No, sadly enough. Slashdot is becoming the next Digg.com.
Gee, thanks a lot "Web 2.0". Hopefully people can remember to actually think first in the next iteration of "Web Whatever-Point-Oh". Either that, or kill the MTV androids and let the people back in...
Whatever happened to humans, anyway? Where did they all go?
I agree with you for the most part. Some of the GNU "weenies", nowadays, do in fact seem to have huge egos. I won't name names, but a few Three-Letter-Nicknames seem to fit the bill here.
However, I genuinely think the "old-school" hacker ethos of "open source", that is "giving back to the community for the betterment of all" is really the issue here. The WWW, the Linux kernel, the GNU toolchain, the arpanet, SPAM ad nauseam, et al are products of mere enthusiasm and necessity, not bottom dollar.
The workings of the internet seems to rely mostly on necessity rather than money. The innovators didn't seem to be motivated by profit.
It's brilliant. Sun can collect money for starving coders like the mafiaa collecy money for starving artists, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, like usual, we can always just bitch about it like normal, create some internet-revolt, and when that blows over, get on with life;)
Or wait, you said what could go wrong??
As long as we're dreaming, why not a.phish TLD for all the phishing sites?! That way we would know for sure which sites are trying to pull a fast one on us!
My top two picks for the DS would be a new Contra title, and a Battletech game.
I always loved the 2 player co-op in the Contra games, and with Nintendo Wifi, this could be such a killer feature. Plus, the DS has the required buttons for the Konami Code!
Also, a turn-based strategy game based on the pen & paper Battletech game would be freakin sweet! I spent countless hours playing this as a kid, building 3d maps out of model train materials... This style of gameplay would suit the DS and the Wifi connection perfectly. Building custom maps and mechs and duking it out online, hell yea!
Oh, that's just rich because those hymns would seriously be far better than the normal clearchannel drivel any day. At least church music has some *soul*;) And that's gospel truth!
Really, I'd rather hear some music where at least some of the singers felt the music to be important, rather than some tweenage puppet lipsynch to some 45 year old nasty-ass, but vocally talented hobag singing lyrics written by a 65 year old and 6 times divorced pedophile who tells the pubescent children of (mostly) America how to bitch....
Yea, either the church music, or some Bossa Nova! Now *that* would truly rock!!
At first I thought that was a lawyer-lawyer jibe and he was about to ask if the other lawyer wanted to chase it.
That's a brilliant observation! I wish I would have caught that, thanks for pointing it out =)
Chiun?! Little Father?! Is that you, at last?
I secretly thought you were dead... But does a master of Sinanju ever die... I see you're still as inscrutable as ever. You still never gave me your egg-shell fingernail-strength recipe in its entirety.
--Love Remo
Doesn't have everything, yet... http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ Has quite a few public domain transcriptions of classical music. In many file formats to boot, eh!
Also, I'm pretty sure this new layout now makes slashdot fully web 2.0 compliant;)
I dunno. Slashdot still phailed to make my coffee early enough. Or was it Web 2point0 who failed?
Either way, I gotta find a new job
Eternal promises. I'm going fishing...
Slashdot totally needs some sort of meta-discussion category. And here, on-site, not that silly sf.net bug tracking thing that's used for *slash* right now. Slashdot used to be so cool, but now, although the 3-day old "news" aggregation is still *sort-of* neat, it could so easily be so much better...
A few ideas...
Perhaps have a user-submitted section where people could vote on interesting links/headlines (freely submitted by users, a-la k5...) instead of waiting days for "news" to go stale. It could even work in a similar manner as the comment moderation system. Not too difficult to implement, no?
Slashback is great - I'm happy to see it's return! I think many other readers are also. Maybe give us more say, though, rather than just commentating... More interactive Slashback - Fuck yea!
More revelant polls that actually count for something here ie - Sections. BSD seems to be missing from the list, whereas linux, politics and IT are relatively new (what 3/2 years, maybe 2). How about meta-polls for logged-in users that help govern the direction of Slashdot? I'd like to see a music section. Nerds like music too! Or even entertainment/media. Put the vote to the users. Have a new section for digital media, see what happens... Not even sharing links to "pirated files". Just a place to have a diversion here from the "mentos and coke" articles?!
Post clarification - that is - editing. Not post deletion, merely adding onto a previous post to clarify a point, or even to publicly retract a drunken post... Even with a prominent "EDIT:" tag on the edited portion, this could save some bandwith. Which leads to the next.
A new posting system. This goes beyond all the other gripes that I have. For instance, have a larger input pane for posting. It's not necessary for people to post long messages, just clear messages. 11 lines is NOT enough. The ability to read the entire thread *so far* while posting would be nice also. Maybe even move the "submit" button to the bottom of the page like the moderation system, encouraging people to actually preview their responces first...
