One could be forgiven for thinking you have an ulterior motive for making this statement:P
I see what you're saying, but I will suggest that what Wordpress did will have an impact on every other CMS out there. It's changed my perspective. I have to be twice as careful about my CMS and so as a result, this action from Wordpress has cost me valuable time rethinking SEO decisions...etc.
The Globe and Mail reports that 'A new report conducted by market research firm Info-Tech Research Group says 95 per cent of information technology groups are not delivering some number of projects on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive.
The answer to this problem is change, and isn't change always the answer?
Consider if you will for a brief moment the vast difference between the average executive and the average programmer. Programmers are generally broad-picture thinkers who solve largely complicated problems that regular folks can't possibly wrap their heads around. The executive runs on a schedule and uses reports and correspondance to understand what is going on, because business folks have to judge their employees and projects.
These two groups are forced to work together, and we expect good results? We need someone to interpret between these two groups! The HR department can't regularly serve in the interpretive capacity, but perhaps they should.
Managers generally don't want to give the programmers the whole picture, because management often believes that they are superior in rank to programmers, placing the programmers on a need-to-know-basis, only. Huge mistake.
What programmers and managers need to do is realisticly approach their solutions together. They need to be honest with each other. They need to share each other's thoughts and feelings about the subject matter. It's not happening today.
The programmers need to come to the table and care about their customers a little more. The managers need to come to the table and care about their programmers a little more. The customers need to be more specific and realistic about how far their dollar can go. Then deadlines will be met and promises kept and successful solutions provided to customers.
I encourage a no-holds-barred approach to project management. The superior product is developed using the Agile method.
First, I'm glad to hear that we won't be adopting the DCMA any time soon in Canada. We don't have the money to enforce it anyway.
I hope they know what the price of defiance is, and I think I speak for the rest of Jebusland when I say, "Let's roll!"
Ya ya I know you're joking about attacking Canada, but I still dislike hearing about that stuff from Americans.
Every time we do what the rest of the world wants to (but doesn't) -- right wing America gripes and sends us idle threats about bloodshed and mayhem in the Great White North. You would have a hell of a time trying to annex Canada. We beat you in 1812 and with 75% of your military currently in Iraq, you would have a very tough time picking winning fights up here. Also, I think that if *any* country attacked Canada, the rest of the world would unite and fight on our behalf, as if it was WW2. Oh, and don't forget that we have ten times as many guns as you do per capita (and yet a lower murder rate???)...
Yes!! I don't even need to be funny to look like a jackass! Built-in laugh tracks? I guess it might be entertaining to play alone.
Forget entertaining. This device will enable Slashdotters to achive higher goals on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Currently many of us are stuck at the Safety rung, but this gizmo will allow us to achive Self Actualization!
Don't forget the Biblical Icons. That Golden Calf must have some pretty great raytracing and high polys to be worshipped so blatantly at the risk of utter destruction.
This is clearly a hormonal thing, and it's like making a case against human evolution. The computers are here and they aren't going anywhere. Learn how to use them to improve your test scores or find better porn - the choice is yours. I don't think you can make a case against students learning to use computers now, as opposed to waiting until they are over 40 and trying to find the Any Key.
Corporations still have a hell of a time keeping employees off of Solitaire and Minesweeper. I think this is not a computer problem, but a "bored at work" problem. I can remember my teachers in high school - most of them were the most boring people you would care to meet. A select few would enlighten and invoke interesting discussion and methods to achieve success on the course.
So this clearly is not a computer problem, but a teacher problem. Adding a distractive device that lets you leave a boring class is only a small price to pay to prevent the stagnation of our children's collective intellects.
Let's put more money into better programs and methods for teaching, and wash out the teachers who aren't interesting. Maybe add some profit incentives for teachers?
No. Aliens will look at the pictures and wonder what: "ÿØÿà" means, when they open it in a text editor. Simply put, there is no easy way to communicate with Aliens. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
Imagine you're on a mountain top and you want to send a communication to someone else on another mountain top. What form of communication do you use? If you're trying to reach another human being you might be able to send smoke signals, and it would help to know what language that person speaks, or the communication won't work -- they will see the smoke but interpret it incorrectly.
