The number of "researchers" across the globe has increased by an order of magnitude in the last few decades.
The amount of useful research done has not.
What do you think is being done by most people...?
Academia is something venerated only by people not in academia, who like to be associated with it. And sometimes by the younger, less secure people in academia who are not yet experienced enough to question the quality of their own work, let alone others' (this isn't a criticism - it's a standard problem of youth). There's as much bullshit here as anywhere else, you know.
1) Different timezones - cannot communicate in realtime;
2) Different culture - harder to understand requirements;
3) Language barrier - even in the unlikely event that the developers all speak excellent Indian English, it is *not* the same as Americna English;
4) Lack of face-to-face contact - being able to watch someone communicate, point at the screen, sit in a room together makes for far faster problem resolution;
5) Lack of mutual value - a permanent employee is entirely your investment, and in return works and trains only on your systems, dedicating their work day to understanding what you need, and spending years at your company becoming intimately familiar with your processes;
6) Lack of open-ended requirements - this is one of the most important things of all: all contractors bit you in the ass by working to spec, whereas permanent employees will be there to do whatever you want, when you want it.
In short, paper estimates of monies saved by outsourcing are always - without exception - a crock of shit. Someone wants a hefty bonus, possibly by fooling executives re apparent saving, or possibly because they have an interest in the outsourcing firm. Most likely both.
You made a mistake and you're behaving stupidly, posting the same misunderstanding over and over again on this thread. As far as I can tell, you're an Apple fan and you're annoyed that they were so obviously caught with their pants down, so you're deliberately (you've been corrected multiple times) lying about how capacitive fingerprint scanning works.
You have two choices now:
i) Let it go and apologise, and appear reasonable in the eyes of fellow Slashdotters - every business and individual sometimes makes a mistake, including you;
ii) Continue stomping your feet like a dull child, losing all remaining respect you have on this site, and causing other people to remember back to this thread where you lost it every time they see a post from you.
Which will it be, BasilBrush? I know you'll have read this, so it's now up to you.
ours. Either way the choice of how to use the lawn must lie with someone (or it can never be used)
Eh? Land can only not be used if there is someone who wants to do something which makes it unusable, and no one else to stop them. Now, to stop someone doing that, you could let only one person decide whether it can be made unusable, or you could create rules for sharing the land between everyone, or something in between. You can supplement this with community decency. For example, in England, occasional trespass over private land is almost never criminal - and in Scotland you can't do shit about people walking over land which isn't part of a garden as long as you don't cause damage. It's hardly ever a problem, because the Right To Roam is something understood and respected. My partner's family have had a small farm in Scotland for nearly 30 years, and *not once* has this legal absence of "absolute right" to outdoor property caused a problem.
For another example, this home office is shared between me and another, but it would be unworkable if everyone got to share time on the machines in here; meanwhile the hills 2 minutes to the north are free for anyone to roam and pick wild fruits from, as long as they don't cause damage, and every year I am able to pick a huge amount of fruit while still leaving a lot more for others (the "tragedy of the commons" would only apply if people in some community are selfish dicks, but here they're not).
Property rights are inherent
No, they're not. They're no more inherent than the existence of a god. Handwave as much as you want. Lots of species have existed for a lot longer with us, with no conception of property rights.
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Yeah, you may be right, I am out of touch with the whole employee jazz.
As long as it's disabled by default, brings no revenue to the developer (so there's no conflict of interest), and can only be enabled by explicit installation of client software and acknowledgement of an enumeration of clearly worded warnings, it might be ok.
typing a word in the Dash, pushes the word against (along with the locally-installed scopes) the Canonical servers, the Canonical servers decide the best results, the results are then anonymized and finally landed in the Dash.
The fuck? If you can't see any privacy implications here, you're a dilettante.
And anonymisation of results - what? If I search for "loli president bomb" then that's what's going to get me in trouble, not the results I receive.
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I know I haven't been a regular "employed" person for over decade so don't really have to give a fuck, but I can't bear the idea of semi-forced socialisation with colleagues at a private company. They're there to profit from my work, and I'm there to collect a salary.
Now, I'll do *solidarity* all the way, but that will be based on my voluntary interaction with my peers, not on management initiative. If anyone mentioned socialisation at interview, I'd be concerned.
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A sufficiently large group of people will have lots of members obsessed with almost any well-known pastime you can think of.
