Free? I paid quite a lot towards the London olypmics. I don't like the olympics, didn't go, but paid more than people outside London for the privilege of heavily disrupted journeys into work. They take millions in advertising/endorsement etc. There are many plausible sounding stories about corruption and the like. The least they could do is ensure everyone on the planet gets to watch it for free. It would be more in keeping with the spirit of the olympics than holding it in some naff retro state with a bad track record on freedom, run by a comedy Bond villain.
Just fix the varous options so it's clear what they do, and add some help so it doesn't just say stuff like "use the small view" next to the small view option.
> Yes, but it's a lovingly crafted completely functional working system that preserves > both the spirit...
LOL!
"It's based on a true story. It didn't actually happen like this, and the car chases and explosions were added to keep people's interest up during the character development, but essentially it's more or less exactly what happened to Van Gogh".
I agree with you, however, about Slashdot Beta. It's still as sucky as it looked however many months ago they first revealed it. It feels like something somebody knocked up over a few evenings of spare time in a bid to learn as many different web technologies as possible.
Same here. There are alternatives, and I can always bung Slashdot in my rss feed and just skim the headlines and click straight through to the referred too site if it's not one I've already spotted (from an alternative). Or just not bother. It's like Unity on Ubuntu. I don't mind change. I do mind making stuff worse. The only thing wrong with Slashdot at the moment is the various options have no help and don't make any sense. I can't even log into the beta one.
Whenever I try it, it sucks. Mobile sucks, because it's that funky ajax shit which doesn't tell you when it's doing stuff in the background, so you're never sure if it's still getting data,but slowly, due to a problem, or there's a problem and it's stopped, or if it's supposed to have stopped there. I can go back 2 pages on mobile then it stops - no more `older`. Why? Why can I go back further on the main site? I don't understand. I don't read this site every day, and sometimes I like to catch up on my phone. Is this an edge case. There was a sort of survey thing to leave comments but it looked a bit shit and didn't let me comment on what I thought was good/bad outside of strict and uninteresting parameters.
When I first started reading Slashdot many years ago (I had an older account than this but lost the password and my email account it was tied to vanished when I moved ISP (yes, I used to use ISP email accounts!)) there was no sensible alternative to Slashdot, but you can't move without bumping into tech news aggregators these days, and the users have have changed from techies and developers into..well, users. And if there's one thing I can't stand it's fucking users.
I guess a lot of Americans hate smart people, don't they? I'd have thought it would have been far more entertaining to watch someone do something different, interesting and successful, but what do I know. I'm sure the Idiocracy version will be along any time now.
C# & Javascript. C# has the advantage of actually compiling into an executable or service without requiring addons, googling and general pain. Javascript on a browser I've less experience with but it certainly seems fast. Perhaps I'm being unfair, and that it's just that there are very many poor-quality java devs churning out absolute rubbish!
Get someone to check out a c# solution containing a number of projects, and open it in visual studio. (Clue: double click on the.sln file, then...oh, that's it). Then get someone to do the same for a java project in Eclipse.
How does.net not need all the hand holding and class-path manipulation and importing and so on? Conversely, what does Eclipse provide java developers which.net cannot?
I found Eclipse horrible. IntelliJ or Netbeans both look better, are faster, leaner and just...feel better. So many "solutions" to problems on Eclipse involve uninstalling and reinstalling, or using the "restart" option on the File menu (don't laugh). Why? Why is it recomended you don't uninstall plugins you no longer want to use? Does it have to be that unstable?
Serious question: Would this be a useful way of clearing up all the junk that's floating around in orbit? Surely if you sliced each one up a few times it'd fall out of orbit sooner rather than later, and be more likely to burn up than intact satellites. (I mean, I've seen Dark Star - as long as you don't put any AI on the laser we should be fine)
What's a fake account? I have a regular one, for everyone, then I have one for competitions and the like, where you have to `like` something to enter. Clearly I'm not going to do this on my normal account because it'll spam all my contacts and I'll look like a twat. What do they expect you to do? But it's not "fake" - it's got my name on it (sort of). I do the same for Twitter, but I don't recall having to pretend that my second (or my first, come to that) Twitter account was "mine".
