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"Yes/no questions are not ambiguous" Why can't you say if you still drowning puppies or not? Did you still drowning puppies? Yes or No. No Ambiguation. Just answer.
This film is as interesting as patterns in cat vomit.Narrated and spectrally analyzed by your grandpa.
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The point is everything can be reduced to:Modified Forum Software.You just can't see the point:If modified enough CMS the forum based on can do everything you want,It not that I don't claim it superior or efficient :
You can write even an Operating System out of Forum Software.Database will work as filesystem,Threads as process and posts as operations.File would be just large posts tagged as normal posts.Executing post contents would be like runnign a program.A script : a control post tellign it what to read/perform.A moderator(or authorised user) would post such script to execute anything he wishes.
You can add calendars,Drawing programs, Flash games,Webchat, etc and embed it in the forum.
"Having vague similarities does not mean you can substitute one application for another" Nonsense,i can substitute alot of Features by making alternatives or implementing them in the forum.
You look like a farmer which is convinced his plow will never be substituted by more advanced methods or new technology.Myabe you have vested interest in some proprietary CMS ?( which is sharing most of it features with forum-type software ).Makign free forum software with those features would make your CMS worthless. Which inevitable when forum software development advances... "I can post links in a messageboard too" And that messageboard would allow me all the features of del.ici.ous or flickr.
1.Its happening.Glaciers melt.We don't have models far back into past but it melts.Global warmign is working.Whatever is the cause.And it doesn't stop.
2.What point if its not entirely to human activity? What if we constitute the critical component that drives the Global Warming forward? Now Co2 and other cheamicals maybe less greenhouse producing then water vapor,but they can cause more vapor and other feedback from climate.
3.It can be reduced for enviromental reasons,even without Global Warming looming over the horizon.We could sleep safely knowing all that is happening isn't our fault and the nature is best preserved.
4.Workign to solve it doesn't mean abandoning economy based on fossils fuel.You don't want drastic changes. Just move(as close possible) to more nature friendly sources of energy: Solar,Wind,Wave/current/dams,geothermal,Nuclear(ye s,it cause radioactive waste,but 1.It decays 2.It has less enviromental impact then coal 3.Its safe to use 4.waste can be reprocessed),Biomass/Biofuel/Waste,even such inefficient concepts as "Hydrogen economy" reduce pollution.
4.How enviromentally friendly society makes it worse by adopting renewable source of energy? Its not rabbits in australia(which is disruption of biosystem by introducing new foreign species) Making it worse requires that These Sources of fuel makes nature somehow more polluted then fossil fuels.. I don't know how makign a wind turbine or a solar tower(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power ) makes more polution then runnign a coal plant or oil extraction rig. (which of these suppose to make it worse?) The only answer seems to be "Its cheaper".But its like shark-loaning money hoping it will too far away in the future that you die before you have to pay the loans.Fossil Fuels have one feature you can't depends on. They are not renewable(despite theorist suggesting abiogenic petroleum origin) They are finite.You cannot build on it. Economy based on fossil fuels collapses as soon fossil fuels end.IF people don't change just because it cheaper now it will be much less cheaper in the future. Extracting shale oil/tar sands because its cheap(relative to..ethanol from bio fuel?) just postpones the crisis for another day.Finite,not-renewable,non-recyclable fossil fuel are viewed as Infinite resource.
OK to get the message people need to evaluate their concepts. They construct Enviromentally Friendly Energy source,without it really being such and making things worse just becuase they don't see the big picture.
Imagine that water all water there is on Earth would eb usable as fuel(like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy) by electrolysis.Looks like recyclable infinite resource(though finite,it can be recycled ad infinitum). But each step you lose energy and that energy must come from other source(not Hydrogen!).
Photovoltaic Cells require a lenghty manifacturing process,involving alot of chemicals and pollution.
Some wind towers can kill birds,and be quite noisy(though very enviromentally friendly solution,even considering manufacturing such towers).Energy production is dependant on air flow.
Biomass/Biofuel is just creating those fossil fuels from waste or feeding substance/fields.Its a (not quite efficient) storage of solar energy(with absorbed part of energy of nutrients/material content).
geothermal isnot strictly renewable(it renewable over large time scales,but cooling starts lowering the efficiency until its not hot enough)short-term,and require a dedicated location to extract(such as volcanic activity zones).Magma and direct access to volcanoes seems far more energy efficient then tapping it from geysers.
