>>... a trial period during which the company has refused to pay royalties...
How, exactly, did they get away with millions of unpaid plays that at the same time we're reading a story about the royalty police going after a mom-and-pop restaurant for a song or two?
The whole point of marketing is to get people to reprioritize their perceived needs and act accordingly. Why else do you think we keep getting stories about how global warming is the cause of this or that event in the news?
>>>> Today is Friday! Thanks, Dice! >> someone explain this comment to me
Web traffic generally falls on Friday, so the theory is that Dice waits to throw a troll-worthy article, often about perceived sexism/racism, up on SlashDot on a Friday morning to keep the advertisers happy.
After the last renewal of the Patriot act, wouldn't it just be easiest for the US government to name each of these companies an "ISP" so they'd be compelled to collect information on their (unencrypted) servers?
>> I'd like to share as much of my accumulated knowledge with my successor as possible
Don't worry about it unless your manager told you to do so. (Your manager knows you're leaving right? And you've told your manager that there might be useful info your email, right?)
>> The organization doesn't have any knowledge management systems
Don't worry about this either. These are all overrated and highly ignored by most organizations that own them anyway.
>> Users: Quit adding unnecessary crap. Stick to the original mission of "leanest browser available." >> Mozilla: F*** you. Here's some bloatware chasing down some rarely used media extensions. >> Users: Quit adding unnecessary crap. Stick to the original mission of "leanest browser available." >> Mozilla: F*** you. Here's a Mozilla "operating system." >> Users: Quit adding unnecessary crap. Stick to the original mission of "leanest browser available." >> Mozilla: F*** you. Here are some built-in ads. >> Users: Quit adding unnecessary crap. Stick to the original mission of "leanest browser available." >> Mozilla: F*** you. Here is some built-in crapware from Pocket. >> Users: No, f*** you. We already switched ourselves and everyone we know still running Firefox to Chrome.
>> while streamlining IT can often be painful upfront for IT managers, the payoff for sticking with it can feed into saving more lives.
This made me giggle. The CEO of the American Cancer Society pulls down more than $2M a year. Any IT savings are much more likely to be plowed back into executive bonuses than charity work. https://www.charitywatch.org/c...
>> initiative...launched with funds gathered under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GCRF), the state's cap-and-trade program...and you wonder why California has no money for the basics.
>> London had wanted a solar array for years, but couldn’t afford it...
And I'd like a pony. Please Santa? (Come to think of it, a good 10% the readership of this site probably REALLY does want a pony.)
This is pretty much how a lot of small private schools get founded. Rich dude and/or his wife decide they need a special school for their snowflakes, and they will it into existence. Other wealthy people pile on, and suddenly the wealthy dude's pet project has an endowment, a decade of history, some experienced teachers and finally, some of the upper middle class find that they can afford to put their kids through it.
So...what, exactly is the tech angle? (This has been going on for hundreds if not thousands of years.)
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>> ... a trial period during which the company has refused to pay royalties...
How, exactly, did they get away with millions of unpaid plays that at the same time we're reading a story about the royalty police going after a mom-and-pop restaurant for a song or two?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=open+sour...
I still have two Amigas (500 and 1200). IM me and you can have both of them for just $500K - that's a savings of $1M over your upgrade costs! /snark>
>> Do Robotic Tentacles Need Passports?
Wasn't that covered in Maniac Mansion way back in the 1980s?
http://www.selfsimilar.org/ima...
>> ...how long before it shows up on a porn site?
A corollary of Rule 34 could be that any site that allows user content could be a porn site. See also "Brazzers meme"...
>> No computers in 1945...
Turn in your geek card.
(http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?category=cmptr - see the entry about the Z3 in 1941)
The whole point of marketing is to get people to reprioritize their perceived needs and act accordingly. Why else do you think we keep getting stories about how global warming is the cause of this or that event in the news?
>>>> Today is Friday! Thanks, Dice!
>> someone explain this comment to me
Web traffic generally falls on Friday, so the theory is that Dice waits to throw a troll-worthy article, often about perceived sexism/racism, up on SlashDot on a Friday morning to keep the advertisers happy.
>> How do you cool something that cold?
(air quotes) LAY-ZERZ (air quotes)
>> How does anyone imagine that is achievable
"The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal..."
http://archive.org/stream/Harr...
What, do you seriously mean those millions of iPads we bought for our schools DIDN'T make students any smarter?
After the last renewal of the Patriot act, wouldn't it just be easiest for the US government to name each of these companies an "ISP" so they'd be compelled to collect information on their (unencrypted) servers?
>> seizing laptops, hard disks, telephones, tablets... ...and 248 CDs filled with shitty European EDM, probably.
>> The technical challenges to flying and operating a full-fledged constellation of them may still prove too difficult to surmount.
But Motorola did it. (Ducks.) (Ducks 65 more times.)
>> I'd like to share as much of my accumulated knowledge with my successor as possible
Don't worry about it unless your manager told you to do so. (Your manager knows you're leaving right? And you've told your manager that there might be useful info your email, right?)
>> The organization doesn't have any knowledge management systems
Don't worry about this either. These are all overrated and highly ignored by most organizations that own them anyway.
>> Users: Quit adding unnecessary crap. Stick to the original mission of "leanest browser available."
>> Mozilla: F*** you. Here's some bloatware chasing down some rarely used media extensions.
>> Users: Quit adding unnecessary crap. Stick to the original mission of "leanest browser available."
>> Mozilla: F*** you. Here's a Mozilla "operating system."
>> Users: Quit adding unnecessary crap. Stick to the original mission of "leanest browser available."
>> Mozilla: F*** you. Here are some built-in ads.
>> Users: Quit adding unnecessary crap. Stick to the original mission of "leanest browser available."
>> Mozilla: F*** you. Here is some built-in crapware from Pocket.
>> Users: No, f*** you. We already switched ourselves and everyone we know still running Firefox to Chrome.
>> Parachute problems plague flying saucer
Not for long. The ground problem soon became a bigger issue.
>> while streamlining IT can often be painful upfront for IT managers, the payoff for sticking with it can feed into saving more lives.
This made me giggle. The CEO of the American Cancer Society pulls down more than $2M a year. Any IT savings are much more likely to be plowed back into executive bonuses than charity work. https://www.charitywatch.org/c...
>> GTA V working in 32x32
Already did.
http://www.icon100.com/up/3272...
>> initiative...launched with funds gathered under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GCRF), the state's cap-and-trade program ...and you wonder why California has no money for the basics.
>> London had wanted a solar array for years, but couldn’t afford it...
And I'd like a pony. Please Santa?
(Come to think of it, a good 10% the readership of this site probably REALLY does want a pony.)
There hasn't been another world war since major states nuked up, so I'd prefer everyone stayed armed, thank you very much.
>> disrupts the lock that Boeing and Lockheed Martin have had
Wow, that seems like a great way to cut back on military spending!
>> (reality)
Oh sh*t. Nevermind.
This is pretty much how a lot of small private schools get founded. Rich dude and/or his wife decide they need a special school for their snowflakes, and they will it into existence. Other wealthy people pile on, and suddenly the wealthy dude's pet project has an endowment, a decade of history, some experienced teachers and finally, some of the upper middle class find that they can afford to put their kids through it.
So...what, exactly is the tech angle? (This has been going on for hundreds if not thousands of years.)
>> When it lands in the water, it will sink, and there are no plans to try to bring it back
The outsourced coding joke just kind of writes itself, doesn't it?
Remember when the Netscape web browser cost $40? Remember buying one? Me neither.
Looks like it's time to start uninstalling Firefox across all computers...