There's people and places willing to take away the refuse and deal with it in a manner that we don't have to see or hear about. The people ripping the useful bits out of this gear get to make some cash, and the rest of us don't have to fill our basements with our employer's old servers.
What's the problem?
There's too much beauty upon this earth for lonely men to bear. -- Richard Le Gallienne
Yes, and that it is supposedly "Peer Reviewed" by subject matter experts. The final leg on the tripod, is that it has a centralized control system to restrict who can change the articles.
These are all seen as essential to the process of providing reliable information.
What we're seeing here is a challenge to accepted methods of producing an encyclopedia. To make it more interesting, we're seeing it happen between the two best examples of each method. ON the one hand you have old school, "Cathedral" style control of authorship, and on the other you have an Open source style Bazaar. It's a battle not of publications, but of ideologies.
I think the killer feature is timeliness of the articles.
I've been at schools whose most recent encyclopedias were purchased in the 1960's. It's not fun to be doing research on the moon in the early 1990's and the most recent article you can find talks about the "Wild Dream" of putting a man on the moon.
That said, I also learned early on that aside form articles going out of date, no encyclopedia is really all that more reliable than Wikipedia. The main reason Britannica has such a great reputation isn't because of any gold standard of accuracy, but because it supposedly does a good job of minimizing obvious bias in the articles.
Today it was revealed that an organization whose business model is dependent upon selling a product, has been willing to massage, bend and manipulate data in attempts to discredit competitors who give away similar products.
There's a thin margin of people still getting an education without being ultra wealthy. That's one of the things the current war on the middle class is intended to resolve.
The poor and most of the middle class are already being successfully denied real educations.
I never said the movement to destroy the handful of educated people outside of the "approved" circles was a new one. The program is an old one, and it's within a generation of final and complete success.
No one will care about Orwell's 1984 when history has been successfully rewritten. The grandchildren of Generation X will see it as an example of a vile revolutionary getting what he deserves for opposing the Homeland.
Of course it will Only be available in a properly edited format. You can't have deviant content floating around after all.
Remember folks, an educated public is BAD for any government trying to maintain control. Those pesky "educated" folks have a tendency to gum up the works. They're BAD for the country, and thus must be stopped.
The best way to d this if course is to ensure that Only the wealthy can get decent educations. That way anyone who doesn't fit the mold can simply find their business opportunities dry up. The, and their degenerate ideas, will be dead and gone withing a generation!
Isn't it brilliant?
Besides, a lead in science and technology is overrated. Remember, the US is trying to DESTROY the middle class in order to create a cheap labor pool in order to compete with China.
And don't worry. China's camps of political dissident slave labor will be equaled in the US. There's just the issue of deciding who, aside from the Muslims, to lock up in the forced labor camper.
John Loftus translation services has volunteered hundreds of man hours (no woman hours please, he's a Republican) to ensure a "Fair and Balanced"(tm) translation.
Amazingly enough, every singe document details proof that Saddam had WMD programs in place!
We have the proof! Bush was right! The war is justified!
We always had the proof.
No one ever doubted Saddam had WMD. Clinton was a coward and a Commie for not going to war to kill him. Bush Sr. would have finished it but the French must have chickened out at the last second, leaving us without support we were counting on. That's why we're invading France in 2015...
1. Put application through shredder 2. Give shredded paper to pet bunnies to use as litter. 3. Since "A Penny Saved is a Penny earned" and you're not spending money on pet litter... 4. profit!
You mean how Bill Clinton created the court that allows the Fed to get a warrant AFTER placing a tap?
I remember being up in arms when the Clinton administration created that damn Star Chamber, and now Bush's actions make it seem downright reasonable to most people, as if it had been there all along.
For some reason, I feel like a frog in a pot of water. It was cool when I got in, and I haven't NOTICED the temperature rising, but for some reason I don't remember steam coming off the water when I got in...
It's not about being fair, but about maintaining control.
It's the best interest of those in power to ensure they can keep a tight lid on everything, while demanding every aspect of the the citizens' lives be exposed to government review and scrutiny.
Remember, your rights and life mean nothing to the government, except as grist for the money mill.
I'm Shocked, shocked I tell you that a distro based on, and dependent upon, Debian packages would choose to focus on some kind of abstract "usability" or "stability" issue over fast and frequent updates!
Where's the bleeding edge code? Where's the "It compiled this morning let's push it out" mentality that's so common with Debian based Distros??
I'm astounded and saddened. Microsoft has updates coming out weekly. It can't be good for Ubuntu if it loses the "update war" with Microsoft. If you lose the update war, everything else is down hill from there.
It's up to the government to draw that line, based on the data it gathers.
If they find 98% of the people who read "Recipes for Disaster" go out, build bombs and kill people, then yes, reading it should be treated on par with "owning burglary tools," which happens to be a crime.
You hit the nail on the head here. Lucas is the current Hollywood Ideal. Big special effects combined with a lukewarm, recycled plot. I think what's happening is people are becoming disappointed with this model.
