Yes, the German Wikipedia has a better quality on average, but that comes to no surprise, given that every not perfect arcticle and all articles about things the admins haven't heard of (video games, minor Star Wars characters etc.) are deleted almost instantly. And I guess that the English Wikipedia has as much, if not more, high quality articles than the German Wikipedia. The fact that the English Wikipedia allows medium quality articles to stay should not be considered a bad thing, I mean, who cares about the average quality? A medium quality article is still better than none at all (IMHO).
I'm German, but I usually check the English Wikipedia first because I got tired of the procedure "Check German Wikipedia -> Be disappointed to find that the article has been deleted -> Read the English article instead"
(Because of the "delete everything you don't find interesting" policy, some people have created "Wikibay", the encyclopedia where everything is considered relevant, as long as it's sourced etc. click here for German Wikibay)
Why does everyone write about "Oh, its only 300! images! Oh noes!11"? It's not 300! combination, it's actually a lot more. Keep in mind that each piece can be rotated four ways which gives you
You know how you count down on new year's eve? You reach the cheering end of the countdown at 0:00, which is the next year, not the last second of the old year. Also, the international standard is that a day starts at 0:00 and ends at 23:59 (or 24:00 when they add a leap second); since the United States of America are allergic to international standards I assume that "December 11th, midnight PST" means "0:00-12.12.2009".;-)
But what does it matter anyway? You are going to order it by mail, so who knows when it will arrive?
(No, this comment ISN'T "flamebate", it's "+1 sarcastic")
Since Sony's strategy (like Microsoft's) is to sell the consoles below production costs and make money on the games I guess that they are now pretty angry about organizations buying PS3s solely for computing...
As long as there is no competing hand held on the horizon, Nintendo has no reason to compete with itself by creating a completely new hand held. Also keep in mind that Nintendo is one (the only?) vendor that actually makes money with their hardware, while others sell their's at a loss to make money with games. As long as people keep buying the new NDS deluxe pro 9000 GT Nintendo will keep producing them. Which makes perfect sense, so why bother?
Some years ago I watched a movie at the cinema and liked it so much, that right the next day, I went to a shop and asked when the DVD will come out. In Germany, the delay seems to be some month, but when it finally came out I already lost my crazy enthusiasm for it and did not bother to buy it. So the delay really cost them one sale here.
I understand that the motivation behind this is to make me watch it at the cinema first, but I did that and then I wanted to buy the DVD, not just watch it again at the cinema. Similarly, if I'm not interested in buying it, but want to rent it and can't, I can easily picture myself having already lost interest, when it finally gets available for rent.
Am I the exception, or are there a lot of people who won't buy a product/service, when they have to wait too long for it?
(Also, there once was a movie that was simultaneously released at the cinema, DVD sale and DVD rent. I don't know if that made them any money, but it sure was customer friendly)
I'm not sure I understand this. How is monitoring an exit node different from monitoring any node on the internet? Can't I just intercept usernames and passwords at any node? Or are you saying that TOR exit nodes are just a more popular target, because they route more? I'm puzzled by what you are saying.:-/
Please don't split your sentences, putting one half in the subject, the other half in the comment. Not everyone reads the subjects, since they are often useless, and reading just "to *BSD's "dead scheduling"?" sounds like a toast!
Sure, here is a quote of the engrish instruction manual of the Hanlin v5:
Safety Notice
For safely and efficiently use the product, please strictly abide by the rules, otherwise the danger will happen
Do not put the product under the direct ray of sunlight, and use or put it in the extra high and low temperature environment.
From that I just generalized that this must apply to every e-ink display, since I assumed that they are all the same. So, your ereader did not come with any sun light warnings? Cool, which one do you use?
I have a cheap ereader that needs to be connected to your PC over USB to put new content on it. And the surprising thing is, that this seems enough to recharge it! I now have it for over a month and the battery indicator still says that it is full. It's amazing how view energy this thing consumes, just connect it to a PC once a week and that's enough.
But I admit that solar power seems nice for ereaders that don't use cable connections, e.g. the Kindle with it's whispernet. The only problem there is that you shouldn't expose e-ink to direct sunlight, which unfortunately turns the solar powered e-reader into a stupid idea.
