> comments are at the top of our list of features that need more work on the Beta site
Why was it not top of the list of features *a year ago*? Because those in decision-making positions don't understand what's important about the site. And if they lack that insight, they shouldn't be running the site any more.
cue: "I can change" from/Team America/
Coming up with promises about future improvements cannot magically undo the gross incompetence that you've already displayed. You can't polish a turd.
I'd rather be in a community with the 300000 people who are interested about the comments. Let the 3000000 people who aren't have a broken slashdot-2.0 to themselves. And not even know of each other's existence. What kind of a community is that?
I remember the last time you shut down technocrat, it was many years ago after slashdot pissed me off with changes (they'd clearly not tested in a javascript-free environment), and I just thought to hell with it, I know somewhere better.... Ooops, too late.
But you're right, it is all about the articles. Responsibility for that is of course easily distributable. On think that I think is overlooked is the fact that the people who are best equipped for hunting out topics for coverage aren't necessarily the best ones for creating a well-written and researched summary. Maybe a multi-layer system where the front end contributors, the ones with 100 RSS feeds at their fingertips, just submit a very brief *fresh* link, and someone else who has expertise in the field creates the summary for it. It there's a maths story, I'm your editor...
And finally, at least once a month I say "I miss Groklaw". It can never be said too much.
Maybe you've not worked in a company where changes like this have been foisted on employees and users. This situation is scarily similar to one of my recent past positions. With that knowledge and experience of how these things are done from the inside - yes, it is dripping with incompetence, and wrong-think. And downright lies too, I might add.
If you don't understand the difference between "go in reverse gear" and "go into reverse gear", then you're ill-equipped to enter into a semantic argument.
Respecting the contents of private mail, I'll say no more apart from the fact that I am remarkably impressed with his turnaround time for emails (and perhaps I'm not blacklisted to hell and back after all).
Alas, my domain name is heavily associated with spam (as spammers use it as a from address, for example) and there's also a cunting "IP address reputation" website (100% commercial, not one of the free blacklist that I make good use of myself in the other direction) who are trying to strongarm me into paying them money for them to take me off their blacklist, so it might never get through.
And as I don't think I'll be around much longer to use them (not that you could ever "use" them anyway), I'm glad one of us got mod-points for my post.
Someone mentioned that they'd finally fixed that unicode issue. I guess there's only one way to test that (and make the test results public): Müük otsinguvõimalusi
After previewing... oh bollocks, I guess I misread.
Delete all cookies. Disable javascript. Keep rejecting any cookie apart from ones that are absolutely essential to you logging in. Alternatively, don't log in (and just use lynx). Then you should have the late 2000s view that the rest of us who refer to "classic" see. Of course, it's still a bit different from the real classic that we remember from the 90s, but it's good enough.
Last post will be at about 23:59 on 9th. Then there will be the boycott. Then, hopefully, there will be an implosion, heads will roll, Alice fucking Hill will be updating her CV to include "I am an abject fucking failure". Cross fingers, and before long, actual sanity will be restored.
Until then, replacements are welcome, this may be the *only* tech site I'm signed up to, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm loyal,/per se/.
I remember when Bruce postsed his office telephone number in a slashdot story. I'd make use of that right now to tell him to get moving, if it wasn't for the fact that it was about 5 jobs back!
But apart from the data being presented, the style in which it's presented, and the user's interaction with that data, there's basically very little wrong?
All we need is a picture of Alice Hill's head on a spike as the logo, and it would be perfect.
I hereby promise no more than 15 flames per story, until either (a) Slashdot beta is buried, and there's an apology, an admission of incompetence, and the head of Alice Hill on a plate; or (b) Slashdot? What's that?
Never underestimate the "menace" that is slashdot beta. And it's an insult to those who've been reading since the 90s. slashdot beta would be banned un Turkey, know that.
Fuck me, I never believed I'd just be a contributor of noise and nothing more to a story, what have DICE done to me?
However, I think it's important - continuing to post the quantity I normally would gives us a way of measuring the activity drop during the slashdot boycott on 10th-17th. Remember - delete all your cookies, and disable 3rd party cookies too, before you shutdown on the end of the 9th, so in case you accidentally reload favourite tabs. And disable the RSS feed too, so you're not tempted to give them page views.
When 50% of the cost of the centre was for its power supply and its cooling. And that doesn't take into account actually running the things. Look at TPC benchmark declarations, and the costs of the systems, there's a breakdown of the cost - power is the single biggest thing. Processors, RAM, storage, interconnects, etc. don't come close.
My own web page which identifies the primary sources *precisely*, you fucking dipshit. How can you be too stupid to even read? Don't answer that, your answer would almost certainly be stupid, as I've started to detect a pattern.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm in a +zone, so I will be one of the earlier goodbyes.
/. I've done it before, I can do it again.
My one week is to wean myself off
Yay - more time for usenet!
On my phone I can't even slide the sliders to show all, it moves the whole page around under my finger instead.
Total UI fail.
> comments are at the top of our list of features that need more work on the Beta site
/Team America/
Why was it not top of the list of features *a year ago*? Because those in decision-making positions don't understand what's important about the site. And if they lack that insight, they shouldn't be running the site any more.
cue: "I can change" from
Coming up with promises about future improvements cannot magically undo the gross incompetence that you've already displayed. You can't polish a turd.
