I think you misunderstood me: when I post as AC, I do so because I know the mods will be unfair. If my comments on Apple or Microsoft (or others) were modded fairly, I'd post them logged in. I don't give a toss about what people think of my opinions, and I certainly don't mind putting my name on them, but when I'm sure I'll be modded down on the basis of the mod's disagreement with me and not on the validity of my comment, I see no sense in posting logged in.
Ah yes, Compu$erve, where you were charged by THE HOUR to use their service. I think they had premium services too. Didn't they also have some networked air combat flight sim many many many years ago, before online multiplayer games were commonplace?
I seem to remember the flight sim, yes. I also remember thinking they should have implemented an online snail racing game to maximize revenues from their insane hourly rates.
AOL is launching an RSS aggregator that aims to make RSS actually simple
I notice they don't intend to change what kind of users they want to attract. I mean, how hard is it to use RSS these days? it's just one click to install a RSS newsreader (unless they're running into Bezos' patent or something).
I agree with removing the AC. There are few very situations that I can think of where I understand why a person would post something that is non-inflamatory through as an AC.
Because many times, people want to post something that goes against some subsection of the Slashdot readership's groupthink and it gets modded down for no reason other than biggotry and fanatism on the part of biased mods.
The best example I can think of is Apple: whenever I post something that isn't favorable to the iPod, Apple, Jobs or Apple strategies, I do it as A/C because I know I'll be modded down anyway. In fact, I can almost guarantee you this very post will be modded down for exactly the same reason. Watch...
"read this book, but with a somewhat critical eye." Blindingly obvious but good advice.
Indeed, having a critical eye can obviously make you blind.
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Your two last posts, combined with your high Slashdot ID and the general trollishness of your comments lead me to think you were born in 1992. Did I guess right?
1992 called, they want their spermatozoid-turned-spotty-teenager back...
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Come on, silly...
There are perfectly good calculators for a dollar at the thrift store, yet you learn how to add, subtract, divide and multiply by hand at school. Why is that? Because it gives you a better understanding of what an addition, subtraction, division or multiplication are and involve mathematically.
Same for this book. As a matter of fact, I love technical books that explain the workings of whatever subject they cover, and not just "you can get library X at http://xyz/ and use it, don't worry about how it works".
If I can buy a Dell for 399, 499 or 599... why would I pay 165 per hour for a service technician?
Just by looking at your Slashdot nick, I'm pretty sure you can manage by yourself just fine, that backing things up is a natural reflex to you, and that reinstalling something doesn't scare you off all that much.
The reason why overpaid techies exist is because of all the people *not* like you, that is, the majority of computer users: they barely know where how to double-click on My Documents, and a backup refers to something nasty in the septic tank that prevents the siphon under the toilet from emptying. *They* need the techies.
Also they ge to deal with you in their own space. Going into a Best Buy for help can be very intimidating for some people.
Well quite, going to Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's or any such places, I can't spend 30 seconds by myself perusing at the shelf without having a "sales rep" (read: an overzealous pimple-faced teenager in a silly store outfit) come up to me saying "hello Sir My name is Steve. May I annoy the living shit out of you today?"
They jump at you like starved flees on a old lady's poodle as soon as you enter the store. They're the main reason why I either buy online or go to small assemblers.
I can see this as being a new field of manufacturing in the not so distant future. Imagine zero-gravity precision made materials and parts for a variety of uses. We could make better lenses for microscopes and telescopes as an example.
If you're smart, you'll start a company to capitalize on this future market;)
Wow, I really hope NASA people read Slashdot. Imagine that, without you they'd still be melting shit at random in space to kill time.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>
Here's a better screenshot, showing the most useful of all Windows shell commands: Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>FORMAT C:
WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST! Proceed with Format (Y/N)?y
Checking existing disk format. Verifying 40,960M Format complete
Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?
42,949,672,960 bytes total disk space 42,949,672,960 byttes available on disk
32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
65,505 allocation units available on disk.
Our soon-to-be ex-student friend here is very naive. I should know, I was the same when I left university, proud and all, with my degree and a nice letter from the school stating that I had the best grades in the region.
