Well, what if someone set up a peer review system where some concept of "moderator karma" was set up?
People participating in peer review get some "posting points". People submitting papers to be reviewed get "reviewer points". The rest of the commentators can post on a Slashdot-like site for the article, but of course, no anonymous cowards. Some simple vetting of posters should be done as well (average citizen me, for example, should be able to read, but not add to, the dialog).
Someone would need to run a few scenarios to put in some limits to avoid "karma whores", trolls, etc., perhaps some sort of election process where people could be voted out of the system?
You can use left-right trees to do hierarchies quite well in SQL, and query them quite efficiently, both up and down the tree, as well as across the tree.
The main drawbacks, at least in current RDBMS, is updating the tree table as new nodes are added. Adding the nodes isn't the problem, incrementing node "pointer" values gets expensive.
Oh, and a lack of native support in SQL for them means you're writing stored procs and triggers to maintain them.
Joe Celko talks well about L-R trees in SQL in the "DBMS Magazine" archives.
...it seems like the researchers have forgotton the "simple" part of SQL.
I guess they've decided that it's time to cut off the face to spite the nose with SQL. Instead of fixing or improving SQL, they want to get rid of it, because it's not "pure enough"?
Doesn't make sense. SQL works good enough.
At least with OCL, it is almost possible to map it in my mind to something I know well.
Coming from the 80's, we were seeing the emergence of large-scale computing outside of the corporate IT center or university computing lab.
"cray" was a big deal. Disney was rumored to have used a few weeks' computing time on a Cray to render the pure CGI frames (light cycles, MCP tower, etc).
Knowing the right people (say, who had relatives who worked at Boeing Computer Services), it was supposedly possible to even smeg a Cray account...
The "Internet" barely existed. Bitnet and DECNet were more widely used, along with uucp.
The suspension of disbelief came to be by assuming someone could be "derezed" and slurped into the computer world (and spit back out later).
That some OSs do have a Master Control Program should not be lost on people, because it works like it did in Tron.
I thought it was kind of a neat abstraction, which was carried even further in "Permutation City".
What if we really exist in a Ring 1 universe simulation in some big uber-computer, and God (MCP, Ring 0, BoFH) decides to just shift the amount of timeslices being allocated to our application environment. Would we really notice without being able to access some external reference that our "universe" is "slowing" down?
If the process is kept in memory, but just "nice"'d to 0 (never gets any time slices), do we die, or just enter some state of suspended animation?
And, the social commentary in it still applies today...
...but on the other hand, GM flipped this on its ear. They had a radiator that was very nicely engineered, with smooth coolant flow throughout the radiator. Well, it didn't work worth crap.
They finally realized that the turbulent flow created a bunch of vortices in the flow that helped carry away more heat, because it increased the relative surface contact area of the water.
In certain conditions, a turbulent boundary layer increases the efficiency of flow for the entire fluid body because it sets up a nice smooth laminar flow... (think: golf balls, Lance Armstrong's time trial helmets, etc).
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Well, the odds of the cops discovering a meth lab in your neighborhood are much higher, and can have similar effects to your property value...
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Sure, the dump may say this, but once your garbage is in the garbage truck, do you think the dump is going to try and figure out which house they came from? No? OK.
The dump DOES insist that construction garbage gets handled differently, not only to deal with the mercury in fluorescent tubes, but all the other lousy crap from a remodel/demolition job and the possibilities of lead-based paints, undeclared asbestos, etc.
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So, what is your time worth? Let's say, $10/hr.
Let's assume it takes you about 5-10 minutes to get out the ladder from your garage, 5 minutes to swap out the dead incandescent bulb and replace with fluorescent, and another 5-10 minutes to put the ladder back in the garage, to do this once every 4 years instead of once every month or two seems like a fair enough tradeoff to me.
