The problem is that controls aren't two-handed enough! Sure, if you're disabled it's great that you have options, but why force your body into a cramped and unnatural position to play a videogame? I've never seen a controller which actually takes advantage of humans having two arms, rather than seeing it as a burden that we dont just have ten fingers jutting out from the centers of our chests. Controllers suck ass, yes, but is that a reason to make them More limited?
That said, some controllers I use with only one hand just because the layout sucks to begin with.. god DAMN I havent yet used a truely good controller. (Though the PS2 controller is decent)
"It is my opinion that the sky is blue" does not work. The sky either is blue or it isnt. It could be red or black at the time, but "the sky is blue" is in no way an opinion.
"There's always an opportunity for you" is not an opinion. It is a statement which can either be correct or incorrect. There is no way such a statement can be interpreted as an opinion.
Saying something stupid in order to generate a response, yes. But not saying stupid in order to generate a stupid response. That is the difference. When you see a post that looks stupid, Think to yourself "what is the most likely response to this message?" if the answer is "It will be ignored." the moderation should probably be "unfunny", or "overrated". If you can think of how someone might be offended by the post, (or of course if it's something that's been done so far to death that no one posting it could possibly be serious- such as the soviet russia thing), then it might be "Troll" or "Flamebait"
In general, a Troll is trying to ruin everyone's fun by posting something completely off-topic and offencive (eg: GNAA). A Flamebait is trying to ruin everyone else's fun not by their own posting, but by the conversation which is expected to follow. Usually a flamebait is just-barely on-topic, and saying something obviously intended to get someone riled-up.
Now, I personally think that "Flamebait" would have been a much fairer moderation for the post in question, though only because slashdot lacks the moderation option "Just plain stupid and not worth reading" (though I think in most cases, "Overrated" does that just fine)
Of course, when moderating someone as "Flamebait", it's important to consider whether or not the post seems likely to generate any response. If it seems unlikely that anyone will actually bother to reply to the post, it most likely is not flamebait.
Before modewrating, you should really stop and consider: "This guy is obviously an idiot, but is he actually trying to be funny, or is he the type of person who has nothing better to do and so he goes around posting shit like this on slashdot all day" When someone isn't posting AC, even a troll-looking post may not actually be a troll. Check their message history- do they tend to troll? Actually read the other posts, don't just look at the moderation totals. You may have just found a very mis-understood individual who has a hard time taking a hint. Check their karma. If it's not abysmal, somebody may like them. Check their user number, and try not to pick on anybody below a thousand or so. Always think to yourself "Maybe I just don't get it", and if all else fails, you can always do an non-AC post calling the guy an idiot- it goes a long way, trust me. Well, a lot farther than a moderation point or an AC post. (which admittedly isn't very far at all). Calling someone an idiot may sound like "flaming", but as long as you make yourself clear and dont post as AC, you are likely to have your comment ignored by all except the poster (Who may kindly start a long conversation with you and become a close friend for life)
And just as an example, this message isnt "Troll" or "Flamebait", it's just "Horribly Off-Topic, God DAMN this guy is an idiot, does he just have nothing better to do so he just posts shit like this all day?"
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Never have to deal with compatability woes when a game never works on the latest OS, I've got more PCs than versions of windows.
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Who else is completely sick of nostalgia about how crappy things used to be. "Oh boy! Things used to be horrible and we loved it! Yay! I guess in hindsight we're idiots and should shut up!"
what? Don't these people know how electronics work?! Gah.. well I for one refuse to buy one until they make it cost three times as much as a normal-sized one.
Holy crap, it's like DRM uses encryption or something and you just don't get it. But that couldnt be, right? And you say "would never consider", as if you didnt read the original post at all.. but that certainly wouldnt be the case!
Yeah, I'm really kicking myself every few years when I need new tires and I have to pay 1/3rd the original cost of the vehicle to get new ones.
You know what? TIRES ARE REPLACEABLE. Few people are saying "Free" with regaurds to the iPod batteries, but I've never purchased an electronic anything which cost over $5 and didnt have a simple plastic door which opened and closed easily covering the consumer-removable and purchasable battery. Come to think of it, I bet you haven't either. (okay fine, so your motherboard's battery doesnt even have that much, it just fucking comes out) So I'm wondering what could lead you to believe.. any of the things which you just said in the top of your post.
