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Kodi wrote in to tell us that MozillaZine is holding a vote for the new Mozilla throbber (free membership required).
Also the LinuxWorld Expo call for papers deadline
is July 6. They're also doing a $25k award for a community program
at the show.
hzo wrote in to note that you can now hack furby with your Palm V.
cpfeifer has noted a Yoda Got Milk parody.
rhet sent us
a web based jar-jar-gonizer if you
aren't overloaded with the wretched beast.
Kurt Weinschenker wrote in to tell us that the 99 Darwin Awards nominees are online.
S|ack noted that you
can now get
adminspotting t-shirts.
Scorpeye sent us an
article about Bachelors in the Silicon Valley
and comments about eligible bachelorettes in NY and LA... hmmm...
Finally, some articles about the Andover.Net acquisition of Slashdot:
Here's Upside,
wired
(thanks Evro)
Salon (thanks Super_Oogie).
There were a few more too, but after I've read two I realize
I say pretty much the same stuff each time anyway, so its hardly
interesting ;)
The bachelor article suggests that there are over half a million (!) single women in New York. Anyone care to explain why? And do New York geeks really stand a chance of getting laid?
Rob and Hemos are BOTH millionaires! Rumour I've heard a couple of times now is $14 million. I'm sure it's mostly in stock too, so if Andover.net ever goes public, they'll be worth much more than that.
Read the comments in the takeover story. I can't confirm that figure, but supposedly it originated from a reliable source. It seems like a pretty reasonable amount. I mean, linux.com went for 5 right? Why would these guys settle for just $1 million?
Looks like we'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out how to hack Furby.
The Slashdot community may have grown by leaps and bounds, but don't make any assumptions about the Linux community. I love this site, and I regularly post here on a variety of computer related subjects, but I don't use Linux and probably never will. This site has evolved into a community in its own right.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/gu yville28.htm
> As of now, I'm going to stop participating
> here. No corporation is going to buy me. It's
> very sad how they turned Rob into a pimp.
Holy shit are you retarded... They said costs were getting out of hand. You're so fucking dead set on "stickin' it to da man", that everyone that has money or is sucessful is The Enemy. You're not being soaked for subscription money, are you? As it sounds, it was the only way to keep the site free of charge for YOU to dump on Rob and crew. Grow up.
I quote Rob here: "The overhead and costs associated with running this beast has become astronomical."
How fucking sad that the second someone conflicts with your fucked up view on life, you dump on them like this.
If he is rich now, that should no longer be a problem. Just look at Gates and Mick Jagger (talk about ugly)
But, hey, nobody needs a girlfriend (or boyfriend, but that may not be a large issue with /.'ers), they just get in the way of productivity and drain wallets.
Well, I for one am glad I got married. Did it senior year of college, so I guess she got her MRS degree along with her BS degree. She took a job as an engineer at one of the large military-industrial-complex type companies and brought in plenty of bucks for a couple of years. Being pretty cool, she decided that sucked and wanted to be an actress. Now she's in LA, working to break into the business and I'm a bread-winner now, on the road working those $100+/hr contracts.
So, I've got a smart, self-sufficient, extremely hot wife who is talented in a number of areas. Being on the road myself kind of sucks for both of us, but with LA's surplus of single women she's looking for a girlfriend to keep her warmed up. If I luck out, maybe I'll end up with two very talented, beautiful and independent women in the harem and a couple hundred grand in the bank.
One could do a lot worse.
Hey Slashdot Gang!
You've done a good job on the site. Spend
10-20% of what you were bought out for and put it back into the site to make it better / more useful to the community and we will all be happy.
That's an inside tip. The options may be worth a lot more later.
Three questions,
1. How do plan on paying for the internet connection and servers (yes, you'll need more than one) to host it?
2. Where do you expect to find two guys to work 70 to 80 hours a week for no pay?
3. Which part of "retaining complete creative control" means that they're selling out?
Off-topic, but anyone noticed that E-bay runs off IIS now? Or was this story already posted and I missed it?
