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How Many CDs Can You Burn at Once?
kfs27 asks: "In an attempt to help a professor of mine record and duplicate his lectures. I have been asked to put together a CD duplicating box. Commercial products seem to be very expensive and I figured a PC with some SCSI160 Cards (HW or SW Raid maybe), SCSI Burners and a 15K RPM drive (size not an issue) could do the job for cheaper. But the question is, how many CDs can you burn at once of 30 minutes, mono audio. 10 at a time would be excellent I think. More of course better. Cost is not a huge issue, as long as it's less than Commercial Duplicators, it's more of an experiment, but must be stable and easy to operate (I'd be willing to script up a frontend)."
If you could edit your comments, it would result in people debating each other, then constantly correcting their comments to try and make themselves look smarter.
Smarter posts? Oh no, we can't have that.
Also, people could karma whore a comment up to +5 then change it to some goatse.cx esque drivel.
Your post goes back to 1/2 (but never up) when you modify it.
Smarter posts? Oh no, we can't have that.
Note I said "look" smarter, not actually be smarter.
Example: say you post a comment, and I reply, correcting you on a point you got wrong.
Then you go back and correct your comment. Now the comment I made looks like it's correcting something that doesn't need correction... And I get modded down for redundancy. Editable comments would definitely lead to this sort of abuse, a whole new kind of trolling.
That's just one example of why you can't edit comments. If you feel you left something out or need to clarify, then you respond to your own comment- not change what was said originally. I don't see why editing is a need at all. If you are a bad speller, use the preview button.
Not to mention it would just make the site really schizophrenic-feeling, if all the comments were changing constantly.
Example: say you post a comment, and I reply, correcting you on a point you got wrong. Then you go back and correct your comment.
I see that as a good thing.
Then you go back and correct your comment. Now the comment I made looks like it's correcting something that doesn't need correction... And I get modded down for redundancy.
I guess if you think the moderation system is at all useful that is a bad thing. I don't.
You're not going to save money by doing it yourself. Let me rephrase that.
You will spend less money by having them professionally duped, and you won't have a fucking beast of a computer left sitting there.
"No problem," you say. "I can just dupe CD's for other people." Nope. You're not going to turn a profit for quite a while, and the other houses are sure to have lower prices than you.
Even though you might get your prices lower, as a musician, i'd much rather go with a pro house with DEDICATED equipment than some hack mucking about with a bunch of consumer-level burners and SCSI cards duct-taped into his HP minitower.
(i know, hyperbole, but you get the drift.)
Hey Taco! Looks like you're using the "infinite monkeys and typewriters" scheme to generate Ask Slashdots again...
You don't see how it would be an intensely confusing read? If comments that were posted before others were actually more recent? Or were edited so that the responses to them had absolutely NOTHING to do with the new text of the parent? Whats the point of having a reply if it doesn't address points covered in the parent?
/. is already too competitive as far as karma goes, this would just make it moreso, it seems.
It seems like adding editable comments would just make the trolling worse, as every person would constantly edit their posts to incorporate everyone else's points and discredit anyone who responds to them disparagingly.
(Also, please point me out another site of this size that has an editable comments system that works well.)
I guess if you think the moderation system is at all useful that is a bad thing. I don't.
So you like digging through the morass of 'frist post's and 'goatse.cx' posts? I agree that the moderation system is not very good at pointing out quality, but it is pretty good at filtering out the utter garbage.
Also, please point me out another site of this size that has an editable comments system that works well.
http://www.everything2.com/ I find their system far from perfect in other respects, but once you get used to the idea, I think the editable comments system is far superior.
I agree that the moderation system is not very good at pointing out quality, but it is pretty good at filtering out the utter garbage.
You're right. I definately exaggerated my point. The moderation system isn't useless, it's the karma system that is.
Whats the point of having a reply if it doesn't address points covered in the parent?
The point is to stop someone else from spreading untrue crap. Whether it's through responding to them (and hoping your response gets read), or having them change their original comment, it still accomplishes that goal. It's quite likely the reply would get moderated down to -1, so no one would have to actually read it once it's accomplished its purpose.
It seems like adding editable comments would just make the trolling worse, as every person would constantly edit their posts to incorporate everyone else's points and discredit anyone who responds to them disparagingly.
Again, this is what I would love about it. If someone presented a single coherent post incorporating all the others, I'd much rather read that then a 15 post reply chain arguing the point.
I don't think most people care about karma so much as they care about getting their posts recognized. Personally the only reason I don't post as an Anonymous Coward is that if I do so I can't keep track of when someone reply's to my posts.