You are absolutely right and I can understand why he feels kinda pissy or whatever. But he wasn't writing back to a person one on one. He was writing a post for the public to see. If it were me, honestly, I would have given it to someone else (I trusted) to proofread and tell me there thoughts.
"CT makes it plain that you're welcome to use SLASH, but it's his to develop."
This is exactly what I don't get. And judging by the other posts, I'm not the only one. It is his to develop right now. It will be his to develop after he releases the source code.
Besides, CT gives lip service to being open source, and has a near GPL license. Why don't we have a recent version of the source?
I am not a programmer, let alone an open-source programmer.
But why not release the source code? It might not help them at all, ever. But it would help the community. The Slashdot community is made up of programmers and people who would like the code to use on their own website. People who also preach and practice the virtues of open source software.
"This would be more a hinderance than a help to Slashdot, increasing their maintenance."
Am I missing something? Can't they just ignore the patches and the changes?
From what I can see, the people asking for the source to be released want it either to use for themselves or out of curiosity/hack/improve factor. They seem to require nothing more than the code itself. I have a hard time understanding why CmdrTaco and Hemos just don't release the code as it is. It would silence the critics and it wouldn't hurt or effect Slashdot anymore than they let it effect Slashdot.
Honestly, CmdrTaco's response that people asking him about the source delay the release by 24 hours makes me think that he is pretty touchy about releasing the source. Why not just do it?
I guess in the end, I just don't understand why it takes all this work and preparation to allow them to let people have access to the CVS server, as read only.
I hear people bitching about this on both sides of the argument. Can someone please enlighten us all as to why source code takes so much work to release, especially if that code is just being given away as opposed to released for development.
"The impression I had after reading the whole interview is that the editors get the ideas for stories from us as opposed to going out looking for stories on their own. In that sense, they will get a feel for what more people want to see posted because they'll get more stories about that given area."
If they gave people input other than just submitting articles, maybe they wouldn't get 300 stories a day. I'm sure there is a lot of redundancy in submissions also.
Also, 300 suggestions a day is not a lot compared to the readership of slashdot. I think a simple way to vote or moderate on articles would provide valuable information.
One reason to buy Intel is because celerons are cheap. 500 Mhz Athlon plus motherboard is at least 350 bucks. In the Mid and High price ranges AMD would be my choice, but Intel still has the best performance for the buck at under $300 for processor + motherboard. When you throw overclocking into the mix, the celerons look even better.
I think another key to this is as computers become more powerful and have more memory, meaningful tasks may not take that many cycles. That way you can do something processor intensive in the background while surfing the web in the foreground.
And uhhhh yes, surfing the web was the meaningful task in the paragraph above. Doh.
It amazes me how stupid anonymous cowards are. As of when I wrote this, THERE WAS NO MODERATION done to the parent of your post. You make a good point though. Just save the rant for when it actually happened.
If you honestly believe that American citizens do not understand the basic concept of twice as many at half the value is the same as the original amount then I feel sorry for you. That is simply not true. Besides, how many people who don't grasp that concept are going to be looking at Sony's stock to purchase it????
I'm glad that you've found this condescending ideology that makes you feel better. Everyone else is dumb and I'm smart. That's just great. Unfortunately it's not true. I've never worked tech support before but I do have the exciting opportunity to wait tables right now while I'm going through school. All the time customers don't understand things that are really silly, and if they thought about them they would know the answer already. This is the dumb customer. It is important to realize that all of us are dumb customers at some point in our life, probably many times. We are all ignorant about some things. My parents, particularly my mom don't know very much about computers. It's amazing that they are actually pretty smart people. They have lots of insight into way the world works and the way that people are. Ignorance is not a lack of intelligence.
Just because someone doesn't want to understand the inner workings of a computer doesn't mean that they have rejected learning. It just means they don't want to learn about computers. It seems like you don't want to learn about people. You like to believe that you are better than people because you reject "The Man." Yes we have some problems in America. Yes we have problems with the education system. But putting down people because they don't care about the same things you do, or want to learn the same things as you, is lame.
I was a BMG mail order customer back in the good old days before all this fancy schmancy internet stuff. I never once paid 15.99 for a cd. In addition to all the free ones you get when you sign up there were always buy some get some free. Don't remember the exact numbers. Something like buy two get one free or buy one get two free.
When everything was said and done (including shipping) I would guess I averaged about 5-8 bucks a cd (not including the free start up cds).
Is the online BMG similar? Is the internet BMG music club the same?