Really, I'm getting fed up by every fucking site in the universe demanding that I register. Like I got nothing better to do. For people who don't live on Slashdot and post 20 comments every hour registering would be pointless. Hell, registering _IS_ pointless, because I could make up some bullshit e-mail address and I would still be anonymous. AC's are not the antichrist of Slashdot, they are not all send by Microsoft to flame and they are not all buddies.
Registering is also no longer needed, because now we have moderation. We can go back to the old way, when you could just type in a name and e-mail address and be done with it.
Malda's training was NOT complete. Fresh green college graduates that know nothing about the business world. I really hope he had lawyers at least LOOK at his contract before he did this or he's going to find that their airtight contract has more holes than a screen door. Suits will always always ALWAYS do everything they can to screw you. It is their job. They learn it in business school and they live it in life. We're geeks dancing happily through life naive that these predators want nothing more than to take our talents, our ideas, and our very souls and squeeze the last penny they can from them before disgarding us like yesterday's rubbish.
1. How do plan on paying for the internet connection and servers (yes, you'll need more than one)
:-)
;-)
to host it?
Those kickass porn banner ads that keep popping up whenever you try to close the window. That'll make at least a cool million the first month. Should cover expenses.
2. Where do you expect to find two guys to work 70 to 80 hours a week for no pay?
College CIS lusers of course. They have nothing better to do than play Quake anyway during their spare time. Either that or Apple.
3. Which part of "retaining complete creative control" means that they're selling out?
The part where Malda says "Hey Mr. Andover man.. I accidently spent $14 million on this stripper named Kiki while I was drunk last night. Can you lend me some cash so we can do that server upgrade? What? You want moderator access? Umm.. I guess so.. we really need the cash."
(so these are tongue-in-cheek... so sue me.
Obviously, these things are based on official census figures. Anyone who has been to New York knows that there are a huge number of immigrants in "the City", as we call it here in upstate New York (note to foreign readers: upstate New York is the part of the state of New York which is north of the New York City area), and these immigrants are primarily male and often unregistered. People in most third world countries usually won't let their daughters loose in New York City.
It is true that there is an excess of "white" women in New York City. However, they are impossible to deal with. New York City is just like high school in terms of dating preferences. At a party a few weeks ago I talked to an extremely attractive young lady about her experiences as a model in the City, and she said that everyone else in the modeling industry is impossibly bitchy and she couldn't stand that, so she moved upstate and went back to school. Imagine trying to date one of these people.
So, I would suggest to anyone out there not to try New York City as a place to meet women. You'll find that they're all incredibly shallow people hoping to marry an investment banker, move into a house in the suburbs, and then divorce him when he goes bankrupt when the next stock market crash destroys the million-dollar value of the house. (New York City properties cost almost as much as those in Silicon Valley because of stockmarket twits buying up the prices to unsupportable levels. This happened once before, in the late sixties and early seventies, and the collapse was so bad the city became insolvent and they tried to get bailed out from Washington: Ford to City: Drop Dead!)
"...have come to the regrettable conclusion that what a
woman says she wants and what a woman actually wants
are usually not one in the same."
And? Most of us figure this out sooner or later. Sometimes
you have to just listen more carefully. And, of course, women
have as many, if not more, differences between themselves and
what they like as men do.
Way, way back, when I was a single geek, I did find one
thing that quite a lot of women want:
They want to be listened to.
I've observed this in my own situation, along with that of others:
1. Couple gets married, each having a career that he/she
pursues aggressively.
2. Woman get pregnant, makes plans to keep working after
child is born.
3. Baby is born. Human infants are completely helpless for
nearly a year. Woman's hormones kick in; she doesn't want
to leave her baby. If man is making enough to live on, she
quits work *for just a year*.
4. At 1, the child is starting to walk and talk, and is becoming
a lot of fun instead of just a lot of work. Woman wants to
continue staying home to enjoy child.
