Why did you ask the question twice? Why the repetition? Why the redundancy?
I'm curious why you would ask such a thing. So why the repetition?
To answer your question, I'm getting my retaliation in first against the racists. The casual racism of/. has been fascinating to me for a while. I find it interesting that such an educated readership can sometimes get some fundamental stuff so horribly wrong, but then I suppose engineers are known to have a few people skills missing.
Your implication that only racists can be interested in racism is one of the more bizarre assertions I've seen around here.
I once wrote a journal post here denouncing the trend on/. for filling threads up with unfunny curry jokes and poking fun at Indian accents every time the word "India" was mentioned. It was almost as if the (mostly American) readership of this site couldn't believe that those dark skinned people in another country were actually capable of anything technically advanced or challenging like us white people, and the condescending attitude seemed to be that all that remained was to make fun of their physical appearance/accents/local cuisine etc. It was childish, tiresome, and racist.
So I'm engaging in what you might call a "conscience raising" exercise. I'm setting a trend where racist comments are met with disdain in the same way that lighting up a cigarette on a plane would nowadays. When enough people react with disdain, we change what is and is not socially acceptable. I am therefore ding my small part to change peoples' attitudes and combat racism. So to answer your strange question, no. I'm not a racist.
What is the study of the process of "Scientization"? Would that be Scientology?
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Sometimes it's important to realize geeks don't understand what normal people want in technology.
This is an important point which is often overlooked in technology discussion forums such as this one.
Steve's genius was in predicting the things nobody thought they wanted until he showed it to them. "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them," he once said. "By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."
Spot on. It was the iPod's usability and integration with the Appleverse that made it such a potent game-changer. Slashdot's reaction? Focus on technical details and miss the bigger picture entirely. "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
The so-called "Web 2.0" fad is on its way out. It hasn't lived up to expectations, and in many ways has caused a huge amount of disappointment and trouble for many people. Privacy has become scarce, and people are subjected to ever-increasing amounts of pointless advertising, or just straight out useless information. The "community" aspect has turned out to be one big manufactured load of marketing bullshit.
Even the massively-hyped Web 2.0 technologies have shown to be failures when applied to real problems, where data actually has value and reliability is important. Ruby on Rails applications often have horrible performance and poor maintainability. NoSQL databases can barely be called "databases" due to their tendency to lose data and the most inopportune times. JavaScript is an absolute joke. HTML5 is by far the shittiest standard of our day.
Web 2.0 is on its way out, and I don't think that any average person is really going to miss it.
I'm in the UK, not exactly in the middle of nowhere (a medium sized town) but not exactly London either. There are virtually no women on the site within a reasonable distance of me.
It helps to live near New York or Los Angeles.
That's why moving back to my (small) hometown is out of the question. All the women are taken!
Isn't it interesting that women always seem to think that men would find dating so much easier if the guys just listened to some female advice? Funny thing is, women are the least qualified people to explain what they find attractive and don't find attractive. How many times have you seen them complain about guys who take their shirts off in pictures, yet shirtless photos consistently score higher in photo ratings? I've been told to crop other women out of my photos, yet female friends are the biggest babe magnet I've ever had. Nothing is as effective as a wing-woman.
There's what women want, and there's what women think they want. They are two different things. There's a slight overlap, but not much.
Gents, ignore this lady's advice and invest in a copy of The Mystery Method.
The San Jose Mercury News used to have an awful problem with comment threads erupting into flame wars (as much as I enjoyed getting into the middle of them). That was in the time of anonymous commenting. Nowadays they use the Facebook plugin, so your comment appears beside your profile pic and your name on FB. It has become very civil all of a sudden. You have the option of checking a box to post the comment to your profile, something I never select.
"There has been a widespread pattern of discrimination against educators who would challenge evolution in the classroom," Casey Luskin, a policy analyst for the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, in Seattle, Washington, told ScienceInsider. "Schools censor from students the evidence against evolution."
