Automobiles killed the buggy whip industry. The incandescant light bulb killed the candle, kerosine, and gas lamp industries. The computer killed the typewriter.
One thing that annoys me about Google (and all the other search engines as well) is if you search for a book that is in the public domain (Mark Train, Shakespeare, etc) it usually has Amazon.com as its first result.
The wayback machine is a wonderful resource, but woefully incomplete. My old Quake site is there, but not completely there. A lot of the graphics are missing. And Niel harriot's Yello There, a hilarious parody of Blue's News, is completey missing, except one page of his site that I had posted at my site.
Neil was a Brit who had MS and I haven't heard from him in years, the last email I got from him he was in a wheelchair. I fear he has left the planet.
Gates started the company. More germaine would be President Bush and Vice President Cheney's drunk driving covictions. I'd say something that could result in people getting killed is a lot more serious than streaking.
That said, I found some of my own writings from the 1970s. I'm glad we didn't have the internet, you think my stuff NOW is weird...
"Groovy?" I'm 56 and never once heard anyone not on a stage use that incredibly stupid, media-coined world. So I agree, please fnd a way off this rock!
"Don't be evil" is just an advertising slogan, like "At Pontiac we build excietement" (bad brakes, crappy handling), "Chevy - Like A Rock" (damned thing won't start), "At Ford, Quality is job 1" (Got their work cut out for them).
Don't BE evil is a lot different than don't DO evil. They have certainly done evil; look at China, look at their doubleclick purchase, look at that Chrome snafu last week that they quickly rectified (kudos to them for that). Evil can be done mistakenly. And they're a corporation, beholden to no one but their stickholders.
That said, this certainly is Good,. I'm hopeful that their archives will go back to the 1870s, because I may be able to find out what my name is/was.
My late uncle did geneological research, and could not find out anything earlier than his own grandfather (although he found a wealth of information on his mother). My great grandfather, Harry McGrew, wasn't born McGrew. His parents died is a train wreck some time in the 1870s when he was a small child and he was raised by a man named McGrew in Indiana. Indiana law forbits release of adoption records, even that old.
When I first got on the internet I searched for train wrecks in the 1970s but found little to nothing. I haven't really looked since then. But if these archives go back that far, there should be newspaper accounts of train wrecks during that decade.
At any rate, this should be an incredibly valuable resource for a whole lot of people. I salute and thank the people at Google for this.
Historically, history has been written by the victors of conflicts. Recently (the last few hundred years) history has been written by the newspapers. Interestingly, since the newspapers are owned by the corporations that really rule the world, history has STILL been written by the victors.
For example, judging by newspaper accounts only, the US has only two political parties, when in fact we have five parties on the ballot in enough states to win - were the newspapers honest enough to report on them. We're lucky that the newspapers no longer have a lock on what is percieved as reality, and the "third party" parties' web sites wshould leave records for the future.
Anytime I meta comment on moderation I get sent to karma hell.
I wasn't talking about commenting on moderating. There's a thing called metamoderation where you moderate the moderators. They give you a list of ten random comments that have been moderated, and you moderate the moderation as "fair" or "unfair". Comments modded "Funny" you metamoderate as "funny" or "unfunny". Allegedly, if you metamoderate a mod as "unfair" the moderator won't get any more mod points for a while.
I usually metamoderate daily, sometimes twice. Most mods I see are fair; most of the ones I mark as "unfair" were modded "troll" or "flamebait" because some idiot disagreed with the comment (often I disagree with the downmodded comment yet still downmod the moderator). From what I've seen in others' journals, I'm pretty typical of slashdot metamoderators.
Today I've been modded 4, Funny 2, Insightful 4, Informative 0, Redundant (it was a good mod; I basically said something along the lines of "I agree with you) 4, Interesting 2, Informative and 2, Interesting.
The best way to get karma is be polite, be informative, know what you're talking about (or ask intelligent questions), get stories posted to the front page, and I suspect in my case the journals about hookers and booze help some.
I think moderation should switch to (Score:Gold Medal) and (Score:Silver Medal) so late punsters don't feel so bad.
