This was kinda suspicious for both things to happen at the same time especially because Caleb never explained why he left. HOWEVER, Caleb has posted to his personal site that he's started a new job at EETimes.com. Not sure why that was worth keeping secret.
Still, the whole thing feels like the current owner is holding the site for ransom. The way it is being explained is that the profits from hackaday are being poured into other weblogs, but if this campaign is successful, a non-profit will be formed and advertising profits will be poured back into the site.
I don't understand why they don't just buy a new domain. The freakin site is made with wordpress, who cares, the community can migrate.
Algebra Touch is an amazing app that demonstrates how variables work in algebraic equations, highly recommended. Maybe too high level for a 3 year old but it's about as mathy as iOS can get.
If Microsoft came into a Gnu event it would be bashed as them crashing a party. Same kind of thing here.
I agree with you but only to a certain extent. This incident was also a protest about user freedom, as much as it was a promotional activity for free software.
If microsoft protested a free software event they'd be laughed out of the room.
So I remain divided: showing up to someones launch event so that you can promote their competitor: utterly tasteless. Showing up somewhere to raise awareness of user rights and freedoms: admirable. Strange mix here..
Especially the engineers. You need engineers to keep doing what you do. This really bodes badly for AMD, because without engineers, they're basically slitting their company's wrists. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that they're getting rid of the ones with seniority at that to try to save a few bucks on salary while simultaneously bleeding themselves out of knowledge and experience.
Early retirement - the perfect recipe for short term savings and long term loss of institutional knowledge!!
Everyone on/. already knows correlation != causation.
People that drink 2L bottles of soda on a regular basis are going to high higher BPA and higher obesity.
I love how the government is trumpeting the fact that they're doing this, because they're all upset that THEY should be the only ones allowed to track people.
Exactly. Intel seems like a great company with intelligent engineers, but look how long it's taken for them to come even close to ATI or Radeon discrete graphics. They're not going to be in the cell phone game anytime soon.
And an intel based iphone? Not soon. Maybe in a few years. MAYBE. I'll believe it when I see it.
Up in Canada we had a weird public debate about "usage based billing" for broadband. Eventually our FCC equivalent ruled that ISPs could only charge based on bandwidth, not data usage.
I personally don't really see the problem. You get charged based on how much electricity you use..
Why are the popular channels subsidizing poor-performing specialty channels? What's the logic in that? Why is the cable company carrying a channel that's not profitable?
Their argument rings so damn hollow it's ridiculous.
There's no clean way to ensure a new owner will provide service for your old email address to your satisfaction.
However, it is ridiculously easy for you to set up a permanent redirect from the front page of the website to a new location managed by this guy who is interested in being the new maintainer.
You could even set him up with a subdomain of the current domain name so that folks feel comfortable that it's the same old site they've been visiting for years. This requires very little effort on your part and you maintain control over your email address.
they would be using their back to pull against that 40-lb resistance...which is not that big a deal if you're in shape.
40 lb resistance is not a lot of weight but putting all that pressure onto a coin-sized ring that could only be pulled with one gloved finger? That seems really odd to me.
Think of the last time you carried groceries nowhere near 40 lb and the bags cut into your hand, even though you were using all four fingers. Increase the weight to 40lb, then quadruple it by putting it on one finger. That's a lot of force required.
Look, using metrics doesn't indicate lazy management.
Look, using metrics that you don't have available doesn't indicate lazy management.
Look, using metrics that you don't have available so you ask your staff to measure their own metrics doesn't indicate lazy management.
Look, using metrics that you don't have available, so you ask your staff to measure their own metrics, but you don't know what metrics they should measure, so they end up asking Slashdot what some good metrics are, doesn't indicate lazy management.
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I've read hackaday for years.
A couple weeks ago on July 1st, Caleb Kraft announced he was leaving and the site went for sale on the same day.
This was kinda suspicious for both things to happen at the same time especially because Caleb never explained why he left. HOWEVER, Caleb has posted to his personal site that he's started a new job at EETimes.com. Not sure why that was worth keeping secret.
Still, the whole thing feels like the current owner is holding the site for ransom. The way it is being explained is that the profits from hackaday are being poured into other weblogs, but if this campaign is successful, a non-profit will be formed and advertising profits will be poured back into the site.
I don't understand why they don't just buy a new domain. The freakin site is made with wordpress, who cares, the community can migrate.
