> That's also why the "swap trick" works. You put in a real playstation > CD, let it read the code, then swap the cd's before it reads the rest > of the cd. It's hard to time right, but can be done (i've only gotten > it to happen a few times on my friends system. i don't own one.)
Nrrrrargh. Ahem. Sorry. That was an expression of disgust at having to do the DAMN swap trick. I can pull it off *maybe* once in ten. This is why you get a GameGenie -- it can be tricked into thinking that an import is actually a US disk. How else are we going to get the cool japanese RPGs that they refuse to translate for over here?
> There are ten record companies. Once a week they > tell the hundred radio companies which > bands they think are going to be popular next > week. They are usually right.
But are they right because they actually can predict what "the masses" want, or are they right because what they predict is *automatically* what "the masses" want, because it's what they're being given?
I live just at the edge of WXPN, in Philly -- member-supported public radio. And I almost never hear the same thing twice in a month from them. Contrast that to any of the pop stations, where you'll hear the 'song of the week' three times in one day...
Is it that the mega-successes are *good music*, or is it just that they're pushed down everyone's throats until a demand is created?
(Is Windows good software, or is it just that "everyone uses it"...?)
As someone who's only moderated once (I have a history of lurking, rather than posting) perhaps I'm not best qualified to comment on this, but I would prefer to avoid the sort of "real-time moderation" that Rob is proposing here. It would indeed limit some of the abuses of the system, but I think the greatest benefit of the existing system is that it allows moderators to choose what they want to promote or demote. I would find it very frustrating to see an absolutely *wonderful* comment that I thought deserved a +1 Interesting or +1 Informative, only to be thwarted by the fact that it wasn't one of the ones I had the little mod box for...
Back to the isue at hand, without a floppy drive (and without a cd burner or any other writable device), an iMac user is kinda screwed if they want to take data from one machine to another (if both aren't networked in some way).
I have two older Macs at home (Performa 6112/Performa 6115), both of whom have been experiencing some floppy drive issues. Rather than keep using Sneakernet or dealing with a Zip drive (basically because of cost; I couldn't afford the Zip), I used an old trick that a former Mac admin taught me: network the two computers using the printer port.
Not a solution for massive sharing, but it works for the casual user, and while I'm not disputing your point about the machines being networked in some way, I just wanted to point out how *easy* it is to network the little suckers. I can share applications and data between the two machines as easily as if they had been more 'formally' networked.
It's not the burrito (though that does sound good!); it's doing it for me, too.
As was suggested later down, having a multi-leveled m^2 interface that would allow a m^2 to view the entire history of what had been done to the comment would be more helpful.
Also, am I the only one concerned that you're being asked to rate the "tag" (Interesting, Funny, etc) and not the score? On my test m^2 page, I saw a few comments that/were/ interesting, etc, but didn't rate the numerical value that had been given to them, IMHO. Perhaps a change to the system to ask whether the tags *and* the final numbers were fair. Though if it were done with the "history" visible, then the m^2 would rate each moderation step...
Or maybe I'm trying to make this too complicated, but I think the way it is now, it has too much ambiguity.
As a side note on general SP discussion, I just read Carpe Jugulem, the new Discworld novel, and I could have sworn I picked up a South Park reference...
I had the same problem with my PPC. I found that if I disabled it as a screensaver, moved the app out of the system folder, and just started it normally when I was ready to let the system idle, it counted time normally. Of course, it's still running slow as all fsck -- I'm at 150 hours of CPU time and still only 42% done. Sigh.
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> That's also why the "swap trick" works. You put in a real playstation
> CD, let it read the code, then swap the cd's before it reads the rest
> of the cd. It's hard to time right, but can be done (i've only gotten
> it to happen a few times on my friends system. i don't own one.)
Nrrrrargh. Ahem. Sorry. That was an expression of disgust at having to do the DAMN swap trick. I can pull it off *maybe* once in ten. This is why you get a GameGenie -- it can be tricked into thinking that an import is actually a US disk. How else are we going to get the cool japanese RPGs that they refuse to translate for over here?
(Side note: Final Fantasy VIII *rocks*.)
Quick, where's Randy Waterhouse when you need him??
> There are ten record companies. Once a week they
> tell the hundred radio companies which
> bands they think are going to be popular next
> week. They are usually right.
But are they right because they actually can predict what "the masses" want, or are they right because what they predict is *automatically* what "the masses" want, because it's what they're being given?
I live just at the edge of WXPN, in Philly -- member-supported public radio. And I almost never hear the same thing twice in a month from them. Contrast that to any of the pop stations, where you'll hear the 'song of the week' three times in one day...
Is it that the mega-successes are *good music*, or is it just that they're pushed down everyone's throats until a demand is created?
(Is Windows good software, or is it just that "everyone uses it"...?)
That would not then have the function of raising/lowering the score, though, which is what Over/Underrated is useful for, no?
As someone who's only moderated once (I have a history of lurking, rather than posting) perhaps I'm not best qualified to comment on this, but I would prefer to avoid the sort of "real-time moderation" that Rob is proposing here. It would indeed limit some of the abuses of the system, but I think the greatest benefit of the existing system is that it allows moderators to choose what they want to promote or demote. I would find it very frustrating to see an absolutely *wonderful* comment that I thought deserved a +1 Interesting or +1 Informative, only to be thwarted by the fact that it wasn't one of the ones I had the little mod box for ...
Back to the isue at hand, without a floppy drive (and without a cd burner or any other writable device), an iMac user is kinda screwed if they want to take data from one machine to another (if both aren't networked in some way).
I have two older Macs at home (Performa 6112/Performa 6115), both of whom have been experiencing some floppy drive issues. Rather than keep using Sneakernet or dealing with a Zip drive (basically because of cost; I couldn't afford the Zip), I used an old trick that a former Mac admin taught me: network the two computers using the printer port.
Not a solution for massive sharing, but it works for the casual user, and while I'm not disputing your point about the machines being networked in some way, I just wanted to point out how *easy* it is to network the little suckers. I can share applications and data between the two machines as easily as if they had been more 'formally' networked.
It's not the burrito (though that does sound good!); it's doing it for me, too.
/were/ interesting, etc, but didn't rate the numerical value that had been given to them, IMHO. Perhaps a change to the system to ask whether the tags *and* the final numbers were fair. Though if it were done with the "history" visible, then the m^2 would rate each moderation step...
As was suggested later down, having a multi-leveled m^2 interface that would allow a m^2 to view the entire history of what had been done to the comment would be more helpful.
Also, am I the only one concerned that you're being asked to rate the "tag" (Interesting, Funny, etc) and not the score? On my test m^2 page, I saw a few comments that
Or maybe I'm trying to make this too complicated, but I think the way it is now, it has too much ambiguity.
As a side note on general SP discussion, I just read Carpe Jugulem, the new Discworld novel, and I could have sworn I picked up a South Park reference ...
Can't get to the story due to a workplace censorproxy; can someoen summarize?
I had the same problem with my PPC. I found that if I disabled it as a screensaver, moved the app out of the system folder, and just started it normally when I was ready to let the system idle, it counted time normally. Of course, it's still running slow as all fsck -- I'm at 150 hours of CPU time and still only 42% done. Sigh.