As you go up the points, the numbers of posts at that level drops off very quickly, right now for this thread it's -1=117,114,104,32,9,4,5=0. As the default is 1 for most people, then going from 1 to 2 means only 32 out of 104 have been marked up. I'm sure that there are many interesting comments posted which haven't been moderated up. It would be better if there was a smoother curve up, so that moving up a level of points only dropped about 15% of posts - so each level had approximatly the same number of posts.
There are serveral people who've mentioned wanting to put good use to their moderator points. I know I've felt the same way when I've been moderating.
Perhaps the moderators should be given a larger number, based upon their karma, say 5*karma. They don't know how many moderation points they have, but if they don't use them up in their moderation period, they loose them. This way they'd be encouraged to moderate liberally.
I agree that the war started with Japan & China, but I don't think it can be called a world war until 1939, when Austalia/New Zealand, Afria, Europe, and Canada were all involved.
are there any good content management servers for Linux yet?
Vignette doesn't count as good.
This should be displayed somewhere where PHB's are
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This is the sort of story which should get more publicity. The PHB's don't belive us geeks when we say Linux is good, they might listen to this sort of story from the trenches.
Perhaps training is a bad word. I mean the process of rejecting the bad algorythms and evolving towards a good algorythm. This means you have to have an idea of what a good algorythm's output should be. At the end of the process, you have an algorythm which you know is good for your test cases, but you don't know how good is it for your non-test data.
Genetic algorithms aren't exactly new. There are many sites on the web which implement them. However, like most AI issues, the hard part is the training. You can never be 100% sure that it's doing what you want, only what it's done in the past.
SF Novels just don't adapt well to films. Dune, Starship Troopers, Puppet Masters, 1984, Contact etc etc etc. If you want to make a good SF film, the trick seems to be to use a short story. With a novel you either have to make the film incredibly complex & long, or loose much of the story (Sometimes both, eg Dune).
And the book was written by Clarke & Kubrick in unison as well, though Kubrick didn't want to be credited.
Basically, each writer stuck mainly to their respective specialities, and bounced ideas & plots off each other.
The differences between the two, eg which planet were they going to (Jupiter in the film, Saturn in the novel) were due to the differences between the way you write a book (usually front to back) and the way you make a film (all the scenes on the same set at the same time). When changes were made to the film, the novel wasn't always able to keep up (or vice versa).
Well you do have a larger population, but not a more diverse one. Toronto was named by the UN the most multicultural city in the world for the nth year running.
I think it's got to do with their definition of 'site'. If they count Geocities as a single site, then most people surfing probably hit that site for a fair percentage of their time.
However, I'm not suprised that people are becoming more discerning. How many "This is my dog" websites can you go and see without exploding?
More importantly that the date being wrong, the date is an essential part of the calculation which works out where you are. If the system isn't looking up the almanac for the correct date, it's not going to give you the correct location.
"Accuracy of navigation may also be severely affected" is an understatement. There will be no accuracy at all.
The question I have is is a combined cpu & monitor, colour scheme & curvyness to the case intellectual property?
Every year, there are famous clothing designers producing expensive clothing. They decide that pastel coloured short skirts with black jackets are 'this years' hot item and fill the catwalks with pastel coloured short skirts. Most people don't buy their clothes from this sort of designer, so the designers for the chain stores make their own pastel coloured short skirts & black jackets. They're not the same as the original, they not designed by the original designer, but they are what a their audience wants. No-one has ever (afaik) sued a designer for ripping off their choice of colours & fabrics.
The translucent case with bright colours is a fashion IMO. The iMac might have been the first to sport it, but now I've seen it not only in the PC clones being sued, but also the Rio 300 Special edition and no doubt more will come.
I'd say that most markets have fashions. Stereo components used to come in wooden style. Nowadays they all come in black. Knobs & things you can twirl were replaced by up and down buttons, but now things you can twirl are making a comeback. Remotes originally had just simple arrays of buttons, most remotes nowadays have the buttons arranged to match the function (rewind on the left, fast forward on the right).
Actually, having the monitor & CPU as seperate items is the innovation, not the opposite.
Look at terminals from the late 60's and 70's, and you will invariably see a single box for the terminal's CPU & the monitor part. Often the keyboard was part of the same box too.
When business PCs came out (Long before the IBM PC), they us often styled the same way, for example the Commodore Pet series.
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Nope, indeed many of these cheap PC cards are better than their Sun/SGI/HP equivilants costing many times more.
However there isn't any easy way to avoid the mess of different video cards we've got. Twice now there has been an effort at standardization, and both times manufacturers have added in extra stuff to give their cards an edge. You can either live with the reduced choice, or with the increased complexity of configuration.
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X is only hard to configure on PC's, where a bazillion different hardware standards have made graphics a nightmare.
If you have a system where variations in graphic cards are much less, such as for example a Sun, then configuring X is often just a case of starting up the server and letting it configure itself.
Unofrtunatly the price you pay for cheap hardware is increased complexity in setup.
