I think magnifying glasses are more varifiable than software. I can grind my own lens but I can't write a program that verifies another piece of software is correct, perhaps you can?
"You do of course realize that the chairman of the FCC in 2004 had been appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997 don't you?"
Those were the days when a president would often appoint to a position someone from the other party. That evenhandedness sure went away fast didn't it?
Any given topic is going to be of interest to a subset of the Digg community. Within that subset, if the users were eevenly split on a topic, and equally likely to digg, undigg or ignore a given comment, a comments diggs would be a random walk centered at 1 (the submitters digg).
Five or more undiggs and a comment doesn't show, at the default cut off. At that point a comment is less likely to be viewed by the community, only those that expand the comment.
This would seem to give power to the early posters, if a group acted in cencert to undigg posts they didn't like. If the desire is for the exposed posts to reflect the communities position,
On the one hand you probably want to view the 'voice of the community', assuming you respect the communities position generally, but on the other hand, 5 undiggs can be reached perty quickly, and for the post to be cut off from general ispection that soon can result in a small group with inordinant fitering power, or just a generally scewed picture of the communities position by random walk.
Anyway the gist of this rant is that if a post that has been dugg down doesn't repeatedly get dugg down over page views, it should eventually raise back into view, so more people will decide to move it up or down.
online communities will continue to increase in complexity, and I think the digg model can continue to be extended to produce interesting results.
When I drive down the street I trust that the people on the sidewalk will not suddenly leap in front of my car or I would have to drive everywhere at 5 mph.
With similar examples too numerous to mention we can confidently establish that trust has to be greater than zero for a viable existence.
The question of life then is, how much greater than zero? And when do we cut it off? etc.
"A gas can not warm the planet."
Hey dickhead, thanks for the update. I know plenty of wise asses like you. They get their knickers in a twist when people don't speak and write like mathematicians. Guess what, human language is ambiguous and people are not robots. Unless you are a complete idiot (for which admittedly there is evidence) you know damn well that they meant that methane traps 23 times the heat that co2 traps, fuck you.
Children absolutely need exposure to "computational ideas", as early as they can understand words, and they will pick up on them quickly.
On the other hand, did you know that many if not most mathematics departments in universities and colleges were among the last to adopt widespread use of pc's at school? The joke was told that they got them after the French dept.
It's because computers != computational ideas.
Children need to grab and hold onto and squeeze and sniff and hit and kick and run around dig in the mud by the creeek and look through the microscope at the creek water go to the science museum and run through the halls and play on the exibits and go to the planetarium and explore the library and go down to the tide pools and camp out at night and experience. Oh yes they should have a computer, but digital knowledge comes after experiencial knowledge and 'looking up' knowledge is a pretender if it thinks it will replace the other.
I've had good success using Access as an interface to a Postgres database. The web server runs Postgres on a unix box to service our web apps and administer the database, Business admin. functions are implemented in Access through an ODBC connection. There were a couple of tricks to get Access and Postgres to agree on a few things, but after that it has been smooth sailing.
The Republicult party, on the other hand, needs no propoganda because they are bound together in lockstep and have no need to convince their members of anything.
I like totally agree. The earth is round? No way! Germ theory of disease? Like anyone is ever going to believe that! The lights in the night sky are suns and not holes in the ceiling? Do you really believe that?
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I used to tutor math at the University, and I have to say that your approach is among the best I have heard of or tried.
That's what I learned in geometry.
Math is
- a set of propositions
- a set of ways to manipulate propositions
The game is to use the manipulations on the propositions to reach the answer.
I think magnifying glasses are more varifiable than software. I can grind my own lens but I can't write a program that verifies another piece of software is correct, perhaps you can?
I think were are talking 'punishment' here, or don't you think society has the right to punish wrong doers?
How about if drugs were legal and could be purchased at normal prices (cocaine, $35 oz) and the only people injured were the users, as it should be.
That person shot in the head was killed by the war on drugs.
How do you face your accuser when it is a piece of software?
"You do of course realize that the chairman of the FCC in 2004 had been appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997 don't you?"
Those were the days when a president would often appoint to a position someone from the other party. That evenhandedness sure went away fast didn't it?
No answers, just more perjoratives. Figures.
Why did the Republican enter the cemetary?
