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Transparent Transistors Are Coming
Roland Piquepaille writes "Transparent electronics is an emerging technology which aims to produce invisible electronic circuits. Now, researchers from Oregon report they made a major advance in transparent electronics. Their zinc-tin-oxide 'thin-film' materials are amorphous, physically robust, chemically stable and cheap to produce at just above room temperature. These new materials and transistors offer many new possibilities for consumer electronics, transportation, business and the military."
So being "transparent" really doesn't mean much for sales point? It sounds like the key points are (1) the element can be made small (thin) and (2) cheap. I could be way off the mark, as I just skimmed the article out of curiousity on application.
Perfect for a throw-away phone and such?
If the story is interesting, what is the big frickin deal? If it's not interesting, what is the big fricking deal?
Me personally, I'm sick of lots of stories Slashdot posts about. Do I filter them? Nah. Do I bitch about them? Admittedly I used to. But life's too short. Now I just scroll on.
Lighten up.
"Derp de derp."
Can I quote that (verbatim, of course, and without acknowledgement) as a defence if I ever get accused of plagiarism?
At the bottom of the
It means more comments in the thread, which means more ad hits for Slashdot, which means more demand for the dude's work. Frankly, I resent my flamebait moderation on my previous post. It's a good point. The best way to keep this guy around is to keep the topic controversial. How do you think Howard Stern or Rush Limbaugh stay on the air?
You guys want Slashdot to take him down? Don't comment in his threads. The editors will get the point when they can no longer guarantee that certain topics will get x many pages served with client y's ads..
"Derp de derp."
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/. ??? Now I can't even find out what he's been posting recently.
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/. editors, this person adds nothing but first grade english comprehension and some googled links, which otherwise could fit on the /. front page, with a credit to him of course. credit where's due, but on balance none is due.
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And how many users get to have their nick / handle linking to their homepage istead of their uid history on
Forget the money issues, i just love the way how the "story" builds up to "many new possibilities " (bold is the link to Roland's site - is he a real person? so that you are tempted to ignore the origin of the story and link straight to the punchline . .
I am sorry, but connexion or no connexion between Rolan and
at time of posting the majority of "discussion" attached to this story is annoyed one way or the other about this roland, pro or con the conspiracies. that gotta be bad .
Most of the stories summitted by Piquepaille don't interest me, so the fact that he has so many stories accepted doesn't really concern me. I do see some people on here who don't seem to understand why some people do have problems with him though.
His "sins" or breaches of etiquette are many:
1. he is profiting off of getting stories posted, or is at least seeming to. I would imagine that the cost of bandwidth might be close to what he is alleged to make in ads.
2. he is merely reposting stuff from others. Which is what Slashdot does, but the main problem is that slashdot doesn't then go to others sites and post a story linking back to slashdot. which leads to the next "sin"
3. he is breaking from the accepted norms of what happens when you post a link on slashdot. Most people, myself included, think that when you click on a link on slashdot, it will take you to the original story, not another story about a story.
4. he is self linking. This is probably the biggest sin. Nearly everyone here has their own website but it is seen as showy or bragging to just go around linking to yourself. If what he has to say is so interesting, then why aren't other people submitting his blog columns?
5. it isn't obvious that is what he is doing from the text. If you aren't paying attention that the story was submitted by Piquepaille, then you will click the link looking for more information and be disappointed.
6. he gets a lot of stories accepted. I think I can explain this one, however. I bet the guy simply submits every single time he posts on his blog. If you submit an article every single day, I'm willing to bet you will get accepted a couple times a month.
Personally? I think he's an attention whore. He acts like a junior high kid "look at me! look at me!" I think it is lame and I wish it would stop, but as I said from the beginning, I hardly ever care about his stories anyway, so it doesn't matter much to me.
Nice conspiracy theory. I don't buy it, but it's very cute.
Some specific problems with your theory:
First, Slashdot itself runs basically the same type of service Roland does; they link to other articles. Hell, Slashdot doesn't even have to go looking for the articles, they expect readers to submit them. Slashdot is sure as hell making more money each month than Roland. Should we hate Slashdot as well?
Second, is Roland (and Slashdot) providing a service? Well, you're here, aren't you? Roland serves the same purpose many blogs do, he collects information. Maybe that's not worth anything to you, but it's hardly an evil scheme. Is he pimping his own site via Slashdot? Perhaps. So what? Apparently the Slashdot editors find his submissions to be worthy of posting. On that note...
Fourth, you're seriously suggesting that Slashdot is involved some sort of evil plan to scam $647 a month? That's chump change t to Slashdot.
Fifth, and perhaps most importantly, you suggest that the $647 is something that we should give the slightest crap about. If you were paying him that money you might have a right to complain that he wasn't justifying that money, but you're not. You're getting a free service, the only cost to you is potentially being exposed to some ads. If you don't like it, don't take advantage of that free service.
The worst non-crazy charges you can levy are that Roland pimps himself on Slashdot for hits and that Slashdot editors are lazy and let Roland pimp himself. Wow, life's tough.
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