Unique content can be so much more than such stories behind the stories. Take the New York Times. The stories I read there aren't usually reporting, analyzing, or offering an opinion about current events that everyone else is covering. Instead they're descriptions of social or economic trends, or about new and interesting but little-known things in the sciences, arts, or business.
Because there's less competition, there's plenty of money to be made in jobs that are dirty, boring, or low in social prestige. The money can buy you an interesting life outside work, plus, like the welding guy, you can make your job more interesting by continually trying to improve, or by building a business around it.
Others will make the different choice of fulfillment at work in exchange for low pay. The jackpot is a fulfilling well-paid job, while the reverse is still the most common situation (which as long as the unemployment problem is properly dealt with, is being improved by automation technologies).
The article is talking about how it's now harder to follow the discussion around a Facebook post because Facebook is re-ordering the replies based on their assessment of their quality. This could be easily remedied by adding sort-by-time and sort-by-quality buttons.
There's another more fundamental problem with Facebook as a venue for non-trivial discussion:
Many sites are shutting down their forums and moving comments to their Facebook pages. I suppose their thinking is that the (mostly) real names cut down the work needed for spam and troll moderation, and there's built in mechanisms to push-propagate and virally spread their content. But Facebook's approach that places posts by both page owners and page users on timelines removes the ability of topics to bump, meaning that conversations around still-interesting posts unnaturally trail away.
Slashdot is similar — discussion is always moving on, there isn't the structure nor the features that would allow extended discussion on a story. Story comments are even locked after a few weeks, probably as an anti-spam device, but this could be remedied with pre-moderation of posts by low-karma posters by either discussion participants or the whole Slashdot community.
I have had many instances while driving/walking/jogging when I've seen some big ol' titties/whaletail/overall hot chick where I needed a picture right now
I hope the old characters are integral to the plot and don't just appear in a token torch-passing at the start. I'm hoping more like Obi-Wan in the original movie.
Describing a non-sentient computer doing textual analysis in order to provide a service whose results are only known to the person providing the text.
If these are independent disposable scans then OK. But if the results are saved and combined to build a dossier, that's something that could unexpectedly bite you back, whether seen by a human or not.
I voted for Orpheus and Eurydice. I thought it fitting that probably the last two decent-sized objects in the planetary part of the solar system be named after a man and his god-wife to symbolize humanity's progress.
Why fund the media? Find a job or source of income that isn't about pretending to be a journalist. This stuff is turning the net into a low-tech venture where it's about content instead of actually doing something new and interesting and advancing the state of the art.
If you find some content useful, either because it's informative or entertaining, it's worth finding ways to encourage the producer of that content to make some more. I think the common view that there will always be an unlimited supply of free or cheaper just-as-good alternatives to any piece of quality content doesn't hold water.
Quality doesn't have to be new and interesting. It's usually mundane. Most work is like that, but it keeps the world turning.
Advertisers really need to understand that if you don't want your market to go away, you have to stop being dicks about it. Keep the ads low key and not fraudulent, and people will probably be ok with it by and large.
Making ads low-key only really works for sites where the ads are almost as compelling as the content — sites like search engines and content farms. Sites with top-quality content have a greater need for intrusive ads to pull people's attention away from that content. So I don't think the promotion of non-intrusive advertising is a solution to funding the media.
It's disappointing that software makers seem to only ever offer bounties for security bugs, rather than for all types of bugs and for ideas to improve the software. Don't worry if the software is a POS to use — no-one can misuse it!
Bounties for ideas and general fixes are feasible if contributors must agree that the company takes ownership of any submitted ideas, and that no compensation should be expected. Payments are totally at the company's discretion. This should cover the legal worries that currently make such payments very rare.
At the same time a company would be smart to provide monetary rewards that acknowledge suggestions that have clearly benefited the company. It's good business, and good PR.
A switch is inevitable in companies that need to become profitable after the bait of building popularity with a service that seems like a gift to the world.
But you need to be slow and subtle to boil a frog.
which would have been so obvious that it would not have been missed by the earlier searchers... ==> I guess something must have been lost in translation here.
Earlier work had shown hints of this plane of galaxies, but these researchers used new techniques to more accurately locate more galaxies.
This sounds like a tidal effect from the Milky Way. I will be interested to hear how the analysis & modeling progresses in the future.
Yeah, could be. I wonder if people are now doing simulations to see if they reproduce the creation of an aligned plane from a uniform halo. It's possible simulations of the Milky Way's interaction with Andromeda hasn't before included orbiting dwarf galaxies.
