Something happened to the context of Chess too, essentially rather suddenly.
Back In The Day if you went to a bookstore, Chess was virtually the only competitive hobby that solidly rewarded studying, and the rating system was near-perfect (with certain blips like scholastic or isolated areas.) Before the internet, poor man's info feed was the bookstore, and I for one found it not possible to interact as an accepted peer in most other areas "off the street". Also, up until about 1995 chess had a "culture" with its past heroes, and its famous benchmarks, etc. It was a solid outlet that lasted pretty well.
Suddenly the real power of the internet took hold. At first it was like a "secret weapon" to train for Old School Chess, but somehow, being able to dig around in all kinds of other interactive activities took away the silent monopoly on accessibility that Chess once had. I have remarked that my time here on slashdot, if intelligently compiled, could form four college courses, aka intro classes on the topics covered well here. (Basic computer security and exposing corporate tricks, the rise of Big Brother vs. politics, etc. )
Yet also, when we joke about not even reading TFA's, we're saying that we don't look toward our past heroic moments anymore. Without the lineage-culture mood, coinciding exactly with the rise of computers, Chess stopped being fun when it became just position crunching up to the point you hit your particular wall. (Typically 1800 aka "just below expert" is a well known barrier when the additional work now required exceeds the fun.)
But the last sad point is when you hit that wall, you know exactly who you can beat, and who will beat you. On a particular day it moves around a little, but the metagame is the same, and its effect on your local crew. Joe the Expert beats you, you beat everyone else. Go to a tourney and you can beat up to the 1600's, and the Sandbaggers who should be 1900 beat you, and you score 4/6, just enough not to win money.
On the net, you can collaboratively Do Stuff, and even if you plod along for years you can eventually add your little pocket of cultural contribution to something. Whippersnappers are fresher, so be it, your experience counts elsewhere as it grows, and... Net Life intersecting with training real skills that can actually go towards a job is more fun overall than even the Grand Old Game.
Now a days, I use Chess only as a mental metric to test the shape of my sadly erratic nerves. There's some value with it as a study on force & initiative too. But as a grand pursuit, for me it has become a matter of RIP.
Yesterday's article was based around the following:
"Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said during an Ubuntu 10.10 conference call last month that a move to daily updates would help the popular Linux distro keep pace with an increasingly complex software and platform ecosystem...Today we have a six-month release cycle," Shuttleworth said. "In an internet-oriented world, we need to be able to release something every day....That's an area we will put a lot of work into in the next five years. The small steps we are putting in to the Software Center today, they will go further and caster than people might have envisioned in the past."
Word wise, that's pretty clear. It goes to the top of the food chain. It sorta says when.
So is this just another completley fabricated story to get page hits?
I submit that they were, but you are falling into the "speed of business trap". It's Henry Ford and the Buggy Makers again.
Let's presume for a minute they did this without the easily-scoffed-at layers of illegal shells.
They produce a software package called "Ticket Sniper". This software sits there and monitors events, and buys tickets at nano-speed. Then they resell them. Hooray! The first year they do this, they get their early mover profits for their R&D work.
Then the FOSS gang makes the open source version "Ticket Assassin" that uses a different algorithm to avoid legal trouble, and soon "everyone has it". Then when their "Buy the next Gary Brolsma Concert Ticket" rule triggers, they get their seat at the "regular price".
Then a gamer figures out a low ping matters, so they leverage the cloud backbone to power-buy the tickets, then resell them at really low prices. (No sarcasm, think Discount-Store-Tickets brand). Then people just buy "Ticket-Coupons" so at their leisure they can get their ticket.
Still just capitalism. But leveraging generations of innovation way faster than we like from "the good ol' days".
Poster below you took a slice at your cost assumptions with some "Read up on March 2000" humor, but I'll reply squarely.
Your math error is in "startup costs are a few hundred dollars tops". Hoping you weren't being facetious yourself, we're not talking "Tim Berners-Lee created the internet with one site on one machine that someone logged into once". Sure, "the first day's" startup is your few hundred dollars...
