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Same two options as always. Either overpower the interference or turn off interfering devices with a universal remote

This is definitely true. They've pigeonholed themselves into the wiki parser (and all it's limitations/quirks) when technology has long since passed that format by.

I think another overlooked problem is the lack of a solid interface for data. There's list upon list of various data sets that are completely isolated. These could be incredible tools that interface with the main article to provide meaningful content that does not require multiple updates. As it is now you need an insanely complex template system of isolated objects. One of the best examples I can think of is actually on http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki take this page as an example: http://dragonage.wikia.com/index.php?title=Heavy_chestpieces_(Dragon_Age_II)&action=edit It requires 15 different templates, 18 transclutions of objects that are written in "wiki code" instead of something the average person could edit.

I actually created a template on that site quite a while ago.... how many people could make sense of this: http://dragonage.wikia.com/index.php?title=Template:Approval&action=edit (I tried pasting it in here, Slashdot complained about too many 'junk' characters) All it does is put a picture and a green or red number in some text. I look at it now and I don't think I could modify it without first deconstructing it piece by piece.

This is definitely true. They've pigeonholed themselves into the wiki parser (and all it's limitations/quirks) when technology has long since passed that format by.

I think another overlooked problem is the lack of a solid interface for data. There's list upon list of various data sets that are completely isolated. These could be incredible tools that interface with the main article to provide meaningful content that does not require multiple updates. As it is now you need an insanely complex template system of isolated objects. One of the best examples I can think of is actually on http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki take this page as an example: http://dragonage.wikia.com/index.php?title=Heavy_chestpieces_(Dragon_Age_II)&action=edit It requires 15 different templates, 18 transclutions of objects that are written in "wiki code" instead of something the average person could edit.

I actually created a template on that site quite a while ago.... how many people could make sense of this: http://dragonage.wikia.com/index.php?title=Template:Approval&action=edit (I tried pasting it in here, Slashdot complained about too many 'junk' characters) All it does is put a picture and a green or red number in some text. I look at it now and I don't think I could modify it without first deconstructing it piece by piece.

This is definitely true. They've pigeonholed themselves into the wiki parser (and all it's limitations/quirks) when technology has long since passed that format by.

I think another overlooked problem is the lack of a solid interface for data. There's list upon list of various data sets that are completely isolated. These could be incredible tools that interface with the main article to provide meaningful content that does not require multiple updates. As it is now you need an insanely complex template system of isolated objects. One of the best examples I can think of is actually on http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki take this page as an example: http://dragonage.wikia.com/index.php?title=Heavy_chestpieces_(Dragon_Age_II)&action=edit It requires 15 different templates, 18 transclutions of objects that are written in "wiki code" instead of something the average person could edit.

I actually created a template on that site quite a while ago.... how many people could make sense of this: http://dragonage.wikia.com/index.php?title=Template:Approval&action=edit (I tried pasting it in here, Slashdot complained about too many 'junk' characters) All it does is put a picture and a green or red number in some text. I look at it now and I don't think I could modify it without first deconstructing it piece by piece.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Element_zero ;)

"Geophysicist" et al is just NASA's equivalent of the Air Force's "Deep Space Radar Telemetry".

Thank you too, in return. I just used that point on fish and water writing to someone else today, coincidentally.

I've been trying to get Richard Stallman and the FSF to consider supporting a campaign (suggesting maybe run by me for pay, so I'm biased, but OK if it was someone else) for fostering the cataloging, creation, and discussion of free software that explores conventional and alternative heterodox economics for a 21st century of abundance for all, based on this appeal:
http://www.responsiblefinance.ch/appeal/
"The authors of this appeal are deeply concerned that more than three years since the outbreak of the financial and macroeconomic crisis that highlighted the pitfalls, limitations, dangers and responsibilities of main-stream thought in economics, finance and management, the quasi-monopolistic position of such thought within the academic world nevertheless remains largely unchallenged. This situation reflects the institutional power that the unconditional proponents of main-stream thought continue to exert on university teaching and research. This domination, propagated by the so-called top universities, dates back at least a quarter of a century and is effectively global. However, the very fact that this paradigm persists despite the current crisis, highlights the extent of its power and the dangerousness of its dogmatic character. Teachers and researchers, the signatories of the appeal, assert that this situation restricts the fecundity of research and teaching in economics, finance and management, diverting them as it does from issues critical to society."