Nuclear power plants need storage for waste,and old designs are dangerous to operate due to possibility of meltdown/fatal incidents(such as release of reactor fuel
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IS there anything to help you understand the question? Perhaps you should read what i think forum is . IN BOLD LETTERS,For clarity.
Forums are Database Driven Entities Forums are Public CMS Forums NOT Equal CMS Forums is subtype of CMS Forums are Similar to CMS
Now you claim forums are the same as CMS and claim i said it,just because you asked a YES/NO question which is ambiguous, like: Did you stop drowning puppies? ---- is your grammatically correct,but logically flawed post makes sense? "And you seem to think that everything on the web is a messageboard" As much as i believe web(WWW) is made of spider silk... You should read posts instead of just replying."Everything on the web runs of different CMS" Forum is Type Of Software which is Public Content Management System. Agreed? Now you jump to "HE thinks everything on the Web is a Messageboard".
Wiki article: The film tells the story of a widowed clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) who lives in Sydney Harbour in Sydney. Marlin, after losing his wife, Coral, and children, in a barracuda attack sometime back, tries his best as a parent to his only remaining son Nemo, but has a tendency to over-parent and stifle his son. Because Nemo has a fin smaller than the other (his "lucky fin"), and because he promised to not let anything happen to him, Marlin is constantly warning his son that the ocean isn't safe (although he is clearly subjecting his son to his own neurotic agoraphobic tendencies). Embarrassed once too often by his father's over-protectiveness, Nemo ventures out into open water towards a 'butt' (a fishing boat, mispronounced by one of Nemo's little friends) to prove to his father wrong. Unfortunately, Marlin was for once correct, as Nemo is immediately scooped up by a kindly dentist who takes pity on him because of his fin. Thus it is up to Marlin and his newfound "guide", Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), a Regal Blue Tang fish who suffers from short-term memory loss to bring Nemo back, and they must cross the ocean - tangling with the various dangers waiting for them - in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office in Sydney, Australia. Nemo, meanwhile, gets involved in a plot with the other fish in the aquarium to escape from the dentist's office and return to the ocean.
This is definitive proof of it being complete and utter crap.
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"So why did you claim that they were the same?"
Did you stopped drowning puppies?
Yes/No
1.There similar sites to
compete with tinypic.com for example,
I just put them in the same range
as Flickr.com.
If i wanted to share some site i would post on a forum.
This del.ici.ous feature is like a
giant overhyped meme pool.
Flickr is useless becuase
we have tinypic.com and of dozen image hosts
Blogs are just glorified single-user moderated forums.
You can make a forum dedicates
to link harvesting and rating in 5
minutes.
Your own forum.
8."Then I guess a database driven CMS
is just the same as an online forum too
, right? "
Yes.Your forum/blog are database driven entities. Forum is a Public CMS,
Database driven:All people who have permission can add content.
modern cinema/TV/literature vs User-content. 1.judging content on commercial basis (i.e. prices) is wrong.Just because someone charges money for content doesn't guarantees its top-notch. 2.Quality of content.Yes,user-content tends to be lower quality/less polished then industry-sponsored entertainment.Its just the five years since it started to appear en-masse.The amount of work and expense in producing film/literature has dropped significantly. 3.Content producers need money for distribution. Of course you need big bucks to upload your video/music/Book torrent and getting hosted costs gazillions of dollars.yeah.I get the idea. 4.Serious money for production assets. A professinal Microphone,and Professional recorder,Or profesional Camera,Professional video editing software,and other profesionall things. Doesn't that suppose to cost millions? 5. "Finding Nemo" didn't materialize out of the ether. It was created by people and therefore belongs to those people."
My copy of Finding Nemo would belong to me(if i was crazy enough to purchase such crap) and they have no control how i use it.Maybe i like to torrent it?
Thinly veiled attempt to promote adware. An elf with Brand Name Jeans/Pants would not detract anything,just promote the product.Its all seems like advertising got new venue, Advertising textures,Objects,They Affect you subconsciously,making you to remember it (a sort of subliminal message),viewing it dozen of time in games.Training your brain to recognize brands and products,is even Easier when they fit with Surroundings. look at banners at top of some video games:you don't associate them with game,you ignore them,because you can. How can you ignore content? You have to replace every texture and patch all object to neutral themes to remove this shit.Unless you want to be manipulated.
