ok, just how long until i can meta-moderate? i've been on here a while.. i think i read i must be in the bottom 92.5% of new users, but how do i tell the highest user # in existence to figure out how long i've got to wait?
could it be, that adding programmers is a lot like adding processors.. doubling doesn't quite result in 200%, as more and more resources go towards coordination?
btw, the article SUCKED, i went in expecting to read even just a little bit about large-scale-development and all i got was a crappy 2-page splinter-cell advertizement. that and firefox asked to install 2 different plugins so i can better experience further, flashy-er advertizements on my plain-text advertiziment.
The moderators of the news site established to report the news of other news sites after the other news sites had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.
wisconsin's a nice place, undeserving of the boring midwest reputation. i'm an east-coaster, moved to milwaukee, and there's a good balance of blue-collar'd square-headedness and bohemian artistry. plus a sky-high bars/miles^2 ratio. madison's a great college town too. green bay sports the only publicly-owned football team, and even little old ladies state-wide are fans.
i don't want to troll, so i won't comment on much of the rest of the midwest ^^
i had an argument with someone about that, but both of us agreed this is a UN-enforced debt from the last war, and nothing to really blame the US for: they have somewhat marginal say over it.
our argument was whether john kerry's campaign promise to forgive iraq's debt was hot air or not. kinda moot now.
your argument equates a cockroach with cockroach-kind. an individual cockroach will not outlast an individual chip: nuked, stepped-on, whatever. Keep in mind roaches survive RADIATION well--they get nice and crispy from blasts like all other carbon life forms. whether chip-roach-kind will outlast cockroach-kind is subjective.. especially since the existence of cockroach-kind is the sole reason for the existence chiproach-kind. chiproach-kind likely can tie at best ^_^
you say pendantry like it's a bad thing on slashdot. i gotta go for at least 4/5, or i lose my tinfoil.
I am all those things, but i have to agree with the grandparent. i've read webcomics regularly for years, and i've seen my share of nonsensical-running-webjokes (my favorite was prolly 'ate my balls') but nothing about homestarrunner (strongbad is part of it, right?) clicks for me. i've followed any link to it ppl pass me, but i just never find the joke.
this time, for example, i followed the link to TFA, clicked the first option on the computer, and strongbad typed in blahblah_email.exe, garbage came up on his screen, and that was it. no more options, just that. wtf??
(i gotta throw in some reccommended non-mainstream webcomics, i can't resist)
jeez, i didn't think i needed to phrase this so precisely, but since TWO people took time out of their busy day to slam my skills..
replace "can't jump, spin, and shoot behind me" (a veiled reference to a similar comment Tycho of P-A made to the same effect recently, except regarding the new nintendo handheld with a stylus) with the more accurate "don't have the means for precise and near-instantaneous rotation".
yes, you can jump, spin, and shoot behind you in halo, but an analog stick just does not even compare to a mouse for the needed balance of speed/precision/intuitiveness. an analog stick set too slow forces the rotation to take the entire length of the jump to complete. an analog stick set too fast is too inaccurate for precise shooting. The major factor being that an analog stick is bound in it's maximum rotation, whereas a mouse can always just be moved faster/more. a mouse (esp an optical one, unconfined by the width of a mousepad) is simply mechanically BETTER.
I know some old ww2 navy vets that might disagree.
Justifying copyright violation via a terrorist-armageddon-theory = hilarious. However, I have a hard time dismissing his arguments and still supporting things like the internet archive.