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Well, if you add in the available deskspace that a desktop LCD adds, it more than outweighs the CRT. I have an unused NCD 19" monitor sitting next to my desk (waiting for the magical day when I dump Windows and run Linux instead to host the MCX base).
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The people touting cars weren't claiming they were better for the environment.
I think the inherent benefits of not having horses shitting in the road was probably obvious to everyone.
Well, I've been to Joshua Tree Nat'l Park, and it can be smoggy enough when the wind is blowing from the west to bring in enough haze to barely see Palm Springs from Views Point, let alone the Salton Sea, etc.
On a clear day, you can see mtns in mexico from there.
On the days that the marine layer is strong, sure, it does burn off by 10am-noon, but by the time the sun is setting it is coming back in.
In a complete combustion reaction, sure, what you speak of should in theory be inert. But we're talking real-world chemistry here. Like all explosives, there will probably be unburnt residue on any remaining particles to cause said effects described.
Have you ever burned sparklers? There is left over residue on the metal stick. This is probably similar to what falls out of the air, and I will bet a large amount of money that the reactants are not fully consumed by the reaction.
Nah, we just used the old tennis ball cans that the balls came in. Tape 3 or 4 of those cans together, and you really did have a cannon, instead of a tennis ball mortar.
Well, they'll have to go after the DVD Consortium and MPAA for essentially doing what MST3K did, albeit usually in a non-comedic fashion, on every DVD that has a commentary audio track overlay.
It's just that, with the cloud cover, and the green vegetation being close enough to the blue of the oceans, I imagine at that distance, the Earth is just a big blue marble in space.
Of course, my reference point is the "earth rise" photograph from one of the Apollo missions.
How come they don't just come up with a "boot loader" process for the player that loads a codec on the disc into the player's memory, instead of burning the codecs into the ROMs of the players?
OH, I guess that would mean that the players would be hacked then. Can't have that, noooooo....
It has gotten to the point that women going into a Women's Health clinic are showered with blood, ugly pictures are shoved into their faces, their access to the clinics is made difficult or impossible by the gauntlet they have to run, etc., all based on the assumption that the woman going in is getting an abortion, instead of maybe a fetal health checkup, her periodic pelvic exam, etc.
Now, some wacko has decided that the root of the evil is the actual doctors. So he's been shooting them or sending them letter bombs.
Names of patients going to clinics to get abortions are leaked to anti-abortion groups by insiders, and some of the protesting precedes their visit to the clinic.
Patients have also been followed home, interecepted leaving their homes for the clinic (it is assumed), etc.
If you live in a small community, you probably know your election judge, or know someone who does. You might even get invited to their christmas party. They have no privacy, only differing layers of obscurity.
In fact, I bet that in various newsletters, delegates are named with adresses where they live.
It's also happened to corporate executives, movie stars, etc.
Hmm... me have company. Me decide to target advertising at people. Me get list of people I may not like. Me include people in bigger list. Me call up Experian to get some credit information, based on information I have mined from other sources. Me send out adverts. Me make FOIA requests about reported donor lists to organizations, etc., then correlate from there.
Likewise, the readers of Indymedia definately would not appreciate the fact that these men are representing something they have very strong feelings of dislike/hatred for.
Yes or no. Perhaps if you were in a position where you represented your company to the public (Public Affairs, executive/sr. management, etc), then yes. There might be concerns. If you're just a worker-bee, then no. Think of all the other weirdos you work with. Unless you directly bring bad press to the company (or really rub the owner the wrong way), you're more than likely OK.
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Well, what if someone set up a peer review system where some concept of "moderator karma" was set up?
People participating in peer review get some "posting points". People submitting papers to be reviewed get "reviewer points". The rest of the commentators can post on a Slashdot-like site for the article, but of course, no anonymous cowards. Some simple vetting of posters should be done as well (average citizen me, for example, should be able to read, but not add to, the dialog).
Someone would need to run a few scenarios to put in some limits to avoid "karma whores", trolls, etc., perhaps some sort of election process where people could be voted out of the system?
