Which leads to the question: why not just use Facebook directly? (And the alternate question: why hasn't someone tied together Facebook and a dating service yet? Seems like an obvious connection.)
I can't see though why anyone would use a service where 95% of the members can't respond since they aren't registered. If the goal is to increase the signal to noise ratio by finding a good match and a successful pairing then you would want to remove idle users not add them.
I have known a number of ex-soviets over the years--I even knew one of Gorbachev's translators. He was thrilled by the collapse of the soviet union because of the summary executions by the KGB, restrictions on speech and opportunities to leave and pursue his interests outside of Russia.
Then again when he moved to the US he was shot a few years later by a random drive by gang--you win some, you lose some.
Personally I'm pretty liberal and believe in well funded social services, even at a personal financial cost as was my teacher as far as I could tell from when he would discuss politics. One of the things that frustrates me about much of the discussion of communism and socialism is that it often slides into black and white "Libertarian vs Communism" discussions when there is an infinite spectrum between the two (as the United States and every other 1st world country demonstrates) and that an oppressive police state isn't required for an economic system which is extremely socialist.
You could hypothetically speaking have a 100% income tax without the KGB and you could have an economically speaking libertarian utopia with roaming death squads and no freedom of speech.
"Over the next 30 years the earth will on average warm by 1.5c" "I wager that it'll rain tomorrow." "Ummm.... no thanks." "Ha! See the high priests of climate change won't put their money where their mouths are."
I was taking a tour of a famous estate turned museum over Christmas. The tour guide was trying to be as sympathetic to the estate trust as possible by commenting on how 'well she managed' her trust fund -- increasing by over 4x over the last 85 years.
I immediately did a little calculation in my head and figured out that this brilliant, successful trust fund heiress... had lost a significant portion of her trust if it only increased by 4x over 85 years. When I got home I ran it through an inflation calculator and sure enough, she under performed inflation and significantly underperformed the market.
It's like they say: the easiest way to make a little money is to start with a lot.
And as we have all discovered... It's really easy to avoid using corporate infrastructure or to purchase their products. If you don't like a company's impact on a country you can just move to... uhh... some place a multi-national megacorporation hasn't reached yet... like... umm.... Antartica?
While a country might impose its rules on you, a corporation can follow you anywhere in the world. The CIA didn't use Coca-Cola as a cover employer without good reason. They're everywhere.
Yeah because climate scientists are just ROLLING in the greenbacks. I saw one pimpin down hollywood boulevard in a black limo just last week. Meanwhile the poor oil and mining industry geologists are barely making rent.
You're right. We should definitely look into these absurdly large sums of money being channeled into these mega-rich climate researchers manufacturing data.
And if there is one thing I've learned from scientists over the years, it's that the vast majority of the ones publishing papers have no interest in the truth or their legacy, they're just in it for the fat, fat pay checks even if they have to defraud the public to get them. 'Cause when once you've got climate scientist money, you can't go back to living life like an ordinary poor dentist or doctor. No, the only reason to spend 10 years in upper education trying to get a tenured position is for the sweet paycheck. Dentists are suckers, the real money is in sitting in a glorified igloo in Greenland taking ice core samples for months on end.
The point is: you don't have to be a dick to run Wikileaks. It's not part of the job description. In fact it probably is a negative attribute.
I know lots of people who stand up to injustice who I don't have to throw up qualifiers on before speaking of their integrity.
My hope is that Assange is really just brewing personal controversy to selflessly keep the News Cycle affixed to the attached story longer than "Big leak today, lots of embarrassed public officials. And now a Squirrel on a skateboard."...but I don't think he's that clever.
I would be putting everyone I know onto an Xbox 360... except a lot of them don't play games so even $40 a year for Xbox Live on top of a $250 device is kind of a waste.
A Roku works just as well for 1080p, is quieter and has no annual fee so that's what I bought my Mom for Christmas and she loves it. Me? WMC + 360 is amazing, but my mom setup the Roku without me even talking to her on the phone. I just said "when it comes, plug it in where it fits." She plugged the HDMI in. Plugged in the power. Plugged in an included Ethernet cable. Done.