I do not dispute that these groups vote less. I look BEYOND that single statistic and ask "WHY?" What I dispute is that it is laziness. There are some very real issues worthy of addressal that prevent the ease of voting that suburban/rural areas get. It is very CRUEL to dismiss urban-waited-in-line-3-hours-and-gave-up-person, and minority-scared-away-person (I admit, that didn't happen this time so I hear--good job gov--but it definetly DID last time) alongside non-political-young-person. I have no idea whether these groups (outside uninterested young people) will statistically vote less once it is exactly as fast and easy as it is to vote in rural-land, but isn't that a worthy undertaking for chrissakes?
bungee, like em or not, is entirely ownz0r'd by ms, and i always am skeptikal of ms. they're not ones to balk at opportunity anyway, ethical or not, and this halohype is definetly opportunity. I'm always more than happy to sit back and let the lemmings be the first wave, then progress once I'm confident of what's going to happen. *COUGH*SP2*COUGH*
of course, this was reason #3 on my list not to play halo2... #2 being i can't jump, spin, and shoot behind me like i can with a mouse, and #1, NO GRAPPLING HOOK!! ALL 1ST-P SHOOTERS MUST HAVE GRAPPLING HOOKS FROM NOW ON DAMMIT! of course, i'm not shying from enjoying the very-moddable hl2 and doom3.
I always wondered what time warners' cable boxes were capable of sending back to TW. Does anyone know if they do any accounting of what's watched?
I don't see why TW would have to limit itself to DVR either, surely all digital boxes are capable.
Go ahead, sell accounting of my viewing habits--it's one of the few circumstances I welcome it. TW Prices here in WI are just beyond rediculous, it would be nice to get back to being just short of it. =P
>As it turns out... the Media did say that numbers >were up, but not percentage of the vote. I clearly >recall hearing that election night.
I clearly remember hearing the same, so this article wasn't news to me either. Personally, I think this is a case of the reactionary and non-critical listeners catching up with the people who were listening carefully in the first place.
Now to your trollish quip: >You crazy Dems. are gonna have to live up to the fact >that your party base would rather Stay at Home then >vote if it ment them going through rain, or waiting in line.
Ordinarily, after a blaming generalization like that I'd just write you off as an idiot and let it go. But seriously, think about what you just said. Did you see the lines of people in Philly waiting in the rain for hours to vote? Have you seen the election graphs posted and re-posted on here, comparing population density to party vote? If there IS an divisor apparant, surely that is it: people in rural/suburban areas generally voted bush, and metro went to Kerry. Do you REALLY think that's a fair election, middleclass-suburban-man can vote on his lunch hour and still get a latte, while lowerclass-urban-man and his extended family have to wait for hours? I'm not all up in arms and spitting nails over it, but it seems like an easy enough thing to fix, so let's fix it! More polling places in densely populated areas! ta-dah, next problem.
-optimus prime, megatron, and soundwave. -MASK boulder mountain -castle greyskull & extra ooze
they don't make them anymore?!? they SHOULD, dammit!
seriously tho, -a bad-ass sled -slip-n-slide (for those with warm xmas's) -hotwheels (are micro-machines still around?) -anything nerf or super-soaker (nerf fencing was my fav)
-quote- "Is it a violation of copyright to make up a character in the virtual world or is that fair use?" von Lohmann said. "This is really untested ground in the courts." -/quote-
we slashdotters know the answer. the question should be "how painful a process is it going to be before we realize that yes, it is indeed fair-use?"
-quote- If Ghandi had been going up against Microsoft, he'd be one of those happy friendly cartoon search agents now, like that puppy or that paperclip. -/quote-
Slashdot Mirror
mods, the parent post is in no way a troll.
ok, just how long until i can meta-moderate? i've been on here a while.. i think i read i must be in the bottom 92.5% of new users, but how do i tell the highest user # in existence to figure out how long i've got to wait?
i tried playing doom3, but my mailman wasn't powerful enough.
could it be, that adding programmers is a lot like adding processors.. doubling doesn't quite result in 200%, as more and more resources go towards coordination?
btw, the article SUCKED, i went in expecting to read even just a little bit about large-scale-development and all i got was a crappy 2-page splinter-cell advertizement. that and firefox asked to install 2 different plugins so i can better experience further, flashy-er advertizements on my plain-text advertiziment.
