I can understand that. I liked SGU quite a bit, but as even former SG1/A cast members pointed out, SGU was not so much the happy-go-lucky, family safe show that the others were. It was a pretty radical departure.
And I can understand that the producers wanted the street cred of a BSG for the SG franchise. But I think everyone knew they were going to be alienating (doh) some of their core audience.
What they need to make the big leap, is to make every phone call, shake every hand, spend every dollar and do anything else necessary to bring some of those make-or-break apps to the platform with a "Built and tested with Ubuntu" sticker.
I'm not personally interested in many of them, but we all know the big ones... Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc. That hits people at home and at work, and they're excuse titles in both places.
Someone will always whine about some esoteric app that they insist everyone really wants, but the list of genuinely important ones is probably quite short. They need to get native builds of those made, and not as second class unsupported releases (or some other bizarre concession). Get a few, get a little traction, and let momentum bring additional titles.
You could even make those three tabs just checkboxes, and allow the user to choose. There are more elaborate options there too... show me only full-ident conversation unless semi or full-anon comments are rated above X. Kick all anonymous comments through Mechanical Turk for double verification as not SPAM as.01 HIT's before they're displayed, and re-check any flagged comments through Turk, where successes require moderator approval. My guess is you'd have a short queue to deal with.
News outlets usually have considerable resources... I'm not sure why we don't see more creative approaches.
You're absolutely right. The rj45 connector is easy enough to make quickly (read: big enough), sturdy enough, cheap and ubiquitous. The desire for a smaller jack at the machine will only be addressed with breakouts or special factory-made cables (that will likely irritate people).
Yup, many reports of rehearsals being performed by Team 6 ahead of time after a long period of surveillance and planning.
Also, a few of the major news outlets repeatedly botched facts about it. Also/. still has a bogus update posted in the summary as of Monday, 11:30 CST. Still says he was killed by a bomb a week ago. O_o
It's not so much that I expected endless updates when I bought an iPhone. It's that the updates they do give you actually cause serious degradation in the usability of the phone with marginal added utility in return.
So I got folders, but it slowed everything down a lot. Basically they screw up your stuff at about 3 yrs, and then cut you off. And worse, Apple is too good at what they do (read: too smart) to have done that accidentally. It's not like they support a wide variety of models and didn't test one of them. They knew exactly what they were doing.
It's a great way to move a boatload of newer models though, I'm sure.
Given the rate at which Dropbox must handle takedowns on a "host whatever you want on the innerwebs, easily" service... I'm not at all surprised that their ban button sends takedown notices automatically. Until now, they've likely only had to ban files for precisely that scenario, with minor exceptions.
Or from a programmers point of view: If 99.9% of the time B follows A, automate B. Handle the.1% manually as edge cases.
That just takes the faith out of the intelligence test and puts it in the institution issuing the degree. It also ignores outside factors that can prevent someone from obtaining one, regardless of intelligence, motivation, etc.
A degree is useful for measuring likelihood of success for a job applicant, but not in the same way.
True, though I have to wonder if that isn't a precarious position to be in. All astroturfing and FUD aside, if some other platform starts to eat into that product's marketshare it's a serious threat to total revenue. In tech (and maybe especially so with smartphones), that can happen pretty quickly. Apple proved it themselves.
I guess it proves the adage... diversify, diversify, diversify.
Well certainly there's no way to force people to seek out reasoned debate or force everyone to be reasonable. And so you'll always find outlets for extreme opinions. But that's not a problem, as far as I can figure. People are silly, what's "extreme" is often subjective, and sometimes (rare though it may be) extreme opinions can be appropriate ones.
I guess my point is that places for reasonable people to debate any topic do exist. People have to seek them out voluntarily. That and... Twitter could never be one of those places.
With all due respect to the man, I think you're more in touch than he is. Twitter is not, and could never be, an appropriate platform for "reasoned debate". That would be contrary to its design, purpose and success.
He's right that Twitter is a shouting point for both banality and extreme statements. It abandons the middleground, because the middleground doesn't fit in 180 characters with a hashtag bandaid for the lack of design towards topics and focus. Nobody retweets reasoned, cautious and boring statements because there's no reason to on a platform that can't "do" conversations.
If you want to have reasoned debate... do it on a forum, or design something new and different that's meant for that. Because Twitter is not that, and users can't "improve" it to be that.
Maybe someone else whining about the TSA. Not the terrorist. Calling attention to yourself about the security screenings while trying to smuggle something through the security screenings is not misdirection. That's just... direction. No?
Respectfully, I think you give them too much credit. Sounds suspiciously like, "We're not going to make anything on this, throw 'em a bone. We'll focus on Oracle Cloud Office and avoid allocating valuable resources to this thing in the back of the shipping container." Though that could just be how the release and write-up were worded.