But there's a big difference between him and me: I started working during the bubble, and I had the luxury of actually shopping for a job. That is over now, as he'll soon realize.
Getting all the country names and rough maps is a good first step for WORLD DOMINATION!
Hey I can see your house! It's all bright and shiny, like if it was covered in, I don't know, tin-foil or something. Most puzzling...
Anyway, I'm so glad you pointed that out. After all, before google, we NEVER had detailed maps of the Earth with country names. I even thought the planet was flat...
You do realize that your harmless login-only news sites, and quite possibly your bank too, sell your viewing habits to marketers as an additional source of revenue, right? Sure it won't identify you (I hope, for you) but you feed the marketting system all the same.
worrying online marketers and Web site publishers who feel that the changing consumer attitude towards cookies is harming cookie usefulness
Perhaps if online marketers and other leeches hadn't abused that useful tool (and Javascript, and Flash, amongst others, both of which I have disabled permanently out of despair), people wouldn't have felt the need to get rid of it.
China is a sovereign nation. China is fully within her rights to say what her citizens are allowed to say on line and what they're not.
By your logic, Afghanistan under the Talibans was a sovereign nation, and they were fully within their rights to arrest, torture and shoot any woman who dared going outdoors without wearing a huge blue tent over themselves, or men without beards, or people who owned books. Similarly, Khmer Rouges had the right to deport people to the countryside and kill vietnamese, etc etc etc...
That's so stupid I think you're actually just a troll...
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I think you misunderstood me: when I post as AC, I do so because I know the mods will be unfair. If my comments on Apple or Microsoft (or others) were modded fairly, I'd post them logged in. I don't give a toss about what people think of my opinions, and I certainly don't mind putting my name on them, but when I'm sure I'll be modded down on the basis of the mod's disagreement with me and not on the validity of my comment, I see no sense in posting logged in.
Ah yes, Compu$erve, where you were charged by THE HOUR to use their service. I think they had premium services too. Didn't they also have some networked air combat flight sim many many many years ago, before online multiplayer games were commonplace?
I seem to remember the flight sim, yes. I also remember thinking they should have implemented an online snail racing game to maximize revenues from their insane hourly rates.
KDE has already done this...
AOL users aren't renowned for using, much less simply knowning about KDE.
AOL is launching an RSS aggregator that aims to make RSS actually simple
I notice they don't intend to change what kind of users they want to attract. I mean, how hard is it to use RSS these days? it's just one click to install a RSS newsreader (unless they're running into Bezos' patent or something).
Exactly what personal information does /. requires to create an account? if you're that concerned, you can fake your email addy and that's that.
I agree with removing the AC. There are few very situations that I can think of where I understand why a person would post something that is non-inflamatory through as an AC.
Because many times, people want to post something that goes against some subsection of the Slashdot readership's groupthink and it gets modded down for no reason other than biggotry and fanatism on the part of biased mods.
The best example I can think of is Apple: whenever I post something that isn't favorable to the iPod, Apple, Jobs or Apple strategies, I do it as A/C because I know I'll be modded down anyway. In fact, I can almost guarantee you this very post will be modded down for exactly the same reason. Watch...
"read this book, but with a somewhat critical eye." Blindingly obvious but good advice.
Indeed, having a critical eye can obviously make you blind.
Your two last posts, combined with your high Slashdot ID and the general trollishness of your comments lead me to think you were born in 1992. Did I guess right?
1992 called, they want their spermatozoid-turned-spotty-teenager back...
Come on, silly...
There are perfectly good calculators for a dollar at the thrift store, yet you learn how to add, subtract, divide and multiply by hand at school. Why is that? Because it gives you a better understanding of what an addition, subtraction, division or multiplication are and involve mathematically.
Same for this book. As a matter of fact, I love technical books that explain the workings of whatever subject they cover, and not just "you can get library X at http://xyz/ and use it, don't worry about how it works".
If I can buy a Dell for 399, 499 or 599... why would I pay 165 per hour for a service technician?
