Well, after reading the comment THOROUGHLY (I'm not sure why I've done that), I agree. I must say that I wasn't aware of the fact that THIS is the general level of intelligence of slashdot comments, although I occasionally skim through the news. Anyway, it surely IS publicity :)
Best wishes, Fabio On Dec 8, 2007 8:54 PM, Joshua Kantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was making that statement relative to the general level of > intelligence of slashdot comments. > > Josh > > On Dec 8, 11:51 am, "John Cremona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 08/12/2007, Joshua Kantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > but the comments are pretty good. > > > > Do you think so? I was struck by how silly and/or uninformed a lot of > > them were, and ended up stopping reading them, while thinking that > > "any publicity is good publicity". > > > > I think this underlines how important it is for people visiting the > > home page to get a good impression, and an accurate summary of what > > Sage is, within seconds. > > > > It will be very interesting to see how the downlad rate increases as a > > result, and traffic on sage-support, and bug-reports, and so on. > > > > John > > > > > > > > > On Dec 8, 11:12 am, Joshua Kantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The articles summary is pretty absurd. > > > > > > Josh > > > > > > On Dec 8, 10:40 am, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 8, 2007, at 8:41 AM, William Stein wrote: > > > > > > > > On Dec 8, 2007 7:39 AM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> On Dec 8, 2007 4:13 PM, Ismail Dönmez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > >>> > http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1350258wow!:<http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/08/1350258wow%21:> > ) > > > > > > > >> Ah, that's whyhttp://sagemath.org/isdown. :) > > > > > > > >> Ondrej > > > > > > > > Yep, the apache server crashed due to slashdotting. Fortunately > the > > > > > > computer itself > > > > > > didn't crash so I just restarted the server. > > > > > > > With slashdot, you might have to put it in a looping restart > script > > > > > like trac is :) > > > > -- > > John Cremona > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
