The mention of Bitcoin v0.3
on slashdot brought in a huge number of new users to Bitcoin.
Over at
slashdot readers make the valid point that it's all very well mounting an internet search like this for a world famous millionaire, but what about the rest of us when we get lost?
As Slashdot points out: «given the broader trends within the tech industry, any company that refuses to offer cloud - based products risks appearing obsolete (just ask Oracle about that one).
On an unrelated note, why is quantification, proper logic, and science so hard
for Slashdot users to understand?
As
Slashdot points out, the incident comes at a bad time for Microsoft, which has been recently focusing its attention on Azure in an effort to compete with the cloud platforms offered by Amazon, IBM, and Google.
The personal touch, the camaraderie among members, the long debates about whether Vi or Emacs is the best Linux text editor — those things can only occur in a community
like Slashdot.
Slashdot links to a new file because it contains something laudable or interesting, and thanks to that link, the file instantly disappears from view.
While sorting out some old electronic files on my file server, I came across the files for the original
Slashdot F.A.Q. from 11 years ago.
Sure if you
read slashdot you believe a kid who started a new project on sourceforge is better than all the Microsoft employees combined, but then again we are not interested in that idea.
He's worn many hats in his twenty years in the video game industry, including (but not limited to) the Chairman of the Independent Games Festival, Editor - In - Chief of Gamasutra, Game Developer Magazine, and
Slashdot Games, a Digital Achivist at the Internet Archive, and a game designer at Infogrames, working with properties that included Superman and the Looney Tunes.
When Slashdot first began, there weren't many other places to talk about the newest processor from Intel or the development of web technology like Ajax, or concepts like «virtual reality» — apart from the Usenet newsgroups that were the predecessor to most online geek communities.
By way of news - for - nerds
blog Slashdot comes word that IBM is seeking to patent a tool for identifying areas within industries in which little patenting activity is taking place — thus allowing businesses to step in and fill that IP void.
Also Rob Malda founded and ran the popular
website Slashdot out of an office there for a few years.
Since the brouhaha with the asshats got started three months ago, I made $ 80 in ad revenues as curious readers
left Slashdot to visit my websites.
That page was actually a pale imitation of a
longer Slashdot F.A.Q. that I had back in 2006.
In October of 2001, Apple announced the iPod and
Slashdot dismissed it as an immediate failure.
If they keep up the roughly - every -90-minutes updating schedule of the
regular Slashdot, it should be another good place to track gaming news.
But reports yesterday at ars technica and
Slashdot suggest the pair may never be able to identify the source of the attacks.
One enterprising commenter at
Slashdot engaged in some undercover work on Menhart and came up with this unflattering information.
Slashdot reports that today has been declared World Day Against Software Patents by the European based Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
It's too
bad Slashdot is unlikely to pick this story up, as is the main stream media.
In order to prevent «flamers» and trolls from taking over the system and ruining it for others — something new communities like Google + (s goog) are also struggling with —
Slashdot developed a pioneering moderation system that awards «karma» points to readers for their behavior on the site, and then selects moderators from that group.
I am really looking foward to seeing what he does next, and I
think Slashdot is in good hands.
Web sites like Wikipedia and
Slashdot use game - style principles to control behavior, and some see these principles moving into education and the workforce.
The turmoil of ownership didn't
stop Slashdot from growing, however, to the point where it had over 5 million visitors a month in 2006.