Of course i don't want to play a game with ads.But if the game is great and has no alternatives on the market?
what if a game starts advertising in the next patch? What if all new games add it? Open Source games going to be way popular and active area filling the vaccuum,if this happens.
Let them remain blissfully unaware about hacks.They can try advertising everthign they like,not on my computer. Even if i have to add a megabyte of new host file entries or write memory patches.Just an old flawed model.
Quality of slashdot posts is very good. Quality is also subjective.Some people like more Point-of-view opinions some like hard facts.Some like personal expiriences. You haven't been on myspace,do you? It will make grammar Nazis here cringe.
More on myspace:
The Amateur music hub or emo scene people joke about.They have alot of "content producers". Free content. YouTube,Flickr,Photobucket etc.Newgrounds. The Content Media of the Future.
"And if this term is actually derogative of content producers and/or their content why steal it (the content) then?" Becuase its unfair to have any value created out of nothing and assigned to pieces of data which can be copied at no expense. The sellouts are dominating just becuase of mass advertising/promotions on the media.Media wants to have be paid for sharing information it supposedly "owns".
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ironic to see you posting this on the site while "it was never designed to be an all-purpose back-end solution".
1.There similar sites to compete with tinypic.com for example,I just put them in the same range as Flickr.com.
"A messageboard thread won't let you rank the bookmarks, or group them, or browse them by tags, or allow slashdot editors to refer to them for news submissions."
A modified forum script would have these features.Its not that significant: I seen many forums with karma systems, Moderator only forums(with submission queues,etc.) See http://www.phpbb.com/mods/ for example. "assign their garbage top score" ex: A group of harry potter fans would rank their Snape photos Top score. Advertisement:Think of spam.Links advertised by bots.
" I guess the social aspect of Slashdot is useless" Its inferior.Even a normal forum has a community which is visible by member lists,thread archives,lists of subforums,and easy access to all features/threads for members. Slashdot is overhyped news blog,run by OSDN.The only aspects i see here is data sharing.
"Del.icio.us gives people topics to talk about, just like Slashdot does, that's the whole point of having these sites."
It doesn't look superflous to have all these features in your forum and del.ici.ous? Do your forum makes it forbidden posting pictures? Do they prevent discusion on pictures?
You might as well argue that image IMs are unnecessary because you can just post images to an angelfire page or FTP, or that radios in cars are a bad idea because they're "inferior" to your home stereo system.
Image IMs are different from IRC DCC sends? Does forum prevent you from sending IM IN The Forum,COntaining these same images? Did i mention you don't need a proprietary network to run those forum? Do the images lose quality or "social aspect" just because they sent from a forum,email,or IRC DCC feature?
Everything on the web runs of different CMS,Except static pages.Forum is a Public CMS,Database driven:All people who have permission can add content. Different aspects: "Professional web admins don't use an online forum as a CMS" I said it is database driven,not that it better then a Dedicated CMS.
Video/Audio streaming? Are you crazy? Its million man click of death.Called Slashdot Effect. I suggest torrents instead,which could be added to article,even now. Slashdot could start a tracker for torrents that get posted or use one of public ones.
Topics,some get post for attention.But there are topics that need justified attention and discussion. And finally we don't need millions of imbeciles that populate MySpace and Aol chats.
PCs are superior to any Online Gaming Console ever can present. I can play anything right now:PC games,Emulated console game(most of them),Online games. Without being put into limits of console manufacturers and corporate overlords. Console is essentialy a cheap limited computer made to run games.
There still will be content providers. They would be more commonplace then industry-sponsored sellouts. You don't stop writing posts on slashdot because we don't pay you.
1.You don't have only tinypic(there dozens more) and you can even tag your images. 2.I never said there should be only one forum,one host,one news site.I like diversity in the web(as long its useful). 3.I can share share my bookmarks by Posting a Thread Titled 'My Bookmarks' or "share your Bookmarks" on a forum. 4.Blogs don't have much more funtionality then a moderated forum,where you post your own stories. And you have even less features them a Real forum. 5.Dynamic tagging system or ratings doesn't stop bots or ignorant masses to
assign their garbage top score.And don't forget Advertisement. 6.I can access all of my bookmarks if i use them from a network drive or my website hosted on some server. You can make a freewebs page in few seconds and post your bookmarks there. 7.Social aspects of bookmarks "and it doesn't help you meet other people with similar interests as you. You might as well say that notepad precludes Open Office."
