Sony is evil in the minds of internet-people, and no amount of "being neutral" will change that any time soon.
No, but a large amount of "being good" would change that. Bringing back OtherOS, donating $25 million to the Mozilla Foundation, or opening a no-kill shelter for kittens would probably take a lot of heat off of them. Even though Google seems to have gotten away with it, "Don't be evil" is a pretty good rule to live by to keep armies of nerds off your ass.
She's watching the wrong kind of stuff on TV, then. I'll have my laptop out if I'm watching the news or my roommate has a game on, but when Breaking Bad or SoA is on, I'm glued to that screen.
Authorizing payment is a bit different than actually being a manager, though. For a manager to be effective, he/she needs to have at least somewhat of a background in your field, to be able to understand what you do, the needs you have in your position, and things you might not think of that are needed to do your job more effectively.*
To authorize payment, all you have to do is call downstairs and ask, "Does it work?" and then click a little checkbox.
*That being said, lots of managers can't do that, which is why so many companies are in the shit they're in right now.
Provide updates and patches? The devs have to do that, not Valve, and they can't be bothered to do that now with consoles that are seven years into their lifecycle and have 10 times the install base of Steam.
No, for this to fly, it has to be with hardware that doesn't change more than once every 3-5 years. Two tiers of hardware during that time might work, but as soon as you start updating to new hardware every year, it's no different than the problems with current PC development, which just puts this whole idea in the realm of "boutique manufacturer."
My understanding is that this is exactly what FB has been trying to accomplish with their Top Stories/whatever crap they keep doing in each new update. Even though someone has 3000 friends, only the forty or so that person interacts with show up in the feed.
Of course, that's what pisses a lot off us off about FB - we are already control freaks, and if we don't want to hear about a person, we just block them. My 92-year-old great aunt through marriage is on my FB friends list, and even though I never comment on any of her posts, I still like seeing them as she has such a different perspective than I. But since I never comment, FB thinks I'm not interested, and never shows me anything from her.
Meanwhile, I just ignore the hundred friend requests from people in my HS class that I just don't give a rat's ass about, manually doing the work for that millions-of-dollars-algorithm.
The first thing that should be taught in any and every programming class is that whenever you change something in a UI, you should give users the option to disable that change.
My roommate's g/f's dog has recently started to come visiting with her (joy!), and he likes to go digging through trash cans for those stinky Kleenex and then eat them on their bed. It's pretty goddamn hilarious.
Hell, all we need to do is figure out how to do it, then "leak" the info to the Chinese, and they'll do it twice as fast at 1/8th the cost. Plus, their overworked asteroid miners won't be able to jump to their deaths in near-zero G!
They are literate and the best job available is a factory job? Thats worse than India
You expect something better than a factory job because your most marketable skill is your ability to read and write? Hate to tell you, but that rocket scientist job with NASA requires a bit more.
You get a 60 year old janitor who has seen it all and heard it all, and believes there are aliens at Area 51, and you have somebody with a finely tuned bullshit detector.
A guy that believes there are aliens in a hangar in Nevada has a finely-tuned bullshit detector?
Hell, all you'd have to do is tell him the G-men are coming to destroy the evidence of aliens on the laptop ("You always thought Dr. Smith was a bit off, didn't you?"), and he'll help you get it out of the building.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that happened in The X-Files.
It would also help if you were a Python fan. As an American, I didn't know what a pram was until a couple of years ago, but I've been singing that song for fifteen.
The same reason they don't let you block specific numbers from calling you. Because it eats into the carriers' profits if spammers/telemarketers aren't eating up your monthly minute/text/data quota.
Here is what is wrong with the country: The world doesn't revolve around you. You expect the rest of the world to censor things that you don't like.
And here is what's wrong with liberals - they think giving people the ability to control what they and their children see is "censorship."
But it's not.
Removing that material is censorship. Pulling that website from Google would be censorship. Blocking it in SafeSearch is giving us a tool. Banning a broadcast of certain TV shows is censorship. Giving us the V-Chip, which lets us keep shows at certain ratings from being played when we aren't home is a tool. Pulling CDs and video games from store shelves is censorship. Parental Guidance labels are not. See the difference? The material is still there for you, and your ability to access it is completely unhindered.
