Hehe. Well, I didn't think it was troll. I didn't take your remark as mean, and I my 'feelings' weren't hurt because you were responding to one post of mine, and anything you said couldn't have meant much to me in terms of evaluating my character. I don't think I've seen anyone here admitting to a moderation or claiming that they reversed it, so I thought you might be some reader surprised to see it, and you did have a valid point of view from the small amount of experience you have with my posts, which turns out to be true, on Slashdot, I am easy to push around. Nice talking to you, you so called 'troll'.:)
Yeah, I am... I'm pretty easy going. I come to this site to read about news, not necessarily to argue with people. I haven't got it all figured out like the rest of the readers here, so I don't know how everything should work yet.
How about denying fully anonymous posts? You can post anonymously, but must register and negative feedback to that post is counted towards the registered user. I suppose people can make many many accounts, but it's a bit more of a hassle, and there could be some waiting period and other tracking methods?
Fine, I replied to something and reveresed my moderation.
The truth is that I'm not organized with anyone else on slashdot and though I have not read one of Stephen King's books, I felt the post was mostly flamebait and mostly an opportunity to rip on King's writing style. As for taking apart the moderation system, you may be right, but dispite all the that, in most threats the first few replies end up being the good ones, right?
But if everyone's going to whine about it, so be it.
You won't flip your creditcard for $1? That doesn't really make sense.. maybe you mean you won't flip your credit card to buy the book because you're not that interested in it? I mean if you saw a bar of gold on sale for $1, you'd flip it then, right? I don't get it.
If I actually had to pay for MS Office, I might use StarOffice. Then again, wordpad works pretty good. Copy con isn't too bad either, but I forget how to send things to a printer on the command line.
This begs the question, when will we start resorting to names from Star Trek movies and literature?
Btw, your signature reminded me of that ST:TNG episode where Data gets amnesia. At one point, he and some others examine a box that he had with him that has 'Radioactive' written on it, and he thinks it could be his name. He's also stuck on some world with a primative people and he's the smartest one.
There's a reason everyone can't moderate all the time. There's little point to moderation instructions. Maybe all the moderators aren't the greatest, but you think it really helps to post this? Who is going to read your post and then reconsider whether or not the original was funny? One out of a thousand? If you think the moderation is so bad that you need to post moderation advice or instructions, you'd probably have better luck emailing CmdrTaco with ideas on how to make it better.
Also, it may not be that everyone thought it was funny (obviously by the negatives it got), but that nobody with points thought it bad enough to waste a point moding it down. IMHO, there are better things to mod down. If I was moderating today, I would have skipped it, figuring someone like you who really doesn't like it would mod it down anyway, and then continue to look for other things to use my points for.
It would be nice to have a cookie browser that lists the issueing site, the time of the last change to the cookie, sites that have accessed it, sites that have attemped to access it and failed, and maybe even a history of changes to the cookie.
The starships are powered by light jazz. It's a military outfit, they're suppsoed to be dressed the same. The citizens are all dressed like futuristic peasants though - nicely made and cut clothes, but usually brown and plain.
I hear if you find a deer tick, you can put it in an envelope and mail it to them and they'll tell you if it has Lyme's disease. But, does the tick have to be alive when you mail it?
I haven't been able to confirm this stuff at their site.
Hey, I don't hate the guy, and I even like some of his articles, but I don't think I've seen any that warrant a Part Two or more. I'd have no problem checking off a 'Jon Katz' rant checkbox if it helped you sort through the stories!
My point about static data was that text or binary or whatever, it's static so perl isn't going to be faster dumping out unmodified ascii values than dumping out anything else, is it?
Of all the changes to come in the next millenia, a radical change in the GUI is the one I'm most eagerly anticipating. I was hoping for Nanotechnology or Condos on Mars, until I read this that is. I just hope I can get my 233 AMD mhz Laptop Hover-converted in time for this 'radical change'.
"Jesus walks the land again!" "Yeah cool, Hey check out these cool scroll bars!"
Good point.. also, (cheap) computers are much faster than we need them to be now anyway, so I guess even if it's marginally slower, few people really care.
Though, true, the web is mainly text, but I never thought of the web so much about text manipulation, that is, not more so than pulling data out of a database and reformatting it is about text manipulation (which it is). Before the web, was Perl used for this sort of thing as well?
For crawlers and all sorts of web bots, the web is about text manipulation. For serving up web pages, which often contain static data, I guess Perl is fast enough too.
I always thought the lack of grammer and use of symbols made Perl code cleaner, more compact.
Also, I always thought it was strange that Perl ties so much of the web together. I think this happened just because a lot of early web enthusiats were good perl programmers, not because it's specifically good at the job. Perl is good for CGI.. but I don't know why anyone make a Perl web server. Does anyone know if mod_perl/PGP is quick for running sql querries and pulling back the data? I'm sure it's fantastic for parsing the results, but I'd think a C interface to the data would be quicker.
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I don't think this applies when someone calls you and you hang up on them.
Hehe. Well, I didn't think it was troll. I didn't take your remark as mean, and I my 'feelings' weren't hurt because you were responding to one post of mine, and anything you said couldn't have meant much to me in terms of evaluating my character. I don't think I've seen anyone here admitting to a moderation or claiming that they reversed it, so I thought you might be some reader surprised to see it, and you did have a valid point of view from the small amount of experience you have with my posts, which turns out to be true, on Slashdot, I am easy to push around. Nice talking to you, you so called 'troll'. :)
Yeah, I am... I'm pretty easy going. I come to this site to read about news, not necessarily to argue with people. I haven't got it all figured out like the rest of the readers here, so I don't know how everything should work yet.
