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Well played sir.
Well played sir.
In other news: Space tech often makes it way down to doing practical things, including help feed the poor
You mean like frying up all that food they don't have in Teflon frying pans?
I kid, I kid.
But you gotta admit that usually the link between space exploration and feeding the poor is quite indirect and relies on one of those "trickle down" types of theories.
They're going into a sun spot... you know, a hole where the sun don't shine (as brightly).
No, that's Uran... Nah, too easy.
I often find its much easier to get work done face to face
You're not a programmer.
Yes I know that he or she is posting as AC, but this so beautifully encapsulates where the 'beta' is headed that it really deserves to be seen.
The original slashdot users and discussion format simply don't fit into the 'passive content consumer' business model of dice, and no amount of posting 'fuck beta', or boycotting, or whining to Timothy or any of the other editors is going to change that.
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Zero!!
They've basically written off slashdot as worthless and are now in desperation mode trying to minimize their losses, and if that means turning slashdot into a Justin Beiber Fan page on Facebook then that is what they will do. The original slashdot "audience" is worthless to them and they don't give a damn if we are unhappy and threaten to go elsewhere.
The slashdot that we used to know and love is gone, and the only thing left for us is to direct our energies towards either the altslashdot initiative or respectfully ask Mr. Perens to re-ressurect technocrat.net.
If my girlfriend wants me to buy a loaf of bread on the way home from work, she can either text/email with a message "please buy bread" or she could send me a video of herself doing an interpretative dance of sewing seeds of wheat, reaping the seeds when they grow, grinding them up (or something), adding water and probably other stuff like yeast (how does one dance that?), kneading it into a lump of something, firing up an oven, putting the lump into the oven, taking it out and cutting it into slices,and then 'dance' it being delivered to the store I drive past on my way home so I know to drop in and buy it.
I seriously don't now how to finish this post. I'm just... stunned.
Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site. The expected benefits have started to be realized at Dice.com. However, advertising revenue has declined over the past year and there is no improvement expected in the future financial performance of Slashdot Media's underlying advertising business. Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero.
Zero!!
They've basically written off slashdot as worthless and are now in desperation mode trying to minimize their losses, and if that means turning slashdot into a Justin Beiber Fan page on Facebook then that is what they will do. The original slashdot "audience" is worthless to them and they don't give a damn if we are unhappy and threaten to go elsewhere.
The slashdot that we used to know and love is gone, and the only thing left for us is to direct our energies towards either the altslashdot initiative or respectfully ask Mr. Perens to re-ressurect technocrat.net.
The internet wants to know.
Sorry but... actually it doesn't.
Most of it has just seen the beta site for the first time, and feels a bit sick at the moment.
How many, actually?
It depends on how you count it.
The number of different 'versions' of distro? 1 or 2
The number of different 'installations' of that distro? Many, many more.
Unless he accepted cash money from you for the McNuggets, then failed to deliver those McNuggets which you had paid for,
Which seems to be exactly what happened to the nugget lady mentioned in the second post. (Go and actually listen to the call) She paid for nuggets, then McDonalds told her they didn't have them but refused to refund the money. The refusal to refund the money seems to be the reason the lady called 911, and sure seems like theft to me.
Is this a 911 call? Maybe not. But as some people have already said, even when reporting minor thefts they were instructed to call 911.
Microsoft wouldn't know the meaning of sexy marketing even if they did it themselves.
What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer.