I disagree ENTIRELY. If a post is directed at challenging a slashdot editor's statements, as many are, then it is most definitely ON TOPIC. For example, I posted a comment about a month ago, directed against michael. The story was about a Microsoft security flaw; in his post, michael commented that the flaw was a WINDOWS security flaw, when in actuality, it was a flaw in the recent versions of IE. A valid argument, without question, that sat very nicely at +4 Interesting or Insightful for about 30 minutes. Then, suddenly, michael posted a reply to my comment. The rating on my post IMMEDIATELY dropped 3 full points to +1 Troll or something like it. Eventually, the REAL moderators sent some leverage my way and put me back up to +3 or +4. In this situation, the fact that michael's reply was so closely followed by a rash of negative moderation can hardly be called a simple coincidence. The guy doesn't like to be called out on ANYTHING that he says, and he showed it that day.
My question to you is this...knowing that my complaint was VERY RELEVANT to the posted story, where else would you suggest that i post it?
That's fucking pure genius. Seriously. Everyone knows that the best way to enact change is to lay low and keep your mouth shut. Works every time, without question.
Complaints, for the most part, should NEVER be modded down or otherwise edited, as long as they are relevant and supported by hard facts, and those who have made a valuable contribution to this "community" should be given a chance to make those complaints heard (via the +2 posting privilege), because that is exactly what Slashdot supposedly stands for - free speech and freedom of information. That's been the central theme of this site for a few years now, and will surely continue in that vein for some time.
And while it might sound like whining, and while you might think that it's uncalled for because we aren't in charge around here, please keep in mind that Slashdot has always promoted itself as a free and open forum to be used freely and openly by anyone with an opinion. If they can't stick to that model, then they need to stop promoting themselves as such. Slashdot IS run by a bunch of hypocritical ingrates who are only concerned with being "in charge." In reality, they care very little about what their audience thinks; this fact should be made known to everyone who frequents this site under the guise that they are going to be heard.
Now if you are so spineless as to turn your head to this - or even worse, defend slashdot - you don't deserve to even have a voice.
You wait and see how quickly those fuckers "retract" that little blurb by making the whole thread mysteriously disappear. This has been going on for ages...it seems that the authors have been fairly lucky for the most part, as they've only had to cover up those nasty "unwanted" posts on very few occasions.
...It's called a hard drive. They're REALLY cheap these days, and they have INCREDIBLY FAST seek times. Oh, and they can be written to and read from without any additional software. Oh, and they're compatible with ANY operating system.
Seriously, though...these things are still WAY too expensive to justify buying one, unless you're one of those guys making a six-figure salary who buys everything, no matter the cost. Then again, i guess they have to go through this phase before they're going to bring the price down anyway, so whatever. But for now, I'll take a bunch of hard drives over a DVD-RW or DVD+RW any day.
did you just make that up? Nothing on the site indicates that the box has WiFi built in. It mentions a 10/100 ethernet card, but i would imagine that it's only for VERY occasional file transfers, involving removal of the box.
what good would a firewire card do? The cube is supposed to be a pure GAMING machine, not another attempt at PC/console convergence. A firewire card would have added to the bulk and cost of the machine, which is very much against Nintendo's wishes for this system.
And regardless of whether or not adding firewire would have been easy for nintendo, it would be an attempt at catering to the hacker set - which Nintendo is NOT about to do anytime soon. Nintendo enjoys the fact that its machines are practically unhackable and its games are very well protected against copying (PC emulation excluded). And i can't say that i blame them.
because the 8500 is a better value, quite simply. The drivers are still immature, which leaves the possibility of really great improvements in the near future. I would rather pay the extra 20 or 30 bucks for the Radeon, rather than buy an underclocked GeForce 3 that is nearing the end of its development.
did anybody catch anything on either site that explains how the realtime weather information got in there? There's no mention of a mobile data link, other than GPS. Is GPS capable of relaying this type of information?
isn't this about the tenth slashdot article in the past month that focuses on the gamecube's innards? Is anyone REALLY so interested in it that he or she would look at the same content this many times? How about something more original, taco?
A card that's Good Enough(TM) for non-gamers (like me) is now incredibly inexpensive.
Was that a typo? Because there are plenty of "Good Enough" cards flying around for well under $100 these days. There are actually some really nice ones, like the GeForce MX lineup...they range from $70-$100, and they're quite capable.