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Actually Psion's 5 & 7 range both support CF disks. Psion uses their own OS, called EPOC, and this OS is supported by most of the mobile phone manufacturers through an aliance called Symbian
Yes, but this is a third party upgrade to a standard Palm V. That means no 3Com warranty.
While the BBC is putting out such high quality programmes as "Noel's House Party" and "Neighbours".
As you go up the points, the numbers of posts at that level drops off very quickly, right now for this thread it's -1=117,114,104,32,9,4,5=0. As the default is 1 for most people, then going from 1 to 2 means only 32 out of 104 have been marked up. I'm sure that there are many interesting comments posted which haven't been moderated up. It would be better if there was a smoother curve up, so that moving up a level of points only dropped about 15% of posts - so each level had approximatly the same number of posts.
There are serveral people who've mentioned wanting to put good use to their moderator points. I know I've felt the same way when I've been moderating.
Perhaps the moderators should be given a larger number, based upon their karma, say 5*karma. They don't know how many moderation points they have, but if they don't use them up in their moderation period, they loose them. This way they'd be encouraged to moderate liberally.
Actually, the trademark for "Asprin" was lost due to the trademark owner (Bayer) being a German company, and Germany loosing the First World War.
The problem with trying to emulate a dolphin is getting it to do all those snazzy backflips.
The linked Prowse story has a picture of him sans Vader garb.
I know that 4 is skipped because it's seen as unlucky is certain asian cultures. I don't know why 6 is skipped in both product lines.
Vignette doesn't count as good.
This is the sort of story which should get more publicity. The PHB's don't belive us geeks when we say Linux is good, they might listen to this sort of story from the trenches.
Perhaps training is a bad word. I mean the process of rejecting the bad algorythms and evolving towards a good algorythm. This means you have to have an idea of what a good algorythm's output should be. At the end of the process, you have an algorythm which you know is good for your test cases, but you don't know how good is it for your non-test data.
Genetic algorithms aren't exactly new. There are many sites on the web which implement them. However, like most AI issues, the hard part is the training. You can never be 100% sure that it's doing what you want, only what it's done in the past.
Hey! Don't insult hamsters. My hamster's produce much better papers than this!
Toronto has the best Mongers group!
All the publicity I've been seeing on Ender's Game (eg imdb Entry say it's being based on the novel.
SF Novels just don't adapt well to films. Dune, Starship Troopers, Puppet Masters, 1984, Contact etc etc etc. If you want to make a good SF film, the trick seems to be to use a short story. With a novel you either have to make the film incredibly complex & long, or loose much of the story (Sometimes both, eg Dune).
Basically, each writer stuck mainly to their respective specialities, and bounced ideas & plots off each other.
The differences between the two, eg which planet were they going to (Jupiter in the film, Saturn in the novel) were due to the differences between the way you write a book (usually front to back) and the way you make a film (all the scenes on the same set at the same time). When changes were made to the film, the novel wasn't always able to keep up (or vice versa).
Well you do have a larger population, but not a more diverse one. Toronto was named by the UN the most multicultural city in the world for the nth year running.
However, I'm not suprised that people are becoming more discerning. How many "This is my dog" websites can you go and see without exploding?
"Accuracy of navigation may also be severely affected" is an understatement. There will be no accuracy at all.
Every year, there are famous clothing designers producing expensive clothing. They decide that pastel coloured short skirts with black jackets are 'this years' hot item and fill the catwalks with pastel coloured short skirts. Most people don't buy their clothes from this sort of designer, so the designers for the chain stores make their own pastel coloured short skirts & black jackets. They're not the same as the original, they not designed by the original designer, but they are what a their audience wants. No-one has ever (afaik) sued a designer for ripping off their choice of colours & fabrics.
The translucent case with bright colours is a fashion IMO. The iMac might have been the first to sport it, but now I've seen it not only in the PC clones being sued, but also the Rio 300 Special edition and no doubt more will come.
I'd say that most markets have fashions. Stereo components used to come in wooden style. Nowadays they all come in black. Knobs & things you can twirl were replaced by up and down buttons, but now things you can twirl are making a comeback. Remotes originally had just simple arrays of buttons, most remotes nowadays have the buttons arranged to match the function (rewind on the left, fast forward on the right).
Fashions are not intellectual property IMO.
Look at terminals from the late 60's and 70's, and you will invariably see a single box for the terminal's CPU & the monitor part. Often the keyboard was part of the same box too.
When business PCs came out (Long before the IBM PC), they us often styled the same way, for example the Commodore Pet series.
However there isn't any easy way to avoid the mess of different video cards we've got. Twice now there has been an effort at standardization, and both times manufacturers have added in extra stuff to give their cards an edge. You can either live with the reduced choice, or with the increased complexity of configuration.
If you have a system where variations in graphic cards are much less, such as for example a Sun, then configuring X is often just a case of starting up the server and letting it configure itself.
Unofrtunatly the price you pay for cheap hardware is increased complexity in setup.