Ok, maybe there's some misunderstanding. This is a publicly run news site. Hence, we have all those people who do a great job hunting broken links and side stories. C'mon.
What do we have to do to get that concept out to the world? Hire the USA for Africa chorus to do We Are Slashdot?
To put it another way this is a Free News site like in Discussion, not Comments (Free Speech not Beer).
I'm working on a few high impact projects, and the greatest kick is the $0 cost in R&D. Zilch, nada, ZERO. Just thye cost of an Internet account. Heck a school email account would suffice except that I escaped from college.
Slashdot can do the same. People have to realize this isn't television. It's news for anyone who wants to sweat a little to get it and maintain it.
Sorry, but no thanks. I can deal with finding out something is not what I thought it was, I even check back after reading an article. It's the information age, if you don't do the follow ups on your own you have no reason to complain that you got the wrong information. This isn't a chat room. It's a discussion and news service run not by Hemos, Taco, nor anyone else but the readers.
There's no reason to separate the clarity crew or slashdot ministry of truth from the readers. The readers are the "Ministry of Truth".
And frankly, I don't think the readers have full responsibility. I do in fact believe it was also partial RedHat's responsibility to announce this before we had to find out from slashdot.
I've been waiting for a news service that actually fights back. So no I don't want to make anyone more comfortable.
I'm calling for an Announcements Category and an Announcements Slashbox across the bottom of the screen since it is a special slashbox.
As fo the Unisys GIF thing... I'm going to play devil's advocate and say that one has to wonder what the point of a $40K education is if you can't start a business because you have to be Bill Gates to afford all the ridiculous patents?
Sure we had a few loud mouths flaming at 451 F degrees. Now you know why.
And the Aussie CDA thing DID HAPPEN! I don't see how that was a rumor.
By the way how would the slashdot Ministry of Truth cut down on submissions? I'd expect it to quadruple given the fact people do want information.
From what I understand, only a small part of the kernel needs to be retailored for new processor designs. The rest is architecture independent.
But will libraries have to be reinvented for palmtop computers or will PC size programs port reasonably easily to these platforms? Can you run gtk, tk, or tcl, progs on palmtops? An example: gnomehack or Qtnethack. Can I play that on the road? Or will I have to perform drastic surgery on the source?
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Ok, maybe there's some misunderstanding. This is a publicly run news site. Hence, we have all those people who do a great job hunting broken links and side stories. C'mon.
What do we have to do to get that concept out to the world? Hire the USA for Africa chorus to do We Are Slashdot?
To put it another way this is a Free News site like in Discussion, not Comments (Free Speech not Beer).
I'm working on a few high impact projects, and the greatest kick is the $0 cost in R&D. Zilch, nada, ZERO. Just thye cost of an Internet account. Heck a school email account would suffice except that I escaped from college.
Slashdot can do the same. People have to realize this isn't television. It's news for anyone who wants to sweat a little to get it and maintain it.
* Thread articles as well as posts. E.g. this article would be the next in the RH Trademark thread, and so on...
That's what the more on... slashbox is for. I do like the threaded article idea.
Sorry, but no thanks. I can deal with finding out something is not what I thought it was, I even check back after reading an article. It's the information age, if you don't do the follow ups on your own you have no reason to complain that you got the wrong information. This isn't a chat room. It's a discussion and news service run not by Hemos, Taco, nor anyone else but the readers.
There's no reason to separate the clarity crew or slashdot ministry of truth from the readers. The readers are the "Ministry of Truth".
And frankly, I don't think the readers have full responsibility. I do in fact believe it was also partial RedHat's responsibility to announce this before we had to find out from slashdot.
I've been waiting for a news service that actually fights back. So no I don't want to make anyone more comfortable.
I'm calling for an Announcements Category and an Announcements Slashbox across the bottom of the screen since it is a special slashbox.
As fo the Unisys GIF thing... I'm going to play devil's advocate and say that one has to wonder what the point of a $40K education is if you can't start a business because you have to be Bill Gates to afford all the ridiculous patents?
Sure we had a few loud mouths flaming at 451 F degrees. Now you know why.
And the Aussie CDA thing DID HAPPEN! I don't see how that was a rumor.
By the way how would the slashdot Ministry of Truth cut down on submissions? I'd expect it to quadruple given the fact people do want information.
BFD, that's why we have 40+ distributions.
If RedHat atarts singing a different tune I'll get Debian GNU/Linux and sell my own derivative of that.
Frankly, I expect them to tighten down some, but still stay on the good side of users of Linux, not Linux users and not the so-called Linux community.
It's not like we're a bunch of zombies.
From what I understand, only a small part of the kernel needs to be retailored for new processor designs. The rest is architecture independent.
But will libraries have to be reinvented for palmtop computers or will PC size programs port reasonably easily to these platforms? Can you run gtk, tk, or tcl, progs on palmtops?
An example: gnomehack or Qtnethack. Can I play that on the road? Or will I have to perform drastic surgery on the source?