The trouble is if your karma's not the best; "funny" will neither increase nor decrease your karma, while iinm "redundant" is bad for your karma. So if you're going to joke, it's best to make sure you have damned good karma. Not only is there the "redundant" danger, you can (and I often do) get modded "troll" or "flamebait" by the humor-impaired (or maybe because the joke's just not funny).
If you just got done metamoderating you can post anything you damned well please;)
I don't understand the term "karma whore", whouldn't a karma whore be someone selling karma by modding people up for money? If you're trying to gain karma wouldn't that make you a karma john? According to some arsewaddles in town called PORA who are trying to stamp out prostitution, the poor little whores are victims. So please, stop victimising karma whores by modding them up!
Oops... I'm offtopic. Damned prostitution union will kick me out!
Emeil is good for a once-off message, where you send one message to one person, but ask people who send out legitimates newsletter by email, only to get blocked as apam, about it.
If there's anything I can't say in a slashdot journal I haven't found it yet. Most of mine are decidedly NSFW.
It is their right to act like stupid cunts on their own site. It is my (and yours if you wish) right to bitch about it on slashdot.
Just like it was Google's right to put an evil EULA on their browser and our right to bitch about it. Guess what? They changed the EULA. Don't like somebody's corporate policy? Bitch about it on the front page of a site as powerful as this one and they'll change it.
Considering the fact that Arthur Dent knocked the head off of a Battle Bot of Krikkit with a cricket bat, and the Krikkit robobots are the most fearsome, deadly robots in the known universe, now you have me scared shitless!
It shouldn't even be an issue of a lack of research skills
I agree, it's a pet peve of mine, too. I shouldn't HAVE to research; literary research has traditionally been following citations ("links" in the online world). Usually when someone pulls that stunt, I google and then berate them for not adding a link. Once in a while I can find something that's completely outlandish (uncyclopedia, the onion, or a wikipedia article on something that sounds the same but isn't) and make them look REALLY dumb.
I'll grant you that I'm no expert in cell phone technology, which is why I ask. This is the one place where I'll find experts in about any technology.
There is no magic way to route radio waves, anything in range will pick it up, meaning that portion of the spectrum is tied up.
Yes, my cell phone is a radio. Whatever frequency it's using the way the network is now will also be tied up, how is it any different?
There is a reason that cell systems become non-functional during disasters.
Because they rely on towers, and the trancievers at the towers get congested?
Funny thing, when a couple of tornados tore through my town a couple of years ago, my cell phone worked. My electricity was out for a week and my internet connection was out for month. Landline phones were out, but despite the fact that almost all the towers by my neighborhood (my apartment was right in the tornado's path) were down, my phone worked. None of the landline phones worked for well over a week.
Ouch! Thanks for the info (mods, please mod him "informative"). I'll have to wait until the price comes down. Seems that since they're solid state, eventually they'll be cheaper than magnetic drives.
This may not be entirely on-topic (please mod me down if it isn't), but I don't see why we can't have cell phones themselves as cell bases. It seems that when they first started, yes they needed towers but now everyone has a cell phone. When my phone's not in use, why can't it be used as a "tower" for someone else's call? We should be able to buy a cell phone and never need a phone company.
I did RTFA; at least, the first several screens. Not a word about price. If you've read the whole thing, what do these suckers cost? I want to build fanless, nose-free a media center but I ain't Bill gates (good thing too because I'll base it on Linux).
Slashdot Mirror
Heh, the closest thing to a newsletter is my /. journal. It sometimes talks about slashdot, but usually it's about booze and hookers.
Note the comment (mine) you responded to was modded offtopic, and rightly so.
Automobiles killed the buggy whip industry. The incandescant light bulb killed the candle, kerosine, and gas lamp industries. The computer killed the typewriter.
You wish for these things to return?
I see you typed your comment on an old Underwood and OCRed it!
Dude, keyboards are cheap these days...
One thing that annoys me about Google (and all the other search engines as well) is if you search for a book that is in the public domain (Mark Train, Shakespeare, etc) it usually has Amazon.com as its first result.
