3. There's no guide to what the color coding means in the Firehose.
Actually, there is, you just have to use Google to find it. You shouldn't have to, but you do. Oh, and it's very vague and really leaves you to figure out the details for yourself, but at least it points you in the right direction. more detail would be nice, though; this was clearly written by a developer who was in a hurry to move on to the next project.
Dice had a vested interest in pushing for the hiring of whatever group most of their active users belonged to. BIZX, as far as I can tell, does not, so we should see an end to these stories. Hopefully.
historically this site attracted people who actually knew about a topic and cared enough about it to explain it to us semi-literate unwashed geeks.
And now we just have a bunch of blowhards who are willing to tell you you're wrong, but not how you're wrong, or what's right. In other words, argumentative trolls.
If there was some way to attract those sort of people back to slashdot you will have a winner on your hands.
And maybe I can finally learn how anti-aliasing actually makes an image sharper. Yes, I actually had a guy argue with me, at length and for several days, that anti-aliasing (a type of blur) makes an image sharper, the entire time being unwilling to explain to me why I was wrong when I explained that blur is the opposite of sharpening. That's just one example, but there was a time that such an argument would have ended with either an admission by my opponent, after my explanation of the difference between blur and sharpness, that they were wrong and have learned something or, alternately, an attempt by my opponent to correct my own understanding (beyond simply repeating that I am wrong) and an admission that I was wrong and learned something.
I used to come here to teach what I could about topics I knew and learn what I could about topics I didn't; now I just come here to beat idiots over the head with knowledge and try to scrape up some of the remains. I'd prefer to go back to the old ways, if possible.
Are you implying that 2/3 of the/. editorial staff didn't deserve to be let go? I'm pretty sure not actually doing your job is a legitimate reason to can someone.
THIS! SO MUCH THIS! Keep the mobile site a I'm sure some people absolutely love it but, for the love of all that is holy, DO NOT forward me from www.slashdot.org to m.slashdot.org, I know which domain I entered and that is the one I want to see.
I have to say, the button works for me, but every other visit to the mobile site unchecks the option. I re-check it and all is good, but yes, it is still annoying. That said, if the current crop of ads are replaced with static images or text ads I'd be willing to uncheck the box and leave it that way. I probably won't click them, though, so make sure you're getting CPM and not CPC for those.
Someone get this guy some +1 Funny mods. Perhaps even Insightful. If this guy's gonna be active within the community under BIZX ownership, I might start spending more time here, if that's possible.
I love you. Seriously, that post has forever earned you and any team members involved in the crapware-removal project a place, forever, in my heart. Now, hold to your word on that, as my heart is capable of many strong feelings, not just love; please don't break it.:)
This is also the same guy that insisted against the engineers' advice that the Apple III (and others) not have a fan
To which I will repeat:
Of course, Jobs did stick his fingers into the mix and insist that costs were cut on anything that wasn't cutting-edge
I don't think putting a fan in a computer was cutting-edge at that time, nor was not doing so. That was also in hist first "term" with Apple. He let the engineers mostly run development during his second. Speaking of fanless designs and disastrous results, have you seen the 12" MacBook Cook let out the door?
Apple doesn't have much in the way of lock-in in the desktop and laptop markets. There's iTunes, but iTunes still runs on Windows and combines quite nicely with DoubleTwist to manage non-iPod MP3 players and an existing iTunes music collection seamlessly; nothing says you have to keep buying iTunes music once you've made the switch. As for video, you can remove Apple's DRM and play those videos wherever; and, much like music, nothing says you have to keep buying from iTunes once you've made the switch.
That leaves mobile where, honestly, there is still a raging OS holy war. Many iOS users won't touch Android with a 10 foot pole, and vise-versa. That basically negates the app lock-in, to a large degree; by the time Cook lets iOS get fucked up enough for people to consider switching, they won't care about having to re-purchase their apps.
