Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds 229
Slashdot turns 15 this month! You may have noticed that we’ve swapped out the usual logo for the first of the reader-contributed designs we'll be featuring this month. (If you think you have a better idea, we'd love to see it; all artists whose designs we choose to run will get Slashdot anniversary T-shirts, and one will get a Nexus 7 tablet.) We're also happy to announce an overdue feature here on Slashdot: a blog with information from the developers and editors. We'll use it to provide updates and background information about the site's development (for instance, new features or fixed bugs, or changes in the user interface), and try to answer reader questions about the site at greater length than the FAQ. Shameless tease: today, you can read about the launch of Slashdot mobile in the inaugural post. We might use the blog to expound on story choice or to make non-critical announcements, too. You probably don't come to Slashdot generally to read about Slashdot, though, so don't worry &mdash the blog will live safely and quietly in the background until you want to read it. Since this is a new feature, we're still working out exactly how it should best be used, so feel free to make suggestions below on what you'd like to see. Between now and the end of October, look for a passel of other treats, too, starting with an interview with Woz later today. We hope you'll get together with other readers at one of the many parties planned for later this month, also. Slashdot exists for and because of everyone who reads the site; thank you for being part of it.
That "get a life" post! (Score:2, Funny)
Wow! 15 years? Man I need a life.
Re:Thanks (Score:5, Funny)
3 obvious points about that: /. is dying when Netcraft confirms it.
1. I'll believe
2. Your preferred $EDITOR sucks. Mine rocks.
3. I want Natalie Portman naked and petrified in hot grits.
Re:Thanks (Score:4, Funny)
Starting Score: 1
Moderation: +1
Thank you Slashdot. You created one of the greatest communities on the internet. Yeah, it is a community, despite the fact that we mostly argue with each other all the time :-)
+1 Informative
No other site comes close to being as insightful and interesting, and occasionally hilarious.
+1 Funny
I'm sure there will be lots of "Slashdot is dying" posts, but I think it is more of an inevitable change.
-1 Troll
Long gone as the Emacs vs. vi holy wars, to be replaced with the Android vs. iOS wars.
-1 Flamebait
How long ago the late 90s seem now.
+1 Insightful
Total Score: 2
Re:Thanks (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Russian, Natalie Portman pours hot grits on YOU.
Mod points for ACs for 15th anniversary (Score:5, Funny)
I hear each and every AC is going to get 15 mod points for /. 15th anniversary, spread the news !
Re:Haha (Score:4, Funny)
They did a long time ago.
And OSnews has become "Thoms latest phone purchases and such"
Re:Haha (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thanks (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our hot grit pouring Portmans from Russia Overlords.
Re:Congratulations (Score:5, Funny)
As a real nerd I have to object. Endianness is all about the order of equal-sized elements in a larger container. In the most popular form, it is about the order of bytes within a larger (16, 32 or 64) word. Hence, assuming every character is stored as a byte, the logo should be
todhsalS (64 bit), salShtodh (32 bit) or lSsadhto (16 bit).
This logo is not a correct representation of any little endianness stored Slashdot, not even on 24 bit machines.
Re:Haha (Score:4, Funny)
Scratch that, you apparently didn't even RTFS.
Re:Congratulations (Score:5, Funny)
Re:dayummm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Haha (Score:4, Funny)
Why even waste time RTFT (Title)? Just start commenting. To paraphrase one Zapp Brannigan: Make as many posts as you can as fast as you can. Don't stop for _any reason_.