Personally I find her site of value if she has valuable things to say. She could censor *EVERY* comment and it would still have value. It's not a social media site. That's slashdot. If you want to discuss her thoughts, go to Slashdot. If you want a curated presentation of a singular idea, that also has value; after all we need things to discuss on Slashdot from time to time.
I often find Blog comments useless except for the author to address parts readers found confusing or want more elaboration on. For actual discussion Slashdot etc are a better forum for discussion.
Similarly if I go to a movie I watch the movie and then.. LEAVE. Often rallying at a restaurant or bar to discuss. I don't expect the theater to provide an open mic for people to give their opinion about what they just saw. If however the director or writer wants to field selected questions that adds value to the experience as well--but I don't mind if the questions are screened so that the author of the material can guide the conversation in a manner of their choosing.
Yeah getting exclusive rights for inventing new tools. That's been a DISASTER for society for the last... few hundred years.
I get it. People who want everything for free are annoyed by software patents. I also get it. Software patents are overzealous (as are all patents). But the solution isn't to destroy intellectual property because that's all we're going to have in the future. When everything is made in China for cheaper--the only thing American Companies have to offer from their highly educated work forces is creativity and inventiveness.
If we aren't getting manufacturing back--we have to earn money some how. That somehow is through the use of our most valuable asset: our creativity and intelligence. I'm sorry you don't think that thinking is a valid use of time but it is when it produces new and advanced concepts. Inventors should be able to market their ideas without having to build a factory themselves to manufacture it. Manufacturers shouldn't have to hold on staff inventors to create new products.
If you come up with something new and unique you should be able to protect that effort from some bozo with a DVD burner from selling it in volume without giving you a penny.
I'm an artist, many people in my family are artists. Just recently my cousin found his work on Ebay from a chinese printer who was making illegal prints for $400 a copy--he wasn't even getting credit "Unknown Artist". He put an enormous amount of effort, talent and training into his work. Just because someone bought a $3k poster printer doesn't mean they should be able to take his intellectual property and sell it as their own.
There is value in thought and ideas. We shouldn't protect obvious ideas--which some software patents are, but those patents are often overturned when someone actually tries to enforce them. All laws are abused. That doesn't mean we should live in anarchy--and we certainly shouldn't abandon all intellectual property because you're frustrated you can't use H.264 in firefox. Next time, Mozilla can create and market their own invention.
Yeah "Just in Time" inventory assumes that the customer doesn't wait any longer than a normal order.
Which works great with someone like Amazon who might drop-ship an item direct without holding it in a local warehouse. But if it's a service shop you should have everything ready.
I don't know that it even has to be that nefarious. Just having marketing BS right next to the article could subconsciously shift authors who have otherwise noble and unbiased intent.
I wouldn't mind ads as long as they were irrelevant and pure black and white text with no formatting. If someone wants a very discreet "T-Mobile. Buy one Android phone, get another free." "Big Macs - 99c" ad while I'm reading about east african horned swallows by all means.
What bothers me though about Wikipedia is that they're subsidizing their more expensive and less popular enterprises on the back of Wikipedia's good will. I would happily look at ads or pay 1c a year for the actual costs of Wikipedia. I'm not so keen on spending $1 so that kids in Africa can have free text books.
Yeah I'm with the parent. I think we should all take turns beating him up. I bet he can't physically defend himself anyway (he's a slashdotter!). Don't worry, I'm sure he won't press charges if you stop him in the street and beat the shit out of him--because he's old fashioned and in his day, you didn't go crying to the police about crime, you just suffered through it.
The left has a pretty good hold on cable too. CNN & MSNBC are pretty far left. Unfortunately, I dont think we even have a "centrist" news station any more.
Ladies and gentlemen of the world, I give you the problem with American Politics.
Not fond of insulting. But you sir are an idiot if you think CNN is "Left". Hell MSNBC has Keith Olbermann and what's her name and they're only a little Left.
