Exactly. People that you hate, and people that probably hate you back and only would tolerate you in professional settings are the best kind of people to know when you are looking for a job (as opposed to looking for cat or baby pictures).
I am surprised by all LinkedIn hate. As an active user I configured it to never email me under any circumstances and only had this rule broken twice (not sure how/why) in all this time I have been using it.
Yes, spam is annoying but there is a clear opt-out.
Replacing this dated equipment will also result in replacing operator, and that can have all kinds of hidden costs. If someone worked for your business for 40 years and is loyal and productive employee, then why do you care if they want to do it with punch cards or abacus? They had 40 years to prove that whatever they are doing works, unless there are new process requirements, there is no reason to change
Decision chart:
1. Did any processes change or about to change? Yes/No
Yes - Go To 3. No - Go To 2.
2. Job gets done? Yes/No
Yes - leave it alone. 3. No - look into optimizing/fixing.
Unfortunately without locking both platform (walled garden) and distribution DRM is futile. Why unfortunate? Because inevitable conclusion of all failed DRM is not to open it up and monetize, but to build more walled gardens.
Idea that DRM only has to defer casual pirates is an intellectually bankrupt idea - defense has to be breached only once for the information to become freely available. As such it inevitably turns into vs. Internet battle, and Internet always wins.
The only sane thing to do is to compete with your content based on merits - provide it on demand, at high quality and at low price. Some will always pirate and some will always pay - but majority will go with whatever is the most convenient.
Capitalize on laziness and stop building walled gardens!
Keeping it pristine is more important. You don't do anything in space that could potentially make it unusable for thousands of years. There might not be a practical solution to remove space debris past some threshold, would you rather find out that the case after the fact?
Above is technically complex solution (not everyone on/. is up for it, never mind general crowd) when much easier solutions like custom router firmware like Tomato or DD-WRT exist.
I see where you went wrong. You are trusting the same guys that try to oversell and under-deliver all while trying to legislate away competition to be technically competent and deliver you a secure router. What makes you think this time will be any different?
>>>One word: advertising. Right in front of your eyes.
I really don't think masses will tolerate always-on advertising in a classical banner-video format in the visual field space. Plus liability that would come when people start claiming accidents on distraction.
Advertising will have to be done via shaping your information feed and not by distracting or grabbing your attention.
You really think something like redirect to "type in a new password" page on first use would kill sales? Most people understand that you need to have wireless password or your neighbors use up your megabytes, is adding router password such a stretch?
If your car analogy to my car analogy was a car, it would implode and form a car analogy black hole and radiate its analogy away as a hard car analogy emissions.
Writing documentation is not sexy, or sometimes even rewarded/measured as a productive activity. Good documentation also does not easily translate into sales pitch and does not directly result in higher revenues.
Writing documentation is very important for lowering learning curve and increasing your product adoption. Start explaining this to your decision makers. You can probably sell your product without documentation to organizations that have to have it to function, but for anyone else - it matters.
As to obligatory car analogy. Imagine you are selling cars to a group of people that don't know how to drive. Your competition has Ferrari and you are selling Corolla - at the same price. The only way you can succeed selling Corollas in such situation is if you also make it easy to learn to drive Corollas.
Fundamental problem with academic publishing is incentives. With some notable exceptions, a scientist's salary is fixed based on seniority and degree. Masters will always get less than PhD, no matter competence or productivity.
Since monetary incentive is removed, secondary incentive system has to be implemented. This is where prestige comes in, and it is largely determined by type of publications that accept your articles. It is economy of artificial scarcity.
Nothing will change until fundamental problem - researchers getting "paid" by publishing - is addressed.
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Because costs are passed down to you.
Exactly. People that you hate, and people that probably hate you back and only would tolerate you in professional settings are the best kind of people to know when you are looking for a job (as opposed to looking for cat or baby pictures).
I am no affiliated in any way with LinkedIn.
I am surprised by all LinkedIn hate. As an active user I configured it to never email me under any circumstances and only had this rule broken twice (not sure how/why) in all this time I have been using it.
Yes, spam is annoying but there is a clear opt-out.