There MUCH BETTER venues and options to Meet Other People.IRC Instant Messaging VOIP FORUMs WebChat/websites and Newsgroups are way superior then you pitiful bookmarklets sharing site.
Notepad for all it matters excellect and fast editor (in fact i mostly use Metapad,a notepad replacement to get my work done).I know here alot sladhot people who Work with Vi and Emacs exclusively. 8."Then I guess a database driven CMS is just the same as an online forum too, right? " Yes.Your forum/blog are database driven entities.
9."Nothing worth developing can be accomplsihed simply by tweaking a forum script."
Guild Wars is still item-based levelling game without strategic depth.It takes time to get all skills maxed.Just lowering the barriers for newbies isn't making this game pure skill.And the 'skills' this game requires can be scripted to a bunch of hostile bots(with precise millisecond responses). Wiki: PvP involves multiple 4 to 8 player groups fighting to achieve typically FPS-style gameplay objectives such as deathmatch, king of the hill, or capture the flag.
Flickr is useless becuase we have tinypic.com and of dozen image hosts Blogs are just glorified single-user moderated forums. You can make a forum dedicates to link harvesting and rating in 5 minutes. Your own forum.
Your money is valuable to all,Your Virtual Items are valuable to small subset of population who need them. What you buy exactly is the time they spend to farm these game resources(to prevent wasting time yourself).
Digital Copies of Information on other hand are not Virtual Items,Its just data.Companies who charge for copies don't spend any time or resource.They only need the original for distribution.
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"Yes/no questions are not ambiguous"
Why can't you say if you still drowning puppies or not?
Did you still drowning puppies?
Yes or No. No Ambiguation.
Just answer.
This film is as interesting as patterns in cat vomit.Narrated and spectrally analyzed by your grandpa.
The point is everything can be reduced to :Modified Forum Software.You just can't see the point:If modified enough CMS the forum based on can do everything you want,It not that
I don't claim it superior or efficient :
You can write even an Operating System out of Forum Software.Database will work as filesystem,Threads as process and posts as operations.File would be just large posts tagged as normal posts.Executing post contents would be like runnign a program.A script : a control post tellign it what to read/perform.A moderator(or authorised user) would post such script to execute anything he wishes.
You can add calendars,Drawing programs,
Flash games,Webchat, etc and embed it in the forum.
"Having vague similarities does not mean you can substitute one application for another" Nonsense,i can substitute alot of Features by making alternatives or implementing them in the forum.
You look like a farmer which is convinced his plow will never be substituted by more advanced methods or new technology.Myabe you have vested interest in some proprietary CMS ?( which is sharing most of it features with forum-type software ).Makign free forum software with those features would make your CMS worthless.
Which inevitable when forum software development advances...
"I can post links in a messageboard too"
And that messageboard would allow me all the features of del.ici.ous or flickr.
1.Its happening.Glaciers melt.We don't have models far back into past but it melts.Global warmign is working.Whatever is the cause.And it doesn't stop.
,not-renewable,non-recyclable fossil fuel are viewed as Infinite resource.
2.What point if its not entirely to human activity? What if we constitute the critical component that drives the Global Warming forward?
Now Co2 and other cheamicals maybe less
greenhouse producing then water vapor,but they can cause more vapor and other feedback from climate.
3.It can be reduced for enviromental reasons,even without Global Warming looming over the horizon.We could sleep
safely knowing all that is happening isn't our fault and the nature is best preserved.
4.Workign to solve it doesn't mean abandoning economy based on fossils fuel.You don't want drastic changes.
Just move(as close possible) to more nature friendly sources of energy: Solar,Wind,Wave/current/dams,geothermal,Nuclear(ye s,it cause radioactive waste,but 1.It decays 2.It has less enviromental impact then coal 3.Its safe to use 4.waste can be reprocessed),Biomass/Biofuel/Waste,even such inefficient concepts as "Hydrogen economy" reduce pollution.
4.How enviromentally friendly society makes it worse by adopting renewable source of energy?
Its not rabbits in australia(which is disruption of biosystem by introducing new foreign species)
Making it worse requires that These Sources of fuel makes nature somehow more polluted then fossil fuels..
