like sardines to minimize wait on entry. This is likely never true except in an exceptional place during exceptional demand.
I feel like intent matters. The gaming company wanted to pimp their product using pop culture references that they expected people would recognize and feel positively about. This isn't some kid in a restaurant who happens to end up on YouTube performing the move for his friends. Epic tried to add value to their product by stealing the work of others. It's pretty much what copyright, performance and intellectual properly laws were written for.
That's a distinction without a difference. The person who uploaded the video of the kid performing for his or her friends may very well be motivated by money.
And who cares since it's a simple fad dance and not some complicated choreography. It's bananas to think that should be subject to copyright.
P.S. If someone ends up linking to TMZ on Slashdot for relevant information, maybe that's a good indicator the story was not a good fit for the site...
Normally I would agree, but video games and intellectual property are pretty much staples around here.
Other than that wasn't when the Internet started, yes, personal websites or the "Blogosphere" as it was briefly known, was better than Facebook in so many ways.
I think the 2 billion people using Facebook, and the out of business companies and dead projects for personal websites would beg to differ.
Not everything that is popular is good and not everything that is good is popular.
They made a terrible, terrible decision with selling gTLDs. They'll be happy when the money is coming in but the wheels will come off on this con and we will all be stuck holding the bag. The sale of gTLDs is the ultimate win for global spamming and phishing operations as they will be able to start an arbitrary number of obfuscated domains and as the owner of their own gTLD they will be accountable to exactly nobody. They'll be able to negotiate with each other for more registrations, making the currently hopeless game of whac-a-mole we're playing look structured and logical.
Thanks a lot ICANN. I hope you money grubbing assholes rot in hell, and soon. We can't put this genie back in the bottle.
So what is your solution to increase the address space for law abiding people but avoid the problems you highlight?
That's a whole 'nother animal from "get to sing around a Piano" and takes quite a bit of self-importance to think that you're actually 'collaborating' with him. And since Mr McCartney spends his time working with people who are on his level vis a vis recording/video processes, my guess is that *he'd* rather sit around a piano enjoying a casual song with people who aren't.
Some people actively collaborate over Youtube trading tracks back and forth, creating and remixing songs. McCartney came to mind because of an interview wherein he expressed regret that people seem more interested in taking a picture with him than talking to him.
Seems like since we're all walking around with computers in our pockets, capable of amazing things, then why are we still relying on BigData to provide us a website like facebook to use? Why not just replace websites, and the servers that they run on, with local software that only runs on the local device. So, some program runs on my phone, I set it up, enter info about myself, and then it connects and exchanges info directly with other devices (phones). Would require no middle-man to house a server, therefor it would eliminate the possibility someone selling anyone's data or trying to use it to predict the future.
I feel like if someone wrote that software, everyone would use it. One could probably take down a billion dollar business (FaceBook) with less than 200MB of code.
I think reception, battery, bandwidth, and device patching concerns would prevent that from being widely adopted. There really is a benefit to inexpensive third party hosting.
What people should go back to doing is actually connecting with people directly, and in person as much as possible, rather than the fake, sterile experience of using the Internet, which it seems to me more often than not is used to avoid actually being social. It's also screwing up the socialization of kids, especially teeangers, who are socially awkward more often than not to start with, and who need more practice socializing, not excuses to be socially avoidant.
There is value in ephemeral experiences that is difficult to describe if you are used to trying to capture and share all of the highlights of your life.
It can be summarized like: Would you rather get to sing around a Piano with Sir Paul McCartney with a few people and not be able to prove it, or would you rather do one of those Youtube collaborations with him for the whole world to see but never meet him in person?
As for socialization of teens, I would rather remove the real-life sources of crappy socialization than remove the digital substitute.
Because I'm going to spend all day going from one friend's site to another to another..... rather than a single site to find out what's going on with all my friends and family.
LOL.. Replace Facebook with personal websites eh? Isn't that how this whole internet thing got started back when I was in college?
Other than that wasn't when the Internet started, yes, personal websites or the "Blogosphere" as it was briefly known, was better than Facebook in so many ways. Private, independent forums were also better than Reddit, but I think that day of reckoning is still a ways off.
I'd say (platform X) was better than Twitter, but the truth is No Twitter, or a Twitter Shaped Hole, is the best alternative to that platform.
google and bookface would totally honor things like robots.txt files on a personal website, especially if it's hosted on some garbage "cloud" social site.
They would never harvest your data and sell it to hundreds of companies./s
Yes but they don't get the pleasure of recording IP, cookie, browser, or any other tracking information of you as the site owner. They don't get to access anything you put behind a login. They don't get whatever information you willingly post on a public website already categorized and piped into their database.
