We're using an in-house MediaWiki knowledge-base system here. It's been running for over a year and is a huge step forward from the previous setup we had(which was developed in-house in CF). The hardest part was writing code to export/parse/import from the old system to MediaWiki. Once that was done it's been smooth sailing
Read this for some refutation. The article's statement about discovery vs. production since 1971 is so misleading I would almost call it a lie. Look at a graph, which tells a far different story than their 35 year "snapshot": http://www.theoildrum.com/uploads/44/hirsch_reserv es.gif
Sorry, he really doesn't. I would recommend some reading over at theoildrum.com. The amount of oil we currently use can in no way be replaced by "uneconomical deposits" or wind/solar/nuclear. If they could, it would take dozens of years of hard effort, starting well before oil hit its peak
Once we're past the peak and prices start skyrocketing, it will simply be too late. We may achieve a new balance with new technologies, but it will be with a few billion less people than the earth has now
Yea, I've had a couple situations where I've needed to reformat a Mac drive and the machine wouldn't boot with it connected, and I've unplugged the drive, booted the comp past the point where it chooses the boot disk, and then plugged in the IDE drive and formatted it
I drove an '89 Celebrity with no ABS or anything other than power steering up until a year ago. You just need to know how to drive the car you're in, not some hypothetical automobile from 20 years ago
When we were first considering making Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs available as a publically manageable satirical metanarrative, we dropped the basic timeline on Wikipedia because I liked the way their software went about things. Of course, a phalanx of pedants leapt into action almost immediately to scour - from the sacred corpus of their data - our revolting fancruft.
This is about right: For the most part these are young people who lack both the experience to comment sensibly on real-life experiences, and the patience or depth to comprehend theoretical abstractions. And, like nearly everyone else in these United States, they think that first-class writing is distinguished not by clarity but by opacity.
So they pick topics that will not get them called for ignorance -- because their editors don't know about them, and nobody else cares about them: comic books, movies, TV shows, celebrity bloggers, etc. On such bare themes the young Turks hang words, metaphors, subordinate clauses and apothegms in (their articles suggest) whatever order they happen to come to minds only hazily acquainted with the rules and traditions of English composition.
Like all amateur artisans, they lay their materials on thick. When they make a mistake or intuit how lost they are, they just add more. Eventually the accretion is so monstrous that it seemes singular: maybe, the budding authors muse, this is what they mean by style.
"If you could fuck around with the hydrogen atom, you could fuck around with the energy process in the sun. You could fuck around with life itself," claims Dr. Phillip Anderson, a Nobel laureate in physics at Princeton University. "Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud."
Uhh dude seems like you're the one acting like an asshole. He's just asking that you not take his content and republish it so that it's Slashdot getting the ad impressions instead of Ars. Given that it's Ars' content, that seems like a reasonable request
Exactly. The distinction being missed is between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance is fine - everyone is ignorant about everything to begin with, and many people don't have any real reason to end their ignorance for specific things(I'm ignorant about the politics of Elizabethan England. So what?)
The problem is not ignorant people, but people who are stupid and/or have a bad attitude. You get people who don't know what they're doing but won't admit it, won't follow your instructions, won't give you information you request from them, get angry that they can't simply say "my e-mail isn't working" and have it fixed(even when it's patiently explained to them why this is so, etc.
This isn't some dick measuring contest about how many sorting algorithms you can code, it's a simple desire for people to be polite and helpful when they're asking for someone else's assistance
Except Blu-Ray/HD-DVD video will(should) be encoded in h264 already, so other than scaling back the quality there's probably not much to be done to make it fit on a standard DVD
The problem with file sharing is uploading, not downloading, right?
What if a program setup a share on your computer, allocated lets say 10GB to it. What happens is, you connect to a network and the share is filled with data. Legal files, illegal files - you have no way of knowing. The share was protected and encrypted so that even you could not see what was on it(the only people who would know you had the data were people who were downloading files that were on your share) - I'm not smart enough to fill in the details, but I imagine this could be done w/ private & public keys, etc.
So basically you're providing bandwidth to the network. In return, you get an equal amount of bandwidth to download the files you want - but you never upload those files back to the network(unlike the way BitTorrent works).
Grossly ineffecient? Sure. But this seems like it would basically be a legal way of doing P2P. You would just have to delete your share and start over if requested by the RIAA or MPAA. But since you wouldn't know the content was illegal until they said, I think this falls under the general law that allows ISPs to operate
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I've done a few edits of various levels of size and it really wasn't that tough. Are you sure you just don't suck at coding?
We're using an in-house MediaWiki knowledge-base system here. It's been running for over a year and is a huge step forward from the previous setup we had(which was developed in-house in CF). The hardest part was writing code to export/parse/import from the old system to MediaWiki. Once that was done it's been smooth sailing
4 (a patch to have restrictions of namespaces to certain groups)
Some useful add-ons we've used are:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814 (LDAP/ActiveDirectory authentication plugin)
It's a great example of a good open source tool beating the hell out of one-off systems developed out of a not-invented-here mentality
Amazing. 10 pages of article with ads removed = 1 page of real text
"We need a bigger server soon, our load average is increasing rapidly."
I'm a bit unclear on this...is server performance now measured directly by the amount of space it takes up?
(..to the tune of "Particle Man")
Token Ring LAN, Token Ring LAN
Doing the things a token ring can
How does it work?
It's not important
Token Ring LAN
Is it a drag or is it a waste?
When it's installed
Does it get replaced?
Or does that admin get axed instead?
