Read more carefully before you make biting remarks. The comment made speculation not on the site's ability to withstand a slashdotting, but on its ability to withstand a dotslashing.
That's a toughie, but it's no different from any other case of not knowing what you want. As far as conflict-resolution goes, in your head you could do merge-sort. "Given g1 and l1, which would I prefer?" take that one, put it first on your results list, and continue comparing list heads until both lists run out. If you really have a tie, then you can remove both and put them into an equivalence class. Should come close to what you want anyway. But that's not a requirement of the voting method, just a matter of your own decision-making. Voting assumes that you've already done that.
I think you missed my point. As far as choosing a winner, I mean that the poll module doesn't say "slashdot readers on a whole prefer CowboyNeal to Pocket Fluff", it merely reports "59% of readers chose CowboyNeal, 13% chose Pocket Fluff, and 28% chose No Tea."
But yeah, I agree that it would be interesting to use the slashdot polls as a place to play with voting systems. I've written some code in Perl that's a modification of Debian voting (which itself is a variation on Condorcet) to do ranking by repeated dropping, and it seems to work fairly well. And slashcode is perl, right?
I knew someone would jump at this. You should tone down the "global warming" trigger some. It doesn't say "we're making the earth warmer" it says "the earth has been getting a bit warmer, looks like it will be for a little while, and we think that might stir up some more hurricanes."
Of course there are those of us who don't believe that "getting things done" is the most important factor. Is it really the greatest idea to run off and to X because 52% of the people support X, and only 47% support Anti-X? Most sane systems would consider that reason for further debate.
I still think "effective compromise" is a little strong for a system that will select Candidate A if A has n voters approving of him and B has 3n -- as long as the n are properly distributed among the states
You may have noticed that the slashdot poll doesn't choose a winner. It only reports how many people picked each button. They're not really the same problem, and they don't work the same way. OTOH "approval" would work quite well for the slashdot poll sometimes; that would be the one you would get if you changed radio buttons to checkboxes.
It's more than "slightly" more powerful; if you do your figuring using actual voter-turnout numbers, the District of Columbia has one electoral vote per 67,000 voters, while Wisconsin has one electoral vote per 260,000 voters. That's a factor of nearly four times. The national average, for comparison, Is about 1EV per 188k voters. All data taken from the 2000 census.
It's just a matter of who gets ripped off. Under any system, there will be plenty of people that do. But the electoral college is certainly far from optimal. People are happy to shrug it off and say "the popular vote isn't the point", but the point is that under the electoral college, even if states' electors do follow the votes of their states' populations (not all of them are required to), it is possible for one candidate to be elected president even when he is supported by only 23% of the voters. That, as they say, ain't good.
Which reminds me -- why is everything from Sony a Walkman anymore? There's no more Discman, just different flavors of "CD Walkman". Or the "Network Walkman" or whatever you want. Any reason?
Agreed. I know how to read comparison tests, and I like ogg for hack value anyway, so why do I have gigs of ripped MP3s? MP3 CD player. And no, there's no chance of ever upgrading it.
We shall begin today by reviewing the correct use of the apostrophe, which is defined grammatically as ``the little thing that is hard to find when you put it inside quotation marks,'' as is shown in this example: ``'''.
Even top professional writers have trouble with apostrophes, as we see in this quotation from William Shakespeare:
``O Romeo, Romeo
``Your lookin' fine in them tight's.''
This is incorrect, of course: Shakespeare has used the word ``your'' as a participial infraction, which requires an apostrophe, as we see in this corrected version:
``O Romeo, Romeo
``You're buttock's are highly visible in them tight's.''
Yeah, unfortunately GTK+ for win32 is still less than stable after all these years. But I use gaim and gimp on windows anyway, gaim because I'm used to using it everywhere else, and gimp because it's wonderfully free. Pisses me off when I lose my work in gimp running it on windows, but it's gotten me into a very good saving and note-taking habit:)
If you truly had an infinity of monkeys and of typewriters, then it should only take O(1) time for them to produce a work of Shakespeare. Or, for that matter, all of the works of Shakespeare, including the ones he didn't write.
The main thing I hate about latitudes is the really lousy keyboards, but from using a friend's Inspiron it seems that they use better keyboards on those.
If the device is going to be "similar to a sheet of paper", then the only kind of flash card you're going to be inserting into it is a real flash-card.:)
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Read more carefully before you make biting remarks. The comment made speculation not on the site's ability to withstand a slashdotting, but on its ability to withstand a dotslashing.
Try reading more than one sentence before replying.
That's a toughie, but it's no different from any other case of not knowing what you want. As far as conflict-resolution goes, in your head you could do merge-sort. "Given g1 and l1, which would I prefer?" take that one, put it first on your results list, and continue comparing list heads until both lists run out. If you really have a tie, then you can remove both and put them into an equivalence class. Should come close to what you want anyway. But that's not a requirement of the voting method, just a matter of your own decision-making. Voting assumes that you've already done that.