Yes. And there has also been a widespread pattern of discrimination against educators who would challenge the fact that the holocaust happened, and schools censor from students the evidence for holocaust denial. Thankfully.
Anyone been to Friendster lately? They're trying to position themselves as a place to go for gaming.
And does anyone remember that UK site, Friends Reunited? The one where you had to pay to contact your old school friends? I still get an occasional email from them saying "latest happenings on Friends Reunited". There's nothing happening.
But then, that's nothing new. Anyone who thinks that the UK is part of the EU in anything other than writing probably should visit here sometime.
You have access to the huge EU market, there's free movement of goods and labour between your country and the rest of the EU, and you're subject to EC regulations. You ARE part of the EU. Get over it.
Maybe, but it was the same tactic used to get lead out of petrol. Unleaded was so cheap compared to the heavily taxed 4-star that some people converted their engines while the manufacturers simply stopped producing 4-star-burning engines. Within a few short years leaded petrol was gone.
I say ship them back. I see your point and can agree with it to an extent. Here is one; why bring them over in the first place? Let company A outsource to india/china/etc. After many delays, language barriers, garbage coding practices, and having to wait 24 hours for a reply to a simple question, company A will come back to the US and outsource work to a company in North Dakota with low costs of operations and immediate response to questions. The only game to play here is the time zone game.
H1Bs are a waste of time. I have three of them here in my department and none of them can think their way out of a wet paper sack with neon signs written in their own language pointing to the exit. Is there talent that the US should bring over...yes! Most, probably 95-98% should be shipped back to ratville and asked never to return. If the H1B is not a genius, goto 1:
Just my two cents on H1Bs.
I see your anecdote and I raise you. My company hires H1Bs (I'm one of them) because we used to hire developers fresh out of US colleges who would take 3 days to do something a European graduate could do in half a day. As for "ratville", that speaks volumes about the quality of US education if you're a product of that system.
Will Netflix go with risky indy thinking or will it hedge with Tried and True Copy-Cat entertainment?
Someone else let me know, 'K? I'll be outside watching for rattlesnakes along the trail.
Netflix subscribers pay their subscription no matter how much or how little they watch. This gives NF the freedom to experiment and put a ton of content up there that their subscribers are free to watch. Whether or not an individual production is a hit or a miss is irrelevant, it simply adds to the huge array of content available on Netflix, and the bigger the amount of available content the more it encourages more people to sign up.
I can see it now - trailers on TV advertising kick-ass looking movies followed by the caveat "Only available on Netflix instant download." If people start seeing enough of that then they're going to start thinking "there's something big happening on Netflix, and I'd sure like to see what it is."
Netflix had to shutter its own entertainment division, Red Envelope, a few years ago. It was just a small studio that probably never outbid a much larger one for the indie films they invested in, but they were competing with their own suppliers. It's not clear to me how this is different, although I suppose the three years since it closed is a long time ago.
Good question. I'm guessing here but maybe downloading wasn't as prevalent three years ago and they couldn't afford to maintain such an operation. Now they have a much smaller proportion of their resources devoted to shipping and handling physical DVDs.
Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey will star in and executive produce MRC's television series "House of Cards," TheWrap has confirmed.
David Fincher, who was nominated for an Academy Award for directing "The Social Network," is directing the pilot and producing the show. Beau Willimon, who is attached to George Clooney's "Ides of March," wrote the pilot.
Eric Roth, who wrote Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," is also an executive producer, as are Joshua Donen and Dana Brunetti also are executive producers.
The series is adapted from the 1990 British miniseries and the book, which follows a British politician who wants to be prime minister. It did well in the UK, winning a BAFTA and an Emmy.
The Fincher version is set in the United States.
