> FACT: Most people don't give a shit if their phone is 1mm thicker or thinner, and many would happily trade a millimeter or two of thickness for a larger battery. But somehow the Powers That Be have decided that what people want isn't as important as saving a dollar in production costs. I figure they don't care what people want, it's the buzz headlines that matter.
- You pitch your prototype at CES or whatever - All the tech websites line up for their 30-90 seconds to play with it - They piece together full phone judgement out of those seconds - Build an entire article out of it by 19:00 deadline
They ramble about the glossy whatever or how the buttons feel when you press them, about the texture of the phone's back. Then there's a line about the 2250mA/h battery or the RAM being slightly better/worse than the last model iteration or competition. Say something about budget phones or flagships, stamp your name on it, publish.
The inevitable phone case doesn't matter on the show floor. The edge-to-edge no bevel? Journalist orgasm. Consumer shrug. Thickness? The new "megapixels".
>but doesn't follow through There's a marginal blame for lax follow through on the follow through that rolls uphill (or at least is supposed to) into middle management or higher.
Mind, this level of blame may be little more than mild reprimand for doing a meh job. Your point stands, IT's at fault if they were ordered to do X and didn't.
>people these days, rarely seem to respond to a "Thank you" with a "Your Welcome" you're* Lots of them are the diluted variety that doesn't actually mean "Thank you", much like how there's a certain version of "How are you" that you're never supposed to genuinely answer, only acknowledge with the word Fine, making for an absolute waste of three seconds with absolutely meaningless babble - it's meant to be ritualistic, a gesture. And there's no hard way to distinguish it from a sincere query besides the mess of context, body language, intonation, etc that we lean on.
Similarly, there's a hollow "thank you" in contemporary conduct that, functionally, is pretty identical to a "Good day." closing. Only even more meaningless.
This shit is pretty verbose when we write it out, and you're just supposed to "get it" to participate in society. It's rough on people who can't. I've sometimes thought that there should be like, community classes or something for people who've been isolated or deployed overseas or homeschooled or whatever for decades, and need a crash course on all the little retarded carousels we're stuck inflicting on ourselves.
>ensure they have a minimum baseline of security. NO, that's victim blaming, people can do jack all, or even worse than nothing, and should still be morally indemnified. And financially. Because they have zero culpability.
You're right, it's hurting our brand. So now you're assigned to fix it. Have an action plan on my desk in a month or you're fired.
Fortunately it doesn't matter if you actually follow through on any of the crap in it, or if you do, that any of it is actually efficacious. I just need something to tell the board/shareholders. Ideally the users swallow it too.
This is much more important damage control that the effects of people seeing our quarterly earnings.
Knowledge that has been "in the wild" can never be quarantined, no more than a ritual gesture can revert virginity. Doesn't matter how ethical you feeeeel about it. Pee's in the pool. Cat's outta the bag. One way valve, barring time travel.
This makes for some weird laws, which think they can control a concept, a mental abstract, everywhere in the universe. Simultaneously. Forever.
Data is a contagion. It's only yours to control if quarantined.
Not on an individual one, no, but the collective. Introspection is great and all, but know the meta, then you know what's dis/advantageous, where to ignore and where to strike, where to look away and where to watch closely.
>Kodi lowers the bar This is exactly what causes the burn flag. There's possibly some insightful remark to make about hipsters and the fear of things mainstream and popular. I'm not quite sure what, so whatever. But the cartels don't care about your obscure IRC XDCC distros, they especially don't give a flying fuck about all the holes our kind pokes in their "securities" in our armchair posts, about our proof of concepts and how we could theoretically do this or that - they don't care, as long as Joe Everyman is thwarted and keeps paying up.
This causes weird misleading effects, like the impression we're above the law - because the law is, in fact, being selectively enforced. Like they indirectly give us their blessing. It's not a moral pursuit, it's not for public safety, it's driven by profit and it shows.
No, that doesn't really mean "precisely between 1 and 100".
On the whole, gold isn't worth spending hours after if you're a member of the paycheck club in a developed country. Same as when they did the RMAH in Diablo III.
