Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
What about the slackers who fail to participate in any other useful direction?
Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising 318
derekmead writes: Netflix is experimenting with pre-roll and post-roll advertisements for some of its users. For now, it's just pitching it's own original programming. However, many are concerned that they plan to serve third-party ads, but the company says they have no plans to do so. They told Mashable in a statement: "We are not planning to test or implement third-party advertising on the Netflix service. For some time, we've teased Netflix originals with short trailers after a member finishes watching a show. Some members in a limited test now are seeing teases before a show begins. We test hundreds of potential improvements to the service every year. Many never extend beyond that."
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? 583
itwbennett writes: ITworld's Josh Fruhlinger asked seasoned (and some not-so-seasoned) tech professionals what they wished they knew back when they were newly minted graduates entering the workforce. Perhaps not surprisingly, some of the best advice has more to do with soft skills than with tech skills. To wit: 'When [managers] say they are suggesting you do something, it's not really a suggestion — it is an order disguised as a suggestion. Plain-speaking is a lost art at big companies and corporate double talk is the name of the game.' What's your best piece of advice for the newest among you?
The Artificial Pancreas For Diabetics Is Nearly Here 95
the_newsbeagle writes: It's the tech that type 1 diabetics have long been waiting for: An implanted "closed-loop" system that monitors a person's blood-sugar level and adjusts injections from an insulin pump. Such a system would liberate diabetics from constant self-monitoring and give parents of diabetic children peace of mind. Thanks to improvements in glucose sensors and control algorithms, the first artificial pancreas systems are now in clinical trials.
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti Costs $350 Less Than TITAN X, Performs Similarly 156
Deathspawner writes: In advance of the rumored pending launch of AMD's next-generation Radeon graphics cards, NVIDIA has decided to pull no punches and release a seriously tempting GTX 980 Ti at $649. It's tempting both because the extra $150 it costs over the GTX 980 more than makes up for it in performance gained, and despite it coming really close to the performance of TITAN X, it costs $350 less. AMD's job might just have become a bit harder. Vigile adds The GTX 980 Ti has 6GB of memory (versus 12GB for the GTX Titan X) but PC Perspective's review shows no negative side effects of the drop. This implementation of the GM200 GPU uses 2,816 CUDA cores rather than the 3,072 cores of the Titan X, but thanks to higher average Boost clocks, performance between the two cards is identical. And at Hot Hardware, another equally positive, benchmark-laden review.
Tron 3 Is Cancelled 205
Dave Knott writes: Tron 3 won't be coming to a theater near you. Disney had been developing a sequel to Tron:Legacy since the movie, made for $170 million, grossed $400 million worldwide. But now they have chosen not to move forward with a third installment in the sci-fi series, sources say. "Disney has had strong success with its live-action properties recently, including Maleficent and this year's Cinderella, which earned $527.4 million worldwide. But it recently had a stumble with the $180 million live-action film Tomorrowland, which underperformed at the box office this past weekend with a $33 million U.S. debut."
Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
Indeed, you're the master thereof.
Comment Re:Yes, but because (Score 2) 189
More generally, the Information Age means that we need less and less peopleware to manage data and shepherd people.
The last holdout, of course, is government.
The last holdout, of course, is government.
Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
Your capacity to rationalize fascism by laundering it through re-purposed terminology befits a prior century. *Golf clap*
Comment Re:Yes. (Score 1) 172
An author's copyrights can be assigned or transferred to a third party. This leaves the author with only the same rights as any member of the general public. (There are a few narrow exceptions, but nothing that would prevent the possibility of an author infringing on the copyright of a work he created)
It's also possible for a person who prepares a work to not be considered the author. This is the case for works made for hire.
And of course copyright isn't mandatory, though that just leads to works being in the public domain, so at least there's no danger of infringement there.
Comment Re:Correct, but silly (Score 1) 172
However, bear in mind that copyright only applies to original material, not to pre-existing material. A review which includes a quote is copyrightable, but the new copyright for the review only covers the portion original to the reviewer; the material quoted is only covered by the copyright of the work the quotes are drawn from.
17 USC 103(b):
The copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished from the preexisting material employed in the work, and does not imply any exclusive right in the preexisting material. The copyright in such work is independent of, and does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright protection in the preexisting material.
Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
So you seem to say that disagreement == bigotry? Or is my refusal to accede to you bogus reasoning, itself, bigotry? Am I venturing into microagression territory here? Should I put a trigger warning on all my posts? Is this a subtle white privilege play? Do all roads lead to racism? Could you be more mockable?
Comment Re:Go for it (Score 1) 43
It's not an "idea", it is genetics that you are intolerant of. And the bigotry is based on intolerance against specific genetics. And boo on you if you don't like it, that's just the way it is. Analysis and reason is fruitless when confronted with tribalism and instinct. Just not worth my time. Besides, I am more easily humored by watching you play dumb.
The unintentional hilarity of YOUR shiny, new, fascist tribalism is its nihilistic inability to perpetuate hooey, but not the tribe itself.
I denounce myself afresh as the bad guy for upholding the notion that Form Follows Function; Flees Foolishness; Flames Falsehood.
Comment Re:Can you elaborate? (Score 1) 11
Heh heh heh. Yeah.
Comment Re:Can you elaborate? (Score 1) 11
No, that was Hastert.
