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Graphene Conducts Electricity Ten Times Better Than Expected
ananyo writes "Physicists have produced nanoribbons of graphene — the single-atom-thick carbon — that conduct electrons better than theory predicted even for the most idealized form of the material (abstract). The finding could help graphene realize its promise in high-end electronics, where researchers have long hoped it could outperform traditional materials such as silicon. In graphene, electrons can move faster than in any other material at room temperature. But techniques that cut sheets of graphene into the narrow ribbons needed to form wires of a nano-scale circuit leave ragged edges, which disrupt the electron flow. Now a team led by physicist Walt de Heer at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta has made ribbons that conduct electric charges for more than 10 micrometres without meeting resistance — 1,000 times farther than in typical graphene nanoribbons. The ribbons made by de Heer's team in fact conduct electrons ten times better than standard theories of electron transport they should, say the authors."
Apparently carbon isn't very good at introspection...
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Beta will be gone when they put it in full Production.
Instead of being an ass, Clearly post your issues to the correct authority, instead of spamming the message boards over and over again.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Beta turned me into a newt!
Yes, Altslashdot.org while the name is only tentative and a better name will replace it, it is a greenlight project and has already gotten a lot of interest. DICE killed what was good about slashdot (the community) and the people have spoken, they want the old slashdot and the people are making it happen. Slashdot was FOR the people by the people and that's what project altslashdot is about.
DICE will without a doubt go in their own direction and with that said, they don't care about its current audience but want to tailor to a broader but bigger audience. We get it, it's for the money, not for the people. Ultimately those that were around for a long time will likely want a new home which seems pretty understandable after the mistreatment. It's up to the community to decide but we'll see how it goes. Good luck dice!
So was that post enough to turn the tide so people started modding these down, or are the powers-that-be modding these down to make it look like that post was enough?
At this point I think the damage is done, and any attempt to fix it is too little, too late. I have no doubt left that slashdot is over, or as Python, Monty might say:
'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This SLASHDOT is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the BETA 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-SLASHDOT!!
Very much so and thanks for your contribution. DICE will not listen, but altslashdot.org will listen. The name is tentative but the goal is clear: community first.
We should also make a list of alternative sites where /. users can go for their news.
Post it here...
A. Crap, by any other name, stills smells like crap.
B. Slashdot, without its high quality comments, has no appeal.
C. Vote for the worst!
How soon before they can commercialize it to produce macroscopic wires that are used outside of an IC package?
Then produce big enough cables of wire to deliver electricity long distance?
And produce these wires economically?
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
You must be new around here.
Precious.
Instead of being an ass, Clearly post your issues to the correct authority, instead of spamming the message boards over and over again.
People have been saying "Beta sucks" for ages.
It's not just a matter of them using the wrong colors, the new comments system is unusable.
No sig today...
Instead of being an ass, Clearly post your issues to the correct authority, instead of spamming the message boards over and over again.
People already tried that for half a year now, the powers that be have simply ignored it. The time for diplomacy is over.
The conductivity of graphene pales in comparison with Beta's ability to direct users away from Slashdot.
If it is only a handful of disgruntled anti-Beta posters, where did all the normal comments go?
idiots. So i can't block google analytics or i get the "NANU NANU" shit? go fuck yourselves with a fork
Very much so and thanks for your contribution. DICE will not listen, but altslashdot.org will listen. The name is tentative but the goal is clear: community first.
Yeah, right, don't you mean community first until the community doesn't like something that owner/provider doesn't like?
If altslashdot.org users start posting porn, will that be acceptable? If they decide only whites or males should be allowed to post, will that be acceptable? The moment you post rules, you have dimminished community first, even if the community votes on them. Why? because future members of the community don't get a chance to vote on them, so really what you have is founders first, not community first.
I am skeptical about such an extraordinary claim.
Side note: Please, stop with the "fuck beta" campaign; I find this campaign FAR MORE DISRUPTIVE to the enjoyment of /. than the beta itself. Get over Yourselves already.
