Hmmm... Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island. Your turn now -- tell me three great towering achievements of "safeguards and cutoffs that fail safe.":)
The very fact that they work well means that you won't hear about them.
A person who is legitimately selling their device would either have to explicitly clear that code from the device or reset it to a default state before transferring it
So the mugger just beats them with a $5 wrench until they reset it.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to think that I have at least a few percent more of a chance of swaying the direction Slashdot goes than all the other things that are going off the tracks these days like Unity, Windows 8, the U.S. government...
I don't like being told "we're doing this for you"/"we're representing you" and then they do the exact opposite of what we've been telling them we want them to do. It's more galling than never soliciting feedback in the first place.
We want to take our current content and all the stuff that matters to this community and deliver it on a site [that is] more accessible and shareable by a wider audience.
What exactly is it about the current site that makes it inaccessible?
As a programmer, this pisses me off because Slashdot is a completely transparent, public website, that you don't even need to make an account for, and you can even post anonymously! How much more open can you get?! Apparently this is "NewSpeak open" (god damn it, now you guys have finally gotten me making 1984 references!:) Not "open as in source" or "free as in beer," but "open as in whatever we want it to mean to justify our position."
Over the last few days the comments pages have been increasingly dominated by childish anti-beta messages. I understand these are probably born out of frustration and irritation (even anger on some parts), but they've made the website far less usable than if the beta had been rolled out without argument. This is the flipside of it: no redesign is worth fucking up a website over, and certainly doesn't justify the sheer amount of petulant whining the boards have been filled with.
Yeah, I think that was kind of the point. The message I got was, "Fine: If you want to act like you're listening to us but then completely ignore what we're saying, we can be just as childish. In the process, we'll demonstrate why you should value the comments so much. You'll probably misconstrue or ignore that message, but fuck it, we have to do something."
I guess it's kind of debatable whether this is commenters putting their money where their mouths are, or just being bratty, though. But why can't it be both?:)
Slashdot hasn't been as exciting as in the past for a while now. What it needed is fresh ideas, better ways to get involved in duscussion, *more* interactivity and possibly ability to connect among its users
I almost want to say I feel a little sympathy for them when you say, "Slashdot needs new, fresh ideas!", they apply their misguided ideas of what new direction Slashdot needs, and everyone yells at them. Then they try to compromise (at least that's what it's supposed to sound like) by saying "we'll take it slower" but everybody continues yelling at them. Pride is a big thing, and it seems to me it's a fundamental part of their marketing jobs; they can't just "give in" and say, "Okay, we'll leave Slashdot the way it is," because then they're basically admitting that their own jobs are useless.
P.S: Please don't mistake this post for me saying that I like the beta. I do not. I just can sort of see where they're coming from, I think. Engineers will always be at odds with business/marketer types due to opposed worldviews. I tend to fall more into the former pragmatic viewpoint.
Because I'm sure that's the only place he uses JQuery--to call that one function. At what point do you decide to use an external library? 5 functions? 10? 50? At that point, you already have a code base you need to sweep through to hook in the library.
Oh, I'm so terribly sorry that I actually provided links from a halfway scientific source; you must obviously be correct because "everybody knows" that your way is the right one.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm... Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island. Your turn now -- tell me three great towering achievements of "safeguards and cutoffs that fail safe." :)
The very fact that they work well means that you won't hear about them.
http://www.hasthelargehadronco...
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs...
A person who is legitimately selling their device would either have to explicitly clear that code from the device or reset it to a default state before transferring it
So the mugger just beats them with a $5 wrench until they reset it.
Next!
Nice off-topic comment If you don't like the Beta you don't have to use it.
Yet.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd like to think that I have at least a few percent more of a chance of swaying the direction Slashdot goes than all the other things that are going off the tracks these days like Unity, Windows 8, the U.S. government...
I don't like being told "we're doing this for you"/"we're representing you" and then they do the exact opposite of what we've been telling them we want them to do. It's more galling than never soliciting feedback in the first place.
