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34019 writes "The original Gmail engineer, Paul Buchheit, reminisces on the creation of email, and how he designed Gmail in hopes of it improving the way we communicate. From the article: 'Of course that wasn't the only reason why I wanted to build Gmail. I rely on email, a lot, but it just wasn't working for me. My email was a mess. Important messages were hopelessly buried, and conversations were a jumble; sometimes four different people would all reply to the same message with the same answer because they didn't notice the earlier replies. I couldn't always get to my email because it was stuck on one computer, and web interfaces were unbearably clunky. And I had spam. A lot of it. With Gmail I got the opportunity to change email - to build something that would work for me, not against me.'
Gmail needs a calender.
Religion for nerds. Stuff that really matters
Many rich people put their money in Banks. Although they don't know it and hate the idea .. the money they put in banks is utilized to give out loans to people. When loans are given out .. that creates jobs. (eg: houses get built etc). And you may say that "well what if the economy tanks and people default on the loans" .. Guess who loses out .. the rich .. cause then the houses get owned by the bank. And get resold at a loss at a low price .. Maybe even back to the people they repossessed the home from. LOL.
.. quality of life translates to many things .. fundamentally probably "energy at disposal" (stuff you own requires energy to make, and food itslf is just energy (energy to grow and energy to retriev). So fundamentally we cannot run out of raw materials becaue even when you throw things away it remains on the erath. The extraction of the material from mining or from landfills or wherever is what costs money. So anyway .. what we have is an energy problem. But even that is solvable .. For example the entire Sahara desert can be covered with solar panels or clean energy systems (deep geothermal or fusion if that ever becomes possible) and provide enough energy to sustain a decent quality of life for everyone on Earth. The only downside is that the improved quality of life may cause a stagnation or decline in global population because population growth rate tends to decline and become negative in rich countries (US is probably the only exception for a variety of reasons including immigration).
Anyway
Hey everybody, jihadi_31337 here again. You may remember me posting from the Internet Measurment Conference earlier this week. I'm on a road trip for the weekened, and I'm at a friend's place. One of my favorite things about going to friends' places is that I can do a bunch of jihad posts and get their IP banned too :)
Ok, here we go. Thanks for reading the intro.
Ever notice the "beat the rush and see it early" link at the top of slashdot when a new story is about to come out?
Sounds good, doesn't it? To be able to view the pages linked to in the article before the tens of thousands of other slashbots click to view them.
Did it ever occur to you that you're taking part in cyber-terrorism?
That's right: Slashdot's editors are cyber-terrorists. They coordinate a DOS against small websites, and they attempt to collect moeny from people who wish to be spared the effects of said DOS. Terrorism, plain and simple.
You can fight this and other crimes by slashdot's editors by joining anti-slash. Anti-slash is committed to forcing the editors to own up to their numerous crimes against the geek community. Until our demands are met, we will relentlessly discredit them as a news service through trolling and other means.
Also, props to poopbot and the alan thicke troll. We remember your accomplishments.
In sacred jihad,
jihadi_31337
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i was just wondering how much google is paying slashdot for these daily adverts?, anyone?