I'm Steve Woston Yes I'm the Real Woston All you other Steve Wostons are just imitating So won't the real Steve Woston... Please stand up, Please stand up, Please stand up Cause I'm Steve Woston Yes I'm the Real Woston All you other Steve Wostons are just imitating So won't the real Steve Woston... Please stand up, Please stand up, Please stand up
I dont know about the rest of you guys, but I always prefer a good solid book as opposed to a big bulky monitor; You'll never be able to sit on your couch, relax, and read a good computer screen book there; lets face it, even a laptop screen is not as easy to read as a paperback novel. Even with new portable electronic books, I still think the feel, the texture, the tactile response and aroma of the book is better. Merely my opinions...
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Re:Reality Check - You're Not As Good As You Think
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Too Old To Code?
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Sorry, but no...I am not a badass. And I know this. That is why I'm still in school, still trying to learn from all the people who are better than me. I intend to do more learning in college, and after college when I get a job. I'm merely asking that some people just accept that in a while all the younger guys will be older guys too, and that they should be acknowledged as more than just kids.
I symapthize with you all the way, Mike. I myself am also 15, and pretty darn good at coding. I haven't done too many major projects, but that doesn't mean I'm bad at coding. People just don't realize that one can be on a college or post-collegiate programming level at a younger age, and it certainly shows. In fact, I'm in a class currently at high school with mainly seniors (I'm a sophomore), and many of them are resentful or condescending to me, even though I am one of the best in the class.
"Us little guys" have a place too as the programmers of tomorrow, so perhaps people might treat us as such, just once in a while.
I am definitely not a lawyer/judge/etc. so this is at the risk of sounding stupid, but anyway:
That way, cases like this one involving technology can be heard by judges familiar with it, thus limiting the likelyhood of a poor decision and a stifling precedent.
I thought that judges were supposed to be impartial to the case. They would then base their decision on the two arguments presented by the prosecution and the defense. This, effectively, would have to rule out "technology-sympathetic" judges. Even though it would be nice, the practice could not be not compatible with our impartial justice system.
By the way, searches for "Steve Woston", "J-j-j-julius", and "j-j-j-julius software" in the Altavista, Yahoo, Google, Northern Light, Snap, and Raging search engines turned up no matches. I would think a serious experienced high-end game programmer would deserve more attention.
As with limiting trading to certain "accepted" mp3's, you would put a serious crimp on trading of concert recordings (of band that allow the recording of concert and trading of those recordings), and the trade of lesser known artists trying to get their music out.
Hey-did you even look at my other suggestion? (Free trading with lowered sound quality as a possibility)
And besides, I don't have all the answers. I'm just trying to offer up some posibilities. Instead of trying to knock down my ideas (which is probably very easy to do) I ask you to come up with more or better ideas. After all, wouldn't everyone be better off if we came up with a possible solution in stead of arguing with each other?
You know, for some unknown reason, my browser can't seem to find/connect to http://www.jjjjulius.com. Care to enlighten me any on what the reason for this may be?
I think that this entire process is fundamentally flawed.
"Piracy" Sure, Napster traffics in huge amounts of illegal mp3s, but wait a second to examine the process a little more. Most people (or at least myself and others I know) don't rely on Napster as their sole source of musical income. As proven in the previous poll on how many cd's the average/.'er owns, the majority owns a large number of cd's. Napster can be used in a "good" (by RIAA standards) way.
For example, I went down to the store and bought Play, Moby's new album. After buying this, I was really pleased with Moby's music and I wanted to see if I should buy any of his other cds. So, I went on to Napster to demo some songs. The next week, I ended up buying another Moby album, Everything is Wrong, based on the one or two tracks I previewed on Napster.
