So they were a sadist, in one case I always thought it went much deeper mentally.
I won't mention their handle else this reply would be a trophy.
One user on the Usenet was fairly bright, and was able to hide themselves this while running a website that was never popular but had some very good in depth Windows help. Nobody ever did locate them other than the country they lived, they were that good.
They did indeed have a problem, being so offensive to everybody all the time just isn't normal. Your aware with Usenet you can't just ban somebody, they are there when they wanted, for as long as they wanted, as close to their heaven as this person could get.
The newsgroup I frequented was their home base, I just ignored them no matter what was said and all was good on my end; it's the ones that replied that took the brunt of verbal abuse (ah duh), nothing was taboo here. I never did block them, I guess I had a morbid curiosity over the situation.
Coming into to a newsgroup for the first time and being viciously verbally attacked for no reason - people respond to put themselves in a better light or above this person; it never ended well for them.
I've seen them make people so mad they swore their lives purpose from that moment on was to find this person and rip portions of their body off (always something painful and slow). They on the other hand I'd never seen threaten or suggest harm to anybody, just verbally abuse.
This was a bright mentally ill person, (many diagnosis were made) who drew no greater pleasure than making people mad, upset or a real prize was someone who tried to keep up with them, they were the ones in the end willing to swim oceans to find them.
I've never seen anybody else coming close to this persons trolling, they never lost, always coming out on top of their game; and I watched it go on for some 6 years, and they were very much part of the newsgroup when I first subscribed to it.
Funny thing I just checked expecting to see them still at it, they quit posting the same month, year I quit posting - I found games and haven't been back. Mayhaps someone caught up with them. Yet their post are normal right up to the end.
No I didn't read any of the articles, I've seen one of the best in action; there is something mentally wrong with them, reading the meaning for sadist they do/did fit the description very well.
Seems like any time I comment on a discussion and have the nerve to express an opinion that is contrary to the prevailing groupthink, there's always some douchebag who calls me a troll. And here I was thinking that a "troll" is somebody who says things in a carefully crafted manner specifically designed to piss people off. Nowadays it means "anyone who says anything my huge overblown ego doesn't want to hear."
I don't know if this is an honest question or not, but trolling is just that, a fishing term. Your objective is to catch one, proven bait is religion, and politics; those can really pull them in. Then a troll has their way with them, whatever their objective.
No he didn't cross any line whatsoever. All the other countries knew they were spying on them already, they just didn't know that the NSA was *illegally* spying on the embassies which goes against the United Nations and World Court directives.
Spying on each other is why there are intelligence agencies as part of every government. The embassies being bugged I figure is also a given. Don't forget about the U.S. Embassy built in Russia that had so many bugs installed it was unusable.
"Work on the embassy was stopped in 1985, after it was determined that the building was so riddled with listening devices implanted by Soviet workers that the structure was in effect a multistory microphone." http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06...
They drive home the point that as soon as a star starts producing iron it's toast, in that split second it goes nova. The reasoning is it absorbs too much energy allowing gravity to overcome the push (outward force) of fusion.
Very few stars reach the point of creating iron, and then going into a core collapse, type-II supernova (a nova, without the super, and type-I supernova a related to white dwarf stars in a binary star system). Stars with a mass similar to the Sun will switch from hydrogen burning to helium burning, but not get beyond that. Without being several times heavier than the Sun, stars won't be able to burn the carbon & oxygen that is produced from helium burning. Stars that are unable to burn heavier elements will have the core plateau in temperature while fusion still goes on in outer layers, which shuts down convection and allows the heat produced in outer layers to expel gas out of gravitational confinement. You get a planetary nebula instead of a nova.
Thank you for that. I was hoping somebody would jump in and answer that.
They (documentaries) push the *novas, mention our Sun and the others of "it's class" as going Red Giant or planetary nebula in passing, then back to the *novas; Making it sound (to me at least) as if our Sun and others of it's size were in the minority, not as sensational I guess.