Nobody cares
Token Ring LAN
Ethernet LAN, Ethernet LAN
Ethernet LAN hates Token Ring LAN
They have a fight
Ethernet wins
Ethernet LAN
Internet WAN, Internet WAN
Size of the entire Internet, man
Usually kind to the smaller LAN
Internet WAN
It's got a link with PPP band,
A T1 band, and an OC3 band
And when they're together it's a happy LAN
Powerful WAN, Internet WAN
Workgroups LAN, Workgroups LAN
Formerly known as MS LANMAN
Lives its life in a garbage can
Workgroups LAN
Is it depressed or is it a mess?
Does it feel totally worthless?
Who came up with Workgroups LAN?
Degraded LAN, Workgroups LAN
Ethernet LAN, Ethernet LAN
Ethernet LAN hates Token Ring LAN
They have a fight
Ethernet wins
Ethernet LAN
HDTV is 1920x1080
Yep. This guy had like post #4 in the thread. It was a nice troll though
How much we gain, how much we loose
Read this for some refutation. The article's statement about discovery vs. production since 1971 is so misleading I would almost call it a lie. Look at a graph, which tells a far different story than their 35 year "snapshot":v es.gif
http://www.theoildrum.com/uploads/44/hirsch_reser
Sorry, he really doesn't. I would recommend some reading over at theoildrum.com. The amount of oil we currently use can in no way be replaced by "uneconomical deposits" or wind/solar/nuclear. If they could, it would take dozens of years of hard effort, starting well before oil hit its peak
Once we're past the peak and prices start skyrocketing, it will simply be too late. We may achieve a new balance with new technologies, but it will be with a few billion less people than the earth has now
Yea, I've had a couple situations where I've needed to reformat a Mac drive and the machine wouldn't boot with it connected, and I've unplugged the drive, booted the comp past the point where it chooses the boot disk, and then plugged in the IDE drive and formatted it
I drove an '89 Celebrity with no ABS or anything other than power steering up until a year ago. You just need to know how to drive the car you're in, not some hypothetical automobile from 20 years ago
This is Slashdot not FARK
When we were first considering making Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs available as a publically manageable satirical metanarrative, we dropped the basic timeline on Wikipedia because I liked the way their software went about things. Of course, a phalanx of pedants leapt into action almost immediately to scour - from the sacred corpus of their data - our revolting fancruft.
This is about right:
For the most part these are young people who lack both the experience to comment sensibly on real-life experiences, and the patience or depth to comprehend theoretical abstractions. And, like nearly everyone else in these United States, they think that first-class writing is distinguished not by clarity but by opacity.
So they pick topics that will not get them called for ignorance -- because their editors don't know about them, and nobody else cares about them: comic books, movies, TV shows, celebrity bloggers, etc. On such bare themes the young Turks hang words, metaphors, subordinate clauses and apothegms in (their articles suggest) whatever order they happen to come to minds only hazily acquainted with the rules and traditions of English composition.
Like all amateur artisans, they lay their materials on thick. When they make a mistake or intuit how lost they are, they just add more. Eventually the accretion is so monstrous that it seemes singular: maybe, the budding authors muse, this is what they mean by style.
GoDaddy blames Apple for both Safari and Opera simultaneously ceasing to work? That's a nice trick
"If you could fuck around with the hydrogen atom, you could fuck around with the energy process in the sun. You could fuck around with life itself," claims Dr. Phillip Anderson, a Nobel laureate in physics at Princeton University. "Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud."
Wow, lighten up
Uhh dude seems like you're the one acting like an asshole. He's just asking that you not take his content and republish it so that it's Slashdot getting the ad impressions instead of Ars. Given that it's Ars' content, that seems like a reasonable request
Yeah, XUL errors. The Seamonkey alpha version has these too. Kinda cool...
Does this combine Mozilla Suite(Seamonkey) & Firefox data, or is it being separated?
Exactly. The distinction being missed is between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance is fine - everyone is ignorant about everything to begin with, and many people don't have any real reason to end their ignorance for specific things(I'm ignorant about the politics of Elizabethan England. So what?)
The problem is not ignorant people, but people who are stupid and/or have a bad attitude. You get people who don't know what they're doing but won't admit it, won't follow your instructions, won't give you information you request from them, get angry that they can't simply say "my e-mail isn't working" and have it fixed(even when it's patiently explained to them why this is so, etc.
This isn't some dick measuring contest about how many sorting algorithms you can code, it's a simple desire for people to be polite and helpful when they're asking for someone else's assistance
And the United States did?
Except Blu-Ray/HD-DVD video will(should) be encoded in h264 already, so other than scaling back the quality there's probably not much to be done to make it fit on a standard DVD
The problem with file sharing is uploading, not downloading, right?
What if a program setup a share on your computer, allocated lets say 10GB to it. What happens is, you connect to a network and the share is filled with data. Legal files, illegal files - you have no way of knowing. The share was protected and encrypted so that even you could not see what was on it(the only people who would know you had the data were people who were downloading files that were on your share) - I'm not smart enough to fill in the details, but I imagine this could be done w/ private & public keys, etc.
So basically you're providing bandwidth to the network. In return, you get an equal amount of bandwidth to download the files you want - but you never upload those files back to the network(unlike the way BitTorrent works).
Grossly ineffecient? Sure. But this seems like it would basically be a legal way of doing P2P. You would just have to delete your share and start over if requested by the RIAA or MPAA. But since you wouldn't know the content was illegal until they said, I think this falls under the general law that allows ISPs to operate
Look at the context of the quote though. It's obvious he's talking about a legislative accomplishment