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Cringley Asking for 12 Month Predictions
sckienle writes "Robert X. Cringely is asking in his pulpit this week for help in determining what's going to happen in the tech industry in the next 12 months." I expect that robots will take over the world, and openly hunt humans in a post apocolyptic landscape. This will occur in January. For the rest of the year, technology will take a vacation.
I predict that Ars-Fartsica will have a comment modded up +5 in this article
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I'm a troll for thinking that the article summary was funny? I was laughing my ass off after I read that.
Please modderators... don't be so quick to judge.
I don't need the carma.. but fuck off anyway.
...And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." - Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
I wonder why this hasn't happened earlier - I think someone evil is finally going to notice that Usenet is 95% warez/moviez, and go after the big companies that run Usenet servers. This will probably happen after someone makes a tool that allows for easy use of Usenet, ie, a "download, unpar, unrar" tool, that keeps track of binary groups.
You mean, like pan?
I think the battle you speak of will heat up, and the future for free thought may be a very bleak one indeed.
On a completely different note, it would not surprise me at all, in light of congresses latest whorish display of its ability to move in contortions suggestive of a complete lack of backbone in granting president Baby Bush with a blank check for mayhem and idiocy, we didn't find ourselves embroiled in a war by this time next year that is far bigger, and far uglier, than we ever intended.
It would only surprise me a little if by this time next year we have been reduced to fighting this war with sticks and stones, however, a few more years of this sort of leadership and I wouldn't be surprised at all.
My prediction on next years technical innovation: The C.L.U.B. Mark I and the S.T.I.C.K./2003 as the state of the art in human weaponry, deployed far and wide and stockpiled in every home.
The Future of Human Evolution: Autonomy
nice try troll. but i refuse to bite. with a slashdot id of 30003 you had damn well better know where it comes from.
If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
Oh Yoshimi They don't believe me But you won't let those Robots defeat me Oh Yoshimi They don't believe me But you won't let those Robots eat me (flaming lips)
As a new Missouri resident having recently lost my home in Maryland to a fire(yes I'm lying, but to make a point), I find it in poor taste to discuss being a resident of Maryland. (EoL where L = Lie) Don't be such a crybaby. I am so sick of people who feel they have a constitutional right not to be offended and that a special ammendment was put into effect to keep people from talking about difficult or painful situations (either directly or indirectly). Whah! Paint a big target on your butt and go jog.
You know, it's time for me to burn some of my karma...
The moderation around here has really gone to the dogs lately.
For instance, with 7 levels of posts (-1..5), a person could reasonably assume that each level would contain roughly 15 percent of all the posts. One could even assume that this would be smaller for +5 posts (excellent) and -1 posts (totally annoying trolls).
But the reality is that once a discussion has gone on for it's full life cycle (about two days), that there are too many +5 and +4 posts, and an inappropriate number of -1 posts. (Based on my judgement of whether or not something is really -1. +4, or +5)
I mean reallllllly, take a look at the last few days worth of +5 posts. How many of them were really the Best of the Best of the Best, SIR! appologies to MIB.
I think what is going on is that people feel they have to use all their moderation points. So if something if vaguely interesting, informative, off-topic, or "troll-y", they burn a moderation point on it. regardless of whether that +4 post really needs another +1 informative added to it!
So what do I think we could do to solve this problem?
Give everyone fewer moderation points to play with. With fewer points, I think people will value them more, and may feel less likely to "have to use them".
Of course, this will be modded down as either a troll, or off-topice, but I have karma to spare. /RANT >
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I totally agree with you. Even still, I should have been modded "off-topic" not troll. What was trollish about what I said? I really did think that the summary was the funniest thing I have read in a long time. If you don't agree with my sense of humor... leave me alone, someone else might.
.02 thanks.
Just my
...And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." - Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
I can't wait. Florida is a liability. Just think how much better off we'd be without Florida draging us down. *cough*shrub*cough*
That, and mopping up from huricanes every couple years isn't cheap.
- RustyTaco
As I place myself in the same "-1 offtopic" boat...
So what do I think we could do to solve this problem?
Give everyone fewer moderation points to play with. With fewer points, I think people will value them more, and may feel less likely to "have to use them".
I think that it might work better to simply make it cost more moderator points to push things higher. Want to up-moderate a -1 through +2 post? Pay a moderator point. Want to up-moderate a +3 post? Pay two moderator points. Want to upmoderate a +4 post? Pay three moderator points.
This not only effectively reduces the number of moderator points people have, but makes sure people only buy up the moderation on stuff that _really deserves it_.
Another idea for making moderation saner is to make more degrees of it, with the idea I posted you could simply expand to +7 being the highest by making someone spend all 5 points on a +6 post. You could get the _real_ creme of the crop browsing at +6 or +7 and the good ideas at +4 or +5.
Where is one supposed to post ideas like this, anyhow?