Too many posts hit +4. Decrease the number of moderators.
I hate going off-topic, but we all know/. discourages "meta-discussion" (e.g. discussion about slash itself). Anyway, I'd say a better solution would be to expand the moderation cap. Instead of topping out at +5, let the range run from +20 to -20, for example. I find a few of the -1 posts amusing or interesting -- after all I don't always agree with the mods. Really worthless GNAA crap or whatever will disappear down a deep dark hole (no pun intended), and it'll give the users a much broader range for evaluating the "worth" of up-modded posts. This is particularly worthwhile now that Karma is not a numeric quantity and is basically something nobody has good reason to care much about any more.
Can't subscribers view a user's submissions, both rejected and accepted, or am I mistakened? Either way, one can't deny he does have an extremely suspiciously high acceptace-rate, and that his blog is pretty much crap.
It isn't nearly as exciting as something like Quake (single- or multi-player), but Prince of Persia has a lot of "extra" animation along the lines of what you describe. On the Xbox version anyway, the disc contains a bunch of "making of" videos and it would appear all of this extra animation is rather expensive to produce. I didn't think it was a very interesting-sounding game, but I picked it up about a week ago (it's now a discounted title, something like $15) and it's actually rather pleasing to the eye.
It's illegal to do that but the FCC doesn't seem to enforce their RF rules very much.
Actually, they seem to be fairly active. If you read through these, they're pulling in tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines every month:
When they added ABS to Dodge Vipers (I race one as a hobby), it was extremely controversial among the "real" racers. However, it quickly became apparent that an ABS-equipped car could easily outbrake the non-ABS cars with equivalently prepared cars and relatively well-matched drivers (or the same driver comparing two cars back to back).
A good driver doesn't NEED to have ABS, but there are no drawbacks to it (assuming you aren't doing something like F1 where every extra ounce makes a huge difference, and assuming you're willing to accept a fairly minor increase in complexity).
The "already known" benefits you tout are themselves extremely speculative.
(Not that I doubt that the cell processors are potentially quite powerful, but Sony has a well-established history of delivering bare minimum hardware, particularly in comparison to their competition.)
This is ridiculous. Robotics aren't remotely sophisticated enough to allow anyone to draw useful conclusions about whether "robots can live harmoniously with humans". In fact, I'd be willing to bet a bunch of preschoolers could live harmoniously with all sorts of weird crap that your average human wouldn't tolerate.
It's just another lame marketing ploy to get Sony's names in some headlines.
Will an alarm go off when he's within 50 yards of a house where a potential victim lives? Imagine taking care of THAT database!
Actually, ignoring the inaccurate assumption you make that it's monitored real-time, this specific part of your rant wouldn't be especially hard to implement with current GIS database technologies. They're good at doing things like this, which amounts to a simple point/region intersection search. (Naturally, it's the definition part that would kill you -- but taking care of the database wouldn't be especially difficult.)
You do know this is all possible in Windows, and has been available for years, right? You make it sound like something the KDE developers came up with.
Oh, where to begin? Anybody who found this "interesting" or "insightful" ought to read the London Science Museum's discussion of Rife's microscopes. In fact, Rife's microscopes have been rather thoroughly investigated by museums, microscopy companies such as Basuch and Lomb, and a wide array of other interested parties. The general conseus is that Rife created some very mechanically complex but optically sub-par microscopes which utterly fail to produce the miraculous effects he claimed. One could go on, but it's easier to just read the Science Museum report here... a link I got, by the way, from the second page linked in the parent post.
Nice whack-job gibberish on the web site at parent poster's e-mail domain, by the way:
A collaborative time capsule, for which was rendered a virtual 'breathing' portal based on space-time telemetry. This portal telemtry is used to locate the time capsule in astral/virtual space, including an egg-form cross-section of a vortex gate. The telemetry also provides a space-time bearing in the event the time capsule should be opened in the future. This image is inscribed on a plate of glass that is placed inside tunnel capsule. The plate has not been imaged in order to give the actuality of the physical form more gravity to a dowsing mind.
3. A pubescent kid who thinks it's totally cool to act like a moron on the internet, only because no one can actually reach through the screen and punch their lights out.
As opposed to a scrawny, wormy slashdotter geek who can pose as a toughguy for the same reason?
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Too many posts hit +4. Decrease the number of moderators.
/. discourages "meta-discussion" (e.g. discussion about slash itself). Anyway, I'd say a better solution would be to expand the moderation cap. Instead of topping out at +5, let the range run from +20 to -20, for example. I find a few of the -1 posts amusing or interesting -- after all I don't always agree with the mods. Really worthless GNAA crap or whatever will disappear down a deep dark hole (no pun intended), and it'll give the users a much broader range for evaluating the "worth" of up-modded posts. This is particularly worthwhile now that Karma is not a numeric quantity and is basically something nobody has good reason to care much about any more.
I hate going off-topic, but we all know
Just some rambling thoughts.
