Come to think of it, this will be good for the current rut that OSS is in right now. RMS being proven true, despite his cranky rabid nature.
The dude who spent 3 decades of his lifeblood in speech recognition, only to be harpooned from the entire industry, may turn back and dump his ideas as OSS, and should. Yes, I know the walled gardens revolution right now makes that hard...
So, if you get patented out, go guerrilla. You will have no choice but to set your info free. Most likely be labelled a terrorist too, but the tech will be let free to spite the Nuances of the world. Drive your stuff into the developing markets if you get sued out of making money from your efforts. The other guy has stopped your cash flow options, so put a serious damper into his if you can. (We just have to find a better method of packaging OSS is all, to get it to the flock.) So there is something for Adam Smith to chew on in his grave. Creative destruction of the information wants to be free, type.
So patent madness may drive everything into OSS after all. The burned, broken, and brilliant will have no other recourse in the patent apocalypse unless they have an army of lawyers. Sad and interesting days, just like they ever were.
First to file will bring on the Patent Armageddon, most likely. That change is such a BLATANT swing to the rich I still have a hard time fathoming how the decision was even made. "Hmmmmmm, how can we make sure that no one has a business outside of serving my elite buddy Chad some low wage service commodity? Oh, I know! Let's tip the scales completely towards the armies of lawyers who sit around all day spamming the patent office."
Hate to mention the movie Brazil again, but Gilliam had prophecy there...
I look forward to Slashdot posting this Facebook story as old news about old news again next week.
And again the week after next, and again the week after that, and again the week after that, and again the week after that, and again the week after that, etc...
Sad enough to not even care about the smell of the tangential dupe to the tune of 38 posts. Who is the tech equivalent of Justin Timberlake to buy the hulk that is Slashdot with that old Myspace feel?
Taco, you got out at the right time, my brother. Cheers and thanks.
That damn autocorrect. I'm seeing a lot of postings all over the net that have been quite clearly Apple corrected.
Please give me a setting to reverse it Apple. Click to correct, not click to disregard. Is that too much to ask? Do I have to jailbreak just to get this again?
I'm beginning to agree about iOS 6 being a Vista Parallel. Noticeably faster battery drain and alarm issues here on the iPad 3.
This is even after a factory reset fresh install and draining the battery down for whatever algorithm reset that needs.
Seems like every new iteration has these same issues, but only randomly amongst the herd of owners. Can't wait for the.1 update here. Tracking down all the usual suspects for battery drain, and still the power drain is around 20% more.
Definitely going to downgrade if I can't find it. Siri ain't THAT useful....
Dirt cheap and reliable. I was looking all over for an arduino build like this though, because I would love to log the temps.
Made my first lager with the cheap Keezer, a little GE that can hold 4 Corny Kegs, and am in homebrew heaven. Make a Homer Love/Drool noise if you know what I mean, my homebrew brothers and sisters!
I bottled exactly once and ran straight to kegging. Washing bottles is purist, sure, but egads does it suck. And having an 80lb CO2 tank connected to what will be a standing desk that dispenses 4 different beers? Goddamn I love the art and science of homebrew.
And by the way, InBev? Fuck you. Same thing to all the prohibition era, rice beer holdovers from when it wasn't legal to brew at home. Damn old ladies and their axes...
But the Prez can do very little to create jobs, realistically. Obama may have an easier time creating the Unicorn we all seem to want. Add in a obstructionist, insane House, and the Euro wanting to implode the European Union?
Your post is a good experiment on how no one ever scrolls down to the bottom and only comment the first 5 - 7 posts.
Some things never change in 15 years, eh?
Mods? This is why you use your points near the bottom! Anything? Helllllllllloooooooo?
Well, at least this is where I usually try to use my mod points. Sorry Dave, used my last one up before it expired at midnight last night. I'd have given you one here. Thanks for being part of the reason why I started reading here so long ago, man.
Quite a day, that. I was busy wasting time on the new Google news page, and you know what? The news of the planes hitting the WTC wasn't freaking on there. Still can't believe it to this day. I left the office to go get some coffee and a co worker asked me if I had heard the news. Told him I was cracking out on Google News beta and didn't know wtf his eyes were so misty about.
