I've been online for 20+ years. The cycle of online human communication is *always* the same.
* Forum (BBS / newgroup / website) provides a common ground for people to share info. / tips / opinions * Site is small as only the "geeks" use it * Site gains Momentum and goes mainstream * The crazies come out of the woodwork -- Name Calling / Ad Hominem / Trolls attack -- people keep forgetting authority needs accountability * Moderators are either
a) 45% of the time non-existent
b) 45% of the time grammar/spelling/free-thought nazis where posters need to tow the party line,
c) 4% of the time does it rarely exist there are balanced moderators who allow a difference of opinion as long as it it kept civil and intelligent
d) 1% site allows members to self-moderate * All the old members complain about "the good ole days" when the noobs / newbs / hipsters, etc. didn't drive the S/N from Signal into Noise * New site starts that promises to be "Bigger, Better, Cheaper", etc. * Old site membership is split as some members leave to check out "Awesome new site" (temporarily, others for good), * Old site lingers but never really recovers from the mass influx of growth and decay. * Rinse and Repeat ad nauseum.
What/. did innovate at the time was to allow the crapfest of usenet to be FILTERED. Reddit has mob rule when you get carpet modded into oblivion because people don't want their thinking challenged.
Newspaper used to exist because people saw the value in someone else filtering the amount of information to collect mostly signal and to present THAT to you so you didn't have to waste your time filtering the S/N.
Now to answer your question:
Why is *good* moderation so HARD?
1. Because it involves TRUST. Are you an expert? Prove it? etc.
2. The problem is that Truth is NOT only objective, but ALSO subjective. The majority fall into the fallacy of duality. "I'm right, THEREFORE you're wrong." instead of being humble and honest enough to admit. "My POV has + and -, Your POV has + and -. What *new* things can we learn from the difference and intersection of these strengths and weaknesses?"
As a Mystic I am able to see the Strengths and Weakness in *everything*. The question is NOT about simple-minded good vs evil, but about being able to have an open mind and consider ALL the possibilities: the short-term, the long-term, how the strengths of short-term thinking/action might eventually become the negative in the long-term, and vice versa, what did the negative teach us, etc. Most people are not able to communicate with clear, simple, logic free of mis-guided emotion, let analyze something to that depth.
Being passionate is fine. Be able to walk the line between Logic and Emotion -- yeah, we're all still trying to figure that one out. Especially when some noob / fanboi makes an ignorant comment and you just want to flame his ass for being a stupid git.:-)
Please mod parent down as over-rated: in the LED the blue is mostly lacking with a highlight, the green is WAY over saturated, and the red falls off sooner. Lastly it doesn't say what brand/model the LED is, nor the Incandescent.
Depends on the complexity. I use SDL2 for my indie game. Development on Linux, port to Windows and OSX. Really can't much simpler then to use a 3rd party library that Valve helps contribute to and use on Linux L4D2.
/sarcasm noobs. LOL. Always complaining about form over function.
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Javascript defaults to C's 'double' (64-bit) instead of C's 'float' (32-bit). There 3 things that makes Javascript dog slow for floating-point operations:
1) Load float64 2) Does all calculations in 64-bit precision 3) Write float64
The loading & storing are not that much more then float32.
However, most of the time an app can get away with float32 -- it doesn't need the full precision of float64. CPUs manipulate float64 slower then float32. i.e. sqrt(), trig functions, etc.
The biggest strength Javascript has is that it has no types. Its biggest weakness is that Javascript has no types which makes compilers optimizing Javascript having to guess about usage (both static analysis and dynamic analysis) instead of being able to do it strictly at compile time like a real language that has native types for int, float, etc.
Apple used to sell their OS for $20; now 10.9 and all future OS versions are free. Microsoft wants ~ $100+ for Win7/Win8. Microsoft wants $100/year for Office 365.
Will Apple is no saint, Bill Gates was responsible for Microsoft nickeling and diming customers every chance they get.
That's what one of my colleagues did. I thought he was being maybe just a little *too* much paranoid but admired that he actually did something about it a few months back (instead of just bitching about it.) Looks like he was simply being prudent !
Moving back to fan computers won't help so you can keep your ultra quiet fans. Read The Fine Article:
Q12: Won't the attack be foiled by loud fan noise, or by multitasking, or by several computers in the same room?
Usually not. The interesting acoustic signals are mostly above 10KHz, whereas typical computer fan noise and normal room noise are concentrated at lower frequencies and can thus be filtered out. In task-switching systems, different tasks can be distinguished by their different acoustic spectral signatures. Using multiple cores turns out to help the attack (by shifting down the signal frequencies). When several computers are present, they can be told apart by spatial localization, or by their different acoustic signatures (which vary with the hardware, the component temperatures, and other environmental conditions).