Right now I'm picturing the totally meltdown on slashdot. Not just because we'd all be overjoyed to see the music industry annihilated and rebuilt, but because we'd actually have (at least in part) Microsoft and Apple to thank for it.
Interestingly enough, some experts say terrorists are much more likely to avoid confrontations with authorities, saying an al-Qaeda training manual instructs members to blend in.
This seems like the most obvious flaw in reasoning, and probably didn't require expert research to predict. What nefarious character is going to draw attention to themselves when trying to get away with something evil? This didn't stand out as a "duh" to the folks crafting this list? That scares me too... assuming the goal of these criteria was to catch the bad guys, of course.
People pay close attention to the TV when they're shopping because it's a big ticket item that they don't want to screw up. They don't do any research on what an HDMI cable should cost. They're shopping for TV's.
I've watched a number of people do the same thing (including my mother). She made a well informed decision on the TV, then got soaked on a cable because she has no idea that a 5ft HDMI at $60 is criminal. I've done more than my share of, "take it back, I'll order you one for $4... and yes I'm sure it'll work the same."
Entirely accurate interpretation, I'd say. Also, a "don't like" button has all kinds of problems of interpretation in and of itself. Simply put, negative tagging is trickier.
"Do you dislike that I posted this to facebook, or what I posted, or what it's about, or... what?"
Where one positive option keeps things relatively simple. It covers everything: "I saw and acknowledge this post", "I'm pleased with the content" to "I also am a fan", "Like that you gave us a heads-up", "this was funny", etc. None of these are dangerous, because everyone assumes whatever is most appropriate with a vague, positive tag.
I have to ask because I've never seen that process. What kind of information besides employment history, research and publication history goes into those supporting materials? Would one normally include things like, "social work with XYZ organization"? If the process doesn't normally involve the evaluation of unofficial work you do in your spare time, then I'd expect this is a case of just unimportant padding at the bottom, and someone was looking for wiki-related news. If they do, then I'd think being a regular contributor to the wiki would have some (if little) weight. No?
I'm not qualified in the slightest to argue for or against, I'm just curious.
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I can understand that. I liked SGU quite a bit, but as even former SG1/A cast members pointed out, SGU was not so much the happy-go-lucky, family safe show that the others were. It was a pretty radical departure.
And I can understand that the producers wanted the street cred of a BSG for the SG franchise. But I think everyone knew they were going to be alienating (doh) some of their core audience.
That would help.
What they need to make the big leap, is to make every phone call, shake every hand, spend every dollar and do anything else necessary to bring some of those make-or-break apps to the platform with a "Built and tested with Ubuntu" sticker.
I'm not personally interested in many of them, but we all know the big ones... Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc. That hits people at home and at work, and they're excuse titles in both places.
Someone will always whine about some esoteric app that they insist everyone really wants, but the list of genuinely important ones is probably quite short. They need to get native builds of those made, and not as second class unsupported releases (or some other bizarre concession). Get a few, get a little traction, and let momentum bring additional titles.
You could even make those three tabs just checkboxes, and allow the user to choose. There are more elaborate options there too... show me only full-ident conversation unless semi or full-anon comments are rated above X. Kick all anonymous comments through Mechanical Turk for double verification as not SPAM as .01 HIT's before they're displayed, and re-check any flagged comments through Turk, where successes require moderator approval. My guess is you'd have a short queue to deal with.
News outlets usually have considerable resources... I'm not sure why we don't see more creative approaches.
You're absolutely right. The rj45 connector is easy enough to make quickly (read: big enough), sturdy enough, cheap and ubiquitous. The desire for a smaller jack at the machine will only be addressed with breakouts or special factory-made cables (that will likely irritate people).
"Honey you came back without food again? That's the fourth time this week, what happened?"
"Me see butterfly, me sorr.. ooo fire!"
Good rule, I second that. Also, go easy on the medical requirement for participants... if I ever make it into space, I'll probably be old and broken.
Still, nice to see that moore's law still holds... at least for now...
:)
Well I can't see into the future, but I have to say... it's encouraging that we've been saying that for a long, long time.
You should get to correctin' then... the whole world seems to think it's 6. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Special_Warfare_Development_Group
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=seal+team+6
Yup, many reports of rehearsals being performed by Team 6 ahead of time after a long period of surveillance and planning.
/. still has a bogus update posted in the summary as of Monday, 11:30 CST. Still says he was killed by a bomb a week ago. O_o
Also, a few of the major news outlets repeatedly botched facts about it. Also
I wouldn't be surprised if they just bill the card associated with the room.
It's not so much that I expected endless updates when I bought an iPhone. It's that the updates they do give you actually cause serious degradation in the usability of the phone with marginal added utility in return.
So I got folders, but it slowed everything down a lot. Basically they screw up your stuff at about 3 yrs, and then cut you off. And worse, Apple is too good at what they do (read: too smart) to have done that accidentally. It's not like they support a wide variety of models and didn't test one of them. They knew exactly what they were doing.