Napster doesn't have to serve as a means to illegal music. In my own opinion, I think that RIAA and the government shouldn't be trying to get rid of Napster. Instead, they should be trying to work in concert with Napster to fundamentally change it. Wouldn't you enjoy a free service where you could download the latest popular songs in mp3 format, in order to preview the cd? Or how about a fully downloadable album at reduced sound quality? Napster could even retain the free trading system by letting users trade only certain "accepted" mp3's, or by imposing a lower sound quality (say 56kb/s) on each downloaded song. If this were the case, you could download and then buy the cd, helping Napster and the RIAA thrive.
There are many alternative solutions, with shutting down Napster not being one of them. I only hope that the Government and RIAA would look into these, instead of blindly charging ahead in their "anti-piracy" jihad.
I remember a little old game called "The Dark Heart of Uukrul." (Does anyone else remeber it) Well, anyway, I got to a point near the end of the game at which I couldn't get any farther, or so I believed. Faithfully, I had kept the disk, since the late eighties. Then, last year, that one floppy disk containing the games, saves, everything I had worked so hard to create, was overwritten by my little brother. And do you know what he overwrote it for? A damn English report!!!
Well, seeing as how there is no way for me to buy the game again, it would be extremely useful if the game could be released in public domain or open sourced. That way I could figure out the damn ending which has eluded me these 10 years, and finaly know the answer.
I think that this entire process is fundamentally flawed.
"Piracy" Sure, Napster traffics in huge amounts of illegal mp3s, but wait a second to examine the process a little more. Most people (or at least myself and others I know) don't rely on Napster as their sole source of musical income. As proven in the previous poll on how many cd's the average/.'er owns, the majority owns a large number of cd's. Napster can be used in a "good" (by RIAA standards) way.
For example, I went down to the store and bought Play, Moby's new album. After buying this, I was really pleased with Moby's music and I wanted to see if I should buy any of his other cds. So, I went on to Napster to demo some songs. The next week, I ended up buying another Moby album, Everything is Wrong, based on the one or two tracks I previewed on Napster.
Napster doesn't have to serve as a means to illegal music. In my own opinion, I think that RIAA and the government shouldn't be trying to get rid of Napster. Instead, they should be trying to work in concert with Napster to fundamentally change it. Wouldn't you enjoy a free service where you could download the latest popular songs in mp3 format, in order to preview the cd? Or how about a fully downloadable album at reduced sound quality? Napster could even retain the free trading system by letting users trade only certain "accepted" mp3's, or by imposing a lower sound quality (say 56kb/s) on each downloaded song. If this were the case, you could download and then buy the cd, helping Napster and the RIAA thrive.
There are many alternative solutions, with shutting down Napster not being one of them. I only hope that the Government and RIAA would look into these, instead of blindly charging ahead in their "anti-piracy" jihad.
Not to flame, but how does this merit a score of 5 as insightful? It merely points out that the HP knew about the problem before hand. In my opinion, that's not too insightful. It's informative at best. This is exactly what all the dicussion in the last article's forum was about. Entries that are good enough to merit a three or four get boosted up to a five (which they don't quite deserve) due to poor moderation. (Sorry if I offended you, Mr. Cluts)
1. There do need to be some changes to the moderation system. Letting everyone moderate like Kuro5hin would be a little extreme. I think it would be better to implement a system in which you could moderate only after a karma level, almost like the initaial post score 2 bonus. This would allow the entire community to moderate, but would filter out newbies who don't know what they're doing and trolls who want to flame. To do this, the entire 5 point system would have to go. It would need to be something based on the percentage of what those who voted thought, or a general aggregate opinion of all the voters. (i. e. a "slashdot-poll"-esque type system)
2. I don't think this would work out too well. People like to know the general consensus on a story. That way, those scrolling at a -1 (or equivalent under new system) level will be able to judge for themselves and those who wish to skim the "gems" can do so.
3. As of now, no one knows each others karma
4. Good idea. Instead of the aforementioned filtering to a certain level, I think that sort of system could replace the filters completely. One could select a general level to filter the posts at, lets say 4. Then, they would get posts with scores of say 60% fours and fives, 30% threes, and 10% negative one through two.
