I have all my recurring charges go to my citibank visa, and then i have that account setup that it automatically pays in full every month. AFAIK, Discover does this also.
100 is average 120+ is considered gifted 70- is considered slightly mentally deficient
Ok, that depends on what you mean by average, doesn't it? Do you mean average in the sense of score of a person considered of average ability, or average in the sense of median score for the people tested in the United States? They are two different things. It is highly reasonable to say that the median score of the tested people is not average by range of the test (unless the test recalculates it's average score dynamically)
OB Topic:
Why MS will fail with XBOX: Microsoft will really have to try to get this X-Box thing differentiated from your standard PC. If they win, they cut into their existing PC monopoly. If they lose, they die to the combined pressure of PSX2, Dolphin, and Dreamcast.
Why MS could succeed: bundling a broadband connection (ex: MS allies w/AT&T). Hell, if the/. poll this week rates bandwidth as the most important thing in life, maybe you'll even see slashdotters buy these things...
I personally think MS does not have the clout to bring cheap broadband to the masses. It is a difficult proposition (This is known as the last mile problem), and if they can do it, I will be impressed.
FYI: Capitalism is an *unstable* form of economy, that can easily reduce (assume total lassez-faire market) to monopolies which results in plutocracy that rewards Corporatist behavior.
In the short term they may be a market, but in the longer term (10yr+) everyone with any real stake in society will have some level of computer fluency.
No offense, but you are *so* off the mark here, and here's why:
This is a chicken-egg problem, so maintaining that "everthing will be merged harmoniously in the future ala Scott Adams' vision" is myopic thinking.
The consumer market is not big $$, but as MS has recognised, you gain significant mindshare. This is a significant reason why some PHBs choose NT instead of *nix...
OpenSource(tm) scales *much better* than proprietary models with respect to number of users (all beta testers + some hack-meisters)
I told you I wasn't really qualified to enter into the debate per se, but anyone can see the bias on the NOvell site, and the register is a steaming pile of misinformation
Then *retract* your statement:... and I know that I've NEVER been impressed with ANYTHING I've seen from Novell.
If it's obvious you know nothing about directory services, then don't post *bullshit*.
1) People should get a rating based on the TIME they have been a Slashdot, not just this "karma". New members posts start at -1, no exceptions. After three months, they start at 0. After three more months, they start at 1. This means that if a troll wants to troll, he'll have to put in his dues for six months. If he then wants to blow it all on a single, grand, troll parade...fine. He can start all over.
This is rediculous. This situation would be better resolved by allocating more moderator points.
2) Karma needs to weigh much, much more. People with karma over 50 should start posting at 2. People with karma over 100 should start posting at 3. People with karma over 200 should start posting at 4 and people with karma over 500 (if they exist) must be worth reading.
There is no counterbalance already for Karma gaining. Perhaps timing out Karma? Karma should reflect utility of posting person, and not how prolific (s)he is. There should be no reason to "race for karma level4"
3) Each post takes exponentially longer to be posted to the system. First post takes one second to reach the forum. The next takes two seconds. The following takes four. Then eight, sixteen and so forth. In the end, if someone really wants to post more than 20 messages in a single day, they'll have to wait until tomorror for people to see them. That way these floods STOP.
This is a good idea. I believe this would be rather viable idea, given a properly thought-out algorithm.
4) More moderation. I'd much rather see a war of moderation than a war of trolls. Give anyone with karma over 100 permanent moderation status. The only way it gets revoked is if them make a posting, and then it is revoked for twenty-four hours (thought on that article permanently).
Amen, brotha. With the amount of S/N loss recently (slashdot was/.'ed for me, from France, too), we really need to feel part of the community here. I often post messages like "moderate parent post up" because I don't have the capability to bring a 0 or 1 post or unmoderated 2 point post out of the noise. To come back to your earlier point, perhaps we should just let those with more Karma moderate more... but definitely not permanently (consider the abuse of power).
Still doesn't beat those 5 1/4" Apple floppies people could fold double to take in their wallet, unfold, insert and they would still work.:-) Unless that was an urban.legend.
Definitely not an urban legend... I remember playing darts and using my C64 5.25" disk as the dartboard, cutting the medium in *half* then playing Bards Tale off that disk... them's were the dayz
Totally agree. A second opinion would do two good things: 1) force Katz to respond to another high visibility opinion, and thus increase quality 2) give anti-Katz folks someone else to rail on (2 scapegoats are better than one...)
. It's a fucking DENIAL OF SERVICE! It's not brain surgery! It's not rocket science!
