The moderation choices are things like "funny," "insightful," etc. Just like the adjectives you see here. There is also "overrated" and "underrated," if I recall correctly.
Moderators don't directly set the score, they just somehow nudge it in a particular direction with a particular adjective.
I don't know if it takes more than one moderator to assign a particular adjective to a post.
According to what I've read before... moderators ARE "us". As users post messages that are recognized as being usefull, they gain moderator status. They then blow their moderator points on whatever they see fit and fall back into the nameless masses that are the unpriviliged users. They then have a chance to be called to service again as their posts receive attention.
Pretty close to my understanding, though take out the "useful" part. I've been a moderator once, and don't think I've ever been scored up for a post. The ingredients for moderatorship are regular reading, not a new user, don't post lots of scored-down stuff, and "willing to moderate" in the user preferences.
The Newton was very close to perfect with the MessagePad 2100. Handwriting recognition worked. Speed was pretty good. It had TCP/IP, PPP, etc.
But, shortly after the MP 2100 came out, the Newton project was killed. Most of Apple's Newton staff seem to have gone to 3COM's Palm division.
No one really knows why Apple killed Newton just as it was taking off (and just as the handheld market was taking off). There is still nothing in the handheld market that equals the capabilities of the Newton. Apple's official reason for killing Newton was to focus on one platform (MacOS). The rumor mill has Steve Jobs not liking and/or groking Newton. (He is rumored to have said once, "Apple makes computers, and computers have keyboards.")
What makes it worse is that Apple had spun Newton off into its own company, called Newton, Inc. Promise was high, since Newton was finally getting the attention it needed from its developers. Then Steve Jobs "un-spun" Newton, Inc. That's when we started to get suspicious. A few months later, he killed the project.
Newton users were and are very bitter about the whole thing.
When Newton was killed, Apple promised a return to the handheld market in 1999. I'm not holding my breath.
People don't "deserve their money" for "working harder". They are given money in exchange for something that someone else considers to be of even greater value.
I recall, several years back, an article about the annual "top 10 highest-paid entertainers" lists, and Michael Jackson was on top as a result of his Thriller album. (I told you it was a while back.) Jackson had made a few bazillion dollars that year. "No one's worth that kind of money!" is the typical response. The author of the article talked to an exec from Jackson's record company. He wouldn't divulge how much money had been made off of Thriller, but did admit that the few bazillion dollars they paid Jackson was "a bargain."
That's the point. Jackson contributed more to the economy than he took out. Same with Bill Gates. Are they "worth it"? In an economic sense, yes. In a philosophical sense, we can debate.
Two genetically identical persons growing up different wouldn't be proof of the presense or lack of a soul or a higher power or purpose. There are many environmental factors that are at least as important as genetics, such as how you were brought up, how you've been treated, your economic well being etc.
And what about identical twins? Same genetics, same environment, and they still end up with different personalities.
Personally, I think that identical twins are very strong evidence that there is more to a person than genetics and environment.
I also happen to think that a cloned embryo is just as human as a naturally conceived embryo, and to abort either is equally unjust.
I guess that makes me a religious wacko. So be it.
Re:Future DIVX Only releases
on
DIVX is dead
·
· Score: 1
Well, given that a DVD player isn't much more than a VCR, and Wal-Mart and Costco sell DVD movies, I think the necessary "critical mass" is there to consider DVD a viable format for producing movies.
As for Disney, just take a look at recent releases: A Bug's Life, Mighty Joe Young, The Parent Trap.... I don't think there's any danger that they (or any other studio) are going to drop DVD just because DIVX died a much-deserved death.
(Alas, not too original. I stole the line from SportsCenter, where Bud Selig was often referred to as "Acting commissioner for life." Selig was "acting commissioner" of Major League Baseball for several years before becoming the real commissioner recently.)
Every now and then someone comes up with an idea that makes you say, "Now why didn't I think of that?" Google is just such an idea. Giving priority to the words used to link to a page from other pages is brilliant, and it works! I quickly dropped hotbot (which I had had the most success with) and now use Google for most of my searches. (I use DejaNews for the rest.) With Hotbot, I used to think I was doing well if the info I wanted was on a page within the first few screens. With Google, I'm disappointed if it's not the #1 hit. Ahh, progress.....
While I join others in hoping that Google doesn't become as butt-ugly as hotbot, I do hope that they can make a ton of money off of this idea. They deserve it. If that means I look at a few ads, so be it.
I own three Macs and a Playstation. Personally, I don't have much need for a Playstation emulator, unless I had a G3 Powerbook, I suppose (which I don't).
I'm far more interested in the handheld Playstation that I've seen tidbits about.
The great thing about the Playstation is that it's never crashed, boots quickly, plays Playstation games flawlessly, and my 4-year-old son can work it with no problems. (He can also use the Mac, but can't do everything on the Mac, like he can on the Playstation.)
However, if the emulator works, and works well, it could be a boon to Mac sales ("runs all of your office software and it runs Playstation games, too!").
Slashdot Mirror
Always bet on the lawyers.
Well, sign me up as a hippie as well....
The moderation choices are things like "funny," "insightful," etc. Just like the adjectives you see here. There is also "overrated" and "underrated," if I recall correctly.