Spoken like a true /. member!
derp beta derpa
While it is interesting to see the advances with graphene, if used to make super fast computers, isn't the "wiring" on the chip only a small part of the problem? Have they found a way to make the transistors and resistors and parts on the chip out of graphene? If not, wouldn't the speed improvements be nonexistent? It would seem that it would be like taking a super highway and bringing all the traffic down to one lane at the exits (or maybe a bridge in NJ).
I would!
Beta will be gone when they put it in full Production.
Instead of being an ass, Clearly post your issues to the correct authority, instead of spamming the message boards over and over again.
Fuck beta!
why mess with what works and fans love. FUCK BETA
I feel the loss of the comment threads as much as you jellomizer. Which is exactly what this whole thing is about. The new site model nukes the existing message board structure.
Rather than see these as off topic posts, spamming the message boards, try the perspective that there is only one topic until this issue is resolved to the communities satisfaction and that these comments are in fact using the message boards for their intended purpose: maintaining a moderated discussion guided by the consensus generated by the readership.
These posts have become the most effective manner of communicating to the correct authority. The correct authority in this case is the broad readership, some of whom are just learning about this. The other authority is the controlling entities who have thus far made some poor choices about not responding to the communities posts in the designated channels. Therefore this is the next step in a spectrum of responses.
I personally apologize to you for the necessity of this step which has been provoked by the site operators. I do hope things change quickly, since I love slashdot. I am slashdot.
I've used all my mod points on "Offtopic" today. I was fine with the protest until Slashdot responded and opened a discussion area for it. Now, if you want to discuss beta, go to the beta article. Other people who care will be there, too. Maybe you can even effect positive change.
Spamming every single discussion is, quite obviously, now Offtopic and other people with mod points seem to agree with me.
E pluribus unum
FORK->FORKFORK-FORK
Probably here
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. -Benjamin Franklin
I can assure you it's not the same AC over and over because AC comments are throttled by IP address.
However, if slashdot dies because of this, it won't be because of Dice. It will be because like the dinosaurs, we couldn't adapt.
Why should we have to adapt to garbage? I don't think anyone would refuse to adapt to a new paint scheme, it's the fact that the new site is fundamentally and functionally broken by design. The fact that dice felt now was a good time to start forcing users to something so broken shows that they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what this place is about. It's not that the beta site is a little buggy, it's that it is completely broken.
At the very least they should have waited until commenting was at functional parity before revealing their hand but now it's too late, they have revealed the direction of things to come and it does not bode well for the future of the slashdot.org domain.
I, for one, am looking forward to the inevitable
For people who claim that science is wrong/bad/not complete - this is the kind of thing that research and study can do.
The expected result was off by 10x. This doesn't mean that science sucks - but rather there is a new question to be answered that will allow us to understand the world just a little bit better.
AWESOME.
When electricity is conducted on a wire,are new electrons sent down the wire riding on the surface? Or are they pushed through the mass of existing electrons and cause one currently in line to bounced off the back end (like a newton's cradle)? Something Ive always wondered...
The fast majority of the F*ck Beta comments are coming from ACs.
One was mine, I don't log in or comment at work and was thrown into that mess with no way out (?&"nobeta=1" didn't work) and no way to log in.
But yeah, many of us feared this clusterfuck would happen when a corporation bought it and Malda left. Meanwhile, slashdot's replacement is being worked on now (I registered an account this morning, user name mcgrew UID 123).
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And juvenile whining and bitching, by any other name, is still juvenile whining and bitching.
Seriously, get over your fucking self. They will either listen to us or they won't.
But some of us are tired about you idiots constantly kvetching about it. It's not the first nor the last time Slashdot has done a redesign, and nobody liked any of the previous ones either.
Now STFU.
The only viable path is obvious. Bring back the ponies. OMG
Yeah, Beta is like world destroying comet, and we the inhabitants of that world.
