Everything else in the solar system is 'affected to a lethal degree,' and you would essentially be attempting to overcome this... There's no plant life, there're no sure sources of long-term general-purpose fuel, there's lethal quantities of radiation, and none of these places have the biodiversity to support human life through another "development," nor the means to obtain and support such biodiversity in the near future...
Perhaps you should stop taking your science lessons from fiction...
Those people should clearly be developing software...
Much of Microsoft's extensions were good... They developed things that were useful and offered better performance... I could make the choice of using these (and making Java useful to me) or not (leaving it fairly useless for 90% of client tasks)...
Which "IE API" would that be? Do you even know how COM interfaces work? And what the fuck does any of this have to do with that idiot talking about removing GNU software? Good job, Lord Zealot...
Yup, let's remove binutils from your linux environments... We should probably remove libc, too... There's nothing worse than non-essential code floating around...
It's the overwhelmingly funny responses by stupid people that my dozens of accounts accumulate that keeps me coming to Slashdot... I've been reading Slashdot forever, have an account with a low uid, and even saw the site before Rob opened it publicly... But does that interest me? No, Slashdot is stupid, Rob is a wanker, and their site's only purpose for me is amusement... Amusement people such as yourself provide for me, because you're so insecure you feel the need to respond to each and every one of my words... It's even more amusing when the person is absolutely incapable of reading, very much reasoning... Thanks for the much needed humor!
ROFL, it sure is a shame all of my good trolls are beyond what you can find...
Don't worry thinking isn't a challenge forever... Eventually you too will be a literate and cognatively advanced enough to understand my textual expressions...
Ahh, sweet junkbuster... How I love you... Have fun looking at ads and paying for Slashdot...
Invested in some reading glasses... I will do precisely what I say, junk buster the ads, not subscribe, and provide value through my contributions (posts, submissions)...
If you think that's hypocritical, give me your address and I'll have Amazon send you a dictionary...
I don't care that they have subscriptions or banner ads... In fact, that's great, let them have them... My point was entirely that it's not embodying all evil to filter out Slashdot's ads... I said why I do not find sufficient value in Slashdot to look at ads or to subscribe... If Slashdot starts making its own content, then perhaps I'll find enough value in it to subscribe myself... However there're many people that have made comments to the effect that "If you use junkbuster you will destroy Slashdot and that makes you evil!" I didn't destroy Slashdot, its controllers did by trying to extend it into something it's not, without having any idea how to do that... Slashdot could have _always_ had an optional subscription system, and if Slashdot wanted to _provide_ something, people would have given them money when it wasn't as desperate a situation... But clearly none of the people that run Slashdot think they have any reason to try and earn a living... They want to make Slash open source, put it on a few computers, and let us sit here and argue them to wealth...
Did your mommy help you find adequacy? Maybe she should have explained to you that it doesn't even try to be a news source, so how you decide it's similar to Slashdot is amazing... Perhaps what you really mean is Kuro5hin, but perhaps the language-equipped members of your clique have yet to introduce you to all of the hackneyed slash clones...
How incredibly insightful... Your assertion is that because Slashdot is not worth paying for directly, or viewing obnoxious ad content, that it is wholely without value... Methinks you should exercise whatever level reading capabilities you obtained in your educational persuits to note that I stated Slashdot has little added value, not none... This value is sufficient for me to exchange my value (story submission, posts) from which they will generate revenue from those people that value Slashdot enough to pay directly or offer ads...
Let me know when the moderators take their Slashdot fan-boy hats off and correct the score of your post... Truly amazing...
The capitalist idea works when Slashdot provides sufficient value that I am willing to exchange value in return... There is nothing illegal about filtering out ads (and if it were, that wouldn't matter) and this is factored in the value that advertisers are willing to exchange for having their ads delivered to viewers... By engaging in discussion, I am providing Slashdot with value (in exchange for what little value it has to offer me). My posts contribute to ad hits by people willing to observe such obnoxious things, and now contribute to what some are willing to pay money directly for...
Whether or not my value is sufficient to run Slashdot, or all of VA's failed businesses isn't overly important to me... Either it won't be and there will come a time when they stop providing their services to me, or it will remain the same...
It's not as simple as going to the store and buying a pair of shoes, my presence here generates (at least in theory) income. I am not freeloading when I submit article suggestions or when I write posts that people view or respond to... I will not be clubbed morally for taking reasonable measures to decide what value Slashdot has to me...
If you want to look at ads be my guest, but if you think I'll have moral qualms with neutering their obnoxious and ineffective business strategy, you're mistaken... If I had a TiVo or a ReplayTV, I'd neuter those, too... Advertising has become absolutely absurd on the 'net, to the point where every site pops up twenty pages that pop up another twenty pages, each using images of Windows dialogs in hopes of confusing the user into clicking them... Wtf?