Although it may be a little bit melodramatic and overly zealous, there are a few valid points brought up in the post.
The quality of posts that get moderated up to +5 (in particular +5 funny) is really getting more and more lame.
I agree with this. although I may not be the best at creating brilliantly innovative, informing, or humorous posts, I think that many of the level 5 posts are not quite up to the level they should be. I think many moderators are influenced by the "me too" phenomenon, and automatically mod a comment based on the reactions of the first moderation. This causes some posts to unfairly get knocked to troll status, and other "okay" comments to get promoted to the status of greatness which they dont really deserve.
This "lameness filter" bullshit has to go, the moderation bullshit has to go. I think free-speech has all but vanished on this site.
Although this is a bit overrated, the moderation does interfere with free speech on the site. Fundamentally, free speech is the ability to be heard by the community when and where you need to. Since the average slashdot reader is more likely to read a topic up at the 3-5 level, those who have been modded down are not getting the attention they really deserve. And, if the topics are knocked down just because they are offtopic, it becomes even worse. How is one supposed to bring an issue to the attention of the community if there is no place to do so?
Although it may not amount to anything at all, hopefully some change for the better can come of this. Please though, for all the reasons mentioned above, don't knock this reply or its parent down just for standing up.
By virtue of being/.'ed, the low powered potato server will now be overloaded. They did warn against too many accessing at once on the page, but my guess is that everyone at slashdot will go ahead and connect to the potato server anyway, overloading its small potato power capacity. Oh well...I thought it was pretty cool.
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I'm not claiming to be woston; Im just throwin out some modified lyrics for those who do.
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I'm Steve Woston
Yes I'm the Real Woston
All you other Steve Wostons are just imitating
So won't the real Steve Woston...
Please stand up, Please stand up, Please stand up
Cause I'm Steve Woston
Yes I'm the Real Woston
All you other Steve Wostons are just imitating
So won't the real Steve Woston...
Please stand up, Please stand up, Please stand up
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The article doesn't really make it too clear; is Sony opening the Playstation chips, the Playstation 2 chips, or both?
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I dont know about the rest of you guys, but I always prefer a good solid book as opposed to a big bulky monitor; You'll never be able to sit on your couch, relax, and read a good computer screen book there; lets face it, even a laptop screen is not as easy to read as a paperback novel. Even with new portable electronic books, I still think the feel, the texture, the tactile response and aroma of the book is better. Merely my opinions...
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Sorry, but no...I am not a badass. And I know this. That is why I'm still in school, still trying to learn from all the people who are better than me. I intend to do more learning in college, and after college when I get a job. I'm merely asking that some people just accept that in a while all the younger guys will be older guys too, and that they should be acknowledged as more than just kids.
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I symapthize with you all the way, Mike. I myself am also 15, and pretty darn good at coding. I haven't done too many major projects, but that doesn't mean I'm bad at coding. People just don't realize that one can be on a college or post-collegiate programming level at a younger age, and it certainly shows. In fact, I'm in a class currently at high school with mainly seniors (I'm a sophomore), and many of them are resentful or condescending to me, even though I am one of the best in the class.
"Us little guys" have a place too as the programmers of tomorrow, so perhaps people might treat us as such, just once in a while.
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I am definitely not a lawyer/judge/etc. so this is at the risk of sounding stupid, but anyway:
That way, cases like this one involving technology can be heard by judges familiar with it, thus limiting the likelyhood of a poor decision and a stifling precedent.
I thought that judges were supposed to be impartial to the case. They would then base their decision on the two arguments presented by the prosecution and the defense. This, effectively, would have to rule out "technology-sympathetic" judges. Even though it would be nice, the practice could not be not compatible with our impartial justice system.
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Well, I'm keepin a link to this thread at my account info page; it's just too damn funny to lose track of.
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By the way, searches for "Steve Woston", "J-j-j-julius", and "j-j-j-julius software" in the Altavista, Yahoo, Google, Northern Light, Snap, and Raging search engines turned up no matches. I would think a serious experienced high-end game programmer would deserve more attention.
