Where I work I think the bandwidth is fine but the latency is horrendous, with every individual connection having to be checked against an extensive list of unapproved sites. So on-demand loading is an irritant/causes jerky scroll motion, even when content rearrangement is not invovled.
And the democratic process means politicians never get away with corruption. Individual malfeasance usually can't be gotten away with, over the long haul, but collective corruption can, easily.
When I was 19 there were songs from the Scorpion's Love At First Sting album in the regular hourly or whatever rotation of songs on Top 40 stations then. It's a trip to think about something along the lines of Rock You Like A Hurricane being played there now.
"Very mature, well-oiled capitalist machine" conveys Walmart-like acumen, not simply a lack of incompetence.
Also, the political Left has made "capitalist" a dirty word, in modern America at least, so, given the source (NYT) and destination (Slashdot), what I did think about is that it wasn't sensationalist just for click-baiting, for also for Progressive-frothing, in the hopes of sparking your average "Isn't capitalism always criminal anyways?" type discussions. It did afterall go from a sentence in a phone conversation to being selected for the article to being selected for the summary to being selected for the front page.
No, silly, in communist countries the ransom note always reads "If you ever want to see Jane again, you'll gather together the sum of 800 USD and distribute it to each according to his needs"!
But seriously, I like how TFA even arrived at that sensational characterization, in which apparently all your organization needs to do to be a "very mature, well-oiled capitalist machine" is to come up with a brand name and try some pricing.
In my case, the doctor's office I'm leaving has already called in the prescription, or it's a 90-day jobber that auto-refills, and it's ready by the time I get there, but it's a variably long line to wait in to sign for it/pay for it/take possession of it.
Now that you mention it, if the drug store was smart, they'd allow you to take a number when you arrive, and then you could go shopping in the store while waiting for them to announce "now serving number so-and-so" over the PA system. I might have to be somewhere soon, and if my time is spent standing in line instead of shopping, I might have to pick up other items somewhere else later.
The times I shop for groceries the lines are always short, but man would I love what you're talking about for the pharmacy. Oftentimes I'll go to pick up a prescription and see the line and just turn around and leave and try again later.
We need these for other places too, like oil change places and smog check places and tire places, where you could end up going at a very bad time.
It works out about the same, as you said, so I guess you think they owed you a notice that they'd be extracting about the same amount of money out of you, just distributed a little differently. I guess it depends on where you think the burden belongs. They provide info on their plans on their web site, and if that's not enough you can answer Yes to the live chat popup prompt and grill a sales rep like I did in November to get it all explained. They aren't really changing prices on you, and if you're the one paying the bill, IMO it's mostly on you to lift a finger if you want to know the particulars. (You know that whichever way you go, contract or not, they're still going to want the same amount of money, for whatever profit margin they've targeting.)
This is the second time in two days I've seen that unusual web layout style in a featured article here. Yesterday's was TFA telling us to plant trees and meditate on John Denver, from this front-page post. Does Slashdot now have some new interest in this medium.com entity and sending views there?
IOW, Spartan becomes IE, and IE becomes IE ESR, effectively. I just question whether copying the others by adding a rapid release version with bleeding edge, non-interoperable features will really cause web development hipsters to embrace a browser made by MS.
I still don't get how every discussion about the U.K. on Slashdot gets dragged off topic into a discussion about the U.S. or comparing the U.K. to the U.S.
I don't think it's just a U.K. thing. It's not unheard of in the U.S. for folks on the political Left to compare the U.S. to European countries in general, in making the suggestion that the U.S. is "behind the times" on things.
but most experienced folks (rightfully so) want to step in and take a leadership role, [...] Also unfortunately, is many older folks bring a lot of bad traits with them: cynicism, bad attitudes, general negativity.
As an older dev, allow me to translate: We're sick of seeing the same old dysfunctions at job after job. It's like the Groundhog Day movie. We want to spare our new team from committing the same kinds of fuckups, and therefore spare ourselves from having to relive them yet again. But being closed to outside perspectives is the "dynamic of the team", ergo older devs don't "fit".
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Where I work I think the bandwidth is fine but the latency is horrendous, with every individual connection having to be checked against an extensive list of unapproved sites. So on-demand loading is an irritant/causes jerky scroll motion, even when content rearrangement is not invovled.
Where "well-written javascript" means popping the images in while I'm reading, and not fucking waiting until I'm trying to scroll down to read more.
Isn't that the G-spot?
Wait, why am I asking about this on Slashdot?
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And the democratic process means politicians never get away with corruption. Individual malfeasance usually can't be gotten away with, over the long haul, but collective corruption can, easily.
The sound of each minute flipping by, in the dead of night when you can't sleep.
I had one like this as a kid.
"The door is ajar."
Or car alarms that bark orders at you.
Now we have to listen to a lame digital impersonation of one.
