If Wozniak's new job has turned his mind to data centers, that should surprise no one. But it's fatuous to think that he's acting as some sort of corporate flack.
Thanks. That's sounds about right. It does seem odd, however, that with almost unlimited campaign funds Romney could not have automated the "perfect list" strategy that Lincoln described in 1840:
Make a perfect list of the voters and ascertain with certainty for whom they will vote... Keep a constant watch on the doubtful voters and have them talked to by those in whom they have the most confidence... On Election Day see that every Whig is brought to the polls.
In my first campaign, we selected voter households for GOTV by hand-sorting punch-cards and then having the computer guy make a tape and run out labels and precinct lists with shared (actually bootleg) time on a bank mainframe and a line printer.
So, all due respect, I know more about campaigns and elections after 38 of them than most slashdot posters. I also know that some of you hate the GOP and some of you return the sentiment with interest.
But I know next to nothing about network computing except as a consumer. Any chance of redirecting this conversation from what I know about to what you know about?
What was the deal with Romney's data processing? Were those management problems created by marketing/management guys like me, or were they technical fuckups by the IT guys? And what lessons can future campaign managers learn? .
...but he's had to do so twice in the past six months: first, for ill-advised changes in Apple's retail stores, and second, for the premature release of Maps.
Both executives whose decisions resulted in these apologies are gone.
Companies change. The development of the Macintosh was funded by the Apple II/AppleWorks cash cow. IBM, once the largest hardware company, used money from its PC business to help change into a services company. And then there's Kodak...never mind.
The best thing about autonomous cars is that robots don't cut each other off, flip the bird, and do road rage. I drive a Corvette just so I can get away fast from the crazy drivers.
The Apple I and II were designed strictly on a hobby, for-fun basis, not to be a product for a company. They were meant to bring down to the club and put on the table during the random access period and demonstrate: Look at this, it uses very few chips. It's got a video screen. You can type stuff on it.
"There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. He leaves out his redeeming qualities and so appears only weak, unprincipled and vicious."
"Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my sub-consciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what had appeared as if in a revelation."
...is fun. But how the hell is it legal? Can you really take a game like Scrabble or Monopoly and give it a new name? And what is it about social networks that makes them ooze slime?
If I type "Lniux" into the google search box, I get the results I wanted, not the ones I asked for. But if I type "Mkdri" into the Linux command line, I get what I didn't want.
Please. Your political preferences are boring. Let's talk about something of interest to/. readers.
If you manage a small site or blog that accepts advertising, this is the time to make some cash. For years, small media outlets such as newspapers and TV stations have used the political buying season to get well. Now it's your turn.
If you design web sites, here's a chance to understand how web advertising really works.
And if you have privacy concerns, put them aside for a few months to observe just how bad it can get.
"Asked" is transitive and should not precede a prepositional phrase. "Asked you guys" and "talked with you guys" are both correct because "talk" is intransitive. Eighties, 80s and 80's are acceptable but not 80ies. I'm not sure what you meant by 2k. I'd read that as 2,000, which can't be what you meant.
I must say your use of idioms and tech argot is surprisingly good for a non-native speaker, but I know y'all like to be perfect.
I am one of Facebook's 900 million odd users. I log on two or three times a year in response to friend requests; how do you spit in the eye of anyone who wants you to like him? At the same time, I resent the company's emotional blackmail more than just a little bit.
This company provides next to no value to people like me, and until it gets a real CEO, I can't see it prospering over the long term.
People who support radical change have hijacked the word "conservative" just as those who support extremism in religion have hijacked the word "Christian."
Many, perhaps most, of the engineers and scientists I know are instinctively conservative. They want to build on the past, not toss it out. As Edmund Burke wrote, they have the disposition to preserve but the ability to improve.
True conservatives also want to conserve the earth; it is no accident that the word is closely related to "conservation." And when science comes in conflict with religion or traditional belief, the first instinct of conservatives is to defend the old order, but after science prevails, as it did by 1926 in the matter of evolution, conservatives defend the new "old order." They do not seek to return the 21st century to the time of the robber barons of the 1800s.
The problem is that true conservatives--the ordinary people you live and work with--have allowed extremists like Limbaugh run the so-called conservative agenda because they see these loudmouthed firebrands as helping them hold back too-rapid change. In this, they resemble the Junker class in Germany that despised Hitler but supported him because they thought that he and his own brand of firebrands would hold back socialism.
If the stranglehold that extremists have on today's U.S. Republican Party is ever to be broken, it must be broken by true conservatives in the tradition of Burke, Churchill, Eisenhower, and the first President Bush. Until that is done, they have no real choice except to stay home or vote for the Democrats.
Slashdot Mirror
If all of China were Hong Kong, yes. But Beijing will have to become a better global citizen before it can lead humanity.
If Wozniak's new job has turned his mind to data centers, that should surprise no one. But it's fatuous to think that he's acting as some sort of corporate flack.
