It should be posted on every manager's bathroom mirror, next to the "Perfect Software" listed here earlier in the month. Actually, I think I saw this article out here on/. Duplicate article maybe, but probably worth repeating (or at least into it's own category).
Although, my main advice to most managers is "retire." The response I usually get is "I did.";)
Miserable roll-your-own soap opera bs. I'd rather watch Rollerjam.;)
In future spinoffs, CBS will form a joint venture with that national "You want a sugar-daddy?" pimp guy posted earlier on/., to send 16 single marketing socialites into Silicon Valley. Who will "survive"?:D Would anyone out there care to brainstorm some of the prizes?
I'm just wondering though, what the following clause meant, in context of the article...
...because the censorship of the nerderati is still censorship.
Other than that, this guy might be "afraid" that ubiquitous "Expert sources" might be obsolete. If that is the case, then the answer is probably yes and no.
Or he might be "afraid" that the concept of the Editor is obsolete. I think not. We just tossed in some knowledge and opinion, we don't have to sift through it.:)
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...is the back of the cat's eyelids. Or 75%, if they used my cat.
Seriously, this is cool, groovy cool. We're on the way to make borg-things.
The new sports fad will be the "Eye-Cam". We'll see the game like it's never been seen before...
"...if you find your comments included, contact me {snip} for payment at our usual lineage rates..."
This probably means they'll get/. 'ed a new way: 50 people who posted X idea, looking to get paid.:) They should directly attribute quotes/info to specific posters. (AC's get paid to/.:)
...I don't care who Alston cites, he's just talking smack on this one.:)
If we consider the practicality of the situation, though, most of the "isms" tend to lean toward totalitarianism/authoritarianism, because all the forms of government (so far) involve a small subset of people to whom everyone else is responsible to. As the general education level increases, this subset increases in number, and power concentrations tend to be diluted, and weaned from some portion of the existing subset. Resistance to this dilution is a natural side-effect of weaning, and act is a specific case as part of the weaning.
Well, I wanted to explain my prior rant, and got into another one. Doh. I guess there are disadvantages to stream-of-conciousness writing. Namely, I can't make a coherent thought that doesn't blend into another one. hehe.
...and I had all four sets of Basic series books, although I seem to remember the Master and Immortal sets being more important for campaigning (But the concept of a planet as an NPC class was awesome).
I suppose they did simplify, but that's missing a huge point: the different races have civilizations of their own, hence their own classes,etc...but it leads me to one more thing I'd like to see in an AD&D movie:
A dwarven thief fumbling around trying to pick a lock.:)
I wonder if it's displayed in a "collapsible" list, or is just being truncated, for display purposes....but it also means that the original spammer probably put them in the to: or cc: instead of bcc:.
I'm glad that some folks are putting their poli-sci degrees to good use.
Since it's never specifically mentioned which industry, V.I. (Village Idiot) Alston is "tipping his spin", to borrow the baseball term. Although, if he ever were to be removed from his post, I think he could easily find a position in Kansas or Beijing.
Really, though, the whole concept of passing such an act stands as a measure of how socialist Australia's government is: One thing that a socialist nation cannot deal with is overachievement. This concept is intolerable to a socialist. The idea that their population may contain advanced, free-thinking people that may not subscribe to their party scares them. I consider this trait to be a link between most (if not all) totalitarian forms of government. I was surprised to see this pop up in Australia, but I should not have been. They are the first nation to act on the concept that the Internet, and the self-development benefits people can obtain from it, provide a slim but growing chance that nations will evolve towards a more democratic society, at the expense of the current "ruling classes" (cheesy term, but it loosely applies).
I guess now we have to organize a response, an "Internet Free Australia", so to speak. I won't be visiting that country anytime soon, either, because I don't want my tourist dollars to be taxed to fund that abomination.
Black pudding: it's not just for breakfast anymore.:)
I noticed that "dwarf" and "elf" were listed as characters, where they are races in the game. Elven what? Dwarven what?