I won't disagree with you here, but please keep this in mind: They took down *Yahoo!*. This is important, not because of the technical difficulty, but the logistics of planning a DoS with enough false or hacked accounts to make a serious dent or stoppage of service of such a high-bandwidth site... AFAIK, the more prominent the site, the more difficult it is to create an effective DoS.
The fact that these guys haven't been discovered yet is also a testament to the type of planning needed to perpetrate this action. Make no mistake: this was engineered.
There's also little things, like the way Windows resets the position of a document when I'm dragging a scrollbar and let the mouse stray a dozen pixels to the left or right. Windows users are used to that. I'm not.
This is a feature (undocumented, of course) included for free, without your asking, in all new standard text controls for Win32.
It can actually be useful (you want to monitor two very distant locations in the same text area, without having to remember both locations), but it took me awhile to realize it's utility.
As much as I like that feature (now that i grok it), that's exactly what I don't like about MS. What other "features" are waiting out there? Heh, maybe instability can also be called a feature.
Moderate that up. This is a very good idea, and the OSS analogy is fairly accurate, almost even more so, since the barrier to entry is even lower than with linux (anyone with a college degree can come up with some interesting q's).
The only detail left out is, since the questions are numerous and interesting, how do we decide which ones are selected? Still the same small group? A peer moderation system à la Slashdot? Voting?
And that's where the lion's share of AOL's wealth comes from. $20/mo * 20 mil = 4 bil. The monthly fee is only 2% of that company's worth. The monthly bill is not what they're going after. They want eyeballs and lots of 'em.
Not that I would disagree with you regarding AOL chasing eyeballs, but please don't confuse market capitialization ($146Billion) with annual income (much less). If these two were the same, then the big first day pop internet IPO's would be semantically equivalent to a pyramid scheme (they are dangerously close as it is).
I'm sorry, I don't get it. Maybe I'm just dense. Why do all this "morphing" and optimizing at runtime, instead of at compile time?
Here's a non-hardware example: Oracle. Originally, ORCL used basic heuristics and rule-based optimization. However, for large DB's and high-throughput installations, the big win comes with the Explain Plan and the performance-based optimizer. In newer versions, they will stop supporting the rule-based optimizer entirely. (read Oracle Performance Tuning)
Simply stated, there are things you can do @runtime that are nondeterministic at compile time, and thus more efficient.
Here's why: in order to collaborate, company A has to sign legal papers with company B.
Uh... how is this secret? I mean, billg@mswindows.com sends a nice encrypted mail (or other secure, untraceable communications medium) to some exec@msinternet.com and...
basically keeping everything under the table. Of course, neither has any assurance that the other will comply, but they've been on the same team for X years already...
Excuse my innocence but: How the hell do you keep these companies from collaborrating secretly? As we all know, the internet as a communications medium routes around roadblocks like censorship, so how can we be sure that these new companies don't still operate under one M$ board of control?
And how the hell do you strip the internet access out of the applications?
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I have all my recurring charges go to my citibank visa, and then i have that account setup that it automatically pays in full every month.
AFAIK, Discover does this also.
I viewed it fine with Mozilla M14 on my NT corporate box. Though I think the site looks bad, it doesn't violate HTML that badly.
120+ is considered gifted
70- is considered slightly mentally deficient
Ok, that depends on what you mean by average, doesn't it?
Do you mean average in the sense of score of a person considered of average ability, or average in the sense of median score for the people tested in the United States?
They are two different things. It is highly reasonable to say that the median score of the tested people is not average by range of the test (unless the test recalculates it's average score dynamically)
OB Topic:
I personally think MS does not have the clout to bring cheap broadband to the masses. It is a difficult proposition (This is known as the last mile problem), and if they can do it, I will be impressed.
I wonder who's going drop by (I assume the male/female ratio will probably be pretty high)
FYI: Capitalism is an *unstable* form of economy, that can easily reduce (assume total lassez-faire market) to monopolies which results in plutocracy that rewards Corporatist behavior.
1 equally sized burrito + 1 centrum pill?
(other than the extra marketing flavor)
Besides, I am a bit suspicious (read: I prefer to avoid them if at all possible) of the following ingredients:
No offense, but you are *so* off the mark here, and here's why:
Then *retract* your statement: ... and I know that I've NEVER been impressed with ANYTHING I've seen from Novell.
If it's obvious you know nothing about directory services, then don't post *bullshit*.
This is rediculous. This situation would be better resolved by allocating more moderator points.
2) Karma needs to weigh much, much more. People with karma over 50 should start posting at 2. People with karma over 100 should start posting at 3. People with karma over 200 should start posting at 4 and people with karma over 500 (if they exist) must be worth reading.
