I think you're dealing with two different sects out there...the sect that is a majority of guys online, looking for a flirt or date or gf or somthing; and then you have the other sect that (from what i've seen) is a majority of females looking to communicate with their girl friends online. It's not just one or the other, it's both, and there's a large distinction.
yep it's handy to use 2.1 as the version number for an older version of windows...and win2k is easy to type, but win2001 is going to get annoying as hell to type after a while. in my opinion. is win2.1 a plausable abbreviation? how about win21? sounds almost like the realestate company century 21, but..yeah.
Wow, not trying to troll here, but the last guy who mentioned this topic got moderated down for it (in the Gnutella article a day ago)...here's the post:
Since when did/. become a host for the shadier side software?
In one day I downloaded DeCSS, Gnutella, and a shady Mozilla release! All through/. threads.
I don't think Time Warner will become an advertiser any time soon!
So this guy filters through a couple old slashdot posts, and had conequently downloades all sorts of shady things like an off-release of mozilla, and a couple other things he shouldn't have. Makes me wonder how many more days till we have a link in the -3 moderation catergory that links us directly to a fully functional copy of MS win2.1?
that aside, it's nice to think that they already have somthing in the works...that means the beta can't be more than 10 months off...hopefully. My stratigy is to Leapfrog over the alternating OS... win3 (skip win 3.11), win95SE (skip win98) win98 se... (skip win2k) win 2.1 . That tends to cut down my costs on OS costs, even if it left me behind the USB revolution for a whole 3 months. Yeah I'd save money running linux, but i'm not comfortable enough to run linux 100% quite yet...
hmm, alrighty. I'd just like to quote from memory here, somthing i read in one of the old id finger files, went somthing along the lines of this:
"while we know it's entirely possible to port the win98 version of Q3 to linux using a tar ball or two, but if you linux users get out there and buy the linux distro instead of the win 98, that way we can flash the numbers of linux distros made/sold to other big wigs in the industry, and we can get linux even more mainstream"
ok, so that's probably biased a tad, but you get the gist of it, I think that going out and buying a great game from activison, and getting somthing out of the game, isn't half bad, even if the technology in the game is becoming a tad antiquited; plus you're still casting your vote for other makers to start putting out an entire library of (future) great games on linux. don't get me wrong, but minesweeper clones get old *real* fast.
he actually brings up a pretty good point...in some cases, grabbing software off of slashdot is almost as easy as grabbing it off of IRC; i've been known to do it once or twice (on IRC), but i don't think it's the main reason people stop by/. each day. slashdot so far has been pretty good about being open-minded about just about everything, including trolls... i'm sure on the scale of nastyness, Gnutella isn't quite so evil compared to trolling. either way, if enough people end up whining about it, the slashdot gods (cmdertaco, ect) will have some sort of workable fix in store for us. In the end, at least looking for shady software wasn't the reason people started coming by here in the first place. I guess you could consider Gnutella a side frill to being one of the slashdot (semi) elite : )
Alright, so if napster goes under anytime soon in the near future, thanks to slashdot, i have my own "post-napster's shit has hit the fan" (tm) backup. Sure it doesn't have flooding control...yet. And I could sure use some way to search what bitrate those MP3s are, but hey, it's free, and i'm impressed the aol exec.'s let it slide as long as it did. Hopefully some carmack-type-gods will take it upon themselves to write in some basic fixes, and hey, maybe next they'll skin it! Just like winamp! haha. no. sombody email me if they figure out how to hack somthing like that : )
haha, i saw the same posts on the last message board...probably puts the "trollers" on rotation. lol. that'd be interesting though, to see trolling as an artform.
True. I guess i've started yet another flame war. Sorry 'bout that. Thanks for the advice, I've come to more or less the same conclusion that you have. I'm sure the trollers out there have a different oppinion, but hey, everyone's got their opinion, eh Jesus?
Alas, your claims of my biggotry are unfounded. Congrats on nitpicking though ; ). I have nothing against gays, but when i'm forced to scroll through offtopic rants, especially particularly long ones, i'm going to bitch about it. I pointed out that they were "gay porn related" in an attempt to clarify what I was bitching about; i'll bitch equally about lezbian porn, or about commentaries about monster truck rallies for that matter, content doesn't matter if it's long and has to be moderated. I just scroll through it anyways. Ah well, good luck and have fun trolling..
it's adequate, but (as all things), there's still some room for improvment. i haven't tested it out much, but i'm pretty sure that you can filter posts under a certian score...why not have an option to filter out the posts with say...3-5 or more obscenities? at least then you could cut down on negative moderation, and spend more time picking out the gems to help point out what has higher priority over the average post (score 2 and above)
sorry if i'm whining here, but i was online and saw only 5 posts for a recent article, and posted a comment, and have been following it through the first 26 or so posts...about 3 of them so far have been gay porn related. Do these just end up getting moderated down, or do these just get "edited out"? By the time I end up reading most of a thread, it's got a good 200 posts. Maybe sombody could fill me in, the faq doesn't really explain what happens with the spam.