I, not being an idiot, have a cheap CD/MP3 player, which you could hit with a hammer without caring too much.. and of course, it takes double-As
Yeah- that you shouldnt be having private conversations on a cell phone. Though the real argument that I'm trying to make is that this isnt like a radio signal [yeah I know it is a radio signal, but shut up;)], they are sending the signal down a wire directly into your home. Now, I'll argue well into the night that broadcasting your telephone call "in the clear" pretty much kills any expectation of privacy you might desire, but it's still not quite as obscene as using someone's home intercom system's alternate frequency and telling them not to tune in to it.
I have heard that there is a driver for one of the ATI cards with RF-in which includes error correction. This driver "corrected" the scrambling right out of the scrambled channels. Oops.
It's more an issue of rights. I don't really mean to go so far out of the way, but the same arguments which apply to anal sex laws can be applied here. The idea that there is any law whatsoever against a passive act is sickening- You shouldnt be allowed to shoot people, but damned if I'll let them take away my right to get shot!
I have no idea what you're trying to get at- You require complete access to a key in order to decrypt something. Have you devised some DRM scheme which allows people to have complete access to keys, yet won't allow them to transfer those keys?
The things about leveraging popularity are understood, but I dont quite see the point about "Company B Developes cheaper version with the same features" Company B can't copy the code word-for-word, they'd need to develop their own methods of doing things. So for copying features, they'd be in the same place, wouldnt they?
I would like to know what problems would come about an absolute requirement of including source-code (or at least making available source-code) with any compiled binary product. If source-code were required 100% of the time, you couldn't "steal" code and then hide behind your binaries- wouldnt everyone (even Microsoft) stand to benifit from that? It couldnt be a hard-and-fast rule, obviously. Certain encryption and DRM sections of code would still need to be locked..
This isnt a troll or anything, I'd just like to know what people think of it. Why not open source everything?
see, I purposely didnt mention those laws because the argument has been done entirely to death, and I really don't feel like becomming one of the types of people who would bother typing such things. If you read through slashdot, you can probably find somebody mentioning those laws at least once under every article. It's just stupid to keep pointing it out. Now if there were some nice and non-widespread anecdotes, like "In 1802 Charles Wittfucker petitioned his local government to allow him to charge people for every bullet he fired at them, and it took a 60 years and the collective effort of millions to get a federal ruling to overturn the decision"
Yes, I am saying that Civil Rights laws are not worth mentioning.
of all these, that one was troll? Come on now, it's true!:) I'm really not sending him scrambled TV signals! Okay, fine, I just wrote that one quickly before getting in the shower. I'm out now, I'll give you some thoughts.
Do you have any idea how, say, a TV works? Why do you think it is that out of all those channels, your TV only shows you one at a time? That certainly sounds like it is quite possible to limit what signals are sent. Of course you may then yell "But they can't tune to a specific channel at the street! You'd only get one channel per house!!" This, of course, would be completely incorrect. There is no grand physical law which says that a tuner must tune to a specific frequency range which is equal to a "channel". It can just as well tune to 70 channels at a time, leaving the other channels to be shunted on by an installer when he comes to your house. Yeah, it wouldnt be as simple as saying "Here is something to look at, but don't look at it because I'll see that you're thrown in jail if you do!" but then, does saying that even make sense?
Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to not do things. Why, I'm not sending you any scrambled TV channels RIGHT NOW! And I'm hardly lifting a finger.
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The problem is that controls aren't two-handed enough! Sure, if you're disabled it's great that you have options, but why force your body into a cramped and unnatural position to play a videogame? I've never seen a controller which actually takes advantage of humans having two arms, rather than seeing it as a burden that we dont just have ten fingers jutting out from the centers of our chests. Controllers suck ass, yes, but is that a reason to make them More limited?
