"People are free to say what they want here. We won't censor content so long as this space is used constructively" - and with a pun on 'free speech' as the blog name, too.
You know, this 'free and open' is true to some limited extent, but why weren't there any difficult comparative questions asked about Xbox Live Arcade in the Harrison interview on E-Distribution?
Which strikes me as a total non-sequitur. They say they won't censor comments so they have to ask interviewees any question some guy thinks they should have asked...?
This seems to be a teeny bit clearer than the first article, which points out that downloading is a civil, and not criminal, offense for individuals.
I am completely confused:
1) The first article doesn't say that.
2) The second article sort of *does* say that.
3) Assuming that file sharing really has been ruled a civil but not criminal offense, the "Ruled Legal" headline via the dimwitted Register, plagiarizing submitter and sleepy editor is completely false.
The world is the way it is because conflict resolution is *hard*. There are plenty of people suffering far more over disputes even less consequential to an outsider than two nerds squabbling over the quality of some manga. It's just not human nature to be rational about these things.
I won't preface this with my usual "Mark Cuban is an idiot" response to anything he says, since it is an interesting question what Google plans to do with this thing so it's more of a money-maker than a liability.
But it would have been helpful if his informant had distinguished a little between what part is secondhand gossip and what is pure fantasy.
...good people are on the market every few years...
I think he's distinguishing between changing jobs and "on the market". Those people may move between positions but if they do it via networking, they're not available for just anyone to snap them up. (You may disagree with that proposition also, of course...)
2) Going to their website to look into #1, I not only see that is that their current persona, but also that the top headline in their News section is "FBI contracts with Unisys for combined DNA index system." So the guy worrying about being individually marketed to by his urinal may not be so far off.
"They" are the millions of people who don't read Slashdot and have no idea who Lik-Sang is.
The point of yours I was responding to was that the moral titans who *do* read Slashdot should steal music and movies because it's too much to ask them live without Weird Al CD's. It's difficult to see how anyone else could possibly qualify as "sheep" by comparison.
Consumers are sheep; unless provided an equally-attractive alternative, they'll never really give anything they enjoy up, no matter how repugnant its production might be.
Sorry, who is this "they"? The only people I see ranting and raving about how modchips are a fundamental human right but not worth giving up James Bond: Casino Royale over are you guys.
They really need to back up their claims that reporters are getting thrown in jail left and right for criticizing this administration.
OK, they didn't really say that, but the fact that a journalism group makes the preposterous assertion that "the president used the pretext of 'national security' to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his 'war on terrorism'" gives you some idea why public respect for journalists is in a pretty steep "downward spiral", as well.
Instead, I think their ranking system works like this:
In fact, they pretty much say that themselves. How is " Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated..." a matter of press freedom?
Hmmm, I hadn't known that -- I'd thought it was more towards the bottom of the Nature roster, not Nature Genetics-level. Thanks for the correction!
Anyway, the point wasn't to knock their publication (which, as you say, is really nice), but to dispel some of the apocalyptic tone of the linked article and "Stem Cell Therapy Causes Tumors".
You know how you guys flip out over every "breakthrough" in an overheated university press release, and then wonder why that in-vitro or animal result didn't turn into a miracle cure a few months later?
This is the same thing, in reverse. It's an interesting, frustrating animal result in a pretty good journal, not a crashing doom for stem cell research.
Man, this guy is really taking a hammering here! In his defense:
"Memoirs of a Bystander" is the (admittedly pretentious) blog name. The submitter misread the title bar.
My understanding is that he's doing primarily Mac (or platform neutral) development, with a little.NET, not full-time.NET. If that's incorrect, I agree that what he's doing is silly and counterproductive.
"Slashvertisement" seems unfair, and anyway it's a useful, well-written little piece that's completely distorted in the Slashdot blurb.
So I'd say this is just the usual case of submitter-illiterate-and-editor-barely-R'dTFA, unless the author is the submitter, in which case you sort of have a point.
Here's the flaw in your logic (and note that Fermi, at least in Sagan's telling of the story, doesn't make the same mistake):
Either managers can actively do harm or they can't. If they can't, we're indifferent to who winds up in charge. If they can (and HP's previous leadership seems to have clearly demonstrated that they can), then your stochastic model goes out the window.
Me, I could do without all that stress and am happy to just have a job where I can criticize other people's math every day...
Because if they *had* sued this "Guba" thing, you idiots would be congratulating them for their meticulous fairness and consistency and expressing relief that they hadn't "lost the moral high ground" by failing to take legal action against someone...
That press release ("a DNA Pharmaceutical Tablet...an entirely new form of Data Codon") is pure gibberish. Between the incoherent language, the weird secrecy and the fact that this seems to be a one man operation, I'd strongly suspect Graemme Brown is a crank.
This writeup is (once you get through the -killer nonsense) suspiciously pro-Microsoft. Shouldn't it be something like "Micro$oft Tries To Patent Paper!"?
That position drew a skeptical line of questioning from Congressman Greg Walden, R-Oregon
"If you're checking for the amount of skin in an image and that sort of thing, and however your logarithms work, you'd think you ought to check, you know, 'John Doe', who happens to be a sex offender, and weed them out," Walden said at the time.
