When will people start understanding Wikipedia is a summary of already published, reliable sources and not their personal webcomic advertisement forum? It's simple: if people write about your subject in the press or other reliable sources, you put that information up. If not, you don't. Notability only serves as a duck test for reliable sourcing - chances are good that if something looks non-notable it lacks any sort of primary/secondary source to back it up in the first place. Why can Penny Arcade have a Wikipedia page? Because the news reports on it.
There's a reason it's called Wikipedia and that is to be a tertiary source like any other encyclopedia. There is nothing new or unique about how encyclopedias work, and since notability is a subset of reliable sourcing, why doesn't this point get hammered into the minds of the general public when Wikipedia is one of the most used online resources?
Admittedly, Wiki itself doesn't make the distinction, and it's further hampered by Jimbo Wales going out and making asinine statements about how Wikipedia aims to be "the sum of all human knowledge". But some of the fault has to lie with the public. I suppose a lot of (mostly younger) people have never owned an old-fashioned encyclopedia in their life, and are used to more casual websites where anything goes.
Making it a fanboy favorite is easy - Sony fanboys still love the PS3. Making it a general favorite is much more difficult, and Nintendo pulled that off.
I think it has little to do with marketing and more to do with the fundamental mechanics of the console, though.
..he does have a point regarding the ESRB. Some ratings on games are absolutely crazy, one way or the other. The T rating is the game equivalent of PG-13 not only in generality but in how much it varies. Just as you'll often see a shooter movie like The Bourne Identity featuring quite a bit of violence alongside movies with a few vague sexual references in the PG-13 category, games that have very little objectionable content but not the squeeky-clean E are often rated T as there is no real buffer zone between E and T. A "E10+" rating exists but is relatively overlooked and is difficult to distinguish from a regular E title (most people don't even know it exists, and the earlier "K-A" rating was dumped a while back).
As a result, a T rating can cover everything from Digimon Rumble Arena 2 or Legend of Zelda to 007: Nightfire and Medal of Honor (which are significantly more violent). And don't even start about the completely subjective and useless content descriptors.
A lot of the ratings seem to be based on past games as well. Nintendo can snag a E rating on pretty much anything they make featuring Mario or with cute graphics even if the game involves Mario punching things in the face.
Add in the fact that most gamers seem to think the only worthwhile games are rated M and you have a recipe for general confusion.
4chan has been using a similar thing for a while - it's easy to hide a zip/rar archive in a jpg as these formats ignore everything but the markers indicating the start and end of the archive. For example, hiding a e-book.pdf in a.zip, then appending it to a.jpg means that it shows up as a valid jpg with the cover or whatever in a browser, etc, but when renamed.zip it functions as a proper archive.
Not exactly what's in TFA, but pretty cool nonetheless!
No, this is very wrong. There needs to be more admins, not less. There's a huge backlog in nearly every administrator category, and speedy deletion is getting slower and slower. There is a subset of users that have to identify themselves to the Foundation and that is stewards. But admins are just users with a mop and a bucket. They're not an elitist superstructure, they're just users with extra responsibilities, and making it harder to be an admin will just encourage the LOL I'M AN ADMIN, UR NOT stuff all over again.
According to their website, it's 7.1 million Scovilles, which interestingly, if the *rating is correct*, is "hotter" than high-quality pepper spray. In your mouth.
I'm surprised your friend could even talk.
"Our oxygen levels are way too low, what's going on, do we have a leak?"
"Chill out guys, I'm just burning some incense, my spirit guide said we'll make it to the moon without oxygen anyway using the power of our minds."
Sorry, I just thought the irony of burning oxygen to find an air leak intensely ironic.
How efficient are solar panels (not very - and while news about new "high-efficiency" solar panels seemingly comes out every thirty seconds, none of it has panned out)?
How many real accidents have happened with nuclear plants? (the answer is one: Three Mile Island was absolutely nothing)
This is a huge step forward, not only for the grid, but for the idea of a nuclear economy in general. Hysteria needs to stop getting in the way of progress, especially for a technology that is proven, clean, and efficient.