5. At 5, child starts school. The woman is going a little nuts
being at home all the time, and would like to go back to
work. But her skills are 5 years out of date, and her husband's
career is doing well enough that she doesn't really have to
work.
6. Woman is bitter and unhappy. She finds a friend or two
in the same situation, and they get together to talk about
what jerks their husbands are.
Meanwhile, those women who weren't "privileged" enough
to be married to men who could support them on one income,
and who continued working, even if at somewhat menial
jobs, appear to be much happier!
If you have any children you can't win the award. Granted, if you have siblings you can still win but they are not YOUR descendents.
Why the fsck did this post get -1 rating? don't you guys think this might have been a sensitive subject to "grade" on?
This concerns me more than who's got who's money. Frankly, I don't give a damn about the 14 mil, because i did not pay a single penny for it. However, I'm very unhappy about the "rating" scheme that seems to "control" the voices of the community. This means that, maybe in the near future, the corporates also can take control of the voice of Slashdot.
Do i think the 14 mil is justified? I think it depends on how innovation is weighted in monetary terms. For example, who would have thought the idea of hotmail would worth over a billion? I certainly think not. But the investors are the suckers, in this case, Microsoft, NOT ME.
I don't watch superbowl commercials, but most people do. To the big corporate, 30 seconds of airtime are worth hundreds of millions. Do we pay for those millions? Indirectly and vulentarily, yes. Are we harmed by those commercials? Indirectly, yes. We lose something that cannot be measured in monetary terms: our pure, innocent love for sports itself. Our sports culture is changed by the commercial aspect of it.
I doubt if Slashdot will stay the same after the inquiry. it's impossible. it will surely lose the innocent part. The part in us that loves doing it for the love of it.
congrats to the Slashdot crew. At least, you are the ones whose innovation got paid off instead of stolen. And, remember, you and Slashdot will never be the same again, no matter how you much want it to be.
No, you do not have to be a womanizer. All of my techie
friends eventually got married.
The most important thing is to recognize when a woman is
attracted to you. This is something we geek types aren't
naturally very good at, because we spend so much of our
youth staring at computers or books. The reason this is so
important is so you can avoid wasting time, and making
yourself miserable, trying to attract a woman who just isn't
ever going to be attracted to you. And I think most women
know within a few seconds whether they like someone.
The next most important thing is to get into activities where
there are single women. HINT: A Linux Users' Group
meeting generally isn't the best choice.
So what you're saying is that a single man who doesn't ever
land himself in prison has even better odds than the statistics
suggest?
what do you think howard stern has been talking about
all these years??!?!?!
everyone comes out their momma's tummy equal. society
fucks it up. social darwinism is widely recognized
as the greatest evil ever to come to this lovely little planet.
down with hierarchy down with discrimination down
with prejudice up with normal people who dont
want to be humiliated every day and refuse to humiliate others
up with us forever
If anybody deserves to become millionaires it's these guys. I've been reading ./ for the last year and a half and I can say that it's taught me a lot and it sucks up 30% of my work day (I'm not complaining). I appreciate the amount of work that goes into a site of this caliber. The fact that you guys can serve this many users off of one commodity machine with so little money (where were the VCs when you needed them?) is amazing. It says a lot about your technical talents and resourcefulness. It's inspiring to know that one can follow one's passion and make a buck at it. Kudos, and don't forget about us little people that allowed you all to become capitalist money-grubbers :)
There's $14 million, and then there's $14 million.
Here's my take: when asked pointblank if he's a millionaire, Rob says he doesn't know, then his new boss cuts in and says some things can't be talked about (no loss of creative control there!). So I believe he got perhaps a five-figure or six-figure cash advance to close the deal, plus he has stock worth (potentially) millions.
I'm a millionaire myself, but here's the catch. I own 24% of a privately held company, which at its last valuation was worth $5 million, making me worth over $1 million. But only if I sell the stock. Which I couldn't do as one of two co-founders (who would buy all the stock from a co-founder?). So on paper I'm a millionaire, but its not liquid, and in real life I have my mortgage and my paid-off 1993 Honda. No caviar for me -- or Malda either.
