You need to learn a bit more about human behaviour. This is more about preasure then about money. Basicaly what he was saying was "Chicken!" in a more adult version. This is like the bet in a pub, where you know you will losse, but you still pay up the beer to see the trick. This is just people goofing around a bit, like people do when they interact with each other. I know, this is/. so the concept might not be something people know, but people goof around when they work together.
I believe that all that the President is allowed to order is if he wants sugar in his coffee or not. And probably his wife has a say in that as well. All the rest he does what he is adviced to do. Goes as well as any other president.
When I was 15 I moved from one country to another in Europe with (almost obviously) overlapping history. It amazed me how differently the outcome of wars would be explained, depending on what side they wanted to let me learn.
Even though all facts were correct, the emphesis on what happend was greatly different. Often it was more about battles and not so much wars.
What it learned me was that I should ALWAYS doubt what is being said and get information from at least both sides.
So much so that I wonder if the story of LotR is not so much that the winners wanted segregation (of hobbits, elves and other races) where the losers were fighting for unity and equality and were just represented in an evil way by the winners.
Harder, but not impossible. It only depends on how much time and money you are willing to put into it. Is that just a google search or a complete 3 letter department? Most of the time the three letter department will know, but either does not care, or wants to kleep it a secret. Just like the Enlish let cities be bombed as not to let the Germans know they had cracked the code.
When you are looking not at countries, but to companies, Google will know a LOT already. And not only via ads, but people use google fiber and/or their DNS servers. And then there is fingerprinting so/. will know who you are, if they are interested.
As an individual it will be a bit harder, but people tend to write in a similar way, so you will be able to start recognising people after a while.
So what you must know is that NOTHING is anonymous on the Internet. Sure, most of the time nobody will go after you for saying "Niggers".
People do not want to install Linux. They want to buy a computing device and start doing things on it. People do not care if it runs Windows, Mac, Android, Linux or Hurd. What they care about is if they are able to open the box and launch Facebook and Google.
The ONLY way to the Linux Desktop is by pre-installing it. All the rest is already there and much better than what WIndows has to offer. All the major distributions already have an 'appstore' and have had it for years. Android has shown that this is the case.
Even with a mulitybillion company, they can not get people to install a new version of Windows. What they ARE able to do is let people spend MORE money on a new computer.
If they don't know exactly what the cameras saw, they have to stick much closer to the truth.
You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
I'm fine with ignorance, ignorance can be fixed, and ignorance is honest. What I can't stand is when people call in asking for help, but refusing to say what they need help with, then when you pry it out of them, they refuse to follow the instructions you give them. Those are the worst users.
Unless they are extremely mean people, they actualy do not know what to ask or what feedback to give you. They realy have no idea what they are looking at. What is obvious for you makes absolutely no sense to them. They do not know there is a difference between a computer and a screen. They have no idea what a browser is.
When you ask them "What do you see?" The answer is a truthfull (although not a litteral) "Nothing." because they see nothing. As if you go hunting with somebody and he asks you to identify what the bird is you see and all you see is a lot of green stuff. You have no idea what the differnce between a bush or a shrubbery is, let alone where the one green thing ends and the other starts and then they say "Look at the left bottom of the Asian Bird Cherry where you see a Slaty brislefront. Now, is it male or female?"
I have a link to the seperate 'older' versions that I want to use. Also use it for the search bar: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?output=classic to see the old output by default http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=linux&sout=1&tbs=isz:lt,islt:4mp as search in the searchbar, where here linux is what I am looking for. 4mp is the size of larger images. If I could use something like that for Bing, I would start using Bing for image searcgh as I hate, out of priciple obviously, that Google filters my images and I have no way to turn off that censorship.
You have the freedom to trade under certain limitations. Just like you are not allowed to yell fire in a cinema, there will be limitations on your rights.
Basicaly the rights are there to say "within reason". Different countries and people will not agree on what "different reason" means. e.g. the German public have decided that showing Nazi signs to be illegal. The USofA have decided that selling of aklcohol to 18 year olds is forbidden.
This does not mean that everybody agrees on this "withing reason". I am sure many Americans are against the age limit on selling alcohol. Some out of principle, some for financial reasons.