Because the dwarf galaxies shouldn't be constrained to the galactic plane any more than globular clusters which are randomly disbursed. This suggests that there my be an unknown process that brings dwarf galaxies to the galaxy's equator... perhaps inflow of intragalactic gas or dark matter.. Makes for a interesting study.
The paper found that the plane of dwarf galaxies around Andromeda wasn't aligned to Andromeda's equator, but (intriguingly) was approximately the plane formed by the line between Andromeda and the Milky Way and the axis of rotation of the Milky Way.
An alternative to quadcopters would a mini drone version of the airship recently featured on Slashdot that uses compressors rather than ballast to adjust its buoyancy.
Responses should be appropriately escalated, depending on the seriousness of the problem, the history of the person and the issue, and the time pressures involved. This almost always means starting civil.
This ties in with the regular hallucinations of fully-arranged original music and songs I experience when I'm waking or falling off to sleep. While my consciousness stays suppressed, the music just flows, and I get a brief insight into how it must feel to be a great improviser. This ties into the concept of The Zone, where thoughts flow organically and associatively, instead of being marshalled by the frontal lobes.
I start to lose the flow as soon as my consciousness tries to direct things, which is unfortunately necessary to be able to recall the music when fully awake. I find it hard to capture more than a brief fragment or taste of what I've heard. Any recording I make of it using only my voice is even further removed.
I don't know if drugs can put you in such a creative state, or whether they just put you in a total dream-like state where you think you're being creative, but it's all just nonsense.
Ads are not bad by definition. Ads can actually be very informative, I would have never discovered a few games and other goodies I treasure if it was not for ads. They received their bad name by ad companies that thought it's a bright idea to make them annoying. Annoying ads don't work in the online world where I, not the ad company, decide what I'll get to see. Make ads informative and you'll see people will not only stop blocking them, they'll actually follow the link they provide to learn more about the product.
Yes ads are intrinsically bad. They don't tell the whole truth. But they're often necessary because there usually isn't enough third-party information (professional and social/word-of-mouth) to help you discover and choose. And even when ads are unnecessary, things are still advertised because spin and push is so lucrative, getting more sales at a higher premium.
But it'd be wrong to equally condemn all types of advertising. There's the more intrusive types like door-to-door, telemarketing, animated billboards, distracting media insertions, and ads based on creepy tracking. Compare that to classified ads, somewhat-targeted direct mail, point-of-sale, search-driven text ads, and white papers.
The problem is that the better the content of a website or other publication, the more distracting its ads must be to lure users' attention. That's why I don't think encouraging ads in media to be non-intrusive is a good solution to the content-funding dilemma.
I call bullshit. Google doesn't "slap advertisements on content that other people create." Google slaps advertisements on their search pages, which link to content that other people create.
But there's a grey area when the title and excerpt displayed on the search result is a near enough substitute for visiting the actual site. Content like dictionary definitions, simple general knowledge questions, weather, times, and yes, news stories. I can often get a gist of the state of the news by only reading the Google News page, without the need for any click through to one of the sources.
We don't want to end up with all headlines becoming teasers: "Surprise as Celebrity Arrested".
Why would you want even wear? Then all of your clothes become worn out at the same time.
Grabbing the first in line ensures a gradient wear across your clothing, allowing you to only replace a single item at a time while preserving a pristine collection of clothing for special occasions.
I suppose the true geek would want to minimize his number of clothes shopping trips, while the true fashonista would want to replace her whole wardrobe as quickly as possible.
1) First socks and underwear we see in the drawer
2) Top pair of pants on the pile (or on the rack, but I wear jeans these days)
3) Warm? First non-threadbare shirt on the rack. Otherwise, first shirt with non-ratty collar, followed by first sweater in the pile.
Shouldn't one ensure even wear by implementing a queue rather than a stack, or by taking the time to execute LRU algorithms?
There are things some people want done to them that I do not want done to me.
This is actually quite true. We should treat others according to our best estimate of how they'd like to be treated. The original proverb selfishly judges actions in terms of our own preferences.
From my perspective, the most important UI advantage of Linux distributions over Windows is built-in support for virtual desktops, though there are several virtual desktop Windows add-ons available.
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Unique content can be so much more than such stories behind the stories. Take the New York Times. The stories I read there aren't usually reporting, analyzing, or offering an opinion about current events that everyone else is covering. Instead they're descriptions of social or economic trends, or about new and interesting but little-known things in the sciences, arts, or business.
