If you mean intentional spam, then it's not the second by far (usenet spam or instant-message spam came first).
If you mean unintentional spam, then you're misusing the word. You can more or less avoid bloggers you dislike, because unlike real spammers, they aren't single-mindedly trying to insert themselves into as many inboxes and search results as they possibly can.
I can understand that if you don't think it's cool, that your initial impression might be that this is a Slashvertisement. But I think it's established that it has somewhat wide appeal (not necessarily practical appeal, I don't know how many of these people linking to it are actually forking over the $2000 for one, but they still like to drool). At the very least, it's unlikely that Taco had to receive money to post this.
It's something that's been widely covered in the tech press, so it's reasonable to assume that people know what it's basically about. But here's a quick summary:
QWERTY keyboard
touch screen
runs a full version of Windows XP
20GB hard drive
256MB DDR RAM
1GHz processor
built-in Bluetooth and WiFi
3D-accelerated 1280 x 1024 VGA video output
very small size (4.9 x 3.4 x.9-inches), about the size of an iPod or PDA (scroll down for pictures)
Slashdot stories about iPods link directly to Apple's website. Yet nobody thinks those are slashvertisements.
What's the difference between a cool link and a slashvertisement?
It's whether or not people think it's actually cool (eg. the same thing that makes it show up on Digg, and BoingBoing, and Engadget, etc etc). And this device is cool. CmdrTaco says he wants one. I would want one (if I earned $150k+). Apparently you didn't really RTFA, because it is quite cool (engadget has covered it hundreds of times, for instance).
Well, after your attempts to make up a lawyer, I don't know whether to believe you that you have a job. But it would be interesting to know if your job(s) are going well for you.
Granted, some <=20v bricks transport electricity for several feet (especially things like laptop bricks), but I think they usually have a final power supply in the chasis itself, so that the voltage drop over the thin wire is basically inconsequential. The PSU inside the chasis is going to need some voltage overhead that it lops off anyway, so as long as you have a sufficient voltage overhead (or it's a boost converter), everything works out fine.
But maybe the same kind of laptop-brick PSU arragenment would work for racks... eg. have a couple slots for the larger/hotter 120 => 20v converters, and then have the standard laptop 20v => ATX converter in each individual unit.
Oh really? Ever consider that others feel the same??
You live with your parent(s). That's useful information for others to know.
I don't know if THAT's the truth, or not, OR how you could do THAT without my authorization... but I don't appreciate that either.
Of course it's the truth. I have no need to spin an increasingly bizarre alternate versions of reality. On this page, click on "view details", and you can see the various kinds of reports that anyone can buy. For the criminal background check, I ordered from someone else because they were cheaper.
I don't live with my parents, nor do I have any criminal background, so there's no need for you to spend money on that (though I do have two major vehicle accidents [1][2]). My address isn't too hard to figure out, since I have various domains registered.
You're free to put any info about me up on your website, I suppose. But most people don't care about me. On the other hand, I have quite a few people stopping by my APK page, mostly by way of various Google searches.
In terms of your pot/kettle/black comment, yes, I agree that we're somewhat alike. As I said, that's most of the reason that I'm still talking to you and haven't grown completely bored yet.
If you're NOT bothered by facts? When then, did you remove the page about you 'diagnosing yourself' with ADD then??
Because it's personal information. I also don't usually want my social security number, bank account numbers and PINs, etc. posted on the internet, even though they're facts.
I didn't diagnose myself with ADD. Multiple doctors have. I wasn't completely convinced that ADD fully explained the sound- and touch-sensitivity issues I have, but a kindergarten teacher who's a friend and who deals with ADD kids constantly, reassured me that the medical diagnosis was accurate.
Why are you trying to tell me how to write, what makes you the 'authority' here on THAT note? Please - show me the PhD in English you have, ok? Show us ALL that!
