I did business process automation workflow development after graduating university. I spent a fair amount of time at university playing on and creating content for MUDs. The approach I took to creating business process maps was the same as creating quests and areas for MUDs. I just had to be careful with my code comments. The director of finance probably wouldn't appreciate being referred to as the huge ugly troll guarding a pile treasure.
Books can sit on a bookshelf for everyone including myself to see. Books smell like books. Books can give you paper cuts. Books can be borrowed and shared. Books can be marked up (albeit with poor handwriting recognition;) Books can be thrown across the room. Books can be burned.
Intrigued by the Sinclair Lewis quote? Check out the Project Gutenberg copy of It Can't Happen Here, his speculative novel about the election of a fascist as U.S. president.
Check the terms of your employment before setting up shop on your company's hardware. Typically business frown on personal use of company resources. Worse, they pretty much pwn whatever is on them.. including your brilliant ideas squirreled away between email love letters and Mexican vacation photos. Roll your own or find a reliable hosting service.
Please, please, please select parent comment for inclusion. It isn't insulting and it gets the point across in a humorous but intelligent way. I and many others would love to read the response to it, whether it is taken seriously or not.
He had mirrors installed next to the elevator on every floor.
I had an industrial organizational psychology course at university and our prof told us the same story. I was going to share it until I read yours. I somehow doubt we attended the same university much less had the same professor. Could this be a psych course urban legend?
"I could strip attribution and take away incentive for a user to submit. "
If their incentive to submit is attribution, they shouldn't be submitting.
I so wish I had mod points today. In my opinion parent is the best solution to the issue that requires little coding and maintenance. On the whole I'd like to see this AND submission moderating al a K5. That way if a linkwhore does get through it could be moderated appropriate for those that care about such things.
Slashdot could still track submitter history for the HoF if submitters want glory. In my opinion the submitter of the article should not be part of the article as they have nothing to do with each other. Or at least should have nothing to do with each other.
I'm glad to read Marriot is offering credit fraud monitoring to the affected people like how Ford offered to its employees when they recently lost 70,000 employee/retiree SSNs. Unless it is lifetime monitoring I fail to see the long term value.
Wait a second, why don't the credit bureaus offer free lifetime credit fraud monitoring to everyone in the first place?
I've been playing games since the old 8bit Nintendos. I was that college kid in the early 90's pulling all-nighters on a MUD. However today I don't consider myself a "gamer" but I do spend multiple hours a week playing some sort of game on the Windows compy or PS2. I find it interesting that of all the games I've played this year and have enjoyed very much.. none of them are on that list. That isn't to say I didn't play any of those or that they aren't any good to begin with. I just find it interesting when I'm that far out of sync with a popular culture market. It warms my heart in a certain south of market way.:)
I was going to comment on how we never hear about piracy of anything considered to be of quality. But I can read your subtext and considered it done. Why do you think it is always the pop culture crap that the *AA go after? It must be the thick revenue streams where Commonism lives that they are trying to protect, not the art itself. Regardless, I would be so ashamed if I had to fight legal action for uploading a Madonna song or something. All my friends would be like "I read about your lawsuit on slashdot... you watched Coach Carter? *snicker*"
He added that the nerve endings, in addition to other readings, undoubtedly produce tactile sensations when the tusk is rubbed or touched, and that these might be interpreted as pleasurable. This tactile sense might explain why narwhals engage in what is known as "tusking," where two males gently rub tusks together, Dr. Nweeia said.
I couldn't help snickering that this. Not because narwhals might have the gay, but how uncomfortable it makes some people to have to acknowledge this behavior when they don't want to, especially "scientists". Sexual repression in others is always good for a laugh.
Dr. Nweeia said that gentle tusking might also be a way that males remove encrustations on their tusks so tubules stay open, allowing them to better function as sensors. "It may simply be their way of cleaning or brushing teeth," he said.
Geez, this paragraph wins the "when you're a hammer every problem looks like a nail" award for the day.
I take it you were not under contract. If so, welcome to at will employment. If you didn't know that already I just hope you had the sense to get your next job (if looking for one) before you quit your previous one. Like selling a house, it is much easier to get hired if you already have a job.
The recording companies are getting closer to this than you think. Very recently the developer of pearLyrics (software that displays the lyrics of the currently-playing track in iTunes) was recently sent a cease and desist letter from Warner/Chappell Music Limited so the developer pulled the software rather than risk a lawsuit. PearLyrics gets the lyrics from the ID3 tag in the mp3 file, or if they aren't in there, it searches for them on a few different web sites, and then saves them into the mp3s. All it does is essentially what a person can do legally with a search engine and mp3 editor.
