Stop: Quickies Time 104
Kodi wrote in to tell us that MozillaZine is holding a vote for the new Mozilla throbber (free membership required).
Also the LinuxWorld Expo call for papers deadline
is July 6. They're also doing a $25k award for a community program
at the show.
hzo wrote in to note that you can now hack furby with your Palm V.
cpfeifer has noted a Yoda Got Milk parody.
rhet sent us
a web based jar-jar-gonizer if you
aren't overloaded with the wretched beast.
Kurt Weinschenker wrote in to tell us that the 99 Darwin Awards nominees are online.
S|ack noted that you
can now get
adminspotting t-shirts.
Scorpeye sent us an
article about Bachelors in the Silicon Valley
and comments about eligible bachelorettes in NY and LA... hmmm...
Finally, some articles about the Andover.Net acquisition of Slashdot:
Here's Upside,
wired
(thanks Evro)
Salon (thanks Super_Oogie).
There were a few more too, but after I've read two I realize
I say pretty much the same stuff each time anyway, so its hardly
interesting ;)
Re:New York Women (Score:1)
A friend of mine had a female friend here who was moving to Silicon Valley (and she worked for a web firm as a designer). I mentioned to her that she would have her choice of men out there. She said that she didn't want to date that "sort of man".
But then again, what made you think that women were attracted to intelligent, well-payed, well-adjusted men? Nah, much easier to date some wanker.
Ok, maybe I'm a little bitter because I've been single for the last year here but I should really blame it on my stupid job and the long hours
congrats to the ./ crew (Score:1)
Re:Millionaire? (Score:2)
Here's my take: when asked pointblank if he's a millionaire, Rob says he doesn't know, then his new boss cuts in and says some things can't be talked about (no loss of creative control there!). So I believe he got perhaps a five-figure or six-figure cash advance to close the deal, plus he has stock worth (potentially) millions.
I'm a millionaire myself, but here's the catch. I own 24% of a privately held company, which at its last valuation was worth $5 million, making me worth over $1 million. But only if I sell the stock. Which I couldn't do as one of two co-founders (who would buy all the stock from a co-founder?). So on paper I'm a millionaire, but its not liquid, and in real life I have my mortgage and my paid-off 1993 Honda. No caviar for me -- or Malda either.
So Rob and Hemos have stock, but they can't sell it just yet, so they're millionaires on paper. Remember, their announcement lists all the cool groups they want to donate to eventually -- meaning they don't have the money yet.
If Andover.net goes out of business tomorrow (not likely), their stock is worthless and they just have their advance. If Andover.net goes Yahoo! public, they're multimillionaires.
Ah, well.
Malda worries me (Score:2)
Malda, you need a girlfriend
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Re:Malda worries me (Score:1)
Our little baby's all grown up *sniff* (Score:3)
All the best, guys. It's been a fun time thus far, and I'm sure it will continue to be. Thanks!
Re:New York Women (Score:1)
I'm also deeply cynical and have come to the regrettable conclusion that what a woman says she wants and what a woman actually wants are usually not one in the same. That's why I'm still single.
I second that.
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Oops, bad url (Score:1)
Jar Jar is smarter than I thought (Score:3)
Never ever (Score:1)
Re:New York Women (Score:1)
Millionaire? (Score:1)
Re:Millionaire? (Score:1)
Fake Darwin Awards? (Score:2)
Re:1 problem I have with the Darwin awards (Score:2)
One problem I've always had with the Darwin awards is that they don't stick to their own criteria. The original description of the Darwin awards was
If you know anything about Biology, any person, living or dead, with living desendants is still in the gene pool. I think all Darwin award nominees with living descendants should be disqualified.Does this mean we can stop sending beer now? (Score:1)
I apologize (Score:2)
/. does an amazing job of representing exactly the interests of people like the (rising) sophomore CS class CMU.
Still, the Holy OS is pretty important to this community. We spend a lot of time on our computers...and waste a lot of time configuring them...
