Good gravy! I wasted my time reading the replies to this story until I read your (my parent's) post. It's just Roland whoring out his blog again. I'm sorry, but link back or not, he's still a hit-grubbing whore.
I understand user tags are basically emasculated now -- tags no longer have any balls.
So, SCREW the system! Tag it 'ohnoitsroland' to show the eds how tired you are of Roland's drivel intended to whore out his pay-for-click blogs. And thank you.
This Roland gem has a direct link back to his ZDnet blog, so the usual argument that this isn't link whoring doesn't apply. Unfortunately, the/. editors didn't redact this time....
Please join me in tagging this article as 'ohnoitsroland' -- thank you.
"Doofus" is 5th declension masculine. Like virus. Singular: doofus; plural: doofus.
(This has been an attempted Latin joke. If this had been an actual joke, it would have been followed by laughter and muted applause. This concludes this attempted Latin joke.)
it's not 256 megabyte, but 256 millibit. Good news, everyone! When Vista is ported to the first quantum computer, it'll use every available 1/4 th of an electron!
(Or, "In Soviet Union, first quantum computer ports you!")
Oblig: Please tag as 'ohnoitsroland' -- thank you.
Ronald Piquepaille has mended his ways. The story links straight to the relevant article and not to his blog. Are you sure? I haven't been checking the Firehose lately. When I did last week, Roland was submitting articles with self-referring blog links.
You see, it's the Slashdot editors we should be thanking, not Roland in the least. They have (at least twice recently) redacted his go-back-to-my-blog-and-run-up-my-hits self linkage. Thank you, editors!
I'm not a free-love/free-gumbo/free-everything person. I'm pro-capitalism (sure to get modded down;) and lean fairly well to the right (now I *am* a dead man;D). But I would mind if someone working for IBM regularly submitted articles that advertised their products or services. Would you, or not? My understading is that/. was started as a community site, not an advertising site.
If I understand your point (please correct me if I'm wrong), it's, "If Roland submits interesting articles, who cares if he gets paid (or a kick-back) by getting them posted? It's a win-win." I think that's a valid point, but I'd counter it by saying that there's a fine line between submitting interesting articles for the community, and submitting articles because you'll get something in return if they're accepted. This is where it gets sticky.
Of course, the/. veterans have coined a phrase for this: link whoring. You might want to read what others have to say about this practice. From what I can find via the all-knowing Google, not everyone sees this as an objectionable practice. I do, and I guess that's just my opinion.
I can only speak for myself, of course. That being said....
I think what people have objected to is that his posts amount to an ad for his blog sites, from which he earns revenue through clicks/views. If his stories were identical but weren't implicit advertisements, I doubt there would be any gripes.
What if someone working for IBM or Penguin Computing or NewEgg submitted stories (accepted by/.) which were clearly advertising their products or services? They'd be getting free advertising from the/. editors. Well, Roland is working for himself (or perhaps ZDnet now?), and his posts (directly or indirectly) advertise his service, a ZDnet blog (used to be a private blog site, I believe). The last remaining questions are:
1.) Does Roland now receive income from ZDnet, or from the entities which advertise on his ZDnet blog page? 2.) If the/. editors continue to remove his self-referring linkage from his submissions, does this resolve the "free advertising" issue?
Further, this story has only one single link: To the institutes press release. I was very interested to see only one link in this story when posted. I saw the story last night in Firehose as submitted by Roland. It included two links, the second of which pointed back to his own blog. Because of that, I voted it down.
Comments on the last Roland story commended him for not including a link back to his blog, which includes ads. As posted, this story doesn't have such a link either, but not because Roland didn't try his hardest.... I'm glad that Slashdot editors redacted his link-whoring.
If you're as tired of these (indirectly) revenue generating pieces as I am, please join me and tag them as "ohnoitsroland" -- I'm doing that to all of his submissions now.
I've only donated to public radio for vanity promotional statements since they received the
$200 million Kroc bequest
to their endowment fund. I'm not a finance expert, but at some point their costs should be
completely covered by their endowment annuities. So many charities are in much greater need.
I believe you're right. I probably should've said, more accurately, "region of bodies found outside of the orbit of Neptune" without talking about inside or outside the solar system:-)
I was really dense in reading your post at first. I think I understand your question now, but please let me know if I've got it wrong.