That's like arguing that "See! Millions eat at McDonald's that it *must* be gourmet food!"
Popularity != Quality.
iOS is a total clusterfuck of bad UI/UX design principles. Gee, let's flush everything we know about making GOOD UI right down the toilet and use a retarded flat-shading to conflate the UI S/N.
Apple *now* believes anti-skeuomorphism is the One True Way; the point of UI rules is to know when to use them AND when to break them.
Any ideology taken to an extreme is bad in the long run.
Pre-iOS7 had a very nice balance of 3D shading, photorealism, and skeuomorphism, which TOGETHER all helped the UI S/N. iOS7 tells me the UI designers don't understand the first thing about UI S/N.
As Sysadm1n said in that comments:
'And what the heck is "Unbuntu"?'
If the author can't even spell Ubuntuproperly even AFTER someone points it out( comment is dated 01/22/2010), he is probably just astroturfing / fanboi of MS.
You mean like Forensic Psychiatrists, such as Dr Park Dietz, have said that for the *20 years* of mass murders the media is partially to blame for these tragedies by drawing attention to these "anti-heroes". i.e. "Charlie Brooker's Newswipe 25/03/09" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4
If we were to put more peer pressure on shaming those news stations that glorify violence, because all they care about is profits, we would start to see some positive outcomes.
* You can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all the people all of the time * Show me your strength and I'll show you your weakness
Note: Capitalism has the same strengths and weaknesses as Open Source. Let me explains...
The strength of having diversity in "competing" open source programs is that they help feed off one another to make themselves better. Think of a little friendly healthy competition. The user in this case benefits as "vendors" try to "market" to the user by providing a solution that fits the user's needs.
Unfortunately it also leads to wasted and duplicated effort as everyone (re) struggles to re-invent the wheel. This is caused by different user requirements. The user in this case is marginalized, and/or frustrated.
There is a balance between a small program that does one thing well, and a big program that does lots of things but only adequate. This balance of S/N is extremely difficult to get right.
The "Barrier to Entry" makes it somewhat difficult for outsiders to start contributing -- code, docs, test cases, etc. So people get frustrated and start their own project. It is a vicious cycle.
Open source has the benefit that you are given the freedom to actually fix things. It is extremely empowering as a programmer that you have the source to step into when debugging. You also never have to power about money grabbing nickel-and-dime licensing issues as you do with proprietary software.
Eventually open source will be "good enough" for the masses (we're almost there!), and we'll look back on closed source software as archaic: Someone who thought more about what they could get, then what they could give to the world. If businesses were smart they would financially support open source software by sharing the burden instead of bitching about paying the Microsoft "Tax" or other extortion licensing fees.
-- If you can't duplicate the experiment it is NOT real Science!. A thought experiment is an oxymoron and teaches you nothing new that you didn't already know.
> windows 7 has a huge OEM hole that makes it effortless to crack Uh you don't even need to "crack" Win 7. Resetting the WPA garbage is trivial too; every ~30 days reboot to reset your system back to a clean un-activated copy:-)
Reboot press F8 at startup Repair Computer System Recovery Options: Keyboard: US Username/Password (you will see: Windows found on Drive ?:) Command Prompt D: reg load HKLM\MY_SYSTEM "D:\Windows\System32\config\system" reg delete HKLM\MY_SYSTEM\WPA/f reg unload HKLM\MY_SYSTEM exit Reboot
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slmgr/dli slmgr/dlv
WinXP is not that hard to find. There are MicroXP and TinyXP versions around.
Concur 100% that cracking XP is more of a PITA to find the various boot-loaders.
-- Big Bang^H^H^H^H Sham Theory, Noun: popular Pseudo-Science-Fiction theory where no experimental results can be duplicated. Can we stick to REAL scienceplease?
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Agreed. I'll answer your question in a moment ...
I've been online for 20+ years. The cycle of online human communication is *always* the same.
* Forum (BBS / newgroup / website) provides a common ground for people to share info. / tips / opinions
* Site is small as only the "geeks" use it
* Site gains Momentum and goes mainstream
* The crazies come out of the woodwork -- Name Calling / Ad Hominem / Trolls attack -- people keep forgetting authority needs accountability
* Moderators are either
a) 45% of the time non-existent
b) 45% of the time grammar/spelling/free-thought nazis where posters need to tow the party line,
c) 4% of the time does it rarely exist there are balanced moderators who allow a difference of opinion as long as it it kept civil and intelligent
d) 1% site allows members to self-moderate
* All the old members complain about "the good ole days" when the noobs / newbs / hipsters, etc. didn't drive the S/N from Signal into Noise
* New site starts that promises to be "Bigger, Better, Cheaper", etc.
