I guess the misunderstanding of my comments in this thread will never end. The sad part is, what you said is the exact point I was trying to make, yet you give me hell. I give up! *throws hands in air*
You're the only non anonymous reply, so I will reply to you. I do think it was one of the worst tragedies. That is also a pretty relative statement.
Consider all the minor tragedies. You're kid breaks his arm, you're girlfriend breaks up with you and you are upset. There are so many tragedies, that anything of significance is "one of the worst." I can't believe the replies railing on me for that statement. Worse than the Halocaust, no, but it's horrible. Come on and show a little respect.
Have you no sense of respect man. These people suffered one of the greatest tragedies of all time and the physical and emotional pain will continue for many years. Nothing about 9/11 is funny. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Do you not understand the definition of profit??? Oh yeah, I get it, the question marks are necessary to get the Funny points. Soon we will be seeing posts like this:
1. Have an idea 2. Form company 3. Have revenues exceed expenditures 4. ??? 5. Profit!
Primestar dish is a little tougher to locate than a Pringles can or a floppy disk.
Will a DISH Network or DirecTV dish work? I can locate hundreds of these without walking too far. Give me a couple of nights and I can send a bulk shipment you're way for a few thousand dollars.
I'm glad you pointed out the fine print issue. I seem to remember that complaining in the past led to almost every manufacturer and retailer putting this info in the fine print. I challenge people to find a major company who doesn't disclose this info.
Legally, I don't think they have much of a case. The fine print contains the discloser that they are suing about, so it is simply ignorance on the case of the consumer not to read it.
Take this example:
The U.S. court system has issued a ruling declaring that Microsoft should be split(1) into separate companies effective immediately(2).
(1) Split means remain one company while the ruling is appealled for the rest of eternity. (2) Immediately means never, since said appeals will indefinately delay immediately.
The fine print is where all the substance is contained. Don't read it, and you don't know what you're getting.
There are drinks that are supposed to age before drinking them. Wine comes to mind. Also, I think the difference between whiskey and burbon is how long it has been aging.
Unless you have a satphone your Aunt Tilly in Burbank won't know what's become of you.
This just in: Hurricane Isabel has just taken a 90 degree turn, vertically. It has become the first hurricane to do so, leaving meteorologists baffled, and fueling the fire of those who say they could never predict weather accurately anyway.
In any case, the satellite phone network is now the one in danger. The only risk to cell towers is the miniscule chance that a satellite lands on one of them while falling from orbit.
All residents of the International Space Station have been ordered to evacuate immediately.
It's a book review for crying out loud. People like to know the specifics of what is covered, and the table of contents helps out. I find it encouraging that the chapters stick to the topic in the title. I'd probably not buy the book if there was a chapter entitled: 10. The F6 key, right between F5 and F7.
I don't have a problem with the occasional redundant comment getting mod points, as may happen with how you moderate.
My issue is with the "In Soviet Russia,...", "I, for one, welcome our new ___ overlords", etc. comments. Even if a comment is the first one of this style to appear in a post, it is still redundant because the comment has been seriously overused. I hope you're not rewarding these posts with points.
If someone repeated something that has been previously stated, but still said something meaningful, by all means, mod the post up. I'd rather read something interesting twice than some lame joke for the 100th time.
Moderators, by definition, have been around Slashdot for a certain period of time and have made a certain contribution with the quality level of their comments.
It stands to reason that in satisfying the requirements to gain the mod points, they should have been exposed to all these reduntant comments made on prior articles. If the moderators "have no clue" about these comments, then the moderation system is more seriously flawed than I initially speculated.
You can't immediately reveal you're funny comments as a troll post. You have to steal the funny points from moderators and then unveil them. Then watch as they get modded down. It makes the point that these posts are not funny that much clearer. See my journal entry on the subject.
I wouldn't really describe XCode as "optimized for the G5", because it doesn't do anything terribly CPU-intensive.