So I grabbed the TV I was using as a vid monitor for premiere and brought it down to where our spanky new cable modem was placed. Turned it on and wondered why I could only see one of the WTC buildings.
Came back on Slashdot and saw the empathy and insight that I still pine for from this site and community.
Same here. Reader from near the start, when we could properly take down a site. Didn't see the need to have an account for a few months after that started though, hence the quarter million ID.
Egads I've wasted a lot of time here...
Happy 15th, Slashdot, my little progeria clown. You hump my leg a little too tight for me to let you go.
Green and white paint all over my soul and leg now.
Slash, my young 15 year old friend with Progeria, these warmed over submissions of old news are making you look quite wrinkly now. I have nothing but empathy and compassion for the actual kids with the genetic disorder, but with you?
It's a boring kind of wrinkly that barely makes anyone sad or wanting of giving their two shits.
I've always come here for your unique blend of Geek insight and debate. I've weathered your dupe storms and spun some of your memes in the guilty orgy of hindsight shame. I laughed as Kevin Rose stole your Ford Pinto with Digg and then proceeded to drive that backwards everywhere without the safety plate, eventually getting creamed by some aspy Wikipedia editor in an old Chevy Caprice.
Now? I mean you've always had your submissions of warmed over old news for debate and that was sometimes interesting, but mostly not. Right at this moment, and it may be just where I am with your aesthetic personally and I can admit that, but right now?
These wrinkles are on a little progeria clown, in a backwater 2 bit carnival, with secret shows and donkeys in the back tents.
Old news about old news? Sad wrinkles my little, beloved clown. Can't you pull that shit tight? The fat, bearded lady has a mean streak and just eyed you up after smiling at the back tents. She doesn't care that you know Fortran, she just sees that you are losing your relevance and network effect and wants a solid giggle in her big belly.
So Slash, please find a way to use those wrinkles to your advantage. (More surface area? Meta Material clown paint?) I know the smug circle jerk has always been a part of Slashdot culture, as have stories and pleas like mine that you have passed your prime. But your current incarnation just seems increasingly boring and I'm not even sure the donkey would have ya if you found yourself kicking and screaming in the sully tents.
Time for some phoenix fire, sad little clown, cuz this little wrinkly carcass doesn't hold it's own anymore. Shit. The donkey just started using OSX now too. I don't think he even cared to kick you out of the way. Sad, that.
Slash, you were, and still sometimes are, a place I love for rare insight, education, and wisdom of the programming lowID elders. But flies are the only ones hovering around your submission turds lately, and even they are losing interest now. You see, flies don't like dried turds like this. Only rot and ground welcome a dried turd.
So think, plan, design, program and rise my little progeria clown. Smug flies can't sustain you for long. You are one of the most unique cultures of debates, insights and geeks I've ever known. I've learned so much from you in the past and find myself learning less and less every time I visit. So yet another call from one of your long time geeks to evolve or at least try to cure your genetic disorder.
Cuz dried turds soon lose their resources to rain and dirt and flowers and bees. Users like me get carried off to others sites smelling less stale on those little hairy legs...
Time for another incarnation, my sad, little donkey rejected clown.
Time at least to take off the stark white under green line nesting clown paint that causes optical illusions on programming strained eyes.
Time to stop watching your stale resources rot to the ground and fly off as pollen on hairy little legs.
Time, at very long least, to try, my sad little wrinkly clown.
Yes, I know that last sentence is oddly pervy. But outside of the humor in that, the original intent still stands. (And Holy, Chocolatiest of Buddhas was this rant and plea fun to write. Thanks or reading it!)
No, it's just that Slash has turned into a form of realtime "Geek Chat" with strange nesting complexities.
And I am highlighting that while laughing, running at a treadmill desk with an iPad, and wondering how many twinkies you've eaten today to get so worked up. That twinkie comment was a troll to your Romney troll.
See? OT realtime geek chat.
Slash is so weird and smug now...
But to answer your point, I'm wrong pretty often and admit it just as much. You're projecting on your sugar high, methinks...