I guess this means it is legal to listen to lyrics but illegal to read them.
I believe the idea is to make this laptop available to developed countries for about $200 to help subsidize the $100 to under developed and developing counties. I like that idea and would buy one just to help out.
Agree. In my business, we frequently have to rely on the 80-20 rule - solve 80% of the problem that you can with the least effort and then worry about the other 20%. This seems like what they are trying to do.
How is your business doing? I ask because either you're not using the 80/20 rule most business apply or you're doing it incorrectly. The 80/20 rule is defined as for many phenomena 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. Most management apply this by focusing on the 20% of their business that drive 80% of their profits. It says nothing of effort, only value. Also, the principle does not infer 80 + 20 = 100. It could very well be the 80/10 rule and have the same meaning. Check out the slashdot research project for more information.
As for Katrina, he said rebuilding seven feet under sea level didn't make any sense. Frankly, it still doesn't if you approach it with common sense, but emotional and cutural importance seem to have rendered this argument silent.
Outer space is pretty dangerous. We shouldn't be out there either. While we're at it, everyone living within 100 miles of anything remotely dangerous should move to... where, exactly?
It is wrong to presume that the programmers in Bangalore, Chennai, and where ever are A list programmers. Frankly it doesn't matter. The joke is H1Bs here are losing jobs to their country(wo)men back home. I know for a fact this chaps some of their asses. The ironical [sic] thing is that quality has never been a included in all strategery [sic] statements I've read about offshoring programming jobs including those of my own company and related companies in my business field. Wage equalization trafficked on teh internets [sic] will bite the A list programmers regardless of whether they'll eat a hamburger in whatever timezone they're in.
Ask the H1Bs in the US how they feel about their jobs being taken away by the B and C list programmers back home in Bangalore. Imagine working your ass off to come over here for the opportunity only to have the guy from your CIS101 class who thought HTML was a programming language steal your job. Global economies are teh suck.
Here's my order of preference (#1 is most preferred) in obtaining/paying for content. Feel free to share with your marketing department.
1. high quality video file (low cost, fast download, no to few commercials) 2. high quality recorded TV (market rate, no commercials) 3. lower quality video file (no cost, no commercials) 4. high quality "live" TV (market rate, 20 minutes of commercials)
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I did business process automation workflow development after graduating university. I spent a fair amount of time at university playing on and creating content for MUDs. The approach I took to creating business process maps was the same as creating quests and areas for MUDs. I just had to be careful with my code comments. The director of finance probably wouldn't appreciate being referred to as the huge ugly troll guarding a pile treasure.
Books can sit on a bookshelf for everyone including myself to see. ;)
Books smell like books.
Books can give you paper cuts.
Books can be borrowed and shared.
Books can be marked up (albeit with poor handwriting recognition
Books can be thrown across the room.
Books can be burned.
Intrigued by the Sinclair Lewis quote? Check out the Project Gutenberg copy of It Can't Happen Here, his speculative novel about the election of a fascist as U.S. president.
(love the wiki)Check the terms of your employment before setting up shop on your company's hardware. Typically business frown on personal use of company resources. Worse, they pretty much pwn whatever is on them.. including your brilliant ideas squirreled away between email love letters and Mexican vacation photos. Roll your own or find a reliable hosting service.
that was LAST week's "future". So, shall we take bets on next week's "future"?
I think what you're referring to is The Long Now. Here's an essay on it and the grim meathook future.
Please, please, please select parent comment for inclusion. It isn't insulting and it gets the point across in a humorous but intelligent way. I and many others would love to read the response to it, whether it is taken seriously or not.
He had mirrors installed next to the elevator on every floor.
I had an industrial organizational psychology course at university and our prof told us the same story. I was going to share it until I read yours. I somehow doubt we attended the same university much less had the same professor. Could this be a psych course urban legend?
"I could strip attribution and take away incentive for a user to submit. "
If their incentive to submit is attribution, they shouldn't be submitting.
I so wish I had mod points today. In my opinion parent is the best solution to the issue that requires little coding and maintenance. On the whole I'd like to see this AND submission moderating al a K5. That way if a linkwhore does get through it could be moderated appropriate for those that care about such things.
Slashdot could still track submitter history for the HoF if submitters want glory. In my opinion the submitter of the article should not be part of the article as they have nothing to do with each other. Or at least should have nothing to do with each other.
I'm glad to read Marriot is offering credit fraud monitoring to the affected people like how Ford offered to its employees when they recently lost 70,000 employee/retiree SSNs. Unless it is lifetime monitoring I fail to see the long term value.