Stuff I want to see (we'll have to make this a slashdot topic, and submit it;)... -- Green Slime (and the Jellies..) -- Gelatinous Cube ("look, it's a floating necklace...AAAaaaaa") -- Bugbears. Don't they look vaguely like wookies? -- Doppelgangers. -- "16 Charisma... Yeah, I'd do her." -- Griffons, Chimeras, and Manticores, oh my:). -- One character fumbles and stabs another. -- A "Play your alignment or I'll nuke you" talk from a diety.
Cliche/Stupid things I don't want to see: -- 2-second cameos of half the Monster Manual. -- "The ranger sets out to avenge {name of loved one goes here}, who was killed by the evil {specious enemy goes here} clan. -- Hack,Slash, heal, and repeat. The best games don't require dice for anything. -- Fighter-woman with +5 Sword of Cleaving, and +5(AC 0) Chainmail Bikini of Cleavage. -- Anything resembling that stupid "Dungeon Master" Yoda-wannabe from the cartoon.
When I was in school, we did have a couple of weekly campaigns that were good enough to write about, so I think a screenplay from a campaign (or set of campaigns) is possible. I hope the play group(s) get writer credits.
I am much more excited about Neverwinter Nights, though. If you haven't seen them yet, this month's CGW has some screenshots of a prototype, and I like the 3D approach (think Myth).
Definitely. My roommate picked up the DVD set, it's rather well done. "Dragons" were like too big to animate, they're like part of the background (which is also a statement to their stature)
But, Lodoss War would have been far better if the "lead character" wasn't an idiot. "Parn! Come back!"
I probably got his name wrong too, but I think it was Parn.:)
I can see Nabisco dropping a few $M to fund cookie-specific studies...and to publish the optimal time to dunk an Oreo (among other cookies) in the different kinds of milk (skim, to whipping cream).
I wonder if I could get an insurance discount for the flame defense system? Too bad it shoots out both sides though. A switch similar to the dual-mirror control should take care of that problem.
Speaking of which, I think I could use an oreo or two.
...to turn the ISS into a billboard. I just hope Coke has the dignity to merely supply the station with drinks.
The real problem I have here, is that a completely non-related squatter company gets to buy ad space on something. Sports or Space, the concept is the same. The Kellogg's Winston Cup car? You gotta be kidding me. Next, we'll have companies posting ads on military aircraft. We'll have the "McF-16" and the "Ford Apache". Don't forget the new Pokemon class of frigates.
For the rest of history we'll have to look at the Pizza the Hut logo on the side of the rocket, whenever we watch the replay.
...if you consider the new trait to be disfunctional relative to the old trait. The idea that our brains may be physiologically different than "non-g***s" is probably accurate, and may lead to a different chain. It will probably be a dead-end though, just a gut feeling there.
Given, a population will have a full range of intelligence types. However, I think that there's a lot more intelligence in the "non-g***" population than they're given credit for. There's a lot of latent gray matter, so to speak, suppressed by attention to social interaction, and other not-so-useless things that help decide who reproduces and who doesn't.
There is a weapons distributor that had these advertised on their website, but I don't remember if it was Raytheon's model. Silo, launch vehicle, and control system are sold separately. I wonder if I need a Class IV license to get one...
{preface: IMHO, this question should be sent to "ask Slashdot."}
{antbed} ...then you missed the f****** boat, have a nice swim, and check out some of his movies.:)
"stereotypical nerds/geeks" tend to be classified as such, because of our tendency to appreciate, (among other things which don't score touchdowns or chicks) quality, intellect, artistic talent, and other things . Add to that, the small fact that George C. Scott kicks ass, and there's no wonder why.
GC Scott was definitely quality. If no one has yet mentioned Excorcist III, I have done so now. He and Jack Lemmon almost turned the movie into a comedy. {/antbed}
Savannah would be washed out, and probably will, if the 'cane holds its own against the frontal system it's going up against.
