Hell I'd even consider subscribing if the editors could keep their "witty" comments to themselves or give us an option for viewing submissions without editor comments
I've had half a dozen submissions posted (one last night, it was the first one this year) and sometimes submissions are straight from the submitter without even typos corrected, and sometimes they completely rewrite the submitter's summary (like the one I submitted yesterday afternoon so don't blame ME).
Contrary to popular opinion, slashdot editors do edit. They may of may not be good at editing, but they do edit. Or not, as they see fit, I've found.
No, but the first moderator of a first post will always mod it "troll", "flamebait", "offtopic", or hilariously "redundant" even if its final moderation winds up as +5.
Because of that I hate getting first post, but I guess that's the price of being a fast reader.
As to "Frist Post", does that congresscritter actually comment at slashdot?
I've seen a few sigs that echo this sentiment humorously; "Slow down cowboy, it's been 11 minutes since you last made a comment. Chances are, you type faster the 11 words per minute".
I understand the reasoning for the "slow down, cowboy", and mostly approve, but there are a few times when the slowdown seems inappropriate.
One is in one's own journal. I don't see any reason at all to have a "slow down cowboy" in your own journal.
The second is responding to a response to your comment, especially when you are getting to the comment through the "slashdot message system". How can it truly be a discussion when you can't reply to a response?
The third would be on stories older than 24 hours old. By then pretty much everyone has had a chance to comment.
I almost never comment anonymously, so I was surprised the other day when I tried to. A user posted an anonymous comment with the statement "sorry for the AC posting but I just moderated in this thread." I was going to point out that what he was doing was a bit unethical; the system is set up so you can't comment in topics you're modding for a reason. I was also going to say "there are legitimate reasons for posting AC" and wanted to illustrate this by posting AC. An hour later I still couldn't submit the comment, so I gave up. I was logged in; I checked the "no karma bonus" and "post anonymously" for the offtopic comment. If I had been posting anonymously all day I would understand this, but it was my first anonymous comment in months. I don't understand why it was so much longer than my usual four minutes.
I was surprised to find that you can metamoderate a comment that is in response to your own comment. I wouldn't have thought the system would have been set up like that, but I've seen it twice now.
Another suggestion would be on a user's "journal" link. Often I'll see a funny or interesting comment and want to see a user's journal, click the link and find that he's only made two journals and the latest is from some time in 2003. Rather than the link saying simply "journal, I'd like to see "latest journal entry [&date]".
And now for something completely different, I'd like to see TWO BRICKS BEING SMASHED TOGETHER</Python>
People with checks have always gummed up the works. I always hated getting behind an old lady in a checkout line, because she kept her purse on the shoulder until the cashier asked for her money. Then she had to dig through her purse and hunt for it (just like money and credit cards, but the grannies have always used checks), hunt for an ink pen, slowly fill the check out while everyone waited.
But the Visa commercial I'm talking about doesn't have people writing checks. It has the line holdup from money.
Oddly, credit cards used to be almost as fast as cash. What's slow about them now is the online authentication process; sometimes I think the credit card's servers use 286es powered by gerbil wheels. But before the computer age, you would hand the card to the cashier, he would put the carbon slip in the machine, run it and hand it back putting the top copy in the register and handing the customer the bottom copy, no authentication and no wait.
As corporations go, Google is a good one. But that's like saying as dogs go, German Shepherds are good ones; that breed bites, too. They're a corporation, and if evil is necessary for profits they will do evil.
Have you seen the Visa ads where everyone uses a Visa card and the line flows smoothly while the guy with money gums up the works, exactly the opposite of how the real world works? That's how corporations think.
Corporations are by necessity hedonistic. There are no morals, only ethics. And they write their own code of ethics. God has nothing to do with a corporation. Money is the corporate god.
I'm sure computer manufacturers, especially the bigger ones like Dell, would sell their computers pre-patched, but I build my own computers (I'm surprised anybody at/. buys whole systems for themselves) and was wondering about the boxed sets.
