Of course I agree that is why I come here. I like to read them "raw and uncut" - spam and goatse guy, Dr. Bob and MK and the others you mention included, fully expanded show all comments. But the statistics have been given and most visitors never stray from the home page.
As for submissions, I am not having any trouble getting them to accept mine. I read the fire hose every day, and I don't see them taking a pass on any good ones of yours. Maybe I missed that? Frankly I don't see much good stuff hit the fire hose and then get away from the editors. I figure a lack of good and timely submissions has been a problem here for quite a while. I wish we had Twitter back.
We need new blood, and the younguns these days aren't going to give this venerable old lawn five minutes. They like fancy styles, whitespace and JSON APIs now so they can do a mashup.
When doing software development you sometimes have to change critical data structures in a way that is not backward compatible, or at least has a performance hit. Eventually the classic site will become defunct. It's just a fact of life that maintaining both more than doubles the development cost, prevents new features that would be awesome and degrades performance for both.
Put the toggle old/new in the header. Two toggles: one for just toggle, one for suggest a fix and toggle. Give the plain toggle the two arrows circle and lay over a wrench for "and fix". That way while it's front of mind that I'm frustrated and swapping back to classic because I can't see HOW a comment was moderated or view a poster's history I can leave that note and it will know exactly where I was and why I switched. Then as you fix things I toggle less and less until I don't care so much about the difference any more. You get free debugging.
Also, if I'm logged in a setting for "don't show me the mobile site any more ever. I don't do mobile sites because all my mobile devices can handle full desktop sites" would be nice. Seriously guys my phone is 1080p quad core with 2GB of RAM. I don't need a downscale site just because Chrome happens to be running on a phone and being redirected to it is annoying. I could have no useful input on what the "mobile" version should look like as I don't have any devices that need that any more. Save that for people still on the Blackberry Curve.
This is not a case of governments competing with a private company. Fast Internet is a valuable social good that private companies flat refuse to provide. Since they refuse to provide it, citizens are providing it for themselves through their governments. That this obsoletes the slow Internet cable companies want to provide does not mean they compete. They are substantially different things.
You don't know if they have paid off the investment if they haven't disposed of the toxic waste they created making the electricity. Have they?
The Bruce station area is also the site of OPG's Western Waste Management Facility (WWMF). The WWMF stores all the low and intermediate level nuclear waste from the operation of OPG's 20 nuclear reactors, including those leased to Bruce Power. As of 2009, there are 11 Low level storage buildings.
Typically munis only handle the last mile infrastructure. They grant access to ISPs who take care of selling, billing, providing the actual Internet. The minis take a cut of the fees. The ISPs do well in this system, freed of the high capital costs.
As the article illustrates, market forces aren't the only issue. A political environment inclined to commit to completion of the project without throwing up obstacles is even more important. Google needs a successful pilot here, not one that faltered through legal or political intrigue.
It is now time for all the states who put up barriers to or outright banned municipal broadband to look at the results and see if it serves the public interest. It does not. Everywhere these bills pass the incumbent cable companies immediately shut down investment because they no longer have to provide modern service.
Washington state has such a law. Before it was enacted some municipalities were already started and so were grandfathered in. That is why you can have had gigabit fiber Internet to the home in Ephrata, WA (pop 8,000) for 14 years now, and Microsoft is building vast data centers out that way. It is also why you can't get gigabit fiber to your home in Seattle Metro area installed today, which enjoys a global peering point and is home to Microsoft, Amazon and a bunch of other big tech companies whose employees could really benefit from the service, and has 600 times the population density. This even though the cost of the equipment has come down by a factor of 100 in that 14 years.
It is still a step backward, a last ditch attempt to rescue the patent encumbered CODEC before it becomes extinct. They should let it die, for the good of progress. Who wants a CODEC backed by a group that sued a mom for publishing a birthday video online over patent licensing?
Yes, I do remember party lines, and grandma waiting up to see if there was news. It was like she had some addiction to new information. Gosh, it's nice we don't have that problem now.
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This would be good but there is not and never has been a geological repository in the US. Spent fuel inventories are piling up.
Of course I agree that is why I come here. I like to read them "raw and uncut" - spam and goatse guy, Dr. Bob and MK and the others you mention included, fully expanded show all comments. But the statistics have been given and most visitors never stray from the home page.
