I'm somewhat disappointed. I hadn't heard anything about it lately, and was just thinking about it a couple of days ago for some reason. I thought that it would be a great way to distibute information all over the country. Kinda like X10 units, or the devices you plug into an outlet to use the household wiring as a large antenna. But obviously at a much higher scale.
What would it do to the power grid though? The power comapny has large capacitor banks to counter any inductance introduced by factories/neighborhoods. I guess it's not a capacitive or inductive signal, but I can't imagine that that kind of signal on the utility lines would be all that easy to isolate, and provide the clean sinewave required by some equipment. I guess since it isn't going to happen, these aren't major concerns anymore.
It was my understanding that the moderators can't delete now. When/. was just a wee little thing, just those that worked on the site with CmdrTaco and Hemos had the ability to delete posts that were in appropriate or offensive.
When moderation was introduced first to 25/.er's, then to 400/.'er's then to the current form of MetaModeration, moderators lost the ability to delete posts. Now they only have the ability to reduce the score of an article. Useful or insightful comments are likewise boosted.
It is up/. account owner, to set their scope higher or lower to include or disclude those comments deemed poor.
Thus, the/. community is able to determine for itself, which comments are the most important and which are the most distracting.
Ok, I haven't been posting as often as I once did... there was a time when I was able to read every thread, on every article that/. could dish. With school, and work, that isn't possible, but how could I possibly have "bad karma?"
AFAIK, none of my posts have ever been moderated down. Infact, there were time that some of my posts had been marked up. However, when I checked my userpage, I have a karma of -1? Isn't this supposed to be an average? If I've never posted any off topic/color posts, and never recieved a negative moderation? how can I have a negative karma?
Secondly, how far back does/. search for this Karma rating? Over a year ago, I was posting on quite a regular basis. Several posts a day. I can't maintain the same pace that I once did, call it old age...;/ but I'd like for those posts to be considerd in my karma. At the same time. If I had been a Troll, but then after rediscovering myself in some reform institution, and now frequently contributed to the/. society, I'd like to disreguard my past existance. How far back does this rating level go?
Oh, and I left out one of it's worst problems... the 6 page post limit, that required several different posts to deliver a complete listing of the source code. And that printing would only print to about half the page before it'd line feed to the next post... a huge waste of paper...:)
BRRX28B one last time, I promise:) Time flies like an arrow;
I remember that I used to connect to *P* and hangout in the Computer BBS section several hours a day. I still have some printouts that I made on my 9 pin Okidata. *P* was my first taste of what an on line community should be about. I remember taking animation lessons (in pascal and basic) from a gentleman named Robin Roudge before he left for the peace corps. I can also remember learning assemebly from *P* and getting assistance for writing a TSR. But what I remeber best about *P* before they changed their TOS was finding a hex crack for almost every game published at the time. No longer did I have to squint at that stupid red city population list for Sim City. No longer did I have to look up 1st word, 2nd paragragh, page 5 in the King's Quest IV manual. I guess that information is still avaliable now, but in a grander scale...:)
I will somewhat miss *P*, but since I haven't had their service for 7 years now, only for the memories.
BRRX28B siging off one last time. (Damn, can't believe I still remember that one... )
Working for a Cable ISP, $24.95 for a 64k/64k and $49.95 for a 1024k/128k... Of course, working for the ISP, I get about twice that...;) The rummor is that we might open it all the way for the $49.95 price. Definately the way to go... until ADSL gets to be cheaper/faster/more reliable. Still a couple of years from that though.
I dunno about that... I get better Millage per gallon rolling down a hill with the engine off than "driving" down the hill. Even if only a quater mile, the miles per gallon is 1/4/0. Division by zero is undefined, but 1/4/x as x approaches 0 is infinate. Sounds pretty good to me. Time flies like an arrow;
Obviously your not a believer in the mystical healing powers of magnets... Hmmm maybe I should return my insoles with the magnets that make my feet like they are being massaged all day long. Or the copper bracelet with the magnets that is garanteed to add at least 5 years to my lifespan (I think it is two years for the copper and three for the magnets). And I suppose you don't believe that the headband with the magnets, doesn't make my headaches go away, without taking toxic chemicals...
Ok, I don't believe any of that crap either, but it is amazing what people will believe, even in 1999. It sounds to me that this might be a nice "gimick" that some easily suckered individual may buy into. The same hippy that would buy the headband, bracelet, and insoles.
