If you want to erite about the ego/sales boost you got from posting a book excerpt on Slashdot, that's fine. However, I don't buy that it signifies some major change in the publishing industry, or says anything significant about the power of the web. (OK, so it might say something about a positive variation of the Slashdot effect, but that's all.) Also, even though I missed this particular article, and I've been disgusted with the level of flamage in response to your other posts, everything you write about getting flamed sounds whiny at best. I've enjoyed most of your articles, especially those about getting started with Linux, but I really wish you'd keep your, err, "self-gratification" to yourself.
Heard a report on NPR a few months ago about the record companies cutting back on the production of singles. I think they got some anonymous source in the recording industry to admit that usually, the single would be the only song on the CD that anyone would want to hear. Forcing the consumer to buy an entire CD full of garbage to get one good song is a concious decision on the part of the recording industry goons.
Obviously not. The colonists had planned to use the lighthouse as a waystation; the faceless rebels shot this picture to expose their plot! Of course, I'm sure you all already know that CmdrTaco is a failed alien-human hybrid experiment.
I'm sure even geeks can pick up Wired on the rare occasion when it covers something relevant. Like, say, new short fiction from Neal "Snow Crash" Stephenson, or last month's article about Matt Groenig's "Futurama". Besides, I'm sure there's less of a stigma attached to being in Wired than buying it.
For some reason, this reminds me of the old Church of the SubGenius "Good Sex For Mutants Dating League". You were supposed to fill in a questionnaire to determine just exactly what kind of wierdo you were. The service would match you up with a member of the opposite (or otherwise desired) sex, who would have, if not the same personality quirks, at least equally embarrassing ones. Their motto was, "All the Way on the First Date!" Unfortunately, the service was discontinued because, during several years of operation, only one female ever sent in her survey.
Couldn't get through to the reference page (Slashdotted already?), but I can't help but wonder if this could be some kind of Pelter Junction device. For those who've never seen one (a local electronics shop here has one on its demo display), a Peltier Junction transfers heat from one side to the other when a current flows through it. It's the first thing I could think of, small enough to be built into a heat sink, that could actually make something cooler than the ambient temperature.
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Well, you could start your own if you just had the Slashdot source code. Hey, wait a minute...
Slashdot Mirror
It may be better to remain silent and seem a fool than to post and remove all doubt, but I gotta know. What, exactly, is an ROC curve?
Of course, I'm still waiting on proper support for PNG graphics.
Meept is either insane, or pretending to be. If you don't understand its posts, be glad. And that's all the explanation you're gonna get.
If you want to erite about the ego/sales boost you got from posting a book excerpt on Slashdot, that's fine. However, I don't buy that it signifies some major change in the publishing industry, or says anything significant about the power of the web. (OK, so it might say something about a positive variation of the Slashdot effect, but that's all.) Also, even though I missed this particular article, and I've been disgusted with the level of flamage in response to your other posts, everything you write about getting flamed sounds whiny at best. I've enjoyed most of your articles, especially those about getting started with Linux, but I really wish you'd keep your, err, "self-gratification" to yourself.
Heard a report on NPR a few months ago about the record companies cutting back on the production of singles. I think they got some anonymous source in the recording industry to admit that usually, the single would be the only song on the CD that anyone would want to hear. Forcing the consumer to buy an entire CD full of garbage to get one good song is a concious decision on the part of the recording industry goons.
Obviously not. The colonists had planned to use the lighthouse as a waystation; the faceless rebels shot this picture to expose their plot! Of course, I'm sure you all already know that CmdrTaco is a failed alien-human hybrid experiment.
I'm sure even geeks can pick up Wired on the rare occasion when it covers something relevant. Like, say, new short fiction from Neal "Snow Crash" Stephenson, or last month's article about Matt Groenig's "Futurama". Besides, I'm sure there's less of a stigma attached to being in Wired than buying it.
For some reason, this reminds me of the old Church of the SubGenius "Good Sex For Mutants Dating League". You were supposed to fill in a questionnaire to determine just exactly what kind of wierdo you were. The service would match you up with a member of the opposite (or otherwise desired) sex, who would have, if not the same personality quirks, at least equally embarrassing ones. Their motto was, "All the Way on the First Date!" Unfortunately, the service was discontinued because, during several years of operation, only one female ever sent in her survey.
Couldn't get through to the reference page (Slashdotted already?), but I can't help but wonder if this could be some kind of Pelter Junction device. For those who've never seen one (a local electronics shop here has one on its demo display), a Peltier Junction transfers heat from one side to the other when a current flows through it. It's the first thing I could think of, small enough to be built into a heat sink, that could actually make something cooler than the ambient temperature.
Well, you could start your own if you just had the Slashdot source code. Hey, wait a minute...