So Rob and Hemos have stock, but they can't sell it just yet, so they're millionaires on paper. Remember, their announcement lists all the cool groups they want to donate to eventually -- meaning they don't have the money yet.
If Andover.net goes out of business tomorrow (not likely), their stock is worthless and they just have their advance. If Andover.net goes Yahoo! public, they're multimillionaires.
Ah, well.
Malda, you need a girlfriend
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Just lurking, thanks!
All the best, guys. It's been a fun time thus far, and I'm sure it will continue to be. Thanks!
That url was a bit off (the pictures and links are broken). This one's better
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Whoa! Check out what the Jar Jargonizer translate's "Microsoft" to. I typed kmfms. com into the url translator and was pretty surprised at what it spat out. Jar Jar is growing on me.
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After wavering on the issue ever since elementary school, I decided I would never marry anyways several years ago. It's just too damn patriarchal. You don't love anything. You just act out a ritual involving a breadwinner and some female thing he's supposed to win the bread for and drag around like a slab of meatloaf. Maybe the 5000 engineers just didn't want to be breadwinners.
Rob, are you really a millionaire? It's a very good possibility, as I'm sure you didn't pick a place that was broke. :)
Are these Darwin Awards for real? It looks to me like someone's registered the darwinawards.com domain in the hopes of making some money out of it. The Darwin Awards have traditionally been at http://www.officialdarwinawards.com, although that's looking like it hasn't been updated in a while. Who knows. Ho hum...
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
One problem I've always had with the Darwin awards is that they don't stick to their own criteria. The original description of the Darwin awards was
If you know anything about Biology, any person, living or dead, with living desendants is still in the gene pool. I think all Darwin award nominees with living descendants should be disqualified.Loren Osborn
It makes me happy to see Rob and the rest get rewarded for all their hard work.
Not a linux community, a nerd community. I agree.
:)
/. does an amazing job of representing exactly the interests of people like the (rising) sophomore CS class CMU.
Still, the Holy OS is pretty important to this community. We spend a lot of time on our computers...and waste a lot of time configuring them...
My browser couldn't find the internet due to momentary enormous stupidity, and decided to pull up its last cached copy of /., from late last year IIRC when I was at home and still used this machine.
/. since nearly the beginning, but even I couldn't have imagined the community that grew up around the little Nerd News sight.
/. You can wear the hat and the tshirt. I start my day off in the office with /., then UF. Everything I need in life is a /box. When we won IGF, the first thing I did after seeing the news in a more-or-less reputable story I could link to was skip class (251, no less) and post it on /.
/. page we can find.
... I'll be back tomorrow morning, as always... man, I really am a nerd :)
Jon Katz was ruminating unpopularly in the first of his articles playing with a linux machine and how weird and confusing it was.
GNOME vs. KDE flamewars were going on fast and furious in the unmoderated comments.
No one had heard of, or cared about, Linux the Holy OS or Open Sourceness or User Friendly or anything.
Man, we've come a long way since then. I've been reading
I've posted a few stories myself. I've wasted a lot of time writing comments, and searching out comments by resident cool, funny guys Bruce Perens and Alan Cox.
Now, it ain't news unless it's on
I'd be interested to see if anyone has a copy, HTML or PS or hard copy or whatever, of the earliest
This is user # 3273
You paid have nothing to read/participate in /. and hide behind AC, so deserve no say in the matter.
IMHO, I say congrats to CT and Hemos.
Now, C & H, I have this idea for a .......
Don't take life too seriously. It is only a temporary situation. Usual disclaimers apply.
I don't think you're giving Rob & Jeff enough credit. Neither they nor anyone else has said that they did it alone-- it *is* all about the community. As you said, they couldn't have done it alone: it was "our" submissions that made it happen. They never denied this.
/amazing/ amount of credit, and have earned every penny they got (okay, maybe not $14 million's worth, but...).