Also related indirectly:
"RSA Animate - 21st century enlightenment "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC7ANGMy0yo

So, it is more than a lack of visionaries. The world has no shortage of would-be visionaries, like Paul Hawken documents:
http://www.blessedunrest.com/
"Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Like nature itself, it is organizing from the bottom up, in every city, town, and culture. and is emerging to be an extraordinary and creative expression of people's needs worldwide."

The problem is more like visionaries are filtered out or bought off or changed or isolated or starved or turned into wage slaves doing unrelated stuff to survive. Example:
"The murdering of my years: artists & activists making ends meet"
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_murdering_of_my_years.html?id=iBA7vACOwngC

Related articles on how dissent in academia is systematically suppressed:
http://disciplinedminds.com/
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html

Yet, things progres anyway, as a tribute to the better side of human nature. Here are examples of GPL'd software that could serve as a base for moving further into exploring alternative economics:
http://p.seppecher.free.fr/jamel/
http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.ryzom.com/en/

There is also a lot of other softwar

Well it did totally ruin the design aesthetic. In the words of Yahtzee,

Valve should just have said: "No, you can't wear whatever hat you like. Hands up everyone in this room who hires professional character designers. Oh, just me. Right. So shut up and wear your fucking Akubra."

And it costs $4000 to replace.

Goodie.

This is just another in a long trend of stuffing more and more nonsense into cars, which is the opposite of what we need. What we need are light, simple, effecient cars. What they try to build instead is cars with touchscreen windows.

Here'a an article with a picture of the design:
http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Homer

Ralph McQuarrie painted/sketched the original designs. http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/c/ce/ST_Lightsaber.jpg

But I agree Andrew Ainsworth's should be able to profit from his creations.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cloud_car

If people, especially authorities can't be recorded when in public, then there is nothing to prevent them from abusing their authority, doing anything they wish, and lying about it.

We've had C-SPAN for decades and it hasn't done anything to restrain congress from abusing its authority.

But of course I agree, we do have the right to monitor our employees.

That would imply someone was actually watching.

In today's age of Reality TV a'la "Jersey Shore" the only way to get people to watch is the way Robot Chicken jokingly suggested: http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/X-Span_Request_Live

Make it more ... interactive ...

LulzSec Target the Sun...

...but not in quite the same way as did Disaster Area

I'm sure there are lots of useful applications for this tech, but I doubt it will be popular in the cell phone market. A cell phone is not exactly a "precision" instrument to begin with, so how would you use such data in the real world?

Augmented Reality.

Personally, I'm just annoyed that this is going to have an acronym I'll get mixed up with Sub-Light Acceleration Motors.

Does this mean we're one step closer to having to worry about Keepers?

Does this mean the back of Crazy Dave's car just became a gateway for DLC?

There are about 100 issues PC Format in my bookcase. I still have (nearly) all the disks (5.25" and 3.5"), CD's (also nostalgic now :-). My first issue was issue 5 from 1992 featuring reviews of: - Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (need I say more?) - Falcon 3.0 (awesome F16 simulator at the time) - Oh no! More Lemmings Find more old magazines here: http://magazinesfromthepast.wikia.com/

The only people who dont seem to understand this are the tea-baggers, but I don't find that particularly surprising, since their total understanding of economics is, "Taxes Bad."

WTF have tea-baggers got to do with economics or politics? Is it really true the USA now has a political movement devoted to tea-bagging?

It's related to the "Invisible Hand".

