Go read the article. It clearly divides all of our conflicts into precisely the categories my argument suggest. The real, declared wars, and the conflicts.
When wikipedia agrees with your position, let me know.
Don't let it worry you. Business cycles == economy finally surging just as we go into 2012 election. Obama will take credit in spite of having very little to do with it. There is almost no chance in my mind that he's not a 2-termer.
* Can string a sentence together without making up words or stumbling over words with more than one syllable.
and he needs a teleprompter to do it...
Unlike bush, who couldn't manage it even with the teleprompter.
* Has not prematurely announced 'mission accomplished' when the mission is barely started.
Aside from the fact that he hasn't actually accomplished anything, he did get the Nobel Peace Prize for... what was it again?
So Bush was surprised when he showed up and saw that banner?
* Actually seems to give a shit about health-care for other-than-the-rich.
Which healthcare bill are you reading? Because mine sure has a lot of pork in it. For the rich.
A lot of pork that is less than the previous massive amount of pork is still less pork for the rich. Or viewed another way, there was a wealth transfer from one group of wealthy companies to another group of wealthy companies and the poor. The poor are clearly better off, and the companies will rebalance the equation by adjusting B2B pricing.
Obama vs Cheny:
* Thus far at least, he hasn't shot anyone in the face, and then had the victim apologise (!)
Hey I'll give credit where credit is due.
* Doesn't, to my knowledge, keep a man-sized safe in his office. Always been curious about the 'man-sized' thing...
I'm not even sure what your point is.
* Doesn't support the indefinite holding of suspects without charge in internment camps. One measure of a society is how you treat undesirables, and Guantanamo bay is an indelible stain on the Bush/Cheney years.
OK, completely wrong. Obama even said during his campaign that he would close Guantanomo bay. Well??? Why hasn't he? The fact that he hasn't makes it just as much fault as Bush/Cheney.
So if my predecessor creates a huge problem, and it takes me time to find a solution that his cronies won't block, that makes the huge problem just as much my fault? To me there's at least a bit of difference between ineffective and evil.
More isn't fair. Your portion should exactly reflect the assets you own which society prevents from being taken from you. Hence the wealthy are grossly underpaying, quite unfairly.
Worse than that, I have news for people. The internet is about 90% tubes. Little plastic tubes, with copper wire running through them for the most part. Also, some slightly larger tubes with more glass tubes inside. The other 10% is mostly computers.
But they don't have flat reader-independent scores now, at least not for anyone who has friends, foes, or modified scoring for moderation, which I would have to assume is nearly everyone.
Whether you do your computation in a slave db or in server is probably a matter of taste. I would tend to do it in server because the database doesn't understand my problem domain, and I generally find that it (by which I mean Oracle, DB2, SQLServer, the databases I have most experience with), don't tend to optimize these things as well as I can, because they don't understand user behavior like I do (so my specific cache designs tend to grossly outperform their generic cache designs, which should be everyone's expectation).
Your estimate is off. Most posts go unmoderated, 5 average would be ridiculously high. But even so, why would you do any (meaningful) work in the database for this, that's just crazy. Do it all server side.
To compute my view: Fetch my redlist. Assuming you do server affinity you can cache this for very low cost. You can put an upper bound on the allowed size to avoid abuse and memory problems.
You can also cache every comment visible from the home page for cheap.
My view then consists of iterating through the comments' moderations. Even if you have a million users who all make 100 views per day off the front page, 100M * 75K = 7.5T operations. That's no sweat for even one processor in a day.
Overhead for users who view old stories hits the database, but it's still cheap since you'll hit a trivial index by story id to get all the comments for a story, and a trivial index by userid to look up my redlist, and do all the remaining work in memory on a server safely away from the database.
And then you'd only see the opinions you'd agree with which defeats the whole point of having a discussion.
Also, I fail to see how your scheme would take substantial "editorial control" away from the editors, they post the articles, not the hundreds of comments.
Well, that was a taunt designed to enflame their passions into doing what I wanted.
As I've responded to others, you're already getting the groupthink by even coming to slashdot in the first place. May as well get better quality groupthink.
Yeesh, you sound whipped. Hint: the woman doesn't decide if you get a second date. We don't keep women around to make decisions, we keep them around to look pretty.
1) Pregenerate all (most) of the content for a comment. 2) Compute the custom set of comments for the current user's view. 3) Render the comments to the current user.
Given that most of the cpu cost is in 3, and given that they already have capacity for generating those views including custom moderation bonuses for the user and his friends/foes, it should be a trivial additional cpu cost to support 2.
Really, the fact that existing functionality on/. covers almost all of what I'd want for #2, it's hard to imagine the additional cost somehow magically pushing things over the edge unless/. is very very poorly designed.
Nah, it's a really trivial intersection operation. You pregen smaller sections of content and splice them together. Very low load required. But then, I'm a performance scaling expert at my job. Maybe trivial to me doesn't mean the same thing as for slashdot's developers.
If you bought outright (note, I specified that), rather than with a mortgage, you can ask a rent that is cheaper than mortgage. Or more than equivalent mortgage because of the massive numbers of people who are trying to rent right now because they got foreclosed, and won't be able to get a mortgage for the next 3 years.
All you have to cover with your rent is property tax, insurance, and maintenance. There's a reason landlords go into the rental business, and its not because its impossible to make money at it.
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It doesn't seem close to 'exactly the same' to me, but there are definitely parallels.
However, I don't understand the relevance?
So what was your source that supported non-differentiation between the two categories?
Yes, it is a legally untested differentiation. However, it is also the common one.
Go read the article. It clearly divides all of our conflicts into precisely the categories my argument suggest. The real, declared wars, and the conflicts.
When wikipedia agrees with your position, let me know.
