I said 'in future' because, of course, there's no way to mod this one up (at 5:funny) without modding it down first, negating any benefit.
Is that in the Slash code? I don't know the details, but wouldn't other mods show up in the percentages anyway? I presumed it just capped off the value at 5 points, even if it the actual mod points were more than that, but the additional mod points would show up in the percentages. Of course, people wouldn't exactly bother modding up something that's already 5 points. Maybe replacing the points with percentages would improve the moderation system. (100% Funny) (50% Funny, %50 Insightful), for example. Each mod point would add 20%, but once a full 100% is reached, then any subsequent points would just alter the percentages. (20% Funny, 80% Unrated), (40% Funny, 60% Unrated)... (100% Funny), (83.3% Funny, 16.7% Insightful) for example.
I don't know why I'm even bothering commenting on the moderation system, though. I haven't gotten mod points in months for some reason, yet am constantly nagged to metamoderate. I think the modding should look like the metamoderating, giving random comments to mod, because the discussions just get too long to handle practically without it turning into a full-time job.
Okay, now someone click the Reply to This link and say how their bosses don't know that Slashdotting is their full time job in their cubicles...
If MBA's had been involved in Linux from the beginning, there'd be nothing to discuss. There'd be no Linux at all.
Same old story with the suits. They like to pretentiously spew so much bullshit from their gullets, like they know what they're doing in this boardroom pissing contest, that someone needs to follow them around with a shovel. They're the same suckers that automatically write checks as pavlovian responses to software obfuscatedly described with catch phrases like "scalable", "robust", and "e-commerce", and think they know better about what software to implement than the IT personnel. Lay off a huge chunk of the workforce, prematurely quit when the company is worse off than when they got involved, yet still get that seven-digit golden hand job as part of their contract. I bet Businessweek thought Enron was a good idea.
A company I used to work for had such a "foreground" for Outlook accessed via a browser. It was not so bad, it even worked in Mozilla.
The PC Laptop I had then was slow and was pretty old, so that could have been why the Outlook web interface seemed so sluggish when I came across it, even though I had a broadband connection. I assumed it required Internet Explorer because of the DHTML differences between browsers. I think it was a priority for Microsoft to gain control of the browser market to maintain control over the interface and keep people on their operating system. Netscape was starting to look too much like an alternative window manager, being able to display local directories as well as access the web.
Was it only Outlook that they had in this web-based format or did they have the rest of the Office suite? If it worked through Mozilla and it is no longer around, perhaps it is because it would enable Linux computers to run Office, which would boost the popularity of Linux, especially in corporate environments where they could have entire networks running Linux clients without having to pay Windows per-user licensing fees.
I seem to recall there are already web-based office suites available - Hyperoffice comes to mind as one...
Microsoft announced they were going to provide Office through the Internetback in 1999. I think it was called "Microsoft Office Online", but MS seems to have decided to use that name for a simple homepage about Office. I actually recall inadvertently running into a web page that was a web-based version of Outlook that ran through Internet Explorer years ago. It was sluggish, using DHTML for the GUI, although it looked identical to the desktop version.
I think Microsoft was doing this as a response to websites like HyperOffice that were cropping up at the time. I remember these sites were referred to as "Application Service Providers", although the definition of that term seems to have changed. I recall several but the sites don't seem to be up anymore. They were websites that provided a window manager within a browser. One was Desktop.com and another was Blox.com. Yahoo has a list of web-based desktop sites. There are some like GraphOn.com and WorkSpot.com that allow you to run remote desktops of actual operating systems through the web. WorkSpot seems sluggish, but Linux users might find it interesting to be able to access a Linux desktop through a Java Applet. There is a demo page that lets you try it out for 10 minutes.
Now, instead of accomplishing things, workers can have interminable interactive discussions over the most incredible minutia with their bosses.
If you thought clippy was annoying, just wait until MS Office allows your boss to pop up in a little window on the screen and interrupt whenever you're in the middle of something.
