We've actually taken on people - but they've all washed out, in terms of actually putting the time in. To actually recognize duplicate stories means watching almost constantly - and that isn't as easy to do as it sounds.
We moved this to section-only, because when we published the first Hellmouth article, we said that we do the first and last articles on the main page, and that 2-9 would be section only, linked from Slashback.
Timothy, who posted it for Katz, made a mistake and set it to the main page.
Thanks. That's what I was going to say. We try our best, but people have this mistaken idea that we are the Wall Street Journal. We're not. We never will be.
and we'll look at putting it in. Remember - there's one database server. Any sort of suggestions has to be weighed against whether or not it's realistic to actually run it. If it works, then great! But we're kinda occupied getting 2.0 ready...
And no, we can't get another database server right now. Trust me on this.
Check your background first - neither Rob and I nor "picked" any of the questions. The question bot moderated, and the Slashnet people moderated it. So, paranoia aside, Rob and I did not "pick" our questions.
I was a bit tired that night - and distracted. I'm hoping we do it again more often, and we can more sides of things.
Rob and I have different personalties - that's why we work so well together. But Rob also has to deal with more stress of things, so I think that he gets a little more stressed out about things. And he's pretty much always like that.
I'm not sure who gave you the impressions that we are ZD-Net, or C|net. We've NEVER EVER said that we are - and never will. I'm biased, and proud of it. We're here so that you can think on your own, and make your own decisions.
And we're also human - so when someone like Sig11 pushes us too far, we respond.
We could do more spell check and niggling things if we weren't spending a huge chunk of our day trying to stop trolling, and dealing with people e-mailing about the niggling things.
We're working on changing some of that. It's an issue of how the code works for the stories being archived. But, yes, there's also database considerations. One machine runs the entire DB.:)
20,000 for a review. Cripes - try 30$. And of course I don't post negative reviews - I prefer to promote, rather then demote. If we had to demote, it would mean half of the stories would be book reviews.
Please see my reply above, in which I answered the same questions.
The basic problem is that a huge percentage of advertisers outsource their advertising operations to DoubleClick. To have them advertise, you grab images off of DoubleClick. That's not anything we have control, unfortunantely, as that's the advertisers choice to go through DBL. I wish it were otherwise.
Believe me, if I had my way, we wouldn't be using it. But DoubleClick is what many of the advertisers use as their service, because DoubleClick does a good job of tracking click-thrus and such for them. That, and the honest truth, most big companies don't know how to run their own web server for ad serving, and so outsource. So - unfortunantely, a necessary evil of serving banner ads.
As for the webbug - I've never called it bad or evil. I think it's stupid, but Andover uses it to track traffic. I think caches fuck it up, but...c'est la vie. It doesn't do anything, so I don't particularly care about. I'm more concerned with stopping advertisers from using Java in banner ads, or sound,or shockwave, or...
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*grin*
We'll actually prolly do another IRC interview/Slash interview again soon.
We've actually taken on people - but they've all washed out, in terms of actually putting the time in. To actually recognize duplicate stories means watching almost constantly - and that isn't as easy to do as it sounds.
There's a really easy answer to that: Code it.
Download Bender, and put it in. If it's down well, more power to you.
And please don't insult me by thinking I get some sort of kickback from frickin' eBay.
uh...no. this is different. read the stories - they look close, but the sec probe is not /of/ va - it's the underwriters.
i've spent hours working on that machine - it's the it thing everyone's talking about. *grin*
Thanks - that was it!
We moved this to section-only, because when we published the first Hellmouth article, we said that we do the first and last articles on the main page, and that 2-9 would be section only, linked from Slashback.
Timothy, who posted it for Katz, made a mistake and set it to the main page.
Caine,
Thanks. That's what I was going to say. We try our best, but people have this mistaken idea that we are the Wall Street Journal. We're not. We never will be.
and we'll look at putting it in. Remember - there's one database server. Any sort of suggestions has to be weighed against whether or not it's realistic to actually run it. If it works, then great! But we're kinda occupied getting 2.0 ready...
And no, we can't get another database server right now. Trust me on this.
Dude,
Check your background first - neither Rob and I nor "picked" any of the questions. The question bot moderated, and the Slashnet people moderated it. So, paranoia aside, Rob and I did not "pick" our questions.
Sorry about that - we tried to help out with people, but the lusers were out of control.
I was a bit tired that night - and distracted. I'm hoping we do it again more often, and we can more sides of things.
Rob and I have different personalties - that's why we work so well together. But Rob also has to deal with more stress of things, so I think that he gets a little more stressed out about things. And he's pretty much always like that.
Uh...since selling your ID is illegal under the DMCA (I don't agree with it, but it is), I doubt it.
I'm not sure who gave you the impressions that we are ZD-Net, or C|net. We've NEVER EVER said that we are - and never will. I'm biased, and proud of it. We're here so that you can think on your own, and make your own decisions.
And we're also human - so when someone like Sig11 pushes us too far, we respond.
We could do more spell check and niggling things if we weren't spending a huge chunk of our day trying to stop trolling, and dealing with people e-mailing about the niggling things.
We're working on changing some of that. It's an issue of how the code works for the stories being archived. But, yes, there's also database considerations. One machine runs the entire DB. :)
It's all modded by #forum, so yeah, whatever.
That's for chapter three of the book. Try clicking on the link.
20,000 for a review. Cripes - try 30$. And of course I don't post negative reviews - I prefer to promote, rather then demote. If we had to demote, it would mean half of the stories would be book reviews.
What's wrong with it? It's a devel version - it says as much in the story.
It's coming - hopefully in the next two weeks or so. We'll be putting it online.
Please see my reply above, in which I answered the same questions.
The basic problem is that a huge percentage of advertisers outsource their advertising operations to DoubleClick. To have them advertise, you grab images off of DoubleClick. That's not anything we have control, unfortunantely, as that's the advertisers choice to go through DBL. I wish it were otherwise.
RE: Doubleclick.
Believe me, if I had my way, we wouldn't be using it. But DoubleClick is what many of the advertisers use as their service, because DoubleClick does a good job of tracking click-thrus and such for them. That, and the honest truth, most big companies don't know how to run their own web server for ad serving, and so outsource. So - unfortunantely, a necessary evil of serving banner ads.
As for the webbug - I've never called it bad or evil. I think it's stupid, but Andover uses it to track traffic. I think caches fuck it up, but...c'est la vie. It doesn't do anything, so I don't particularly care about. I'm more concerned with stopping advertisers from using Java in banner ads, or sound,or shockwave, or...
It's all about choosing your battles.
The adjustment can be set globally in your user preference page, but you can adjust for the page when you are at a story. However, if you are noticing bugs, send bugs to pater@slashdot.org, and he can look at it.