Hopefully NVidia will wise up and drop the price on the GeForce 3 line...at a little over $200 (OEM), I can get two 8500's for the price of a single GeForce3 Ti500. And the difference is SO negligible. Since my idea of "practical uses for a video card" is not "watching 3DMark 2001 run all day", I think i can give up that unperceivable 10 FPS without any guilt.
My biggest problem with modern science (physics and astrophysics in particular) is this truly inane method of making "conjectural" observations...that is, assuming that and unobservable activity has been proven simply because something observable has occurred. It's an antiquated way of doing things, and it seems totally backwards. This is a good example...all this time, physicists have assumed that "dark matter" - the matter that provides a great deal of the gravitational force that holds the universe together - is "invisible" or "unobservable" or in some extreme cases "existing in a separate yet intertwined reality". Doesn't it make a LOT more sense to think that dark matter is just the stuff floating around that doesn't have any light bouncing off of it? What, just because we can't see it with our super-expensive orbiting telescopes means that it's invisible? I can COMPLETELY believe the idea that dark matter is just regular matter that isn't being illuminated or is not emitting enough radiation for us to detect! But it seems that this, the most obvious explanation, is the last one that physicists want to believe.
I really think it's past time for these researchers to change the way they think about the universe. Stop making it so difficult on yourselves. There really CAN be very simple explanations to difficult problems. And sometimes - sorry to tell you this - you're not going to be able to determine EVERYTHING that you want to figure out. That's the way the universe works. Give it time - a LOT of time. Don't come up with unprovable theories to explain irrational phenomena. LET THEM REMAIN UNEXPLAINED UNTIL WE ARE BETTER ABLE TO OBSERVE THEM.
The article cited a source with a MAJOR financial analyst who stated that a MASSIVE order for parts has been placed. This is not exactly what i would call "unsubstantiated."
Cynicism has its place and appropriate context, but unfortunately for you, this is not it. Sorry to disappoint.
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it's good to see Intel's primary competition coming up with innovations like these. Continued development on the part of AMD is really the key to keeping Intel from dominating the entire market.
You're right about one thing...marketing will definitely expand the number of hits you'll get, but all the advertising in the world couldn't help a truly obscure site. Take the two that the original submitter gave as examples...one was a slashdot-style discussion board centered around topics like Wicca. They could put ads for that site on Yahoo's home page, and it STILL wouldn't be a good site. Sure, they would get a great deal of one-time hits, but how many of those people would actually go back? A few, to be sure - but still, the material presented is doomed to being obscure. The other site, while a bit more amusing, is poorly fashioned and would appeal to a fairly narrow audience (not as narrow as the first site, but still narrow)...and the poster even said that it was rarely updated - another way to seal your site's fate.
To summarize, I agree with you that marketing your site is key to pulling in the traffic. But it's REPEAT TRAFFIC that makes your site popular. People have to WANT to return to your site, and it takes ORIGINALITY, CREATIVITY, and FLAIR to put your content in demand. All the marketing in the world can't do that for you.
And another thing...never discount word of mouth. You've never seen a banner ad linking to slashdot, have you?
If it's traffic that you want, try submitting a fairly inane "ask slashdot" question, and make sure to include plenty of links to the sites that you're trying to promote. For good measure, try throwing in a link to a Wired article.
What's this? It seems you've beaten me to the punch.
Seriously, though...can anyone else see that this is a fairly desperate attempt at driving traffic to two VERY obscure websites?
sites and communities fall into obscurity for one of two reasons:
a: They're way to limited in their scope, thereby alienating a large potential audience; or
b: They lack any interesting or original content, and thus don't attract any new members/users.
A lot of webmins are quick to blame the audience for their lack of ingenuity or creativity. Remember - if it's not very interesting, who is going to be interested? Furthermore, if it's not very original, then most people will gather around something that is.
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Submitting it will only annoy the editors. Instead, everyone should add this link to their .sig:
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http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=display&id=28
Make sure to add a little comment indicating the topic of this discussion. That ought to attract a little attention.