If you fire up a short wave and start sending broadcasting, the other party would only be able to listen if they have the same equipment or at least the ability to listen and understand what you're sending. So high tech is dependant on the odds that your independent civilizations went in the same direction in their research and development, which statistically is likely implausible.
The bottom line is that we might send information into space that will provoke the wrong response, or worse -- we might cause the aliens to believe that there is a strange natural phenomena on Earth that is not worthy of scientific study, and cause them to ignore any future attempts at communication. We should be attracting aliens by producing a stable intergalactic fleet of killer robot ships. They will want to trade with us if we have heavy firepower. It's a status thing, really.
If the aliens are evil, they will respect us. If they are peaceful, they will want to come and try to enlighten us. If we have massive intergalactic firepower, it's a win / win.
If we are weak, the evil aliens will subjugate us into slavery and good aliens will skip us because they have more pressing matters to attend to - such as the rise of a new threat in another quadrant of space they need to try and enlighten.
Therefore, the missile defense program would benefit Canada and the US - because of the aliens!
The purpose of a library's security is so that the books will be there for other people to use in the future. NOT to secure a financial hegemony for corporations. It's not about the bottom line. It's about the furtherance of knowledge.
If you want to save a page click prtsc on a PC and paste it into your image program. But I agree, this is not a very well designed system just yet.
Google Publications is still a little wonky. I checked out Tom Sawyer, just to get a feel for the service. The table of contents doesn't seem to connect to the whole book at once, and it easily could. Plus to find pages from the book is designed quite strangely. If you get in a section of the book and click the arrows, it takes you to only pages within the section and not the whole book. There is no way to access other parts of the book unless you search for them. The highlighting of keywords seems distracting if you're trying to read something. Plus to get quotes out the text you should be able to select it, and as of right now it's simply scanned in as an image.
I just expected more from Google, but I understand it's beta and all. They will likely increase usability as time goes on but for now, this is only partially useable.
So this is the age when we change a letter of an already annoying idea, patent it, and sue everyone who infringes? Soon I will patent this new idea I had called pife -- it's when you are born, live and grow up, become a productive member of society -- but it's different than life because it's more personal and it's branded with my own special logo, and ongoing product placement using cranial implants.
Not to wear a tinfoil hat, but I think it's fair to assume that if a blackhat managed to compromise a whole system, he may have also managed to find a patsy for the whole thing. I'm not seeing the word "confessed" anywhere in that article, so perhaps they got the wrong guy? Only a proper trial will tell if he is actually the right guy or not. Geez you'd think the guy never heard of Tor or privoxy before...
If *you* are going to read the Secret Service's email, wouldn't you do it better than this?
Seems like they have the wrong guy to me./Tinfoil Hat
Just because 6.2% of people don't have wired phones doesn't mean that the service isn't available to them. A lot of people ditch their wired lines and just use their cell phone.
Slashdot Mirror
You are currently using 55 MB (5%) of your 1215 MB.
I really hope this is not a hoax. I guess we'll never run out. Pffft take that Redmond!!! MWHAAHAHAHAHAA!!!!
One could be forgiven for thinking you have an ulterior motive for making this statement :P
I see what you're saying, but I will suggest that what Wordpress did will have an impact on every other CMS out there. It's changed my perspective. I have to be twice as careful about my CMS and so as a result, this action from Wordpress has cost me valuable time rethinking SEO decisions...etc.
Please attach a chapter on Wordpress in the next update of this book.
The Globe and Mail reports that 'A new report conducted by market research firm Info-Tech Research Group says 95 per cent of information technology groups are not delivering some number of projects on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive.
The answer to this problem is change, and isn't change always the answer?
Consider if you will for a brief moment the vast difference between the average executive and the average programmer. Programmers are generally broad-picture thinkers who solve largely complicated problems that regular folks can't possibly wrap their heads around. The executive runs on a schedule and uses reports and correspondance to understand what is going on, because business folks have to judge their employees and projects.