Does Microsoft have retailers return boxed sets every patch cycle? because my copy of XP was on one CD.
Your homework for today is to find the link at Microsoft's site that lets you get a copy of the SP3 security update CD mailed to you
Too easy; a comment above my comment already linked it. I never had internet through AOL but they managed to send coasters without my logging on to their site to order them. Microsoft should be AOLing the security updates; nobody should have to log on with an unpatched machine to hunt for links to order the CD.
I had an online conversation with George Broussard quite a few years back on Planet Crap (is that site still around?) about the skueaky 2d side scroller and its sequels. George told me there were 30,000 copies of the oringinal shareware title sold. So you and I are two of those 30k. I wonder why shareware died? It was a viable business model!
My daughter Leila (with two eyes, neither one in the middle of her forehead, and name spelled literately) will surely get this game for her handheld when it comes out. My daughter Patty will be selling them (she manages a GameStop) and will surely get copies for her and her sister. We all loved the Duke, the kids played DN since they were little.
I also wonder if you'll get to shoot the Energiser Bunny in the handheld games?
I imagine that if you all you wanted a Rolex for was to impress the ladies, a fake Rolex would be as good as a real one. If you like Tiffiny stuff but can't afford the real thing, a fake would be the next best thing.
This is a bit offtopic (except as it pertains to the parent comment) so I'm downmodding myself by checking the NKB box, but things are really weird for me. I have the same name a comedian who's been on Comedy Central and who is at least as famous as Debbie Gibson. I worked with Debbie Gibson a couple of years ago - but not the singer Debbie Gibson; this woman is quite a bit older than the singer. I know Robert Blake, but the Robert Blake I know lost his leg in a motorcycle accident and never killed anybody.
Does anybody else know non-celebrities with celebrity names? I know I'm weird but I'm not sure how weird.
If you have a clean system AND don't go screwing with the system's settings the Windows firewall will do just fine at getting you online safely
I'm confused then. If what you say is so, and Microsoft's firewall is rock solid, then how could an unpatched Windows installation be pwned in less than four minutes as the summary says? I guess I need to RTFA (grumble mumble).
How hard would it be for Microsoft to add a patch CD to the box, or when patches are released to ship patch CDs to retail outlets like Best Buy and Circut City for their existing stock? AOL used to send me coasters every damned week, why can't Microsoft?
I spent over a hundred dollars for XP, is it too much to ask for a quality product? My car is six years old, but if a defect crops up they'll do a recall and fix it on their dime. Why can't Microsoft?
More confusing, why isn't everybody demanding this instead of making excuses for Microsoft? Apple ships millions of computers quarterly, why don't they have these security problems? Are there any Apple or 'nix viruses (not trojans) in the wild?
Maybe everyone should just code until a project is done then give it away!
How can you be posting at slashdot and never have heard of FOSS? People DO give code away, and they make a lot of money doing so.
Ford makes cars. Should we just steal those too?
If I could make a copy of a Ford for free I would. Would I be stealing a Ford? If I make biodeisel out of used corn oil am I stealing from the oil companies?
If I steal a CD the store has lost somenthing. If I download a song the publisher has lost nothing, and if (as many do) I download a song, discover I like it, and buy that CD the publisher has profited from my copyright infringement.
If I get caught stealing music (shoplifting) I will pay a small misdemeanor fine. If I get caught infringing copyright I will pay a huge civil penalty.
What you don't understand is that people don't download instead of buying; they either download to determine if they want to buy or not, or they download because they can't afford the song. If I download a copy of Photoshop (I won't) because I can't afford it (I can't), Adobe has lost nothing, and in fact Adobe has become the powerhouse it is because of people pirating Photoshop.
There are bands out there with "please be kind, make a copy of this CD for a friend". These bands are far wiser than established dinasaur record companies.
