Does Best Buy have a good reason for thinking they know better than their customers?
Absolutely. Does Best Buy have everything in a store that Amazon has? Of course not - they are constantly choosing what to sell and what not to sell, and that has to do with several factors.
I happen to think Best Buy makes poor decisions along those lines, so I'm not one of their customers.
What is this shit doing on the Slashdot front page? It's wrong in every aspect of business management and is just a long way around to say "work good, drugs bad". It's the prose equivalent of Nancy Reagan wearing a nun's outfit having an auditory seizure.
Sounds like only people who didn't keep up with security bulletins would be affected.
Well, Java devs tend to bundle libraries instead of loading them dynamically so these can be quite hard to patch without a security person on a CI team.
On another note, 12 hours go by and only troll posts? What the fuck is happening to Slashdot...
It's almost 2018 and we still have to wait five minutes between posts and there's no unicode support. The kinds of things that make Facebook and Reddit unpopular.
I'm thinking to upgrade my computer but I want to make sure Linux can take it... Linux has never been great with support for new hardware but a poorly supported CPU really surprised me.
AMD has a recall on the crashy Ryzens. Contact customer service if you're affected.
Errata happen, but If you want to be pissed about something, let it be AMD's refusal to provide thermal management documentation. It's insane - they will eventually capitulate and release the docs, but right now they're killing a golden opportunity they've created to disrupt Intel's previous lead, because sysadmins and systems integrators need to know how hot their systems are running.
There is no planning permission, and there is no state sign-off for the project, but the power company are allowed to take our money. Why?
A primary benefit of governments is for corporations to socialize risks and privatize profits. That's been well-articulated since at least Adam Smith's time, yet government-educated people keep asking for more of it.
Comcast doesn't have a right to the poles either. The way things are now, the PUC controls pole access. If Comcast wants to buy up land everywhere to put its own poles in, you're quite right. If they want to use the government-regulated poles, there are terms-and-conditions. Comcast knows all about terms and conditions.
I get that it's easier to build a big 8K than a small 8K because of density, but I am damn close to finally getting the 40" 8K monitor I've had set as my target dream display since the early 90's. Yay, future. Looks like it'll be here before 2020, which beats the extrapolated guess from 25 years ago.
They paid to screw it up, now want help to fix it and won't pay for that.
No, that's not what's happening.
Yeah, Unity was a stupid idea. I've complained here about not even considering Ubuntu because of Unity before (though I've since run XUbuntu for some compatibility-driven tasks).
But what they're saying here is, "Guys, we were wrong, we're going with GNOME, but there are some things GNOME doesn't do right that Unity did". Can you believe that Unity might have not done EVERYTHING wrong and that GNOME doesn't do EVERYTHING right?
They want to make a good, more Open release and are asking for help from the community to do that.
Don't shit on people who are trying to mend their ways; the best thing about Open Source is the community and the "never forgive, never forget" attitude only serves to damage it.
They ought to be looking for some UI people who can run a lab and translate user-identified issues into specific problem reports that the people they are asking for can do something with.
They probably don't want random poor-reporting users to slow down their sprint, but as so often happens, it sounds like they forget that UI design is an entire branch of Computer Science.
Infrastructure would be required to push each build iteration out to the lab, but that's quite do-able.
We've gotten to the point where Google thinks that asking tough questions and seeking answers is less valuable than ideological conformity
Well, that didn't take long.
Crazy ideas inspire the best people. And with the best people on them, they aren't so crazy anymore. #HowGoogleWorks - @ericschmidt, 2014
And this is how big tech companies die - they become places where the best people don't want to work.
A vocal minority can create an ideological echo chamber and keep it resonating with dopamine hits until Twitter goes bankrupt, nerds trying to use a sense of power brought about by the company's market position to exert their social preferences upon a disparate society, but the inevitable outcome is that either people leave because they aren't uniform in nature or, even worse, people within the company become uniform in nature and then nothing innovative gets done because unconventional thinking comes from unconventional thinkers.
As a public company, Google should care about its productive quality which will return value to investors, but even at that level many managers will damage their company to placate a few activist investors. If Google's culture can't even handle one employee who has unpopular opinions that's probably an indication of internal fragility which can lead to poor performance after some period of time.
Two people standing in a field having a conversation - that's the default human condition. Are there eavesdroppers? Are their communications subject to interception? Can somebody demand that somebody follow them around and write down everything they say or demand that all of their conversations are relayed via a biased third party?
All of those are "no", so all of those things are violations of the default human condition (what some call "human rights" though that unnecessarily complicates matters). The violations themselves are unethical, so there's no need to look further for political theories.
Human technology should reflect basic human ethics and work to maintain, if not improve, the default human condition, so, yeah, the Internet should at least enable communications that are secure by default, if not necessarily require them.
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Just more Trump bashing by CNN
But were there any evidence-free claims that he blocked the sale of Lattice because he's Putin's bitch and, by extension, an illegitimate President?
Does Best Buy have a good reason for thinking they know better than their customers?
Absolutely. Does Best Buy have everything in a store that Amazon has? Of course not - they are constantly choosing what to sell and what not to sell, and that has to do with several factors.
I happen to think Best Buy makes poor decisions along those lines, so I'm not one of their customers.
That's how the free market works.
Next time:
SET credit_score = 740 WHERE credit_score <= 600;
Cybercriminals sure aren't the old-school hackers.
What is this shit doing on the Slashdot front page? It's wrong in every aspect of business management and is just a long way around to say "work good, drugs bad". It's the prose equivalent of Nancy Reagan wearing a nun's outfit having an auditory seizure.
Other than that google seemed to do jack to help or hurt motorola.