And -1 for no mention of the Buckazoid.

Or, rather, like Master and Apprentice.

It could of been a professional open source competitor to the likes of Britannica, World-book and Encarta (which was killed by Wikipedia), but no they let deletionists and admins with serious mental problems take over. Luckily there are inclusionist wikis out there but as long as Wikipedia keeps appearing on the top of search engine results it will reel in more suckers while Jimbo Wales keeps hanging out with his babes.

If you are a Wikipedian reading this, please turn of your computer and go outside. You won't care about NPOV and notabillity once you get laid.

This situation reminds me of the buttered toast & cats approach to anti-gravity.. :-)

This gold master, does it by any chance have anything to do with Bullfish Interactive or their CEO Phraud Hogslop?

is legal in a video game sold for minors

No it isn't.

Rated M for Mature.

Now, if you're telling me it's legal in a video game accessible to minors, that's a horse of a different color. Alcohol is accessible to minors. So is pornography. As are guns, drugs, and so on. Hell, minors can even drive if they want to. More or less anything an adult can do or has access to, so can a minor.

Saying it's sold for minors just furthers the discussion to a place it should not be. If someone really believed that just because it was accessible to minors it's equivalent to being sold to minors then, quite frankly, there's a lot of things we could start banning.

It was one of the screens in the planet jacker shell degaussing!

I wonder which U.S. State will be the first to legalize Robosexual Marriage.

Well...first off, that's what Afghanistan said to the U.S. after 9/11. That didn't work out so well for them. Second, turnabout's fair play, I guess*

*Actually, I think both legal interpretations are egregious. IMHO, and I'm not a lawyer and certainly not a lawyer specializing in legal jurisdictions involving multiple countries, but if the data center isn't in the U.S., then Microsoft E.U. shouldn't be bound by U.S. laws. Likewise, Yahoo should not have been held liable for the Nazi merchandise viewed in France. What is a company to do when laws in one nation conflict with laws in another? In that case, there's no way to win.

I suggest you search the whole thread for UK, Britain, England, London (as people could have used any of those words). Someone's suggested T-Mobile, another Vodafone.

There are no restrictions on buying SIM cards in the UK, you will be able to pay cash and top-up by buying vouchers from corner shops or supermarkets (or online) or perhaps at cash machines (ATMs) with a green arrow logo. The main companies (Vodafone, O2, Orange/T-Mobile, Three, ...) have shops everywhere, some supermarkets sell their own SIMs which may be cheaper (Tesco, Asda), and some companies sell SIMs online or in some corner shops (Virgin Mobile, Lycamobile).

Here's a comparison of some deals from the larger operators. Three's looks like a good option, but if you intend to phone/text Canada check the prices of that. (I would search Google.co.uk for things like "pay as you go price comparison". Also "mobile" rather than cell, and SIM only as you already have the phone. There are often wikis/forums targeted at visitors answering your question, I used this one when I visited Germany last month.)

Open WiFi networks aren't very common, but many cafes, restaurants and larger pubs have WiFi. (I may be wrong here, I usually have WiFi turned off.)

Bring an old phone to put your Canadian SIM in, if you still need to be contactable on that number.

The happy-rainbows-EU-regulation-low-(ish)-prices thing only applies while roaming or calling within the EU, so don't assume a call to Canada will be cheap (there is competition, but no regulation). But receiving a call on a UK mobile phone while in the UK is always free.

Have fun!

Hey, how about that badass walking rocket launcher the aliens had.

Pretty realistic looking if you ask me.

http://images.wikia.com/aliens/images/f/f9/Walkinggunfire.png

Hardly surprising; businesses like some stability in their apps.

And important security features such as popup blocking.

