The St. Paul Pioneer Press went this way last year. Unsurprisingly, participation in the comments has dropped to near zero.
I can see why companies do it - this saves them the trouble of moderation, as people moderate themselves when their real names are used and they conceivably could face real-life consequences for what they post. Is real-life intimidation really the best way to police comments? Certainly not if you want more participation...
I don't have an issue with it. I think the most important right we have online is the right to remain anonymous. I don't want an employer or anyone else to look at my comments on news or sports and judge my worthiness as an employee by them - which is why I simply choose not to participate when companies choose not to allow anonymity.
There is some truth to be found here. When the model changed from scientific research pursuing things that could be monetized in the medium term or could create new industries in the long term to research pursuing things that can have federal funding approved in the medium term, different things started being researched.
For one thing, the demand for practicality in order to obtain funds became less. How much money has been poured into ethanol, when it will never produce energy independence or any substantive move in that direction? Ethanol is not viable as an energy source but it's powerful as a political force, so it obtains mountains of funding and subsidy dollars.
It's not that government funding of research is bad, it's that there needs to be balance. Conservatives are less likely to want the government to fund anything - this would defund some things that are good, and some that are wasteful.
It's not a clear right/wrong. Right/wrong applies to individual situations, not to ideologies as a whole, despite what this posts's ancestors seem to believe.
It's like in Moby Dick, the coffin was built for someone, then that someone didn't die, then it was nailed shut and used as a bouy, then it was dragged down to the depths without any human intervention, then ironically the person did die when the coffin would have saved them, but then without any human intervention it erupted back to the surface, saved someone else's life, and then... well, was probably discarded again, but that's neither here nor there. The point is, the coffin which already was buried was exhumed, had one additional useless nail driven in, and - well, it's something to do with hamburgers or cars I'm sure.
The trend over the last 10 years in software development has been labor minimization, offshoring, "just meet the specs" mentality.
Now a lot of companies are getting bitten in the rear in return for the supposed "savings" they realized over the years. Think your $1500 a year software engineers in Bangalore are going to be able to handle this...? Communication is difficult with them even when you have well defined specs - let alone when the engineer needs to be aware of current events and think of unspecified scenarios themselves.
I think a lot of corporations are going to find out that IT staff is not dispensable in the way that, say, payroll staff became in the 1990s.
It's true, I used to have the parent post's gripes, but after using a macbook for a while now you notice these kinds of things. The laptop does not run hot, there's for the most part nothing but silence from the hardware (no noisy fans coming on all the time), the batterly life is good, the keyboard is very nice, and the display is also very nice. Performance, for the hardware it has, is remarkably good.
There's a lot to quality that doesn't come across on the first three lines of a spec sheet.
Know what else has a Core i7 processor? a Mac Mini.
They only have 4GB of memory by default, but at $999 you can get one with dual 7200rpm 500GB hard drives, Intel HD 3000 graphics, and a copy of Lion Server. There's no bluray, but it's also less than half the price of this Amiga DOA box.
When your product is a less attractive knockoff of an Apple design and somehow you manage to more than double an Apple price... I'm guessing your future does not include being filthy stinking rich.
Even better, on the Android side you see "Sent from my Galaxy Nexus on the NOW Network from Sprint" or "Sent from my Android Transformer whatever". It's not only one brand, but several brands.
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The St. Paul Pioneer Press went this way last year. Unsurprisingly, participation in the comments has dropped to near zero.
I can see why companies do it - this saves them the trouble of moderation, as people moderate themselves when their real names are used and they conceivably could face real-life consequences for what they post. Is real-life intimidation really the best way to police comments? Certainly not if you want more participation...
I don't have an issue with it. I think the most important right we have online is the right to remain anonymous. I don't want an employer or anyone else to look at my comments on news or sports and judge my worthiness as an employee by them - which is why I simply choose not to participate when companies choose not to allow anonymity.
The similarity being that liberals (and indeed all humans) have the same two proclivities?
