Accroding to the page on moderation, mod points are given to long-time readers who have good karma and represent "regular" readers (culling out the occasional readers and obsessive-compulsive readers).
That was supposedly last updated 9 years ago, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's changed. Nowadays I get 15 points twice a week, but I'd never seen 15 points until about a month ago, so I'm not sure if it's a new policy by Slashdot, or something I've "earned".
I often wonder if they use meta-moderation to give more points to the better moderators, or if there's gradients of "excellent" karma. I also used to wonder if meta-moderating helped your karma. I suppose I should peruse the Slash code some time to find out.
I'm pretty sure Slashdot discourages the use of over/underrated mods somewhere in their modding guidelines.
They are kind of weird mods, and I tend not to use them because it seems like it would make meta-moderating a mess. If something is modded +5 Insightful, and I think it only deserves a +4 Insightful, then I can mod it overrated. But once I do that, then it's no longer overrated, which makes my mod unjust!
I do wish there were antonyms for each mod. But then I'd probably end wasting all my mod points on "not funny".
I have no idea; I clicked on it to see if anything else had the same tag, but that really didn't do what I expected! Now I've apparently "voted" for the tag, and I have no idea if there's any way I can remove my vote.
Anyway, no other stories have received the same tag, if you're curious.
What on Earth are you talking about? People don't leave plywood on their windows after the storm passes, so why are you assuming they would leave it on their solar cells after the storm passes?
You should probably try to say something intelligent if you're going to be condescending to somebody. Not being condescending at all is another good option.
The windshield does not represent the majority of the value of the car, nor do windows represent a majority of the value of the home, such that you end up buying a new car or new home every hail storm.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather pay for the full replacement of a drinking glass than pay to have a windshield replaced.
Whether or not it's a full replacement is a pretty meaningless distinction.
The optical naysayers are probably right in the long term, but I doubt it's going to be replaced with flash media. In the end, neither medium can beat the cost analysis of digital distribution.
I've never heard of this tech, but the most optimistic lifespan of a CD-RW is 25 years, and in practice they usually die in less than 10 years. So if it uses the "same glass substrate that's used on re-writable optical media", then it's still not suitable for long-term storage.
Do you mean cartridges work well for the Nintendo DS?
Well, of course they do. The GP's argument wasn't that cartridges should be abandoned, just that they're more expensive to manufacture. In the case of the DS, Nintendo has some unique requirements -- like long battery life and resistance to pocket lint -- that preclude optical media as an option.
Good luck generalizing that to any window manager. They've also removed the (ungainly) menu from the toolbox, so this new window really is necessary, because you have no other way to open files.
Although I think they could do some more useful things with the "no image" window than simply making it a drop target (my list of recent files with thumbnails would be nice) it's certainly a step up.
Unfortunately, the reason the "no image" window will never be more than a drop target is because the new GUI team has a bunch of philosophical ideas about how the initial configuration of the app should "represent a clean workspace". It gets worse, the GUI team claimed that it was very important for the users to have a slider which controls the alpha of the entire app, and that it was "very important to be able to track the user's mood". The coders pretty much refused that one flat out.
You might want to check out the video in this news post. Printing a human-readable ballot isn't as secure as you may think.
Counting paper ballots also isn't the most secure option, given how easy it would be for volunteers to "lose" ballots. Ideally the votes should be counted both ways to ensure that they line up.
The most secure system I can think of would use scantron cards and have the voter verify that the scanning machine reads the card properly and then either returns the ballot (if invalid) or deposits it into the ballot box through a clear tube.
I'd also be interested in a system that points cameras at the voting machines and broadcasts the video across the Internet, so that people can independently verify the votes. Of course, that would require huge amounts of bandwidth, and people might consider video of their hand voting an invasion of privacy, especially if you're the only black guy in your town.
Hmm... The Discovery Channel's online archives of How It's Made only goes back to season 9, so I wasn't able to find the episode you were talking about, but I did find an episode about whiskey barrels.
Anyway, I'm sure the hiker will be rewarded. If somebody returned my wallet I'd give them whatever cash was left, and I imagine a missing loved one would be more important to me than a missing wallet.