3:30 minutes of video yet only 15 seconds being of any value. Uriah Prost46 put it better than I could of in a reply to the video.
"+YouOriginal I'm with that guy^^ Who gives a fuck??.. and on top of that, it was the shittiest Quad-copter not "helicopter" footage I've seen.. This asshole took two minutes trying to figure out how to fly it.. then spend a whole of 20 secs in the hole and didn't even check anything out.. Then the ass wipe didn't edit out the bullshit on the end, i guess he had to go ask three engineers how to turn the camera off.." -Uriah Prost46
Archive for July 27th, 2011 The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?
"You may already know Microsoft has forced five Android vendors to pay royalties each time they ship a device, and is suing Motorola and Barnes & Noble in cases that claim Android steals Microsoft intellectual property."
http://ineedinfonow.wordpress.... Describes nine patents Motorola allegedly infringes upon. "Given that a deep-pocketed vendor like HTC already settled with Microsoft and is paying Redmond each time it sells an Android phone, it would seem Microsoft's lawyers can be quite convincing."
Googles' putting up it's own satellites and Microsoft is scrambling for a bit of the Android action, my how times have changed. Microsoft invested in it's future through patents, being one of the larger patent trolls is an action befitting Microsoft.
Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kafkaesque
Usage: At one point, Judge Alsup dismissed the case. A federal appeals court reinstated it in 2012, more than a year after Alsup tossed it. A month before Ibrahim’s trial, the judge said he learned the Kafkaesque truth. “I feel that I have been had by the government,” he said in a November pretrial conference. http://www.wired.com/threatlev...
I guess it's some really tenacious stuff, and very abrasive.
On board the LEM the astronauts took out rocks to look at them, the dust was so fine it got under their finger nails and took several weeks to grow out. - Harrison H. Schmitt (Apollo 17)
Kinda like putting out every fire you see until the under brush is extensive enough for an inferno to wreak havoc over a vast area... like oh say the Yellowstone fires of 1988..
You don't have to look back 26 years to find a massive forest fire from the forest management policies we practice. I think you could find some examples from last summer. Most every year now there have been massive fires somewhere in the American West.
"The Yellowstone fire of 1988 was when the error of practiced policy was first realized." What I was told and thought to be the truth, till today.
It was posting a reply to you I found it was just bad conclusion I was led to believe by the media at the time, who were blaming it on undergrowth left unattended, (among other causes) This wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y... pretty much claims it was just bad situations coming together at the same time.
The media even got it's own section starting out : "Lack of understanding of wildfire management by the media led to some sensationalist reporting and inaccuracies." (vindication:} )
This microsystem is an anomaly. Let it collapse as it eventually will. This kind of thing happens all the time in nature.
Same thing I thought, I'm so glad were there to intervene. The Moose have been their for mayhaps thousands of years, as have the wolfs; it's taken care of itself quite well with no help from any body, just nature.. I'm glad we can interfere to cause problems in other unforeseen areas.
Kinda like putting out every fire you see until the under brush is extensive enough for an inferno to wreak havoc over a vast area... like oh say the Yellowstone fires of 1988. .
The more i read stories like this, more i realize there is so much more I would like to know. Too many books not enough time lol...
They won't do you much good it appears. Often I watch "How the Universe Works" (first series) to put me to sleep; while not a book, it's almost as good.
They drive home the point that as soon as a star starts producing iron it's toast, in that split second it goes nova. The reasoning is it absorbs too much energy allowing gravity to overcome the push (outward force) of fusion.
But it's not just "How the Universe Works" it's any article on the Sun will tell you the same thing.
Finally figure you have a handle on something and some article like this comes along and changes the rules. So what do you believe? Honestly. But The Bible isn't even in the running.
I can't help but laugh at all the people that will be trying to reuse the key shown to unlock their Photoshops.
CS2 has been effectively "free" since Adobe turned off the activation servers and gave away the keys.
