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New Slashdot T-Shirts On Sale Now
ThinkGeek has opened up their Slashdot Store, which among other fineries, is selling the all new Slashdot T-Shirts. We also have a surprise: In addition to the 3 winners we announced previously, by popular request, we added a 4th winner to the roster: Dan Sandler's 'Soothing Green Light' design. So go, buy all 4! And a hat! Do it! Also, Scott Lewallen made Icons & Wallpapers based on his Volatile Hyper Linkage design.
I don't have a problem with them selling shirts. Yay for them.
What I do have a problem with is the "Submit t-shirt suggestions which will then be our property." It just violates what the Slashdot seems to be about. Information wants to be free and what-not. They could've made the shirts, and still kept the logos open-source if someone else wanted to go around printing their own shirts (which I doubt too many would).
The only way to be a nerd these days is to be self-proclaimed, which basically is just a way to claim "I'm elite and intelligent and you are mainstream." In reality there is nothing unique about someone simply because they read Slashdot and know how to use a computer.
Doubtful, but I would like to see more options in the preferences for site design.
Something like:
1) Graphics heavy (new design with spiffier graphics)
2) Traditional (as is)
3) Low-bandwidth (for Lynx users)
For a lot of the geeks I know, where the heck are the XS and XXS sizes?
Trolls lurk everywhere. Mod them down.
Here's a clue: what did OSDN's sites do when most sites in the world protested against software patents adoption in the EU, by putting a blank page or at least a notice?
Zero. Nothing. Nada.
Not a single word came from any of their sites, and it would have helped the cause a big fscking lot, but also give them a bad PR in the corporate world.
No trolling intended. Companies are after profits, there's nothing wrong with that, and OSDN is a company. We must expect a change of mind in the corporate direction when a bunch of techies become a succesful company.
So, yes, they own all the rights of the material users will submit. Again, there's nothing wrong about that; then how about submitting your art elsewhere?
I'd love to get a polo type shirt with the ./ logo on it - I could wear it to work! :)
More than that, much as I want to like and buy them, they are just soooo lame as in donkey. And these were the best out of how many design entries? Good grief. I'm going to have to give the T-shirts "-1, Overrated"
Come on I need something to carry around the go juice...
What's the deal with T-1 lines anymore...for downloading, not really a big deal. On a cable modem I usually get equal speed on up to 1000kbps more. So you can run a server at a higher upload speed, but on the Internet, it is always better to receive than to give. And it's dirt-cheap in comparison.
Say T-3, and then I start to get weak-kneed.
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