Now, if Facebook gets in on this action, things could get a little bit creepy. I don't look forward to being cyber-stalked by the dead.
What? I loved playing online Quake!
The wayback machine is a wonderful resource, but woefully incomplete. My old Quake site is there, but not completely there. A lot of the graphics are missing. And Niel harriot's Yello There, a hilarious parody of Blue's News, is completey missing, except one page of his site that I had posted at my site.
Neil was a Brit who had MS and I haven't heard from him in years, the last email I got from him he was in a wheelchair. I fear he has left the planet.
Gates started the company. More germaine would be President Bush and Vice President Cheney's drunk driving covictions. I'd say something that could result in people getting killed is a lot more serious than streaking.
That said, I found some of my own writings from the 1970s. I'm glad we didn't have the internet, you think my stuff NOW is weird...
"Groovy?" I'm 56 and never once heard anyone not on a stage use that incredibly stupid, media-coined world. So I agree, please fnd a way off this rock!
"Don't be evil" is just an advertising slogan, like "At Pontiac we build excietement" (bad brakes, crappy handling), "Chevy - Like A Rock" (damned thing won't start), "At Ford, Quality is job 1" (Got their work cut out for them).
Don't BE evil is a lot different than don't DO evil. They have certainly done evil; look at China, look at their doubleclick purchase, look at that Chrome snafu last week that they quickly rectified (kudos to them for that). Evil can be done mistakenly. And they're a corporation, beholden to no one but their stickholders.
That said, this certainly is Good,. I'm hopeful that their archives will go back to the 1870s, because I may be able to find out what my name is/was.
My late uncle did geneological research, and could not find out anything earlier than his own grandfather (although he found a wealth of information on his mother). My great grandfather, Harry McGrew, wasn't born McGrew. His parents died is a train wreck some time in the 1870s when he was a small child and he was raised by a man named McGrew in Indiana. Indiana law forbits release of adoption records, even that old.
When I first got on the internet I searched for train wrecks in the 1970s but found little to nothing. I haven't really looked since then. But if these archives go back that far, there should be newspaper accounts of train wrecks during that decade.
At any rate, this should be an incredibly valuable resource for a whole lot of people. I salute and thank the people at Google for this.
Historically, history has been written by the victors of conflicts. Recently (the last few hundred years) history has been written by the newspapers. Interestingly, since the newspapers are owned by the corporations that really rule the world, history has STILL been written by the victors.
For example, judging by newspaper accounts only, the US has only two political parties, when in fact we have five parties on the ballot in enough states to win - were the newspapers honest enough to report on them. We're lucky that the newspapers no longer have a lock on what is percieved as reality, and the "third party" parties' web sites wshould leave records for the future.
Anytime I meta comment on moderation I get sent to karma hell.
I wasn't talking about commenting on moderating. There's a thing called metamoderation where you moderate the moderators. They give you a list of ten random comments that have been moderated, and you moderate the moderation as "fair" or "unfair". Comments modded "Funny" you metamoderate as "funny" or "unfunny". Allegedly, if you metamoderate a mod as "unfair" the moderator won't get any more mod points for a while.
I usually metamoderate daily, sometimes twice. Most mods I see are fair; most of the ones I mark as "unfair" were modded "troll" or "flamebait" because some idiot disagreed with the comment (often I disagree with the downmodded comment yet still downmod the moderator). From what I've seen in others' journals, I'm pretty typical of slashdot metamoderators.
Today I've been modded 4, Funny 2, Insightful 4, Informative 0, Redundant (it was a good mod; I basically said something along the lines of "I agree with you) 4, Interesting 2, Informative and 2, Interesting.
The best way to get karma is be polite, be informative, know what you're talking about (or ask intelligent questions), get stories posted to the front page, and I suspect in my case the journals about hookers and booze help some.
I think the proper spelling of the phrase is "do know evil".
Why does a dog always have to be kicked? Why can't it be a cat or a rabbit?
Cats get huffed. Wabbits awe foah hunting. Shh! Be vewy, vewy quiet!