Talk about a big b******, though, It's still off the Florida coast, and I'm getting light wind in Atlanta. Screw the wind, I feel sorry for whoever gets caught in the surge for this one. And wtf was South Carolina doing not opening up both sides of the Interstate?
Thrill of the sale, and market equalizer.
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Probably the only reason why I'm not a complete e-auction junkie is that I've not yet figured out how to effectively pack stuff for shipping. Else, I've got a room full of junk that's ready to go. Anyone want lightly used back issues of DDJ? hehe. I remember a buddy of mine regularly attending a monthly community yard sale, just to see what would sell and what wouldn't. I paid for a lot of pizza that way, and it was a good way to kill a Saturday morning.
Seriously, national/international online auctions tend to cater to high-price localities. People may get greater-than-expected prices for items, but that price may still be cheaper than what the buyer can get the item for in their area of the world. I'm separating this factor from the competition factor, which also drives prices. The sum of these two effects plays upon the profit motive of people who can get their hands on goods at a relative discount.
One other note, from watching online auctions for a few years: quality information results in higher price. I saw this on display in the article, and I suppose this is due to the "blind" nature of the auction.
So, why do you think that the recent Internet transaction tax bill is originating from South Carolina? Their captive markets, decended from plantation economy, are starting to get away from them, and the Old Money is getting restless.:)
I tend to think that social interactivity (or lack) is not a direct function of genetics, but an applied result of traits that are. I.E., a loner that can't relate to people is a loner because he/she can't relate, not the other way around.
The article was blah, blah, glossy, blah, but maybe the book will be better. More ramblings later.
I still don't see an invasion of privacy, even if AMZN is throwing darts at a board to generate the list. I'm under the assumption that they're already selling individual sales data, probably with some choice demographics.
I would like for some folks to explain why publishing (regional) summary sales data is a Bad Thing.
Have any x-number of/. ers compared lists for a given company/area? Let's check to see if the lists aren't being doctored based on our own purchase history. For example: San Francisco, 8/26/99: 1)The Silicon Boys 2) Nudist on the Late Shift: And other true tales of Silicon Valley. 3)The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing 4)Cryptonomicon 5)Memoirs of a Geisha 6)Burn Rate: How I survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet 7) The Beach 8) Turn of the Century 9) Our Dumb Century {"Holy f-ing Cow! Man lands on f-ing Moon! haha} 10) Jacques Pepin's Kitchen: Encore w/ Claudine
...does everybody get the same results for San Fran (the city, not metro)?
"Semi-Solid" evidence like this is a foggy stained-glass window into a company's state of being, not an open window, and I doubt that AMZN is pulling the feature due to customer feedback.
Amazon is publishing summary info, Ebay is asking for $1 for reserve price auctions....the world will end next week.
Privacy issues, I don't see here. Corporate secrecy issues, a slim chance. If Amazon is as loose with their sales data as we'd like to think, it only takes a competitor's marketing firm to buy the info from Amazon directly.
Speaking of competitors, Amazon may be tipping off their own competitors as to what's hot. That would be a big mistake.
Really, though, I think there is a difference between making summary info available to the public, and making the same info available to public agencies.
If they published my personal top-10, then yeah, that's a big problem. Then again, maybe they're waiting for me to actually buy 10 items.:)
I'm just more ticked that they're branching into all of the other areas, making themselves just another e-tailer, instead of actually developing themselves. It will take me a while to figure out what I actually mean by that, but I figured I'd just get it out there.:)
And remember, just because someone bought a book, doesn't mean they're going to read it.
Slashdot Mirror
It should be posted on every manager's bathroom mirror, next to the "Perfect Software" listed here earlier in the month. Actually, I think I saw this article out here on /. Duplicate article maybe, but probably worth repeating (or at least into it's own category).
;)
Although, my main advice to most managers is "retire." The response I usually get is "I did."
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...Sometimes a name says it all.
