Neither Torricelli nor Corzine are on the Senate Commerce Subcommittee, so there's not much I could say or do, but maybe someone else could have some effect.
If anyone is from these states could you please get in touch with the people mentioned and tell them to tell Disney to suck on something? No Jersey, so no go for me:(
Lynx! The stories are important for two things: Links to the sites that CmdrTaco commands we destroy, and the comments of the community. Lynx can handle links, and the comments are made of text. Lynx is a text only browser. Done!
Half Empty, aka.5e, land of the pot heads. Actually most of the people on the site are pretty cool, they're just too damn small. If you've ever seen people like BonzoEsc, Uruk, Krellis, or Nebby modded up on a comment here at/., then you know what type of people hang out at.5e.
Kuro5hin, land of the pretentious fucks. It'll probably come down to having to pay money just to avoid hanging out with these losers.
BBC News, what I believe is the most objective western news site. The problem is that there's no discussion system even worth wasting time with.
I'm going to sign up just for access to the rejected submissions bin. That's where the real news for nerds lies.
Next time you find something that's News for Nerds, and it hasn't been posted to slashdot, submit the story as you normally would, but include comments from some Open Source luminary who ISN'T quoted anywhere in the story or even remotely related to it. Guaranteed front page post.
Or they'll bite off more than they can chew, get really depressed, and never get around to contributing anything to anyone. They've got to get it in their heads to start simple, otherwise they'll never achieve great things.
Whoa, whoa, slow down there big boy. I hate Linux and Open Source in general with a passion, but come on: what sets us as programmers apart from the masses is that we do our profession because we love it, and we'd do it even if we weren't getting paid for it. If you're not writing software because it's fun, then I pity you.
Other than point 10 (which doesn't require discussion because we've gone over it a thousand times), the rest of this guy's points are pretty interesting. The GUI point is weird: OK, eliminate double click, I'm down with that, now what? We have to right click and choose a default option? We have to shift click? We have to use a fourth mouse button? Maybe we should just stick to a predefined standard for GUIs? But that's addressed by his other point that standards are 'ugly compromises'.
Damn if this whole article isn't food for thought.
Whatever book you write about, please provide some sort of official online forum where readers of the book can get together and talk about stuff, and stuff. It sucks finding something, not being able to tell if it's a typo, and not getting any response from the publisher or author. By providing an official online forum just for the book, users can brainstorm together.
Call a lawyer. Just do it. If you don't have a lawyer, what are you doing in charge of a company? How could you have started beta testing without an EULA? This clearly isn't free software, otherwise you wouldn't have to 'beta test' it, you'd just release, revise, repeat.
Nonfree software requires EULAs, sorry, but that's the only way to avoid little messes like this. Just call a lawyer, explain the situation, get him to resolve the situation. Otherwise you're gonna end up having to go with the results of an 'ask slashdot', which is never pretty.
TEQ is an incredibly addictive real time strategy game. Go ahead and try it out, I've had quite a few people look at it and go, "This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen!" and one week later complaining about market fluctuations, bragging about kills, talking gossip about top teams & players, etc. It's all played over the web so as long as you have a decent browser, you're good to go.
The horrific bandwidth penalties that some people have to pay might be some incentive. A slashdotting is absolutely insane in scope & size. The very the editors could do is provide people with a wee bit of warning about what's going to happen, but that would require them to actually have some journalistic integrity, something they've said time and time again that they don't need since this is just a 'hobby' site.
Slashdot Mirror
Neither Torricelli nor Corzine are on the Senate Commerce Subcommittee, so there's not much I could say or do, but maybe someone else could have some effect.
If anyone is from these states could you please get in touch with the people mentioned and tell them to tell Disney to suck on something? No Jersey, so no go for me :(
I will pay for journalistic integrity.
Lynx! The stories are important for two things: Links to the sites that CmdrTaco commands we destroy, and the comments of the community. Lynx can handle links, and the comments are made of text. Lynx is a text only browser. Done!
He was talking about the forums on SA, not .5e. Read before you post. Please.
We have:
.5e, land of the pot heads. Actually most of the people on the site are pretty cool, they're just too damn small. If you've ever seen people like BonzoEsc, Uruk, Krellis, or Nebby modded up on a comment here at /., then you know what type of people hang out at .5e.
