So what's next then?....Write your emails in outlook, then print them and mail them in an envelope, all the benefits of outlook with the added security of Physical Delivery (tm)*(new improved feature, Microsoft patent pending).
There are endless free sites out there offering software downloads, with the popular ones requiring far more bandwidth than for slashdot's html & gif content.
They don't complain about their bandwith costs - they just set up a voluntary network of mirror sites. This would be the solution if the reason for asking for subscriptions was bandwith costs, or is this really the reason???
I personally feel that slashdot is a virtual meeting point for the slashdot users. All the usefull content is provided by the users in the form of recommendations to news stories elswhere. I don't thing this is something that should be subscription based in any form.
I think that there has been irreversible damage done even by the announcement itself, and that users will leave, even if little changes on the site in general. I don't know of a direct alternative to slashdot.org for focusing my attention to news relevant to me, but I'm sure that alternatives are at this very moment being planned (the code to create these sites is freely available). All it requires is that the next generation takes into account the possible bandwidth demands that may arise, and have plans for spreading the load amongst other friendly (and free) mirrors.
Be careful of the French.
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Yes, thanks for the reminder -- they can be devious and underhanded and take advantage of you when you're at your most vunerable;)
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Surely they'll land occasionally, to give the pilot a toilet break at the very least??
A proper scale? Shouldn't it be in Kalvin then?
Shouldn't it be in Kleins?
.....Wanna Kill all Humans?
The name is obviously a contraction of "Uranium" and "Shite", seeing as this is the actual end product?
.....We don't need no stinkin' invitation!!
...and the past is a read-only backup!
"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that."
-- Homer Simpson
So what's next then? ....Write your emails in outlook, then print them and mail them in an envelope, all the benefits of outlook with the added security of Physical Delivery (tm)*(new improved feature, Microsoft patent pending).
There are endless free sites out there offering software downloads, with the popular ones requiring far more bandwidth than for slashdot's html & gif content.
They don't complain about their bandwith costs - they just set up a voluntary network of mirror sites. This would be the solution if the reason for asking for subscriptions was bandwith costs, or is this really the reason???
I personally feel that slashdot is a virtual meeting point for the slashdot users. All the usefull content is provided by the users in the form of recommendations to news stories elswhere. I don't thing this is something that should be subscription based in any form.
I think that there has been irreversible damage done even by the announcement itself, and that users will leave, even if little changes on the site in general. I don't know of a direct alternative to slashdot.org for focusing my attention to news relevant to me, but I'm sure that alternatives are at this very moment being planned (the code to create these sites is freely available). All it requires is that the next generation takes into account the possible bandwidth demands that may arise, and have plans for spreading the load amongst other friendly (and free) mirrors.
Yes, thanks for the reminder -- they can be devious and underhanded and take advantage of you when you're at your most vunerable ;)