My company's Websense filter blocked the site, and I was sure it was an error. Apparently not! It seems the linked story was originally a Reuters story -- couldn't we have gotten that from elsewhere?
I think you've got the first part right, anyhow. What business have you ever known to reduce price in such a manner? Any "low" QoS traffic will continue to be billed at pre-QoS billing rates.
For others (like me) who are familiar with OOo but never heard of "Go-oo", Wikipedia says,
Go-oo is a concentrated set of patches for the cross-platform OpenOffice.org office suite. Go-oo is also one of OpenOffice.org variants created from these patches. It has better support for Office Open XML file formats than the official OpenOffice.org releases produced by Sun Microsystems, and other enhancements that have either not yet been accepted into the upstream Sun version, or will not be because of business or political reasons. Some of these changes or enhancements will eventually be part of the Sun version, too; the process of assessing patches, "upstreaming", just takes time.
It's a shame that even the Go-oo website does a poor job of explaining this on the front page (doesn't mention OpenOffice.org until nearly the very end) nor on the "about" page.
Now, if they could just add a feature that held any emails sent after 2am for 12 hours, aka the "sober up first" rule, thus preventing me from waking up after a bender thinking, "oh crap, did I really send that email confessing my true feelings to that girl I had a crush on in high school but hadn't talked to in 15 years?", life would be just great.
I thought Slashdot already had an article on this feature. It's called Mail Goggles. It won't stop you from sending the email, but it may slow you down.
Please, you're not helping the case with posts like these.
Now you only added to the major misbelief "BitTorrent = pirates"
Well, I'd say it's more like "BitTorrent Usage = pirate with 0.82 probability"[1].
Yeah, yeah... we all know there's legitimate usages for BT. Various software distros, patches, free media distribution, and so on. I've used it for that purpose, too. But like many others, I've also used it to *ahem* sample media.
It's interesting the perspective one can have after several hours and doses of caffeine. That being said, astonishingly good satire is virtually indistinguishable from reality. And there do exist a group of people out there who might feel this way.
The breastfeeding rate would fall. Child abuse in the form of bottle feeding would become rife, with obvious negative effects...
I'm sorry, I may need more coffee, but did you just say that parents who bottle-feed their children are committing child abuse? Well then, call children's services to my house.
I'm in agreement that breast-feeding is the ideal. However, there are plenty of legitimate reasons for bottle-feeding a child. You may not be creative enough to think of a few. Or I've been trolled. Hmm, that might be it. But what the hell, I'll post this anyhow.
Here's a story about two friends with a passing interest in computer work: one is a highly-skilled (former) US Army linguist, the other is a recently laid-off pastor. At times within the last year both have asked me (the geekiest of our clan of friends) about "getting into computers" and "making websites" (*cringe*).
It's hard to offer advice to people who've suddenly decided this is what they want to do... and there's absolutely no comparison to my history of interest, hobbyist pursuits, self-teaching and so on going back to 1985.
I feel for the hotshot larval geek that's been programming since he was in the single digits, knows 3-4 operating systems, and can put together a computer in 15 minutes while getting a blowjob and having a gun pointed at his head...
Although I am grateful to be gainfully employed, could you please tell me where you interviewed?
Okay, you got me. I'm married. But you're not reading this, are you honey?
Hey. Those 50-year-old men pay my salary (indirectly) at a large international bicycle company. Don't write them off just yet. Besides, the multi-thousand dollar carbon frames are definitely for the serious road bike enthusiasts and while they're an important part of our annual sales figures, we've been selling carbon fiber frames for road bikes and mountain bikes for several years. (Want to see a *really* expensive bike? Check out some high-end carbon hardtail frames.)
And yet there will be a large number of people who will use IE8. And we'll have to make at least a token effort to get our pages to render properly there, too. Because our jobs depend on it. As it's said, there's "in theory" and there's "in practice", right?
Slashdot Mirror
"Hello?"
"There are three flowers in a vase. The third one is green."
Nuclear fuel is a fossil fuel...
Uhm, methinks you meant fissile fuel?
That doesn't sound so bad. I really appreciate talented cellists and th... oh. sorry.
Your post advocates a ...
Oh, I'll let someone else do that. *sigh*
My company's Websense filter blocked the site, and I was sure it was an error. Apparently not! It seems the linked story was originally a Reuters story -- couldn't we have gotten that from elsewhere?
I think you've got the first part right, anyhow. What business have you ever known to reduce price in such a manner? Any "low" QoS traffic will continue to be billed at pre-QoS billing rates.
Coming soon to a bookstore near you: If I Renovated It, Here's How It Happened.
I know, I know, everything on the Internet is a commodity now. But tell me - what happens when there is no one left to produce that commodity?
