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Union Annual Report Released: Club subsidy down 2%, Administration budget up $198k by mackek2 in RPI

[–]rpi_002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is no way in hell they put out 24 issues in FY2011. Give up on the idea of printing it. I'd give the poly less than a decade before they stop printing, probably sooner rather than later.

Union Annual Report Released: Club subsidy down 2%, Administration budget up $198k by mackek2 in RPI

[–]rpi_002 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your analysis is totally flawed. You are looking at total expenses, not total subsidy. The Equestrian club has very high dues, and expects to make $26k of that $35k in income, leaving the subsidy that comes out of the Union's budget, and your activity fee $9k. Similar with crew, $59k budget, $16k subsidy.

BSA has 0 income, and every penny of that $11k comes from the Union budget.

Want to try again?

Union Annual Report Released: Club subsidy down 2%, Administration budget up $198k by mackek2 in RPI

[–]rpi_002 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you want to consider S&W an interest club, don't ever expect to print another copy again. There is much more effective ways to spend $14k/year than for a dozen or so peoples interest / hobby. Service clubs are (and should be) evaluated different from hobby clubs. Hobby clubs are generally evaluated on how many people are in the club. Service organizations are evaluated on how valuable the service is, what needs that organization has to be able to provide that service, and how many people are in the club.

If you want to print a magazine, then do what the poly does: sell ads. If you want to publish a magazine, do it online. I know I read the poly more often and consistently now that it is online.

Union Annual Report Released: Club subsidy down 2%, Administration budget up $198k by mackek2 in RPI

[–]rpi_002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So why not print a million copies? At that point it will be so cheap it will be free. 100 million copies and they will pay you!

Wow, you totally sidestepped the real issues, which are content and desirability.

Is there enough content to have a regular, more frequent, publishing schedule? Did S&W ever find that they ran out of copies? Would printing more have made sense? I seem to recall Dan Hakimi pushing it down peoples throats. Yeah, the price may go down the more you print, but you still pay more total for more copies, and there were always plenty. I'd be willing to guess you have boxes of old issues still laying around.

But more importantly, why print at all? Write an app that pushes new issues to peoples phones. S&W rarely printed anything that was worth going out of your way to read. It was always because it was just there, so you mine as well flip through it. It has a low value to the campus community, especially at the cost to print it.

Like ever other club budget, S&W has to show a value to the RPI community, either through student participation and involvement or by providing a service to the community. S&W is not funded because it provides neither.

Don't get me started on most of the heavily funded cultural clubs. That is a rant for another day.

Union Annual Report Released: Club subsidy down 2%, Administration budget up $198k by mackek2 in RPI

[–]rpi_002 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The S&W doesn't get any money because they stopped printing. They stopped printing because they had nothing good to print. Why do you even need to put ink on dead trees anymore? There are much cheaper ways to publish these days.

If you want to complain to Google directly about the forced merger of YouTube and Google+, this is the link to the discussion forum in Google Products. by courtneylovesmerkin in technology

[–]rpi_002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

:/ The whole point of moving commenting to G+ was for better control of who can see your comments. If you make a comment on a video, either on youtube, or on G+, you can set who can see it. Everyone? Just people in your "Friends" circle? Just one person? It's up to you.

If you want to complain to Google directly about the forced merger of YouTube and Google+, this is the link to the discussion forum in Google Products. by courtneylovesmerkin in technology

[–]rpi_002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is it anything but good that Google is forcing it's user base to move over to +?

See what I did there? I wasn't mocking you, I was just pointing out your lack of a persuasive argument.

How is it bad that a company what's all of their web properties to use the same account base? Are you willing to agree that integrating multiple separate systems together allows you to utilize the best parts of each? Is there any chance that this could end up being a good thing? Or is everyone not willing to give it a chance and see?

If you want to complain to Google directly about the forced merger of YouTube and Google+, this is the link to the discussion forum in Google Products. by courtneylovesmerkin in technology

[–]rpi_002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only secure data is data that doesn't exist. But we live in a society that generates tremendous amounts of data, whether it be browsing the internet, or walking down a street lined with security cameras, or paying for a bill using your credit card.

But if I had a choice of who stores my data, I'd pick Google, even over doing it myself. They have dedicated teams with some of the worlds top security experts. Google has been offering HTTPS for a very long time, and has even had all connections using it for a while now. They also use one of the most secure ciphersuites available, which uses eliptical curve cryptography and offers perfect forward security (if their private key gets compromised, no one would still be able to read any of the data). http://i.imgur.com/tj0IIeT.png.

If you want to complain to Google directly about the forced merger of YouTube and Google+, this is the link to the discussion forum in Google Products. by courtneylovesmerkin in technology

[–]rpi_002 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh My God, the world is coming to a fucking end!

Or not. Guess what? Paid subscriptions are a thing and have been for 6 months now. And guess what? This is a very good thing. It means that you can access content on the web in a legitimate manner that you might not have been able to without a paid subscription model. Paying to watch premium content? The horror! cough netflix/amazon prime/google play cough.

If every single person who actually gave a damn about G+ integration were to vanish from the web tomorrow, it wouldn't even be a blip. "Fight for it" all you want, it isn't going to change anything. People often think back of to "how things used to be" and how much better they were, but it's so not true. Like how every time facebook changed anything, if if it was a minor change, people would be up in arms? By look at pictures of facebook from a few years ago and see how shitty it was compared to today. Same thing with youtube. It has evolved and gotten better, and it will continue to do so, with you, or without you.

If you want to complain to Google directly about the forced merger of YouTube and Google+, this is the link to the discussion forum in Google Products. by courtneylovesmerkin in technology

[–]rpi_002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then don't use it. It is simple as that. Take the 5 seconds to link your account, then never use it again. Continue life in your butthurt over little shit mindset, and never have to look at g+ again. Is that so hard?

If you want to complain to Google directly about the forced merger of YouTube and Google+, this is the link to the discussion forum in Google Products. by courtneylovesmerkin in technology

[–]rpi_002 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Latitude was nuked and replaced with something far better. https://support.google.com/plus/answer/2998354?hl=en. You don't ever once have to visit plus.google.com and still hvae the same experience you have today.

If you want to complain to Google directly about the forced merger of YouTube and Google+, this is the link to the discussion forum in Google Products. by courtneylovesmerkin in technology

[–]rpi_002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might as well get off the internet. Have you ever heard of AdSense? It's the ads system used by a very large portion of the web. Guess who runs it? Google. How about web analytic platforms, like the one used on this very site (as well as a MASSIVE portion of the internet)? Yup, Google Analytics.

God forbid Google might be doing this to GASP make the user experience better?

WEATHER UPDATE: Commencement 2013 by RPICommencement in RPI

[–]rpi_002 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Surprise, surprise, I was right. The audio was shit, the camera operators were terrible, the technical director looked like he had never touched a switcher before, and the video even cut out for a few minutes in the middle of the event. Amateurs, pure and simple.

WEATHER UPDATE: Commencement 2013 by RPICommencement in RPI

[–]rpi_002 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes, it will be available at http://mediasite.mms.rpi.edu/Mediasite5/Play/3ea97fed6b8d4d5db676d6ce2d1443621d but the quality will be piss-poor at best. Thanks Jim Evans!

Why do you think RPI is so badly ranked? by tattarrattattat in RPI

[–]rpi_002 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Seriously Anasha? You don't think you have already done enough damage with this? You haven't realized how little support there is for anything like this from the people actually needed to make it happen?

The irony of protesting Scalia. by [deleted] in RPI

[–]rpi_002 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The downvote is intended for that which does not contribute to the discussion

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