Alright, abandoning this crazy thread to slashdot oblivion, nesting, and time. You all take care.
I want triple redundancy. Geeks with lots of smug hindsight can appreciate that kind of thing, can't they?
Can't I cash in some of these clues I'm getting handed for that?
Apologies for having a bit of fun with you all here and being horribly off topic. But the edit button is an idea that shouldn't be dismissed so easily nowadays. I know Slash is a pristine area of early 2K design and awful javascript, but a little evolution doesn't always have to be disastrous.
At least kill the stark white on green if I can't have an edit button.
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Come to think of it, this will be good for the current rut that OSS is in right now. RMS being proven true, despite his cranky rabid nature.
The dude who spent 3 decades of his lifeblood in speech recognition, only to be harpooned from the entire industry, may turn back and dump his ideas as OSS, and should. Yes, I know the walled gardens revolution right now makes that hard...
So, if you get patented out, go guerrilla. You will have no choice but to set your info free. Most likely be labelled a terrorist too, but the tech will be let free to spite the Nuances of the world. Drive your stuff into the developing markets if you get sued out of making money from your efforts. The other guy has stopped your cash flow options, so put a serious damper into his if you can. (We just have to find a better method of packaging OSS is all, to get it to the flock.) So there is something for Adam Smith to chew on in his grave. Creative destruction of the information wants to be free, type.
So patent madness may drive everything into OSS after all. The burned, broken, and brilliant will have no other recourse in the patent apocalypse unless they have an army of lawyers. Sad and interesting days, just like they ever were.
Looks like the only thing that will come close to fixing it will be from having gone over the buggering edge of ridiculousness.
http://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/x/156824/Patent/First+To+Invent+First+To+File+Or+First+To+Disclose+Patent+Reforms+Real+Incentive
First to file will bring on the Patent Armageddon, most likely. That change is such a BLATANT swing to the rich I still have a hard time fathoming how the decision was even made. "Hmmmmmm, how can we make sure that no one has a business outside of serving my elite buddy Chad some low wage service commodity? Oh, I know! Let's tip the scales completely towards the armies of lawyers who sit around all day spamming the patent office."
Hate to mention the movie Brazil again, but Gilliam had prophecy there...
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/09/27/035231/facebook-denies-leak-of-users-private-messages
I look forward to Slashdot posting this Facebook story as old news about old news again next week.
And again the week after next,
and again the week after that,
and again the week after that,
and again the week after that,
and again the week after that,
etc...
Sad enough to not even care about the smell of the tangential dupe to the tune of 38 posts. Who is the tech equivalent of Justin Timberlake to buy the hulk that is Slashdot with that old Myspace feel?
Taco, you got out at the right time, my brother. Cheers and thanks.
Come to think of it, applecorrected sound better than autocorrected now...
That damn autocorrect. I'm seeing a lot of postings all over the net that have been quite clearly Apple corrected.
Please give me a setting to reverse it Apple. Click to correct, not click to disregard. Is that too much to ask? Do I have to jailbreak just to get this again?
I'm beginning to agree about iOS 6 being a Vista Parallel. Noticeably faster battery drain and alarm issues here on the iPad 3.
This is even after a factory reset fresh install and draining the battery down for whatever algorithm reset that needs.
Seems like every new iteration has these same issues, but only randomly amongst the herd of owners. Can't wait for the .1 update here. Tracking down all the usual suspects for battery drain, and still the power drain is around 20% more.
Definitely going to downgrade if I can't find it. Siri ain't THAT useful....
Your wife has only one hand? Empathy to you and her, my friend.
Whassat? Oh, OH!
You mean the Whole Lady Unit. Gotcha, now... : /
For my Keezer build I looked into a Johnson controller, but decided to go with one of the cheaper and better Chinese eBay temp controllers for 25$.
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/ebay-aquarium-temp-controller-build-163849/
Dirt cheap and reliable. I was looking all over for an arduino build like this though, because I would love to log the temps.
