Or maybe it would make slash actually, hmmm, what is the word I am looking for here...
Evolve?
And your "slow down" refrain, that is commonly repeated, is negated by the speed at which slashdot postings get buried. Slash really is broken in so many ways. I don't see how an edit button can make things worse than they already are. Just want to be counted as a long time user who wants an edit button.
I can post and edit the post just as quickly as I can review it a million times and get buried to the bottom of the page.
Yeah, wrong place to post this. Just had to vent it out here. Silly Santas in the Sky make too many die. All of em made up without a wit of proof so far.
I'll be waiting on Zues' bolt of almighty buggering for getting my original post's religion wrong. So many to choose from throughout time! I get them all mixed up with whose peanut butter is who's and whose chocolate isn't actually chocolate at all.
Islam needs a Monty Python of their own to put things into perspective. Of course, the comedy troupe would most certainly be hunted in this day and age.
"Freedom of Speech except when it comes to my stuff" in untenable.
Yes, I remember Life Of Brian was censored in parts of the UK. The above point still stands.
Damn, I just used my last mod point before I saw your bit of insight here. Mod this one up, peeps. Nail on the head right up above.
I'll be snapping one up on the inevitable fire sale of this first crop, though. For all the quips against Metro, it does look like a step froward away from the blizzard of icon alikes.
Jesus those screen specs will have to get better, however, even if Apple has a lock on all the good stock. The iPad 2 I think was crap as far as screen and camera. But even an Apple hater like me jumped on the iPad 3, as a huge fan of the Sir Ive. Revolutionary products can't be denied, no matter the bias.
If I remember correctly, wasn't Digg supposed to be the new Slashdot without the hardcore Geek Cred? Didn't Kevin Rose speak directly to CmdrTaco about the failings of Slashdot? Kevin doesn't seem that bad a guy, actually, but he had two major failings that I can see:
- Not selling at the top of the market, which is usually hard to gauge anyway, (and didn't he leave some time ago?)
and the most important failing:
- Dumping Sarah Lane so that she could later travel the world on Honeymoon and get a brain eating parasite.
"leave it along and not be bothered by it? most people read at threshold 3 anyway."
Which is EXACTLY what is wrong with Slashdot right now. That stupid slider means that most people never see a majority of comments that could and should be up-modded. Almost certainly ensures shallow discussions in an echo chamber.
Thanks Mr Slider, for ensuring the slow and ridiculous death spiral of/.!!!!
(Slash discussions have always been raucous and flamey, don't get me wrong, but just like the Music Industry all the good comments are underground and unseen now.)
If/. started nesting things like that then I could be sickened, not only mentally with all the Jobs/Apple discussion flame spirals, but visually as well.
Unfortunately I have to completely agree with this. Looking forward to when Slashdot leaves a more entertaining optical illusion than just greenbar/whitespace retinal burns. Perhaps spinning wheels? http://www.optillusions.com/dp/1-72.htm
As for the absolutely poor decision of the "Sea of Whitespace" and gray nesting lines, I've got nothing...
Agreed, which is why that should be part of any overall design. An OSDK would have to incorporate strategies/tactics as well as hardware.
How was the problem of infiltration handled in medieval castles and such? Can't believe that it wasn't an issue throughout history.
Apologies for the thought exercise. Just always wondered why OS has always tended towards idealist exercises without pragmatically thinking about the part of human nature that wants to smash everything to bits.
Ninjas vs Warlords. Hollywood has probably already stolen the idea.
Seriously though. GVCS takes an interesting approach of building a society. There needs to be some thought behind defending what is created. Take the situations in Mexico and Somalia for examples. Instead of captive populations or towns just hunkering down in scattered huts and praying the tiger comes for your neighbor instead, what designs for communities could successfully defend against warlords/gangs? Would fort designs from the Brits' and US history be updated and prove practical?
Clearly non violent movements won't and can't work in those environments while the populace is scattered and unorganized. Rocks and martial arts are individual defense ideas, not community defense. (I do have a cynic's humor though, so no whoosh here you bastards...)
Negroponte should be focusing his efforts more broadly than just a cheap computer. Why has he not filled those 'chuted in tablets with ideas like this. Self directed education is nothing without the seeds of ideas like this.
