Troll feeding can indeed be fun. Keep in mind that I posted it as a lame fake Siggy account instead of my real account to get an impression of how serious I was.
I don't know about the big Mich., but in Illinois it's illegal to target an ad to an answering machine. I still get them all the time, but it's illegal and should be reported to your Secretary of State's office if you have such a law.
It's also amazing how often I'll get hangup phone calls from telemarketers. Grr...
Dude, that's three YRO posts today. I've had enough of YRO.
Why the are people stuck on 'MP3'? Would I not get fired if it was an illegal Ogg Vorbis file? Would I get fired if it was a legal MP3 file? Illegal Music is the way to say it, not MP3. MP3 is just a file format.
Nitpick, but what you want is a low amount of signal and a high amount of noise, so that would be a low signal over noise number.
I personally like the mwForum moderation system, as used by BeNews - no anonymous posting, no continual karma number, etc. And guess what? It works just fine!
A lot of people like kuro5hin. I hate it personally - I'd rather an editor took care of stories and we did the posting. Once again, BeNews is a good example - now there aren't many trolls (with the execption of one guy named "Robbie"), but the stories get good comments. If you want to post a story yourself, it's a whole forum system. Go make a post.
If you've got the bandwidth, give it a try. (BTW the href for mwForum is here.)
If you log on on beta.slashdot.org, www.slashdot.org, or web.slashdot.org, you can keep multiple accounts open. (A duplicate of this post will be posted at the same time by Anonymous Karma).
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
I'd say that the moderators count as a sufficiently large group. However, there are still a few good moderators that know a troll when they see it. Sad to say, some people can't tell a regular poster from a troll, and mark regular posters as trolls, and moderate up trolls.
How would you propose fixing it? (This should really be on sid=moderation)...
-- 11223, cracking the moderation system, one post at a time.
My printer? I'm sitting two feet away from a corporate LaserJet (tm, blah) and I'm going to wear out my printer?
I think that people always know how to find the commercial versions, though that edition for $1 is a deal. (Keep in mind that Civil Disobedience was more an essay than a book, so it's gotta be cheaper).
Geez. I think you mistake King's intentions too much. He's not concerned about any 'post-copyright' athenian vision you might have for the future. Plain and simple, he hopes to get more money out of this.
I think that King would be very upset if you would copy his work at will. He's trying to make a buck in the digital world, and wouldn't hesitate to call the DMCA upon anybody who copies it.
I find it simply amazing that when people look for a book, the first thing they do is to link to a commercial seller. It's not like we're paying Mr. Thoreau anymore, he doesn't even have copyright!
That said, the Project Gutenberg link for this book is here.
But the next-generation nVidia chipset in the X-Box has a SIMD processor capable of running nine instructions per pixel... if you could read those back you could probly make a SETI@Home client out of an X-Box!
But in a recent ferminews, there was an article about how there may be 4 types of neutrinos - breaking the Standard Model! The article is here, on Fermi's site.
That's a good start, but you missed the proper analogy with the 3dfx comparison - it'd be like Microsoft comparing MS Office on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and claiming that Windows is the best - but neglecting the fact that Linux put in a 0 because there is no Office on Linux!
That's just great - now does the cluster go back to Seti@Home crunching?
Personally, I think that they need to get their priorities straight. After we make contact with the little grey men with bug eyes, they'll give us all the computer technology we need to do these simulations.
Geez, people seem to think that they can expect any ethics when dealing with nVidia. In the past nVidia has been known to:
Bait and switch OEM's
Play favorites with card manufacturers
Perform unfair comparisons (Vanta beats Voodoo3 in Quake3 because Voodoo3 doesn't do 32-bit... in 16-bit the Voodoo would win)
Tell reviewers not to benchmark the cards in 16-bit/play down 16-bit numbers (because of the Voodoo's strong numbers there), or not to test on Glide-enabled games
Provide tweaked drivers to reviewers to improve performance
Promise one card as their best to an OEM, and then turn around and give another a slightly-better-clocked card
And now we know they do something nasty with reviewers and other cards. Big suprise.
Why does everybody think that "Open Everything" should be good? In the Telco industry, software==hardware. You ship not just software or hardware, but a "platform" for use in all situations. In general, they're inseperable. Open Telco!=Good. Open Telco==No business model. That's the problem of the marketplace in this instance.