I disagree ENTIRELY. If a post is directed at challenging a slashdot editor's statements, as many are, then it is most definitely ON TOPIC. For example, I posted a comment about a month ago, directed against michael. The story was about a Microsoft security flaw; in his post, michael commented that the flaw was a WINDOWS security flaw, when in actuality, it was a flaw in the recent versions of IE. A valid argument, without question, that sat very nicely at +4 Interesting or Insightful for about 30 minutes. Then, suddenly, michael posted a reply to my comment. The rating on my post IMMEDIATELY dropped 3 full points to +1 Troll or something like it. Eventually, the REAL moderators sent some leverage my way and put me back up to +3 or +4. In this situation, the fact that michael's reply was so closely followed by a rash of negative moderation can hardly be called a simple coincidence. The guy doesn't like to be called out on ANYTHING that he says, and he showed it that day.
My question to you is this...knowing that my complaint was VERY RELEVANT to the posted story, where else would you suggest that i post it?
That's fucking pure genius. Seriously. Everyone knows that the best way to enact change is to lay low and keep your mouth shut. Works every time, without question.
Complaints, for the most part, should NEVER be modded down or otherwise edited, as long as they are relevant and supported by hard facts, and those who have made a valuable contribution to this "community" should be given a chance to make those complaints heard (via the +2 posting privilege), because that is exactly what Slashdot supposedly stands for - free speech and freedom of information. That's been the central theme of this site for a few years now, and will surely continue in that vein for some time.
And while it might sound like whining, and while you might think that it's uncalled for because we aren't in charge around here, please keep in mind that Slashdot has always promoted itself as a free and open forum to be used freely and openly by anyone with an opinion. If they can't stick to that model, then they need to stop promoting themselves as such. Slashdot IS run by a bunch of hypocritical ingrates who are only concerned with being "in charge." In reality, they care very little about what their audience thinks; this fact should be made known to everyone who frequents this site under the guise that they are going to be heard.
Now if you are so spineless as to turn your head to this - or even worse, defend slashdot - you don't deserve to even have a voice.
You wait and see how quickly those fuckers "retract" that little blurb by making the whole thread mysteriously disappear. This has been going on for ages...it seems that the authors have been fairly lucky for the most part, as they've only had to cover up those nasty "unwanted" posts on very few occasions.
Information wants to be free my hairy white ass.
...It's called a hard drive. They're REALLY cheap these days, and they have INCREDIBLY FAST seek times. Oh, and they can be written to and read from without any additional software. Oh, and they're compatible with ANY operating system.
Seriously, though...these things are still WAY too expensive to justify buying one, unless you're one of those guys making a six-figure salary who buys everything, no matter the cost. Then again, i guess they have to go through this phase before they're going to bring the price down anyway, so whatever. But for now, I'll take a bunch of hard drives over a DVD-RW or DVD+RW any day.
did you just make that up? Nothing on the site indicates that the box has WiFi built in. It mentions a 10/100 ethernet card, but i would imagine that it's only for VERY occasional file transfers, involving removal of the box.
what good would a firewire card do? The cube is supposed to be a pure GAMING machine, not another attempt at PC/console convergence. A firewire card would have added to the bulk and cost of the machine, which is very much against Nintendo's wishes for this system.
And regardless of whether or not adding firewire would have been easy for nintendo, it would be an attempt at catering to the hacker set - which Nintendo is NOT about to do anytime soon. Nintendo enjoys the fact that its machines are practically unhackable and its games are very well protected against copying (PC emulation excluded). And i can't say that i blame them.
because the 8500 is a better value, quite simply. The drivers are still immature, which leaves the possibility of really great improvements in the near future. I would rather pay the extra 20 or 30 bucks for the Radeon, rather than buy an underclocked GeForce 3 that is nearing the end of its development.
did anybody catch anything on either site that explains how the realtime weather information got in there? There's no mention of a mobile data link, other than GPS. Is GPS capable of relaying this type of information?
isn't this about the tenth slashdot article in the past month that focuses on the gamecube's innards? Is anyone REALLY so interested in it that he or she would look at the same content this many times? How about something more original, taco?
never mind...answered my own question...i need to read a LOT more carefully.
A card that's Good Enough(TM) for non-gamers (like me) is now incredibly inexpensive.
Was that a typo? Because there are plenty of "Good Enough" cards flying around for well under $100 these days. There are actually some really nice ones, like the GeForce MX lineup...they range from $70-$100, and they're quite capable.
Hopefully NVidia will wise up and drop the price on the GeForce 3 line...at a little over $200 (OEM), I can get two 8500's for the price of a single GeForce3 Ti500. And the difference is SO negligible. Since my idea of "practical uses for a video card" is not "watching 3DMark 2001 run all day", I think i can give up that unperceivable 10 FPS without any guilt.
