This makes sense. A lot of people who help moderate Wikipedia have their own opinions on what should and shouldn't be articles on the wiki. They also have some questionable policies on doing your own research. While I can see the point of not accepting information from non-verifiable sources. It also prevents Wikipedia from growing beyond a certain amount of information. I would think that one of the great things about Wikipedia would be to provide a NPOV and extensive information for a lot of subjects that are not covered by a standard encyclopedia.
On another level. Wikipedia covers only a part of information space (if you will, Wikispace). Mainly, the global part. So it mostly only allows people, ideas, places and things that are known globally. Meanwhile, sites like Bloomingpedia, which is a city wiki for Bloomington, IN is like a local part of wikispace. It doesn't make sense for Wikipedia to cover local information, nor should it. But City Wikis (like Seattle Wiki) can cover this more specific information.
Likewise, Uncyclopedia can cover all the global information that Wikipedia cannot. So I think there is a place for the content of Uncyclopedia, or as they say Arr, Pirateopedia.
Round Cube is pretty nice and a real step up in interface design over squirrelmail, but still has some bugs and is a bit slow if you have large mailboxes. But then again, it was just released last month.;-)
I'm working on encorporating it into suso.org already. I submitted some code back to the author to deal with long folder names and stuff.
Heh, I was saying that like a year or two ago. And its not 5 years, its like 8-10. At the time they had something like 50,000 employees and 40 billion in the bank. Being generous and guessing that everyone's average salary was 100k/year (some more, some less), they could pay everyone their current salary for 10 years with that kind of cash. Granted, its more complicated of a calculation than that.
Could you imagine Bill saying something like "Well folks, we're just going to sit this Apple and Linux stuff out and come back in about a decade with something new."
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Microsoft doesn't want cool features and creativity. They want money.
More accurately, they want to continue to be on top and also to be in control. They have money, in fact so much money that they often don't know what to do with it. Like the 30 billion in cash that they had last year and were trying to figure out what to do with.
Competition doesn't make money. Competition drives down profit margins and increases the amount of work required for success.
Or, in MS's case, real competition (such as the threat posed from Linux and OS X) gives them a slap in the face and makes them realize that its sink or swim time again. If they don't get their shit together, they are going to go on the steady slope down to the bottom of the lake.
Conversely, operating a monopoly allows you to slap premium prices on shoddy products and rake in the cash, as long as you are adept at keeping the government off your back.
Which is exactly why people should think before giving in to a shiny new feature. In ANY product. You may be helping yourself in the short run, but in the long run taking the easy way out will lead to difficulties 3, 5, 10 and 20 years from now.
Is it any coincidence that Microsoft is releasing this shiny new version of Office and also considering the subscription based pricing? I don't think so. They know exactly what they are doing.
And despite what a lot of people will think on the surface (whoa look at how cool Microsoft has made Office 12), it is really Apple, Linux and the Open Source competition that has made Microsoft get its ass in gear.
How else do you explain the sudden amount of creativity and motivation that Microsoft is having with its interface?
Microsoft and the Windows folks are going to act all high and mighty that their OS now has these cool features, but they will not realize what is driving it. Competition.
This is good because people have started to notice (and say on the message boards) that some of the recent versions of Kino have started to become more buggy.
Of course I know what HTML is. I was trying to be funny (appearently wasted effort). The joke is that HTML is old. For slashdot to only be using HTML makes it old. Something so old that people forgot about it.
Pulling your leg (doubt it), ill informed (she is a lawyer, but of course that doesn't mean anything). This girl that I asked is Mandarin Chinese. I would think she would know. Do you speak Chinese natively? She did say that combination of su and so were strange though and you wouldn't normally use it in Chinese.
Right after we bought suso.com, I noticed that a bunch of people from China were already going to the suso.com address, even though there was nothing at the URL before. So I figured they meant to go to suso.cn, which seems to be a search site as well. I asked a Chinese friend of mine and she said that Su means fast and so means search or find in Chinese.
What I'm wondering though. Did a hacker get into their whois information and change the DNS servers, or did Fuddruckers themselves change the website records?
Actually fuddruckers.com points to a different location than www.fuddruckers.com. Its too bad domainsdb.net doesn't keep track of historical information.
