Quite impressive that in 150 years we can do with less than a gram of silicon what they tried to do with tons of gears and cranks. Makes you wonder what they're gonna be doing in 150 years from now.
Wikipedia does far more good than harm. The problem isn't using Wikipedia as a source, but using it extensively. For example, I just gave a presentation on gages for my Mechanical Engineering lab. The lab writeup said something about a piezo-reisistive pressure sensor, and I had no idea what that was. I went to wikipedia because it took about 2 seconds to get there, and it told me that it uses semiconductors whose resistence changes depending on the force exerted on them, and that can be used to calculate pressure. Instead of taking a long trip to the library to search from some book on pressure gages, I found my answer to a very small part of the presentation in about 20 seconds so I had more time to work on the rest of the presentation. This is what Wikipedia is perfect for.
I'm one of those people who doesn't really belong on slashdot due to my outrageously inadequate computer skills. I just appreciate the actually intelligent discussion devoid of complete morons that I couldn't find anywhere else. But question for the people who do belong here: how is deliberately infecting your own products even close to a good idea? I can't imagine this is going to get half the press it deserves, but if this somehow got out past computernerdland (no offense meant), wouldn't that turn millions of people off of buying HP? I feel like I'm missing something here.
Is there any way Sonic.net could sue these guys for backing out of an agreement for made-up reasons? This seems like someone not paying their bills because a unicorn told them to.
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Quite impressive that in 150 years we can do with less than a gram of silicon what they tried to do with tons of gears and cranks. Makes you wonder what they're gonna be doing in 150 years from now.
Wikipedia does far more good than harm. The problem isn't using Wikipedia as a source, but using it extensively. For example, I just gave a presentation on gages for my Mechanical Engineering lab. The lab writeup said something about a piezo-reisistive pressure sensor, and I had no idea what that was. I went to wikipedia because it took about 2 seconds to get there, and it told me that it uses semiconductors whose resistence changes depending on the force exerted on them, and that can be used to calculate pressure. Instead of taking a long trip to the library to search from some book on pressure gages, I found my answer to a very small part of the presentation in about 20 seconds so I had more time to work on the rest of the presentation. This is what Wikipedia is perfect for.
I'm one of those people who doesn't really belong on slashdot due to my outrageously inadequate computer skills. I just appreciate the actually intelligent discussion devoid of complete morons that I couldn't find anywhere else. But question for the people who do belong here: how is deliberately infecting your own products even close to a good idea? I can't imagine this is going to get half the press it deserves, but if this somehow got out past computernerdland (no offense meant), wouldn't that turn millions of people off of buying HP? I feel like I'm missing something here.
put them in canada, don't need a map for that one.
Is there any way Sonic.net could sue these guys for backing out of an agreement for made-up reasons? This seems like someone not paying their bills because a unicorn told them to.