Nope not so funny now. No I wasn't aware that CS2 is now "free" and keys available; have just always used CS2 and needed nothing else, so never followed up on it. -I also avoid news list, and product announcements.
Does explain why I wasn't able to connect to an activation server and had to take other means:}
Alas I never could get OS/2 to install, had to set up a video camera and record the monitor while it was loading; then sneak up on the error frame by frame - was my video driver.
Being before public Internet access I was stuck. Doom was telling me to play it just one more time; and I lost interest.
OS/2 would be a very nice os to keep running, while never running it myself all around me were and was coming across as a much nicer OS than Windows was pushing.
Oh ya; I'm make a great Admin, lots of server commands I'd like to try out:}
Based on their demos, it seems that they're going the 'Open Source XP' method, as can be deduced based on their demos of Office 2003 and Photoshop CS2, the former being four revisions out of date, and the latter being five (assuming we count 'CC' as a single version).
I still use Photoshop CS2, I'm aware Photoshop is to be ah rented in the future if not now, seems that would be an easier install as you don't have to mess with a windows installer (Adobe ain't gonna pay for it's use). The demo uses in but it's not an on-line version.
I can't help but laugh at all the people that will be trying to reuse the key shown to unlock their Photoshops.
Letting India manufacture these domestically (and, heck, the entire rest of the developed world) wouldn't affect drug research and investment strategies one little bit. The big fear from drug companies is reimportation, where drugs manufactured in India are imported back into the USA for sale, without the major patent premium being paid. This is fairly trivially avoidable.
So, yeah, in the end, it's about squeezing that last dime in profits out of people, and not fundamentally giving a damned about anything else.
The article I didn't read hits upon this drug, I've purchased it a few times from India as Provigil (with a prescription), it's come I'm sure as modafinil.
Provigil's patent was to expire in 2012 thus begot Nuvigil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... which is slower acting, Provigil's patent was renewed for a very long time, I haven't got an answer to when, but told it's no time soon.
Nuvigil runs around $20 a tablet, Provigil $25 a box of 50 (India), Provigil isn't being sold anymore (in the US) that I know of just kept for it's patent.
Modafinal is your basic generic drug, everything after is research.
In the case of Newvigil, it being such an exceptional drug they are asking for more than it's worth, where as Modafinal being virtually the same thing, is asking it's manufacture price and a bit of profit.
Here's HOW Trax (& the problem with "beta" is that it DEMANDS javascript - they're going to lose users, mark my words, if THAT keeps up) -> http://ask.slashdot.org/commen...
As much as I distrust javascript the web seems to run on it for the pretty things, Maybe this could help put a stem to it, it's a hope. Hell if nothing else stop eye strain, I mean those short lines (sentences) are a b!tc#.
I can't think (radio signal interference) what could go wrong (rock slide) with this approach (mine).
Great (massive failure) idea!
I was thinking of them being stolen as they drove along unmanned. They wouldn't make it 5 miles. Article had a picture of a truck that could make someone very wealthy if torn down to it's basic parts.
Then this part: "who, in other words, gets sued or charged when an unmanned automobile harms people or property?"
Urban myth or not you decide. While in Viet Nam you hear of the story - one time someone got run over by a 2 1/2 ton truck, the family got a lot of money as a settlement. When trucks drive through villages now they are subjected to having kids thrown under the wheels for a pay off.
I agree that if/. is changed, it should change for the better. My big question is why should we believe you're listening now? At the beta rollout in October you solicited comments about what to improve on the beta. The users responded with >1100 comments and lots of emails. However, many of the same problems (most notably a broken comment system) are still there. Five months and functionality that is foundational to the way people use this site is still not there.
The folks at/. might be listening, but are they going to do anything with what they hear?
Comments are cheap, and a request for them show an interest in the audience.
Following the comments or suggestions are for adding things not thought of when the upgrade was thought of. Changing from the already decided format isn't an option.
Be it a highly paid study or someones grandiose idea for a new direction... it's how it always happens, some survive some don't.
