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When OS X was first released, there was a long post by one of the Quartz developers on Slashdot explaining why they chose not to use X11.

A typical Web application that uses this sort of architecture is a Weblog like SlashDot (see Resources).

Update: I got completely slashdotted and my few hundred gigs of bandwidth ran out in mere hours.

This concept runs counter to traditional media outlets where stories are chosen by a small handful of editors.

Heck, even Slashdot posts questions on a regular basis, allowing readers to contribute ideas.

Perhaps the best -- and most optimistic -- view of all, however, came from Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack.

But that's the part that makes Slashdot, and thus, gets people thinking that porting to new systems is really hard.

Slash is the open source software system that drives the hugely popular Slashdot web site and many others.

Note that your values will be different due to updates to the Slashdot. org page.

Slashdot focuses instead on group discussion and news-worthiness of links.

The second article in this series was linked and discussed on Slashdot when it was originally posted in 2002.

Sites such as Slashdot feature some mechanism for discussing stories and perhaps for highlighting the more interesting ones.

The so-called Slashdot effect can crater a good idea, simply because it's hard to predict load spikes.

"I just think it is just the way they see things in Microsoft, " wrote Slashdot blogger jgardia, for example.