I'd rather be in a community with the 300000 people who are interested about the comments. Let the 3000000 people who aren't have a broken slashdot-2.0 to themselves. And not even know of each other's existence. What kind of a community is that?
This, a million-fold. (Well, probably several hundred thousand-fold.)
... to upcoming slashdot replacements.
I've turned my back on slashdot before, but slid back into their clutches, as I felt some loyalty. Now they are DICE, all that attachment is gone.
I now read slashdot for the links
I remember the last time you shut down technocrat, it was many years ago after slashdot pissed me off with changes (they'd clearly not tested in a javascript-free environment), and I just thought to hell with it, I know somewhere better.... Ooops, too late.
But you're right, it is all about the articles. Responsibility for that is of course easily distributable. On think that I think is overlooked is the fact that the people who are best equipped for hunting out topics for coverage aren't necessarily the best ones for creating a well-written and researched summary. Maybe a multi-layer system where the front end contributors, the ones with 100 RSS feeds at their fingertips, just submit a very brief *fresh* link, and someone else who has expertise in the field creates the summary for it. It there's a maths story, I'm your editor...
And finally, at least once a month I say "I miss Groklaw". It can never be said too much.
> I can copy and paste things from the articles ... without it shitting all over itself.
Even the things from the summaries. Everything it is prepared to send to us, it should be prepared to receive from us.
Maybe you've not worked in a company where changes like this have been foisted on employees and users. This situation is scarily similar to one of my recent past positions. With that knowledge and experience of how these things are done from the inside - yes, it is dripping with incompetence, and wrong-think. And downright lies too, I might add.
If you don't understand the difference between "go in reverse gear" and "go into reverse gear", then you're ill-equipped to enter into a semantic argument.
Thanks for the car analogy - damn, have we given up on flaming and got back to traditional slashdot contents already?
Response received...
Respecting the contents of private mail, I'll say no more apart from the fact that I am remarkably impressed with his turnaround time for emails (and perhaps I'm not blacklisted to hell and back after all).
Mailed.
Alas, my domain name is heavily associated with spam (as spammers use it as a from address, for example) and there's also a cunting "IP address reputation" website (100% commercial, not one of the free blacklist that I make good use of myself in the other direction) who are trying to strongarm me into paying them money for them to take me off their blacklist, so it might never get through.
I'm glad you got the reference I was making.
And as I don't think I'll be around much longer to use them (not that you could ever "use" them anyway), I'm glad one of us got mod-points for my post.
Someone mentioned that they'd finally fixed that unicode issue. I guess there's only one way to test that (and make the test results public):
Müük otsinguvõimalusi
After previewing... oh bollocks, I guess I misread.
They can't go in reverse gear with the brakes on.
We want them in reverse gear. And we want an apology, and an admission of total incompetence amongst those who were in decision-making positions.
Delete all cookies. Disable javascript. Keep rejecting any cookie apart from ones that are absolutely essential to you logging in. Alternatively, don't log in (and just use lynx). Then you should have the late 2000s view that the rest of us who refer to "classic" see. Of course, it's still a bit different from the real classic that we remember from the 90s, but it's good enough.
Last post will be at about 23:59 on 9th. Then there will be the boycott.
/per se/.
Then, hopefully, there will be an implosion, heads will roll, Alice fucking Hill will be updating her CV to include "I am an abject fucking failure". Cross fingers, and before long, actual sanity will be restored.
Until then, replacements are welcome, this may be the *only* tech site I'm signed up to, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm loyal,
I remember when Bruce postsed his office telephone number in a slashdot story. I'd make use of that right now to tell him to get moving, if it wasn't for the fact that it was about 5 jobs back!
But apart from the data being presented, the style in which it's presented, and the user's interaction with that data, there's basically very little wrong?
All we need is a picture of Alice Hill's head on a spike as the logo, and it would be perfect.
But they're now saying "slow down".
I hereby promise no more than 15 flames per story, until either (a) Slashdot beta is buried, and there's an apology, an admission of incompetence, and the head of Alice Hill on a plate; or (b) Slashdot? What's that?
Fuck slashdot beta.
Anagram:
Slashdot beta =
Hated, so blast (out of existence, clearly)
Never underestimate the "menace" that is slashdot beta. And it's an insult to those who've been reading since the 90s. slashdot beta would be banned un Turkey, know that.
Fuck me, I never believed I'd just be a contributor of noise and nothing more to a story, what have DICE done to me?
However, I think it's important - continuing to post the quantity I normally would gives us a way of measuring the activity drop during the slashdot boycott on 10th-17th. Remember - delete all your cookies, and disable 3rd party cookies too, before you shutdown on the end of the 9th, so in case you accidentally reload favourite tabs. And disable the RSS feed too, so you're not tempted to give them page views.
When 50% of the cost of the centre was for its power supply and its cooling. And that doesn't take into account actually running the things. Look at TPC benchmark declarations, and the costs of the systems, there's a breakdown of the cost - power is the single biggest thing. Processors, RAM, storage, interconnects, etc. don't come close.
My own web page which identifies the primary sources *precisely*, you fucking dipshit. How can you be too stupid to even read? Don't answer that, your answer would almost certainly be stupid, as I've started to detect a pattern.
Not quite true. They have to know that they are in the process of killing /. stone dead. Silence will just let the frog boil.
Consider it a boycott. With noisy picketting.