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/., to send 16 single marketing socialites into Silicon Valley. Who will "survive"? :D Would anyone out there care to brainstorm some of the prizes?
Miserable roll-your-own soap opera bs. I'd rather watch Rollerjam.
In future spinoffs, CBS will form a joint venture with that national "You want a sugar-daddy?" pimp guy posted earlier on
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I'm just wondering though, what the following clause meant, in context of the article...
...because the censorship of the nerderati is still censorship.
:)
Other than that, this guy might be "afraid" that ubiquitous "Expert sources" might be obsolete. If that is the case, then the answer is probably yes and no.
Or he might be "afraid" that the concept of the Editor is obsolete. I think not. We just tossed in some knowledge and opinion, we don't have to sift through it.
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...is the back of the cat's eyelids. Or 75%, if they used my cat.
Seriously, this is cool, groovy cool. We're on the way to make borg-things.
The new sports fad will be the "Eye-Cam". We'll see the game like it's never been seen before...
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"...if you find your comments included, contact me {snip} for payment at our usual lineage rates..."
/. 'ed a new way: 50 people who posted X idea, looking to get paid. :) They should directly attribute quotes/info to specific posters. (AC's get paid to /. :)
This probably means they'll get
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If they're going to pay lineage, then why not help fund /. with the Anonymous Coward rates?
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I'll buy any one of them a beer, If I run into them. Lone Gunmen rule, and I hope to see some folks at the local Con.
Am I the only person who liked the last season? It looked like they cut loose with projects that got shelved during other seasons.
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...I don't care who Alston cites, he's just talking smack on this one. :)
If we consider the practicality of the situation, though, most of the "isms" tend to lean toward totalitarianism/authoritarianism, because all the forms of government (so far) involve a small subset of people to whom everyone else is responsible to. As the general education level increases, this subset increases in number, and power concentrations tend to be diluted, and weaned from some portion of the existing subset. Resistance to this dilution is a natural side-effect of weaning, and act is a specific case as part of the weaning.
Well, I wanted to explain my prior rant, and got into another one. Doh. I guess there are disadvantages to stream-of-conciousness writing. Namely, I can't make a coherent thought that doesn't blend into another one. hehe.
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...and I had all four sets of Basic series books, although I seem to remember the Master and Immortal sets being more important for campaigning (But the concept of a planet as an NPC class was awesome).
:)
I suppose they did simplify, but that's missing a huge point: the different races have civilizations of their own, hence their own classes,etc...but it leads me to one more thing I'd like to see in an AD&D movie:
A dwarven thief fumbling around trying to pick a lock.
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I wonder if it's displayed in a "collapsible" list, or is just being truncated, for display purposes....but it also means that the original spammer probably put them in the to: or cc: instead of bcc:.
I'm glad that some folks are putting their poli-sci degrees to good use.
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Since it's never specifically mentioned which industry, V.I. (Village Idiot) Alston is "tipping his spin", to borrow the baseball term. Although, if he ever were to be removed from his post, I think he could easily find a position in Kansas or Beijing.
Really, though, the whole concept of passing such an act stands as a measure of how socialist Australia's government is: One thing that a socialist nation cannot deal with is overachievement. This concept is intolerable to a socialist. The idea that their population may contain advanced, free-thinking people that may not subscribe to their party scares them. I consider this trait to be a link between most (if not all) totalitarian forms of government. I was surprised to see this pop up in Australia, but I should not have been. They are the first nation to act on the concept that the Internet, and the self-development benefits people can obtain from it, provide a slim but growing chance that nations will evolve towards a more democratic society, at the expense of the current "ruling classes" (cheesy term, but it loosely applies).
I guess now we have to organize a response, an "Internet Free Australia", so to speak. I won't be visiting that country anytime soon, either, because I don't want my tourist dollars to be taxed to fund that abomination.
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Black pudding: it's not just for breakfast anymore. :)
;)... :).
I noticed that "dwarf" and "elf" were listed as characters, where they are races in the game. Elven what? Dwarven what?
