>In the meantime, Nupedia wants to make it known
>to the world that we are here and WE NEED YOUR
>HELP.
The article is hosted on themestream, which means that the author gets money for each hit (up to $50), so if you bother to read the article, the project is supported.
So read the Article, besides learning somehting, you are supporting the a worthwhile project.
I'll leave the ethical discussion to writing an article, placing it on a pay for hit server, and having slashdot link to it to the thread below
Sun in particular, seems to want to be the Anit-Microsoft.
They would be interested in training for StarOffice, as well as their commercial offerings.
Another choice to look at would be IBM. They have been doing a lot of work with OSS of late, and might be willing to work with you.
Good luck, however, in any of your choices.
-Colin --
Reading the "thank you mommy" post as your only reply, I wanted to at least post to tell you that yes, there people who understand what you mean, but there is not much that can be done.
Rob tried implementing moderation to the system, which, although is far from perfect, does bring some worthwhile comments to the top (sadly, most are "funny" at this point). It has faults, but it helps.
In any community, there are going to be people who poo-poo it, trying to ruin it for everyone else, just because they can. It is sad, but inevitable. The choices are really to:
give up and go elsewhere
Moderate the posts
Ban offenders
or just try to live with it.
The problem with going elsewhere, is that they will follow you. witness k5, technocrat, ect. The trolls commeth. Any gathering of signifigant size and popularity will attract people who want to ruin it.
Moderating the posts brings up it's own set of problems however. Many good posts are left unread, and the collective tends to mod up those it agrees with (witness Sig11). Again, it is not easy to stop such abuses. If you make moderation too difficult (random comment at start, ect), no-one will do it. Such is the problem with a volunteer based system. Paying moderators introduces a swayed opinion of the moderators, and comes dangerously close to allowing Rob & Crew to decide what opinions are heard. They don't want this image, nor could they or anyone be trusted to do a good job.
Banning posters comes into the same idea of Slashdot Moderation dangers, but adds the difficulty of working for people behind firewalls, or on dynamic IPs. Even if accounts were required for use, it is trivial to create such an account, and abuse it.
Which brings us to what I attempt to do. Glean what information I can from the posts, and the stories, and ignore the rest. It is starting to help on USENET.. Some of the trolls are leaving, going on to other pastures, but much of the trash still, and will continue to, remain.
I'm not sure what else can really be done, save implementing some sort of address verification (snail-mail) system for accounts. You could ban on home address, but postal boxes, ect make this more difficult. It also would give slashdot a piece of information that could be viewed as invasive, dangerous, or what have you. *sighs*
But to get back to my point... Yes.. People are here. And we do care.
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I've heard the idea around here before, but what do people think about Community Censorware?
The Block list would be public, and would be optional, think MAPS and RBL type lists.
Sites could be added via contributions from the net, and (?!) voted upon for validity. Think Open Directory Project.
Is anyone else interested in such a project?
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I am by no means an expert on this subject, but why use a dedicated MPEG decoding piece of HW?
It would seem possible to use a low-end PC with a TV-out board, and SMPEG to output it out.
Maybe I am missing something? --
The other slashdot article Taco linked to was posted on Monday December 13, @08:46AM, but it still appears active.
It still has the number of posts at each score level, ect.
I would have thought it would have expired by now. --
The national vote is still very much up in the air. Right now, there are 119 electoral votes for Gore and 124 for Bush.
Many states won't close the polls for hours.
How is this wrapping up!? --
Interesting, but I think that in this context, people want to submit files, and have them hang on for a period of time. They might not have the resources, or Mojo to submit to this project, but want to have it mirrored. This is why I like the Freenet project _for this question_.
For more generic filesharing the MojoNation idea is intriguing, as I have posted in previous ; threads.
I agree, however, that MN has an interesting idea. I hope it works out for them;) --
Freenet is a project that is attempting to build a gigantic P2P over the internet. It works by hosting the files anonymously, encrypted on distributed hard drives.
Information cannot be wiped from it, because requests for the information only increase it's popularity, and thus spread it further across more hosts.
