Remember when the suits thought they could leverage Slashdot into a "business intelligence" site, aka SlashBI? Remember how nobody fucking cared, even though they shilled it hard, because it was such a stupid application of the Slashdot brand? Those who read Slashdot didn't care about that shit, and those who would care didn't know what the fuck Slashdot was.
Only because we fought against Beta so hard. Seriously, it felt like they had hired someone to do the software maintenance, and then he went nuts trying to go web 3.0 with it, like he was doing it to justify keeping his job longer. I guess it could have been worse, he could have tried to go full retard Discourse.
I think it was as much from the Apple hatebois as much as anything else. And it is now at +2. Looks like Slashdot's meta-moderation system has worked again.
I think that Pseudonym's point is that metamoderation is there to correct the down-mods that should never have been done? Initial bad mods are the way Slashdot has been forever, but both metamoderation and second-day moderation correct the problem. On "everybody mods everything" sites like Reddit, there is nothing to counteract the initial groupthink down-mods.
So because one user is such an annoying asshole that his name gets brought up when talking about moderation, that means that logging in at all is useless? Sure, it's good to have the ability to post anonymously, but even in a world with logins, creimer/cdreimer is what 4chan calls a "namefag", because he thinks he's so important that you need to know it's him, and that you need to know what he thinks about everything. (So is Alpha-Papa-Kilo, at least about certain topics, but he actually manages to do it without logging in.)
Until a few months ago I had been clicking the "Post Anonymously" box a lot more, but I like being able to check back every now and then to see what replies I got, and you can't do that with an anonymous post.
2) I still browse at 0/1, even during the past year or so when the ability to save your filter setting was broken, and I had to reset it Every. Fucking. Time.
3) Well, damn, you did have to say something I would agree with, didn't you?
4) They did that? If it was recent, then good for them, if not, then that would explain the enormous number of accounts created around the 39,000,000 range that kept dumping spam into the firehose. Also, LOG IN ALREADY.
I'm still using my 1st gen 4GB Nano (white). They were recalled years ago because of battery issues, but I always used mine for in-car audio, so the battery never got much use. I drove the same SUV for over 15 years until recently, using an adapter to make the iPod look like a CD changer, but my newer vehicle has USB iPod integration, so I just had to plug it in to the USB plug in the glove compartment.
The downside is that the head end doesn't support non-roman character sets, and I have a lot of song names in Japanese, so they show up as asterisks. It's not just Slashdot that doesn't support Unicode, it's also four-year-old vehicle entertainment systems!
Replacing the keyboard in a Unibody is no fun, but at least it's possible. The easy way is swap out the entire top case. The harder but cheaper way is to replace just the keyboard. Both require you to remove the entire guts of the computer, but the latter requires you to remove 70 or so tiny little screws. I can only imagine that the new touch bar keyboards are even worse. Is it even possible to keep the old touch bar when replacing the case top? Imagine having to replace that as well as the top case, when it's just the crappy $15 keyboard inside that is broken.
I sent my 17" off to NYC to get the GPU replaced, it cost me around $300 including the shipping to send it. He had a listing on ebay for it. Of course mine died early this year, right after the extended "we fucked up" warranty expired at the end of last year. Thanks Nvidia for making crappy mobile GPUs for two or three years. (the problem is the internal mounting in the chip, don't just reheat the bad chip, get it replaced)
You can get it to sort of work if you disable the driver by hiding its files, but display performance is crap, and even scrolling in the Finder is flickery in 10.9.
Who wants that when they can have the THINnest computer? You don't need to type on it, you just need to hold your laptop sideways and people will stand aside and do everything for you!
it stopped being a "caps lock" (locking to type nothing but upper case) but a case INVERSION key.
I think that comes from the original IBM PC. And of course it stayed because compatibility! Since that would have been a part of BIOS, you can't even blame Microsoft for it, unlike when you hit Command/Control-Q instead of W to close a window, thus quitting your app entirely instead. "W" for "close window" goes back to Microsoft Word for Mac 1.0.
