Alas, playing music is indeed an old hack. I remember listening to Christmas songs on an AM radio sitting on the console of an RCA 301 in 1965.
I was just cleaning out the garage and in a box of old stuff, I found my 1966 offer letter from Control Data. I left RCA and joined them on 6-6-66 at the grand salary of $505 a MONTH.
That was after my first real hack: A friend and I managed to program a 301 in machine code so that we could scroll messages across its memory display lights. We put the program in a test station 301 at RCA with the message "Call John at 555-1212" running - it was the phone number of the CDC recruiter!
I rarely read the/. posts because of the high noise to signal ratio. It is not worth my time to sift through unintelligent rants to mine a couple of gems.
It is the content of the posts, not the sender's id that bothers me. How many of slashdot's readers have ever gone to their boss or boss's boss and said, "You need to read this thread on Slashdot."?
Darn few, if any, is my guess. I feel comfortable forwarding many of the links to information that I find in Slashdot to managers in my company. And I often do. I have never -- and under the present system, will never -- suggest that anyone read the posts. They should be called Slashdot's Wasteland.
And that is a shame. I value the experience and intelligence and wit of the slashdot gang -- but finding that beyond the home page is difficult, if not impossible.
BTW, to an new reader or to your boss that looks at Slashdot at your urgings, CmdrTaco is as anonymous as Anonymous Coward.
Perhaps the answer is two sites: Slashdot, Sr. moderated for the Serious Slashdot, Jr. unsupervised recess for the immature
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Alas, playing music is indeed an old hack. I remember listening to Christmas songs on an AM radio sitting on the console of an RCA 301 in 1965.
I was just cleaning out the garage and in a box of old stuff, I found my 1966 offer letter from Control Data. I left RCA and joined them on 6-6-66 at the grand salary of $505 a MONTH.
That was after my first real hack: A friend and I managed to program a 301 in machine code so that we could scroll messages across its memory display lights. We put the program in a test station 301 at RCA with the message "Call John at 555-1212" running - it was the phone number of the CDC recruiter!
I rarely read the /. posts because of the high noise to signal ratio. It is not worth my time to sift through unintelligent rants to mine a couple of gems.
It is the content of the posts, not the sender's id that bothers me. How many of slashdot's readers have ever gone to their boss or boss's boss and said, "You need to read this thread on Slashdot."?
Darn few, if any, is my guess. I feel comfortable forwarding many of the links to information that I find in Slashdot to managers in my company. And I often do. I have never -- and under the present system, will never -- suggest that anyone read the posts. They should be called Slashdot's Wasteland.
And that is a shame. I value the experience and intelligence and wit of the slashdot gang -- but finding that beyond the home page is difficult, if not impossible.
BTW, to an new reader or to your boss that looks at Slashdot at your urgings, CmdrTaco is as anonymous as Anonymous Coward.
Perhaps the answer is two sites:
Slashdot, Sr. moderated for the Serious
Slashdot, Jr. unsupervised recess for the immature
DC Stultz