Sure, you could let all things go and have a complete freedom of trade. That will however get in the way of others freedoms very fast.
The problem with the free press is that it is not an independent press. The press that matters is owned by companies that are often the cause of the problem. Furthermore the press is a marketing tool for their customers. That are the companies who buy advertisement places or times. And those
No more needing to rush to find outlets in layover airports!
I do not understand why not more companies use this as an advertising opportunity. One place I saw this was in Madrid where they had a big screen TV with chargers under it. This ment that all those people who would be charging their hardware, would also be sitting in front of said TV. That should be a advertisers wet dream: people who will watch your 5 minute clip over and over again.
In Brussels I saw some electrical company placing bicicles where you could charge your phone/portable while you were cycling. You can also go to the Telenet places that are intended for your PC and a (wired) connection and to be used as a selling place for the Internet service. Just plug your device in and do whatever you desire.
I understand that airports are not offfering it, because they are only interested in renting out whatever is possible. I don't understand that marketeers do not use it more often. Either provide it free or some sortr of 'marketing price'. e.g. Join us on facebook and get free energy or 'fill out this form'.
That said, I always carry a 3-way power connector, so when I see somebody who uses a power outlet, I can ask to unplug, plug in the connector and we BOTH can charge and I can charge both phone and PC. Cost is well below 5EUR and they also come in handy in many hotels where they do not have enough connectors at the desk.
Technically, I see how it works but why would a merchant accept this thing?
Because it helps making a sale. Just like they already accept varous other forms of payment. Yes, it is a bit chicken and egg. Obviously it won't be vailable everywhere wihen it starts.
In Japan we had earthquake drills of the housing community one time per year, and one time per year in the company.
Just curious, do companies in the US do this? In Belgium we have a yearly firedrill, because that will be the most likely disaster. So do US companies in earthquake country have drills or do companies in "Tornado Alley train for that?
I'm OK with targeted ads. I just wish they would figure out how to target them.
Targeting in Marketing is done in two ways. The first is the one that we talk about here on/. the most. It analyzes what you are interested in. They will analyze what you have seen and bought, They will then assume what you might be interested in and show you these items. e.g. a new TV when you have a high intrest in movies and tv shows and console games.
The other way is to assuming you do not know certain products, so they want you to learn about the product and will try to entice you to buy said product. e.g. a new TV when you have never shown interest in movies, tv shows or console games.
Statistics like these challenge the definition of "gamer."
No they don't. The chalange the understanding of statistics. The information given is useless. First statistics do not change definitions. If you have a definition of a gamer and the outcome is unexpected, you do not change the definition. You change your perspective. Secondly 'outnumber' in absolute numbers in a group that in itself outnumbers the other group and then make a conclusion is stoopid. Car example : The number of adult female Ford drivers vastly outnumbers the number of 18 year old Bugatti drivers.
So first you must turn the numbers into percentages. e.g. X% of teenage boys are gamers. Y% of adult females are gamers. Next you must clearly state WHAT a gamer is. Depending on that definition, you might also need to include frequency.
And again, even if the outcome is 99.9% of +65 old women are gamers, it does NOT change the definition of gamers. It might change your perspective of gamers, but not the definition.
If the majority of your marketshare says NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and you still go ahead, I doubt that they are interested in your silly CSS sugestions.
If they REALLY were interested in customer input, they would make it possible to upload your own CSS file and use that. That way people would not need to use Stylish and then either make something yourself or use comunity made looks for slashdot.
If it looks ugly, it is YOUR problem.
It should not be too hard to load your personal/. css file when you are logged in. In the end it is just another field in the database, just like your name. As long as it isn't an extra feature for paying customers, because that would mean they will make it ugly on purpose.
They could even load three css files. 1) The standard 2) The (optional) users css file 3) The ads css
That way the ads will still be visible for those who have no right to turn them off. (Yes, I know that that won't be 100% proof and people will still be able to turn them off if they realy want.)
You will be able to just increase the font or only change the background, turn everything in OMGPonies or do a complete re-layout of almost everything.