Agreed. I've heard (and even told) the same story from many different people, and the only major change in each story is which sequel disillusioned them, and their age.
The games aren't getting worse; we're getting older and expecting more.
If you're that bothered about word choice, why aren't you bothered that the USA decided to use a word which doesn't accurately describe the document's purpose?
Actually, it is a Gimp issue, and it's fixed in this release. Gimp now has a "no image window" which opens when you launch Gimp or close all your images, which you can alt-tab to.
Unfortunately, with the last Windows development build they still haven't managed to get Windows to hide the utility windows from the task bar. (I don't know about the final build, because the Windows version always lags by a few days, and Linux isn't my primary OS.)
I like Gimp, but if somebody is busy learning the ropes with Linux, throwing them into Gimp when they already have so much experience with Photoshop probably isn't wise.
GEGL was on hiatus for much of that 6 years; they simply had different priorities. And that's a good thing, because six years ago Gimp didn't even have a drop-down menu -- you had to use the context menu to get to any of the stuff you would expect in such a menu.
As an amateur photographer, I'm really happy to see that somebody took up the mantle of GEGL. Here's hoping that eventually I can manipulate HDR images in Gimp.
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A less awkward and more flexible solution is to use the "edit->stroke selection" tool, or the paths dialog if you need more control.
These methods also have the nice side effect of making people less likely to respond with the phrase "Well, that was ass backward!"
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You, sir, need to discover the "edit->stroke selection" tool, or paths dialog.
Using the selection border tool is kind of awkward and inflexible for this task.
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If you're interested in noise reduction, this isn't the case for you. That's a completely different niche.
Yeah, water-cooled systems are a great suggestion for users who have to swap parts on a regular basis.
Accroding to the page on moderation, mod points are given to long-time readers who have good karma and represent "regular" readers (culling out the occasional readers and obsessive-compulsive readers).
That was supposedly last updated 9 years ago, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's changed. Nowadays I get 15 points twice a week, but I'd never seen 15 points until about a month ago, so I'm not sure if it's a new policy by Slashdot, or something I've "earned".
I often wonder if they use meta-moderation to give more points to the better moderators, or if there's gradients of "excellent" karma. I also used to wonder if meta-moderating helped your karma. I suppose I should peruse the Slash code some time to find out.
For me, the idle comment box spans the whole width.
Actually, I kind of wish the comments section was narrower. On my widescreen monitor I can write a whole paragraph in two lines or less.
I'm pretty sure Slashdot discourages the use of over/underrated mods somewhere in their modding guidelines.
They are kind of weird mods, and I tend not to use them because it seems like it would make meta-moderating a mess. If something is modded +5 Insightful, and I think it only deserves a +4 Insightful, then I can mod it overrated. But once I do that, then it's no longer overrated, which makes my mod unjust!
I do wish there were antonyms for each mod. But then I'd probably end wasting all my mod points on "not funny".
I have no idea; I clicked on it to see if anything else had the same tag, but that really didn't do what I expected! Now I've apparently "voted" for the tag, and I have no idea if there's any way I can remove my vote.
Anyway, no other stories have received the same tag, if you're curious.
What on Earth are you talking about? People don't leave plywood on their windows after the storm passes, so why are you assuming they would leave it on their solar cells after the storm passes?
You should probably try to say something intelligent if you're going to be condescending to somebody. Not being condescending at all is another good option.
The windshield does not represent the majority of the value of the car, nor do windows represent a majority of the value of the home, such that you end up buying a new car or new home every hail storm.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather pay for the full replacement of a drinking glass than pay to have a windshield replaced.
Whether or not it's a full replacement is a pretty meaningless distinction.
The optical naysayers are probably right in the long term, but I doubt it's going to be replaced with flash media. In the end, neither medium can beat the cost analysis of digital distribution.
I've never heard of this tech, but the most optimistic lifespan of a CD-RW is 25 years, and in practice they usually die in less than 10 years. So if it uses the "same glass substrate that's used on re-writable optical media", then it's still not suitable for long-term storage.
Do you mean cartridges work well for the Nintendo DS?