Maybe just make any positive moderation add on a plus 1 bonus in addition to normal moderation points. This would put a AC and a logged on person at the same score for the same post with the same moderation
This is a very cool idea. Maybe every so often the article with the most votes could be moved to the front page. One problem though, it seems to me that voting for the masses would be similar to polls. Polls can't be taken at face value because of ballot-stuffing.]
Maybe in addition to moderation points, Slashdot could periodically give out article moderation points. They could use a scheme where people with higher karma can article moderate more often (does regular moderation work this way also?).
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In general making more stages also decreases the amount of work done per clock cycle. Will Motorola end up with a processor that is truly faster or just higher Mhz? All other things being equal, of course.
I just followed the link and didn't find the original jpeg to be better. At the partial bit rates I thought the 2000 was clearly better. At 1bpp i thought it was a wash.
"May I just point out the in the U.S. we kill more people with knives than almost every other western nation does with firearms. It's the culture of diversity, deal with it."
Do you mean more as in raw numbers or more per capita?
Less than ten dollars is cheap for a card. I wonder if USB isn't cheaper still to add to peripherals than adding a 10/100BaseT interface. Think about keyboards and mice. The interface for those needs to be pretty cheap. Also what kind of power consumption does a PCI lan card use? I doubt power consumption was a very critical requirement on the PCI bus. This isn't to say it's a bad idea, because I think most of these issues could be worked out to create a peripheral standard for a lan type connection.
There are many times when quoting something in a post at slashdot can be very informative. Particularly when the discussion has some mistaken ideas in it. I wonder why it's necessary to cut and paste parts of the article in the 5th and 7th posts with nothing to say of your own. Slashdot linked the article. They could have easily included the text.
Something like this was discussed prior to the lawsuit. Etoy wanted Etoys to pay for an advertisement is what it boiled down to. Hard to say if Etoy was trying to be helpful or not.
Slashdot Mirror
You are absolutely right and I can understand why he feels kinda pissy or whatever. But he wasn't writing back to a person one on one. He was writing a post for the public to see. If it were me, honestly, I would have given it to someone else (I trusted) to proofread and tell me there thoughts.
"Again, I claim no factual content at all to that, just my impressions."
Well said and thought out impressions.
"CT makes it plain that you're welcome to use SLASH, but it's his to develop."
This is exactly what I don't get. And judging by the other posts, I'm not the only one. It is his to develop right now. It will be his to develop after he releases the source code.
Besides, CT gives lip service to being open source, and has a near GPL license. Why don't we have a recent version of the source?
I am not a programmer, let alone an open-source programmer.
But why not release the source code? It might not help them at all, ever. But it would help the community. The Slashdot community is made up of programmers and people who would like the code to use on their own website. People who also preach and practice the virtues of open source software.
"This would be more a hinderance than a help to Slashdot, increasing their maintenance."
Am I missing something? Can't they just ignore the patches and the changes?
From what I can see, the people asking for the source to be released want it either to use for themselves or out of curiosity/hack/improve factor. They seem to require nothing more than the code itself. I have a hard time understanding why CmdrTaco and Hemos just don't release the code as it is. It would silence the critics and it wouldn't hurt or effect Slashdot anymore than they let it effect Slashdot.
Honestly, CmdrTaco's response that people asking him about the source delay the release by 24 hours makes me think that he is pretty touchy about releasing the source. Why not just do it?
I guess in the end, I just don't understand why it takes all this work and preparation to allow them to let people have access to the CVS server, as read only.
I hear people bitching about this on both sides of the argument. Can someone please enlighten us all as to why source code takes so much work to release, especially if that code is just being given away as opposed to released for development.
"The impression I had after reading the whole interview is that the editors get the ideas for stories from us as opposed to going out looking for stories on their own. In that sense, they will get a feel for what more people want to see posted because they'll get more stories about that given area."
If they gave people input other than just submitting articles, maybe they wouldn't get 300 stories a day. I'm sure there is a lot of redundancy in submissions also.
Also, 300 suggestions a day is not a lot compared to the readership of slashdot. I think a simple way to vote or moderate on articles would provide valuable information.
One reason to buy Intel is because celerons are cheap. 500 Mhz Athlon plus motherboard is at least 350 bucks. In the Mid and High price ranges AMD would be my choice, but Intel still has the best performance for the buck at under $300 for processor + motherboard. When you throw overclocking into the mix, the celerons look even better.
I think another key to this is as computers become more powerful and have more memory, meaningful tasks may not take that many cycles. That way you can do something processor intensive in the background while surfing the web in the foreground.