I've never followed a link to Slashdot, can't think of a time I have. It's a site you need to stumble across to find. Opera browser had it's own/. shortcut and others would steer or hint of Slashdot's being, but stumble you needed to do. Just saying it's user base would appear to be of some importance.
My Beta shows half of a predetermined page that has a narrow band of text to the left and the right half all white or blank, not sure if it's my HOSTS file at work or it's just a blank billboard at the moment.
Slashdots' replies took some getting used; I even looked it up, (a good line length is 90 characters). I began to post without a carriage return. Once beta has become fact if I leave replies, I'll be doing a carriage return every 30 characters or less, It's something that can't be fixed without changing the entire format,
Thought VIERA was just part of the big lie. All TV manufacture do it; this just being Panasonic's area
FWIW, the new big lie is again Refresh rates, this time it's "The potiential of: 120hz, and 240hz", they go by the name of TruMotion, Auto Motion Plus, Motionflow, ClearScan, and Smooth Motion (all a marketing gimmick) I've run into them trying to buy a 32" monitor for my computer, I want a 120Hz but have to wade through the crap, and it's hard to do, they're all still 60Hz, no matter what you call it.
An example and the one I'm purchasing claims a potential of 240hz (Clear Motion Rate 240) so a true 120hz and how you play the game this week.
Slashdot Mirror
Well that will teach them. They were most likely asked to leave or get a ruler across their knuckles.
So they were a sadist, in one case I always thought it went much deeper mentally.
I won't mention their handle else this reply would be a trophy.
One user on the Usenet was fairly bright, and was able to hide themselves this while running a website that was never popular but had some very good in depth Windows help. Nobody ever did locate them other than the country they lived, they were that good.
They did indeed have a problem, being so offensive to everybody all the time just isn't normal. Your aware with Usenet you can't just ban somebody, they are there when they wanted, for as long as they wanted, as close to their heaven as this person could get.
The newsgroup I frequented was their home base, I just ignored them no matter what was said and all was good on my end; it's the ones that replied that took the brunt of verbal abuse (ah duh), nothing was taboo here. I never did block them, I guess I had a morbid curiosity over the situation.
Coming into to a newsgroup for the first time and being viciously verbally attacked for no reason - people respond to put themselves in a better light or above this person; it never ended well for them.
I've seen them make people so mad they swore their lives purpose from that moment on was to find this person and rip portions of their body off (always something painful and slow). They on the other hand I'd never seen threaten or suggest harm to anybody, just verbally abuse.
This was a bright mentally ill person, (many diagnosis were made) who drew no greater pleasure than making people mad, upset or a real prize was someone who tried to keep up with them, they were the ones in the end willing to swim oceans to find them.
I've never seen anybody else coming close to this persons trolling, they never lost, always coming out on top of their game; and I watched it go on for some 6 years, and they were very much part of the newsgroup when I first subscribed to it.
Funny thing I just checked expecting to see them still at it, they quit posting the same month, year I quit posting - I found games and haven't been back. Mayhaps someone caught up with them. Yet their post are normal right up to the end.
No I didn't read any of the articles, I've seen one of the best in action; there is something mentally wrong with them, reading the meaning for sadist they do/did fit the description very well.
Seems like any time I comment on a discussion and have the nerve to express an opinion that is contrary to the prevailing groupthink, there's always some douchebag who calls me a troll. And here I was thinking that a "troll" is somebody who says things in a carefully crafted manner specifically designed to piss people off. Nowadays it means "anyone who says anything my huge overblown ego doesn't want to hear."
I don't know if this is an honest question or not, but trolling is just that, a fishing term. Your objective is to catch one, proven bait is religion, and politics; those can really pull them in. Then a troll has their way with them, whatever their objective.
No he didn't cross any line whatsoever. All the other countries knew they were spying on them already, they just didn't know that the NSA was *illegally* spying on the embassies which goes against the United Nations and World Court directives.