It's not yours, nothing is yours. Welcome to the 21st century, where the only property you'll ever have is a license to operate. Welcome to the 21st century, where you must ask permission to use anything. Oh, and you won't be asking a human, you'll be asking an automated system designed with less than zero contingency foresight. Not all are digital, some are simply red tape.
It's the Not My Ass contributing to the parent Race To The Bottom.
Even engineers that know better are stuck being more immediately concerned with our beloved Metrics Quotas Deadlines Assessment circles than a vaguely distant and inconsequential pool of customers dealing with the fallout.
I can sit here for weeks trying to research a near/impossible way to gain another 3 grams, or I can say fuck it and just use a regular, "unvalved" component. I get paid more, go home sooner, lined up for promotions, as opposed to brass up my ass because I had a naive wish to Get It Right over Get It Done.
Wait, no, I'm contracted, I'm not even on staff. By the time the recall hits, I'll have a new phone number. The fine print only requires I meet spec. So here's my part of the collective "lol DWI #yolo" to the collective human race, as pressured by upstairs/management/shareholders.
>Give people an easy out and they'll usually take it.
This. It's good advice. People stuck defending the losing team, opinion, situation, etc. usually won't react well if you/everyone is cornering and needling them. They might not have the options (or cleverness) to find an out, but with a few careful lines you can give validity to one that saves face if chosen.
Examples fitting the vague description: Arguments with the spouse. Correcting personnel of higher rank.
Social conduct is a messy game but you can steadily derive the levers behind seeming grace and charisma. "Introverted" means socializing isn't considered recreational for as long or as much as others - nothing about being clumsy at it.
OT: I guess Canada has cops that like to help people. "Will follow up" my left nut.
Some have provisions in their Terms that basically say if shit hits the fan (drugs, child porn, terrorism, laundering... whistleblowing?) they're indemnified and throwing you under the bus.
But those are your main street, well-lit, vetted, western VPNs, and they probably don't give a fuck about you watching Game of Thrones anyway. Meanwhile, if you have an IP showing you in Singapore, sending the letter at all is a waste of time.
"[we have] encryption with zero key management" is a phrase I've seen touted as a feature. And something that, not just "will be" but "has already gotten"...increasingly popular with vendors.
It's not even a question of jurisdiction or ethics or legal rights, the reality is that sometimes (anywhere between some and all) private effects can't be accessed, not mere "should/n't".
You might as well discuss the legal reach allowed to federal time travelers.
UBI tests so far have found that most people working kept working, and the "indulging" was families being social, spouses becoming housewives/spouses, one parent at home with kids, ect. These aren't conclusive signs of long-term UBIs, of course.
I do actually anticipate rising costs alongside any UBI. Pretty much every job out there is an upwards cash vector, pretty much all your money goes back to the 1%, not your fellow John Does. Bills, car, mortage, insurance, services - how much goes to your neighbor? Anything taxed out will just promptly reconcentrate.
The UBI proles will have enough for gray, colorless uniforms, for corn and soy cubes, for living in terrafoam. The world already revolves heavily around the race to the bottom, and we're going to take the absolute bedrock and subsidize it. If you want even the slightest luxury, if you want to eat a piece of fruit that grew out of state, you'll need one of the few jobs left. Musician, poet, literal cock-sucker, one of the few slots we haven't automated. Yet. The equivalent of Prolekistan's trivial level of tourism, the rounding-error trickle of GDP that remains after their only export, labor, evaporates.
Unless you think we'll need billions of robot repairmen. Prolekistan should be fine, in that case. Otherwise, well, we all know what happens to countries with no exports.
Magnanimous? I would be wrong if I wrote the sentence "Student loans are for-profit." because they're predatory. When the peasants want to send their most earnest youth to aspire, they are prey.
Slashdot Mirror
> FACT: Most people don't give a shit if their phone is 1mm thicker or thinner, and many would happily trade a millimeter or two of thickness for a larger battery. But somehow the Powers That Be have decided that what people want isn't as important as saving a dollar in production costs.
I figure they don't care what people want, it's the buzz headlines that matter.