I don't know how makign a wind turbine or a solar tower(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power ) makes more polution then runnign a coal plant or oil extraction rig.
(which of these suppose to make it worse?)
The only answer seems to be "Its cheaper".But its like shark-loaning money hoping it will too far away in the future that you die before you have to pay the loans.Fossil Fuels have one feature you can't depends on.
They are not renewable(despite theorist
suggesting abiogenic petroleum origin)
They are finite.You cannot build on it.
Economy based on fossil fuels collapses as soon fossil fuels end.IF people don't change just because it cheaper now it will be much less cheaper in the future.
Extracting shale oil/tar sands because its cheap(relative to..ethanol from bio fuel?) just postpones the crisis for another day.Finite
OK to get the message people need to evaluate their concepts.
They construct Enviromentally Friendly
Energy source,without it really being such and making things worse just becuase they don't see the big picture.
Imagine that water all water there is on Earth would eb usable as fuel(like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy) by electrolysis.Looks like recyclable infinite resource(though finite,it can be recycled ad infinitum).
But each step you lose energy and that energy must come from other source(not Hydrogen!).
Photovoltaic Cells require a lenghty manifacturing process,involving alot of chemicals and pollution.
Some wind towers can kill birds,and be quite noisy(though very enviromentally friendly solution,even considering manufacturing such towers).Energy production is dependant on air flow.
Biomass/Biofuel is just creating those fossil fuels from waste or feeding substance/fields.Its a (not quite efficient) storage of solar energy(with absorbed part of energy of nutrients/material content).
geothermal isnot strictly renewable(it renewable over large time scales,but cooling starts lowering the efficiency until its not hot enough)short-term,and require a dedicated location to extract(such as volcanic activity zones).Magma and direct access to volcanoes seems far more energy efficient then tapping it from geysers.
Nuclear power plants need storage for waste,and old designs are dangerous to operate due to possibility of meltdown/fatal incidents(such as release of reactor fuel
TV is not a monastery.
IS there anything to help you understand the question?
Perhaps you should read what i think forum is .
IN BOLD LETTERS,For clarity.
Forums are Database Driven Entities
Forums are Public CMS
Forums NOT Equal CMS
Forums is subtype of CMS
Forums are Similar to CMS
Now you claim forums are the same as CMS
and claim i said it,just because you asked a YES/NO question which is ambiguous,
like: Did you stop drowning puppies?
----
is your grammatically correct,but logically flawed post makes sense?
"And you seem to think that everything on the web is a messageboard"
As much as i believe web(WWW) is made of spider silk...
You should read posts instead of just replying."Everything on the web runs of different CMS"
Forum is Type Of Software which is Public Content Management System.
Agreed?
Now you jump to "HE thinks everything on the Web is a Messageboard".
Wiki article:
The film tells the story of a widowed clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) who lives in Sydney Harbour in Sydney. Marlin, after losing his wife, Coral, and children, in a barracuda attack sometime back, tries his best as a parent to his only remaining son Nemo, but has a tendency to over-parent and stifle his son. Because Nemo has a fin smaller than the other (his "lucky fin"), and because he promised to not let anything happen to him, Marlin is constantly warning his son that the ocean isn't safe (although he is clearly subjecting his son to his own neurotic agoraphobic tendencies).
Embarrassed once too often by his father's over-protectiveness, Nemo ventures out into open water towards a 'butt' (a fishing boat, mispronounced by one of Nemo's little friends) to prove to his father wrong. Unfortunately, Marlin was for once correct, as Nemo is immediately scooped up by a kindly dentist who takes pity on him because of his fin. Thus it is up to Marlin and his newfound "guide", Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), a Regal Blue Tang fish who suffers from short-term memory loss to bring Nemo back, and they must cross the ocean - tangling with the various dangers waiting for them - in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office in Sydney, Australia. Nemo, meanwhile, gets involved in a plot with the other fish in the aquarium to escape from the dentist's office and return to the ocean.
This is definitive proof of it being complete and utter crap.
User-friendliness
"So why did you claim that they were the same?" .
Did you stopped drowning puppies?
Yes/No
1.There similar sites to
compete with tinypic.com for example,
I just put them in the same range
as Flickr.com.
If i wanted to share some site
i would post on a forum
This del.ici.ous feature is like a
giant overhyped meme pool.
