Your search habits fed back into a price just for 'you' at that moment on a sales site.
Alas, that was what I was interested in yesterday or at some time in the past. It's like being in a discussion with someone who keeps bringing up a point that you thought was resolved a while ago, but they think needs more exposure. Imagine how you'd enjoy such a discussion.
What "good old days" where those? When you read the newspaper that conformed to your political viewpoint; the weekly magazine that covered any world events only as far as it affected you and others like you; watched only the TV shows that reinforced what you thought you already knew and believed?
No.
The internet before all this tracking of metrics and trying to anticipate what I'd like to see more of. I don't know what I want to see next, but I generally don't revisit the same old thing. After I bought a new camera is not the time to keep showing me camera stuff. When I looked up something on ebay to see what I might get for it, they keep trying to interest me in it over a year later - I don't buy everything I look at and there's no "I'm just trying to get an estimate of what I might get from a suck^H^H^H^Hbuyer so piss off and don't try to waggle it under my eyes for the next twelve bloody months" tick-box.
Just anecdotal, but the things facebook seems to track and then keep showing me have about 95% odds of not being of interest at all, the remaining 5% I wouldn't click on a link on there anyway or it's only tangentially relevant to something I was posting about.
We found that recommending topically relevant content from authors with opposite views in a baseline interface had a negative emotional effect. We saw that our organic visualization design reverts that effect. We also observed significant individual differences linked to evaluation of recommendations. Our results suggest that organic visualization may revert the negative effects of providing potentially sensitive content.
Reads like somebody trying to write in English, and utterly failing.
Sounds like the sort who want to find only what they've already found.
We quit this crap of trying to target things to audiences and get back to the good old days of yore when we went out and found things to fascinate, inform and enrich ourselves rather than suffering pigeon-holing. Honestly, I think farcebook, amazon and others have it completely wrong. I'm bored by the same ol - same ol. I'm an explorer and love to wander and see new things. Keep showing me what i've already seen or already bought and I'm losing attention.
And if you try your case in certain places, you'll win. With Apple, apparently even if you lose, you win.
Apple's legal research team are working on splitting the Litigon, a particle with quantum spin which is capable of detecting where and when someone has violated their Intellectual Property.
Fortunately, links are provided and we can go off and read. More will undoubtably be in the paper (when published)
Icecube is pretty neat, too. I've been to a lecture on a similar type observatory, which is used to detect rays, their direction and wavelength which precede visible light of stellar events (such as novae).
At first I thought these rappers had more on the ball than met the ear.
Some of the facilities built for detecting particles are pretty fascinating, including one in northern Arizona, where the water is so pure it will corrode a screwdriver to iron oxide within a few days.
Very cool (no pun intended) observatory. Has it been in James Bond, yet?
Have you noticed these summaries never include what the patents are anymore? Samsung didn't even claim they didn't intrude on the patents, just that they made what their market research said was a good idea.
All you have to do is comprehensively patent every element of your design, and if any of it is a good idea, you'll get to sue anyone in the same field.
It's all a crap-shoot anyway. Odds are Apple holds a patent for something they don't use, but if you develop it independently and roll-out to market, you get shot down because they see you as encrouching on their turf*.
Now enter partisanship - there is a party who would like nothing better than for the healthcare system to fail miserably so they can make hay out of it.
Not nearly as deplorable as the other party who is actually MAKING it fail. Deflect all you like, you and your little rat friends own this mother fucker. Screw you
I'd rather the Healthcare Act fail, succeed or be improved on its own merits. As a developer I hate to see something like this fail because the web portal sucked on roll-out, as it's in the fore of the news it casts another shadow on web developers.
Sorry your heart is so full of hate that you can't see that.
A smart comment here beneath a snarky exterior. Profiteering created this this mess and I now can't help see this gentleman as anything but a dollar-bill eyed charlatan.
I would watch the video but, you know, this is Slashdot.
* I actually live in the UK but for once I'll refrain from the we have free healthcare, you obligatory insensitive clod joke. This site seems like a step in the right direction, all fingers crossed for my US brethren.
In the US there's a saying: if you want to make a lot of money, sell bad software to the public sector.
The primary disease symptom is a complete lack of understanding among the people who select the vendor, hand out specs and often do not know how to communicate technology needs. Also, when a project fails the vendor often can just walk away with their boat-load of cash, without so much as a backwards glance - where a private sector customer may be queuing up their lawyers to punish an incompetent vendor, the public sector often lets them completely off the hook and just looks for the next vendor promising the moon and stars on something else.
Now enter partisanship - there is a party who would like nothing better than for the healthcare system to fail miserably so they can make hay out of it. It's deplorable, but not nearly so much as a public willing to go along with this, rather than demand accountability upon the vendor(s) and their contacts. We the tax payer have already paid for this thing, love it or hate it, we should demand it work and work well.
