Flipper? As in "SEX BOMB MAMA, YEAH!" (Of course, I'm old enough to have voted for Reagan, so I'm outside your sample and I'm also in the "really don't care about music" category to boot.) But Sex Bomb is the only song I know by them, and I thought it was one of the most awful pieces of dreck I'd ever heard.
Why? We want to take our current content and all the stuff that matters to this community and deliver it on a site that still speaks to the interests and habits of our current audience, but that is, at the same time, more accessible and shareable by a wider audience.
The problem with that is that many of the current audience are here because the site lacks that "wider audence". Slashdot is (was?) a place where people could discuss and argue the benefits of various Linux desktops, or the importance of the changes Lucas made to the 1990's rerelease of the Star Wars trilogy, or whether The Glorious MEEPT! ever got laid, and not have to worry about being interrupted or looked down upon by people who didn't "get it." As the tagline said: "News for Nerds." The clearest example in the archives would have to be the Jon Katz post-Columbine stories; Katz was the archetype of the "wider audience" member you're looking for, and the comments clearly showed the disparity between his outlook and that of the Slashdot "community members" (quotes because I don't think those of us who were there considered it a "community" with a "membership" at the time). You're trying to de-nerdify a nerd site; that's as close as one can get to literally killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
While we're talking nerd stuff: where's the source code for this beta? Is it even still written in Perl?
Are they actually deleting comments, or are they just bumping them down to -1? Because while the latter is nasty, the former would completely betray the principles of the site Rob founded.
Does anyone else miss the old BillG-as-a-borg icon? Using the former corporate logo is so... corporate.
People bitched about that icon constantly before it disappeared. My favorite complaints were "it's biased, Linux fanbois, etc" and "it's unprofessional", both of which translate to "not politically correct enough".
* sigh *. The only hopeful spin I can put on that is that this was inevitable once the throngs of Linux fanboys and hardcore gamers that formed the site's audience back in the 90's grew up and became VP's. ("Unprofessional"? Really? Since when was anything about/. professional?)
Who owns the telephone poles, and who gets to decide which companies have permission to use the telephone poles? Can anybody put their cables on the telephone poles? Obviously the telephone poles themselves are a limited public resource (along with the land below to access them), and their use needs to be managed/regulated by the government.
Where I live, a business usually needs an easement from the municipality to run wires in a public ROW (i.e., the telephone pole is across the street from your house so a wire has to cross over). However, the poles themselves are usually owned by either the electric or telephone company, and I believe they collect rent for the space from the Cable TV or other providers who need to be on them.
I never did figure out how to get off of the first level. Of course, I was playing with a keyboard and mouse which didn't make the game too enthralling in the first place. Haven't bothered much with FPSs since, to be honest.
I just Googled IntelliJ IDEA (didn't use quotes), and two of the links that were neatly arranged for me were "Community Edition" (which seems like a Big Flag to me) and the Download page, which as noted above includes both the full-featured and open-source variants side-by-side.
It's also worth noting that Google has adapted IDEA into the "official" Android IDE.
Counting its radio incarnation (of which the TV show was a continuation, not a reboot), Guiding Light was around for 70 freaking years! Now CBS has a lame talk show (or a lame Let's Make a Deal copy) in its place. Daytime honchos nowadays can't even come up with new game shows!
Not to mention, they have a reasonable need to know which exploits (whether the NSA knew about them or not, and regardless of who created them) are being made public.
TFA links to a PDF showing the command center itself (posted by the architects). That server, in turn, has hit "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded." First time in ages I've seen something Slashdotted.
Also, ISTR the Navy examining the bridge design from ST:TOS for ideas for the bridges of their own ships. So in amongst the pillorying of this particular commander and the US Government in general, we should be saluting Matt Jefferies for coming up with so robust a design for a command center.
Comments are my own.
I've actually gotten ON the Turnpike there. Yeehaw is there for (ISTM) two reasons: to serve FL-60, which is the cross-state road running east from Tampa (and which extends to Vero Beach as GP mentioned), and to break up what would otherwise be a 90-mile stretch with no exits between Fort Pierce and Kissimmee. Other than that, there's one store there that looks like something the Clampetts grew up with.
He definitely threw at least twice. I have a friend who remembers Luke missing twice, then landing it on the third try, but I don't clearly remember that one way or the other. (I didn't see it on release day, but I did first see it during the summer of 1977.)
Since almost all movies ship as hard drives now rather than film prints, I don't think that opening weekend means as much for picture quality as it once did. Unless, of course, you think the studios are using such cheap hard drives that they start losing sectors after 2 weeks.
Myself, I've got a pretty decent HD/5.1 setup at home, and this is still one I'm planning to go see at the IMAX.
You're both assuming that the weak and stupid would actually be eliminated. Given that we're discussing a popular vote with no way to enforce even the slightest of eligibility rules (i.e., minimum age), I think that the best description of the ultimate victors would be "the hot ones," regardless of intellectual heft.
