This thread couldn't go much further with at least a mention of HP's Itanium and predictions there. "RISC IS DEAD!" They threw away their own chips in order to go with a combined product. What a colossal failure that was. HP's former CEO was very big on 'the future'. Carly's and HP's great fault is that they gave vision more weight than reality.
I think you hit the sentiment I wanted to express. This seems to be more of which direction HP wants to go, rather than foretelling the market as a whole.
I'm paying right now for a much faster pipe on my cable modem. Something like 768kbps up, 5 or 8mbps down. Would this (accidently?) prohibit this higher tier service?
I think this is one of the channels that I get on MobiTV for my Palm Pilot. Of course, the stream is all proprietary, I'm sure, and can't be saved anyhow through the provided app.
BTW... TV channels on Palm hand-helds over Wi-Fi. I can't say it is useful, but it is cool.
I don't know where it comes from, but I've got something called 'pcb' that I installed on my Linux box that, as far as I am aware, meets those requirements.
Then they've never played I, Robot which was released in 1983. Floating view camera that you could reposition using the player 1 / player 2 buttons. Solid-fill polygons.
Too bad my mod points are gone. This was the game at the top of my list. I've played MOO2 so many times off-and-on over the years. It just has tons of reply value. I just wish there were even small updates available for the game. (It is more fun when you don't know what the Space Amoeba or Dragon is going to do.)
Regarding someone else's reply, MOO I vs MOO II, I think I'm more MOO II. It just seems more refined, IMHO. And of course, MOO3? WTF were they thinking??!?
I have a hard time re-engaging my brain to read story titles as black text. It requires a fairly substantial context switch. In the interest of a unified theme, is it possible to change the black on gray story boxes to white on green? That'll tell my brain "these are stories" and makes it easier for my eyes to scan them.
I went to that page. I saw some strange icons under 'customize stories' that I was trying to figure out. So I clicked on "Learn more about your options for controlling the amount of content on your index page." Guess where that took me? Back to the home page. Seems there is a bad link there.
I'd use the Bugs feature to report, but I forgot my SourceForge ID/password.
I don't see Taco's explanation in the story. If it is in the discussion down below, I'll probably never find it. But by the looks of things, it is a teaser for new front page articles that only recently hit one of the sub-sections. These subsection only articles aren't normally visible on the front page, so it is kind of a 'page 2' advertisement? [shrug]
I didn't know that Cliff was black. How cool is that?
In any case, I don't think classic racism is a major issue in IT. Mind you, people lower in the trenches don't seem to like people from India. And I've seen management pay foreign workers (working in the US) less than domestic workers. But the classic black/white/indian/whatever thing isn't there.
And I really don't consider accents to be a cover for racism. Understandability [both English comprehension and accent] is very important to me, as I work from home, and 100% of the people I talk to are over the phone or electronic text.
I haven't seen classic racism in IT ever. Not to say there isn't a new type going on, or something more covert that I've missed.
Google should charge BellSouth a large amount of money for premium access to Google's networks. BellSouth's customers will benefit by high bandwidth/fast response times to one of the most popular destinations on the web.
BellSouth has the fees backwards. THEY should be the ones paying!
I think most anyone who works in the money part of OSTG would admit right up front where my loyalties lie on Slashdot. Hell maybe I should get marketing or sales to write the article explainign all the times I've put the needs of the community ahead of the business needs. I value this site and the needs of the readers above all else, because I believe it makes long term sense to put those needs first.
I choose to write Slashdot as if I'm writing to my friends. Always have. My friends know certain things about encryption or microprocessors. And I think that a large reason slashdot succeeds is because many people have that shared base level of knowledge. Change that now is one of those things that I think change Slashdot on a molecular level.
I see a very interesting part of your decision, which I like. Stick with the story for a minute just to understand.
My brother worked at a technical school as an instructor. For years they really concentrated on teaching the material, first and foremost. The education (and the quality of the school... flunking the idiots) was first and foremost. Then their parent company got bought out by a megaschool. One that concentrated heavily on profitability. The change at the teacher/student level was obvious. The place turned into a body shop (passing people through the system being more important than making sure they're educated). Quality of learning went down for the students, and the reputation of the school declined. They were starting to graduate morons, for the first time.
In the same vein, you've made the opposite decision. Rather than chase down profits and collecting a larger number of eyeballs (which would bring down the quality of comments), you've seek to preserve what Slashdot is (or is supposed to be) at the core. Not grabbing for dollars while sacrificing your quality.
Bravo to you, if this is a conscious decision. Bravo!
I think the greatest disconnect here perhaps is that I see Slashdot as something bigger and greater than you see it as. I see Slashdot as an important site that really matters to the tech community. Actually somewhat prestigious. I would want the editor to try to care about too vs to. (I mean, as an editor, you gotta go at least for the low hanging fruit.) Now I understand that spelling/grammar isn't a top priority, but the feel I got from your post was that it was of low value. I really wish it was of more value to you, because your site is of value to me.
As far as the rest of the stuff, like the cleanup on articles, it all sounds like good common sense stuff. You really should put that on the Submit Story page if it is not already there.
