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Comment Re:I get far too many mod points (Score 1) 443

by heffel (#30410530) Attached to: Slashdot Turns 100,000

I get a lot too. I hardly ever use them up.

I moderate the occasional insightful or informative comment I run into as I browse the comments , but I don't go looking for comments to moderate.

A day or two after my mod points expire I get 15 more, and I go through the cycle of using a couple of them again.

Rinse, lather, repeat

Comment Re:I can't even remember how I found Slashdot (Score 1) 443

by heffel (#30410370) Attached to: Slashdot Turns 100,000

I don't know how you still have your bookmarks from 1999, but your comment made me curious.

I googled my username with results limited to http://slashdot.org/ and the oldest comment I could find was from October 15th, 1999.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/15/1224252

That day (http://slashdot.org/index.pl?issue=19991015)

We were:

Asking people to donate spare cycles to climate prediction

Talking about some Cyberprivacy prevention Act

Talking about Sun an Open source (boy we've been discussing that one for a long time haven't we)

Letting everyone know that the FCC would leave broadband alone

Talking about a major Star Wars character that was about to die in a book.

Gasping in horror when we learned that Microsoft was lobbying to cut the DOJ antitrust budget

Discussing that Debian was going to be available through retail channels, and how "newbies" would never be able to install it.

Talking about Open Source Poster Boys

Announcing two brand new Slashdot sections, Apache and BSD

Reviewing a commercial IDE for Linux (Codewarrior)

Discussing advances in nanotech

Reviewing John Carmack's answers to his questions

Drooling over IBM's huge 73 GB hard drive

Discussing a BBC interview with Bill Gates

Celebrating that there was going to be free general admission at FreeBSD Con

Talking about a review of "that half Palm III half Cell Phone mutant thing".

Wondering why there were no widescreen TV's in the US.

Announcing the Li18nux effort

Making fun of online language translation tools

Unsurprisingly, most of the links the sources of that day's stories are now 404.

Comment I can't even remember how I found Slashdot (Score 1) 443

by heffel (#30409232) Attached to: Slashdot Turns 100,000

I stumbled upon Slashdot many, may years ago.

I was amazed at all the quality links and informative comments.

For whatever reason, I didn't bookmark the site after I visited for the first time, then for the life of me I couldn't remember the URL.

I kept searching for "news for geeks" (which I swore was the tagline of that awesome site I stumbled upon) in Yahoo (this was before Google rose to the top of the search engines) but didn't get any good results.

After a while I somehow found Slashdot again, and had a "do'h" moment when I saw that the tagline was "News for nerds", not "News for geeks" as I remembered it.

It took me a while to actually create an account, oh, how I wish my account number was even lower.

In any case, I'm glad to have been a part of the Slashdot community for the most part of my professional life.

Thanks Slashdot, for keeping us all in the loop of the latest happenings in the technology world.

Submission + - Rumors of an T-Mobile IPhone 4G Surface (nexus404.com)

Submitted by
heffel
heffel writes: "An initial report we received yesterday, which has now been backed up by two more reports received early this morning, all state that TMO employees who are already well versed with Project Black are telling their friends to hold back on purchasing the iPhone until the 25th of this month as it will be hitting TMO complete with 4G access speeds.

Read more: http://nexus404.com/Blog/2009/10/16/t-mobile-project-black-to-see-t-mobile-usa-iphone-release-our-sources-say-hold-back-on-iphone-purchases-until-25th-october-%E2%80%93-tmo-iphone-coming/#ixzz0U6EXvXTB"
Graphics

What's the Importance of Graphics In Video Games? 506

Posted by Soulskill from the not-all-pixels-are-created-equal dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I develop games as a hobby. I've experimented with games on almost every platform available. For me, the gameplay is the most influential factor of a game, with history and graphics dividing second place. But, for some reason, it's not the technical beauty of the graphics that appeal to me. I have played Crysis, and I've played Pokémon games. The graphics of the Pokémon games entertain me as much as the graphics of Crysis. I think both are beautiful. So, why is the current generation of games giving so much importance to the realism in graphic games? I think it is sufficient for a game to have objects that are recognizable. For example, while the water in some games may not look as good as in Crysis, I can still tell it's water. What are your opinions on the current direction of game graphics? Do you prefer easy-to-render 3D scenes that leave space for beautiful effects, like with Radiosity, or more complex 3D scenes that try to be realistic?"
NASA

