If companies are paying their staff such low wages that they need public assistance just to survive, then the guys at the top need to subsidise public assistance. Tax them at 90%.
It isn't up to me to decide how much salary they want to vote themselves out of the company's coffers. They're managing their company, it's theirs to manage.
But if you're making $100 Big per year in salary or other considerations, you should bloody well be taxed at 90%. Worked for Eisenhower.
Er. If the program that checks the proof is considered part of the proof, isn't that one of those recursive situations that Kurt Godel warned us about, as popularised in Hofstadter's GEB?
Memory is suddenly expensive? That commonly-available eight core Intel I7 cpu is suddenly too slow?
Was somebody perhaps solving the wrong fecking problems?
And were all those efficiency gains worth the loss of the ability to run overlapping windows?
When my nice, reliable and stable, easy-to-use Windows 7 instance can no longer be supported, I can promise I will not switch to Windows 8 because I freaking hate the interface. I have quite a few clients at the top of town who depend on my advice, and I can guarantee you W8 is getting the sad head shake.
Type the first few letters of an app, instead of choosing from a start menu? No, wrong.
If/when there is a leadership spill (and let it be soon) I would bet that Malcolm would step forward. I'd also bet he'd quickly do a backflip on the NBN. I believe he's smart enough to know FTTP is a better option, but he's being wheel-clamped by Tony, Rupert's Boy.
so here we are back at 18th century stupidity levels, passing currents through parts of people's bodies and trying to cause or attributing all manner of health improvements to it. snake oil futures are looking good
Yes.
Am I alone in being utterly terrified at this trend in research?
"Um, you might want to get a second opinion on that."
You've just accomplished several things by that statement.
(a) Boss' ego is boosted. You're telling your boss that he's engaged professional talent, but that the problem is really thorny (and he was justified in spending the money). (b) You've given him an out that involves more money spent (not always a bad thing to a manager). (c) You've effectively put into your boss' mind that the consultant is an idiot.
There is little need to change in order to scale up, provided the old simple text-based format is being used. Remember, it was always other sites being Slashdotted, never Slashdot itself.
Maybe the world needs a brand new competitor to Slashdot to be introduced, competing with modern Slashdot by being more focused on text, rather than gadgetry -- well, by being an earlier Slashdot, to be frank.
Groklaw was an excellent site with a text-oriented format. Content ruled, and there was no moderation, but it Seriously Did Not Suck. Whirlpool.net.au is a brilliant tech site, and I suspect I'll be spending more time over there. Slashdot? Not so much, any more.
The problem is they aren't as stable as we'd like them to be. Computers wear out, and I don't mean just the hard drives or fans. Look up "tin whiskering" in Wikipedia. At some point the hardware that replaces the blown bits in the case will require the later software. People are often forced into upgrades they don't want for purely hardware-vendor planned obsolescence. It's a pretty big lever they use to pry money out of you. I use W7 and I'm happy with it. My customers are happy with it. We will switch to W8 or later at such time as it can be sufficiently and reliably determined that the pipes of hell have frozen shut.
Yes -- there has been rather a lot of astroturf on this one, hasn't there? I've seen it on every forum where W8 is mentioned. The mendacity is distinctly on the nose.
Making their desktop/laptop users hate Metro is not advancing their phone/tablet cause. It's the opposite. Nobody who has a bad experience with Metro on their PC is going to go looking for it in another environment...
Aye. How many Windows users are there now? A billion?
That's an awful lot of bad mojo to get past just to compete with a phone. Their marketing spreadsheets must be berserk.
No they don't care much about the app store. The purpose of Windows 8 is ubiquitous computing, applications that can seamless transform from small form factors (like phones) through tablet interfaces through to desktops.
I've always said that the purposed of Windows 8 was not the interface, it was the introduction of their 'App Store'.....
I'm inclined to agree. Steve Ballmer found another way to monetize their cash cow, saw their competitors were doing it, and tightened the screws on software installation.