Moderators don't directly set the score, they just somehow nudge it in a particular direction with a particular adjective.
I don't know if it takes more than one moderator to assign a particular adjective to a post.
According to what I've read before... moderators ARE "us". As users post messages that are recognized as being usefull, they gain moderator status. They then blow their moderator points on whatever they see fit and fall back into the nameless masses that are the unpriviliged users. They then have a chance to be called to service again as their posts receive attention.
Pretty close to my understanding, though take out the "useful" part. I've been a moderator once, and don't think I've ever been scored up for a post. The ingredients for moderatorship are regular reading, not a new user, don't post lots of scored-down stuff, and "willing to moderate" in the user preferences.
Here's the official explanation.
The Newton was very close to perfect with the MessagePad 2100. Handwriting recognition worked. Speed was pretty good. It had TCP/IP, PPP, etc.
But, shortly after the MP 2100 came out, the Newton project was killed. Most of Apple's Newton staff seem to have gone to 3COM's Palm division.
No one really knows why Apple killed Newton just as it was taking off (and just as the handheld market was taking off). There is still nothing in the handheld market that equals the capabilities of the Newton. Apple's official reason for killing Newton was to focus on one platform (MacOS). The rumor mill has Steve Jobs not liking and/or groking Newton. (He is rumored to have said once, "Apple makes computers, and computers have keyboards.")
What makes it worse is that Apple had spun Newton off into its own company, called Newton, Inc. Promise was high, since Newton was finally getting the attention it needed from its developers. Then Steve Jobs "un-spun" Newton, Inc. That's when we started to get suspicious. A few months later, he killed the project.
Newton users were and are very bitter about the whole thing.
When Newton was killed, Apple promised a return to the handheld market in 1999. I'm not holding my breath.
People don't "deserve their money" for "working harder". They are given money in exchange for something that someone else considers to be of even greater value.
I recall, several years back, an article about the annual "top 10 highest-paid entertainers" lists, and Michael Jackson was on top as a result of his Thriller album. (I told you it was a while back.) Jackson had made a few bazillion dollars that year. "No one's worth that kind of money!" is the typical response. The author of the article talked to an exec from Jackson's record company. He wouldn't divulge how much money had been made off of Thriller, but did admit that the few bazillion dollars they paid Jackson was "a bargain."
That's the point. Jackson contributed more to the economy than he took out. Same with Bill Gates. Are they "worth it"? In an economic sense, yes. In a philosophical sense, we can debate.
Two genetically identical persons growing up different wouldn't be proof of the presense or lack of a soul or a higher
power or purpose. There are many environmental factors that are at least as important as genetics, such as how you
were brought up, how you've been treated, your economic well being etc.
And what about identical twins? Same genetics, same environment, and they still end up with different personalities.
Personally, I think that identical twins are very strong evidence that there is more to a person than genetics and environment.
I also happen to think that a cloned embryo is just as human as a naturally conceived embryo, and to abort either is equally unjust.
I guess that makes me a religious wacko. So be it.
Well, given that a DVD player isn't much more than a VCR, and Wal-Mart and Costco sell DVD movies, I think the necessary "critical mass" is there to consider DVD a viable format for producing movies.
As for Disney, just take a look at recent releases: A Bug's Life, Mighty Joe Young, The Parent Trap.... I don't think there's any danger that they (or any other studio) are going to drop DVD just because DIVX died a much-deserved death.
That woud be "Interim CEO for life."
(Alas, not too original. I stole the line from SportsCenter, where Bud Selig was often referred to as "Acting commissioner for life." Selig was "acting commissioner" of Major League Baseball for several years before becoming the real commissioner recently.)
I agree! This article should be the top-scoring article in this thread!
Hmm.... I like "post as moderator." The moderator can chime in with his/her views, yet the post is clearly labeled as "this is a moderator."
Hey, we got cron, don't we? We can send CT birthday email while doing anything we want!
(I have a daily cron job that sends email to anybody whose birthday is "today" according to my Big Brother Database.)
Every now and then someone comes up with an idea that makes you say, "Now why didn't I think of that?" Google is just such an idea. Giving priority to the words used to link to a page from other pages is brilliant, and it works! I quickly dropped hotbot (which I had had the most success with) and now use Google for most of my searches. (I use DejaNews for the rest.) With Hotbot, I used to think I was doing well if the info I wanted was on a page within the first few screens. With Google, I'm disappointed if it's not the #1 hit. Ahh, progress.....
While I join others in hoping that Google doesn't become as butt-ugly as hotbot, I do hope that they can make a ton of money off of this idea. They deserve it. If that means I look at a few ads, so be it.
I own three Macs and a Playstation. Personally, I don't have much need for a Playstation emulator, unless I had a G3 Powerbook, I suppose (which I don't).
I'm far more interested in the handheld Playstation that I've seen tidbits about.
The great thing about the Playstation is that it's never crashed, boots quickly, plays Playstation games flawlessly, and my 4-year-old son can work it with no problems. (He can also use the Mac, but can't do everything on the Mac, like he can on the Playstation.)
However, if the emulator works, and works well, it could be a boon to Mac sales ("runs all of your office software and it runs Playstation games, too!").