Since I don't have mod points I'll just say, "Thank you!" This isn't a major issue but 'Open "safe" files after downloading" is a piss poor default in Safari. The fix should be simple enough for Apple to push in an update.
I'd suggest that those who flame about putting this kind of thing up on the front page spend less time flaming and more time modding articles from the firehose up and down.
You raise a good point. If only we could get rid of the "editors" completely and base the stories purely on firehose ratings. Unfortunately, the editors have final approval and many of them suck. That and it would just become another digg or reddit, which I don't view as much of an improvement [possibly, the opposite].
That said, I agree with your point on the firehose modding, even if I didn't see it on the front page (due to my exclusions filter). However, I view slashdot as a place for productive discussion, not discussion for the sake of discussion – so I don't see that generating 400+ comments means anything. However, perhaps my goals for the site and the goals of those in power aren't the same.
Apparently that's not how you do things "when you are older". Given that I built my first computer with a soldering iron (ZX-81 kit), I'm not sure how much older I'll need to be to understand the vast experience and wisdom of the masterb^H coder that wrote that nonsense.
Since the story was in my Apple slashbox but not on my front page, I should have known that it was yet another troll from one of the pathetic editors that I've excluded. Sadly, I'm almost down to just CmdrTaco and the new guy.
Well, as I recall, I've been using emacs on OS X for at least 8 years or so (perhaps longer). And I use vim pretty much every day (since it comes in the standard OS X install). And I use FTP and SAMBA occasionally (although I typically use sftp & either AFP or WebDAV) without problems.
Was this a bizarre troll? An overly obscure sarcastic post? Pure ignorance?
This site has become a mouthpiece for Google and Linux evangelists. Nothing else can get posted without being criticized, accused, or dismissed. There was always a slant, but there was also appreciation for other technology. With people leaving for sites like Reddit, Slashdot's comment section is now so mindlessly antagonistic toward any Google competitors that it's become ridiculously one-sided
Yell, well, FUCK YOU
I wonder; did he yell? and yell well? ran amuck? to you, yelled fuck?
I'm not sure which is sadder: that you got modded troll, or that the group-think that is Reddit is a better alternative than/. these days. Reddit so much reminds me of USENET after AOL "discovered" the internet, but without all of the uppercase. I suppose that means that/. reminds of USENET post-weblog.
While I don't disagree with your speculation, I'm just amazed that pure speculation gets a +insightful. Interesting, sure. But insightful? At least the mods will know what to do with this comment. Maybe.
I've still got my 1st Gen iPhone, so that makes it over 3 years old. The battery is at the point that it lasts on standby for 36 hours and with heavy continuous use, lasts 6-7 hours. Certainly not at the point that it's in dire need of replacement, but the writing is on the wall. I'm planning to replace it with this Summer's refresh (assuming there will be one). In the event that the battery life degrades rapidly, I bought a portable USB charger. I've used it once so far (forgot to do the overnight charge routine), but it worked well and gave me enough charge to do what I needed to do.
Anyway, the upshot is that I personally haven't found the embedded battery in the iPhone to be an issue.
Children.. are starving, or alternatively working in factories making mobiles devices like your shiny iPhone for mere pennies a day.
Meanwhile, you're wasting precious time and resources chiding others instead of saving the children. You really need to stop basking in the luxury of the internet while children without electricity are starving and being taking advantage of by evil multinationals. Tsk. Tsk.
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They didn't patent touch screens. They patented a multi-touch interface.
Yes, but the screen itself had to support it.
In the same way that the mouse supported one-click shopping. ;)
A less sarcastic example would be in the same way that the CPU supported the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm.
The App store is already in Snow Leopard.
Since I don't have mod points I'll just say, "Thank you!" This isn't a major issue but 'Open "safe" files after downloading" is a piss poor default in Safari. The fix should be simple enough for Apple to push in an update.
Sadly, I figured it out after hitting submit. I don't recall falling into one of those since the USENET days. Grats!
I'd suggest that those who flame about putting this kind of thing up on the front page spend less time flaming and more time modding articles from the firehose up and down.
You raise a good point. If only we could get rid of the "editors" completely and base the stories purely on firehose ratings. Unfortunately, the editors have final approval and many of them suck. That and it would just become another digg or reddit, which I don't view as much of an improvement [possibly, the opposite].