There was the mouse that recharges your laptop this year... it actually had a pretty cool Flash demo of it, where you "drove" a race car around a track and the faster you drove, the more it would charge your laptop... Time flies like an arrow;
4 years ago, coming from a new Window 95 installation to Slackware was a real adventure...:)
I've since adjusted nicely, but I've had to ween myself by swithing back and forth between OS's until I've felt comfortable with Linux. Your fortunate to have installed a comercial RH5.3 with a manual too, my first was a multi-distribution collection that had some old RH (version 2 something I think), Debian, SuSE, and Slackware. Slackware was the first disk, so that is what I installed...:) No manual, just luck, and several fdisk/mbr's later, I had a dual booting Linux distibution...
Compaired to my first installation, RH6 is a blessing.
Actually, having just installed a copy of Win2k, I don't think it was that easy to install. Win2k still lacks some major driver support that Win9x has, and for somethings, I have better support in Linux. My soundcard for instance an AudioPCI 1370 is not 100% supported under Win2k, and that is a popular card. Win2k has support for the AudioPCI 1371, but then some features didn't work, there was much noise from the speakers, and I couldn't use my microphone because the +5v switch isn't supported by the 1371 driver. Using ALSA under linux, I have all of those things. Even Voodoo support under Win2k is largely absent. There wont even be support for the Banshee cards until after Win2k is on the shelf. Overall, Linux has more of what I wan't, and if something doesn't work the way I want it to, I can just modify the code to accomodate my needs, not what someone else thinks I need.
Ryan Time flies like an arrow;
Re:I'll wait for some independent benchmarks first
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As a K6 owener I am quite pleased. Not only has the K6 performed, but for me it was worth the price I paid. When I bought my K6 it was half the cost of a same priced Pentium... for what, a gain of at most a second in opening a window... I'm going to use your statement As if I really cared that a window would render itself on-screen in.001 nanoseconds instead of.02 nanoseconds. I really wouldn't care if it took as much as half a second longer. Keep in mind, I only have a Pentium killer, and when finding the best deal for my money, the K6 was The Deal®. They have only gotten better with each release since. I look forward to getting my K7, but I will be waiting for a while before I do. Not because I don't want it, but because I can't afford it myself. You won't find me buying a PIII either, but for the same reason. When it comes right down to it, the K6 serries has always performed as well as I expected it to, and often better.
I will admit that the K6 I have is somewhat temperature sensitive. I tried to overclock it, and raised it from it's rated 233 to 225, by raising the FSB and lowering the clockrate. While a slower clockrate doesn't seem like an improvement, the faster FSB increased my system performance by close to 10%. More than enough to make it worth it, and the CPU runs cool to the touch. I could have raised my core voltage and bumped the clockrate up slightly I think, but it is already faster, and again, an excellent deal.
Am I slightly biased now. Yes!!. But only because I've had excellent performance from the K6. Only because I found that the processor exceeded my expectations. When I finally collect enough money to consider a K7 or PIII, I can assure you that the K7 is going to get my first consideration.
Ryan Time flies like an arrow;
Re:Will AMD survive until next year? Prob. not...
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Why stop there... according to the FAQ, 4 and 8 processor systems are in the work, and they didn't say it has a max of 8, they hinted that it may be able to handle more... SMP is not dependent on the CPU, it is in the chipset. But then I guess, even though PIII's are capable of two CPU's by their pinouts, higher Pentium processor machines are also being designed from chipset support... So I guess not much has changed. I just expect that the K7 will have better SMP support and a better design based on the bus architecture, but I guess I will have to wait for these MB's to develop...:/ Damn it, I thought I had a really good point to make, but I seem to be countering my good arguments... Don't you hate it when you argue with yourself and lose.
I liked AT&T... a emphasize liked though... Here in College Station/Bryan AT&T is being "bought out" by Houston Cellular. While I used to have Long Distance for free anywhere in Texas, Houston doesn't offer that, and they charge the same amount. I'm pretty ticked about it, and I am not switching to Houston Cell. Prior to that, I've had excellent service. Time flies like an arrow;
Cool device, drivers for Windows weren't up to par though... I've thought that the SpaceOrb would make a nice mouse/controler though... Wonder how hard it would be to make drivers...