There is no counterbalance already for Karma gaining. Perhaps timing out Karma? Karma should reflect utility of posting person, and not how prolific (s)he is. There should be no reason to "race for karma level4"
3) Each post takes exponentially longer to be posted to the system. First post takes one second to reach the forum. The next takes two seconds. The following takes four. Then eight, sixteen and so forth. In the end, if someone really wants to post more than 20 messages in a single day, they'll have to wait until tomorror for people to see them. That way these floods STOP.
This is a good idea. I believe this would be rather viable idea, given a properly thought-out algorithm.
4) More moderation. I'd much rather see a war of moderation than a war of trolls. Give anyone with karma over 100 permanent moderation status. The only way it gets revoked is if them make a posting, and then it is revoked for twenty-four hours (thought on that article permanently).
Amen, brotha. With the amount of S/N loss recently (slashdot was /.'ed for me, from France, too), we really need to feel part of the community here. I often post messages like "moderate parent post up" because I don't have the capability to bring a 0 or 1 post or unmoderated 2 point post out of the noise. To come back to your earlier point, perhaps we should just let those with more Karma moderate more... but definitely not permanently (consider the abuse of power).
Moderate parent post up, please.
This is very *true*.
...but I would disagree with your last sentence. They *do* help create and market the content, no?
Definitely not an urban legend...
I remember playing darts and using my C64 5.25" disk as the dartboard, cutting the medium in *half* then playing Bards Tale off that disk... them's were the dayz
Totally agree. A second opinion would do two good things:
1) force Katz to respond to another high visibility opinion, and thus increase quality
2) give anti-Katz folks someone else to rail on (2 scapegoats are better than one...)
Edison had a song named after him: Edison's Medicine.
Guess the band's name...
Someone please moderate up the previous post...
I won't disagree with you here, but please keep this in mind: They took down *Yahoo!*. This is important, not because of the technical difficulty, but the logistics of planning a DoS with enough false or hacked accounts to make a serious dent or stoppage of service of such a high-bandwidth site... AFAIK, the more prominent the site, the more difficult it is to create an effective DoS.
The fact that these guys haven't been discovered yet is also a testament to the type of planning needed to perpetrate this action. Make no mistake: this was engineered.
LOL!
Je l'aime beaucoup!
This is a feature (undocumented, of course) included for free, without your asking, in all new standard text controls for Win32.
It can actually be useful (you want to monitor two very distant locations in the same text area, without having to remember both locations), but it took me awhile to realize it's utility.
As much as I like that feature (now that i grok it), that's exactly what I don't like about MS. What other "features" are waiting out there? Heh, maybe instability can also be called a feature.
Stop trolling. If you really want to post a reply, make sure it has content first, not just angry comments directed at the original poster.
Moderate that up. This is a very good idea, and the OSS analogy is fairly accurate, almost even more so, since the barrier to entry is even lower than with linux (anyone with a college degree can come up with some interesting q's).
The only detail left out is, since the questions are numerous and interesting, how do we decide which ones are selected? Still the same small group? A peer moderation system à la Slashdot? Voting?
... we have the technology
You posted just before I did. Great novels (only read the first two), though, with interesting future-ideas.
More interesting forays into mind/body dissociation (okay, mostly just cyberspace stuff):
Otherland series by tad williams
Hyperion series by dan simmons
most books by william gibson
Not that I would disagree with you regarding AOL chasing eyeballs, but please don't confuse market capitialization ($146Billion) with annual income (much less). If these two were the same, then the big first day pop internet IPO's would be semantically equivalent to a pyramid scheme (they are dangerously close as it is).
Here's a non-hardware example: Oracle. Originally, ORCL used basic heuristics and rule-based optimization. However, for large DB's and high-throughput installations, the big win comes with the Explain Plan and the performance-based optimizer. In newer versions, they will stop supporting the rule-based optimizer entirely. (read Oracle Performance Tuning)
Simply stated, there are things you can do @runtime that are nondeterministic at compile time, and thus more efficient.
Did the creators of this movie go through the same pains? What would be funny is if some of us x-gamers got some good inside jokes ;-)
Uh... how is this secret? I mean, billg@mswindows.com sends a nice encrypted mail (or other secure, untraceable communications medium) to some exec@msinternet.com and ...
basically keeping everything under the table. Of course, neither has any assurance that the other will comply, but they've been on the same team for X years already...
Excuse my innocence but:
How the hell do you keep these companies from collaborrating secretly? As we all know, the internet as a communications medium routes around roadblocks like censorship, so how can we be sure that these new companies don't still operate under one M$ board of control?
And how the hell do you strip the internet access out of the applications?
Methinks this solution is not feasible