You said it better than I could have. That is the core problem with Dice and the exact reason why Beta, if deployed will destroy Slashdot. They are making the chalkboard less usable. Everyone will just find another chalkboard. Slashdot is replaceable. In fact, maybe this should be viewed as an opportunity.
This is a massive failure on several levels of management, and in several different ways of fail.
I think you are asking for the wrong skills of someone in a management role of IT. There are people who can build a PC, install the OS and drivers yet not be able to code their way out of a paper bag. In fact trained monkeys can do that, and there are plenty of certified monkeys. I don't care if the manager can build a PC. I care if the manager knows the difference between hardware and software.
Has the manager of a development group ever written any software in his life?
Another massive fail is that they do not hire the brightest people. They also encourage a culture that repels the brightest people. Bureaucracy. Red tape. Dress codes. Discouraging and even punishing creativity. Encouraging brown nosing and politics. No wonder they can't build an application even with billion dollar budgets.
No amount of money can fix the problems I described. No amount. Give them ten times the budget, but don't change the real problems and the project will still fail. They don't get this. There are no signs that they ever will get this.
Yes, but Motorola's patents are on trivial things such as radio technology, modulation techniques, compression and encoding, antenna designs, digital signal processing techniques, using very little power, frequency hoping, GSM, and other things.
Those patents are insignificant next to the innovations of bouncy scrolling and pinch to zoom!
There is a calculus limit function for this. I won't bother with the equation here. But in simple terms, as website approaches 100% layout, then content approches 0% (eg, "content free"). This can be borne out by looking at some magazine "quality" websites.
Since when does what SCOTUS says, or the constitution says, or the written law says, matter to police who have determined that you are a person that needs to be physically assaulted?
Yeah. Imagine trying to run HTML and Javascript apps on a limited system with only gigahertz, gigabytes and always on internet available. What would people in 1995 think?
Oh, I think we've only started down the road. We're not close to the end of the road yet.
Yes, they can stop us for any reason. Detain us. Search our laptops and devices without a court order or oversight. There are huge constitution free zones. They can snoop into all private communications to the point where no two human beings can have a private conversation. We have to take our shoes off at the airport and submit to naked scans and patdowns. People like Aaron Swartz can be harassed to death over things that are minor crimes if they are even crimes at all. Rich people routinely get away with things that poor people go to jail for -- for years. Compare penalties for copyright infringement to penalties for murder or robbery. Police brutality is becoming more common. Filming the police from a distance without interfering is treated as a crime.
How soon do you think it will be before they can search your home without a warrant? How soon before you have to show ID to travel within the US -- maybe even within a city? How long before anonymous cash disappears?
I'm just asking. But if you think this is just the icing on the cake, I want to tell you that this is still the cake, and there is a lot more cake to come before we get to the icing.
Counter counterpoint: Nature probably does assimilate steel girders in a useful way. It just does not do so quickly enough to be useful to short lived ugly bags of mostly water.
In addition to considering whether a measure is effective, it is reasonable to consider whether it is the ISP's job or Google's job or anyone else's job to police copyright infringement.
The ISP's job is to deliver and route packets. Period.
I mentioned Google, simply because the RIAA-holes also believe that it is Google's job to police copyright infringement as well as ISPs job.
There is one minor problem that Dell might run into. In certain states, they won't be able to sell much of the refill supplies for the printer.
The state of Arizona has a limit of only two dildos per household. Therefore your girlfriend won't be allowed to have one for herself. And after you have printed your limit of two, you will have no need to ever reorder refill supplies for your shiny new 3D printer.
An Azure Cloud is the suffocating bluish smoke belched out by an engine that is reaching the end of it's useful life.
Microsoft is courting Linux workloads to run on their bluish smoke servers. Why would someone who has a business application that runs on Linux want to trust that to a company that has tried to destroy Linux and open source and is actively continuing to do so to this very day?
> Would agree to terms before they even tell you what the terms are?
