So Slashdot is turning into a blog site? Cmdr. Taco left because he wasn't happy with GeekNet's "ambitions" about the site? When do we get SlashHomo? There's so many questions to be asked...
There's profit, then there's profit at all costs. Everyone in business appears to think that there's this tug of war between failure at profitability and failure at providing good customer experience. I have no doubt most telecoms are profitable, but the customer experience sucks donkey balls. You'd think an intelligent person wouldn't spit on other people just because they can and because apparently it not only doesn't hurt the bottom line, but it seems to improve it -- at least for the time being. There's
Yet this is GeekNet's Jump The Shark moment, today, May 1, 2012, for anyone keeping track.
Philosophically, News for Nerds, and the concept of what/. means now has another branding barnacle: BI. I understand BI, big data, and why. I see the horizon of words and phrases like: new paradigm, hadoop(y), your OpenStack engine, and other revenue-generating phrases.
This is branding gone wrong, like putting a Continental kit onto a Kia Rio. We, the customers of/. aren't ideological customers of BIG DATA and BI. We're theorists, engineers, completely whacked out of our mind gamers, and people that make antennas with Pringles cans. I'm shocked that the publishers would believe that they can somehow meld these two concepts together. It's really frightening that they're trying as BI would have told them: only a subsection of/. readers give a rat's patootie about BI, and BI's been around for more than a decade in one form or another.
I remember when I joined Slashdot 5+ years ago, Kuro5hin being bad was the joke.
Now that Slashdot seems to be becoming the joke, where do we go?
Why can't we have nice things? Why is every community we end up going to get shit all over by the idiots in corporate or wherever and turned into a hellhole? See: Facebook, Slashdot, and hundreds of other websites.
I remember when I joined Slashdot 5+ years ago, Kuro5hin being bad was the joke.
Now that Slashdot seems to be becoming the joke, where do we go?
Why can't we have nice things? Why is every community we end up going to get shit all over by the idiots in corporate or wherever and turned into a hellhole? See: Facebook, Slashdot, and hundreds of other websites.
Money, and they see users as a commodity that can be sold for money to advertisers.
I would reinstate my mod points for your comment alone but you're already at 5. Personally I think that/. jumped the shard with the virtually unusable and certainly unstable "web 2.0" Ajackass interface but you make an excellent point. I'm a long time/. user but for the last 2 or 3 years I glance at the site maybe one or twice a week at best and simply don't comment anymore. The articles have become vapid, the user comments little better than Reddit, and now this... Yeah, that's why I always log into/.
CmdrTaco, for all of his bad days, seemed to have an unerring pulse on the interesting stuff that makes a geek's day. Yes, there were colorful sidetracks, and flamewars, and threads that had 700+ comments and drifts that strung to the nebulae.
You meet interesting and thoughtful folks. Some of them are clearly way out on edge of reality. Some beyond. Deciding which is who can be interesting. I don't think that Reddit Getsit, that Digg Diggs, and the other sandpile of social geek communities gets there, either. Hell, even BurningMan has jumped the shark. Slashdot used to *make* the memes, not report on them a dozen days later while grafting the elephant's behind of **BI** onto itself.
Robin, are you listening? Would you give these jokers a klewww? Smack them upside the head, pull their heads out of their butts, and through them back on the cluetrain? Sigh. Big sigh.
Microsoft was in a position to do good, and didn't. Linux wouldn't have risen, Steve Jobs wouldn't have come back from the desert, Solaris might be the King Unix, all sorts of things might have happened if Microsoft's domination and boorish behavior wasn't so thorough and without remorse. As an antagonist, Microsoft proved useful to many. They were the one to beat. They have been beaten. Microsoft provided return for their shareholders, at the cost of business integrity.
I have seen that trend, too. But many open, non-partisan social forums have become political battlegrounds as polarized peoples become trolled, and fights bring ideological thread drifts that bring little to discussion topics.
Domestic policy is another problem: who's turf? Yes, Americans seem to dominate, but I'm interested in international input, and that means *everyone*. It's like slow torture to read the advent of the Big Brother era in the UK, but heartening to hear the Germans are doing something abou
We, the customers of/. aren't ideological customers of BIG DATA and BI. We're theorists, engineers, completely whacked out of our mind gamers, and people that make antennas with Pringles cans.
We're also long haired, raggedy-bearded, pirate-biker rebels, blasted out of our skulls on cocaine and hand ground coffee, and riding our virtual hogs at a thousand miles an hour through the internets, mooning at all the Agents Smiths who try to bring us down to their dreary reality, giving a finger to the socialist-fascist- corporatist Man, and ready to die for our right to party and download music for free.
And all this from our mom's basements.
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own
form of misery.
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Business intelligence. Sounds oxymoronic to me, at least if applied to many among Fortune 500.
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Well... They're among Fortune 500 - They must be doing something wrong.
FTFY.
