Oh I know this one!
This is where that young boy becomes the youngest Seeker in school history, and then later sends messages via his Superb Owl! Then later Hermione studies hard because she wants to pass her Ordinary Wizard Levels!
Thank you for echoing the angle I have been concerned about for a while now!
We have almost been tricked into believing there are "different classes of copyrights"!
Not counting the cases the courts have specifically ruled on, there's no intrinsic difference between a photo and a song in the copyright sense. Flannery O'Connor had the right idea: "Everything that rises must converge".
So thanks to the Music Industry deciding that Copyrights are Big Biz, then
"The lawsuit argues that Jackson "gave the Color Run an implied license" to use his pictures and that it "inadvertently" used them in print promotions."
Oh hello Soulskill, nice to see you in the comments.
Unfortunately "last few days are hectic" isn't remotely close to right. Last Few Years, if you wheeled out that excuse. But no, don't do that either. "Last Few X is Hectic" is a tired phrase now that Big Bad Dice owns you and you have lots of firepower to add!
Uh... oh. Wait. I just heard 3rd hand they just decided both you AND us are
So what exactly are any of us here doing with a value of Zero? Can you buy them out with a Dollar? (Rhetoric, Wall Street Shenanigans may apply.)
I'll leave the extended comedy routines to others. X of us see a value in a quiet eddy current called Slashdot. Since your value is officially zero, why again exactly are you going with Beta?
Plus, I asked months/a year ago about exporting existing comments out of Slashdot but you/They made sure that was never close to a possibility... really now? Data Capture? I calculate I have almost 100 blog topics stored in raw material here. But no. You gang NEVER made ANY easy export tools under ANY management even BEFORE Dice.
So I'm not going all Swearword-Beta. I'm attacking different problems. But still unhappy.
Yours,
--Tao
There's a softer version of the same effect
"Boycotting" implies passion and anger and attempts to save something.
But perhaps folks such as I will simply silently-but-surprisingly-quickly just fade away when it becomes unreadable, and reinvest the newly found time to more offline pursuits.
Maybe the analogy is Coke vs NewCoke. I wasn't around to know if there were passionate boycotts
Maybe a year off might be good for perspective, like an old short story called "the very slow time machine". I can see what MS's new tech oriented CEO is beginning to evolve for Windows 9, which might be near Beta by that point. Obama would be winding down on his last big initiative, whatever that becomes. The early shape of the 2016 Pres race should be clearer. "The Aftermath of Edward Snowden" might be clearer. A few cool rulings by smart judges. A few horrible ones that enrage the tech community.
And then a year into Beta
Heh come on, y'all are programmers - What would a *Near-Perfect* Slashdot look like, UI Wise? I'd LOVE for someone to do a mockup, even if it has some capacity issues - just for us to show *ourselves* what "Listening" means. We can solve the "staffing and picking stories" later - just do a mockup with ten stories, just so we can have the true answer to the Beta abomination!
My quick suggestions:
1. I have never ever used the left sidebar of
Stories
Submissions
Popular
Blog
So I'm happy if that gets hidden behind a special menu.
2. I don't use the right side boxes for very much.
3. Make comments "Level 1 2 3 4" and then the sideways space usage becomes much better.
Okay gang, see ya less for a while!
--Tao
Uh oh,
I didn't know they were censoring stuff at this level!
Forget the layout etc, is THIS the real problem - that the site that once allowed absolutely everything to be posted (except Scientology), under the heavy reliance on the -1 mod system, and posts "YourRightsOnline" stories all week, is now censoring posts just because they don't like them??!
I should make the Dice annual report about "Slashdot value on the books being reduced to zero" into MY new sig!
1. I've been 75% okay with the topic-mix even in the new "bad period". My big peeve is about source validity; 75% of what Nick Kolakowski posts is indeed business news. I just get grumpy with him calling it "Nerval's Lobster" hoping newbies will think it's an unbiased story, rather than "Slashdot Senior Editor Nick Kolakowski reports..."
2. Tone. Something has definitely gotten darker holistically since the "Linux on Desktop" days of 2006. I'm riding out WinXP, maybe moving to Win7 and later maybe even Win9 if they in fact fix it with that new CEO at Microsoft. But I've kinda given up on Linux. Awesome philosophy, really hard in the details.
3. How do you avoid mediocrity? Echoing a user elsewhere, Slashdot purposely refused to allow a bulk download of user contributions. I once thought of making a blog out of my comments, but got bogged down in a manual scrape. So if you re-invent wheels, a comment-download would be much appreciated!
