Whipping up a few lame PHP scripts, leaving all the logs, using real name, your own static IP and a personal Dropbox account?! Is that what cuts for a hacker these days? With a million dollar payoff? I am starting to think I am not optimizing my earnings potential:)
Her usual pharmacy didn't have it in stock, so I had to find another that did.
That sounds familiar. These prescriptions can be a bitch to fill. My father was in a really bad shape after a fall and the doctor prescribed him oxycodone (I don't think it was pure, may be percocet). I drove around the city half the night trying to find a pharmacy that would fill that prescription. After the fourth pharmacy, seemingly innocent "oh, we don't carry that" excuse sounded really disingenuous.
I was looking forward to using rift at work, but this looks like a guy is desperately trying to type in a "deploy parachute" command into the terminal while tumbling through the air at horrible speeds.
Every time I have to sign the receipt at an Apple store with my finger, I feel Jobs mocking me from beyond the grave. "Ha! Those guys would go back to living in caves wrapped in animal skins if only I told them it was cool!"
Heck I used to build a new computer annually, but I just rebuilt my computer about 2 weeks ago that I had been running since 2009. Not because it was too slow, but because half the USB ports had died on the motherboard.
We had tens of thousands of engineers working for the military industrial complex and then the cold war ended... result? Many of them were out of a job. And guess where many of them lived? California. It was and still is a big defense contractor state. And what did those engineers do? Most of them found jobs in the private sector and to a large extent their technical contribution made the tech explosion in California happen. Suddenly business had access to a glut of engineers.
Not only that, they also had access to all kinds of expertise that was developed using these precious federal dollars. Network communications, microprocessors, software architectures... How many of those talented engineers would've matured to that level if not for the cold war investments? You can certainly argue that government oversight of all this talent was misplaced, but you can't deny that it provided the essential opportunity for that talent to develop.
Inflation causes misallocation of resources. This is basic economics and is the reason Bitcoin is designed to eventually target a stable monetary base.
I don't know what "basic economics" you've been taught at the Bitcoin developer crashcourse, but as is, Bitcoin has been a highly deflationary currency, and at best, at some point in the future it will become mildly deflationary.
The whole thing is pretty much construed to protect against inflation. From an economic standpoint deflation is terrible. Most obviously it discourages investment (you're better off sitting on your money, and you're in a bind if you take out a loan since its real value will continually increase). Protecting against deflation is one of the key reasons why most countries manage their currencies.
This is not a problem intrinsic to cryptocurrency itself, and the folks who designed it must have known all that. So I think that either Bitcoin was designed with the aim of short-term profit goal of a pyramid-like scheme, or it was designed by some economic idealists who thought gold standard was too liberal in upholding the status quo of the moneyed class.
If you can't get the comment system right, you don't have the site! If you can't make something better, copy the existing system, and try incremental improvements only! Right now it looks like some Dingus err Disqus jackass rode in to teach us how the real comment system should work. Terrible!
Right on! It would be a terrible thing to disband this community by curtailing the comment functionalities. The discussions are by far.. by FAR the valuable thing on Slashdot, and it's as much due to a balanced moderation system as to the community itself. You don't see many other sites allowing or handling anonymous posts any more. Please don't ruin it!
Actually...Netflix does quite a lot of research. They are famous as being tireless in their quest to improve every aspect of their business...and while most of those changes are invisible to us there are still plenty that are quite apparent.
Remember back many years ago,when the return envelopes started showing up with the window cut-outs so that the bar code of the DVD could be scanned from the outside?
Yes, I remember. That was a looong time ago. And ever since they stopped being an underdog and hopped onto the corporate "A" list things have been going steadily downhill. The menu is utter shit! It mixes in movies I watched, it mixes in TV series with movies, it doesn't show anything (like star rating) but big dumb pictures, it fakes the star rating to feed me some crap I they just bought, etc.. It's as if they're trying to make it difficult to find something on purpose. Just tried to find something to watch yesterday. Wasted 20 minutes, walked away with a headache. And it didn't used to be this way - the interface was informative, you could sort by ratings, you could see what your friends rated and watched. I also think there were movies. That went out of the window, though now there's an annoying bar inviting me to share info with friends. Of course I need to sign in with a facebook account to do so.
Which brings me to my final point. What kind of a half-assed company requires a third party sign in to provide customer feedback?! I don't have a facebook account, and so I can't even send Netflix a message explaining how much they're messing up. The only way I can send a message is leave.
But it's not like they'd read it anyway - evidently they're too busy enjoying their "A"-list corporate circlejerk.
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Whipping up a few lame PHP scripts, leaving all the logs, using real name, your own static IP and a personal Dropbox account?! Is that what cuts for a hacker these days? With a million dollar payoff? I am starting to think I am not optimizing my earnings potential :)
They'd have to buy an AWFUL lot of cable services to do that.
No. They would instead invest into the company and then shove AWFUL service down your throat to turn profit.
DevOps is a niche. Get over it.
or just cover it with shrink-wrap to keep the dust out
And we could take solace in this, if not for the fact that this is now somehow considered a radical liberal agenda.