But then the entire point of what we learned in Web 1.0 is that startup costs don't scale rationally. Cruise along, get your $100,000 venture capital, life looks good, then...
Truly hideous quadra-linked soft costs appear out of nowhere that resemble M. C. Escher designing a haunted house. "No one believes a crank in his house" - so you get an office! "This is money-replacement-interaction, so we need at least two legal reps, one for interacting with banks and one for the govt." "You need at least 10 meetings each with 10 high powered people to get influence, and those guys don't eat tacos on a park bench... $100,000 for meeting costs." "You need advertising so our famous Harry H. Schmoe has head of this - 10 spots at a cut rate $10,000/spot 'cuz you know a buddy = $100,000"
Actually Verizon is damn near the worst I have ever encountered.
Same brand of junk, different episodes.
"Let's bill your hardware charge to an account we'll close on you in 2 weeks from our side and then send it to a collection agency who sits on it for 4 months". That takes 4 hours to fix with your described Turbo Transfers. "Let me get you to billing. - No, we only handle Pennsylvania, let me get you your area - Oh, I am only billing, I can't take your credit card - I have no idea what that charge is, let me transfer you -..."
Then they are just barely able to install a dry-loop DSL with 11 phone calls over 3 weeks.
The only thing is, the reputation of Comcast scares me more so I haven't yet switched.
I was thinking of the 10-year-old handouts. It's not really any work for them to get a drone to run them in the copycenter, then dump them on a desk and say "pick up a copy and pass the stack on".
I just meant if the handouts could be digital emails rather than dead trees in some classes they would be useful one day.
The heads up was just so we could happily filter those emails and let them accumulate, rather than panic over them. Sending pre-drafted emails to "Class_2010" isn't a lot of work either. Per the original post I only hated the false hysteria.
Awesome post. I just wanted to drill out a moderately insightful First Post. (Look! Very little trolling this thread! "Correlation wants to be related to Causation!")
Does anyone know the open-ness of 3rd-tier widget firmware like Craig Mp3 players? For a lark I picked up a 4GB Neo-iPodTouch with truly awful sensitivity ratios on the touchscreen, but I like my mp3 players to just play music thank you, none of this synch junk with iTunes and Zune. Wouldn't surprise me it's home cooked cheapware, but last I knew whoever is behind Craig brand doesn't have delusions of grandeur to dominate the market. I'd like to know if they did a cut-rate version of Apple's trick of open base with their own top layer.
But you know, if I got email-walled and if the professor was honest enough to say "these are amusing little side exhibits that won't be on the test" the kid can just file the emails and poke at them one boring day.
Each student vs. the answer key is its own data point. Tests can have real quirks, so when he's doing this, he can ask some loaded questions and check the answers. For example, if #7 is "unfair" he's "supposed" to be hearing a lot of grumbling about that, and everyone getting it wrong, except the class genius and maybe the guy who said "screw it" and got lucky. If tons of people get it right it makes that test no longer random, so it might only take one more example to nail it for sure.
"I would like to present the software solution MyCloud from the company MyCloud. Here we are. We're the princes of the Internet. Here we belong, fighting for survival. We've got to be rulers of your world. Is shall have no rival!"
Slashdot Mirror
"So you say they're navel gazing"?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=3450+Massachusetts+Avenue
Brilliant really.
After I strip ...they want to hug me until I choke.
Just entering for rule 34 completeness.
Awesome how many site concepts emerge from selective chopping of +5 comments.
Can we go to 11?
Wait -
You mean they will let you carry a biological container that can fit 4 pounds of something in the middle and is wrapped in opaque plastic?
So they abuse your rights over 3 oz of baby milk but they let you carry THAT?
Do we get arrested if we ask the TSA person that?
Something happened to the context of Chess too, essentially rather suddenly.
