It's a symptom of the general anger directed at/.'s editors for being lazy. It's evident that they don't actually read the site. They ignore patches to slashcode, they will not implement CSS, and in IRC chats they respond to all complaints with 'whatever, next'. They also arbitrarily permanently revoke moderator privileges from people who criticize them, like they were in junior high.
/. is, IMO, the same thing as Microsoft, top of the market by virtue of being there first.
You bring up a good point, which brings up another good point.
The design of X and Linux might not be the best of all possible designs, but we use them because they work, and nothing else does. For all the bitching about X's network overhead, I, for one, could not live without it.
Just because something can be done, and has 'cool' factor, does not mean it should be done. Should India, for example, launch a massive colinization effort on Mars? Probably not.
Big science costs big money, and that money comes out of the same money that pays for education, roads, defence, etc.
(I'm not arguing this project is a waste of money)
This is bullshit FUD. Does timothy think that this hasn't been thought of before? As quoted above "As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. "
Google might be getting the majority of revenue and hits from the US at the present time, but they have a very international outlook. I'm sure by the time the 'beta' tag is removed, the content will reflect that.
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Most people with T1's know this.
Did you mean 'giving a blowjob"?
Now you can get a job at your local swordmaker or apocrathy.
Idiot. Telneting into a service and typing 'help' is not 'h4x0r1ng', no matter how difficult the telnet manpage looks.
So? There's no Middle Earth either.
Yeah, I'm sure someone is going to submit stories, so they can get a +5 on an informative first post. Karma's not that hard to come by.
Oh, also the lack of a question. :-)
The design of X and Linux might not be the best of all possible designs, but we use them because they work, and nothing else does. For all the bitching about X's network overhead, I, for one, could not live without it.
Unreal Tournament. 46 kills. 0 Deaths. Power failure.
s/K\'breel/G.\ W.\ Bush/
Big science costs big money, and that money comes out of the same money that pays for education, roads, defence, etc.
(I'm not arguing this project is a waste of money)
Superfluidity is the complete absence of viscosity, something kind of hard to visualize in a solid.
Slashdot gets trolled, again. Lame.
It's trivial.
Talk of ad models implies something other than p2p. It's person to person, and people will choose the model without ads. Kazza Lite, anyone?