A homogeneous group is likely to randomly have certain obsessions tip over critical mass, and then it's just a matter of fitting in.
There's not always a peculiar explanation for everything, you know.
So you moved from paper to tablet to tablet-on-a-crippled-OS,
In the UK, portable computing devices suited for data collection have been available since late '80s from Psion. And I got my first tablet PC over a decade ago, with a proper stylus - more usable for non-trivial work than thumbing an Android.
For people who don't make lots of looong journeys, running a horse can be cheaper, less impactful, etc.
Indeed, I only stopped riding horses around here because there were too many cars.
The whole "horses are outdated" thing is like the "everyone rushed to the cities for a better job" Industrial Revolution myth: a lot of it was huge landowners making it untenable to continue renting their land, because they wanted to push people into the cities for more profitable work.
I ignored the first paragraph as you sounded like an advert for a marketing company. All that can be done without having a system of charging people per listing or per click, where people who pay more get better placed, and the recording and auditing is done by the same company which performs the brokering.
As for the second paragraph, true enough. Although the more they know about "you", the more likely they can choose a set of ads which you're likely to click on - they do it because it works, not to amuse themselves. The only way to stop targetted advertising is to make no attempt to interact with it whatsoever. Otherwise you're part of the problem.
To be fair, this cloudy out-of-your-control virtual nonsense has been around since the '60s. But then we called it a virtual machine monitor (VMM).
Has anyone stopped to think how poorly systems are now architected that each person has gone back to feeling they need a whole piece of virtual hardware to themselves? Regression - it's not just economic.
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The number of "researchers" across the globe has increased by an order of magnitude in the last few decades.
The amount of useful research done has not.
What do you think is being done by most people...?
Academia is something venerated only by people not in academia, who like to be associated with it. And sometimes by the younger, less secure people in academia who are not yet experienced enough to question the quality of their own work, let alone others' (this isn't a criticism - it's a standard problem of youth). There's as much bullshit here as anywhere else, you know.
Either you've never worked with Tata, or you had a really bad IT department. Which is it?
Why would you outsource like this? It would mean:
1) Different timezones - cannot communicate in realtime;
2) Different culture - harder to understand requirements;
3) Language barrier - even in the unlikely event that the developers all speak excellent Indian English, it is *not* the same as Americna English;
4) Lack of face-to-face contact - being able to watch someone communicate, point at the screen, sit in a room together makes for far faster problem resolution;
5) Lack of mutual value - a permanent employee is entirely your investment, and in return works and trains only on your systems, dedicating their work day to understanding what you need, and spending years at your company becoming intimately familiar with your processes;
6) Lack of open-ended requirements - this is one of the most important things of all: all contractors bit you in the ass by working to spec, whereas permanent employees will be there to do whatever you want, when you want it.
In short, paper estimates of monies saved by outsourcing are always - without exception - a crock of shit. Someone wants a hefty bonus, possibly by fooling executives re apparent saving, or possibly because they have an interest in the outsourcing firm. Most likely both.
I don't deny that you can accept personal property while rejecting real and private property.
But the "free market" depends on private property, and a great deal of it involves real property too.
You made a mistake and you're behaving stupidly, posting the same misunderstanding over and over again on this thread. As far as I can tell, you're an Apple fan and you're annoyed that they were so obviously caught with their pants down, so you're deliberately (you've been corrected multiple times) lying about how capacitive fingerprint scanning works.
You have two choices now:
i) Let it go and apologise, and appear reasonable in the eyes of fellow Slashdotters - every business and individual sometimes makes a mistake, including you;
ii) Continue stomping your feet like a dull child, losing all remaining respect you have on this site, and causing other people to remember back to this thread where you lost it every time they see a post from you.
Which will it be, BasilBrush? I know you'll have read this, so it's now up to you.
Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiish!
It's completely oblivious to anyone who isn't a petard.
ours. Either way the choice of how to use the lawn must lie with someone (or it can never be used)
Eh? Land can only not be used if there is someone who wants to do something which makes it unusable, and no one else to stop them. Now, to stop someone doing that, you could let only one person decide whether it can be made unusable, or you could create rules for sharing the land between everyone, or something in between. You can supplement this with community decency. For example, in England, occasional trespass over private land is almost never criminal - and in Scotland you can't do shit about people walking over land which isn't part of a garden as long as you don't cause damage. It's hardly ever a problem, because the Right To Roam is something understood and respected. My partner's family have had a small farm in Scotland for nearly 30 years, and *not once* has this legal absence of "absolute right" to outdoor property caused a problem.