If Slashdot wants to go all-subscription and thinks that's going to work, I hope you enjoy using it along with the other 40 people... I'm sorry, but Slashdot made the mistake of trying to move from a community-commented Chips and Dips to a business with no viable strategy for making wealth... They have almost zero value-added repackaging of other peoples' content... With the exception of movie/book reviews (which I find banal), Katz (who everyone despises), and these forums (dime a dozen) Slashdot is nothing more than links to various other news sources that provide their services for free... I'm sorry, but I have no desire to give Slashdot even a penny for the service of slashdotting, without permission, Doug's Shootout... Or to allow them to profit off of organizations like Reuters that actually pay employees to go out and write articles in exchange for money...
Rob Malda got to get in on that destroy-the-pentions-of-the-near-elderly dotbomb explosion, and I'm supposed to continue to pay for his life in exchange for the right to make no editorial decisions, sift through 9000 pages of trolls, and see articles I've already read because I'm not so lazy as to rely on Rob Malda to provide the world's news to me? No thanks. When Slashdot contains as much unique content as a real magazine, I'll consider looking at its obnoxious ads, or pay it $20 a year...
No, what people do is use the forums as a place to constantly bitch and whine about subjective content decisions... People mark them troll or off topic, and then they have the balls to whine about being moderated unfairly... We are not the editors of these articles, and if you have a content problem, you really need to take it up with the editors... There are dozens of these "wahh wahh this isn't news for nerds" posts in this thread, and for each further article posted there'll be the same... If you do _not_ like the article, ignore it, or take your case to people that can make a difference (the editors)... In my opinion Taco should add "is this news" type posts to his automatic -1 threadslapper and dekharma all of these people that think their opinion of the quality of case modding articles is insightful...
Amusing case mods like this are far more nerdy than 90% of the banter that finds its way on the front page of Slashdot... Really what they should do is make a category for it, so pretentious people can simply filter it out...
Good job with that hackneyed response... Really, for anything someone does, there's always someone that stands up and asks why they do it, or why they shouldn't, etc... Seriously, just spare the rest of us this inane banter in the future...
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Everything else in the solar system is 'affected to a lethal degree,' and you would essentially be attempting to overcome this... There's no plant life, there're no sure sources of long-term general-purpose fuel, there's lethal quantities of radiation, and none of these places have the biodiversity to support human life through another "development," nor the means to obtain and support such biodiversity in the near future...
Perhaps you should stop taking your science lessons from fiction...
Yup, let's all live on Mars where it's lush, there exists eternal peace, and natural disasters are unheard of...
Those people should clearly be developing software...
Much of Microsoft's extensions were good... They developed things that were useful and offered better performance... I could make the choice of using these (and making Java useful to me) or not (leaving it fairly useless for 90% of client tasks)...
Yup, Microsoft should steer their customers to use non-MS technologies...
Conform to our Java or else!
Ok, Java can fuck itself.
No! You will ship Java!
No, you will fuck yourself.
We'll make the Government make you!
Welcome to the People's State of Sun Microsystems, all your copper are belong to us.
Which "IE API" would that be? Do you even know how COM interfaces work? And what the fuck does any of this have to do with that idiot talking about removing GNU software? Good job, Lord Zealot...
> Because intelligent consumers know they do better when competition is healthy.
Perhaps we should hear from an intelligent consumer, as I'm truly unconvinced by you...
Yup, let's remove binutils from your linux environments... We should probably remove libc, too... There's nothing worse than non-essential code floating around...
ROFL
Nahh, that whole Open Source thing is just too hackneyed a troll topic for today...
It's the overwhelmingly funny responses by stupid people that my dozens of accounts accumulate that keeps me coming to Slashdot... I've been reading Slashdot forever, have an account with a low uid, and even saw the site before Rob opened it publicly... But does that interest me? No, Slashdot is stupid, Rob is a wanker, and their site's only purpose for me is amusement... Amusement people such as yourself provide for me, because you're so insecure you feel the need to respond to each and every one of my words... It's even more amusing when the person is absolutely incapable of reading, very much reasoning... Thanks for the much needed humor!
You never cease to amaze me with your ability to be so incredibly naive as to find the obvious to be an insightful observation...
ROFL, it sure is a shame all of my good trolls are beyond what you can find...
Don't worry thinking isn't a challenge forever... Eventually you too will be a literate and cognatively advanced enough to understand my textual expressions...
Ahh, sweet junkbuster... How I love you... Have fun looking at ads and paying for Slashdot...
Invested in some reading glasses...
I will do precisely what I say, junk buster the ads, not subscribe, and provide value through my contributions (posts, submissions)...
If you think that's hypocritical, give me your address and I'll have Amazon send you a dictionary...
I don't care that they have subscriptions or banner ads... In fact, that's great, let them have them... My point was entirely that it's not embodying all evil to filter out Slashdot's ads... I said why I do not find sufficient value in Slashdot to look at ads or to subscribe...
If Slashdot starts making its own content, then perhaps I'll find enough value in it to subscribe myself...
