"It also is a bit silly how expensive ebooks are."
Paying the same price for an ebook as a paperback is like paying full price for a photo of a famous painting.
I refuse to buy any of these ebooks until they stop being stupid with the prices. Does Apple have to come in and crush publishers like they did with the music industry when they stuck by their $15 CD prices and ignored mp3s for many years?
Or will companies like Overdrive.com put them out of business by allowing libraries to give out eBooks for free? My library allows me to borrow new ebooks for free using the overdrive software and it's compatible with the Nook and Sony Readers. Why bother buying when I can legally download for free? Since I never own my eBook purchase anyway I don't see the difference.
"I've got a friend nearing the end of a difficult pregnancy and who is approaching labor, and Facebook is her husband's primary way of keeping friends and family updated as to her condition."
So if they have to wait a day or two to find out what happens that hurts them how, exactly?
"The Core i7-860 spanks everything AMD has at $280 @ newegg, there's only a few odd benchmarks AMDs $300 top six-core CPU wins. "
Why was this informative instead of troll? There's no links, no data, no proof, just a blanket INTEL RULZ! statement but of course he throws in that there are some tests where the AMD wins so anyone that attempts to refute his INTEL BESTEST OMG!!! statement with proof could be told "well, that's the few odd benchmark I was talking about".
"If you're willing to overclock, the i7 can easily get a 50% boost for the $50 cost of a larger heat sink"
AMD can do the same thing:"Whew, what a ride. This processor (1075T) was a blast to benchmark and overclock. 4.5 GHz on air was just icing on the cake."
So Intel and AMD are even when it comes to overclocking, and six cores at 4.5ghz sounds pretty nice.
"Intel provides currently the highest buyable performance. But AMD provides the best performance for value. If you buy a 200euro amd you get the best bang for your buck. If you buy a 800 euro Intel you get more bang but pay more bucks per bang."
I tell friends this: AMD is 90% of the speed for 1/4th the price.
"HIPAA laws are well-intentioned, but often get in the way of patients (or their family members) getting the information they need. This malarky regarding the Data Protection Act and the guy's own dog seems to be a similar unfortunate situation."
THIS IS NOT HIPAA!
Sorry but HIPAA is a Very Good Thing and completely different from this. I don't work in a call center but I know far too much about HIPAA and it's basically the only thing that protects someone from giving out all your medical history.
Before HIPAA came out in 1996 (yes, that recently) anyone could call your doctor or hospital and ask for your information and if the wrong person answered the phone they might give that information out. What medications your on, what surgeries you've had, what diseases you have or had. Even Captain Obvious can clearly see no one would want this information given to anyone that bothers to make a phone call so Thank God congress finally did one thing right and enacted HIPAA.
Sorry but I'm not impressed, all they did was build a glider with flapping wings. It can not take flight by itself, it requires a car to pull it until it is airborne.
"The guy who discovered the exploit, or the coding process which allowed it?"
OH I know this one!!!
What is... the guy that discovered the exploit!
Because see, even though you discovered that the front door was left open it doesn't give you permission to go in. See how that works? Yeah I know it's very confusing, best just to not check if doors are open unless they're doors you own.
Wow sounds like he really lucked out considering the embarassment he caused a lot of big wigs, maybe "i'm surprised" is a good defense? I'll have to use that next time I'm pulled over for speeding: "Officer I'm as surprised as you are I was going that fast, guess I'll just leave now"
"a developer tasked with buying an eCommerce solution might have purchased whatever product you are talking about, but one tasked with writing one would have to do something else or get fired."
It does say "Web developer tasked with building an online store", doesn't specify whether they have to write the shopping cart themselves or purchase a solution already done, and going from the ground up when a solution already exists seems like a huge waste of time and money.
The MonsterCommerce ecommerce system offered everything the authored described like "product listings, bulk import, pricing in multiple currencies, a built-in shopping cart, and integration with tax and shipping information sources."
"In the past, a Web developer tasked with building an online store would most likely do so using a dedicated e-commerce system, instead of a content management system (CMS)"
Is it just me or does it seem as if "fucktards" are the only people buying guns in the US? I'm American and I don't own a gun and don't know anyone that does but then I'm also on/. so you can imagine the company I keep. I still think the right to have a gun is a good idea but it does seem like only the wrong people ever bother to actually buy one.
