I've been very happy carrying around an HP49G emulator on my Sony Clie. It's free, though it takes a bit of room on an external card. It's not limited to Sony devices. Check itout.
I haven't been able to follow the link because it's slashdotted, but my interpretation of "scientific" was more along the lines of computer-generated imagery, such as the high-resolution images generated by the DOE laboratories. A gigapixel is a square with 32,000 pixels on a side. Not inordinately difficult to generate.
Wny not just finish the job and paint the outside of the lens cap very opaque? That way, the image would not shine through, and it would be obvious to everyone what's wrong.
But what I do know, which is utterly fascenating, is that dice and data apparently are closely related. (Die comes from the word datum, which is the latin singular of data.) That is fitting.
I should point out that I develop using GTK+ at work and KDE/Qt for pleasure, and Qt is so much nicer to work with it's not even funny.
Can you give me some details as to why? I thought the parent made a nice summary. Can you give some reasons what you think Qt's strengths are over GTK. The parent post leads me to believe that they're somewhat similar, with different strengths. What ones make you choose the Qt camp?
The only thing that really bothers me is that Random Corperate [sic] Giant is making the decision, not the users.
But in the end, the commercial company has to convince end users to buy its product. They're going to do that by selecting the desktop that they believe the users will like best. So, in the end, the users are the ones making the decision.
I've given up submitting stories to Slashdot. After too many rejections of stories that really should have been accepted, (Honestly, about 2/3 of mine should have been rejected, but not all of them) I have just decided not to play the game any more.
Their bread and butter comes from people who submit stories to them. If they can't get submissions straight, I'm done. No more from me.
I believe this same Hazel O'Leary was also purported to say that she wanted "male" and "female" electrical connectors to be renamed at Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab. She considered the terms to be sexist and unacceptible.
(Yes, I know this has been joked about in this thread. But I hear this actually happened from the Secretary of Energy.)
What I'm planning on doing is reworking scoring. Right now, all Slashdot Comments are rated on a scale from -1 to 5. Many things cause comments to change score: The Karma Bonus, The Short Comment Penalty, Excessive Downmods to your Domain, and of course, users moderating the comment up or down. But ultimately, it's very difficult to tell one score:4 comment from another. The difference between 4 & 5 is minimal. The difference between 1 & 2 is almost entirely the AC vs Logged in bonus. The difference between 1 & 2 is almost entirely the karma bonus. -1 is preetty much all crap, and it works well.
What I want to do is expand moderations to take advantage of several pieces of information that we have, that we don't use. And also, add new pieces of data to the mix. For example, comment age, the rate that a comment is moderated up, the total number of moderation points used on a comment, and perhaps bayesian filtering. But ultimately, instead of scores being classified into one of 7 groups, I want to rank them, from "Best" to "Worst". Maybe we retain the -1..5 range, but give the scores a decimel. Maybe we throw out the old scoring entirely, and give every comment a percentile.
The short and long of this whole discussion is that we have a lot of data that we're not using. And when we start making intelligent use of it, we'll dramatically improve the value of discussions.
Not sure what he's going to do, but he's at least aware that there's a problem that needs fixing. I'm hoping he talks to a mathematician to see what's been done before, rather than coming up with something on his own.
So, please, be critical, but please also be respectful of others' opinions.
Then quit the name calling, kuzb. Going around, throwing "fanboy" and "zealot" in people's faces isn't exactly the way to be "respectful of others' opinions."
FWIW, I agree with you, to an extent. I think Linux is getting better at the desktop. I don't think the problem is in X, per se. I think it has to do, somewhat, with the final integration of all the end-user elements. This is something that Microsoft and Apple have gotten right. Some might argue that it's because they've made the choices for you, that there is only one window manager, one printer system, etc. Could be.
But I don't go so far as to abandon it completely. It's certainly getting better, though there is a certain amount of pain if you aren't a "geek." However, I've found some measure of pain involved with every desktop OS I've touched, Windows and OS X included.
Skimming over your original points, I'd say that #2 is the biggest problem. #1 is the smallest (if at all). The rest fall in between and can be very distro dependent.
However the usual rule is the top 10 highest moderated posts. As they stop at +5, this kind of sucks.
Exactly. With a cap of 5, you can't tell what are the top 10 highest moderated posts. The bell distribution is cut off before the "top" comments can be determined.
Ah well. At least some interesting questions get answered, as you pointed out.
The coolest part of the article is at the end of page two:
Sharing an iPod through its headphone jack is also a crude, low-tech version of what some predict is the real killer application of future iPods:
transforming them into short-distance broadcasting devices by adding Bluetooth or similar radio technology, coupled with Rendezvous, an Apple-developed networking technology that allows devices to discover each other automatically. [emphasis mine]
I think the +5 problem applies to more than just "interview" articles. See my journal entry where I discuss the problem and characteristics of a posssible solution.
(I wouldn't be surprised if we all got modded down "Offtopic" as always appears to be the case when people discuss moderation in an article thread.)
Uh, the discussion was what I was commenting on. He complained about "slashdot editorializing." I pointed out that his facts were incorrect. Your comment is so far off the mark from what I said, that I wonder if you hit "reply" on the wrong comment.
(And, by the way, you might further the "discussion" if you refrained from ad hominem attacks.)
This article is rather weird. Here it is, summarized:
Back in 1999, Shawn Hargreaves wrote a really neat paper on the dearth of open source games. That paper is still true today.
Open source software doesn't seem to be able to handle the initial risk that corporations take on when they fund an innovation that may fail. Games are on one side (high risk) of the spectrum in software development and OSes are on the other (low risk).