Audiences want actual storylines. The problem is Hollywood is going for the "safe" or "Sure" bet of remaking something that's already been done.
The example of "King Kong" was an incredibly absurd one. Jackson got to make "King Kong" because of the tremendous success of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which demonstrated nicely that long, epic, big budget movies still draw a substantial audience.
The age of big budget movies is not coming to an end. What we are hopefully seeing is an end to banal, poorly written big budget movies. I suspect one of two things will happen. Either Big Budget movies will start being produced with innovative, interesting and well written scripts, or the bad writing will continue at a lower cost per movie.
Big Budget Hollywood movies are only going away if Hollywood fails to hire decent writers and take some chances on new plots.
Actually, from the viewpoint of Lucas, he's right. The kind of Big Budget movie of which he's capable is dying. You need actual writers to make one that will thrive.
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They aren't migrating anytime soon.
Face facts folks, Linux still isn't ready for the desktop, and Novell, despite their loads of marketing, knows it.
What's the problem here?
There's people and places willing to take away the refuse and deal with it in a manner that we don't have to see or hear about. The people ripping the useful bits out of this gear get to make some cash, and the rest of us don't have to fill our basements with our employer's old servers.
What's the problem?
There's too much beauty upon this earth for lonely men to bear. -- Richard Le Gallienne
So let's cut it down and pave it over.
What if we start posting details of this issue to the amazon.com reviews for the products?
Then do the same for any other places selling the routers.
D-Link won't care unless this hits their pocketbook, and spreading bad word of mouth is the best way we have to do that.
DI-604 on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000069K98/
This is why I have Step 3:
3. Wait a month for all the legitimate users to switch to a new URL.
The old URL would be shut down at this point.
Everyone still has to switch, but it looks like D-Link is going to force the issue anyway. The site is too expensive to keep running as it is.
1. Buy the domain name off this poor guy / arrange for alternate hosting if it can't be sold.
/. community to set up an alternate server.
2. Take a collection from the
3. Wait a month for all the legitimate users to switch to a new URL.
4. Fire up a server at the old URL reporting Midnight, Jan 1, 1900
5. Let D-Link deal with users accusing D-Link of failing to sell a Y2K compliant product in 2006.
It was Lucas trying to have a character say something that demonstrated the chump finally turning to the dark side.
In other words, don't sweat it, it's just baaaad writing.
It seems to me that the US legal system is designed to make money for lawyers and the interests of the parties themselves is purely secondary.
Congratulations!
You have successfully introduced the hammer to the head of the nail with sufficient velocity.
You have demonstrated a keen and piercing insight into the U S Legal system that depressingly few Americans posses.
That it has a good reputation?
Yes, and that it is supposedly "Peer Reviewed" by subject matter experts. The final leg on the tripod, is that it has a centralized control system to restrict who can change the articles.
These are all seen as essential to the process of providing reliable information.
What we're seeing here is a challenge to accepted methods of producing an encyclopedia. To make it more interesting, we're seeing it happen between the two best examples of each method. ON the one hand you have old school, "Cathedral" style control of authorship, and on the other you have an Open source style Bazaar. It's a battle not of publications, but of ideologies.
I think the killer feature is timeliness of the articles.
I've been at schools whose most recent encyclopedias were purchased in the 1960's. It's not fun to be doing research on the moon in the early 1990's and the most recent article you can find talks about the "Wild Dream" of putting a man on the moon.
That said, I also learned early on that aside form articles going out of date, no encyclopedia is really all that more reliable than Wikipedia. The main reason Britannica has such a great reputation isn't because of any gold standard of accuracy, but because it supposedly does a good job of minimizing obvious bias in the articles.
(Queue Evening News Theme Music)
<Favorite News Anchor Impression>
Today it was revealed that an organization whose business model is dependent upon selling a product, has been willing to massage, bend and manipulate data in attempts to discredit competitors who give away similar products.
(Ominous Pause)
Film at eleven.
</Favorite News Anchor Impression>
(Queue Evening News Theme Music)
You're right.
The worst we've seen the RIAA do is sue people who don't even have an Internet connection for trading files on a P2P network.
They may lash out at people at random, but they do so with lawsuits, destroying their victims financially, not physically.
Mind you, there's little to no evidence that the people they've destroyed financially were even trading files online, but they haven't killed anyone.
That we know of.
If you're the RIAA, you stop at the point where you've shot the user for failing to buy the product you offered to sell them.
Well, shot them, gored their remains and thrown a Molotov into the crib of their infant daughter.
There's a thin margin of people still getting an education without being ultra wealthy. That's one of the things the current war on the middle class is intended to resolve.
The poor and most of the middle class are already being successfully denied real educations.
I never said the movement to destroy the handful of educated people outside of the "approved" circles was a new one. The program is an old one, and it's within a generation of final and complete success.