That said, some controllers I use with only one hand just because the layout sucks to begin with.. god DAMN I havent yet used a truely good controller. (Though the PS2 controller is decent)
"It is my opinion that the sky is blue" does not work. The sky either is blue or it isnt. It could be red or black at the time, but "the sky is blue" is in no way an opinion.
"There's always an opportunity for you" is not an opinion. It is a statement which can either be correct or incorrect. There is no way such a statement can be interpreted as an opinion.
Saying something stupid in order to generate a response, yes. But not saying stupid in order to generate a stupid response. That is the difference. When you see a post that looks stupid, Think to yourself "what is the most likely response to this message?"
if the answer is "It will be ignored." the moderation should probably be "unfunny", or "overrated". If you can think of how someone might be offended by the post, (or of course if it's something that's been done so far to death that no one posting it could possibly be serious- such as the soviet russia thing), then it might be "Troll" or "Flamebait"
In general, a Troll is trying to ruin everyone's fun by posting something completely off-topic and offencive (eg: GNAA). A Flamebait is trying to ruin everyone else's fun not by their own posting, but by the conversation which is expected to follow. Usually a flamebait is just-barely on-topic, and saying something obviously intended to get someone riled-up.
Now, I personally think that "Flamebait" would have been a much fairer moderation for the post in question, though only because slashdot lacks the moderation option "Just plain stupid and not worth reading" (though I think in most cases, "Overrated" does that just fine)
Of course, when moderating someone as "Flamebait", it's important to consider whether or not the post seems likely to generate any response. If it seems unlikely that anyone will actually bother to reply to the post, it most likely is not flamebait.
Before modewrating, you should really stop and consider: "This guy is obviously an idiot, but is he actually trying to be funny, or is he the type of person who has nothing better to do and so he goes around posting shit like this on slashdot all day"
When someone isn't posting AC, even a troll-looking post may not actually be a troll. Check their message history- do they tend to troll? Actually read the other posts, don't just look at the moderation totals. You may have just found a very mis-understood individual who has a hard time taking a hint.
Check their karma. If it's not abysmal, somebody may like them. Check their user number, and try not to pick on anybody below a thousand or so.
Always think to yourself "Maybe I just don't get it", and if all else fails, you can always do an non-AC post calling the guy an idiot- it goes a long way, trust me. Well, a lot farther than a moderation point or an AC post. (which admittedly isn't very far at all). Calling someone an idiot may sound like "flaming", but as long as you make yourself clear and dont post as AC, you are likely to have your comment ignored by all except the poster (Who may kindly start a long conversation with you and become a close friend for life)
And just as an example, this message isnt "Troll" or "Flamebait", it's just "Horribly Off-Topic, God DAMN this guy is an idiot, does he just have nothing better to do so he just posts shit like this all day?"
Marked "Troll" in under 30 seconds.. wow. Somebody doesnt know the difference between "Stupid/Not Funny" and "Troll".
Don't mark everything as "Troll" just because it's stupid! STUPID != TROLL.
My server is crashing too, and I only want $10,000. Doesnt this sound like a better deal?
I don't care what anyone else says! It's MySQL 5.0 and we're running away together! You never understand me! Maybe no one else will ever understand us either, but alpha or not, we're n love!
I like to take old PCs and set them up as single-purpose machines. My friends know this and dispose of their old equipment properly. :)
Never have to deal with compatability woes when a game never works on the latest OS, I've got more PCs than versions of windows.
Who else is completely sick of nostalgia about how crappy things used to be.
"Oh boy! Things used to be horrible and we loved it! Yay! I guess in hindsight we're idiots and should shut up!"
what? Don't these people know how electronics work?! Gah.. well I for one refuse to buy one until they make it cost three times as much as a normal-sized one.
Holy crap, it's like DRM uses encryption or something and you just don't get it. But that couldnt be, right?
And you say "would never consider", as if you didnt read the original post at all.. but that certainly wouldnt be the case!
"our systems only have a Y2K bug every few thousand years!"
my electric shaver and cordless screwdriver both have replaceable batteries.. don't own the other two
Yeah, I'm really kicking myself every few years when I need new tires and I have to pay 1/3rd the original cost of the vehicle to get new ones.
