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Cringley Asking for 12 Month Predictions

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the roll-out-the-crystal-ball dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Where is technology going? by dildatron · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    nice try troll. but i refuse to bite. with a slashdot id of 30003 you had damn well better know where it comes from.

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  2. Re:Quick! by Zelet · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

    Just my .02 thanks.

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  3. Re:Quick! by foxtrot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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?