* Old site membership is split as some members leave to check out "Awesome new site" (temporarily, others for good),
* Old site lingers but never really recovers from the mass influx of growth and decay.
* Rinse and Repeat ad nauseum.
What /. did innovate at the time was to allow the crapfest of usenet to be FILTERED. Reddit has mob rule when you get carpet modded into oblivion because people don't want their thinking challenged.
Newspaper used to exist because people saw the value in someone else filtering the amount of information to collect mostly signal and to present THAT to you so you didn't have to waste your time filtering the S/N.
Now to answer your question:
Why is *good* moderation so HARD?
1. Because it involves TRUST. Are you an expert? Prove it? etc.
2. The problem is that Truth is NOT only objective, but ALSO subjective. The majority fall into the fallacy of duality. "I'm right, THEREFORE you're wrong." instead of being humble and honest enough to admit. "My POV has + and -, Your POV has + and -. What *new* things can we learn from the difference and intersection of these strengths and weaknesses?"
As a Mystic I am able to see the Strengths and Weakness in *everything*. The question is NOT about simple-minded good vs evil, but about being able to have an open mind and consider ALL the possibilities: the short-term, the long-term, how the strengths of short-term thinking/action might eventually become the negative in the long-term, and vice versa, what did the negative teach us, etc. Most people are not able to communicate with clear, simple, logic free of mis-guided emotion, let analyze something to that depth.
Being passionate is fine. Be able to walk the line between Logic and Emotion -- yeah, we're all still trying to figure that one out. Especially when some noob / fanboi makes an ignorant comment and you just want to flame his ass for being a stupid git. :-)
cue oblg. xkcd ...
http://xkcd.com/591/
http://3d.xkcd.com/802/
References:
* "A Community Membership Life Cycle Model" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1006.4271.pdf
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_community
/sarcasm So you are offering to pay to replace them ? Sweet !
Please mod parent down as over-rated: in the LED the blue is mostly lacking with a highlight, the green is WAY over saturated, and the red falls off sooner. Lastly it doesn't say what brand/model the LED is, nor the Incandescent.
damit ... s / would / wouldn't
Considering luminance is measured in cd/m^2 (candela per square meter) yeah, I would trust Watts either. :-)
> is it possible to develop Linux apps in OSX?
Depends on the complexity. I use SDL2 for my indie game. Development on Linux, port to Windows and OSX. Really can't much simpler then to use a 3rd party library that Valve helps contribute to and use on Linux L4D2.
/sarcasm noobs. LOL. Always complaining about form over function.
Javascript defaults to C's 'double' (64-bit) instead of C's 'float' (32-bit). There 3 things that makes Javascript dog slow for floating-point operations:
1) Load float64
2) Does all calculations in 64-bit precision
3) Write float64
The loading & storing are not that much more then float32.
However, most of the time an app can get away with float32 -- it doesn't need the full precision of float64. CPUs manipulate float64 slower then float32. i.e. sqrt(), trig functions, etc.
The biggest strength Javascript has is that it has no types. Its biggest weakness is that Javascript has no types which makes compilers optimizing Javascript having to guess about usage (both static analysis and dynamic analysis) instead of being able to do it strictly at compile time like a real language that has native types for int, float, etc.
As opposed to you which did nothing but bitch about somebody else doing something?
They helped raised awareness which is more then what you have done.
Sure, but what were its competitors doing that changed the User Experience for the better?
Why?
Apple used to sell their OS for $20; now 10.9 and all future OS versions are free. Microsoft wants ~ $100+ for Win7/Win8. Microsoft wants $100/year for Office 365.
Will Apple is no saint, Bill Gates was responsible for Microsoft nickeling and diming customers every chance they get.
You DO realize money is just a convenient form of energy, right?
Agreed.
That's what one of my colleagues did. I thought he was being maybe just a little *too* much paranoid but admired that he actually did something about it a few months back (instead of just bitching about it.) Looks like he was simply being prudent !
Moving back to fan computers won't help so you can keep your ultra quiet fans. Read The Fine Article:
Q12: Won't the attack be foiled by loud fan noise, or by multitasking, or by several computers in the same room?
Agree 100% !
See my post up: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4572769&cid=45728379
That's like arguing that "See! Millions eat at McDonald's that it *must* be gourmet food!"
Popularity != Quality.
iOS is a total clusterfuck of bad UI/UX design principles. Gee, let's flush everything we know about making GOOD UI right down the toilet and use a retarded flat-shading to conflate the UI S/N.
Apple *now* believes anti-skeuomorphism is the One True Way; the point of UI rules is to know when to use them AND when to break them.
Any ideology taken to an extreme is bad in the long run.
