There is FUtility in spamming the news until you get your way.
The usual Beta-feedback page will be posted a few times, and mods will happen. If you don't like it after that, who are you blaming? We've been here so many times...
the community has been trying to give positive feed back and they just push forward a bad design anyway. This is a move that will hurt the slashdot brand and community.
So what exactly was modified when they last "updated"? The last entry in the mailing list was back in Oct 2011. looks to me like the only thing resent is a user review.
I am not exactly a web dev. Mostly manageing and maintaining small office networks (linux and windows) desktops a couple of windows server at several local business, a smattering xml html 4 and css, oh and some uglyass 16 bit assembly I can spin up a very simple apache sever. I am willing do what I could limited as it may be.
Has anyone tried to email the editors directly to see if the can talk some since into their DICE pointy haired boss's or maybe we could find the email of the DICE PHB responsible and we could slashdot his inbox...
This is off topic, but I'm getting a warning at the top of Slashdot that classic is going to be going away soon (looks like in 4 months).
How many people will leave if they cut it off completely...?
I hope hacker news is buying new servers now. Because they are going to be getting a influx of users, which may somewhat ironically end up, slashdoting them in 4 monthes.
Isn't Unity built on Gnome3? You may mean Gnome Shell, which I find far more usable than Unity, but just as unstable. I've since moved on to KDE and can't see myself leaving unless I have an old machine where I'll use Xfce or OpenBox or something.
it uses all of the gnome environment but the shell it self is being made with qt now, or so I heard.
I have thought about it but the code there was last touched in what 06? I might give it a go but I have school and no money to pay for a server more powerful than a raspberry pi right now and my internet connection is laughable. But if slashdot keeps this shit up I may give it a try. If anyone else started one I would be more than willing to help where I could.
I think it's funny how they mock the N. Korean government for presenting Kim Il Sung as a god and yet they are all too happy with their year 2014 that pushes some ordinary human being, who may not have even existed, as a god. It's exactly the same thing.
What do you mean we? This is slashdot, we measure time since UNIX here.
If not, Dear Leader is going to get some serious f-bombs dropped on him by Linus and Richard.
It is almost worth sending a request to the govenment of North Korea for the a copy of the source code as per the gpl's license just to see what happens...
Firstly to see if you get a response, and secondly to see how many US govenment watch lists you get put on. and if I don't get response i could always sick Stallmen on them...
It's worth noting that an important part of the culture that the kims enforced on north korea is "self reliance". Everyone is taught from a very young age that you can't depend on foreigners, and that everything should be produced in country.
Which is why Red Star was written from scratch instead of just being a skin on top of an open source operating system.
No one said it was logical. This junta threatened to nuke Washington DC with bombs that might be able to land in South Korea, if the wind is blowing in a favorable direction and they cross their fingers may even go off. Hell they even like Denis Rodman I mean how much more proof do need that they are mentally unstable?
But if they do that then people might realize that the Kims aren't some holy family blessed by the communism gods to protect them from the barbarous world around them.
another anti beta vote here. I'll seriously consider leaving if the beta becomes the "only" option, my only option will be hacker news and fuck DICE for screwing over one of best tech/geek news sites on the internet.
I mean, how could you ever leave? Then you wouldn't be able to bitch and moan about how Slashdot revision X is intrinsically worse than Slashdot revision X-1. And honestly, where else would you have such a ready and receptive audience to your petty squabbles, paranoid rants, and nihilistic cynicism?
Lol, yes. First, Microsoft cares what a bunch of irrelevant tech dinosaurs on SlashDweeb think enough to pay "shills".
Second, I doubt you know what a shill is. It seems to now mean anyone whose opinion runs counter to the prevailing opinion of a bunch of people who know nothing outside of the narrow niche of Linux dweebery they learned on the Interwebz.
Even Heard of the Halloween Documents ? Or how about those paid shills microsoft has been caught using?
Mickey mouse is covered by trademark laws as well especially since it is their primary mascot so don't expect mickey to be public domain anytime soon regardless of the copyright laws.
I disagree. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Most of the stuff that's pirated falls within the definition of "entertainment", and even stuff like software that doesn't fall into entertainment, like operating systems and office suites, there exist free alternatives which work just fine for personal, non-commercial use. So there aren't really many cases where you "have to" pirate something. If you don't like what the big corporations are doing with copyrights, simply refrain from using their copyrighted products at all. You don't have to play any games, you don't have to watch any movies, you don't have to read any books. There's plenty of free stuff, and plenty of non-free stuff that's released in non-encumbered formats at reasonable price such that you can be reasonable well entertained without having to pirate anything. Pirating just gives the big corporations more fuel for the fire.
What's good for th goose huh?
Where is my lobiests I want to own a congressmens ear?
Where is the law being ignored when I abuse the DMCA to takedown videos I have no rights or claim to?
If this were done by the previous management, the stock price would have gone up and M. Dell would not have been able to purchase the company. Hence, leaving the company limping along was probably the plan all along.
Just another way management can screw over the stockholders.
Um it said in the title that Dell is now a privet company there are no stockholders to screw
Slashdot Mirror
More like the village has to yell until the admins about to bulldoze the village wake the hell up.
There is FUtility in spamming the news until you get your way.
The usual Beta-feedback page will be posted a few times, and mods will happen. If you don't like it after that, who are you blaming? We've been here so many times...
the community has been trying to give positive feed back and they just push forward a bad design anyway. This is a move that will hurt the slashdot brand and community.
did you look under files?