Something just happened to me (Score:3)
Jon Katz was ruminating unpopularly in the first of his articles playing with a linux machine and how weird and confusing it was.
GNOME vs. KDE flamewars were going on fast and furious in the unmoderated comments.
No one had heard of, or cared about, Linux the Holy OS or Open Sourceness or User Friendly or anything.
Man, we've come a long way since then. I've been reading
I've posted a few stories myself. I've wasted a lot of time writing comments, and searching out comments by resident cool, funny guys Bruce Perens and Alan Cox.
Now, it ain't news unless it's on
I'd be interested to see if anyone has a copy, HTML or PS or hard copy or whatever, of the earliest
This is user # 3273
Bye bye coward. You won't be missed (Score:1)
You paid have nothing to read/participate in /. and hide behind AC, so deserve no say in the matter.
IMHO, I say congrats to CT and Hemos.
Now, C & H, I have this idea for a .......
Re:Jar Jar is smarter than I thought (Score:1)
Re:Malda worries me (Score:1)
Re:New York Women (Score:1)
as for this: "You'll see models dating men who are WAY less attractive then them."
Huh. I can't explain this for you, but I think most people would agree that a compatible personality and INTELLIGENCE are (for me at least) hugely attractive qualities in a man/potential significant other. (That, and extreme knowledge of computers, which often go hand-in-hand.)
On the other hand, maybe it's better NOT to both be obsessed with technology.
Naw
Re:Never ever (Score:1)
I wannt to do some breadwinning,
Re:New York Women (Score:1)
Best of luck to you (all).
Re:What women want? (Score:1)
This is key. listen to the married guy
:)'s,
Re:What women want? (Score:1)
Re:Boycott Slashdot! (Score:2)
Rob and Jeff deserve and
Can any of us say that the average Joe (or AC) among us put in 80 hour weeks running something like slashdot, reading over 300 emails a day (no joke), *and* go to college full-time? I think we should cut them some slack, if not provide open praise for a job well done: here's to the two years they (and the 10+ who helped them as well) gave to The Community (so far), and the community that helped them.
Kudos to you all.
My $.02.
Re:creative thats Slashdot (Score:1)
Yes, you deserve it. Even though I'm happy that the right folks are going places, it puts my little non-life into perspective. I am at a loss as to what to do. I have no money, and what I do have, I can't spend. I'd love to hack away at Linux and perl and php3 and do neat things with mysql all day every day, but I'm stuck here wiping users' asses. I work absurd hours and get shit on for my efforts.
(And I just heard from my co-worker that some guy's giving his whole staff BMWs (with insurance) just to retain them. I'm in the wrong fucking place.)
Oh well, I'll crawl back into my hole and spare you the rest.
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Re:Visions of Canadian women dancing in their head (Score:1)
Odd how not only my "intelligence" is a huge liability, I seem to be on the other side of the world from those who would even bother appreciating it. For the "stupidity" factor, non-geeks seem to have all the money and other assorted perks... hrrmm... oh well, I won't trade being a geek for anything else, damn it to Hell if I remain poor for the rest of my life.
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Re:Malda worries me (Score:1)
I must really be dead, then.
(Last "girlfriend" cost me lots of money (several thousand over a few years) in the "keep in touch" department, and I LOST anyway.)
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Re:Slashdot should ban all non-AC's (Score:1)
Adminspotting Audio.... (Score:1)
It's a bit old now
Darwin Awards? (Score:1)
Re:Fake Darwin Awards? (Score:1)
Also, the site navigation sucks. Broken links, and the browsing seems to be working backwards. How annoying.
Jon
Re:"Landing" a woman... (Score:1)
My girlfriend's not as geeky as some, but I still love her more than anything in the world. I think it helps to just shut up sometimes. The woman posting isn't too far off either, as far as I've been able to tell. We've just gotta understand that we'll never completely understand, I guess...