That's interesting, and I can see how it might work if the subject has constant availability, but it seems that the stress of withdrawal would make one age; I've noticed in people I know that stress makes them look older, even when the stress is relieved.
I forgot to mention one other thing - yoga. An Air Force physician advised me to take a yoga class for my arthritis (I was in my early twenties at the time, have had spinal arthritis since my teens) and completely the opposite of most people, the older I get the less I hurt. I think the stress reducing aspects of yoga have helped me.
Of course, the #1 trick to longevity is choosing the right genetic grandparents. My dad has always looked young for his age, and his mother lived a hundred years.
Seems like this may be something Viacom is after. How else would a good quality new release get on the internet? Maybe Viacom wants to downsize without paying unemployment insurance.
Why would someone download video clips with embedded ads if there were another source for the same clips without the ads?
Why do people watch movies on TV when you can rent the DVD for a dollar and see it ad-free, uncut, uninterrupted, uncensored, in your choice of widescreen or standard, that you can pause to go to the bathroom?
I was watching What Women Want this past weekend at a friend's house (I don't have cable) and was appalled that cable keeps sucking more and more. In the early eighties movies were uncut and uncensored and commercial-free. Then they started putting logos at the bottom right. While she was flipping through the channels I noticed that one of them had imbedded ads for their programming at the top left.
But cable manages to stay in business somehow. Same goes here.
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Hell I'd even consider subscribing if the editors could keep their "witty" comments to themselves or give us an option for viewing submissions without editor comments
I've had half a dozen submissions posted (one last night, it was the first one this year) and sometimes submissions are straight from the submitter without even typos corrected, and sometimes they completely rewrite the submitter's summary (like the one I submitted yesterday afternoon so don't blame ME).
Contrary to popular opinion, slashdot editors do edit. They may of may not be good at editing, but they do edit. Or not, as they see fit, I've found.
I can't, it's NSFW.
No, but the first moderator of a first post will always mod it "troll", "flamebait", "offtopic", or hilariously "redundant" even if its final moderation winds up as +5.
Because of that I hate getting first post, but I guess that's the price of being a fast reader.
As to "Frist Post", does that congresscritter actually comment at slashdot?
I've seen a few sigs that echo this sentiment humorously; "Slow down cowboy, it's been 11 minutes since you last made a comment. Chances are, you type faster the 11 words per minute".
I understand the reasoning for the "slow down, cowboy", and mostly approve, but there are a few times when the slowdown seems inappropriate.
One is in one's own journal. I don't see any reason at all to have a "slow down cowboy" in your own journal.
The second is responding to a response to your comment, especially when you are getting to the comment through the "slashdot message system". How can it truly be a discussion when you can't reply to a response?
The third would be on stories older than 24 hours old. By then pretty much everyone has had a chance to comment.
I almost never comment anonymously, so I was surprised the other day when I tried to. A user posted an anonymous comment with the statement "sorry for the AC posting but I just moderated in this thread." I was going to point out that what he was doing was a bit unethical; the system is set up so you can't comment in topics you're modding for a reason. I was also going to say "there are legitimate reasons for posting AC" and wanted to illustrate this by posting AC. An hour later I still couldn't submit the comment, so I gave up. I was logged in; I checked the "no karma bonus" and "post anonymously" for the offtopic comment. If I had been posting anonymously all day I would understand this, but it was my first anonymous comment in months. I don't understand why it was so much longer than my usual four minutes.
I was surprised to find that you can metamoderate a comment that is in response to your own comment. I wouldn't have thought the system would have been set up like that, but I've seen it twice now.
Another suggestion would be on a user's "journal" link. Often I'll see a funny or interesting comment and want to see a user's journal, click the link and find that he's only made two journals and the latest is from some time in 2003. Rather than the link saying simply "journal, I'd like to see "latest journal entry [&date]".