"This is about allowing people to move to another employer using their skills. If you spent years in school studying and then years working in a field learning new skills that are very specific to an industry, according to these folks, you'd be stuck with one employer with no recourse if you had to leave"
no, actually, that's not what this is about at all. RTFA. It's about if you work for company ABC then you can't work for company XYZ and that's it, it's not saying they can't work for any company that uses their skills, just those one or two main competitors.
"and there are legitimate, legal ways to prevent/limit valuable employees from doing so... another is to require those employees to sign non-compete agreements (which must be properly limited in scope, duration, and geographic area in order to be held valid)..."
Actually a non-compete is far worse than what they're being accused of. Saying "you can not be hired by any of my competitors" lays a broad blanket across everything compared to "You can not be hired by Google".
I think it's completely reasonable what they did. Rather than run around suing employees after breaking a non-compete they instead went to their main competitor and said "we won't steal your employees if you don't steal ours". Seems reasonable, they didn't stop their employees from ever getting another job, just don't work for XYZ.
"another is to pay your employees a fair market wage for their talents and abilities, so that they'll actually want to remain your employee..."
I call BS on that. If you're not getting paid what you're worth and not happy you're going to quit and find another job irregardless of the fact that company XYZ can't hire you. Even if you're just a animator or search engine programmer there's many more companies than just Disney and Pixar using animators or Google and Yahoo that need search experts, in fact I'm sure putting Pixar, Disney, Google or Yahoo on a resume gets you a job almost anywhere.
YEAH! I worked for one of these companies and now I can sue for ONE BILLION DOLLARS because I was told I couldn't go work for one of those other companies after I was fired!
BENTLEY AND MANSIONS HERE I COME!
[/sarcasm]
Seriously though, it's not like employees were prevented from ever working again, there was just a short list of a few companies that were direct competitors they couldn't go work for. How does that not make sense? No one wants their Director-of-100-Million-Dollar-Project walking off one day because the main competitor offered him double to recreate the project.
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, I'm pretty sure if some big US government nuclear scientist decided to go work for North Korea because the pay was better he'd be called a spy, but Yahoo tries to prevent Director of Whatever from working at Google then Yahoo's the bad guy?
"I highly doubt that you could hire 2 competent programmers for 200k"
Hire? I was thinking a contract position, and yes given this is the internet and they could have hired someone from anywhere in the world (outsource to India?) I'm very sure they could have found 2 or more programmers to create a secure site for $200,000
"Something doesn't have to convince every user just to succeed."
Maybe not every user, but it does need to convince everyone I want to know and I just don't see Diaspora doing that. Facebook, after ~5 years, has 500 million users, and it's steadily been growing by 100 million users every 160 days. That's huge, and unless Facebook really messes up, I mean messes up to the point that it's on the nightly news and 20/20 saying how horrible they are so every grandma that doesn't read/. even knows how horrible they are, I just don't see anyone knocking them out of the way.
First we were measuring things in Library-of-Congresses, now we measure them by Breakfast-Cereal-Prizes?
Geek1: How big is that new hard drive of yours?
Geek2: huge, at least 1,000 Library-of-Congresses. How big is your new laptop?
Geek1: it's small, about the size of 5 Breakfast-Cereal-Prizes. Got the new iPhone-a-Droid too, it's a little bigger than a Breakfast-Cereal-Prize.
Slashdot Mirror
"Guys who expect woman to be glamorous 24/7/365 are either very rich or idiots. Both sets are jerks."
If she's going to start giving dating advice then she's going to be criticized. If she can't take the heat then she should stay out of the kitchen.
This is a photo of Leslie Sobon
Alright, that's pretty good, but then these are also photos of Leslie:
one
two
three
four
That's quite a range there, never know what you're going to get.
"It also is a bit silly how expensive ebooks are."
Paying the same price for an ebook as a paperback is like paying full price for a photo of a famous painting.
I refuse to buy any of these ebooks until they stop being stupid with the prices. Does Apple have to come in and crush publishers like they did with the music industry when they stuck by their $15 CD prices and ignored mp3s for many years?
Or will companies like Overdrive.com put them out of business by allowing libraries to give out eBooks for free? My library allows me to borrow new ebooks for free using the overdrive software and it's compatible with the Nook and Sony Readers. Why bother buying when I can legally download for free? Since I never own my eBook purchase anyway I don't see the difference.
"I've got a friend nearing the end of a difficult pregnancy and who is approaching labor, and Facebook is her husband's primary way of keeping friends and family updated as to her condition."
So if they have to wait a day or two to find out what happens that hurts them how, exactly?