Just by looking at your Slashdot nick, I'm pretty sure you can manage by yourself just fine, that backing things up is a natural reflex to you, and that reinstalling something doesn't scare you off all that much.
The reason why overpaid techies exist is because of all the people *not* like you, that is, the majority of computer users: they barely know where how to double-click on My Documents, and a backup refers to something nasty in the septic tank that prevents the siphon under the toilet from emptying. *They* need the techies.
Also they ge to deal with you in their own space. Going into a Best Buy for help can be very intimidating for some people.
Well quite, going to Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's or any such places, I can't spend 30 seconds by myself perusing at the shelf without having a "sales rep" (read: an overzealous pimple-faced teenager in a silly store outfit) come up to me saying "hello Sir My name is Steve. May I annoy the living shit out of you today?"
They jump at you like starved flees on a old lady's poodle as soon as you enter the store. They're the main reason why I either buy online or go to small assemblers.
I can see this as being a new field of manufacturing in the not so distant future. Imagine zero-gravity precision made materials and parts for a variety of uses. We could make better lenses for microscopes and telescopes as an example.
;)
If you're smart, you'll start a company to capitalize on this future market
Wow, I really hope NASA people read Slashdot. Imagine that, without you they'd still be melting shit at random in space to kill time.
Thanks Mr. Obvious...
A hot meteorite smashing into the ISS would definitely rearrange the bolts in contains I would think.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>
Here's a better screenshot, showing the most useful of all Windows shell commands:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>FORMAT C:
WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)?y
Checking existing disk format.
Verifying 40,960M
Format complete
Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?
42,949,672,960 bytes total disk space
42,949,672,960 byttes available on disk
32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
65,505 allocation units available on disk.
Volume Serial Number is 3745-19F5
C:\> bwahahaha!
Bad command or file name
This one is different: it's red, needs no batteries, and you control it with two large knobs at the bottom of the screen.
Or learn "would you like fries with that?"
Here's the instructional video:
clickey...
Our soon-to-be ex-student friend here is very naive. I should know, I was the same when I left university, proud and all, with my degree and a nice letter from the school stating that I had the best grades in the region.
But there's a big difference between him and me: I started working during the bubble, and I had the luxury of actually shopping for a job. That is over now, as he'll soon realize.
Good luck buddy, you'll need it. Trust me...
These solar sails really blow!
And you know what? when the sail decelerates, they really suck.
Sorry...
Well you know, sometimes you can mix things up when you're in a hurry. My guess is Zonk had just sniffed a rail when he accepted the story...
Union Pacific is to build the ship?
Getting all the country names and rough maps is a good first step for WORLD DOMINATION!
Hey I can see your house! It's all bright and shiny, like if it was covered in, I don't know, tin-foil or something. Most puzzling...
Anyway, I'm so glad you pointed that out. After all, before google, we NEVER had detailed maps of the Earth with country names. I even thought the planet was flat...
You do realize that your harmless login-only news sites, and quite possibly your bank too, sell your viewing habits to marketers as an additional source of revenue, right? Sure it won't identify you (I hope, for you) but you feed the marketting system all the same.
worrying online marketers and Web site publishers who feel that the changing consumer attitude towards cookies is harming cookie usefulness
Perhaps if online marketers and other leeches hadn't abused that useful tool (and Javascript, and Flash, amongst others, both of which I have disabled permanently out of despair), people wouldn't have felt the need to get rid of it.
Not that redundant: Slashdot was created in 1997, which means that "first post" meme is 8 years old. That beats AYBABTU hands down...
China is a sovereign nation. China is fully within her rights to say what her citizens are allowed to say on line and what they're not.
By your logic, Afghanistan under the Talibans was a sovereign nation, and they were fully within their rights to arrest, torture and shoot any woman who dared going outdoors without wearing a huge blue tent over themselves, or men without beards, or people who owned books. Similarly, Khmer Rouges had the right to deport people to the countryside and kill vietnamese, etc etc etc...
That's so stupid I think you're actually just a troll...