Replacing this dated equipment will also result in replacing operator, and that can have all kinds of hidden costs. If someone worked for your business for 40 years and is loyal and productive employee, then why do you care if they want to do it with punch cards or abacus? They had 40 years to prove that whatever they are doing works, unless there are new process requirements, there is no reason to change
Decision chart:
1. Did any processes change or about to change? Yes/No
Yes - Go To 3.
No - Go To 2.
2. Job gets done? Yes/No
Yes - leave it alone.
3. No - look into optimizing/fixing.
Unfortunately without locking both platform (walled garden) and distribution DRM is futile. Why unfortunate? Because inevitable conclusion of all failed DRM is not to open it up and monetize, but to build more walled gardens.
Idea that DRM only has to defer casual pirates is an intellectually bankrupt idea - defense has to be breached only once for the information to become freely available. As such it inevitably turns into vs. Internet battle, and Internet always wins.
The only sane thing to do is to compete with your content based on merits - provide it on demand, at high quality and at low price. Some will always pirate and some will always pay - but majority will go with whatever is the most convenient.
Capitalize on laziness and stop building walled gardens!
No matter what your policy and planks are it always boils down to following: abortions, guns, and cutting taxes.
Keeping it pristine is more important. You don't do anything in space that could potentially make it unusable for thousands of years. There might not be a practical solution to remove space debris past some threshold, would you rather find out that the case after the fact?
>>How elegantly minimalistic.
Well, when you put it that way...
In most cases this will hasten Kessler Syndrome.
Above is technically complex solution (not everyone on /. is up for it, never mind general crowd) when much easier solutions like custom router firmware like Tomato or DD-WRT exist.
I see where you went wrong. You are trusting the same guys that try to oversell and under-deliver all while trying to legislate away competition to be technically competent and deliver you a secure router. What makes you think this time will be any different?
This nicely explains where missing mass of the universe went - Dyson Spheres. I always thought "dark matter" suffered from Occam's Razor.
>>>One word: advertising. Right in front of your eyes.
I really don't think masses will tolerate always-on advertising in a classical banner-video format in the visual field space. Plus liability that would come when people start claiming accidents on distraction.
Advertising will have to be done via shaping your information feed and not by distracting or grabbing your attention.
This device is a culmination of everything internet stands for and a first attempt to have always-on interface directly with our sensory inputs.
It will finally allow us to browse porn and watch cat videos everywhere we go, 24/7.
Then your particular laptop is not a secure product. Imagine scenario where it was stolen.
Facebook = New AOL.
CDs are in the mail.
You really think something like redirect to "type in a new password" page on first use would kill sales? Most people understand that you need to have wireless password or your neighbors use up your megabytes, is adding router password such a stretch?
No default password could be secure. The only way is to force password change on first use.
Just like Star Trek movies, every other iteration of memory tech is a dud. I will just wait for holographic crystals.
We will be fine, they haven't broken double-ROT13 yet!
If your car analogy to my car analogy was a car, it would implode and form a car analogy black hole and radiate its analogy away as a hard car analogy emissions.
Writing documentation is not sexy, or sometimes even rewarded/measured as a productive activity. Good documentation also does not easily translate into sales pitch and does not directly result in higher revenues.
Writing documentation is very important for lowering learning curve and increasing your product adoption. Start explaining this to your decision makers. You can probably sell your product without documentation to organizations that have to have it to function, but for anyone else - it matters.
As to obligatory car analogy. Imagine you are selling cars to a group of people that don't know how to drive. Your competition has Ferrari and you are selling Corolla - at the same price. The only way you can succeed selling Corollas in such situation is if you also make it easy to learn to drive Corollas.
Can someone please explain this with a car analogy?
Above, I was thinking about different problem when I wrote 'BIOS'. Replace it with OS.
Related to this - there is an ongoing discussion in about remote secure firmware update.Similar issue, similar solution.
Fundamental problem with academic publishing is incentives. With some notable exceptions, a scientist's salary is fixed based on seniority and degree. Masters will always get less than PhD, no matter competence or productivity.
Since monetary incentive is removed, secondary incentive system has to be implemented. This is where prestige comes in, and it is largely determined by type of publications that accept your articles. It is economy of artificial scarcity.
Nothing will change until fundamental problem - researchers getting "paid" by publishing - is addressed.