These two groups are forced to work together, and we expect good results? We need someone to interpret between these two groups! The HR department can't regularly serve in the interpretive capacity, but perhaps they should.
Managers generally don't want to give the programmers the whole picture, because management often believes that they are superior in rank to programmers, placing the programmers on a need-to-know-basis, only. Huge mistake.
What programmers and managers need to do is realisticly approach their solutions together. They need to be honest with each other. They need to share each other's thoughts and feelings about the subject matter. It's not happening today.
The programmers need to come to the table and care about their customers a little more. The managers need to come to the table and care about their programmers a little more. The customers need to be more specific and realistic about how far their dollar can go. Then deadlines will be met and promises kept and successful solutions provided to customers.
I encourage a no-holds-barred approach to project management. The superior product is developed using the Agile method.
before turning around and heading back to Bermuda
Let's just hope it doesn't get gobbled up by those pesky Bermuda Triangle Aliens.
First, I'm glad to hear that we won't be adopting the DCMA any time soon in Canada. We don't have the money to enforce it anyway.
I hope they know what the price of defiance is, and I think I speak for the rest of Jebusland when I say, "Let's roll!"
Ya ya I know you're joking about attacking Canada, but I still dislike hearing about that stuff from Americans.
Every time we do what the rest of the world wants to (but doesn't) -- right wing America gripes and sends us idle threats about bloodshed and mayhem in the Great White North. You would have a hell of a time trying to annex Canada. We beat you in 1812 and with 75% of your military currently in Iraq, you would have a very tough time picking winning fights up here. Also, I think that if *any* country attacked Canada, the rest of the world would unite and fight on our behalf, as if it was WW2. Oh, and don't forget that we have ten times as many guns as you do per capita (and yet a lower murder rate???)...
Seriously... bring it!
Yes!! I don't even need to be funny to look like a jackass! Built-in laugh tracks? I guess it might be entertaining to play alone.
Forget entertaining. This device will enable Slashdotters to achive higher goals on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Currently many of us are stuck at the Safety rung, but this gizmo will allow us to achive Self Actualization!
Don't forget the Biblical Icons. That Golden Calf must have some pretty great raytracing and high polys to be worshipped so blatantly at the risk of utter destruction.
The album is FREE. But I'm guessing you know that and are trying to be funny, right? :-)
Apple holes are usually caused by worms, right?
how much publicly-funded researchers should be required to disclose
All of it, baby. We're paying for it -- we should have the right to:
a) Know what you're spending our money on
b) Have the right to make it better ourselves
c) Learn of security flaws early so we can correct them
Especially when there is some doubt about the nature of the results in the closed source model from Mann et al.
This is clearly a hormonal thing, and it's like making a case against human evolution. The computers are here and they aren't going anywhere. Learn how to use them to improve your test scores or find better porn - the choice is yours. I don't think you can make a case against students learning to use computers now, as opposed to waiting until they are over 40 and trying to find the Any Key.
Corporations still have a hell of a time keeping employees off of Solitaire and Minesweeper. I think this is not a computer problem, but a "bored at work" problem. I can remember my teachers in high school - most of them were the most boring people you would care to meet. A select few would enlighten and invoke interesting discussion and methods to achieve success on the course.
So this clearly is not a computer problem, but a teacher problem. Adding a distractive device that lets you leave a boring class is only a small price to pay to prevent the stagnation of our children's collective intellects.
Let's put more money into better programs and methods for teaching, and wash out the teachers who aren't interesting. Maybe add some profit incentives for teachers?
But is this stategy sound?
No. Aliens will look at the pictures and wonder what:
"ÿØÿà" means, when they open it in a text editor. Simply put, there is no easy way to communicate with Aliens. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
Imagine you're on a mountain top and you want to send a communication to someone else on another mountain top. What form of communication do you use? If you're trying to reach another human being you might be able to send smoke signals, and it would help to know what language that person speaks, or the communication won't work -- they will see the smoke but interpret it incorrectly.
