Well, not bugs per se, but suggestions for smoother operation of Slashdot under the New Regime:
On the front page, do not list total comments; rather, only list the number of comments that match the user's filterlevel;
When clicking a link to a particular article, shut all filtering off. Often I link to a particular article that turns out to be of Weight 1, and my filters, being set at 2, present me with a totally blank page;
In the User's bio page, show the score for each article he's posted and the Average Score for that user's postings
These minor improvements could really make Slashdot's moderation system exceedingly neat.
...if copyright slavery only benefits a very few (and, indeed, it does - for example, there are but 5 major record companies today, and they each insist on owning the copyrights of their artists' work), then it should be abolished in the name of equality.
Please!
I refuse to concede that any man's work should be thown to the wolves simply because no one else could match its value. This is what the anti-trust vultures of the Progressive era were thinking when they established the laws that let the U.S. Government break up Standard Oil and, now, Microsoft.
There is a very good reason those five major record companies exist - they've produced a fabulous product. Prior to 1995, you wouldn't have been able to hear that wonderful Pink Floyd or, for those of you with less cultured taste, Coolio - the record companies have mass-produced this aural juice for your consumption, and virtually created a field that wouldn't have otherwise existed. If they're skinning you alive in the process, god bless 'em! You're buying the product. And without them, you'd have never heard 95% of the CDs in your bookshelf right now.
Now, I do grant that the old system of record distribution and 'signing' of artists is hurtling toward a brick wall of major proportions - that is, the digital music distribution system. Our new system can very likely kill the traditional system, giving a cheap alternative to the fourteen dollar CDs they sell here in New York.
That's capitalism, though - for as long as you're willing to spend large dollars to buy a product, someone'll be happy to sell it to you. As soon as a large group of buyers decide it isn't worth as much green, the price drops. Supply and demand govern our society, and you needn't bitch about how the old establishment sucks when a better system arrives. The better system will simply crush the old one.
The compact disk industry you so despise grew out of the ashes of the old jazz music scene. I'm sure most of you hackers like being able to listen to CDs while you read slashdot, whether you're listening to the CD itself or an mp3 rip. Thanks to this vile, dirty, evil capitalist record industry, you're listening to music at home, not just in a Jazz club every sunday night.
Capitalism is the most dynamic, productive, and moral socio-economic system. Your bitching won't change the habits of those you buy from - your collective wallets will.
Accountants never do anything consequential, no offense. They just count beans. The people who create things are the movers and shakers of a generation, and by and large, these will prove to be the Digital Industrialists, all of whom are netizens.
The Kant you speak of is probably writing his great thesis with a iMac, of all those. Hell, we have to work out where we're going first.
Yes. Jon speaks of an epistemological revolution, but this movement is in its infancy. Thirty years from now, when Generation X (and Y and Z) have reached the upper eschelons of Congress and the Supreme Court, we'll begin to see our Jeffersons. The Kants who are writing today - even authors and philosophers who have been around for years but not recognized for who they represent - will begin to be nodded at twenty years from now.
Social change still takes time, however quickly information can move. People still change gradually.
I have a personal hunch that Ayn Rand will come to be recognized as one of the great philosophers of this period Katz speaks of. True, she died before it got off the ground, but her message was clear and conformant with our own actions: the man who acts rationally in his own self-interest will succeed. Rand's unappointed successors over at aynrand.org have thrown their unwavering support behind Microsoft on grounds "Gates is a capitalist and Rand's a capitalist." They've forgotten that not only is the opposing OSI initiative acting on incredibly Capitalist bases, they're stretching the limits of the term, doing anything to achieve personal gain.
The next century's first half will see a major revolution in favor of laissez-faire economics and free thought. Rand's people are right - Microsoft should not be hit with a Government lawsuit. But MS will be brought down, as the playing field is releveled, by a superior competing product.
I'm using the Mozilla builds to hit slashdot daily; a number of image rendering bugs exist, but it's -already- nicer to look at than MSIE 4.5 (the Mac equivalent of five). The UI may 'suck' now, but take a gander at how easily it can be changed... the toolbars are CSS/XUL; a content provider can replace them with custom ones, should they desire - and so can the average hacker.:)
Perhaps questions regarding building should be researched at mozilla.org, not posted on slashdot where they get in the way of discussion about the product?
