Sounds like a worthy start to the process of introducing more trustworthyness into Wikipedia entries, but this maybe needs tuning for content type too.
Afterall just because someone is a reliable expert at editing the wikipedia entries on Professional Wrestling or Superheroes doesn't necessarily mean we should trust their edits on, for instance, the sensitive issues of Tibetan sovereignty.
"Daidone, who's the co-founder of Louisville, Kentucky-based CertiCell" traded "a new set of wheels (Nissan 350Z to be exact) and 3 more 8GB iPhones" for "a shit load of publicity"
You think $100,000 normally buys this much advertising?
Whenever we're on a music-related topic this forum is full of people saying how online distribution is the future, how we should be cutting out the physical copies and the publishing middlemen, and just let artists deal directly with customers.
This is precisely what Valve have done with Steam in the games arena and all I ever seem to hear about it is naysaying and doom-mongery.
If you read this post you are probably male. (80% correct) You are probably in the 20-35 age group. (60% correct)
(I know I'll only get negative responses to this post of the type "I'm reading this and I'm a 47-year-old woman!" That's Ok. You're in the other bracket.)
My algorithm is as good as Microsoft's. Can I have a research grant please?
Neither would be trademarkable (in the field of computing) because they are so generic.
You could trademark "Computer Biscuits" as a brand of biscuits, or "Biscuit Computers" as a brand of computers, but not descriptive terms like "Biscuits" or "Oat Biscuits" as biscuits, or "Computer" or "Personal Computer" in computing.
If you were Protoss you could use the Dark Archon's Mind Control ability, steal builder units, and have 200 control worth of *each* race.
If you were the sort of person who was anal enough to do that sort of thing. And you were playing on a map with enough resources to actually build that much stuff.
The USA's record of obeying WTO rulings that have gone against it is absolutely abysmal.
The fact that they are running to a body that they themselves have made toothless shows that their influence over China has waned to virtually nil.
They've been the only global superpower for close to two decades now, but China and India are very rapidly joining that group and the US is going to have to get used to much, much less going their way.
Apple may be boxed into 5-10% of the market, but they've managed to hold onto this share competing directly with Microsoft for 20 years and they've developed exactly
the same reputation in computers as BMW does with cars.
Oh, you mean they're only used by wankers.
-1 Flamebait. I couldn't help it. It just popped in there.
Re:Um, yeah, about that Games Explorer thing...
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Yes and No.
It's done by reading a local Game Definition File which will - in Microsoft's vision of the future - be created by the developer and included in the game install.
However for games without such a file - presumably including all legacy games - Vista will dial the mothership and request the data using "Windows Metadata Services".
If Sony made toasters: - It would overheat and your toast would catch fire. - It would cost too much because they all have a Blu-Ray drive fitted.
If Apple made toasters: - It wouldn't be the first toaster, the best toaster, or the cheapest toaster, but a brazillion fanboys would claim that toast from the Apple toaster tasted better - It would look all white and plasticky like a kitchen appliance
If the FOSS community made toasters: - Everytime a developer "forked" a toaster there'd be one less developer.
If Nintendo made toasters: - It would eschew traditional toasting methods and the innovative "toastemote" would require the user to wave his toast about really fast to toast it.
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Sounds like a worthy start to the process of introducing more trustworthyness into Wikipedia entries, but this maybe needs tuning for content type too.
Afterall just because someone is a reliable expert at editing the wikipedia entries on Professional Wrestling or Superheroes doesn't necessarily mean we should trust their edits on, for instance, the sensitive issues of Tibetan sovereignty.
"Daidone, who's the co-founder of Louisville, Kentucky-based CertiCell"
traded
"a new set of wheels (Nissan 350Z to be exact) and 3 more 8GB iPhones"
for
"a shit load of publicity"
You think $100,000 normally buys this much advertising?
How do you think "Open Office" came to get that name in the first place?
See also: Pot / Kettle / Hue-based accusations.
The same thing is being done to your food with sugar and salt.
Except not by the record companies, obviously.
People get consumer electronics products repaired still??
I thought it was cheaper to throw them away and buy a new one.
I bet it doesn't even have a touch-screen interface and EDGE!
Whenever we're on a music-related topic this forum is full of people saying how online distribution is the future, how we should be cutting out the physical copies and the publishing middlemen, and just let artists deal directly with customers.
This is precisely what Valve have done with Steam in the games arena and all I ever seem to hear about it is naysaying and doom-mongery.
It's quite funny really.
But if you *only* want a phone why on earth would you pay iPhone prices for one?
You can get a choice of dozens of "only a phone" for nearly nothing from any network.
"So you see what I said was true. From a certain point of view."
If you read this post you are probably male. (80% correct)
You are probably in the 20-35 age group. (60% correct)
(I know I'll only get negative responses to this post of the type "I'm reading this and I'm a 47-year-old woman!" That's Ok. You're in the other bracket.)
My algorithm is as good as Microsoft's. Can I have a research grant please?
So, about December 1963 then?
Honestly, were they ever anything else?
Neither would be trademarkable (in the field of computing) because they are so generic.
You could trademark "Computer Biscuits" as a brand of biscuits, or "Biscuit Computers" as a brand of computers, but not descriptive terms like "Biscuits" or "Oat Biscuits" as biscuits, or "Computer" or "Personal Computer" in computing.
Made from Penguins or Penguin biscuits (tm)?
"Do No Evil" for Google now means saying "we don't like doing this" but then doing it anyway.
If you were Protoss you could use the Dark Archon's Mind Control ability, steal builder units, and have 200 control worth of *each* race.
If you were the sort of person who was anal enough to do that sort of thing. And you were playing on a map with enough resources to actually build that much stuff.
Some stories should just come with Nelson Muntz sound files embedded.
Ha-ha!
Exactly.
The USA's record of obeying WTO rulings that have gone against it is absolutely abysmal.
The fact that they are running to a body that they themselves have made toothless shows that their influence over China has waned to virtually nil.
They've been the only global superpower for close to two decades now, but China and India are very rapidly joining that group and the US is going to have to get used to much, much less going their way.
We've precious little land, barely any natural resources, and no manufacturing industry to speak of left.
I thought the "Knowledge Economy" was where our future was at. Apparently not.
> As I'm sure you remember, in the late 1980s the US experienced a short-lived infatuation with Australian culture.
Crocodile Dundee 1 and 2.
> Anyway, the Down Under fad fizzled
Crocodile Dundee 3.
Pun on Rimsky-Korsakov.
I dare you to try.
Oh, you mean they're only used by wankers.
-1 Flamebait. I couldn't help it. It just popped in there.
Yes and No.
It's done by reading a local Game Definition File which will - in Microsoft's vision of the future - be created by the developer and included in the game install.
However for games without such a file - presumably including all legacy games - Vista will dial the mothership and request the data using "Windows Metadata Services".
See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb173447. aspx
If Sony made toasters:
- It would overheat and your toast would catch fire.
- It would cost too much because they all have a Blu-Ray drive fitted.
If Apple made toasters:
- It wouldn't be the first toaster, the best toaster, or the cheapest toaster, but a brazillion fanboys would claim that toast from the Apple toaster tasted better
- It would look all white and plasticky like a kitchen appliance
If the FOSS community made toasters:
- Everytime a developer "forked" a toaster there'd be one less developer.
If Nintendo made toasters:
- It would eschew traditional toasting methods and the innovative "toastemote" would require the user to wave his toast about really fast to toast it.
If you have to point out what is amusing, it probably isn't very amusing.
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