I think one of the things that makes Slashdot good is the fact that they do have human editors.
I agree with you there. I don't want to read another aggregation site. It's great to have human input. The only problem is that the human input here is often dumb as a bag of rocks.
I think replacing the editors would turn Slashdot into just another ranting blog.
Are you kidding me? Did you follow the hundreds upon hundreds of anti-PS3/pro-Wii articles over the past year posted by Zonk? I assume they're being paid by Nintendo, but still... it was really overboard and obvious. Or how about the numerous articles that are about one guy who can't get some MS product to work correctly (like this one), and Slashdot turns it into some kind of Illuminati-esque conspiracy?
I dunno. The rants are fine, but when they're not even based on anything remotely factual (or interesting), I start looking for other places to get my fill of dork reading.
Why do slashdotters hate lawyers so much? It's always "the lawyers" and never the management of ABC or the gutless wonders at Spocko's ISP.
Because there's ALWAYS some slimy, shitbag lawyer that would do whatever you'd like, just so long as you had the money. If I read more about lawyers refusing to accept cases like this, then maybe I'd have more respect for them. They're kind of like whores... they'll do whatever you want, just so long as you have the money to pay for it.
Check out my uid. I've been here a while. What's frustrating is that Slashdot used to be good. After they went public, the quality of the articles have gone downhill dramatically. It seems like half of the articles they post these days are like this one: completely untrue, completely unfounded, and barely literate. It's unfortunate that the Slashdot editors have taken such a massive amount of traffic, and a large amount of inertia, and essentially shit on it. If any of the editors did even a tiny bit of work (spell checking, reading the articles, checking to see if the same article was posted within the past few articles), Slashdot could be what it used to. Now, it's just a rapidly declining brand (like Netscape) that is failing due to gross negligence and neglect of the owners.
I can assure you that if I had a web site with anywhere near this kind of traffic, I wouldn't throw it down the toilet the way these guys are.
What really needs to happen is that the shareholders of VA Software Corp need to sue OSTG to get the current managers (and Slashdot editors) fired, and some responsible ones in their place. The way that OSTG is being managed is quite literally, probably criminal.
This is just fucking ridiculous. This little rant is not only incoherent, but it's 100% wrong. See for yourself.
Jesus, do Slashdot editors actually *do* anything? Seriously. Do any of them actually *read* the articles they're posting, or is it all about pageviews and keywords?
I can't see how this could possibly be a good thing. It would demolish any hopes of privacy any Apple user may have, and it's bundling in a feature to the OS that is completely unrelated to common tasks.
The problem with blogging, is that among those of us with brains, most bloggers have no credibility, whatsoever. Blogging is amateur. Sure, you can make money from it (PerezHilton), but you'll never have any credibility as a real journalist.
The Apple Stores use Macs for their Point of Sale systems. They work just fine and handle very high volumes.
They're also a multi-billion dollar corporation. I'm sure that they have their own custom software. I need something that works off-the-shelf, that costs less than $2K/workstation.
How about a viable Point of Sale system on OS/X or Linux? I've never seen anything that was any good.
Oh, and how about all of my Visual Basic applications? I've written quite a few that we use daily in my business that can't be re-written (too expensive).
Not to mention Network Appliance, EMC, Cree Semiconductor, Glaxo-Smith Kline, BASF, LabCorp, Quintiles, Bayer CropScience, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, the US Environmental Protection Agency Supercomputer Center and the Sanrio Hello Kitty Store at Crabtree Mall.
There's a Sanrio Hello Kitty Store at Crabtree Valley Mall?!?!
It's "Durham". Jesus, Slashdot editors can't even copy and paste now? Is that a Linux problem?
But seriously, RDU shouldn't be a surprise. We have Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and NC State all within 30 minutes or so from each other, and we have Research Triangle Park here. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill was a great, cheap place to enjoy the dot-com boom. We've got IBM (10,000+ employees), Cisco, a small MS office, whatever MCI is now (worldcom?), Nortel, Ericsson, Red Hat, and tons and tons of start ups.
Also, UNC-Chapel Hill is home to Sunsite, which became ibiblio. So yeah, it's dork heaven, but without the SF prices.
What a dumbass. Just don't buy a computer with Windows on it if you don't want Windows. I don't understand zealots. Why waste so much damn time fighting fights that nobody (other than them) care about? Did Dell "learn a lesson" in this case? No. Did MS? No. End result: one guy out a lot of time, and up $52. Big deal. If I want to waste time, I'll at least waste time in front of my PS3, cocktail in hand. I certainly am not gonna waste one more second than I have to arguing with some poor minimum wage Indian call center drone over $52, WHICH I WILLINGLY SPENT IN THE FIRST PLACE!