Rob and Jeff deserve and
Can any of us say that the average Joe (or AC) among us put in 80 hour weeks running something like slashdot, reading over 300 emails a day (no joke), *and* go to college full-time? I think we should cut them some slack, if not provide open praise for a job well done: here's to the two years they (and the 10+ who helped them as well) gave to The Community (so far), and the community that helped them.
Kudos to you all.
My $.02.
--Anneke
"Real Women Use Linux"
Yes, you deserve it. Even though I'm happy that the right folks are going places, it puts my little non-life into perspective. I am at a loss as to what to do. I have no money, and what I do have, I can't spend. I'd love to hack away at Linux and perl and php3 and do neat things with mysql all day every day, but I'm stuck here wiping users' asses. I work absurd hours and get shit on for my efforts.
(And I just heard from my co-worker that some guy's giving his whole staff BMWs (with insurance) just to retain them. I'm in the wrong fucking place.)
Oh well, I'll crawl back into my hole and spare you the rest.
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Me spell chucker work grate. Need grandma chicken.
Odd how not only my "intelligence" is a huge liability, I seem to be on the other side of the world from those who would even bother appreciating it. For the "stupidity" factor, non-geeks seem to have all the money and other assorted perks... hrrmm... oh well, I won't trade being a geek for anything else, damn it to Hell if I remain poor for the rest of my life.
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Me spell chucker work grate. Need grandma chicken.
whoa, whoah, whoaah, whoaah, can't touch this!
KING FISHER! I RULE!
I recorded my own version of adminspotting in one of my radio shows.... you can download the mp3 from http://szyzyg.arm.ac.uk/~ spm/live_mpegs/adminspotting.mp3.
..... but still amusing
It's a bit old now
Bah! The Darwin List is *much* better than the "Darwin Awards", from content to writing style. There's nothing like waking up in the morning, checking e-mail, and finding a a magnificant 5 page flame adressed to a tard that has defiled the sacred list.
Here is a Perl script that with Jar Jar-ify any text fed into it. Because of the way it's set up, it's trivially easy to add more conversions or to modify it into a "borkifier" or any of a wide variety of other translators. If anyone takes offsense at its length, I apologize, but it's on-topic and I don't have a public web page to put it on
jarjar.pl
# Define the substitutions to be performed.
@WordList =
(
"I'm", "meesa be",
"I", "meesa",
"me", "meesa",
"you", "you-sa",
"my", "meesa's",
"your", "you-sa's",
"myself", "meesa's self",
"yourself", "you-sa's self",
"am", "be"
);
@SuffixList =
(
"ing", "\'in",
"er", "-a"
);
@PrefixList =
(
);
# Perform the substitutions on each line of input.
while ($Input = )
{
# Replace whole words.
for ($Index = 0; $WordList[$Index]; $Index += 2)
{
$Input =~
s/(^|\W)$WordList[$Index](\W|$)/$1$WordList[$Inde
}
# Replace suffixes.
for ($Index = 0; $SuffixList[$Index]; $Index += 2)
{
$Input =~
s/(\w)$SuffixList[$Index](\W|$)/$1$SuffixList[$In
}
# Replace prefixes.
for ($Index = 0; $PrefixList[$Index]; $Index += 2)
{
$Input =~
s/(^|\W)$PrefixList[$Index](\w)/$1$PrefixList[$In
}
# Print the modified line.
print $Input;
}
When I first got on the Internet, I had the address of a proxy that would translate everything into Swedish Chef ..does anyone know one that still exists?
:)
Try The Dialectizer. It does Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, and Pig Latin. Better than Jar Jar, but then again, anything is.
-- John Truong
And yet, I don't see you starting a Slashdot clone Anon boy.
If you have a problem with it, don't ever come back, you and all your anon buddies can go post at ZDNet's Linux page or something for all I care.
To Rob and Jeff, you put in the work and deserve a nice payoff. I wouldn't care if you made a billion dollars of this site, as long as it is run the way it always has, I'll keep coming back.