Is nothing sacred? Why do these shows have to be re-made? House of Cards was a masterpiece and I fear that too much will be lost in translation to an American setting. Please don't talk to me about The Office. The original series looked like a documentary, now they've completely given up on that by bringing in too many camera angles and taking the documentary look away from it. Losing that essential element makes it difficult to watch.
Get me a pilsner, please. It goes well with this pudding.
A lot of people don't know this but the best thing you can sample in Ireland is not the beer but the multitude of breads, particularly in the north where bread is a very important part of the diet, on a par with the spuds in its importance. There's the soda bread (white, light, fluffy and to-die-for when fresh, comes in an infinite number of configurations), wheaten (very heavy, almost a meal in itself, pan (that would be a normal loaf everywhere else), batch (AKA 'plain' bread, which Ulster people think of as a normal loaf, heavier texture than pan bread and with a harder top crust), potato bread (aka spud bread, known as potato cakes in Scotland), Veda, fruit malt, fruit loaves, the soda breads with the raisins.... on and on it goes.
Amen, brother. I spent a full year trying to get the taste of Guinness and had to give it up in the end. Bulmers/Magners or Strongbow is pretty hard to beat, and cider is my drink of choice if I find myself in a round with beer drinkers. (I'm usually a cocktail man, but they're not practical when drinking in a group dominated by beer drinkers.)
I don't watch the more hyperbolic networks but from what I've seen and read so far, all the statements seem to be along the lines that the threat of a dangerous radioactive leak is fairly small. However it ain't what you say it's the way that you say it. The tone of some headlines would make you think the world was about to blow up. Channel 4 News (UK) which is renowned for good quality reporting even succumbed to it in their headlines at the weekend, referring to a "nuclear emergency" which has a nice dramatically terrifying ring to it, but vague enough to be almost meaningless.
What beats the hell out of me about Star Wars is the number of multilingual people everywhere. How many people understand the grunts of wookies? Wookies seem to understand English. And yet only C3PO actually is named as a translator. What a redundant character!
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Why did you ask the question twice? Why the repetition? Why the redundancy?
I'm curious why you would ask such a thing. So why the repetition?
To answer your question, I'm getting my retaliation in first against the racists. The casual racism of /. has been fascinating to me for a while. I find it interesting that such an educated readership can sometimes get some fundamental stuff so horribly wrong, but then I suppose engineers are known to have a few people skills missing.
Your implication that only racists can be interested in racism is one of the more bizarre assertions I've seen around here.
I once wrote a journal post here denouncing the trend on /. for filling threads up with unfunny curry jokes and poking fun at Indian accents every time the word "India" was mentioned. It was almost as if the (mostly American) readership of this site couldn't believe that those dark skinned people in another country were actually capable of anything technically advanced or challenging like us white people, and the condescending attitude seemed to be that all that remained was to make fun of their physical appearance/accents/local cuisine etc. It was childish, tiresome, and racist.
So I'm engaging in what you might call a "conscience raising" exercise. I'm setting a trend where racist comments are met with disdain in the same way that lighting up a cigarette on a plane would nowadays. When enough people react with disdain, we change what is and is not socially acceptable. I am therefore ding my small part to change peoples' attitudes and combat racism. So to answer your strange question, no. I'm not a racist.
Whoosh!
What is the study of the process of "Scientization"? Would that be Scientology?
Sometimes it's important to realize geeks don't understand what normal people want in technology.
This is an important point which is often overlooked in technology discussion forums such as this one.
Steve's genius was in predicting the things nobody thought they wanted until he showed it to them. "You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them," he once said. "By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."
Spot on. It was the iPod's usability and integration with the Appleverse that made it such a potent game-changer. Slashdot's reaction? Focus on technical details and miss the bigger picture entirely. "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
I'll be watching the number of racist comments and unfunny "curry" comments on this thread with great interest.
