Bias is not a problem inherent in wikipedia, it is inherent in every publication, whether collaborative or privately owned and published. As several posters above have pointed out, the problem lies with the reader for using only one source, and considering that source as being authoritative.
The answer is not to stand at the sidelines lamenting wikipedia's shortcomings, but to set up a rival encyclopedia which is as objective as possible from the perspective of your peer group.
Truly unbiased information is extremely rare, and probably confined to subjects like pure mathematics.
Any criticism of political bias tends to say as much about the critic's bias as it does about the target of the criticism.
To quote Robert Anton Wilson: "Certainty belongs to those who only own one set of encyclopedias."
Europeans dislike us, some HATE us, maybe they don't have our best interests at heart with this thing?
Well I guess the game is up. We Europeans have been cutting our own CO2 output and forced our polluting industries to clean up their act to hurt the US economy. In the next decade we were planning to switch to an all hydrogen economy, just to bankrupt Wall Street, and we would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddeling kids!
Wait until 7, 8 and 9 come out and watch them all in order. Then ask the nurse to wheel you back to your room and call your grandchildren to tell them about it.
Is Lucas still planning to do the sequels? And if so, will it take another 20 years to start filming? Does anybody know? Does anybody care?
I don't know, the OSX version is pretty light and crap-free at least compared to the Windows version. If it's spying on me it is doing it very stealthily. At least there are no annoying popups.
Speed measurements in astronomy are usually made by measuring the doppler shift of of the light emitted. If you find the spectrum of for instance Hydrogen (a very common pattern) but the spectral lines are shifted compared to the spectrum of hydrogen on earth. From this you can measure the relative speed between us and the source. This is accurate , hard to distort and relies on only one measurement.
Somewhere in this world, possibly in a basement near you, there is a geek who will not be satisfied until the entire planet uses Opera on an Amiga running BeOS to find Ogg-Theora rips of the original Star Wars: A New Hope where Han shoots first.
It's for the Apple certified engineer or for the QA tester at the assembly line. It's easier to check the voltage on TP1 or to insert a test signal at the terminal of C3 closest to the headphonejack than to have to refer to photographs with arrows like PS2 modders have to do. It saves time, money, and as silkscreen printing is a standard option in all commercial PCB manufacture, and PCB design software produces silkscreen templates at the click of a mouse, there is no point in leaving it out.
It's not a bass rolloff in the classical sense, it's a powersupply issue. At low volume, or when connected to a high impedance input, like the line-in of a soundcard or amplifier, there probably is a flat response, but at higher volumes when powering the earphones, the bass notes (which tend to have the highest amplitude) make the amp that drives the earphones pull too much current from the puny battery, which leads to distortion.
This is an important technical difference, which in practice means that you don't have a tinny sound (which poor bass rolloff would produce) but it's more that your bass sounds like shit. (it's a kind of buzzing sound accompanying every heavy bassnote)
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I think you might have a problem with packet fragmentation in the RFC1149 implementation.
Who cares when it's raining grilled pigeons and baked potatoes?
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So you're the one to blame for the ozone hole!
Bias is not a problem inherent in wikipedia, it is inherent in every publication, whether collaborative or privately owned and published. As several posters above have pointed out, the problem lies with the reader for using only one source, and considering that source as being authoritative.
The answer is not to stand at the sidelines lamenting wikipedia's shortcomings, but to set up a rival encyclopedia which is as objective as possible from the perspective of your peer group.
Truly unbiased information is extremely rare, and probably confined to subjects like pure mathematics.
Any criticism of political bias tends to say as much about the critic's bias as it does about the target of the criticism.
To quote Robert Anton Wilson: "Certainty belongs to those who only own one set of
encyclopedias."
Be sure to write an invoice to Apple HQ demanding a consultant's fee.
Frankly, I'm not really interested in paying $699.00 for a TiVo in translucent blue plastic.
Neither am I, that's SOOO '90s. A TiVo in shiny white plastic however...
a guy I work with who is as firmly entrenched as a Mac dude as I am a PC dude.
Reading that, I suspect that you both need to get out more.
Europeans dislike us, some HATE us, maybe they don't have our best interests at heart with this thing?
Well I guess the game is up. We Europeans have been cutting our own CO2 output and forced our polluting industries to clean up their act to hurt the US economy. In the next decade we were planning to switch to an all hydrogen economy, just to bankrupt Wall Street, and we would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddeling kids!
The larger asteroids are spherical, so don't give up that job at McDonalds.
If you write "Pope" on your forehead, do you think people will believe you're the pope?
Don't be silly! You'd have to show the popecard before they are convinced.
Well there is (was?) the SimplyGNUStep distribution, sadly the development of which seems to have stalled.
Ever retreating deadlnes is a bad thing?
Some people are never content. For years everyone has been critisizing for not being more like Free Software vendors.
With Longhorn, Microsoft has obviously adopted the Debian release schedule.
Go MS!
Wait until 7, 8 and 9 come out and watch them all in order. Then ask the nurse to wheel you back to your room and call your grandchildren to tell them about it.
Is Lucas still planning to do the sequels? And if so, will it take another 20 years to start filming? Does anybody know? Does anybody care?
Or here (last December)
So, what do you call a story that's posted three times? A triple dupe? A tripe?
I mean what else could they NOT like about the "world's" favorite sport?
Let me guess... Taiwan has it's own team?
It won't do that. I've read somewhere that it's mostly harmless.
I don't know, the OSX version is pretty light and crap-free at least compared to the Windows version. If it's spying on me it is doing it very stealthily. At least there are no annoying popups.
I believe you've confused amoral and immoral, but I could be wrong.
Speed measurements in astronomy are usually made by measuring the doppler shift of of the light emitted. If you find the spectrum of for instance Hydrogen (a very common pattern) but the spectral lines are shifted compared to the spectrum of hydrogen on earth. From this you can measure the relative speed between us and the source. This is accurate , hard to distort and relies on only one measurement.
Somewhere in this world, possibly in a basement near you, there is a geek who will not be satisfied until the entire planet uses Opera on an Amiga running BeOS to find Ogg-Theora rips of the original Star Wars: A New Hope where Han shoots first.
I suggest that they just rename it to GINP (GINP Is Not Photoshop) and end this discussion once and for all.
You forgot:
8. Rotary phones are the only way out of the matrix.
It's for the Apple certified engineer or for the QA tester at the assembly line. It's easier to check the voltage on TP1 or to insert a test signal at the terminal of C3 closest to the headphonejack than to have to refer to photographs with arrows like PS2 modders have to do. It saves time, money, and as silkscreen printing is a standard option in all commercial PCB manufacture, and PCB design software produces silkscreen templates at the click of a mouse, there is no point in leaving it out.
It's not a bass rolloff in the classical sense, it's a powersupply issue. At low volume, or when connected to a high impedance input, like the line-in of a soundcard or amplifier, there probably is a flat response, but at higher volumes when powering the earphones, the bass notes (which tend to have the highest amplitude) make the amp that drives the earphones pull too much current from the puny battery, which leads to distortion.
This is an important technical difference, which in practice means that you don't have a tinny sound (which poor bass rolloff would produce) but it's more that your bass sounds like shit. (it's a kind of buzzing sound accompanying every heavy bassnote)
from your poll:
Check that all the options you know of is in the list of options, if not enter the missing option in the form at the bottom (emphasis mine)
Let me guess, It's not teaching grammar.
They probably want to attract more business users to their service
Because nothing gives a better first impression in the business world than having an email address ending in hotmail.com.