I saw a theory that claimed Wikipedia quality will keep improving if number of good entries is higher than number of bad entries. But there's more to that, wikipedia provides tools for easy reversal of bad entries, meaning the process of entering and keeping good info is way easier. Recklessness is a sign of immaturity. Wikipedia enables it but quite efficiently discourages it.
Absolutely untrue. Wikipedia doesn't distinguish between 'bad' and 'good' - it's just a last/fastest/most persistent poster wins system.
Wikipedia provides tools for reversal of entries, period. I've seen many articles where the first version was *way* better than the crapfest that emerged after a few teenagers had been at it, and if you try to correct the information the teenagers just edit it back again.
Wikipedia *is* recklessness - there are no controls. The better posters with knowledge just can't be bothered any more. You can only argue with some 12 year old who's convinced what he saw on Buffy is the gospel truth so many times before you give up.
Of course once trusted computing takes hold you won't even be able to download unsigned binaries (signed by verisign of course.. nice little earner for them.. they already enforced this restriction on device drivers).
I can see why they did it - I watched the vista betas.. as soon as it became public download the lists filled up with idiots who's installed the 'new shiny OS' and were bitching that their games didn't run, Norton didn't work, their scanner didn't work, etc. Nothing constructive at all - in fact the constructive stuff was completely swamped for a couple of weeks. What's worse is that none of these induhviduals read the lists before posting - so the same crap was repeated verbatim over and over again.
And I reserve special contempt for the idiots who installed it, didn't like it then somehow it was microsoft's fault that they wiped their OS to install beta copy of a new one. I mean, someone even complained that it wasn't in add/remove programs!!! (oh and don't get me started on the guy who wiped his production server & then blamed microsoft that he couldn't serve his customers any more...)
A small charge will reduce this a lot - hopefully to managable levels. Anything that gets rid of most of the script kiddies who just bitch and don't contribute is fine by me. Personally I'd just restrict it to MSDN developers but MS seem to want to widen beyond that.
That really annoyed me about that - nothing wrong with learning skills taking effort, but when that 'effort' is basically log off and go and do something else... kinds spoils the immersiveness a bit.
And the missions on that game were *so* mind numbing. Just 'take package from A to B, then to C, and speak to D'. I kept it up for nearly a month.. just can't see the attraction.
Sounds a bit stupid to me - it basically prevents forking of anything that communicates online. You're not allowed to change the new version in such a way that a copy of the original could tell the difference.
In business your inbox is worth money. I've more than once reported people for 'targetting' me because of my email address and satisfyingly had the emails of some of the more obnoxious company email accounts shut down:)
If I want the hear about a product I'll go on google and look for it. I don't want crap being thrown at my inbox - and that goes *double* for my work inbox.
Actually I'm kind of pissed at the new Doctor Who. Not having any Daleks or any Time Lords (besides the Doctor of course) pretty much kills my two favorite races. I'm informed they can't really not have any more Dalek episodes though, after all, the man does travel through time and the Daleks are his greatest enemy. He's bound to run into Daleks in the past.
So you missed the last 2 episodes of the recent series then?
And the last episode of the first series?
The daleks aren't going anywhere... there's scope for there to be millions of them now that we know some have escaped..
(btw. the nature of the time war means that you can't run into daleks in the past for the same reason you can't run into timelords in the past - they've been erased from history. Why everyone remembers them & this hasn't changed the timeline completely is just one of those huge plot holes that DW is famous for...).
Really doesn't surprise me with cisco.. I dumped the one cisco router we had after a long list of problems - each time it took over a month to get to someone with a clue to admit there was a problem, and 6-9 months to actually issue a fix. None of those fixes are yet in a shipping IOS.
My favourite was the DHCP server.. they 'forgot' (their words) to test it on Windows clients, which use an 'obsolete' version of DHCP standard (again their words) so the dynamic DNS updates don't work at all (well they kinda work.. provided you can get it to send the updates to the right server (another, separate, bug) they send the wrong machine name...)
No, they investigate it as normal, which may or may not include confiscating your car if there is sufficient evidence. Are you purposely thick?
You really know nothing about how the police work do you?
It's not like the TV. Colombo will not come in and prove you innocent. They don't spend hours trying to get the 'correct' answer.
Instead they will verify your car plate visually, check it in the database and you'll be arrested on suspecicion of theft of the car. It's then up to someone else to prove the computer is wrong.. you're still going to have a few hours in jail if that happpens.
Even the simple ones read license plates - I got caught by one 3 days after passing - didn't have the reaction time to a light changing in front of me and it cost me 3 points (which is half the license - 6 points within 2 years means a ban).