Spying on each other is why there are intelligence agencies as part of every government. The embassies being bugged I figure is also a given.
Don't forget about the U.S. Embassy built in Russia that had so many bugs installed it was unusable.
"Work on the embassy was stopped in 1985, after it was determined that the building was so riddled with listening devices implanted by Soviet workers that the structure was in effect a multistory microphone." http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06...
-Not a really good link but better than the rest-
Was going to run the liveCD just cause, can't get in (too busy try again later).
They drive home the point that as soon as a star starts producing iron it's toast, in that split second it goes nova.
The reasoning is it absorbs too much energy allowing gravity to overcome the push (outward force) of fusion.
Very few stars reach the point of creating iron, and then going into a core collapse, type-II supernova (a nova, without the super, and type-I supernova a related to white dwarf stars in a binary star system). Stars with a mass similar to the Sun will switch from hydrogen burning to helium burning, but not get beyond that. Without being several times heavier than the Sun, stars won't be able to burn the carbon & oxygen that is produced from helium burning. Stars that are unable to burn heavier elements will have the core plateau in temperature while fusion still goes on in outer layers, which shuts down convection and allows the heat produced in outer layers to expel gas out of gravitational confinement. You get a planetary nebula instead of a nova.
Thank you for that. I was hoping somebody would jump in and answer that.
They (documentaries) push the *novas, mention our Sun and the others of "it's class" as going Red Giant or planetary nebula in passing,
then back to the *novas; Making it sound (to me at least) as if our Sun and others of it's size were in the minority, not as sensational I guess.
Much appreciated.
Someone mentioned caves below the structure and I think you can make one to two of them out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
3:30 minutes of video yet only 15 seconds being of any value.
Uriah Prost46 put it better than I could of in a reply to the video.
"+YouOriginal I'm with that guy^^ Who gives a fuck??.. and on top of that, it was the shittiest Quad-copter not "helicopter" footage I've seen.. This asshole took two minutes trying to figure out how to fly it.. then spend a whole of 20 secs in the hole and didn't even check anything out.. Then the ass wipe didn't edit out the bullshit on the end, i guess he had to go ask three engineers how to turn the camera off.." -Uriah Prost46
so were smiling each time one is sold :} or to that effect.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
Archive for July 27th, 2011
The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?
"You may already know Microsoft has forced five Android vendors to pay royalties each time they ship a device, and is suing Motorola and Barnes & Noble in cases that claim Android steals Microsoft intellectual property."
http://ineedinfonow.wordpress....
Describes nine patents Motorola allegedly infringes upon.
"Given that a deep-pocketed vendor like HTC already settled with Microsoft and is paying Redmond each time it sells an Android phone, it would seem Microsoft's lawyers can be quite convincing."
Googles' putting up it's own satellites and Microsoft is scrambling for a bit of the Android action, my how times have changed.
Microsoft invested in it's future through patents, being one of the larger patent trolls is an action befitting Microsoft.
Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kafkaesque
Usage: At one point, Judge Alsup dismissed the case. A federal appeals court reinstated it in 2012, more than a year after Alsup tossed it. A month before Ibrahim’s trial, the judge said he learned the Kafkaesque truth. “I feel that I have been had by the government,” he said in a November pretrial conference. http://www.wired.com/threatlev...
I guess it's some really tenacious stuff, and very abrasive.
On board the LEM the astronauts took out rocks to look at them, the dust was so fine it got under their finger nails and took several weeks to grow out.
- Harrison H. Schmitt (Apollo 17)
The US space program had all sorts of problems early on - a bunch of Ranger probes failed. The key was that they kept trying until it worked.
Russia was orbiting the Moon, while the U.S. was still trying to hit it with Rangers :}
Over coffee
Kinda like putting out every fire you see until the under brush is extensive enough for an inferno to wreak havoc over a vast area... like oh say the Yellowstone fires of 1988. .
