"Deleted" articles don't get deleted from the Wikipedia database at all. They just get hidden from the public. An administrator can undelete them at any time. So, there's no monetary saving involved. Arguably, plain spam should be removed from the site, but JWASM is obviously not that. It is even discussed in Fog Agner's book, which normally meets the requirements for a Wikipedia article. See my post above. I can't be bothered to read the insanely long deletion discussion to see why that's not enough for them. What's more funny is that they now argue that having a Slashdot story doesn't matter because popularity is not the same as "notability". Go figure.
In the past, I preferred NASM for x86 cross platform development, meaning Win32 and Linux. It had decent support for the latest sets of instructions. The Microsoft syntax is something I prefer to avoid, so NASM was actually a plus in that respect, although some coworkers disagreed. There's a brief, but up-to-date comparison of x86 assemblers in Fog Agner's book. He says that YASM is better than NASM these days, and uses the same syntax. The Wikipedia page on Open Watcom Assembler also has book reference that seemingly compares MASM vs. NASM vs. TASM vs. WASM, but it's from 2005.
from Wikipedia as "non-notable". It's already tagged for deletion there. The OP should get some award for posting a story with a link that will die on its own instead of the usual Slashdot Effect.
Except perhaps for the "professional-looking message window" CUPS works the same way on Linux. On Fedora you get a Windows-style pop-up from the info area applet (I change it's default location on the panel, but the default should be familiar to Windows users). Hardly impressive or unique feature on Solaris.
What exactly is the selling point here? I can see how ZFS is enticing for servers, and perhaps a narrow range of power users, but most FOSS stuff is more work to install on Solaris (Open or otherwise).
Perhaps on a two-harddisk laptop ZFS is an interesting option.
I had a (350W?) PSU that came with the Sonata case (1st version), which made an annoying high-pitched noise with Radeon 9800 from the get go. It eventually started to exhibit instability after three years or so, and then would not even power off properly.
I also have a 430W Antec that comes with NSK 6500. This one is a Seasonic OEM (hat tip silentpcreview.com). No issues with this one in a couple of years of service.
So, like with other rebranded OEM products, it depends who built the PSU for Antec.
Yes, I agree that jonnyguru.com is the best review source for PSU stability (noise and transients are measured with oscilloscope and compared with ATX specs) and build quality (inside pics and commentary on components used). If you additionally care about the noise your PSU is making at various loads, silentpcreview.com has those measurements. I bought a couple of power supplies based on the review on to those two sites, and never had issues stability or noise wise.
One of the reasons that Wikipedia is an information battleground is the 50% chance of a scoring page first page hit on google for a given topic. See http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001381.html. By editing Wikipedia, you're adding information to Google == "The Internet" about half the time.
As long as Page Rank assigns a value to each site instead of each page, Wikipedia will get high rankings for pages that nobody links to. The assumption behind page rank is that each site has reputation can be computed globally for a site. This is generally true for most web sites, but it's obviously not so for a wiki.
Various cliques manage to control chunks of Wikipedia pages by local consensus or simply by excluding non-admins from editing. Articles on Sarah Palin or Joe the plumber were locked for extended periods of time after they came into the spotlight.
Work in another field. If you're too old, tough luck for you, but you can bet your children, if you had time for any, won't follow in your footsteps. In any case, fewer people will enter such fields, so the market does balance itself. If the employers can use workforce from another country that is either fascist or very poor, then the local workforce in that field will eventually disappear. But the global market still balances itself. If someone taught you that the economy is a game of "friendly", ask for your tuition money back.
Given that the US economy is moving away from the production of physical goods, and embracing IP production more and more, it should come as no surprise that the state got more involved in policing IP "theft".
I bet this is going to get advertised as another law to "save the US economy".
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They have a new story in which they congratulate themselves over getting Jimbo to act on their behest. Jimbo basically admits he planned this as PR stunt to remove the pressure from him: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/057896.html Mike Godwin seems to agree to that strategy: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-May/057936.html
Over 200 votes to remove his founder bit, which gives him sysop powers no all wikis, and only about a third are opposing that. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Remove_Founder_flag
"Deleted" articles don't get deleted from the Wikipedia database at all. They just get hidden from the public. An administrator can undelete them at any time. So, there's no monetary saving involved. Arguably, plain spam should be removed from the site, but JWASM is obviously not that. It is even discussed in Fog Agner's book, which normally meets the requirements for a Wikipedia article. See my post above. I can't be bothered to read the insanely long deletion discussion to see why that's not enough for them. What's more funny is that they now argue that having a Slashdot story doesn't matter because popularity is not the same as "notability". Go figure.