"Because it's so much easier to call everyone you want to invite to a large event and then make a note of everyone who is going to show"
Was twitter down too?
"The Core i7-860 spanks everything AMD has at $280 @ newegg, there's only a few odd benchmarks AMDs $300 top six-core CPU wins. "
Why was this informative instead of troll? There's no links, no data, no proof, just a blanket INTEL RULZ! statement but of course he throws in that there are some tests where the AMD wins so anyone that attempts to refute his INTEL BESTEST OMG!!! statement with proof could be told "well, that's the few odd benchmark I was talking about".
Guess PassMark must be one of those "few odd benchmarks", where the 1090T is 10% faster than the i7-860 and it's only $8 more, or save $72 (more ram anyone?) with the 1055T which is only 7% slower than the i7-860.
"If you're willing to overclock, the i7 can easily get a 50% boost for the $50 cost of a larger heat sink"
AMD can do the same thing: "Whew, what a ride. This processor (1075T) was a blast to benchmark and overclock. 4.5 GHz on air was just icing on the cake."
So Intel and AMD are even when it comes to overclocking, and six cores at 4.5ghz sounds pretty nice.
"Intel provides currently the highest buyable performance. But AMD provides the best performance for value. If you buy a 200euro amd you get the best bang for your buck. If you buy a 800 euro Intel you get more bang but pay more bucks per bang."
I tell friends this: AMD is 90% of the speed for 1/4th the price.
You want 100% speed? Pay 4x more.
No one buys Intel after hearing that.
"HIPAA laws are well-intentioned, but often get in the way of patients (or their family members) getting the information they need. This malarky regarding the Data Protection Act and the guy's own dog seems to be a similar unfortunate situation."
THIS IS NOT HIPAA!
Sorry but HIPAA is a Very Good Thing and completely different from this. I don't work in a call center but I know far too much about HIPAA and it's basically the only thing that protects someone from giving out all your medical history.
Before HIPAA came out in 1996 (yes, that recently) anyone could call your doctor or hospital and ask for your information and if the wrong person answered the phone they might give that information out. What medications your on, what surgeries you've had, what diseases you have or had. Even Captain Obvious can clearly see no one would want this information given to anyone that bothers to make a phone call so Thank God congress finally did one thing right and enacted HIPAA.
Who has your dog is another matter, however the Data Protection Act only applies to UK. This is a UK law, we're still safe in the US.
**Citation needed
"article doesn't make it clear that the aircraft still needs to be pulled for it to glide into the air (you can see this in the attached video)."
Doesn't look like your video attached so here's the link to a car pulling the aircraft so it can take flight.
Sorry but I'm not impressed, all they did was build a glider with flapping wings. It can not take flight by itself, it requires a car to pull it until it is airborne.
How disappointing
"The guy who discovered the exploit, or the coding process which allowed it?"
OH I know this one!!!
What is... the guy that discovered the exploit!
Because see, even though you discovered that the front door was left open it doesn't give you permission to go in. See how that works? Yeah I know it's very confusing, best just to not check if doors are open unless they're doors you own.
Last year in high school, first year in jail.
I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure being "surprised that so many famous people got infected" is not a good legal defense.
"(Twitter) has indicated that it will not press charges against Delphin and has also declined to suspend his Twitter account"
Wow sounds like he really lucked out considering the embarassment he caused a lot of big wigs, maybe "i'm surprised" is a good defense? I'll have to use that next time I'm pulled over for speeding: "Officer I'm as surprised as you are I was going that fast, guess I'll just leave now"
"a developer tasked with buying an eCommerce solution might have purchased whatever product you are talking about, but one tasked with writing one would have to do something else or get fired."
It does say "Web developer tasked with building an online store", doesn't specify whether they have to write the shopping cart themselves or purchase a solution already done, and going from the ground up when a solution already exists seems like a huge waste of time and money.
The MonsterCommerce ecommerce system offered everything the authored described like "product listings, bulk import, pricing in multiple currencies, a built-in shopping cart, and integration with tax and shipping information sources."
"In the past, a Web developer tasked with building an online store would most likely do so using a dedicated e-commerce system, instead of a content management system (CMS)"
Exactly how far in the past are you talking, because MonsterCommerce (bought by NetworkSolutions (yuck)) has been offering a e-commerce storefront CMS since 2000.
I like where you're going with this, please tell me more...
