Comment dupe or new info? (Score 1) 384
I remember seeing pretty much this same story last week on slashdot!?
is it an update to the story or is it a dupe?
Submission + - Intel Buys Altera for $16.7 Billion (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Today Intel purchased chipmaker Altera for $16.7 billion. This follows another huge purchase in the semiconductor industry last week, when Avago snapped up Broadcom for $37 billion. This has been a record year for consolidation within the industry, as growth slows and stock prices begin to stagnate. Altera had already rejected an offer from Intel, but shareholders pressured them to reconsider. "Acquiring Altera may help Intel defend and extend its most profitable business: supplying server chips used in data centers. While sales of semiconductors for PCs are declining as more consumers rely on tablets and smartphones to get online, the data centers needed to churn out information and services for those mobile devices are driving orders for higher-end Intel processors and shoring up profitability."
Comment Re:Not ignoring the story is a good start! (Score 1) 384
I suppose you could put it that way. Slashdot and SourceForge have been under the same roof for a long time, but they've always been separate entities. I have no interaction with the SourceForge folks on a daily basis.
Comment Re:Not ignoring the story is a good start! (Score 5, Informative) 384
I acknowledge that this was a fuck up. As I said in my note on the story, I'm sorry it took so long for this post to go up.
Comment Re:Not ignoring the story is a good start! (Score 1) 384
People are going to look for reasons to be mad, no matter what I do. They're entitled to that. I'm just doing what I can to make the situation right.
Comment Re:For future reference (Score 0) 384
As I've mentioned elsewhere, you're talking about two different things. The reason it wasn't posted immediately is that we were attempting to put together a more detailed post. The reason I posted it now is because people started getting upset and suspicious about our lack of a post.
Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th 374
Ammalgam writes with news that Windows 10 will be released worldwide on July 29th, 2015. It'll be immediately available for PCs and tablets — their announcement doesn't mention smartphones. The upgrade will be free (within one year of launch) for users running legitimate copies of Windows 7 and 8.1. Another reader notes that users of those two operating systems are now being prompted to upgrade by a message in their notification area (system tray).
Comment Re:Not ignoring the story is a good start! (Score 0) 384
You're conflating two different things -- the story wasn't posted immediately because we were trying to gather more information. When I got in this morning, I saw people were upset that it was taking so long, so I posted it.
Comment Re:For future reference (Score 4, Interesting) 384
When we select submissions, voting is the strongest factor, but it's not the only factor — timeliness, factual accuracy, the degree to which it's on topic, and several other characteristics all factor in. For example, we're not going to run a 5-year-old story no matter how many people vote it up, nor a story about the sun being made of freshly chopped artichoke hearts.
Comment Re:Not ignoring the story is a good start! (Score 4, Informative) 384
There's been no pressure influencing my treatment of this topic.
The main reason it's late is that we were asking some questions internally so we could put up a more informative post on the subject. Unfortunately, communications were slow. Rather than keep waiting, I just put up the most accurate submission we've gotten. (May or may not still happen later.)
SourceForge and GIMP [Updated] 384
New submitter tresf writes: In response to a Google+ post from the Gimp project claiming that "[Sourceforge] is now distributing an ads-enabled installer of GIMP," Sourceforge had this response: "In cases where a project is no longer actively being maintained, SourceForge has in some cases established a mirror of releases that are hosted elsewhere. This was done for GIMP-Win.
Submitter's note: Gimp is actively being maintained and the definition of "mirror" is quite misleading here as a modified binary is no longer a verbatim copy. Download statistics for Gimp on Windows show SourceForge as offering over 1,000 downloads per day of the Gimp software.
In an official response to this incident, the official Gimp project team reminds users to use official download methods. Slashdotters may remember the last time news like this surfaced (2013) when the Gimp team decided to move downloads from SourceForge to their own FTP service. "Therefore, we remind you again that GIMP only provides builds for Windows via its official Downloads page." Note: SourceForge and Slashdot share a corporate parent. Editor's note: I just got back from a busy weekend to see that a bunch of people are freaking out that we're "burying" this story, so here it is. Go hog wild. Sorry it took so long. (And for future reference, user submissions are easily found in the firehose, listed in the order they appear, newest first.)
Update: 06/01 22:37 GMT by T : The SourceForge blog has a welcome update; SourceForge, it says, has effective today "stopped presenting third party offers for unmaintained SourceForge projects. ... At this time, we present third party offers only with a few projects where it is explicitly approved by the project developer, or if the project is already bundling third party offers."
Submitter's note: Gimp is actively being maintained and the definition of "mirror" is quite misleading here as a modified binary is no longer a verbatim copy. Download statistics for Gimp on Windows show SourceForge as offering over 1,000 downloads per day of the Gimp software.
In an official response to this incident, the official Gimp project team reminds users to use official download methods. Slashdotters may remember the last time news like this surfaced (2013) when the Gimp team decided to move downloads from SourceForge to their own FTP service. "Therefore, we remind you again that GIMP only provides builds for Windows via its official Downloads page." Note: SourceForge and Slashdot share a corporate parent. Editor's note: I just got back from a busy weekend to see that a bunch of people are freaking out that we're "burying" this story, so here it is. Go hog wild. Sorry it took so long. (And for future reference, user submissions are easily found in the firehose, listed in the order they appear, newest first.)
Update: 06/01 22:37 GMT by T : The SourceForge blog has a welcome update; SourceForge, it says, has effective today "stopped presenting third party offers for unmaintained SourceForge projects. ... At this time, we present third party offers only with a few projects where it is explicitly approved by the project developer, or if the project is already bundling third party offers."
Comment Re:I'm betting that... (Score 1) 143
quite a few sections of contract law, of loan regulations, finance regulations, fcc, safety etc are to protect stupid people from stupid things.
Comment Re:Not usually an (R) but... (Score 1) 500
but now you're providing the dictators hitman services while they pose as anti american at the same time.
good job!
Comment Re:so what (Score 1, Informative) 500
At least now the pretense will be gone.
Until Obama, or the puppeteers who make his mouth move and words come out, find some stooge to encourage to make some terrorist act that actually happens.
The FBI are always entrapping idiots into planning acts of terrorism. It shouldn't be too hard to see to it that one of these hare-brained schemes comes to fruition, thousands of Americans die and the American public demand to be spied on again.
I would assume thats what Obama and his masters are currently planning.
Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? 385
turkeydance writes: What job is hardest for a robot to do? Mental health and substance abuse social workers (found under community and social services). This job has a 0.3 percent chance of being automated. That's because it's ranked high in cleverness, negotiation, and helping others. The job most likely to be done by a robot? Telemarketers. No surprise; it's already happening. The researchers admit that these estimates are rough and likely to be wrong. But consider this a snapshot of what some smart people think the future might look like. If it says your job will likely be replaced by a machine, you've been warned.
