It's as if millions of awful websites suddenly cried out and were suddenly silenced. But no one heard them because no one has actually viewed any of them in years.
Does anyone in this thread really think that Apple, a company utterly obsessed with aesthetics, good design, and usability, would put ads in their operating system?
Have you used iTunes lately? Ugh. Their design and usability practices are clearly not universal within the company...
Yes they did. They released an iTunes update that prevented the Pre from syncing. Afterwards, the USB Working Group eventually came out against Palm on it, but that hasn't stopped Palm from ignoring them and enabling it again.
Yeah, it's timothy posting about Microsoft, so what did you expect...
Though if you want to see REAL slant/fanbois, check out the link to Major Nelson's post. I don't see a single positive thing about this decision from a customer's perspective, yet there are dozens of people posting inane comments like "Great, can't wait, good job!" and "I only buy MS official gear, so it's fine by me!" Makes me wonder if he requires all his employees to reply to his blog posts...
No again, they are high because the universities keep spending (on research programs, out of control construction projects, etc) more than they bring in, and they are bringing in (though endowment investment losses, decreasing alumni gifts, and less government support) less these days to boot. Almost all universites are non-profit, so "supply and demand" is irrelevant.
For example, Harvard has forecast over a $100M shortfall this year, and it has the largest endowment, one of the highest alumni donation rates, and,of course, one of the highest tuitions. They are not just raising tuition because "the students will pay", they are raising it because their costs are going up way too fast (which in the end is the thing that needs to be controlled to fix this problem...)
Grad students are pretty cheap compared to other researchers, if he's helping to advance the sciences, like say working on cancer, then that IS going to benefit US citizens. It's also potentially going to be cheaper than paying someone with their doctorate already in hand.
Excellent point... that reminds me of my time in a bio research lab. I was an undergrad, so I got paid in "independent research" course credit (or barely over minimum wage in the summer). The grad student in the lab was basically paid tuition/living expenses + small stipend. The full time research assistant was paid a salary (which was probably 2x what the grad student was costing, and almost infinitely more than what I was costing). I have no idea what the postdoc in the lab cost, but I'd guess not much more than the research assistant. Probably 90% of the day to day work we all did was the same, so they were getting a hell of a deal from the students in the lab.
True, but I think the discussion was really about undergrad tuition, not internships or grad school (which as I'm sure you well know have a lot more complicated expenses/funding than just "tuition"...)
In many institutions they in fact bring in the funds to subsidize the Americans that share their classes. Less [sic] foreign students means higher tuition for Americans.
I don't think the inability of a non-citizen to get an NSF internship would make this statement true, do you?
Can you cite anything that proves this? It's not true for the UC system (and yes I looked it up to verify), and I can't find anything in the Cal State system, either. I'm pretty sure that's it for 4 year public universities in CA.
You are technically right about the residency, though that's mostly just applicable to grad school, and by your statement of "all 4 years" I assume you are talking about undergrads.
They pay non-resident tuition at public state schools, just like any US student who attends a college in a state they don't reside in. And for most private schools, there is no difference at all.
Sure, they don't get the federal grants, but those are so piss poor these days that probably barely matters (plus they may very well get grants or loans from their home country to attend a US school).
Nicely cynical but pretty silly comment... whatever you may want to think about bumbling megacorporations, in the end magazines and TV networks base most of their decisions on exactly these demographics, since it's the basis for their entire revenue stream (advertising). If Fox based their decisions on quality rather than viewership, Firefly would still be on and American Idol would have died a horrible, fiery death...
A 20-something has never seen a relevant current issue of Playboy, and likely cannot remember a relevant current episode of The Simpsons.... Simpsons has been on the air for 20 years. The big fans are not 20-somethings anymore. We're 30- and 40-somethings.
Very definitive statements, but they are just not true...
30 seconds of searching shows that the Simpsons still consistently ranks #1 or #2 in its timeslot among teens, 18-34, and 18-49 demographics. And a less scientific but still valid point is that among about a dozen of my younger cousins in the age range of 10-30 I don't know a single one who isn't a Simpsons fan. I know plenty of people who watch the Simpsons with their kids - which is probably part of the reason it IS so popular among such a wide demographic after all these years...
Do you really think a major publication like Playboy, a major network like Fox, and a major retail chain like 7-11 would launch a campaign like this without doing at least 30 seconds of trivial demographic research?
If you don't have a decent video card don't bother looking for an FPS. But if you want a fairly deep, often subtly hilarious RPG with no more requirements than a basic web browser, give KoL a try.
And a rock solid but simple embedded database to emulate flash memory.
This part I don't understand... flash is a hardware solution to persistant storage. An embedded database is a software solution to structured storage of data. The two are completely orthogonal.
Ignoring the flash part, I have used sqlite on several embedded projects (set top boxes) and it has done the job. Depends on your requirements though - is the priority speed, space, ease of use/API, etc?
Wait what? "Remember the days?" Wasn't that like... last year?
