Check out the "DIRECT" proposal, headed by a non-rocket-scientist civilian with various NASA popellerheads anonymously providing engineering and budget analysis support. Will apparently save billions over NASA's current plans:
I happen to be reading this right now. It's got a little too much fanservice for me so far (Sci-Fi conventiongoers rescue two fallen residents of a space station in a dystopian future where anti-technologists and "greens" stop global warming and trigger a new ice age) but it's alright.
CmdrTaco is indeed an idiot, but in this case even I can see that he was joking. Save the crap-flinging for a time when he actually does do something stupid.
Of course, he didn't actually read what I wrote in the email, he just sent back a snippy, smartassed condescending reply, but he seems to be able to get emails just fine.
Minnesota Public Radio launched The Current about a year ago and it's fantastic. It's like having a good-quality college station, but with better production values.
I switch between The Current and MPR's "news and information" station. It's rare I don't find something worth listening to on either.
I've contacted CmdrTaco about the dupes and horrible editing. He's said that Slashdot shouldn't be taken too seriously, that it's a fun, light-hearted informal thing.
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He's probably just a Niven/Pournelle fan.
And stop using "Um" to start your sentences, for fuck's sake. You read like a braindead teenager.
Check out the "DIRECT" proposal, headed by a non-rocket-scientist civilian with various NASA popellerheads anonymously providing engineering and budget analysis support. Will apparently save billions over NASA's current plans:
http://directlauncher.com/
I happen to be reading this right now. It's got a little too much fanservice for me so far (Sci-Fi conventiongoers rescue two fallen residents of a space station in a dystopian future where anti-technologists and "greens" stop global warming and trigger a new ice age) but it's alright.
Surely you meant, "If I had to guess wildly..." :)
Open a new tab, and enter "about:config".
Type "agent" into the filter.
Double-click on "general.useragent.extra.seamonkey" and change it to Mozilla/1.8.4 or whatever.
Presto! Writely works.
What if I don't like Al?
CmdrTaco is indeed an idiot, but in this case even I can see that he was joking. Save the crap-flinging for a time when he actually does do something stupid.
... you said "tossing his rod". Heh. Hehhehheh. Heheheheheheheh.
Rob answered the email I sent to
malda@slashdot.org
just a few minutes ago.
Of course, he didn't actually read what I wrote in the email, he just sent back a snippy, smartassed condescending reply, but he seems to be able to get emails just fine.
when it suits him.
How he can think of himself as a journalist, yet post editorial flamebait like that is beyond me.
Would it kill him to mark his "editorials" as such? Would it kill him to spend a few minutes a day reading his own blog?
A little attention to detail and integrity would make his "journalistic" pretensions a little easier to swallow.
when it suits him.
How he can think of himself as a journalist, yet post editorial flamebait like that is beyond me.
Would it kill him to mark his "editorials" as such? Would it kill him to spend a few minutes a day reading his own blog?
A little attention to detail and integrity would make his "journalistic" pretensions a little easier to swallow.
They much prefer a procedural approach.
Okay, it's not.
Go read Digg.
The summary is vague and doesn't match up with the title.
The linked article was written poorly.
Hello, Slashdot Editors. Please start editing someday. It'll be neat, and you'll not look so incompetent.
They just get picked up by the garbage collector so their space can be re-allocated later.
What about synergizing the new medias of blogging and podcasting? Leveraging emerging markets depends upon reo.r.rrr.....a.arrrrrghhhhggg
*pop*
Yes, you're wrong. It's normal air at ambient pressures.
The heads "fly" over the surface of the platters. Without air, they wouldn't fly. Google around for articles on how hard drives work.
"MondoMor you have been fined three credits for posting on Slashdot."
No wonder it's so damn smart!
Has it got a Master's? Or should we call it Doctor Google?
Pay nerds $0.02 per tome to read the monkey keyboard mashing. Have them respond, yes or no, if this particular chunk of text is Shakespearian or not.
Minnesota Public Radio launched The Current about a year ago and it's fantastic. It's like having a good-quality college station, but with better production values.
I switch between The Current and MPR's "news and information" station. It's rare I don't find something worth listening to on either.
I can't listen to commercial radio any more.
The articles that the "editors" mashed the accept button on this week are the worst ever. This week was a new low in the quality of Slashdot.
I've contacted CmdrTaco about the dupes and horrible editing. He's said that Slashdot shouldn't be taken too seriously, that it's a fun, light-hearted informal thing.
Of course, when it suits him, he also gets all puffy in the chest about being a "journalist".
The editors here (Malda and Hemos in particular) are complete and utter buffoons.
People not reading the actual blurbs? Sounds like the "Editors".
Taco & company and their hamfisted editorial skills are the reason.