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Thank you for pointing this out. I didn't really take it into account.
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Sorry. I don't want to flame, but why exactly are you blocking ExecDSL?
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As with limiting trading to certain "accepted" mp3's, you would put a serious crimp on trading of concert recordings (of band that allow the recording of concert and trading of those recordings), and the trade of lesser known artists trying to get their music out.
Hey-did you even look at my other suggestion? (Free trading with lowered sound quality as a possibility)
And besides, I don't have all the answers. I'm just trying to offer up some posibilities. Instead of trying to knock down my ideas (which is probably very easy to do) I ask you to come up with more or better ideas. After all, wouldn't everyone be better off if we came up with a possible solution in stead of arguing with each other?
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You know, for some unknown reason, my browser can't seem to find/connect to http://www.jjjjulius.com. Care to enlighten me any on what the reason for this may be?
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I think that this entire process is fundamentally flawed.
/.'er owns, the majority owns a large number of cd's. Napster can be used in a "good" (by RIAA standards) way.
"Piracy" Sure, Napster traffics in huge amounts of illegal mp3s, but wait a second to examine the process a little more. Most people (or at least myself and others I know) don't rely on Napster as their sole source of musical income. As proven in the previous poll on how many cd's the average
For example, I went down to the store and bought Play, Moby's new album. After buying this, I was really pleased with Moby's music and I wanted to see if I should buy any of his other cds. So, I went on to Napster to demo some songs. The next week, I ended up buying another Moby album, Everything is Wrong, based on the one or two tracks I previewed on Napster.
Napster doesn't have to serve as a means to illegal music. In my own opinion, I think that RIAA and the government shouldn't be trying to get rid of Napster. Instead, they should be trying to work in concert with Napster to fundamentally change it. Wouldn't you enjoy a free service where you could download the latest popular songs in mp3 format, in order to preview the cd? Or how about a fully downloadable album at reduced sound quality? Napster could even retain the free trading system by letting users trade only certain "accepted" mp3's, or by imposing a lower sound quality (say 56kb/s) on each downloaded song. If this were the case, you could download and then buy the cd, helping Napster and the RIAA thrive.
There are many alternative solutions, with shutting down Napster not being one of them. I only hope that the Government and RIAA would look into these, instead of blindly charging ahead in their "anti-piracy" jihad.
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I remember a little old game called "The Dark Heart of Uukrul." (Does anyone else remeber it) Well, anyway, I got to a point near the end of the game at which I couldn't get any farther, or so I believed. Faithfully, I had kept the disk, since the late eighties. Then, last year, that one floppy disk containing the games, saves, everything I had worked so hard to create, was overwritten by my little brother. And do you know what he overwrote it for? A damn English report!!!
Well, seeing as how there is no way for me to buy the game again, it would be extremely useful if the game could be released in public domain or open sourced. That way I could figure out the damn ending which has eluded me these 10 years, and finaly know the answer.
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No, I am not insane.
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I think that this entire process is fundamentally flawed.
/.'er owns, the majority owns a large number of cd's. Napster can be used in a "good" (by RIAA standards) way.
"Piracy" Sure, Napster traffics in huge amounts of illegal mp3s, but wait a second to examine the process a little more. Most people (or at least myself and others I know) don't rely on Napster as their sole source of musical income. As proven in the previous poll on how many cd's the average
For example, I went down to the store and bought Play, Moby's new album. After buying this, I was really pleased with Moby's music and I wanted to see if I should buy any of his other cds. So, I went on to Napster to demo some songs. The next week, I ended up buying another Moby album, Everything is Wrong, based on the one or two tracks I previewed on Napster.
