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That's all, really.

You don't get it. They entire business model is about making money from copyright trolling YouTube videos with an automated software. They have no incentive whatsoever to reduce their error rate. More error = more money. Its like a money printing business.

Note that they name YouTube as a "partner". YouTube is in on this one. Advertising whores.

Its a whole new low-standards bar. The human ingeniousness for producing money from low-morale crap never cease to disgust me.

No lawsuits required:

1. Falsely report copyright infringements on YouTube for tons of videos (especially popular ones). If the posters dispute it, dispute them back.
2. Make more accounts, report a shit load more bogus infringements
3A. Profit for you. Push it until it tilts into 3B.
3B. YouTube bans all your accounts, they realize their system is not working and change it so this cannot be abused anymore. Everybody wins, you are a hero and you also made tons of money.

As a charming side effect, Ramblefish's trolling Youboob business model is out the window. This is not a problem in any way. Its a pure win-win...-win situation.

Not to mention that amount of money could solve the global economy crisis.
Ok ok, I'll go ...

Well lets do the math:
1 Trilion copyrights infrigers (birds on earth)
X
10 000 infrigement counts per infriger (songs by a bird during its lifetime)
X
1 USD per infrigement
=
1 million billions USD

That's losses endured by Rumblefish because of birds. Looks like suing the birds is a sound(hah!) business plan.

So what you're saying is that we should rename our High/Medium/Low priorities as: Need/Want/Like. Its all about semantics. Oh, and about ass kissing :) Not far from the truth.

Now, to get serious, projects that are higher than the level of a "hello world" program are always political. The assigned/official priority are just for looks, the real priority is ... ethereal, being re-decided perhaps every day, for each person.

I know you all want to reach that level when you just at those lovely priority numbers and make your decision based on a simple comparison like 2 3. Trying to simplify the problem is human and somehow understandable. But its still lazy.

No, you need to handle conflicts on a case by case basis. Again. And again. Forever. There is no way out. That is your job and you have to do it.

Indeed, this is a troubled business line.

Pioneer went BOOM long time ago, with many others. RIP Kuro /sigh
Sony display sold to Samsung.
Panasonic moving its factories to China and focusing on cutting costs and zero R&D, after the QA disaster at the Czech republic factory (most 2011 plasmas had insane green tint and fluctuating brightness).

The only real players left in the TV business are Samsung and LG and they are both operating on heavy losses on TV lines.
Not only we will not come up with new stuff, we may even go back a few steps(CRT ... /shivers). Its going to be ugly. Real ugly.

Very insightful. This is natural. As part of their internal optimizer, most people want the most with the minimum amount of effort. If possible, everything for free. Now. I'm so tired of kids thinking they are somehow entitled to everything, for just being born.

But this is not something new, most people are shortsighted, and that include most of Slashdot's audience. Those few who actually take the effort to think a bit into the future will always be in advantage, and those who are used to receive everything for free will be paralyzed when they hit a real problem.

On the other hand, we have to keep in mind this is media, and media is not about cold, absolute and truthful information. Its about entertainment. People come here to be entertained, to have fun, not to listen to uncomfortable truths. Lies and misinformation are ok, fun must prevail at all costs.

These kind of comments will always be unpopular, thus modded down into oblivion, even if they are in fact insightful. This is where democracy fails. I'll join you in -1 hell. Fuck stupidity!

Same story here: my first mobile phone was a smartphone, like 5 years ago, after resisting 10 years without a mobile phone. Even today, I use the mobile computer features way more than voice communication.

I probably initiate/receive max 15 calls each month, most of them with my significant-other. But I open it to check weather/news/email or to Google something on it several times every day. Probably half of my posts on Slashdot were made from a smartphone.

The brand of the smartphone doesn't matter, I owned about 3 different platforms so far. Its awesome, I love it.

TFA in other words:

It is mission critical to have a holistic integration on next generation value-added enterprise, while eating your own dogfood and leveraging the core granular competencies to bring the sustainability to the customers.

Bitch, pahhhleaz!

That's redundant, during the entire history, a very small amount of people had the most power. Only kids(of all ages) and communists dream about equal rights and/or power. They go kill the rich guys, take their money, and take their places as the new rich guys. It happened a milion times in history. Nothing new here.

In before grammar police: s/you much/you must/g
Yeah I suck, mod me down into oblivion :P

While I concur with your conclusion that this specific patent sucks, you much be also painfully aware that its also much more easier to find faults with other people solutions than finding your own solution.

No matter what you do, people will find ways to screw with your procedures, organisation, efforts and goals. Many people range from innocent idiots to some really insidious monkeys. Sometimes its better to implement a weak solution, monitor results, handle the extremes manually and adjust the solution dynamically. Handling it entirely manually can result in huge costs of micromanaging.

Evaluating people(not just programmers) has always been a problem. But not doing anything is not a solution.

The keyword is "relatively".

From my 15 years experience, the easy move from department to department is nothing short of dreams/lies/advertising. In practical use, performing such move requires huge amounts of politics, networking and influence. If you already are good at those, you may as well aim for the CEO position. If you are not good with those types of skills (probably most of Slashdot audience), on such request you get the "finger". I.E. responses like "we actually need you here", "there aren't any other positions available that fits your expertise", or any other politically correct "finger".

Its much more easier to actually find yourself a whole new fresh job, at least there you start with a clean slate, unpolluted by internal politics. The funny part is that when you finally actually find a new job and you tell them you are leaving, they suddenly have available options for you. Slimmy fuckers.