For a site like/. I think that would be a solution to a lot of moaning. Finaly a good technical solution to a mainly social problem.
Or they can just park the car somewhere and blow up whatever they want. Or just watch the news and see that you can blow up busses, trains, metros and a lot more with a backpack.
Why maker it complicated if easy is possible as well?
And terrorizing the public, which is the goal of terrorism, ther governement is doing a great job. No need to outsource that.
Why would engineers be any different? Do you think they appriciate the rest of the staff?
You are there because they can not do without you. If they think they can do without you (or without your function) they will fire you. That goes for EVERY job in the company, including the CEO.
The difference is that for some jobs it is very hard to change on short notice. Sales can push a few deals so they will make the new requirements or hold them back so they will have it easier for next years budget.
So they can react to the question of 'increase profit by X percent for the next 3 months'. There is no such thing for e.g. IT without cutting in projects/jobs. (Sure there are some ways to do it)
The real issue is that the majority of companies are in it for the money, so if you want to be understood, you need to speak the language of money. In companies that means budgets. This means when you take a decision in your job like "how should I set up this database" they do not care as long as you can provide the information on cost and profit both short, middle and long term and then they will decide what you should do.
If your datafield for the year still has 2 digits, why should I make it 4? Show me the outcome in $ and then we will see if we do it or not. THAT is taking a business decision, not if it is technically the best solution. Sometimes the technically worst decision is best for business.
I have seen (easy) technicaly solutions overturned time and time again. One time I asked for a soltion and they told me it was 3.000EUR as quoted by Cisco. A while later I told them I had a solution for a problem and would they OK it if I did it for 100 EUR. I never detailed that it was the same problem that had been denied for several years. Without blinking they said yes and looked if I was stoopid because I could spend 250 EUR per month on anything I wanted. Bought two hubs and solved the issue.
Lesson: They must not talk your language. They must not understand you. You must understand them.
Slashdot Mirror
1080p is now. 4K is already right around the corner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... as an example.
And that reflects what I understood what broadband used to be: Just a bit more then you actually need.
You need to learn a bit more about human behaviour. This is more about preasure then about money. Basicaly what he was saying was "Chicken!" in a more adult version. /. so the concept might not be something people know, but people goof around when they work together.
This is like the bet in a pub, where you know you will losse, but you still pay up the beer to see the trick.
This is just people goofing around a bit, like people do when they interact with each other. I know, this is
I believe that all that the President is allowed to order is if he wants sugar in his coffee or not. And probably his wife has a say in that as well.
All the rest he does what he is adviced to do. Goes as well as any other president.
You have to start thinking that the book is just one side of the sory. So the reference of what would happen is just again telling the same side.
As if you are watching only Fox News and use "The O;Reilly Factor" for opinion on what might have happend.
Nothing more so then in teaching history.
When I was 15 I moved from one country to another in Europe with (almost obviously) overlapping history. It amazed me how differently the outcome of wars would be explained, depending on what side they wanted to let me learn.
Even though all facts were correct, the emphesis on what happend was greatly different. Often it was more about battles and not so much wars.
What it learned me was that I should ALWAYS doubt what is being said and get information from at least both sides.
So much so that I wonder if the story of LotR is not so much that the winners wanted segregation (of hobbits, elves and other races) where the losers were fighting for unity and equality and were just represented in an evil way by the winners.
Merikans gonna be ded.
Harder, but not impossible. It only depends on how much time and money you are willing to put into it. Is that just a google search or a complete 3 letter department?
Most of the time the three letter department will know, but either does not care, or wants to kleep it a secret. Just like the Enlish let cities be bombed as not to let the Germans know they had cracked the code.
When you are looking not at countries, but to companies, Google will know a LOT already. And not only via ads, but people use google fiber and/or their DNS servers. And then there is fingerprinting /. will know who you are, if they are interested.
so
As an individual it will be a bit harder, but people tend to write in a similar way, so you will be able to start recognising people after a while.
So what you must know is that NOTHING is anonymous on the Internet. Sure, most of the time nobody will go after you for saying "Niggers".
People do not want to install Linux. They want to buy a computing device and start doing things on it.