Oh, you want a cut of the profits??
*rummages in pockets, produces crumpled gum wrapper*
When the economy melted down in Greece the price of food became a concern
http://www.infowars.com/desperation-greece-to-allow-sale-of-expired-foods-to-citizens/
This may not have been a 32/64 bit difference but VMWare taking advantage of AMD-V extensions in the athlon 64 processor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
Isn't it also an AMD CPU issue? Or is the problem simply much more pronounced with this particular line of Radeon GPUs?
Or was the CPU problem long corrected?
This article from TechReport in August convinced me not to go AMD for my next gaming PC:
http://techreport.com/review/23246/inside-the-second-gaming-performance-with-today-cpus
Both companies are struggling majorly and it's good they were able to resolve this so that they can try to focus on developing competitive products.
Algebra Touch is an amazing app that demonstrates how variables work in algebraic equations, highly recommended. Maybe too high level for a 3 year old but it's about as mathy as iOS can get.
Coincidentally Mike Tyson loves pigeons and one of the reasons he started boxing was his horror when hooligans found his coops and killed his pigeons.
Not relevant to this story at all of course, animal activists are stupid as hell
I'm guessing the likely explanation is that Big Media only cares about other Big Media and this Nate Silver guy has the NYT as a patron
I agree with you but only to a certain extent. This incident was also a protest about user freedom, as much as it was a promotional activity for free software.
If microsoft protested a free software event they'd be laughed out of the room.
So I remain divided: showing up to someones launch event so that you can promote their competitor: utterly tasteless. Showing up somewhere to raise awareness of user rights and freedoms: admirable. Strange mix here..
Why would I switch back to the full suite when Firefox was originally the leaner meaner version of the Mozilla suite?
Firefox started imitating Chrome so much that I just said screw it and switched to Chrome, why limit yourself to a poor imitation..
Early retirement - the perfect recipe for short term savings and long term loss of institutional knowledge!!
Everyone on /. already knows correlation != causation.
People that drink 2L bottles of soda on a regular basis are going to high higher BPA and higher obesity.
I love how the government is trumpeting the fact that they're doing this, because they're all upset that THEY should be the only ones allowed to track people.
Exactly. Intel seems like a great company with intelligent engineers, but look how long it's taken for them to come even close to ATI or Radeon discrete graphics. They're not going to be in the cell phone game anytime soon.
And an intel based iphone? Not soon. Maybe in a few years. MAYBE. I'll believe it when I see it.
Up in Canada we had a weird public debate about "usage based billing" for broadband. Eventually our FCC equivalent ruled that ISPs could only charge based on bandwidth, not data usage.
I personally don't really see the problem. You get charged based on how much electricity you use..
Why are the popular channels subsidizing poor-performing specialty channels? What's the logic in that? Why is the cable company carrying a channel that's not profitable?
Their argument rings so damn hollow it's ridiculous.
I think you're forgetting the very beginning of the film where Luke is drunk and cutting the heads off of parking meters
There's no clean way to ensure a new owner will provide service for your old email address to your satisfaction.
However, it is ridiculously easy for you to set up a permanent redirect from the front page of the website to a new location managed by this guy who is interested in being the new maintainer.
You could even set him up with a subdomain of the current domain name so that folks feel comfortable that it's the same old site they've been visiting for years. This requires very little effort on your part and you maintain control over your email address.
i heard that they don't even allow redheads at sperm banks anymore
Agreed. IANAL but we get a lot of lawyerly types on Slashdot saying that precedent is everything.
40 lb resistance is not a lot of weight but putting all that pressure onto a coin-sized ring that could only be pulled with one gloved finger? That seems really odd to me.
Think of the last time you carried groceries nowhere near 40 lb and the bags cut into your hand, even though you were using all four fingers. Increase the weight to 40lb, then quadruple it by putting it on one finger. That's a lot of force required.
Look, using metrics doesn't indicate lazy management.
Look, using metrics that you don't have available doesn't indicate lazy management.
Look, using metrics that you don't have available so you ask your staff to measure their own metrics doesn't indicate lazy management.
Look, using metrics that you don't have available, so you ask your staff to measure their own metrics, but you don't know what metrics they should measure, so they end up asking Slashdot what some good metrics are, doesn't indicate lazy management.
One of you is getting fired
language that existed in MUDs still exist in modern MMOs -- words like proc and mob