That said, I agree with your point on the firehose modding, even if I didn't see it on the front page (due to my exclusions filter). However, I view slashdot as a place for productive discussion, not discussion for the sake of discussion – so I don't see that generating 400+ comments means anything. However, perhaps my goals for the site and the goals of those in power aren't the same.
Perhaps the correct phrasing should be, "Sadly, this is what slashdot has devolved into – Yet Another Troll Site."
Apparently that's not how you do things "when you are older". Given that I built my first computer with a soldering iron (ZX-81 kit), I'm not sure how much older I'll need to be to understand the vast experience and wisdom of the masterb^H coder that wrote that nonsense.
Since the story was in my Apple slashbox but not on my front page, I should have known that it was yet another troll from one of the pathetic editors that I've excluded. Sadly, I'm almost down to just CmdrTaco and the new guy.
Well, I think we've been successfully trolled.
That aside, vim is the default on OS X for vi:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/vi@ -> vim
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Sep 23 2009
Sort of like tar pointing to bsdtar.
Well, as I recall, I've been using emacs on OS X for at least 8 years or so (perhaps longer). And I use vim pretty much every day (since it comes in the standard OS X install). And I use FTP and SAMBA occasionally (although I typically use sftp & either AFP or WebDAV) without problems.
Was this a bizarre troll? An overly obscure sarcastic post? Pure ignorance?
And to make matters worse, it was an AP story! ZOMG!
Knee, meet Jerk.
Since Apple provides BootCamp support, I'm not sure as I see how they're locking their hardware to a single OS. You're free to run something else.
This site has become a mouthpiece for Google and Linux evangelists. Nothing else can get posted without being criticized, accused, or dismissed. There was always a slant, but there was also appreciation for other technology. With people leaving for sites like Reddit, Slashdot's comment section is now so mindlessly antagonistic toward any Google competitors that it's become ridiculously one-sided
Yell, well, FUCK YOU
I wonder; did he yell? and yell well? ran amuck? to you, yelled fuck?
I'm not sure which is sadder: that you got modded troll, or that the group-think that is Reddit is a better alternative than /. these days. Reddit so much reminds me of USENET after AOL "discovered" the internet, but without all of the uppercase. I suppose that means that /. reminds of USENET post-weblog.
Darn! I thought I had learned a new piece of Australian jargon. ;)
I resent the idea that Mr. Sheen now owns the word troll. Slashdot has owned that term forever.
You might want to check USENET for prior art on that one.
While I don't disagree with your speculation, I'm just amazed that pure speculation gets a +insightful. Interesting, sure. But insightful? At least the mods will know what to do with this comment. Maybe.
RTFA
That was funny. I was initially concerned that it was meant to be serious.
I've still got my 1st Gen iPhone, so that makes it over 3 years old. The battery is at the point that it lasts on standby for 36 hours and with heavy continuous use, lasts 6-7 hours. Certainly not at the point that it's in dire need of replacement, but the writing is on the wall. I'm planning to replace it with this Summer's refresh (assuming there will be one). In the event that the battery life degrades rapidly, I bought a portable USB charger. I've used it once so far (forgot to do the overnight charge routine), but it worked well and gave me enough charge to do what I needed to do.
Anyway, the upshot is that I personally haven't found the embedded battery in the iPhone to be an issue.
No, his Android got him off. Perhaps it helped him into the Orgasmatron.
At least you didn't make the same mistake the second time.
In an effort to support reuse, my comments are an instantiation of the same discussion we had about this topic two weeks ago. You can download them at the following link: http://slashdot.org/story/11/02/02/175227/Microsoft-Makes-Chrome-Play-H264-Video
I'm proposing an initiative to double the size of flash storage over the next 5 years.
Don't forget to thank me in 5 years when I have achieved my goal.
Yeah, I could see what had happened to you when I looked at the roll call. Oddly, bc -l gave me 35% and I somehow got that wrong. Doh.
And I don't see how it's a status symbol at all.
Rationalization much?
Children.. are starving, or alternatively working in factories making mobiles devices like your shiny iPhone for mere pennies a day.
Meanwhile, you're wasting precious time and resources chiding others instead of saving the children. You really need to stop basking in the luxury of the internet while children without electricity are starving and being taking advantage of by evil multinationals. Tsk. Tsk.