What is the point of such shameless hostility? How is this not a valid research topic? They have shown marked differences in how subjects perceive what should essentially be the same display of emotion by which mobile platforms they use. This has hefty implications on modern sociology, including the ability to predict how subjects may react to the same exact message based solely on their choice of phone.
A joke? Why does something that doesn't interest you have to be labeled as "a joke"?
What you should really be asking is how your comment passes as a valid addition to the discussion. That is the true "joke".
But, seriously, it's just a weird logo on a laptop that's too thin to be practical. Big deal. I don't want to carry around damn dongle to use an Ethernet or HDMI port!
Well, it certainly is a good thing that you aren't the target demographic, huh?
If Donald Trump had taken the million dollars he was give by his father and just invested it in a S&P index fund, he'd be worth $10,000,000,000 more than he is right now.
Why is kind of sentiment always modded up? If any person on the planet had insider knowledge about the performance of the stock market for the next 30 years, they could become wildly rich as well.
You realize that your point is essentially saying "if Trump were a mind-reader, he'd be better off!" No shit.
At the personal tech. level, however, not even the pretense of being FOSS-friendly is there.
Small steps, friend. As a "personal" user of Windows, as well as a developer, I can't tell you how excited I am to see the.Net framework open-sourced, Xamarin made free, Visual Studio given a powerful free version, and just the many other changes that have been made recently at the company. These have huge implications for the amount of small-scale, well functioning open-source projects that can start to exist for Windows now.
Yeah, Microsoft isn't quite matching RMS's level of enthusiasm for FOSS, either in the enterprise or on the personal computing level, but I think the behemoth has to move at a slow pace, at least for now, to shake off all the rust that has accumulated under Ballmer's reign. I like what I'm seeing so far, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
I don't even understand what the implication is here. Is it that they should feel embarrassed for working at a startup? Or that they work on one of the more popular phone applications of our time? Are you just making some baseless jab with the hopes that someone will bite, laugh, and +1 Funny you, even if they don't understand why it was funny in the first place? Do you hold some personal vendetta against that company? Do you think of them or their product as "childish" or "beneath you"?
Why the hell would they even do this? Kill off a tool that attracts more and more people to C# and the.NET platform as a whole? Stop with the idiotic quotes.
But smartphones already hold the keys to most of our lives, anyway. If anything, theft has actually decreased due to the popularity of bio-metric security.
I currently live in Atlanta, and I have a similar experience. I live in the center of midtown, and work in buckhead. I can (and do) walk a short distance to the marta station and take the train up north, which drops me off just a couple blocks from my office. I rarely drive my card these days.
I'm not terribly concerned about people knowing how many steps I've taken today or what my average heart rate is. Saying "health data" in this context is like saying "financial data" when referring to the knowledge of what some 10 year old receives as an allowance each week.
Some people like to browse a site long before summoning the nerve to actually make an account and post. Or, perhaps, is it possible that I forgot the password I had used for my 4 digit UID account?
What's funny is that my previous comment talked about the silliness of taking something on the internet at face value, with no thought or concern about extenuating circumstances that may explain why something appears the way it does.
Just to make a note: That article currently has a "last modified" date of April 29th. For comparison, I've linked to the April 9th snapshot of the same article.
No mention of tattoos anywhere, to my knowledge. Granted, this is being fairly pedantic, but it surprises me that posters on slashdot would look at a page on the web in its current form and make statements that seem to imply that page has always existed in that same form.
once an android competitor comes out and hangs around in this artificial market long enough until people realize singing talking wrist watches are about as practical as google glass
But they have done something to earn it. They provide artists with a lot of up-front capital, and in exchange, indenture them into a life of servitude.
I'm not at all saying that it is ethical, but it certainly has been proven to be a good business model. You may not like what the record industries do (who does?), but to say that they haven't done anything to earn the money is kind of naive. They function very similarly to a bank. If you don't like how they operate, go elsewhere. But the matter of fact is that a large number of artists continue to flock to these labels because of the perceived stability and name recognition.
It really is tiring to see such incendiary articles posted to slashdot. I mean, whether religious or non, is anyone here hoping to have an intelligent or civil debate on the subject? Aren't you just allowing the editors to prove how well they are doing to their Dice overlords by pointing to a piece such as this and saying "look, 600 comments! think of all the ad-revenue this article must have generated!"