Don't let it worry you. Business cycles == economy finally surging just as we go into 2012 election. Obama will take credit in spite of having very little to do with it. There is almost no chance in my mind that he's not a 2-termer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States
Right, de facto is the precise difference between our current situation and war being declared.
Obviously you haven't thought this through:
Obama vs Bush:
* Can string a sentence together without making up words or stumbling over words with more than one syllable.
and he needs a teleprompter to do it...
Unlike bush, who couldn't manage it even with the teleprompter.
* Has not prematurely announced 'mission accomplished' when the mission is barely started.
Aside from the fact that he hasn't actually accomplished anything, he did get the Nobel Peace Prize for... what was it again?
So Bush was surprised when he showed up and saw that banner?
* Actually seems to give a shit about health-care for other-than-the-rich.
Which healthcare bill are you reading? Because mine sure has a lot of pork in it. For the rich.
A lot of pork that is less than the previous massive amount of pork is still less pork for the rich. Or viewed another way, there was a wealth transfer from one group of wealthy companies to another group of wealthy companies and the poor. The poor are clearly better off, and the companies will rebalance the equation by adjusting B2B pricing.
Obama vs Cheny:
* Thus far at least, he hasn't shot anyone in the face, and then had the victim apologise (!)
Hey I'll give credit where credit is due.
* Doesn't, to my knowledge, keep a man-sized safe in his office. Always been curious about the 'man-sized' thing...
I'm not even sure what your point is.
* Doesn't support the indefinite holding of suspects without charge in internment camps. One measure of a society is how you treat undesirables, and Guantanamo bay is an indelible stain on the Bush/Cheney years.
OK, completely wrong. Obama even said during his campaign that he would close Guantanomo bay. Well??? Why hasn't he? The fact that he hasn't makes it just as much fault as Bush/Cheney.
So if my predecessor creates a huge problem, and it takes me time to find a solution that his cronies won't block, that makes the huge problem just as much my fault? To me there's at least a bit of difference between ineffective and evil.
I'd bet on the oval office using unlocked desk drawers. I'm pretty sure your hand is riddled with bullets long before it reaches the drawer handle.
More isn't fair. Your portion should exactly reflect the assets you own which society prevents from being taken from you. Hence the wealthy are grossly underpaying, quite unfairly.
I cannot believe how lazy the porn people are. It has been like a whole minute and that site is STILL not up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U077BiDMmPE
Worse than that, I have news for people. The internet is about 90% tubes. Little plastic tubes, with copper wire running through them for the most part. Also, some slightly larger tubes with more glass tubes inside. The other 10% is mostly computers.
But they don't have flat reader-independent scores now, at least not for anyone who has friends, foes, or modified scoring for moderation, which I would have to assume is nearly everyone.
Whether you do your computation in a slave db or in server is probably a matter of taste. I would tend to do it in server because the database doesn't understand my problem domain, and I generally find that it (by which I mean Oracle, DB2, SQLServer, the databases I have most experience with), don't tend to optimize these things as well as I can, because they don't understand user behavior like I do (so my specific cache designs tend to grossly outperform their generic cache designs, which should be everyone's expectation).
Go see my other comment in this thread, I answer all of your questions there.
That's a riot.
I have thought about it, and I know how I would implement it, and it doesn't seem remotely challenging.
Your estimate is off. Most posts go unmoderated, 5 average would be ridiculously high. But even so, why would you do any (meaningful) work in the database for this, that's just crazy. Do it all server side.
To compute my view:
Fetch my redlist. Assuming you do server affinity you can cache this for very low cost. You can put an upper bound on the allowed size to avoid abuse and memory problems.
You can also cache every comment visible from the home page for cheap.
My view then consists of iterating through the comments' moderations. Even if you have a million users who all make 100 views per day off the front page, 100M * 75K = 7.5T operations.
That's no sweat for even one processor in a day.
Overhead for users who view old stories hits the database, but it's still cheap since you'll hit a trivial index by story id to get all the comments for a story, and a trivial index by userid to look up my redlist, and do all the remaining work in memory on a server safely away from the database.
And then you'd only see the opinions you'd agree with which defeats the whole point of having a discussion.
Also, I fail to see how your scheme would take substantial "editorial control" away from the editors, they post the articles, not the hundreds of comments.
Well, that was a taunt designed to enflame their passions into doing what I wanted.
As I've responded to others, you're already getting the groupthink by even coming to slashdot in the first place. May as well get better quality groupthink.
Yeesh, you sound whipped.
Hint: the woman doesn't decide if you get a second date. We don't keep women around to make decisions, we keep them around to look pretty.
1) Pregenerate all (most) of the content for a comment.
2) Compute the custom set of comments for the current user's view.
3) Render the comments to the current user.
Given that most of the cpu cost is in 3, and given that they already have capacity for generating those views including custom moderation bonuses for the user and his friends/foes, it should be a trivial additional cpu cost to support 2.
Really, the fact that existing functionality on /. covers almost all of what I'd want for #2, it's hard to imagine the additional cost somehow magically pushing things over the edge unless /. is very very poorly designed.
You already lost that battle with your choice of slashdot.
You've already lost that battle by coming to slashdot.
Nah, it's a really trivial intersection operation. You pregen smaller sections of content and splice them together. Very low load required. But then, I'm a performance scaling expert at my job. Maybe trivial to me doesn't mean the same thing as for slashdot's developers.
If you bought outright (note, I specified that), rather than with a mortgage, you can ask a rent that is cheaper than mortgage. Or more than equivalent mortgage because of the massive numbers of people who are trying to rent right now because they got foreclosed, and won't be able to get a mortgage for the next 3 years.
All you have to cover with your rent is property tax, insurance, and maintenance. There's a reason landlords go into the rental business, and its not because its impossible to make money at it.