Unfortunately, the GVCS seems to be missing a core idea of defense, seeing as how it is far easier for people to destroy any good that could be realized.
Where is the Open Source Defense Kit: OSDK? THAT could be the missing piece from our lofty open source ideals.
And they even tour Europe and have been successful for awhile, relatively speaking. Now I'll have to go floss my brain with some Dillinger Escape Plan just to get the Wolf Eyes out.
Mod this baby up. I want Goog 2004 back as well. Otherwise my search will start out like this:
"""""""""""""""" Then and only then might it get close to the way I used to search and get quality results. Fill in between an unknown number of quotes. How easy for you, Google User!
You are right, my bad. My usage of +, for years, was as +="must include" which was very effective.
+ vs intext:
Clear which is easier, which is the point I was trying to make. +blogspot was a great way to find music until a few days ago for example. Today, not so much.
Functionally it may have been redundant but it was the quicker of the two by far. Especially when you are typing after " and auto completion decides you meant something other than your original intent and you lose that first quote.
That link shows a few usage scenarios where it falls apart.
Perhaps their declining market share is because they are beginning to annoy their users. Things like their auto completion auto deleting things as you type and dropping the Boolean "+" operator. Those definitely piss me off and send me to Bing when it gets too frustrating.
Slashdot Mirror
I ate and drank parts of Jesus and was certified once. Isn't that enough?
Wait a minute, someone is at the door...
pleas, not please! See?
Damn you Ipad!!!!!!!
Edit button!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gah!
Yeah, I know your right. Was at the treadmill desk on a gallop and pulled the trigger too soon.
Hence my please for the edit button. My original post would have been killed before anyone except Geekoid could hand out his clue.
Now I get handed clues that never actually make it to me in the mail. I like yours though, Hazah. Appreciated and noted.
Or maybe it would make slash actually, hmmm, what is the word I am looking for here...
Evolve?
And your "slow down" refrain, that is commonly repeated, is negated by the speed at which slashdot postings get buried. Slash really is broken in so many ways. I don't see how an edit button can make things worse than they already are. Just want to be counted as a long time user who wants an edit button.
I can post and edit the post just as quickly as I can review it a million times and get buried to the bottom of the page.
Damn you slashdot. An edit button may take you out of the wagon wheel era. Do we have to geek riot to get one?
Yeah, wrong place to post this. Just had to vent it out here. Silly Santas in the Sky make too many die. All of em made up without a wit of proof so far.
I'll be waiting on Zues' bolt of almighty buggering for getting my original post's religion wrong. So many to choose from throughout time! I get them all mixed up with whose peanut butter is who's and whose chocolate isn't actually chocolate at all.
Islam needs a Monty Python of their own to put things into perspective. Of course, the comedy troupe would most certainly be hunted in this day and age.
"Freedom of Speech except when it comes to my stuff" in untenable.
Yes, I remember Life Of Brian was censored in parts of the UK. The above point still stands.
Opera can never seem to catch a break, can they. Even I forgot that they were the only real mobile browser before webkit came to mobile.
Opera, the Rodney Dangerfield of browsers.
Damn, I just used my last mod point before I saw your bit of insight here. Mod this one up, peeps. Nail on the head right up above.
I'll be snapping one up on the inevitable fire sale of this first crop, though. For all the quips against Metro, it does look like a step froward away from the blizzard of icon alikes.
Jesus those screen specs will have to get better, however, even if Apple has a lock on all the good stock. The iPad 2 I think was crap as far as screen and camera. But even an Apple hater like me jumped on the iPad 3, as a huge fan of the Sir Ive. Revolutionary products can't be denied, no matter the bias.
If I remember correctly, wasn't Digg supposed to be the new Slashdot without the hardcore Geek Cred? Didn't Kevin Rose speak directly to CmdrTaco about the failings of Slashdot? Kevin doesn't seem that bad a guy, actually, but he had two major failings that I can see:
- Not selling at the top of the market, which is usually hard to gauge anyway, (and didn't he leave some time ago?)
and the most important failing:
- Dumping Sarah Lane so that she could later travel the world on Honeymoon and get a brain eating parasite.
Better Days to them both.
