Comment Re:At Walnut Creek? (Score 1) 94
The sherrif is nearer.
Comment Re:Not what Slashdot drives, but what drives Slash (Score 1) 94
Surely you recall it was like pulling teeth to get Malda to post even that much code.
Comment Re: NASA? (Score 1) 251
*cough* Your being a bit racially insensitive to the Eloi aren't you?
Eloi are people too...
Tasty, tasty people...
Comment Re:Rational acceptance of change?! (Score 1) 5
There can only be one Interrobang.
Comment Re:This is the problem with private-sector benefit (Score 1) 123
He probably means dollar per dollar up to 6% of gross annual pay.
Comment Re:CmdrTaco weighs in (Score 2) 10
"Fuck you, your masters know better."
Classic Malda...
Submission + - The Individual Midnight Thread 40
unitron writes: Trying to figure out time zones is starting to make my brain hurt, but apparently in a bit over 6 hours somewhere on the other side of globe from Greenwich the Week of Slashcott will begin, as Midnight arrives for anyone in that zone, and then it travels west, where I will encounter it in about 23 hours.
So if we can get this thread out of the Firehose, I was thinking that, as the 10th arrives for us in our respective locations, we could leave here what may be our final farewells to Slashdot.
Until Midnight, this is our meeting place, our City Hall, our town square.
(and yes, our playground)
After that I'm not sure where we can congregate to discuss how the Slashcott's going and whether it's time to move on.
I'm going to jump the gun and lay claim to "So long and thanks for all the Karma", and perhaps someone could do a Bob Hope and re-write the lyrics to "Thanks for the Memories".
In the meantime, a bit of housekeeping.
An AC beat me to the week-long boycott idea by a couple of hours, and suggested the date range of the 10th through the 17th.
As part of a group of people familiar with the concept of beginning a count with 0 instead of 1, I really should have spotted the mistake of putting 8 days into that particular week.
So, should Slashcott Week end as the 17th begins, or do we give Dice a bonus day?
So if we can get this thread out of the Firehose, I was thinking that, as the 10th arrives for us in our respective locations, we could leave here what may be our final farewells to Slashdot.
Until Midnight, this is our meeting place, our City Hall, our town square.
(and yes, our playground)
After that I'm not sure where we can congregate to discuss how the Slashcott's going and whether it's time to move on.
I'm going to jump the gun and lay claim to "So long and thanks for all the Karma", and perhaps someone could do a Bob Hope and re-write the lyrics to "Thanks for the Memories".
In the meantime, a bit of housekeeping.
An AC beat me to the week-long boycott idea by a couple of hours, and suggested the date range of the 10th through the 17th.
As part of a group of people familiar with the concept of beginning a count with 0 instead of 1, I really should have spotted the mistake of putting 8 days into that particular week.
So, should Slashcott Week end as the 17th begins, or do we give Dice a bonus day?
Journal Journal: When Did 'Beta' Become A Dirty Word On /. ? 5
Just spotted that people are stuffing comments into various stories here for the sole purpose of complaining about the
Maybe it's because I only occasionally visit here, but are people really that hung up on the current design?
Hell, I can remember when
Comment Re:Cut the BETA! (Score 1) 578
Er... wow.
I think the clue is in the word 'beta'. The whole point of this exercise is for users to help Slashdot iron out the kinks in the new design. As far as I'm aware, they are not forcing people to use the Beta site, and you can still use the 'classic' site in the meantime.
From an aesthetic viewpoint, it certainly doesn't look that bad - if it were faux-MySpace, I might be able to understand the anger. As it is, if you're really *that* opposed to change of Slashdot's look, either pitch ideas for a design that improves on how the site currently works, or help identify the problems with the proposed redesign. Clogging up the site with this neo-Luddite whinging will most likely get you nowhere, and if you decide to go elsewhere I suspect you won't be missed.
Comment Re:Slashdot BETA Sucks. (Score 1) 2219
God I miss technocrat.net so much.
I bailed out of slashdot and spent more time commenting and being a part of the community over there until Bruce decided to shelve it.
Here's to hoping he resurrects it again.
Only not written in ruby. :p
I bailed out of slashdot and spent more time commenting and being a part of the community over there until Bruce decided to shelve it.
Here's to hoping he resurrects it again.
Only not written in ruby.
Comment Ingress (Score 1) 5
I hadn't heard of that - I'm inclined to check it out. Thanks for mentioning it.
Comment Re:Resurrecting Technocrat.net (Score 1) 2219
That makes more sense. Thanks.
Comment Re:Resurrecting Technocrat.net (Score 1) 2219
I did that with Slashdot. I don't like the way it worked out.
Comment Re:Slashdot BETA Sucks. (Score 4, Informative) 2219
From Bruce's Web site:
Hot topics as I write this: Why doesn't Bruce resurrect Technocrat.net now that Slashdot is owned by Dice.com and stinks more than the last two times I've shut down Technocrat.net due to lack of readership?
Think it would really work this time? You've got my email and phone.
So yes, email him to give him an idea of how much actual interest there is so he knows the readership will be there.
Comment Resurrecting Technocrat.net (Score 5, Interesting) 2219
Hi,
So, it is tempting to resurrect Technocrat.net now that Slashdot stinks worse than the last two times I shut down technocrat.net
If you remember, we didn't get very many readers. We didn't get them because not enough people submitted usable articles.
As it happens, we don't just need a better Slashdot. We need a replacement for Groklaw. And I personally would be happier reading something with the absolute minimum of Javascript except perhaps in the submission editor. Maybe I'm old-fashioned.
I know that I can do it technically, and I have the server, and Cloudflare should be able to help me handle the load. But if it is like last time, and my wife observes that I'm talking to the same dozen guys all of the time, it's not going to work.
What do you think?