Google bought Motorola to arm up on mobile patents. Phones were just along for the ride.
The Moto X Pure was the best 4G phone for Android for a while, though, for people who care about things like SD Cards and unlocked bootloaders.
What is this actually adding to the equation, other than maybe some level of plausible deniability?
Most people are too shy to just text "DTF?" to their local friends.
Sounds like only people who didn't keep up with security bulletins would be affected.
Well, Java devs tend to bundle libraries instead of loading them dynamically so these can be quite hard to patch without a security person on a CI team.
On another note, 12 hours go by and only troll posts? What the fuck is happening to Slashdot...
It's almost 2018 and we still have to wait five minutes between posts and there's no unicode support. The kinds of things that make Facebook and Reddit unpopular.
I'm thinking to upgrade my computer but I want to make sure Linux can take it... Linux has never been great with support for new hardware but a poorly supported CPU really surprised me.
AMD has a recall on the crashy Ryzens. Contact customer service if you're affected.
Errata happen, but If you want to be pissed about something, let it be AMD's refusal to provide thermal management documentation. It's insane - they will eventually capitulate and release the docs, but right now they're killing a golden opportunity they've created to disrupt Intel's previous lead, because sysadmins and systems integrators need to know how hot their systems are running.
If I wanted far-off pontifications from rich egotistical blowhards
But what about poor egotistical blowhards? That's what /. is for, right?
There is no planning permission, and there is no state sign-off for the project, but the power company are allowed to take our money. Why?
A primary benefit of governments is for corporations to socialize risks and privatize profits. That's been well-articulated since at least Adam Smith's time, yet government-educated people keep asking for more of it.
It doesn't make economic sense to build, operate and decomission a nuclear plant now.
Yes, though that's mostly because industry is forced to build high-pressure LWR or nothing.
Ironically, the people that are happiest about this are the Greens and the Coal Industry.
So I am not totally convinced that this was "the" HD
There's respecting a dead man's wishes, and there's donating a million dollars to childhood cancer research. Everything is a compromise.
so they can hide the bad think
This.
Comcast doesn't have a right to the poles either. The way things are now, the PUC controls pole access. If Comcast wants to buy up land everywhere to put its own poles in, you're quite right. If they want to use the government-regulated poles, there are terms-and-conditions. Comcast knows all about terms and conditions.
I get that it's easier to build a big 8K than a small 8K because of density, but I am damn close to finally getting the 40" 8K monitor I've had set as my target dream display since the early 90's. Yay, future. Looks like it'll be here before 2020, which beats the extrapolated guess from 25 years ago.
Maybe the petabyte of xpoint flash is just the cache drive for your real data store.
Heck, you'd probably need eight of these just to cache an exabyte of backend.
VoIP required that your phone was turned on, your app was running, and regularly pulled requests. An absolute battery eater.
That's silly. Android systems can sleep for days while have VoIP solutions, like Signal, installed and ready to receive a call (via its own listener).
Unless you're saying iOS is somehow worse than Android in this regard.
They paid to screw it up, now want help to fix it and won't pay for that.
No, that's not what's happening.
Yeah, Unity was a stupid idea. I've complained here about not even considering Ubuntu because of Unity before (though I've since run XUbuntu for some compatibility-driven tasks).
But what they're saying here is, "Guys, we were wrong, we're going with GNOME, but there are some things GNOME doesn't do right that Unity did". Can you believe that Unity might have not done EVERYTHING wrong and that GNOME doesn't do EVERYTHING right?
They want to make a good, more Open release and are asking for help from the community to do that.
Don't shit on people who are trying to mend their ways; the best thing about Open Source is the community and the "never forgive, never forget" attitude only serves to damage it.
They ought to be looking for some UI people who can run a lab and translate user-identified issues into specific problem reports that the people they are asking for can do something with.
They probably don't want random poor-reporting users to slow down their sprint, but as so often happens, it sounds like they forget that UI design is an entire branch of Computer Science.
Infrastructure would be required to push each build iteration out to the lab, but that's quite do-able.
inb4 "The Nation is part of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" posts.
We've gotten to the point where Google thinks that asking tough questions and seeking answers is less valuable than ideological conformity
Well, that didn't take long.
And this is how big tech companies die - they become places where the best people don't want to work.
A vocal minority can create an ideological echo chamber and keep it resonating with dopamine hits until Twitter goes bankrupt, nerds trying to use a sense of power brought about by the company's market position to exert their social preferences upon a disparate society, but the inevitable outcome is that either people leave because they aren't uniform in nature or, even worse, people within the company become uniform in nature and then nothing innovative gets done because unconventional thinking comes from unconventional thinkers.
As a public company, Google should care about its productive quality which will return value to investors, but even at that level many managers will damage their company to placate a few activist investors. If Google's culture can't even handle one employee who has unpopular opinions that's probably an indication of internal fragility which can lead to poor performance after some period of time.
What's the symbol? What's the yield?
This program is, what, a quarter million a year and they get a ton of users and press out of it? Smart move.
Two people standing in a field having a conversation - that's the default human condition. Are there eavesdroppers? Are their communications subject to interception? Can somebody demand that somebody follow them around and write down everything they say or demand that all of their conversations are relayed via a biased third party?
All of those are "no", so all of those things are violations of the default human condition (what some call "human rights" though that unnecessarily complicates matters). The violations themselves are unethical, so there's no need to look further for political theories.
Human technology should reflect basic human ethics and work to maintain, if not improve, the default human condition, so, yeah, the Internet should at least enable communications that are secure by default, if not necessarily require them.
You're using an old shilling formula - you should not get paid your piecework rate for this post due to an overall lack of effort.