In fact, if you wanted to save yourself time, you could add checkboxes (default: unchecked) with the things you are looking for users to do, and have them check them off before submitting (to at least confirm they've read it). The small individual items you mentioned, like lead in, length, anchoring, etc. That part is my opinion, and I can understand it being controversial.
So I guess what I wanted to say is, thanks for the insight on the story massaging process. +5, Informative. I just wish our expectations matches as far as some of the importance of grammar/spelling. (Given, you're right about complainers.)
BTW... do you like adding in your own words, or would you rather we submit larger text with our stories and let you trim?
Battlestar Galactica is also high definition. I also watch it on the Universal HD channel from time to time it all of its goodness. Its what got me hooked on the series.
Agree with radio buttons for rejections. Put in a disclaimer, "don't whine about rejections. due to mass numbers, we don't have the time to respond to them, blah blah...". Hitting a radio button for rejection is just as easy as rejecting a story. Use a blanket statement about rejections to curtail feedback before it happens.
Or give it a default timeout and a "rejected: no reason given" for those you don't respond to, so that some people can at least get some value when you do give feedback.
I think I better understand what you mean about the link farming. The user's PERSONAL url that is associated with their username at the beginning of the story? If you're concerned about that then...
If you are concerned about the 'reward' you are giving having a negative impact (link farming):
Then the 'reward' should be the link only and with a nofollow, by default, for all users. However, a manual override could be in place if the user's actual URL has something to do with the story. Isn't that really what you're concerned about, search engine pollution? If I submit a story about chickens, you're doing a disservice by linking my personal home page URL to that subject matter. (And the indirect reward of a link to my homepage into a search engine's calculations really isn't that much of a reward to an average user. To someone manipulating search engines, it may be.)
If you are not concerned about the 'reward' you are giving being a negative impact (link farming / search engines):
Then really, you don't care if they're link farming or not or you're associating a story about chickens with an unrelated user's web page.
This is news for nerds, not news for English grammar nazis. Or, better yet, make that "English grammer nazi's". I never thought that perfect grammar was a Slash requirement. Good spelling? Yes.
This deserves a "mee too" post. 100% agree with this. Feeding things into a black hole isn't fun and doesn't allow me to refine very well. Let me know WHY you rejected a story.
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This thread couldn't go much further with at least a mention of HP's Itanium and predictions there. "RISC IS DEAD!" They threw away their own chips in order to go with a combined product. What a colossal failure that was. HP's former CEO was very big on 'the future'. Carly's and HP's great fault is that they gave vision more weight than reality.
I think you hit the sentiment I wanted to express. This seems to be more of which direction HP wants to go, rather than foretelling the market as a whole.
I'm paying right now for a much faster pipe on my cable modem. Something like 768kbps up, 5 or 8mbps down. Would this (accidently?) prohibit this higher tier service?
I think this is one of the channels that I get on MobiTV for my Palm Pilot. Of course, the stream is all proprietary, I'm sure, and can't be saved anyhow through the provided app.
BTW... TV channels on Palm hand-helds over Wi-Fi. I can't say it is useful, but it is cool.
Scratch that. I don't think you can draw a schematic and PCB would autoroute it. But someone more knowledgeable might check this and make sure.
I don't know where it comes from, but I've got something called 'pcb' that I installed on my Linux box that, as far as I am aware, meets those requirements.
Oh. Here it is:
http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/
Then they've never played I, Robot which was released in 1983. Floating view camera that you could reposition using the player 1 / player 2 buttons. Solid-fill polygons.
Well, you have to say, that an abundance of confidence isn't anything that young woman is lacking, now is she?
Because there is nothing quite like seeing you've got 20 Oracle instances at 1gb each on a 4gb box. :)
Too bad my mod points are gone. This was the game at the top of my list. I've played MOO2 so many times off-and-on over the years. It just has tons of reply value. I just wish there were even small updates available for the game. (It is more fun when you don't know what the Space Amoeba or Dragon is going to do.)
Regarding someone else's reply, MOO I vs MOO II, I think I'm more MOO II. It just seems more refined, IMHO. And of course, MOO3? WTF were they thinking??!?
CPUs with six or eight cores, with four threads per core. Sun says their new CoolThreads Servers offer significant power, cooling, and space savings.
I believe the servers are too new for anyone to have a solid opinion about, but I know Sun has been actively moving in this direction for a while.
I have a hard time re-engaging my brain to read story titles as black text. It requires a fairly substantial context switch. In the interest of a unified theme, is it possible to change the black on gray story boxes to white on green? That'll tell my brain "these are stories" and makes it easier for my eyes to scan them.
I went to that page. I saw some strange icons under 'customize stories' that I was trying to figure out. So I clicked on "Learn more about your options for controlling the amount of content on your index page." Guess where that took me? Back to the home page. Seems there is a bad link there.
I'd use the Bugs feature to report, but I forgot my SourceForge ID/password.
I don't see Taco's explanation in the story. If it is in the discussion down below, I'll probably never find it. But by the looks of things, it is a teaser for new front page articles that only recently hit one of the sub-sections. These subsection only articles aren't normally visible on the front page, so it is kind of a 'page 2' advertisement? [shrug]
I didn't know that Cliff was black. How cool is that?