Thanks. That's sounds about right. It does seem odd, however, that with almost unlimited campaign funds Romney could not have automated the "perfect list" strategy that Lincoln described in 1840:
In my first campaign, we selected voter households for GOTV by hand-sorting punch-cards and then having the computer guy make a tape and run out labels and precinct lists with shared (actually bootleg) time on a bank mainframe and a line printer.
So, all due respect, I know more about campaigns and elections after 38 of them than most slashdot posters. I also know that some of you hate the GOP and some of you return the sentiment with interest.
But I know next to nothing about network computing except as a consumer. Any chance of redirecting this conversation from what I know about to what you know about?
What was the deal with Romney's data processing? Were those management problems created by marketing/management guys like me, or were they technical fuckups by the IT guys? And what lessons can future campaign managers learn?
.
After Romney carried Ohio.
...but he's had to do so twice in the past six months: first, for ill-advised changes in Apple's retail stores, and second, for the premature release of Maps.
Both executives whose decisions resulted in these apologies are gone.
You know what it feels like to be with someone who is kind and understanding. Oh, yes you do.
Do that. How tough could it be?
Besides, what could possibly go wrong?
Companies change. The development of the Macintosh was funded by the Apple II/AppleWorks cash cow. IBM, once the largest hardware company, used money from its PC business to help change into a services company. And then there's Kodak...never mind.
God, you're right. The same Silicon Valley yahoos who drive like fools are going to *design* these cars.
I can already hear those dual quads drink.
The best thing about autonomous cars is that robots don't cut each other off, flip the bird, and do road rage. I drive a Corvette just so I can get away fast from the crazy drivers.
Stephen Wozniak on the Homebrew Computer Club
http://www.atariarchives.org/deli/homebrew_and_how_the_apple.php
W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up
Oh, yeah. Sixty years ago.
Right. I haven't bought a refrigerator in a while either, but it's not because I don't like refrigeration.
"Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my sub-consciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what had appeared as if in a revelation."
http://www.davemckay.co.uk/philosophy/russell/russell.php?name=how.i.write
"Thinks he sees"? Doesn't that strongly suggest that we're dealing with a lunatic here?
...is fun. But how the hell is it legal? Can you really take a game like Scrabble or Monopoly and give it a new name? And what is it about social networks that makes them ooze slime?
If I type "Lniux" into the google search box, I get the results I wanted, not the ones I asked for.
But if I type "Mkdri" into the Linux command line, I get what I didn't want.
That's the difference.
Haywood Jabuzoff
Robots don't need headphones.
Please. Your political preferences are boring. Let's talk about something of interest to /. readers.
If you manage a small site or blog that accepts advertising, this is the time to make some cash. For years, small media outlets such as newspapers and TV stations have used the political buying season to get well. Now it's your turn.
If you design web sites, here's a chance to understand how web advertising really works.
And if you have privacy concerns, put them aside for a few months to observe just how bad it can get.
Voters are lab rats. Learn.
"Asked" is transitive and should not precede a prepositional phrase. "Asked you guys" and "talked with you guys" are both correct because "talk" is intransitive. Eighties, 80s and 80's are acceptable but not 80ies. I'm not sure what you meant by 2k. I'd read that as 2,000, which can't be what you meant.
I must say your use of idioms and tech argot is surprisingly good for a non-native speaker, but I know y'all like to be perfect.
I am one of Facebook's 900 million odd users. I log on two or three times a year in response to friend requests; how do you spit in the eye of anyone who wants you to like him? At the same time, I resent the company's emotional blackmail more than just a little bit.
This company provides next to no value to people like me, and until it gets a real CEO, I can't see it prospering over the long term.
People who support radical change have hijacked the word "conservative" just as those who support extremism in religion have hijacked the word "Christian."
Many, perhaps most, of the engineers and scientists I know are instinctively conservative. They want to build on the past, not toss it out. As Edmund Burke wrote, they have the disposition to preserve but the ability to improve.
True conservatives also want to conserve the earth; it is no accident that the word is closely related to "conservation." And when science comes in conflict with religion or traditional belief, the first instinct of conservatives is to defend the old order, but after science prevails, as it did by 1926 in the matter of evolution, conservatives defend the new "old order." They do not seek to return the 21st century to the time of the robber barons of the 1800s.
The problem is that true conservatives--the ordinary people you live and work with--have allowed extremists like Limbaugh run the so-called conservative agenda because they see these loudmouthed firebrands as helping them hold back too-rapid change. In this, they resemble the Junker class in Germany that despised Hitler but supported him because they thought that he and his own brand of firebrands would hold back socialism.
If the stranglehold that extremists have on today's U.S. Republican Party is ever to be broken, it must be broken by true conservatives in the tradition of Burke, Churchill, Eisenhower, and the first President Bush. Until that is done, they have no real choice except to stay home or vote for the Democrats.