The deletion discussion is far, far longer than the article itself. This seems a good description of the guys spending their time that way.
In the past, I preferred NASM for x86 cross platform development, meaning Win32 and Linux. It had decent support for the latest sets of instructions. The Microsoft syntax is something I prefer to avoid, so NASM was actually a plus in that respect, although some coworkers disagreed. There's a brief, but up-to-date comparison of x86 assemblers in Fog Agner's book. He says that YASM is better than NASM these days, and uses the same syntax. The Wikipedia page on Open Watcom Assembler also has book reference that seemingly compares MASM vs. NASM vs. TASM vs. WASM, but it's from 2005.
from Wikipedia as "non-notable". It's already tagged for deletion there. The OP should get some award for posting a story with a link that will die on its own instead of the usual Slashdot Effect.
With their donations, which buys ads that matter more than your chad or Diebolt bit!
And how are going to buy a complex product (car, computer, etc.) where ALL the parts are made in USA?
He probably got her when he was making $55k/yr. Now she's stuck with the cheap bastard. ;)
Give it a couple of years and another homegrown terrorist. The only thing holding them back is that citizens, uh, vote!
Did it occur to you that terrorists don't care if they get sued for IP infringement?
Except perhaps for the "professional-looking message window" CUPS works the same way on Linux. On Fedora you get a Windows-style pop-up from the info area applet (I change it's default location on the panel, but the default should be familiar to Windows users). Hardly impressive or unique feature on Solaris.
What exactly is the selling point here? I can see how ZFS is enticing for servers, and perhaps a narrow range of power users, but most FOSS stuff is more work to install on Solaris (Open or otherwise).
Perhaps on a two-harddisk laptop ZFS is an interesting option.
I had a (350W?) PSU that came with the Sonata case (1st version), which made an annoying high-pitched noise with Radeon 9800 from the get go. It eventually started to exhibit instability after three years or so, and then would not even power off properly.
I also have a 430W Antec that comes with NSK 6500. This one is a Seasonic OEM (hat tip silentpcreview.com). No issues with this one in a couple of years of service.
So, like with other rebranded OEM products, it depends who built the PSU for Antec.
Yes, I agree that jonnyguru.com is the best review source for PSU stability (noise and transients are measured with oscilloscope and compared with ATX specs) and build quality (inside pics and commentary on components used). If you additionally care about the noise your PSU is making at various loads, silentpcreview.com has those measurements. I bought a couple of power supplies based on the review on to those two sites, and never had issues stability or noise wise.
Practically any UPS that costs more than $100 will report power consumption as well, these days via USB. No need spend extra for that Kill-A-Watt.
Nonsense. LCD pixels consume energy *in addition* to that consumed by the backlight. So more of them on won't save you power.
Amazon has figured it out a while ago. Except it offers you things you may want to buy directly from them.
"where your at every second" you mean "you're". One down for the grammar nazis.
Let me know what other encyclopedia has ID as a featured article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_review#Intelligent_design
The Nature study is valid for scientific articles. Read an article about some pseudo-science, ranging from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_addiction and ask yourself if some other encyclopedia would give the 90/10 pro/con coverage to such topics like Wikipedia does.
One of the reasons that Wikipedia is an information battleground is the 50% chance of a scoring page first page hit on google for a given topic. See http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001381.html. By editing Wikipedia, you're adding information to Google == "The Internet" about half the time.
As long as Page Rank assigns a value to each site instead of each page, Wikipedia will get high rankings for pages that nobody links to. The assumption behind page rank is that each site has reputation can be computed globally for a site. This is generally true for most web sites, but it's obviously not so for a wiki.
Various cliques manage to control chunks of Wikipedia pages by local consensus or simply by excluding non-admins from editing. Articles on Sarah Palin or Joe the plumber were locked for extended periods of time after they came into the spotlight.
Ever heard of it?
Work in another field. If you're too old, tough luck for you, but you can bet your children, if you had time for any, won't follow in your footsteps. In any case, fewer people will enter such fields, so the market does balance itself. If the employers can use workforce from another country that is either fascist or very poor, then the local workforce in that field will eventually disappear. But the global market still balances itself. If someone taught you that the economy is a game of "friendly", ask for your tuition money back.
Given that the US economy is moving away from the production of physical goods, and embracing IP production more and more, it should come as no surprise that the state got more involved in policing IP "theft".
I bet this is going to get advertised as another law to "save the US economy".