If true, that's the percentage of a vanishingly small sector of the total internet connected devices. You've basically said "well over 90% of 0.7% of the market" which proves the OP's point entirely.
That's what they do though..Net is just enterprise stuff - no-one uses it outside of large companies pointlessly reinventing the wheel using less skilled staff each year. Soon it'll just be some muppet in a suit clicking a button to install Microsoft App - a collection of messy webpages all bound to a Sql Server database using whatever technology Microsoft is using to ape Ruby and MySql that year (Linq 5 on VS 2017, costing $200,00 for the db and $42,000 per VS license) all "handled" by a carnival of clowns with no understanding of any of the principles of software development.
It died right at the start when it was `pay up for love the ads`...resuscitated briefly when it was the only decent browser for pre-smartphones, then got finished off when Safari and stock/Chrome was let free on smartphones/tablets.
> At worst, it would provide a hook for traumatized loved ones to avoid dealing with > the grief and get increasingly bottled up in a fantasy world.
No, it would just annoy and frustrate them with more tedious computer crap that doesn't deliver what it promises - just like practically every other aspect of computers.
As a government body, of course, they'll also be skewed. There's probably, for example, loads of poor bastards forced to use IE6 or whatever and who are not allowed to installer their own choice of browser for security reasons (don't laugh!).
Complaining is being polite. Most people will see a block of reply with no added text and move on, rather than compare two blocks of text and look for the delta. Life's too short. Put the effort into writing, and people might put the effort into reading it.
It didn't sound at all cool. It made me think of Pacman-playing binges. I can imagine the story now..."if each dot costs 4p, then in the 48 hour session, almost £833 worth of dots were consumed". This is - easily - the lamest Slashdot story of the year so far.
Slashdot Mirror
Free? I paid quite a lot towards the London olypmics. I don't like the olympics, didn't go, but paid more than people outside London for the privilege of heavily disrupted journeys into work. They take millions in advertising/endorsement etc. There are many plausible sounding stories about corruption and the like. The least they could do is ensure everyone on the planet gets to watch it for free. It would be more in keeping with the spirit of the olympics than holding it in some naff retro state with a bad track record on freedom, run by a comedy Bond villain.
FTFY
> When the Europeans first set foot in North America, they gave the natives smallpox
> infected blankets in exchange for land.
I would like to formally LOL at your comment.
Just fix the varous options so it's clear what they do, and add some help so it doesn't just say stuff like "use the small view" next to the small view option.
They could *own* bitcoin if they wanted, surely (with their processing power, I mean) Why haven't they?
1. Metro
2. Unity
3...Apple Maps
4...
5 SLASHDOT BETA!
> Yes, but it's a lovingly crafted completely functional working system that preserves
> both the spirit...
LOL!
"It's based on a true story. It didn't actually happen like this, and the car chases and explosions were added to keep people's interest up during the character development, but essentially it's more or less exactly what happened to Van Gogh".
I agree with you, however, about Slashdot Beta. It's still as sucky as it looked however many months ago they first revealed it. It feels like something somebody knocked up over a few evenings of spare time in a bid to learn as many different web technologies as possible.
Same here. There are alternatives, and I can always bung Slashdot in my rss feed and just skim the headlines and click straight through to the referred too site if it's not one I've already spotted (from an alternative).
Or just not bother. It's like Unity on Ubuntu. I don't mind change. I do mind making stuff worse. The only thing wrong with Slashdot at the moment is the various options have no help and don't make any sense. I can't even log into the beta one.
Whenever I try it, it sucks. Mobile sucks, because it's that funky ajax shit which doesn't tell you when it's doing stuff in the background, so you're never sure if it's still getting data,but slowly, due to a problem, or there's a problem and it's stopped, or if it's supposed to have stopped there. I can go back 2 pages on mobile then it stops - no more `older`. Why? Why can I go back further on the main site? I don't understand. I don't read this site every day, and sometimes I like to catch up on my phone. Is this an edge case. There was a sort of survey thing to leave comments but it looked a bit shit and didn't let me comment on what I thought was good/bad outside of strict and uninteresting parameters.