The only problem with FreeNet is that they are not, and do not intend to be a permenant storage repository for information. If no-one requests your document, it will eventully fade off of the network. --
I'm not going to pay for Napster, AND put of my collection of MP3s for share, using up my bandwith, hard driver space, and processor time, ect.
IIRC, Mojo Nation allows one to Either pay for service, or share a lot of files. This satisfies both.
If Napster could move to this sort of model, where I can continue to use it for free, as long as I share files, I would not be upset. Napster is a business, and is out to make money. This is not a bad way to go about it, and make the music companies happy at the same time --
I realize someone will say this sooner or later, but the reason to have huge framerates through parts of levels, is to have substained frame rates that are over the 72 fps.
When you go into a High Action area, such as having 200 creatures in room, all throwing off 5 rockets, the computer has a lot more work to do.
If the game usually runs at 75 fps, there is going to be a visable drop.
Let's say that the scene causes a 50 frame drop. If your 3d card were maxing out before, doing 75 fps, it will now drop visably (75-50 = 25fps), but if you have a margin, you will be safe for more scenerios (200-50=150. 150 is still safely over the threshhold) --
11 fingers?
Posted by: Some guy named Chris.
Oh...
I wish I could type with that....
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Re:Who wants to mirror?
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Mirror?!
You want to Mirror an Akamai file?
*Laughs loudly*
Akamai is the largest mirror system in the world. They move content out the the 'fringes of the internet', or, put lots of servers right near your computer. They have one of the fastest and most efficient caching and distribution services available for delievering large files over the internet..
You do not have to worry about Slashdotting Akamai!
If you are worried about them moving it, the URLs still work for the LoTR trailers Akamai has been hosting for the last few months.
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.. Yes. I believe I made this clearer in my original post. The irony was e2 was used in the post, where the more information link went to h2g2. I appologize for any confusion, or people who did not find this as amusing as I.
I admit to my lack of knowledge about Brian Eno. As the e2 link is not yet filled, might you be able to provide me with some additional information?
My searches come up with information on his music, but not much on his views of music on the internet (which is what his videos appear to be about) --
They appear to be serious. I quickly listened to a bit of some of them, and there was no obvious humor presented (but maybe the British humor is just above me:) )
The one I listened to had a member of a band discussing the place of MP3s in todays economy, and how they affect distribution, and the creation process.
From the Website:
Jim Kerr talking about:
A musician's relationship with new technology.
The future of technology.
Michael Nesmith talking about:
The differences the internet has made to the musician. Matthew Rooke talking about:
Finding music on the internet.
The financial implications of music on the web.
The quality of new digital music.
Branding models in music Brian Eno talking about:
Music today.
The definition of multi-media.
The current state of music on the internet.
The difference between music on a computer and traditional media.
Finding music on the internet.
Intellectual property and copyright issues. Peter Gabriel talking about:
The internet now.
The internet's potential for musical collaboration.
Global communities and the limitations of new technology. John Perry Barlow talking about:
The effect of new technology on the music industry.
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Hai. So Desu. Gomen-Nasi..... I meant that it was ironic that Hemos linked to Everything2, in order to explain an aspect of Hitchhiker's Guide Earth Edition. These two companies are the main players in this new market of User writeups on life. Also in this market is the startup E-Pinions --
To me, this would seem to be an issue of PR guys versus the Lawyers and Marketing.
To the PR guys, of course they like hackers. Hackers are clever and good, and slamming us in the press. If they don't get the hackers off their backs, they suffer.
To the Lawyers, the hackers are bad. They are 'violating their IP' or some such.
The management cares about making money. They must weigh if the actions that the PR guys support will cost them more than the bad press from the Lawyers, or vice versa.
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Slashdot Mirror
>In the meantime, Nupedia wants to make it known
>to the world that we are here and WE NEED YOUR
>HELP.
The article is hosted on themestream, which means that the author gets money for each hit (up to $50), so if you bother to read the article, the project is supported.
