what, in particular, doesn't work in the meta-mod system?
Specifically, because it has done nothing to curb abusive moderators. Although ostensibly the point of M2 is to determine whether or not moderations are fair, it's generally just used as yet another way for people to push their own agenda. (Taco made it perfectly clear that M2 wasn't really about judging moderations when the wording for funny moderations was changed.)
Then you're not a true slashdotter. If you were, you would have bought the original DVD release, then the extended edition, and then whine about how you're going to be "forced" to buy the boxed set.
It was REALLY bad press for folks who COULDN'T UNMOUNT DRIVES safely.
The only people who had problems with that were the ones who decided to upgrade their systems within a couple hours of the new (bad) kernel being released. Yeah, sure, it was a mistake, but not nearly as bad as people made it out to be. If you put a three-hour-old kernel on a critical machine, you're taking your chances.
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So it's OK, as long as they steal from people who you don't like? Reminds me of that overused and rather stupid "...there was nobody left to speak out for me" quote.
Not true. Most professors do care, and many that I had even took rather extreme steps to minimize our book costs.
This varies widely from school to school, and often from department to department. At my school, I'm fortunate that the department I'm in (physics) has professors that are quite good about it: they use the same book for several years, sometimes don't require books, and I've never had to buy a book created by the professor.
On the other hand, the math department requires a set of terrible (and expensive) books written by faculty members. Many of the gen ed courses I've taken have had multiple books, which were generally worthless. (Often they would be used for a single assignment -- and, of course, the teachers would switch books every semester.) An intro engineering course has a sub-100 page paperback that costs $50; written by the head of the head of the department.
Yeah, right. Pretty soon we'll be paying $100 for the electronic version, which we'll only be able to use for one semester, and forget about any possibility of buying used, or selling back your book at the end of the semester. The material costs of textbooks are tiny compared to the ridiculous prices they charge. Switching to electronic textbooks just means more profit for the scam artists that produce and sell these books.
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Yeah, but this Jones does not want a cell phone with all the crap. Give me Bluetooth and that's about it.
The problem is that you don't really want a "phone that just makes calls" -- you want that phone + Bluetooth. Somebody else wants that phone + camera, and someone else doesn't care about the camera, but insists that their phone be able to play MP3s. So the manufacturers make a phone that has the features that everyone wants, even though most people will only use a subset of them.
Of course. The point is that nobody's claiming that you can't use the word "window" to talk about the interface. (If that was the case, then Microsoft would be suing people over the X Window System.) It's when you use it to name an operating system that it becomes a valid trademark, because that's not a domain in which it's used generically.
Not the last time I checked. It's a generic term for a portion of the screen, that happens to act in a particular manner. But Windows is not a generic term for an OS (nobody calls Mac OSX "Windows.") So Lindows can't use it to name their OS.
So when you tell that that the reason Firebird didn't work isn't because the car is broken, but instead it's because the road was intentionally made for specific cars to use and will cause non-equipped cars to crash, ...and they'll say that as long as the other car is free, they might as well use it. Trying to convince people to do something for political reasons that they don't care about is generally a lost cause.
Unless you're buying the value PC for paying abandonware or really old PC games that you own,
Actually, I'm half tempted to do just that. (Well, I'm unlikely to buy one from Dell, but several times recently I've considered putting together a DOS system for the express purpose of playing games.) DOSemu, the last few times I've tried it, has always been difficult to get working, and never works well.
My biggest issue is finding space for another computer. My house is crowded enough as it is.
Not quite. Even if you know a few 'successful' people who never received a formal education, that is by far fewer than the percentage I mentioned (which I was trying to make a point, not be completely exact); 2 or 3 you know out of 6.5 billion people, you can do the math.
I did the math. That's where my number came from. Your percentage was ridiculous hyperbole, like I said.
I didn't miss your point. It was just an incorrect one, which you tried to make sound better by adding a nonsensical number. Your claim was that nobody is successful without a formal education. That's just stupid.
so turning a computer off doesnt 'save' any energy.