I'm curious because I would think that the majority of people that come to this site can probably remove backgrounds it themselves with photoshop/Paint.net/Gimp/Krita/etc. I guess it's less work but I would think that most people here would pride themselves on being able to do it themselves.
Secondly, I don't see any privacy/ownership statements on this - couldn't this be a way for the owners of the site to collect personal pictures or even gain access to a user's computer?
Hopefully I won't get slammed like my last post.
I don't find it Slashdot-worthy. It's more like a random posting on Reddit fishing for bored upvotes "Hey look at this cool site."
This is not unexpected. How long do you think a toy like that will last with a sealed-in battery that cannot be replaced without cutting the plastic? Sure, they're collectable, but the value diminished when you find out that they no longer work, and will NEVER work again.
That's not the point of the article (which is boringly un-newsworthy). It's the novelty died, not the batteries.
He says no one is willing to give up security and move to the cloud, then talks about how everyone is going to migrate to the Oracle cloud.
To be fair, he wasn't comparing Oracle to "the cloud" but to AWS in particular. Even if that is still an unfavorable comparison, it is not a question of cloud vs on-prem.
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Trolling attempt on copy editors: huge success.
Have you ever been at a growing company? At some point an entire team gets replaced by a module in software, but that leads to better jobs elsewhere. When a company makes more money, they hire more people to keep expanding. The automation enables scaling up. Someday this cycle may change, but we're not even close yet.
in the academic world? You do a research paper debunking other, badly written papers. That's what peer review is. That would have been the appropriate response from an academic response.
You show a system is broken not by navigating that system well, but by navigating that system poorly, and succeeding. The papers were not a critique of the ideas they were parodying, but of the people who approve of those ideas.
Use DIP switches INSIDE the battery compartment to disable the Mic, Camera, & GPS.
Oh yes, that would be brilliant. Dial emergency services and... can't tell them your car is on fire because you have to open up the phone and use a safety pin toggle a DIP switch, all so that the dispatcher can hear you.
And I've replaced two iPhones now for what turned out to be a dying battery.
But why the hell did you do it the second time?
It's also nice to remotely turn on the dryer an hour before you get home, so you can hang up your clothes without them sitting all wrinkled in the dryer.
That sounds nice, but when you think it through
1) Put load in wash (~45 min)
2) Move load from wash to drier but do not turn on
3) Go do something for up to 12 hours, but make sure you have the time and energy upon arriving back home to take out the load for hanging/folding
Plus, let's be honest, if you are doing laundry for more than one person, you want to get it all done as fast as possible anyway, load after load. Your other scenario, about running when rates are lower was... slightly more realistic, but still runs into the problem of throughput.
I have to agree with the GP. Most smart devices solve problems nobody is having.
I have yet to see a single physical retailer turn down cash.
I think these are hip, urban problems.
I could live without "apps". I could live without social media. I could live without games. I could even live without a browser.
I cannot live without a map - I'd be forever lost or limited to what I could locate without getting lost.
Since getting a smartphone about six years ago, the only thing I have never gotten used to is real time, turn-by-turn directions. I much prefer to look up directions ahead of time and write them down or commit them to memory if brief enough. It makes me feel like I can focus on driving and not on listening to the stupid voice.
So cynical that the company I bought my headphone jack-less phone from included a pair of earbuds that plug directly into the remaining port on the phone. And even included an adapter to allow other, standard headphones to plug into the same port.
Now that's cynical /s
That's called a free sample. Pack-in headphones and small, easily misplaced or lost adapters, are consumables.
I agree on this part, but have you ever heard the good bit of advice about not putting all your eggs in one basket?
Not enough eggs.
If the most important thing is absolute throughput, then you need to pack like sardines to minimize wait on entry. This is likely never true except in an exceptional place during exceptional demand.
I feel like intent matters. The gaming company wanted to pimp their product using pop culture references that they expected people would recognize and feel positively about. This isn't some kid in a restaurant who happens to end up on YouTube performing the move for his friends. Epic tried to add value to their product by stealing the work of others. It's pretty much what copyright, performance and intellectual properly laws were written for.
That's a distinction without a difference. The person who uploaded the video of the kid performing for his or her friends may very well be motivated by money.
And who cares since it's a simple fad dance and not some complicated choreography. It's bananas to think that should be subject to copyright.
P.S. If someone ends up linking to TMZ on Slashdot for relevant information, maybe that's a good indicator the story was not a good fit for the site...
Normally I would agree, but video games and intellectual property are pretty much staples around here.
Other than that wasn't when the Internet started, yes, personal websites or the "Blogosphere" as it was briefly known, was better than Facebook in so many ways.
I think the 2 billion people using Facebook, and the out of business companies and dead projects for personal websites would beg to differ.
Not everything that is popular is good and not everything that is good is popular.
