Just because kuro5hin does it doesn't mean Slashdot needs to.
This is fellacious gibberish. It was not Damiam's suggestion that/. do as K5 does. You asked the forum whether community ranking of stories might help, and Damiam pointed out that it did indeed help at K5.
Whether or not "the community is a different model" doesn't enter into it. The issue at hand is whether or not different levels of filtering and weighing from larger or smaller pools of people improve the quality of posted stories.
If you're going to argue with somebody, at least take the time to argue the points they actually made.
I've heard they've been spitballing a similar concept in Silicon Valley, only it's called Cokeware. Seems the police are a little dodgy about it, but Steve Jobs is pleased as punch.
I can agree with the idea so far as file formats go, but codecs are another question entirely.
Car tyres are ubiquitous, but the tread patterns designed by the various manufacturers are still patented. The tread doesn't define how the tyre works, it just makes it work better -- similarly, Sorenson isn't a file format, it is a way of making the data that fits within a file format smaller.
Many people I know went on Wednesday night, and then called in sick the next day in order to catch up on their sleep. Slightly less than half of the people I personally spoke to had been honest with their bosses, saying things like: "Face it -- it's Star Wars day. It is my desssssstiny to miss work."
I work freelance, so I was able to go both on Wednesday night and then wake up Thursday afternoon and go again. Both theatres were about 80-95% full, but not sold out.
A few friends who made sure to be there on Day One for TPM told me they would be waiting a few weeks to see AotC, partly to avoid the crowds but mostly because they feared that the movie would violently suck.
Judging from the very vocal audiences I was a part of, it looks like AotC has made a pretty favourable impression, and seems to suck very little. Canadian audiences are often reluctant to make noise during movies, but the final climatic light-sabre battle in the movie drew many involuntary gasps and cheers from even the most stoic viewers.
And by the way, perhaps schools should get in the habit of accepting donations of computer parts and avoid the whole discussion.
Maybe we can have those pesky Indian kids assemble the parts into working computers. The little whipper-snappers just need to be tossed into a bag with a bunch of motherboards and mixed up a bit like Shake'n'Bake.
That's a cute creative writing exercise, and a vehicle for highlighting today's issues in Internet politics, I guess.
I don't mean to be some sort of nationalistic shit, but wouldn't most of the predicted nastiness only affect Americans?
Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if the next phase of internet growth was extra-American, so to speak. The various Open Source movements are hardly confined to the USA. (And, no matter how much clout the USA has in international affairs, it certainly isn't going to have much luck convincing every other Western nation to adopt similar freedom-stomping laws.)
Anyway, I don't want to diminish America's contributions to the birth of the internet, but, in terms of the future -- if they're going to be enforcing such restrictive laws on their citizens, maybe their day is done. And ought to be.
I thank you for your attention / je vous remercie de votre attention.
A few years ago I was a graphic design whore conjuring up speaker-support slides for corporate fun-fairs and the like. Every year our outfit handled the National Post (nee Financial Post) Environment Awards for Business, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canda.
In the 1997 or 98 show, I distinctly remember some magical gizmo winning the big award on account of its ability to eat old computers and poop out neat little cubes of separated metals and plastic-bits.
I can't seem to find anything through Google about it, but I was pretty sure the name of the company that made the award-winning gizmo was called "Shredd-Tech" or something similarly awful.
Does anyone else actually know of and/or dimly remember this environment-saving miracle machine? Maybe we could pool our pennies and buy one for India.
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Man, what a string of self-indulgent drivel!
I'm sorry to be so crude, but there's just no way to sugar-coat this. It's a meandering stream-of-consciousness jerk-off that seems designed to make the author seem thoughtful and insightful (though it backfires and makes the author seem pretentious and clumsy with words). There is no substance here.
Where is the heart of a decentralised global network? I'll tell you: it's firmly shoved up the oubliette of pseudo-intellectuals of seek to endlessly deconstruct the net using no data but their own gut feeling about the way things work.
Mercy!
It is amusing that Rogers wants there to be a one-to-one relationship between money and service, yet when the service goes down you have to fight like a rapid mink to get them to credit your acccount.
Will this sort of bandwidth:money equation function both ways?
My crystal ball prediction: No.
I'm a Rogers customer, and I can assure everyone that they really are an unpleasant company to deal with. But -- at least in my neighbourhood -- the connectivity itself rocks.
However, they're currently charging approx. US$ 30/month for unlimited bandwidth. They're talking about making the highest tier pay around US$ 50/month. That's still stinking cheap!
I'll pay that, as long as the service is there.
I would also love the free ride to continue. I would also like it if they couldn't do dastardly things like changing their TOS on the fly. I would also like a pony.
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Yes, but more in the informal sense of "polished off" than other definitions of polish.
You mean other definitions of "polish" like this?
I like your creative combination of fellatios and fallacious, though. A false statement that orally stimulates the male genitals...
;)
Isn't that largely the raison d'etre of superblogs? Lots of mostly male geeks spouting falsehoods in order to make their gonads feel better?
Just because kuro5hin does it doesn't mean Slashdot needs to.