No, the effects of gravity don't move instantaneously. In general relativity, its effects propagate at the speed of light.
Have they actually done experiments to prove this, or is it all mathematical theory at the moment? I know that some pretty fascinating experiments have been done to prove physics theories, like viewing stars around a solar eclipse to prove the gravitational lens effect in Einstein's theory of relativity, and I recall something about experiments with atomic clocks at different altitudes showing a difference in time. I would be interested to know about the experiment for this.
I was taking an astronomy course in the mid 90's when it was announced that 90% of the universe's mass was missing. My professor was actually part of some astronomy organisation and he told the class there was going to be a big announcement in some press conference and although he knew, he couldn't tell us what it was about until after. Then the day after the announcement, he told us it was about this missing 90%. Kind of exciting to have been in the midst of an advance in science now that I look back on it. At that time we were taught that cosmic background radiation was evenly distributed. But I recall in the past few years that not only were there observed variations, but the pattern of these variations were able to empirically prove some of cosmology's theories that up until then were just conjecture. I think one of them was that the universe would be constantly expanding, without the big crunch, is this right? I can't seem to google an appropriate link to information about this.
I learned in an Astronomy course in the mid-90's that astronomers noticed that the universe has 10 times more mass than what is visibly detectable because of observations of movements due to gravity. I think they noticed this in relation to galaxies as well as globular clusters. The remaining 90% was dark matter, or dark matter and dark energy or something they just couldn't detect. Could this Allais effect be an alternative explanation for that missing 90%?
Okay, I don't know shit about physics except some of the real basics. But I want to blab anyway. From what I gather, they say it's supposed to be all connected. Energy is related to mass and the speed of light (E=mc^2). Mass is related to gravity, more mass more gravity (Jupiter). Mass and velocity are related to time, time slows as you approach the speed of light, mass increases. Energy moves at the speed of light. Mass is infinite for matter moving at the speed of light. And there are formulas that connect them all. Yay. I suppose the relation of mass, velocity, and the speed of light looks kind of like the graph of y=1/(x^2), where x is velocity and y is mass; x<0 are tardyons, x=0 is the speed of light, x>0 are tachyons. Okay, so I think I got that much. Now about gravity- does the effect of gravity happen instantaneously like quantum entanglement? For example, if the sun was moved, would all the planets instantly alter their orbits, or would the effect on their orbits have a delayed effect that would reach them at the speed of light because of something like gravitons? Does quantum entanglement mean that the entangled particles, at some wierd mathematically inversed level, are the same point? Someone give it to me in layman's terms so I don't get a nosebleed.
I may be wrong, but I've noticed that rebates and free add-ons always seem to pop up right before the product is about to be replaced by the next generation of said product. Whenever I see "rebate", it immediately makes me think about waiting a little longer for the newer model to be announced rather than be suckered into helping them clear stock of the older model being phased out.
That iRATE program is exactly the kind of thing I've been looking for. I'm trying it out, but it seems to be downloading really slowly. Is that normal or is it getting slashdotted? I'm on OS X.
What is a "Dutch Auction"? Does it have anything to do with dutch oven or going dutch? Or does it refer to the stock market in the Netherlands? Oh nevermind... the link finally came up.
Does anybody think that the US congress would have second thoughts concerning passing laws with the upcoming election? Or is this just a temporary victory?
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Do not ask what the grids are made of, this is the biggest part of the initial research...
What are the grids made of? ;)
Healthy corals grow quickly--up to ten times faster than normal when exposed to the Biorock Process, even in poor water conditions.
Could this possibly be used in aquariums? It would be interesting to grow corals in an accellerated rate in an aquarium.
hell, They're thinking offshoring IT will save them money!
Just curious- can stockholders vote to offshore executive jobs as well?
Cyberdyne and HAL? That's a bit twisted. That's like naming a pacemaker model "Dr. Kevorkian".
Am I the only one to see a progression from Hal-3 to the Hal-9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey?