Now, I understand why it wouldn't be a snake
Kick mah trouser snake and I be poppin' a cap in yo' ass, foo!
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Posting at slashdot, Yoda is.
He's running Chrome on a Sun box running Solaris! My, it's sure quiet, Larry.
There's this thing called the "firehose", where you can actually VOTE STORIES UP OR DOWN. Of course, it doesn't work in IE6 but then again, what does?
I think moderation should switch to (Score:Gold Medal) and (Score:Silver Medal) so late punsters don't feel so bad.
The trouble is if your karma's not the best; "funny" will neither increase nor decrease your karma, while iinm "redundant" is bad for your karma. So if you're going to joke, it's best to make sure you have damned good karma. Not only is there the "redundant" danger, you can (and I often do) get modded "troll" or "flamebait" by the humor-impaired (or maybe because the joke's just not funny).
If you just got done metamoderating you can post anything you damned well please ;)
I don't understand the term "karma whore", whouldn't a karma whore be someone selling karma by modding people up for money? If you're trying to gain karma wouldn't that make you a karma john? According to some arsewaddles in town called PORA who are trying to stamp out prostitution, the poor little whores are victims. So please, stop victimising karma whores by modding them up!
Oops... I'm offtopic. Damned prostitution union will kick me out!
Do we have any karma pimps?
Emeil is good for a once-off message, where you send one message to one person, but ask people who send out legitimates newsletter by email, only to get blocked as apam, about it.
If there's anything I can't say in a slashdot journal I haven't found it yet. Most of mine are decidedly NSFW.
It is their right to act like stupid cunts on their own site. It is my (and yours if you wish) right to bitch about it on slashdot.
Just like it was Google's right to put an evil EULA on their browser and our right to bitch about it. Guess what? They changed the EULA. Don't like somebody's corporate policy? Bitch about it on the front page of a site as powerful as this one and they'll change it.
Dude, I was going to post "mod parent funny", now I have to say "mod parent fucking hilarious!"
Considering the fact that Arthur Dent knocked the head off of a Battle Bot of Krikkit with a cricket bat, and the Krikkit robobots are the most fearsome, deadly robots in the known universe, now you have me scared shitless!
I mean come on, Arthur Dent???
It shouldn't even be an issue of a lack of research skills
I agree, it's a pet peve of mine, too. I shouldn't HAVE to research; literary research has traditionally been following citations ("links" in the online world). Usually when someone pulls that stunt, I google and then berate them for not adding a link. Once in a while I can find something that's completely outlandish (uncyclopedia, the onion, or a wikipedia article on something that sounds the same but isn't) and make them look REALLY dumb.
I'll grant you that I'm no expert in cell phone technology, which is why I ask. This is the one place where I'll find experts in about any technology.
There is no magic way to route radio waves, anything in range will pick it up, meaning that portion of the spectrum is tied up.
Yes, my cell phone is a radio. Whatever frequency it's using the way the network is now will also be tied up, how is it any different?
There is a reason that cell systems become non-functional during disasters.
Because they rely on towers, and the trancievers at the towers get congested?
Funny thing, when a couple of tornados tore through my town a couple of years ago, my cell phone worked. My electricity was out for a week and my internet connection was out for month. Landline phones were out, but despite the fact that almost all the towers by my neighborhood (my apartment was right in the tornado's path) were down, my phone worked. None of the landline phones worked for well over a week.
Ouch! Thanks for the info (mods, please mod him "informative"). I'll have to wait until the price comes down. Seems that since they're solid state, eventually they'll be cheaper than magnetic drives.
This may not be entirely on-topic (please mod me down if it isn't), but I don't see why we can't have cell phones themselves as cell bases. It seems that when they first started, yes they needed towers but now everyone has a cell phone. When my phone's not in use, why can't it be used as a "tower" for someone else's call? We should be able to buy a cell phone and never need a phone company.
I did RTFA; at least, the first several screens. Not a word about price. If you've read the whole thing, what do these suckers cost? I want to build fanless, nose-free a media center but I ain't Bill gates (good thing too because I'll base it on Linux).