If you get to the point where you build up a company that can even consider garnering the term "monopoly", then get back to us. Until then, you have no idea what you're talking about, especially when quoting arbitrary and esoteric "federal laws". Call me nuts, but if you ever got to that point, you'd might even get a crazy idea in your head that those "federal laws" that you are so damned proud of, are about as fair and just as our drug laws. At that point, maybe, just maybe, you may come to thinking that you you earned what you got, and the government has no right to tell you how to run your business that you started in your teens, and proceeded to build to make it one of the most successful companies in the history of capitalism.
Until you get to that point, I suggest that you those "federal laws" out your ass, Mr. Ashcroft.
You're right, but I don't think that this thing was designed to ever do anything beyond what it does out of the box. It's primarily just a chat platform, which is supposed to be useful, somehow...
I can only imagine that Negropointe envisioned (after his own media attention, of course), that kids on opposing sides of local wars would IM each other and work things out, and that it would later be portrayed in a movie starring Keanu Reeves (playing Negropointe), produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
Where these kids are, they'll be lucky if they get to be paper pushers. I doubt that kinds in a modern developing third world country have a lot of education that's not vocational.
Nah, I don't think it'll be power. Honestly, where do you go in the modern world that doesn't have power? In fact, when I get a new laptop, the first thing that I do is get rid of the battery. They're heavy, hot, and they're rarely useful.
I'm buying flash drives for reliability in my business computers.
I'm listening to a Sansa right now with 8 GB flash. These things are great. As far as I'm concerned, they ARE the "ipod killer". I actually got a 2 GB iPod Nano for XMas, but my GF said that it was so pathetic, she went out and bought me a top of the line Sansa (cheaper, too).
There are other methods of delivering a message for those who seriously need the privacy...
Like what? The government already reads our emails, our faxes, and listens to our telephone calls. Sending private stuff via a private carrier (UPS Fed/EX) is even worse, because the gov't just asks for something, and they hand it over. No warrant or threatening needed. What's left? Carrier pigeon?
Do these guys know that you can use stuff like CGI to make dynamic web sites, with databases? With 40,000 developers, and 100,000 lines of code every two weeks, somebody should tell them that they don't have to code each and every single page by hand...
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I think one of the things that makes Slashdot good is the fact that they do have human editors.
I agree with you there. I don't want to read another aggregation site. It's great to have human input. The only problem is that the human input here is often dumb as a bag of rocks.
I think replacing the editors would turn Slashdot into just another ranting blog.
Are you kidding me? Did you follow the hundreds upon hundreds of anti-PS3/pro-Wii articles over the past year posted by Zonk? I assume they're being paid by Nintendo, but still... it was really overboard and obvious.
Or how about the numerous articles that are about one guy who can't get some MS product to work correctly (like this one), and Slashdot turns it into some kind of Illuminati-esque conspiracy?
I dunno. The rants are fine, but when they're not even based on anything remotely factual (or interesting), I start looking for other places to get my fill of dork reading.
Why do slashdotters hate lawyers so much? It's always "the lawyers" and never the management of ABC or the gutless wonders at Spocko's ISP.
Because there's ALWAYS some slimy, shitbag lawyer that would do whatever you'd like, just so long as you had the money. If I read more about lawyers refusing to accept cases like this, then maybe I'd have more respect for them. They're kind of like whores... they'll do whatever you want, just so long as you have the money to pay for it.
You must be new here.
Check out my uid. I've been here a while. What's frustrating is that Slashdot used to be good. After they went public, the quality of the articles have gone downhill dramatically. It seems like half of the articles they post these days are like this one: completely untrue, completely unfounded, and barely literate. It's unfortunate that the Slashdot editors have taken such a massive amount of traffic, and a large amount of inertia, and essentially shit on it. If any of the editors did even a tiny bit of work (spell checking, reading the articles, checking to see if the same article was posted within the past few articles), Slashdot could be what it used to. Now, it's just a rapidly declining brand (like Netscape) that is failing due to gross negligence and neglect of the owners.
I can assure you that if I had a web site with anywhere near this kind of traffic, I wouldn't throw it down the toilet the way these guys are.
What really needs to happen is that the shareholders of VA Software Corp need to sue OSTG to get the current managers (and Slashdot editors) fired, and some responsible ones in their place. The way that OSTG is being managed is quite literally, probably criminal.
This is just fucking ridiculous. This little rant is not only incoherent, but it's 100% wrong. See for yourself.
Jesus, do Slashdot editors actually *do* anything? Seriously. Do any of them actually *read* the articles they're posting, or is it all about pageviews and keywords?
Very useful link, thanks.
You're right. Microsoft doesn't document API's. [rolls eyes]
MS: Bundling a web browser and media player: bad.
Apple: Bundling a (GPS?!) system: good.
I can't see how this could possibly be a good thing. It would demolish any hopes of privacy any Apple user may have, and it's bundling in a feature to the OS that is completely unrelated to common tasks.
Apple: Where the customers eat shit and like it.