Stuff I want to see (we'll have to make this a slashdot topic, and submit it
-- Green Slime (and the Jellies..)
-- Gelatinous Cube ("look, it's a floating necklace...AAAaaaaa")
-- Bugbears. Don't they look vaguely like wookies?
-- Doppelgangers.
-- "16 Charisma... Yeah, I'd do her."
-- Griffons, Chimeras, and Manticores, oh my
-- One character fumbles and stabs another.
-- A "Play your alignment or I'll nuke you" talk from a diety.
Cliche/Stupid things I don't want to see:
-- 2-second cameos of half the Monster Manual.
-- "The ranger sets out to avenge {name of loved one goes here}, who was killed by the evil {specious enemy goes here} clan.
-- Hack,Slash, heal, and repeat. The best games don't require dice for anything.
-- Fighter-woman with +5 Sword of Cleaving, and +5(AC 0) Chainmail Bikini of Cleavage.
-- Anything resembling that stupid "Dungeon Master" Yoda-wannabe from the cartoon.
When I was in school, we did have a couple of weekly campaigns that were good enough to write about, so I think a screenplay from a campaign (or set of campaigns) is possible. I hope the play group(s) get writer credits.
I am much more excited about Neverwinter Nights, though. If you haven't seen them yet, this month's CGW has some screenshots of a prototype, and I like the 3D approach (think Myth).
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Definitely. My roommate picked up the DVD set, it's rather well done. "Dragons" were like too big to animate, they're like part of the background (which is also a statement to their stature)
:)
But, Lodoss War would have been far better if the "lead character" wasn't an idiot. "Parn! Come back!"
I probably got his name wrong too, but I think it was Parn.
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I can see Nabisco dropping a few $M to fund cookie-specific studies...and to publish the optimal time to dunk an Oreo (among other cookies) in the different kinds of milk (skim, to whipping cream).
I wonder if I could get an insurance discount for the flame defense system? Too bad it shoots out both sides though. A switch similar to the dual-mirror control should take care of that problem.
Speaking of which, I think I could use an oreo or two.
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...to turn the ISS into a billboard. I just hope Coke has the dignity to merely supply the station with drinks.
The real problem I have here, is that a completely non-related squatter company gets to buy ad space on something. Sports or Space, the concept is the same. The Kellogg's Winston Cup car? You gotta be kidding me. Next, we'll have companies posting ads on military aircraft. We'll have the "McF-16" and the "Ford Apache". Don't forget the new Pokemon class of frigates.
For the rest of history we'll have to look at the Pizza the Hut logo on the side of the rocket, whenever we watch the replay.
...if you consider the new trait to be disfunctional relative to the old trait. The idea that our brains may be physiologically different than "non-g***s" is probably accurate, and may lead to a different chain. It will probably be a dead-end though, just a gut feeling there.
Given, a population will have a full range of intelligence types. However, I think that there's a lot more intelligence in the "non-g***" population than they're given credit for. There's a lot of latent gray matter, so to speak, suppressed by attention to social interaction, and other not-so-useless things that help decide who reproduces and who doesn't.
There is a weapons distributor that had these advertised on their website, but I don't remember if it was Raytheon's model. Silo, launch vehicle, and control system are sold separately. I wonder if I need a Class IV license to get one...
{preface: IMHO, this question should be sent to "ask Slashdot."}
:)
{antbed}
...then you missed the f****** boat, have a nice swim, and check out some of his movies.
"stereotypical nerds/geeks" tend to be classified as such, because of our tendency to appreciate, (among other things which don't score touchdowns or chicks) quality, intellect, artistic talent, and other things . Add to that, the small fact that George C. Scott kicks ass, and there's no wonder why.
GC Scott was definitely quality. If no one has yet mentioned Excorcist III, I have done so now. He and Jack Lemmon almost turned the movie into a comedy.
{/antbed}
A long while, actually, due to their location.