And uhhhh yes, surfing the web was the meaningful task in the paragraph above. Doh.
It amazes me how stupid anonymous cowards are. As of when I wrote this, THERE WAS NO MODERATION done to the parent of your post. You make a good point though. Just save the rant for when it actually happened.
If you honestly believe that American citizens do not understand the basic concept of twice as many at half the value is the same as the original amount then I feel sorry for you. That is simply not true. Besides, how many people who don't grasp that concept are going to be looking at Sony's stock to purchase it????
I'm glad that you've found this condescending ideology that makes you feel better. Everyone else is dumb and I'm smart. That's just great. Unfortunately it's not true. I've never worked tech support before but I do have the exciting opportunity to wait tables right now while I'm going through school. All the time customers don't understand things that are really silly, and if they thought about them they would know the answer already. This is the dumb customer. It is important to realize that all of us are dumb customers at some point in our life, probably many times. We are all ignorant about some things. My parents, particularly my mom don't know very much about computers. It's amazing that they are actually pretty smart people. They have lots of insight into way the world works and the way that people are. Ignorance is not a lack of intelligence.
Just because someone doesn't want to understand the inner workings of a computer doesn't mean that they have rejected learning. It just means they don't want to learn about computers. It seems like you don't want to learn about people. You like to believe that you are better than people because you reject "The Man." Yes we have some problems in America. Yes we have problems with the education system. But putting down people because they don't care about the same things you do, or want to learn the same things as you, is lame.
There is no need to be a condescending asshole.
I wish I could think of more to say in reply to this, but honestly my first though (see above) just keeps repeating through my head.
Why? what would this accomplish?
I was a BMG mail order customer back in the good old days before all this fancy schmancy internet stuff. I never once paid 15.99 for a cd. In addition to all the free ones you get when you sign up there were always buy some get some free. Don't remember the exact numbers. Something like buy two get one free or buy one get two free.
When everything was said and done (including shipping) I would guess I averaged about 5-8 bucks a cd (not including the free start up cds).
Is the online BMG similar?
Is the internet BMG music club the same?
Maybe just make any positive moderation add on a plus 1 bonus in addition to normal moderation points. This would put a AC and a logged on person at the same score for the same post with the same moderation
This is a very cool idea. Maybe every so often the article with the most votes could be moved to the front page. One problem though, it seems to me that voting for the masses would be similar to polls. Polls can't be taken at face value because of ballot-stuffing.]
Maybe in addition to moderation points, Slashdot could periodically give out article moderation points. They could use a scheme where people with higher karma can article moderate more often (does regular moderation work this way also?).
In general making more stages also decreases the amount of work done per clock cycle. Will Motorola end up with a processor that is truly faster or just higher Mhz? All other things being equal, of course.
I just followed the link and didn't find the original jpeg to be better. At the partial bit rates I thought the 2000 was clearly better. At 1bpp i thought it was a wash.
Actually I believe they (Unreal people) released the code to facilitate the linux port.
"May I just point out the in the U.S. we kill more people with knives than almost every other western nation does with firearms.
It's the culture of diversity, deal with it."
Do you mean more as in raw numbers or more per capita?
Less than ten dollars is cheap for a card. I wonder if USB isn't cheaper still to add to peripherals than adding a 10/100BaseT interface. Think about keyboards and mice. The interface for those needs to be pretty cheap. Also what kind of power consumption does a PCI lan card use? I doubt power consumption was a very critical requirement on the PCI bus. This isn't to say it's a bad idea, because I think most of these issues could be worked out to create a peripheral standard for a lan type connection.
There are many times when quoting something in a post at slashdot can be very informative. Particularly when the discussion has some mistaken ideas in it. I wonder why it's necessary to cut and paste parts of the article in the 5th and 7th posts with nothing to say of your own. Slashdot linked the article. They could have easily included the text.
How cool is that? from the air waves to the internet... These are cool times for geeks
Steve- you are right it was good advice, but it was posted by an anonymous coward. That's why it defaulted to zero. It hasn't been moderated at all.
The ARRL.org had lots of good technical info, tho it didn't give me much of a feeling of how people actually use their radios.
Is ham mostly one way or two way?
is ham all private or is it also commercial?
is ham radio sort of like a bbs type community?
do you meet new people on ham radio or talk to ones you meat in real life?
what kind of transmit ranges are possible?
Something like this was discussed prior to the lawsuit. Etoy wanted Etoys to pay for an advertisement is what it boiled down to. Hard to say if Etoy was trying to be helpful or not.
They could still ring things up manually tho, right?