The real question is, in what way does the fucking beta make slashdot better? Just take one example, the ridiculous amount of whitespace around posts. That's millions of monitors burning electricity displaying absolutely nothing. Secondly, because so little information is displayed, there will be a lot more scrolling required. That will contribute to wrist and elbow problems for those who don't yet have them, and for people like me who do, aggravate them.
Fucking beta is killing the planet and it's bad for your health. So yeah -- dinos like me are gonna bitch. Suck it up.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Someone else has started new slashdot. I registered an account this morning, even though there's no real content there yet.
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I haven't been making comments because there's no point with all the beta trash talk. Once the betatards leave, I'm sure things will get back to normal. Probably better than ever, in fact.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
The fast majority of the F*ck Beta comments are coming from ACs. For all we know that could be a single individual or even a bot.
No, actually, I've been surprised by the number of real posts here against the beta, some of them with some incredibly low UID's. Much as I hate the beta, even I never expected such an overwhelming response (and, believe me, I've been around here a lot longer than my UID would indicate).
The cow says "Moo." The dog says "Woof." The Timothy says "Thanks, valued customer. We appreciate your input."
These comments are Slashdot's response. The management-speak in the Beta article is Dice's. They made it perfectly clear that, even after all this backlash, Classic will soon be gone:
Most importantly, we want you to know that Classic Slashdot isn't going away until we're confident that the new site is ready.
I, too, am here for the intelligent discussion. So I do apologize. But Dice ignores our complaints, while pretending to listen. Ruining every single discussion is the only option we have left.
Beta will be gone when they put it in full Production.
It doesn't matter if Beta leaves or not, most of slashdot's posters will be gone when Classic is gone. I will be. If they keep Classic as an option it won't matter, we'll stay. The issue is their getting rid of Classic, not the existence of Beta.
Instead of being an ass, Clearly post your issues to the correct authority, instead of spamming the message boards over and over again.
It's a protest. Lets hope it's effective. I posted in the page about beta and several user journals decrying Beta, wrote a journal about it myself and wrote an email telling slashdot how much beta sucks. Answering positively to anti-beta comments may annoy you, but I think it's important and needs to be done.
Meanwhile, I'll be looking for an alternate site. In a year this place will be as empty as kuro5hin.
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Try using bold or italics or posting a link. Try to find the URL of a comment. Log off and try to log back in, I couldn't log in at work (they use IE7).
No, they added nothing of value and removed much of value. Does Microsoft own Dice?
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It's not a mere redesign, it's a fundamental change in the way slashdot works by changing what slashdot is all about. They should have waited until things actually worked before revealing the beta, but as it is, by forcing users to the fundamentally broken beta site they've shown that they no longer care about the community.
Forcing users to a completely unusable site shows nothing but contempt for the users.
I, for one, am looking forward to the inevitable
Wow, good comeback! I'm sure the site will be much better with people like you gone for good. So long!
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
is wrong with the comment system here?
I've deliberately gone to beta to check it out, seems OK.
What are you talking about? Dice didn't have to adapt, just keep everything unchanged and take the coin.
Patents Drive Free Software as Hurricanes Drive Construction Industry
They'll go away when the beta is a steaming crater in history. Part of the point of protests is to keep the apathetic crowd from enjoying a world where the specified injustice continues.
Well, there's always terrorism.
I didn't realize what the hub bub is about until I clicked on the beta link. I'm not even the picky type and all I could say is wow this sucks!
And no, my use of the phrase "injustice" isn't meant to compare the severity here to the severity of much more serious problems.
And you are an asshole. Pot -> kettle.
Funny they state part of their goal is NOT to poach from slashdot. Which is what you are encouraging.
However, if slashdot dies because of this, it won't be because of Dice. It will be because like the dinosaurs, we couldn't adapt.
