the idea behind slashdot is that we are collaboratively publishing media. its not rob and jeff's job to go through every article and vet it for content and accurracy, they do a cursory scan as gatekeepers, and from there it is up to us to respond, to do fact checking, to add information and technical knowledge that runs deeper then the "so-called experts" can provide.
as you've been rated up to a 5, i'm going to assume that your expirence using outlook at least resonates w/ a few other people here, and maybe you are onto something.
i'm also going to assume that people find your bombastic tone cathartic, and slashdot needs to spend more time refining its publishing model.
kellan
I used to love O'Reilly books. I could buy then knowing I was going to learn something and become a better programmar by reading them.
About a year ago I decided this was no longer true. It all started with "Programming Web Graphics with Perl & GNU Software", which was a slapdash, shallow, and incoherent look at some totally unrelated ways to make pretty pictures. Increasingly since then I've felt that O'Reilly is simply try milk the customers for all they're worth. Coming out with properly named books to capitalize on each emerging trend, timed sort of like movie releases to catch you just as your wallet and trust are recovering from your last O'Reilly purchase.
I spent a while flipping through the Perl DBI book, I found it trivial. It assumed little to no knowledge of anything, and used the example of text based file, and didn't really get into some of the cool wizardry you can do with DBI.
I've stopped buying O'Reilly books without a direct reccomendation. Now I buy Manning books!
It seems odd to me that all the responses to this story assume that a bidding process would bring down the price of education.
Maybe I've just spent too much time in the world of top liberal arts colleges but I certainly don't know any admissions staff saying, "Hmmmm, I've got twenty extra slots to fill maybe I'll pick up some extra students on the cheap."
What I see happening are those desperate overbearing parents who send their kids to the $2000 SAT prep courses trying to pay a premium. "Yes Jonny's 3.25 falls below this year's GPA cut-off but we are willing to pay a 15% premium on that $30,000 a year!"
Just one more way for money to control access to education. Kellan
I signed up for the rand slashbox and now I've got two boxes of jennicam! (which is probably two too many) Seems like rand should display a slashbox you aren't already subscribed to.
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kellan
as you've been rated up to a 5, i'm going to assume that your expirence using outlook at least resonates w/ a few other people here, and maybe you are onto something.
i'm also going to assume that people find your bombastic tone cathartic, and slashdot needs to spend more time refining its publishing model. kellan
i'm seeing some visual artifacts (weird vertical lines at the edges of tables) that i'm not used to seeing on mozilla.
but after i finish posting this article i'm going to quit it, and go back to using netscape.
why you ask?
there is a little animated bowel movement where i'm used to an N lit up by shooting stars.
kellan
now i just need to whip up a little perl script to calculate blackjack odds, install it on my watch, and they'll never catch me!
much subtler then whipping out your palm pilot or TI-80!
About a year ago I decided this was no longer true. It all started with "Programming Web Graphics with Perl & GNU Software", which was a slapdash, shallow, and incoherent look at some totally unrelated ways to make pretty pictures. Increasingly since then I've felt that O'Reilly is simply try milk the customers for all they're worth. Coming out with properly named books to capitalize on each emerging trend, timed sort of like movie releases to catch you just as your wallet and trust are recovering from your last O'Reilly purchase.
I spent a while flipping through the Perl DBI book, I found it trivial. It assumed little to no knowledge of anything, and used the example of text based file, and didn't really get into some of the cool wizardry you can do with DBI.
I've stopped buying O'Reilly books without a direct reccomendation. Now I buy Manning books!
Maybe I've just spent too much time in the world of top liberal arts colleges but I certainly don't know any admissions staff saying, "Hmmmm, I've got twenty extra slots to fill maybe I'll pick up some extra students on the cheap."
What I see happening are those desperate overbearing parents who send their kids to the $2000 SAT prep courses trying to pay a premium. "Yes Jonny's 3.25 falls below this year's GPA cut-off but we are willing to pay a 15% premium on that $30,000 a year!"
Just one more way for money to control access to education. Kellan
I signed up for the rand slashbox and now I've got two boxes of jennicam! (which is probably two too many) Seems like rand should display a slashbox you aren't already subscribed to.
Ta,
Kellan