From my experiences, only games from about HL2 on support dual-core, quad-core being utilized either badly or not at all.
When you talk about Photoshop, CAD, encoding video and so forth, the situation improves.
Now, the US claims that if it doesn't appear in the ephemeris data, then it doesn't exist. It's sure a good thing Obi-Wan Kenobi didn't trust the American Jedi librarians, or he would have never found Kamino's clone army..I mean..the satellites. Yeah.
More evidence that George Bush is the Sith lord we've been looking for.
The problem is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and it has limits on what can be written about reliably - meaning third party references, which there are little of (New York Times: zomg this new action figure is so cool). The notability policies also help guard against people writing about their bands, stores near their town with little significance, and what have you.
Cutting down on crufty articles is not something overlooked in WP: it's just simply hard to keep up with tagging the hundreds of articles created PER MINUTE with so little volunteers willing to take up the job.
Underpopulation is going to be the problem for most of the developed world, with falling birth rates. Replacement number is 2.1 children per (the.1 for..uh.."accidents" during childhood), and most developed countries are actually under that. The U.S. is 2.09, France is 1.98, etc. In 2000, the total world number was 2.80, and it has since declined to around 2.59. So, on average, the world is only spitting out one child more than is needed to replace their parents SOME of the time, and it seems like it will continue to fall.
For the record, I agree with parent, though.
Well, at 20,000 feet I guess you wouldn't have to worry about drunk drivers, everyone would be passed out at the wheel due to oxygen deprivation anyway.
There must be a euphemism for invoking unrelated starving African children or something in an Internet argument as a corollary to calling your opponent a Nazi ala Godwin's law..
Mugabe's law?
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When will people start understanding Wikipedia is a summary of already published, reliable sources and not their personal webcomic advertisement forum? It's simple: if people write about your subject in the press or other reliable sources, you put that information up. If not, you don't. Notability only serves as a duck test for reliable sourcing - chances are good that if something looks non-notable it lacks any sort of primary/secondary source to back it up in the first place. Why can Penny Arcade have a Wikipedia page? Because the news reports on it.
There's a reason it's called Wikipedia and that is to be a tertiary source like any other encyclopedia. There is nothing new or unique about how encyclopedias work, and since notability is a subset of reliable sourcing, why doesn't this point get hammered into the minds of the general public when Wikipedia is one of the most used online resources?
Admittedly, Wiki itself doesn't make the distinction, and it's further hampered by Jimbo Wales going out and making asinine statements about how Wikipedia aims to be "the sum of all human knowledge". But some of the fault has to lie with the public. I suppose a lot of (mostly younger) people have never owned an old-fashioned encyclopedia in their life, and are used to more casual websites where anything goes.
Making it a fanboy favorite is easy - Sony fanboys still love the PS3. Making it a general favorite is much more difficult, and Nintendo pulled that off. I think it has little to do with marketing and more to do with the fundamental mechanics of the console, though.
..he does have a point regarding the ESRB. Some ratings on games are absolutely crazy, one way or the other. The T rating is the game equivalent of PG-13 not only in generality but in how much it varies. Just as you'll often see a shooter movie like The Bourne Identity featuring quite a bit of violence alongside movies with a few vague sexual references in the PG-13 category, games that have very little objectionable content but not the squeeky-clean E are often rated T as there is no real buffer zone between E and T. A "E10+" rating exists but is relatively overlooked and is difficult to distinguish from a regular E title (most people don't even know it exists, and the earlier "K-A" rating was dumped a while back).
As a result, a T rating can cover everything from Digimon Rumble Arena 2 or Legend of Zelda to 007: Nightfire and Medal of Honor (which are significantly more violent). And don't even start about the completely subjective and useless content descriptors.
A lot of the ratings seem to be based on past games as well. Nintendo can snag a E rating on pretty much anything they make featuring Mario or with cute graphics even if the game involves Mario punching things in the face. Add in the fact that most gamers seem to think the only worthwhile games are rated M and you have a recipe for general confusion.