1) I'm not an authority. Simple, basic, statistics are. I'll get you the histogram in a day or two, depending on how boring work is today. 2) I'd like to converse with you, but it's very difficult, especially when you embed the questions you actually want answered deep inside a mass of text. 3) You'll be able to converse with other posters much more effictively also.
More to the point, I'm a bit of a social outcast myself. I'm becoming less so over time. I've recognized a lot of un-useful quirks in my behavior that were easy to change, and helped me fit in with others much more. I see a few things in your posts that, if changed slightly, would make you fit in with other people much better. I promise you that part of my feelings are benevolent (but don't promise that I will always be benevolent on the whole, because annoyance sometimes takes over).
Constant insults, references to ADD, etc. These aren't part of a conducive, normal conversation. The only way anyone can have a normal conversation with you is to ignore this background noise. (this isn't just me talking... examine all your threads from the past... people might respond to this stuff when they first meet you, but quickly realize it's pointless, that you're not going to change, and they start only responding to the more coherent parts of your posts, if they continue talking at all.)
The reason I bring some of these things up about you, is because there are things about your posts that are clearly (in a statistical sense) very much outside the range of normal posts. Most aren't terminal, and can be accomodated for (but are things you might want to note). A few ARE terminal (like your post length, there's no way you can ever expect anyone to respond to several posts a day that are each several pages long), and those I'm suggesting you correct, so that we can actually have a conversation.
Though it's probably useless... no matter what, you're never going to want anyone to suggest that technical ideas you have might be slightly incorrect. That's one part of you that I haven't been able to figure out yet. You're obviously scientific-minded, and have some skill. Yet, you steadfastly want to never change your opinions once someone discusses alternative theories with you. I don't know how you've gained techincal skills, when you approach things, steadfastly thinking that everything you know is 100% correct. That doesn't seem conducive to gaining technical skills.
I mean, lol, WHY ELSE THEN, DID YOU STARTUP WITH ME (yet again) after you said you'd stop then right there in that URL above?
I'm not avoiding any questions. Check everyone's responses to you. Did they ever respond to all your points, or do they always skip things? Most likely they respond to the top parts and the bottom parts, if anything (psychology experiments show that we remember the first part and last part of a list the best).
If you're read my post, you won't find a promise anywhere. I specifically say "my perception is that the discussion goes downhill quickly if anything is said that you don't agree with". I'm extremely leery to discuss anything remotely technical, because technical things are 100% true or 100% false, but you don't seem to care. You still cling to an idea once someone challenges you on it, because you don't like being challenged. Even on these nontechnical issues, even once I show you a histogram of post length, you're still going to make it about me personally. With your personality and temper, it's really pretty tough to discuss things with you.
I've learned to ignore the background noise of the constant negative gibberish you write, and focus on the new stuff, but it's still very difficult to discuss things with you.
Always suprised me on these new pizza box servers that I can't buy a pizza box PSU or two and save space enough in the main box for an extra CPU or two.
I think it's a basic issue of amperage and voltage drop?
You take the same wattage of power, coming in over 120v, and output it at various voltages under 12v, and your cables coming out end up being pretty large if you need to go 4+ feet. Cable size and weight varies with amps, not with volts or watts, so for the same wattage, lowering the voltage makes the cable size grow, so it's more efficient to transport electricity around at >=120 volts rather than <=12 volts.
There might be more details like the PSU not being able to respond to spikes in current draw fast enough because of characteristics of the line too, but I bet the cable size/weight is the biggest part of it.
nope, it's 1886 (though many conventions followed, I'm not sure which one the automatic copyright came in on... I thought 1886 sounded weird though, I didn't think automatic copyright had been around that long)
And further, why should anyone have to? You should have to go out of your way to say "THIS IS MY WORK - IT HAS THESE CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS ON IT"
For what it's worth, this is line with modern Copyright law. Starting in 1886 (due the Berne Convention), copyrights were automatic. It's not specific to P2P programs... if you post something on the web, or write it in a letter, you have to go out of your way to say "this is in the public domain" or "this is free for non-commercial use".