Ever since the Unibody era laptops, the keyboard is screwed to the top case, and you have to remove almost everything else to get to it. And when you do get everything out of the way, you have to remove the backlight (a piece of black plastic with some LEDs on it) and 70 or so tiny screws. You could spend over an hour just taking the old keyboard out. Is it any wonder they'd rather replace the entire top case?
Then you could get a replacement keyboard with problems. I replaced the keyboard in my 17" late-2011 when most of the middle row died, and while the replacement keyboard was only $15, the bent wires that are part of the support for the space bar are apparently a teensy bit wrong, so it doesn't always bounce back up properly. And some of the top row keys, especially ESC, have to be hit just right. But being able to type on it at all is still a lot better than it was before.
And now they're using a new THINNER keyboard, so it's going to have all new mechanical problems! Shut up already and have the courage to embrace the THIN!
I see a starting score of 2, an Interesting, and an Insightful, so I don't know what's going on from your point of view.
A starting score of 2 is something you can get if you both have a high enough karma score and enable it in your settings. It's been a long time since karma was visible, but I think you needed 25 out of the max 50. Back when it was new, it was the shit, but long ago decided I didn't care enough about standing out with that extra point.
There's also a side-effect where that will cause your post to reach max karma with one less point, meaning you can't get 5 karma points from a really good "karma whore" post. But most posts don't reach +5, because with Slashdot's moderation system, even having a 3 or 4 rating is good enough, and most people won't bother to set their filters to need a 5.
There are other things which you the reader can do which affect the score you see on a message, particularly the friends/foes system, but you should see those in the score tally. Also keep in mind that in a heavily moderated message, only the most popular three mod types are shown, and rounded to the nearest 10%. This was because of a few incidents where people with mod points would see a message that had been heavily moderated, and pile on just to see a message have a bunch of mods on it.
Did he mean static or the blue color that VCRs would put on when they can't find a signal? Actually, I think he wrote that before the VCR blue screen was a thing.
I think I like that one best too. As I recall, "steampunk" wasn't even a thing yet when that came out. But perhaps it helped that Bruce Sterling was involved, to keep things from getting too abstract with just Gibson alone.
And Jean-Michel Jarre's Revolutions makes a great soundtrack to read it by. Lots of steam and brass.
So true. My "daily driver" is a Late-2011 17" MBP (which I got in mid-2012 when it was announced that they would discontinue the 17" screen size). So far I have replaced the trackpad and keyboard (the hardest repair you can do by yourself), and I had to send it out a few months ago to get the GPU replaced (thanks, Nvidia for that crappy chip build, is it any wonder Apple stopped using them?) I also found a used Early-2011 17" so that I could be sure to have at least one that works. And fuck the touch bar, seriously, fuck it.
Here we are five years later, and the MacBook Pro has gone from 2.4GHz i7 with up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM and a 2.5" SATA drive to... 2.8 GHz i7 with soldered 16GB of DDR3 RAM, and soldered SSD! Sure, that i7 is a tad more efficient (Intel has been slacking), and more VRAM, but no USB-A or old-style mini-DP/Thunderbolt connectors, crappier keyboard, a trackpad without a physical clicky button, no ESC key, lame. BUT HEY IT'S SO THIN. And let's not even get into the alleged desktop computer that looks like an overgrown Edison wax cylinder.
I would have been happy with one more generation of non-retina 17". That would have added USB 3.0, swapped the Firewire for a second Thunderbolt, and probably swapped out the ExpressCard (that has proved to be rather useless to me) with an SD card slot.
Slashdot Mirror
Didn't we already do that last month?
Netcraft says "Beowulf Clusters of Naked And Petrified Natalie Portmans pouring hot grits DOWN MY PANTS" are dying.
Remember when the suits thought they could leverage Slashdot into a "business intelligence" site, aka SlashBI? Remember how nobody fucking cared, even though they shilled it hard, because it was such a stupid application of the Slashdot brand? Those who read Slashdot didn't care about that shit, and those who would care didn't know what the fuck Slashdot was.
