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It's time to blatantly plug a recent addition to Slashdot's Subscription System: just in time for the holidays, you can now give a subscription to any other user. You have the choice to give your gift anonymously, or take credit for your fabulous selfless generosity. If that isn't enough, we still have assorted Slashdot Merchandise available at ThinkGeek... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
Get 'em hooked, then they'll have to keep joining, once they see that the banners have once again quadrupled in size!
I shall give you the gift of bullets and shoes!!
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Do we all get a cool account to use?
My checkbook is open Mr. Taco - all you have to do is give me the answers to write you the dollars.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
and never have sex with your girlfriend again.
And thanks to my subscription, I got a heads up from the mysterious future on this ;) Just in case /. gets slashdotted
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Funny, when I first read the headline I thought it meant you could buy a service to crash someone else's server....
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
The more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
Don't fall for this! I now can't do all of my laundry, because I have no place to store my last dozen t-shirts. They are sitting on a chair right now. I started buying more clothes without looking at the volume of my dirty laundry. Now where do I store this stuff? Anyone want a t-shirt?
t'nera semordnilap
"... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry."
Well, isn't that the geek mantra?
- - Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand. - -
If that isn't enough, we still have assorted Slashdot Merchandise available at ThinkGeek... the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
Not to mention that once you own enough t-shirts, you can start a pile in the corner. As you remove a dirty t-shirt, you through it on top. When you need a new one, you take from the bottom. The weight of all the t-shirts on top pressure cleans the ones toward the bottom. Once you acheive a critical mass of t-shirts in your cleaning queue, you will never have to do laundry again.
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
It's not a dupe, it's the gift that keeps on giving!
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
... extracted from the rare wool of sheep-like Slashdot Moderators ...
do I get better, more relevant stories, no dupes, and editors that actually EDIT?
Or is it just to get rid of a couple annoying ads and have the privelege of seeing what the slashdot gods decided is important before the rest of the unpaying masses.....
no thanks.
I think this is a fairly important question and would like to see an editor answer it. If user names are then tied to name and address by subscribing, count me out.
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
Due to high costs of energy this holiday season, the lump of coal in your stocking has been replaced by a Slashdot subscription.
Oh, and a complimentary First Post to sweeten the deal!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
edit your hosts file
127.0.0.1 ads.osdn.com
no more ads!
I bought myself a subscription basically because I read
And then I found that it blocked all the ads! This is the one site I've EVER visited that I find the sponsors interesting!
Oh the irony!
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
I think it would help the Open Source developer community if they were granted a gift subscription to /. . The content in Slashdot would be invaluable in their daily research, as informed individuals share their experiences and insights. It would also alleviate the tedium that permeates their lives when they get to follow the insight GNAA, TEH SPOKE, and Subject Line trolls.
So don't delay and support your local Open Source developer, since you never know when you need that Ogg Vorbis support in your favorite application!
Wearing pants should always be optional.
For those that don't know...
It's 1000 pages for 5 dollars.
i just see a bunch of geeky kids now sitting on Santa's lap trying to explain to him what slashdot is...
Merry Christmas All.
Davak
I hate to say this, but the editorial work of the Slashdot staff is not worth paying for. All the things I value in Slashdot come from the posters. I think the editorial staff needs to make a concerted effort to become more professional, drop the dupes, and fix the grammar.
Do the T-shirt contest winners get any money for each shirt (of theirs) that is purchased? Or did they get something for their design straight up? Just curious...
I've said this before, but Slashdot doesn't know how to listen. You need money? Set up an Ebay-like auction system here.
You have a huge, loyal audience. A ton of people go through here everyday. They all have tons of gadgets, computers to sell, Batman dollies to shill. You have excellent (?) programmers - why keep tweaking Slash code? that's not making you money. build an auction system, and it will be a service to the community and keep you from begging. What a bunch of idiots you are. You're like Netscape, who waited too long and could have been like Yahoo, and blew it.
And put up classifieds, and maybe user group lists, where slash'ers in cities can meet. The Slash code is done enough, do something productive now. "Journals" won't make you money.
Go look at craigslist.com - see how they build their community. Spend 2 weeks analysing ebay in depth, then start building - you'll make mistakes, but start coding. look at some of the pre-built auction systems and learn. didn't Phil Greenspun's TCL system have an auction and classified system - download, learn the db schema, and do something practical.
what morons. not a drop of sense.
Considering that my girlfriend is running BSD, has a Dual Intel Xeon processor, 1 GB ram, a network interface card and can't really walk much further than the length of her powercord...I think a slashdot subscription is just the thing...that is until the price of fuel cell technology drops to the point where we can actually go out on our first date!!!
BTW...she's rack mounted...hubba, hubba.
> the more T-Shirts you buy, the less often you need to do laundry.
The more t-shirts you buy, the more laundry you have to do.
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Everytime I get the chance to moderate, I will bestow apon you as many points as I can.
I will honor and support you in any flame war.
During times your times of good karma, and bad karma,
through a dialup or in broadband
I will be there to post by your comment.
Till the subscription runs out...
Build a Man a Fire and keep him warm for a day... Set a Man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his Life !!
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Your girlfriend runs BSD? That's a shame she's dying. My girlfriend is a quad-processor Solaris box. She's as stable as hell and likes to get freaky-deaky!