Toyota plans on selling the first hydrogen powered fuel cell car in Japan in 2015, and in the US and Europe in 2016. Which won't sell very well if the first hydrogen filling stations are planned for 2020. Does anyone have any real plans for those?
I'm sure the welder supply shops will love the business, but they aren't usually open on weekends.
If there's demand there will be supply. That's Capitalism.
Now if some billionaire starts applying to build these stations near urban and inter-urban areas, that's Capitalism.
And when lobbyists buy legislators to keep the 'Dangerous Unproven Fuel Stuff Stations' from going up, that's Capitalism, too. The kind where you can buy government.
What's on my workbench? A bunch of dead computers. The quality of name brand PC's has gone into the toilet. Commodity quality served up to the mass markets leaves very little quality to be found.
What you need is a good ol' Sun SparcStation with an old release of Red Hat Linux installed on it. No end of fun. Really cool little computers, too and greased lightning with a tiny kernel.:)
They should have spent it on coming up with more ways of saying "We're sorry".
While that makes the greater sense, where's the fun in doing the right thing, when you can do amazingly wrong things and then get caught, try to cover your ass and then hire yet-another company to harass your detractors?
The Internet - Not just for constructive collaboration anymore.
So do they apply for the job? I wonder if they have to list references or if being a frequent poster of reddit's/r/atheism or 4chan is enough.
They probably just go in as the user they wish to insult, drop a few assertions in a 4chan-like forum, with scarcely concealed credentials (of the intended) and let nature take its course. Why pay when you can get people to do the work for you for free (as in beer) ?
Slashdot Mirror
At some point price customisation or "dynamic" pricing must have become very useful and widespread.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/24/ramasastry.website.prices/
Your search habits fed back into a price just for 'you' at that moment on a sales site.
Alas, that was what I was interested in yesterday or at some time in the past. It's like being in a discussion with someone who keeps bringing up a point that you thought was resolved a while ago, but they think needs more exposure. Imagine how you'd enjoy such a discussion.
How safe is the car when you follow all driving laws like speed limits especially through turns?
As always the most dangerous part on the car is the loose nut on the wheel.
I am a bit surprised there was this big fire, though. Porsches are supposed to be safer than a tank.
What "good old days" where those? When you read the newspaper that conformed to your political viewpoint; the weekly magazine that covered any world events only as far as it affected you and others like you; watched only the TV shows that reinforced what you thought you already knew and believed?
No.
The internet before all this tracking of metrics and trying to anticipate what I'd like to see more of. I don't know what I want to see next, but I generally don't revisit the same old thing. After I bought a new camera is not the time to keep showing me camera stuff. When I looked up something on ebay to see what I might get for it, they keep trying to interest me in it over a year later - I don't buy everything I look at and there's no "I'm just trying to get an estimate of what I might get from a suck^H^H^H^Hbuyer so piss off and don't try to waggle it under my eyes for the next twelve bloody months" tick-box.
Just anecdotal, but the things facebook seems to track and then keep showing me have about 95% odds of not being of interest at all, the remaining 5% I wouldn't click on a link on there anyway or it's only tangentially relevant to something I was posting about.
After a while I just tune stuff out.
Reads like somebody trying to write in English, and utterly failing.
Sounds like the sort who want to find only what they've already found.
We quit this crap of trying to target things to audiences and get back to the good old days of yore when we went out and found things to fascinate, inform and enrich ourselves rather than suffering pigeon-holing. Honestly, I think farcebook, amazon and others have it completely wrong. I'm bored by the same ol - same ol. I'm an explorer and love to wander and see new things. Keep showing me what i've already seen or already bought and I'm losing attention.
Some people are so darn moronic they make chimps look superior by comparison, yet only people get the vote.
Oot GaRoot for President 2016
And if you try your case in certain places, you'll win. With Apple, apparently even if you lose, you win.
Apple's legal research team are working on splitting the Litigon, a particle with quantum spin which is capable of detecting where and when someone has violated their Intellectual Property.
Fortunately, links are provided and we can go off and read. More will undoubtably be in the paper (when published)
Icecube is pretty neat, too. I've been to a lecture on a similar type observatory, which is used to detect rays, their direction and wavelength which precede visible light of stellar events (such as novae).
Post your knot jokes here.
I don't knot what you are talking about.
At first I thought these rappers had more on the ball than met the ear.
Some of the facilities built for detecting particles are pretty fascinating, including one in northern Arizona, where the water is so pure it will corrode a screwdriver to iron oxide within a few days.
Very cool (no pun intended) observatory. Has it been in James Bond, yet?
The verdict clearly shows that Samsung did capitalize on Apple's enormous investment into R&D and should pay.
Tech R&D or Legal R&D?