(I guess thank goodness there are no mock autowinder sounds.)
That reminds me, I don't think I've heard the sound of curb feelers since the 70's or so.
Probably because before we in the U.S. drove big-ass boats that you sit high in, we used to drive big-ass boats that you sat lower in.
There's three big reasons to believe scientists.
1) They have a ton of integrity.
Mentally s/scientists/cops and reread that. Or replace with "journalists" or "politicians". Everything's been corrupted.
When I was 19 there were songs from the Scorpion's Love At First Sting album in the regular hourly or whatever rotation of songs on Top 40 stations then. It's a trip to think about something along the lines of Rock You Like A Hurricane being played there now.
Because
[x] Fox News
[x] the Wall Street Journal
[x] Wealthy interests
[x] Koch Industries
[x] Right-wing elected officials
[x] well-funded
[x] climate change denialism
[x] deniers-for-hire
"Very mature, well-oiled capitalist machine" conveys Walmart-like acumen, not simply a lack of incompetence.
Also, the political Left has made "capitalist" a dirty word, in modern America at least, so, given the source (NYT) and destination (Slashdot), what I did think about is that it wasn't sensationalist just for click-baiting, for also for Progressive-frothing, in the hopes of sparking your average "Isn't capitalism always criminal anyways?" type discussions. It did afterall go from a sentence in a phone conversation to being selected for the article to being selected for the summary to being selected for the front page.
There is nothing "capitalist" about it.
No, silly, in communist countries the ransom note always reads "If you ever want to see Jane again, you'll gather together the sum of 800 USD and distribute it to each according to his needs"!
But seriously, I like how TFA even arrived at that sensational characterization, in which apparently all your organization needs to do to be a "very mature, well-oiled capitalist machine" is to come up with a brand name and try some pricing.
In my case, the doctor's office I'm leaving has already called in the prescription, or it's a 90-day jobber that auto-refills, and it's ready by the time I get there, but it's a variably long line to wait in to sign for it/pay for it/take possession of it.
Now that you mention it, if the drug store was smart, they'd allow you to take a number when you arrive, and then you could go shopping in the store while waiting for them to announce "now serving number so-and-so" over the PA system. I might have to be somewhere soon, and if my time is spent standing in line instead of shopping, I might have to pick up other items somewhere else later.
The times I shop for groceries the lines are always short, but man would I love what you're talking about for the pharmacy. Oftentimes I'll go to pick up a prescription and see the line and just turn around and leave and try again later.
We need these for other places too, like oil change places and smog check places and tire places, where you could end up going at a very bad time.
You forgot to mention "rubber ducking" in this post.
The desire to see the expensive workers, that is. I.e. the ones getting benefits and making salaries commensurate with the cost of living in America.
Tell a manager that some function is being handled offshore by cheap foreign labor, and the trust issue seems to go completely away.
There should have been a notice.
It works out about the same, as you said, so I guess you think they owed you a notice that they'd be extracting about the same amount of money out of you, just distributed a little differently. I guess it depends on where you think the burden belongs. They provide info on their plans on their web site, and if that's not enough you can answer Yes to the live chat popup prompt and grill a sales rep like I did in November to get it all explained. They aren't really changing prices on you, and if you're the one paying the bill, IMO it's mostly on you to lift a finger if you want to know the particulars. (You know that whichever way you go, contract or not, they're still going to want the same amount of money, for whatever profit margin they've targeting.)
This is the second time in two days I've seen that unusual web layout style in a featured article here. Yesterday's was TFA telling us to plant trees and meditate on John Denver, from this front-page post. Does Slashdot now have some new interest in this medium.com entity and sending views there?
IOW, Spartan becomes IE, and IE becomes IE ESR, effectively. I just question whether copying the others by adding a rapid release version with bleeding edge, non-interoperable features will really cause web development hipsters to embrace a browser made by MS.
You can take away my political speech as long as you leave my nudity alone!
I still don't get how every discussion about the U.K. on Slashdot gets dragged off topic into a discussion about the U.S. or comparing the U.K. to the U.S.
I don't think it's just a U.K. thing. It's not unheard of in the U.S. for folks on the political Left to compare the U.S. to European countries in general, in making the suggestion that the U.S. is "behind the times" on things.
but most experienced folks (rightfully so) want to step in and take a leadership role,
[...]
Also unfortunately, is many older folks bring a lot of bad traits with them: cynicism, bad attitudes, general negativity.
As an older dev, allow me to translate: We're sick of seeing the same old dysfunctions at job after job. It's like the Groundhog Day movie. We want to spare our new team from committing the same kinds of fuckups, and therefore spare ourselves from having to relive them yet again. But being closed to outside perspectives is the "dynamic of the team", ergo older devs don't "fit".
This is Slashdot, so maybe he was thinking of the economic 1% for entombing!