Personally, I love my iPad and hope Apple doesn't fuck it up, but I'm all about my Android phone, as well; as an added bonus, I can run any app on either platform. And I'm typing this (and managing several dozen Linux servers) from my Retina MacBook Pro as I recently damaged the screen on my PC laptop and am awaiting replacement parts. These devices are just tools, use whatever suits your needs and don't let yourself get bound to one or the other, because you never know when "whatever suits your needs" might change.
The real problem is that it makes Apple's goods more expensive. For example, Apple does things in US dollars.
If that were the case, they'd be claiming to have lost $5b in sales to localized price increases, rather than having lost $5b in revenue from the sales they made. But they're claiming to have lost $5b on the sales they made, not $5b in sales, which indicates that they were not pricing their hardware in that way but, rather, pricing based on what the market would bear. They still made the same number of sales in foreign markets and pulled in the same amount of each respective foreign currency, it's just that all of that converted to fewer US dollars. I suggest that we both go read the article now, to find out which of us is correct.
Jobs wasn't a techie, either, but he was a marketing genius and listened to the advice of the techies under his employ. Instead of marketing a product to engineering and telling them to go build it and keep the costs under $X as Cook does, Jobs insisted that engineering marketed their products to him, then he took it on himself to figure out how to market those products to us. The end result was higher quality and better performing products, because engineering was in control of quality and performance. Of course, Jobs did stick his fingers into the mix and insist that costs were cut on anything that wasn't cutting-edge, so there was still some margin left at the end of the day; that still allowed the unibody aluminum construction, which we all have to acknowledge would not have happened under Cook if it didn't already exist.
Indeed, because when Jobs was still in charge, there was some actual value in paying that premium. Now it's just name trade. How well has that worked out for Sony?
It's probably a little more complex than that too, since you've got both the Yuan-Dollar and Dollar-Other currency (Euro, Pound, etc) ratios to consider
as well as all of that money they've been refusing to bring into the US because they don't want to pay taxes on it. They're really taken it in the poo over that, with exchange rates taking such a dive. Guess they should have brought it home and paid those taxes, eh?
It has Irish bank accounts rammed full of iPhone money
And that's why a strong US dollar hurts them; it's not just lost revenue on future sales, its lost value of past revenue.
while constantly moaning that it can't bring any of that into USD unless Uncle Sam gives a big tax discount.
And good ol' Uncle Sam's response was to bolster the local economy and boost the value of the US dollar, basically saying "it's better to pay taxes when the exchange rate is high than play stupid games until it tanks".
I don't say it often, but when I do, I mean it: The US Government made the right call. I'm sure Apple has lost more value in the money they've kept overseas by now than they'd have paid in taxes, hopefully that is a lesson learned.
I phrased that poorly. What I should have said is "if your doctor argues with what your dietitian says" rather than simply if they disagree. That said, I agree with you that we likely haven't even scratched the surface with regard to nutrition. That, however, means that there is added value in testing what we think we know and being very open to admitting we were wrong.
To give you an example of what I'm talking about, my wife's psychiatrist kept her on the meds she was on when she started seeing him, only long enough to consult with her PCP and his on-staff nutritionist to evaluate her overall health and lifestyle habits. He's since taken her off her meds and put her on a dietary adjustment program. Yes, you read that correctly, a psychiatrist has a nutritionist on staff and prefers to treat with diet over medication; and everyone involved agrees that it's working, she's been off her meds for about 2 weeks now and is once again productive and happy. The original plan was to put her back on a low dose of something (to be determined) once her body and brain chemistries were as naturally balanced as they could get, but it appears, at least in her case, that diet did it all.
Kind of makes you wonder how much of a dent proper diet would put in the bottom lines of the drug companies, doesn't it?
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3. There's no guide to what the color coding means in the Firehose. Actually, there is, you just have to use Google to find it. You shouldn't have to, but you do. Oh, and it's very vague and really leaves you to figure out the details for yourself, but at least it points you in the right direction. more detail would be nice, though; this was clearly written by a developer who was in a hurry to move on to the next project.