(If you care, I use a Hanlin v5, it's not exactly perfect, but since Amazon deletes your books and Sony sells you rootkits it's okay)
Why not "Partei fuer basisdemokratische Initiative, Rechtsstaat, Arbeit, Tierschutz, Elitenfoerderung und Nochwas"?;)
(Non-Germans won't get that and should look up "Die Partei")
I don't see how this is needed. I don't know about the USA, but over here, online newspaper already charge for some articles. And since they allow you to read a summary those article can also be found through google.
Of course, I never bought an article. Why would I, when I have access to the internet...
So, the article says that they'll offer a "dashboard" which companies can use to see what users are twittering about them. How is this different from just putting a company name into the search box?
Also, the free Twitter API already allows for interesting data mining. For example, this little site monitors the popularity of the political parties in Germany: Wahlgetwitter. The users just write #Piratenpartei+ or #CDU- to show which party they like or not.
The worst thing this announcement could mean is that they'll charge for the API or exclude businesses from the search function.
This is a quote from the Licence Agreement & Terms of service
Use of Digital Content.
Upon your payment of the applicable fees set by Amazon, Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Device or as authorized by Amazon as part of the Service and solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Digital Content will be deemed licensed to you by Amazon under this Agreement unless otherwise expressly provided by Amazon.
I'm not a lawyer, I don't live in the USA and I'm not even that good at understanding english, but to me this sounds like "If you bought it you can keep it".
Keep in mind the chain of events:
1. Someone scans Orwell books and wants to sell them on amazon
2. Amazon says "Sure, why not?"
3. People buy these copies from amazon and annotate them
4. Amazon notices that the copies aren't legal and delete them from every device, rendering the annotations useless.
If you interpret the license agreement to mean "You can keep it only if it turns out to be a legal copy" than this agreement is pretty much useless, since you don't want to check the copyright and licence on everything you want to buy from amazon.
I seriously considered buying a kindle from amazon. Sure, the technical possibility of remotely deleting my books irritated me in the beginning but I thought "Aw, amazon is such a nice company. Their customer service is excellent, they don't censor negative reviews... Surely I can trust them to never do that. And look, they explicitly said in the Terms of Service that they will never do that. So let's just quit being so paranoid and trust a company, just this time".
Then they started to delete Orwell books and for me, a world broke down. Do you know this feeling, when you figure out, that a good friend of you has been lying to you? Well, that's how this digital book burning felt to me. It completely destroyed my trust in that company. And since amazon was my most trusted company, I now no longer trust any other company with ultimate online access to my devices.
So, instead of buying a kindle I bought a simple chinese ereader without web access. Sure, it's not as pretty as a kindle, it has no wikipedia access and the poor translation of the manual starts with "For safely and efficiently use the product, please strictly abide by the rules, otherwise the danger will happen" but at least I know that nobody can take my ebooks away from me.
See, the terms of use already specify that you own everything you buy from amazon forever. That they won't take it away from you.
By deleting the Orwell books amazon already broke their own rules. Even if they said "We pledge [in some legally binding fashion] that this capability will never be reactivated." as you suggest I would not trust them.
The instant spell checker and easy access to thesaurus has actually improved my spelling.
Though I switched to stenography when writing on paper since I grew too impatient to use that silly letter drawing method called "writing".
(If you really want to know, I use "Stiefo" where each word is one stroke and it does not work for english)
Please not that his experience, especially in campaigning, is a huge "advantage" for the Piratenpartei. The party does not have that many experienced politicians yet.
No. He got the seat because he was a high ranking politician in the Social Democratic Party (a bit like US Democrats). It's a bit weird that this is how the first Pirate got into the Bundestag, but I guess it can't hurt.
I don't know the exact details of the law, but I'm sure he will have to leave the Bundestag after the upcoming elections (Each party needs at least 5% of the votes and since the Piratenpartei only got about 1% in the European elections, it is unlikely that they'll make it)
Keep in mind that the NPD (the "quite nazi" party) is strongest in former East German states, they even managed to get elected into two Landtags (state parliament). And people in former East German states also vote for "die Linke", a party full of former SED politicians (basically East Germany's State Party), some of which worked for the Staatssicherheit (StaSi, State Security).
So I agree that most people aren't really concerned about their freedom. When you can choose between worrying and ignoring most people will choose the ignore-option
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Yes, the German Wikipedia has a better quality on average, but that comes to no surprise, given that every not perfect arcticle and all articles about things the admins haven't heard of (video games, minor Star Wars characters etc.) are deleted almost instantly.
