I'm wondering how the 50,000 slashdot readers per day feel to be sold to the highest bidder (Jon Katz). Whores sell themselves, not other people. And have you noticed the bannr ads at the top of every screen? They've been selling our eyeballs for a while. How else do you expect them to pay for this place and have time to maintain it?
This "kickback" Rob and Jeff will now receive is all the proof needed to show that they no longer post what they feel is important, they post what will hype the site and make money. You're right! I wondered why the site sucked so bad! Thank you for lingering here, despite its suckiness, and warning us all!
How truly sad. Yes, I'm sure you are wracked by grief. You'd love it if we abandoned this site in droves and began frequenting dabuzz.net. Your motives are pure and pristine, you desire only to serve your fellow nerds.
I also find it humorous that Katz's post is scored at a 2 instantly and this one will probably gain a -1 within minutes of it's posting. Wrong again. You should probably see a shrink about your paranoia problem. Seriously.
To all the people who bashed me above for questioning the motives behind this story (Hemos included)... sit back and now enjoy your crow, you deserve it. This sounds a lot like Saddam Hussein in 1990, declaring victory and pulling out of Kuwait. He's nuts, too.
I think you put your finger on it exactly. Your feelings mesh with mine. He's not a true believer (Give me GNU or give me an abacus!), he's just a user who likes the idea of Linux. Oddly enough, though, I feel he represents the future of Linux. Not a geek, nerd, or hacker, just a user.
Ever wonder how Rob makes it without a job? I don't anymore.
Let's see - Rob (et al) provides a news filtering service, a public discussion forum, a question & answer service, and some original content. All of this was voluntary, all of this is free. Now, unless you're willing to pony up enough to feed Rob, pay Rob's rent, buy computers for Rob, and keep the phone company off Robs back, shut up. I doubt there is anything "under-the-table" going on, but I really don't care how he finances/. because it's a good site with good information. When that is no longer true, I will go away.
See, this is why Anonymous Cowards need to go away. This one couldn't be bothered to read the article before posting a stupid and arrogant comment. Besides, no one implied that c3e8; the slowing of light as it passes through other substances is a well known phenomen among bright, interested 12-year-olds.
Not being able to do something is no excuse for not doing everything you can. If Demon took no action after complaints, they could very well be liable.
That's probably true as long as the ISP has no knowledge of the material. If you're an ISP, and I post illegal material to your web server, and you know about it, you could be liable.
You like that newstand analogy? Then get this. Mr Laurence Godfrey told the ISP three times they had libelous materials on their servers. They did nothing, so he sues. Thats kind of like telling a newstand owner several times that one of his magazines contains kiddie porn If he continues to sell it, he IS liable for his actions. I know nothing of British law, but what Mr Godfrey is doing sounds reasonable.
There are no dumb questions. Only dumb people who ask questions. I formed this opinion after answering approximately 100,000 questions (no that's not an exaggeration; that's an extremely conservative estimate) over the past four years in a tech support call center.
If Intel continues to build faster, but not better processors they will stagnate and become a has been.
Can you say "IA 64"? I'd bet my annual salary that Intel's best minds are hard at work on their 64-bit architecture. The x86 architecture is definitely minor league at this point.
Ask before you buy. If an OEM won't refund the cost of Windows, or won't ship you a system without Windows, DON'T BUY FROM THEM. Money is the only thing that will change this situation.
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I'd like to see the correlation between Anonymous Cowards and Katz haters. Most of the latter seem to be the former.
I'm wondering how the 50,000 slashdot readers per day feel to be sold to the highest bidder (Jon Katz).
... sit back and now enjoy your crow, you deserve it.
Whores sell themselves, not other people. And have you noticed the bannr ads at the top of every screen? They've been selling our eyeballs for a while. How else do you expect them to pay for this place and have time to maintain it?
This "kickback" Rob and Jeff will now receive is all the proof needed to show that they no longer post what they feel is important, they post what will hype the site and make money.
You're right! I wondered why the site sucked so bad! Thank you for lingering here, despite its suckiness, and warning us all!
How truly sad.
Yes, I'm sure you are wracked by grief. You'd love it if we abandoned this site in droves and began frequenting dabuzz.net. Your motives are pure and pristine, you desire only to serve your fellow nerds.
I also find it humorous that Katz's post is scored at a 2 instantly and this one will probably gain a -1 within minutes of it's posting.
Wrong again. You should probably see a shrink about your paranoia problem. Seriously.
To all the people who bashed me above for questioning the motives behind this story (Hemos included)
This sounds a lot like Saddam Hussein in 1990, declaring victory and pulling out of Kuwait. He's nuts, too.
I think you put your finger on it exactly. Your feelings mesh with mine. He's not a true believer (Give me GNU or give me an abacus!), he's just a user who likes the idea of Linux. Oddly enough, though, I feel he represents the future of Linux. Not a geek, nerd, or hacker, just a user.
Ever wonder how Rob makes it without a job? I don't anymore.
/. because it's a good site with good information. When that is no longer true, I will go away.
Let's see - Rob (et al) provides a news filtering service, a public discussion forum, a question & answer service, and some original content. All of this was voluntary, all of this is free. Now, unless you're willing to pony up enough to feed Rob, pay Rob's rent, buy computers for Rob, and keep the phone company off Robs back, shut up. I doubt there is anything "under-the-table" going on, but I really don't care how he finances
Not "It'll still suck", but "I'll still suck".
Read before you post.
See, this is why Anonymous Cowards need to go away. This one couldn't be bothered to read the article before posting a stupid and arrogant comment. Besides, no one implied that c3e8; the slowing of light as it passes through other substances is a well known phenomen among bright, interested 12-year-olds.
If he wins, it's not pathetic; it's a source of income. He's got to eat and pay rent after all; otherwise he might starve or freeze to death.
Not being able to do something is no excuse for not doing everything you can. If Demon took no action after complaints, they could very well be liable.
That's probably true as long as the ISP has no knowledge of the material. If you're an ISP, and I post illegal material to your web server, and you know about it, you could be liable.
You like that newstand analogy? Then get this. Mr Laurence Godfrey told the ISP three times they had libelous materials on their servers. They did nothing, so he sues. Thats kind of like telling a newstand owner several times that one of his magazines contains kiddie porn If he continues to sell it, he IS liable for his actions. I know nothing of British law, but what Mr Godfrey is doing sounds reasonable.
There are no dumb questions. Only dumb people who ask questions. I formed this opinion after answering approximately 100,000 questions (no that's not an exaggeration; that's an extremely conservative estimate) over the past four years in a tech support call center.
If Intel continues to build faster, but not better processors they will stagnate and become a has been.
Can you say "IA 64"? I'd bet my annual salary that Intel's best minds are hard at work on their 64-bit architecture. The x86 architecture is definitely minor league at this point.
Most of the articles came from AP. The New York Times article was an exception.
Ask before you buy. If an OEM won't refund the cost of Windows, or won't ship you a system without Windows, DON'T BUY FROM THEM. Money is the only thing that will change this situation.