You know TripMaster Monkey, I think you're the only person on Slashdot who ever understands what I'm getting at. Everyone else takes me so literally and mods me down as overrated.
Well, I can't load the page that you're linking too, but I'm betting the person works for DirectNIC. They have a blog up on their site with pictures, etc. too.
One thing that I'll never understand is why we (humans) continue to put important things in the most vulnerable places. This goes way beyond technology, but I'll use it as an example. Many large internet services companies are based on the west or east coast or in Texas. If you consider the worst (which is what just happend in New Orleans), there is a great potential for disaster in these places. However, in the middle of the country where the only natural threat is tornados, which don't affect everything together, there is very little. And so much
of the Internet depends on those vulnerable regions. The aftermath of the hurricane is now threatening DirectNIC.
Why do people keep building villages next to volcanos, museums with important artifacts in large cities, data centers in flood plains, major network hubs in cities.
I'm guessing that the most likely reason this happens is because those places happen to be nice to live, better weather, etc. and it serves people's short term interests. But in the long term, I think we're just asking for Trouble (yes with a capital T).
When a large wave comes in and knocks out the east coast with the next 100-1000 years, we'll probably have the same old excuses that we do now. And we'll be even more dependent on technology when it does.
Does the hole over the antarctic have anything to do with the fact that there is no or very little plan vegetation down there? I guess if so the same hole might be over the arctic. But still, why does the hole end up over a magnetic pole?
Simple, we don't offer unlimited bandwidth and have never said that we did. People can use up all the disk space they want (and right now we actually have more than enough to hold wikipedia or a couple of them), but they would need to pay for the excess bandwidth if they go over 10GB in one month.
The reason why I started offering no quotas on disk space is because I once ran a website with lots of multimedia content and was always frustrated by disk space quotas.
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This makes sense. A lot of people who help moderate Wikipedia have their own opinions on what should and shouldn't be articles on the wiki. They also have some questionable policies on doing your own research. While I can see the point of not accepting information from non-verifiable sources. It also prevents Wikipedia from growing beyond a certain amount of information. I would think that one of the great things about Wikipedia would be to provide a NPOV and extensive information for a lot of subjects that are not covered by a standard encyclopedia.
On another level. Wikipedia covers only a part of information space (if you will, Wikispace). Mainly, the global part. So it mostly only allows people, ideas, places and things that are known globally. Meanwhile, sites like Bloomingpedia, which is a city wiki for Bloomington, IN is like a local part of wikispace. It doesn't make sense for Wikipedia to cover local information, nor should it. But City Wikis (like Seattle Wiki) can cover this more specific information.
Likewise, Uncyclopedia can cover all the global information that Wikipedia cannot. So I think there is a place for the content of Uncyclopedia, or as they say Arr, Pirateopedia.
Round Cube is pretty nice and a real step up in interface design over squirrelmail, but still has some bugs and is a bit slow if you have large mailboxes. But then again, it was just released last month. ;-)
I'm working on encorporating it into suso.org already. I submitted some code back to the author to deal with long folder names and stuff.
Heh, I was saying that like a year or two ago. And its not 5 years, its like 8-10. At the time they had something like 50,000 employees and 40 billion in the bank. Being generous and guessing that everyone's average salary was 100k/year (some more, some less), they could pay everyone their current salary for 10 years with that kind of cash. Granted, its more complicated of a calculation than that.
Could you imagine Bill saying something like "Well folks, we're just going to sit this Apple and Linux stuff out and come back in about a decade with something new."
Microsoft doesn't want cool features and creativity. They want money.
More accurately, they want to continue to be on top and also to be in control. They have money, in fact so much money that they often don't know what to do with it. Like the 30 billion in cash that they had last year and were trying to figure out what to do with.
Competition doesn't make money. Competition drives down profit margins and increases the amount of work required for success.
Or, in MS's case, real competition (such as the threat posed from Linux and OS X) gives them a slap in the face and makes them realize that its sink or swim time again. If they don't get their shit together, they are going to go on the steady slope down to the bottom of the lake.
Conversely, operating a monopoly allows you to slap premium prices on shoddy products and rake in the cash, as long as you are adept at keeping the government off your back.