He didn't. He couldn't face the people he sent there, even in death, because he was a coward.
I think it ramains an interesting experiment.
Any given topic is going to be of interest to a subset of the Digg community. Within that subset, if the users were eevenly split on a topic, and equally likely to digg, undigg or ignore a given comment, a comments diggs would be a random walk centered at 1 (the submitters digg).
Five or more undiggs and a comment doesn't show, at the default cut off. At that point a comment is less likely to be viewed by the community, only those that expand the comment.
This would seem to give power to the early posters, if a group acted in cencert to undigg posts they didn't like. If the desire is for the exposed posts to reflect the communities position,
On the one hand you probably want to view the 'voice of the community', assuming you respect the communities position generally, but on the other hand, 5 undiggs can be reached perty quickly, and for the post to be cut off from general ispection that soon can result in a small group with inordinant fitering power, or just a generally scewed picture of the communities position by random walk.
Anyway the gist of this rant is that if a post that has been dugg down doesn't repeatedly get dugg down over page views, it should eventually raise back into view, so more people will decide to move it up or down.
online communities will continue to increase in complexity, and I think the digg model can continue to be extended to produce interesting results.
When I drive down the street I trust that the people on the sidewalk will not suddenly leap in front of my car or I would have to drive everywhere at 5 mph.
With similar examples too numerous to mention we can confidently establish that trust has to be greater than zero for a viable existence.
The question of life then is, how much greater than zero? And when do we cut it off? etc.
"A gas can not warm the planet." Hey dickhead, thanks for the update. I know plenty of wise asses like you. They get their knickers in a twist when people don't speak and write like mathematicians. Guess what, human language is ambiguous and people are not robots. Unless you are a complete idiot (for which admittedly there is evidence) you know damn well that they meant that methane traps 23 times the heat that co2 traps, fuck you.
And now, thanks to us, this is exactly the way Iraq is headed, and undoubtedly in alliance with Iran. See how effective meddeling is?
Wow! Drawing conclusions from observations is now irrational!
Children absolutely need exposure to "computational ideas", as early as they can understand words, and they will pick up on them quickly.
On the other hand, did you know that many if not most mathematics departments in universities and colleges were among the last to adopt widespread use of pc's at school? The joke was told that they got them after the French dept.
It's because computers != computational ideas.
Children need to grab and hold onto and squeeze and sniff and hit and kick and run around dig in the mud by the creeek and look through the microscope at the creek water go to the science museum and run through the halls and play on the exibits and go to the planetarium and explore the library and go down to the tide pools and camp out at night and experience. Oh yes they should have a computer, but digital knowledge comes after experiencial knowledge and 'looking up' knowledge is a pretender if it thinks it will replace the other.
They were turned in by a suspicious fellow Muslim, that's when the wiretapping started. Wiretapping did NOT discover this plot.
I've had good success using Access as an interface to a Postgres database. The web server runs Postgres on a unix box to service our web apps and administer the database, Business admin. functions are implemented in Access through an ODBC connection. There were a couple of tricks to get Access and Postgres to agree on a few things, but after that it has been smooth sailing.
Said in such a truely Christian way
You guys really do suffer from it, don't you? The Rpublicult party pays on several fronts to salt the news, so accuse the Democrats of it.
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
perhaps a survival method so that pain is prioritized over thirst.
Probably not, since you will die from lack of water, much less likely from pain.
Just moments ago when I accessed /. I got a completely new look!
Then when I refreshed, it was gone!
What happened?
This is called 'satire' or 'sarcasm' and has nothing to do with straw men.
The Republicult party, on the other hand, needs no propoganda because they are bound together in lockstep and have no need to convince their members of anything.
Stupidity: it's a renewable rewource!
Exactly. The world consists of both continous and discrete phenomenon and binary rep does a fine job recording and representing the discrete.
As of now, "Americans that the government is suspicious of" refers to terror suspects
I beg to differ, 'as of now' the government is quite obviously suspicious of anyone and everyone that does not agree with it.
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!
I like totally agree.
The earth is round? No way!
Germ theory of disease? Like anyone is ever going to believe that!
The lights in the night sky are suns and not holes in the ceiling? Do you really believe that?
Stupidity: it's a renewable resource!