If you want to be religious and non-scientific, do that. Likewise, if you choose to be scientific and non-religious, do that as well. One can also be both or neither, and those are both valid options for how one should live his life, too. However, it serves no purpose but to further degrade the quality of this site when we engage in such a meaningless flame-war, especially when it is generated by such blatant pandering.
Once again, missing the point. In my (small) shop, by using azure (which has worked well for us), we avoid having to use money to hire admins to maintain any sort of in house servers we might have. We can then put that money towards more developers (or better salaries for us current devs), as well as paying for training, nicer dev machines, etc. At the same time, if we do have a problem with any sort of hosted service through azure, support is literally a phone call away, and I can't remember the last time a resolution didn't happen within a couple hours.
Sure, cloud computing has its short-comings. But it has also allowed a litany of small companies who simply can't afford to own their own infrastructure to do business.
I'm fairly certain that in the layman's mind, that same "durability and communication" that the brand name Nokia implies conjures images of the old Nokia brick phones. While those certainly were durable and useful, they are also very archaic. Nokia might represent good, durable technology, but that is meaningless when the general public perceives it as "old". In an age where 2 years between new phones begins to sound like an eternity, a phone manufacturer would probably do well not to let the public still think of its main product as a monochrome, extremely basic cellphone from the early 2000s.
In a word, no. PETA doesn't concern itself with topics of sustainability and preservation of the planet. It prides itself on a hyper-sensationalized message about how humans are evil and can literally do no right to animals.
It really is unfortunate. Where there is room for a decent, effective animal rights group to help solve problems of animal abuse and cruel treatment, PETA has decided to completely occupy the space with its lunatic and extreme ideals, berating or silencing anyone that dares oppose their just and righteous mission.
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What is the point of such shameless hostility? How is this not a valid research topic? They have shown marked differences in how subjects perceive what should essentially be the same display of emotion by which mobile platforms they use. This has hefty implications on modern sociology, including the ability to predict how subjects may react to the same exact message based solely on their choice of phone.
A joke? Why does something that doesn't interest you have to be labeled as "a joke"?
What you should really be asking is how your comment passes as a valid addition to the discussion. That is the true "joke".
But, seriously, it's just a weird logo on a laptop that's too thin to be practical. Big deal. I don't want to carry around damn dongle to use an Ethernet or HDMI port!
Well, it certainly is a good thing that you aren't the target demographic, huh?
If Donald Trump had taken the million dollars he was give by his father and just invested it in a S&P index fund, he'd be worth $10,000,000,000 more than he is right now.
Why is kind of sentiment always modded up? If any person on the planet had insider knowledge about the performance of the stock market for the next 30 years, they could become wildly rich as well.
You realize that your point is essentially saying "if Trump were a mind-reader, he'd be better off!"
No shit.
At the personal tech. level, however, not even the pretense of being FOSS-friendly is there.
Small steps, friend. As a "personal" user of Windows, as well as a developer, I can't tell you how excited I am to see the .Net framework open-sourced, Xamarin made free, Visual Studio given a powerful free version, and just the many other changes that have been made recently at the company. These have huge implications for the amount of small-scale, well functioning open-source projects that can start to exist for Windows now.
Yeah, Microsoft isn't quite matching RMS's level of enthusiasm for FOSS, either in the enterprise or on the personal computing level, but I think the behemoth has to move at a slow pace, at least for now, to shake off all the rust that has accumulated under Ballmer's reign. I like what I'm seeing so far, and I'm excited to see where it goes.
Something about embracing and extending.
Very phallic.
I don't even understand what the implication is here. Is it that they should feel embarrassed for working at a startup? Or that they work on one of the more popular phone applications of our time? Are you just making some baseless jab with the hopes that someone will bite, laugh, and +1 Funny you, even if they don't understand why it was funny in the first place? Do you hold some personal vendetta against that company? Do you think of them or their product as "childish" or "beneath you"?
I really am interested in the reason(s).
"Embrace, extend, extinguish"...
Why the hell would they even do this? Kill off a tool that attracts more and more people to C# and the .NET platform as a whole? Stop with the idiotic quotes.
But smartphones already hold the keys to most of our lives, anyway. If anything, theft has actually decreased due to the popularity of bio-metric security.
I wish I had mod points today.
