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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."
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."
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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