Only because we fought against Beta so hard. Seriously, it felt like they had hired someone to do the software maintenance, and then he went nuts trying to go web 3.0 with it, like he was doing it to justify keeping his job longer. I guess it could have been worse, he could have tried to go full retard Discourse.
I think it was as much from the Apple hatebois as much as anything else. And it is now at +2. Looks like Slashdot's meta-moderation system has worked again.
I think that Pseudonym's point is that metamoderation is there to correct the down-mods that should never have been done? Initial bad mods are the way Slashdot has been forever, but both metamoderation and second-day moderation correct the problem. On "everybody mods everything" sites like Reddit, there is nothing to counteract the initial groupthink down-mods.
So because one user is such an annoying asshole that his name gets brought up when talking about moderation, that means that logging in at all is useless? Sure, it's good to have the ability to post anonymously, but even in a world with logins, creimer/cdreimer is what 4chan calls a "namefag", because he thinks he's so important that you need to know it's him, and that you need to know what he thinks about everything. (So is Alpha-Papa-Kilo, at least about certain topics, but he actually manages to do it without logging in.)
Until a few months ago I had been clicking the "Post Anonymously" box a lot more, but I like being able to check back every now and then to see what replies I got, and you can't do that with an anonymous post.
1) LOG IN ALREADY.
2) I still browse at 0/1, even during the past year or so when the ability to save your filter setting was broken, and I had to reset it Every. Fucking. Time.
3) Well, damn, you did have to say something I would agree with, didn't you?
4) They did that? If it was recent, then good for them, if not, then that would explain the enormous number of accounts created around the 39,000,000 range that kept dumping spam into the firehose. Also, LOG IN ALREADY.
I'm still using my 1st gen 4GB Nano (white). They were recalled years ago because of battery issues, but I always used mine for in-car audio, so the battery never got much use. I drove the same SUV for over 15 years until recently, using an adapter to make the iPod look like a CD changer, but my newer vehicle has USB iPod integration, so I just had to plug it in to the USB plug in the glove compartment.
The downside is that the head end doesn't support non-roman character sets, and I have a lot of song names in Japanese, so they show up as asterisks. It's not just Slashdot that doesn't support Unicode, it's also four-year-old vehicle entertainment systems!
- thinking that an unattended diagnostic test can tell you anything useful about a keyboard problem
You needed magnets, both one to keep the screw on the screwdriver, and another to collect a ball of the removed screws to keep them from rolling away.
Replacing the keyboard in a Unibody is no fun, but at least it's possible. The easy way is swap out the entire top case. The harder but cheaper way is to replace just the keyboard. Both require you to remove the entire guts of the computer, but the latter requires you to remove 70 or so tiny little screws. I can only imagine that the new touch bar keyboards are even worse. Is it even possible to keep the old touch bar when replacing the case top? Imagine having to replace that as well as the top case, when it's just the crappy $15 keyboard inside that is broken.
I sent my 17" off to NYC to get the GPU replaced, it cost me around $300 including the shipping to send it. He had a listing on ebay for it. Of course mine died early this year, right after the extended "we fucked up" warranty expired at the end of last year. Thanks Nvidia for making crappy mobile GPUs for two or three years. (the problem is the internal mounting in the chip, don't just reheat the bad chip, get it replaced)
You can get it to sort of work if you disable the driver by hiding its files, but display performance is crap, and even scrolling in the Finder is flickery in 10.9.
Machines that support more than 16 gigs of RAM
How could they remove that when they never had it? Unless you're talking about the Mac Pro, in which case, what the fuck.
Who wants that when they can have the THINnest computer? You don't need to type on it, you just need to hold your laptop sideways and people will stand aside and do everything for you!
it stopped being a "caps lock" (locking to type nothing but upper case) but a case INVERSION key.
I think that comes from the original IBM PC. And of course it stayed because compatibility! Since that would have been a part of BIOS, you can't even blame Microsoft for it, unlike when you hit Command/Control-Q instead of W to close a window, thus quitting your app entirely instead. "W" for "close window" goes back to Microsoft Word for Mac 1.0.