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Flipper? As in "SEX BOMB MAMA, YEAH!" (Of course, I'm old enough to have voted for Reagan, so I'm outside your sample and I'm also in the "really don't care about music" category to boot.) But Sex Bomb is the only song I know by them, and I thought it was one of the most awful pieces of dreck I'd ever heard.
If you're putting washout classes in a Community College curriculum, you're doing it wrong.
The problem with that is that many of the current audience are here because the site lacks that "wider audence". Slashdot is (was?) a place where people could discuss and argue the benefits of various Linux desktops, or the importance of the changes Lucas made to the 1990's rerelease of the Star Wars trilogy, or whether The Glorious MEEPT! ever got laid, and not have to worry about being interrupted or looked down upon by people who didn't "get it." As the tagline said: "News for Nerds." The clearest example in the archives would have to be the Jon Katz post-Columbine stories; Katz was the archetype of the "wider audience" member you're looking for, and the comments clearly showed the disparity between his outlook and that of the Slashdot "community members" (quotes because I don't think those of us who were there considered it a "community" with a "membership" at the time). You're trying to de-nerdify a nerd site; that's as close as one can get to literally killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
While we're talking nerd stuff: where's the source code for this beta? Is it even still written in Perl?
Are they actually deleting comments, or are they just bumping them down to -1? Because while the latter is nasty, the former would completely betray the principles of the site Rob founded.
Damn, I wish I had mod points.
Does anyone else miss the old BillG-as-a-borg icon? Using the former corporate logo is so... corporate.
People bitched about that icon constantly before it disappeared. My favorite complaints were "it's biased, Linux fanbois, etc" and "it's unprofessional", both of which translate to "not politically correct enough".
* sigh *. The only hopeful spin I can put on that is that this was inevitable once the throngs of Linux fanboys and hardcore gamers that formed the site's audience back in the 90's grew up and became VP's. ("Unprofessional"? Really? Since when was anything about /. professional?)
Does anyone else miss the old BillG-as-a-borg icon? Using the former corporate logo is so... corporate.
The initial flaw in that statement was that the quality control and insight were being provided by CmdrTaco.
Where I live, a business usually needs an easement from the municipality to run wires in a public ROW (i.e., the telephone pole is across the street from your house so a wire has to cross over). However, the poles themselves are usually owned by either the electric or telephone company, and I believe they collect rent for the space from the Cable TV or other providers who need to be on them.
Making those break sounds like a decent raison d'etre for a corporate network in the first place.
I never did figure out how to get off of the first level. Of course, I was playing with a keyboard and mouse which didn't make the game too enthralling in the first place. Haven't bothered much with FPSs since, to be honest.
Any sign of a Firefox OS phone for a USA carrier yet?
I just Googled IntelliJ IDEA (didn't use quotes), and two of the links that were neatly arranged for me were "Community Edition" (which seems like a Big Flag to me) and the Download page, which as noted above includes both the full-featured and open-source variants side-by-side. It's also worth noting that Google has adapted IDEA into the "official" Android IDE.
Counting its radio incarnation (of which the TV show was a continuation, not a reboot), Guiding Light was around for 70 freaking years! Now CBS has a lame talk show (or a lame Let's Make a Deal copy) in its place. Daytime honchos nowadays can't even come up with new game shows!
Not to mention, they have a reasonable need to know which exploits (whether the NSA knew about them or not, and regardless of who created them) are being made public.
TFA links to a PDF showing the command center itself (posted by the architects). That server, in turn, has hit "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded." First time in ages I've seen something Slashdotted. Also, ISTR the Navy examining the bridge design from ST:TOS for ideas for the bridges of their own ships. So in amongst the pillorying of this particular commander and the US Government in general, we should be saluting Matt Jefferies for coming up with so robust a design for a command center. Comments are my own.
The more broken something is on Slashdot, the greater the probability that it's exercising code that was actually written by CmdrTaco.
I've actually gotten ON the Turnpike there. Yeehaw is there for (ISTM) two reasons: to serve FL-60, which is the cross-state road running east from Tampa (and which extends to Vero Beach as GP mentioned), and to break up what would otherwise be a 90-mile stretch with no exits between Fort Pierce and Kissimmee. Other than that, there's one store there that looks like something the Clampetts grew up with.
He ruled the Star Fleet Technical Manual.
He definitely threw at least twice. I have a friend who remembers Luke missing twice, then landing it on the third try, but I don't clearly remember that one way or the other. (I didn't see it on release day, but I did first see it during the summer of 1977.)
Oh, you mean like the domain squatters do?
Since almost all movies ship as hard drives now rather than film prints, I don't think that opening weekend means as much for picture quality as it once did. Unless, of course, you think the studios are using such cheap hard drives that they start losing sectors after 2 weeks.
Myself, I've got a pretty decent HD/5.1 setup at home, and this is still one I'm planning to go see at the IMAX.
You're both assuming that the weak and stupid would actually be eliminated. Given that we're discussing a popular vote with no way to enforce even the slightest of eligibility rules (i.e., minimum age), I think that the best description of the ultimate victors would be "the hot ones," regardless of intellectual heft.