I hardly think that a lack of knowledge of the fifties and sixties - one of comics, in particular, a field I've never been interested in - qualifies me as a "cultural illiterate".
Lost In Space had been dead ten-plus years when I popped out of my mother's womb; I wasn't around back then. And yet I've got a more comprehensive knowledge of American cultural history than most people I work with - people who were alive when LIS was hot stuff.
Sidenote: Hey Rob! Can we get an autoignore function for lamers who're too cowardly to leave an email address? Thanks.
Apple puts decades into the construction of an OS and UI, and you just download the source and sell it?
Something tells me Apple wouldn't be too happy about that. Hence the termination clause. It makes total sense to me; I'd insist it was in there were I running apple. Not doing so would result in the death of the company's software sales revenues in short order.
Open Source Software should be an adjunct to a capitalist profit-driven software industry, not a replacement.
A site (such as CNN) would have also available a totally slimmed-down version of itself, containing only very basic information - top story, list of other stories... all relevant content on that page with zero fluff or design-oriented markup.
If that 'back end' was public, Rob or anyone could just aim a script at it, suck the raw data out (really easy 'cause there's no fluff html) and parse.
It's much more difficult to hit cnn.com's mainpage; there's like ten kilobytes of markup to wade through. Backends make life easier for the hackers.
Matt Drudge never once claimed that Clinton fathered the child; the charge was alleged, and Drudge used this language. The New York Post (admittedly hardly the bastion of journalistic integrity) ran with this. Drudge was careful as always to use precise language.
Billy J. Clinton never once claimed that Clinton fathered the child; the charge was alleged, and the New York Post (admittedly hardly the bastion of journalistic integrity) ran with this. Drudge was careful as always to use precise language.
I know it's completely repulsive to some of you HTML 2.0 diehards, but - what about allowing the site be displayed in fonts of our choosing?
I'd leave the headline the way it is and select Palatino 10 for the body text, and Arial or Helvetica 10 for the side boxes. But that's just me, and I'm an eclectic. I wouldn't want to force my will on others. No, never.
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Well, not bugs per se, but suggestions for smoother operation of Slashdot under the New Regime:
These minor improvements could really make Slashdot's moderation system exceedingly neat.
Please!
I refuse to concede that any man's work should be thown to the wolves simply because no one else could match its value. This is what the anti-trust vultures of the Progressive era were thinking when they established the laws that let the U.S. Government break up Standard Oil and, now, Microsoft.
There is a very good reason those five major record companies exist - they've produced a fabulous product. Prior to 1995, you wouldn't have been able to hear that wonderful Pink Floyd or, for those of you with less cultured taste, Coolio - the record companies have mass-produced this aural juice for your consumption, and virtually created a field that wouldn't have otherwise existed. If they're skinning you alive in the process, god bless 'em! You're buying the product. And without them, you'd have never heard 95% of the CDs in your bookshelf right now.
Now, I do grant that the old system of record distribution and 'signing' of artists is hurtling toward a brick wall of major proportions - that is, the digital music distribution system. Our new system can very likely kill the traditional system, giving a cheap alternative to the fourteen dollar CDs they sell here in New York.
That's capitalism, though - for as long as you're willing to spend large dollars to buy a product, someone'll be happy to sell it to you. As soon as a large group of buyers decide it isn't worth as much green, the price drops. Supply and demand govern our society, and you needn't bitch about how the old establishment sucks when a better system arrives. The better system will simply crush the old one.
The compact disk industry you so despise grew out of the ashes of the old jazz music scene. I'm sure most of you hackers like being able to listen to CDs while you read slashdot, whether you're listening to the CD itself or an mp3 rip. Thanks to this vile, dirty, evil capitalist record industry, you're listening to music at home, not just in a Jazz club every sunday night.
Capitalism is the most dynamic, productive, and moral socio-economic system. Your bitching won't change the habits of those you buy from - your collective wallets will.
Accountants never do anything consequential, no offense. They just count beans. The people who create things are the movers and shakers of a generation, and by and large, these will prove to be the Digital Industrialists, all of whom are netizens.