I'll stop rambling now.
jargify.pl (Score:2)
Here is a Perl script that with Jar Jar-ify any text fed into it. Because of the way it's set up, it's trivially easy to add more conversions or to modify it into a "borkifier" or any of a wide variety of other translators. If anyone takes offsense at its length, I apologize, but it's on-topic and I don't have a public web page to put it on
jarjar.pl
# Define the substitutions to be performed.
@WordList =
(
"I'm", "meesa be",
"I", "meesa",
"me", "meesa",
"you", "you-sa",
"my", "meesa's",
"your", "you-sa's",
"myself", "meesa's self",
"yourself", "you-sa's self",
"am", "be"
);
@SuffixList =
(
"ing", "\'in",
"er", "-a"
);
@PrefixList =
(
);
# Perform the substitutions on each line of input.
while ($Input = )
{
# Replace whole words.
for ($Index = 0; $WordList[$Index]; $Index += 2)
{
$Input =~
s/(^|\W)$WordList[$Index](\W|$)/$1$WordList[$Inde
}
# Replace suffixes.
for ($Index = 0; $SuffixList[$Index]; $Index += 2)
{
$Input =~
s/(\w)$SuffixList[$Index](\W|$)/$1$SuffixList[$In
}
# Replace prefixes.
for ($Index = 0; $PrefixList[$Index]; $Index += 2)
{
$Input =~
s/(^|\W)$PrefixList[$Index](\w)/$1$PrefixList[$In
}
# Print the modified line.
print $Input;
}
Does anyone remember a "bork-ifier" proxy? (Score:1)
Try The Dialectizer [rinkworks.com]. It does Redneck, Jive, Cockney, Elmer Fudd, Swedish Chef, Moron, and Pig Latin. Better than Jar Jar, but then again, anything is.
Re: (Score:1)
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Re: (Score:2)
Heck, I'm on my way... (Score:1)
System is halted
creative thats Slashdot (Score:1)
rob still has the keyboard
ah well ignor whats above try hosting a website and a life
DB7 thats the car you guys want
or a Lotus Elise £20,000 full spec
£21,000 BMW 518 no funky cd player or radio for that mater nothing nda not a thing
ah well enjoy yourself people
and my place is cool if you want to crash in cambridge
john
a poor student @ bournemouth uni in the UK (a deltic so please dont moan about spelling but the content)
How about Yoda? (Score:1)
Re:NYC Singles Figures are Useless (Score:1)
Re:"Landing" a woman... (Score:1)
Recognizing when women are interested is next to impossible for me. I've been hanging out with friends who have said, "That woman who just walked by was interested in you." I've never noticed any such thing. After having gotten plenty of negative feedback, I'm becoming resigned to the fact that women in general aren't interested in me. If heterosexual women are attracted to men, I must not be male.
BTW, I'm not the AC who's been posting in this thread; I'm a different bitter guy.
Re: one-sided sexism, as usual (Score:1)
Mee-sa ROFL (Score:1)
Could it be that Rob is getting to like Jar-Jar? Mee-sa hopin' not. ;)
Re:I apologize (Score:1)
Re:Boycott Slashdot! (anonymously?) (Score:1)
Famous Amos (Score:2)
I think he's making cookies again, but he can't use Famous Amos or even Wally Amos on them. He can't even advertise as "I used to be Famous Amos."
When it was still Wally, he used to do commercials on a radio station I used to listen to (in like 1981!). I can still remember the phone number because of the way he sang it: 1-800-423-3114
Oh, and I won't buy Famous Amos cookies because of the way he was treated.
Irony (Score:1)
I guess we are all in one basket according to the popular press.
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Re:Why not all of the Mozilla icons (Score:1)
DARWIN AWARDS OOPS (Score:1)
I suppose it's gonna be 'Darth Malda' to all us (Score:2)
You're too much a young 'un to know a guy called Wally Amos outta So-Cal. In fact, this was before Al invented the internet. It was when Apple II was in a garage. The TRS-80 model I was really cool then too.
Wally had the most delectable creation of a cookie a human could taste. They came in a plain brown bag. He was known far and wide as 'Famous Amos'. I felt special when I ate them. They were 'my' cookie.