NASA Knows How To Party 341

Posted by CowboyNeal from the open-bar-so-drink-up dept.
doug141 writes "NASA spends between $400,000 and $1.3 million on a party at every shuttle launch, according to CBS. Select personnel are treated to 5 days at a 4 star hotel. This year alone, they've spent $4 million on parties. NASA asked for, and was given, $1 billion more from the Senate this year. NASA proponents argue it makes more sense to give money to talented, productive people in exchange for scientific knowledge, than spend in on unproductive people in the form of straight welfare."
Java

Submission + - A Java Developer's Review of Fedora 8 (ensode.net)

Submitted by
heffel
heffel writes: "I just finished installing Fedora 8. One new feature that really caught my eye is that it includes an unencumbered version of Java, based on OpenJDk, called IcedTea. In addition to IcedTea, Fedora 8 includes a lot of Java software out of the box including Eclipse, Maven, ANT, Tomcat 5, and Jetty, among others. I took it for a spin to see if IcedTea will cut the mustard."
Networking

Submission + - IT pay falls short, finds annual salary survey 1

Submitted by BobB
BobB writes: A storm seems to be brewing in the IT job market. Pay raises have continued to outpace inflation, and bonuses are downright impressive — 11.6% on average. Yet, as the 2007 Network World Salary Survey finds, dissatisfaction over the salary package is rampant. Package includes a salary calculator to compare what you're making to those in your region and across U.S. http://www.networkworld.com/salary/2007/092407-annual-salary-survey.html?ts0hb=&story=ab5_salartsrvy
Software

Submission + - Is it time for Open Office?

Submitted by lazyron
lazyron writes: I've been using Open Office a bit more lately, and got to thinking... This is much more like my current version of M$ Office than Office 2007 will be. Could it be time to try Open Office in the workplace? At least a little bit before Office 2007 is getting hammered down our throats? Are there any IT admins out there thinking about trying Open Office? Either with a few users or all of them?
Slashdot.org

Submission + - Has Digg Raised the Quality of Slashdotters?

Submitted by
jav1231
jav1231 writes: "Given the idea that there is a competition between Digg and Slashdot, does it seem that the average response on Slashdot has gotten better? I'm seeing far less flamebait-like responses. Furthermore, even controversial posts that have some point and reason to them are given opportunities that before would have been vehemently (and dare I say childishly) buried and modded down. Has Digg served Slashdot well by funneling off the less mature among us?"
Education

Submission + - Should I continue my education?

Submitted by Jerim
Jerim writes: I just finished my AS in Computer Science and am rolling it over into a BS in Computer Science. The problem is that I am 28 years old. I didn't really decide until I was 26 years old that I wanted to make IT my career. I have been moderately learning new technologies here and there over the years. However, at pretty much every level of the industry, I run into people who seem to know everything. Now, I like to think that they are just bluffing, or it is all in my head. No one can know everything. Lately, though, I have begun to think "What if they do?" What if that weird guy down the hall really does know everything there is to know about MySQL, PHP, Oracle, Java, and a dozen technologies I am only familiar with.

I feel that I can continue on in my studies and get a BS degree, but I am concerned that no matter how much I love the topic and no matter how hard I work at it, I will always be too far behind people to ever catch up. That I will have a BS degree and still be doing all the entry level stuff, with some "know it all" always looking over my shoulder to make sure I don't screw up. Is there any room in the industry for someone who doesn't know everything or has tons of experience, other than entry level positions? Since I won't get my BS degree until after my 31st birthday, is it worth it? Or is that just too late to be of any use in the industry?

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