How about denying fully anonymous posts? You can post anonymously, but must register and negative feedback to that post is counted towards the registered user. I suppose people can make many many accounts, but it's a bit more of a hassle, and there could be some waiting period and other tracking methods?
That cleared it up, I thought I might be missing the point to your post.
Oh yeah, next time I see a gold bar on ebay for $1, I'll email ya right away!
Fine, I replied to something and reveresed my moderation.
The truth is that I'm not organized with anyone else on slashdot and though I have not read one of Stephen King's books, I felt the post was mostly flamebait and mostly an opportunity to rip on King's writing style. As for taking apart the moderation system, you may be right, but dispite all the that, in most threats the first few replies end up being the good ones, right?
But if everyone's going to whine about it, so be it.
You won't flip your creditcard for $1? That doesn't really make sense.. maybe you mean you won't flip your credit card to buy the book because you're not that interested in it? I mean if you saw a bar of gold on sale for $1, you'd flip it then, right? I don't get it.
If I actually had to pay for MS Office, I might use StarOffice. Then again, wordpad works pretty good. Copy con isn't too bad either, but I forget how to send things to a printer on the command line.
I would have liked the name 'Data'. Calling the moon 'Mr. Data' would be funny.
Where for art thou, S/1999 J 1.
Ring a bell?
This begs the question, when will we start resorting to names from Star Trek movies and literature?
Btw, your signature reminded me of that ST:TNG episode where Data gets amnesia. At one point, he and some others examine a box that he had with him that has 'Radioactive' written on it, and he thinks it could be his name. He's also stuck on some world with a primative people and he's the smartest one.
I've seen worse jokes, some of them my own.
There's a reason everyone can't moderate all the time. There's little point to moderation instructions. Maybe all the moderators aren't the greatest, but you think it really helps to post this? Who is going to read your post and then reconsider whether or not the original was funny? One out of a thousand? If you think the moderation is so bad that you need to post moderation advice or instructions, you'd probably have better luck emailing CmdrTaco with ideas on how to make it better.
Also, it may not be that everyone thought it was funny (obviously by the negatives it got), but that nobody with points thought it bad enough to waste a point moding it down. IMHO, there are better things to mod down. If I was moderating today, I would have skipped it, figuring someone like you who really doesn't like it would mod it down anyway, and then continue to look for other things to use my points for.
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You raise some interesting points.
It would be nice to have a cookie browser that lists the issueing site, the time of the last change to the cookie, sites that have accessed it, sites that have attemped to access it and failed, and maybe even a history of changes to the cookie.
The starships are powered by light jazz. It's a military outfit, they're suppsoed to be dressed the same. The citizens are all dressed like futuristic peasants though - nicely made and cut clothes, but usually brown and plain.
Now, I'm not drawing size comparisions with Napster, but you must remember that it's not just size that matters, but how it's actually used.
My friend's theater dropped over the months in clients, and now about only 2-3 people per day come, as opposed to about 50 or so from last year.
You've been watching too much porn, you've unconciously (I hope) worked in some really lame sexual jokes.
Good name for the new Mulder?
I hear if you find a deer tick, you can put it in an envelope and mail it to them and they'll tell you if it has Lyme's disease. But, does the tick have to be alive when you mail it?
I haven't been able to confirm this stuff at their site.
Hey, I don't hate the guy, and I even like some of his articles, but I don't think I've seen any that warrant a Part Two or more. I'd have no problem checking off a 'Jon Katz' rant checkbox if it helped you sort through the stories!
Any Jon Katz story /Part\s[2-9]+/.
My point about static data was that text or binary or whatever, it's static so perl isn't going to be faster dumping out unmodified ascii values than dumping out anything else, is it?
Of all the changes to come in the next millenia, a radical change in the GUI is the one I'm most eagerly anticipating. I was hoping for Nanotechnology or Condos on Mars, until I read this that is. I just hope I can get my 233 AMD mhz Laptop Hover-converted in time for this 'radical change'.
"Jesus walks the land again!"
"Yeah cool, Hey check out these cool scroll bars!"
Good point.. also, (cheap) computers are much faster than we need them to be now anyway, so I guess even if it's marginally slower, few people really care.
Though, true, the web is mainly text, but I never thought of the web so much about text manipulation, that is, not more so than pulling data out of a database and reformatting it is about text manipulation (which it is). Before the web, was Perl used for this sort of thing as well?
For crawlers and all sorts of web bots, the web is about text manipulation. For serving up web pages, which often contain static data, I guess Perl is fast enough too.
What benefit is there to having all the Unix commands written in perl?
I always thought the lack of grammer and use of symbols made Perl code cleaner, more compact.
Also, I always thought it was strange that Perl ties so much of the web together. I think this happened just because a lot of early web enthusiats were good perl programmers, not because it's specifically good at the job. Perl is good for CGI.. but I don't know why anyone make a Perl web server. Does anyone know if mod_perl/PGP is quick for running sql querries and pulling back the data? I'm sure it's fantastic for parsing the results, but I'd think a C interface to the data would be quicker.