Can't subscribers view a user's submissions, both rejected and accepted, or am I mistakened? Either way, one can't deny he does have an extremely suspiciously high acceptace-rate, and that his blog is pretty much crap.
Roland #1
Roland #2
It isn't nearly as exciting as something like Quake (single- or multi-player), but Prince of Persia has a lot of "extra" animation along the lines of what you describe. On the Xbox version anyway, the disc contains a bunch of "making of" videos and it would appear all of this extra animation is rather expensive to produce. I didn't think it was a very interesting-sounding game, but I picked it up about a week ago (it's now a discounted title, something like $15) and it's actually rather pleasing to the eye.
In the drive to promote better health, I recommend "eye juice".
That'll be messy.
Bizarre. Slashcode totally mangled that anchor tag.
Use the text, not the link itself.
It's illegal to do that but the FCC doesn't seem to enforce their RF rules very much.
Actually, they seem to be fairly active. If you read through these, they're pulling in tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines every month:
http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/
When they added ABS to Dodge Vipers (I race one as a hobby), it was extremely controversial among the "real" racers. However, it quickly became apparent that an ABS-equipped car could easily outbrake the non-ABS cars with equivalently prepared cars and relatively well-matched drivers (or the same driver comparing two cars back to back).
A good driver doesn't NEED to have ABS, but there are no drawbacks to it (assuming you aren't doing something like F1 where every extra ounce makes a huge difference, and assuming you're willing to accept a fairly minor increase in complexity).
the PS3's already known hardware benefits
The "already known" benefits you tout are themselves extremely speculative.
(Not that I doubt that the cell processors are potentially quite powerful, but Sony has a well-established history of delivering bare minimum hardware, particularly in comparison to their competition.)
This is ridiculous. Robotics aren't remotely sophisticated enough to allow anyone to draw useful conclusions about whether "robots can live harmoniously with humans". In fact, I'd be willing to bet a bunch of preschoolers could live harmoniously with all sorts of weird crap that your average human wouldn't tolerate.
It's just another lame marketing ploy to get Sony's names in some headlines.
You go for the full-blown non-humans, huh?
Sony makes profit off of their system at a nice healthy $149.
Because the hardware is, by comparison, crap. (Speaking as an owner of both.)
(Damn, I just burned my last mod points elsewhere, too.)
Perhaps parents should discourage their children from learning about the Romans so as to prevent the the little tykes feeding Christians to the lions?
ob: Why on Earth would you want to prevent that???
Will an alarm go off when he's within 50 yards of a house where a potential victim lives? Imagine taking care of THAT database!
Actually, ignoring the inaccurate assumption you make that it's monitored real-time, this specific part of your rant wouldn't be especially hard to implement with current GIS database technologies. They're good at doing things like this, which amounts to a simple point/region intersection search. (Naturally, it's the definition part that would kill you -- but taking care of the database wouldn't be especially difficult.)
Yeah, that was far worse than the thousands of goatse or GNAA posts.
You do know this is all possible in Windows, and has been available for years, right? You make it sound like something the KDE developers came up with.
MSN has your example listed as #2 at the moment.
It comes out #6 on AskJeeves and Teoma, and #5 on Gigablast.
My god, CONSPIRACY!
In fact, the only place I could find where you come out #1 is on AOL.
The best part of that joke is the "Insightful" moderation...
Oh, where to begin? Anybody who found this "interesting" or "insightful" ought to read the London Science Museum's discussion of Rife's microscopes. In fact, Rife's microscopes have been rather thoroughly investigated by museums, microscopy companies such as Basuch and Lomb, and a wide array of other interested parties. The general conseus is that Rife created some very mechanically complex but optically sub-par microscopes which utterly fail to produce the miraculous effects he claimed. One could go on, but it's easier to just read the Science Museum report here... a link I got, by the way, from the second page linked in the parent post.
Nice whack-job gibberish on the web site at parent poster's e-mail domain, by the way:
A collaborative time capsule, for which was rendered a virtual 'breathing' portal based on space-time telemetry. This portal telemtry is used to locate the time capsule in astral/virtual space, including an egg-form cross-section of a vortex gate. The telemetry also provides a space-time bearing in the event the time capsule should be opened in the future. This image is inscribed on a plate of glass that is placed inside tunnel capsule. The plate has not been imaged in order to give the actuality of the physical form more gravity to a dowsing mind.
Mod -1, Pining for Fringe Science
Oh yeah? What side was the filler cap on?
Sadly, I'm betting your entire post was lost on well over 99% of the people reading the replies to this article.
(keep your ears open - you hear that sound effect used lots in movies and ads for movies)
That's because id used pre-recorded stock audio.
Same thing goes for a lot of the door-sliding-open noises.
Hell, ALL of the nosies in Doom 2.
The reason *I* was disappointed with Doom 3 was that I couldn't see a damned thing.
Other than that, I agree with you.
3. A pubescent kid who thinks it's totally cool to act like a moron on the internet, only because no one can actually reach through the screen and punch their lights out.
As opposed to a scrawny, wormy slashdotter geek who can pose as a toughguy for the same reason?