Back In The Day if you went to a bookstore, Chess was virtually the only competitive hobby that solidly rewarded studying, and the rating system was near-perfect (with certain blips like scholastic or isolated areas.) Before the internet, poor man's info feed was the bookstore, and I for one found it not possible to interact as an accepted peer in most other areas "off the street". Also, up until about 1995 chess had a "culture" with its past heroes, and its famous benchmarks, etc. It was a solid outlet that lasted pretty well.
Suddenly the real power of the internet took hold. At first it was like a "secret weapon" to train for Old School Chess, but somehow, being able to dig around in all kinds of other interactive activities took away the silent monopoly on accessibility that Chess once had. I have remarked that my time here on slashdot, if intelligently compiled, could form four college courses, aka intro classes on the topics covered well here.
(Basic computer security and exposing corporate tricks, the rise of Big Brother vs. politics, etc. )
Yet also, when we joke about not even reading TFA's, we're saying that we don't look toward our past heroic moments anymore. Without the lineage-culture mood, coinciding exactly with the rise of computers, Chess stopped being fun when it became just position crunching up to the point you hit your particular wall. (Typically 1800 aka "just below expert" is a well known barrier when the additional work now required exceeds the fun.)
But the last sad point is when you hit that wall, you know exactly who you can beat, and who will beat you. On a particular day it moves around a little, but the metagame is the same, and its effect on your local crew. Joe the Expert beats you, you beat everyone else. Go to a tourney and you can beat up to the 1600's, and the Sandbaggers who should be 1900 beat you, and you score 4/6, just enough not to win money.
On the net, you can collaboratively Do Stuff, and even if you plod along for years you can eventually add your little pocket of cultural contribution to something. Whippersnappers are fresher, so be it, your experience counts elsewhere as it grows, and ... Net Life intersecting with training real skills that can actually go towards a job is more fun overall than even the Grand Old Game.
Now a days, I use Chess only as a mental metric to test the shape of my sadly erratic nerves. There's some value with it as a study on force & initiative too. But as a grand pursuit, for me it has become a matter of RIP.
Yesterday's article was based around the following:
"Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said during an Ubuntu 10.10 conference call last month that a move to daily updates would help the popular Linux distro keep pace with an increasingly complex software and platform ecosystem ...Today we have a six-month release cycle," Shuttleworth said. "In an internet-oriented world, we need to be able to release something every day. ...That's an area we will put a lot of work into in the next five years. The small steps we are putting in to the Software Center today, they will go further and caster than people might have envisioned in the past."
Word wise, that's pretty clear. It goes to the top of the food chain. It sorta says when.
So is this just another completley fabricated story to get page hits?
Correction - some 20 Caveman-Build 6th graders have the strength for this. There's a reason they pwned recess.
I submit that they were, but you are falling into the "speed of business trap". It's Henry Ford and the Buggy Makers again.
Let's presume for a minute they did this without the easily-scoffed-at layers of illegal shells.
They produce a software package called "Ticket Sniper". This software sits there and monitors events, and buys tickets at nano-speed. Then they resell them. Hooray! The first year they do this, they get their early mover profits for their R&D work.
Then the FOSS gang makes the open source version "Ticket Assassin" that uses a different algorithm to avoid legal trouble, and soon "everyone has it". Then when their "Buy the next Gary Brolsma Concert Ticket" rule triggers, they get their seat at the "regular price".
Then a gamer figures out a low ping matters, so they leverage the cloud backbone to power-buy the tickets, then resell them at really low prices. (No sarcasm, think Discount-Store-Tickets brand). Then people just buy "Ticket-Coupons" so at their leisure they can get their ticket.
Still just capitalism. But leveraging generations of innovation way faster than we like from "the good ol' days".
Hallo.
Poster below you took a slice at your cost assumptions with some "Read up on March 2000" humor, but I'll reply squarely.
Your math error is in "startup costs are a few hundred dollars tops". Hoping you weren't being facetious yourself, we're not talking "Tim Berners-Lee created the internet with one site on one machine that someone logged into once". Sure, "the first day's" startup is your few hundred dollars...
