Good if you like Google+. Bad if you like people trying to shove Google+ down your throat by taking something you depended on and making it not work without Google+. It's like saying you can't use Windows without installing Internet Explorer.
For a long time, I've felt like the problem is the food supply. Certain things just shouldn't be allowed as ingredients. Unless you can afford to buy all your groceries at the Whole Foods Market, it's significantly difficult to do grocery shopping without bringing home something that's high-fat, high-salt, or high-something else. If nothing else, the taxes on sugar should be removed so corn syrup isn't the only option.
I've heard a snake can grow a new tail if you cut it in half, while humans can't grow a new spine if you cut them in half. If that's true, one could argue that it's the humans with the defect.
I think it's because of the reason they're paying. These numbers don't reflect how much Windows, Mac, or Linux users are willing to pay for games. The numbers reflect how much they are willing to support a particular cause. It's like making a campaign donation.
I think either this movement has no well-spoken people, or the absolute worst people are being chosen to represent them in news interviews. It's as if the media operations want this group to appear inept. The ones who could actually talk about what's wrong with our systems, and why they're worth protesting, never seem to get shown on the news. It reminds me of when events would happen in the ghettos and the news crews would walk past all of the Black teachers, engineers, and other professionals to interview a homeless cocaine user who ends up using profanity and listing off the names of his friends.
Reporter: Could you tell us what's going on here?
Interviewee: The whole thing is bullshit and it's fucked up!
Reporter: What exactly is it that caused you all to be so upset?
Interviewee: All this fucked up shit that's going on. I want to send a shout out to my momma, pookie, and all the boys from 125th street. Fuck this shit, I'm on TV.
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move to Google+ can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over. People go where people are. It isn't the best tech that wins but the largest market share. Had Google launched Plus before "everyone and their grandmother" were on Facebook, they would have had a shot, but it's sort of too late.
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move to Bing can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over. People go where people are. It isn't the best tech that wins but the largest market share. Had Microsoft launched Bing before "everyone and their grandmother" searched with Google, they would have had a shot, but it's sort of too late.
I don't think that's quite the problem. I think people hate Facebook because they violate people's privacy wishes and they keep changing Facebook. So of course you're not going to win people over with a new service from a company that violates people's privacy and has a different setup from Facebook. That would be like trying to lure people, who are fed up with low bandwidth and high costs, by offering them a service with low bandwidth and high costs but from somebody different.
And yes there are the Facebook games and the fact that everybody is already hanging out there.
The way the current patent system works, they'd probably find some way to get gopher, ftp, bittorrent, and text messaging shut down, all on the grounds that it violates a patent on HTML. Something about a method of creating something based on text. But on a computer.
Slashdot needs to learn from Facebook about Moderation. Facebook has technical types, non-technical types, racists, sexists, feminists, liberals, conservatives, and everything else. And if somebody really gets on somebody else's nerves, they click on "Block". So what you have is a system in which all kinds of incompatible people are on the same website and they only see people they wish to see. Slashdot, on the other hand, doesn't let you just hide people from yourselves. It lets you mod them away so nobody else can see them either. So Facebook ends up with all kinds of people co-existing happily while Slashdot ends up with just a small group of people who are the lowest common denominator of everything a person can get modded down for. You're basically reducing the Slashdot gene pool to a small homogenous group of like-minded individuals. And that leads to the same comments being posted day after day with nothing new ever showing up, because it can't. (Modding people away) should be replaced with (hiding people from the person who doesn't want to see them).
You'd be surprised how big this site could get if you didn't make it so hostile to Christians, Chinese, women, every race other than white, Windows users, and all of the other groups that are essentially shut out at the moment. If you must keep your current system, you should consider making it so highly moderated comments float to the top but low-moderated comments never actually disappear. If the comments are spam comments then just delete them manually. They'll be easy to find because they'll be at the bottom.
I don't know about iPhones but the site seems basically unusable on an Android phone. There should be a mobile version.
The site is almost unusable on a regular computer. It takes forever for "Preview" to work and then another forever for "Submit" to work. And I don't know if this happens to everybody but often I've seen an icon with the word "Working" stay at the bottom of the screen the entire time I was on the site.
The stories on the website homepage don't match the stories on the RSS feed.
I know you like to repeatedly bring up the subjects that get people talking, but the duplication is ridiculous. I think you could find a daily podcast or look at the Twitter trending topics or draw from numerous other sources to find something that matters each day.
Maybe the risk system worked so many times that they stopped taking it seriously. Maybe they have a risk assessment guy who has gotten used to clicking "Allow" all day long. Sound familiar?
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Turn off Javascript and you (and google) will see only the highly moderated ones in full, with others abbreviated or hidden.
A sensible approach.
Only sensible if the comments were moderated in a sensible way...
"Yes I'm black, but I've got rounded corners. That's different."
Good if you like Google+. Bad if you like people trying to shove Google+ down your throat by taking something you depended on and making it not work without Google+. It's like saying you can't use Windows without installing Internet Explorer.
I was with you until you said .Net and Visual Studio were the best development environment on the planet.
There doesn't seem to be a good alternative to Yahoo groups, aside from building your own forum.
I'll bet there are more people using Bing than people using Google+.