I just want to take the rest of this post to express my opinion of the K7 Athlon thingy. Whatever it is called, I expect I'll be quite pleased with it. I have been an AMD supporter since my first K6-200, and I think that the chips, dollar for dollar, knocked the socks off Intel. I'm only considering Celerons now, because I'd like to try the dual Celeron setup, but I'd really like to hold off until K7 rolls down the line.
K5 -- so, so. K6 -- Nice. K7 -- Nothing short of the best thing to come out at that point in time. Funny how the best is never the best more than a day or so.
That would be the point. It's arbitrary, but it was infering that Chess (invented how many thousands of years ago) should have racial undertones... Or at least that is what the media would pick up on. Time flies like an arrow;
Obviously not for a green PC then... think about it. If even as much as 40% of the light is reflected back to the optical sensors, then that other 60% is wasted. The ability of the mouse to track over any surface is a plus to loptop users. If I had a laptop, redirecting the light so as to "capture" most of it on the sensor would be in my favor. Wasted light is wasted power is shorter batter life. Reducing the expended light, and improving the reflected content saves me money in the long run. The taillight is a waste.
I still think that mice should have feet!!! (Honeywell circa 1992)
I thought one of the finer aspects of moderation was that it was supposed to be anonynous... a default score for a poorly written article will also defeat that anonimity.
I think that being able to post with a default score wouldn't be bad if the script were to prevent that post from going any higher. This means if I were to give myself a 3 I'd be admiting that this document isn't worth anymore than a 3, and so can't be raised any higher... on the other hand, it could always be lowered.
I also think that moderated scores should be averaged:
Every AC post is scored 0 Registered posts are scored 1
Moderators can be provided a supply of "moderation points" x per week (perhaps as high as 100 for reasons explained later)
A -1 mod score costs 2 moderation point A 0 mod score costs 1 moderation points A 1 mod score costs 2 moderation point A 2 mod score costs 4 moderation points A 3 mod score costs 8 moderation points A 4 mod score costs 16 moderation points A 5 mod score costs 32 moderation points
If a post is moderated, the first moderation sets the bench. Subsequent moderation scores are then averaged with previous moderation scores. The score would be shown to/.'ers as:
sign(abs(ceil(total_mod_score/total_mod_votes)))
This would provide moderators with 3 score 5 votes per week, meaning that that moderator had better vote 5 on articles that really are worth 5 points. Otherwise a single moderator that sensed ballot box stuffing could deflate that score to a 3 costing him (or her) only 2 moderation points (5+(-1)/2). This will keep everything in check. Very good posts would in theory receive higher scores, and poor articles would receive lower scores. Overall the scores whould remain on the lower side. Once again seperating the cream of the crop.
AC posts would have a chance then too, what is one moderation point to a moderator with 100? If the AC post is worth it, it could be brought to a score 1 or better with only one vote.
I have other some other ideas about moderation as well. Everyone that contributes should moderate. The score that someone receives for a post should provide them with moderation points too, on a slightly different scale:
A -1 mod score adds -1 moderation point A 0 mod score adds 0 moderation points A 1 mod score adds -1 moderation point A 2 mod score adds 2 moderation points A 3 mod score adds 4 moderation points A 4 mod score adds 8 moderation points A 5 mod score adds 16 moderation points
Moderation points are not supplemented as quickly as they are used, this is where the top x number of posters are suplimented extra points not to excede 100 points. This should keep the best posters the "main moderators" while leting everyone decide on quality of content.