Can't people step back and realize that Open isn't always good? Would you write your novel Open Source? Would you make your washing machine Open Source? No, so why would you make your Telco solution Open Source?
As much as I'm a fan of the open development model, I sometimes think that people around here are just communists - they wish all products to be developed in an Open fashion, and that just ain't right (at least without a major rewrite of our governmental structure!)
NT actually mounts the disk in corrupted form for the boot, and then fscks in the background as your computer is coming up. IMHO this is a terribly dangerous decision made in the interest of boot time. (Source: The BeOS Bible).
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Troll feeding can indeed be fun. Keep in mind that I posted it as a lame fake Siggy account instead of my real account to get an impression of how serious I was.
It's also amazing how often I'll get hangup phone calls from telemarketers. Grr...
Why the are people stuck on 'MP3'? Would I not get fired if it was an illegal Ogg Vorbis file? Would I get fired if it was a legal MP3 file? Illegal Music is the way to say it, not MP3. MP3 is just a file format.
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I personally like the mwForum moderation system, as used by BeNews - no anonymous posting, no continual karma number, etc. And guess what? It works just fine!
A lot of people like kuro5hin. I hate it personally - I'd rather an editor took care of stories and we did the posting. Once again, BeNews is a good example - now there aren't many trolls (with the execption of one guy named "Robbie"), but the stories get good comments. If you want to post a story yourself, it's a whole forum system. Go make a post.
If you've got the bandwidth, give it a try. (BTW the href for mwForum is here.)
People choosing to pay before downloading will proceed to the Amazon.com Payments site. - from the Stephen King website.
I smell a high-profile boycott...
If you log on on beta.slashdot.org, www.slashdot.org, or web.slashdot.org, you can keep multiple accounts open. (A duplicate of this post will be posted at the same time by Anonymous Karma).
I'd say that the moderators count as a sufficiently large group. However, there are still a few good moderators that know a troll when they see it. Sad to say, some people can't tell a regular poster from a troll, and mark regular posters as trolls, and moderate up trolls.
How would you propose fixing it? (This should really be on sid=moderation)...
-- 11223, cracking the moderation system, one post at a time.
I think that people always know how to find the commercial versions, though that edition for $1 is a deal. (Keep in mind that Civil Disobedience was more an essay than a book, so it's gotta be cheaper).
I think that King would be very upset if you would copy his work at will. He's trying to make a buck in the digital world, and wouldn't hesitate to call the DMCA upon anybody who copies it.
Be careful who you say your allies are.
That said, the Project Gutenberg link for this book is here.
Sometimes you want multiple processors with SIMD on each one.
Like the Pentium III?
Just another BeOS geek...
http://www.kde.org/news_dyn.html#964126797
But the next-generation nVidia chipset in the X-Box has a SIMD processor capable of running nine instructions per pixel... if you could read those back you could probly make a SETI@Home client out of an X-Box!
But in a recent ferminews, there was an article about how there may be 4 types of neutrinos - breaking the Standard Model! The article is here, on Fermi's site.
That's a good start, but you missed the proper analogy with the 3dfx comparison - it'd be like Microsoft comparing MS Office on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and claiming that Windows is the best - but neglecting the fact that Linux put in a 0 because there is no Office on Linux!
Personally, I think that they need to get their priorities straight. After we make contact with the little grey men with bug eyes, they'll give us all the computer technology we need to do these simulations.
I apologize for the double posting - slashdot was acting flukey. Please moderate this one to (-1, Redundant) (or the other, I don't care).
And now we know they do something nasty with reviewers and other cards. Big suprise.
test test lame? why?
Can't people step back and realize that Open isn't always good? Would you write your novel Open Source? Would you make your washing machine Open Source? No, so why would you make your Telco solution Open Source?
As much as I'm a fan of the open development model, I sometimes think that people around here are just communists - they wish all products to be developed in an Open fashion, and that just ain't right (at least without a major rewrite of our governmental structure!)
NT actually mounts the disk in corrupted form for the boot, and then fscks in the background as your computer is coming up. IMHO this is a terribly dangerous decision made in the interest of boot time. (Source: The BeOS Bible).
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If I keep replying to my post can I keep a discussion alive?