A computer is hardly an efficient space heater. (An effective one, yes, but mostly because current systems use huge amounts of power.) If you want to save energy, turn off the PC when you're not going to be using it and use the furnace.
Sure if you won 100% of the vote in CA, TX, NY, and IL you would be in good shape, but more like the best any one candidate could hope for would be 55-60%.
Not true. A candidate that is willing to screw over everyone living in the less populous 40 states could easily win the vast majority of the popular vote in a few key areas. That's the main reason why we need the electoral college.
My personal preference for improving the election system would be to require all states to split their electoral votes in the same proportion as the popular vote in that state. It's not perfect, but at least it gets rid of the "safe states" where your vote doesn't mean anything.
The fact is, 99.9999999999999% of the people who never get a formal education become absolutely nothing in their lives
Hum. So there is only.000007 of a person on earth today who was not formally educated and made something of their lives? I know a few uneducated but successful people who prove your statistic wrong.
You might be right if you had said "majority," but claiming 99.9999999999999% (or any such high number) is nonsensical hyperbole.
For further reference on nonsense statistics, see here.
It's no big deal, as long as we put as much mass back up on the moon as we bring down here. I knew that the million VW Bugs I keep in my backyard would come in handy some day.
Despite the fact that apparently five moderators were duped into calling this insightful, if anyone had bothered to read the story (or all the similar stories over the last week -- slashdot is becoming a slow and poorly edited version of google news) they would note that music swapping increased during the final months of the year, not decreased, and it has been hypothesized that this has to do with increased interest in music as Christmas approaches.
We now return you to your regular uninformed slashdot comments.
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Please don't feed the trolls. It's bad enough that they get moderated up.
Yes, and monkeys fly out of my but. Are you listening to Bush's scientists?
That's nothing. I've got monkeys flying out of all my conjunctions. I believe they're heralding the release of DNF.
Solar cells and portable nuclear reactors, then?
You really start to understand why people in ages past were so resistant to change.
Yeah. Far better to leave the smog in the air where it belongs.
what, in particular, doesn't work in the meta-mod system?
Specifically, because it has done nothing to curb abusive moderators. Although ostensibly the point of M2 is to determine whether or not moderations are fair, it's generally just used as yet another way for people to push their own agenda. (Taco made it perfectly clear that M2 wasn't really about judging moderations when the wording for funny moderations was changed.)
I thought that's what the point of M2 was?
Yeah, but M2 doesn't work.
Then you're not a true slashdotter. If you were, you would have bought the original DVD release, then the extended edition, and then whine about how you're going to be "forced" to buy the boxed set.
It was REALLY bad press for folks who COULDN'T UNMOUNT DRIVES safely.
The only people who had problems with that were the ones who decided to upgrade their systems within a couple hours of the new (bad) kernel being released. Yeah, sure, it was a mistake, but not nearly as bad as people made it out to be. If you put a three-hour-old kernel on a critical machine, you're taking your chances.
So it's OK, as long as they steal from people who you don't like? Reminds me of that overused and rather stupid "...there was nobody left to speak out for me" quote.
Not true. Most professors do care, and many that I had even took rather extreme steps to minimize our book costs.
This varies widely from school to school, and often from department to department. At my school, I'm fortunate that the department I'm in (physics) has professors that are quite good about it: they use the same book for several years, sometimes don't require books, and I've never had to buy a book created by the professor.
On the other hand, the math department requires a set of terrible (and expensive) books written by faculty members. Many of the gen ed courses I've taken have had multiple books, which were generally worthless. (Often they would be used for a single assignment -- and, of course, the teachers would switch books every semester.) An intro engineering course has a sub-100 page paperback that costs $50; written by the head of the head of the department.
Is electronic textbook publishing the way to go?
Yeah, right. Pretty soon we'll be paying $100 for the electronic version, which we'll only be able to use for one semester, and forget about any possibility of buying used, or selling back your book at the end of the semester. The material costs of textbooks are tiny compared to the ridiculous prices they charge. Switching to electronic textbooks just means more profit for the scam artists that produce and sell these books.
Yeah, but this Jones does not want a cell phone with all the crap. Give me Bluetooth and that's about it.