The problem with blogging, is that among those of us with brains, most bloggers have no credibility, whatsoever. Blogging is amateur. Sure, you can make money from it (PerezHilton), but you'll never have any credibility as a real journalist.
Anyone know where I can find a non-PDF version of this paper?
The Apple Stores use Macs for their Point of Sale systems. They work just fine and handle very high volumes.
They're also a multi-billion dollar corporation. I'm sure that they have their own custom software. I need something that works off-the-shelf, that costs less than $2K/workstation.
How about a viable Point of Sale system on OS/X or Linux? I've never seen anything that was any good.
Oh, and how about all of my Visual Basic applications? I've written quite a few that we use daily in my business that can't be re-written (too expensive).
Not to mention Network Appliance, EMC, Cree Semiconductor, Glaxo-Smith Kline, BASF, LabCorp, Quintiles, Bayer CropScience, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, the US Environmental Protection Agency Supercomputer Center and the Sanrio Hello Kitty Store at Crabtree Mall.
There's a Sanrio Hello Kitty Store at Crabtree Valley Mall?!?!
It's "Durham". Jesus, Slashdot editors can't even copy and paste now? Is that a Linux problem?
But seriously, RDU shouldn't be a surprise. We have Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and NC State all within 30 minutes or so from each other, and we have Research Triangle Park here. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill was a great, cheap place to enjoy the dot-com boom. We've got IBM (10,000+ employees), Cisco, a small MS office, whatever MCI is now (worldcom?), Nortel, Ericsson, Red Hat, and tons and tons of start ups.
Also, UNC-Chapel Hill is home to Sunsite, which became ibiblio. So yeah, it's dork heaven, but without the SF prices.
What a dumbass. Just don't buy a computer with Windows on it if you don't want Windows. I don't understand zealots. Why waste so much damn time fighting fights that nobody (other than them) care about? Did Dell "learn a lesson" in this case? No. Did MS? No. End result: one guy out a lot of time, and up $52. Big deal. If I want to waste time, I'll at least waste time in front of my PS3, cocktail in hand. I certainly am not gonna waste one more second than I have to arguing with some poor minimum wage Indian call center drone over $52, WHICH I WILLINGLY SPENT IN THE FIRST PLACE!
She managed a 3.9 GPA this semester, so this setup didn't hurt her.
That may be true. But, did she get laid this semester, or did she have to spend all of her free nights dicking with this ungodly complicated system?
If you get to the point where you build up a company that can even consider garnering the term "monopoly", then get back to us. Until then, you have no idea what you're talking about, especially when quoting arbitrary and esoteric "federal laws". Call me nuts, but if you ever got to that point, you'd might even get a crazy idea in your head that those "federal laws" that you are so damned proud of, are about as fair and just as our drug laws. At that point, maybe, just maybe, you may come to thinking that you you earned what you got, and the government has no right to tell you how to run your business that you started in your teens, and proceeded to build to make it one of the most successful companies in the history of capitalism.
Until you get to that point, I suggest that you those "federal laws" out your ass, Mr. Ashcroft.
I know people who have been downloading full DVD's for several years, now. They'll be glad to know that the RIAA has OK'ed it.
You're right, but I don't think that this thing was designed to ever do anything beyond what it does out of the box. It's primarily just a chat platform, which is supposed to be useful, somehow...
I can only imagine that Negropointe envisioned (after his own media attention, of course), that kids on opposing sides of local wars would IM each other and work things out, and that it would later be portrayed in a movie starring Keanu Reeves (playing Negropointe), produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
Where these kids are, they'll be lucky if they get to be paper pushers. I doubt that kinds in a modern developing third world country have a lot of education that's not vocational.
How to spot a "noob": Poster cannot write grammatically correct, coherent, English sentences.
Nah, I don't think it'll be power. Honestly, where do you go in the modern world that doesn't have power? In fact, when I get a new laptop, the first thing that I do is get rid of the battery. They're heavy, hot, and they're rarely useful.
I'm buying flash drives for reliability in my business computers.
I'm starting to buy these things for my business desktops. There's nothing more frustating and time consuming then when a hard drive fails.
I'm listening to a Sansa right now with 8 GB flash. These things are great. As far as I'm concerned, they ARE the "ipod killer". I actually got a 2 GB iPod Nano for XMas, but my GF said that it was so pathetic, she went out and bought me a top of the line Sansa (cheaper, too).
There are other methods of delivering a message for those who seriously need the privacy...
Like what? The government already reads our emails, our faxes, and listens to our telephone calls. Sending private stuff via a private carrier (UPS Fed/EX) is even worse, because the gov't just asks for something, and they hand it over. No warrant or threatening needed. What's left? Carrier pigeon?
Do these guys know that you can use stuff like CGI to make dynamic web sites, with databases? With 40,000 developers, and 100,000 lines of code every two weeks, somebody should tell them that they don't have to code each and every single page by hand...