There is some truth to be found here. When the model changed from scientific research pursuing things that could be monetized in the medium term or could create new industries in the long term to research pursuing things that can have federal funding approved in the medium term, different things started being researched.
For one thing, the demand for practicality in order to obtain funds became less. How much money has been poured into ethanol, when it will never produce energy independence or any substantive move in that direction? Ethanol is not viable as an energy source but it's powerful as a political force, so it obtains mountains of funding and subsidy dollars.
It's not that government funding of research is bad, it's that there needs to be balance. Conservatives are less likely to want the government to fund anything - this would defund some things that are good, and some that are wasteful.
It's not a clear right/wrong. Right/wrong applies to individual situations, not to ideologies as a whole, despite what this posts's ancestors seem to believe.
Well, no, according to the comments on that article the RIAA would send their navy out to shoot the drones down.
Sealand is SO last year, now it's servers hosted on drone aircraft...
Netflix is really pissing me off, I'm switching to Qwikster.
Dear lord, what if they synergize their core competencies?
It's like in Moby Dick, the coffin was built for someone, then that someone didn't die, then it was nailed shut and used as a bouy, then it was dragged down to the depths without any human intervention, then ironically the person did die when the coffin would have saved them, but then without any human intervention it erupted back to the surface, saved someone else's life, and then... well, was probably discarded again, but that's neither here nor there. The point is, the coffin which already was buried was exhumed, had one additional useless nail driven in, and - well, it's something to do with hamburgers or cars I'm sure.
I agree, plus the mixed case is a dead giveaway.
they see me trollin
they hatin
Man, firsties require quick reflexes. You see an opening, you take it.
As a huckster, I don't appreciate you slandering my name like that.
Direct, no-nonense, hands-off management is not a bad thing.
Hope. Change. We are the ones that we've been waiting for. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow.
It's treble, not triple.
"networks", not methods
Stuxnet was still able to reach such methods, though direct control wasn't possible, it was more of a phone home/carrier pigeon type of compromise.
I've noticed the issue with tapping at the top taking more force than tapping at the bottom. It's a bit of an annoyance.
The trend over the last 10 years in software development has been labor minimization, offshoring, "just meet the specs" mentality.
Now a lot of companies are getting bitten in the rear in return for the supposed "savings" they realized over the years. Think your $1500 a year software engineers in Bangalore are going to be able to handle this...? Communication is difficult with them even when you have well defined specs - let alone when the engineer needs to be aware of current events and think of unspecified scenarios themselves.
I think a lot of corporations are going to find out that IT staff is not dispensable in the way that, say, payroll staff became in the 1990s.
Agreed, we're all saying the same thing.
It's a struggle to find the best analogy to explain what a poor value this Amiga thing is.
What sort of imbecile buys the upgraded hard drive from Apple instead of buying one from newegg?
It's true, I used to have the parent post's gripes, but after using a macbook for a while now you notice these kinds of things. The laptop does not run hot, there's for the most part nothing but silence from the hardware (no noisy fans coming on all the time), the batterly life is good, the keyboard is very nice, and the display is also very nice. Performance, for the hardware it has, is remarkably good.
There's a lot to quality that doesn't come across on the first three lines of a spec sheet.
Know what else has a Core i7 processor? a Mac Mini.
They only have 4GB of memory by default, but at $999 you can get one with dual 7200rpm 500GB hard drives, Intel HD 3000 graphics, and a copy of Lion Server. There's no bluray, but it's also less than half the price of this Amiga DOA box.
When your product is a less attractive knockoff of an Apple design and somehow you manage to more than double an Apple price... I'm guessing your future does not include being filthy stinking rich.
Even better, on the Android side you see "Sent from my Galaxy Nexus on the NOW Network from Sprint" or "Sent from my Android Transformer whatever". It's not only one brand, but several brands.
It takes all of 10 seconds to turn off "Sent from my iX", you know.