And I guess that the English Wikipedia has as much, if not more, high quality articles than the German Wikipedia. The fact that the English Wikipedia allows medium quality articles to stay should not be considered a bad thing, I mean, who cares about the average quality? A medium quality article is still better than none at all (IMHO).
I'm German, but I usually check the English Wikipedia first because I got tired of the procedure "Check German Wikipedia -> Be disappointed to find that the article has been deleted -> Read the English article instead"
(Because of the "delete everything you don't find interesting" policy, some people have created "Wikibay", the encyclopedia where everything is considered relevant, as long as it's sourced etc. click here for German Wikibay)
Where is the "-1 boring" moderation?
Because Amazon has a patent on that already...
Why does everyone write about "Oh, its only 300! images! Oh noes!11"? It's not 300! combination, it's actually a lot more. Keep in mind that each piece can be rotated four ways which gives you
300! * 4^300
combinations.
Looks like a normal weather balloon to me...
You know how you count down on new year's eve? You reach the cheering end of the countdown at 0:00, which is the next year, not the last second of the old year. Also, the international standard is that a day starts at 0:00 and ends at 23:59 (or 24:00 when they add a leap second); since the United States of America are allergic to international standards I assume that "December 11th, midnight PST" means "0:00-12.12.2009". ;-)
But what does it matter anyway? You are going to order it by mail, so who knows when it will arrive?
(No, this comment ISN'T "flamebate", it's "+1 sarcastic")
Since Sony's strategy (like Microsoft's) is to sell the consoles below production costs and make money on the games I guess that they are now pretty angry about organizations buying PS3s solely for computing...
As long as there is no competing hand held on the horizon, Nintendo has no reason to compete with itself by creating a completely new hand held. Also keep in mind that Nintendo is one (the only?) vendor that actually makes money with their hardware, while others sell their's at a loss to make money with games. As long as people keep buying the new NDS deluxe pro 9000 GT Nintendo will keep producing them. Which makes perfect sense, so why bother?
Some years ago I watched a movie at the cinema and liked it so much, that right the next day, I went to a shop and asked when the DVD will come out. In Germany, the delay seems to be some month, but when it finally came out I already lost my crazy enthusiasm for it and did not bother to buy it. So the delay really cost them one sale here.
I understand that the motivation behind this is to make me watch it at the cinema first, but I did that and then I wanted to buy the DVD, not just watch it again at the cinema. Similarly, if I'm not interested in buying it, but want to rent it and can't, I can easily picture myself having already lost interest, when it finally gets available for rent.
Am I the exception, or are there a lot of people who won't buy a product/service, when they have to wait too long for it?
(Also, there once was a movie that was simultaneously released at the cinema, DVD sale and DVD rent. I don't know if that made them any money, but it sure was customer friendly)
I'm not sure I understand this. How is monitoring an exit node different from monitoring any node on the internet? Can't I just intercept usernames and passwords at any node? Or are you saying that TOR exit nodes are just a more popular target, because they route more? I'm puzzled by what you are saying. :-/
Please don't split your sentences, putting one half in the subject, the other half in the comment. Not everyone reads the subjects, since they are often useless, and reading just "to *BSD's "dead scheduling"?" sounds like a toast!
Sure, here is a quote of the engrish instruction manual of the Hanlin v5:
Safety Notice
For safely and efficiently use the product, please strictly abide by the rules, otherwise the danger will happen
Do not put the product under the direct ray of sunlight, and use or put it in the extra high and low temperature environment.
From that I just generalized that this must apply to every e-ink display, since I assumed that they are all the same. So, your ereader did not come with any sun light warnings? Cool, which one do you use?
I have a cheap ereader that needs to be connected to your PC over USB to put new content on it. And the surprising thing is, that this seems enough to recharge it! I now have it for over a month and the battery indicator still says that it is full. It's amazing how view energy this thing consumes, just connect it to a PC once a week and that's enough.
But I admit that solar power seems nice for ereaders that don't use cable connections, e.g. the Kindle with it's whispernet. The only problem there is that you shouldn't expose e-ink to direct sunlight, which unfortunately turns the solar powered e-reader into a stupid idea.