Then keep 2 seconds behind?
A lot of people don't do this.
Minivan taxis? More cars that sedans can't see past. Expect more rear-enders.
Because there's less competition, there's plenty of money to be made in jobs that are dirty, boring, or low in social prestige. The money can buy you an interesting life outside work, plus, like the welding guy, you can make your job more interesting by continually trying to improve, or by building a business around it.
Others will make the different choice of fulfillment at work in exchange for low pay. The jackpot is a fulfilling well-paid job, while the reverse is still the most common situation (which as long as the unemployment problem is properly dealt with, is being improved by automation technologies).
The article is talking about how it's now harder to follow the discussion around a Facebook post because Facebook is re-ordering the replies based on their assessment of their quality. This could be easily remedied by adding sort-by-time and sort-by-quality buttons.
There's another more fundamental problem with Facebook as a venue for non-trivial discussion:
Many sites are shutting down their forums and moving comments to their Facebook pages. I suppose their thinking is that the (mostly) real names cut down the work needed for spam and troll moderation, and there's built in mechanisms to push-propagate and virally spread their content. But Facebook's approach that places posts by both page owners and page users on timelines removes the ability of topics to bump, meaning that conversations around still-interesting posts unnaturally trail away.
Slashdot is similar — discussion is always moving on, there isn't the structure nor the features that would allow extended discussion on a story. Story comments are even locked after a few weeks, probably as an anti-spam device, but this could be remedied with pre-moderation of posts by low-karma posters by either discussion participants or the whole Slashdot community.
I have had many instances while driving/walking/jogging when I've seen some big ol' titties/whaletail/overall hot chick where I needed a picture right now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UjcqCx1Bvg&t=38s
I hope the old characters are integral to the plot and don't just appear in a token torch-passing at the start. I'm hoping more like Obi-Wan in the original movie.
Describing a non-sentient computer doing textual analysis in order to provide a service whose results are only known to the person providing the text.
If these are independent disposable scans then OK. But if the results are saved and combined to build a dossier, that's something that could unexpectedly bite you back, whether seen by a human or not.
I voted for Orpheus and Eurydice. I thought it fitting that probably the last two decent-sized objects in the planetary part of the solar system be named after a man and his god-wife to symbolize humanity's progress.
Why fund the media? Find a job or source of income that isn't about pretending to be a journalist. This stuff is turning the net into a low-tech venture where it's about content instead of actually doing something new and interesting and advancing the state of the art.
If you find some content useful, either because it's informative or entertaining, it's worth finding ways to encourage the producer of that content to make some more. I think the common view that there will always be an unlimited supply of free or cheaper just-as-good alternatives to any piece of quality content doesn't hold water.
Quality doesn't have to be new and interesting. It's usually mundane. Most work is like that, but it keeps the world turning.
Advertisers really need to understand that if you don't want your market to go away, you have to stop being dicks about it. Keep the ads low key and not fraudulent, and people will probably be ok with it by and large.
Making ads low-key only really works for sites where the ads are almost as compelling as the content — sites like search engines and content farms. Sites with top-quality content have a greater need for intrusive ads to pull people's attention away from that content. So I don't think the promotion of non-intrusive advertising is a solution to funding the media.
It's disappointing that software makers seem to only ever offer bounties for security bugs, rather than for all types of bugs and for ideas to improve the software. Don't worry if the software is a POS to use — no-one can misuse it!
Bounties for ideas and general fixes are feasible if contributors must agree that the company takes ownership of any submitted ideas, and that no compensation should be expected. Payments are totally at the company's discretion. This should cover the legal worries that currently make such payments very rare.
At the same time a company would be smart to provide monetary rewards that acknowledge suggestions that have clearly benefited the company. It's good business, and good PR.
A switch is inevitable in companies that need to become profitable after the bait of building popularity with a service that seems like a gift to the world.
But you need to be slow and subtle to boil a frog.
Weird. Given that our vantage point is the Milky Way, that means that those dwarf galaxies would appear to be on a line...
That's right. See here for a nice visualization.
which would have been so obvious that it would not have been missed by the earlier searchers... ==> I guess something must have been lost in translation here.
Earlier work had shown hints of this plane of galaxies, but these researchers used new techniques to more accurately locate more galaxies.
This sounds like a tidal effect from the Milky Way. I will be interested to hear how the analysis & modeling progresses in the future.
