Actually, yes it did. It missed a week at one stage because the writer went on holiday. I was sure that the reason it hadn't updated was some sort of caching error;)
My daily comic strip refutes this statement. It successfully maintained it's amaturish appearence for all it's working life. Don't believe me? Check it out (http://pcpcomic.ucam.org/) Ha, I say to you. Ha!
To be honest, I found it fairly noticable when going out to fight Meta-whatsit. You'd try to get the door to open, and it would take a good ten seconds before it actually did.
Well, there is at least this much harm: as a parent, I want to be in charge of teaching my children what sex is all about, not some sleazeball porn auteur.
All parents seem to suggest that they would want to be in charge of teaching their children what sex is all about. Given that, it's surprising that so few of them do. They almost seem to be embarassed about it.
CloudWarrior.o. "I may be in the gutter but I look to the stars"
Let me get this straight - you think people should be prepared to accept having restricted access to the literature that underpins their culture in exchange for their very own geocities.cn?
People can already have access to their literature - you put it up as an image file. The only advantages of using text instead are that it allows you to search and edit it. Since it's classic literature, you don't need to edit it, and since there isn't a sensible way to input the characters, there wouldn't be a sensible way to search it in any case.
CloudWarrior.o. "I may be in the gutter but I look to the stars"
And there should be no code in the kernel module devoted to providing an option. That just takes up memory.
No it doesn't. This would only need a couple of #ifdef macros. They'd take up hard disk space, maybe, a couple of extra milliseconds compile time, certainly, but not memory.
Secondly, although I agree with the 'no news is good news' principle, you need some good news to make sure that the bad news can get through. [I'd be pretty worried if my computer displayed a blank screen for the minutes that it boots]. And once you have that, why not have a bit of advertisment - providing its not too verbose, there isn't a problem - we have it all the time at the moment with network drivers copyright this university, etc.
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I'm just as fustrated as you with the Alvin Maker series, but both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are both very good *self contained* novels. They just happen to be set at the same time.
Thats the trouble OSC suffers from - when he lacks a firm idea of what his plot is, he just lets the story draaaag on. With the current load of books, this doesn't seem to be the case. Yet;)
CloudWarrior.o. "I may be in the gutter but I look to the stars"
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I would berate you for giving away the plot, but plot generally implies continuation, which the teleportation certainly didn't have.
CloudWarrior.o. "I may be in the gutter but I look to the stars"
"(1) has become moot with the free license now, but many people haven't gotten the message and will just hate Qt/Troll Tech forever."
Lets say you wanted to do a Qt version of Mozilla. Then the MPL tells you that you have to allow Netscape to take any code that you write, and not to let anybody else do so. The QPL tells you that you cannot let Netscape take the code. So combining two 'free' software projects is a failure.
That is the problem with these leaching licences. It creates little islands of software, which, although you can make them bigger, you cannot join together. Thus you end up reimplementing everything.
Unfortunately all the people who admire Mozilla, Qt, et al so want their project to be 'right', that they sweep this inconvinient fact under the carpet.
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
Putty's another good client, although its not particularly configurable at the moment. CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
The problem with allowing linking from within the licences (i.e. GPL, but allowed to link to Qt) is that it raises the possibility of linking to a non-free version of Qt. If Troll Tech release a new version of Qt that sufficiently many people want to use features of, free programs will end up relying on the corporate versions. Instead, it would be a sensible idea to create a GPL derivative that specifically allowed linking to other free software. This would give the following advantages:-
a) People currently wishing to join GPLed projects A and B, which respectivly depend on Qt and Mozilla are unable to, because the exemption for Qt does not extend to Mozilla, and vice versa. This would avoid the problem, because the licence would differentiate on the grounds of the type of licence, not the specific project.
b) It would allow people to move their GPLed projects to allow them them to be linked to things like Qt without the risk of them creating problems with regard to freeness, etc.
c) Its a standard. People can check standards more easily than they can check the miriads of exemptions currently springing up.
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
Half the complaints are about people pursuing private agendas when moderating. Some sort of M2 moderation (or information collection about the original moderations) is needed for that. The other half are about posts being over-moderated (i.e. pushed to a 5 when only deserving of a 3, say).
Note that the current M2 moderation is not working for this. An article about GNOME or KDE may be insightful, but only worthy of, say, a +2. Using M2 it is impossible to critisise the bias of the person who pushed it to a +5.
Yet another moderation system:
I've elaborated on a scheme mentioned by an earlier poster using a sliding scale. Each post you wish to moderate you give a score in the -1 to +5 range. One of your moderation points is then used to push the posts score in the right direction.