The ability to fucking count.
Just spray the pile with deoderant every now and then.
FRA: STFU GTFO
"The idea that slashdot is just a linking system is false in its approach, as it also is a commenting and journalling system that allow for more exploration of the topics than the original article itself."
Based on the "quality" of the exploration of the topics I'd say its not doing a very good job and has "jumped the shark".
It used to be useful but now its turned into a place to waste time.
But thats just my opinion. I tend to want to pay for things that have some value. Web sites that provide news links and a forum that shows how out of touch with reality some people are does not provide any value to me.
More evidence that not only do users not read the articles, but moderators don't read the comments... ;)
Though that is definitely an interesting study in social behavior. All of us randomly posting comments that have nothing to do with each other and then moderating them "accordingly"! It must look like chaos to those on the outside...
(But that explains all those SCO posts that have nothing to do with the story! Ah ha!!!)
I must agree to this list, also since my subscription has run out (I had a 5000 page subscription) I have not recieved any mod points. Perhaps it's because of my recently downmodded posts. If that is the case, then there needs to be a change in the method of handing out mod points. People are not always 100% karma whores, and if karma whores are the only ones getting mod points then this system is stupid.
Why should I? It isn't like a subscription to /. buys anything. If /. editors would edit the articles, check for dups, change the mod system (just check the BSD subsite to see how broken it has become) and post everyonce in a while then I would subscribe.
Not quite. It's more like : "Why pay for rubbish when the good stuff is available legally for free."
Some of us realised this back in about 1994 and have never regretted having this insight.
Stick Men
More T-shirts, less laundry, right?
Well, maybe not. I don't know about the rest of you, but even I have a lot of extra T-shirts, I would still need to do laundry every so often. Otherwise, I would run out clean underware! Since ThinkGeek doesn't appear to sell any, I doubt if the frequency of may laundry would change that much even if I get one of these Slashdot T-shirts...
Of course, this also makes me wonder something... CmdrTaco either has a lot of underwares or doesn't change his underware very often... I hope the truth is the second one...
I spent $20 and got 4000 ad-free page views in return. Currently I have only used something like 320... and it has been months!
Most of the time, I forget to login, that accounts for part of the problem. The features are nice, but I wanted to support Slashdot. Plain and simple.
I do love the ability to read the entire posting history of users. Probably the coolest feature in my book.
If you thought that Michael comment didn't belong, you just haven't been reading the stories he posts.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Yeah, but need more socks and jeans, too. Boxer shorts not so critical - going commando in a pair of line-dried jeans feels *so* good.
Don't fall for this! I now can't do all of my laundry, because I have no place to store my last dozen t-shirts. They are sitting on a chair right now. I started buying more clothes without looking at the volume of my dirty laundry. Now where do I store this stuff? Anyone want a t-shirt?Sure! You can send me your cool t-shirt donations. I like to work on cars, so I go through t-shirts, but I would especially like offensive, amusing, or technology t-shirts. (My favorites? "Fellatio is not an opera.", saw it when I was walking past a store in Toronto's gay village and decided that I had to have it. Also have a black Maytag golf shirt which I love.)
Why do I like the Maytag shirt so much? Well, years ago, I had a GE washing machine (it was a Hotpoint brand, GE made washers for dozens of other companies). The design of this washing machine was stupid - the tub is stationary, and in an unbalanced spin, the basket moves relative to the tub. At the bottom of the tub, there was a massive rubber seal between the tub and the top of the transmission. And that rubber seal was strangely dissolving into the wash water.
So, about 10 years ago, I scored a 1954 Maytag washer out of the garbage. Took a look and discovered that it needed belts. (Maytag washers *must* use Maytag belts; they did away with a complicated and unreliable clutch mechanism by simply designing the belt to slip as the washer comes up to speed in the spin cycle. Regular belts don't slip enough, so the washer will make nasty noises and might burn out its motor.) Spend $20 on a set of Maytag belts, and the thing has been running perfectly ever since. Washing dirty underwear for 49 years now with nothing more than two new belts - love it. No stupid rubber tub seal to dissolve and stain your clothes, no tub-basket contact in an unbalanced load to chip the basket and make it abrasive to clothing. Bulletproof design, almost all Maytags from 1940s to modern coin-op laundromat washers use this same mechanism. My clothes last almost forever, and I've grown so fond of my 1954 Maytag washer that I actually look forward to doing laundry.
In 2000, my 1967 Maytag dryer (also scored at about the same time, every bit as tough as the washer) got choked up with lint when the vent hose fell off the back. I pulled it apart to clean it and decided to change the felt drum seals at the same time. When I was at the appliance store buying the seals, I was chatting with the counter guy, and he asked me about my washer. He called over the sales manager and they asked me if they could borrow my washing machine to put in the showroom for the holiday rush ("Maytag Dependability" was the sign over my washer). I agreed, and they sent over a truck with a brand-new Maytag Neptune for me to use while mine was on display. And a Maytag golf shirt.
Anyway, to organize my clothes, I bought a $15 wooden shelving unit. I simply fold them and place them on that - for some reason, I don't use drawers. This has been a cheap and easy solution, reducing the former problem of a chair buried in cotton.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.