Well, first, why should a user base be required to "adapt" to a broken system? If they functionality they want goes away, they'll go somewhere else. Try to learn from other mistakes or you will die. Just check out all the comments there, most are along the lines of "Well it's too little and too late, me and all my friends have gone elsewhere."
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
However, if slashdot dies because of this, it won't be because of Dice. It will be because like the dinosaurs, we couldn't adapt.
Well, first, why should a user base be required to "adapt" to a broken system? If they functionality they want goes away, they'll go somewhere else. Try to learn from other mistakes or you will die. Just check out all the comments there, most are along the lines of "Well it's too little and too late, me and all my friends have gone elsewhere."
Hmmm... linky failed. Should have been this
"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
AKA "Fuck You, Clown."
I like your style.
Funny because the reason it started, and its name, implies they will be poaching from the slashdot community.
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. -Benjamin Franklin
Hey slashdot, keep the javascript-free version.
It's been decades since I took solid state physics courses, but here's what I remember.
Conducting solid, like metal, is modeled as a single monolithic entity as opposed to a set of individual elemental atoms. Each atom's high(est) energy electrons become "free" electrons that can move about the whole solid with minimum provocation (i.e., voltage). So when electric field or voltage is applied across the solid, these free electrons bunch up towards positive charge - i.e. the "skin" you referred to.
Because, you know, electrons have a negative charge. Haha.
So when voltage is applied to the solid, and there is a route out of the solid towards positive charge, the free electrons will move that way. If there is also a route into the solid through which new (to the solid) electrons move in, then you have a circuit where electrons flow in and out of the solid (as you say) along the skin, and hence you have current.
That's what I remember of the simple version of solid state model that look at solid's free electrons as a group. Because the free electrons are treated as a group, it doesn't deal with whether the electron that just popped out are new (to the solid) one or the last one in line - the model doesn't give individuality to each electrons.
Not sure it answers your question adequately, but that's what popped into my head. Maybe others will do a more proper job.
Like I was saying, KEEP THE JAVASCRIPT-FREE SLASHDOT, you dirtbags! :-)
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
It turned you into a newt?
That's very great news for graphene and everything that could be built out of it.
But didn't these results just invalidate a theory? Is there someone that is actually looking why the current theory fails to explain the observed behavior?
... I got better.
What replacement?
A witty saying proves you are wittier than the next guy.
What are you talking about? Dice didn't have to adapt, just keep everything unchanged and take the coin.
Slashdot wasn't profitable, so exactly what choice does Dice have for their shareholders. It is either trying to make it profitable, by attracting new users (thus increasing advertising revenue) or shutting it down. Dice most certainly had to adapt. In business, if you don't adapt to the changing environment, well, you aren't in business long.
Now, whether this particular adaptation was the correct one, that's open for debate.
Talk to them in terms they can understand -- go to classic mode and continually click-through all of the ads. But given the track record of the UI, they are probably too dumb to see where the bump in the ad traffic is from.
In graphene, electrons can move faster than in any other material at room temperature.
Is it really a "new material?" Isn't it just 1 atom thick graphite? If I had a sheet of 1 atom thick silver... can I call it a new material, "silvene," and claim it is 100 times more conductive than any other material at an arbitrary temperature?
"Forcing users to a completely unusable site shows nothing but contempt for the users."
No one is forcing anyone to do anything you childish fuck.
Is this article about graphene or as the comments suggest, about Beta?
Funny they state part of their goal is NOT to poach from slashdot. Which is what you are encouraging.
That word "encouraging", I do not think it means what you think it means.
emmagsachs: "Where are all the normal comments?"
schneidafunk: "Probably over here."
See, that is not an encouragement to go there, that is merely an answer to a question. For the obligatory godwin, if someone in Nazi Germany asked me where all the Jews were, and I replied with "probably Aushwitz", that is not me encouraging mass genocide, that is me answering a question about where I think the Jews were. The only way it could be called encouragement is if I added "like they should be" or something similar to the end.