Granted, the internet made it slightly more prevalent of a situation. Copyrights have long been automatic for any expression secured in a fixed medium(eg. sheet music is copyrighted, simply singing a new tune isn't). And since practically everything on the internet is a fixed expression, it's all automatically copyrighted, which is somewhat different from the situation from before.
Still, even before, if you were a garage band, and someone taped a performance, no matter how informal the performance was, the work was still automatically copyrighted.
Get rid of the illusions/delusions already (since I know you're not able to speak for everyone here, most people don't have 'ADD' as you admittedly really do, & thus you have trouble with longer postings)...
Your posts are hugely abnormally longer than anyone else's. Nobody replies to a two-sentence post with a 40-sentence post. If you really don't believe me, I can do the work required to calculate a histogram for you, but it really should be obvious without that.
As many as 10% of boys have ADD, it's not a major debilitating problem. You're free to complain about it if you really enjoy doing that, but since ADD's impact is fairly minimal, it's kind of pointless.
Monorails seem to be used in elevated minimum-footprint applications? Like the Tokyo/Odaiba monorail, and I think there's one at the Expo 2005 in Aichi. Their main benefit isn't speed, it's more for compactness (and for tourists too, yeah, it does seem to be a bit of a gimmick).
To those who would look down on The Santorum, I would say to them: this is valuable sex education. You should always use lube when playing around back there, otherwise a medically dangerous situation could occur. If you're not promoting The Santorum, you're promoting unsafe sex.
Okay, so do you agree that I have much more experience posting here? And then will you pay attention to my suggestions that people don't read comments as long as yours? (heck, just look at how many +3 moderations I've gotten from 1- and 2-sentence posts)
Hrm. I wonder why it is that 95% of people log in to comment, and yet don't fear harassment? Perhaps it's the content of your specific messages, and not the actions of any other person, that is the difference?
Haha. Since you're counting, my user page currently shows 17 net positive moderations over the past three days. So if you want to allege that moderations are a value of worth, then 10-15 mods for over a month isn't really something you should mention.
But, like I said, mods aren't really something to base your self-worth on. Moderators have just as many failings as any other person. For instance, this comment didn't deserve +3, because it only takes 3 clicks from the main article to see the EULA, but half of the people are too lazy to do it.
There you go. If you want to do non-trollish karma whoring, that's one secret. Give them solid information, especially when it SEEMS hard to get the info, but half the time, it's super-easy, especially when you just post information you got off of wikipedia.
Well, the mods for one... they've modded me up 10-15 times
Oh, thank goodness for the holy mods. They never get things wrong. In fact, I definitely deserved every positive mod I've received, and it makes me deleriously happy every time I get one. All 435-440 times (I carefully keep count, you see).
You've got a point, I tend to be verbose (BUT, often with reason)!
No, really there is no good reason. If it's a good idea, it can be explained in a much shorter post, and it really doesn't take that much time/effort to express your ideas concisely.
If it's a really stupendously great idea that needs extensive writeup, then it doesn't deserve to be stuck deep inside a forum, it should be put on a webpage so people can Digg it. (that's a good suggestion actually... go and troll digg, it would make me happier if there were fewer trollish posts here on Slashdot)
The EULA is short and scary. In summary, his tool is designed to rid yourself of illegal files, but please back the illegal files up first (oh, and we blame the "unpredictable file sharing programs" for any damage).
1. IFPI's suppliers have developed the Software solely to perform the limited functions described in this license under these terms of use. IFPI, its national groups and its suppliers do not make any other warranties or guaranties about the Software, its operation or results, and the Software is thus provided 'AS IS' and 'WITH ALL FAULTS'.
2. ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR OTHER TERMS (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE) ARE EXCLUDED.
3. Given that the Software is provided at no charge, the downloading, installation and use of the Software is done at your own discretion and risk. Given the unpredictable behavior of some file-sharing programs, you should always retain a back up of important programs and files on your computer when installing or using software like this.
