Don't tell the moderators what to do. There is no single "moderator" as your Title seems to imply. What happens is that if you are a registered user, you are randomly selected, according to some criteria (e.g. how often you visit: not too often, not too rarely), and you get a grand total of FIVE points to use as you see fit. A point only counts as a +1 or a -1. Moderators don't set the score directly, so it takes several moderators over time to push a good post up. There is no point in posting "moderate this up!" messages. The posts will speak for themselves. They are all over the place. Maybe the message you are referring to hasn't been around long enough for several different people to moderate it up. By now, your post is obsolete and pure noise; I believe its parent is at a 4 as I write this. If you think posts are getting unfairly moderated down, then make it a point to Meta-Moderate each day.
Thank you.
(Sorry this is offtopic, I'll post at Score:1 instead of 2.)
The journalist on webmonkey asks, what if Microsoft owned Webmonkey? The question here is, is anyone afraid that slashdot will be biased toward Linux? Well duh! Slashdot is "biased." Slashdot is mostly: pro-geek pro-linux pro-BSD pro-Apache pro-any company that does good things for Linux (IBM, Loki, etc.) anti-any company that does anything against Linux anti-software patents anti-censorship etc.
Bring on the bias! Forbid Slashdot should ever lose its soul in the name of trying to look unbiased. I'd rather have a site where the authors let their personalities show. If you don't like the bias, or at least don't like to challege that bias in the comments then you* don't belong here.
*you meaning "one" here.
If there is bias, you will hear about it in the comments, and so will everyone else. And the moderators are also the posters. The users send in potential stories, and usually their own comments are what get posted. When a top-level poster (like Roblimo) editorializes we see the bias as well. Great! Bring it on!
Heya, I have a wheel mouse... I just haven't found much use for it. In q3a where there is no secondary fire I use ALT for zoom view. Point taken though.
Here's what I use: Mouse down: aim/Look up Mouse up: aim/Look down (I use reversed control because I am used to the flight-simulator way of doing thing) Mouse left/right: Turn left/right
The crosshairs on the screen end up being like a mouse pointer, but in 360 degrees. There is simply no substitute.
Left mouse button: fire. (point click and kill interface) Right mouse button: next weapon.
My unorthodox keyboard setup: Left shift: Run forward Left ctrl: Run backward A: sidestep left S: sidestep right left Alt: secondary fire space: jump
I always figured "third world" was after "Old World" and "New World." But then I guess they aren't disjoint sets after all.
Main Entry: Old World Function: noun Date: circa 1596 : the eastern hemisphere exclusive of Australia; specifically : Europe
Main Entry: New World Function: noun Date: 1555 : WESTERN HEMISPHERE; especially : the continental landmass of No. and So. America
Main Entry: third world Function: noun Usage: often capitalized T&W Etymology: translation of French tiers monde Date: 1963 1 : a group of nations especially in Africa and Asia not aligned with either the Communist or the non-Communist blocs 2 : an aggregate of minority groups within a larger predominant culture 3 : the aggregate of the underdeveloped nations of the world
There's more to this story... Phoenix has been working on putting some kind of internet service called Phoenixnet built into the BIOS. It seems like the kind of thing you'd want in a dedicated web appliance, but I don't know if the two are related.
Sorry, mini is already taken.:) A mini is bigger than a micro.
Main Entry: minicomputer Function: noun Date: 1968 : a small computer that is intermediate between a microcomputer and a mainframe in size, speed, and capacity, that can support time-sharing, and that is often dedicated to a single application
Katz cannot listen to criticism. He recently wrote a three part series called "Please Die" about it. Much earlier than that, he wrote about "shut up software" in response to the feature added to slashdot to ignore articles posted by selected posters. He was by far the most often selected against. I have yet to see him reply on slashdot to any questions brought up about his stories. I have yet to see him adapt his writing to the audience based on even the most obvious complaints that are posted on slashdot.
#6 The media could already be ripped on a frame by frame basis before DeCSS. #7 Blank DVDs have the part where the key goes pre-burned with zeros to prevent copying encrypted home videos.