Ever since the Unibody era laptops, the keyboard is screwed to the top case, and you have to remove almost everything else to get to it. And when you do get everything out of the way, you have to remove the backlight (a piece of black plastic with some LEDs on it) and 70 or so tiny screws. You could spend over an hour just taking the old keyboard out. Is it any wonder they'd rather replace the entire top case?
Then you could get a replacement keyboard with problems. I replaced the keyboard in my 17" late-2011 when most of the middle row died, and while the replacement keyboard was only $15, the bent wires that are part of the support for the space bar are apparently a teensy bit wrong, so it doesn't always bounce back up properly. And some of the top row keys, especially ESC, have to be hit just right. But being able to type on it at all is still a lot better than it was before.
And now they're using a new THINNER keyboard, so it's going to have all new mechanical problems! Shut up already and have the courage to embrace the THIN!
You'll have to be careful where you put the GPU. You can either keep yourself comfy all winter, or you can singe your balls off if you're not careful.
I see a starting score of 2, an Interesting, and an Insightful, so I don't know what's going on from your point of view.
A starting score of 2 is something you can get if you both have a high enough karma score and enable it in your settings. It's been a long time since karma was visible, but I think you needed 25 out of the max 50. Back when it was new, it was the shit, but long ago decided I didn't care enough about standing out with that extra point.
There's also a side-effect where that will cause your post to reach max karma with one less point, meaning you can't get 5 karma points from a really good "karma whore" post. But most posts don't reach +5, because with Slashdot's moderation system, even having a 3 or 4 rating is good enough, and most people won't bother to set their filters to need a 5.
There are other things which you the reader can do which affect the score you see on a message, particularly the friends/foes system, but you should see those in the score tally. Also keep in mind that in a heavily moderated message, only the most popular three mod types are shown, and rounded to the nearest 10%. This was because of a few incidents where people with mod points would see a message that had been heavily moderated, and pile on just to see a message have a bunch of mods on it.
Did he mean static or the blue color that VCRs would put on when they can't find a signal? Actually, I think he wrote that before the VCR blue screen was a thing.
Hopefully we'll at least get a decent adaptation of Ready Player One.
I think I like that one best too. As I recall, "steampunk" wasn't even a thing yet when that came out. But perhaps it helped that Bruce Sterling was involved, to keep things from getting too abstract with just Gibson alone.
And Jean-Michel Jarre's Revolutions makes a great soundtrack to read it by. Lots of steam and brass.
There are Macs with a high enough spec to qualify for Microsoft's higher pricing? I mean other than a "hackintosh" that someone built in his garage.
So true. My "daily driver" is a Late-2011 17" MBP (which I got in mid-2012 when it was announced that they would discontinue the 17" screen size). So far I have replaced the trackpad and keyboard (the hardest repair you can do by yourself), and I had to send it out a few months ago to get the GPU replaced (thanks, Nvidia for that crappy chip build, is it any wonder Apple stopped using them?) I also found a used Early-2011 17" so that I could be sure to have at least one that works. And fuck the touch bar, seriously, fuck it.
Here we are five years later, and the MacBook Pro has gone from 2.4GHz i7 with up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM and a 2.5" SATA drive to... 2.8 GHz i7 with soldered 16GB of DDR3 RAM, and soldered SSD! Sure, that i7 is a tad more efficient (Intel has been slacking), and more VRAM, but no USB-A or old-style mini-DP/Thunderbolt connectors, crappier keyboard, a trackpad without a physical clicky button, no ESC key, lame. BUT HEY IT'S SO THIN. And let's not even get into the alleged desktop computer that looks like an overgrown Edison wax cylinder.
I would have been happy with one more generation of non-retina 17". That would have added USB 3.0, swapped the Firewire for a second Thunderbolt, and probably swapped out the ExpressCard (that has proved to be rather useless to me) with an SD card slot.
Surely you must be joking.