This may have drifted slightly off thread, but it addresses some important points I think. I'm sure it would eliminate topics that have one or two high scoring posts with the rest 1's and 2's and would distribute the scores more evenly, good posts high scores, bad posts, low scores. Time flies like an arrow;
No fair.... Rob, you can't play favorites on yourself and give yourself a ton of score: 2's... you are only given a limited amount of moderator points, so spend them wisely...:)
J/K, I love the changes in this place... Nesting wonderful, and the links on the left panel no longer line wrap... Overall, I am very impressed with the new features. Kudos. Time flies like an arrow;
I couldn't agree more about Greedo... I was very disappointed with that change. I do understand the political motivation for it though. When ANH was released, that was all of StarWars. The original opening is proof enough of that. Then, after Chapters 5 and 6 were completed, Han was a hero, and no longer the scoundrel he was original depicted to be. This prompted George to make a "subtle" change in the Cantina scene. Let's get real here, unless you grew up on StarWars, you wouldn't know the difference. The change wasn't done for you or I, so we would enjoy the movie better, it was done so that a younger generation of StarWars fans would have fewer discontinuities, when watching the films, one after the other. Time flies like an arrow;
Entertainment Tonight comes on a Waco station and is broadcasted on our local cable system... They failed to do that tonight... NO TRAILER...:( I recorded it from CNN earlier, but the sound is flat, no surround encoding... ET for the first trailer was awesome, full rich sound, now, let me reiterate, College Station was screwed over. Damn I'm really ticked off about this!!! Only I can't figure out who to gripe to. Guess I'll be limited to the QT... very cool I might add, but I sure would have liked to add it to the tape with the first trailer. Time flies like an arrow;
It seems that one issue that would make this problem go away would be a pci "cartrage" card... Occuping a 5 1/4" bay, the cartrage reader would provide an interface for UltraHLE to run roms from, and it would not be circumventing anything. The PCI bus should be fast enough to accomidate the requests from the emulator, and Nintendo wouldn't be able to use pirating as an inapropriate use of the emulator... with this cartrage bay, you could run cartrages without having to bypass any security chips, and Nin. wouldn't have a leg to stand on... For example, On PSZ emu side of the house, Bleem is comming out soon which _WILL NOT_ play copied games, it will only play the originals. Thus the authors of Bleem won't have to worry about developers suing. I know that there are/. readers out there with the know how, obviously the edge connector for the cartrages has been mapped (should be available somewhere), and changing the location that the emu looks from physical ram to a card based memory address shouldn't be that hard...:/ I won't even patent my idea:) so long as you mention that the device was inspired by me...:) get to soldering!!! Time flies like an arrow;
Slashdot Mirror
This is being done... I'll try to find a link, but it is being used for some "home" LANs.
Baggio
Time flies like an arrow;
I'm somewhat disappointed. I hadn't heard anything about it lately, and was just thinking about it a couple of days ago for some reason. I thought that it would be a great way to distibute information all over the country. Kinda like X10 units, or the devices you plug into an outlet to use the household wiring as a large antenna. But obviously at a much higher scale.
What would it do to the power grid though? The power comapny has large capacitor banks to counter any inductance introduced by factories/neighborhoods. I guess it's not a capacitive or inductive signal, but I can't imagine that that kind of signal on the utility lines would be all that easy to isolate, and provide the clean sinewave required by some equipment. I guess since it isn't going to happen, these aren't major concerns anymore.
Baggio
Time flies like an arrow;
It was my understanding that the moderators can't delete now. When /. was just a wee little thing, just those that worked on the site with CmdrTaco and Hemos had the ability to delete posts that were in appropriate or offensive.
/.er's, then to 400 /.'er's then to the current form of MetaModeration, moderators lost the ability to delete posts. Now they only have the ability to reduce the score of an article. Useful or insightful comments are likewise boosted.
/. account owner, to set their scope higher or lower to include or disclude those comments deemed poor.
/. community is able to determine for itself, which comments are the most important and which are the most distracting.
When moderation was introduced first to 25
It is up
Thus, the
Baggio
Time flies like an arrow;
Ok, I haven't been posting as often as I once did... there was a time when I was able to read every thread, on every article that /. could dish. With school, and work, that isn't possible, but how could I possibly have "bad karma?"
/. search for this Karma rating? Over a year ago, I was posting on quite a regular basis. Several posts a day. I can't maintain the same pace that I once did, call it old age... ;/ but I'd like for those posts to be considerd in my karma. At the same time. If I had been a Troll, but then after rediscovering myself in some reform institution, and now frequently contributed to the /. society, I'd like to disreguard my past existance. How far back does this rating level go?
/.er with a negative Karma,
AFAIK, none of my posts have ever been moderated down. Infact, there were time that some of my posts had been marked up. However, when I checked my userpage, I have a karma of -1? Isn't this supposed to be an average? If I've never posted any off topic/color posts, and never recieved a negative moderation? how can I have a negative karma?
