Not all.

I've seen some wonderful audio-processing (functional/mathematical) code which was entirely software in implementation, but entirely graphical in design. You could literally build your own Yamaha DX7 (pretty much all pads, almost every one had been reverse engineered/mimicked to within indistinguishability) from just drag-and-drop boxes and a single frequency input (dependent on the keypress, obviously).

I wish I'd written it myself, I'd been thinking about such a design for about a decade. Some Finn (IIRC, don't remember the name) beat me to it (no surprise really, my inertia is high). Respect to him.

And fuck slashdot beta

If you can find a way of viewing them that does not involve NBC, then *you are saving NBC money* as they don't need to get as many bits to as many terminal devices. You're also not violating NBC's IP rights, as they are simply middlemen. However, most importantly, you are demonstrating that NBC is *not fucking necessary*. Data distributes itself remarkably easily, and doesn't need *blockages* like NBC to restrict its flow.

Every "distributor" should go bust - you are redundant, and have been for over a decade.

They're inherently graphicalisable, as long as all of the building blocks fit inside nice small rectangles.

Having said that - ``|'' and ``>'' are graphical. So probably all shell programming is in part visual.

Having said that, that the fuck am I on?!?!?!? I write perl, and perl looks like ASCII art, it certainly doesn't look like text.

Mod down story, story bollocks.

Fuck beta.

> your just a noisy prick

A noisy prick with better grammar (or spelling depending on what mistake you think has been made) than you.

I'd rather listen to angry noisy people with conviction than people who just put up with whatever wave of shit washes over them next.

(Appologies for not invoking Skitt's Law in the above.)

You couldn't be more wrong!!!!!!

This is Readers' Wives.

My opinion may be ugly, it may even offend you, but it's mine, and I'm gonna lay it out in front of you whether you like it or not!

I have plenty more bile, don't worry.

Fuck Gaurav Kuchhal the fuckup, Head of Product at Slashdot.
http://www.diceholdingsinc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=211152&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1781836&highlight=

That press release still mentions and quotes Alice Hill the fuckup. However it positions here clearly in "DICE" rather than Slashdot-anything.

I worked for a company that's been mentioned on /. about 100 times in the last 5 years, it was so dysfunctional.

I would contend that in the context of slashdot beta, the method of making it right is to scrap it. Pretending you didn't make a huge fuckup simply breeds (even more) distrust.

Yet many I know are having a bit of a pro-anonymity backlash, and are preferring to pay for everything with cash now. As someone who buys almost all his food fresh from the local open-air market (yes, even when it's -15C, that's what hats and coats are for), anything apart from cash simply isn't even an option.

I don't know, why not ask them. However, the fact that Perens has done this before implies that he does see a need for such a community. And OkianWarrior has a good backing of us ranters too.

Anyway, we're not whiny, we're loud and obnoxious, there's a difference. We were whiny between 6 months and 3 days ago, while beta was just this thing they were dicking about with. Whiny was useless.

Mr Khrushchov says he will bury beta!

What Alice Hill, President at Slashdot Media, writes on her Linked-In page:

  Proven track record innovating and improving iconic websites
  (Slashdot.org, ...) while protecting their voice and brand integrity

She's the one claiming to be responsible for this fuck-up. She's the one who needs nuking from orbit (it's the only way to be sure).

If it's going to die, the quicker they kill it, the less painful it is, as long as there's a Perens or an OkianWarrior, or whoever, to provide a substitute.

/me doffs hat - good show, sir /me fucks beta

In Greek, it's more like vay-ta (probably /veita/ in ASCII-IPA).
I have no idea where the voiced bilabial plosive (stop) came from.

Good question, you'll have to raise that with the management. It would be petty, but funny.

I kinda get the impression that this was the week for fun pettiness, and next week for silence.