Savannah would be washed out, and probably will, if the 'cane holds its own against the frontal system it's going up against.
Talk about a big b******, though, It's still off the Florida coast, and I'm getting light wind in Atlanta. Screw the wind, I feel sorry for whoever gets caught in the surge for this one. And wtf was South Carolina doing not opening up both sides of the Interstate?
Probably the only reason why I'm not a complete e-auction junkie is that I've not yet figured out how to effectively pack stuff for shipping. Else, I've got a room full of junk that's ready to go. Anyone want lightly used back issues of DDJ? hehe. I remember a buddy of mine regularly attending a monthly community yard sale, just to see what would sell and what wouldn't. I paid for a lot of pizza that way, and it was a good way to kill a Saturday morning.
:)
Seriously, national/international online auctions tend to cater to high-price localities. People may get greater-than-expected prices for items, but that price may still be cheaper than what the buyer can get the item for in their area of the world. I'm separating this factor from the competition factor, which also drives prices. The sum of these two effects plays upon the profit motive of people who can get their hands on goods at a relative discount.
One other note, from watching online auctions for a few years: quality information results in higher price. I saw this on display in the article, and I suppose this is due to the "blind" nature of the auction.
So, why do you think that the recent Internet transaction tax bill is originating from South Carolina? Their captive markets, decended from plantation economy, are starting to get away from them, and the Old Money is getting restless.
Time to ramble, folks...
I tend to think that social interactivity (or lack) is not a direct function of genetics, but an applied result of traits that are. I.E., a loner that can't relate to people is a loner because he/she can't relate, not the other way around.
The article was blah, blah, glossy, blah, but maybe the book will be better. More ramblings later.
Inquiring minds want to know...
Do we know why a given set of mt survives? Could we just chalk it up to a chemical "host cell advantage" that favors the host mt?
Has this method been tried with a host cell that has been cleaned of intracellular structures?
Will this process work in Kansas?
I still don't see an invasion of privacy, even if AMZN is throwing darts at a board to generate the list. I'm under the assumption that they're already selling individual sales data, probably with some choice demographics.
/. ers compared lists for a given company/area? Let's check to see if the lists aren't being doctored based on our own purchase history. For example: San Francisco, 8/26/99:
I would like for some folks to explain why publishing (regional) summary sales data is a Bad Thing.
Have any x-number of
1)The Silicon Boys
2) Nudist on the Late Shift: And other true tales of Silicon Valley.
3)The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
4)Cryptonomicon
5)Memoirs of a Geisha
6)Burn Rate: How I survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet
7) The Beach
8) Turn of the Century
9) Our Dumb Century {"Holy f-ing Cow! Man lands on f-ing Moon! haha}
10) Jacques Pepin's Kitchen: Encore w/ Claudine
...does everybody get the same results for San Fran (the city, not metro)?
"Semi-Solid" evidence like this is a foggy stained-glass window into a company's state of being, not an open window, and I doubt that AMZN is pulling the feature due to customer feedback.
Amazon is publishing summary info, Ebay is asking for $1 for reserve price auctions....the world will end next week.
:)
:)
Privacy issues, I don't see here. Corporate secrecy issues, a slim chance. If Amazon is as loose with their sales data as we'd like to think, it only takes a competitor's marketing firm to buy the info from Amazon directly.
Speaking of competitors, Amazon may be tipping off their own competitors as to what's hot. That would be a big mistake.
Really, though, I think there is a difference between making summary info available to the public, and making the same info available to public agencies.
If they published my personal top-10, then yeah, that's a big problem. Then again, maybe they're waiting for me to actually buy 10 items.
I'm just more ticked that they're branching into all of the other areas, making themselves just another e-tailer, instead of actually developing themselves. It will take me a while to figure out what I actually mean by that, but I figured I'd just get it out there.
And remember, just because someone bought a book, doesn't mean they're going to read it.
Specifically, Media One's Atlanta customers that don't have the "new" broadband service. Keep that in mind if you're planning to move here.