It could have been worse. It could have been Clippy .I said 'in future' because, of course, there's no way to mod this one up (at 5:funny) without modding it down first, negating any benefit.
Is that in the Slash code? I don't know the details, but wouldn't other mods show up in the percentages anyway? I presumed it just capped off the value at 5 points, even if it the actual mod points were more than that, but the additional mod points would show up in the percentages. Of course, people wouldn't exactly bother modding up something that's already 5 points. Maybe replacing the points with percentages would improve the moderation system. (100% Funny) (50% Funny, %50 Insightful), for example. Each mod point would add 20%, but once a full 100% is reached, then any subsequent points would just alter the percentages. (20% Funny, 80% Unrated), (40% Funny, 60% Unrated)... (100% Funny), (83.3% Funny, 16.7% Insightful) for example.
I don't know why I'm even bothering commenting on the moderation system, though. I haven't gotten mod points in months for some reason, yet am constantly nagged to metamoderate. I think the modding should look like the metamoderating, giving random comments to mod, because the discussions just get too long to handle practically without it turning into a full-time job.
Okay, now someone click the Reply to This link and say how their bosses don't know that Slashdotting is their full time job in their cubicles...
If MBA's had been involved in Linux from the beginning, there'd be nothing to discuss. There'd be no Linux at all.
Same old story with the suits. They like to pretentiously spew so much bullshit from their gullets, like they know what they're doing in this boardroom pissing contest, that someone needs to follow them around with a shovel. They're the same suckers that automatically write checks as pavlovian responses to software obfuscatedly described with catch phrases like "scalable", "robust", and "e-commerce", and think they know better about what software to implement than the IT personnel. Lay off a huge chunk of the workforce, prematurely quit when the company is worse off than when they got involved, yet still get that seven-digit golden hand job as part of their contract. I bet Businessweek thought Enron was a good idea.
A company I used to work for had such a "foreground" for Outlook accessed via a browser. It was not so bad, it even worked in Mozilla.
The PC Laptop I had then was slow and was pretty old, so that could have been why the Outlook web interface seemed so sluggish when I came across it, even though I had a broadband connection. I assumed it required Internet Explorer because of the DHTML differences between browsers. I think it was a priority for Microsoft to gain control of the browser market to maintain control over the interface and keep people on their operating system. Netscape was starting to look too much like an alternative window manager, being able to display local directories as well as access the web.
Was it only Outlook that they had in this web-based format or did they have the rest of the Office suite? If it worked through Mozilla and it is no longer around, perhaps it is because it would enable Linux computers to run Office, which would boost the popularity of Linux, especially in corporate environments where they could have entire networks running Linux clients without having to pay Windows per-user licensing fees.
I seem to recall there are already web-based office suites available - Hyperoffice comes to mind as one...
Microsoft announced they were going to provide Office through the Internet back in 1999 . I think it was called "Microsoft Office Online", but MS seems to have decided to use that name for a simple homepage about Office. I actually recall inadvertently running into a web page that was a web-based version of Outlook that ran through Internet Explorer years ago. It was sluggish, using DHTML for the GUI, although it looked identical to the desktop version.
I think Microsoft was doing this as a response to websites like HyperOffice that were cropping up at the time. I remember these sites were referred to as "Application Service Providers", although the definition of that term seems to have changed. I recall several but the sites don't seem to be up anymore. They were websites that provided a window manager within a browser. One was Desktop.com and another was Blox.com. Yahoo has a list of web-based desktop sites. There are some like GraphOn.com and WorkSpot.com that allow you to run remote desktops of actual operating systems through the web. WorkSpot seems sluggish, but Linux users might find it interesting to be able to access a Linux desktop through a Java Applet. There is a demo page that lets you try it out for 10 minutes.
Now, instead of accomplishing things, workers can have interminable interactive discussions over the most incredible minutia with their bosses.
If you thought clippy was annoying, just wait until MS Office allows your boss to pop up in a little window on the screen and interrupt whenever you're in the middle of something.
It is dangerous though at certain times of the day if you live on busy streets with cars and your windows point towards them.