This is a possible source of some (few) comets (if I understand correctly). I don't believe there's any assertion that all comets come from this collision. The main object is mostly rocky, but they say the trailing small ones are icy. It's possible that some of these smaller bodies may have been perturbed from their orbits and fallen into the inner solar system as comets.
What's really at issue here is the right to publish anonymously vs. the right to remain anonymous. The former exists, the latter does not. It seems to me that their conclusion is, logically, the wrong way around. IMHO, we all have the right to remain anonymous. However, if we want to publish we may give up that right. Publishing is totally different from being an anonymous source of information, quoted in a publication.
Wow, surely I'm not the only one who remembers the syntax/nomenclature.... Existing file is file.txt;1. Edit it -->
$ edit/edt file.txt
Save and exit and, voila, you have file.txt;2. Original is version 1, new is version 2. Gets really annoying when you've futzed around with a PROG.FOR source code file a lot because you're brain-dead. I wrote a DCL script called something like CLEANUP.COM to get rid of all those hundreds of versions of files I had lying around.
Five minutes of looking proves to me that Slashdot's search engine is basically worthless. My memory's not *that* good....
This post is a dupe. I remember seeing an interesting slashdot story, God knows when, and I looked over both the Powerlabs and Teslamania websites. I vividly remember the (now slashdotted to hell) shrunken coins. But, then again, if you're only 18 minutes old, you wouldn't know that, now would you?
The more I read Slashdot, the more I feel like some new-age Methuselah in a sci-fi story, where all those around me are younger, and their 80 year lifespans appear like those of a fly.
I usually don't have anything much to add, but at the risk of being shown how insignificant my thought is....
Isn't running an "app." from the BIOS kinda like running an OS on a RAM drive? With this technique, isn't the BIOS is just a read-only image of a low-end OS to run a single app?
I mean, when RAM drives are cheap, won't everything be similar to this, except a full-blown OS will run? If so, I'm not sure this has much to do with DRM at all, FWIW. Orthogonal, anyone?
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Sorry, but all Roland posts are inherently blog-hit-whoring. This one has direct links to his ZDnet blog. He does get paid for that, right???
Oblig.: Pls. tag as ohnoitsroland -- and thanks.
Good gravy! I wasted my time reading the replies to this story until I read your (my parent's) post. It's just Roland whoring out his blog again. I'm sorry, but link back or not, he's still a hit-grubbing whore.
Pls tag as 'ohnoitsroland' -- and thanks.
I understand user tags are basically emasculated now -- tags no longer have any balls.
So, SCREW the system! Tag it 'ohnoitsroland' to show the eds how tired you are of Roland's drivel intended to whore out his pay-for-click blogs. And thank you.
This Roland gem has a direct link back to his ZDnet blog, so the usual argument that this isn't link whoring doesn't apply. Unfortunately, the /. editors didn't redact this time....
Please join me in tagging this article as 'ohnoitsroland' -- thank you.
Another Roland article. Time to rack up more advertising hits....
:)
Please tag as 'ohnoitsroland' -- thank you
"Doofus" is 5th declension masculine. Like virus. Singular: doofus; plural: doofus.
(This has been an attempted Latin joke. If this had been an actual joke, it would have been followed by laughter and muted applause. This concludes this attempted Latin joke.)
Well, this time the /. editor didn't redact Roland's ZDNet blog link whorage. Please tag as 'ohnoitsroland'. Thanks for taking the time.
Robocopy preparing to copy files.... Robocopy commencing copying.... Copying in progress.... Copying complete.
Robocopy commencing two hour disk thrashing session... (grind, grind, grind, grind, grind... KICK!) Robocopy mistreatment alert! Robocopy mistreatment alert!!!
(Or, "In Soviet Union, first quantum computer ports you!")
You see, it's the Slashdot editors we should be thanking, not Roland in the least. They have (at least twice recently) redacted his go-back-to-my-blog-and-run-up-my-hits self linkage. Thank you, editors!
I'm not a free-love/free-gumbo/free-everything person. I'm pro-capitalism (sure to get modded down ;) and lean fairly well to the right (now I *am* a dead man ;D). But I would mind if someone working for IBM regularly submitted articles that advertised their products or services. Would you, or not? My understading is that /. was started as a community site, not an advertising site.
/. veterans have coined a phrase for this: link whoring. You might want to read what others have to say about this practice. From what I can find via the all-knowing Google, not everyone sees this as an objectionable practice. I do, and I guess that's just my opinion.