You don't have to look back 26 years to find a massive forest fire from the forest management policies we practice. I think you could find some examples from last summer. Most every year now there have been massive fires somewhere in the American West.
"The Yellowstone fire of 1988 was when the error of practiced policy was first realized." What I was told and thought to be the truth, till today.
It was posting a reply to you I found it was just bad conclusion I was led to believe by the media at the time, who were blaming it on undergrowth left unattended, (among other causes) This wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y...
pretty much claims it was just bad situations coming together at the same time.
The media even got it's own section starting out : "Lack of understanding of wildfire management by the media led to some sensationalist reporting and inaccuracies." :} )
(vindication
This microsystem is an anomaly. Let it collapse as it eventually will. This kind of thing happens all the time in nature.
Same thing I thought, I'm so glad were there to intervene. The Moose have been their for mayhaps thousands of years, as have the wolfs; it's taken care of itself quite well with no help from any body, just nature.. I'm glad we can interfere to cause problems in other unforeseen areas.
Kinda like putting out every fire you see until the under brush is extensive enough for an inferno to wreak havoc over a vast area... like oh say the Yellowstone fires of 1988. .
The more i read stories like this, more i realize there is so much more I would like to know. Too many books not enough time lol...
They won't do you much good it appears. Often I watch "How the Universe Works" (first series) to put me to sleep;
while not a book, it's almost as good.
They drive home the point that as soon as a star starts producing iron it's toast, in that split second it goes nova.
The reasoning is it absorbs too much energy allowing gravity to overcome the push (outward force) of fusion.
But it's not just "How the Universe Works" it's any article on the Sun will tell you the same thing.
Finally figure you have a handle on something and some article like this comes along and changes the rules. So what do you believe? Honestly.
But The Bible isn't even in the running.
I can't help but laugh at all the people that will be trying to reuse the key shown to unlock their Photoshops.
CS2 has been effectively "free" since Adobe turned off the activation servers and gave away the keys.
Nope not so funny now. No I wasn't aware that CS2 is now "free" and keys available; have just always used CS2 and needed nothing else, so never followed up on it. -I also avoid news list, and product announcements.
Does explain why I wasn't able to connect to an activation server and had to take other means :}
I'm looking for help on an OS/2 Warp open source clone.
Comments, suggestions or hate mail is welcome. Even flaming is considered good feedback on the OS/2-eCS community :)
http://openwarp.blogspot.com/
Alas I never could get OS/2 to install, had to set up a video camera and record the monitor while it was loading; then sneak up on the error frame by frame - was my video driver.
Being before public Internet access I was stuck. Doom was telling me to play it just one more time; and I lost interest.
OS/2 would be a very nice os to keep running, while never running it myself all around me were and was coming across as a much nicer OS than Windows was pushing.
Oh ya; I'm make a great Admin, lots of server commands I'd like to try out :}
I Wish you luck.
Based on their demos, it seems that they're going the 'Open Source XP' method, as can be deduced based on their demos of Office 2003 and Photoshop CS2, the former being four revisions out of date, and the latter being five (assuming we count 'CC' as a single version).
I still use Photoshop CS2, I'm aware Photoshop is to be ah rented in the future if not now, seems that would be an easier install as you don't have to mess with a windows installer (Adobe ain't gonna pay for it's use). The demo uses in but it's not an on-line version.
I can't help but laugh at all the people that will be trying to reuse the key shown to unlock their Photoshops.
Letting India manufacture these domestically (and, heck, the entire rest of the developed world) wouldn't affect drug research and investment strategies one little bit. The big fear from drug companies is reimportation, where drugs manufactured in India are imported back into the USA for sale, without the major patent premium being paid. This is fairly trivially avoidable.
So, yeah, in the end, it's about squeezing that last dime in profits out of people, and not fundamentally giving a damned about anything else.
Modafinal is a drug available from India on the cheap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
commercially it was being sold as Provigil.
The article I didn't read hits upon this drug, I've purchased it a few times from India as Provigil (with a prescription), it's come I'm sure as modafinil.