- You pitch your prototype at CES or whatever
- All the tech websites line up for their 30-90 seconds to play with it
- They piece together full phone judgement out of those seconds
- Build an entire article out of it by 19:00 deadline
They ramble about the glossy whatever or how the buttons feel when you press them, about the texture of the phone's back. Then there's a line about the 2250mA/h battery or the RAM being slightly better/worse than the last model iteration or competition. Say something about budget phones or flagships, stamp your name on it, publish.
The inevitable phone case doesn't matter on the show floor. The edge-to-edge no bevel? Journalist orgasm. Consumer shrug. Thickness? The new "megapixels".
>but doesn't follow through
There's a marginal blame for lax follow through on the follow through that rolls uphill (or at least is supposed to) into middle management or higher.
Mind, this level of blame may be little more than mild reprimand for doing a meh job. Your point stands, IT's at fault if they were ordered to do X and didn't.
That's better than free, since it sounds less magic and more plausible.
Sounds like people living in poverty sure have it easy though.
>people these days, rarely seem to respond to a "Thank you" with a "Your Welcome" you're*
Lots of them are the diluted variety that doesn't actually mean "Thank you", much like how there's a certain version of "How are you" that you're never supposed to genuinely answer, only acknowledge with the word Fine, making for an absolute waste of three seconds with absolutely meaningless babble - it's meant to be ritualistic, a gesture. And there's no hard way to distinguish it from a sincere query besides the mess of context, body language, intonation, etc that we lean on.
Similarly, there's a hollow "thank you" in contemporary conduct that, functionally, is pretty identical to a "Good day." closing. Only even more meaningless.
This shit is pretty verbose when we write it out, and you're just supposed to "get it" to participate in society. It's rough on people who can't. I've sometimes thought that there should be like, community classes or something for people who've been isolated or deployed overseas or homeschooled or whatever for decades, and need a crash course on all the little retarded carousels we're stuck inflicting on ourselves.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/com...
>ensure they have a minimum baseline of security.
NO, that's victim blaming, people can do jack all, or even worse than nothing, and should still be morally indemnified. And financially. Because they have zero culpability.
You're right, it's hurting our brand. So now you're assigned to fix it. Have an action plan on my desk in a month or you're fired.
Fortunately it doesn't matter if you actually follow through on any of the crap in it, or if you do, that any of it is actually efficacious. I just need something to tell the board/shareholders. Ideally the users swallow it too.
This is much more important damage control that the effects of people seeing our quarterly earnings.
Knowledge that has been "in the wild" can never be quarantined, no more than a ritual gesture can revert virginity. Doesn't matter how ethical you feeeeel about it. Pee's in the pool. Cat's outta the bag. One way valve, barring time travel.
This makes for some weird laws, which think they can control a concept, a mental abstract, everywhere in the universe. Simultaneously. Forever.
Data is a contagion. It's only yours to control if quarantined.
Not on an individual one, no, but the collective. Introspection is great and all, but know the meta, then you know what's dis/advantageous, where to ignore and where to strike, where to look away and where to watch closely.
"Small minds discuss people" and all that.
He must be a schizophrenic then, because I kinda agree with his sentiment. Though perhaps not necessarily his delivery.
>Kodi lowers the bar
This is exactly what causes the burn flag. There's possibly some insightful remark to make about hipsters and the fear of things mainstream and popular. I'm not quite sure what, so whatever. But the cartels don't care about your obscure IRC XDCC distros, they especially don't give a flying fuck about all the holes our kind pokes in their "securities" in our armchair posts, about our proof of concepts and how we could theoretically do this or that - they don't care, as long as Joe Everyman is thwarted and keeps paying up.
This causes weird misleading effects, like the impression we're above the law - because the law is, in fact, being selectively enforced. Like they indirectly give us their blessing. It's not a moral pursuit, it's not for public safety, it's driven by profit and it shows.
Seconds, if you ask the auction flippers.
In practice, within an order of 10 hours.
No, that doesn't really mean "precisely between 1 and 100".
On the whole, gold isn't worth spending hours after if you're a member of the paycheck club in a developed country. Same as when they did the RMAH in Diablo III.
>I have absolutely no garden egress for going back to Android.
