clinton's site is quite nice, very well executed. good features. i'd never vote for her, but have been very impressed with the site.
mccain's site? good grief. so a vote for mccain means you're doomed! what a dark and depressing thing that is.
obama's? light. very light. ugly too me thinks.
rudy's site is, meh, its ok. again, very light in terms of content. i'm sure his team is still trying to figure out what to do with it.
romney's. well, i lead the development team on that one. his campaign hired the company i work for, and my job was to be the architect (design the content management system, and all of the infrastructure that drives the site) and run the engineering team that built/implemented everything. i like it, our visual designers did a bang-up job in making a political site look not overtly political. yeah the usual colors are there, but much more tasteful i believe.
i do have to agree with this some what. i started seeing a therapist just over a year ago, and the first thing i decided was that i didn't want to see a psychologist or an analyst, i wanted to see someone who has had medical training. that's why i chose to see a psychiatric nurse. she is fully trained on cbt, but also has had a pretty extensive medical training (and can even prescribe medications), but we don't go down that route (she is *not* just another pill pusher).
i think that's important here. before i settled on a therapist, i interviewed many who were just eager to put me on anti-anxiety anti-depresents drugs, which, for many personal reasons, i don't want.
but i digress. i think there are many fine psychologists out there, but for me, i generally like talking to someone who has a bit more science/biology in their education and training.
In my (very) limited experience in dealing with the VC world, one of the key concepts that was always in any discussion was the exit strategy. Typically that translated into IPO or sale to someone else. Is this any different with respect to open source companies?
It just seems to me, and I'm just a knuckle-dragging developer here (who also engages in diy projects), that the exit strategies might be a bit different than your traditional concerns.
I've been thinking about this for a while. I mean, I've been playing WoW for nearly a year and my main is just now reaching level 48. I don't have the time a 16 year-old does to power level for 2 weeks straight to reach 60. With a career, other projects, a bit of a social life and a significant other, there just isn't time for me to start a grinding session at 4 in the afternoon and wrap it up 12 hours later.
WoW does, in some ways, accommodate us "soft-core" players, but at the same time what often motivates me to just shut the game off for the night, apart from my other responsibilities, is being surrounded by "hard-core" gamers who freely hurl insults of "n00b" to who actually have a life outside of the game and places a higher priority on other more important life activities. not everyone can be a 60 in two weeks. there are more important things than this or other games, and i'm not just talking about work or sleep.
Otter, actually you *can* just walk into a best buy and buy a somewhat decent record player. i did just that very thing last year.
i have a cherished record collection of older mid to late 80's hardcore and punk that is in the process of being ripped... and well, since the darn things wouldn't fit into the CD player... i went out to my local best buy... and 10 minutes later (after aggressively rejecting the extended warranty) had a sony turntable.
darn it, no mod points. i did, however, post a pleading for mod points in my journal, for this post. yes, an old joke, but very funny... especially in this context.
i agree with this completely. on my server there are as many rotten apple horde players (just last night... a level 43 torren tried to come in and scoop about half the mobs i tagged first -- which is stupid since i was playing my level 45 ne druid -- did this person think they could draw more threat???)
yeah, on the server i play on (gilneas) -- there are plenty horde players who behave like jack-assed little kids thinking that ninja'ing, scooping, begging and generally being a stupid pain in the ass is okay.
what really frustrates me is, that i go out of my way to be a "good person" in the game. like i said, i'm a ne druid, and i've focused on balance and healing spells... so i'm always quick with the MoW buff, healing when i can, and debuffing mobs if its needed without being asked (debuffing mobs rarely draws threat away anyway, but gives the player a slight edge)... only be be shat upon by some jack-off a minute later. ugh.
unless of course you are on a server filled with little twerps who are more interested in scooping, ninja'ing and generally acting like total idiots simply because they can. why on earth would you ever want to team up with 40 of them at a time?
while i do not work in pr, my degree *clears throat* is in public relations... and if there's one thing our school taught is... learn to question your bosses/managers/clients. i mean, to be an effective pr person, you have to be able to ask questions like "well, gee, sending a spam might not be the best for our reputation."