But then the entire point of what we learned in Web 1.0 is that startup costs don't scale rationally. Cruise along, get your $100,000 venture capital, life looks good, then ...
Truly hideous quadra-linked soft costs appear out of nowhere that resemble M. C. Escher designing a haunted house.
"No one believes a crank in his house" - so you get an office!
"This is money-replacement-interaction, so we need at least two legal reps, one for interacting with banks and one for the govt."
"You need at least 10 meetings each with 10 high powered people to get influence, and those guys don't eat tacos on a park bench... $100,000 for meeting costs."
"You need advertising so our famous Harry H. Schmoe has head of this - 10 spots at a cut rate $10,000/spot 'cuz you know a buddy = $100,000"
Whee!
In Soviet Russia, whom we are now having a cyber-cold-war with, people are for computers that think!
Telcos.
Welcome to Duo-opolies.
Actually Verizon is damn near the worst I have ever encountered.
Same brand of junk, different episodes.
"Let's bill your hardware charge to an account we'll close on you in 2 weeks from our side and then send it to a collection agency who sits on it for 4 months". That takes 4 hours to fix with your described Turbo Transfers. "Let me get you to billing. - No, we only handle Pennsylvania, let me get you your area - Oh, I am only billing, I can't take your credit card - I have no idea what that charge is, let me transfer you - ..."
Then they are just barely able to install a dry-loop DSL with 11 phone calls over 3 weeks.
The only thing is, the reputation of Comcast scares me more so I haven't yet switched.
Awww, no one else caught the loop?
Here is a technical reply to a post that says you can sometimes get technical replies here!
I was thinking of the 10-year-old handouts. It's not really any work for them to get a drone to run them in the copycenter, then dump them on a desk and say "pick up a copy and pass the stack on".
I just meant if the handouts could be digital emails rather than dead trees in some classes they would be useful one day.
The heads up was just so we could happily filter those emails and let them accumulate, rather than panic over them. Sending pre-drafted emails to "Class_2010" isn't a lot of work either. Per the original post I only hated the false hysteria.
Sure, I'll grant you caught me on -1 Nationalism, but I did guess low with zero data and hoped.
The big surprise is I had no idea China had that many users.
Don't tell the TSA!
Awesome post.
I just wanted to drill out a moderately insightful First Post.
(Look! Very little trolling this thread! "Correlation wants to be related to Causation!")
Glad to know my lightning guess wasn't ludicrous.
Does anyone know the open-ness of 3rd-tier widget firmware like Craig Mp3 players? For a lark I picked up a 4GB Neo-iPodTouch with truly awful sensitivity ratios on the touchscreen, but I like my mp3 players to just play music thank you, none of this synch junk with iTunes and Zune. Wouldn't surprise me it's home cooked cheapware, but last I knew whoever is behind Craig brand doesn't have delusions of grandeur to dominate the market. I'd like to know if they did a cut-rate version of Apple's trick of open base with their own top layer.
But you know, if I got email-walled and if the professor was honest enough to say "these are amusing little side exhibits that won't be on the test" the kid can just file the emails and poke at them one boring day.
Each student vs. the answer key is its own data point. Tests can have real quirks, so when he's doing this, he can ask some loaded questions and check the answers. For example, if #7 is "unfair" he's "supposed" to be hearing a lot of grumbling about that, and everyone getting it wrong, except the class genius and maybe the guy who said "screw it" and got lucky. If tons of people get it right it makes that test no longer random, so it might only take one more example to nail it for sure.
That codec is not FOSS.
"I would like to present the software solution MyCloud from the company MyCloud. Here we are. We're the princes of the Internet. Here we belong, fighting for survival. We've got to be rulers of your world. Is shall have no rival!"
MCP : "What's the matter Sark? You look Nervous."
Sark: "It's just we've never had a user before."
Well, since Verizon and Comcast harbor 10% of all user customer PC's all by themselves, this is not so impressive.