People do not care if it runs Windows, Mac, Android, Linux or Hurd. What they care about is if they are able to open the box and launch Facebook and Google.
The ONLY way to the Linux Desktop is by pre-installing it. All the rest is already there and much better than what WIndows has to offer.
All the major distributions already have an 'appstore' and have had it for years.
Android has shown that this is the case.
Even with a mulitybillion company, they can not get people to install a new version of Windows. What they ARE able to do is let people spend MORE money on a new computer.
You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.
We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use 'em as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I'd rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to!
Unless they are extremely mean people, they actualy do not know what to ask or what feedback to give you.
They realy have no idea what they are looking at. What is obvious for you makes absolutely no sense to them. They do not know there is a difference between a computer and a screen. They have no idea what a browser is.
When you ask them "What do you see?" The answer is a truthfull (although not a litteral) "Nothing." because they see nothing. As if you go hunting with somebody and he asks you to identify what the bird is you see and all you see is a lot of green stuff. You have no idea what the differnce between a bush or a shrubbery is, let alone where the one green thing ends and the other starts and then they say "Look at the left bottom of the Asian Bird Cherry where you see a Slaty brislefront. Now, is it male or female?"
Or perhaps more like https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I have a link to the seperate 'older' versions that I want to use. Also use it for the search bar:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?output=classic to see the old output by default
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=linux&sout=1&tbs=isz:lt,islt:4mp as search in the searchbar, where here linux is what I am looking for. 4mp is the size of larger images.
If I could use something like that for Bing, I would start using Bing for image searcgh as I hate, out of priciple obviously, that Google filters my images and I have no way to turn off that censorship.
You have the freedom to trade under certain limitations. Just like you are not allowed to yell fire in a cinema, there will be limitations on your rights.
Basicaly the rights are there to say "within reason". Different countries and people will not agree on what "different reason" means. e.g. the German public have decided that showing Nazi signs to be illegal. The USofA have decided that selling of aklcohol to 18 year olds is forbidden.
This does not mean that everybody agrees on this "withing reason". I am sure many Americans are against the age limit on selling alcohol. Some out of principle, some for financial reasons.
Sure, you could let all things go and have a complete freedom of trade. That will however get in the way of others freedoms very fast.
The problem with the free press is that it is not an independent press. The press that matters is owned by companies that are often the cause of the problem.
Furthermore the press is a marketing tool for their customers. That are the companies who buy advertisement places or times. And those
The people are the product that is being sold.
I do not understand why not more companies use this as an advertising opportunity.
One place I saw this was in Madrid where they had a big screen TV with chargers under it. This ment that all those people who would be charging their hardware, would also be sitting in front of said TV.
That should be a advertisers wet dream: people who will watch your 5 minute clip over and over again.
In Brussels I saw some electrical company placing bicicles where you could charge your phone/portable while you were cycling. You can also go to the Telenet places that are intended for your PC and a (wired) connection and to be used as a selling place for the Internet service. Just plug your device in and do whatever you desire.
I understand that airports are not offfering it, because they are only interested in renting out whatever is possible. I don't understand that marketeers do not use it more often. Either provide it free or some sortr of 'marketing price'. e.g. Join us on facebook and get free energy or 'fill out this form'.
That said, I always carry a 3-way power connector, so when I see somebody who uses a power outlet, I can ask to unplug, plug in the connector and we BOTH can charge and I can charge both phone and PC. Cost is well below 5EUR and they also come in handy in many hotels where they do not have enough connectors at the desk.
Because it helps making a sale. Just like they already accept varous other forms of payment.
Yes, it is a bit chicken and egg. Obviously it won't be vailable everywhere wihen it starts.
Just curious, do companies in the US do this?
In Belgium we have a yearly firedrill, because that will be the most likely disaster. So do US companies in earthquake country have drills or do companies in "Tornado Alley train for that?
Targeting in Marketing is done in two ways. /. the most. It analyzes what you are interested in. They will analyze what you have seen and bought, They will then assume what you might be interested in and show you these items.
The first is the one that we talk about here on
e.g. a new TV when you have a high intrest in movies and tv shows and console games.