Half Empty, aka
Kuro5hin, land of the pretentious fucks. It'll probably come down to having to pay money just to avoid hanging out with these losers.
BBC News, what I believe is the most objective western news site. The problem is that there's no discussion system even worth wasting time with.
I'm going to sign up just for access to the rejected submissions bin. That's where the real news for nerds lies.
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.
Next time you find something that's News for Nerds, and it hasn't been posted to slashdot, submit the story as you normally would, but include comments from some Open Source luminary who ISN'T quoted anywhere in the story or even remotely related to it. Guaranteed front page post.
Remember when ESR was going on about how he wasn't going to share his VA Linux money with anyone? Remember that? What goes around comes around.
This is in California, right? What's to stop people from using the 'recycling' tax to just ship it to China where it can rot in the open?
so I might as well throw in a few links:
Everyone - a vg music tribute band.
Evil Adam - Check out "Zerg Must Die" & "Evil de Chocobo"
That isn't even a complete sentence! Couldn't this guy at least have linked to an article so we know what he's going on about?
Or they'll bite off more than they can chew, get really depressed, and never get around to contributing anything to anyone. They've got to get it in their heads to start simple, otherwise they'll never achieve great things.
Chris Carter is full of mouthwash?!
http://www.opentracker.org/main.html
groups.google.com
What happens when the efficient geeks in question can't agree on the tools for the job?
"PHP is open source. I guess you're going to have to stop using it."
I said I don't like Open Source, I didn't say I didn't use it. I use stuff I don't like all the time.
"Slashdot used to have a lot of non-Free Software stuff on it. That seems to have gone down in the last few years."
Funny, I have Linux stories turned off and there are 12 stories on the front page.
"Unless you're saying that you post on Slashdot because you like Jon Katz?"
I see you haven't looked at who I'm a fan of =)
Does the subject of a post give you insight into a comment? It's useless, too bad I can't turn them off.
My website's on linux, but god knows I would never maintain the box itself or telnet in or run it on my own machine.
I don't put up with perl since I have PHP & ASP.
I don't use MySQL but (true story!) I got modded down for telling people that I like mSQL.
And whoa, get this, Slashdot is about more things than Linux & Open Source! Whodathunkit?
Whoa, whoa, slow down there big boy. I hate Linux and Open Source in general with a passion, but come on: what sets us as programmers apart from the masses is that we do our profession because we love it, and we'd do it even if we weren't getting paid for it. If you're not writing software because it's fun, then I pity you.
Other than point 10 (which doesn't require discussion because we've gone over it a thousand times), the rest of this guy's points are pretty interesting. The GUI point is weird: OK, eliminate double click, I'm down with that, now what? We have to right click and choose a default option? We have to shift click? We have to use a fourth mouse button? Maybe we should just stick to a predefined standard for GUIs? But that's addressed by his other point that standards are 'ugly compromises'.
Damn if this whole article isn't food for thought.
We were talking about Functional Languages under .NET CLR, what were you going on about?
Whatever book you write about, please provide some sort of official online forum where readers of the book can get together and talk about stuff, and stuff. It sucks finding something, not being able to tell if it's a typo, and not getting any response from the publisher or author. By providing an official online forum just for the book, users can brainstorm together.
Call a lawyer. Just do it. If you don't have a lawyer, what are you doing in charge of a company? How could you have started beta testing without an EULA? This clearly isn't free software, otherwise you wouldn't have to 'beta test' it, you'd just release, revise, repeat.
Nonfree software requires EULAs, sorry, but that's the only way to avoid little messes like this. Just call a lawyer, explain the situation, get him to resolve the situation. Otherwise you're gonna end up having to go with the results of an 'ask slashdot', which is never pretty.
TEQ is an incredibly addictive real time strategy game. Go ahead and try it out, I've had quite a few people look at it and go, "This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen!" and one week later complaining about market fluctuations, bragging about kills, talking gossip about top teams & players, etc. It's all played over the web so as long as you have a decent browser, you're good to go.
The horrific bandwidth penalties that some people have to pay might be some incentive. A slashdotting is absolutely insane in scope & size. The very the editors could do is provide people with a wee bit of warning about what's going to happen, but that would require them to actually have some journalistic integrity, something they've said time and time again that they don't need since this is just a 'hobby' site.