I was thinking the same thing when I saw that he mentioned "college", "AOL Messenger", and "Python" in the same sentence. ICQ didn't even exist when I was in college, let alone AOL Messenger, and I'm pretty sure no one outside of the Netherlands had even heard of Python.
Anyway, I agree that a blanket policy of not hiring someone based on their outside interests is idiotic, but if it weren't for those types of people, this guy never would have had the chance to work at Google (since it wouldn't exist), make enough money and reputation to go off and co-found startups, or get anyone to actually read the random rants he posts to his blog.
Google is fairly high on contention for "most profitable site on the 'web." A big reason for why they are so profitable is that they have a trusted search engine & an only sliightly-less-trusted news aggrigator. Both of these two exist by pointing to work someone ELSE is doing.
While it is true their web properties are very profitable, Google actually makes a TON of revenue (I have no idea what the breakdown is) from Adsense advertising on other web sites. Without their front page search engine or news aggregation, etc, they'd still probably be one of the most profitable Internet companies...
Yeah that's the difference between MSRP and street price. $70-80 is the street price, $130 is the MSRP. There is no reason to think the WNR3500L will not be cheaper at retailers/online, either.
From what I can tell a routerstation plus an N radio card and MIMO antennas is over $200. And you don't get Gb Ethernet ports or a case. Sure, it's a cool platform for hackers/developers, but most tomato, openwrt, etc users are not developers. So why is it a better deal?
And of course, if you don't want wireless N or Gb Ethernet ports, you shouldn't spend extra money for an N router, whether you want the open source support or not. I don't see how that is in any way a negative for this product, though. And saying "you'll get the same performance minus the wireless N support" (and the Gb Ethernet) makes no sense when the whole point those features is that they are much faster.
If I had gigabit network cards and wireless N i might upgrade, but for a home network not doing much filesharing locally I don't see the point.
Lucky for the rest of us their major marketing strategy wasn't "what does sherl0k have at home, we shouldn't build anything that isn't useful to him!"
And the WRT310N lists for $130, not $70. So the MSRP of the WNR3500L is only $10 more. And for that $10 you get a USB port, which is a great addition for an open source project, as it provides the potential to work with all sorts of tons of USB devices.
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It's as if millions of awful websites suddenly cried out and were suddenly silenced. But no one heard them because no one has actually viewed any of them in years.
Did you try the combination to your luggage?
Damn, at first I thought it was the *Sybian* microkernel... now THAT would be a fun kernel to hack...
Does anyone in this thread really think that Apple, a company utterly obsessed with aesthetics, good design, and usability, would put ads in their operating system?
Have you used iTunes lately? Ugh. Their design and usability practices are clearly not universal within the company...
Yes they did. They released an iTunes update that prevented the Pre from syncing. Afterwards, the USB Working Group eventually came out against Palm on it, but that hasn't stopped Palm from ignoring them and enabling it again.
Yeah, it's timothy posting about Microsoft, so what did you expect...
Though if you want to see REAL slant/fanbois, check out the link to Major Nelson's post. I don't see a single positive thing about this decision from a customer's perspective, yet there are dozens of people posting inane comments like "Great, can't wait, good job!" and "I only buy MS official gear, so it's fine by me!" Makes me wonder if he requires all his employees to reply to his blog posts...
No again, they are high because the universities keep spending (on research programs, out of control construction projects, etc) more than they bring in, and they are bringing in (though endowment investment losses, decreasing alumni gifts, and less government support) less these days to boot. Almost all universites are non-profit, so "supply and demand" is irrelevant.
For example, Harvard has forecast over a $100M shortfall this year, and it has the largest endowment, one of the highest alumni donation rates, and,of course, one of the highest tuitions. They are not just raising tuition because "the students will pay", they are raising it because their costs are going up way too fast (which in the end is the thing that needs to be controlled to fix this problem...)
Grad students are pretty cheap compared to other researchers, if he's helping to advance the sciences, like say working on cancer, then that IS going to benefit US citizens. It's also potentially going to be cheaper than paying someone with their doctorate already in hand.
Excellent point... that reminds me of my time in a bio research lab. I was an undergrad, so I got paid in "independent research" course credit (or barely over minimum wage in the summer). The grad student in the lab was basically paid tuition/living expenses + small stipend. The full time research assistant was paid a salary (which was probably 2x what the grad student was costing, and almost infinitely more than what I was costing). I have no idea what the postdoc in the lab cost, but I'd guess not much more than the research assistant. Probably 90% of the day to day work we all did was the same, so they were getting a hell of a deal from the students in the lab.
True, but I think the discussion was really about undergrad tuition, not internships or grad school (which as I'm sure you well know have a lot more complicated expenses/funding than just "tuition"...)
In many institutions they in fact bring in the funds to subsidize the Americans that share their classes. Less [sic] foreign students means higher tuition for Americans.
I don't think the inability of a non-citizen to get an NSF internship would make this statement true, do you?
Can you cite anything that proves this? It's not true for the UC system (and yes I looked it up to verify), and I can't find anything in the Cal State system, either. I'm pretty sure that's it for 4 year public universities in CA.