In practice, lets say that a post has got scores of -1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5. To find the correct score, take the central score / pair of scores. If these contradict each other, ignore them (and all further scores). Otherwise, move the score in the right direction, moving the score minimally. (i.e. let the more extreme point move the score first)
- The main disadvantage is that you no longer get the 'insightful', 'funny', etc. comments. One solution would me to have a separate box where you can choose these, or a box where you can type in 'Excellent research' or 'unreadable' or whatever, which can be listed for anyone who's interested.
- More load server side, although admittedly only when someone moderates.
Advantages:
- It is similar enough to the existing system to let everything work as it does now.
- It is certainly no more prone to abuse than the current system. Each point is just smarter.
- It allows people to try to guide the comment to a sensible level, preventing the over-hyped humour posts.
- It makes it better for the meta-moderators - They can see where the moderator was trying to get the post to, and (with the box to type in the ideas), why the moderator thought it should go there.
- If nothing else, viewing the statistics of who gave the most number 5 moderations should be interesting:)
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
Some of the best inventions are old and still doing quite well, despite modifications: the lightbulb, the pencil, the internal combustion engine, the telephone.
I submit that the neon light, the pen, the electric motor and the mobile phone are also thriving. Just because a technology has survived does not mean that it cannot be complemented or superceded by another.
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
1) A quarter of people will say that X is a slow, bloated lumbering elephant of a program that deserves to be shot. They will blame it on the network, and ask why the networking isn't removed.
2) They will be pounced upon upon by a third who tout Xs networking capabilities as the best thing since sliced ham, and waffle inanely on about how X saved them 28 yeares of work in their last job. They will carefully ignore the speed issue.
3) Another sixth will enguage in a discussion of why 'mY X $3r\/3R c@n'7 d1spl@y f0n7z. 1t $ux.' and ignore everyone carefully trying to explain it to them.
4) Another sixth will hold private flame wars about Qt/GTK, E/WM/BB, MS/Lin/BSD, vi/emacs, God/World, Tellytubbies/Pingu, flames/discussion
5) The remainder will try to persuade you to look at Y or Berlin. They will be ignored as they are clearly trolls.
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, yes it did. It missed a week at one stage because the writer went on holiday. I was sure that the reason it hadn't updated was some sort of caching error ;)
My daily comic strip refutes this statement. It successfully maintained it's amaturish appearence for all it's working life. Don't believe me? Check it out (http://pcpcomic.ucam.org/) Ha, I say to you. Ha!
To be honest, I found it fairly noticable when going out to fight Meta-whatsit. You'd try to get the door to open, and it would take a good ten seconds before it actually did.
But still better than a loading screen.
Ah, yes. Zeus. The webserver built to serve porn fast.
Sadly, this experiment failed...
Then you'll immediately have recognised that platforms nine and ten were filmed on platforms four and five, won't you?
All parents seem to suggest that they would want to be in charge of teaching their children what sex is all about. Given that, it's surprising that so few of them do. They almost seem to be embarassed about it.
CloudWarrior
CloudWarrior
OK - run the fragments through gzip then, if it makes you feel better.
.o. "I may be in the gutter but I look to the stars"
CloudWarrior
More because I'm bored than because I actually believe anyone will follow the link, read my magnificent comic - Pete the Carnivorous Plant.
.o. "I may be in the gutter but I look to the stars"
I thank you.
Nah, on second thoughts, sluggy is much better. Go there.
CloudWarrior
And there should be no code in the kernel module devoted to providing an option. That just takes up memory.
.o. "I may be in the gutter but I look to the stars"
No it doesn't. This would only need a couple of #ifdef macros. They'd take up hard disk space, maybe, a couple of extra milliseconds compile time, certainly, but not memory.
Secondly, although I agree with the 'no news is good news' principle, you need some good news to make sure that the bad news can get through. [I'd be pretty worried if my computer displayed a blank screen for the minutes that it boots]. And once you have that, why not have a bit of advertisment - providing its not too verbose, there isn't a problem - we have it all the time at the moment with network drivers copyright this university, etc.
CloudWarrior
I'm just as fustrated as you with the Alvin Maker series, but both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are both very good *self contained* novels. They just happen to be set at the same time.
;)
.o. "I may be in the gutter but I look to the stars"
Thats the trouble OSC suffers from - when he lacks a firm idea of what his plot is, he just lets the story draaaag on. With the current load of books, this doesn't seem to be the case. Yet
CloudWarrior
I would berate you for giving away the plot, but plot generally implies continuation, which the teleportation certainly didn't have.
.o. "I may be in the gutter but I look to the stars"
CloudWarrior
"(1) has become moot with the free license now, but many people haven't gotten the message and will just hate Qt/Troll Tech forever."