When I first started reading Slashdot many years ago (I had an older account than this but lost the password and my email account it was tied to vanished when I moved ISP (yes, I used to use ISP email accounts!)) there was no sensible alternative to Slashdot, but you can't move without bumping into tech news aggregators these days, and the users have have changed from techies and developers into..well, users. And if there's one thing I can't stand it's fucking users.
I guess a lot of Americans hate smart people, don't they? I'd have thought it would have been far more entertaining to watch someone do something different, interesting and successful, but what do I know. I'm sure the Idiocracy version will be along any time now.
C# & Javascript. C# has the advantage of actually compiling into an executable or service without requiring addons, googling and general pain. Javascript on a browser I've less experience with but it certainly seems fast. Perhaps I'm being unfair, and that it's just that there are very many poor-quality java devs churning out absolute rubbish!
Get someone to check out a c# solution containing a number of projects, and open it in visual studio. (Clue: double click on the .sln file, then...oh, that's it). Then get someone to do the same for a java project in Eclipse.
How does .net not need all the hand holding and class-path manipulation and importing and so on? Conversely, what does Eclipse provide java developers which .net cannot?
When I first read that speed was one of the three design goals of Java I assumed it was a joke and laughed. Apparently it's not a joke.
I found Eclipse horrible. IntelliJ or Netbeans both look better, are faster, leaner and just...feel better. So many "solutions" to problems on Eclipse involve uninstalling and reinstalling, or using the "restart" option on the File menu (don't laugh). Why? Why is it recomended you don't uninstall plugins you no longer want to use? Does it have to be that unstable?
Serious question: Would this be a useful way of clearing up all the junk that's floating around in orbit? Surely if you sliced each one up a few times it'd fall out of orbit sooner rather than later, and be more likely to burn up than intact satellites. (I mean, I've seen Dark Star - as long as you don't put any AI on the laser we should be fine)
What's a fake account? I have a regular one, for everyone, then I have one for competitions and the like, where you have to `like` something to enter. Clearly I'm not going to do this on my normal account because it'll spam all my contacts and I'll look like a twat. What do they expect you to do? But it's not "fake" - it's got my name on it (sort of). I do the same for Twitter, but I don't recall having to pretend that my second (or my first, come to that) Twitter account was "mine".
Android has the market share. What else would you target these days?
If true, that's the percentage of a vanishingly small sector of the total internet connected devices. You've basically said "well over 90% of 0.7% of the market" which proves the OP's point entirely.
Your tv from 9 years ago lasted 9 years. One you buy this year won't.
That's what they do though. .Net is just enterprise stuff - no-one uses it outside of large companies pointlessly reinventing the wheel using less skilled staff each year. Soon it'll just be some muppet in a suit clicking a button to install Microsoft App - a collection of messy webpages all bound to a Sql Server database using whatever technology Microsoft is using to ape Ruby and MySql that year (Linq 5 on VS 2017, costing $200,00 for the db and $42,000 per VS license) all "handled" by a carnival of clowns with no understanding of any of the principles of software development.
It died right at the start when it was `pay up for love the ads`...resuscitated briefly when it was the only decent browser for pre-smartphones, then got finished off when Safari and stock/Chrome was let free on smartphones/tablets.
> At worst, it would provide a hook for traumatized loved ones to avoid dealing with
> the grief and get increasingly bottled up in a fantasy world.
No, it would just annoy and frustrate them with more tedious computer crap that doesn't deliver what it promises - just like practically every other aspect of computers.
As a government body, of course, they'll also be skewed. There's probably, for example, loads of poor bastards forced to use IE6 or whatever and who are not allowed to installer their own choice of browser for security reasons (don't laugh!).
Complaining is being polite. Most people will see a block of reply with no added text and move on, rather than compare two blocks of text and look for the delta. Life's too short. Put the effort into writing, and people might put the effort into reading it.
> It sounds cooler than it is...
It didn't sound at all cool. It made me think of Pacman-playing binges. I can imagine the story now..."if each dot costs 4p, then in the 48 hour session, almost £833 worth of dots were consumed". This is - easily - the lamest Slashdot story of the year so far.