...but every family, clan, region, country, etc. is like this.
So it's a red herring.
You can use left-right trees to do hierarchies quite well in SQL, and query them quite efficiently, both up and down the tree, as well as across the tree.
The main drawbacks, at least in current RDBMS, is updating the tree table as new nodes are added. Adding the nodes isn't the problem, incrementing node "pointer" values gets expensive.
Oh, and a lack of native support in SQL for them means you're writing stored procs and triggers to maintain them.
Joe Celko talks well about L-R trees in SQL in the "DBMS Magazine" archives.
...it seems like the researchers have forgotton the "simple" part of SQL.
I guess they've decided that it's time to cut off the face to spite the nose with SQL. Instead of fixing or improving SQL, they want to get rid of it, because it's not "pure enough"?
Doesn't make sense. SQL works good enough.
At least with OCL, it is almost possible to map it in my mind to something I know well.
Coming from the 80's, we were seeing the emergence of large-scale computing outside of the corporate IT center or university computing lab.
"cray" was a big deal. Disney was rumored to have used a few weeks' computing time on a Cray to render the pure CGI frames (light cycles, MCP tower, etc).
Knowing the right people (say, who had relatives who worked at Boeing Computer Services), it was supposedly possible to even smeg a Cray account...
The "Internet" barely existed. Bitnet and DECNet were more widely used, along with uucp.
The suspension of disbelief came to be by assuming someone could be "derezed" and slurped into the computer world (and spit back out later).
That some OSs do have a Master Control Program should not be lost on people, because it works like it did in Tron.
I thought it was kind of a neat abstraction, which was carried even further in "Permutation City".
What if we really exist in a Ring 1 universe simulation in some big uber-computer, and God (MCP, Ring 0, BoFH) decides to just shift the amount of timeslices being allocated to our application environment. Would we really notice without being able to access some external reference that our "universe" is "slowing" down?
If the process is kept in memory, but just "nice"'d to 0 (never gets any time slices), do we die, or just enter some state of suspended animation?
And, the social commentary in it still applies today...
...but on the other hand, GM flipped this on its ear. They had a radiator that was very nicely engineered, with smooth coolant flow throughout the radiator. Well, it didn't work worth crap.
They finally realized that the turbulent flow created a bunch of vortices in the flow that helped carry away more heat, because it increased the relative surface contact area of the water.
In certain conditions, a turbulent boundary layer increases the efficiency of flow for the entire fluid body because it sets up a nice smooth laminar flow... (think: golf balls, Lance Armstrong's time trial helmets, etc).
Well, the odds of the cops discovering a meth lab in your neighborhood are much higher, and can have similar effects to your property value...
Sure, the dump may say this, but once your garbage is in the garbage truck, do you think the dump is going to try and figure out which house they came from? No? OK.
The dump DOES insist that construction garbage gets handled differently, not only to deal with the mercury in fluorescent tubes, but all the other lousy crap from a remodel/demolition job and the possibilities of lead-based paints, undeclared asbestos, etc.
So, what is your time worth? Let's say, $10/hr.
Let's assume it takes you about 5-10 minutes to get out the ladder from your garage, 5 minutes to swap out the dead incandescent bulb and replace with fluorescent, and another 5-10 minutes to put the ladder back in the garage, to do this once every 4 years instead of once every month or two seems like a fair enough tradeoff to me.
Well, if you add in the available deskspace that a desktop LCD adds, it more than outweighs the CRT. I have an unused NCD 19" monitor sitting next to my desk (waiting for the magical day when I dump Windows and run Linux instead to host the MCX base).
The people touting cars weren't claiming they were better for the environment.
I think the inherent benefits of not having horses shitting in the road was probably obvious to everyone.
No, didn't it take Scandinavian countries to tell the western world that there was something bad happening?
The fallout from Chernobyl will be affecting things for a LONG time.