(In fairness to the Congressman, it's certainly possible that he said "algorithms" and it was mistranscribed...)
I've been grumbling for days about my submisisons on this being overlooked, but Terra Soft isn't just making the OS, they and Sony are building a PS3-based cluster.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled news about Jack Thompson and SCO.
You think that now -- check out this: Terra Soft, Sony to Build World's First Cell Cluster, powered by YDL and a stack of PS3's! (Submission rejected in favor of more Debian hairsplitting and inane Ask Slashdot's...)
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Gee, it's too bad we didn't hand over the Internet to the UN like you guys all wanted...
I was wondering the same thing -- is there some witticism here that I'm missing or is it just some Dadaist/jackass version of "M$"?
Yes, I blogged about it and a commenter set me straight.
I have to confess, I looked at "slog" and thought "Ughhh, that's the worst new blogoword since 'blogmarklet'!"
Anyway, I'm not sure what the news is here -- someone else's job turns out to be a lot harder when it's you who has to do it?
Which strikes me as a total non-sequitur. They say they won't censor comments so they have to ask interviewees any question some guy thinks they should have asked...?
I am completely confused:
1) The first article doesn't say that.
2) The second article sort of *does* say that.
3) Assuming that file sharing really has been ruled a civil but not criminal offense, the "Ruled Legal" headline via the dimwitted Register, plagiarizing submitter and sleepy editor is completely false.
The world is the way it is because conflict resolution is *hard*. There are plenty of people suffering far more over disputes even less consequential to an outsider than two nerds squabbling over the quality of some manga. It's just not human nature to be rational about these things.
But it would have been helpful if his informant had distinguished a little between what part is secondhand gossip and what is pure fantasy.
I suppose that's true, in the sense that I'm required to either "appeal" to the valet parking guy or purchase another car.
I think he's distinguishing between changing jobs and "on the market". Those people may move between positions but if they do it via networking, they're not available for just anyone to snap them up. (You may disagree with that proposition also, of course...)
I know a lot of you people fly into a rage at the mention of his name, but: Joel Spolsky on this very topic and related topics.
2) Going to their website to look into #1, I not only see that is that their current persona, but also that the top headline in their News section is "FBI contracts with Unisys for combined DNA index system." So the guy worrying about being individually marketed to by his urinal may not be so far off.
The point of yours I was responding to was that the moral titans who *do* read Slashdot should steal music and movies because it's too much to ask them live without Weird Al CD's. It's difficult to see how anyone else could possibly qualify as "sheep" by comparison.
Sorry, who is this "they"? The only people I see ranting and raving about how modchips are a fundamental human right but not worth giving up James Bond: Casino Royale over are you guys.
OK, they didn't really say that, but the fact that a journalism group makes the preposterous assertion that "the president used the pretext of 'national security' to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his 'war on terrorism'" gives you some idea why public respect for journalists is in a pretty steep "downward spiral", as well.
Instead, I think their ranking system works like this:
In fact, they pretty much say that themselves. How is " Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated..." a matter of press freedom?
Anyway, the point wasn't to knock their publication (which, as you say, is really nice), but to dispel some of the apocalyptic tone of the linked article and "Stem Cell Therapy Causes Tumors".
This is the same thing, in reverse. It's an interesting, frustrating animal result in a pretty good journal, not a crashing doom for stem cell research.
- "Memoirs of a Bystander" is the (admittedly pretentious) blog name. The submitter misread the title bar.
- My understanding is that he's doing primarily Mac (or platform neutral) development, with a little
.NET, not full-time .NET. If that's incorrect, I agree that what he's doing is silly and counterproductive. - "Slashvertisement" seems unfair, and anyway it's a useful, well-written little piece that's completely distorted in the Slashdot blurb.
So I'd say this is just the usual case of submitter-illiterate-and-editor-barely-R'dTFA, unless the author is the submitter, in which case you sort of have a point.Either managers can actively do harm or they can't. If they can't, we're indifferent to who winds up in charge. If they can (and HP's previous leadership seems to have clearly demonstrated that they can), then your stochastic model goes out the window.
Me, I could do without all that stress and am happy to just have a job where I can criticize other people's math every day...
Because if they *had* sued this "Guba" thing, you idiots would be congratulating them for their meticulous fairness and consistency and expressing relief that they hadn't "lost the moral high ground" by failing to take legal action against someone...
That press release ("a DNA Pharmaceutical Tablet...an entirely new form of Data Codon") is pure gibberish. Between the incoherent language, the weird secrecy and the fact that this seems to be a one man operation, I'd strongly suspect Graemme Brown is a crank.
This writeup is (once you get through the -killer nonsense) suspiciously pro-Microsoft. Shouldn't it be something like "Micro$oft Tries To Patent Paper!"?
You may now return to your regularly scheduled news about Jack Thompson and SCO.
You think that now -- check out this: Terra Soft, Sony to Build World's First Cell Cluster, powered by YDL and a stack of PS3's! (Submission rejected in favor of more Debian hairsplitting and inane Ask Slashdot's...)