personally i'd like to see a "filter" option that filters out posts with 3 word or more combonations of what was used in there... that'd solve alot of problems. not to mention the other one that was posted pretty recently on this same thread
Before I get flamed, I'd like to point out that yes, when you run out of bandwidth, you will want to expand your bandwidth. No doubt they are working constantly to upgrade the current situation. The above post's info comes straight from the mouth of the head of the SW bell DSL testing labs, for whatever that's worth. Also, it looks like the ISPs have more than enough DSL capability, they're just now starting to use the 3/4 of their unused capability of 12,000 user capable routers, it just looks like they need the customers and OC3's (and those new terabit fibre lines! : )
Although what ends up happening is that sombody owns the real-estate that the fibre lays under (namely next to rail-road tracks), and they control that part of the "backbone" for that region. Once the fibre is laid, they can charge rent on it to whomever wants to go direct from point A to point B forever...namely the big names in supporting the 'net.
Apparently In San Francisco, they've run out of OC3 lines. Too many DSL and cable customers in the area, times general over-population = need for high speed fibre optics. How long till we see these puppies in mainstream? Or are we going to see somthing piggy-backing this technology in the next few weeks?...there always is somthing just around the corner.
Picked up my 17" NEC multisync at a boeing surplus wherhouse for 75$... Not only is it big, but it supports every resoulution and refresh i've thrown at it (video playback, various 3D games). Not only that, but while LCDs will consume less power, for those of us who's parents like the thermostat at 65 degrees, my monster 3' deep 17 incher keeps my room (with door shut) a toasty 85 degrees. so much for saving on the electrical bill : )
Hadlock
for those of you who care, CRTs are damn good at keeping your coffee, or freshly baked cookies toasty warm, given your CRT sucks power like mine, regardless to saftey concerns
Nick Mitchel? Hmm, I used to know one in Gig Harbor... Anyways, to the best of my knowledge, CRTs use a cathrode ray tube, which is basicaly an electron gun that has three different fireing modes: red green blue. It fires the electrons (radiation) at the assorted pixles at different sub dots per pixle.
LCDs, however, depend on a certian amount of electrical current to flow through the liquid, depending on the current, gives you your particular color....or at least it works on somthing along that principle. You'll note there isn't any radiation.
so if you're worried about radiation killing you by age 40, think about this; your tv works on the same exact principle that your computer monitor does, except that it has a better resolution and better refresh rate. how long have your kids have been sitting infront of the TV for? I can't recall a single case of diblitating brain tumor that was even remotely linked to CRT radiation. on the upside, however, LCDs will consume less power.
for those of us who's parents like the thermostat at 65 degrees, my monster 3' deep 17 incher keeps my room (with door shut) a toasty 85 degrees. so much for saving on the electrical bill : )
Hey, here's an idea. Stimulants. This way you're raising the level of brain activity, therefore everyone is at an alert state of mind, and MUST attempt to clear all thoughts, and can't rely on pot or another relaxant. It would also more clearly define the winner, because both would have more active minds, and the person that would win without any effort ie doesn't tend to think alot for whatever reason, now has to *work* at not thinking, and is equal to the person who doesn't have the natural ability to just sit there and veg (ie us non day-dreamers/whatever you get my point). Either way, after giving each person their 500 mg caffine pill, wait 5 min, then start the match... now you have a battle of control of the mind worthy of playabilty. If that made any sense at all, congratulations, you're a friggin genius, b/c i'm tired as hell, it's 6 am here and i should've been asleep long ago (and could probably use one of those caffine pills ; )
I saw a special on PBS a while back, in a segment on a NOVA about brains (i think, this was a couple years back), they actually hooked up nodes or the like to an older woman with what was probably a tumor to read brain waves, and had a giant L shape in the lower left hand corner of a screen representing her target (the L ran along the border of the screen only in the lower left hand corner), being that corner. Her job was to think in a particular way/fashon/form that a pong type square hit the L. She managed this (after a couple hours of practice) about 7 times out of 10 to hit the lower left hand border of the screen, which was fairly impressive, given the fact that the older you get, the slower the brain is able to adapt to new processes (language, learning an instrument, ect)
Slashdot Mirror
I think you're dealing with two different sects out there...the sect that is a majority of guys online, looking for a flirt or date or gf or somthing; and then you have the other sect that (from what i've seen) is a majority of females looking to communicate with their girl friends online. It's not just one or the other, it's both, and there's a large distinction.
win 2.1=legacy windows
yep it's handy to use 2.1 as the version number for an older version of windows...and win2k is easy to type, but win2001 is going to get annoying as hell to type after a while. in my opinion. is win2.1 a plausable abbreviation? how about win21? sounds almost like the realestate company century 21, but..yeah.
win 2.1=win 2001?