You need to seriously take some history lessons or actually read about liberalism and leftism around the world if you think someone saying "Hey you know, maybe we should have a slightly more progressive Tax policy" is "Left". I don't think you can even accuse CNN of having a bias one way or the other. You have to actually say something to have bias, they just repost their twitter feed now.
The problem with American Politics is that Right is now "Center" and Center is now "Left" and even remotely Left is considered "Batshit Nutty".
I challenge the parent to actually go read and listen to some Liberal media or commentary to recalibrate their understanding of the political spectrum. I'm so tired of this bullshit. Other countries have real left wing parties. I don't agree with them, but I am at least able to see them for what they are. The "conservatives" in most countries are more liberal than your average Democrat.
On the left we have people who say things like "Hey maybe government should provide healthcare." and they're an extreme minority. Just suggesting the Government should provide healthcare in America is "Extreme Left". Meanwhile you have anarcho-libertarians on the right who are the mainstream. "The government should be small enough that we can drown it in a bathtub". That's not fringe conservativism. You know what the left's equivalent of that would be "Nobody should own property." That's extreme leftism. Nobody in the Democratic party is saying that. Why? Because they aren't extremely liberal. They're *slightly* left of center.
So we should be teaching third graders how to prove the arithmetic theorems?
The way society advances is by getting lazy in unimportant aspects. If I needed to know how to spell theorems without a spell checker I would (by virtue of not being retarded) eventually memorize it just like I memorize how to spell words I use frequently such as memorize.
Memorizing esoteric facts of infrequent application is a waste of the very limited time available in education.
Sometimes you just need to tell people "Trust me, it works, if you're interested go read..." so that they can get on to the stuff that's really important.
I advocate that not only should we have spell check on tests but also the full internet. It'll be a timed test so like in the real world you will need to deliver on a schedule but in the real world I don't memorize a million details I use once a year--I bookmark them and google it when that obscure situation occurs again.
Yes it's important to know that Columbus landed landed in the 1400s but does it reallllllly matter which year without having to look it up? No. There you just saved a student 20 minutes of their life.
Another way to think about it is that there is one Library of Congress. In order to have one IPv6 address for each Library of Congress you would need (2^48-1) more Library of Congresses.
Yeah between passing Healthcare Reform, Banking reform, a nearly $1T stimulus bill, significant student loan reform, a CC bill of rights, expanded hate crimes to include sexual orientation and restabilizing the finance and automotive industries I was wondering when he was going to finally do something.
I would be happy with 7-10mbps (the slow results). My 3G tends to be around.5-2mbps. Verizon says you should expect about 14mbps from LTE. Since when are we scoffing at 5-20x increases in average performance?
I call bullshit on your call of bullshit. 3G delivers about.5-2 mbps. HSPA+ is up to 50mbps realistically delivering about 15-20mbps. LTE is 100+mbps. WiMax is 100+mbps. The idea that we should be calling something which usually delivers less than 1mbps the same as something which delivers a 10-100x increase in performance is retarded engineer stupidity. They screwed up pure and simple. When else in the history of technology have we waited for a 100-200x increase in performance before admitting to it being a new generation of said technology?
If you break 20mbps in my books you can call it 4G. If you need a new name for something which delivers a *gigabit* of down speed wirelessly over hundreds of meters then call it 5G.
I'm all for holding marketing BS accountable. "Now with superG!" but this is a case where the boffins took their turn in losing their touch with reality.
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Which leads to the question: why not just use Facebook directly? (And the alternate question: why hasn't someone tied together Facebook and a dating service yet? Seems like an obvious connection.)
I can't see though why anyone would use a service where 95% of the members can't respond since they aren't registered. If the goal is to increase the signal to noise ratio by finding a good match and a successful pairing then you would want to remove idle users not add them.
And if you aren't happy you are free to leave.
I have known a number of ex-soviets over the years--I even knew one of Gorbachev's translators. He was thrilled by the collapse of the soviet union because of the summary executions by the KGB, restrictions on speech and opportunities to leave and pursue his interests outside of Russia.