Which, I find rather ironic. Microsoft got its start by deciding to let third-party hardware and software take part in their market ecosystem, which (along with the IBM association) gave them the jump over Apple early on. It was the freedom to innovate that brought the hardware innovators in.
Unfortunately, in Ballmer's attempt to catch up with Apple and Android, they oversimplified the interface for the billion or so business customers who were quite happy with a start menu, thank you very much. The reviews are right; Windows 8 barks at passing cars.
I have no trouble navigating xOS or Android on my phablets, but Windows 8 looks like it ran out of pitons on the way across, and is shortly to run out of fingernails too. The fall won't kill them, but the landing might...
Make a desktop interface which is optimized for the desktop and is substantially better than anything that exists now. Look at all the academic research, and take years to adopt and polish it. Demand excellence internally and never believe your own BS. !
This.
Honestly, sometimes it looks like Microsoft is hiring its marketing researchers from Hollywood -- from the pool of writers trying to make new movies out of old television series'. Same same, only different.
Thinking at the top of Microsoft appears to have gone out of fashion, replaced by its poor cousin, "derive".
Slashdot Mirror
I dunno, I kind of like it. I have 11 level 90's, but I'm not addicted.
I could give it up any time. Seriously.
No, really.
It wasn't molasses, honest. If it appeared slow, then perhaps we were just ramping distance at the time. Up or down? Dunno, check the sign.
The Higgs should be renamed the Cow Particle, because it's outstanding in its field.
If companies are paying their staff such low wages that they need public assistance just to survive, then the guys at the top need to subsidise public assistance. Tax them at 90%.
It isn't up to me to decide how much salary they want to vote themselves out of the company's coffers. They're managing their company, it's theirs to manage.
But if you're making $100 Big per year in salary or other considerations, you should bloody well be taxed at 90%. Worked for Eisenhower.
Er.
If the program that checks the proof is considered part of the proof, isn't that one of those recursive situations that Kurt Godel warned us about, as popularised in Hofstadter's GEB?
Memory is suddenly expensive? That commonly-available eight core Intel I7 cpu is suddenly too slow?
Was somebody perhaps solving the wrong fecking problems?
And were all those efficiency gains worth the loss of the ability to run overlapping windows?
When my nice, reliable and stable, easy-to-use Windows 7 instance can no longer be supported, I can promise I will not switch to Windows 8 because I freaking hate the interface. I have quite a few clients at the top of town who depend on my advice, and I can guarantee you W8 is getting the sad head shake.
Type the first few letters of an app, instead of choosing from a start menu? No, wrong.
Wrong.
Read. My. Lips. W8 is wrong.
Ada Lovelace.
Grace Hopper.
My wife.
Your argument is invalid.
You are lost in a maze of scripty little passages, all alike. If you continue, you are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
Get-help.
(Where are my mod points when I need them?)
If/when there is a leadership spill (and let it be soon) I would bet that Malcolm would step forward. I'd also bet he'd quickly do a backflip on the NBN. I believe he's smart enough to know FTTP is a better option, but he's being wheel-clamped by Tony, Rupert's Boy.
so here we are back at 18th century stupidity levels, passing currents through parts of people's bodies and trying to cause or attributing all manner of health improvements to it. snake oil futures are looking good
Yes.
Am I alone in being utterly terrified at this trend in research?
"Um, you might want to get a second opinion on that."
You've just accomplished several things by that statement.
(a) Boss' ego is boosted. You're telling your boss that he's engaged professional talent, but that the problem is really thorny (and he was justified in spending the money).
(b) You've given him an out that involves more money spent (not always a bad thing to a manager).
(c) You've effectively put into your boss' mind that the consultant is an idiot.
By their very velocity, wouldn't hypersonic missiles have limited ability to jink?
Also, the beta sucks.
Slashdot is having a Jump The Shark moment.