It has already been destroyed, in Sidereal year 03758. Did you not read the book at all? A collapsing Hrung destroyed it, hence he never learned to pronounce his name in his native tongue and his father died of shame soon after.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Great_Collapsing_Hrung_Disaster_of_Galactic_Sidereal_Year_03758

Were dinosaurs slow and lumbering, or quick and agile? It depends largely on whether they were cold or warm blooded. When dinosaurs were first discovered in the mid-19th century, paleontologists thought they were plodding beasts that had to rely on their environments to keep warm, like modern-day reptiles.

The writer is a moron.

No those paleontologists didn't fucking think that. The only damn reason the T. Rex in the American Museum of Natural History was mounted upright like that was because it was too damn heavy to mount with the backbone horizontal using the technology of the day.

Why the hell is there this general belief that people today are SOOO much smarter than people in the past?

I don't see the connection between the mounting position of a T.Rex and the speed or agileness of dinosaurs in general? The erect T-Rex doesn't look any more lumbering than a prone T-Rex to my untrained eye.

And is it really true that it takes modern structural materials to mount a t-rex horizontally? It seems like even in the early 1900's, they could have used a steel beam and cables to hang it if they really wanted to show it in a more horizontal position.

This reference says that scientists didn't discover until the 1970's that the upright position was not accurate, but it was because of biomechanics, not speed or agility.

http://landbeforetime.wikia.com/wiki/Tyrannosaurus

Henry Fairfield Osborn, former president of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, who believed the creature stood upright, further reinforced the notion after unveiling the first complete T. rex skeleton in 1915. It stood in this upright pose for nearly a century, until it was dismantled in 1992.[48] By 1970, scientists realized this pose was incorrect and could not have been maintained by a living animal, as it would have resulted in the dislocation or weakening of several joints, including the hips and the articulation between the head and the spinal column.[49]

Hilarious! Anyone else remember Dr. Bob: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Bob ?

Yes, it was indeed an episode of Stargate SG-1. That episode was The Other Side, featuring Rene Auberjonois as Space Hitler.

"Close the iris." *thud*

Er... I can't speak for the Potter films, but in the book a number of good guy characters die by the end. I mean, geez, the story starts out with the main character's parents being murdered.

Why didn't he just rub some phoenix tears on them? Harry Potter is rife with lazy plot devices.

Oracle has had decades of experience at being a productive prick. Unlike Ballmer, Ellison is not an accountant upgraded beyond his station. If there's someone who will put up a determined fight to cut Google down to size and hinder Brin and Page's journeys into everyone's lives, it's him. If the option was available, they'd all be against the wall - but a second best is to have them squabbling with each other. Their egos are, I think, too great for them to engage in the usual cooperation-under-a-thin-veil-of-competition of large corporations.

(Soviet information-gathering was evil because that time round your family wasn't the one which got to protect its own privacy while taking everyone else's, right Sergei?)

Umm... the Dreamcast most of the time used a propietary system called "Katana", I think that was a linux fork, because the Sega guys though that WinCE sucks. Also for the Dreamcast was created a free "OS" called KallistiOS that is used even today... well, only for Dreamcast Homebrew fans. The newest game in development for the DC its called Sturmwind,, check the entry on wikipedia. If you ever played Resident Evil: Code Veronica on the Dreamcast and on PS2 you notice that it looks better on the DC and on the PS2 there is a longer "loading" time every time you open a door. And when Sega told Micro$oft that design a OS for the DC, M$ take note of the console and then they decide to make the XBOX. You must compare the controls of the first XBOX and the DC, they are very similar Anyway the point is that right now, in the spirit of hacking, they think that the Dreamcast was a good console because was well designed and you can use it to create Homebrew games or emulators. I don't consider myself a hacker, only a Dreamcast fan, and I think that I can understand at least they feelings for that magnificent console.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Legion

Legion is a unique geth mobile platform, designed to operate outside the Perseus Veil and interact with organics directly. To that purpose, it houses 1,183 geth programs, as opposed to the one hundred in other platforms, enabling it to operate independently and speak....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPeG3pQlPw&NR=1 ...If questioned about specifically using Shepard's N7 armour to repair itself, Legion becomes evasive, first rationalizing with "there was a hole" and then states "no data available" after being pressed, suggesting that it was the result of an irrational action, which goes against the concept that every action the geth take is the result of calculation, unaffected by emotion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF7KYQ1_jKo