Provigil's patent was to expire in 2012 thus begot Nuvigil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... which is slower acting, Provigil's patent was renewed for a very long time, I haven't got an answer to when, but told it's no time soon.
Nuvigil runs around $20 a tablet, Provigil $25 a box of 50 (India), Provigil isn't being sold anymore (in the US) that I know of just kept for it's patent.
Modafinal is your basic generic drug, everything after is research.
In the case of Newvigil, it being such an exceptional drug they are asking for more than it's worth, where as Modafinal being virtually the same thing, is asking it's manufacture price and a bit of profit.
Here's HOW Trax (& the problem with "beta" is that it DEMANDS javascript - they're going to lose users, mark my words, if THAT keeps up) -> http://ask.slashdot.org/commen...
As much as I distrust javascript the web seems to run on it for the pretty things, Maybe this could help put a stem to it, it's a hope.
Hell if nothing else stop eye strain, I mean those short lines (sentences) are a b!tc#.
Links added to my HOSTS file apk, can only hope.
Ressurrector - bringing to life killed equipment
I can't think (radio signal interference) what could go wrong (rock slide) with this approach (mine).
Great (massive failure) idea!
I was thinking of them being stolen as they drove along unmanned. They wouldn't make it 5 miles.
Article had a picture of a truck that could make someone very wealthy if torn down to it's basic parts.
Then this part: "who, in other words, gets sued or charged when an unmanned automobile harms people or property?"
Urban myth or not you decide. While in Viet Nam you hear of the story - one time someone got run over by a 2 1/2 ton truck, the family got a lot of money as a settlement. When trucks drive through villages now they are subjected to having kids thrown under the wheels for a pay off.
I agree that if /. is changed, it should change for the better. My big question is why should we believe you're listening now? At the beta rollout in October you solicited comments about what to improve on the beta. The users responded with >1100 comments and lots of emails. However, many of the same problems (most notably a broken comment system) are still there. Five months and functionality that is foundational to the way people use this site is still not there.
The folks at /. might be listening, but are they going to do anything with what they hear?
Comments are cheap, and a request for them show an interest in the audience.
Following the comments or suggestions are for adding things not thought of when the upgrade was thought of. Changing from the already decided format isn't an option.
Be it a highly paid study or someones grandiose idea for a new direction... it's how it always happens, some survive some don't.
I've never followed a link to Slashdot, can't think of a time I have. It's a site you need to stumble across to find. Opera browser had it's own /. shortcut and others would steer or hint of Slashdot's being, but stumble you needed to do. Just saying it's user base would appear to be of some importance.
My Beta shows half of a predetermined page that has a narrow band of text to the left and the right half all white or blank, not sure if it's my HOSTS file at work or it's just a blank billboard at the moment.
Slashdots' replies took some getting used; I even looked it up, (a good line length is 90 characters). I began to post without a carriage return. Once beta has become fact if I leave replies, I'll be doing a carriage return every 30 characters or less, It's something that can't be fixed without changing the entire format,
I think th ebest course of action is to move somewhere else. Reddit is the most promising one. Subscribe to the following subreddits:
And that's how Digg.com died, Digg brought out a new version (upgrade) and almost all of their users went to Reddit.
Familiarity is something people like, and miss when it's gone.
Thought VIERA was just part of the big lie. All TV manufacture do it; this just being Panasonic's area
FWIW, the new big lie is again Refresh rates, this time it's "The potiential of: 120hz, and 240hz", they go by the name of TruMotion, Auto Motion Plus, Motionflow, ClearScan, and Smooth Motion (all a marketing gimmick) I've run into them trying to buy a 32" monitor for my computer, I want a 120Hz but have to wade through the crap, and it's hard to do, they're all still 60Hz, no matter what you call it.
An example and the one I'm purchasing claims a potential of 240hz (Clear Motion Rate 240) so a true 120hz and how you play the game this week.