No one will care about Orwell's 1984 when history has been successfully rewritten. The grandchildren of Generation X will see it as an example of a vile revolutionary getting what he deserves for opposing the Homeland.
Of course it will Only be available in a properly edited format. You can't have deviant content floating around after all.
Remember folks, an educated public is BAD for any government trying to maintain control. Those pesky "educated" folks have a tendency to gum up the works. They're BAD for the country, and thus must be stopped.
The best way to d this if course is to ensure that Only the wealthy can get decent educations. That way anyone who doesn't fit the mold can simply find their business opportunities dry up. The, and their degenerate ideas, will be dead and gone withing a generation!
Isn't it brilliant?
Besides, a lead in science and technology is overrated. Remember, the US is trying to DESTROY the middle class in order to create a cheap labor pool in order to compete with China.
And don't worry. China's camps of political dissident slave labor will be equaled in the US. There's just the issue of deciding who, aside from the Muslims, to lock up in the forced labor camper.
Long live President Bush!
Death to the 22nd Amendment!
John Loftus translation services has volunteered hundreds of man hours (no woman hours please, he's a Republican) to ensure a "Fair and Balanced"(tm) translation.
Amazingly enough, every singe document details proof that Saddam had WMD programs in place!
We have the proof! Bush was right! The war is justified!
We always had the proof.
No one ever doubted Saddam had WMD. Clinton was a coward and a Commie for not going to war to kill him. Bush Sr. would have finished it but the French must have chickened out at the last second, leaving us without support we were counting on. That's why we're invading France in 2015...
If it's good for one of Bush's big contributors, then you can guarantee the SCOUS will uphold the patent.
Remember folks, individual rights and liberties mean noting. Only the rights and power of the wealthy count.
We are disposable.
Repeat after me:
"We are all cogs, grist for the mill. We are only a resource to be exploited"
Repeat until you vote Republican.
That is all.
Long live big brother!
The USA has always been at war with Iraq!
Iraq was never our ally!
1. Put application through shredder
2. Give shredded paper to pet bunnies to use as litter.
3. Since "A Penny Saved is a Penny earned" and you're not spending money on pet litter...
4. profit!
All good points.
I'm reminded of the last major release that MS insisted be on time rather than ready.
Windows ME.
*Shudder*
The Horror. The Horror.
People spending hundreds of thousands of dollars with sellers of unknown reliability on land and houses they've never seen sometimes get ripped off.
Film at 11.
If this were fark.com, I'd be adding a pic of a certain reporter with bad hair.
"Live Free or Die"
You mean how Bill Clinton created the court that allows the Fed to get a warrant AFTER placing a tap?
I remember being up in arms when the Clinton administration created that damn Star Chamber, and now Bush's actions make it seem downright reasonable to most people, as if it had been there all along.
For some reason, I feel like a frog in a pot of water. It was cool when I got in, and I haven't NOTICED the temperature rising, but for some reason I don't remember steam coming off the water when I got in...
I kind of thought that expressing "shock" over a slow Debian related release cycle would be enough to highlight the fact that I was kidding.
It's not about being fair, but about maintaining control.
It's the best interest of those in power to ensure they can keep a tight lid on everything, while demanding every aspect of the the citizens' lives be exposed to government review and scrutiny.
Remember, your rights and life mean nothing to the government, except as grist for the money mill.
I'm Shocked, shocked I tell you that a distro based on, and dependent upon, Debian packages would choose to focus on some kind of abstract "usability" or "stability" issue over fast and frequent updates!
Where's the bleeding edge code? Where's the "It compiled this morning let's push it out" mentality that's so common with Debian based Distros??
I'm astounded and saddened. Microsoft has updates coming out weekly. It can't be good for Ubuntu if it loses the "update war" with Microsoft. If you lose the update war, everything else is down hill from there.
It's up to the government to draw that line, based on the data it gathers.
If they find 98% of the people who read "Recipes for Disaster" go out, build bombs and kill people, then yes, reading it should be treated on par with "owning burglary tools," which happens to be a crime.
You hit the nail on the head here. Lucas is the current Hollywood Ideal. Big special effects combined with a lukewarm, recycled plot. I think what's happening is people are becoming disappointed with this model.
Audiences want actual storylines. The problem is Hollywood is going for the "safe" or "Sure" bet of remaking something that's already been done.
The example of "King Kong" was an incredibly absurd one. Jackson got to make "King Kong" because of the tremendous success of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which demonstrated nicely that long, epic, big budget movies still draw a substantial audience.
The age of big budget movies is not coming to an end. What we are hopefully seeing is an end to banal, poorly written big budget movies. I suspect one of two things will happen. Either Big Budget movies will start being produced with innovative, interesting and well written scripts, or the bad writing will continue at a lower cost per movie.
Big Budget Hollywood movies are only going away if Hollywood fails to hire decent writers and take some chances on new plots.
Actually, from the viewpoint of Lucas, he's right. The kind of Big Budget movie of which he's capable is dying. You need actual writers to make one that will thrive.