Why, blog journalists, of course. Am I joking or am I serious? What would be the result of a shift of this nature? Discuss...
Yes, that... and Capitalism.
It *does* sound like paradise... but do you think we could really get rid of them that easily?
[attn humor-impaired: the preceding was a joke]
It's a basilisk.
How about...
* First Post
* Slash-Scandal Modder: http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=display&uid=442574&id=4236)
* Avoids Metamoderation
* Replies to self
* Incognito (no friends, no foes)
For others (like me) who are familiar with OOo but never heard of "Go-oo", Wikipedia says,
Go-oo is a concentrated set of patches for the cross-platform OpenOffice.org office suite. Go-oo is also one of OpenOffice.org variants created from these patches. It has better support for Office Open XML file formats than the official OpenOffice.org releases produced by Sun Microsystems, and other enhancements that have either not yet been accepted into the upstream Sun version, or will not be because of business or political reasons. Some of these changes or enhancements will eventually be part of the Sun version, too; the process of assessing patches, "upstreaming", just takes time.
It's a shame that even the Go-oo website does a poor job of explaining this on the front page (doesn't mention OpenOffice.org until nearly the very end) nor on the "about" page.
Yeah, at least some friggin' tooltips on buttons/images etc would be helpful. And for the love of pete, wtf is "daddypants"?
Brings a whole new meaning to "get your rocks off".
IBS.
Now, if they could just add a feature that held any emails sent after 2am for 12 hours, aka the "sober up first" rule, thus preventing me from waking up after a bender thinking, "oh crap, did I really send that email confessing my true feelings to that girl I had a crush on in high school but hadn't talked to in 15 years?", life would be just great.
I thought Slashdot already had an article on this feature. It's called Mail Goggles. It won't stop you from sending the email, but it may slow you down.
Please, you're not helping the case with posts like these.
Now you only added to the major misbelief "BitTorrent = pirates"
Well, I'd say it's more like "BitTorrent Usage = pirate with 0.82 probability"[1].
Yeah, yeah... we all know there's legitimate usages for BT. Various software distros, patches, free media distribution, and so on. I've used it for that purpose, too. But like many others, I've also used it to *ahem* sample media.
[1] totally made up, but it feels right to me.
This article is retarded (as in handicapped, not special).
Hey, you owe somebody an apology for that "gaffe".
It's interesting the perspective one can have after several hours and doses of caffeine. That being said, astonishingly good satire is virtually indistinguishable from reality. And there do exist a group of people out there who might feel this way.
There seem to exists extremists of every color.
The breastfeeding rate would fall. Child abuse in the form of bottle feeding would become rife, with obvious negative effects ...
I'm sorry, I may need more coffee, but did you just say that parents who bottle-feed their children are committing child abuse ? Well then, call children's services to my house.
I'm in agreement that breast-feeding is the ideal. However, there are plenty of legitimate reasons for bottle-feeding a child. You may not be creative enough to think of a few. Or I've been trolled. Hmm, that might be it. But what the hell, I'll post this anyhow.
Here's a story about two friends with a passing interest in computer work: one is a highly-skilled (former) US Army linguist, the other is a recently laid-off pastor. At times within the last year both have asked me (the geekiest of our clan of friends) about "getting into computers" and "making websites" (*cringe*).
It's hard to offer advice to people who've suddenly decided this is what they want to do... and there's absolutely no comparison to my history of interest, hobbyist pursuits, self-teaching and so on going back to 1985.
I feel for the hotshot larval geek that's been programming since he was in the single digits, knows 3-4 operating systems, and can put together a computer in 15 minutes while getting a blowjob and having a gun pointed at his head...
Although I am grateful to be gainfully employed, could you please tell me where you interviewed?
Okay, you got me. I'm married. But you're not reading this, are you honey?
Hey. Those 50-year-old men pay my salary (indirectly) at a large international bicycle company. Don't write them off just yet. Besides, the multi-thousand dollar carbon frames are definitely for the serious road bike enthusiasts and while they're an important part of our annual sales figures, we've been selling carbon fiber frames for road bikes and mountain bikes for several years. (Want to see a *really* expensive bike? Check out some high-end carbon hardtail frames.)
But I digress.
You know, I can't say I disagree with anything you've said in the above post, save for "drawing the line".
I do despise IE for a multitude of reasons. It is the enemy. See http://tomaskral.cz.nyud.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/antiexplorer.jpg which I have posted in my cube.
And yet there will be a large number of people who will use IE8. And we'll have to make at least a token effort to get our pages to render properly there, too. Because our jobs depend on it. As it's said, there's "in theory" and there's "in practice", right?