There once was a time when EULAs were printed on the back of a box of software.
Then the EULAs got longer and smaller print.
At one point it was suggested, seriously, that the box should say that by opening the box you agree to the EULA inside the box. Does that answer your question?
Oh, and many 'agreements' that you have no choice but to agree to (ever sign a wireless contract?) also have terms that echo Darth Vader: "I am altering the terms of our agreement. Pray I don't alter it any further." (deep breathing sound)
Ok. Then what about prosecuting people who committed crimes of violating the constitution. All our other laws are derived from the authority of the constitution. If you do something unconstitutional, then it should not be crime to have someone else blow the whistle on you.
The excuse "but I was just following orders" has already been tried.
Motivate the carriers to remove the bloatware. They can keep it if they want. Don't force them. Let the free market decide.
The first bloatware app on the phone reduces your monthly phone cost (pre-tax) by 50%.
Each additional bloatware app on the phone reduces your bill by 50% of what is left. So 2nd app further reduces bill by 25% of original bill.
The idea being that each app cuts your bill in half. Just keep cutting in half.
Now they can game the system and raise prices to sky high levels, you say.
Ah, but that makes them look awfully anti-competitive next to their competitor's phone that has, say, one fewer bloatware app on it.
Put that rule in place, let the carriers figure it out, and I bet the bloatware problem will disappear quickly.
Slashdot Mirror
You said it better than I could have. That is the core problem with Dice and the exact reason why Beta, if deployed will destroy Slashdot. They are making the chalkboard less usable. Everyone will just find another chalkboard. Slashdot is replaceable. In fact, maybe this should be viewed as an opportunity.
This is a massive failure on several levels of management, and in several different ways of fail.
I think you are asking for the wrong skills of someone in a management role of IT. There are people who can build a PC, install the OS and drivers yet not be able to code their way out of a paper bag. In fact trained monkeys can do that, and there are plenty of certified monkeys. I don't care if the manager can build a PC. I care if the manager knows the difference between hardware and software.
Has the manager of a development group ever written any software in his life?
Another massive fail is that they do not hire the brightest people. They also encourage a culture that repels the brightest people. Bureaucracy. Red tape. Dress codes. Discouraging and even punishing creativity. Encouraging brown nosing and politics. No wonder they can't build an application even with billion dollar budgets.
No amount of money can fix the problems I described. No amount. Give them ten times the budget, but don't change the real problems and the project will still fail. They don't get this. There are no signs that they ever will get this.
Yes, browser market share does matter. And some of us do care about it.
Google could not do that without infringing Microsoft's patent on doing that.
Yes, but Motorola's patents are on trivial things such as radio technology, modulation techniques, compression and encoding, antenna designs, digital signal processing techniques, using very little power, frequency hoping, GSM, and other things.
Those patents are insignificant next to the innovations of bouncy scrolling and pinch to zoom!
It gets ad impressions, and that all that matters!
There is a calculus limit function for this. I won't bother with the equation here. But in simple terms, as website approaches 100% layout, then content approches 0% (eg, "content free"). This can be borne out by looking at some magazine "quality" websites.
You may find it hard to swallow, but since we're talking about web apps turned into native apps, how about embedding Flash and Java Applets?
Fortunately, I don't find much of anything hard to swallow.
I have also had large antibiotic pills at one time. Fortunately, I've never had concern about swallowing things and choking.
Rodney King was the start of well documented police brutality. Documented episodes are plenty. Google and YouTube are your friend.
Since when does what SCOTUS says, or the constitution says, or the written law says, matter to police who have determined that you are a person that needs to be physically assaulted?
Yeah. Imagine trying to run HTML and Javascript apps on a limited system with only gigahertz, gigabytes and always on internet available. What would people in 1995 think?
Oh, I think we've only started down the road. We're not close to the end of the road yet.