Made my first lager with the cheap Keezer, a little GE that can hold 4 Corny Kegs, and am in homebrew heaven. Make a Homer Love/Drool noise if you know what I mean, my homebrew brothers and sisters!
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/ge-7-cf-fcm7suww-keezer-conversion-192208/
I bottled exactly once and ran straight to kegging. Washing bottles is purist, sure, but egads does it suck. And having an 80lb CO2 tank connected to what will be a standing desk that dispenses 4 different beers? Goddamn I love the art and science of homebrew.
And by the way, InBev? Fuck you. Same thing to all the prohibition era, rice beer holdovers from when it wasn't legal to brew at home. Damn old ladies and their axes...
http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/18/news/economy/obama-bush-jobs/?source=cnn_bin
And what is Dubya's excuse during his orgy of spending? Where was the outcry then?
Come to think of it, even as an independent, Dubya made me cry a lot...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/job-creation-campaign-promises.html?pagewanted=all
Good zinger, really! I chuckled.
But the Prez can do very little to create jobs, realistically. Obama may have an easier time creating the Unicorn we all seem to want. Add in a obstructionist, insane House, and the Euro wanting to implode the European Union?
Good zinger though, really...
Wow, submission about the 15th b-day and here it is, early evening.
192 posts.
Sad, Slash. So sad...
I'll roll you over later on so you don't aspirate all the myspace feeling your retching up.
Your post is a good experiment on how no one ever scrolls down to the bottom and only comment the first 5 - 7 posts.
Some things never change in 15 years, eh?
Mods? This is why you use your points near the bottom! Anything? Helllllllllloooooooo?
Well, at least this is where I usually try to use my mod points. Sorry Dave, used my last one up before it expired at midnight last night. I'd have given you one here. Thanks for being part of the reason why I started reading here so long ago, man.
Cheers to ya!
Wish I knew how to get you up past -1, man. Been trying to get back to my original 2 for awhile now and don't seem to ever get it.
How the hell did you get negative? My lost 1 was from being away for a 5'er, I think.
-1 though, yeesh...
Pretty sure /. doesn't outrageously click bait as badly as the HuffPo. Slash ain't and never was pretty along with the insight,
But a HuffPo parallel?
Those be some low blows, mate...
MY GOD!!!!! Someone mod this Ent up! Only a 2?
Help for a grey neckbeard here, peeps!
Mr. 18 needs your love...
Here, here! Hope Cmdr Taco finally got broadband without satellite to that lake of his...
I have friends just around the corner from him, still on dialup.
Quite a day, that. I was busy wasting time on the new Google news page, and you know what? The news of the planes hitting the WTC wasn't freaking on there. Still can't believe it to this day. I left the office to go get some coffee and a co worker asked me if I had heard the news. Told him I was cracking out on Google News beta and didn't know wtf his eyes were so misty about.
So I grabbed the TV I was using as a vid monitor for premiere and brought it down to where our spanky new cable modem was placed. Turned it on and wondered why I could only see one of the WTC buildings.
Came back on Slashdot and saw the empathy and insight that I still pine for from this site and community.
Slashdot, beating Google News with timeliness.
Quite a day...
I love it too, really.
Like watching the March of the Ents.
Somehow epic, somehow just a wee bit sad. (Not in a bad way, just in the realization that Entropy chews on us all.)
Man I love it when the grey neckbeards come out and chime in.
Thanks you guys, truly.
You are all why I started reading in the first place.
Cheers to you all!
Same here. Reader from near the start, when we could properly take down a site. Didn't see the need to have an account for a few months after that started though, hence the quarter million ID.
Egads I've wasted a lot of time here...
Happy 15th, Slashdot, my little progeria clown. You hump my leg a little too tight for me to let you go.
Green and white paint all over my soul and leg now.
Holy Shit...
I just clicked a link for a Forbes article that linked and referenced a slashdot submission, inside this discussion inside this slashdot submission.
I'm afraid that I might walk out the door here and enter the same way I just left...
Yes, it is a basement den. How did you know that? 42 what?
Ugh...
Slash, my young 15 year old friend with Progeria, these warmed over submissions of old news are making you look quite wrinkly now. I have nothing but empathy and compassion for the actual kids with the genetic disorder, but with you?