There is little need to change in order to scale up, provided the old simple text-based format is being used. Remember, it was always other sites being Slashdotted, never Slashdot itself.
Maybe the world needs a brand new competitor to Slashdot to be introduced, competing with modern Slashdot by being more focused on text, rather than gadgetry -- well, by being an earlier Slashdot, to be frank.
Groklaw was an excellent site with a text-oriented format. Content ruled, and there was no moderation, but it Seriously Did Not Suck.
Whirlpool.net.au is a brilliant tech site, and I suspect I'll be spending more time over there.
Slashdot? Not so much, any more.
Goodbye.
Slashdot was a reasonable source of technical dialogue once. Solved a lot of problems by talking to each other.
I'll miss it.
Goodbye.
I'm just a casual slashdot reader. Can you elucidate about what the you feel the problem with the new beta format is?
Well, it's apparently too kind to trolls, for a start.
The problem is they aren't as stable as we'd like them to be. Computers wear out, and I don't mean just the hard drives or fans. Look up "tin whiskering" in Wikipedia. At some point the hardware that replaces the blown bits in the case will require the later software. People are often forced into upgrades they don't want for purely hardware-vendor planned obsolescence. It's a pretty big lever they use to pry money out of you. I use W7 and I'm happy with it. My customers are happy with it. We will switch to W8 or later at such time as it can be sufficiently and reliably determined that the pipes of hell have frozen shut.
Yes -- there has been rather a lot of astroturf on this one, hasn't there? I've seen it on every forum where W8 is mentioned. The mendacity is distinctly on the nose.
JDG1980, you win one Internet. That's a concise and correct summary of all that I find wrong with W8.
Nicely writ, Earthling.
Making their desktop/laptop users hate Metro is not advancing their phone/tablet cause. It's the opposite. Nobody who has a bad experience with Metro on their PC is going to go looking for it in another environment...
Aye. How many Windows users are there now? A billion?
That's an awful lot of bad mojo to get past just to compete with a phone. Their marketing spreadsheets must be berserk.
No they don't care much about the app store. The purpose of Windows 8 is ubiquitous computing, applications that can seamless transform from small form factors (like phones) through tablet interfaces through to desktops.
From 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0
Which, as it turns out, was a really, really bad idea. Phones are not desktop PC's, no matter how the marketing trends.
I've always said that the purposed of Windows 8 was not the interface, it was the introduction of their 'App Store'.....
I'm inclined to agree. Steve Ballmer found another way to monetize their cash cow, saw their competitors were doing it, and tightened the screws on software installation.
Which, I find rather ironic. Microsoft got its start by deciding to let third-party hardware and software take part in their market ecosystem, which (along with the IBM association) gave them the jump over Apple early on. It was the freedom to innovate that brought the hardware innovators in.
Unfortunately, in Ballmer's attempt to catch up with Apple and Android, they oversimplified the interface for the billion or so business customers who were quite happy with a start menu, thank you very much. The reviews are right; Windows 8 barks at passing cars.
I have no trouble navigating xOS or Android on my phablets, but Windows 8 looks like it ran out of pitons on the way across, and is shortly to run out of fingernails too. The fall won't kill them, but the landing might...
How old are you? Do you remember the alternatives at the time?
'sides, Win 3.1 was crap. Win 3.11 for Workgroups was where it was at. ;)
3.11b, thanks!
And oh, gods ... you had to remind me of Lan Damager....
Make a desktop interface which is optimized for the desktop and is substantially better than anything that exists now. Look at all the academic research, and take years to adopt and polish it. Demand excellence internally and never believe your own BS.
!
This.
Honestly, sometimes it looks like Microsoft is hiring its marketing researchers from Hollywood -- from the pool of writers trying to make new movies out of old television series'. Same same, only different.
Thinking at the top of Microsoft appears to have gone out of fashion, replaced by its poor cousin, "derive".