4. In no event shall IFPI, its national groups, its Software or other suppliers, or endorsing parties be liable to you or any third party for any damages, whether direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential or other damages of any kind. Consumers' statutory rights are unaffected.
5. It is your responsibility to comply with the law and the terms of this license. The user will indemnify and hold IFPI, its national groups, suppliers and endorsing parties harmless from any claim or demand, and damages and costs arising thereof, made by any third party due to or arising out of the user's violation of the law or this license.
No wonder you've given me hassles about the length of some of my postings, it makes sense now
Name me one person who's willing to read through any forum post that is several pages long. People will sometimes read through a whole New Yorker column, but won't do it for forum posts. You're right, you're free to post whatever you want. But there's no way other people are going to read the whole thing.
The "Memory Hoax" thread is still going, 14 months since it started. I don't really believe you want to be left alone.
Dude, that's not just a random song. 1) He knows how to actually play and sing, which is impressive enough, and 2) he spent enough time to do a decent recording about you. 98% of the people here couldn't do that, and if they could, wouldn't do it for some random person on the internet. Jeremy thinks you're "special", dude, admit it.
Heck, I spent $35 on background checks on you. Can't believe I did that, but whatever.
The fact that so many people have written songs about you, made petitions about you, written webpages about you, etc. indicates that there's wide agreement that you're different. It's not just me saying that.
I'm not part of some vast ars/osy conspiracy. I don't know them at all. I talked with them after seeing your somewhat different posts (this post is the first time I responded to you... I didn't know about Ars forums or Jeremy or anything at that point), googling about you, and finding they had similar sentiments. But before that post, I didn't know anything about you or them.
I don't mean to pester, sorry. It's just that I'm strangely compelled to try to figure you out, but annoyed by the fact that you view the world so differently.
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If you mean intentional spam, then it's not the second by far (usenet spam or instant-message spam came first).
If you mean unintentional spam, then you're misusing the word. You can more or less avoid bloggers you dislike, because unlike real spammers, they aren't single-mindedly trying to insert themselves into as many inboxes and search results as they possibly can.
I can understand that if you don't think it's cool, that your initial impression might be that this is a Slashvertisement. But I think it's established that it has somewhat wide appeal (not necessarily practical appeal, I don't know how many of these people linking to it are actually forking over the $2000 for one, but they still like to drool). At the very least, it's unlikely that Taco had to receive money to post this.
What's the difference between a cool link and a slashvertisement?
It's whether or not people think it's actually cool (eg. the same thing that makes it show up on Digg, and BoingBoing, and Engadget, etc etc). And this device is cool. CmdrTaco says he wants one. I would want one (if I earned $150k+). Apparently you didn't really RTFA, because it is quite cool (engadget has covered it hundreds of times, for instance).
Well, after your attempts to make up a lawyer, I don't know whether to believe you that you have a job. But it would be interesting to know if your job(s) are going well for you.
But maybe the same kind of laptop-brick PSU arragenment would work for racks... eg. have a couple slots for the larger/hotter 120 => 20v converters, and then have the standard laptop 20v => ATX converter in each individual unit.
You live with your parent(s). That's useful information for others to know.
I don't know if THAT's the truth, or not, OR how you could do THAT without my authorization... but I don't appreciate that either.
Of course it's the truth. I have no need to spin an increasingly bizarre alternate versions of reality. On this page, click on "view details", and you can see the various kinds of reports that anyone can buy. For the criminal background check, I ordered from someone else because they were cheaper.
I don't live with my parents, nor do I have any criminal background, so there's no need for you to spend money on that (though I do have two major vehicle accidents [1] [2]). My address isn't too hard to figure out, since I have various domains registered.
You're free to put any info about me up on your website, I suppose. But most people don't care about me. On the other hand, I have quite a few people stopping by my APK page, mostly by way of various Google searches.
In terms of your pot/kettle/black comment, yes, I agree that we're somewhat alike. As I said, that's most of the reason that I'm still talking to you and haven't grown completely bored yet.