Waking up the Geth: (there is a new faction inside the Geth (that break apart from the earlier less evolutioned ones), that builds their own future, no one will be armed ... unless they involve themselves...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMzBSRityaU&feature=related

Geth enters the Quarian ship: (Geth meet their creators, creators meet their killers, the Geth keep the homeworld and the Quarians had to scape and live exiled)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDemlIaPv18&feature=related

Of course the Geth views's of the whole story is just the opposite, they were just defending themselves .... which may not be false.

Did you even know you could get in love with them?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IdIhFXcRl8

I love Legion's mind machine calculations all the time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJI66t-B83g&feature=related

Don't you keep up with the latest science?

It's obviously a Cold star.

Try engaging others in debate without being a snarky fuckwit? Care to provide any sources for your claims?

I claim you are a snarky fuckwit, my source is http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Your_mom

I hope Apple gets spanked for this. It was their lack of due diligence, and even if Apple was aware of this other company, it chose to engage this "Imma show you whose boss" mentality. Apple decided to play the game, so too damn bad if they lose.

I don't think you understand how many billions of dollars Apple has lying around.

As Krusty the clown said, "They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house! I'm not made of stone!"

I'm sure an amicable solution will be decided soon...

What's a GRE

It's one of the third class of solutions to the general "P=NP?" range of problems, described by many (DNA in particular) to be an SEP. For the generic case of these, under fairly wide conditions, a problem P that is in the set SEP, is indeed, "NP" (No Problem).

and why would passing one allow you to know hypothetical problems with Star Wars tech.

I think it should be clear now.

Just as a matter of interest, who is Slashdot UID #42?

It took only a few seconds on Google to find a source -- well, sort of. I definitely remember reading about it in a book somewhere, likely a legitimate expanded universe book.

It still likely wouldn't look like in the movies, but it'd look closer than what you suggest:

Due to the weightlessness of plasma and the strong gyroscopic effect generated by it, lightsabers required a great deal of strength and dexterity to wield, and it was extremely difficult -- and dangerous -- for the untrained to attempt using...

Lightsaber combat was the preferred fighting method used by lightsaber wielders, many of the forms and styles being designed to compensate for the gyroscopic effect inherent in lightsabers, and take advantage of the Force-sensitivity common in most wielders.

"This one goes like a bitch, carving up the road like a frenzied lesbian with a meathook"
-- Jeremy Clarkson, reviewing the new Mini in 2001

Actually when I read the title my first thought was that they were building a simcity-esque Launch Arco, but unfortunately it's nothing like that.

If you want to make it into more than a pastime, you can get into serious competition:

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo:Play_Conservatroll

Ah, but even Conservapedia isn't safe, as trolling it is a popular (?) pastime: The Conservapedia trolling game.

You mean the one NOT squeezed out by robot-cows?
I just love how people use that magic-yet-imprecise word for absolutely everything.

Hey, you know why Han Solo's kids are the healthiest in the Galaxy?
Cause they are organaic.

The advantage of a card reader is that it doesn't drain the batteries. And, if you're lucky enough to have the right kind of camera, you can use a card reader to hack the firmware.

Star Wars is often in exotic and expensive locales and outside of a starship hallway.

An Executor Class Star Dreadnought (Or Super Star Destroyer) is 19km long and has a crew of 280k. If they really wanted to, they could do a whole series on the travails of Johnny Stormtrooper as he struggles with trying to deal with the clone troopers and his burgeoning hormones as his unit gets passed from starship to starship culminating in his being on the Death Star and shot first by Han or something.

They're not ALL clones. An entire show based on space age military would be pretty cool? Star Wars: Stormtrooper.