If I was in court on a marijuana posession charge, I damned sure wouldn't wan tthe jury going to THAT web page with its lies, distortions, and other propaganda. Would you?
but they could have read the page BEFORE the trial started. you TRUST them to disregard any debunked piece of bullshit on the net. so why can't you trust them now?
but the juror may have read the wiki page in question before being called for jury duty. would it have been all-right then? my point is that people are prejudiced. when you call a person for jury duty, you trust them to disregard their pre-conceived notions and biases. if you are trusting someone to do that, why is it such a big deal to look up info on the net? if the juror was capable of putting aside her prejudices before looking at wikipedia, she is trustworthy even after that. she will still not allow some wikipedia page to take over her judgement.
when is the firefox team going to release ff4.0?? i don't wanna use an unstable beta and i also don't wanna miss out on cool stuff like this. why is it taking so long anyway? chrome is releasing real fats updates. they're on 8 already and probably 10 by the end of january. and look at firefox. still struggling to get to 4. even ie is ahead!!!1
finding the notable person you're looking for is a problem for the search engines, not wikipedia. wikipedia's job is to host all the available information related to a certain name.
no, wikipedia's main goal is to be 'the sum of all human knowledge'. being somewhat like an encyclopedia is a side-effect. if i write a wiki page on myself, and if i do it in an impartial manner, it ought not to be deleted.
you can get a full-blown win7 netbook for $300. why would you pay that much for an internet-access terminal on which you (probably) won't even be able to install your own os, store your videos/music? why not get a proper netbook and dual boot chromeos?
are you drunk? if you buy a completely different phone, it will have different features. its like looking at a friend's vaio running win7, and buying a cheap acer netbook running win7 and complaining that a feature is not available.
its just a matter of reliability and speed. there is going to be a time when internet will be completely ubiquitous, high speed all over, and have an insignificant downtime percentage. as we move toward that ideal state, web apps will continue to inch toward 'good enough' for most people. the fact is that people won't need this powerful machines, they just need fast, always-there network access. what is it that you think can't be done over the internet? and please don't list research and other fringe cases.
you can download all of your facebook data now, from the account setings page. it says "This tool lets you download a copy of your information, including your photos and videos, posts on your wall, all of your messages, your friend list and other content you have shared on your profile. Within this zip file you will have access to your data in a simple, browseable manner." so you won't lose data if facebook decides to close down.
I know it's customary to bag Stallman on Slashdot, and indeed there have been instances where his zealotry becomes a bit wearisome.
However, in this case, he is 100% right. It seems obvious to me that giving control of your data to someone else is not a very intelligent thing to do if it has any value, but Google et al. have no particular reason to take your best interests into consideration.
google , facebook, and microsoft have a very good reason to take your best interests into consideration.its called profit. you take care of the people who pay you.
just checked. my email is included. i use different passwords for everything so not much of an issue. but i really want to delete my gawker account and i can't figure out a way to do that. am i missing something obvious?
this is why i login to only those sites which use google, facebook or msn login systems. i can be sure that msn, google and facebook are the last ones to be leaking email databases.
load up a/. page with >1000 comments on a core-i3 machine and watch chrome stutter and sputter as you scroll at a blazing 5fps. load up the same page on firefox latest stable and voila! the page scrolls ultra-smooth and absolutely no lags. so i'm kinda suspicious about the usefulness of tests like sunspider.
the plural of virus is anything a person wants it to be, as long as the meaning is unambiguously conveyed. i understand that language should be 'correct', but the underlying reason behind this is that everyone should be able to properly infer meaning. if a reader/listener can infer meaning, it should not matter if the language breaks any spelling/grammar conventions.
its a strange situation. the wlan is supposed to be completely open. everything from porn to torrents works. every single website is accessible. but for some strange reason, xkcd.com and shamusyoung.com just do not resolve. and yeah, i'm in india, so i don't think randall would be interested.
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ditto.
incompatible add-ons. that's what's wrong.
peers means countrymen. unless you are an elitist snob.