FinkPloyd
I wonder if some sorry company (running IIS) will attempt to sue Andover.net because their server went to that big blue screen in the sky when it was referenced on Slashdot?
FinkPloyd
I've about had it with country music. I'll take a good broadway musical anyday.
System is halted
rob still has the keyboard
ah well ignor whats above try hosting a website and a life
DB7 thats the car you guys want
or a Lotus Elise £20,000 full spec
£21,000 BMW 518 no funky cd player or radio for that mater nothing nda not a thing
ah well enjoy yourself people
and my place is cool if you want to crash in cambridge
john
a poor student @ bournemouth uni in the UK (a deltic so please dont moan about spelling but the content)
The real trick would be to do this as a Yodaizer. Having to switch around the whole sentence structure and all...
Brought to you by Frobozz Magic Penguin Fodder.
Quote from the article: "These men are not the beer guzzling, belching variety..." just shows how one-sided the sexism debate really is. I mean, what if I described the women here in Paris as "not the unmade-up, straggly-haired, visible-panty line variety?"
- Read fiction at www.espressostories.com
Could it be that Rob is getting to like Jar-Jar? Mee-sa hopin' not. ;)
And don't let them trademark CmdrTaco (or Rob Malda, for that matter, remembering what happened to Famous Amos in the other thread...)
Pretend there is some witty statement here.
Well those elves got mad. Really mad. They got hold of their suit elven friends to sue ol' Wally. Those crafty elves bitch slapped Wally so hard that he lost everything. Even that stash that they had given him earlier. Even the ability to use his good name. Even to use the likeness of his face. I do not think that he can legally make a cookie anymore.
I think he's making cookies again, but he can't use Famous Amos or even Wally Amos on them. He can't even advertise as "I used to be Famous Amos."
When it was still Wally, he used to do commercials on a radio station I used to listen to (in like 1981!). I can still remember the phone number because of the way he sang it: 1-800-423-3114
Oh, and I won't buy Famous Amos cookies because of the way he was treated.
Pretend there is some witty statement here.
I guess we are all in one basket according to the popular press.
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Actually if you're running Windows you can change quite a few internal graphics and sounds in programs with a little prog called ReNovator. I wish I had an URL to find it but I can't seem to remember...
- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
Forgot my comment! Those awards, what a definite OMG!
little nerds -er- people now. Your all big and growned up with all your millions. Its just a matter of time before you lose your taste for the 'finer things' in life like fast 'puters and stale twinkies outta a machine somewhere.
You're too much a young 'un to know a guy called Wally Amos outta So-Cal. In fact, this was before Al invented the internet. It was when Apple II was in a garage. The TRS-80 model I was really cool then too.
Wally had the most delectable creation of a cookie a human could taste. They came in a plain brown bag. He was known far and wide as 'Famous Amos'. I felt special when I ate them. They were 'my' cookie.
Well then one day some elves wearing suits came by. They lived in a hollow tree. They flashed a big wad of green in Wally's face and that was more money than he'd ever seen at once. Well, he was real tired of all the business end of it anyway. He was good to go and he shook hands with the elves in suits.
At first I didn't understand what happened. the plain brown bags were gone. I could'nt find them anywhere. Lots of time went by. I wondered what I could do. Then one day a yellow bag showed up with the name 'famos amos' on the side. I was so happy I couldn't wait to have one - wait but no - what is this??????? these aren't famous amos cookies - they were't even a good imitation. In fact, they tasted like cardboard with sugar. They were cardboard.
Why would a company market such a vastly inferior product????
The only thing I thought of is that those dammyd tree abusing greedy little elves make the cheapest piece of pastry possible so they can stash real dough away.
Ol' Wally saw what was happening and said 'I know how to do better than this'. And so he went about making cookies again.
Well those elves got mad. Really mad. They got hold of their suit elven friends to sue ol' Wally. Those crafty elves bitch slapped Wally so hard that he lost everything. Even that stash that they had given him earlier. Even the ability to use his good name. Even to use the likeness of his face. I do not think that he can legally make a cookie anymore.