And, there is NO WAY that 30,000 people die per year from coal mining accidents.
Isn't a [slim] majority of the oil and natural gas imported into the US converted into plastics and other petrochemicals?
Where will we get our polarfleece and beenie-baby stuffing from without oil?
Yes, but get outside of the cities, and you'll be lucky to find electrical service of any kind. If it exists, it's from the communal generator.
While the cities of China enjoy capitalistic wealth, most of rural China is, quite literally, dirt poor.
Well, I've been to Joshua Tree Nat'l Park, and it can be smoggy enough when the wind is blowing from the west to bring in enough haze to barely see Palm Springs from Views Point, let alone the Salton Sea, etc.
On a clear day, you can see mtns in mexico from there.
On the days that the marine layer is strong, sure, it does burn off by 10am-noon, but by the time the sun is setting it is coming back in.
In a complete combustion reaction, sure, what you speak of should in theory be inert. But we're talking real-world chemistry here. Like all explosives, there will probably be unburnt residue on any remaining particles to cause said effects described.
Have you ever burned sparklers? There is left over residue on the metal stick. This is probably similar to what falls out of the air, and I will bet a large amount of money that the reactants are not fully consumed by the reaction.
Nah, we just used the old tennis ball cans that the balls came in. Tape 3 or 4 of those cans together, and you really did have a cannon, instead of a tennis ball mortar.
Well, they'll have to go after the DVD Consortium and MPAA for essentially doing what MST3K did, albeit usually in a non-comedic fashion, on every DVD that has a commentary audio track overlay.
It's just that, with the cloud cover, and the green vegetation being close enough to the blue of the oceans, I imagine at that distance, the Earth is just a big blue marble in space.
Of course, my reference point is the "earth rise" photograph from one of the Apollo missions.
Well, grammar-boy, it's "defenseless".
Yes, but put that text into a sales pamphlet, or a report to the Board or SEC...
How come they don't just come up with a "boot loader" process for the player that loads a codec on the disc into the player's memory, instead of burning the codecs into the ROMs of the players?
OH, I guess that would mean that the players would be hacked then. Can't have that, noooooo....
...if you worked where I worked at, it definitely was not zero.
It is sort of like watching clouds to predict wich ones will develop into cumulonimbus clouds (aka thunderstorms).
It has gotten to the point that women going into a Women's Health clinic are showered with blood, ugly pictures are shoved into their faces, their access to the clinics is made difficult or impossible by the gauntlet they have to run, etc., all based on the assumption that the woman going in is getting an abortion, instead of maybe a fetal health checkup, her periodic pelvic exam, etc.
Now, some wacko has decided that the root of the evil is the actual doctors. So he's been shooting them or sending them letter bombs.
Names of patients going to clinics to get abortions are leaked to anti-abortion groups by insiders, and some of the protesting precedes their visit to the clinic.
Patients have also been followed home, interecepted leaving their homes for the clinic (it is assumed), etc.
If you live in a small community, you probably know your election judge, or know someone who does. You might even get invited to their christmas party. They have no privacy, only differing layers of obscurity.
In fact, I bet that in various newsletters, delegates are named with adresses where they live.
It's also happened to corporate executives, movie stars, etc.
Hmm... me have company. Me decide to target advertising at people. Me get list of people I may not like. Me include people in bigger list. Me call up Experian to get some credit information, based on information I have mined from other sources. Me send out adverts. Me make FOIA requests about reported donor lists to organizations, etc., then correlate from there.
Likewise, the readers of Indymedia definately would not appreciate the fact that these men are representing something they have very strong feelings of dislike/hatred for.
Yes or no. Perhaps if you were in a position where you represented your company to the public (Public Affairs, executive/sr. management, etc), then yes. There might be concerns. If you're just a worker-bee, then no. Think of all the other weirdos you work with. Unless you directly bring bad press to the company (or really rub the owner the wrong way), you're more than likely OK.