Flickr is useless becuase
we have tinypic.com and of dozen image hosts
Blogs are just glorified single-user
moderated forums.
You can make a forum dedicates
to link harvesting and rating in 5
minutes. Your own forum.
8."Then I guess a database driven CMS
is just the same as an online forum too
, right? " Yes.Your forum/blog are
database driven entities.
Forum is a Public CMS,
Database driven:All people who have
permission can add content.
modern cinema/TV/literature vs User-content.
1.judging content on commercial basis (i.e. prices) is wrong.Just because someone charges money for content doesn't guarantees its top-notch.
2.Quality of content.Yes,user-content tends to be lower quality/less polished then industry-sponsored entertainment.Its just the five years since it started to appear en-masse.The amount of work and expense in producing film/literature has dropped significantly.
3.Content producers need money for distribution.
Of course you need big bucks to upload your video/music/Book torrent and getting hosted costs gazillions of dollars.yeah.I get the idea.
4.Serious money for production assets.
A professinal Microphone,and Professional recorder,Or profesional Camera,Professional video editing software,and other profesionall things.
Doesn't that suppose to cost millions?
5. "Finding Nemo" didn't materialize out of the ether. It was created by people and therefore belongs to those people."
My copy of Finding Nemo would belong to me(if i was crazy enough to purchase such crap) and they have no control how i use it.Maybe i like to torrent it?
Thinly veiled attempt to promote adware. :you don't associate them with game,you ignore them,because you can.
An elf with Brand Name Jeans/Pants would not detract anything,just promote the product.Its all seems like advertising got new venue,
Advertising textures,Objects,They Affect you subconsciously,making you to remember it (a sort of subliminal message),viewing it dozen of time in games.Training your brain to recognize brands and products,is even Easier when they fit with Surroundings.
look at banners at top of some video games
How can you ignore content? You have to replace every texture and patch all object to neutral themes to remove this shit.Unless you want to be manipulated.
Of course i don't want to play a game with ads.But if the game is great and has no alternatives on the market?
what if a game starts advertising in the next patch?
What if all new games add it?
Open Source games going to be way popular and active area filling the vaccuum,if this happens.
Let them remain blissfully unaware about hacks.They can try advertising everthign they like,not on my computer.
Even if i have to add a megabyte of new host file entries or write memory patches.Just an old flawed model.
Quality of slashdot posts is very good.
Quality is also subjective.Some people like more Point-of-view opinions some like hard facts.Some like personal expiriences.
You haven't been on myspace,do you? It will make grammar Nazis here cringe.
More on myspace:
The Amateur music hub or emo scene people joke about.They have alot of "content producers". Free content.
YouTube,Flickr,Photobucket etc.Newgrounds. The Content Media of the Future.
"And if this term is actually derogative of content producers and/or their content why steal it (the content) then?"
Becuase its unfair to have any value created out of nothing and assigned to pieces of data which can be copied at no expense.
The sellouts are dominating just becuase of mass advertising/promotions on the media.Media wants to have be paid for sharing information it supposedly "owns".
ironic to see you posting this on the site while "it was never designed to be an all-purpose back-end solution".
1.There similar sites to compete with tinypic.com for example,I just put them in the same range as Flickr.com.
"A messageboard thread won't let you rank the bookmarks, or group them, or browse them by tags, or allow slashdot editors to refer to them for news submissions."
A modified forum script would have these features.Its not that significant:
I seen many forums with karma systems,
Moderator only forums(with submission queues,etc.)
See http://www.phpbb.com/mods/ for example.
"assign their garbage top score" ex:
A group of harry potter fans would rank their Snape photos Top score.
Advertisement:Think of spam.Links advertised by bots.
" I guess the social aspect of Slashdot is useless" Its inferior.Even a normal forum has a community which is visible by member lists,thread archives,lists of subforums,and easy access to all features/threads for members.
Slashdot is overhyped news blog,run by OSDN.The only aspects i see here is data sharing.
"Del.icio.us gives people topics to talk about, just like Slashdot does, that's the whole point of having these sites."
It doesn't look superflous to have all these features in your forum and del.ici.ous? Do your forum makes it forbidden posting pictures? Do they prevent discusion on pictures?
You might as well argue that image IMs are unnecessary because you can just post images to an angelfire page or FTP, or that radios in cars are a bad idea because they're "inferior" to your home stereo system.