/. do as K5 does. You asked the forum whether community ranking of stories might help, and Damiam pointed out that it did indeed help at K5.
This is fellacious gibberish. It was not Damiam's suggestion that
Whether or not "the community is a different model" doesn't enter into it. The issue at hand is whether or not different levels of filtering and weighing from larger or smaller pools of people improve the quality of posted stories.
If you're going to argue with somebody, at least take the time to argue the points they actually made.
I've heard they've been spitballing a similar concept in Silicon Valley, only it's called Cokeware. Seems the police are a little dodgy about it, but Steve Jobs is pleased as punch.
I can agree with the idea so far as file formats go, but codecs are another question entirely.
Car tyres are ubiquitous, but the tread patterns designed by the various manufacturers are still patented. The tread doesn't define how the tyre works, it just makes it work better -- similarly, Sorenson isn't a file format, it is a way of making the data that fits within a file format smaller.
"Power", "Play" and "Pay"
Many people I know went on Wednesday night, and then called in sick the next day in order to catch up on their sleep. Slightly less than half of the people I personally spoke to had been honest with their bosses, saying things like: "Face it -- it's Star Wars day. It is my desssssstiny to miss work."
I work freelance, so I was able to go both on Wednesday night and then wake up Thursday afternoon and go again. Both theatres were about 80-95% full, but not sold out.
A few friends who made sure to be there on Day One for TPM told me they would be waiting a few weeks to see AotC, partly to avoid the crowds but mostly because they feared that the movie would violently suck.
Judging from the very vocal audiences I was a part of, it looks like AotC has made a pretty favourable impression, and seems to suck very little. Canadian audiences are often reluctant to make noise during movies, but the final climatic light-sabre battle in the movie drew many involuntary gasps and cheers from even the most stoic viewers.
"Die, Jedi dogs!" -C3P0
It's not because we think our way is wrong or right. It's because it would cost a lot of money to change all the road signs in america.
That is hilarious.
You just keep telling yourself that.
"World's Richest Nation's Metric Efforts Stymied by Crushing Road Sign Debt"
Ha Ha Ha Ha!
And by the way, perhaps schools should get in the habit of accepting donations of computer parts and avoid the whole discussion.
Maybe we can have those pesky Indian kids assemble the parts into working computers. The little whipper-snappers just need to be tossed into a bag with a bunch of motherboards and mixed up a bit like Shake'n'Bake.
I heard the kids rendered their food with Maya.
That's a cute creative writing exercise, and a vehicle for highlighting today's issues in Internet politics, I guess. I don't mean to be some sort of nationalistic shit, but wouldn't most of the predicted nastiness only affect Americans? Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if the next phase of internet growth was extra-American, so to speak. The various Open Source movements are hardly confined to the USA. (And, no matter how much clout the USA has in international affairs, it certainly isn't going to have much luck convincing every other Western nation to adopt similar freedom-stomping laws.) Anyway, I don't want to diminish America's contributions to the birth of the internet, but, in terms of the future -- if they're going to be enforcing such restrictive laws on their citizens, maybe their day is done. And ought to be. I thank you for your attention / je vous remercie de votre attention.
Am I missing the point of a really incisive comment or is this just some sort of modern poetry?
A few years ago I was a graphic design whore conjuring up speaker-support slides for corporate fun-fairs and the like. Every year our outfit handled the National Post (nee Financial Post) Environment Awards for Business, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canda. In the 1997 or 98 show, I distinctly remember some magical gizmo winning the big award on account of its ability to eat old computers and poop out neat little cubes of separated metals and plastic-bits. I can't seem to find anything through Google about it, but I was pretty sure the name of the company that made the award-winning gizmo was called "Shredd-Tech" or something similarly awful. Does anyone else actually know of and/or dimly remember this environment-saving miracle machine? Maybe we could pool our pennies and buy one for India.
Man, what a string of self-indulgent drivel! I'm sorry to be so crude, but there's just no way to sugar-coat this. It's a meandering stream-of-consciousness jerk-off that seems designed to make the author seem thoughtful and insightful (though it backfires and makes the author seem pretentious and clumsy with words). There is no substance here. Where is the heart of a decentralised global network? I'll tell you: it's firmly shoved up the oubliette of pseudo-intellectuals of seek to endlessly deconstruct the net using no data but their own gut feeling about the way things work. Mercy!
It is amusing that Rogers wants there to be a one-to-one relationship between money and service, yet when the service goes down you have to fight like a rapid mink to get them to credit your acccount. Will this sort of bandwidth:money equation function both ways? My crystal ball prediction: No.
I'm a Rogers customer, and I can assure everyone that they really are an unpleasant company to deal with. But -- at least in my neighbourhood -- the connectivity itself rocks.
However, they're currently charging approx. US$ 30/month for unlimited bandwidth. They're talking about making the highest tier pay around US$ 50/month. That's still stinking cheap!
I'll pay that, as long as the service is there.
I would also love the free ride to continue. I would also like it if they couldn't do dastardly things like changing their TOS on the fly. I would also like a pony.