Thank you! I had never heard of geeklog; I will check it out.
The main shortcoming I see in most commenting systems is the lack of a preview feature, when HTML is allowed. But time-limited editing of comments is very interesting. If I had to choose between the two, I think editing might be even better.
One good thing could come of this - most sites' comment systems are terrible
This is exactly what I was thinking. This definitely fills a niche. Except...
...facebook might get it right eventually. Currently, many sites can't even show a threaded discussion, or have no concept of moderation, or (in the case of CNN) don't even enable you to find responses to your own comments!
I have not personally encountered this facebook commenting system on other sites, yet, but I cannot say that facebook exemplifies any of these very well. Particularly threading. I mean, it is no worse than, say, Wordpress's commenting system. But I cannot say that it is better. Certainly not sufficiently better to entice me to switch.
I don't know how much of this is fixed by facebook's system, but if it becomes a big thing for them I assume they will make it work well sooner or later.
Privacy issues aside, for me to use it on my own blog the system would have to be substantially better than what I see now on facebook.com for discussions of statuses, photos, and so on. But I can definitely anticipate this being popular soon, even with the current vanilla functionality.
Whether or not you spend those few minutes kissing asses, they can be invaluable for deciding if you are actually going to apply for a job with that person. It's a two-way street.
This is the "Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges". It will be a very broad event, I suspect. That is why a researcher, like the AC here, will not find it very useful, but a Senior undergraduate would find it more interesting. (They have not yet delved deeply into a particular field.) That is exactly the reason that I think it would be good for the Ask Slashdot questioner to attend.
From the wording of the summary and the organization's web page, it appears that the journals are essentially special issues published by the ACM. The articles are selected in aggregate from the yearly conferences that are put on in the organization's ten different regions. So there is probably a low barrier to presentation, with a peer review process for more selective journal publication (OP writes, "...for a chance to have my work published in a journal"). It is probably not the most prestigious journal, but an article selected here is probably more significant than a conference paper.
If you feel that after reviewing the schedule for the conference that it has topics that you would be interested in, you should seriously consider attending.
Not to nitpick, but if this student is deciding whether to submit a paper, he won't have a real schedule, yet. He'll only have the call for papers, which is what he is using to determine if his own paper is suitable for the conference. No information on actual talks. Looking at information (titles and maybe abstracts) from previous conferences could be more telling. Here is a list of published journal editions of the CCSC. (I gather that the articles in these journals are selected from papers presented at conferences of CCSC.) They might give a good idea of what goes on.
Personally, I think that conferences are a lot of fun. I would definitely recommend going. Absolutely do try to get something accepted, and if it is, your department might be willing to pay some of your expenses. (But only if you are presenting, generally.)
"Oh, man, oh man! I don't want my plant to start dying, but I haven't fed it in a week! What can I delete? Umm... These vacation pictures? I know Aunt Betty hasn't seen them, yet, but she'll understand, I hope!"
Ah. Thanks for clearing that up. Well, at least the person doing this in Libya will have a longer life span than if they are just handing out folded bits of paper.
Our story: "Programmer who visits sites to fix problems introduced the problems himself to make sure he stayed in business!"
The lusers' fear: "Programmers who make anti-virus software introduced viruses into the wild to make sure they stay in business!"
mark-t was not offtopic. If I had not already commented in another thread on this article, I would mod him back up, myself.
If you want it to be on Snopes, you need to circulate it in an email that makes it clear that there is imminent danger to everyone on the internet. Send it to everyone in your address book.
No, no! You are all missing the point! This is a red-letter day! For once, Slashdot editors made a change to a summary that actually made it better than the article!
Except that "logic bomb" was already in the submission. Never mind.:c/
If, however, he cannot afford two LEDs or two halogens, he is to bring as an offering for his sin ten AAA cells for a sin offering. He must not polish the contacts, because it is a sin offering. He is to bring it to the Senior Electrical Engineer, who shall take a couple of the cells as a memorial portion and insert them in the altar circuit with the offerings made to the Lord by short-circuit. It is a sin offering.
I think maybe the problem described is more akin to a memory leak than faulty hardware: AutoCAD apparently crashes, but some memory isn't freed, and maybe it won't start again unless that memory is free again. That sounds to me like a problem with Autodesk's software, not Windows, but perhaps Windows' memory management allows it to happen when Linux does not. Or maybe it was something else. Who can say? All I know is that I used to have an XP box that would lose track of its optical drive after running for a couple of days. Sometimes in the middle of playing a CD.
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Thank you! I had never heard of geeklog; I will check it out.
The main shortcoming I see in most commenting systems is the lack of a preview feature, when HTML is allowed. But time-limited editing of comments is very interesting. If I had to choose between the two, I think editing might be even better.
One good thing could come of this - most sites' comment systems are terrible
This is exactly what I was thinking. This definitely fills a niche. Except...
...facebook might get it right eventually. Currently, many sites can't even show a threaded discussion, or have no concept of moderation, or (in the case of CNN) don't even enable you to find responses to your own comments!