As for submissions, I am not having any trouble getting them to accept mine. I read the fire hose every day, and I don't see them taking a pass on any good ones of yours. Maybe I missed that? Frankly I don't see much good stuff hit the fire hose and then get away from the editors. I figure a lack of good and timely submissions has been a problem here for quite a while. I wish we had Twitter back.
Some of us actually choose to pay for it. It isn't talked about much, but it is possible to use Slashdot as a subscription service.
We are the clowns.
If they add deletion it is no longer Slashdot. That is part of the site's core value.
We need new blood, and the younguns these days aren't going to give this venerable old lawn five minutes. They like fancy styles, whitespace and JSON APIs now so they can do a mashup.
When doing software development you sometimes have to change critical data structures in a way that is not backward compatible, or at least has a performance hit. Eventually the classic site will become defunct. It's just a fact of life that maintaining both more than doubles the development cost, prevents new features that would be awesome and degrades performance for both.
Also, if I'm logged in a setting for "don't show me the mobile site any more ever. I don't do mobile sites because all my mobile devices can handle full desktop sites" would be nice. Seriously guys my phone is 1080p quad core with 2GB of RAM. I don't need a downscale site just because Chrome happens to be running on a phone and being redirected to it is annoying. I could have no useful input on what the "mobile" version should look like as I don't have any devices that need that any more. Save that for people still on the Blackberry Curve.
I hate to break this to you, but 90% of visitors never read the comments. And can you blame them? Who wants to see that? I mean what normal person.
I would not like that, unless the boxes moved to the top. I use those.
This is not a case of governments competing with a private company. Fast Internet is a valuable social good that private companies flat refuse to provide. Since they refuse to provide it, citizens are providing it for themselves through their governments. That this obsoletes the slow Internet cable companies want to provide does not mean they compete. They are substantially different things.
The Bruce station area is also the site of OPG's Western Waste Management Facility (WWMF). The WWMF stores all the low and intermediate level nuclear waste from the operation of OPG's 20 nuclear reactors, including those leased to Bruce Power. As of 2009, there are 11 Low level storage buildings.
That would be "no."
Two nuns and a lumberjack walk into a bar. The first nun turns to the lumberjack and asks "do you know how to ruin a joke?"
Line losses would ruin efficiency though. I'm pretty sure they're set on building it in India.
Believe it or not, even with 1.2 billion people India still has vast tracts of empty land. This 30 square miles is not a big deal.
Typically munis only handle the last mile infrastructure. They grant access to ISPs who take care of selling, billing, providing the actual Internet. The minis take a cut of the fees. The ISPs do well in this system, freed of the high capital costs.
As the article illustrates, market forces aren't the only issue. A political environment inclined to commit to completion of the project without throwing up obstacles is even more important. Google needs a successful pilot here, not one that faltered through legal or political intrigue.
Comcast is the only broadband provider in some of my very urban-one-of-the-largest-cities-in-the-US area.
Comcast paid well in concessions for other territories to ensure this, likely. The cable companies swap service areas like they are trading cards.
It is now time for all the states who put up barriers to or outright banned municipal broadband to look at the results and see if it serves the public interest. It does not. Everywhere these bills pass the incumbent cable companies immediately shut down investment because they no longer have to provide modern service.
Washington state has such a law. Before it was enacted some municipalities were already started and so were grandfathered in. That is why you can have had gigabit fiber Internet to the home in Ephrata, WA (pop 8,000) for 14 years now, and Microsoft is building vast data centers out that way. It is also why you can't get gigabit fiber to your home in Seattle Metro area installed today, which enjoys a global peering point and is home to Microsoft, Amazon and a bunch of other big tech companies whose employees could really benefit from the service, and has 600 times the population density. This even though the cost of the equipment has come down by a factor of 100 in that 14 years.
This is just wrong.
IE is an assortment of exploits flying in close formation.
It is still a step backward, a last ditch attempt to rescue the patent encumbered CODEC before it becomes extinct. They should let it die, for the good of progress. Who wants a CODEC backed by a group that sued a mom for publishing a birthday video online over patent licensing?
Works great here.
It seems the ACs here who bash everything Google haven't even bothered to do a trivial amount of research. You guys are mailing it in.
Between Android and iOS a developer has 94% of mobile devices covered. Mobile developers have never had it this good.
Yes, I do remember party lines, and grandma waiting up to see if there was news. It was like she had some addiction to new information. Gosh, it's nice we don't have that problem now.