Video game movies suck. Worse than that, they distract Nintendo from doing the two things people actually want: ship MORE GAMES for your existing consoles (currently the Wii U and the Switch) and ship MORE CLASSIC CONSOLES from when the good old days when Nintendo and it's licensees did ship a lot of games.
I just rearranged my home office/den to encourage reading books (vs. online articles mostly). I swapped out the couch (on which I had a tendency to flop) and added two recliners with readers (so my wife or a kid would join me). I also rerouted some speakers to provide better sound to the whole room.
With that in place, I'm reading about 3 books at a time now, typically one physical book I've read before, one new physical book, and one often from a PDF (I especially like to read political books like Shattered or Hacked online but don't see a reason to pay for them).
When public transportation = diesel busses we all lose. Subsidized taxi, er, "ride sharing" is a lot more efficient and environmentally friendly compared to a bunch of empty busses on fixed routes with really expensive drivers.
^^^ This. The internet has already bled out most local coverage and even weekly locals (typically mostly entertainment with some liberal-leaning news) are dying out. Only reason we're seeing multiple stories about something only a few of us care about is that someone in a major media market is butthurt. Let's get back to news for nerds, please.
Look up a company called Quik Trip or another named meijers. Both combine gas and food in an attractive retail setting and have found that niche. (Kwik Trip especially in small communities.).
There will always be brick-and-mortal, otherwise Sears (and its catalog->ship to you model) would have won the race years ago.
I've been popping unopened copies of Windows 7 into machines and upgrading them seamlessly to Windows 10 (usually within 24 hours of original install) for the last year without needing any "assistive technology" tricks. Has anyone actually run into any "you must pay to upgrade" or other barriers since the "free for all" Windows 7 allegedly ended?
Bad idea. First, naming him/her would lead to instant fame and possibly financial gain. Whereas a "here's two weeks Starbucks money and an agreement that you'll never talk about this" is better for Twitter. Second, it's possible this was a more stupid than malicious move (e.g., "herp derp lets see if I can delete the president's account, herp derp, oh shit oh shit oh shit"). In that case, the problem is really more on Twitter's crappy process and controls than it is on the worker bees dropped on the anthill.
^^^ This. Fortunately, every company that does business with Twitter just crapped their pants too. I would expect Twitter's sales department will have fun fielding a hundred thousand revenue-neutral "how can I be sure some minimum wage rep doesn't delete [brandname] during our Superbowl commercial (or other campaign)" conversations.
>> Today, however, wood is lauded for its smaller environmental footprint and the speed with which buildings can be assembled.
There's no reason we can't just stack IT people in cubes in pole barns. Fortunately, nobody with any talent actually needs to work in a crappy office, so most companies are smart enough not to try this.
>> Why not have a simple PKI setup and hand out ID cards?
Have you seen the resistance against requiring even (easy to forge) drivers licenses and other state- and federal-issued IDs? It has nothing to do with the quality of the credential, but the perceived difficulty in obtaining the credential.
>> Considerable resources and expertise would be required for this so the risk for most people affected has always been low
Turning that around for a moment: in many cases (not "the most") the considerable resources and expertise required to exploit the system would have been worth expending to scam certain individuals (probably those with influence, power, a reputation to sully, etc.)
I pretty much only touch LinkedIn when/if I want a new job. The recruiters are usually onto me like flies within 24 hours so I know they've got their alerts set.
>> next will be when everyone moves their stuff to an "internal" cloud
You giggle but this is actually a theme in corporate America. Typically it's the legacy VMware team that rebrands itself as the internal cloud, but I've also seen an attempt or two to build out a new virtualized stack on top of Xen or the like. It's even kind of real for teams that virtualize at the container level.
I'm just happy to not have to pay for this stuff myself. It seems most companies are currently losing their shirt on duplicated systems that persist for years during "cloud migrations", even though they just migrated everything (and dealt with the duplicate systems thing) to get 80% of their stuff on VMware.
However, life as someone who helps over-budgeted IT departments move toward the next shiny object can be quite good.
But Gartner said it was OK! They are, like TOTALLY in the upper right quadrant! https://solutionsreview.com/endpoint-security/gartner-2017-epp-magic-quadrant/
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Video game movies suck. Worse than that, they distract Nintendo from doing the two things people actually want: ship MORE GAMES for your existing consoles (currently the Wii U and the Switch) and ship MORE CLASSIC CONSOLES from when the good old days when Nintendo and it's licensees did ship a lot of games.
I just rearranged my home office/den to encourage reading books (vs. online articles mostly). I swapped out the couch (on which I had a tendency to flop) and added two recliners with readers (so my wife or a kid would join me). I also rerouted some speakers to provide better sound to the whole room.
With that in place, I'm reading about 3 books at a time now, typically one physical book I've read before, one new physical book, and one often from a PDF (I especially like to read political books like Shattered or Hacked online but don't see a reason to pay for them).
>> Why does IBM not have a bespoke typeface? Why are we still clinging on to Helvetica?