Napster doesn't have to serve as a means to illegal music. In my own opinion, I think that RIAA and the government shouldn't be trying to get rid of Napster. Instead, they should be trying to work in concert with Napster to fundamentally change it. Wouldn't you enjoy a free service where you could download the latest popular songs in mp3 format, in order to preview the cd? Or how about a fully downloadable album at reduced sound quality? Napster could even retain the free trading system by letting users trade only certain "accepted" mp3's, or by imposing a lower sound quality (say 56kb/s) on each downloaded song. If this were the case, you could download and then buy the cd, helping Napster and the RIAA thrive.
There are many alternative solutions, with shutting down Napster not being one of them. I only hope that the Government and RIAA would look into these, instead of blindly charging ahead in their "anti-piracy" jihad.
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Okie. Thanks.
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Not to flame, but how does this merit a score of 5 as insightful? It merely points out that the HP knew about the problem before hand. In my opinion, that's not too insightful. It's informative at best. This is exactly what all the dicussion in the last article's forum was about. Entries that are good enough to merit a three or four get boosted up to a five (which they don't quite deserve) due to poor moderation. (Sorry if I offended you, Mr. Cluts)
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Just another reason for iris identification. The evil terrorist group can't just rip out your eye and use it to get in.
Or can they...
(cue ominous sounding music now)
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Here's a page detailing the progress of such a technology. Hope it answers any questions.
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Comments on Soultions are as follows:
1. There do need to be some changes to the moderation system. Letting everyone moderate like Kuro5hin would be a little extreme. I think it would be better to implement a system in which you could moderate only after a karma level, almost like the initaial post score 2 bonus. This would allow the entire community to moderate, but would filter out newbies who don't know what they're doing and trolls who want to flame. To do this, the entire 5 point system would have to go. It would need to be something based on the percentage of what those who voted thought, or a general aggregate opinion of all the voters. (i. e. a "slashdot-poll"-esque type system)
2. I don't think this would work out too well. People like to know the general consensus on a story. That way, those scrolling at a -1 (or equivalent under new system) level will be able to judge for themselves and those who wish to skim the "gems" can do so.
3. As of now, no one knows each others karma
4. Good idea. Instead of the aforementioned filtering to a certain level, I think that sort of system could replace the filters completely. One could select a general level to filter the posts at, lets say 4. Then, they would get posts with scores of say 60% fours and fives, 30% threes, and 10% negative one through two.
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Although it may be a little bit melodramatic and overly zealous, there are a few valid points brought up in the post.
The quality of posts that get moderated up to +5 (in particular +5 funny) is really getting more and more lame.
I agree with this. although I may not be the best at creating brilliantly innovative, informing, or humorous posts, I think that many of the level 5 posts are not quite up to the level they should be. I think many moderators are influenced by the "me too" phenomenon, and automatically mod a comment based on the reactions of the first moderation. This causes some posts to unfairly get knocked to troll status, and other "okay" comments to get promoted to the status of greatness which they dont really deserve.
This "lameness filter" bullshit has to go, the moderation bullshit has to go. I think free-speech has all but vanished on this site.
Although this is a bit overrated, the moderation does interfere with free speech on the site. Fundamentally, free speech is the ability to be heard by the community when and where you need to. Since the average slashdot reader is more likely to read a topic up at the 3-5 level, those who have been modded down are not getting the attention they really deserve. And, if the topics are knocked down just because they are offtopic, it becomes even worse. How is one supposed to bring an issue to the attention of the community if there is no place to do so?
Although it may not amount to anything at all, hopefully some change for the better can come of this. Please though, for all the reasons mentioned above, don't knock this reply or its parent down just for standing up.
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Well, Im just doin my best to help out everyone who doesn't want to look at male porn, which includes myself.
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By virtue of being /.'ed, the low powered potato server will now be overloaded. They did warn against too many accessing at once on the page, but my guess is that everyone at slashdot will go ahead and connect to the potato server anyway, overloading its small potato power capacity. Oh well...I thought it was pretty cool.
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This is an article from brittanica.com containing the definition and description of the flywheel. Hope this will sort things out for ya. Have fun.
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