Pre-iOS7 had a very nice balance of 3D shading, photorealism, and skeuomorphism, which TOGETHER all helped the UI S/N. iOS7 tells me the UI designers don't understand the first thing about UI S/N.
That just proves that English is a fucked up language.
i.e. How do you pronounce?
Bike
Spike
Sttrike
Trike
You don't say BIKE-EE.
SO why is Nike special?? It should have a diacritic over the 'e' to know that there is a extra syllable.
Reference:
http://www.scrabblefinder.com/ends-with/ike/
As Sysadm1n said in that comments:
'And what the heck is "Unbuntu"?'
If the author can't even spell Ubuntu properly even AFTER someone points it out( comment is dated 01/22/2010), he is probably just astroturfing / fanboi of MS.
--
Only Cowards Censor
You mean like Forensic Psychiatrists, such as Dr Park Dietz, have said that for the *20 years* of mass murders the media is partially to blame for these tragedies by drawing attention to these "anti-heroes".
i.e.
"Charlie Brooker's Newswipe 25/03/09"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4
If we were to put more peer pressure on shaming those news stations that glorify violence, because all they care about is profits, we would start to see some positive outcomes.
There are 2 relevant cliches:
* You can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all the people all of the time
* Show me your strength and I'll show you your weakness
Note: Capitalism has the same strengths and weaknesses as Open Source. Let me explains ...
The strength of having diversity in "competing" open source programs is that they help feed off one another to make themselves better. Think of a little friendly healthy competition. The user in this case benefits as "vendors" try to "market" to the user by providing a solution that fits the user's needs.
Unfortunately it also leads to wasted and duplicated effort as everyone (re) struggles to re-invent the wheel. This is caused by different user requirements. The user in this case is marginalized, and/or frustrated.
There is a balance between a small program that does one thing well, and a big program that does lots of things but only adequate. This balance of S/N is extremely difficult to get right.
The "Barrier to Entry" makes it somewhat difficult for outsiders to start contributing -- code, docs, test cases, etc. So people get frustrated and start their own project. It is a vicious cycle.
Open source has the benefit that you are given the freedom to actually fix things. It is extremely empowering as a programmer that you have the source to step into when debugging. You also never have to power about money grabbing nickel-and-dime licensing issues as you do with proprietary software.
Eventually open source will be "good enough" for the masses (we're almost there!), and we'll look back on closed source software as archaic: Someone who thought more about what they could get, then what they could give to the world. If businesses were smart they would financially support open source software by sharing the burden instead of bitching about paying the Microsoft "Tax" or other extortion licensing fees.
--
If you can't duplicate the experiment it is NOT real Science!.
A thought experiment is an oxymoron and teaches you nothing new that you didn't already know.
That was code for 'orgy' back in the day ;-) /ducks
He's a dick. Unable to respect someone else's opinion and finds another person's tragedy comedy.
> More likely Win7 and Win8 are much harder to pirate,
So is that why even Microsoft tells you where to download Win7 !?!?!
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/windows-7-reinstall-download-needed-after-hard/d47f2375-4501-439c-9455-51b1d240635c?msgId=c27e4378-0f7b-413b-bfd8-f653b0f253d6
e.g. Don't let the "msvista" directory name fool you; it is the real McCoy, er, Win7.
* Win7 Home Premium x86: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65732/X15-65732.iso
* Win7 Home Premium x64: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65733/X15-65733.iso
* Win7 Professional x86: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65804/X15-65804.iso
* Win7 Professional x64: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65805/X15-65805.iso
Agreed that Win7 is easy to pirate. Just google: "win7 iso" and lots of places to download the ISO.
Heck even Microsoft tells you where to download it !?!?!
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/windows-7-reinstall-download-needed-after-hard/d47f2375-4501-439c-9455-51b1d240635c?msgId=c27e4378-0f7b-413b-bfd8-f653b0f253d6
e.g. Don't let the "msvista" directory name fool you.
* Home Premium x86: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65732/X15-65732.iso
* Home Premium x64: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65733/X15-65733.iso
* Professional x86: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65804/X15-65804.iso
* Professional x64: http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-65805/X15-65805.iso
> windows 7 has a huge OEM hole that makes it effortless to crack :-)
Uh you don't even need to "crack" Win 7. Resetting the WPA garbage is trivial too; every ~30 days reboot to reset your system back to a clean un-activated copy
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WinXP is not that hard to find. There are MicroXP and TinyXP versions around.
Concur 100% that cracking XP is more of a PITA to find the various boot-loaders.
Even my Apple ][ DOS 3.3 had 30 character filenames WITH spaces in 1980.
Microsoft is always late to the party.
References:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_DOS
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Big Bang^H^H^H^H Sham Theory, Noun: popular Pseudo-Science-Fiction theory where no experimental results can be duplicated. Can we stick to REAL science please?