The moderators of the news site established to report the news of other news sites after the other news sites had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.
d'oh -_-
wisconsin's a nice place, undeserving of the boring midwest reputation. i'm an east-coaster, moved to milwaukee, and there's a good balance of blue-collar'd square-headedness and bohemian artistry. plus a sky-high bars/miles^2 ratio. madison's a great college town too. green bay sports the only publicly-owned football team, and even little old ladies state-wide are fans.
i don't want to troll, so i won't comment on much of the rest of the midwest ^^
i had an argument with someone about that, but both of us agreed this is a UN-enforced debt from the last war, and nothing to really blame the US for: they have somewhat marginal say over it.
our argument was whether john kerry's campaign promise to forgive iraq's debt was hot air or not. kinda moot now.
i as well.
an intelligent argument stated reasonably and at opposition to my prior understanding is indeed a treat.
(my mind's not totally changed, but i feel a little freer from fud nonetheless)
-tfa-Many schools, fitness centres and local councils have also banned them over fears about privacy and misuse. -/tfa-
mmmmm, illicit fitness centre pr0n.
i'll have to make a new section of my gameboy-camera pr0n site.
your argument equates a cockroach with cockroach-kind. an individual cockroach will not outlast an individual chip: nuked, stepped-on, whatever. Keep in mind roaches survive RADIATION well--they get nice and crispy from blasts like all other carbon life forms. whether chip-roach-kind will outlast cockroach-kind is subjective.. especially since the existence of cockroach-kind is the sole reason for the existence chiproach-kind. chiproach-kind likely can tie at best ^_^
you say pendantry like it's a bad thing on slashdot. i gotta go for at least 4/5, or i lose my tinfoil.
I am all those things, but i have to agree with the grandparent. i've read webcomics regularly for years, and i've seen my share of nonsensical-running-webjokes (my favorite was prolly 'ate my balls') but nothing about homestarrunner (strongbad is part of it, right?) clicks for me. i've followed any link to it ppl pass me, but i just never find the joke.
this time, for example, i followed the link to TFA, clicked the first option on the computer, and strongbad typed in blahblah_email.exe, garbage came up on his screen, and that was it. no more options, just that. wtf??
(i gotta throw in some reccommended non-mainstream webcomics, i can't resist)
http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/
http://pathet
http://www.frozenreality.co.uk/comic/b
http://www.catandgirl.com/
http://www.boasas
http://www.wilt-comic.net/
http://www.slac
http://ubersoft.ne
i'm curious, what do you mean by 'survive'?
the chip's never alive, and materially, metal should outlast cockroach.
jeez, i didn't think i needed to phrase this so precisely, but since TWO people took time out of their busy day to slam my skills..
replace "can't jump, spin, and shoot behind me" (a veiled reference to a similar comment Tycho of P-A made to the same effect recently, except regarding the new nintendo handheld with a stylus) with the more accurate "don't have the means for precise and near-instantaneous rotation".
yes, you can jump, spin, and shoot behind you in halo, but an analog stick just does not even compare to a mouse for the needed balance of speed/precision/intuitiveness. an analog stick set too slow forces the rotation to take the entire length of the jump to complete. an analog stick set too fast is too inaccurate for precise shooting. The major factor being that an analog stick is bound in it's maximum rotation, whereas a mouse can always just be moved faster/more. a mouse (esp an optical one, unconfined by the width of a mousepad) is simply mechanically BETTER.
-tfa- the Japanese didn't want to die -/tfa-
I know some old ww2 navy vets that might disagree.
Justifying copyright violation via a terrorist-armageddon-theory = hilarious. However, I have a hard time dismissing his arguments and still supporting things like the internet archive.