Also, is it that horrible to learn what anal sex is? Some people like putting their penis in other people's anus, oh no! Get over it.
My daughter was raped when she was eight years old. So you'll understand if her mother and I are particularly careful about the kinds of sexual content to which we feel comfortable exposing her. I'm not asking you to give up looking up frothy mixtures of fecal matter and semen. I would just like that to not be the first thing my daughter sees when using the most popular website in the world on its default setting while doing a project for her social studies class in the school library.
#1, #3, #5, #6, #7, & #9 out of the first ten are the problem. If you want to want to go so far as to define it as a "problem."
But really, #1 is the only one. I don't think it should be pulled or anything, but I think Google owes the users, as an information provider, to put some kind of notification, as suggested above. Or at least add it to the lists blocked by SafeSearch. Because I don't want my 12-year-old daughter to see that definition if she suddenly takes an interest in my disgust at the primary returns.
Had one half an hour ago - my mom bought a Coleman air mattress and the coleman.com/inflate page wouldn't load the video on Firefox, which I told her to always use.
Also, my undergrad university's registration system (Northern Kentucky University).
Sprint's account page until last year.
Not sure how "significant" you would call those, but they all were things that needed to be accessed properly, not just crappy old GeoCities pages with Pokémon info.
Actually, that sounds like a really good excuse for a high schooler to use! "I just googled Santorum and this page came up! Why is that donkey wrestling that man?"
Or if it were a candidate you were researching because you are, say, a teenager just getting interested in politics, you should also be throwing a fit.
But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, viniculture, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for England?
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Sony is evil in the minds of internet-people, and no amount of "being neutral" will change that any time soon.
No, but a large amount of "being good" would change that. Bringing back OtherOS, donating $25 million to the Mozilla Foundation, or opening a no-kill shelter for kittens would probably take a lot of heat off of them. Even though Google seems to have gotten away with it, "Don't be evil" is a pretty good rule to live by to keep armies of nerds off your ass.
She's watching the wrong kind of stuff on TV, then. I'll have my laptop out if I'm watching the news or my roommate has a game on, but when Breaking Bad or SoA is on, I'm glued to that screen.
Authorizing payment is a bit different than actually being a manager, though. For a manager to be effective, he/she needs to have at least somewhat of a background in your field, to be able to understand what you do, the needs you have in your position, and things you might not think of that are needed to do your job more effectively.*
To authorize payment, all you have to do is call downstairs and ask, "Does it work?" and then click a little checkbox.
*That being said, lots of managers can't do that, which is why so many companies are in the shit they're in right now.
Do you make twice what your manager does, though?
Provide updates and patches? The devs have to do that, not Valve, and they can't be bothered to do that now with consoles that are seven years into their lifecycle and have 10 times the install base of Steam.
No, for this to fly, it has to be with hardware that doesn't change more than once every 3-5 years. Two tiers of hardware during that time might work, but as soon as you start updating to new hardware every year, it's no different than the problems with current PC development, which just puts this whole idea in the realm of "boutique manufacturer."
Out of curiosity, what's your specialization?
You work for Iran, eh?
Only on Slashdot do you find scientists reading forums from their labs at 1AM on Saturday mornings while waiting for experiments to finish up.
*Looks over at refluxing reaction vessel*
Dammit.
. . ."publish or perish" just because we appreciate alliteration.
My understanding is that this is exactly what FB has been trying to accomplish with their Top Stories/whatever crap they keep doing in each new update. Even though someone has 3000 friends, only the forty or so that person interacts with show up in the feed.
Of course, that's what pisses a lot off us off about FB - we are already control freaks, and if we don't want to hear about a person, we just block them. My 92-year-old great aunt through marriage is on my FB friends list, and even though I never comment on any of her posts, I still like seeing them as she has such a different perspective than I. But since I never comment, FB thinks I'm not interested, and never shows me anything from her.