Which is exactly why people should think before giving in to a shiny new feature. In ANY product. You may be helping yourself in the short run, but in the long run taking the easy way out will lead to difficulties 3, 5, 10 and 20 years from now.
Is it any coincidence that Microsoft is releasing this shiny new version of Office and also considering the subscription based pricing? I don't think so. They know exactly what they are doing.
And despite what a lot of people will think on the surface (whoa look at how cool Microsoft has made Office 12), it is really Apple, Linux and the Open Source competition that has made Microsoft get its ass in gear.
How else do you explain the sudden amount of creativity and motivation that Microsoft is having with its interface?
Microsoft and the Windows folks are going to act all high and mighty that their OS now has these cool features, but they will not realize what is driving it. Competition.
This is good because people have started to notice (and say on the message boards) that some of the recent versions of Kino have started to become more buggy.
Google: I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast
IIIR: Heh, you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
Google: uh, NO!
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/2nd_Bi-annual _Linux_Gaming_Fest
Don't worry Jesus. We'll get back to saving the world after just this one download.
Reminds me of another story on slashdot a long time ago
Of course I know what HTML is. I was trying to be funny (appearently wasted effort). The joke is that HTML is old. For slashdot to only be using HTML makes it old. Something so old that people forgot about it.
Oh nevermind.
After almost 8 years, Slashdot's HTML is finally getting an overhaul.
What is a HTML?
This guy's website and ideas is a bit "out there", but he is a scientist and some of the results from his research are interesting:
http://www.preparingforthegreatshift.org/
Pulling your leg (doubt it), ill informed (she is a lawyer, but of course that doesn't mean anything). This girl that I asked is Mandarin Chinese. I would think she would know. Do you speak Chinese natively? She did say that combination of su and so were strange though and you wouldn't normally use it in Chinese.
Right after we bought suso.com, I noticed that a bunch of people from China were already going to the suso.com address, even though there was nothing at the URL before. So I figured they meant to go to suso.cn, which seems to be a search site as well. I asked a Chinese friend of mine and she said that Su means fast and so means search or find in Chinese.
What I'm wondering though. Did a hacker get into their whois information and change the DNS servers, or did Fuddruckers themselves change the website records?
Actually fuddruckers.com points to a different location than www.fuddruckers.com. Its too bad domainsdb.net doesn't keep track of historical information.
Don't you remember? I'm the one associated with HOT GAY COCK! hyperlinks.
You know TripMaster Monkey, I think you're the only person on Slashdot who ever understands what I'm getting at. Everyone else takes me so literally and mods me down as overrated.
Well, I can't load the page that you're linking too, but I'm betting the person works for DirectNIC. They have a blog up on their site with pictures, etc. too.
One thing that I'll never understand is why we (humans) continue to put important things in the most vulnerable places. This goes way beyond technology, but I'll use it as an example. Many large internet services companies are based on the west or east coast or in Texas. If you consider the worst (which is what just happend in New Orleans), there is a great potential for disaster in these places. However, in the middle of the country where the only natural threat is tornados, which don't affect everything together, there is very little. And so much
of the Internet depends on those vulnerable regions. The aftermath of the hurricane is now threatening DirectNIC.
Why do people keep building villages next to volcanos, museums with important artifacts in large cities, data centers in flood plains, major network hubs in cities.
I'm guessing that the most likely reason this happens is because those places happen to be nice to live, better weather, etc. and it serves people's short term interests. But in the long term, I think we're just asking for Trouble (yes with a capital T).
When a large wave comes in and knocks out the east coast with the next 100-1000 years, we'll probably have the same old excuses that we do now. And we'll be even more dependent on technology when it does.
Over my dead body.
Right, but the process of making ozone uses oxygen, which is generated from photosynthesis.
Does the hole over the antarctic have anything to do with the fact that there is no or very little plan vegetation down there? I guess if so the same hole might be over the arctic. But still, why does the hole end up over a magnetic pole?
Simple, we don't offer unlimited bandwidth and have never said that we did. People can use up all the disk space they want (and right now we actually have more than enough to hold wikipedia or a couple of them), but they would need to pay for the excess bandwidth if they go over 10GB in one month.
The reason why I started offering no quotas on disk space is because I once ran a website with lots of multimedia content and was always frustrated by disk space quotas.