I do not dispute that these groups vote less. I look BEYOND that single statistic and ask "WHY?" What I dispute is that it is laziness. There are some very real issues worthy of addressal that prevent the ease of voting that suburban/rural areas get. It is very CRUEL to dismiss urban-waited-in-line-3-hours-and-gave-up-person, and minority-scared-away-person (I admit, that didn't happen this time so I hear--good job gov--but it definetly DID last time) alongside non-political-young-person. I have no idea whether these groups (outside uninterested young people) will statistically vote less once it is exactly as fast and easy as it is to vote in rural-land, but isn't that a worthy undertaking for chrissakes?
hmm, maybe use my time there to write a book net a few more mil.
mods: +1 wu-tang
so..
will he still be a millionaire when he gets out of jail?
is he serving his sentence in min-sec alongside martha stewart?
maybe i should re-think my long-term investments, I could do 9 min-sec years for a few mil.
ha-ha i saw it coming.
bungee, like em or not, is entirely ownz0r'd by ms, and i always am skeptikal of ms. they're not ones to balk at opportunity anyway, ethical or not, and this halohype is definetly opportunity. I'm always more than happy to sit back and let the lemmings be the first wave, then progress once I'm confident of what's going to happen. *COUGH*SP2*COUGH*
of course, this was reason #3 on my list not to play halo2... #2 being i can't jump, spin, and shoot behind me like i can with a mouse, and #1, NO GRAPPLING HOOK!! ALL 1ST-P SHOOTERS MUST HAVE GRAPPLING HOOKS FROM NOW ON DAMMIT!
of course, i'm not shying from enjoying the very-moddable hl2 and doom3.
so what's your logic here, "they're democrats, therefore they're lazy" or "they live in urban areas, therefore they're lazy"?
i don't really appreciate hearing either.
I always wondered what time warners' cable boxes were capable of sending back to TW. Does anyone know if they do any accounting of what's watched?
I don't see why TW would have to limit itself to DVR either, surely all digital boxes are capable.
Go ahead, sell accounting of my viewing habits--it's one of the few circumstances I welcome it. TW Prices here in WI are just beyond rediculous, it would be nice to get back to being just short of it. =P
>Who here did not immediately think of skynet when they read this.......
but... skynet is software! we should be blaming p2p!
>As it turns out... the Media did say that numbers
>were up, but not percentage of the vote. I clearly
>recall hearing that election night.
I clearly remember hearing the same, so this article wasn't news to me either. Personally, I think this is a case of the reactionary and non-critical listeners catching up with the people who were listening carefully in the first place.
Now to your trollish quip:
>You crazy Dems. are gonna have to live up to the fact
>that your party base would rather Stay at Home then
>vote if it ment them going through rain, or waiting in line.
Ordinarily, after a blaming generalization like that I'd just write you off as an idiot and let it go. But seriously, think about what you just said. Did you see the lines of people in Philly waiting in the rain for hours to vote? Have you seen the election graphs posted and re-posted on here, comparing population density to party vote? If there IS an divisor apparant, surely that is it: people in rural/suburban areas generally voted bush, and metro went to Kerry. Do you REALLY think that's a fair election, middleclass-suburban-man can vote on his lunch hour and still get a latte, while lowerclass-urban-man and his extended family have to wait for hours?
I'm not all up in arms and spitting nails over it, but it seems like an easy enough thing to fix, so let's fix it! More polling places in densely populated areas! ta-dah, next problem.
-optimus prime, megatron, and soundwave.
-MASK boulder mountain
-castle greyskull & extra ooze
they don't make them anymore?!?
they SHOULD, dammit!
seriously tho,
-a bad-ass sled
-slip-n-slide (for those with warm xmas's)
-hotwheels (are micro-machines still around?)
-anything nerf or super-soaker (nerf fencing was my fav)
-quote- "Is it a violation of copyright to make up a character in the virtual world or is that fair use?" von Lohmann said. "This is really untested ground in the courts." -/quote-
we slashdotters know the answer.
the question should be "how painful a process is it going to be before we realize that yes, it is indeed fair-use?"
-quote-
If Ghandi had been going up against Microsoft, he'd be one of those happy friendly cartoon search agents now, like that puppy or that paperclip.
-/quote-
damn all the outsourcing to india!!