The so-called "Web 2.0" fad is on its way out. It hasn't lived up to expectations, and in many ways has caused a huge amount of disappointment and trouble for many people. Privacy has become scarce, and people are subjected to ever-increasing amounts of pointless advertising, or just straight out useless information. The "community" aspect has turned out to be one big manufactured load of marketing bullshit.
Even the massively-hyped Web 2.0 technologies have shown to be failures when applied to real problems, where data actually has value and reliability is important. Ruby on Rails applications often have horrible performance and poor maintainability. NoSQL databases can barely be called "databases" due to their tendency to lose data and the most inopportune times. JavaScript is an absolute joke. HTML5 is by far the shittiest standard of our day.
Web 2.0 is on its way out, and I don't think that any average person is really going to miss it.
I'm going to unfriend you now.
I'm in the UK, not exactly in the middle of nowhere (a medium sized town) but not exactly London either. There are virtually no women on the site within a reasonable distance of me.
It helps to live near New York or Los Angeles.
That's why moving back to my (small) hometown is out of the question. All the women are taken!
Isn't it interesting that women always seem to think that men would find dating so much easier if the guys just listened to some female advice? Funny thing is, women are the least qualified people to explain what they find attractive and don't find attractive. How many times have you seen them complain about guys who take their shirts off in pictures, yet shirtless photos consistently score higher in photo ratings? I've been told to crop other women out of my photos, yet female friends are the biggest babe magnet I've ever had. Nothing is as effective as a wing-woman.
There's what women want, and there's what women think they want. They are two different things. There's a slight overlap, but not much.
Gents, ignore this lady's advice and invest in a copy of The Mystery Method.
The San Jose Mercury News used to have an awful problem with comment threads erupting into flame wars (as much as I enjoyed getting into the middle of them). That was in the time of anonymous commenting. Nowadays they use the Facebook plugin, so your comment appears beside your profile pic and your name on FB. It has become very civil all of a sudden. You have the option of checking a box to post the comment to your profile, something I never select.
"There has been a widespread pattern of discrimination against educators who would challenge evolution in the classroom," Casey Luskin, a policy analyst for the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, in Seattle, Washington, told ScienceInsider. "Schools censor from students the evidence against evolution."
Yes. And there has also been a widespread pattern of discrimination against educators who would challenge the fact that the holocaust happened, and schools censor from students the evidence for holocaust denial. Thankfully.
Anyone been to Friendster lately? They're trying to position themselves as a place to go for gaming.
And does anyone remember that UK site, Friends Reunited? The one where you had to pay to contact your old school friends? I still get an occasional email from them saying "latest happenings on Friends Reunited". There's nothing happening.
Is it just me or is half that article blocked out by an enlarged version of the photograph? I'm on Safari 3.
Except the UK said "No", basically.
But then, that's nothing new. Anyone who thinks that the UK is part of the EU in anything other than writing probably should visit here sometime.
You have access to the huge EU market, there's free movement of goods and labour between your country and the rest of the EU, and you're subject to EC regulations. You ARE part of the EU. Get over it.
Maybe, but it was the same tactic used to get lead out of petrol. Unleaded was so cheap compared to the heavily taxed 4-star that some people converted their engines while the manufacturers simply stopped producing 4-star-burning engines. Within a few short years leaded petrol was gone.
I say ship them back. I see your point and can agree with it to an extent. Here is one; why bring them over in the first place? Let company A outsource to india/china/etc. After many delays, language barriers, garbage coding practices, and having to wait 24 hours for a reply to a simple question, company A will come back to the US and outsource work to a company in North Dakota with low costs of operations and immediate response to questions. The only game to play here is the time zone game.
H1Bs are a waste of time. I have three of them here in my department and none of them can think their way out of a wet paper sack with neon signs written in their own language pointing to the exit. Is there talent that the US should bring over...yes! Most, probably 95-98% should be shipped back to ratville and asked never to return. If the H1B is not a genius, goto 1:
Just my two cents on H1Bs.