It's not yours, nothing is yours. Welcome to the 21st century, where the only property you'll ever have is a license to operate. Welcome to the 21st century, where you must ask permission to use anything. Oh, and you won't be asking a human, you'll be asking an automated system designed with less than zero contingency foresight. Not all are digital, some are simply red tape.
It's the Not My Ass contributing to the parent Race To The Bottom.
Even engineers that know better are stuck being more immediately concerned with our beloved Metrics Quotas Deadlines Assessment circles than a vaguely distant and inconsequential pool of customers dealing with the fallout.
I can sit here for weeks trying to research a near/impossible way to gain another 3 grams, or I can say fuck it and just use a regular, "unvalved" component. I get paid more, go home sooner, lined up for promotions, as opposed to brass up my ass because I had a naive wish to Get It Right over Get It Done.
Wait, no, I'm contracted, I'm not even on staff. By the time the recall hits, I'll have a new phone number. The fine print only requires I meet spec. So here's my part of the collective "lol DWI #yolo" to the collective human race, as pressured by upstairs/management/shareholders.
Once again I submit my petition for +1 Depressing mod.
Malice? Maybe.
Incompetence? Even if the first is true, it's still Yes.
>stealing laptops has become less pursued than jaywalking
0 !< 0
>Give people an easy out and they'll usually take it.
This. It's good advice. People stuck defending the losing team, opinion, situation, etc. usually won't react well if you/everyone is cornering and needling them. They might not have the options (or cleverness) to find an out, but with a few careful lines you can give validity to one that saves face if chosen.
Examples fitting the vague description: Arguments with the spouse. Correcting personnel of higher rank.
Social conduct is a messy game but you can steadily derive the levers behind seeming grace and charisma. "Introverted" means socializing isn't considered recreational for as long or as much as others - nothing about being clumsy at it.
OT: I guess Canada has cops that like to help people. "Will follow up" my left nut.
Some have provisions in their Terms that basically say if shit hits the fan (drugs, child porn, terrorism, laundering... whistleblowing?) they're indemnified and throwing you under the bus.
But those are your main street, well-lit, vetted, western VPNs, and they probably don't give a fuck about you watching Game of Thrones anyway. Meanwhile, if you have an IP showing you in Singapore, sending the letter at all is a waste of time.
"[we have] encryption with zero key management" is a phrase I've seen touted as a feature. And something that, not just "will be" but "has already gotten" ...increasingly popular with vendors.
It's not even a question of jurisdiction or ethics or legal rights, the reality is that sometimes (anywhere between some and all) private effects can't be accessed, not mere "should/n't".
You might as well discuss the legal reach allowed to federal time travelers.
Waiting for the traditional batch of "mine works fine".
UBI tests so far have found that most people working kept working, and the "indulging" was families being social, spouses becoming housewives/spouses, one parent at home with kids, ect. These aren't conclusive signs of long-term UBIs, of course.
I do actually anticipate rising costs alongside any UBI. Pretty much every job out there is an upwards cash vector, pretty much all your money goes back to the 1%, not your fellow John Does. Bills, car, mortage, insurance, services - how much goes to your neighbor? Anything taxed out will just promptly reconcentrate.
The UBI proles will have enough for gray, colorless uniforms, for corn and soy cubes, for living in terrafoam. The world already revolves heavily around the race to the bottom, and we're going to take the absolute bedrock and subsidize it. If you want even the slightest luxury, if you want to eat a piece of fruit that grew out of state, you'll need one of the few jobs left. Musician, poet, literal cock-sucker, one of the few slots we haven't automated. Yet. The equivalent of Prolekistan's trivial level of tourism, the rounding-error trickle of GDP that remains after their only export, labor, evaporates.
Unless you think we'll need billions of robot repairmen. Prolekistan should be fine, in that case. Otherwise, well, we all know what happens to countries with no exports.
Poe's Law: A parody of an oblivious fanboy is indistinguishable from an oblivious fanboy.
It's not my fault you weren't smart enough and Iworkhard enough to bribe the ovarian lottery.
Magnanimous? I would be wrong if I wrote the sentence "Student loans are for-profit." because they're predatory. When the peasants want to send their most earnest youth to aspire, they are prey.