Secondly, how far back does
A frequent
Baggio
Time flies like an arrow;
Oh, and I left out one of it's worst problems... the 6 page post limit, that required several different posts to deliver a complete listing of the source code. And that printing would only print to about half the page before it'd line feed to the next post... a huge waste of paper... :)
:)
BRRX28B one last time, I promise
Time flies like an arrow;
I remember that I used to connect to *P* and hangout in the Computer BBS section several hours a day. I still have some printouts that I made on my 9 pin Okidata. *P* was my first taste of what an on line community should be about. I remember taking animation lessons (in pascal and basic) from a gentleman named Robin Roudge before he left for the peace corps. I can also remember learning assemebly from *P* and getting assistance for writing a TSR. But what I remeber best about *P* before they changed their TOS was finding a hex crack for almost every game published at the time. No longer did I have to squint at that stupid red city population list for Sim City. No longer did I have to look up 1st word, 2nd paragragh, page 5 in the King's Quest IV manual. I guess that information is still avaliable now, but in a grander scale... :)
I will somewhat miss *P*, but since I haven't had their service for 7 years now, only for the memories.
BRRX28B siging off one last time.
(Damn, can't believe I still remember that one... )
Time flies like an arrow;
Working for a Cable ISP, $24.95 for a 64k/64k and $49.95 for a 1024k/128k... Of course, working for the ISP, I get about twice that... ;) The rummor is that we might open it all the way for the $49.95 price. Definately the way to go... until ADSL gets to be cheaper/faster/more reliable. Still a couple of years from that though.
Time flies like an arrow;
I dunno about that... I get better Millage per gallon rolling down a hill with the engine off than "driving" down the hill. Even if only a quater mile, the miles per gallon is 1/4/0. Division by zero is undefined, but 1/4/x as x approaches 0 is infinate. Sounds pretty good to me.
Time flies like an arrow;
Obviously your not a believer in the mystical healing powers of magnets... Hmmm maybe I should return my insoles with the magnets that make my feet like they are being massaged all day long. Or the copper bracelet with the magnets that is garanteed to add at least 5 years to my lifespan (I think it is two years for the copper and three for the magnets). And I suppose you don't believe that the headband with the magnets, doesn't make my headaches go away, without taking toxic chemicals...
Ok, I don't believe any of that crap either, but it is amazing what people will believe, even in 1999. It sounds to me that this might be a nice "gimick" that some easily suckered individual may buy into. The same hippy that would buy the headband, bracelet, and insoles.
Time flies like an arrow;
There was the mouse that recharges your laptop this year... it actually had a pretty cool Flash demo of it, where you "drove" a race car around a track and the faster you drove, the more it would charge your laptop...
Time flies like an arrow;
4 years ago, coming from a new Window 95 installation to Slackware was a real adventure... :)
:) No manual, just luck, and several fdisk /mbr's later, I had a dual booting Linux distibution...
I've since adjusted nicely, but I've had to ween myself by swithing back and forth between OS's until I've felt comfortable with Linux. Your fortunate to have installed a comercial RH5.3 with a manual too, my first was a multi-distribution collection that had some old RH (version 2 something I think), Debian, SuSE, and Slackware. Slackware was the first disk, so that is what I installed...
Compaired to my first installation, RH6 is a blessing.
Ryan
Time flies like an arrow;
Actually, having just installed a copy of Win2k, I don't think it was that easy to install. Win2k still lacks some major driver support that Win9x has, and for somethings, I have better support in Linux. My soundcard for instance an AudioPCI 1370 is not 100% supported under Win2k, and that is a popular card. Win2k has support for the AudioPCI 1371, but then some features didn't work, there was much noise from the speakers, and I couldn't use my microphone because the +5v switch isn't supported by the 1371 driver. Using ALSA under linux, I have all of those things. Even Voodoo support under Win2k is largely absent. There wont even be support for the Banshee cards until after Win2k is on the shelf. Overall, Linux has more of what I wan't, and if something doesn't work the way I want it to, I can just modify the code to accomodate my needs, not what someone else thinks I need.
Ryan
Time flies like an arrow;
As a K6 owener I am quite pleased. Not only has the K6 performed, but for me it was worth the price I paid. When I bought my K6 it was half the cost of a same priced Pentium... for what, a gain of at most a second in opening a window... I'm going to use your statement As if I really cared that a window would render itself on-screen in .001 nanoseconds instead of .02 nanoseconds. I really wouldn't care if it took as much as half a second longer. Keep in mind, I only have a Pentium killer, and when finding the best deal for my money, the K6 was The Deal®. They have only gotten better with each release since. I look forward to getting my K7, but I will be waiting for a while before I do. Not because I don't want it, but because I can't afford it myself. You won't find me buying a PIII either, but for the same reason. When it comes right down to it, the K6 serries has always performed as well as I expected it to, and often better.