Bundle-Slash modified 2006-08-18
Slash-Client modified 2005-11-21
Slashcode modified 2002-07-03
slashcode-dev modified 2001-10-31
So what exactly was modified when they last "updated"? The last entry in the mailing list was back in Oct 2011.
looks to me like the only thing resent is a user review.
I am not exactly a web dev. Mostly manageing and maintaining small office networks (linux and windows) desktops a couple of windows server at several local business, a smattering xml html 4 and css, oh and some uglyass 16 bit assembly I can spin up a very simple apache sever. I am willing do what I could limited as it may be.
but the lowest common denomenator isn't interested in slashdot anyway so they are dumping real users for uninterested hypothetical users
Has anyone tried to email the editors directly to see if the can talk some since into their DICE pointy haired boss's or maybe we could find the email of the DICE PHB responsible and we could slashdot his inbox...
they could just fix unicode support if they wanted to look like they are doing something, but no DICE is going full metal retard on this one.
This is off topic, but I'm getting a warning at the top of Slashdot that classic is going to be going away soon (looks like in 4 months).
How many people will leave if they cut it off completely...?
I hope hacker news is buying new servers now. Because they are going to be getting a influx of users, which may somewhat ironically end up, slashdoting them in 4 monthes.
I would beg to differ on that as I often access my debian box via x over ssh every day
Isn't Unity built on Gnome3? You may mean Gnome Shell, which I find far more usable than Unity, but just as unstable. I've since moved on to KDE and can't see myself leaving unless I have an old machine where I'll use Xfce or OpenBox or something.
it uses all of the gnome environment but the shell it self is being made with qt now, or so I heard.
Why not give it a shot yourself -> http://sourceforge.net/project... ?
I have thought about it but the code there was last touched in what 06? I might give it a go but I have school and no money to pay for a server more powerful than a raspberry pi right now and my internet connection is laughable. But if slashdot keeps this shit up I may give it a try. If anyone else started one I would be more than willing to help where I could.
I think it's funny how they mock the N. Korean government for presenting Kim Il Sung as a god and yet they are all too happy with their year 2014 that pushes some ordinary human being, who may not have even existed, as a god. It's exactly the same thing.
What do you mean we? This is slashdot, we measure time since UNIX here.
If not, Dear Leader is going to get some serious f-bombs dropped on him by Linus and Richard.
It is almost worth sending a request to the govenment of North Korea for the a copy of the source code as per the gpl's license just to see what happens...
Firstly to see if you get a response, and secondly to see how many US govenment watch lists you get put on.
and if I don't get response i could always sick Stallmen on them...
It's worth noting that an important part of the culture that the kims enforced on north korea is "self reliance". Everyone is taught from a very young age that you can't depend on foreigners, and that everything should be produced in country.
Which is why Red Star was written from scratch instead of just being a skin on top of an open source operating system.
No one said it was logical. This junta threatened to nuke Washington DC with bombs that might be able to land in South Korea, if the wind is blowing in a favorable direction and they cross their fingers may even go off. Hell they even like Denis Rodman I mean how much more proof do need that they are mentally unstable?
But if they do that then people might realize that the Kims aren't some holy family blessed by the communism gods to protect them from the barbarous world around them.
another anti beta vote here. I'll seriously consider leaving if the beta becomes the "only" option, my only option will be hacker news and fuck DICE for screwing over one of best tech/geek news sites on the internet.
I mean, how could you ever leave? Then you wouldn't be able to bitch and moan about how Slashdot revision X is intrinsically worse than Slashdot revision X-1. And honestly, where else would you have such a ready and receptive audience to your petty squabbles, paranoid rants, and nihilistic cynicism?
hacker news.
sorry I missed that bit
Why not as long as the chechsums match?
Sorry can't be a hipster.. too damn old. I've been a Mac guy since errr.. like 20 years ago now.
The hipster movement is traced back to the 1940... you know back before it was popular.
Lol, yes. First, Microsoft cares what a bunch of irrelevant tech dinosaurs on SlashDweeb think enough to pay "shills".
Second, I doubt you know what a shill is. It seems to now mean anyone whose opinion runs counter to the prevailing opinion of a bunch of people who know nothing outside of the narrow niche of Linux dweebery they learned on the Interwebz.
Even Heard of the Halloween Documents ?
Or how about those paid shills microsoft has been caught using?
Why has Apache started to lose ground?
nginx & lighttpd
Mickey mouse is covered by trademark laws as well especially since it is their primary mascot so
don't expect mickey to be public domain anytime soon regardless of the copyright laws.
No but Steamboat Willy will be in public domain.
I disagree. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Most of the stuff that's pirated falls within the definition of "entertainment", and even stuff like software that doesn't fall into entertainment, like operating systems and office suites, there exist free alternatives which work just fine for personal, non-commercial use. So there aren't really many cases where you "have to" pirate something. If you don't like what the big corporations are doing with copyrights, simply refrain from using their copyrighted products at all. You don't have to play any games, you don't have to watch any movies, you don't have to read any books. There's plenty of free stuff, and plenty of non-free stuff that's released in non-encumbered formats at reasonable price such that you can be reasonable well entertained without having to pirate anything. Pirating just gives the big corporations more fuel for the fire.
What's good for th goose huh?
Where is my lobiests I want to own a congressmens ear?
Where is the law being ignored when I abuse the DMCA to takedown videos I have no rights or claim to?
If this were done by the previous management, the stock price would have gone up and M. Dell would not have been able to purchase the company. Hence, leaving the company limping along was probably the plan all along.
Just another way management can screw over the stockholders.
Um it said in the title that Dell is now a privet company there are no stockholders to screw