You know what? TIRES ARE REPLACEABLE. Few people are saying "Free" with regaurds to the iPod batteries, but I've never purchased an electronic anything which cost over $5 and didnt have a simple plastic door which opened and closed easily covering the consumer-removable and purchasable battery. Come to think of it, I bet you haven't either. (okay fine, so your motherboard's battery doesnt even have that much, it just fucking comes out)
So I'm wondering what could lead you to believe.. any of the things which you just said in the top of your post.
I, not being an idiot, have a cheap CD/MP3 player, which you could hit with a hammer without caring too much.. and of course, it takes double-As
At this point, the whole thing could be automated. You know, 'cause I hear they're sending data on those lines now.
Yeah- that you shouldnt be having private conversations on a cell phone. Though the real argument that I'm trying to make is that this isnt like a radio signal [yeah I know it is a radio signal, but shut up ;)], they are sending the signal down a wire directly into your home. Now, I'll argue well into the night that broadcasting your telephone call "in the clear" pretty much kills any expectation of privacy you might desire, but it's still not quite as obscene as using someone's home intercom system's alternate frequency and telling them not to tune in to it.
I have heard that there is a driver for one of the ATI cards with RF-in which includes error correction. This driver "corrected" the scrambling right out of the scrambled channels.
Oops.
It's more an issue of rights. I don't really mean to go so far out of the way, but the same arguments which apply to anal sex laws can be applied here. The idea that there is any law whatsoever against a passive act is sickening- You shouldnt be allowed to shoot people, but damned if I'll let them take away my right to get shot!
I have no idea what you're trying to get at-
You require complete access to a key in order to decrypt something. Have you devised some DRM scheme which allows people to have complete access to keys, yet won't allow them to transfer those keys?
Why the AC? :/
The things about leveraging popularity are understood, but I dont quite see the point about "Company B Developes cheaper version with the same features"
Company B can't copy the code word-for-word, they'd need to develop their own methods of doing things. So for copying features, they'd be in the same place, wouldnt they?
Algorhithm and code are not the same things-
at some point, somewhere, in your code, the key must either be stored or told where to be stored.
I would like to know what problems would come about an absolute requirement of including source-code (or at least making available source-code) with any compiled binary product.
If source-code were required 100% of the time, you couldn't "steal" code and then hide behind your binaries- wouldnt everyone (even Microsoft) stand to benifit from that?
It couldnt be a hard-and-fast rule, obviously. Certain encryption and DRM sections of code would still need to be locked..
This isnt a troll or anything, I'd just like to know what people think of it. Why not open source everything?
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see, I purposely didnt mention those laws because the argument has been done entirely to death, and I really don't feel like becomming one of the types of people who would bother typing such things.
If you read through slashdot, you can probably find somebody mentioning those laws at least once under every article. It's just stupid to keep pointing it out. Now if there were some nice and non-widespread anecdotes, like "In 1802 Charles Wittfucker petitioned his local government to allow him to charge people for every bullet he fired at them, and it took a 60 years and the collective effort of millions to get a federal ruling to overturn the decision"
Yes, I am saying that Civil Rights laws are not worth mentioning.
of all these, that one was troll? Come on now, it's true! :)
I'm really not sending him scrambled TV signals!
Okay, fine, I just wrote that one quickly before getting in the shower. I'm out now, I'll give you some thoughts.
Do you have any idea how, say, a TV works? Why do you think it is that out of all those channels, your TV only shows you one at a time?
That certainly sounds like it is quite possible to limit what signals are sent. Of course you may then yell "But they can't tune to a specific channel at the street! You'd only get one channel per house!!"
This, of course, would be completely incorrect. There is no grand physical law which says that a tuner must tune to a specific frequency range which is equal to a "channel". It can just as well tune to 70 channels at a time, leaving the other channels to be shunted on by an installer when he comes to your house. Yeah, it wouldnt be as simple as saying "Here is something to look at, but don't look at it because I'll see that you're thrown in jail if you do!" but then, does saying that even make sense?
Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to not do things. Why, I'm not sending you any scrambled TV channels RIGHT NOW! And I'm hardly lifting a finger.