I will admit that the K6 I have is somewhat temperature sensitive. I tried to overclock it, and raised it from it's rated 233 to 225, by raising the FSB and lowering the clockrate. While a slower clockrate doesn't seem like an improvement, the faster FSB increased my system performance by close to 10%. More than enough to make it worth it, and the CPU runs cool to the touch. I could have raised my core voltage and bumped the clockrate up slightly I think, but it is already faster, and again, an excellent deal.
Am I slightly biased now. Yes!!. But only because I've had excellent performance from the K6. Only because I found that the processor exceeded my expectations. When I finally collect enough money to consider a K7 or PIII, I can assure you that the K7 is going to get my first consideration.
Ryan
Time flies like an arrow;
Why stop there... according to the FAQ, 4 and 8 processor systems are in the work, and they didn't say it has a max of 8, they hinted that it may be able to handle more... SMP is not dependent on the CPU, it is in the chipset. But then I guess, even though PIII's are capable of two CPU's by their pinouts, higher Pentium processor machines are also being designed from chipset support... So I guess not much has changed. I just expect that the K7 will have better SMP support and a better design based on the bus architecture, but I guess I will have to wait for these MB's to develop... :/ Damn it, I thought I had a really good point to make, but I seem to be countering my good arguments... Don't you hate it when you argue with yourself and lose.
Ryan
Time flies like an arrow;
I liked AT&T... a emphasize liked though... Here in College Station/Bryan AT&T is being "bought out" by Houston Cellular. While I used to have Long Distance for free anywhere in Texas, Houston doesn't offer that, and they charge the same amount. I'm pretty ticked about it, and I am not switching to Houston Cell. Prior to that, I've had excellent service.
Time flies like an arrow;
Cool device, drivers for Windows weren't up to par though... I've thought that the SpaceOrb would make a nice mouse/controler though... Wonder how hard it would be to make drivers...
I just want to take the rest of this post to express my opinion of the K7 Athlon thingy. Whatever it is called, I expect I'll be quite pleased with it. I have been an AMD supporter since my first K6-200, and I think that the chips, dollar for dollar, knocked the socks off Intel. I'm only considering Celerons now, because I'd like to try the dual Celeron setup, but I'd really like to hold off until K7 rolls down the line.
K5 -- so, so. K6 -- Nice. K7 -- Nothing short of the best thing to come out at that point in time. Funny how the best is never the best more than a day or so.
Time flies like an arrow;
That would be the point. It's arbitrary, but it was infering that Chess (invented how many thousands of years ago) should have racial undertones... Or at least that is what the media would pick up on.
Time flies like an arrow;
Obviously not for a green PC then... think about it. If even as much as 40% of the light is reflected back to the optical sensors, then that other 60% is wasted.
The ability of the mouse to track over any surface is a plus to loptop users. If I had a laptop, redirecting the light so as to "capture" most of it on the sensor would be in my favor. Wasted light is wasted power is shorter batter life. Reducing the expended light, and improving the reflected content saves me money in the long run. The taillight is a waste.
I still think that mice should have feet!!! (Honeywell circa 1992)
Time flies like an arrow;
I'd like to amend my other post...
)
/ total_mod_votes)))
/. forum.
sign(abs(ceil(total_mod_score/total_mod_votes))
should read
sign(total_mod_score)*(ceil(abs(total_mod_score
The point was to lower score 0's to score -1 with one vote, and to raise score 0's to score 1+ with one vote, and to show score x.25's as x+1.
I hope that this alleviates any confusion. Please contact me by email if you'd like to discuss this further out of a
Time flies like an arrow;
I thought one of the finer aspects of moderation was that it was supposed to be anonynous... a default score for a poorly written article will also defeat that anonimity.
/.'ers as:
I think that being able to post with a default score wouldn't be bad if the script were to prevent that post from going any higher. This means if I were to give myself a 3 I'd be admiting that this document isn't worth anymore than a 3, and so can't be raised any higher... on the other hand, it could always be lowered.