now, in the case of this particular story -- the pr person who prepared this is just, i believe, a moron. the other thing we were taught in pr is that every news organization has something akin to a "wall of shame." these are places where stupid/poorly written/misdirected/etc. releases get posted for all (in the newsroom) to laugh at. this fact is always a motivator for a pr person to get it right (at least one who wants to do a good job).
included with this is the knowledge that just about every journalst/editor you come across will, of course, have a superior attitude (which i always found funny - because without pr people, journalists would either not get a story or have to do a significant amount of leg work to get it, and well, journalists, also, by and large, are lazy.)
so, with all that in mind, every release has a lot riding on it, and an effective pr person knows this and just doesn't do a half-assed cluster-fuck of a job in writing or distributing releases. pr people are targets. easy targets. highly mis-understood targets, and therefor its up to the pr people to make damn sure they don't make it any easier.
i dunno, being an old timer zine publisher (since '87) i still kinda sorta miss the days of the gluestick, typewriter and a trip to the kinkos (well, the one where you had a friend who worked the grave yard shift and let you copy your zine for free).
but alas, i must admit that programs like quark (and now indesign) have made things a bit easier... and well, the whole on-demand publishing like lulu (and others) have made the DIY publishing cheaper but also opened up "underground" press (aka small-press) to new audiences.
i mean, there was only so much you could do with your by-hand copied zine... sure passing them out at the shows and begging the local record store owners to carry them was great... but this on demand thing is, well... not only do you get the control (creative) but you also can actually (sorta) compete with the "big boys."
while these are clever ideas, and do indeed provide a slightly different spin on the traditional search engine, I believe that they will not have much hope of ever taking a bite out of google or yahoo. I mean, I just went through the process of creating a Swicki, and while the interface is nice... it is a lot of work.
I still think that the niche search engines are more viable not so much as alternatives to google or yahoo, but as an almost adjunct. Like the site I volunteer for, Diysearch.com, yeah it will never replace the majors, and it isn't intended to do, but because its subject-matter focused, the search results and relevancy are that much higher than what you'd get from a google or a yahoo.
I have no idea if subject-matter focus is the most viable route in terms of focusing search results, but Diysearch.com has been around for a decade and its doing quite well.
here's what i don't get. do they (microsoft) teach their executives that the business is personal? i mean, sheesh... never before have a bunch of executives looked more like a bunch of cry-baby drama queens (and i'm no google fanboy).
a note to microsoft executives: no, google is not trying to take food off *your* plate. they are competing with you. if you can't take it, then quit and go away. the cry-baby routine is quite boring and not terribly becoming for an executive of a major international corporation.
please, for all that is holy and right in this world, please mod this as funny? okay? will ya? i know this is ot... but i nearly fell off my chair laughing at this one.
huh, interesting. i take the t every day between harvard and central and i've always thought, as i stand in the car... looking at those bundles of cables, "what if i chopped through them?"
so... if that is right... i could, theoritcally, break the intarweb for all of harvard?
oh, did i just say that outloud? i mean come on! what do you think when you see large bundles of cable?
I know editing is tough. I've been there, and done that... and I still get lots of things wrong... but stuff like this, well if the topic is going to be editing, then maybe this kind of thing should be caught.
i don't wanna intrude... nor am i being a picky bastard... and also i thought that movie was pretty ridiculous... but didn't they interface with the communication satelite's computer? and implant the virus in the satelite? which then, because the ships used the satelite's comm, the virus was implanted that way?
oh sure, that doesn't explain how the virus would actually effect an alien computer... meh... oh who cares!