I think you missed my point. As far as choosing a winner, I mean that the poll module doesn't say "slashdot readers on a whole prefer CowboyNeal to Pocket Fluff", it merely reports "59% of readers chose CowboyNeal, 13% chose Pocket Fluff, and 28% chose No Tea."
But yeah, I agree that it would be interesting to use the slashdot polls as a place to play with voting systems. I've written some code in Perl that's a modification of Debian voting (which itself is a variation on Condorcet) to do ranking by repeated dropping, and it seems to work fairly well. And slashcode is perl, right?
I knew someone would jump at this. You should tone down the "global warming" trigger some. It doesn't say "we're making the earth warmer" it says "the earth has been getting a bit warmer, looks like it will be for a little while, and we think that might stir up some more hurricanes."
However, there's this thing called "space", and wherever you are, it's above you. And it's cold.
Of course there are those of us who don't believe that "getting things done" is the most important factor. Is it really the greatest idea to run off and to X because 52% of the people support X, and only 47% support Anti-X? Most sane systems would consider that reason for further debate.
I still think "effective compromise" is a little strong for a system that will select Candidate A if A has n voters approving of him and B has 3n -- as long as the n are properly distributed among the states
You may have noticed that the slashdot poll doesn't choose a winner. It only reports how many people picked each button. They're not really the same problem, and they don't work the same way. OTOH "approval" would work quite well for the slashdot poll sometimes; that would be the one you would get if you changed radio buttons to checkboxes.
It's allowed by most systems to rank multiple candidates "together", e.g. A > B=C=D > E.
You mean the armature revolution? We had that the beginning of last century; electrical generation and suchlike. No? Oh? Oh... you meant amateur!
It's more than "slightly" more powerful; if you do your figuring using actual voter-turnout numbers, the District of Columbia has one electoral vote per 67,000 voters, while Wisconsin has one electoral vote per 260,000 voters. That's a factor of nearly four times. The national average, for comparison, Is about 1EV per 188k voters. All data taken from the 2000 census.
It's just a matter of who gets ripped off. Under any system, there will be plenty of people that do. But the electoral college is certainly far from optimal. People are happy to shrug it off and say "the popular vote isn't the point", but the point is that under the electoral college, even if states' electors do follow the votes of their states' populations (not all of them are required to), it is possible for one candidate to be elected president even when he is supported by only 23% of the voters. That, as they say, ain't good.
Which reminds me -- why is everything from Sony a Walkman anymore? There's no more Discman, just different flavors of "CD Walkman". Or the "Network Walkman" or whatever you want. Any reason?
Agreed. I know how to read comparison tests, and I like ogg for hack value anyway, so why do I have gigs of ripped MP3s? MP3 CD player. And no, there's no chance of ever upgrading it.
Thank you. By providing the obligatory reference, you've saving me from having to post one.
Are you listening to yourself? It's a standard argument, but a law restricting what the government can do is the absolute best kind!
We shall begin today by reviewing the correct use of the apostrophe, which is defined grammatically as ``the little thing that is hard to find when you put it inside quotation marks,'' as is shown in this example: ``'''.
Even top professional writers have trouble with apostrophes, as we see in this quotation from William Shakespeare:
``O Romeo, Romeo
``Your lookin' fine in them tight's.''
This is incorrect, of course: Shakespeare has used the word ``your'' as a participial infraction, which requires an apostrophe, as we see in this corrected version:
``O Romeo, Romeo
``You're buttock's are highly visible in them tight's.''
--Dave Barry
Obviously you're one of those moviegoer types that they cut the ending down for :)
Yeah, unfortunately GTK+ for win32 is still less than stable after all these years. But I use gaim and gimp on windows anyway, gaim because I'm used to using it everywhere else, and gimp because it's wonderfully free. Pisses me off when I lose my work in gimp running it on windows, but it's gotten me into a very good saving and note-taking habit :)
If you truly had an infinity of monkeys and of typewriters, then it should only take O(1) time for them to produce a work of Shakespeare. Or, for that matter, all of the works of Shakespeare, including the ones he didn't write.
The main thing I hate about latitudes is the really lousy keyboards, but from using a friend's Inspiron it seems that they use better keyboards on those.
If the device is going to be "similar to a sheet of paper", then the only kind of flash card you're going to be inserting into it is a real flash-card. :)
I've got the Latitude D600, which is quite similar. It's newer, but OTOH it's from the cheaper Latitude line.
Oh, and something a lot fatter than DVI. To run that at 60Hz would take about 10x DVI's bandwidth, if I'm figuring it right.