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Shouldn't you be occupying something today?
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There's profit, then there's profit at all costs. Everyone in business appears to think that there's this tug of war between failure at profitability and failure at providing good customer experience. I have no doubt most telecoms are profitable, but the customer experience sucks donkey balls. You'd think an intelligent person wouldn't spit on other people just because they can and because apparently it not only doesn't hurt the bottom line, but it seems to improve it -- at least for the time being. There's
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Thank you.
Yet this is GeekNet's Jump The Shark moment, today, May 1, 2012, for anyone keeping track.
Philosophically, News for Nerds, and the concept of what /. means now has another branding barnacle: BI. I understand BI, big data, and why. I see the horizon of words and phrases like: new paradigm, hadoop(y), your OpenStack engine, and other revenue-generating phrases.
This is branding gone wrong, like putting a Continental kit onto a Kia Rio. We, the customers of /. aren't ideological customers of BIG DATA and BI. We're theorists, engineers, completely whacked out of our mind gamers, and people that make antennas with Pringles cans. I'm shocked that the publishers would believe that they can somehow meld these two concepts together. It's really frightening that they're trying as BI would have told them: only a subsection of /. readers give a rat's patootie about BI, and BI's been around for more than a decade in one form or another.
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I remember when I joined Slashdot 5+ years ago, Kuro5hin being bad was the joke.
Now that Slashdot seems to be becoming the joke, where do we go?
Why can't we have nice things? Why is every community we end up going to get shit all over by the idiots in corporate or wherever and turned into a hellhole? See: Facebook, Slashdot, and hundreds of other websites.
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I remember when I joined Slashdot 5+ years ago, Kuro5hin being bad was the joke.
Now that Slashdot seems to be becoming the joke, where do we go?
Why can't we have nice things? Why is every community we end up going to get shit all over by the idiots in corporate or wherever and turned into a hellhole? See: Facebook, Slashdot, and hundreds of other websites.
Money, and they see users as a commodity that can be sold for money to advertisers.
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Personally I think that
I'm a long time
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CmdrTaco, for all of his bad days, seemed to have an unerring pulse on the interesting stuff that makes a geek's day. Yes, there were colorful sidetracks, and flamewars, and threads that had 700+ comments and drifts that strung to the nebulae.
You meet interesting and thoughtful folks. Some of them are clearly way out on edge of reality. Some beyond. Deciding which is who can be interesting. I don't think that Reddit Getsit, that Digg Diggs, and the other sandpile of social geek communities gets there, either. Hell, even BurningMan has jumped the shark. Slashdot used to *make* the memes, not report on them a dozen days later while grafting the elephant's behind of **BI** onto itself.
Robin, are you listening? Would you give these jokers a klewww? Smack them upside the head, pull their heads out of their butts, and through them back on the cluetrain? Sigh. Big sigh.
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Microsoft was in a position to do good, and didn't. Linux wouldn't have risen, Steve Jobs wouldn't have come back from the desert, Solaris might be the King Unix, all sorts of things might have happened if Microsoft's domination and boorish behavior wasn't so thorough and without remorse. As an antagonist, Microsoft proved useful to many. They were the one to beat. They have been beaten. Microsoft provided return for their shareholders, at the cost of business integrity.
But the Internet is still way cool, a
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I have seen that trend, too. But many open, non-partisan social forums have become political battlegrounds as polarized peoples become trolled, and fights bring ideological thread drifts that bring little to discussion topics.
Domestic policy is another problem: who's turf? Yes, Americans seem to dominate, but I'm interested in international input, and that means *everyone*. It's like slow torture to read the advent of the Big Brother era in the UK, but heartening to hear the Germans are doing something abou
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It's like slow torture to read the advent of the Big Brother era in the UK,
Yes, it's like Nineteen Eighty Four. Fiction.
So long... (Score:3)
Yet this is GeekNet's Jump The Shark moment, today, May 1, 2012, for anyone keeping track.
I think you're right. I've been here a gawd-awful long time, and this latest abomination is by far the worst by several orders of magnitude.
I keep hoping to see an "UPDATE: Suckers! We trolled you good!" appear in the summary, but I don't think that's going to happen.
I wonder if the Romans felt this way as their empire declined and fell?
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I wonder if the Romans felt this way as their empire declined and fell?
Pretentious? Moi?
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We, the customers of /. aren't ideological customers of BIG DATA and BI. We're theorists, engineers, completely whacked out of our mind gamers, and people that make antennas with Pringles cans.
We're also long haired, raggedy-bearded, pirate-biker rebels, blasted out of our skulls on cocaine and hand ground coffee, and riding our virtual hogs at a thousand miles an hour through the internets, mooning at all the Agents Smiths who try to bring us down to their dreary reality, giving a finger to the socialist-fascist- corporatist Man, and ready to die for our right to party and download music for free.
And all this from our mom's basements.