Comment Fuck beta (Score 1) 255
It's worse than the original, and that's impressive
It's worse than the original, and that's impressive
Watson is in beta. It still lets you quote posts though unlike slashdot beta which is crap. Watson still lets you deep link to posts.
I bet slashdot beta isn't written in text code. It's just a mess of crap. But not in a retro way like slashdot prime.
You can still see how many times it's been modded, just click on the score and it'll give you the breakdown
That just tells you the percentage, same figures if you get 2 mods or 200.
Those warships and the soldiers on them don't cease to exist when not in Sochi,
FALSE
The universe ceases to exist every time I close my eyes and reappears when I open them.
Are you deaf? No sense of smell?
And yet, the number of on-topic comments hasn't increased, either. It's not that people are getting accustomed to beta, it's that they're leaving.
We're locked into the current two-party system by the very nature of first-past-the-poll voting. We're more-or-less locked into Youtube by its sheer mass: your average Joe doesn't have the server space or $$ to hold all that video content like Google does.
We're not locked into slashdot. We have nostalgic feelings for it, but that's all.
And low UIDs. Any replacement site will have to allow UID porting
We can use the blackholes generated by the super sized collider to wipe out beta once and for all.
No need. It's already approaching implosion... site traffic has been cut by a third.
Really? Slashdot users have alexa malware?
I used to get them all the time, and without anything changing, I have not seen them for ages.
I lost them 12 years ago, after modding in The first Slashdot troll post investigation. That was back in the days you got 5 points to mod with, and posts said how many times they'd been moded, rather than just an aggregate score.
The blacklist was removed several years later, probably about 3 years ago.
Since then it's been fairly regular, last about a week ago. I don't use beta as it's crap.
Nobody gives a shit about the articles themselves.
There are articles?
Slashdot is dying; Netcraft confirms it.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Nerd/Geek website Slashdot.org was found dead in it's internet home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy its work, there's no denying its contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
"Low 6 digit number". Cute
Anyone with a UID down the in the 6 digit numbers has been here for at least 10 years, I think the 1xx,xxx was about 2000. That's 14 years of loyalty. Those from the chips and dips era have may 16 years of loyalty, that's pretty much the same.
Sorry, the number zero was an created 3700 years ago, and not in India.
Sorry, but you're wrong, racist, and fat.
"By 1740 BCE the Egyptians had a symbol for zero in accounting texts. The symbol nfr, meaning beautiful, was also used to indicate the base level in drawings of tombs and pyramids and distances were measured relative to the base line as being above or below this line." - wikipedia
So Egypt 3,700 years ago.
"The concept of zero as a number and not merely a symbol or an empty space for separation is attributed to India, where, by the 9th century AD, practical calculations were carried out using zero, which was treated like any other number, even in case of division"
So India 1,100 years ago
Sorry, the decimal system was being used in other places than India over 3000 years ago.
And india is hardly a great use of numbers -- paying 10,00,000 rather than 1,000,000 rupees for something. Non standard and confusing.
Gameshows are supposed to be interesting to watch
Really? I watched an gameshow on a US network once. The format was something like this
[commercials]
Previously: [recap asking one question for 3 minutes]
Now: ask new question, guy gives new answer, guy founds out if he's right [4 minutes]
Next: [preview guy being asked more questions for 2 minutes]
[commercials]
And so on. If you trim it down you get about 15 minutes an hour of new material. That's not interesting.
(C) He thinks that being made CEO is a punishment for some mistake he's made in his current job.
Being made CEO of a dead end company with almost no help for salvation that's been run into the ground for the last 10+ years is Punishment
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!" -- Buckaroo Banzai