For a long time, I've felt like the problem is the food supply. Certain things just shouldn't be allowed as ingredients. Unless you can afford to buy all your groceries at the Whole Foods Market, it's significantly difficult to do grocery shopping without bringing home something that's high-fat, high-salt, or high-something else. If nothing else, the taxes on sugar should be removed so corn syrup isn't the only option.
Maybe they can celebrate by adding a $300 tax to the cost of all computers and mp3 players once a year.
I've heard a snake can grow a new tail if you cut it in half, while humans can't grow a new spine if you cut them in half. If that's true, one could argue that it's the humans with the defect.
While we're at it, where is the outrage over everything you type in the Firefox address bar being sent to Google by default?
I think the lawyers should hold up a white iPad and a 10-inch Samsung LCD and see if the judge can tell which is which.
I was thinking it would be good as an indicator of whether a device is on or off, instead of a red light to indicate "standby" mode,
It's not just them. There are still people out there who say Windows crashes all the time and runs everything with root access.
They may not be do-nothing cynics, but the last thing we need is deluded people with "martial arts training" running around macing people.
No need for cop-bashing. There has to be a few good ones out there.
Well it's first to file so you can't do it anymore.
I think it's because of the reason they're paying. These numbers don't reflect how much Windows, Mac, or Linux users are willing to pay for games. The numbers reflect how much they are willing to support a particular cause. It's like making a campaign donation.
I think either this movement has no well-spoken people, or the absolute worst people are being chosen to represent them in news interviews. It's as if the media operations want this group to appear inept. The ones who could actually talk about what's wrong with our systems, and why they're worth protesting, never seem to get shown on the news. It reminds me of when events would happen in the ghettos and the news crews would walk past all of the Black teachers, engineers, and other professionals to interview a homeless cocaine user who ends up using profanity and listing off the names of his friends.
Reporter: Could you tell us what's going on here?
Interviewee: The whole thing is bullshit and it's fucked up!
Reporter: What exactly is it that caused you all to be so upset?
Interviewee: All this fucked up shit that's going on. I want to send a shout out to my momma, pookie, and all the boys from 125th street. Fuck this shit, I'm on TV.
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move to Google+ can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over. People go where people are. It isn't the best tech that wins but the largest market share. Had Google launched Plus before "everyone and their grandmother" were on Facebook, they would have had a shot, but it's sort of too late.
The biggest problem is that those of us who want to move to Bing can't convince enough of our less techy friends to move over. People go where people are. It isn't the best tech that wins but the largest market share. Had Microsoft launched Bing before "everyone and their grandmother" searched with Google, they would have had a shot, but it's sort of too late.
I don't think that's quite the problem. I think people hate Facebook because they violate people's privacy wishes and they keep changing Facebook. So of course you're not going to win people over with a new service from a company that violates people's privacy and has a different setup from Facebook. That would be like trying to lure people, who are fed up with low bandwidth and high costs, by offering them a service with low bandwidth and high costs but from somebody different.
And yes there are the Facebook games and the fact that everybody is already hanging out there.
The way the current patent system works, they'd probably find some way to get gopher, ftp, bittorrent, and text messaging shut down, all on the grounds that it violates a patent on HTML. Something about a method of creating something based on text. But on a computer.
If that's the case then I'd wonder if they can upgrade the phone antennas too. That would be really nice.
I got my EVO 3D two or three months ago. The way this sounds, they could stop supporting my phone before the 2-year contract is up.
Slashdot needs to learn from Facebook about Moderation. Facebook has technical types, non-technical types, racists, sexists, feminists, liberals, conservatives, and everything else. And if somebody really gets on somebody else's nerves, they click on "Block". So what you have is a system in which all kinds of incompatible people are on the same website and they only see people they wish to see. Slashdot, on the other hand, doesn't let you just hide people from yourselves. It lets you mod them away so nobody else can see them either. So Facebook ends up with all kinds of people co-existing happily while Slashdot ends up with just a small group of people who are the lowest common denominator of everything a person can get modded down for. You're basically reducing the Slashdot gene pool to a small homogenous group of like-minded individuals. And that leads to the same comments being posted day after day with nothing new ever showing up, because it can't. (Modding people away) should be replaced with (hiding people from the person who doesn't want to see them).
You'd be surprised how big this site could get if you didn't make it so hostile to Christians, Chinese, women, every race other than white, Windows users, and all of the other groups that are essentially shut out at the moment. If you must keep your current system, you should consider making it so highly moderated comments float to the top but low-moderated comments never actually disappear. If the comments are spam comments then just delete them manually. They'll be easy to find because they'll be at the bottom.
I don't know about iPhones but the site seems basically unusable on an Android phone. There should be a mobile version.
The site is almost unusable on a regular computer. It takes forever for "Preview" to work and then another forever for "Submit" to work. And I don't know if this happens to everybody but often I've seen an icon with the word "Working" stay at the bottom of the screen the entire time I was on the site.
The stories on the website homepage don't match the stories on the RSS feed.
I know you like to repeatedly bring up the subjects that get people talking, but the duplication is ridiculous. I think you could find a daily podcast or look at the Twitter trending topics or draw from numerous other sources to find something that matters each day.
Maybe the risk system worked so many times that they stopped taking it seriously. Maybe they have a risk assessment guy who has gotten used to clicking "Allow" all day long. Sound familiar?
It turns out "caret mode" was on, which screws page up and page down. This can be turned off by pressing F7.