It's so hard to tell these days without a scorecard.
Have you noticed these summaries never include what the patents are anymore? Samsung didn't even claim they didn't intrude on the patents, just that they made what their market research said was a good idea.
All you have to do is comprehensively patent every element of your design, and if any of it is a good idea, you'll get to sue anyone in the same field.
It's all a crap-shoot anyway. Odds are Apple holds a patent for something they don't use, but if you develop it independently and roll-out to market, you get shot down because they see you as encrouching on their turf*.
Next up, in a month or two: The reversal.
*everything, everywhere.
Now enter partisanship - there is a party who would like nothing better than for the healthcare system to fail miserably so they can make hay out of it.
Not nearly as deplorable as the other party who is actually MAKING it fail. Deflect all you like, you and your little rat friends own this mother fucker. Screw you
I'd rather the Healthcare Act fail, succeed or be improved on its own merits. As a developer I hate to see something like this fail because the web portal sucked on roll-out, as it's in the fore of the news it casts another shadow on web developers.
Sorry your heart is so full of hate that you can't see that.
A smart comment here beneath a snarky exterior. Profiteering created this this mess and I now can't help see this gentleman as anything but a dollar-bill eyed charlatan.
I would watch the video but, you know, this is Slashdot.
* I actually live in the UK but for once I'll refrain from the we have free healthcare, you obligatory insensitive clod joke. This site seems like a step in the right direction, all fingers crossed for my US brethren.
In the US there's a saying: if you want to make a lot of money, sell bad software to the public sector.
The primary disease symptom is a complete lack of understanding among the people who select the vendor, hand out specs and often do not know how to communicate technology needs. Also, when a project fails the vendor often can just walk away with their boat-load of cash, without so much as a backwards glance - where a private sector customer may be queuing up their lawyers to punish an incompetent vendor, the public sector often lets them completely off the hook and just looks for the next vendor promising the moon and stars on something else.
Now enter partisanship - there is a party who would like nothing better than for the healthcare system to fail miserably so they can make hay out of it. It's deplorable, but not nearly so much as a public willing to go along with this, rather than demand accountability upon the vendor(s) and their contacts. We the tax payer have already paid for this thing, love it or hate it, we should demand it work and work well.
I just pictured a cannon firing weighted companion cubes. But their picture is cool too.
For all you gnow, there could be gnomish compagnions in these.
And the pictures are very, very cool, indeed.
I approve of this.
Next stop: Skynet!
Are they first or second cousins and are we playing by North or South rules?
Safe to say they weren't geeks - they were getting some.
Toyota plans on selling the first hydrogen powered fuel cell car in Japan in 2015, and in the US and Europe in 2016. Which won't sell very well if the first hydrogen filling stations are planned for 2020. Does anyone have any real plans for those?
I'm sure the welder supply shops will love the business, but they aren't usually open on weekends.
If there's demand there will be supply. That's Capitalism.
Now if some billionaire starts applying to build these stations near urban and inter-urban areas, that's Capitalism.
And when lobbyists buy legislators to keep the 'Dangerous Unproven Fuel Stuff Stations' from going up, that's Capitalism, too. The kind where you can buy government.
Damn. Just bought 1,000,000 shares in Bob's Hydrogen Fuel Stop & Rob - Coast to Coast.
What's on my workbench? A bunch of dead computers. The quality of name brand PC's has gone into the toilet. Commodity quality served up to the mass markets leaves very little quality to be found.
What you need is a good ol' Sun SparcStation with an old release of Red Hat Linux installed on it. No end of fun. Really cool little computers, too and greased lightning with a tiny kernel. :)
I feel pretty good about that.
Much better than I ever could if I had no unfinished projects or any to start.
The beauty of a pile of parts and doo-dads scattered among various boxes is you always have something you can do if you have nothing else to do.
And there's always room for one more.
They should have spent it on coming up with more ways of saying "We're sorry".
While that makes the greater sense, where's the fun in doing the right thing, when you can do amazingly wrong things and then get caught, try to cover your ass and then hire yet-another company to harass your detractors?
The Internet - Not just for constructive collaboration anymore.
So do they apply for the job? I wonder if they have to list references or if being a frequent poster of reddit's /r/atheism or 4chan is enough.
They probably just go in as the user they wish to insult, drop a few assertions in a 4chan-like forum, with scarcely concealed credentials (of the intended) and let nature take its course. Why pay when you can get people to do the work for you for free (as in beer) ?
I do not consent to living in a police state.
I do not consent to "federal contractors".
I DO NOT CONSENT
OR:
"These are not the droids you're looking for."
They were looking for 'roids. When Lance Armstrong went through the meters all broke. TILT
It's a shame that this even happened.
It's amazing it happened in Texas, Fort Worth, even.