BP still has the authority to say "no you can't study the ocean floor." BP is the worst possible entity to be in charge of cleanup since there's no conceivable reason to expect them to be honest about the extent of the damage. This is an emergency, the military should be all over it. How can a corporation say that anyway, like they own the ocean floor? They operate at the will of the government, who grants them access to public resources like the seafloor...
Anyone even bothers asking BP for comment. The article presents them as an authoritative source on the matter. You might as well cover a criminal trial by asking the defendant about details of the crime.
Sounds to me like Steve Jobs answered some random person's critical comments immediately on a Friday night. Obviously everything that comes out of his mouth is garbage, but damn that is someone who cares about their product.
Well those rules aren't set in stone; if you have a legitimate problem with a policy then you can raise it in discussion and get it changed.
Also "enforced in a completely random manner" isn't really accurate. Nobody (including sysops) has the ability to unilaterally remove your edits. There aren't supposed to be higher echelons of users who get to decide whether to revert you or not; if someone reverts you, feel free to put it back immediately and ask for an explanation. If you just demonstrate that you know what you're doing then you'll get personal attention instead of just being the 19th person down on a list of stupid edits to be reverted.
Of course, while you can always ask for other opinions, if nobody is buying it then you won't get very far. Know the rules and work within the project and you'll be fine, and confidence and a high edit count go a long way.
Oh please, this isn't even in the realm of deletionism vs inclusionism. The malamanteau article is just disruptive. It's not serious. Randall has even done this before.
Wikipedia is a successful project. You can read mostly well-written summaries of nearly every single area of human knowledge, and for the most part it's accurate and accessible with nice diagrams etc.
I'm also tempted by that decentralized approach, but when I think about it I know that I wouldn't want to deal with ridiculous one-off articles like malamanteau just because people are having fun dicking around. The internet should be free and decentralized, and Wikipedia's policies are arbitrary and stupid, but sometimes you just want something that works! A coherent high-quality project can't succeed with waves of Internet anarchy pounding at its foundations. If you want a project where only experts and trusted people can edit, then go buy the Encyclopedia Britannica. If you want a project that anybody can edit then you have to deal with people.
employee in question is not a team player shown by their inability to communicate well with others. IT is about the flow of information and team work not about building walls.
Oh please, his strategy probably isn't a good one but drawing conclusions like "not a team player shown by their inability to communicate" is ridiculous. He's suggesting that people avoid off-topic small talk, not that they barricade themselves in an office and speak through the keyhole.
I suppose you have to make it look like you're doing something during the day though, and filling tomes with bullshit like "IT is about the flow of information" is as useful as anything else a manager does.
It doesn't do you any good if you brush with delicious candy. And putting candy in a tube is the only way you can make a product of ground up sand and chemicals taste delicious.
Why on earth would you want to use an iPad to browse the internet if you have a laptop? Tiny screen, no Flash support, no keyboard... when did it become hip to use crippled devices?
Of course, half of that is going directly to the pockets of unrelated charities. Child's Play has to be the worst charity of all time. Dying children in hospitals, or too poor to afford medical care at all? Buy them video games.
Seems to me more like a publicity stunt. The reason they're getting $20k USD in a few hours is because news sites like slashdot are advertising them for free, not necessarily because the model is viable.
Don't get me wrong, some of those games (Aquaria!!) are really, really good. But that "information Age economics" stuff, while perfect for indie games, music, and coffee shops, would be grossly inappropriate for a multi-million-dollar big-title release.
Besides, you can expect the commercials to follow you regardless of how you get the content.
The thing is, when you pay for your content on the internet (netflix, itunes, whatever) you get it instantly, on-demand, and ad-free. If you're paying for it, then ads would be ludicrously out of place.
What are you even talking about? The access to xbox live is just the use of Microsoft's matchmaking servers. Microsoft never hosted games on their own servers. Halo 2 games are listen servers run by other players on their xboxes.
Sure, they try to throw in features like achievements and friends text/voice chat and downloading demos and trailers to make the monthly fee more attractive, but Steam delivers all of those for free.
It's not exposed in the shitty new web 2.0 configuration panel, so you have to know the trick. When you click the comment view options, open it in a new window instead of letting the little floating dialog open. All of the real options pages have more options than you can see otherwise.
The negative mod categories are Troll, Flamebait, Offtopic, Redundant, and Overrated. Someone who's just being a dumbass isn't really trolling or off topic, so unless they're repeating someone else's point (Redundant) Overrated is used to bury it. Edit your view settings if you disagree with it.
I can't email the admin account, because I'm not about to send personal email through the company system, and all webmail sites are blocked; and no, I absolutely will not proxy around it and risk losing my job.
But Valve doesn't make any money keeping the master servers running for Counter-Strike players. Microsoft was charging a hefty monthly fee just for access to the Halo 2 matchmaking servers, and they still shut it down!