We want to take our current content and all the stuff that matters to this community and deliver it on a site [that is] more accessible and shareable by a wider audience.
What exactly is it about the current site that makes it inaccessible?
As a programmer, this pisses me off because Slashdot is a completely transparent, public website, that you don't even need to make an account for, and you can even post anonymously! How much more open can you get?! Apparently this is "NewSpeak open" (god damn it, now you guys have finally gotten me making 1984 references! :) Not "open as in source" or "free as in beer," but "open as in whatever we want it to mean to justify our position."
Over the last few days the comments pages have been increasingly dominated by childish anti-beta messages. I understand these are probably born out of frustration and irritation (even anger on some parts), but they've made the website far less usable than if the beta had been rolled out without argument. This is the flipside of it: no redesign is worth fucking up a website over, and certainly doesn't justify the sheer amount of petulant whining the boards have been filled with.
Yeah, I think that was kind of the point. The message I got was, "Fine: If you want to act like you're listening to us but then completely ignore what we're saying, we can be just as childish. In the process, we'll demonstrate why you should value the comments so much. You'll probably misconstrue or ignore that message, but fuck it, we have to do something."
I guess it's kind of debatable whether this is commenters putting their money where their mouths are, or just being bratty, though. But why can't it be both? :)
Hail Eris!
Slashdot hasn't been as exciting as in the past for a while now. What it needed is fresh ideas, better ways to get involved in duscussion, *more* interactivity and possibly ability to connect among its users
I almost want to say I feel a little sympathy for them when you say, "Slashdot needs new, fresh ideas!", they apply their misguided ideas of what new direction Slashdot needs, and everyone yells at them. Then they try to compromise (at least that's what it's supposed to sound like) by saying "we'll take it slower" but everybody continues yelling at them. Pride is a big thing, and it seems to me it's a fundamental part of their marketing jobs; they can't just "give in" and say, "Okay, we'll leave Slashdot the way it is," because then they're basically admitting that their own jobs are useless.
P.S: Please don't mistake this post for me saying that I like the beta. I do not. I just can sort of see where they're coming from, I think. Engineers will always be at odds with business/marketer types due to opposed worldviews. I tend to fall more into the former pragmatic viewpoint.
#FuckBeta?
As opposed to Google promising that they will remain in Israel until the heat death of the universe? Or Israel ceases to exist?
Harden the Fuck Up, Australia
Notice he said stopped, not broken.
Considering that the minute hand moves clockwise, it should be blindingly obvious which way the offset runs. Plus, y'know, the word clockwise.
Buck Futter!
#FuckBeta
There was when they announced it. They got a bunch of feedback they didn't like, realized their mistake, and haven't done one again.
Because the minute hand is merely an offset. Don't be thick.
How is that showing the wrong time? Hour hand number + 30 minutes.
Because I'm sure that's the only place he uses JQuery--to call that one function. At what point do you decide to use an external library? 5 functions? 10? 50? At that point, you already have a code base you need to sweep through to hook in the library.
I'm bookmarking this post in my bookmarks bar with the title "/. Escape Pod" :)
When the shit hits the fan (no more opt-out-of-beta link), I plan to shout, "Man the escape pods!"
Hmm...come to think of it, that might be problematic if the beta interface won't take you directly to individual comments. Fuck!
#FuckBeta
I still feel like I missed something with that movie...I just don't see why it was popular. It was cheesy, overblown, and somewhat juvenile IMO.
Any recommended alternatives? I should line up a backup plan :-/
"Also, we made the handle twice as big so it's more difficult to hold, but it looks twice as sexy!"
The new beta wastes like 60% of available screen pixels AT LEAST.
#FuckBeta
P.S: If you want me to take you citing *your own website* seriously, maybe you should have a link to wherever you got that info from.
Oh, I'm so terribly sorry that I actually provided links from a halfway scientific source; you must obviously be correct because "everybody knows" that your way is the right one.
Yeah, but that's millions (billions?) of years in the future, not hundreds.