Upcoming Changes To 'Ask Slashdot'

We're pleased to announce that changes are coming to the Ask Slashdot section. Ask Slashdot is a place to get your technical questions answered, show off your big brain by helping others, debate products and practices, and occasionally talk directly to companies about their offerings. Over the years, we've posted more than 7700 questions, on everything from workplace relations to home networking to evading censorship from unfriendly regimes. Starting tomorrow, you'll see that some Ask Slashdot questions have their own sponsors; the sponsors don't pick the questions, but experts from each sponsor will stick around for the discussion. Next up: we're making it easier for you to submit questions. Our goal is to make Ask Slashdot your "go-to" place for answers to your pressing nerd questions. So please post your questions, put on your answering hats, and come along for the ride.

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And I was worried

[Anrego]

I feel silly for getting concerned when that pulse stuff started showing up in the sidebar. Clearly things are heading in a good direction :)

For the first question I’d like to know how my organization can best leverage Oracle’s EJB technology to obtain the rapid and simplified development of distributed, transactional, secure and portable applications that we are looking for in our growing business.

Re:And I was worried

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

Jesus; I got Bingo just reading the question.

Re:And I was worried

[Anonymous Coward]

You'd best start synergizing as soon as possible or your cloud initiative will fail to leverage your business intelligence paradigm and we all know what happens then,

But, whatever you do, don't panic. Oracle professional services, in conjunction with the talent acquired in the Sun buyout, is standing by and ready to address your every business need.

My question....

[buanzo]

.... Will it blend?

Re:My question....

[Anonymous Coward]

Sponsored by Kitchenaid.

Re:December 7, 1941

[Nick Fel]

And 70 years later we have sponsors on Slashdot. Did we really win the war? Did we?

Re:I for one welcome this change with open hands

[masternerdguy]

I want to ask slashdot what kind of clothes I should wear.

Does this mean the Apple turfers will be labeled?

[pecosdave]

They weren't hard to identify anyways, but an official label on those accounts would help.

Re:I for one welcome this change with open hands

[mwvdlee]

"Dear Slashdot readers, Why does Linux suck so much?"
(sponsored by Microsoft).

Re:I for one welcome this change with open hands

[GameboyRMH]

Yes, and does anyone know where I can get cheap replica handbags?

Re:R.I.P. CmdrTaco

[Anonymous Coward]

By the way, did you know that you can post and read these discussions from Taco Bell? Head down to your local Taco Bell restaurant for wild December deals and more.

Re:Here's my major question:

[nitehawk214]

When are you guys going to fix the extremely broken, gamed, and unworking moderation system?

You got modded down. Looks like the moderation system works to me!

Re:I for one welcome this change with open hands

[mcgrew]

I have a Nike T-shirt (St Louis Cardinals logo on it). Paid seventy five cents for it at a garage sale five years ago.

Anyone who pays full price for fashion is no nerd. In fact, if you care about fashion at all you probably aren't a nerd. If you just want to meet women, ask women what to wear.

This advice comes from personal experience. After my divorce I couldn't get as much as a dinner date for 3 years, until one night in a bar a woman suggested I cut my beard into a goatee. So I did an informal survey of women 18 to eighty seven, and seventeen of eighteen respondants said "goatee" (the eighteenth was standing next to her boyfriend, who was wearing a full beard).

The dry spell ended almost immediately. I guess women don't like the RMS look.