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Koolance Water Cooling Kit
VL writes "Overall, Koolance has a very impressive kit in the PC3-720 and is definitely worth considering if you're interested in an easy to use water-cooling setup. Performance is very good, and the case aesthetics are top notch in our opinion. Pricing is something we do have a problem with. Aluminum case aside, this is an expensive setup."
BRRR COLD!!!!!
Fuck you GNAA fags!
Thanks for the ad!
Have yourself a kumquat and reeelax, yo.
more expensive than other choices, and doesn't work as well. It's not even a good advertisement. But I wouldn't know that unless I RTFA, so I guess mission accomplished huh?
Imagine a Slashdot Effect on a physical location like a single store. Good thing walking places isn't as convenient as clicking hyperlinks.
"Damnit, Bob's Hardware imploded from the gravity off too many Slashdot users visiting at once."
Sam ty sig.
Firefox is free Open Source software, this is physical hardware that the company actually makes money off of. Fallacy of improper comparison.
I am doing my best to counteract their efforts with wget. So far I have cost them about 100 megs of bandwidth. It doesn't matter to me, but it is costing them. If everyone does this then it might end up costing them more than what they made from this advertisement. Something to the effect of:
/dev/null --mirror -t 0 -C off www.viperlair.com
wget -O
If anyone has a better one(I know there are), please let us know.
well that was working but now it is fucked up. Take out the '-O /dev/null' and it goes, but it saves everything to your hard drive.
Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled.
That's a pisser.
That's good, could also try httpd flood from Apache, which is more of a server loader attempt than a bandwidth hog... but of course it'd work too. The meta-Slashdot-effect, where everyone on Slashdot simulates an isolated Slashdot effect...
Sam ty sig.
Hahaha, isn't it HILARIOUS how Microsoft patched Internet Explorer against the latest browser exploit before a similar patch was released for Firefox?
And isn't it hilarious that, even though so many open source advocates on Slashdot declared their interest as to "who would release the patch first", this wasn't covered in any follow-up articles, or mentioned in any way?
I laugh at you all, Linux pussyboys. Firefox got beaten by the "oh so bad" Micro$oft (lolol $ instead of S gettit??????//). I guess this means that Firefox (and the entire open source community) really does suck more cock than I previously thought..
It's a joke. Laugh.
Seriously though. People bitch when there are stories that aren't considered "News for nerds enough". Then whenever there is a review of something that is what a lot of people would consider "nerdy enough", people bitch because it could be seen as free advertisment for a product. Well, duh. It's rather hard to point out a product that does X without telling people about it, and who makes it. And if it's a review you've linked to, God forbid, they might actually post their thoughts on it. And if those thoughts are positive, *gasp* it might be construed as some kind of endorsement.
Is Slashdot now only supposed to be "News for nerds, stuff that matters if it's free and people can't make money off it"? Because, ya know, the last time I looked, some people were making money off of Slashdot itself.....
What one? Fat bastards
Hands up who wouldn't be surprised if Michael got a nice free water cooling system for the purposes of, um, reviewing its performance...
Just out of curiousity, what exactly are you attempting to accomplish? Viper's lair has the review, they're not the ones selling it. And all that extra traffic you're generating for them has probably cost them a grand total of 20 cents. But it will make their web logs look spectacular to potential advertisers, once a few things like originating IPs are stripped out and so forth.
In other words, you're probably having the opposite effect to what you intend. If Viper's Lair is on the up-and-up, you're just being a jerk. If they're not, you're helping to pad their web traffic which they use as a selling point to advertisers.
Really? I thought the plummeting S/N ratio was actually killing Slashdot.
At least Netcraft confirmed Slashdot is dying.
That's nice and all, but long ago Commander Taco told us that the comments only got ~5000 pageviews. Double that because time has passed. We know that the front page gets loaded a bunch more than that, maybe hundreds of times per day? Face it, toying with the comments page has no impact.
I've been looking at the Koolance kit lately. If it weren't for all the crap about the "Slashvertisement", I'd be able to see some interesting user reviews from my peers who actually bit the bullet. You know, people who didn't get a preview sample, motivated to give it a positive review so they continue to get free stuff -- real people who have no vested interest in the continued success or failure of the product.
A Slashvertisement may or may not be a real thing, but it gives us comment-dwellers a chance to discuss products we've seen in action and the rest a chance to read about their satisfaction. Additionally, college students are home for Christmas break. Slashops are getting fewer articles submitted, so we'll have some of the dregs for a few days. Deal with it. At least it's better than summer vacation.
What is the difference between a university and a college?
"Imagine a Slashdot Effect on a physical location like a single store."
Clearly you've never been to an Apple store grand opening...
No, people bitch because there is nothing news-worthy about these products. It's like posting a story about a new power supply... Nothing new, nothing special. There's no link to an independent test of how well it cools, there's nothing interesting at all... It's just another computer-cooling product.
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
I don't mind genuine 'news' about products, or even about companies in general. Where I find it to be a pain in the ass is when the product in question isn't actually all that interesting / novel / discussable.
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The Boeing story is interesting, its not technically 'amazing' but it IS groundbreaking on a reasonably broad scale and worthy of note. A new watercooling kit is, at most, of niche interest to watercooling freaks, and hardly marks 'the arrival of the future'
Theres a nice rework on
SLASHDOT
Documenting and talking shit about the arrival of the future
Damn this guy is hilarious I laughed so hard. We don't need to see the other contestents give this guy the gold!
Have you metaroderated recently?
The moderators are on crack. Just look at the submitter, this story was submitted by ViperLair, not some slashdot user. They clearly admit to attempting product placement, and the editors let them get away with it. There may be paybacks involved here.
"2- Post comments about COMPETITOR PRODUCTS, and alternative solutions. Spread focus.
3- Contribute replies to such posts made by others, i.e. keep discussing alternatives but try to avoid the advertiser."
Uh, no. The whole point of these articles are to generate interest. Your idea about not clicking the link is dead on the money, but posting more replies simply allows Slashdot to go back to the advertiser and say "Look at all the discussion for your post!" Chances are the advertiser won't read the comments anywy.