Dice had a vested interest in pushing for the hiring of whatever group most of their active users belonged to. BIZX, as far as I can tell, does not, so we should see an end to these stories. Hopefully.
historically this site attracted people who actually knew about a topic and cared enough about it to explain it to us semi-literate unwashed geeks.
And now we just have a bunch of blowhards who are willing to tell you you're wrong, but not how you're wrong, or what's right. In other words, argumentative trolls.
If there was some way to attract those sort of people back to slashdot you will have a winner on your hands.
And maybe I can finally learn how anti-aliasing actually makes an image sharper. Yes, I actually had a guy argue with me, at length and for several days, that anti-aliasing (a type of blur) makes an image sharper, the entire time being unwilling to explain to me why I was wrong when I explained that blur is the opposite of sharpening. That's just one example, but there was a time that such an argument would have ended with either an admission by my opponent, after my explanation of the difference between blur and sharpness, that they were wrong and have learned something or, alternately, an attempt by my opponent to correct my own understanding (beyond simply repeating that I am wrong) and an admission that I was wrong and learned something.
I used to come here to teach what I could about topics I knew and learn what I could about topics I didn't; now I just come here to beat idiots over the head with knowledge and try to scrape up some of the remains. I'd prefer to go back to the old ways, if possible.
Especially keep in mind that most of us use large desktop monitors with lots and lots of realestate to play with.
This means get your developers and designers some 4k displays to play with, so they can see what we see.
I see you advocatin'.
Are you implying that 2/3 of the /. editorial staff didn't deserve to be let go? I'm pretty sure not actually doing your job is a legitimate reason to can someone.
THIS! SO MUCH THIS! Keep the mobile site a I'm sure some people absolutely love it but, for the love of all that is holy, DO NOT forward me from www.slashdot.org to m.slashdot.org, I know which domain I entered and that is the one I want to see.
I have to say, the button works for me, but every other visit to the mobile site unchecks the option. I re-check it and all is good, but yes, it is still annoying. That said, if the current crop of ads are replaced with static images or text ads I'd be willing to uncheck the box and leave it that way. I probably won't click them, though, so make sure you're getting CPM and not CPC for those.
Someone get this guy some +1 Funny mods. Perhaps even Insightful. If this guy's gonna be active within the community under BIZX ownership, I might start spending more time here, if that's possible.
I love you. Seriously, that post has forever earned you and any team members involved in the crapware-removal project a place, forever, in my heart. Now, hold to your word on that, as my heart is capable of many strong feelings, not just love; please don't break it. :)
lameness filter would catch the excessive unicode
And with that sig, nobody can say the same of you.
Does this mean Unicode support? Or, to put it another way, you're going to rewrite from scratch because it's completely broken?
This is also the same guy that insisted against the engineers' advice that the Apple III (and others) not have a fan
To which I will repeat:
Of course, Jobs did stick his fingers into the mix and insist that costs were cut on anything that wasn't cutting-edge
I don't think putting a fan in a computer was cutting-edge at that time, nor was not doing so. That was also in hist first "term" with Apple. He let the engineers mostly run development during his second. Speaking of fanless designs and disastrous results, have you seen the 12" MacBook Cook let out the door?
Apple doesn't have much in the way of lock-in in the desktop and laptop markets. There's iTunes, but iTunes still runs on Windows and combines quite nicely with DoubleTwist to manage non-iPod MP3 players and an existing iTunes music collection seamlessly; nothing says you have to keep buying iTunes music once you've made the switch. As for video, you can remove Apple's DRM and play those videos wherever; and, much like music, nothing says you have to keep buying from iTunes once you've made the switch. That leaves mobile where, honestly, there is still a raging OS holy war. Many iOS users won't touch Android with a 10 foot pole, and vise-versa. That basically negates the app lock-in, to a large degree; by the time Cook lets iOS get fucked up enough for people to consider switching, they won't care about having to re-purchase their apps.