That's just the beginning of *my* gripes. I know that this isn't the proper place, but this is the best I could do, because there isn't a proper place...
Seriously though, as long as we're all offtopic...
Why hasn't the posting or reply/comment systems changed? THAT would have been a worthwhile site redesign. Not this.
This new "design" adds nothing to the old/. Yea, maybe difficulties with some reader's font rendering engines, and the spifficated new-fandangangled curvy-edges and gradient-filled delimiters, but nothing functional. What do the lynx or links readers have to say? Anything?
Slashdot is still sleeping in the 90's in so many ways. Is it really charming anymore?
...Windows is NOT a stable platform. A developer cannot write a Windows application, open source or not, and not be plauged with support problems that have absolutely nothing to do with the program itself, and are the fault of bugs in the Windows OS itself
Hmmm, what problems are you having in this respect? Although I've never had this problem personally I'd be happy to help you out.
The truth is, it's really painful to develop under Windows generally, especially if you're publishing commercial software that has to be supported.
Again, hmm, I guess I don't really understand your assertion.
I develop software for Windows for a living. Microsoft really works very hard *with* developers just to avoid such problems. MS provides terrific documentation and support to developers and there is, actually, a really great community of helpful and *respectful* people.
There are too many variables that you can't control that wreak havoc with the integrity of your application.
Well, like what?
The only times that I really see this In Real Life are when the application developers write bad code (which happens for all platforms), cheat on the WHQL driver tests (graphics card manufacturers are notorious for this), or when developers use undocumented APIs. The reason that those APIs are undocumented is because they are subject to change, and are not intended to be used by software developers.
Now, I will concede the problems associated with malware, It bothers me as much as anyone else, but I have never personally gotten a virus, worm, trojan, spyware, or other malicious program on one of my own computers...
Sorry this was OT, but you didn't have to read it!
Would you care to elaborate on this? Seriously.
I use Windows every day, and although it's not perfect for everything that I do with it, is works fine enough for most of my daily tasks.
And I agree compleately with this.
The important thing, For what it is designed for is exactly right on the button.
VS and VS.NET, are *primarily* rapid application development environments. They try to serve the developer by offering all the cool intellisense mojo and whatnot, and try to serve the employer of said developer by trying to make said developer more productive.
I for one think that MS does a pretty damn good job of this...
However, I can see the validity of Mr. Petzold's complaints. The code that VS and VS.NET generates can be rather obtuse at times. Intellisense can get REALLY annoying. Sometimes it really does feel like VS is trying to hijack one's code, but you know what? We as developers don't need to use it. I often find myself using some arbitrary text editor and calling the freely downloadable win32 SDK or.NET SDK to develop Windows applications.
And I like it this way.
But when my employer comes around and asks me why I've spent the last hour hand rolling a complex dialog with property sheets and all that ballyhoo, when using the Dialog Editor or Windows Forms Designer would have taken ten minutes, what do I say? "Uh, I'm just pining for the days when men coded their own resources, with their teeth!"
But then again, I had trouble finding my belly button today, so maybe VS really does make me stoopider...
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Gee, thanks a lot "Web 2.0". Hopefully people can remember to actually think first in the next iteration of "Web Whatever-Point-Oh". Either that, or kill the MTV androids and let the people back in...
Whatever happened to humans, anyway? Where did they all go?
However, I genuinely think the "old-school" hacker ethos of "open source", that is "giving back to the community for the betterment of all" is really the issue here. The WWW, the Linux kernel, the GNU toolchain, the arpanet, SPAM ad nauseam, et al are products of mere enthusiasm and necessity, not bottom dollar.
The workings of the internet seems to rely mostly on necessity rather than money. The innovators didn't seem to be motivated by profit.
No, the most important activity now seems to be copyright-enforcement.
Well, like usual, we can always just bitch about it like normal, create some internet-revolt, and when that blows over, get on with life
I thought the whole point of Open Source was doing good for mankind in general, not categorically for the investors...
As long as we're dreaming, why not a .phish TLD for all the phishing sites?! That way we would know for sure which sites are trying to pull a fast one on us!
If they can get the Wi-fi to do something, you know, useful, then the Zune 2 might be a neat little device.
I always loved the 2 player co-op in the Contra games, and with Nintendo Wifi, this could be such a killer feature. Plus, the DS has the required buttons for the Konami Code!
Also, a turn-based strategy game based on the pen & paper Battletech game would be freakin sweet! I spent countless hours playing this as a kid, building 3d maps out of model train materials... This style of gameplay would suit the DS and the Wifi connection perfectly. Building custom maps and mechs and duking it out online, hell yea!