The Fool article talked a lot about the CCA but they didn't mention the MPAA. They are filing different lawsuits. It seems like an important detail because the MPAA is made up of all the large American movie stuidos.
Open source software treats the user like a developer. If you have the inclination to improve the software then you can. You know, "maybe you will find this useful."
Secondly, I would not say that commercial drivers are any better. Every drivers and supporting software that I have gotten with a piece of hardware did not work, and I had to get updates off the web. This includes my video card (Creative Riva TNT2 Ultra), CD ROM burning software (the Adaptec software that came with it had a major bug), motherboard (had to flash the BIOS to make the "do not wake on keyboard" setting take effect), external modem (Windows drivers AND flash the bios on the hardware), DVD decoder required several software updates before they finally got it right (crashes and bad playback. Creative again), and so on.
Now don't get me started on actual software. Every software package I have bought (dozens) has come out with bugfixes that you have to download. I wonder why they bother distributing programs on CD anymore. If you have to hit the web to finish installing your program they might as well let you download it and pay for it online.:)
So, to what standard do YOU hold open source software?
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Don't tell the moderators what to do. There is no single "moderator" as your Title seems to imply. What happens is that if you are a registered user, you are randomly selected, according to some criteria (e.g. how often you visit: not too often, not too rarely), and you get a grand total of FIVE points to use as you see fit. A point only counts as a +1 or a -1. Moderators don't set the score directly, so it takes several moderators over time to push a good post up. There is no point in posting "moderate this up!" messages. The posts will speak for themselves. They are all over the place. Maybe the message you are referring to hasn't been around long enough for several different people to moderate it up. By now, your post is obsolete and pure noise; I believe its parent is at a 4 as I write this. If you think posts are getting unfairly moderated down, then make it a point to Meta-Moderate each day.
Thank you.
(Sorry this is offtopic, I'll post at Score:1 instead of 2.)
The journalist on webmonkey asks, what if Microsoft owned Webmonkey? The question here is, is anyone afraid that slashdot will be biased toward Linux? Well duh! Slashdot is "biased." Slashdot is mostly:
pro-geek
pro-linux
pro-BSD
pro-Apache
pro-any company that does good things for Linux (IBM, Loki, etc.)
anti-any company that does anything against Linux
anti-software patents
anti-censorship
etc.
Bring on the bias! Forbid Slashdot should ever lose its soul in the name of trying to look unbiased. I'd rather have a site where the authors let their personalities show. If you don't like the bias, or at least don't like to challege that bias in the comments then you* don't belong here.
*you meaning "one" here.
If there is bias, you will hear about it in the comments, and so will everyone else. And the moderators are also the posters. The users send in potential stories, and usually their own comments are what get posted. When a top-level poster (like Roblimo) editorializes we see the bias as well. Great! Bring it on!
Ya, scooper is probably the coolest and smartest person I've had the pleasure of working for/with.
:)
PS. Hey, how's it going QP? Did you go into graduate studies at NMSU? Computer graphics by chance? Write me.
So what was this talk from the Carmack about how we should buy the Linux version of q3a to show the industry there's a market for Linux games?
My boss handed me a copy of the MSDN newsletter and it had an article called "DLL Hell." I was surprised that it gave a detailed description of all the problems with DLL's. It's probably online...L =/library/techart/DLLdanger1.htm
Ah, here ya go:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theUR
If you are using VMWare, you might as well leave it running on the local machine (for the purposes the original person wanted). (And VMWare is $300.)
Dude! You need to try this program:
:)
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
It has different benefits vs. disadvantages than citrix of course.
Here's a screenshot of what you want.
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/vinci1.gif
Oh yeah, it's GPL'd too.
I'd be curious to know if it works out for you.
Releasing source code to developers is not the same as releasing buggy binaries to end users.
I'm using IE (at work). The command "returntrue" is an error. Are the spaces getting stripped or something?
Imagine the damage that CNN troll could do with this.
Heya,
I have a wheel mouse... I just haven't found much use for it. In q3a where there is no secondary fire I use ALT for zoom view. Point taken though.