Then again when he moved to the US he was shot a few years later by a random drive by gang--you win some, you lose some.
Personally I'm pretty liberal and believe in well funded social services, even at a personal financial cost as was my teacher as far as I could tell from when he would discuss politics. One of the things that frustrates me about much of the discussion of communism and socialism is that it often slides into black and white "Libertarian vs Communism" discussions when there is an infinite spectrum between the two (as the United States and every other 1st world country demonstrates) and that an oppressive police state isn't required for an economic system which is extremely socialist.
You could hypothetically speaking have a 100% income tax without the KGB and you could have an economically speaking libertarian utopia with roaming death squads and no freedom of speech.
Maybe over a longer time frame. But 10 years is tricky business when dealing with climate. What if it is down .1c but then up .7 over the next decade?
I can tell you that la nina is going to cause a wet and cold winter. But I can't tell you if it's going to snow tomorrow.
"Over the next 30 years the earth will on average warm by 1.5c"
"I wager that it'll rain tomorrow."
"Ummm.... no thanks."
"Ha! See the high priests of climate change won't put their money where their mouths are."
I was taking a tour of a famous estate turned museum over Christmas. The tour guide was trying to be as sympathetic to the estate trust as possible by commenting on how 'well she managed' her trust fund -- increasing by over 4x over the last 85 years.
I immediately did a little calculation in my head and figured out that this brilliant, successful trust fund heiress... had lost a significant portion of her trust if it only increased by 4x over 85 years. When I got home I ran it through an inflation calculator and sure enough, she under performed inflation and significantly underperformed the market.
It's like they say: the easiest way to make a little money is to start with a lot.
Actually, I'd prefer only those who PAY income taxes be allowed to vote in Federal elections.
I agree. Only people who make more than $20k a year should have rights.
And as we have all discovered... It's really easy to avoid using corporate infrastructure or to purchase their products. If you don't like a company's impact on a country you can just move to... uhh... some place a multi-national megacorporation hasn't reached yet... like... umm.... Antartica?
While a country might impose its rules on you, a corporation can follow you anywhere in the world. The CIA didn't use Coca-Cola as a cover employer without good reason. They're everywhere.
Yeah because climate scientists are just ROLLING in the greenbacks. I saw one pimpin down hollywood boulevard in a black limo just last week. Meanwhile the poor oil and mining industry geologists are barely making rent.
You're right. We should definitely look into these absurdly large sums of money being channeled into these mega-rich climate researchers manufacturing data.
And if there is one thing I've learned from scientists over the years, it's that the vast majority of the ones publishing papers have no interest in the truth or their legacy, they're just in it for the fat, fat pay checks even if they have to defraud the public to get them. 'Cause when once you've got climate scientist money, you can't go back to living life like an ordinary poor dentist or doctor. No, the only reason to spend 10 years in upper education trying to get a tenured position is for the sweet paycheck. Dentists are suckers, the real money is in sitting in a glorified igloo in Greenland taking ice core samples for months on end.
(zero marbles in the glass jar at this instant)
*Probably* zero marbles *reflecting light in the spectrum visible to a human retina* in the glass jar at this instant.
The point is: you don't have to be a dick to run Wikileaks. It's not part of the job description. In fact it probably is a negative attribute.
I know lots of people who stand up to injustice who I don't have to throw up qualifiers on before speaking of their integrity.
My hope is that Assange is really just brewing personal controversy to selflessly keep the News Cycle affixed to the attached story longer than "Big leak today, lots of embarrassed public officials. And now a Squirrel on a skateboard." ...but I don't think he's that clever.
I would be putting everyone I know onto an Xbox 360... except a lot of them don't play games so even $40 a year for Xbox Live on top of a $250 device is kind of a waste.
A Roku works just as well for 1080p, is quieter and has no annual fee so that's what I bought my Mom for Christmas and she loves it. Me? WMC + 360 is amazing, but my mom setup the Roku without me even talking to her on the phone. I just said "when it comes, plug it in where it fits." She plugged the HDMI in. Plugged in the power. Plugged in an included Ethernet cable. Done.