If I understand your point (please correct me if I'm wrong), it's, "If Roland submits interesting articles, who cares if he gets paid (or a kick-back) by getting them posted? It's a win-win." I think that's a valid point, but I'd counter it by saying that there's a fine line between submitting interesting articles for the community, and submitting articles because you'll get something in return if they're accepted. This is where it gets sticky.
Of course, the
I can only speak for myself, of course. That being said....
/.) which were clearly advertising their products or services? They'd be getting free advertising from the /. editors. Well, Roland is working for himself (or perhaps ZDnet now?), and his posts (directly or indirectly) advertise his service, a ZDnet blog (used to be a private blog site, I believe). The last remaining questions are:
/. editors continue to remove his self-referring linkage from his submissions, does this resolve the "free advertising" issue?
I think what people have objected to is that his posts amount to an ad for his blog sites, from which he earns revenue through clicks/views. If his stories were identical but weren't implicit advertisements, I doubt there would be any gripes.
What if someone working for IBM or Penguin Computing or NewEgg submitted stories (accepted by
1.) Does Roland now receive income from ZDnet, or from the entities which advertise on his ZDnet blog page?
2.) If the
Again, my 2c worth and mine alone.
Comments on the last Roland story commended him for not including a link back to his blog, which includes ads. As posted, this story doesn't have such a link either, but not because Roland didn't try his hardest.... I'm glad that Slashdot editors redacted his link-whoring.
If you're as tired of these (indirectly) revenue generating pieces as I am, please join me and tag them as "ohnoitsroland" -- I'm doing that to all of his submissions now.
I've only donated to public radio for vanity promotional statements since they received the $200 million Kroc bequest to their endowment fund. I'm not a finance expert, but at some point their costs should be completely covered by their endowment annuities. So many charities are in much greater need.
I believe you're right. I probably should've said, more accurately, "region of bodies found outside of the orbit of Neptune" without talking about inside or outside the solar system :-)
I was really dense in reading your post at first. I think I understand your question now, but please let me know if I've got it wrong.
This is a possible source of some (few) comets (if I understand correctly). I don't believe there's any assertion that all comets come from this collision. The main object is mostly rocky, but they say the trailing small ones are icy. It's possible that some of these smaller bodies may have been perturbed from their orbits and fallen into the inner solar system as comets.
Thanks for that excellent link! Wish I had some mod points :-( I happened to catch this story earlier today while I was surfing around....
Or am I off my rocker?
Wow, surely I'm not the only one who remembers the syntax/nomenclature.... Existing file is file.txt;1. Edit it -->
$ edit/edt file.txt
Save and exit and, voila, you have file.txt;2. Original is version 1, new is version 2. Gets really annoying when you've futzed around with a PROG.FOR source code file a lot because you're brain-dead. I wrote a DCL script called something like CLEANUP.COM to get rid of all those hundreds of versions of files I had lying around.
I'm not sure whether to be pleased that I got a mod point, or disappointed that I was modded as "funny."
Sad, isn't it?
Clemmitt
Five minutes of looking proves to me that Slashdot's search engine is basically worthless. My memory's not *that* good....
This post is a dupe. I remember seeing an interesting slashdot story, God knows when, and I looked over both the Powerlabs and Teslamania websites. I vividly remember the (now slashdotted to hell) shrunken coins. But, then again, if you're only 18 minutes old, you wouldn't know that, now would you?
The more I read Slashdot, the more I feel like some new-age Methuselah in a sci-fi story, where all those around me are younger, and their 80 year lifespans appear like those of a fly.
Clemmitt
I usually don't have anything much to add, but at the risk of being shown how insignificant my thought is....
Isn't running an "app." from the BIOS kinda like running an OS on a RAM drive? With this technique, isn't the BIOS is just a read-only image of a low-end OS to run a single app?
I mean, when RAM drives are cheap, won't everything be similar to this, except a full-blown OS will run? If so, I'm not sure this has much to do with DRM at all, FWIW. Orthogonal, anyone?
Clemmitt
Bite my shiny metal medal!
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According to this, WordPerfect filters for OpenOffice are coming soon thanks to a project with the City of Largo, Fla. AbiWord already reads WordPerfect documents (can't say how well, I don't have many WP docs), and I believe this project is porting their filter to OpenOffice.
Please e-mail Josh Berkus, josh@agliodbs.com , to contribute or pledge support. I've already sent in my pledge :)