Keyboard + Mouse. Not much of a gamer are you?
Here's what I use:
Mouse down: aim/Look up
Mouse up: aim/Look down (I use reversed control because I am used to the flight-simulator way of doing thing)
Mouse left/right: Turn left/right
The crosshairs on the screen end up being like a mouse pointer, but in 360 degrees. There is simply no substitute.
Left mouse button: fire. (point click and kill interface)
Right mouse button: next weapon.
My unorthodox keyboard setup:
Left shift: Run forward
Left ctrl: Run backward
A: sidestep left
S: sidestep right
left Alt: secondary fire
space: jump
Do you actually play using a joystick?
What racism? Criticising China's government has nothing to do with race.
Read the open source definition.
http://www.opensource.org/
I always figured "third world" was after "Old World" and "New World." But then I guess they aren't disjoint sets after all.
Main Entry: Old World
Function: noun
Date: circa 1596
: the eastern hemisphere exclusive of Australia; specifically : Europe
Main Entry: New World
Function: noun
Date: 1555
: WESTERN HEMISPHERE; especially : the continental landmass of No. and So. America
Main Entry: third world
Function: noun
Usage: often capitalized T&W
Etymology: translation of French tiers monde
Date: 1963
1 : a group of nations especially in Africa and Asia not aligned with either the Communist or the non-Communist blocs
2 : an aggregate of minority groups within a larger predominant culture
3 : the aggregate of the underdeveloped nations of the world
There's more to this story...
Phoenix has been working on putting some kind of internet service called Phoenixnet built into the BIOS. It seems like the kind of thing you'd want in a dedicated web appliance, but I don't know if the two are related.
http://www.phoenix.com/phoenixnet/phoenixnet.html
Did anybody ask your fucking opinion?
Tom C.? Is that you?
Sorry, mini is already taken. :) A mini is bigger than a micro.
Main Entry: minicomputer
Function: noun
Date: 1968
: a small computer that is intermediate between a microcomputer and a mainframe in size, speed, and capacity, that can support time-sharing, and that is often dedicated to a single application
Katz cannot listen to criticism. He recently wrote a three part series called "Please Die" about it. Much earlier than that, he wrote about "shut up software" in response to the feature added to slashdot to ignore articles posted by selected posters. He was by far the most often selected against. I have yet to see him reply on slashdot to any questions brought up about his stories. I have yet to see him adapt his writing to the audience based on even the most obvious complaints that are posted on slashdot.
#6 The media could already be ripped on a frame by frame basis before DeCSS.
#7 Blank DVDs have the part where the key goes pre-burned with zeros to prevent copying encrypted home videos.
The Matrix is already out on DVD. shrugs
They tasked many employees with making sure Win2K was secure!
:P
15 or 25 people wasn't it?
The Fool article talked a lot about the CCA but they didn't mention the MPAA. They are filing different lawsuits. It seems like an important detail because the MPAA is made up of all the large American movie stuidos.
That's how Metallica got their name. A magazine was going to use that name then the band convinced them not to use it, and used it for themselves. :)
Finally a topic that matches my login. :)
:)
Open source software treats the user like a developer. If you have the inclination to improve the software then you can. You know, "maybe you will find this useful."
Secondly, I would not say that commercial drivers are any better. Every drivers and supporting software that I have gotten with a piece of hardware did not work, and I had to get updates off the web. This includes my video card (Creative Riva TNT2 Ultra), CD ROM burning software (the Adaptec software that came with it had a major bug), motherboard (had to flash the BIOS to make the "do not wake on keyboard" setting take effect), external modem (Windows drivers AND flash the bios on the hardware), DVD decoder required several software updates before they finally got it right (crashes and bad playback. Creative again), and so on.
Now don't get me started on actual software. Every software package I have bought (dozens) has come out with bugfixes that you have to download. I wonder why they bother distributing programs on CD anymore. If you have to hit the web to finish installing your program they might as well let you download it and pay for it online.
So, to what standard do YOU hold open source software?