If you're NOT bothered by facts? When then, did you remove the page about you 'diagnosing yourself' with ADD then??
Because it's personal information. I also don't usually want my social security number, bank account numbers and PINs, etc. posted on the internet, even though they're facts.
I didn't diagnose myself with ADD. Multiple doctors have. I wasn't completely convinced that ADD fully explained the sound- and touch-sensitivity issues I have, but a kindergarten teacher who's a friend and who deals with ADD kids constantly, reassured me that the medical diagnosis was accurate.
Why are you trying to tell me how to write, what makes you the 'authority' here on THAT note? Please - show me the PhD in English you have, ok? Show us ALL that!
1) I'm not an authority. Simple, basic, statistics are. I'll get you the histogram in a day or two, depending on how boring work is today. 2) I'd like to converse with you, but it's very difficult, especially when you embed the questions you actually want answered deep inside a mass of text. 3) You'll be able to converse with other posters much more effictively also.
More to the point, I'm a bit of a social outcast myself. I'm becoming less so over time. I've recognized a lot of un-useful quirks in my behavior that were easy to change, and helped me fit in with others much more. I see a few things in your posts that, if changed slightly, would make you fit in with other people much better. I promise you that part of my feelings are benevolent (but don't promise that I will always be benevolent on the whole, because annoyance sometimes takes over).
Constant insults, references to ADD, etc. These aren't part of a conducive, normal conversation. The only way anyone can have a normal conversation with you is to ignore this background noise. (this isn't just me talking... examine all your threads from the past... people might respond to this stuff when they first meet you, but quickly realize it's pointless, that you're not going to change, and they start only responding to the more coherent parts of your posts, if they continue talking at all.)
The reason I bring some of these things up about you, is because there are things about your posts that are clearly (in a statistical sense) very much outside the range of normal posts. Most aren't terminal, and can be accomodated for (but are things you might want to note). A few ARE terminal (like your post length, there's no way you can ever expect anyone to respond to several posts a day that are each several pages long), and those I'm suggesting you correct, so that we can actually have a conversation.
Though it's probably useless... no matter what, you're never going to want anyone to suggest that technical ideas you have might be slightly incorrect. That's one part of you that I haven't been able to figure out yet. You're obviously scientific-minded, and have some skill. Yet, you steadfastly want to never change your opinions once someone discusses alternative theories with you. I don't know how you've gained techincal skills, when you approach things, steadfastly thinking that everything you know is 100% correct. That doesn't seem conducive to gaining technical skills.
I'm not avoiding any questions. Check everyone's responses to you. Did they ever respond to all your points, or do they always skip things? Most likely they respond to the top parts and the bottom parts, if anything (psychology experiments show that we remember the first part and last part of a list the best).
If you're read my post, you won't find a promise anywhere. I specifically say "my perception is that the discussion goes downhill quickly if anything is said that you don't agree with". I'm extremely leery to discuss anything remotely technical, because technical things are 100% true or 100% false, but you don't seem to care. You still cling to an idea once someone challenges you on it, because you don't like being challenged. Even on these nontechnical issues, even once I show you a histogram of post length, you're still going to make it about me personally. With your personality and temper, it's really pretty tough to discuss things with you.
I've learned to ignore the background noise of the constant negative gibberish you write, and focus on the new stuff, but it's still very difficult to discuss things with you.
Always suprised me on these new pizza box servers that I can't buy a pizza box PSU or two and save space enough in the main box for an extra CPU or two.
I think it's a basic issue of amperage and voltage drop?
You take the same wattage of power, coming in over 120v, and output it at various voltages under 12v, and your cables coming out end up being pretty large if you need to go 4+ feet. Cable size and weight varies with amps, not with volts or watts, so for the same wattage, lowering the voltage makes the cable size grow, so it's more efficient to transport electricity around at >=120 volts rather than <=12 volts.