Uhhh, I was refering to the code it produces when you click the compile button. The article was about IBM's new compiler which produces G5-optimized code. So does the gcc+modifications, which apple is using underneath Xcode. I was just trying to point this out.
I was hoping, by posting this, that I could point out the complete lack of originality in Slashdot posts that get moderated funny. You see, I wrote a step-by-step plan to create one of these overly abused posts, which cleverly resembled a different overly abused post.
Lo and behold, I got moderated funny! Who woulda guessed. I am tired of seeing crap like this and I'm glad to see there are others as well, judging from the response I received.
Moderators on Slashdot encourage these "me too, me too" posts by constantly rewarding them with +1, Funny points. Pavlov would have a field day with this.
Read my other posts regarding the abysmal quality of Slashdot moderation, ranked in order of my favorites: 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Just how is this comment informative? I mean, let's think about this. I know that we all do not like spammers, but this guy is advocating the mass murder of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people. (I'm hoping he was going for funny, but my beef is with the moderator.)
I know we live in a time where it seems the answer to everything is to send in firepower. But, let's try and be a little bit more civil on Slashdot. If it's funny, mod it as such. But please don't mod posts advocating killing as informative.
As a computer engineer, I'd like to think that I know what a square wave is. My eletrical engineering buddies, however, like to think I'm an idiot for thinking so. They are always yapping about an infinite number of sinusoidal waves, blah, blah, blah...
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I guess the misunderstanding of my comments in this thread will never end. The sad part is, what you said is the exact point I was trying to make, yet you give me hell. I give up! *throws hands in air*
You're the only non anonymous reply, so I will reply to you. I do think it was one of the worst tragedies. That is also a pretty relative statement.
Consider all the minor tragedies. You're kid breaks his arm, you're girlfriend breaks up with you and you are upset. There are so many tragedies, that anything of significance is "one of the worst." I can't believe the replies railing on me for that statement. Worse than the Halocaust, no, but it's horrible. Come on and show a little respect.
Have you no sense of respect man. These people suffered one of the greatest tragedies of all time and the physical and emotional pain will continue for many years. Nothing about 9/11 is funny. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Oh well, I guess the kids can just use modems over the VoIP lines.
Yep, they can also use rabbit ears to pick up television even though cable is supplied for free.
Do you not understand the definition of profit??? Oh yeah, I get it, the question marks are necessary to get the Funny points. Soon we will be seeing posts like this:
1. Have an idea
2. Form company
3. Have revenues exceed expenditures
4. ???
5. Profit!
Come on now.
As soon as this is lifted, I'm gonna get a comment modded up to +5 and then change my signature to the entire text of War & Peace.
I can't wait to force everyone to hold the down widget on their scroll bar for hours just to read the comments below mine.
Primestar dish is a little tougher to locate than a Pringles can or a floppy disk.
Will a DISH Network or DirecTV dish work? I can locate hundreds of these without walking too far. Give me a couple of nights and I can send a bulk shipment you're way for a few thousand dollars.
Now, where did I put my screwdriver?
I'm glad you pointed out the fine print issue. I seem to remember that complaining in the past led to almost every manufacturer and retailer putting this info in the fine print. I challenge people to find a major company who doesn't disclose this info.
Legally, I don't think they have much of a case. The fine print contains the discloser that they are suing about, so it is simply ignorance on the case of the consumer not to read it.
Take this example:
The U.S. court system has issued a ruling declaring that Microsoft should be split(1) into separate companies effective immediately(2).
(1) Split means remain one company while the ruling is appealled for the rest of eternity.
(2) Immediately means never, since said appeals will indefinately delay immediately.
The fine print is where all the substance is contained. Don't read it, and you don't know what you're getting.
There are drinks that are supposed to age before drinking them. Wine comes to mind. Also, I think the difference between whiskey and burbon is how long it has been aging.
Unless you have a satphone your Aunt Tilly in Burbank won't know what's become of you.
This just in: Hurricane Isabel has just taken a 90 degree turn, vertically. It has become the first hurricane to do so, leaving meteorologists baffled, and fueling the fire of those who say they could never predict weather accurately anyway.