And now for something completely different, I'd like to see TWO BRICKS BEING SMASHED TOGETHER</Python>
People with checks have always gummed up the works. I always hated getting behind an old lady in a checkout line, because she kept her purse on the shoulder until the cashier asked for her money. Then she had to dig through her purse and hunt for it (just like money and credit cards, but the grannies have always used checks), hunt for an ink pen, slowly fill the check out while everyone waited.
But the Visa commercial I'm talking about doesn't have people writing checks. It has the line holdup from money.
Oddly, credit cards used to be almost as fast as cash. What's slow about them now is the online authentication process; sometimes I think the credit card's servers use 286es powered by gerbil wheels. But before the computer age, you would hand the card to the cashier, he would put the carbon slip in the machine, run it and hand it back putting the top copy in the register and handing the customer the bottom copy, no authentication and no wait.
Thank God for "Don't be evil."
As corporations go, Google is a good one. But that's like saying as dogs go, German Shepherds are good ones; that breed bites, too. They're a corporation, and if evil is necessary for profits they will do evil.
Have you seen the Visa ads where everyone uses a Visa card and the line flows smoothly while the guy with money gums up the works, exactly the opposite of how the real world works? That's how corporations think.
Corporations are by necessity hedonistic. There are no morals, only ethics. And they write their own code of ethics. God has nothing to do with a corporation. Money is the corporate god.
I'm sure computer manufacturers, especially the bigger ones like Dell, would sell their computers pre-patched, but I build my own computers (I'm surprised anybody at /. buys whole systems for themselves) and was wondering about the boxed sets.
Does Microsoft have retailers return boxed sets every patch cycle? because my copy of XP was on one CD.
Your homework for today is to find the link at Microsoft's site that lets you get a copy of the SP3 security update CD mailed to you
Too easy; a comment above my comment already linked it. I never had internet through AOL but they managed to send coasters without my logging on to their site to order them. Microsoft should be AOLing the security updates; nobody should have to log on with an unpatched machine to hunt for links to order the CD.
Does Microsoft still charge for the CDs?
I had an online conversation with George Broussard quite a few years back on Planet Crap (is that site still around?) about the skueaky 2d side scroller and its sequels. George told me there were 30,000 copies of the oringinal shareware title sold. So you and I are two of those 30k. I wonder why shareware died? It was a viable business model!
My daughter Leila (with two eyes, neither one in the middle of her forehead, and name spelled literately) will surely get this game for her handheld when it comes out. My daughter Patty will be selling them (she manages a GameStop) and will surely get copies for her and her sister. We all loved the Duke, the kids played DN since they were little.
I also wonder if you'll get to shoot the Energiser Bunny in the handheld games?
Having bought a necklace for my wife (yes, really - a wife), we returned home and waited for the certificate of authenticity that they promised.
What's the difference between a wife and a job? After ten years the job still sucks.
Get off my lawn, punk. I'm after Doctor Proton and I'm gonna be kickin' ass and takin' initials; I ain't got time for names.
To answer your question, yes. I'm guessing Duke Nukem came out long before you were born.
I imagine that if you all you wanted a Rolex for was to impress the ladies, a fake Rolex would be as good as a real one. If you like Tiffiny stuff but can't afford the real thing, a fake would be the next best thing.
This is a bit offtopic (except as it pertains to the parent comment) so I'm downmodding myself by checking the NKB box, but things are really weird for me. I have the same name a comedian who's been on Comedy Central and who is at least as famous as Debbie Gibson. I worked with Debbie Gibson a couple of years ago - but not the singer Debbie Gibson; this woman is quite a bit older than the singer. I know Robert Blake, but the Robert Blake I know lost his leg in a motorcycle accident and never killed anybody.
Does anybody else know non-celebrities with celebrity names? I know I'm weird but I'm not sure how weird.