Well then one day some elves wearing suits came by. They lived in a hollow tree. They flashed a big wad of green in Wally's face and that was more money than he'd ever seen at once. Well, he was real tired of all the business end of it anyway. He was good to go and he shook hands with the elves in suits.
At first I didn't understand what happened. the plain brown bags were gone. I could'nt find them anywhere. Lots of time went by. I wondered what I could do. Then one day a yellow bag showed up with the name 'famos amos' on the side. I was so happy I couldn't wait to have one - wait but no - what is this??????? these aren't famous amos cookies - they were't even a good imitation. In fact, they tasted like cardboard with sugar. They were cardboard.
Why would a company market such a vastly inferior product????
The only thing I thought of is that those dammyd tree abusing greedy little elves make the cheapest piece of pastry possible so they can stash real dough away.
Ol' Wally saw what was happening and said 'I know how to do better than this'. And so he went about making cookies again.
Well those elves got mad. Really mad. They got hold of their suit elven friends to sue ol' Wally. Those crafty elves bitch slapped Wally so hard that he lost everything. Even that stash that they had given him earlier. Even the ability to use his good name. Even to use the likeness of his face. I do not think that he can legally make a cookie anymore.
So every time I see the name 'famous amos' at the super market a strange sense of sadness reminds me of what once was. I can only hope that someone who worked in Wally's kitchen reading this will send me his recipe for the chocalate chip macadamia nut cookie.
I really do hope you have your bases covered when dealing with the suits.
Misread that quickie.. (Score:1)
At first reading I thought that said 'Jar-Jar Agonizer'... Cool!!!
So I went there expecting some sort of Shockwave Animation of 'ol Jar-Jar gettin' the Juice..
'Aw, bummer it's just a text filter program'
single men.... (Score:1)
I'm sorry, but...
hahahahahhahahahaah
Re:Boycott Slashdot! (Score:1)
Well the comunity has played a large part, but this site wouldn't exist without Rob and Hemos either.
$14 million is a pretty lucrative sum, and I would have sold out for that much money in a heartbeat as well. But this kind of stuff has to end. We need to show the corporations of the world that they can't exploit the community simply by buying out 2 members of the community. We need to start a Slashdot clone. This should be pretty easy to do.
As of now, I'm going to stop participating here. No corporation is going to buy me. It's very sad how they turned Rob into a pimp.
How exactly did they sell out? They get to keep total creative control of Slashdot. And they aren't charging for it. This actualy keeps them from needing to charge because now they can afford to run the thing. I don't really see what there is to complain about. Two guys make a good geek news site, people go there and make it even better, than they make a deal to get payed for doing what they have been all along. It's a win win situation.
Re:Boycott Slashdot! (Score:1)
Re:i still believe in anarchy! (Score:1)
Geek-grrl in training
Re:Hmm... (Score:1)
con-tent? (Score:1)
I mean the place was never comitted to... stayin-free of, profit. What im trying to say is... what it really matters is the content, and the spirit that it carries, along the interaction of a defined community.
But i guess this whole mess has to do with the this last news, you guys wrapped up, like 4+ stories or whichever number it was in a single posting... with some
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Not that some where not important, just... organize... o0
Some of my best chances to win Darwin award, taken (Score:1)
Re:Boycott Slashdot! (anonymously?) (Score:1)
Why not all of the Mozilla icons (Score:2)
I think it'd be pretty cool if they would let you set your own. I know you can already do that with IE5... just have to do some registry edits or replace a BMP, but it can be done... it'd be nice to see it under the "Options...".
~unyun~
Visions of Canadian women dancing in their heads.. (Score:1)
Because I know some positively adorable Canadian geekesses who would love to meet an intelligent man.
Actually we'd all like to meet an intelligent man.
A-hem.
I was going to make some remark about the relation between numbers of intelligent men and numbers of unicorns, but that's sexist, mmHmmm?
Ugh, I'm starting to sound like a bad comedienne.
Time for bed.
Happy Canada Day!
Re:Fake Darwin Awards? (Score:1)