Personally I find her site of value if she has valuable things to say. She could censor *EVERY* comment and it would still have value. It's not a social media site. That's slashdot. If you want to discuss her thoughts, go to Slashdot. If you want a curated presentation of a singular idea, that also has value; after all we need things to discuss on Slashdot from time to time.
I often find Blog comments useless except for the author to address parts readers found confusing or want more elaboration on. For actual discussion Slashdot etc are a better forum for discussion.
Similarly if I go to a movie I watch the movie and then.. LEAVE. Often rallying at a restaurant or bar to discuss. I don't expect the theater to provide an open mic for people to give their opinion about what they just saw. If however the director or writer wants to field selected questions that adds value to the experience as well--but I don't mind if the questions are screened so that the author of the material can guide the conversation in a manner of their choosing.
Yeah getting exclusive rights for inventing new tools. That's been a DISASTER for society for the last... few hundred years.
I get it. People who want everything for free are annoyed by software patents. I also get it. Software patents are overzealous (as are all patents). But the solution isn't to destroy intellectual property because that's all we're going to have in the future. When everything is made in China for cheaper--the only thing American Companies have to offer from their highly educated work forces is creativity and inventiveness.
If we aren't getting manufacturing back--we have to earn money some how. That somehow is through the use of our most valuable asset: our creativity and intelligence. I'm sorry you don't think that thinking is a valid use of time but it is when it produces new and advanced concepts. Inventors should be able to market their ideas without having to build a factory themselves to manufacture it. Manufacturers shouldn't have to hold on staff inventors to create new products.
If you come up with something new and unique you should be able to protect that effort from some bozo with a DVD burner from selling it in volume without giving you a penny.
I'm an artist, many people in my family are artists. Just recently my cousin found his work on Ebay from a chinese printer who was making illegal prints for $400 a copy--he wasn't even getting credit "Unknown Artist". He put an enormous amount of effort, talent and training into his work. Just because someone bought a $3k poster printer doesn't mean they should be able to take his intellectual property and sell it as their own.
There is value in thought and ideas. We shouldn't protect obvious ideas--which some software patents are, but those patents are often overturned when someone actually tries to enforce them. All laws are abused. That doesn't mean we should live in anarchy--and we certainly shouldn't abandon all intellectual property because you're frustrated you can't use H.264 in firefox. Next time, Mozilla can create and market their own invention.
Yeah "Just in Time" inventory assumes that the customer doesn't wait any longer than a normal order.
Which works great with someone like Amazon who might drop-ship an item direct without holding it in a local warehouse. But if it's a service shop you should have everything ready.
Wait... was that supposed to be an example of a good experience with support?
I don't know that it even has to be that nefarious. Just having marketing BS right next to the article could subconsciously shift authors who have otherwise noble and unbiased intent.
I wouldn't mind ads as long as they were irrelevant and pure black and white text with no formatting. If someone wants a very discreet "T-Mobile. Buy one Android phone, get another free." "Big Macs - 99c" ad while I'm reading about east african horned swallows by all means.
What bothers me though about Wikipedia is that they're subsidizing their more expensive and less popular enterprises on the back of Wikipedia's good will. I would happily look at ads or pay 1c a year for the actual costs of Wikipedia. I'm not so keen on spending $1 so that kids in Africa can have free text books.
Yeah I'm with the parent. I think we should all take turns beating him up. I bet he can't physically defend himself anyway (he's a slashdotter!). Don't worry, I'm sure he won't press charges if you stop him in the street and beat the shit out of him--because he's old fashioned and in his day, you didn't go crying to the police about crime, you just suffered through it.
The left has a pretty good hold on cable too. CNN & MSNBC are pretty far left. Unfortunately, I dont think we even have a "centrist" news station any more.
Ladies and gentlemen of the world, I give you the problem with American Politics.
Not fond of insulting. But you sir are an idiot if you think CNN is "Left". Hell MSNBC has Keith Olbermann and what's her name and they're only a little Left.