Meanwhile, I just ignore the hundred friend requests from people in my HS class that I just don't give a rat's ass about, manually doing the work for that millions-of-dollars-algorithm.
The first thing that should be taught in any and every programming class is that whenever you change something in a UI, you should give users the option to disable that change.
My roommate's g/f's dog has recently started to come visiting with her (joy!), and he likes to go digging through trash cans for those stinky Kleenex and then eat them on their bed. It's pretty goddamn hilarious.
Hell, all we need to do is figure out how to do it, then "leak" the info to the Chinese, and they'll do it twice as fast at 1/8th the cost. Plus, their overworked asteroid miners won't be able to jump to their deaths in near-zero G!
. . . is located here. It includes a bit more about the proposed construction, starting date, and other interesting bits.
Build it from the counterweight asteroid placed in geostationary orbit, building down towards its socket on the planetary surface.
They are literate and the best job available is a factory job?
Thats worse than India
You expect something better than a factory job because your most marketable skill is your ability to read and write? Hate to tell you, but that rocket scientist job with NASA requires a bit more.
You get a 60 year old janitor who has seen it all and heard it all, and believes there are aliens at Area 51, and you have somebody with a finely tuned bullshit detector.
A guy that believes there are aliens in a hangar in Nevada has a finely-tuned bullshit detector?
Hell, all you'd have to do is tell him the G-men are coming to destroy the evidence of aliens on the laptop ("You always thought Dr. Smith was a bit off, didn't you?"), and he'll help you get it out of the building.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that happened in The X-Files.
It would also help if you were a Python fan. As an American, I didn't know what a pram was until a couple of years ago, but I've been singing that song for fifteen.
The same reason they don't let you block specific numbers from calling you. Because it eats into the carriers' profits if spammers/telemarketers aren't eating up your monthly minute/text/data quota.
Here is what is wrong with the country: The world doesn't revolve around you. You expect the rest of the world to censor things that you don't like.
And here is what's wrong with liberals - they think giving people the ability to control what they and their children see is "censorship."
But it's not.
Removing that material is censorship. Pulling that website from Google would be censorship. Blocking it in SafeSearch is giving us a tool. Banning a broadcast of certain TV shows is censorship. Giving us the V-Chip, which lets us keep shows at certain ratings from being played when we aren't home is a tool. Pulling CDs and video games from store shelves is censorship. Parental Guidance labels are not. See the difference? The material is still there for you, and your ability to access it is completely unhindered.
Also, is it that horrible to learn what anal sex is? Some people like putting their penis in other people's anus, oh no! Get over it.
My daughter was raped when she was eight years old. So you'll understand if her mother and I are particularly careful about the kinds of sexual content to which we feel comfortable exposing her. I'm not asking you to give up looking up frothy mixtures of fecal matter and semen. I would just like that to not be the first thing my daughter sees when using the most popular website in the world on its default setting while doing a project for her social studies class in the school library.
#1, #3, #5, #6, #7, & #9 out of the first ten are the problem. If you want to want to go so far as to define it as a "problem."
But really, #1 is the only one. I don't think it should be pulled or anything, but I think Google owes the users, as an information provider, to put some kind of notification, as suggested above. Or at least add it to the lists blocked by SafeSearch. Because I don't want my 12-year-old daughter to see that definition if she suddenly takes an interest in my disgust at the primary returns.
Had one half an hour ago - my mom bought a Coleman air mattress and the coleman.com/inflate page wouldn't load the video on Firefox, which I told her to always use.
Also, my undergrad university's registration system (Northern Kentucky University).
Sprint's account page until last year.
Not sure how "significant" you would call those, but they all were things that needed to be accessed properly, not just crappy old GeoCities pages with Pokémon info.
. . .because you want to learn something about this guy you keep hearing about and all you find is links about lube and fecal matter?
Actually, that sounds like a really good excuse for a high schooler to use! "I just googled Santorum and this page came up! Why is that donkey wrestling that man?"
Or if it were a candidate you were researching because you are, say, a teenager just getting interested in politics, you should also be throwing a fit.
But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, viniculture, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for England?