Opera Invents New P2P System 60
jeffy124 writes "Opera Software has developed a new P2P communications technology, buzzword description being a platform independent real time short- to medium-range interpersonal communications technology. A press release is available on their website, as is a demonstration of the technology, which Opera has called "Soundwave"."
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Re:Holy crap (Score:5, Insightful)
They're probably doing that because people needlessly bitch about them.
I find it amusing, really. A lot of you act like somebody spit in your face when a dupe is posted. Never mind that not everybody may have seen it the first time around, I can't believe some of you get so bent out of shape about it. If it's old news, move on. Not a big deal.
It never happens that way though, does it? No no no, you've just got to come in and bitch about it. Bitch! Bitch!! Bitch!!! Dupe! Dupe!! DUPE!!! I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the dupes today were intentional just to have a little fun with you loudmouths with no sense of proportion.
Re:Holy crap (Score:3, Insightful)
Dupes annoy me for the following reason: I am a professional. I try to put care into meeting my customer's needs. I expect the people who provide services to me (ad-sponsored and paid alike) to do the same. A Slashdot editor who cannot be bothered to read Slashdot insults me on a variety of levels: first, Slashdot is such a trivial medium that even its editors cannot be bothered to read it. So why do I read it? I guess I'm the fool. Second, my time is worth so little that they have the right to waste it, like a fast-food employee chatting on the phone with friends or a cable guy who says he'll arrive "sometime in the afternoon". Admittedly the dupe only wastes a second of my time but when you multiply that second across a tens of thousands of users it is actually quite costly.
Ultimately it is just the lack of professionalism and respect for the audience that is galling. The very nature of an "editor's" job is to save the readership from distracting little annoyances. An "editor" without professionalism should get a different job. They are like a computer programmer who doesn't think logically.