Certainly not us. We don't really have a choice. Comcast could merge with freaking Verizon, thus giving us the granddaddy of all broadband monopolies and dooming to forever pay too much money for a crappy connection and no recourse when stuff breaks (which would be often), and our choices would be to suck it up, or just suck it. So I'm not sure what he thinks we should be doing about it...?
I disagree. It would be worth it for a sufficiently large amount of money. Namely, enough money that after a few months of it, you could quit and never have to work again. The chance of getting that much money are roughly 0%, but still. For a few hundred thousand a year, I'd work hundred hour weeks, why not? Wouldn't do it for anything less than that, though.
But I'm working on a project with our DC team at work... I don't think much is going to get done on that project this week, as their internet is not the most reliable at the moment. >.>
Even if I agreed with the assessment, if they're being tasked (or tasking themselves) with technical work, insisting that they be the one to do it, and then botching it horribly, does it really matter whether or not they're good at business, or whether you're good at communicating with business people? I'd argue that it doesn't.
I already thought the "show pages it thinks you might want to open in a new tab" feature was sort of annoying right when they first released it, ages ago. You can turn the feature off. My new tabs have always been one blank white tile; I can open my own urls, thank you very much. I really couldn't care less what they pre-fill that screen with for people who don't turn the feature off, as long as you can still turn the feature off.
If you find somebody's front door is unlocked and you go inside just long enough to leave a note saying "you should really lock your door. I found it unlocked. I could have taken something", and the owners of the house find you and try to throw you in jail: that would be idiotic and wrong.
If, on the other hand, which it sounds like is more like what this guy did, you find somebody's front door is unlocked, go inside, and rifle through all their desk drawers looking for things they don't want you talking about, then posting what you find on the internet, you should get hit with something. You shouldn't get hit with a B&E charge, cause you weren't breaking anything, but you should get hit with *something*.
"The carriers won't win the war on Netflix, because tools for monitoring the performance of carriers will emerge and we'll catch them if they try."
Yeah, and then what? We'll all just cancel our internet and have no internet? That's likely. Given the choice between paying too much for crappy internet (what I have right now), and not paying and having no internet, I will continue to choose the former, thank you very much. Now obviously if a non-Verizon service were to come along and deliver on a promise of having internet that doesn't suck as much and/or was cheaper, I'd certainly drop Verizon in a second. But no such choice exists, and no such choice is likely to exist in the future the way things have been going. (I do have the choice to switch to Comcast. Big whoopdy-fracking-do, so much better, not.)
I doubt most of the people complaining about the beta are people who would really care if facebook broke their crap, on account of we probably mostly don't actually use facebook. I haven't used facebook since it basically *was* a beta (back when it was new and exciting, and notably, only for college kids), for anything other than liking some random crap in exchange for a contest entry.
Meh, I think just having a post in every thread where people can mention that they'll disappear if the beta goes live and forces everyone onto it, while still having all the problems that it has that the old version doesn't, is good enough. No need to boycott the site *before* we're forced off the working site, while the working site still works. Just need to keep posting about how we'll totally boycott it if the other option is using it while it's broken and awful, which I totally will.
Since one of the things that drives me the MOST crazy about my current job, and MOST makes me think about quitting, is in fact the near-constant requests for writing various self-assessments, goal documents, and other such things that are not actually related to my job, and which don't actually seem to be used for anything other than making the people responsible for requiring all of those documents look like they're doing useful things. Drives me crazy. After all that, our performance reviews tend to basically say "yep, you're doing fine. Have a raise that is exactly in line with inflation, just like everyone else is getting."
They already have that, minus the windshield (which, let's be honest, would be kind of a distraction. I don't want a windshield that could flash anything at me.)
Minus the windshield, it's called Waze, and it causes your phone to say "cop reported ahead" when a cop was reported ahead.:p
Strictly speaking, in a lot of places you do have the choice between a single DSL provider, and also a single cable provider. They're both equally crap, though, so you might as well just stick with one no matter how crap it is, because switching won't help (and will probably result in another massive headache and taking time off work, as the installation tech totally fails at their job.)
Presumably like most UI redesigns, they're attempting to fix "looking like they aren't doing anything". The new version fixes that by making it quite clear that they did something. (Like most UI redesigns, "breaking everything horribly" is a pretty good indicator of having done things. Just not *useful* things.)
As the old saying goes - if it's not broke, fix it 'til it is.
Because I don't have a choice - the ground-floor stairwell door is locked so you can only go out that door, not in - I guess because it used to not be, and hobos liked to sleep in it?
I recently became acquainted with it at work, and it's actually quite nice to work with, I must say.