It's a FREE and OPEN font. (Remember when IBM tried pitching open source stuff?)
And the crap IBM shovels won't smell any sweeter if it looks a little different.
When public transportation = diesel busses we all lose. Subsidized taxi, er, "ride sharing" is a lot more efficient and environmentally friendly compared to a bunch of empty busses on fixed routes with really expensive drivers.
First! To give a shit. Actually, just kidding.
Why would anyone here actually care about these random people?
April Fools Day on Slashdot?
^^^ This. The internet has already bled out most local coverage and even weekly locals (typically mostly entertainment with some liberal-leaning news) are dying out. Only reason we're seeing multiple stories about something only a few of us care about is that someone in a major media market is butthurt. Let's get back to news for nerds, please.
Look up a company called Quik Trip or another named meijers. Both combine gas and food in an attractive retail setting and have found that niche. (Kwik Trip especially in small communities.).
There will always be brick-and-mortal, otherwise Sears (and its catalog->ship to you model) would have won the race years ago.
>> leaving the U.S. with only three others
First world problems FTW
I've been popping unopened copies of Windows 7 into machines and upgrading them seamlessly to Windows 10 (usually within 24 hours of original install) for the last year without needing any "assistive technology" tricks. Has anyone actually run into any "you must pay to upgrade" or other barriers since the "free for all" Windows 7 allegedly ended?
Bad idea. First, naming him/her would lead to instant fame and possibly financial gain. Whereas a "here's two weeks Starbucks money and an agreement that you'll never talk about this" is better for Twitter. Second, it's possible this was a more stupid than malicious move (e.g., "herp derp lets see if I can delete the president's account, herp derp, oh shit oh shit oh shit"). In that case, the problem is really more on Twitter's crappy process and controls than it is on the worker bees dropped on the anthill.
^^^ This. Fortunately, every company that does business with Twitter just crapped their pants too. I would expect Twitter's sales department will have fun fielding a hundred thousand revenue-neutral "how can I be sure some minimum wage rep doesn't delete [brandname] during our Superbowl commercial (or other campaign)" conversations.
>> Today, however, wood is lauded for its smaller environmental footprint and the speed with which buildings can be assembled.
There's no reason we can't just stack IT people in cubes in pole barns. Fortunately, nobody with any talent actually needs to work in a crappy office, so most companies are smart enough not to try this.
It's probably where she wants to bury Donna Brazile after today.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774
>> when I say "Hand of God," what I really mean is "keylogger." Think of it like the "Nimble Fingers of God." "Hand of God" (that makes sense)
Hey, um, "Nimble Fingers" is a dangerous thing to type into a search bar. And no one has used that phrase in a SFW setting since 1978.
>> and "pineapple" (???)
Prolly this: https://www.wifipineapple.com/
>> Why not have a simple PKI setup and hand out ID cards?
Have you seen the resistance against requiring even (easy to forge) drivers licenses and other state- and federal-issued IDs? It has nothing to do with the quality of the credential, but the perceived difficulty in obtaining the credential.
>> Considerable resources and expertise would be required for this so the risk for most people affected has always been low
Turning that around for a moment: in many cases (not "the most") the considerable resources and expertise required to exploit the system would have been worth expending to scam certain individuals (probably those with influence, power, a reputation to sully, etc.)
^^^ This. (Or promoting a side business.)
I pretty much only touch LinkedIn when/if I want a new job. The recruiters are usually onto me like flies within 24 hours so I know they've got their alerts set.
>> There was a big expose where a guy was working 90 hours a week and taking home pennies
Here's the USA Today article:
https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forced-into-debt-worked-past-exhaustion-left-with-nothing/
Rarely have I seen an intellect warm up to room temperature like this.
Welcome to Slashdot - hope you get an account and stay awhile. Very entertaining!
>> I believe that salaried employment will not disappear, although it might become less prevalent over time.
Um...so you DO believe the future is bleak?
>> WikiTribune is Already Biased
The dog bites man version would have been "WikiTribune is Already Closed". I'm just surprised we're still talking about it now.
>> Lockbox
Somewhere Al Gore is pissed
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/cold-opening-gore--bush-first-debate/n11360
(See 9:00 - end)
>> next will be when everyone moves their stuff to an "internal" cloud
You giggle but this is actually a theme in corporate America. Typically it's the legacy VMware team that rebrands itself as the internal cloud, but I've also seen an attempt or two to build out a new virtualized stack on top of Xen or the like. It's even kind of real for teams that virtualize at the container level.
I'm just happy to not have to pay for this stuff myself. It seems most companies are currently losing their shirt on duplicated systems that persist for years during "cloud migrations", even though they just migrated everything (and dealt with the duplicate systems thing) to get 80% of their stuff on VMware.
However, life as someone who helps over-budgeted IT departments move toward the next shiny object can be quite good.
But Gartner said it was OK! They are, like TOTALLY in the upper right quadrant!
https://solutionsreview.com/endpoint-security/gartner-2017-epp-magic-quadrant/