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I can't understand why:
Sounds to me like Steve Jobs answered some random person's critical comments immediately on a Friday night. Obviously everything that comes out of his mouth is garbage, but damn that is someone who cares about their product.
Well those rules aren't set in stone; if you have a legitimate problem with a policy then you can raise it in discussion and get it changed.
Also "enforced in a completely random manner" isn't really accurate. Nobody (including sysops) has the ability to unilaterally remove your edits. There aren't supposed to be higher echelons of users who get to decide whether to revert you or not; if someone reverts you, feel free to put it back immediately and ask for an explanation. If you just demonstrate that you know what you're doing then you'll get personal attention instead of just being the 19th person down on a list of stupid edits to be reverted.
Of course, while you can always ask for other opinions, if nobody is buying it then you won't get very far. Know the rules and work within the project and you'll be fine, and confidence and a high edit count go a long way.
Oh please, this isn't even in the realm of deletionism vs inclusionism. The malamanteau article is just disruptive. It's not serious. Randall has even done this before.
Wikipedia is a successful project. You can read mostly well-written summaries of nearly every single area of human knowledge, and for the most part it's accurate and accessible with nice diagrams etc.
I'm also tempted by that decentralized approach, but when I think about it I know that I wouldn't want to deal with ridiculous one-off articles like malamanteau just because people are having fun dicking around. The internet should be free and decentralized, and Wikipedia's policies are arbitrary and stupid, but sometimes you just want something that works! A coherent high-quality project can't succeed with waves of Internet anarchy pounding at its foundations. If you want a project where only experts and trusted people can edit, then go buy the Encyclopedia Britannica. If you want a project that anybody can edit then you have to deal with people.
The server is a different application altogether.
Oh please, his strategy probably isn't a good one but drawing conclusions like "not a team player shown by their inability to communicate" is ridiculous. He's suggesting that people avoid off-topic small talk, not that they barricade themselves in an office and speak through the keyhole.
I suppose you have to make it look like you're doing something during the day though, and filling tomes with bullshit like "IT is about the flow of information" is as useful as anything else a manager does.
My advice: Do not drop references to literature you've never read.
It doesn't do you any good if you brush with delicious candy. And putting candy in a tube is the only way you can make a product of ground up sand and chemicals taste delicious.
You seriously didn't notice any correlation between broadcast TV reception and fireworks going off directly over your apartment?
Why is it any more OK for Apple to lock down a handheld media device than it is for the MPAA to lock down your set-top-box?
I suppose that means that they can't be taxed as goods then?
*Groan*. That "macs vs pcs" dichotomy makes no sense. It's OSX vs Windows vs GNU/Linux vs *BSD etc.
Why on earth would you want to use an iPad to browse the internet if you have a laptop? Tiny screen, no Flash support, no keyboard... when did it become hip to use crippled devices?
Of course, half of that is going directly to the pockets of unrelated charities. Child's Play has to be the worst charity of all time. Dying children in hospitals, or too poor to afford medical care at all? Buy them video games.
Dwarf Fortress is awesome, but I wouldn't donate unless it's open sourced.
Seems to me more like a publicity stunt. The reason they're getting $20k USD in a few hours is because news sites like slashdot are advertising them for free, not necessarily because the model is viable.
Don't get me wrong, some of those games (Aquaria!!) are really, really good. But that "information Age economics" stuff, while perfect for indie games, music, and coffee shops, would be grossly inappropriate for a multi-million-dollar big-title release.
The thing is, when you pay for your content on the internet (netflix, itunes, whatever) you get it instantly, on-demand, and ad-free. If you're paying for it, then ads would be ludicrously out of place.
So why is cable TV $70/mo and still ad-infested?
What are you even talking about? The access to xbox live is just the use of Microsoft's matchmaking servers. Microsoft never hosted games on their own servers. Halo 2 games are listen servers run by other players on their xboxes.
Sure, they try to throw in features like achievements and friends text/voice chat and downloading demos and trailers to make the monthly fee more attractive, but Steam delivers all of those for free.
It's not exposed in the shitty new web 2.0 configuration panel, so you have to know the trick. When you click the comment view options, open it in a new window instead of letting the little floating dialog open. All of the real options pages have more options than you can see otherwise.
You mean, all you have to do is send a simple request to the tracker, which will happily provide you with a fairly complete list of peers.
And people make themselves available on the DHT network.
And people offer their peers freely through PEX.
The negative mod categories are Troll, Flamebait, Offtopic, Redundant, and Overrated. Someone who's just being a dumbass isn't really trolling or off topic, so unless they're repeating someone else's point (Redundant) Overrated is used to bury it. Edit your view settings if you disagree with it.
Do you ever go home?
But why have separate networks for power and data? All I'm saying is, we have fiber and we have solar.
But Valve doesn't make any money keeping the master servers running for Counter-Strike players. Microsoft was charging a hefty monthly fee just for access to the Halo 2 matchmaking servers, and they still shut it down!
Glance at TFA and you'll get the joke.