Still, this post reminds me quite a lot of the xkcd about extrapolating off of one data point. It seems unlikely that IIS will overtake Apache; more likely there was a one-time shift due to some particular event.
That would be pretty cool. Maybe then he'd also lobby for bringing back the non-retarded search interface from Win2k (that was available by a registry tweak in XP, byt not since).
I feel compelled to respond with a quote from Firefly:
Simon: I don't think my last act in this verse is gonna be betraying my sister.
Jubal Early: You're gonna help me. 'Cause every second you're with me is a chance to turn the tables, get the better of me. Maybe you'll find your moment. Maybe I'll slip.
I would too, but only if I, you know, actually did it. Otherwise, I'd rather stay in prison, in the hopes that something like the Innocence Project comes along, finds the guy who actually did do whatever I was thrown in jail for having supposedly done, and gets me out. That would matter a lot less if I were dead.
Contrarily, one of my favorite quotes, from the jargon files:
Semantically, one rich source of jargon constructions is the hackish tendency to anthropomorphize hardware and software. English purists and academic computer scientists frequently look down on others for anthropomorphizing hardware and software, considering this sort of behavior to be characteristic of naive misunderstanding. But most hackers anthropomorphize freely, frequently describing program behavior in terms of wants and desires. The key to understanding this kind of usage is that it isn't done in a naive way; hackers don't personalize their stuff in the sense of feeling empathy with it, nor do they mystically believe that the things they work on every day are 'alive'. To the contrary: hackers who anthropomorphize are expressing not a vitalistic view of program behavior but a mechanistic view of human behavior.
Or, more likely, they completely haven't, which is what I was objecting to - I believe this is one of those threads that attempts to claim that somebody is doing something earthshatteringly new, when, in fact, it's the same thing everyone's been doing for years or possibly decades already.
"workers with minimal technical background can 'teach' the robot right on the production line through a graphical user interface and arm manipulation"
How the hell do you have a graphical user interface without anyone having ever written any software for it? My understanding of what a robot "should be" already *is*, "you should not have to buy it expensive 3rd-party software, it runs the software it was already programmed to run when you bought it". Otherwise it would be a general-purpose computer that happens to have arm attachments.
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Certainly not us. We don't really have a choice. Comcast could merge with freaking Verizon, thus giving us the granddaddy of all broadband monopolies and dooming to forever pay too much money for a crappy connection and no recourse when stuff breaks (which would be often), and our choices would be to suck it up, or just suck it. So I'm not sure what he thinks we should be doing about it...?
I disagree. It would be worth it for a sufficiently large amount of money. Namely, enough money that after a few months of it, you could quit and never have to work again. The chance of getting that much money are roughly 0%, but still. For a few hundred thousand a year, I'd work hundred hour weeks, why not? Wouldn't do it for anything less than that, though.
But I'm working on a project with our DC team at work... I don't think much is going to get done on that project this week, as their internet is not the most reliable at the moment. >.>
Even if I agreed with the assessment, if they're being tasked (or tasking themselves) with technical work, insisting that they be the one to do it, and then botching it horribly, does it really matter whether or not they're good at business, or whether you're good at communicating with business people? I'd argue that it doesn't.
I already thought the "show pages it thinks you might want to open in a new tab" feature was sort of annoying right when they first released it, ages ago. You can turn the feature off. My new tabs have always been one blank white tile; I can open my own urls, thank you very much. I really couldn't care less what they pre-fill that screen with for people who don't turn the feature off, as long as you can still turn the feature off.
If you find somebody's front door is unlocked and you go inside just long enough to leave a note saying "you should really lock your door. I found it unlocked. I could have taken something", and the owners of the house find you and try to throw you in jail: that would be idiotic and wrong.
If, on the other hand, which it sounds like is more like what this guy did, you find somebody's front door is unlocked, go inside, and rifle through all their desk drawers looking for things they don't want you talking about, then posting what you find on the internet, you should get hit with something. You shouldn't get hit with a B&E charge, cause you weren't breaking anything, but you should get hit with *something*.
Last I checked you can't get from LA to Europe on a bus or train. (Technically you could get there on a boat, but it takes *forever*.)
Research organizations and activists *have* been loose on the internet since at least 2007, though. Quite a bit earlier, even.
"The carriers won't win the war on Netflix, because tools for monitoring the performance of carriers will emerge and we'll catch them if they try."
Yeah, and then what? We'll all just cancel our internet and have no internet? That's likely. Given the choice between paying too much for crappy internet (what I have right now), and not paying and having no internet, I will continue to choose the former, thank you very much. Now obviously if a non-Verizon service were to come along and deliver on a promise of having internet that doesn't suck as much and/or was cheaper, I'd certainly drop Verizon in a second. But no such choice exists, and no such choice is likely to exist in the future the way things have been going. (I do have the choice to switch to Comcast. Big whoopdy-fracking-do, so much better, not.)