I have not personally encountered this facebook commenting system on other sites, yet, but I cannot say that facebook exemplifies any of these very well. Particularly threading. I mean, it is no worse than, say, Wordpress's commenting system. But I cannot say that it is better. Certainly not sufficiently better to entice me to switch.
I don't know how much of this is fixed by facebook's system, but if it becomes a big thing for them I assume they will make it work well sooner or later.
Privacy issues aside, for me to use it on my own blog the system would have to be substantially better than what I see now on facebook.com for discussions of statuses, photos, and so on. But I can definitely anticipate this being popular soon, even with the current vanilla functionality.
Whether or not you spend those few minutes kissing asses, they can be invaluable for deciding if you are actually going to apply for a job with that person. It's a two-way street.
This is the "Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges". It will be a very broad event, I suspect. That is why a researcher, like the AC here, will not find it very useful, but a Senior undergraduate would find it more interesting. (They have not yet delved deeply into a particular field.) That is exactly the reason that I think it would be good for the Ask Slashdot questioner to attend.
From the wording of the summary and the organization's web page, it appears that the journals are essentially special issues published by the ACM. The articles are selected in aggregate from the yearly conferences that are put on in the organization's ten different regions. So there is probably a low barrier to presentation, with a peer review process for more selective journal publication (OP writes, "...for a chance to have my work published in a journal"). It is probably not the most prestigious journal, but an article selected here is probably more significant than a conference paper.
If you feel that after reviewing the schedule for the conference that it has topics that you would be interested in, you should seriously consider attending.
Not to nitpick, but if this student is deciding whether to submit a paper, he won't have a real schedule, yet. He'll only have the call for papers, which is what he is using to determine if his own paper is suitable for the conference. No information on actual talks. Looking at information (titles and maybe abstracts) from previous conferences could be more telling. Here is a list of published journal editions of the CCSC. (I gather that the articles in these journals are selected from papers presented at conferences of CCSC.) They might give a good idea of what goes on.
Personally, I think that conferences are a lot of fun. I would definitely recommend going. Absolutely do try to get something accepted, and if it is, your department might be willing to pay some of your expenses. (But only if you are presenting, generally.)
My condolences to your optical units. Thanks for taking one for the team.
Exactly. I see a gradient:
Or, inversely, they are indicating when there are things you are able to retrieve before permanent deletion.
"Oh, man, oh man! I don't want my plant to start dying, but I haven't fed it in a week! What can I delete? Umm... These vacation pictures? I know Aunt Betty hasn't seen them, yet, but she'll understand, I hope!"
That's why so many Americans are obese - they won't even exercise their futility!
Quick, get the surgeon general on the phone! I have an idea for a new school program!
I've never seen Eliza quote one of the founding fathers.
[sniff] Our little AI is growing up!
Ah. Thanks for clearing that up. Well, at least the person doing this in Libya will have a longer life span than if they are just handing out folded bits of paper.
Our story: "Programmer who visits sites to fix problems introduced the problems himself to make sure he stayed in business!"
The lusers' fear: "Programmers who make anti-virus software introduced viruses into the wild to make sure they stay in business!"
mark-t was not offtopic. If I had not already commented in another thread on this article, I would mod him back up, myself.
If you want it to be on Snopes, you need to circulate it in an email that makes it clear that there is imminent danger to everyone on the internet. Send it to everyone in your address book.
No, no! You are all missing the point! This is a red-letter day! For once, Slashdot editors made a change to a summary that actually made it better than the article!
Except that "logic bomb" was already in the submission. Never mind. :c/
If, however, he cannot afford two LEDs or two halogens, he is to bring as an offering for his sin ten AAA cells for a sin offering. He must not polish the contacts, because it is a sin offering. He is to bring it to the Senior Electrical Engineer, who shall take a couple of the cells as a memorial portion and insert them in the altar circuit with the offerings made to the Lord by short-circuit. It is a sin offering.
Please don't reply to people you won't listen to; it is futile.
[...]when the parent clearly was poking fun of (or should it be have) the entire situation is a pretty good sign of it.
I think it should be, "poking fun at the entire situation is a pretty good sign." I don't see where you would inject 'have' in that sentence.
Critique my writing.
There you go! :c)
no, perhaps you should read what the U part stands for in USA.
Don't you know what the U stands for in EU?
This puts the new slashdot design in perspective. Are you not glad that slashdot is not using drupal?
Obligatory XKCD: Marketing Interview
I would probably do the same. And it would sadden me, because (as a citizen) I would like to participate in the legal process in this way.
I think maybe the problem described is more akin to a memory leak than faulty hardware: AutoCAD apparently crashes, but some memory isn't freed, and maybe it won't start again unless that memory is free again. That sounds to me like a problem with Autodesk's software, not Windows, but perhaps Windows' memory management allows it to happen when Linux does not. Or maybe it was something else. Who can say? All I know is that I used to have an XP box that would lose track of its optical drive after running for a couple of days. Sometimes in the middle of playing a CD.
Actually, everything I see in those pictures looks very rectangular and box-like. :c)