They made a terrible, terrible decision with selling gTLDs. They'll be happy when the money is coming in but the wheels will come off on this con and we will all be stuck holding the bag. The sale of gTLDs is the ultimate win for global spamming and phishing operations as they will be able to start an arbitrary number of obfuscated domains and as the owner of their own gTLD they will be accountable to exactly nobody. They'll be able to negotiate with each other for more registrations, making the currently hopeless game of whac-a-mole we're playing look structured and logical. Thanks a lot ICANN. I hope you money grubbing assholes rot in hell, and soon. We can't put this genie back in the bottle.
So what is your solution to increase the address space for law abiding people but avoid the problems you highlight?
That's a whole 'nother animal from "get to sing around a Piano" and takes quite a bit of self-importance to think that you're actually 'collaborating' with him. And since Mr McCartney spends his time working with people who are on his level vis a vis recording/video processes, my guess is that *he'd* rather sit around a piano enjoying a casual song with people who aren't.
Some people actively collaborate over Youtube trading tracks back and forth, creating and remixing songs. McCartney came to mind because of an interview wherein he expressed regret that people seem more interested in taking a picture with him than talking to him.
Seems like since we're all walking around with computers in our pockets, capable of amazing things, then why are we still relying on BigData to provide us a website like facebook to use? Why not just replace websites, and the servers that they run on, with local software that only runs on the local device. So, some program runs on my phone, I set it up, enter info about myself, and then it connects and exchanges info directly with other devices (phones). Would require no middle-man to house a server, therefor it would eliminate the possibility someone selling anyone's data or trying to use it to predict the future. I feel like if someone wrote that software, everyone would use it. One could probably take down a billion dollar business (FaceBook) with less than 200MB of code.
I think reception, battery, bandwidth, and device patching concerns would prevent that from being widely adopted. There really is a benefit to inexpensive third party hosting.
What people should go back to doing is actually connecting with people directly, and in person as much as possible, rather than the fake, sterile experience of using the Internet, which it seems to me more often than not is used to avoid actually being social. It's also screwing up the socialization of kids, especially teeangers, who are socially awkward more often than not to start with, and who need more practice socializing, not excuses to be socially avoidant.
There is value in ephemeral experiences that is difficult to describe if you are used to trying to capture and share all of the highlights of your life.
It can be summarized like:
Would you rather get to sing around a Piano with Sir Paul McCartney with a few people and not be able to prove it, or would you rather do one of those Youtube collaborations with him for the whole world to see but never meet him in person?
As for socialization of teens, I would rather remove the real-life sources of crappy socialization than remove the digital substitute.
Because I'm going to spend all day going from one friend's site to another to another..... rather than a single site to find out what's going on with all my friends and family.
Also solved long before Facebook.
LOL.. Replace Facebook with personal websites eh? Isn't that how this whole internet thing got started back when I was in college?
Other than that wasn't when the Internet started, yes, personal websites or the "Blogosphere" as it was briefly known, was better than Facebook in so many ways. Private, independent forums were also better than Reddit, but I think that day of reckoning is still a ways off.
I'd say (platform X) was better than Twitter, but the truth is No Twitter, or a Twitter Shaped Hole, is the best alternative to that platform.
google and bookface would totally honor things like robots.txt files on a personal website, especially if it's hosted on some garbage "cloud" social site.
They would never harvest your data and sell it to hundreds of companies. /s
Yes but they don't get the pleasure of recording IP, cookie, browser, or any other tracking information of you as the site owner. They don't get to access anything you put behind a login. They don't get whatever information you willingly post on a public website already categorized and piped into their database.
I'm curious because I would think that the majority of people that come to this site can probably remove backgrounds it themselves with photoshop/Paint.net/Gimp/Krita/etc. I guess it's less work but I would think that most people here would pride themselves on being able to do it themselves.
Secondly, I don't see any privacy/ownership statements on this - couldn't this be a way for the owners of the site to collect personal pictures or even gain access to a user's computer?
Hopefully I won't get slammed like my last post.
I don't find it Slashdot-worthy. It's more like a random posting on Reddit fishing for bored upvotes "Hey look at this cool site."
Okay.
This is not unexpected. How long do you think a toy like that will last with a sealed-in battery that cannot be replaced without cutting the plastic? Sure, they're collectable, but the value diminished when you find out that they no longer work, and will NEVER work again.
That's not the point of the article (which is boringly un-newsworthy). It's the novelty died, not the batteries.
He says no one is willing to give up security and move to the cloud, then talks about how everyone is going to migrate to the Oracle cloud.
To be fair, he wasn't comparing Oracle to "the cloud" but to AWS in particular. Even if that is still an unfavorable comparison, it is not a question of cloud vs on-prem.
Story at 10, after local dog learns to ride skateboard. He's so cute, we just keep putting the video on repeat.