Yes. Jon speaks of an epistemological revolution, but this movement is in its infancy. Thirty years from now, when Generation X (and Y and Z) have reached the upper eschelons of Congress and the Supreme Court, we'll begin to see our Jeffersons. The Kants who are writing today - even authors and philosophers who have been around for years but not recognized for who they represent - will begin to be nodded at twenty years from now.
Social change still takes time, however quickly information can move. People still change gradually.
I have a personal hunch that Ayn Rand will come to be recognized as one of the great philosophers of this period Katz speaks of. True, she died before it got off the ground, but her message was clear and conformant with our own actions: the man who acts rationally in his own self-interest will succeed. Rand's unappointed successors over at aynrand.org have thrown their unwavering support behind Microsoft on grounds "Gates is a capitalist and Rand's a capitalist." They've forgotten that not only is the opposing OSI initiative acting on incredibly Capitalist bases, they're stretching the limits of the term, doing anything to achieve personal gain.
The next century's first half will see a major revolution in favor of laissez-faire economics and free thought. Rand's people are right - Microsoft should not be hit with a Government lawsuit. But MS will be brought down, as the playing field is releveled, by a superior competing product.
Let's get working.
I'm using the Mozilla builds to hit slashdot daily; a number of image rendering bugs exist, but it's -already- nicer to look at than MSIE 4.5 (the Mac equivalent of five). The UI may 'suck' now, but take a gander at how easily it can be changed... the toolbars are CSS/XUL; a content provider can replace them with custom ones, should they desire - and so can the average hacker. :)
Perhaps questions regarding building should be researched at mozilla.org, not posted on slashdot where they get in the way of discussion about the product?
I hardly think that a lack of knowledge of the fifties and sixties - one of comics, in particular, a field I've never been interested in - qualifies me as a "cultural illiterate".
Lost In Space had been dead ten-plus years when I popped out of my mother's womb; I wasn't around back then. And yet I've got a more comprehensive knowledge of American cultural history than most people I work with - people who were alive when LIS was hot stuff.
Sidenote: Hey Rob! Can we get an autoignore function for lamers who're too cowardly to leave an email address? Thanks.
I personally plan to convert all the images on http://sine.com/ to PNG as soon as Photoshop can properly export them.
That site already won't display properly in most browsers - though it will in Gecko.
Let's think about this for a minute.
Apple puts decades into the construction of an OS and UI, and you just download the source and sell it?
Something tells me Apple wouldn't be too happy about that. Hence the termination clause. It makes total sense to me; I'd insist it was in there were I running apple. Not doing so would result in the death of the company's software sales revenues in short order.
Open Source Software should be an adjunct to a capitalist profit-driven software industry, not a replacement.
A site (such as CNN) would have also available a totally slimmed-down version of itself, containing only very basic information - top story, list of other stories... all relevant content on that page with zero fluff or design-oriented markup.
If that 'back end' was public, Rob or anyone could just aim a script at it, suck the raw data out (really easy 'cause there's no fluff html) and parse.
It's much more difficult to hit cnn.com's mainpage; there's like ten kilobytes of markup to wade through. Backends make life easier for the hackers.
Matt Drudge never once claimed that Clinton fathered the child; the charge was alleged, and Drudge used this language. The New York Post (admittedly hardly the bastion of journalistic integrity) ran with this. Drudge was careful as always to use precise language.
Nyah.
Billy J. Clinton never once claimed that Clinton fathered the child; the charge was alleged, and the New York Post (admittedly hardly the bastion of journalistic integrity) ran with this. Drudge was careful as always to use precise language.
Nyah.
Sometimes I can't stand these bastards. When is it that their contract runs out and other companies begin offering TLDs anyway?
I know it's completely repulsive to some of you HTML 2.0 diehards, but - what about allowing the site be displayed in fonts of our choosing?
I'd leave the headline the way it is and select Palatino 10 for the body text, and Arial or Helvetica 10 for the side boxes. But that's just me, and I'm an eclectic. I wouldn't want to force my will on others. No, never.
First off, fabulous job rob. This is amazing. You're the closest thing I'll ever have to a home page.
Now, the suggestions: The following sites are just begging to be added.
I look forward to the day when I can take the above sites off 'Evan Vetere's SLashbox'.
Blahahahaha.
:)
I'm sorry. That was insanely stupid of me.