That only works for HL2 and EP1, not the whole box.
4chan has been using a similar thing for a while - it's easy to hide a zip/rar archive in a jpg as these formats ignore everything but the markers indicating the start and end of the archive. For example, hiding a e-book .pdf in a .zip, then appending it to a .jpg means that it shows up as a valid jpg with the cover or whatever in a browser, etc, but when renamed .zip it functions as a proper archive.
Not exactly what's in TFA, but pretty cool nonetheless!
No, this is very wrong. There needs to be more admins, not less. There's a huge backlog in nearly every administrator category, and speedy deletion is getting slower and slower. There is a subset of users that have to identify themselves to the Foundation and that is stewards. But admins are just users with a mop and a bucket. They're not an elitist superstructure, they're just users with extra responsibilities, and making it harder to be an admin will just encourage the LOL I'M AN ADMIN, UR NOT stuff all over again.
According to their website, it's 7.1 million Scovilles, which interestingly, if the *rating is correct*, is "hotter" than high-quality pepper spray. In your mouth. I'm surprised your friend could even talk.
RTS AI? You'd have to send them to Hard, or they'd probably just stick around floating around in the heart making diplomacy treaties with one another.
"Our oxygen levels are way too low, what's going on, do we have a leak?" "Chill out guys, I'm just burning some incense, my spirit guide said we'll make it to the moon without oxygen anyway using the power of our minds." Sorry, I just thought the irony of burning oxygen to find an air leak intensely ironic.
How efficient are solar panels (not very - and while news about new "high-efficiency" solar panels seemingly comes out every thirty seconds, none of it has panned out)? How many real accidents have happened with nuclear plants? (the answer is one: Three Mile Island was absolutely nothing) This is a huge step forward, not only for the grid, but for the idea of a nuclear economy in general. Hysteria needs to stop getting in the way of progress, especially for a technology that is proven, clean, and efficient.
Yes! And this is made even worse by the fact that Japanese is highly contextual, especially for kanji compounds. I wouldn't get my hopes up too much.
UT3's PS3 version was compatible with a mouse and keyboard as well IIRC for hardcore players that..for some reason wanted to play it on a PS3.
From my experiences, only games from about HL2 on support dual-core, quad-core being utilized either badly or not at all. When you talk about Photoshop, CAD, encoding video and so forth, the situation improves.
I hope safety is guaranteed...
Once SP1 hits, the flywheel's going to spin a LOT faster.
Despite this being modded down as troll I thought this was a rather witty pun.
The problem is that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and it has limits on what can be written about reliably - meaning third party references, which there are little of (New York Times: zomg this new action figure is so cool). The notability policies also help guard against people writing about their bands, stores near their town with little significance, and what have you. Cutting down on crufty articles is not something overlooked in WP: it's just simply hard to keep up with tagging the hundreds of articles created PER MINUTE with so little volunteers willing to take up the job.
Great! I always wanted to be the schoolgirl, and now I get federal funding for it!
Underpopulation is going to be the problem for most of the developed world, with falling birth rates. Replacement number is 2.1 children per (the .1 for ..uh.."accidents" during childhood), and most developed countries are actually under that. The U.S. is 2.09, France is 1.98, etc. In 2000, the total world number was 2.80, and it has since declined to around 2.59. So, on average, the world is only spitting out one child more than is needed to replace their parents SOME of the time, and it seems like it will continue to fall.
For the record, I agree with parent, though.
Well, at 20,000 feet I guess you wouldn't have to worry about drunk drivers, everyone would be passed out at the wheel due to oxygen deprivation anyway.
But is that the problem of Windows making the user an idiot, or (more likely) a majority of idiots using Windows?
Universe needs to stop running defrag every few million years, it's leaving giant empty space holes and confusing the scientists.
There must be a euphemism for invoking unrelated starving African children or something in an Internet argument as a corollary to calling your opponent a Nazi ala Godwin's law.. Mugabe's law?
Ground-level ozone is a pollutant and therefore bad.