Well, of course they do. The GP's argument wasn't that cartridges should be abandoned, just that they're more expensive to manufacture. In the case of the DS, Nintendo has some unique requirements -- like long battery life and resistance to pocket lint -- that preclude optical media as an option.
Good luck generalizing that to any window manager. They've also removed the (ungainly) menu from the toolbox, so this new window really is necessary, because you have no other way to open files.
Although I think they could do some more useful things with the "no image" window than simply making it a drop target (my list of recent files with thumbnails would be nice) it's certainly a step up.
Unfortunately, the reason the "no image" window will never be more than a drop target is because the new GUI team has a bunch of philosophical ideas about how the initial configuration of the app should "represent a clean workspace". It gets worse, the GUI team claimed that it was very important for the users to have a slider which controls the alpha of the entire app, and that it was "very important to be able to track the user's mood". The coders pretty much refused that one flat out.
Both methods will err (computers shouldn't, but will) and each one will give you a different result.
A small error is okay, as long as both methods say that the same person won. If they don't, a recount is valid.
Idealy, we should have one, secure, way.
Huh? You solution to the problem is to make sure nobody notices the problem?
No system is 100% secure. Employing measures that ensure you notice when you system is compromised is A Good Thing.
You might want to check out the video in this news post. Printing a human-readable ballot isn't as secure as you may think.
Counting paper ballots also isn't the most secure option, given how easy it would be for volunteers to "lose" ballots. Ideally the votes should be counted both ways to ensure that they line up.
The most secure system I can think of would use scantron cards and have the voter verify that the scanning machine reads the card properly and then either returns the ballot (if invalid) or deposits it into the ballot box through a clear tube.
I'd also be interested in a system that points cameras at the voting machines and broadcasts the video across the Internet, so that people can independently verify the votes. Of course, that would require huge amounts of bandwidth, and people might consider video of their hand voting an invasion of privacy, especially if you're the only black guy in your town.
Hmm... The Discovery Channel's online archives of How It's Made only goes back to season 9, so I wasn't able to find the episode you were talking about, but I did find an episode about whiskey barrels.
Most of the bills still look usable.
Anyway, I'm sure the hiker will be rewarded. If somebody returned my wallet I'd give them whatever cash was left, and I imagine a missing loved one would be more important to me than a missing wallet.
Agreed. I've heard (and even told) the same story from many different people, and the only major change in each story is which sequel disillusioned them, and their age.
The games aren't getting worse; we're getting older and expecting more.
Lighten up, Sparky. They're the same thing.
If you're that bothered about word choice, why aren't you bothered that the USA decided to use a word which doesn't accurately describe the document's purpose?
Not that I'm a Final Fantasy fan anymore -- I grew out of that phase during Final Fantasy III/6j -- but I still feel obliged to say...
SUCK IT.
Well, maybe in the next version. This release only has foundational support for GEGL.
Actually, it is a Gimp issue, and it's fixed in this release. Gimp now has a "no image window" which opens when you launch Gimp or close all your images, which you can alt-tab to.
Unfortunately, with the last Windows development build they still haven't managed to get Windows to hide the utility windows from the task bar. (I don't know about the final build, because the Windows version always lags by a few days, and Linux isn't my primary OS.)
Especially since Google pumped some funding into the Wine project to ensure that Photoshop was supported.
I like Gimp, but if somebody is busy learning the ropes with Linux, throwing them into Gimp when they already have so much experience with Photoshop probably isn't wise.
GEGL was on hiatus for much of that 6 years; they simply had different priorities. And that's a good thing, because six years ago Gimp didn't even have a drop-down menu -- you had to use the context menu to get to any of the stuff you would expect in such a menu.
As an amateur photographer, I'm really happy to see that somebody took up the mantle of GEGL. Here's hoping that eventually I can manipulate HDR images in Gimp.
A less awkward and more flexible solution is to use the "edit->stroke selection" tool, or the paths dialog if you need more control.
These methods also have the nice side effect of making people less likely to respond with the phrase "Well, that was ass backward!"
You, sir, need to discover the "edit->stroke selection" tool, or paths dialog.
Using the selection border tool is kind of awkward and inflexible for this task.