So every time I see the name 'famous amos' at the super market a strange sense of sadness reminds me of what once was. I can only hope that someone who worked in Wally's kitchen reading this will send me his recipe for the chocalate chip macadamia nut cookie.
I really do hope you have your bases covered when dealing with the suits.
Hmmm...
At first reading I thought that said 'Jar-Jar Agonizer'... Cool!!!
So I went there expecting some sort of Shockwave Animation of 'ol Jar-Jar gettin' the Juice..
'Aw, bummer it's just a text filter program'
Starman97@Gmail.com (bring it on spammers)
Many of the men here who spend Friday and Saturday nights alone ``look and behave nothing like the now-married Bill Gates, nerd supreme,'' the report said.
I'm sorry, but...
hahahahahhahahahaah
While Rob and Hemos have done a lot of cool things, it's been the COMMUNITY that's made Slashdot what it is. Without those of us who spent hours here every day reading and posting comments, and submitting stories, this site would not exist.
Well the comunity has played a large part, but this site wouldn't exist without Rob and Hemos either.
$14 million is a pretty lucrative sum, and I would have sold out for that much money in a heartbeat as well. But this kind of stuff has to end. We need to show the corporations of the world that they can't exploit the community simply by buying out 2 members of the community. We need to start a Slashdot clone. This should be pretty easy to do.
As of now, I'm going to stop participating here. No corporation is going to buy me. It's very sad how they turned Rob into a pimp.
How exactly did they sell out? They get to keep total creative control of Slashdot. And they aren't charging for it. This actualy keeps them from needing to charge because now they can afford to run the thing. I don't really see what there is to complain about. Two guys make a good geek news site, people go there and make it even better, than they make a deal to get payed for doing what they have been all along. It's a win win situation.
$14 million? Where'd you read that. I thought the amount was undisclosed. Good luck on finding your slashdot clone.
It's not the fact that you are our inferiors on the social ladder, that is simply the Social Darwinism created by the fact that you are below us on the intellectual ladder. If you were a little brighter, you'd realize that you can make it up the socioeconomic ladder without ever having to kiss up to anybody, if such is your desire. Note:I'm only replying to you because you've already been moderated down, so this conversation won't show up for most people.
Geek-grrl in training
To truly understand recursion, you must first truly understand recursion.
Ok i don't want to sound the like its different you're sell-outs. I mean the place is great, and even cooler for the guy's if they make some money. And even better if they managed to get a small fortune of out it! :) and, am i the only one who missed "...Stuff that Matters"?
I mean the place was never comitted to... stayin-free of, profit. What im trying to say is... what it really matters is the content, and the spirit that it carries, along the interaction of a defined community.
But i guess this whole mess has to do with the this last news, you guys wrapped up, like 4+ stories or whichever number it was in a single posting... with some
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Not that some where not important, just... organize... o0
My desires to keep cobras, steal from the church, tie my bike to my hand before going swimming, and make love in a running hearse won't win me a Darwin award now. I'm running out of ideas!
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If you're gonna start an alternative clone of Slashdot, I'd suggest you not do it anonymously. ;)
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Why not make it an option in the user's preferences. Be able to use any animated GIF or whatever it uses. Just fill in the filename and have Mozilla use that one. Then everyone can have their own.. websites could give their own out. Maybe have a little "/." up in the corner of the browser.
I think it'd be pretty cool if they would let you set your own. I know you can already do that with IE5... just have to do some registry edits or replace a BMP, but it can be done... it'd be nice to see it under the "Options...".
~unyun~
But are the six-figure-men looking for women? Or are their computers named Pamela?
Because I know some positively adorable Canadian geekesses who would love to meet an intelligent man.
Actually we'd all like to meet an intelligent man.
A-hem.
I was going to make some remark about the relation between numbers of intelligent men and numbers of unicorns, but that's sexist, mmHmmm?
Ugh, I'm starting to sound like a bad comedienne.
Time for bed.
Happy Canada Day!