Comment: Help! (Score 0) 2
I just Soyled myself!
+ - And the crowd goes wild!!! Again!!!->
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stderr_dk writes "Newly opened news site SoylentNews just reached 2000 users.
They started out by getting 1k users on day 1 and now on their 2nd day of opperation they have reached 2k users.
Quiet impressive."
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They started out by getting 1k users on day 1 and now on their 2nd day of opperation they have reached 2k users.
Quiet impressive."
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Comment: Re:It's alive (Score 0) 18
Last post!
Rolls the Dice, comes up with craps...
Now I'm gone. Buh bye.
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stderr_dk
stderr_dk writes "Newly opened news site SoylentNews just reached 1000 users.
The site haven't even been up for 24 hours yet, so it's quiet impressive."
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The site haven't even been up for 24 hours yet, so it's quiet impressive."
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+ - Slashdot's new interface could kill what keeps Slashdot relevant->
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Bob Verkouteren writes "TECHNOLOGY LAB / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Slashdot’s new interface could kill what keeps Slashdot relevant
Flashy revamp seeks to draw new faces to the community—at the cost of the old.
by Lee Hutchinson — Feb 12 2014, 6:55pm RST
WEB CULTURE
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In the modern responsive Web Three Point Oh Internet, Slashdot stands like a thing frozen in time—it's a coelacanth stuck incongruously in an aquarium full of more colorful fish. The technology news aggregator site has been around since 1997, making it positively ancient as websites are reckoned. More importantly, Slashdot's long focus on open source technology news and topics has caused it to accrete a user base that tends to be extremely technical, extremely skilled, and extremely opinionated.
That user base is itself the main reason why Slashdot continues to thrive, even as its throwback interface makes it look to untrained eyes like a dated relic. Though the site is frequently a source of deep and rich commentary on topics, the barrier for new users to engage in the site's discussions is relatively high—certainly higher than, say, reddit (or even Ars). This doesn't cause much concern to the average Slashdot user, but tech job listing site Dice.com (which bought Slashdot in September 2012, along with Sourceforge and a number of other digital properties) appears to have decided it's time to drag Slashdot's interface into the 21st century in order to make things comfortable for everyone—old and new users alike.
And the Slashdot user base is not pleased.
Change for change’s sake?
Slashdot's interface has been modified a few times over the years, and each time there has been some amount of protest. However, no prior redesign has included as many sweeping alterations as the Slashdot Beta. In 2006, a major interface update that brought rounded edges to many of the site's visual elements and stuffed JavaScript under the hood caused major upset—the engineering- and programming-focused Slashdot community is collectively not a fan of change for change's sake.
The rage over the new Slashdot Beta, though, makes any previous instances of interface outrage look positively pedestrian. This time, the upset isn't over JavaScript or rounded corners, but over what many Slashdot users see as a removal of the site's most vital features."
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Slashdot’s new interface could kill what keeps Slashdot relevant
Flashy revamp seeks to draw new faces to the community—at the cost of the old.
by Lee Hutchinson — Feb 12 2014, 6:55pm RST
WEB CULTURE
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In the modern responsive Web Three Point Oh Internet, Slashdot stands like a thing frozen in time—it's a coelacanth stuck incongruously in an aquarium full of more colorful fish. The technology news aggregator site has been around since 1997, making it positively ancient as websites are reckoned. More importantly, Slashdot's long focus on open source technology news and topics has caused it to accrete a user base that tends to be extremely technical, extremely skilled, and extremely opinionated.
That user base is itself the main reason why Slashdot continues to thrive, even as its throwback interface makes it look to untrained eyes like a dated relic. Though the site is frequently a source of deep and rich commentary on topics, the barrier for new users to engage in the site's discussions is relatively high—certainly higher than, say, reddit (or even Ars). This doesn't cause much concern to the average Slashdot user, but tech job listing site Dice.com (which bought Slashdot in September 2012, along with Sourceforge and a number of other digital properties) appears to have decided it's time to drag Slashdot's interface into the 21st century in order to make things comfortable for everyone—old and new users alike.
And the Slashdot user base is not pleased.
Change for change’s sake?
Slashdot's interface has been modified a few times over the years, and each time there has been some amount of protest. However, no prior redesign has included as many sweeping alterations as the Slashdot Beta. In 2006, a major interface update that brought rounded edges to many of the site's visual elements and stuffed JavaScript under the hood caused major upset—the engineering- and programming-focused Slashdot community is collectively not a fan of change for change's sake.
The rage over the new Slashdot Beta, though, makes any previous instances of interface outrage look positively pedestrian. This time, the upset isn't over JavaScript or rounded corners, but over what many Slashdot users see as a removal of the site's most vital features."
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+ - Ars Technica Senior Editor Discusses Threat of New Slashdot UI-> 3
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Defenestrar
Defenestrar writes "The senior review editor of Ars Technica, Lee Hutchinson, examines the potential impact of the Slashdot redesign with regards to the site's relevance."
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Comment: Re:FUCK BETA (Score 0) 36
Comment: Re:Your tinfoil hat is on too tight (Score 0) 293
So the easiest solution is to not use the service at all.
The only way to win is not to play.
Comment: Re: What are the questions? (Score 0) 313
Microsoft is looking for a new CEO!
Comment: Re:microwave (Score 0) 449
And are girls involved? 2 girls?
Comment: Re:Non-free Nvidia driver already at 4.4 (Score 0) 100
The real embarrassment is that Windows is already up to 8.1, while the Linux kernel is only at 3.1
If my math is correct that's a whole 5 metric torvalds* better.
Get your shit together Linux!
*I think MS still use imperial ballmers, but I'm not sure.
We measure in 'Courics', not torvalds... yes we have our shit together.
Comment: Re:Wow. (Score 0) 289
From what I've heard, Microsoft has Bing as the default search on Explorer (I use Linux, but my dad said he went to use his computer one day and the search had switched from Google to Bing after an update) and they can still claim only an 18% share of teh market?
I don't call that success especially after the years and money invested
Comment: Re:But it is horribly wrong anyway. (Score 0) 458
Julian Barbour, I believe, is headed in the right direction. My 2 pence only.
Basically, time and space are separate, not inseparable, which helps deal with a lot of quantum/gravity inconsistencies.
But I am not a physicist/astrophysicist/etc
Comment: Re:Not only in the US... (Score 0) 168
Makes me think of "Two by two, hands of blue."
Harper and Evil Government.... two by two, hands of Tory Blue
Comment: Re:I know what this is!!!! (Score 0) 112
"It's a jelly!"
Ahhh, the memories. Good old Bob and Doug MacKenzie..........