I see your anecdote and I raise you. My company hires H1Bs (I'm one of them) because we used to hire developers fresh out of US colleges who would take 3 days to do something a European graduate could do in half a day. As for "ratville", that speaks volumes about the quality of US education if you're a product of that system.
The main difference between the American "Office" and the original version is that the American version is funny.
You got it backwards, mate. The UK version is funny, the US version is not.
Will Netflix go with risky indy thinking or will it hedge with Tried and True Copy-Cat entertainment?
Someone else let me know, 'K? I'll be outside watching for rattlesnakes along the trail.
Netflix subscribers pay their subscription no matter how much or how little they watch. This gives NF the freedom to experiment and put a ton of content up there that their subscribers are free to watch. Whether or not an individual production is a hit or a miss is irrelevant, it simply adds to the huge array of content available on Netflix, and the bigger the amount of available content the more it encourages more people to sign up.
I can see it now - trailers on TV advertising kick-ass looking movies followed by the caveat "Only available on Netflix instant download." If people start seeing enough of that then they're going to start thinking "there's something big happening on Netflix, and I'd sure like to see what it is."
Netflix had to shutter its own entertainment division, Red Envelope, a few years ago. It was just a small studio that probably never outbid a much larger one for the indie films they invested in, but they were competing with their own suppliers. It's not clear to me how this is different, although I suppose the three years since it closed is a long time ago.
Good question. I'm guessing here but maybe downloading wasn't as prevalent three years ago and they couldn't afford to maintain such an operation. Now they have a much smaller proportion of their resources devoted to shipping and handling physical DVDs.
Is nothing sacred? Why do these shows have to be re-made? House of Cards was a masterpiece and I fear that too much will be lost in translation to an American setting. Please don't talk to me about The Office. The original series looked like a documentary, now they've completely given up on that by bringing in too many camera angles and taking the documentary look away from it. Losing that essential element makes it difficult to watch.
This is the type of science that wins an Ig Noble.
Knocking a few cents off the cost of every can of beer sold? Sounds like a big deal to me.
The science of liquid bread?
Get me a pilsner, please. It goes well with this pudding.
A lot of people don't know this but the best thing you can sample in Ireland is not the beer but the multitude of breads, particularly in the north where bread is a very important part of the diet, on a par with the spuds in its importance. There's the soda bread (white, light, fluffy and to-die-for when fresh, comes in an infinite number of configurations), wheaten (very heavy, almost a meal in itself, pan (that would be a normal loaf everywhere else), batch (AKA 'plain' bread, which Ulster people think of as a normal loaf, heavier texture than pan bread and with a harder top crust), potato bread (aka spud bread, known as potato cakes in Scotland), Veda, fruit malt, fruit loaves, the soda breads with the raisins.... on and on it goes.
Amen, brother. I spent a full year trying to get the taste of Guinness and had to give it up in the end. Bulmers/Magners or Strongbow is pretty hard to beat, and cider is my drink of choice if I find myself in a round with beer drinkers. (I'm usually a cocktail man, but they're not practical when drinking in a group dominated by beer drinkers.)
I don't watch the more hyperbolic networks but from what I've seen and read so far, all the statements seem to be along the lines that the threat of a dangerous radioactive leak is fairly small. However it ain't what you say it's the way that you say it. The tone of some headlines would make you think the world was about to blow up. Channel 4 News (UK) which is renowned for good quality reporting even succumbed to it in their headlines at the weekend, referring to a "nuclear emergency" which has a nice dramatically terrifying ring to it, but vague enough to be almost meaningless.
What beats the hell out of me about Star Wars is the number of multilingual people everywhere. How many people understand the grunts of wookies? Wookies seem to understand English. And yet only C3PO actually is named as a translator. What a redundant character!
BTW, whatever happened to NASA's Cool Robot of the Week? It hasn't been updated since 2003!
Someone probably demanded to stop updating it so we could plug the budget hole with the money saved.