In any case, I don't think classic racism is a major issue in IT. Mind you, people lower in the trenches don't seem to like people from India. And I've seen management pay foreign workers (working in the US) less than domestic workers. But the classic black/white/indian/whatever thing isn't there.
And I really don't consider accents to be a cover for racism. Understandability [both English comprehension and accent] is very important to me, as I work from home, and 100% of the people I talk to are over the phone or electronic text.
I haven't seen classic racism in IT ever. Not to say there isn't a new type going on, or something more covert that I've missed.
Google should charge BellSouth a large amount of money for premium access to Google's networks. BellSouth's customers will benefit by high bandwidth/fast response times to one of the most popular destinations on the web.
BellSouth has the fees backwards. THEY should be the ones paying!
Already answered, apparently!
I think most anyone who works in the money part of OSTG would admit right up front where my loyalties lie on Slashdot. Hell maybe I should get marketing or sales to write the article explainign all the times I've put the needs of the community ahead of the business needs. I value this site and the needs of the readers above all else, because I believe it makes long term sense to put those needs first.
I choose to write Slashdot as if I'm writing to my friends. Always have. My friends know certain things about encryption or microprocessors. And I think that a large reason slashdot succeeds is because many people have that shared base level of knowledge. Change that now is one of those things that I think change Slashdot on a molecular level.
I see a very interesting part of your decision, which I like. Stick with the story for a minute just to understand.
My brother worked at a technical school as an instructor. For years they really concentrated on teaching the material, first and foremost. The education (and the quality of the school... flunking the idiots) was first and foremost. Then their parent company got bought out by a megaschool. One that concentrated heavily on profitability. The change at the teacher/student level was obvious. The place turned into a body shop (passing people through the system being more important than making sure they're educated). Quality of learning went down for the students, and the reputation of the school declined. They were starting to graduate morons, for the first time.
In the same vein, you've made the opposite decision. Rather than chase down profits and collecting a larger number of eyeballs (which would bring down the quality of comments), you've seek to preserve what Slashdot is (or is supposed to be) at the core. Not grabbing for dollars while sacrificing your quality.
Bravo to you, if this is a conscious decision. Bravo!
I think the greatest disconnect here perhaps is that I see Slashdot as something bigger and greater than you see it as. I see Slashdot as an important site that really matters to the tech community. Actually somewhat prestigious. I would want the editor to try to care about too vs to. (I mean, as an editor, you gotta go at least for the low hanging fruit.) Now I understand that spelling/grammar isn't a top priority, but the feel I got from your post was that it was of low value. I really wish it was of more value to you, because your site is of value to me.
As far as the rest of the stuff, like the cleanup on articles, it all sounds like good common sense stuff. You really should put that on the Submit Story page if it is not already there.
In fact, if you wanted to save yourself time, you could add checkboxes (default: unchecked) with the things you are looking for users to do, and have them check them off before submitting (to at least confirm they've read it). The small individual items you mentioned, like lead in, length, anchoring, etc. That part is my opinion, and I can understand it being controversial.
So I guess what I wanted to say is, thanks for the insight on the story massaging process. +5, Informative. I just wish our expectations matches as far as some of the importance of grammar/spelling. (Given, you're right about complainers.)
BTW... do you like adding in your own words, or would you rather we submit larger text with our stories and let you trim?
Why did you leave MCI just before its acquisition by Verizon was completed? What do you see the future holding for Verizon?
Battlestar Galactica is also high definition. I also watch it on the Universal HD channel from time to time it all of its goodness. Its what got me hooked on the series.
Agree with radio buttons for rejections. Put in a disclaimer, "don't whine about rejections. due to mass numbers, we don't have the time to respond to them, blah blah...". Hitting a radio button for rejection is just as easy as rejecting a story. Use a blanket statement about rejections to curtail feedback before it happens.
Or give it a default timeout and a "rejected: no reason given" for those you don't respond to, so that some people can at least get some value when you do give feedback.
I think I better understand what you mean about the link farming. The user's PERSONAL url that is associated with their username at the beginning of the story? If you're concerned about that then...
If you are concerned about the 'reward' you are giving having a negative impact (link farming):
Then the 'reward' should be the link only and with a nofollow, by default, for all users. However, a manual override could be in place if the user's actual URL has something to do with the story. Isn't that really what you're concerned about, search engine pollution? If I submit a story about chickens, you're doing a disservice by linking my personal home page URL to that subject matter. (And the indirect reward of a link to my homepage into a search engine's calculations really isn't that much of a reward to an average user. To someone manipulating search engines, it may be.)
If you are not concerned about the 'reward' you are giving being a negative impact (link farming / search engines):
Then really, you don't care if they're link farming or not or you're associating a story about chickens with an unrelated user's web page.
This is news for nerds, not news for English grammar nazis. Or, better yet, make that "English grammer nazi's". I never thought that perfect grammar was a Slash requirement. Good spelling? Yes.
This deserves a "mee too" post. 100% agree with this. Feeding things into a black hole isn't fun and doesn't allow me to refine very well. Let me know WHY you rejected a story.