focused too much on graphical UI builders that produced brittle, often subtly buggy UIs
That's funny, back in the day UI libraries were brittle, often subtly buggy. See also: every dialog box form ever, when you try to use it on a Netbook with a 600 pixel high screen and the UI fails to implement some form of scrolling.
How does moving 15Mbps of data across the internet fit in the open nature of the internet?
That's how it fits in the open internet.
Only in the Comcast(tm)-brand Comcastic(tm) Processed Internet Spread does it matter what's in those 15Mbps.
Why should Netflix free-ride
Since you think netflix is getting a free ride, you should have no problem agreeing to pay their bandwidth bill for them, after all it's free! Or are you knowingly lying?
Oh well, the argument is moot. Once AT&T, TWC, and all the other ISPs smell the blood in the water and come for their pound of flesh, Netflix will be done. As a bonus, facebook will probably be next. Followed by Amazon, Google, and everything else that was useful on the internet. Eventually they'll get down to slashdot and each ISP will demand a few million dollars to stop "free riding" on their ISP and we'll be forever free of the scourge of beta.
I'm quoting the Director of the NSA nearly word for word how the system operates, and how the data is used. If he's lying, then he's on public record and there are Intelligence committees in the US Senate and House which will call him to task for lying to either the public (the news piece I'm quoting from) or them (the House or Senate).
To me, collection of U.S. persons’ data would mean taking the book off the shelf and opening it up and reading it And this has to do with of course somewhat of a semantic, perhaps some would say too – too cute by half [definition]. But it is – there are honest differences on the semantics of what, when someone says ‘collection’ to me, that has a specific meaning, which may have a different meaning to [Sen. Wyden].
So you're right, he's not lying, because he gets to make up the meanings of the words he uses, so when he says under oath that the NSA does not "wittingly" collect Americans' data (despite collecting - English as she is spoke - data in the US), he's not lying because all they're doing it is putting it in a book and putting it on the shelf and just not opening the book and reading it, therefore in Bizzaro Clapperverse it is not collected. This despite the fact that the NSA has acknowledged that its powers have been used to spy on lovers. "Accidentally" of course.
I played Sine Mora for a bit on steam, but I suck too hard at it to get anywhere (the foreground parallax in the tunnel stages make it impossible for me to tell when I'm going to hit the walls, so I do. Repeatedly.) and the time mechanic just drives me up the wall (I'd rather something like Hitogata Happa where when time runs out everything goes hardmode and you have 0 lives left to finish the stage).
I kind of gave up on the current run of rogue "inspired" games. You end up doing the same stuff over and over and you keep losing not because you aren't playing any better, but because the RNG decided to take a shit in your face. NetHack and the like usually gave you enough resources to feel like you could get somewhere (unless you decided to stick to a conduct like illiterate vegan atheist) but the current generation feels like the first three floors are populated with a handful of newts and maybe a rusty dagger, then the 4th floor has an army of mindflayers.
What I've been playing (Steam): 1. Van Helsing: a D2/torchlight clone with a pet ghost that has my sense of humor and is actually useful in battle, though I'm on the fence on whether to recommend to anyone else since it's currently buggy as fuck and every patch has broken as much as it has fixed (last patch broke the tower defense portion of the game: the "towers" don't do anything), and not everyone has a sense of [my] humor. 2. Electronic Super Joy, platformer to get the blood boiling. 3. Exceed 3rd Jade Penetrate Black Package: danmaku shooter that satisfies my need to get a little farther each time (I'm this close to being able to 1CC easy mode... hey, I never said I was good at the game) 4. RingRunner: top-down 2D space shooter with a ton of customization capability. It has someone else's sense of humor so I end up skipping a ton of dialog (peanut butter cups get old).
Love them air quotes. Did it switch you back to Classic view to show you the comment? Because this is what the beta gives me when I go to http://beta.slashdot.org/comme...
8/10 made me reply, troll. Next time try faking up a screenshot so you can pretend beta actually works.
Simple: they bought the phone before they lost their job and their house, and now they keep it just in case some company decides to take pity on them and hire a homeless bum, so they'll get the call to come in for their interview.
all the comments about it that makes the actual comments hard to read.
Haha no, have some screenshots. The first two are in response to a guy claiming that he can see as much in Beta as he sees in Classic, which was 100% bullshit. The third one is an example of how fucked up everything is once you get a few replies into a thread. Note that slashdot appears to be picking random fonts for everyone's posts, that's always a plus for readability. I'm sure Pi/10 horses they asked for their UX research thought it was a great idea!
It's a pump and dump from the inside. Dice wants out so they're trying to pump up the cash value of the site as much as possible, and cash value = advertisers. Who cares if the sucker they unload it onto loses their shirt when they find out the advertisers won't pay for ads on a site nobody uses.