I doubt most of the people complaining about the beta are people who would really care if facebook broke their crap, on account of we probably mostly don't actually use facebook. I haven't used facebook since it basically *was* a beta (back when it was new and exciting, and notably, only for college kids), for anything other than liking some random crap in exchange for a contest entry.
Meh, I think just having a post in every thread where people can mention that they'll disappear if the beta goes live and forces everyone onto it, while still having all the problems that it has that the old version doesn't, is good enough. No need to boycott the site *before* we're forced off the working site, while the working site still works. Just need to keep posting about how we'll totally boycott it if the other option is using it while it's broken and awful, which I totally will.
Since one of the things that drives me the MOST crazy about my current job, and MOST makes me think about quitting, is in fact the near-constant requests for writing various self-assessments, goal documents, and other such things that are not actually related to my job, and which don't actually seem to be used for anything other than making the people responsible for requiring all of those documents look like they're doing useful things. Drives me crazy. After all that, our performance reviews tend to basically say "yep, you're doing fine. Have a raise that is exactly in line with inflation, just like everyone else is getting."
They already have that, minus the windshield (which, let's be honest, would be kind of a distraction. I don't want a windshield that could flash anything at me.)
Minus the windshield, it's called Waze, and it causes your phone to say "cop reported ahead" when a cop was reported ahead. :p
Strictly speaking, in a lot of places you do have the choice between a single DSL provider, and also a single cable provider. They're both equally crap, though, so you might as well just stick with one no matter how crap it is, because switching won't help (and will probably result in another massive headache and taking time off work, as the installation tech totally fails at their job.)
Presumably like most UI redesigns, they're attempting to fix "looking like they aren't doing anything". The new version fixes that by making it quite clear that they did something. (Like most UI redesigns, "breaking everything horribly" is a pretty good indicator of having done things. Just not *useful* things.)
As the old saying goes - if it's not broke, fix it 'til it is.
Because I don't have a choice - the ground-floor stairwell door is locked so you can only go out that door, not in - I guess because it used to not be, and hobos liked to sleep in it?
I recently became acquainted with it at work, and it's actually quite nice to work with, I must say.
Still, this post reminds me quite a lot of the xkcd about extrapolating off of one data point. It seems unlikely that IIS will overtake Apache; more likely there was a one-time shift due to some particular event.
Actually, I'd say they're mostly comprised of plastic and metal, if you want to really get nitpicky.
That would be pretty cool. Maybe then he'd also lobby for bringing back the non-retarded search interface from Win2k (that was available by a registry tweak in XP, byt not since).
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I feel compelled to respond with a quote from Firefly:
Simon: I don't think my last act in this verse is gonna be betraying my sister.
Jubal Early: You're gonna help me. 'Cause every second you're with me is a chance to turn the tables, get the better of me. Maybe you'll find your moment. Maybe I'll slip.
I would too, but only if I, you know, actually did it. Otherwise, I'd rather stay in prison, in the hopes that something like the Innocence Project comes along, finds the guy who actually did do whatever I was thrown in jail for having supposedly done, and gets me out. That would matter a lot less if I were dead.
But I do agree otherwise.
Contrarily, one of my favorite quotes, from the jargon files:
Semantically, one rich source of jargon constructions is the hackish tendency to anthropomorphize hardware and software. English purists and academic computer scientists frequently look down on others for anthropomorphizing hardware and software, considering this sort of behavior to be characteristic of naive misunderstanding. But most hackers anthropomorphize freely, frequently describing program behavior in terms of wants and desires.
The key to understanding this kind of usage is that it isn't done in a naive way; hackers don't personalize their stuff in the sense of feeling empathy with it, nor do they mystically believe that the things they work on every day are 'alive'. To the contrary: hackers who anthropomorphize are expressing not a vitalistic view of program behavior but a mechanistic view of human behavior.
Or, more likely, they completely haven't, which is what I was objecting to - I believe this is one of those threads that attempts to claim that somebody is doing something earthshatteringly new, when, in fact, it's the same thing everyone's been doing for years or possibly decades already.
"workers with minimal technical background can 'teach' the robot right on the production line through a graphical user interface and arm manipulation"
How the hell do you have a graphical user interface without anyone having ever written any software for it? My understanding of what a robot "should be" already *is*, "you should not have to buy it expensive 3rd-party software, it runs the software it was already programmed to run when you bought it". Otherwise it would be a general-purpose computer that happens to have arm attachments.