Personally, I love my iPad and hope Apple doesn't fuck it up, but I'm all about my Android phone, as well; as an added bonus, I can run any app on either platform. And I'm typing this (and managing several dozen Linux servers) from my Retina MacBook Pro as I recently damaged the screen on my PC laptop and am awaiting replacement parts. These devices are just tools, use whatever suits your needs and don't let yourself get bound to one or the other, because you never know when "whatever suits your needs" might change.
The real problem is that it makes Apple's goods more expensive. For example, Apple does things in US dollars.
If that were the case, they'd be claiming to have lost $5b in sales to localized price increases, rather than having lost $5b in revenue from the sales they made. But they're claiming to have lost $5b on the sales they made, not $5b in sales, which indicates that they were not pricing their hardware in that way but, rather, pricing based on what the market would bear. They still made the same number of sales in foreign markets and pulled in the same amount of each respective foreign currency, it's just that all of that converted to fewer US dollars. I suggest that we both go read the article now, to find out which of us is correct.
Well, that's good to hear, I guess.
Jobs wasn't a techie, either, but he was a marketing genius and listened to the advice of the techies under his employ. Instead of marketing a product to engineering and telling them to go build it and keep the costs under $X as Cook does, Jobs insisted that engineering marketed their products to him, then he took it on himself to figure out how to market those products to us. The end result was higher quality and better performing products, because engineering was in control of quality and performance. Of course, Jobs did stick his fingers into the mix and insist that costs were cut on anything that wasn't cutting-edge, so there was still some margin left at the end of the day; that still allowed the unibody aluminum construction, which we all have to acknowledge would not have happened under Cook if it didn't already exist.
You should not be basing your companies performance on fictional numbers
Welcome to America. We base everything on fictional numbers. Deal with it.
fair enough
Indeed, because when Jobs was still in charge, there was some actual value in paying that premium. Now it's just name trade. How well has that worked out for Sony?
It's probably a little more complex than that too, since you've got both the Yuan-Dollar and Dollar-Other currency (Euro, Pound, etc) ratios to consider
as well as all of that money they've been refusing to bring into the US because they don't want to pay taxes on it. They're really taken it in the poo over that, with exchange rates taking such a dive. Guess they should have brought it home and paid those taxes, eh?
It has Irish bank accounts rammed full of iPhone money
And that's why a strong US dollar hurts them; it's not just lost revenue on future sales, its lost value of past revenue.
while constantly moaning that it can't bring any of that into USD unless Uncle Sam gives a big tax discount.
And good ol' Uncle Sam's response was to bolster the local economy and boost the value of the US dollar, basically saying "it's better to pay taxes when the exchange rate is high than play stupid games until it tanks".
I don't say it often, but when I do, I mean it: The US Government made the right call. I'm sure Apple has lost more value in the money they've kept overseas by now than they'd have paid in taxes, hopefully that is a lesson learned.
I'd say 42 is quite a few, 125 quite a few more. I'd also say you're missing my point by about a mile or so.
Oh, I'm sure there are, but they don't go around prescribing potentially (and often) harmful drugs in lieu of treating the real problems.
I phrased that poorly. What I should have said is "if your doctor argues with what your dietitian says" rather than simply if they disagree. That said, I agree with you that we likely haven't even scratched the surface with regard to nutrition. That, however, means that there is added value in testing what we think we know and being very open to admitting we were wrong.
To give you an example of what I'm talking about, my wife's psychiatrist kept her on the meds she was on when she started seeing him, only long enough to consult with her PCP and his on-staff nutritionist to evaluate her overall health and lifestyle habits. He's since taken her off her meds and put her on a dietary adjustment program. Yes, you read that correctly, a psychiatrist has a nutritionist on staff and prefers to treat with diet over medication; and everyone involved agrees that it's working, she's been off her meds for about 2 weeks now and is once again productive and happy. The original plan was to put her back on a low dose of something (to be determined) once her body and brain chemistries were as naturally balanced as they could get, but it appears, at least in her case, that diet did it all.
Kind of makes you wonder how much of a dent proper diet would put in the bottom lines of the drug companies, doesn't it?