I can only speak for myself, but this is a great troll and I personally look forward to seeing it spammed in every article. While it probably doesn't have the staying power of GNAA or the indomitable "Netcraft Confirms It", it's the first solid troll of "Beta sucks" I've seen. You're the first - or at least the very best - to take advantage of a brief window of passion in a typically dry setting. Depending on how this thing plays out you could very possibly be the Last Great Troll of the /. era.
My heartfelt thanks on reminding me what makes Slashdot...Slashdot.
Last post!
Perhaps so, but I agree with his sentiment. Trying to find meaningful comments amongst all the beta complaints is annoying. People can go elsewhere if they don't like it. Stop ruining slashdot for the people who don't care that you are upset.
Burn baby, burn!!
I, for one, am looking forward to the inevitable
The electrons are always moving, and fast, very fast, on all directions, with a zero average speed. Electrical current appears when their average velocity goes slightly above zero.
It's not one electron bouncing in another that causes the movement, all electrons are equaly pushed by a potential. Bouncing is one of the causes of resistivity. What this istudy did was reducing bouncing to the point it become negligible, with the expected impact on resistivity.
I hope that answers. It's like none of your options.
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We don't know that those predictions will come true. The fast majority of the F*ck Beta comments are coming from ACs. For all we know that could be a single individual or even a bot.
Slashdot has always had disgruntled people participate with it. But a lot of postings by an AC really are worthless to base anything on.
However, if slashdot dies because of this, it won't be because of Dice. It will be because like the dinosaurs, we couldn't adapt.
Fine, here's one more non-AC comment. Beta ought to go to hell. I'll read classic Slashdot or no Slashdot.
And we expected it to be pretty bad.
Fuck beta.
The real question is, in what way does the fucking beta make slashdot better?
More room for ads. That's the only thing that anyone could say is better about BETA. FUCK, ASS! Sorry, meds wearing off. This sight has a distinctive look that should not be dismissed given the seeming proclivity to make the site look like a crappy copy of Engadget.com. FUCK BETA, ASS! It's look and feel are its brand identity. Anyone with half a semester of Marketing 101 would know this. FUCK, FUCK FUCK BETA! And the idiots that said, "Yes, let's do that!" Tards!
Oops, used the wrong, FUCK BETA! noun up there. Site, not sight. What happens when you are egregiously pissed off at blatant stupidity. FUCK!
altslashdot.org, someone started it a day or two ago. Not much there yet.
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Beta sucks
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
Side note: Please, stop with the "fuck beta" campaign; I find this campaign FAR MORE DISRUPTIVE to the enjoyment of /. than the beta itself. Get over Yourselves already.
It will die down on its own eventually as people grow tired of yelling and not being heard. We don't live in an age in which protests are appreciated or encouraged anymore. Unfortunately, this will probably lead the powers to be behind the site design to believe that this meant it was just a vocal minority and that the majority of Slashdot is chill with the redesign or have "come around" on it. That will be wrong, but such self-delusion is inevitable.
There's obviously heavy personal investment in the time and energy (and money) in creating the new Beta site. It isn't going to go away, despite being a terrible idea, because the people behind it won't be able to admit for various personal and professional reasons that they've f'ed up royally. So, in their minds, they'll have to build a fortress of arguments to shore up their position. No doubt they're smart people, so they'll probably be really good at rationalization. In my professional experience, once people have started working on a design they helped create, they get very territorial and hard to move in new directions.
The end result is a train wreck we can all see coming. What people is the equivalent of yelling at someone on a screen not to go in the cabin in the woods where the killer is waiting. They know it isn't going to help, but it helps them deal with an unpleasant situation. The woman, like Slashdot, was dead the moment the scene started.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
No, nothing of use there yet. But if you want the valuable low UID you had better sign up soon! I got my 3 digit UID already. Just in case this site crashes and burns and that one takes over as a useful substitute.
-- ssoorrrryy,, dduupplleexx sswwiittcchh oonn.. -Quote found on actual fortune cookie.