I've got a photo of the incident, including the readout from the machine with the license plate.. although the time on the camera was wrong and the speed reading was *way* out so they're not perfect..
They actually quote both. Mine does about 65mpg combined (51/78)- and I've calculated I'm getting even better than even with some urban driving in there. My fuel economy went up a lot when I learned how to drive to improve efficiency (for my car that's keeping an optimal 2000rpm as much as possible - if I shift into 4th too fast it drops below 1000rpm and starts to drink fuel like it was going into fashion.. something they don't tell you in the manuals).
It doesn't work on Windows either. I hate when people send me utube links because their crapware simply doesn't work 90% of the time. OTOH google video never fails.
"Knowing what was going on" isn't a criterion. If you are in a store and one of the people demoing goods decides to spray after shave in your eye the store doesn't know that was going to happen, but they are still liable.
Myspace should be more careful who they hire to serve their adverts. If they get burned, tough.
Yes you do. No matter what language you use if you take user input and put it in an SQL string you're asking for trouble. It's not the language that's the issue it's the programmers.
Maroon is its own separate word. I can see it could have been derived from moron at some point (has a similar meaning, although not quite the same - maroon implies more clumsy than stupid & is less offensive).
I found the opposite.. it was as boring as hell. All the 'missions' are 'take this item from here to here, and talk to this person'. Maybe there's the occasional 'kill the pirate' (but they're way too easy). No grouping (definately no group missions0, and you rarely if ever actually see another player. I like my MMORPGs to actually be multiplayer, otherwise I'd sit at home and play any one of a dozen good non-online games.
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I saw a theory that claimed Wikipedia quality will keep improving if number of good entries is higher than number of bad entries. But there's more to that, wikipedia provides tools for easy reversal of bad entries, meaning the process of entering and keeping good info is way easier.
Recklessness is a sign of immaturity. Wikipedia enables it but quite efficiently discourages it.
Absolutely untrue. Wikipedia doesn't distinguish between 'bad' and 'good' - it's just a last/fastest/most persistent poster wins system.
Wikipedia provides tools for reversal of entries, period. I've seen many articles where the first version was *way* better than the crapfest that emerged after a few teenagers had been at it, and if you try to correct the information the teenagers just edit it back again.
Wikipedia *is* recklessness - there are no controls. The better posters with knowledge just can't be bothered any more. You can only argue with some 12 year old who's convinced what he saw on Buffy is the gospel truth so many times before you give up.
OK we'll vote using the current system whether to change to the new system.
(later...)
It just came out 51% in favour of keeping the diebold machines. Looks like we're not changing.
Of course once trusted computing takes hold you won't even be able to download unsigned binaries (signed by verisign of course.. nice little earner for them.. they already enforced this restriction on device drivers).
I assume you bitched appropriately to the linux kernel dev lists... Linus is usually quite good at accepting patches that fix stupidities like that.
IMO macros should be uppercase all the time. Breaking that rule causes issues.
I can see why they did it - I watched the vista betas.. as soon as it became public download the lists filled up with idiots who's installed the 'new shiny OS' and were bitching that their games didn't run, Norton didn't work, their scanner didn't work, etc. Nothing constructive at all - in fact the constructive stuff was completely swamped for a couple of weeks. What's worse is that none of these induhviduals read the lists before posting - so the same crap was repeated verbatim over and over again.
And I reserve special contempt for the idiots who installed it, didn't like it then somehow it was microsoft's fault that they wiped their OS to install beta copy of a new one. I mean, someone even complained that it wasn't in add/remove programs!!! (oh and don't get me started on the guy who wiped his production server & then blamed microsoft that he couldn't serve his customers any more...)
A small charge will reduce this a lot - hopefully to managable levels. Anything that gets rid of most of the script kiddies who just bitch and don't contribute is fine by me. Personally I'd just restrict it to MSDN developers but MS seem to want to widen beyond that.
I'm learning a new skill in that game right now.
In other words you've logged off for a week.
That really annoyed me about that - nothing wrong with learning skills taking effort, but when that 'effort' is basically
log off and go and do something else... kinds spoils the immersiveness a bit.
And the missions on that game were *so* mind numbing. Just 'take package from A to B, then to C, and speak to D'. I kept it up for nearly a month.. just can't see the attraction.
Nothing to stop you researching that theory and publishing a paper to the effect. Heck, you may even be right... sounds unlikely though.
Sounds a bit stupid to me - it basically prevents forking of anything that communicates online. You're not allowed to change the new version in such a way that a copy of the original could tell the difference.
Instead they banned all religion - talk about even handed!