So read the Article, besides learning somehting, you are supporting the a worthwhile project.
I'll leave the ethical discussion to writing an article, placing it on a pay for hit server, and having slashdot link to it to the thread below
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Sun in particular, seems to want to be the Anit-Microsoft.
They would be interested in training for StarOffice, as well as their commercial offerings.
Another choice to look at would be IBM. They have been doing a lot of work with OSS of late, and might be willing to work with you.
Good luck, however, in any of your choices.
-Colin
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Rob tried implementing moderation to the system, which, although is far from perfect, does bring some worthwhile comments to the top (sadly, most are "funny" at this point). It has faults, but it helps.
In any community, there are going to be people who poo-poo it, trying to ruin it for everyone else, just because they can. It is sad, but inevitable. The choices are really to:
- give up and go elsewhere
- Moderate the posts
- Ban offenders
- or just try to live with it.
The problem with going elsewhere, is that they will follow you. witness k5, technocrat, ect. The trolls commeth. Any gathering of signifigant size and popularity will attract people who want to ruin it.Moderating the posts brings up it's own set of problems however. Many good posts are left unread, and the collective tends to mod up those it agrees with (witness Sig11). Again, it is not easy to stop such abuses. If you make moderation too difficult (random comment at start, ect), no-one will do it. Such is the problem with a volunteer based system. Paying moderators introduces a swayed opinion of the moderators, and comes dangerously close to allowing Rob & Crew to decide what opinions are heard. They don't want this image, nor could they or anyone be trusted to do a good job.
Banning posters comes into the same idea of Slashdot Moderation dangers, but adds the difficulty of working for people behind firewalls, or on dynamic IPs. Even if accounts were required for use, it is trivial to create such an account, and abuse it.
Which brings us to what I attempt to do. Glean what information I can from the posts, and the stories, and ignore the rest. It is starting to help on USENET.. Some of the trolls are leaving, going on to other pastures, but much of the trash still, and will continue to, remain.
I'm not sure what else can really be done, save implementing some sort of address verification (snail-mail) system for accounts. You could ban on home address, but postal boxes, ect make this more difficult. It also would give slashdot a piece of information that could be viewed as invasive, dangerous, or what have you. *sighs*
But to get back to my point... Yes.. People are here. And we do care.
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I've heard the idea around here before, but what do people think about Community Censorware? The Block list would be public, and would be optional, think MAPS and RBL type lists. Sites could be added via contributions from the net, and (?!) voted upon for validity. Think Open Directory Project. Is anyone else interested in such a project?
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I am by no means an expert on this subject, but why use a dedicated MPEG decoding piece of HW?
It would seem possible to use a low-end PC with a TV-out board, and SMPEG to output it out.
Maybe I am missing something?
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The other slashdot article Taco linked to was posted on Monday December 13, @08:46AM, but it still appears active.
It still has the number of posts at each score level, ect.
I would have thought it would have expired by now.
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The national vote is still very much up in the air. Right now, there are 119 electoral votes for Gore and 124 for Bush.
Many states won't close the polls for hours.
How is this wrapping up!?
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Interesting, but I think that in this context, people want to submit files, and have them hang on for a period of time. They might not have the resources, or Mojo to submit to this project, but want to have it mirrored. This is why I like the Freenet project _for this question_. ;)
For more generic filesharing the MojoNation idea is intriguing, as I have posted in previous ; threads.
I agree, however, that MN has an interesting idea. I hope it works out for them
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Information cannot be wiped from it, because requests for the information only increase it's popularity, and thus spread it further across more hosts.
The only problem with FreeNet is that they are not, and do not intend to be a permenant storage repository for information. If no-one requests your document, it will eventully fade off of the network.
--
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IIRC, Mojo Nation allows one to Either pay for service, or share a lot of files. This satisfies both.
If Napster could move to this sort of model, where I can continue to use it for free, as long as I share files, I would not be upset. Napster is a business, and is out to make money. This is not a bad way to go about it, and make the music companies happy at the same time
--
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I realize someone will say this sooner or later, but the reason to have huge framerates through parts of levels, is to have substained frame rates that are over the 72 fps.