Not to mention everyone will think your growing an indoor hydroponic crop or running a crack house.
No, the effects of gravity don't move instantaneously. In general relativity, its effects propagate at the speed of light.
Have they actually done experiments to prove this, or is it all mathematical theory at the moment? I know that some pretty fascinating experiments have been done to prove physics theories, like viewing stars around a solar eclipse to prove the gravitational lens effect in Einstein's theory of relativity, and I recall something about experiments with atomic clocks at different altitudes showing a difference in time. I would be interested to know about the experiment for this.
I was taking an astronomy course in the mid 90's when it was announced that 90% of the universe's mass was missing. My professor was actually part of some astronomy organisation and he told the class there was going to be a big announcement in some press conference and although he knew, he couldn't tell us what it was about until after. Then the day after the announcement, he told us it was about this missing 90%. Kind of exciting to have been in the midst of an advance in science now that I look back on it. At that time we were taught that cosmic background radiation was evenly distributed. But I recall in the past few years that not only were there observed variations, but the pattern of these variations were able to empirically prove some of cosmology's theories that up until then were just conjecture. I think one of them was that the universe would be constantly expanding, without the big crunch, is this right? I can't seem to google an appropriate link to information about this.
Guess the Games have become about money too now.
They are also about the orgy that is the Olympic Village.
If it's all about the money then I say kudos to all the drug cheats.
I learned in an Astronomy course in the mid-90's that astronomers noticed that the universe has 10 times more mass than what is visibly detectable because of observations of movements due to gravity. I think they noticed this in relation to galaxies as well as globular clusters. The remaining 90% was dark matter, or dark matter and dark energy or something they just couldn't detect. Could this Allais effect be an alternative explanation for that missing 90%?
Okay, I don't know shit about physics except some of the real basics. But I want to blab anyway. From what I gather, they say it's supposed to be all connected. Energy is related to mass and the speed of light (E=mc^2). Mass is related to gravity, more mass more gravity (Jupiter). Mass and velocity are related to time, time slows as you approach the speed of light, mass increases. Energy moves at the speed of light. Mass is infinite for matter moving at the speed of light. And there are formulas that connect them all. Yay. I suppose the relation of mass, velocity, and the speed of light looks kind of like the graph of y=1/(x^2), where x is velocity and y is mass; x<0 are tardyons, x=0 is the speed of light, x>0 are tachyons. Okay, so I think I got that much. Now about gravity- does the effect of gravity happen instantaneously like quantum entanglement? For example, if the sun was moved, would all the planets instantly alter their orbits, or would the effect on their orbits have a delayed effect that would reach them at the speed of light because of something like gravitons? Does quantum entanglement mean that the entangled particles, at some wierd mathematically inversed level, are the same point? Someone give it to me in layman's terms so I don't get a nosebleed.
We are Bord. Prepare to be athimilated. Rethithtanth ith futile.
I may be wrong, but I've noticed that rebates and free add-ons always seem to pop up right before the product is about to be replaced by the next generation of said product. Whenever I see "rebate", it immediately makes me think about waiting a little longer for the newer model to be announced rather than be suckered into helping them clear stock of the older model being phased out.
Vanilla Ice?
M.C. Hammer?
That iRATE program is exactly the kind of thing I've been looking for. I'm trying it out, but it seems to be downloading really slowly. Is that normal or is it getting slashdotted? I'm on OS X.
Would they like to name one 'artist' who can't afford to eat?
Milli Vanilli?
I would blame then penguines more.
But what about Tux?
What is a "Dutch Auction"? Does it have anything to do with dutch oven or going dutch? Or does it refer to the stock market in the Netherlands? Oh nevermind... the link finally came up.
I think about the only thing to take away here is "no one fucking understands the stock market, and anyone who claims otherwise is selling something".
What is this "stock market" thing you speak of?
Does anybody think that the US congress would have second thoughts concerning passing laws with the upcoming election? Or is this just a temporary victory?
And , the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.