In any case, the satellite phone network is now the one in danger. The only risk to cell towers is the miniscule chance that a satellite lands on one of them while falling from orbit.
All residents of the International Space Station have been ordered to evacuate immediately.
http://www.nw.net/mars/docs/nearterm.txt
Oh man, that was great! Hand's down the best thing I have ever seen on Slashdot. If I had mod points, you'd get Insightful and Funny from me.
to ask this question?
It's a book review for crying out loud. People like to know the specifics of what is covered, and the table of contents helps out. I find it encouraging that the chapters stick to the topic in the title. I'd probably not buy the book if there was a chapter entitled: 10. The F6 key, right between F5 and F7.
Posts like these need to stop. They are incredibly annoying. See my journal entry on the subject.
I don't have a problem with the occasional redundant comment getting mod points, as may happen with how you moderate.
...", "I, for one, welcome our new ___ overlords", etc. comments. Even if a comment is the first one of this style to appear in a post, it is still redundant because the comment has been seriously overused. I hope you're not rewarding these posts with points.
My issue is with the "In Soviet Russia,
If someone repeated something that has been previously stated, but still said something meaningful, by all means, mod the post up. I'd rather read something interesting twice than some lame joke for the 100th time.
Moderators, by definition, have been around Slashdot for a certain period of time and have made a certain contribution with the quality level of their comments.
It stands to reason that in satisfying the requirements to gain the mod points, they should have been exposed to all these reduntant comments made on prior articles. If the moderators "have no clue" about these comments, then the moderation system is more seriously flawed than I initially speculated.
You can't immediately reveal you're funny comments as a troll post. You have to steal the funny points from moderators and then unveil them. Then watch as they get modded down. It makes the point that these posts are not funny that much clearer. See my journal entry on the subject.
Yeah, I'm sure most all toasters are using multiprocessor support!
They better be! I like to make at least two pieces of toast at a time.
I wouldn't really describe XCode as "optimized for the G5", because it doesn't do anything terribly CPU-intensive.
Uhhh, I was refering to the code it produces when you click the compile button. The article was about IBM's new compiler which produces G5-optimized code. So does the gcc+modifications, which apple is using underneath Xcode. I was just trying to point this out.
I was hoping, by posting this, that I could point out the complete lack of originality in Slashdot posts that get moderated funny. You see, I wrote a step-by-step plan to create one of these overly abused posts, which cleverly resembled a different overly abused post.
Lo and behold, I got moderated funny! Who woulda guessed. I am tired of seeing crap like this and I'm glad to see there are others as well, judging from the response I received.
Moderators on Slashdot encourage these "me too, me too" posts by constantly rewarding them with +1, Funny points. Pavlov would have a field day with this.
Read my other posts regarding the abysmal quality of Slashdot moderation, ranked in order of my favorites: 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Recipe for success:
1. I, for one, welcome our new [Insert Subject Here] overlords.
2. Post sentence constructed from 1. to Slashdot.
3. Profit!!!
I, for one, welcome our new Internet cruft creating overlords.
Just how is this comment informative? I mean, let's think about this. I know that we all do not like spammers, but this guy is advocating the mass murder of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people. (I'm hoping he was going for funny, but my beef is with the moderator.)
I know we live in a time where it seems the answer to everything is to send in firepower. But, let's try and be a little bit more civil on Slashdot. If it's funny, mod it as such. But please don't mod posts advocating killing as informative.
You know a situation is bad when it becomes cliche to post a list of cliches.
I, for one, welcome our incompetent moderator overlords.
Xcode, the new compiler/IDE, which is based on gcc, is also optimized for the G5.
For more information, see Apple's Xcode site.
As a computer engineer, I'd like to think that I know what a square wave is. My eletrical engineering buddies, however, like to think I'm an idiot for thinking so. They are always yapping about an infinite number of sinusoidal waves, blah, blah, blah...