Slashdot: THIS IS YOUR FUTURE. Nobody will click 45% of your stories!
Now true, they're a special case since they don't do advertising, so nobody cares if nobody has a reason to ever click through their story to read the comments, but it's proof that it has happened before and it WILL happen again if Slashdot continues on this path. By destroying the comment system Slashdot won't just decimate their pageviews, they'll obliterate them. The only way they'd be able to try to get people to click through to the story page is if they disabled the original article links in the main page, and that will completely ruin them as a news aggregator.
I'm pretty interested. Knowing the people around here it could either be a fully reverse-engineered slashdot clone with proper unicode support and account migration (post a secret code in a comment to prove you're sliceoflife). Or it could be a 3 version old phpBB knockoff running on a shared host with.25mbit bandwidth allocation that runs for 3 hours before you get an account suspended error page.
BTW, in classic I can see your post, the AC before you, your parent's post, your previous post, and 11 one line abbreviated posts above that all in one 1280x1024 screen.
In beta, your reply here doesn't even show up. Bush is the last poster in the thread. You don't even exist.
I exaggerated perhaps too much, but there is definitely a weird issue with the font going on. I captured this in a screenshot I had made for another thread: http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf Perhaps it's simply the natural spacing difference between the sans-serif font used on the top comment and the serif font used on the comment on the bottom of the screenshot, but it definitely feels like it takes up much more space either way.
Yep. I took screenshots for another discussion where I was arguing with someone about how it looked great and how I must be looking at some other screen:
I see it in Classic, but i had to press "Load more" on the beta site probably 10 times before it magically appeared where it was supposed to in the nested tree (which is total shit, nobody's going to scroll back up to see if new replies were loaded in the middle of all the stuff we just read through.)
Slashdot Mirror
Can't imagine anyone would ever think building on a toxic radioactive dump would be a good idea
Crossfire, Pin Pong, and Clean Sweep all link to the same page.
Pin Pong appears to be http://www.arcade-history.com/...
Clean Sweep appears to be http://www.arcade-history.com/...
focused too much on graphical UI builders that produced brittle, often subtly buggy UIs
That's funny, back in the day UI libraries were brittle, often subtly buggy. See also: every dialog box form ever, when you try to use it on a Netbook with a 600 pixel high screen and the UI fails to implement some form of scrolling.
How does moving 15Mbps of data across the internet fit in the open nature of the internet?
That's how it fits in the open internet.
Only in the Comcast(tm)-brand Comcastic(tm) Processed Internet Spread does it matter what's in those 15Mbps.
Why should Netflix free-ride
Since you think netflix is getting a free ride, you should have no problem agreeing to pay their bandwidth bill for them, after all it's free! Or are you knowingly lying?
Oh well, the argument is moot. Once AT&T, TWC, and all the other ISPs smell the blood in the water and come for their pound of flesh, Netflix will be done. As a bonus, facebook will probably be next. Followed by Amazon, Google, and everything else that was useful on the internet. Eventually they'll get down to slashdot and each ISP will demand a few million dollars to stop "free riding" on their ISP and we'll be forever free of the scourge of beta.
You're talking about James Clapper, right? Here's his words:
So you're right, he's not lying, because he gets to make up the meanings of the words he uses, so when he says under oath that the NSA does not "wittingly" collect Americans' data (despite collecting - English as she is spoke - data in the US), he's not lying because all they're doing it is putting it in a book and putting it on the shelf and just not opening the book and reading it, therefore in Bizzaro Clapperverse it is not collected. This despite the fact that the NSA has acknowledged that its powers have been used to spy on lovers. "Accidentally" of course.
Trust an advertising company to give you unfiltered internet access?
Unfiltered? Sure.
Untracked and without extra targeted ads? No.
I played Sine Mora for a bit on steam, but I suck too hard at it to get anywhere (the foreground parallax in the tunnel stages make it impossible for me to tell when I'm going to hit the walls, so I do. Repeatedly.) and the time mechanic just drives me up the wall (I'd rather something like Hitogata Happa where when time runs out everything goes hardmode and you have 0 lives left to finish the stage).
I kind of gave up on the current run of rogue "inspired" games. You end up doing the same stuff over and over and you keep losing not because you aren't playing any better, but because the RNG decided to take a shit in your face. NetHack and the like usually gave you enough resources to feel like you could get somewhere (unless you decided to stick to a conduct like illiterate vegan atheist) but the current generation feels like the first three floors are populated with a handful of newts and maybe a rusty dagger, then the 4th floor has an army of mindflayers.