After all, in 2004 I had no idea that faceless Dice.com would own Slashdot in 2014!
"Be careful of what you invoke - you might get it!"
On top of my page today:
"MOVINâ(TM) ON UP. You are on Slashdot Classic. We are starting to move into new digs in February by automatically redirecting greater numbers of you. The new site is a work in progress so Classic Slashdot will be available from the footer for several more months. As we migrate our audience, we want to hear from you to make sure that the redesigned page has all the features you expect. Find out more."
(one of) the other concerns is Police Work as Social Media Gamification.
It's like Ender's Game - They can turn it into some kind of dehumanized gamification contest, whereas until now people had a bit of slack leeway.
Fresh into returning to the field of Tax Prep, maybe there was a potential other angle of this, and I look forward to anyone chiming in about this. But what if you fight the "grumpy dog" (Child Svc) with a Grumpier Dog? (IRS)!?
When you file/filed your taxes, even though maybe you're smart enough to usually do stuff yourself, go to a really good tax prep service on purpose and then file your return. The Claiming rules from the IRS have pretty fierce residency duration checks. The point here is not about the tax effects, it's to use the preparer's credentials (and file with an Enrolled Agent etc) who can aggressively back up your case from day one.
So then when it bounces around at the Child Svc level, that "Phone Call" would go to an IRS rep back to Child Svc of the state.
Not an easy path to take but it might work.
I had a chance to log in and remotely look at a buddy's Win 8 system.
The big problem I noticed was all those tiles there that I would never ever use. "Photos, Facebook, Gmail, Other Social Media, Calendar, Contacts,
Holistically it's that all those things are dumped there, vs in the old days I use my desktop space for what *I* want there.
Well, there's at least two - Adblock Plus and Adblock Edge, which is a fork. So it would take a few more dollars to both buy them both AND re-license it with a mean lawyer who takes out the forking permission rights!
Hallo,
A comment from someone who just was learning about computers then, so take this with some salt...
One basic problem about Windows Me is that its timing was wrong. We all heard about the crash happenings of Win 95. Win 98 was a decent effort at least to tidy all that up. Not perfect, but you could see that someone tried. My first comp I learned on was Win 98.
The problem was, behind the scenes someone started a "skunkworks" second dev track based on the Win NT line that was at that time much more stable. Then they managed to get hold of the legendary Dave Cutler who poured himself into it all, and basically stamped the Win 2000, which when tweaked, became the Win XP that we all argue about today.
Win Me was a last left over holdover from the Win 98 codebase without all that extra hardening in, so it ran up against too many things that had been solved on the other dev track from Win 2000 / Win XP.
"AmEx isn't one of the big 2, and they charge the most of anyone."
However, if I chime my voice in as "just one from the average streetgoer", American Express has made its name in infamy as the card many businesses don't accept! (Because of those higher fees.)
So to be sure someone has held a few meetings over at AmEx, and decided losing those smaller accounts aren't worth whatever other clout they have among the executive set.
In contrast, I can't think of any tangible difference to me between Visa and Mastercard.
Real AI absolutely has both "Big Data" and some surprising small data attributes.
The early stumbling block was the old question of how an 8 year old can know that you eat an apple the apple sits on the table, and you don't eat the table. Then you *can* write on both the table and the apple with a ball point pen, but your Mother would be upset if you wrote on the table, and your Doctor would be upset if you wrote on the apple, ate it, reacted to the ink, then got sick.
So there are these branching use cases, but they do in fact have a finite (but large) ending.
But those guys didn't have "today's resources". And apparently, not "Today's Money". What I take away from this story is that via the "expert apps", AI is becoming possible, and the Singularity *will* happen, When-Not-If.
A devastating case example is the low tier workers in places like McDonalds. The "people app" isn't that hard... any competent programmer could get close within four tries at the basic duty set. The only missing equation is that people have low level abilities like walking and (not often) dropping things, so then you just train them for a week and they can do it. To get a fleet of Robots is such a huge sunk cost, but that's the only equation.
Jeopardy was a tougher challenge than most people realize, because it was about obfuscated and obscured knowledge. So if the program can parse that, it can parse more direct English as a piece of cake, sometimes.
"In Manhattan where slices are sold for a dollar. The exhibit to be provided separately contains the ratings of 48 such pizza stores. Only you can know if your precise pizza preference differs from the public rating."
"Everyone's head is a cheap movie show." -- Jeff G. Bone