Yes, they can stop us for any reason. Detain us. Search our laptops and devices without a court order or oversight. There are huge constitution free zones. They can snoop into all private communications to the point where no two human beings can have a private conversation. We have to take our shoes off at the airport and submit to naked scans and patdowns. People like Aaron Swartz can be harassed to death over things that are minor crimes if they are even crimes at all. Rich people routinely get away with things that poor people go to jail for -- for years. Compare penalties for copyright infringement to penalties for murder or robbery. Police brutality is becoming more common. Filming the police from a distance without interfering is treated as a crime.
How soon do you think it will be before they can search your home without a warrant? How soon before you have to show ID to travel within the US -- maybe even within a city? How long before anonymous cash disappears?
I'm just asking. But if you think this is just the icing on the cake, I want to tell you that this is still the cake, and there is a lot more cake to come before we get to the icing.
Those who fail to learn from history. Etc.
The NSA did not specify what radix when they said Google and others must report NSL's in multiples of 1000.
Keep the number of requests below 1000.
Vastly expand the scope of each request.
I think you are confusing that with McSoylent burgers.
Don't allow patents on things that are naturally occurring.
Humans are naturally occurring.
Ideas from Humans are naturally occurring.
Humans are naturally occurring.
Innovations and inventions from humans are naturally occurring. *
Do not allow patents on things that are naturally occurring.
* just try giving a kid a couple boxes of Mindstorms and sit back
Counter counterpoint: Nature probably does assimilate steel girders in a useful way. It just does not do so quickly enough to be useful to short lived ugly bags of mostly water.
In addition to considering whether a measure is effective, it is reasonable to consider whether it is the ISP's job or Google's job or anyone else's job to police copyright infringement.
The ISP's job is to deliver and route packets. Period.
I mentioned Google, simply because the RIAA-holes also believe that it is Google's job to police copyright infringement as well as ISPs job.
There is one minor problem that Dell might run into. In certain states, they won't be able to sell much of the refill supplies for the printer.
The state of Arizona has a limit of only two dildos per household. Therefore your girlfriend won't be allowed to have one for herself. And after you have printed your limit of two, you will have no need to ever reorder refill supplies for your shiny new 3D printer.
Just Google for "arizona dildo limit". Yes, seriously. Not kidding.
Azure is the bluish color #007FFF.
An Azure Cloud is the suffocating bluish smoke belched out by an engine that is reaching the end of it's useful life.
Microsoft is courting Linux workloads to run on their bluish smoke servers. Why would someone who has a business application that runs on Linux want to trust that to a company that has tried to destroy Linux and open source and is actively continuing to do so to this very day?
> Would agree to terms before they even tell you what the terms are?
There once was a time when EULAs were printed on the back of a box of software.
Then the EULAs got longer and smaller print.
At one point it was suggested, seriously, that the box should say that by opening the box you agree to the EULA inside the box. Does that answer your question?
Oh, and many 'agreements' that you have no choice but to agree to (ever sign a wireless contract?) also have terms that echo Darth Vader: "I am altering the terms of our agreement. Pray I don't alter it any further." (deep breathing sound)
Ok. Then what about prosecuting people who committed crimes of violating the constitution. All our other laws are derived from the authority of the constitution. If you do something unconstitutional, then it should not be crime to have someone else blow the whistle on you.
The excuse "but I was just following orders" has already been tried.
Motivate the carriers to remove the bloatware. They can keep it if they want. Don't force them. Let the free market decide.
The first bloatware app on the phone reduces your monthly phone cost (pre-tax) by 50%.
Each additional bloatware app on the phone reduces your bill by 50% of what is left. So 2nd app further reduces bill by 25% of original bill.
The idea being that each app cuts your bill in half. Just keep cutting in half.
Now they can game the system and raise prices to sky high levels, you say.
Ah, but that makes them look awfully anti-competitive next to their competitor's phone that has, say, one fewer bloatware app on it.
Put that rule in place, let the carriers figure it out, and I bet the bloatware problem will disappear quickly.