I just took a look at it (beta) again, and I can't even read summaries because there's not enough room to display them. The information density is terrible. But what's even worse than the Beta itself is what it reveals about the priorities of whoever greenlit it.
We don't know that those predictions will come true. The fast majority of the F*ck Beta comments are coming from ACs. For all we know that could be a single individual or even a bot.
Slashdot has always had disgruntled people participate with it. But a lot of postings by an AC really are worthless to base anything on.
However, if slashdot dies because of this, it won't be because of Dice. It will be because like the dinosaurs, we couldn't adapt.
I'm no dinosaur or a bot, Fuck Beta.
It's not working very well.
dig altslashdot.org
Got answer:
HEADER opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 26206
flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
(Stupid slashdot renders garbage if I try to paste the entire output, no matter if I use <pre> or anything else).
I am slashdot.
In a better analogy, you are one of the slashdot neurons. When enough of us leave (I'll be one of those) the slashdot "brain" will be only a rotting hulk of (Dicey) grey goo. Hint to Dice from Capt. Duh: You can generate revenue only if you have viewers - not a sufficient condition, but a necessary one.
I would imagine this would have an amazing benefit in the world of capacitors and batteries.
To start: fuck the beta. Everyone involved in it should be ashamed of themselves.
The comparison to dinosaurs is a bit ridiculous. Slashdot fucking itself over is not the fault of the users, especially disgruntled long time users. It's the fault of myopic management with delusions of grandeur.
Slashdot is not a destination because it aggregates somewhat nerdy stories hosted on other websites. It is also not a destination because of the impressive grammar and spelling skills of the "editors".
It's a destination because nerds with an interest in the stories published will come and opine on them. Not only will they opine but they'll provide additional details or corrections. That's not something readily found on other news aggregation sites. The user comments section of most websites is something to be avoided at all costs.
The beta not only discourages the sort of commentary that has made Slashdot a worthwhile destination but the policies around it are driving away users. Without the users as a value-add Slashdot is really little different from any other news aggregator.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
Always in beta,
Sensuous is classical,
broken so slashdot
Lets be real. Some of the users on /. are serious computer experts. It doesn't take a genius to setup a bunch of ACs across a botnet and spam a site. It just takes "that guy" who happens to have a botnet, and too much spare time, and bam.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
Maybe all the grammar nazis and goatse posting acs will go to the new slashdot and leave the rest of us in peace. Or they'll stay here and I can go there and be in peace.
No, actually, I've been surprised by the number of real posts here against the beta, some of them with some incredibly low UID's.
It's not the low IDs that matter. If the high IDs, i.e. new accounts, are also bitching, then maybe Dice might back off. Right now, they think that Betabortion will attract new, young, hip, ad-vulnerable users. If high IDs bitch about it, maybe they can be dissuaded from their determination to follow Digg into oblivion.
using bold or italics ?
http://www.google.com/
Link to Google.
URL to a comment, I have no idea. I see how that'd be annoying.
Okay, so you have to use "em" for italics...
I wasn't going to join in the whinning but, what the hey.
Something something BETA dark side!
-- Counting backwards since 1984!
It's my understanding that for 20% of the users, going to slashdot.org did in fact force people to the new beta.
And you are associated with those ugly smelly nerds from the 1970s. But you have lower self-confidence and have to post from behind AC shroud. Fuck beta.
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
Log off and try to log back in, I couldn't log in at work (they use IE7).
While there is a lot of very valid crticism about all this beta stuff, this
isn't one of them. IE7? Seriously? And you blame the website?
Come on...
I can sign up for wiki and phpbb account, but don't see any slashdot-like account which could be used, nor do I find an appropriate link in the wiki. Can you give a link, please?
Trolling is a art!
We don't really know that they won't fix the identified problems before imposing it on people who don't want it. We may have a strong belief, but that's not the same.