Is it just me or does it seem as if "fucktards" are the only people buying guns in the US? I'm American and I don't own a gun and don't know anyone that does but then I'm also on /. so you can imagine the company I keep. I still think the right to have a gun is a good idea but it does seem like only the wrong people ever bother to actually buy one.
Wife says: I think I just saw what's going to kill me someday.
Agreed.
I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR NEW QUADROTOR DRONES OVERLORDS
and btw, those rotors sound scary, sounds like a giant swarm of angry bees
"This is about allowing people to move to another employer using their skills. If you spent years in school studying and then years working in a field learning new skills that are very specific to an industry, according to these folks, you'd be stuck with one employer with no recourse if you had to leave"
no, actually, that's not what this is about at all. RTFA. It's about if you work for company ABC then you can't work for company XYZ and that's it, it's not saying they can't work for any company that uses their skills, just those one or two main competitors.
"and there are legitimate, legal ways to prevent/limit valuable employees from doing so... another is to require those employees to sign non-compete agreements (which must be properly limited in scope, duration, and geographic area in order to be held valid)..."
Actually a non-compete is far worse than what they're being accused of. Saying "you can not be hired by any of my competitors" lays a broad blanket across everything compared to "You can not be hired by Google".
I think it's completely reasonable what they did. Rather than run around suing employees after breaking a non-compete they instead went to their main competitor and said "we won't steal your employees if you don't steal ours". Seems reasonable, they didn't stop their employees from ever getting another job, just don't work for XYZ.
"another is to pay your employees a fair market wage for their talents and abilities, so that they'll actually want to remain your employee..."
I call BS on that. If you're not getting paid what you're worth and not happy you're going to quit and find another job irregardless of the fact that company XYZ can't hire you. Even if you're just a animator or search engine programmer there's many more companies than just Disney and Pixar using animators or Google and Yahoo that need search experts, in fact I'm sure putting Pixar, Disney, Google or Yahoo on a resume gets you a job almost anywhere.
This isn't Foxconn where employees are literally killing themselves, these are some of the best companies in the world to work for, with amazing perks like Google's onsite medical staff and swimming pools. Everyone already wants to work for them, and now someone's claiming they're not being treated fairly? Give me a break!
YEAH! I worked for one of these companies and now I can sue for ONE BILLION DOLLARS because I was told I couldn't go work for one of those other companies after I was fired!
BENTLEY AND MANSIONS HERE I COME!
[/sarcasm]
Seriously though, it's not like employees were prevented from ever working again, there was just a short list of a few companies that were direct competitors they couldn't go work for. How does that not make sense? No one wants their Director-of-100-Million-Dollar-Project walking off one day because the main competitor offered him double to recreate the project.
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, I'm pretty sure if some big US government nuclear scientist decided to go work for North Korea because the pay was better he'd be called a spy, but Yahoo tries to prevent Director of Whatever from working at Google then Yahoo's the bad guy?
pot meet kettle
"I highly doubt that you could hire 2 competent programmers for 200k"
Hire? I was thinking a contract position, and yes given this is the internet and they could have hired someone from anywhere in the world (outsource to India?) I'm very sure they could have found 2 or more programmers to create a secure site for $200,000
"Seriously, a bunch of kids from NYU... what did you expect?"
/. could have done a better job if we were given $200,000.
I would expect better from a bunch of "kids" that were given $200,000 to make the site. I think most of
"Something doesn't have to convince every user just to succeed."
/. even knows how horrible they are, I just don't see anyone knocking them out of the way.
Maybe not every user, but it does need to convince everyone I want to know and I just don't see Diaspora doing that. Facebook, after ~5 years, has 500 million users, and it's steadily been growing by 100 million users every 160 days. That's huge, and unless Facebook really messes up, I mean messes up to the point that it's on the nightly news and 20/20 saying how horrible they are so every grandma that doesn't read
Facebook has 2 billion results
Diaspora has 20 million, and many of those are wiki entries, music, and a video game.
And these latest reports that Diaspora is riddled with security issues has hit the news big time.
I think this is the last we'll hear of Diaspora. They were given $200,000 and couldn't even make a secure site. That's pretty damn disappointing.
First we were measuring things in Library-of-Congresses, now we measure them by Breakfast-Cereal-Prizes?
Geek1: How big is that new hard drive of yours?
Geek2: huge, at least 1,000 Library-of-Congresses. How big is your new laptop?
Geek1: it's small, about the size of 5 Breakfast-Cereal-Prizes. Got the new iPhone-a-Droid too, it's a little bigger than a Breakfast-Cereal-Prize.