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clinton's site is quite nice, very well executed. good features. i'd never vote for her, but have been very impressed with the site.
mccain's site? good grief. so a vote for mccain means you're doomed! what a dark and depressing thing that is.
obama's? light. very light. ugly too me thinks.
rudy's site is, meh, its ok. again, very light in terms of content. i'm sure his team is still trying to figure out what to do with it.
romney's. well, i lead the development team on that one. his campaign hired the company i work for, and my job was to be the architect (design the content management system, and all of the infrastructure that drives the site) and run the engineering team that built/implemented everything. i like it, our visual designers did a bang-up job in making a political site look not overtly political. yeah the usual colors are there, but much more tasteful i believe.
as you know 76.97% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
98% of all business corrupt? hmmm. nope.
i do have to agree with this some what. i started seeing a therapist just over a year ago, and the first thing i decided was that i didn't want to see a psychologist or an analyst, i wanted to see someone who has had medical training. that's why i chose to see a psychiatric nurse. she is fully trained on cbt, but also has had a pretty extensive medical training (and can even prescribe medications), but we don't go down that route (she is *not* just another pill pusher).
i think that's important here. before i settled on a therapist, i interviewed many who were just eager to put me on anti-anxiety anti-depresents drugs, which, for many personal reasons, i don't want.
but i digress. i think there are many fine psychologists out there, but for me, i generally like talking to someone who has a bit more science/biology in their education and training.
In my (very) limited experience in dealing with the VC world, one of the key concepts that was always in any discussion was the exit strategy. Typically that translated into IPO or sale to someone else. Is this any different with respect to open source companies?
It just seems to me, and I'm just a knuckle-dragging developer here (who also engages in diy projects), that the exit strategies might be a bit different than your traditional concerns.
I've been thinking about this for a while. I mean, I've been playing WoW for nearly a year and my main is just now reaching level 48. I don't have the time a 16 year-old does to power level for 2 weeks straight to reach 60. With a career, other projects, a bit of a social life and a significant other, there just isn't time for me to start a grinding session at 4 in the afternoon and wrap it up 12 hours later.
WoW does, in some ways, accommodate us "soft-core" players, but at the same time what often motivates me to just shut the game off for the night, apart from my other responsibilities, is being surrounded by "hard-core" gamers who freely hurl insults of "n00b" to who actually have a life outside of the game and places a higher priority on other more important life activities. not everyone can be a 60 in two weeks. there are more important things than this or other games, and i'm not just talking about work or sleep.
oh crap!!! what do i do!! what do i do???!!!
i noticed something weird when i tried to play Jawbreaker's first LP and kept hearing this weird robot voice asking me for a password.
Otter, actually you *can* just walk into a best buy and buy a somewhat decent record player. i did just that very thing last year.
i have a cherished record collection of older mid to late 80's hardcore and punk that is in the process of being ripped... and well, since the darn things wouldn't fit into the CD player... i went out to my local best buy... and 10 minutes later (after aggressively rejecting the extended warranty) had a sony turntable.
darn it, no mod points. i did, however, post a pleading for mod points in my journal, for this post. yes, an old joke, but very funny... especially in this context.
i agree with this completely. on my server there are as many rotten apple horde players (just last night... a level 43 torren tried to come in and scoop about half the mobs i tagged first -- which is stupid since i was playing my level 45 ne druid -- did this person think they could draw more threat???)
yeah, on the server i play on (gilneas) -- there are plenty horde players who behave like jack-assed little kids thinking that ninja'ing, scooping, begging and generally being a stupid pain in the ass is okay.
what really frustrates me is, that i go out of my way to be a "good person" in the game. like i said, i'm a ne druid, and i've focused on balance and healing spells... so i'm always quick with the MoW buff, healing when i can, and debuffing mobs if its needed without being asked (debuffing mobs rarely draws threat away anyway, but gives the player a slight edge)... only be be shat upon by some jack-off a minute later. ugh.
unless of course you are on a server filled with little twerps who are more interested in scooping, ninja'ing and generally acting like total idiots simply because they can. why on earth would you ever want to team up with 40 of them at a time?
meh, no thanks.
while i do not work in pr, my degree *clears throat* is in public relations... and if there's one thing our school taught is... learn to question your bosses/managers/clients. i mean, to be an effective pr person, you have to be able to ask questions like "well, gee, sending a spam might not be the best for our reputation."
now, in the case of this particular story -- the pr person who prepared this is just, i believe, a moron. the other thing we were taught in pr is that every news organization has something akin to a "wall of shame." these are places where stupid/poorly written/misdirected/etc. releases get posted for all (in the newsroom) to laugh at. this fact is always a motivator for a pr person to get it right (at least one who wants to do a good job).