FWIW, I'm not promissing to leave. But I'm sure not promissing to stay. It depends on what alternatives I can find, and how bad the final version is. Mind you, most of the explicit criticisms I've seen have been reasonable. But the strongly emotional ones, whether of praise or dislike (and both exist), don't convince me. What will convince me is utility...MY utility.
FWIW, my hopes for a viable Slashdot are not high, but they do exist. And it would be nice if people didn't really totally abandon ship sooner than necessary....while continuing to work on and search for lifeboats, of course.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
When I saw "than" used correctly in a sentence, I was taken aback. It has been a long time.
You mean sites like alternet.org ?
Honestly, the beta protests annoy me far more than a fancy overhaul with the functionality put back in would. I wouldn't mind a classic portal or something for the retrocomputing enthusiasts to use, mind, but it could probably find a middle ground with the direction website interfaces seem to be going. I see where they're coming from, but I also understand the protests. Slashdot at its best is a dialogue-rich site, not a competing tech news aggregator. People don't want to sacrifice that, I get it. On the other hand, the comments are pretty much unusable now as well.
-1, "1337" speak
When you're not on your own computer you have little choice of browsers. I, for one, would be furious if someone installed anything on my computer without permission and I refuse to do it to anyone else.
Maybe I'll try it in IE on my own laptop, not going to risk trying it in Firefox and getting stuck in beta. IE wouldn't even be on the laptop if I could uninstall it (too lazy to put Linux on it, W7 is "good enough").
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Looks like they got slashdotted. I logged on today and they mentioned getting new hosting.
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That puzzled me at first, too. The wiki is temporary, they say they should have the slashcode done Monday. Registering at the wiki registers you, registering at the forum doesn't, apparently.
It looks like they got slashdotted yesterday. I hope they succeed, I got username mcgrew with a UID of 123.
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Mine's 123! And I'm still mcgrew, like I am everywhere (except for a while on slashdot when I couldn't log in).
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I just looked (for the first time in years). kuro5hin.org, despite having rather more inflammatory 'articles' than Slashdot, has at best about 1/5th the number of comments, and on brief perusal, appears to have maybe 1/10th as many unique users active in any given story.
Or perhaps you really meant kuro5hin.com, which is even more empty, being it's a domain squat.
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
And my concern still stands:
http://news.slashdot.org/comme...
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how quickly will this be implemented by the bicycle lighting folks?
...to lower the resistance to the Slashdot beta.
When you're not on your own computer you have little choice of browsers. I, for one, would be furious if someone installed anything on my computer without permission and I refuse to do it to anyone else.
That's perfectly all right - I'm not blaming you. However, you should absolutely be
blaming your IT department, IE7 is incredibly deprecated.
Thanks for info! Lets see... I'm curious as well, but will probably stick around here as well. If they reach functional parity with their new software before making it default, I won't see a reason to abandon ship.
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Ten years ago they were thriving. I just checked their front page (first time in years for me as well). Only one or two stories per day posted on the front page, it sure doesn't look like it's thriving. Ten years ago there were as many front page stories per day as slashdot.
What K5 looks like today is what /. will look like in ten years if they don't come to their senses.
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Yeah, I remember when people here would commonly post links to one thing or another on K5. Can't recall having seen that in years.
Did you see the video someone posted a link to, with Fark's design guy talking about how changing their interface was a major fuckup? Also had some very telling slides of another site that did likewise (I think it was another site -- the sound was bad) and experienced a precipitous drop in visits and therefore ad revenues.
Unless the site is very, very quick to catch on and repent, this sort of customer service mistake is irrecoverable.
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
Dead all day, it seems... Slashdotted again?
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I'm only seeing a domain placeholder...??
It was slashdotted yesterday, today I got a 404. It has a new domain name, I can't remember what it is, soylent something dot org.
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Apparently, I tried for a while and got it to almost load.
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Thanks, yeah I've got through today but sadly there isn't any news content so no beta than beta at this stage.