If you fire up a short wave and start sending broadcasting, the other party would only be able to listen if they have the same equipment or at least the ability to listen and understand what you're sending. So high tech is dependant on the odds that your independent civilizations went in the same direction in their research and development, which statistically is likely implausible.
The bottom line is that we might send information into space that will provoke the wrong response, or worse -- we might cause the aliens to believe that there is a strange natural phenomena on Earth that is not worthy of scientific study, and cause them to ignore any future attempts at communication. We should be attracting aliens by producing a stable intergalactic fleet of killer robot ships. They will want to trade with us if we have heavy firepower. It's a status thing, really.
If the aliens are evil, they will respect us. If they are peaceful, they will want to come and try to enlighten us. If we have massive intergalactic firepower, it's a win / win.
If we are weak, the evil aliens will subjugate us into slavery and good aliens will skip us because they have more pressing matters to attend to - such as the rise of a new threat in another quadrant of space they need to try and enlighten.
Therefore, the missile defense program would benefit Canada and the US - because of the aliens!
Sending signals into a void won't be successful.
The purpose of a library's security is so that the books will be there for other people to use in the future. NOT to secure a financial hegemony for corporations. It's not about the bottom line. It's about the furtherance of knowledge.
If you want to save a page click prtsc on a PC and paste it into your image program. But I agree, this is not a very well designed system just yet.
Google Publications is still a little wonky. I checked out Tom Sawyer, just to get a feel for the service. The table of contents doesn't seem to connect to the whole book at once, and it easily could. Plus to find pages from the book is designed quite strangely. If you get in a section of the book and click the arrows, it takes you to only pages within the section and not the whole book. There is no way to access other parts of the book unless you search for them. The highlighting of keywords seems distracting if you're trying to read something. Plus to get quotes out the text you should be able to select it, and as of right now it's simply scanned in as an image.
I just expected more from Google, but I understand it's beta and all. They will likely increase usability as time goes on but for now, this is only partially useable.
PSPCasting? Not sure about that. Sounds more like breaking the shackles of corporate anti-competition, to fix a product.
So this is the age when we change a letter of an already annoying idea, patent it, and sue everyone who infringes? Soon I will patent this new idea I had called pife -- it's when you are born, live and grow up, become a productive member of society -- but it's different than life because it's more personal and it's branded with my own special logo, and ongoing product placement using cranial implants.
Soon you will all bow to me!
why does it end up redirecting to MS?
I'm guessing UW-Madison wants to Slashdot MS. It's a conspiracy.
Two mpegs -- 11MB and 35MB -- available here
The Slashdot Effect in 3...2...1...
Not to wear a tinfoil hat, but I think it's fair to assume that if a blackhat managed to compromise a whole system, he may have also managed to find a patsy for the whole thing. I'm not seeing the word "confessed" anywhere in that article, so perhaps they got the wrong guy? Only a proper trial will tell if he is actually the right guy or not. Geez you'd think the guy never heard of Tor or privoxy before...
/Tinfoil Hat
If *you* are going to read the Secret Service's email, wouldn't you do it better than this?
Seems like they have the wrong guy to me.
Just because 6.2% of people don't have wired phones doesn't mean that the service isn't available to them. A lot of people ditch their wired lines and just use their cell phone.
I'm guessing it's bad credit.
Oh so it's not as completely stupid as it sounds.
But this grade nine science project is going to look like bloody hell on film anyway.
I think the idea is that if you can't afford a teleprompter you should not be in the film business.
It's basically a supply and demand thing. If your show is excellent, you should have the funding to have proper teleprompters.
If your show sucks you should use a can of pringles and some tin foil, a string and some saran wrap and an overhead projector.
So basically it's just a camera attached to a computer? Like a web cam?
Who would ever have thought of that?
Here's a guy that had such a need and built a teleprompter with easy-to-find materials, a camcorder and a laptop.
Yeah, it's called PowerPoint . Or what I like to call Impress.