Really, I'd rather hear some music where at least some of the singers felt the music to be important, rather than some tweenage puppet lipsynch to some 45 year old nasty-ass, but vocally talented hobag singing lyrics written by a 65 year old and 6 times divorced pedophile who tells the pubescent children of (mostly) America how to bitch....
Yea, either the church music, or some Bossa Nova! Now *that* would truly rock!!
dingbat suicidal
At first I thought that was a lawyer-lawyer jibe and he was about to ask if the other lawyer wanted to chase it. That's a brilliant observation! I wish I would have caught that, thanks for pointing it out =)
Yea, it's too bad Tapwave wouldn't sign Little John Z. Or it's too bad they didn't open up and let people run unsigned code...
they have a pill for that, you know?
Chiun?! Little Father?! Is that you, at last? I secretly thought you were dead... But does a master of Sinanju ever die... I see you're still as inscrutable as ever. You still never gave me your egg-shell fingernail-strength recipe in its entirety. --Love Remo
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...Or like the hairdryer that says "Do NOT use in shower"... Damn, if only I had some mod points for you!
Doesn't have everything, yet...
http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ Has quite a few public domain transcriptions of classical music. In many file formats to boot, eh!
I dunno. Slashdot still phailed to make my coffee early enough. Or was it Web 2point0 who failed?
Either way, I gotta find a new job Eternal promises. I'm going fishing...
Slashdot totally needs some sort of meta-discussion category. And here, on-site, not that silly sf.net bug tracking thing that's used for *slash* right now. Slashdot used to be so cool, but now, although the 3-day old "news" aggregation is still *sort-of* neat, it could so easily be so much better...
A few ideas...
That's just the beginning of *my* gripes. I know that this isn't the proper place, but this is the best I could do, because there isn't a proper place...
That's fucking rich!
Seriously though, as long as we're all offtopic...
Why hasn't the posting or reply/comment systems changed? THAT would have been a worthwhile site redesign. Not this. /. Yea, maybe difficulties with some reader's font rendering engines, and the spifficated new-fandangangled curvy-edges and gradient-filled delimiters, but nothing functional. What do the lynx or links readers have to say? Anything?
This new "design" adds nothing to the old
Slashdot is still sleeping in the 90's in so many ways. Is it really charming anymore?
ahhh fuck it...
Wow, just wow!
This should be modded +5 Profound
Damn, that's deep!!!
Interesting. Could you post a link?
Hmmm, what problems are you having in this respect? Although I've never had this problem personally I'd be happy to help you out.
The truth is, it's really painful to develop under Windows generally, especially if you're publishing commercial software that has to be supported.
Again, hmm, I guess I don't really understand your assertion.
I develop software for Windows for a living. Microsoft really works very hard *with* developers just to avoid such problems. MS provides terrific documentation and support to developers and there is, actually, a really great community of helpful and *respectful* people.
There are too many variables that you can't control that wreak havoc with the integrity of your application.
Well, like what?
The only times that I really see this In Real Life are when the application developers write bad code (which happens for all platforms), cheat on the WHQL driver tests (graphics card manufacturers are notorious for this), or when developers use undocumented APIs. The reason that those APIs are undocumented is because they are subject to change, and are not intended to be used by software developers.
Now, I will concede the problems associated with malware, It bothers me as much as anyone else, but I have never personally gotten a virus, worm, trojan, spyware, or other malicious program on one of my own computers...
Sorry this was OT, but you didn't have to read it!
Would you care to elaborate on this? Seriously.
I use Windows every day, and although it's not perfect for everything that I do with it, is works fine enough for most of my daily tasks.
The important thing, For what it is designed for is exactly right on the button.
VS and VS.NET, are *primarily* rapid application development environments. They try to serve the developer by offering all the cool intellisense mojo and whatnot, and try to serve the employer of said developer by trying to make said developer more productive.
I for one think that MS does a pretty damn good job of this...
However, I can see the validity of Mr. Petzold's complaints. The code that VS and VS.NET generates can be rather obtuse at times. Intellisense can get REALLY annoying. Sometimes it really does feel like VS is trying to hijack one's code, but you know what? We as developers don't need to use it. I often find myself using some arbitrary text editor and calling the freely downloadable win32 SDK or
And I like it this way.
But when my employer comes around and asks me why I've spent the last hour hand rolling a complex dialog with property sheets and all that ballyhoo, when using the Dialog Editor or Windows Forms Designer would have taken ten minutes, what do I say? "Uh, I'm just pining for the days when men coded their own resources, with their teeth!"
But then again, I had trouble finding my belly button today, so maybe VS really does make me stoopider...