However there're many people that have made comments to the effect that "If you use junkbuster you will destroy Slashdot and that makes you evil!" I didn't destroy Slashdot, its controllers did by trying to extend it into something it's not, without having any idea how to do that... Slashdot could have _always_ had an optional subscription system, and if Slashdot wanted to _provide_ something, people would have given them money when it wasn't as desperate a situation... But clearly none of the people that run Slashdot think they have any reason to try and earn a living... They want to make Slash open source, put it on a few computers, and let us sit here and argue them to wealth...
You're right, look how you just failed... I'm sorry for you...
Did your mommy help you find adequacy? Maybe she should have explained to you that it doesn't even try to be a news source, so how you decide it's similar to Slashdot is amazing... Perhaps what you really mean is Kuro5hin, but perhaps the language-equipped members of your clique have yet to introduce you to all of the hackneyed slash clones...
How incredibly insightful... Your assertion is that because Slashdot is not worth paying for directly, or viewing obnoxious ad content, that it is wholely without value... Methinks you should exercise whatever level reading capabilities you obtained in your educational persuits to note that I stated Slashdot has little added value, not none... This value is sufficient for me to exchange my value (story submission, posts) from which they will generate revenue from those people that value Slashdot enough to pay directly or offer ads... Let me know when the moderators take their Slashdot fan-boy hats off and correct the score of your post... Truly amazing...
The capitalist idea works when Slashdot provides sufficient value that I am willing to exchange value in return... There is nothing illegal about filtering out ads (and if it were, that wouldn't matter) and this is factored in the value that advertisers are willing to exchange for having their ads delivered to viewers... By engaging in discussion, I am providing Slashdot with value (in exchange for what little value it has to offer me). My posts contribute to ad hits by people willing to observe such obnoxious things, and now contribute to what some are willing to pay money directly for...
Whether or not my value is sufficient to run Slashdot, or all of VA's failed businesses isn't overly important to me... Either it won't be and there will come a time when they stop providing their services to me, or it will remain the same...
It's not as simple as going to the store and buying a pair of shoes, my presence here generates (at least in theory) income. I am not freeloading when I submit article suggestions or when I write posts that people view or respond to... I will not be clubbed morally for taking reasonable measures to decide what value Slashdot has to me...
If you want to look at ads be my guest, but if you think I'll have moral qualms with neutering their obnoxious and ineffective business strategy, you're mistaken... If I had a TiVo or a ReplayTV, I'd neuter those, too...
Advertising has become absolutely absurd on the 'net, to the point where every site pops up twenty pages that pop up another twenty pages, each using images of Windows dialogs in hopes of confusing the user into clicking them... Wtf?
If Slashdot wants to go all-subscription and thinks that's going to work, I hope you enjoy using it along with the other 40 people... I'm sorry, but Slashdot made the mistake of trying to move from a community-commented Chips and Dips to a business with no viable strategy for making wealth... They have almost zero value-added repackaging of other peoples' content... With the exception of movie/book reviews (which I find banal), Katz (who everyone despises), and these forums (dime a dozen) Slashdot is nothing more than links to various other news sources that provide their services for free... I'm sorry, but I have no desire to give Slashdot even a penny for the service of slashdotting, without permission, Doug's Shootout... Or to allow them to profit off of organizations like Reuters that actually pay employees to go out and write articles in exchange for money...
Rob Malda got to get in on that destroy-the-pentions-of-the-near-elderly dotbomb explosion, and I'm supposed to continue to pay for his life in exchange for the right to make no editorial decisions, sift through 9000 pages of trolls, and see articles I've already read because I'm not so lazy as to rely on Rob Malda to provide the world's news to me? No thanks. When Slashdot contains as much unique content as a real magazine, I'll consider looking at its obnoxious ads, or pay it $20 a year...
No, what people do is use the forums as a place to constantly bitch and whine about subjective content decisions... People mark them troll or off topic, and then they have the balls to whine about being moderated unfairly... We are not the editors of these articles, and if you have a content problem, you really need to take it up with the editors... There are dozens of these "wahh wahh this isn't news for nerds" posts in this thread, and for each further article posted there'll be the same... If you do _not_ like the article, ignore it, or take your case to people that can make a difference (the editors)... In my opinion Taco should add "is this news" type posts to his automatic -1 threadslapper and dekharma all of these people that think their opinion of the quality of case modding articles is insightful...
How about instead of 3-4k posts of "This doesn't belong here" on _every_ single article, you people simply send your complaints to the editors?
Amusing case mods like this are far more nerdy than 90% of the banter that finds its way on the front page of Slashdot... Really what they should do is make a category for it, so pretentious people can simply filter it out...
Good job with that hackneyed response... Really, for anything someone does, there's always someone that stands up and asks why they do it, or why they shouldn't, etc... Seriously, just spare the rest of us this inane banter in the future...
They don't call them trolls because the content of their posts are rational, factual, or even interesting to people with three-digit IQs.
Nice troll... Shifting to Java! Excellent troll, my lad, excellent...