There might be more details like the PSU not being able to respond to spikes in current draw fast enough because of characteristics of the line too, but I bet the cable size/weight is the biggest part of it.
nope, it's 1886 (though many conventions followed, I'm not sure which one the automatic copyright came in on... I thought 1886 sounded weird though, I didn't think automatic copyright had been around that long)
Granted, the internet made it slightly more prevalent of a situation. Copyrights have long been automatic for any expression secured in a fixed medium(eg. sheet music is copyrighted, simply singing a new tune isn't). And since practically everything on the internet is a fixed expression, it's all automatically copyrighted, which is somewhat different from the situation from before.
Still, even before, if you were a garage band, and someone taped a performance, no matter how informal the performance was, the work was still automatically copyrighted.
Your posts are hugely abnormally longer than anyone else's. Nobody replies to a two-sentence post with a 40-sentence post. If you really don't believe me, I can do the work required to calculate a histogram for you, but it really should be obvious without that.
As many as 10% of boys have ADD, it's not a major debilitating problem. You're free to complain about it if you really enjoy doing that, but since ADD's impact is fairly minimal, it's kind of pointless.
Monorails seem to be used in elevated minimum-footprint applications? Like the Tokyo/Odaiba monorail, and I think there's one at the Expo 2005 in Aichi. Their main benefit isn't speed, it's more for compactness (and for tourists too, yeah, it does seem to be a bit of a gimmick).
To those who would look down on The Santorum, I would say to them: this is valuable sex education. You should always use lube when playing around back there, otherwise a medically dangerous situation could occur. If you're not promoting The Santorum, you're promoting unsafe sex.
Hrm. I wonder why it is that 95% of people log in to comment, and yet don't fear harassment? Perhaps it's the content of your specific messages, and not the actions of any other person, that is the difference?
It's left up to the reader to decide if that kind of fascism has happened here yet.
But, like I said, mods aren't really something to base your self-worth on. Moderators have just as many failings as any other person. For instance, this comment didn't deserve +3, because it only takes 3 clicks from the main article to see the EULA, but half of the people are too lazy to do it.
There you go. If you want to do non-trollish karma whoring, that's one secret. Give them solid information, especially when it SEEMS hard to get the info, but half the time, it's super-easy, especially when you just post information you got off of wikipedia.
Oh, thank goodness for the holy mods. They never get things wrong. In fact, I definitely deserved every positive mod I've received, and it makes me deleriously happy every time I get one. All 435-440 times (I carefully keep count, you see).
You've got a point, I tend to be verbose (BUT, often with reason)!
No, really there is no good reason. If it's a good idea, it can be explained in a much shorter post, and it really doesn't take that much time/effort to express your ideas concisely.
If it's a really stupendously great idea that needs extensive writeup, then it doesn't deserve to be stuck deep inside a forum, it should be put on a webpage so people can Digg it. (that's a good suggestion actually... go and troll digg, it would make me happier if there were fewer trollish posts here on Slashdot)
Name me one person who's willing to read through any forum post that is several pages long. People will sometimes read through a whole New Yorker column, but won't do it for forum posts. You're right, you're free to post whatever you want. But there's no way other people are going to read the whole thing.
Any other pages I should remove?
Dude, that's not just a random song. 1) He knows how to actually play and sing, which is impressive enough, and 2) he spent enough time to do a decent recording about you. 98% of the people here couldn't do that, and if they could, wouldn't do it for some random person on the internet. Jeremy thinks you're "special", dude, admit it.
Heck, I spent $35 on background checks on you. Can't believe I did that, but whatever.
I'm not part of some vast ars/osy conspiracy. I don't know them at all. I talked with them after seeing your somewhat different posts (this post is the first time I responded to you... I didn't know about Ars forums or Jeremy or anything at that point), googling about you, and finding they had similar sentiments. But before that post, I didn't know anything about you or them.
I don't mean to pester, sorry. It's just that I'm strangely compelled to try to figure you out, but annoyed by the fact that you view the world so differently.