When you go into a High Action area, such as having 200 creatures in room, all throwing off 5 rockets, the computer has a lot more work to do.
If the game usually runs at 75 fps, there is going to be a visable drop.
Let's say that the scene causes a 50 frame drop. If your 3d card were maxing out before, doing 75 fps, it will now drop visably (75-50 = 25fps), but if you have a margin, you will be safe for more scenerios (200-50=150. 150 is still safely over the threshhold)
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>Transmission Facilitation Device - Hands, 2. Fingers, 11
11 fingers?
Posted by: Some guy named Chris.
Oh...
I wish I could type with that....
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Mirror?! You want to Mirror an Akamai file? *Laughs loudly* Akamai is the largest mirror system in the world. They move content out the the 'fringes of the internet', or, put lots of servers right near your computer. They have one of the fastest and most efficient caching and distribution services available for delievering large files over the internet.. You do not have to worry about Slashdotting Akamai! If you are worried about them moving it, the URLs still work for the LoTR trailers Akamai has been hosting for the last few months.
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I must be reading way to much slashdot.. I read the headline, and thought
"Of course Signal 11 is no more.. He left after a big blowout with Rob..."
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"If you would like to hear a duck quack, press seven"
I wish I were making this up!
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What is meant by "full XML support"? I ¥briefly, admittedly looked over the page, but I didn't see it explained©
Wouldn't that be like saying "Full Ascii support"?
How does a programing language support a document format?
Does it have some sort of built in parser?
¥Not trolling, just curious
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- Kill: Posts about Linux Journal's naked men
- Kill: Posts flaming about the how much better perl is
- Kill: Posts about how required indentation sucks
Is there any way to better filter the slashdot comments? Maybe something could be done using Mozilla's new Formzilla?*sighs*
I miss usenet.
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I hadn't guessed it would do that©©©
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.. Yes. I believe I made this clearer in my original post. The irony was e2 was used in the post, where the more information link went to h2g2. I appologize for any confusion, or people who did not find this as amusing as I.
I admit to my lack of knowledge about Brian Eno. As the e2 link is not yet filled, might you be able to provide me with some additional information?
My searches come up with information on his music, but not much on his views of music on the internet (which is what his videos appear to be about)
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They appear to be serious. I quickly listened to a bit of some of them, and there was no obvious humor presented (but maybe the British humor is just above me :) )
The one I listened to had a member of a band discussing the place of MP3s in todays economy, and how they affect distribution, and the creation process.
From the Website:
Jim Kerr talking about:
A musician's relationship with new technology. The future of technology.
Michael Nesmith talking about:
The differences the internet has made to the musician.
Matthew Rooke talking about:
Finding music on the internet.
The financial implications of music on the web.
The quality of new digital music.
Branding models in music
Brian Eno talking about:
Music today.
The definition of multi-media.
The current state of music on the internet.
The difference between music on a computer and traditional media.
Finding music on the internet.
Intellectual property and copyright issues.
Peter Gabriel talking about:
The internet now.
The internet's potential for musical collaboration.
Global communities and the limitations of new technology.
John Perry Barlow talking about:
The effect of new technology on the music industry.
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Hai. So Desu. Gomen-Nasi.....
I meant that it was ironic that Hemos linked to Everything2, in order to explain an aspect of Hitchhiker's Guide Earth Edition. These two companies are the main players in this new market of User writeups on life. Also in this market is the startup E-Pinions
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Did anyone else find it ironic that Hemos posted a link to Everything2, the main competition HitchHikers Guide Earth Edition, where this information is hosted?
*smirks*
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To the PR guys, of course they like hackers. Hackers are clever and good, and slamming us in the press. If they don't get the hackers off their backs, they suffer.
To the Lawyers, the hackers are bad. They are 'violating their IP' or some such.
The management cares about making money. They must weigh if the actions that the PR guys support will cost them more than the bad press from the Lawyers, or vice versa.
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