I also think that moderated scores should be averaged:
Every AC post is scored 0
Registered posts are scored 1
Moderators can be provided a supply of "moderation points" x per week (perhaps as high as 100 for reasons explained later)
A -1 mod score costs 2 moderation point
A 0 mod score costs 1 moderation points
A 1 mod score costs 2 moderation point
A 2 mod score costs 4 moderation points
A 3 mod score costs 8 moderation points
A 4 mod score costs 16 moderation points
A 5 mod score costs 32 moderation points
If a post is moderated, the first moderation sets the bench. Subsequent moderation scores are then averaged with previous moderation scores. The score would be shown to
sign(abs(ceil(total_mod_score/total_mod_votes)))
This would provide moderators with 3 score 5 votes per week, meaning that that moderator had better vote 5 on articles that really are worth 5 points. Otherwise a single moderator that sensed ballot box stuffing could deflate that score to a 3 costing him (or her) only 2 moderation points (5+(-1)/2). This will keep everything in check. Very good posts would in theory receive higher scores, and poor articles would receive lower scores. Overall the scores whould remain on the lower side. Once again seperating the cream of the crop.
AC posts would have a chance then too, what is one moderation point to a moderator with 100? If the AC post is worth it, it could be brought to a score 1 or better with only one vote.
I have other some other ideas about moderation as well. Everyone that contributes should moderate. The score that someone receives for a post should provide them with moderation points too, on a slightly different scale:
A -1 mod score adds -1 moderation point
A 0 mod score adds 0 moderation points
A 1 mod score adds -1 moderation point
A 2 mod score adds 2 moderation points
A 3 mod score adds 4 moderation points
A 4 mod score adds 8 moderation points
A 5 mod score adds 16 moderation points
Moderation points are not supplemented as quickly as they are used, this is where the top x number of posters are suplimented extra points not to excede 100 points. This should keep the best posters the "main moderators" while leting everyone decide on quality of content.
This may have drifted slightly off thread, but it addresses some important points I think. I'm sure it would eliminate topics that have one or two high scoring posts with the rest 1's and 2's and would distribute the scores more evenly, good posts high scores, bad posts, low scores.
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'Nuff said.
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No fair.... Rob, you can't play favorites on yourself and give yourself a ton of score: 2's... you are only given a limited amount of moderator points, so spend them wisely... :)
J/K, I love the changes in this place... Nesting wonderful, and the links on the left panel no longer line wrap... Overall, I am very impressed with the new features. Kudos.
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I couldn't agree more about Greedo... I was very disappointed with that change. I do understand the political motivation for it though. When ANH was released, that was all of StarWars. The original opening is proof enough of that. Then, after Chapters 5 and 6 were completed, Han was a hero, and no longer the scoundrel he was original depicted to be. This prompted George to make a "subtle" change in the Cantina scene. Let's get real here, unless you grew up on StarWars, you wouldn't know the difference. The change wasn't done for you or I, so we would enjoy the movie better, it was done so that a younger generation of StarWars fans would have fewer discontinuities, when watching the films, one after the other.
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Entertainment Tonight comes on a Waco station and is broadcasted on our local cable system... They failed to do that tonight... NO TRAILER... :( I recorded it from CNN earlier, but the sound is flat, no surround encoding... ET for the first trailer was awesome, full rich sound, now, let me reiterate, College Station was screwed over. Damn I'm really ticked off about this!!! Only I can't figure out who to gripe to. Guess I'll be limited to the QT... very cool I might add, but I sure would have liked to add it to the tape with the first trailer.
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It seems that one issue that would make this problem go away would be a pci "cartrage" card... Occuping a 5 1/4" bay, the cartrage reader would provide an interface for UltraHLE to run roms from, and it would not be circumventing anything. The PCI bus should be fast enough to accomidate the requests from the emulator, and Nintendo wouldn't be able to use pirating as an inapropriate use of the emulator... with this cartrage bay, you could run cartrages without having to bypass any security chips, and Nin. wouldn't have a leg to stand on... For example, On PSZ emu side of the house, Bleem is comming out soon which _WILL NOT_ play copied games, it will only play the originals. Thus the authors of Bleem won't have to worry about developers suing. I know that there are /. readers out there with the know how, obviously the edge connector for the cartrages has been mapped (should be available somewhere), and changing the location that the emu looks from physical ram to a card based memory address shouldn't be that hard... :/ I won't even patent my idea :) so long as you mention that the device was inspired by me... :) get to soldering!!!
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