If you have a clean system AND don't go screwing with the system's settings the Windows firewall will do just fine at getting you online safely
I'm confused then. If what you say is so, and Microsoft's firewall is rock solid, then how could an unpatched Windows installation be pwned in less than four minutes as the summary says? I guess I need to RTFA (grumble mumble).
How hard would it be for Microsoft to add a patch CD to the box, or when patches are released to ship patch CDs to retail outlets like Best Buy and Circut City for their existing stock? AOL used to send me coasters every damned week, why can't Microsoft?
I spent over a hundred dollars for XP, is it too much to ask for a quality product? My car is six years old, but if a defect crops up they'll do a recall and fix it on their dime. Why can't Microsoft?
More confusing, why isn't everybody demanding this instead of making excuses for Microsoft? Apple ships millions of computers quarterly, why don't they have these security problems? Are there any Apple or 'nix viruses (not trojans) in the wild?
I'd gladly have given you my burned Chevy.
Maybe everyone should just code until a project is done then give it away!
How can you be posting at slashdot and never have heard of FOSS? People DO give code away, and they make a lot of money doing so.
Ford makes cars. Should we just steal those too?
If I could make a copy of a Ford for free I would. Would I be stealing a Ford? If I make biodeisel out of used corn oil am I stealing from the oil companies?
If I steal a CD the store has lost somenthing. If I download a song the publisher has lost nothing, and if (as many do) I download a song, discover I like it, and buy that CD the publisher has profited from my copyright infringement.
If I get caught stealing music (shoplifting) I will pay a small misdemeanor fine. If I get caught infringing copyright I will pay a huge civil penalty.
What you don't understand is that people don't download instead of buying; they either download to determine if they want to buy or not, or they download because they can't afford the song. If I download a copy of Photoshop (I won't) because I can't afford it (I can't), Adobe has lost nothing, and in fact Adobe has become the powerhouse it is because of people pirating Photoshop.
There are bands out there with "please be kind, make a copy of this CD for a friend". These bands are far wiser than established dinasaur record companies.
Corporations are Soylent Green!
What other features would you suggest to Microsoft if they are to have a hope for recovery?
A Linux kernel.
And a pony.
But people do watch movies on TV. Why is AMC not out of business? Hell, I was even watching that movie, and wound up missing a lot of it.
That's interesting, and I can see how it might work if the subject has constant availability, but it seems that the stress of withdrawal would make one age; I've noticed in people I know that stress makes them look older, even when the stress is relieved.
I forgot to mention one other thing - yoga. An Air Force physician advised me to take a yoga class for my arthritis (I was in my early twenties at the time, have had spinal arthritis since my teens) and completely the opposite of most people, the older I get the less I hurt. I think the stress reducing aspects of yoga have helped me.
Of course, the #1 trick to longevity is choosing the right genetic grandparents. My dad has always looked young for his age, and his mother lived a hundred years.
Seems like this may be something Viacom is after. How else would a good quality new release get on the internet? Maybe Viacom wants to downsize without paying unemployment insurance.
Are you saying that Viacom is a bunch of whores? Dude, I like whores! The difference between Viacom and a whore is, whores are less dishonest.
Why would someone download video clips with embedded ads if there were another source for the same clips without the ads?
Why do people watch movies on TV when you can rent the DVD for a dollar and see it ad-free, uncut, uninterrupted, uncensored, in your choice of widescreen or standard, that you can pause to go to the bathroom?
I was watching What Women Want this past weekend at a friend's house (I don't have cable) and was appalled that cable keeps sucking more and more. In the early eighties movies were uncut and uncensored and commercial-free. Then they started putting logos at the bottom right. While she was flipping through the channels I noticed that one of them had imbedded ads for their programming at the top left.
But cable manages to stay in business somehow. Same goes here.
Depends on your locality. Noise ordinances are constitutional.
1. Note the quotation marks around the phrase? Thet denotes that it is not my words; I am QUOTING.
2. Your use of the word "begins" is out of context
3. You forgot your <pedant> tag ;)