(If you care, I use a Hanlin v5, it's not exactly perfect, but since Amazon deletes your books and Sony sells you rootkits it's okay)
Why not "Partei fuer basisdemokratische Initiative, Rechtsstaat, Arbeit, Tierschutz, Elitenfoerderung und Nochwas"? ;)
(Non-Germans won't get that and should look up "Die Partei")
I don't see how this is needed. I don't know about the USA, but over here, online newspaper already charge for some articles. And since they allow you to read a summary those article can also be found through google.
Of course, I never bought an article. Why would I, when I have access to the internet...
So, the article says that they'll offer a "dashboard" which companies can use to see what users are twittering about them. How is this different from just putting a company name into the search box?
Also, the free Twitter API already allows for interesting data mining. For example, this little site monitors the popularity of the political parties in Germany: Wahlgetwitter. The users just write #Piratenpartei+ or #CDU- to show which party they like or not.
The worst thing this announcement could mean is that they'll charge for the API or exclude businesses from the search function.
This is a quote from the Licence Agreement & Terms of service
Use of Digital Content.
Upon your payment of the applicable fees set by Amazon, Amazon grants you the non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Device or as authorized by Amazon as part of the Service and solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Digital Content will be deemed licensed to you by Amazon under this Agreement unless otherwise expressly provided by Amazon.
I'm not a lawyer, I don't live in the USA and I'm not even that good at understanding english, but to me this sounds like "If you bought it you can keep it".
Keep in mind the chain of events:
1. Someone scans Orwell books and wants to sell them on amazon
2. Amazon says "Sure, why not?"
3. People buy these copies from amazon and annotate them
4. Amazon notices that the copies aren't legal and delete them from every device, rendering the annotations useless.
If you interpret the license agreement to mean "You can keep it only if it turns out to be a legal copy" than this agreement is pretty much useless, since you don't want to check the copyright and licence on everything you want to buy from amazon.
I seriously considered buying a kindle from amazon. Sure, the technical possibility of remotely deleting my books irritated me in the beginning but I thought "Aw, amazon is such a nice company. Their customer service is excellent, they don't censor negative reviews... Surely I can trust them to never do that. And look, they explicitly said in the Terms of Service that they will never do that. So let's just quit being so paranoid and trust a company, just this time".
Then they started to delete Orwell books and for me, a world broke down. Do you know this feeling, when you figure out, that a good friend of you has been lying to you? Well, that's how this digital book burning felt to me. It completely destroyed my trust in that company. And since amazon was my most trusted company, I now no longer trust any other company with ultimate online access to my devices.
So, instead of buying a kindle I bought a simple chinese ereader without web access. Sure, it's not as pretty as a kindle, it has no wikipedia access and the poor translation of the manual starts with "For safely and efficiently use the product, please strictly abide by the rules, otherwise the danger will happen" but at least I know that nobody can take my ebooks away from me.
See, the terms of use already specify that you own everything you buy from amazon forever. That they won't take it away from you.
By deleting the Orwell books amazon already broke their own rules. Even if they said "We pledge [in some legally binding fashion] that this capability will never be reactivated." as you suggest I would not trust them.
The instant spell checker and easy access to thesaurus has actually improved my spelling. Though I switched to stenography when writing on paper since I grew too impatient to use that silly letter drawing method called "writing". (If you really want to know, I use "Stiefo" where each word is one stroke and it does not work for english)
You should watch the movie "Persepolis", it gives you a good overview of Iran (And it's also a cartoon and highly entertaining!)
Please not that his experience, especially in campaigning, is a huge "advantage" for the Piratenpartei. The party does not have that many experienced politicians yet.
No. He got the seat because he was a high ranking politician in the Social Democratic Party (a bit like US Democrats). It's a bit weird that this is how the first Pirate got into the Bundestag, but I guess it can't hurt. I don't know the exact details of the law, but I'm sure he will have to leave the Bundestag after the upcoming elections (Each party needs at least 5% of the votes and since the Piratenpartei only got about 1% in the European elections, it is unlikely that they'll make it)
Actually, the whole internet censorship thing is already in violation of the constitution, but nobody cares...
Keep in mind that the NPD (the "quite nazi" party) is strongest in former East German states, they even managed to get elected into two Landtags (state parliament). And people in former East German states also vote for "die Linke", a party full of former SED politicians (basically East Germany's State Party), some of which worked for the Staatssicherheit (StaSi, State Security).
So I agree that most people aren't really concerned about their freedom. When you can choose between worrying and ignoring most people will choose the ignore-option