Wait a second, why don't the credit bureaus offer free lifetime credit fraud monitoring to everyone in the first place?
I've been playing games since the old 8bit Nintendos. I was that college kid in the early 90's pulling all-nighters on a MUD. However today I don't consider myself a "gamer" but I do spend multiple hours a week playing some sort of game on the Windows compy or PS2. I find it interesting that of all the games I've played this year and have enjoyed very much.. none of them are on that list. That isn't to say I didn't play any of those or that they aren't any good to begin with. I just find it interesting when I'm that far out of sync with a popular culture market. It warms my heart in a certain south of market way. :)
Happy War on Christmas everyone!
Recommended order: soap, ballot, jury, ammo.
I was going to comment on how we never hear about piracy of anything considered to be of quality. But I can read your subtext and considered it done. Why do you think it is always the pop culture crap that the *AA go after? It must be the thick revenue streams where Commonism lives that they are trying to protect, not the art itself. Regardless, I would be so ashamed if I had to fight legal action for uploading a Madonna song or something. All my friends would be like "I read about your lawsuit on slashdot... you watched Coach Carter? *snicker*"
He added that the nerve endings, in addition to other readings, undoubtedly produce tactile sensations when the tusk is rubbed or touched, and that these might be interpreted as pleasurable. This tactile sense might explain why narwhals engage in what is known as "tusking," where two males gently rub tusks together, Dr. Nweeia said.
I couldn't help snickering that this. Not because narwhals might have the gay, but how uncomfortable it makes some people to have to acknowledge this behavior when they don't want to, especially "scientists". Sexual repression in others is always good for a laugh.
Dr. Nweeia said that gentle tusking might also be a way that males remove encrustations on their tusks so tubules stay open, allowing them to better function as sensors. "It may simply be their way of cleaning or brushing teeth," he said.
Geez, this paragraph wins the "when you're a hammer every problem looks like a nail" award for the day.
What I'd like to know is what didn't make the front page because this got posted instead?
Come back in a couple days, the dupe will show up.
...
(Would it still be a dupe?)
I take it you were not under contract. If so, welcome to at will employment. If you didn't know that already I just hope you had the sense to get your next job (if looking for one) before you quit your previous one. Like selling a house, it is much easier to get hired if you already have a job.
I guess this means it is legal to listen to lyrics but illegal to read them.
I believe the idea is to make this laptop available to developed countries for about $200 to help subsidize the $100 to under developed and developing counties. I like that idea and would buy one just to help out.
Why not just help out anyway?
Agree. In my business, we frequently have to rely on the 80-20 rule - solve 80% of the problem that you can with the least effort and then worry about the other 20%. This seems like what they are trying to do.
How is your business doing? I ask because either you're not using the 80/20 rule most business apply or you're doing it incorrectly. The 80/20 rule is defined as for many phenomena 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. Most management apply this by focusing on the 20% of their business that drive 80% of their profits. It says nothing of effort, only value. Also, the principle does not infer 80 + 20 = 100. It could very well be the 80/10 rule and have the same meaning. Check out the slashdot research project for more information.
As for Katrina, he said rebuilding seven feet under sea level didn't make any sense. Frankly, it still doesn't if you approach it with common sense, but emotional and cutural importance seem to have rendered this argument silent.
Outer space is pretty dangerous. We shouldn't be out there either. While we're at it, everyone living within 100 miles of anything remotely dangerous should move to... where, exactly?
Air flow may be another issue. Standing in a cooridor between racks may feel like 60F but in the rack between boxes it is much higher.
It is wrong to presume that the programmers in Bangalore, Chennai, and where ever are A list programmers. Frankly it doesn't matter. The joke is H1Bs here are losing jobs to their country(wo)men back home. I know for a fact this chaps some of their asses. The ironical [sic] thing is that quality has never been a included in all strategery [sic] statements I've read about offshoring programming jobs including those of my own company and related companies in my business field. Wage equalization trafficked on teh internets [sic] will bite the A list programmers regardless of whether they'll eat a hamburger in whatever timezone they're in.
Ask the H1Bs in the US how they feel about their jobs being taken away by the B and C list programmers back home in Bangalore. Imagine working your ass off to come over here for the opportunity only to have the guy from your CIS101 class who thought HTML was a programming language steal your job. Global economies are teh suck.
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Here's my order of preference (#1 is most preferred) in obtaining/paying for content. Feel free to share with your marketing department.
1. high quality video file (low cost, fast download, no to few commercials)
2. high quality recorded TV (market rate, no commercials)
3. lower quality video file (no cost, no commercials)
4. high quality "live" TV (market rate, 20 minutes of commercials)