You are technically right about the residency, though that's mostly just applicable to grad school, and by your statement of "all 4 years" I assume you are talking about undergrads.
That's kind of misleading...
They pay non-resident tuition at public state schools, just like any US student who attends a college in a state they don't reside in. And for most private schools, there is no difference at all.
Sure, they don't get the federal grants, but those are so piss poor these days that probably barely matters (plus they may very well get grants or loans from their home country to attend a US school).
Exactly! This is what happens when a "20-something" tries to write about the history of console gaming.
I remember getting the Intellivision voice synthesizer add-on in about 1982. "Watch for flak!"
To be precise:
He WAS an investor, but he sold his investment, made a ton of money, and now he's semi-retired.
You ARE an investor, because you haven't.
When investing, like many other things in this world, it's better to be lucky than smart...
This is slashdot, I bet more people thought "physics" than "cars"...
Nicely cynical but pretty silly comment... whatever you may want to think about bumbling megacorporations, in the end magazines and TV networks base most of their decisions on exactly these demographics, since it's the basis for their entire revenue stream (advertising). If Fox based their decisions on quality rather than viewership, Firefly would still be on and American Idol would have died a horrible, fiery death...
A 20-something has never seen a relevant current issue of Playboy, and likely cannot remember a relevant current episode of The Simpsons. ...
Simpsons has been on the air for 20 years. The big fans are not 20-somethings anymore. We're 30- and 40-somethings.
Very definitive statements, but they are just not true...
30 seconds of searching shows that the Simpsons still consistently ranks #1 or #2 in its timeslot among teens, 18-34, and 18-49 demographics. And a less scientific but still valid point is that among about a dozen of my younger cousins in the age range of 10-30 I don't know a single one who isn't a Simpsons fan. I know plenty of people who watch the Simpsons with their kids - which is probably part of the reason it IS so popular among such a wide demographic after all these years...
Do you really think a major publication like Playboy, a major network like Fox, and a major retail chain like 7-11 would launch a campaign like this without doing at least 30 seconds of trivial demographic research?
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/
If you don't have a decent video card don't bother looking for an FPS. But if you want a fairly deep, often subtly hilarious RPG with no more requirements than a basic web browser, give KoL a try.
And a rock solid but simple embedded database to emulate flash memory.
This part I don't understand... flash is a hardware solution to persistant storage. An embedded database is a software solution to structured storage of data. The two are completely orthogonal.
Ignoring the flash part, I have used sqlite on several embedded projects (set top boxes) and it has done the job. Depends on your requirements though - is the priority speed, space, ease of use/API, etc?
Wait what? "Remember the days?" Wasn't that like... last year?
I was thinking the same thing when I saw that he mentioned "college", "AOL Messenger", and "Python" in the same sentence. ICQ didn't even exist when I was in college, let alone AOL Messenger, and I'm pretty sure no one outside of the Netherlands had even heard of Python.
Anyway, I agree that a blanket policy of not hiring someone based on their outside interests is idiotic, but if it weren't for those types of people, this guy never would have had the chance to work at Google (since it wouldn't exist), make enough money and reputation to go off and co-found startups, or get anyone to actually read the random rants he posts to his blog.
Google is fairly high on contention for "most profitable site on the 'web." A big reason for why they are so profitable is that they have a trusted search engine & an only sliightly-less-trusted news aggrigator. Both of these two exist by pointing to work someone ELSE is doing.
While it is true their web properties are very profitable, Google actually makes a TON of revenue (I have no idea what the breakdown is) from Adsense advertising on other web sites. Without their front page search engine or news aggregation, etc, they'd still probably be one of the most profitable Internet companies...
Come on, don't plagiarize! At least give credit to Gizmodo for your cut and paste.
http://gizmodo.com/5374890/this-is-a-photoshop-and-it-blew-my-mind
Now we just need to get them to make honey and pollinate plants, before the real bee colonies all collapse...
Yeah that's the difference between MSRP and street price. $70-80 is the street price, $130 is the MSRP. There is no reason to think the WNR3500L will not be cheaper at retailers/online, either.
From what I can tell a routerstation plus an N radio card and MIMO antennas is over $200. And you don't get Gb Ethernet ports or a case. Sure, it's a cool platform for hackers/developers, but most tomato, openwrt, etc users are not developers. So why is it a better deal?
And of course, if you don't want wireless N or Gb Ethernet ports, you shouldn't spend extra money for an N router, whether you want the open source support or not. I don't see how that is in any way a negative for this product, though. And saying "you'll get the same performance minus the wireless N support" (and the Gb Ethernet) makes no sense when the whole point those features is that they are much faster.
If I had gigabit network cards and wireless N i might upgrade, but for a home network not doing much filesharing locally I don't see the point.
Lucky for the rest of us their major marketing strategy wasn't "what does sherl0k have at home, we shouldn't build anything that isn't useful to him!"
And the WRT310N lists for $130, not $70. So the MSRP of the WNR3500L is only $10 more. And for that $10 you get a USB port, which is a great addition for an open source project, as it provides the potential to work with all sorts of tons of USB devices.