The Dice that owns slashdot was originally a job listings site. The C compiler called Dice (http://www.binarydevotion.com/?p=76) was written by Matt Dillon, who now works on DragonflyBSD. No relation.

We should, but I don't think anyone has it well organized so far. This book is a good start though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work

I really dislike the fact that we can't undo an unintentional mod here =-(

No, I think fetlife already has that covered...

I've been wondering that since the 90s... SMS is a crude hack that was past due for replacement before most people ever heard of it.

Sure, and Samsung could claim to be a sovereign citizen. They could then send Apple a letter, informing them that reading the letter constitutes the agreement of a contract whereby Apple will pay Samsung $10,000,000 in gold coins and Infowars Dollars.*


* I am not a lawyer.

You could have a load of torrents running, and still have sufficient bandwidth to post a "I don't understand why people would want x. I get by just fine with y." argument.

A bunch of panicking civilians discharging firearms in a crowded and smoke-filled theater is the American dream.

We have the same franchise model in much of Europe. Although generally consistent in any given area, some branches are pretty unfriendly places. There are two in my town, and I only ever use one of them. I stopped using the other one when they refused to allow me to use the toilet (it's kept locked) until I ordered food. I'm a well dressed, sober, I'm in my late 30s, and it was the afternoon. I asked for the manager, who didn't see a problem with their policy. By contrast, the other McDonalds just 5 minutes walk away has no such policy, and appear to be hiring personable and helpful staff/managers.

Help ma boab! Obama, that scunner, is oot ta git us! Would be braw if that Jennie McCarthy lassie would save us!

This solution doesn't seem to be buzzword compliant. The cloud isn't about writing stuff with a pen. Cloud is.. er, it's kind of like, well you know, Internet things. Give me money.

Fair point on the editing set-up. I'm pretty experienced now with wiki markup, but that took time. What's she on about when she talks of "mind calming images"? What's with the Geocities comparison? Wikipedia is a minimalist and utilitarian layout. Geocities was the land that aesthetics forgot, and helped popularise eye-raping text on a tiled background. Really, why did people do that? I wondered if they had a monitor calibrated drastically differently to mine, or did they never read their own websites? How can anyone think that blue text on a starry background is pleasant to read, and auto-playing midi files? God, how did we survive?

There are plenty other sites she can visit for her modern web experience. Want dynamic stuff that breaks traditional browsing paradigms? Sure, you got it. How about over-use of flash and other crap? Coming right up, albeit in smaller amounts these days due to anyone with an ounce of sense blocking Flash content except for sites where it'll be used to provide the service being sought - not just advertising or "artistic" flair. Want Javascript/AJAX stuff that'll send your cycles climbing, and give you something that looks nice but is in fact far less useful that the old site? Sure, and why not come to Slashdot to see an example of how geeks can build a UI to solve a problem that never really existed - all while neglecting proper support for unicode and touch screen devices. Did anyone at Geeknet not even try browsing Slashdot on a touchscreen device? Trying to adjust filtering is a pain, and why is there an option at the bottom to opt out of the mobile version if it doesn't work? God I hate mobile versions of sites - particularly when I can't opt out of them.

Ironically The Atlantic reminds me of Wikipedia design. Nice simple layout that doesn't detract from the content. Wikipedia works because its layout doesn't get in my way (except maybe when they fuck around "mobile friendly" layouts.

I wonder how many shoppers even ask for something with Windows? I imagine it'd be more a PC, and it's expected they can browse the web and buy stuff for it. Anybody with experience in retail who can fill in some blanks?

People pretending do be who they are not is pretty annoying. I won't send the to Hell, but certainly they won't be getting top shelf liquor in Heaven. Good news though. You're getting the good stuff!
JC