"leave it along and not be bothered by it? most people read at threshold 3 anyway."
Which is EXACTLY what is wrong with Slashdot right now. That stupid slider means that most people never see a majority of comments that could and should be up-modded. Almost certainly ensures shallow discussions in an echo chamber.
Thanks Mr Slider, for ensuring the slow and ridiculous death spiral of /.!!!!
(Slash discussions have always been raucous and flamey, don't get me wrong, but just like the Music Industry all the good comments are underground and unseen now.)
Here's the better example I was looking for: http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/rotsnake.gif
If /. started nesting things like that then I could be sickened, not only mentally with all the Jobs/Apple discussion flame spirals, but visually as well.
Ponies wouldn't got nuffin' on dat!
Unfortunately I have to completely agree with this. Looking forward to when Slashdot leaves a more entertaining optical illusion than just greenbar/whitespace retinal burns. Perhaps spinning wheels? http://www.optillusions.com/dp/1-72.htm
As for the absolutely poor decision of the "Sea of Whitespace" and gray nesting lines, I've got nothing...
Thanks for pointing this out.
Agreed, which is why that should be part of any overall design. An OSDK would have to incorporate strategies/tactics as well as hardware.
How was the problem of infiltration handled in medieval castles and such? Can't believe that it wasn't an issue throughout history.
Apologies for the thought exercise. Just always wondered why OS has always tended towards idealist exercises without pragmatically thinking about the part of human nature that wants to smash everything to bits.
Ninjas vs Warlords. Hollywood has probably already stolen the idea.
Seriously though. GVCS takes an interesting approach of building a society. There needs to be some thought behind defending what is created. Take the situations in Mexico and Somalia for examples. Instead of captive populations or towns just hunkering down in scattered huts and praying the tiger comes for your neighbor instead, what designs for communities could successfully defend against warlords/gangs? Would fort designs from the Brits' and US history be updated and prove practical?
Clearly non violent movements won't and can't work in those environments while the populace is scattered and unorganized. Rocks and martial arts are individual defense ideas, not community defense. (I do have a cynic's humor though, so no whoosh here you bastards...)
Negroponte should be focusing his efforts more broadly than just a cheap computer. Why has he not filled those 'chuted in tablets with ideas like this. Self directed education is nothing without the seeds of ideas like this.
Unfortunately, the GVCS seems to be missing a core idea of defense, seeing as how it is far easier for people to destroy any good that could be realized.
Where is the Open Source Defense Kit: OSDK? THAT could be the missing piece from our lofty open source ideals.
Unfortunately for all of us you just described the band "Wolf Eyes":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoPYY4oNq9A
And they even tour Europe and have been successful for awhile, relatively speaking. Now I'll have to go floss my brain with some Dillinger Escape Plan just to get the Wolf Eyes out.
Ray Charles, take me AWAY!
Mod this baby up. I want Goog 2004 back as well. Otherwise my search will start out like this:
""""""""""""""""
Then and only then might it get close to the way I used to search and get quality results. Fill in between an unknown number of quotes. How easy for you, Google User!
You are right, my bad. My usage of +, for years, was as +="must include" which was very effective.
+ vs intext:
Clear which is easier, which is the point I was trying to make. +blogspot was a great way to find music until a few days ago for example. Today, not so much.
You sure?
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?tid=151ef6cf0a761b74&hl=en
Functionally it may have been redundant but it was the quicker of the two by far. Especially when you are typing after " and auto completion decides you meant something other than your original intent and you lose that first quote.
That link shows a few usage scenarios where it falls apart.
That doesn't mean the usage works out the same:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?tid=151ef6cf0a761b74&hl=en&start=40
Losing + to Google+ hampers my usage. I used the Boolean "+" quite often and don't believe I will ever use Google+.
Thanks Larry.
Perhaps their declining market share is because they are beginning to annoy their users. Things like their auto completion auto deleting things as you type and dropping the Boolean "+" operator. Those definitely piss me off and send me to Bing when it gets too frustrating.
"Richard Dawkins does this as well.
'Nuff said."
Don't think you actually said anything there at all, but it seems fun.
Yaweh likes peanut butter in his chocolate.
Said 'Nuff.