~Hadlock
Wow, not trying to troll here, but the last guy who mentioned this topic got moderated down for it (in the Gnutella article a day ago)...here's the post:
Since when did /. become a host for the shadier side software?
In one day I downloaded DeCSS, Gnutella, and a shady Mozilla release! All through /. threads.
I don't think Time Warner will become an advertiser any time soon!
So this guy filters through a couple old slashdot posts, and had conequently downloades all sorts of shady things like an off-release of mozilla, and a couple other things he shouldn't have. Makes me wonder how many more days till we have a link in the -3 moderation catergory that links us directly to a fully functional copy of MS win2.1?
that aside, it's nice to think that they already have somthing in the works...that means the beta can't be more than 10 months off...hopefully. My stratigy is to Leapfrog over the alternating OS... win3 (skip win 3.11), win95SE (skip win98) win98 se... (skip win2k) win 2.1 . That tends to cut down my costs on OS costs, even if it left me behind the USB revolution for a whole 3 months. Yeah I'd save money running linux, but i'm not comfortable enough to run linux 100% quite yet...
~Hadlock
oog make hadlock laugh.
hmm, alrighty. I'd just like to quote from memory here, somthing i read in one of the old id finger files, went somthing along the lines of this:
"while we know it's entirely possible to port the win98 version of Q3 to linux using a tar ball or two, but if you linux users get out there and buy the linux distro instead of the win 98, that way we can flash the numbers of linux distros made/sold to other big wigs in the industry, and we can get linux even more mainstream"
ok, so that's probably biased a tad, but you get the gist of it, I think that going out and buying a great game from activison, and getting somthing out of the game, isn't half bad, even if the technology in the game is becoming a tad antiquited; plus you're still casting your vote for other makers to start putting out an entire library of (future) great games on linux. don't get me wrong, but minesweeper clones get old *real* fast.
~Hadlock
he actually brings up a pretty good point...in some cases, grabbing software off of slashdot is almost as easy as grabbing it off of IRC; i've been known to do it once or twice (on IRC), but i don't think it's the main reason people stop by /. each day. slashdot so far has been pretty good about being open-minded about just about everything, including trolls... i'm sure on the scale of nastyness, Gnutella isn't quite so evil compared to trolling. either way, if enough people end up whining about it, the slashdot gods (cmdertaco, ect) will have some sort of workable fix in store for us. In the end, at least looking for shady software wasn't the reason people started coming by here in the first place. I guess you could consider Gnutella a side frill to being one of the slashdot (semi) elite : )
~Hadlock
Alright, so if napster goes under anytime soon in the near future, thanks to slashdot, i have my own "post-napster's shit has hit the fan" (tm) backup. Sure it doesn't have flooding control...yet. And I could sure use some way to search what bitrate those MP3s are, but hey, it's free, and i'm impressed the aol exec.'s let it slide as long as it did. Hopefully some carmack-type-gods will take it upon themselves to write in some basic fixes, and hey, maybe next they'll skin it! Just like winamp! haha. no. sombody email me if they figure out how to hack somthing like that : )
~Hadlock
good point, i hadn't considered that.
haha, i saw the same posts on the last message board...probably puts the "trollers" on rotation. lol. that'd be interesting though, to see trolling as an artform.
Sigh, born and raised in Seattle, had you bothered to read any of my previous posts (listed on same page as profile).
True. I guess i've started yet another flame war. Sorry 'bout that. Thanks for the advice, I've come to more or less the same conclusion that you have. I'm sure the trollers out there have a different oppinion, but hey, everyone's got their opinion, eh Jesus?
Alas, your claims of my biggotry are unfounded. Congrats on nitpicking though ; ). I have nothing against gays, but when i'm forced to scroll through offtopic rants, especially particularly long ones, i'm going to bitch about it. I pointed out that they were "gay porn related" in an attempt to clarify what I was bitching about; i'll bitch equally about lezbian porn, or about commentaries about monster truck rallies for that matter, content doesn't matter if it's long and has to be moderated. I just scroll through it anyways. Ah well, good luck and have fun trolling..