+1 Hilarious
I currently live in Atlanta, and I have a similar experience. I live in the center of midtown, and work in buckhead. I can (and do) walk a short distance to the marta station and take the train up north, which drops me off just a couple blocks from my office. I rarely drive my card these days.
Sorry, I make it a point not to download cars anymore. Too worried about piracy laws.
Health data. Nice.
I'm not terribly concerned about people knowing how many steps I've taken today or what my average heart rate is. Saying "health data" in this context is like saying "financial data" when referring to the knowledge of what some 10 year old receives as an allowance each week.
Some people like to browse a site long before summoning the nerve to actually make an account and post. Or, perhaps, is it possible that I forgot the password I had used for my 4 digit UID account?
What's funny is that my previous comment talked about the silliness of taking something on the internet at face value, with no thought or concern about extenuating circumstances that may explain why something appears the way it does.
Oh well, off topic rant over.
Just to make a note: That article currently has a "last modified" date of April 29th. For comparison, I've linked to the April 9th snapshot of the same article.
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
No mention of tattoos anywhere, to my knowledge. Granted, this is being fairly pedantic, but it surprises me that posters on slashdot would look at a page on the web in its current form and make statements that seem to imply that page has always existed in that same form.
White people certainly are the only ones capable of displaying racist tendencies, right?
once an android competitor comes out and hangs around in this artificial market long enough until people realize singing talking wrist watches are about as practical as google glass
Uh, I have some news for you.
...I was glad that I took MARTA that day!
But they have done something to earn it. They provide artists with a lot of up-front capital, and in exchange, indenture them into a life of servitude.
I'm not at all saying that it is ethical, but it certainly has been proven to be a good business model. You may not like what the record industries do (who does?), but to say that they haven't done anything to earn the money is kind of naive. They function very similarly to a bank. If you don't like how they operate, go elsewhere. But the matter of fact is that a large number of artists continue to flock to these labels because of the perceived stability and name recognition.
It's the epitome of first world problems, and should be treated as such.
I think your rabid hatred of it is the real epitome of a first world problem.
It never ceases to amaze me how "stop liking what I don't like" posts get moderated to +5 Insightful.
Where is the insight here? Other than the clear insight into the poster's fear of experimental, new technologies and applications.
It really is tiring to see such incendiary articles posted to slashdot. I mean, whether religious or non, is anyone here hoping to have an intelligent or civil debate on the subject? Aren't you just allowing the editors to prove how well they are doing to their Dice overlords by pointing to a piece such as this and saying "look, 600 comments! think of all the ad-revenue this article must have generated!"
If you want to be religious and non-scientific, do that. Likewise, if you choose to be scientific and non-religious, do that as well. One can also be both or neither, and those are both valid options for how one should live his life, too. However, it serves no purpose but to further degrade the quality of this site when we engage in such a meaningless flame-war, especially when it is generated by such blatant pandering.
Slashvertisements are articles that may actually target slashdot's userbase. How would this phone do that on anything more than a marginal level?
Once again, missing the point. In my (small) shop, by using azure (which has worked well for us), we avoid having to use money to hire admins to maintain any sort of in house servers we might have. We can then put that money towards more developers (or better salaries for us current devs), as well as paying for training, nicer dev machines, etc. At the same time, if we do have a problem with any sort of hosted service through azure, support is literally a phone call away, and I can't remember the last time a resolution didn't happen within a couple hours.
Sure, cloud computing has its short-comings. But it has also allowed a litany of small companies who simply can't afford to own their own infrastructure to do business.
I'm fairly certain that in the layman's mind, that same "durability and communication" that the brand name Nokia implies conjures images of the old Nokia brick phones. While those certainly were durable and useful, they are also very archaic. Nokia might represent good, durable technology, but that is meaningless when the general public perceives it as "old". In an age where 2 years between new phones begins to sound like an eternity, a phone manufacturer would probably do well not to let the public still think of its main product as a monochrome, extremely basic cellphone from the early 2000s.
Aren't the PETA folks big environmentalists too?
In a word, no. PETA doesn't concern itself with topics of sustainability and preservation of the planet. It prides itself on a hyper-sensationalized message about how humans are evil and can literally do no right to animals.
It really is unfortunate. Where there is room for a decent, effective animal rights group to help solve problems of animal abuse and cruel treatment, PETA has decided to completely occupy the space with its lunatic and extreme ideals, berating or silencing anyone that dares oppose their just and righteous mission.