What I've been playing (Steam):
1. Van Helsing: a D2/torchlight clone with a pet ghost that has my sense of humor and is actually useful in battle, though I'm on the fence on whether to recommend to anyone else since it's currently buggy as fuck and every patch has broken as much as it has fixed (last patch broke the tower defense portion of the game: the "towers" don't do anything), and not everyone has a sense of [my] humor.
2. Electronic Super Joy, platformer to get the blood boiling.
3. Exceed 3rd Jade Penetrate Black Package: danmaku shooter that satisfies my need to get a little farther each time (I'm this close to being able to 1CC easy mode... hey, I never said I was good at the game)
4. RingRunner: top-down 2D space shooter with a ton of customization capability. It has someone else's sense of humor so I end up skipping a ton of dialog (peanut butter cups get old).
*rolls a 1*
Your fingers fumble over the keyboard, striking keys almost under their own accord.
*rolls save vs. WHERE clause... 3*
With horror you look on as you strike a glancing blow to the enter key.
Hey, you've got to break a few eggs to make an omelette and... whats this? A bill for eggs? Holy shit a UFO! runs
That's ok, his numbering is the same as sysv, thanks to rc.S
Or the publishers could start streaming their "junk" direct to the consumer.
And can you imagine how expensive having a kid would be in such a world?
What, you don't just ask the replicator for one?
Love them air quotes. Did it switch you back to Classic view to show you the comment? Because this is what the beta gives me when I go to http://beta.slashdot.org/comme...
8/10 made me reply, troll. Next time try faking up a screenshot so you can pretend beta actually works.
I was thinking more along the lines of http://everything2.com/title/c... but that works too.
I was interested to see what they'd do and sadly it turns out the pessimism was warranted, they're running phpBB right now.
I think we have legitimate gripes. Not the least of which is that if you're using the new site, clicking these links takes you nowhere.
Simple: they bought the phone before they lost their job and their house, and now they keep it just in case some company decides to take pity on them and hire a homeless bum, so they'll get the call to come in for their interview.
Haha no, have some screenshots. The first two are in response to a guy claiming that he can see as much in Beta as he sees in Classic, which was 100% bullshit. The third one is an example of how fucked up everything is once you get a few replies into a thread. Note that slashdot appears to be picking random fonts for everyone's posts, that's always a plus for readability. I'm sure Pi/10 horses they asked for their UX research thought it was a great idea!
It's a pump and dump from the inside. Dice wants out so they're trying to pump up the cash value of the site as much as possible, and cash value = advertisers. Who cares if the sucker they unload it onto loses their shirt when they find out the advertisers won't pay for ads on a site nobody uses.
Just for giggles, I loaded up The Consumerist for the first time in years. Years ago it was a respectable community with tens if not hundreds of comments on its posts. Then they went and completely wrecked their comment system. Today? The top post on page one has NINE comments. Out of 18 posts, there are 8 with ZERO comments.
Slashdot: THIS IS YOUR FUTURE. Nobody will click 45% of your stories!
Now true, they're a special case since they don't do advertising, so nobody cares if nobody has a reason to ever click through their story to read the comments, but it's proof that it has happened before and it WILL happen again if Slashdot continues on this path. By destroying the comment system Slashdot won't just decimate their pageviews, they'll obliterate them. The only way they'd be able to try to get people to click through to the story page is if they disabled the original article links in the main page, and that will completely ruin them as a news aggregator.
I'm pretty interested. Knowing the people around here it could either be a fully reverse-engineered slashdot clone with proper unicode support and account migration (post a secret code in a comment to prove you're sliceoflife). Or it could be a 3 version old phpBB knockoff running on a shared host with .25mbit bandwidth allocation that runs for 3 hours before you get an account suspended error page.
but when browsing topics I can practically fit the same amount of content into my window as before
O RLY?
BTW, in classic I can see your post, the AC before you, your parent's post, your previous post, and 11 one line abbreviated posts above that all in one 1280x1024 screen.
In beta, your reply here doesn't even show up. Bush is the last poster in the thread. You don't even exist.
8/10, made me reply. Enjoy a side-by-side comparison while you troll
Hm, I actually hadn't noticed that as a problem
I exaggerated perhaps too much, but there is definitely a weird issue with the font going on. I captured this in a screenshot I had made for another thread: http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf Perhaps it's simply the natural spacing difference between the sans-serif font used on the top comment and the serif font used on the comment on the bottom of the screenshot, but it definitely feels like it takes up much more space either way.
Yep. I took screenshots for another discussion where I was arguing with someone about how it looked great and how I must be looking at some other screen:
http://imgur.com/YaOtcUk
http://imgur.com/YvQjTIf
I had mod points yesterday
I see it in Classic, but i had to press "Load more" on the beta site probably 10 times before it magically appeared where it was supposed to in the nested tree (which is total shit, nobody's going to scroll back up to see if new replies were loaded in the middle of all the stuff we just read through.)