This is Slashdot Damn it!!! We are not a web site, we are a community that thrives off of the unique moderation system put in place years ago.
I know for years, I have asked people who I suspected.. " Do you read Slashdot?" And if they said regularyly, I could be assured of thier being informed on "News for NERDs & STUFF THAT MATTERS"
I learned about GOOGLE on SLASHDOT back in... 199...8?
As a group we can collectively move. The slashdot code was published years ago.
What is the new URL?
I am not a coder but will be more than willing to help the group move forward away from this BS. Do we start a kick starter for hosting funds? Who will moderate submissions? Who will administer the site?
I can't do everything to make this happen, but I will be more then willing to contribute as much as I can.
If wikipedia can exist for all these years as a non-profit then I am sure the Slashdot community can figure out how to exist free from profit motives that make things suck.
BTY - I never read slashdot on a mobile device, because it sucks! Where was the protest then?
When I started with IBM in 1999 they had ~220k US employees. At the beginning of 2009 they had ~115K. That year they had two rounds of lay offs that included ~5K per round. IBM stopped publishing the number of US employees after that for some reason.
Lawyers will make sure laws are enacted to protect their jobs.
The rest of us are screwed.
Just like outsourcing. I have been speculating for 25+ years on what happens to the workforce when we are replaced with AI. My brother told me a few years back, "who needs AI with you have very cheap real human intelligence available."
What really needs to happen is to have a minimum IQ for serving on juries.
What about the fact that the jury is suppose to be a jury of peers? Given that most people are idiots, having a minimum IQ would make the jury no longer peers of the defendant.
Am I suppose to belive that advertisers paid $20 for "my" eyes, or per newspaper. If so, they are really getting ripped off. And if they are willing to pay so much per "hit", why is it that the online media is getting paid so little?
Quickly having features using Linux that blow away those in other operating systems would be great press for open source and Linux.
My only concern is how many of the people who would love to code for this, would be willing and able to fork out the $1000 to buy one. Also I wonder how much fun or practical it would be writing code for this with out acutally having one.
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reposted as I realized I was not logged in when posted the first time.....
I read this and started to tear up... http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...
OK Beta Sucks... Where will we go?
This is Slashdot Damn it!!! We are not a web site, we are a community that thrives off of the unique moderation system put in place years ago.
I know for years, I have asked people who I suspected.. " Do you read Slashdot?" And if they said regularyly, I could be assured of thier being informed on
"News for NERDs & STUFF THAT MATTERS"
I learned about GOOGLE on SLASHDOT back in ... 199...8?
As a group we can collectively move. The slashdot code was published years ago.
What is the new URL?
I am not a coder but will be more than willing to help the group move forward away from this BS.
Do we start a kick starter for hosting funds?
Who will moderate submissions?
Who will administer the site?
I can't do everything to make this happen, but I will be more then willing to contribute as much as I can.
If wikipedia can exist for all these years as a non-profit then I am sure the Slashdot community can figure out how to exist free from profit motives that make things suck.
BTY - I never read slashdot on a mobile device, because it sucks! Where was the protest then?
When I started with IBM in 1999 they had ~220k US employees. At the beginning of 2009 they had ~115K. That year they had two rounds of lay offs that included ~5K per round. IBM stopped publishing the number of US employees after that for some reason.
- I got hit in that second round
No good deed goes unpunished.
- I wish I would stop finding this to be true.
Lawyers will make sure laws are enacted to protect their jobs.
The rest of us are screwed.
Just like outsourcing. I have been speculating for 25+ years on what happens to the workforce when we are replaced with AI. My brother told me a few years back, "who needs AI with you have very cheap real human intelligence available."
Great talk about this type of Architecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnq1SvmZUYU
You said
What really needs to happen is to have a minimum IQ for serving on juries.
What about the fact that the jury is suppose to be a jury of peers? Given that most people are idiots, having a minimum IQ would make the jury no longer peers of the defendant.
Am I suppose to belive that advertisers paid $20 for "my" eyes, or per newspaper. If so, they are really getting ripped off. And if they are willing to pay so much per "hit", why is it that the online media is getting paid so little?
My only concern is how many of the people who would love to code for this, would be willing and able to fork out the $1000 to buy one. Also I wonder how much fun or practical it would be writing code for this with out acutally having one.