The other way is to assuming you do not know certain products, so they want you to learn about the product and will try to entice you to buy said product.
e.g. a new TV when you have never shown interest in movies, tv shows or console games.
No they don't. The chalange the understanding of statistics.
The information given is useless. First statistics do not change definitions. If you have a definition of a gamer and the outcome is unexpected, you do not change the definition. You change your perspective.
Secondly 'outnumber' in absolute numbers in a group that in itself outnumbers the other group and then make a conclusion is stoopid.
Car example : The number of adult female Ford drivers vastly outnumbers the number of 18 year old Bugatti drivers.
So first you must turn the numbers into percentages. e.g. X% of teenage boys are gamers. Y% of adult females are gamers.
Next you must clearly state WHAT a gamer is.
Depending on that definition, you might also need to include frequency.
And again, even if the outcome is 99.9% of +65 old women are gamers, it does NOT change the definition of gamers. It might change your perspective of gamers, but not the definition.
Nowadays it isn't the Chinese governement you need to worry about.
The issue is that if you rely on companies for your freedom, it is the companies that will get that freedom.
It stopped airtravel in more than just the UK. How about all of Europe (exept Portugal).
Here an image of where it was disrupted. Red is completely and orange is partly.
If the majority of your marketshare says NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and you still go ahead, I doubt that they are interested in your silly CSS sugestions.
If they REALLY were interested in customer input, they would make it possible to upload your own CSS file and use that. That way people would not need to use Stylish and then either make something yourself or use comunity made looks for slashdot.
If it looks ugly, it is YOUR problem.
It should not be too hard to load your personal /. css file when you are logged in. In the end it is just another field in the database, just like your name. As long as it isn't an extra feature for paying customers, because that would mean they will make it ugly on purpose.
They could even load three css files.
1) The standard
2) The (optional) users css file
3) The ads css
That way the ads will still be visible for those who have no right to turn them off. (Yes, I know that that won't be 100% proof and people will still be able to turn them off if they realy want.)
You will be able to just increase the font or only change the background, turn everything in OMGPonies or do a complete re-layout of almost everything.
For a site like /. I think that would be a solution to a lot of moaning. Finaly a good technical solution to a mainly social problem.
Or they can just park the car somewhere and blow up whatever they want. Or just watch the news and see that you can blow up busses, trains, metros and a lot more with a backpack.
Why maker it complicated if easy is possible as well?
And terrorizing the public, which is the goal of terrorism, ther governement is doing a great job. No need to outsource that.
You make it sound as if they like other business managers. They don't.
Why would engineers be any different? Do you think they appriciate the rest of the staff?
You are there because they can not do without you. If they think they can do without you (or without your function) they will fire you. That goes for EVERY job in the company, including the CEO.
The difference is that for some jobs it is very hard to change on short notice. Sales can push a few deals so they will make the new requirements or hold them back so they will have it easier for next years budget.
So they can react to the question of 'increase profit by X percent for the next 3 months'. There is no such thing for e.g. IT without cutting in projects/jobs. (Sure there are some ways to do it)
The real issue is that the majority of companies are in it for the money, so if you want to be understood, you need to speak the language of money. In companies that means budgets. This means when you take a decision in your job like "how should I set up this database" they do not care as long as you can provide the information on cost and profit both short, middle and long term and then they will decide what you should do.
If your datafield for the year still has 2 digits, why should I make it 4? Show me the outcome in $ and then we will see if we do it or not. THAT is taking a business decision, not if it is technically the best solution. Sometimes the technically worst decision is best for business.
I have seen (easy) technicaly solutions overturned time and time again. One time I asked for a soltion and they told me it was 3.000EUR as quoted by Cisco. A while later I told them I had a solution for a problem and would they OK it if I did it for 100 EUR. I never detailed that it was the same problem that had been denied for several years. Without blinking they said yes and looked if I was stoopid because I could spend 250 EUR per month on anything I wanted.
Bought two hubs and solved the issue.
Lesson: They must not talk your language. They must not understand you. You must understand them.
As they use generic names like "Word" and a while ago "Mail", I can see them going with 'Browser' or 'Web".