If I was in court on a marijuana posession charge, I damned sure wouldn't wan tthe jury going to THAT web page with its lies, distortions, and other propaganda. Would you?
but they could have read the page BEFORE the trial started. you TRUST them to disregard any debunked piece of bullshit on the net. so why can't you trust them now?
but the juror may have read the wiki page in question before being called for jury duty. would it have been all-right then?
my point is that people are prejudiced. when you call a person for jury duty, you trust them to disregard their pre-conceived notions and biases. if you are trusting someone to do that, why is it such a big deal to look up info on the net? if the juror was capable of putting aside her prejudices before looking at wikipedia, she is trustworthy even after that. she will still not allow some wikipedia page to take over her judgement.
when is the firefox team going to release ff4.0?? i don't wanna use an unstable beta and i also don't wanna miss out on cool stuff like this. why is it taking so long anyway? chrome is releasing real fats updates. they're on 8 already and probably 10 by the end of january. and look at firefox. still struggling to get to 4. even ie is ahead!!!1
finding the notable person you're looking for is a problem for the search engines, not wikipedia. wikipedia's job is to host all the available information related to a certain name.
no, wikipedia's main goal is to be 'the sum of all human knowledge'. being somewhat like an encyclopedia is a side-effect. if i write a wiki page on myself, and if i do it in an impartial manner, it ought not to be deleted.
iirc, at the start, one of wikipedia's goals was 'sum of all human knowledge'. when did this notable/non-notable shit kick in?
scores of disgruntled former editors are not going to fill up 7 million USD. unless you guys are all worth 2 billion $ or something.
you can get a full-blown win7 netbook for $300. why would you pay that much for an internet-access terminal on which you (probably) won't even be able to install your own os, store your videos/music? why not get a proper netbook and dual boot chromeos?
maybe 100$?
are you drunk? if you buy a completely different phone, it will have different features. its like looking at a friend's vaio running win7, and buying a cheap acer netbook running win7 and complaining that a feature is not available.
its just a matter of reliability and speed. there is going to be a time when internet will be completely ubiquitous, high speed all over, and have an insignificant downtime percentage. as we move toward that ideal state, web apps will continue to inch toward 'good enough' for most people. the fact is that people won't need this powerful machines, they just need fast, always-there network access. what is it that you think can't be done over the internet? and please don't list research and other fringe cases.
because they are an advertisement company, not a web hosting one.
i would think google and facebook are much more ddos resistant. they handle more than amazon's peak traffic all year round.
ummm, your photo is not your data. its the data of the guy who took that photo.
you can download all of your facebook data now, from the account setings page. it says "This tool lets you download a copy of your information, including your photos and videos, posts on your wall, all of your messages, your friend list and other content you have shared on your profile. Within this zip file you will have access to your data in a simple, browseable manner."
so you won't lose data if facebook decides to close down.
I know it's customary to bag Stallman on Slashdot, and indeed there have been instances where his zealotry becomes a bit wearisome.
However, in this case, he is 100% right. It seems obvious to me that giving control of your data to someone else is not a very intelligent thing to do if it has any value, but Google et al. have no particular reason to take your best interests into consideration.
google , facebook, and microsoft have a very good reason to take your best interests into consideration.its called profit. you take care of the people who pay you.
just checked. my email is included. i use different passwords for everything so not much of an issue. but i really want to delete my gawker account and i can't figure out a way to do that. am i missing something obvious?
this is why i login to only those sites which use google, facebook or msn login systems. i can be sure that msn, google and facebook are the last ones to be leaking email databases.
load up a /. page with >1000 comments on a core-i3 machine and watch chrome stutter and sputter as you scroll at a blazing 5fps.
load up the same page on firefox latest stable and voila! the page scrolls ultra-smooth and absolutely no lags. so i'm kinda suspicious about the usefulness of tests like sunspider.
the plural of virus is anything a person wants it to be, as long as the meaning is unambiguously conveyed. i understand that language should be 'correct', but the underlying reason behind this is that everyone should be able to properly infer meaning. if a reader/listener can infer meaning, it should not matter if the language breaks any spelling/grammar conventions.
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its a strange situation. the wlan is supposed to be completely open. everything from porn to torrents works. every single website is accessible.
but for some strange reason, xkcd.com and shamusyoung.com just do not resolve.
and yeah, i'm in india, so i don't think randall would be interested.