Um... and governments shouldn't be forced to use open source software any more than they should be forced to use proprietary software. [Not quite sure how this follows from the previous points.]
And that's about it. I really didn't find any more substance in the article than that.
If there's more there that escaped me, please point it out.
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I've been very happy carrying around an HP49G emulator on my Sony Clie. It's free, though it takes a bit of room on an external card. It's not limited to Sony devices. Check it out.
I haven't been able to follow the link because it's slashdotted, but my interpretation of "scientific" was more along the lines of computer-generated imagery, such as the high-resolution images generated by the DOE laboratories. A gigapixel is a square with 32,000 pixels on a side. Not inordinately difficult to generate.
Wny not just finish the job and paint the outside of the lens cap very opaque? That way, the image would not shine through, and it would be obvious to everyone what's wrong.
Excellent Karma but I can't moderate because I've been bad..
Do tell. Would you mind writing a journal entry about this? I'm in the same boat, it would appear.
But what I do know, which is utterly fascenating, is that dice and data apparently are closely related. (Die comes from the word datum, which is the latin singular of data.) That is fitting.
I didn't know that. Interesting!
He did not use the terms "die" and "dies" incorrectly. See here. Both uses are acceptible.
Thanks for the summary. This is way more than I ever expected anyone to respond with. I appreciate it.
KDE does not use Glib
Okay. He didn't claim it did.
I should point out that I develop using GTK+ at work and KDE/Qt for pleasure, and Qt is so much nicer to work with it's not even funny.
Can you give me some details as to why? I thought the parent made a nice summary. Can you give some reasons what you think Qt's strengths are over GTK. The parent post leads me to believe that they're somewhat similar, with different strengths. What ones make you choose the Qt camp?
GTK is better than QT
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That's not what I've heard from people here and on other forums. I've never used GTK, but I simply love programming in Qt.
Can you give me some examples of how GTK is better than Qt? (With the attendent risk of starting yet another flame war here on
The only thing that really bothers me is that Random Corperate [sic] Giant is making the decision, not the users.
But in the end, the commercial company has to convince end users to buy its product. They're going to do that by selecting the desktop that they believe the users will like best. So, in the end, the users are the ones making the decision.
I've given up submitting stories to Slashdot. After too many rejections of stories that really should have been accepted, (Honestly, about 2/3 of mine should have been rejected, but not all of them) I have just decided not to play the game any more.
Their bread and butter comes from people who submit stories to them. If they can't get submissions straight, I'm done. No more from me.
Yes, I'm bitching and whining, too.
I believe this same Hazel O'Leary was also purported to say that she wanted "male" and "female" electrical connectors to be renamed at Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab. She considered the terms to be sexist and unacceptible.
(Yes, I know this has been joked about in this thread. But I hear this actually happened from the Secretary of Energy.)
4 kids as of last july.
;-)
Congratulations! Another "convention" bucked. People generally look at you strangely after you get past 2 or 3.
We just got our 2nd in October. Time to start working on the 3rd!
So, please, be critical, but please also be respectful of others' opinions.
Then quit the name calling, kuzb. Going around, throwing "fanboy" and "zealot" in people's faces isn't exactly the way to be "respectful of others' opinions."
FWIW, I agree with you, to an extent. I think Linux is getting better at the desktop. I don't think the problem is in X, per se. I think it has to do, somewhat, with the final integration of all the end-user elements. This is something that Microsoft and Apple have gotten right. Some might argue that it's because they've made the choices for you, that there is only one window manager, one printer system, etc. Could be.
But I don't go so far as to abandon it completely. It's certainly getting better, though there is a certain amount of pain if you aren't a "geek." However, I've found some measure of pain involved with every desktop OS I've touched, Windows and OS X included.
Skimming over your original points, I'd say that #2 is the biggest problem. #1 is the smallest (if at all). The rest fall in between and can be very distro dependent.
However the usual rule is the top 10 highest moderated posts. As they stop at +5, this kind of sucks.
Exactly. With a cap of 5, you can't tell what are the top 10 highest moderated posts. The bell distribution is cut off before the "top" comments can be determined.
Ah well. At least some interesting questions get answered, as you pointed out.
I think the +5 problem applies to more than just "interview" articles. See my journal entry where I discuss the problem and characteristics of a posssible solution.
(I wouldn't be surprised if we all got modded down "Offtopic" as always appears to be the case when people discuss moderation in an article thread.)
Ah, a comment about my sig. Fascinating.
If you read my posting history, you'll find that my comments have very little to do with grammar or spelling.
However, just to be obtuse, I expect you'll get even more annoyed if I correct your latest addition. It's case in point.
Uh, the discussion was what I was commenting on. He complained about "slashdot editorializing." I pointed out that his facts were incorrect. Your comment is so far off the mark from what I said, that I wonder if you hit "reply" on the wrong comment.
(And, by the way, you might further the "discussion" if you refrained from ad hominem attacks.)
A friend and I have an understanding. I never buy anthing for him, he never buys anything for me.
Heck, I have that "understanding" with 99.9999998% of the people on the planet!
yes, i was planning on sitting here listening to emo and crying all day, thank you very much
If I had to sit all day listening to Elmo, I'd be crying, too.
What? "Emo," you say?
Nevermind...
Um, FYI...
The comment about which you are complaining was made by Ridgelift, not by any of Slashdot's editors.
If there's more there that escaped me, please point it out.
Well done! If I had mod points, you'd get one.