included with this is the knowledge that just about every journalst/editor you come across will, of course, have a superior attitude (which i always found funny - because without pr people, journalists would either not get a story or have to do a significant amount of leg work to get it, and well, journalists, also, by and large, are lazy.)
so, with all that in mind, every release has a lot riding on it, and an effective pr person knows this and just doesn't do a half-assed cluster-fuck of a job in writing or distributing releases. pr people are targets. easy targets. highly mis-understood targets, and therefor its up to the pr people to make damn sure they don't make it any easier.
i dunno, being an old timer zine publisher (since '87) i still kinda sorta miss the days of the gluestick, typewriter and a trip to the kinkos (well, the one where you had a friend who worked the grave yard shift and let you copy your zine for free).
but alas, i must admit that programs like quark (and now indesign) have made things a bit easier... and well, the whole on-demand publishing like lulu (and others) have made the DIY publishing cheaper but also opened up "underground" press (aka small-press) to new audiences.
i mean, there was only so much you could do with your by-hand copied zine... sure passing them out at the shows and begging the local record store owners to carry them was great... but this on demand thing is, well... not only do you get the control (creative) but you also can actually (sorta) compete with the "big boys."
while these are clever ideas, and do indeed provide a slightly different spin on the traditional search engine, I believe that they will not have much hope of ever taking a bite out of google or yahoo. I mean, I just went through the process of creating a Swicki, and while the interface is nice... it is a lot of work.
I still think that the niche search engines are more viable not so much as alternatives to google or yahoo, but as an almost adjunct. Like the site I volunteer for, Diysearch.com, yeah it will never replace the majors, and it isn't intended to do, but because its subject-matter focused, the search results and relevancy are that much higher than what you'd get from a google or a yahoo.
I have no idea if subject-matter focus is the most viable route in terms of focusing search results, but Diysearch.com has been around for a decade and its doing quite well.
here's what i don't get. do they (microsoft) teach their executives that the business is personal? i mean, sheesh... never before have a bunch of executives looked more like a bunch of cry-baby drama queens (and i'm no google fanboy).
a note to microsoft executives: no, google is not trying to take food off *your* plate. they are competing with you. if you can't take it, then quit and go away. the cry-baby routine is quite boring and not terribly becoming for an executive of a major international corporation.
yay!!! you got it! :)
no really!
bob. yeah, not as catchy if the entire planet were called "bob" but still!
bob the moon.
heh, is this strings to the rescue?
:)
one of the best programs evar
did you actually *read* the article? can you find me one single quote where dmca is mentioned in this piece?
please, for all that is holy and right in this world, please mod this as funny? okay? will ya? i know this is ot... but i nearly fell off my chair laughing at this one.
wow... you really added quite a lot of value now didn't you?
its always nice to see knuckleheads make wild ass assumptions about people they don't know anything about.
you can go now.
hmmm... now if /. had a +/-5 for "snarky" then maybe it could have been modded properly... but interesting? not so much. i'm not that interesting.
huh, interesting. i take the t every day between harvard and central and i've always thought, as i stand in the car... looking at those bundles of cables, "what if i chopped through them?"
so... if that is right... i could, theoritcally, break the intarweb for all of harvard?
oh, did i just say that outloud? i mean come on! what do you think when you see large bundles of cable?
oh come on! this isn't off topic. its a little silly, but still funny. sheesh mods... lets get our head in the game!
oh and yes, this post *is* off topic. mod as necessary
Many submissions are to long or to short
perhaps another read through may be useful.
I know editing is tough. I've been there, and done that... and I still get lots of things wrong... but stuff like this, well if the topic is going to be editing, then maybe this kind of thing should be caught.
Yes?
i don't wanna intrude... nor am i being a picky bastard... and also i thought that movie was pretty ridiculous... but didn't they interface with the communication satelite's computer? and implant the virus in the satelite? which then, because the ships used the satelite's comm, the virus was implanted that way?
oh sure, that doesn't explain how the virus would actually effect an alien computer... meh... oh who cares!