Hadlock
haha..bravo. couldn't have said it better myself
it's adequate, but (as all things), there's still some room for improvment. i haven't tested it out much, but i'm pretty sure that you can filter posts under a certian score...why not have an option to filter out the posts with say...3-5 or more obscenities? at least then you could cut down on negative moderation, and spend more time picking out the gems to help point out what has higher priority over the average post (score 2 and above)
sorry if i'm whining here, but i was online and saw only 5 posts for a recent article, and posted a comment, and have been following it through the first 26 or so posts...about 3 of them so far have been gay porn related. Do these just end up getting moderated down, or do these just get "edited out"? By the time I end up reading most of a thread, it's got a good 200 posts. Maybe sombody could fill me in, the faq doesn't really explain what happens with the spam.
personally i'd like to see a "filter" option that filters out posts with 3 word or more combonations of what was used in there... that'd solve alot of problems. not to mention the other one that was posted pretty recently on this same thread
somebody with moderation points...go for it
sigh..
lamers
Before I get flamed, I'd like to point out that yes, when you run out of bandwidth, you will want to expand your bandwidth. No doubt they are working constantly to upgrade the current situation. The above post's info comes straight from the mouth of the head of the SW bell DSL testing labs, for whatever that's worth. Also, it looks like the ISPs have more than enough DSL capability, they're just now starting to use the 3/4 of their unused capability of 12,000 user capable routers, it just looks like they need the customers and OC3's (and those new terabit fibre lines! : )
Hadlock
Although what ends up happening is that sombody owns the real-estate that the fibre lays under (namely next to rail-road tracks), and they control that part of the "backbone" for that region. Once the fibre is laid, they can charge rent on it to whomever wants to go direct from point A to point B forever...namely the big names in supporting the 'net.
somebody take care of this atrocity...put the moderation to good use?
Apparently In San Francisco, they've run out of OC3 lines. Too many DSL and cable customers in the area, times general over-population = need for high speed fibre optics. How long till we see these puppies in mainstream? Or are we going to see somthing piggy-backing this technology in the next few weeks? ...there always is somthing just around the corner.
Hadlock
Picked up my 17" NEC multisync at a boeing surplus wherhouse for 75$... Not only is it big, but it supports every resoulution and refresh i've thrown at it (video playback, various 3D games). Not only that, but while LCDs will consume less power, for those of us who's parents like the thermostat at 65 degrees, my monster 3' deep 17 incher keeps my room (with door shut) a toasty 85 degrees. so much for saving on the electrical bill : )
Hadlock
for those of you who care, CRTs are damn good at keeping your coffee, or freshly baked cookies toasty warm, given your CRT sucks power like mine, regardless to saftey concerns
Nick Mitchel? Hmm, I used to know one in Gig Harbor... Anyways, to the best of my knowledge, CRTs use a cathrode ray tube, which is basicaly an electron gun that has three different fireing modes: red green blue. It fires the electrons (radiation) at the assorted pixles at different sub dots per pixle.
LCDs, however, depend on a certian amount of electrical current to flow through the liquid, depending on the current, gives you your particular color....or at least it works on somthing along that principle. You'll note there isn't any radiation.
so if you're worried about radiation killing you by age 40, think about this; your tv works on the same exact principle that your computer monitor does, except that it has a better resolution and better refresh rate. how long have your kids have been sitting infront of the TV for? I can't recall a single case of diblitating brain tumor that was even remotely linked to CRT radiation. on the upside, however, LCDs will consume less power.
for those of us who's parents like the thermostat at 65 degrees, my monster 3' deep 17 incher keeps my room (with door shut) a toasty 85 degrees. so much for saving on the electrical bill : )
Hadlock
Hey, here's an idea. Stimulants. This way you're raising the level of brain activity, therefore everyone is at an alert state of mind, and MUST attempt to clear all thoughts, and can't rely on pot or another relaxant. It would also more clearly define the winner, because both would have more active minds, and the person that would win without any effort ie doesn't tend to think alot for whatever reason, now has to *work* at not thinking, and is equal to the person who doesn't have the natural ability to just sit there and veg (ie us non day-dreamers/whatever you get my point). Either way, after giving each person their 500 mg caffine pill, wait 5 min, then start the match... now you have a battle of control of the mind worthy of playabilty. If that made any sense at all, congratulations, you're a friggin genius, b/c i'm tired as hell, it's 6 am here and i should've been asleep long ago (and could probably use one of those caffine pills ; )
I saw a special on PBS a while back, in a segment on a NOVA about brains (i think, this was a couple years back), they actually hooked up nodes or the like to an older woman with what was probably a tumor to read brain waves, and had a giant L shape in the lower left hand corner of a screen representing her target (the L ran along the border of the screen only in the lower left hand corner), being that corner. Her job was to think in a particular way/fashon/form that a pong type square hit the L. She managed this (after a couple hours of practice) about 7 times out of 10 to hit the lower left hand border of the screen, which was fairly impressive, given the fact that the older you get, the slower the brain is able to adapt to new processes (language, learning an instrument, ect)