It's a great way to move a boatload of newer models though, I'm sure.
Given the rate at which Dropbox must handle takedowns on a "host whatever you want on the innerwebs, easily" service... I'm not at all surprised that their ban button sends takedown notices automatically. Until now, they've likely only had to ban files for precisely that scenario, with minor exceptions.
.1% manually as edge cases.
Or from a programmers point of view: If 99.9% of the time B follows A, automate B. Handle the
That just takes the faith out of the intelligence test and puts it in the institution issuing the degree. It also ignores outside factors that can prevent someone from obtaining one, regardless of intelligence, motivation, etc.
A degree is useful for measuring likelihood of success for a job applicant, but not in the same way.
True, though I have to wonder if that isn't a precarious position to be in. All astroturfing and FUD aside, if some other platform starts to eat into that product's marketshare it's a serious threat to total revenue. In tech (and maybe especially so with smartphones), that can happen pretty quickly. Apple proved it themselves.
I guess it proves the adage... diversify, diversify, diversify.
Wow, that's just disgusting.
Well certainly there's no way to force people to seek out reasoned debate or force everyone to be reasonable. And so you'll always find outlets for extreme opinions. But that's not a problem, as far as I can figure. People are silly, what's "extreme" is often subjective, and sometimes (rare though it may be) extreme opinions can be appropriate ones.
I guess my point is that places for reasonable people to debate any topic do exist. People have to seek them out voluntarily. That and... Twitter could never be one of those places.
With all due respect to the man, I think you're more in touch than he is. Twitter is not, and could never be, an appropriate platform for "reasoned debate". That would be contrary to its design, purpose and success.
He's right that Twitter is a shouting point for both banality and extreme statements. It abandons the middleground, because the middleground doesn't fit in 180 characters with a hashtag bandaid for the lack of design towards topics and focus. Nobody retweets reasoned, cautious and boring statements because there's no reason to on a platform that can't "do" conversations.
If you want to have reasoned debate... do it on a forum, or design something new and different that's meant for that. Because Twitter is not that, and users can't "improve" it to be that.
Maybe someone else whining about the TSA. Not the terrorist. Calling attention to yourself about the security screenings while trying to smuggle something through the security screenings is not misdirection. That's just... direction. No?
Respectfully, I think you give them too much credit. Sounds suspiciously like, "We're not going to make anything on this, throw 'em a bone. We'll focus on Oracle Cloud Office and avoid allocating valuable resources to this thing in the back of the shipping container." Though that could just be how the release and write-up were worded.
Right now I'm picturing the totally meltdown on slashdot. Not just because we'd all be overjoyed to see the music industry annihilated and rebuilt, but because we'd actually have (at least in part) Microsoft and Apple to thank for it.
Oh it's fun to dream silly dreams.
Interestingly enough, some experts say terrorists are much more likely to avoid confrontations with authorities, saying an al-Qaeda training manual instructs members to blend in.
This seems like the most obvious flaw in reasoning, and probably didn't require expert research to predict. What nefarious character is going to draw attention to themselves when trying to get away with something evil? This didn't stand out as a "duh" to the folks crafting this list? That scares me too... assuming the goal of these criteria was to catch the bad guys, of course.
The new UI is so much better it's almost unbelievable. Go check it out, I think you'll agree.
I'd guess those models exclude all other factors.
People pay close attention to the TV when they're shopping because it's a big ticket item that they don't want to screw up. They don't do any research on what an HDMI cable should cost. They're shopping for TV's.
I've watched a number of people do the same thing (including my mother). She made a well informed decision on the TV, then got soaked on a cable because she has no idea that a 5ft HDMI at $60 is criminal. I've done more than my share of, "take it back, I'll order you one for $4... and yes I'm sure it'll work the same."
Entirely accurate interpretation, I'd say. Also, a "don't like" button has all kinds of problems of interpretation in and of itself. Simply put, negative tagging is trickier.
"Do you dislike that I posted this to facebook, or what I posted, or what it's about, or... what?"
Where one positive option keeps things relatively simple. It covers everything: "I saw and acknowledge this post", "I'm pleased with the content" to "I also am a fan", "Like that you gave us a heads-up", "this was funny", etc. None of these are dangerous, because everyone assumes whatever is most appropriate with a vague, positive tag.
I have to ask because I've never seen that process. What kind of information besides employment history, research and publication history goes into those supporting materials? Would one normally include things like, "social work with XYZ organization"? If the process doesn't normally involve the evaluation of unofficial work you do in your spare time, then I'd expect this is a case of just unimportant padding at the bottom, and someone was looking for wiki-related news. If they do, then I'd think being a regular contributor to the wiki would have some (if little) weight. No?
I'm not qualified in the slightest to argue for or against, I'm just curious.