The problem is that you don't really want a "phone that just makes calls" -- you want that phone + Bluetooth. Somebody else wants that phone + camera, and someone else doesn't care about the camera, but insists that their phone be able to play MP3s. So the manufacturers make a phone that has the features that everyone wants, even though most people will only use a subset of them.
Of course. The point is that nobody's claiming that you can't use the word "window" to talk about the interface. (If that was the case, then Microsoft would be suing people over the X Window System.) It's when you use it to name an operating system that it becomes a valid trademark, because that's not a domain in which it's used generically.
window is NOW a generic term for the screen,
Not the last time I checked. It's a generic term for a portion of the screen, that happens to act in a particular manner. But Windows is not a generic term for an OS (nobody calls Mac OSX "Windows.") So Lindows can't use it to name their OS.
It doesn't seem fair to pronounce the BBC complicit in Kelly's death (unless that's proven by the facts of the case)
Yeah, I'd hate for slashdot to become known as a place where people make false claims and jump to unjustified conclusions.
Will they grow in desserts?
They'll grow in cake and fresh pie, but they won't grow so well in cold climates such as ice cream.
So when you tell that that the reason Firebird didn't work isn't because the car is broken, but instead it's because the road was intentionally made for specific cars to use and will cause non-equipped cars to crash,
...and they'll say that as long as the other car is free, they might as well use it. Trying to convince people to do something for political reasons that they don't care about is generally a lost cause.
Unless you're buying the value PC for paying abandonware or really old PC games that you own,
Actually, I'm half tempted to do just that. (Well, I'm unlikely to buy one from Dell, but several times recently I've considered putting together a DOS system for the express purpose of playing games.) DOSemu, the last few times I've tried it, has always been difficult to get working, and never works well.
My biggest issue is finding space for another computer. My house is crowded enough as it is.
Not quite. Even if you know a few 'successful' people who never received a formal education, that is by far fewer than the percentage I mentioned (which I was trying to make a point, not be completely exact); 2 or 3 you know out of 6.5 billion people, you can do the math.
I did the math. That's where my number came from. Your percentage was ridiculous hyperbole, like I said.
I didn't miss your point. It was just an incorrect one, which you tried to make sound better by adding a nonsensical number. Your claim was that nobody is successful without a formal education. That's just stupid.
so turning a computer off doesnt 'save' any energy.
A computer is hardly an efficient space heater. (An effective one, yes, but mostly because current systems use huge amounts of power.) If you want to save energy, turn off the PC when you're not going to be using it and use the furnace.
Sure if you won 100% of the vote in CA, TX, NY, and IL you would be in good shape, but more like the best any one candidate could hope for would be 55-60%.
Not true. A candidate that is willing to screw over everyone living in the less populous 40 states could easily win the vast majority of the popular vote in a few key areas. That's the main reason why we need the electoral college.
My personal preference for improving the election system would be to require all states to split their electoral votes in the same proportion as the popular vote in that state. It's not perfect, but at least it gets rid of the "safe states" where your vote doesn't mean anything.
The fact is, 99.9999999999999% of the people who never get a formal education become absolutely nothing in their lives
.000007 of a person on earth today who was not formally educated and made something of their lives? I know a few uneducated but successful people who prove your statistic wrong.
Hum. So there is only
You might be right if you had said "majority," but claiming 99.9999999999999% (or any such high number) is nonsensical hyperbole.
For further reference on nonsense statistics, see here.
No fallout, see? :-)
Yeah, let's see what you say when one of those black boxes hits you in the head on the way down...
Approximately a million VW Bugs. Per person.
It's no big deal, as long as we put as much mass back up on the moon as we bring down here. I knew that the million VW Bugs I keep in my backyard would come in handy some day.
Despite the fact that apparently five moderators were duped into calling this insightful, if anyone had bothered to read the story (or all the similar stories over the last week -- slashdot is becoming a slow and poorly edited version of google news) they would note that music swapping increased during the final months of the year, not decreased, and it has been hypothesized that this has to do with increased interest in music as Christmas approaches.
We now return you to your regular uninformed slashdot comments.