Finally, silly bureaucratic holdups will no longer preclude Mr. Archibald Buttle's addition to the terror list!
you forgot the part about bankrupting the country along the way...
Her usual pharmacy didn't have it in stock, so I had to find another that did.
That sounds familiar. These prescriptions can be a bitch to fill. My father was in a really bad shape after a fall and the doctor prescribed him oxycodone (I don't think it was pure, may be percocet). I drove around the city half the night trying to find a pharmacy that would fill that prescription. After the fourth pharmacy, seemingly innocent "oh, we don't carry that" excuse sounded really disingenuous.
I wish the penalties for trolling legislation would be at least half as severe ...
I was looking forward to using rift at work, but this looks like a guy is desperately trying to type in a "deploy parachute" command into the terminal while tumbling through the air at horrible speeds.
Every time I have to sign the receipt at an Apple store with my finger, I feel Jobs mocking me from beyond the grave. "Ha! Those guys would go back to living in caves wrapped in animal skins if only I told them it was cool!"
Heck I used to build a new computer annually, but I just rebuilt my computer about 2 weeks ago that I had been running since 2009. Not because it was too slow, but because half the USB ports had died on the motherboard.
It's not the computers - it's you getting older!
We had tens of thousands of engineers working for the military industrial complex and then the cold war ended... result? Many of them were out of a job. And guess where many of them lived? California. It was and still is a big defense contractor state. And what did those engineers do? Most of them found jobs in the private sector and to a large extent their technical contribution made the tech explosion in California happen. Suddenly business had access to a glut of engineers.
Not only that, they also had access to all kinds of expertise that was developed using these precious federal dollars. Network communications, microprocessors, software architectures ...
How many of those talented engineers would've matured to that level if not for the cold war investments? You can certainly argue that government oversight of all this talent was misplaced, but you can't deny that it provided the essential opportunity for that talent to develop.
It's value keeps going up compared to the cost of the products. That's how it's defined.
"customer-mediated mining"
Inflation causes misallocation of resources. This is basic economics and is the reason Bitcoin is designed to eventually target a stable monetary base.
I don't know what "basic economics" you've been taught at the Bitcoin developer crashcourse, but as is, Bitcoin has been a highly deflationary currency, and at best, at some point in the future it will become mildly deflationary.
The whole thing is pretty much construed to protect against inflation. From an economic standpoint deflation is terrible. Most obviously it discourages investment (you're better off sitting on your money, and you're in a bind if you take out a loan since its real value will continually increase). Protecting against deflation is one of the key reasons why most countries manage their currencies.
This is not a problem intrinsic to cryptocurrency itself, and the folks who designed it must have known all that. So I think that either Bitcoin was designed with the aim of short-term profit goal of a pyramid-like scheme, or it was designed by some economic idealists who thought gold standard was too liberal in upholding the status quo of the moneyed class.
If you can't get the comment system right, you don't have the site! If you can't make something better, copy the existing system, and try incremental improvements only! Right now it looks like some Dingus err Disqus jackass rode in to teach us how the real comment system should work. Terrible!
Tried moderating there yet?
What a coincidence, Dice thinks of Slashdot as another sausage coming from their factory, that needs to be turned into another turd
Fixed it for ya!
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Fuck Beta!
Somehow I bet the investment fund will do better job building laptops than Dice keeping Slashdot alive. FUCK BETA!
Right on! It would be a terrible thing to disband this community by curtailing the comment functionalities. The discussions are by far .. by FAR the valuable thing on Slashdot, and it's as much due to a balanced moderation system as to the community itself. You don't see many other sites allowing or handling anonymous posts any more. Please don't ruin it!
Yes ... we need a good window manager development for this next version of Oculus Rift and things just might take off in the right direction.
Sure. But you need a Facebook account to send Netflix any feedback _after_ you've logged into your Netflix account.
Actually...Netflix does quite a lot of research. They are famous as being tireless in their quest to improve every aspect of their business...and while most of those changes are invisible to us there are still plenty that are quite apparent.
Remember back many years ago,when the return envelopes started showing up with the window cut-outs so that the bar code of the DVD could be scanned from the outside?
Yes, I remember. That was a looong time ago. And ever since they stopped being an underdog and hopped onto the corporate "A" list things have been going steadily downhill. The menu is utter shit! It mixes in movies I watched, it mixes in TV series with movies, it doesn't show anything (like star rating) but big dumb pictures, it fakes the star rating to feed me some crap I they just bought, etc.. It's as if they're trying to make it difficult to find something on purpose. Just tried to find something to watch yesterday. Wasted 20 minutes, walked away with a headache. And it didn't used to be this way - the interface was informative, you could sort by ratings, you could see what your friends rated and watched. I also think there were movies. That went out of the window, though now there's an annoying bar inviting me to share info with friends. Of course I need to sign in with a facebook account to do so.
Which brings me to my final point. What kind of a half-assed company requires a third party sign in to provide customer feedback?! I don't have a facebook account, and so I can't even send Netflix a message explaining how much they're messing up. The only way I can send a message is leave.
But it's not like they'd read it anyway - evidently they're too busy enjoying their "A"-list corporate circlejerk.