Image IMs are different from IRC DCC sends? Does forum prevent you from sending IM IN The Forum,COntaining these same images?
Did i mention you don't need a proprietary network to run those forum?
Do the images lose quality or "social aspect" just because they sent from a forum,email,or IRC DCC feature?
Everything on the web runs of different CMS,Except
static pages.Forum is a Public CMS,Database driven:All people who have permission can add content.
Different aspects:
"Professional web admins don't use an online forum as a CMS"
I said it is database driven,not that it better then a Dedicated CMS.
I reccomend Meditation instead. About half-hour daily to relieve stress.
Video/Audio streaming?
Are you crazy? Its million man click of death.Called Slashdot Effect.
I suggest torrents instead,which could be added to article,even now.
Slashdot could start a tracker for torrents that get posted or use one of public ones.
Topics,some get post for attention.But there
are topics that need justified attention and discussion.
And finally we don't need millions of imbeciles that populate MySpace and Aol chats.
PCs are superior to any Online Gaming Console ever can present.
I can play anything right now:PC games,Emulated console game(most of them),Online games.
Without being put into limits of console manufacturers and corporate overlords.
Console is essentialy a cheap limited computer made to run games.
There still will be content providers.
They would be more commonplace then industry-sponsored sellouts.
You don't stop writing posts on slashdot because we don't pay you.
Virtual Items doesn't become your Credit Card records just because someone willing to pay real money for them.
It reminds me of a some smilie trading site that charged 5$(or something similar) to buy smilies as gifts to users of your choice.
Tell me of value of those pixels?
Don't they exist there?Can i send you a copy?For 4.00$ each? Premium quality
Smilies might i add.Unique!
I feel we need Online Economy 101 courses mandatory for everyone.
"Natural law of human interaction" more like "There is a sucker born every minute".
1.You don't have only tinypic(there dozens more) and you can even tag your images.
2.I never said there should be only one forum,one host,one news site.I like diversity in the web(as long its useful).
3.I can share share my bookmarks by Posting a Thread Titled 'My Bookmarks' or "share your Bookmarks" on a forum.
4.Blogs don't have much more funtionality then a moderated forum,where you post your own stories. And you have even less features them a Real forum.
5.Dynamic tagging system or ratings doesn't stop bots or ignorant masses to
assign their garbage top score.And don't forget Advertisement.
6.I can access all of my bookmarks if i use them from a network drive or my website hosted on some server.
You can make a freewebs page in few seconds and post your bookmarks there.
7.Social aspects of bookmarks
"and it doesn't help you meet other people with similar interests as you. You might as well say that notepad precludes Open Office."
There MUCH BETTER venues and options to Meet Other People.IRC Instant Messaging VOIP FORUMs WebChat/websites and Newsgroups are way superior then you pitiful bookmarklets sharing site.
Notepad for all it matters excellect and fast editor (in fact i mostly use Metapad,a notepad replacement to get my work done).I know here alot sladhot people who Work with Vi and Emacs
exclusively.
8."Then I guess a database driven CMS is just the same as an online forum too, right? "
Yes.Your forum/blog are database driven entities.
9."Nothing worth developing can be accomplsihed simply by tweaking a forum script."
EXactly.
Guild Wars is still item-based levelling game without strategic depth.It takes time to get all skills maxed.Just lowering the barriers for newbies isn't making this game pure skill.And the 'skills' this game requires can be scripted to a bunch of hostile bots(with precise millisecond responses).
Wiki:
PvP involves multiple 4 to 8 player groups fighting to achieve typically FPS-style gameplay objectives such as deathmatch, king of the hill, or capture the flag.
"But if they can be altered then by definition they exist"
So if i can alter my dreams by wishing so they must exist?
Flickr is useless becuase we have tinypic.com and of dozen image hosts
Blogs are just glorified single-user moderated forums.
You can make a forum dedicates to link harvesting and rating in 5 minutes.
Your own forum.
All this web2.0 hype for nothing
Your money is valuable to all,Your Virtual Items are valuable to small subset of population who need them.
What you buy exactly is the time they spend to farm these game resources(to prevent wasting time yourself).
Digital Copies of Information on other hand are not Virtual Items,Its just data.Companies who charge for copies don't spend any time or resource.They only need the original for distribution.