My biggest problem with modern science (physics and astrophysics in particular) is this truly inane method of making "conjectural" observations...that is, assuming that and unobservable activity has been proven simply because something observable has occurred. It's an antiquated way of doing things, and it seems totally backwards. This is a good example...all this time, physicists have assumed that "dark matter" - the matter that provides a great deal of the gravitational force that holds the universe together - is "invisible" or "unobservable" or in some extreme cases "existing in a separate yet intertwined reality". Doesn't it make a LOT more sense to think that dark matter is just the stuff floating around that doesn't have any light bouncing off of it? What, just because we can't see it with our super-expensive orbiting telescopes means that it's invisible? I can COMPLETELY believe the idea that dark matter is just regular matter that isn't being illuminated or is not emitting enough radiation for us to detect! But it seems that this, the most obvious explanation, is the last one that physicists want to believe.
I really think it's past time for these researchers to change the way they think about the universe. Stop making it so difficult on yourselves. There really CAN be very simple explanations to difficult problems. And sometimes - sorry to tell you this - you're not going to be able to determine EVERYTHING that you want to figure out. That's the way the universe works. Give it time - a LOT of time. Don't come up with unprovable theories to explain irrational phenomena. LET THEM REMAIN UNEXPLAINED UNTIL WE ARE BETTER ABLE TO OBSERVE THEM.
GUARD #1: Listen, in order to maintain air-speed velocity, an entomoper needs to beat its wings 43 times every second, right?
ARTHUR: Please!
GUARD #1: Am I right?
ARTHUR: I'm not interested!
GUARD #2: It could be carried by an African entomoper!
GUARD #1: Oh, yeah, an African entomoper maybe, but not a European swallow, that's my point.
Whaddya think, mr. attorney? Can we make this happen??
The article cited a source with a MAJOR financial analyst who stated that a MASSIVE order for parts has been placed. This is not exactly what i would call "unsubstantiated."
Cynicism has its place and appropriate context, but unfortunately for you, this is not it. Sorry to disappoint.
try this link.
well, no...these are MACS. No windows here.
it's good to see Intel's primary competition coming up with innovations like these. Continued development on the part of AMD is really the key to keeping Intel from dominating the entire market.
come on, man...this is Slashdot...what were you expecting, actual news? ;)
video on your cellphone be damned...
The one thing that 3G is going to do for me is FINALLY provide a decent wireless service for my PDA that i can pay for along with my cell phone.
You're right about one thing...marketing will definitely expand the number of hits you'll get, but all the advertising in the world couldn't help a truly obscure site. Take the two that the original submitter gave as examples...one was a slashdot-style discussion board centered around topics like Wicca. They could put ads for that site on Yahoo's home page, and it STILL wouldn't be a good site. Sure, they would get a great deal of one-time hits, but how many of those people would actually go back? A few, to be sure - but still, the material presented is doomed to being obscure. The other site, while a bit more amusing, is poorly fashioned and would appeal to a fairly narrow audience (not as narrow as the first site, but still narrow)...and the poster even said that it was rarely updated - another way to seal your site's fate.
To summarize, I agree with you that marketing your site is key to pulling in the traffic. But it's REPEAT TRAFFIC that makes your site popular. People have to WANT to return to your site, and it takes ORIGINALITY, CREATIVITY, and FLAIR to put your content in demand. All the marketing in the world can't do that for you.
And another thing...never discount word of mouth. You've never seen a banner ad linking to slashdot, have you?
If it's traffic that you want, try submitting a fairly inane "ask slashdot" question, and make sure to include plenty of links to the sites that you're trying to promote. For good measure, try throwing in a link to a Wired article.
What's this? It seems you've beaten me to the punch.
Seriously, though...can anyone else see that this is a fairly desperate attempt at driving traffic to two VERY obscure websites?
sites and communities fall into obscurity for one of two reasons:
a: They're way to limited in their scope, thereby alienating a large potential audience; or
b: They lack any interesting or original content, and thus don't attract any new members/users.
A lot of webmins are quick to blame the audience for their lack of ingenuity or creativity. Remember - if it's not very interesting, who is going to be interested? Furthermore, if it's not very original, then most people will gather around something that is.