You need to seriously take some history lessons or actually read about liberalism and leftism around the world if you think someone saying "Hey you know, maybe we should have a slightly more progressive Tax policy" is "Left". I don't think you can even accuse CNN of having a bias one way or the other. You have to actually say something to have bias, they just repost their twitter feed now.
The problem with American Politics is that Right is now "Center" and Center is now "Left" and even remotely Left is considered "Batshit Nutty".
I challenge the parent to actually go read and listen to some Liberal media or commentary to recalibrate their understanding of the political spectrum. I'm so tired of this bullshit. Other countries have real left wing parties. I don't agree with them, but I am at least able to see them for what they are. The "conservatives" in most countries are more liberal than your average Democrat.
On the left we have people who say things like "Hey maybe government should provide healthcare." and they're an extreme minority. Just suggesting the Government should provide healthcare in America is "Extreme Left". Meanwhile you have anarcho-libertarians on the right who are the mainstream. "The government should be small enough that we can drown it in a bathtub". That's not fringe conservativism. You know what the left's equivalent of that would be "Nobody should own property." That's extreme leftism. Nobody in the Democratic party is saying that. Why? Because they aren't extremely liberal. They're *slightly* left of center.
What's funny about that is that I've since mostly forgotten how to do division by hand if both the enumerator and denominator are decimals.
Never hurt me though because I ALWAYS HAVE A CALCULATOR. The fact we spend a year teaching kids that useless crap is ridiculous.
"Long division. That thing you'll waste 5th grade on that you'll use a calculator to do for the rest of your life."
So we should be teaching third graders how to prove the arithmetic theorems?
The way society advances is by getting lazy in unimportant aspects. If I needed to know how to spell theorems without a spell checker I would (by virtue of not being retarded) eventually memorize it just like I memorize how to spell words I use frequently such as memorize.
Memorizing esoteric facts of infrequent application is a waste of the very limited time available in education.
Sometimes you just need to tell people "Trust me, it works, if you're interested go read ..." so that they can get on to the stuff that's really important.
I advocate that not only should we have spell check on tests but also the full internet. It'll be a timed test so like in the real world you will need to deliver on a schedule but in the real world I don't memorize a million details I use once a year--I bookmark them and google it when that obscure situation occurs again.
Yes it's important to know that Columbus landed landed in the 1400s but does it reallllllly matter which year without having to look it up? No. There you just saved a student 20 minutes of their life.
Another way to think about it is that there is one Library of Congress. In order to have one IPv6 address for each Library of Congress you would need (2^48-1) more Library of Congresses.
Not to mention it's impossible to determine what those "big" research ideas are until something big is made of them.
Yeah between passing Healthcare Reform, Banking reform, a nearly $1T stimulus bill, significant student loan reform, a CC bill of rights, expanded hate crimes to include sexual orientation and restabilizing the finance and automotive industries I was wondering when he was going to finally do something.
But then they'd have to admit that 4G and 3G are sometimes exactly the same.
http://gizmodo.com/5704797/verizon-lte-speed-test-insanely-fast
I would be happy with 7-10mbps (the slow results). My 3G tends to be around .5-2mbps. Verizon says you should expect about 14mbps from LTE. Since when are we scoffing at 5-20x increases in average performance?
I call bullshit on your call of bullshit. 3G delivers about .5-2 mbps. HSPA+ is up to 50mbps realistically delivering about 15-20mbps. LTE is 100+mbps. WiMax is 100+mbps. The idea that we should be calling something which usually delivers less than 1mbps the same as something which delivers a 10-100x increase in performance is retarded engineer stupidity. They screwed up pure and simple. When else in the history of technology have we waited for a 100-200x increase in performance before admitting to it being a new generation of said technology?
If you break 20mbps in my books you can call it 4G. If you need a new name for something which delivers a *gigabit* of down speed wirelessly over hundreds of meters then call it 5G.
I'm all for holding marketing BS accountable. "Now with superG!" but this is a case where the boffins took their turn in losing their touch with reality.