Yeah, could be. I wonder if people are now doing simulations to see if they reproduce the creation of an aligned plane from a uniform halo. It's possible simulations of the Milky Way's interaction with Andromeda hasn't before included orbiting dwarf galaxies.
Because the dwarf galaxies shouldn't be constrained to the galactic plane any more than globular clusters which are randomly disbursed. This suggests that there my be an unknown process that brings dwarf galaxies to the galaxy's equator... perhaps inflow of intragalactic gas or dark matter.. Makes for a interesting study.
The paper found that the plane of dwarf galaxies around Andromeda wasn't aligned to Andromeda's equator, but (intriguingly) was approximately the plane formed by the line between Andromeda and the Milky Way and the axis of rotation of the Milky Way.
An alternative to quadcopters would a mini drone version of the airship recently featured on Slashdot that uses compressors rather than ballast to adjust its buoyancy.
Responses should be appropriately escalated, depending on the seriousness of the problem, the history of the person and the issue, and the time pressures involved. This almost always means starting civil.
This ties in with the regular hallucinations of fully-arranged original music and songs I experience when I'm waking or falling off to sleep. While my consciousness stays suppressed, the music just flows, and I get a brief insight into how it must feel to be a great improviser. This ties into the concept of The Zone, where thoughts flow organically and associatively, instead of being marshalled by the frontal lobes.
I start to lose the flow as soon as my consciousness tries to direct things, which is unfortunately necessary to be able to recall the music when fully awake. I find it hard to capture more than a brief fragment or taste of what I've heard. Any recording I make of it using only my voice is even further removed.
I don't know if drugs can put you in such a creative state, or whether they just put you in a total dream-like state where you think you're being creative, but it's all just nonsense.
Ads are not bad by definition. Ads can actually be very informative, I would have never discovered a few games and other goodies I treasure if it was not for ads. They received their bad name by ad companies that thought it's a bright idea to make them annoying. Annoying ads don't work in the online world where I, not the ad company, decide what I'll get to see. Make ads informative and you'll see people will not only stop blocking them, they'll actually follow the link they provide to learn more about the product.
Yes ads are intrinsically bad. They don't tell the whole truth. But they're often necessary because there usually isn't enough third-party information (professional and social/word-of-mouth) to help you discover and choose. And even when ads are unnecessary, things are still advertised because spin and push is so lucrative, getting more sales at a higher premium.
But it'd be wrong to equally condemn all types of advertising. There's the more intrusive types like door-to-door, telemarketing, animated billboards, distracting media insertions, and ads based on creepy tracking. Compare that to classified ads, somewhat-targeted direct mail, point-of-sale, search-driven text ads, and white papers.
The problem is that the better the content of a website or other publication, the more distracting its ads must be to lure users' attention. That's why I don't think encouraging ads in media to be non-intrusive is a good solution to the content-funding dilemma.
I call bullshit. Google doesn't "slap advertisements on content that other people create." Google slaps advertisements on their search pages, which link to content that other people create.
But there's a grey area when the title and excerpt displayed on the search result is a near enough substitute for visiting the actual site. Content like dictionary definitions, simple general knowledge questions, weather, times, and yes, news stories. I can often get a gist of the state of the news by only reading the Google News page, without the need for any click through to one of the sources.
We don't want to end up with all headlines becoming teasers: "Surprise as Celebrity Arrested".
Why would you want even wear? Then all of your clothes become worn out at the same time. Grabbing the first in line ensures a gradient wear across your clothing, allowing you to only replace a single item at a time while preserving a pristine collection of clothing for special occasions.
I suppose the true geek would want to minimize his number of clothes shopping trips, while the true fashonista would want to replace her whole wardrobe as quickly as possible.
1) First socks and underwear we see in the drawer
2) Top pair of pants on the pile (or on the rack, but I wear jeans these days)
3) Warm? First non-threadbare shirt on the rack. Otherwise, first shirt with non-ratty collar, followed by first sweater in the pile.
Shouldn't one ensure even wear by implementing a queue rather than a stack, or by taking the time to execute LRU algorithms?
as you would have them do unto you.
There are things some people want done to them that I do not want done to me.
This is actually quite true. We should treat others according to our best estimate of how they'd like to be treated. The original proverb selfishly judges actions in terms of our own preferences.
From my perspective, the most important UI advantage of Linux distributions over Windows is built-in support for virtual desktops, though there are several virtual desktop Windows add-ons available.