It's a boring kind of wrinkly that barely makes anyone sad or wanting of giving their two shits.
I've always come here for your unique blend of Geek insight and debate. I've weathered your dupe storms and spun some of your memes in the guilty orgy of hindsight shame. I laughed as Kevin Rose stole your Ford Pinto with Digg and then proceeded to drive that backwards everywhere without the safety plate, eventually getting creamed by some aspy Wikipedia editor in an old Chevy Caprice.
Now? I mean you've always had your submissions of warmed over old news for debate and that was sometimes interesting, but mostly not. Right at this moment, and it may be just where I am with your aesthetic personally and I can admit that, but right now?
These wrinkles are on a little progeria clown, in a backwater 2 bit carnival, with secret shows and donkeys in the back tents.
Old news about old news? Sad wrinkles my little, beloved clown. Can't you pull that shit tight? The fat, bearded lady has a mean streak and just eyed you up after smiling at the back tents. She doesn't care that you know Fortran, she just sees that you are losing your relevance and network effect and wants a solid giggle in her big belly.
So Slash, please find a way to use those wrinkles to your advantage. (More surface area? Meta Material clown paint?) I know the smug circle jerk has always been a part of Slashdot culture, as have stories and pleas like mine that you have passed your prime.
But your current incarnation just seems increasingly boring and I'm not even sure the donkey would have ya if you found yourself kicking and screaming in the sully tents.
Time for some phoenix fire, sad little clown, cuz this little wrinkly carcass doesn't hold it's own anymore. Shit. The donkey just started using OSX now too. I don't think he even cared to kick you out of the way. Sad, that.
Slash, you were, and still sometimes are, a place I love for rare insight, education, and wisdom of the programming lowID elders. But flies are the only ones hovering around your submission turds lately, and even they are losing interest now. You see, flies don't like dried turds like this. Only rot and ground welcome a dried turd.
So think, plan, design, program and rise my little progeria clown. Smug flies can't sustain you for long. You are one of the most unique cultures of debates, insights and geeks I've ever known. I've learned so much from you in the past and find myself learning less and less every time I visit. So yet another call from one of your long time geeks to evolve or at least try to cure your genetic disorder.
Cuz dried turds soon lose their resources to rain and dirt and flowers and bees. Users like me get carried off to others sites smelling less stale on those little hairy legs...
Time for another incarnation, my sad, little donkey rejected clown.
Time at least to take off the stark white under green line nesting clown paint that causes optical illusions on programming strained eyes.
Time to stop watching your stale resources rot to the ground and fly off as pollen on hairy little legs.
Time, at very long least, to try, my sad little wrinkly clown.
Yes, I know that last sentence is oddly pervy. But outside of the humor in that, the original intent still stands. (And Holy, Chocolatiest of Buddhas was this rant and plea fun to write. Thanks or reading it!)
I do see it. I want Slash to be good again. So I'm asking for it to evolve past the point of trouble that you and I both see there.
Evolution doesn't necessarily have to stop short, does it?
No, it's just that Slash has turned into a form of realtime "Geek Chat" with strange nesting complexities.
And I am highlighting that while laughing, running at a treadmill desk with an iPad, and wondering how many twinkies you've eaten today to get so worked up.
That twinkie comment was a troll to your Romney troll.
See? OT realtime geek chat.
Slash is so weird and smug now...
But to answer your point, I'm wrong pretty often and admit it just as much. You're projecting on your sugar high, methinks...
Alright, abandoning this crazy thread to slashdot oblivion, nesting, and time. You all take care.
I want triple redundancy. Geeks with lots of smug hindsight can appreciate that kind of thing, can't they?
Can't I cash in some of these clues I'm getting handed for that?
Apologies for having a bit of fun with you all here and being horribly off topic. But the edit button is an idea that shouldn't be dismissed so easily nowadays. I know Slash is a pristine area of early 2K design and awful javascript, but a little evolution doesn't always have to be disastrous.
At least kill the stark white on green if I can't have an edit button.
I await more clues getting handed to me.