For another example, this home office is shared between me and another, but it would be unworkable if everyone got to share time on the machines in here; meanwhile the hills 2 minutes to the north are free for anyone to roam and pick wild fruits from, as long as they don't cause damage, and every year I am able to pick a huge amount of fruit while still leaving a lot more for others (the "tragedy of the commons" would only apply if people in some community are selfish dicks, but here they're not).
Property rights are inherent
No, they're not. They're no more inherent than the existence of a god. Handwave as much as you want. Lots of species have existed for a lot longer with us, with no conception of property rights.
Yeah, you may be right, I am out of touch with the whole employee jazz.
Also for using "jazz".
As long as it's disabled by default, brings no revenue to the developer (so there's no conflict of interest), and can only be enabled by explicit installation of client software and acknowledgement of an enumeration of clearly worded warnings, it might be ok.
Can you give an example of where a standard garden-variety Slashdot reader has incorrectly read privacy implications into something?
Ignore anyone who uses either the term "New World Order" or "reptilian".
typing a word in the Dash, pushes the word against (along with the locally-installed scopes) the Canonical servers, the Canonical servers decide the best results, the results are then anonymized and finally landed in the Dash.
The fuck? If you can't see any privacy implications here, you're a dilettante.
And anonymisation of results - what? If I search for "loli president bomb" then that's what's going to get me in trouble, not the results I receive.
I know I haven't been a regular "employed" person for over decade so don't really have to give a fuck, but I can't bear the idea of semi-forced socialisation with colleagues at a private company. They're there to profit from my work, and I'm there to collect a salary.
Now, I'll do *solidarity* all the way, but that will be based on my voluntary interaction with my peers, not on management initiative. If anyone mentioned socialisation at interview, I'd be concerned.
A sufficiently large group of people will have lots of members obsessed with almost any well-known pastime you can think of.
A homogeneous group is likely to randomly have certain obsessions tip over critical mass, and then it's just a matter of fitting in.
There's not always a peculiar explanation for everything, you know.
So you moved from paper to tablet to tablet-on-a-crippled-OS,
In the UK, portable computing devices suited for data collection have been available since late '80s from Psion. And I got my first tablet PC over a decade ago, with a proper stylus - more usable for non-trivial work than thumbing an Android.
For people who don't make lots of looong journeys, running a horse can be cheaper, less impactful, etc.
Indeed, I only stopped riding horses around here because there were too many cars.
The whole "horses are outdated" thing is like the "everyone rushed to the cities for a better job" Industrial Revolution myth: a lot of it was huge landowners making it untenable to continue renting their land, because they wanted to push people into the cities for more profitable work.
Historically speaking, helping out doesn't help.
It sounds like you're a cunt and have no idea how to help people.
IME, helping out nearly always helps.
What are you blabbering on about? A "free" market requires "absolute" property, and that most definitely regulates my choice to lie on "your" lawn.
The free market assumes all sorts of property and contract law which considerably limits everyone's power to freely make choices.
The free market is meant to solve every problem, but in fact solves a small subset of problems.
Just like any religion.
...may have benefit where microscopes are useful.
Developments at 11!
Click-through contracts are bullshit, just like read-through contracts where by reading to the end of this sentence you agree to give me $10,000.
Which makes the linked-in customers idiots
That goes without saying. Never seen a "community" of more self-congratulatory blowhards.
I guess if you can't get a job on merit, you drink with people who can get one for you - and this is the online equivalent for the even lazier.
I ignored the first paragraph as you sounded like an advert for a marketing company. All that can be done without having a system of charging people per listing or per click, where people who pay more get better placed, and the recording and auditing is done by the same company which performs the brokering.
As for the second paragraph, true enough. Although the more they know about "you", the more likely they can choose a set of ads which you're likely to click on - they do it because it works, not to amuse themselves. The only way to stop targetted advertising is to make no attempt to interact with it whatsoever. Otherwise you're part of the problem.
To be fair, this cloudy out-of-your-control virtual nonsense has been around since the '60s. But then we called it a virtual machine monitor (VMM).
Has anyone stopped to think how poorly systems are now architected that each person has gone back to feeling they need a whole piece of virtual hardware to themselves? Regression - it's not just economic.