It's apparently illegal even to be seen carrying a bible in school.
Projectors have 1280x720 LCDs and they're not a lot bigger than an ipod.. so the technology exists - it's not cheap though.
So by your definition when does it become spam.. 200? 2000? 2 million?
Sorry, spam is not about numbers. He's a spammer. He should throw himself off a cliff before someone does it for him.
In fact I think the opposite is true.
:)
In business your inbox is worth money. I've more than once reported people for 'targetting' me because of my email address and satisfyingly had the emails of some of the more obnoxious company email accounts shut down
If I want the hear about a product I'll go on google and look for it. I don't want crap being thrown at my inbox - and that goes *double* for my work inbox.
Rule #2: Spammers are stupid
Rule #3: See Rule #2
Actually I'm kind of pissed at the new Doctor Who. Not having any Daleks or any Time Lords (besides the Doctor of course) pretty much kills my two favorite races. I'm informed they can't really not have any more Dalek episodes though, after all, the man does travel through time and the Daleks are his greatest enemy. He's bound to run into Daleks in the past.
So you missed the last 2 episodes of the recent series then?
And the last episode of the first series?
The daleks aren't going anywhere... there's scope for there to be millions of them now that we know some have escaped..
(btw. the nature of the time war means that you can't run into daleks in the past for the same reason you can't run into timelords in the past - they've been erased from history. Why everyone remembers them & this hasn't changed the timeline completely is just one of those huge plot holes that DW is famous for...).
Really doesn't surprise me with cisco.. I dumped the one cisco router we had after a long list of problems - each time it took over a month to get to someone with a clue to admit there was a problem, and 6-9 months to actually issue a fix. None of those fixes are yet in a shipping IOS.
My favourite was the DHCP server.. they 'forgot' (their words) to test it on Windows clients, which use an 'obsolete' version of DHCP standard (again their words) so the dynamic DNS updates don't work at all (well they kinda work.. provided you can get it to send the updates to the right server (another, separate, bug) they send the wrong machine name...)
No, they investigate it as normal, which may or may not include confiscating your car if there is sufficient evidence. Are you purposely thick?
You really know nothing about how the police work do you?
It's not like the TV. Colombo will not come in and prove you innocent. They don't spend hours trying to get the 'correct' answer.
Instead they will verify your car plate visually, check it in the database and you'll be arrested on suspecicion of theft of the car. It's then up to someone else to prove the computer is wrong.. you're still going to have a few hours in jail if that happpens.
Even the simple ones read license plates - I got caught by one 3 days after passing - didn't have the reaction time to a light changing in front of me and it cost me 3 points (which is half the license - 6 points within 2 years means a ban).
I've got a photo of the incident, including the readout from the machine with the license plate.. although the time on the camera was wrong and the speed reading was *way* out so they're not perfect..
They actually quote both. Mine does about 65mpg combined (51/78)- and I've calculated I'm getting even better than even with some urban driving in there. My fuel economy went up a lot when I learned how to drive to improve efficiency (for my car that's keeping an optimal 2000rpm as much as possible - if I shift into 4th too fast it drops below 1000rpm and starts to drink fuel like it was going into fashion.. something they don't tell you in the manuals).
It doesn't work on Windows either. I hate when people send me utube links because their crapware simply doesn't work 90% of the time. OTOH google video never fails.
"Knowing what was going on" isn't a criterion. If you are in a store and one of the people demoing goods decides to spray after shave in your eye the store doesn't know that was going to happen, but they are still liable.
Myspace should be more careful who they hire to serve their adverts. If they get burned, tough.
Yes you do. No matter what language you use if you take user input and put it in an SQL string you're asking for trouble. It's not the language that's the issue it's the programmers.
Maroon is its own separate word. I can see it could have been derived from moron at some point (has a similar meaning, although not quite the same - maroon implies more clumsy than stupid & is less offensive).
I found the opposite.. it was as boring as hell. All the 'missions' are 'take this item from here to here, and talk to this person'. Maybe there's the occasional 'kill the pirate' (but they're way too easy). No grouping (definately no group missions0, and you rarely if ever actually see another player. I like my MMORPGs to actually be multiplayer, otherwise I'd sit at home and play any one of a dozen good non-online games.
That's a bug in Ubuntu from October 2005!
All my linux servers have ipv6 with no configuration and *none* of them have the issue described.
Did I just reply to a troll?
Most ISPs seemed to block 192.88.99.1 a couple of years ago. Haven't seen one that supported it since.
I asked a friendly admin once and he said they had to set it up manually and it was a pain to administer, so wasn't cost effective.