Lets say you wanted to do a Qt version of Mozilla. Then the MPL tells you that you have to allow Netscape to take any code that you write, and not to let anybody else do so. The QPL tells you that you cannot let Netscape take the code. So combining two 'free' software projects is a failure.
That is the problem with these leaching licences. It creates little islands of software, which, although you can make them bigger, you cannot join together. Thus you end up reimplementing everything.
Unfortunately all the people who admire Mozilla, Qt, et al so want their project to be 'right', that they sweep this inconvinient fact under the carpet.
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
Putty's another good client, although its not particularly configurable at the moment.
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
The problem with allowing linking from within the licences (i.e. GPL, but allowed to link to Qt) is that it raises the possibility of linking to a non-free version of Qt. If Troll Tech release a new version of Qt that sufficiently many people want to use features of, free programs will end up relying on the corporate versions. Instead, it would be a sensible idea to create a GPL derivative that specifically allowed linking to other free software. This would give the following advantages:-
a) People currently wishing to join GPLed projects A and B, which respectivly depend on Qt and Mozilla are unable to, because the exemption for Qt does not extend to Mozilla, and vice versa. This would avoid the problem, because the licence would differentiate on the grounds of the type of licence, not the specific project.
b) It would allow people to move their GPLed projects to allow them them to be linked to things like Qt without the risk of them creating problems with regard to freeness, etc.
c) Its a standard. People can check standards more easily than they can check the miriads of exemptions currently springing up.
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
Of course, the obvious thing to go would be to change the name of the project :)
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
The problem:
:)
Half the complaints are about people pursuing private agendas when moderating. Some sort of M2 moderation (or information collection about the original moderations) is needed for that. The other half are about posts being over-moderated (i.e. pushed to a 5 when only deserving of a 3, say).
Note that the current M2 moderation is not working for this. An article about GNOME or KDE may be insightful, but only worthy of, say, a +2. Using M2 it is impossible to critisise the bias of the person who pushed it to a +5.
Yet another moderation system:
I've elaborated on a scheme mentioned by an earlier poster using a sliding scale. Each post you wish to moderate you give a score in the -1 to +5 range. One of your moderation points is then used to push the posts score in the right direction.
In practice, lets say that a post has got scores of -1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5. To find the correct score, take the central score / pair of scores. If these contradict each other, ignore them (and all further scores). Otherwise, move the score in the right direction, moving the score minimally. (i.e. let the more extreme point move the score first)
In this example we would have
Score:1 -1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5
Score:2 -1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5
Score:3 -1, 2, 4, 5
Score:3 -1, 5
Score:3
Disadvantages:
- The main disadvantage is that you no longer get the 'insightful', 'funny', etc. comments. One solution would me to have a separate box where you can choose these, or a box where you can type in 'Excellent research' or 'unreadable' or whatever, which can be listed for anyone who's interested.
- More load server side, although admittedly only when someone moderates.
Advantages:
- It is similar enough to the existing system to let everything work as it does now.
- It is certainly no more prone to abuse than the current system. Each point is just smarter.
- It allows people to try to guide the comment to a sensible level, preventing the over-hyped humour posts.
- It makes it better for the meta-moderators - They can see where the moderator was trying to get the post to, and (with the box to type in the ideas), why the moderator thought it should go there.
- If nothing else, viewing the statistics of who gave the most number 5 moderations should be interesting
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
Some of the best inventions are old and still doing quite well, despite modifications: the lightbulb, the pencil, the internal combustion engine, the telephone.
I submit that the neon light, the pen, the electric motor and the mobile phone are also thriving. Just because a technology has survived does not mean that it cannot be complemented or superceded by another.
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"
Summary of this topic :
1) A quarter of people will say that X is a slow, bloated lumbering elephant of a program that deserves to be shot. They will blame it on the network, and ask why the networking isn't removed.
2) They will be pounced upon upon by a third who tout Xs networking capabilities as the best thing since sliced ham, and waffle inanely on about how X saved them 28 yeares of work in their last job. They will carefully ignore the speed issue.
3) Another sixth will enguage in a discussion of why 'mY X $3r\/3R c@n'7 d1spl@y f0n7z. 1t $ux.' and ignore everyone carefully trying to explain it to them.
4) Another sixth will hold private flame wars about Qt/GTK, E/WM/BB, MS/Lin/BSD, vi/emacs, God/World, Tellytubbies/Pingu, flames/discussion
5) The remainder will try to persuade you to look at Y or Berlin. They will be ignored as they are clearly trolls.
CloudWarrior . "I may be in the gutter but I'm looking to the stars"