The policy may have been written somewhere, but it's only recently that I've seen people going round adding hundreds of {citation needed} notes to articles.
Most encyclopedias do not footnote every single fact. Take a look at Britannica, for example. What's normal is to note a few additional sources at the end.
I didn't say web sources were preferred or the only sources allowed, so you can take that strawman down.
Yeah, but maybe you'd have Googled them and found out about the time they were secretly spending on gay chatrooms. Thing is, transparency works both ways; read The Transparent Society by David Brin.
Since Wikipedia's new policy of no original content, there's basically less and less difference between the information in Wikipedia and the information you could get from a good search. The difference is conciseness.
The ideal Wikipedia article (these days) is a concise summary of all the information that's available on the web, with each fact linked to a footnote consisting of a link to the URL of the page the fact came from. (Quite what purpose the extra layer of indirection serves isn't clear to me.)
So most of the time, a Wikipedia search is a good way to get most of the same factual information you'd get in a web search, but in a lot less time.
There are problems, however. The nature of truth is that it isn't decided by majority vote; often that which is true is extremely unpopular. In areas of knowledge where that is the case, Wikipedia's summaries often end up being watered down or padded out to appease the masses, with a corresponding loss of intellectual rigor or conciseness. The Libertarian socialism article is one, if you look through the history of it you can see how it turned into a mass of waffle, and the trolls and vandals still keep attacking it.
...I report on a long chat with Microsoft's Director of Standards Affairs Jason Matusow...
Presumably his title is Director of Standards Affairs because Microsoft's relationship with standards is only ever a quick fling, and someone usually gets fucked.
It's not so much "incorrect" as "impossible to test" or "irrelevant", because gravity is 17 orders of magnitude weaker than the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces which dominate at the atomic and subatomic scales.
The current interface for setting cookie and JavaScript permissions is severely non-optimal.
What I want is something more like the pop-up blocking--it blocks cookies and JavaScript by default, and there's a button I can click to add a rule to allow cookies and JavaScript for particular domains.
No, the biggest drawback is that it's just the mail and database client. No Domino Designer, no Domino Administrator. So all your developers and database and server admins still need to run Windows.
I find OpenSuSE (which SLED/SLES is based on) a bit of a mixed bag. YaST is still clunky and annoying. I wiped out Mono as the disease it is, and that took out Xen. I installed APT, and had a usable packaging system, now I just need to find aptitude or synaptic.
It's a big improvement over SLES 9, though. At least YaST doesn't have terminal problems and lockup problems any more.
It's nothing to do with fashion. It's to do with the fact that Ken Lay was a close personal friend of George W. Bush, that Ken Lay was on the Bush administration energy task force whose meeting minutes are being kept secret, that back as far as 1988 George W. Bush was phoning the government of Argentina and using his family connections to try and get Enron juicy government contracts, and so on.
The people who have problems with rebates are either incompetent to fully provide all rebate information in the correct way the company states, or they're impatient and don't follow up if a rebate didn't go through - giving up like they want you to.
Wrong. Fry's stiffed me on a rebate. They advertised an item with rebate, but shipped me the same item in slightly different packaging--with a different UPC code. And of course, I didn't find out for six months, so it was too late to do anything about it. (Like, say, disputing the charges with the credit card company.)
We pay people differently not based on the actual worth of what they do but in relation to how difficult it is to find someone else to do what they do.
That's a bunch of crap. I'll buy that a CEO is something you need, but there are any number of business school graduates who'd happily take on a CEO position, and many of them are highly skilled. And there's no way that a CEO is worth 400x what a good engineer is worth.
Apple also knows that people will buy a $5000 Macintosh system with all the features and software for video editing, even if that low-end PC with lower quality hardware can also edit video with an el-cheapo video capture card for less than $1000.
This is an article for Sony trolls. There'll be an Apple troll article along in a few minutes.
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In some alternate universe, perhaps. Here in the real world, VIA have been beating both AMD and Intel in energy efficiency for years.
I hope you're misdescribing, 'cause that's a really bad solution: anyone who refuses third party cookies or ad cookies doesn't get counted...
The policy may have been written somewhere, but it's only recently that I've seen people going round adding hundreds of {citation needed} notes to articles.
Most encyclopedias do not footnote every single fact. Take a look at Britannica, for example. What's normal is to note a few additional sources at the end.
I didn't say web sources were preferred or the only sources allowed, so you can take that strawman down.
You should have looked it up, but I guess it's easier to parade your ignorance here.
Yeah, but maybe you'd have Googled them and found out about the time they were secretly spending on gay chatrooms. Thing is, transparency works both ways; read The Transparent Society by David Brin.
Since Wikipedia's new policy of no original content, there's basically less and less difference between the information in Wikipedia and the information you could get from a good search. The difference is conciseness.
The ideal Wikipedia article (these days) is a concise summary of all the information that's available on the web, with each fact linked to a footnote consisting of a link to the URL of the page the fact came from. (Quite what purpose the extra layer of indirection serves isn't clear to me.)
So most of the time, a Wikipedia search is a good way to get most of the same factual information you'd get in a web search, but in a lot less time.
There are problems, however. The nature of truth is that it isn't decided by majority vote; often that which is true is extremely unpopular. In areas of knowledge where that is the case, Wikipedia's summaries often end up being watered down or padded out to appease the masses, with a corresponding loss of intellectual rigor or conciseness. The Libertarian socialism article is one, if you look through the history of it you can see how it turned into a mass of waffle, and the trolls and vandals still keep attacking it.
Presumably his title is Director of Standards Affairs because Microsoft's relationship with standards is only ever a quick fling, and someone usually gets fucked.
It's not so much "incorrect" as "impossible to test" or "irrelevant", because gravity is 17 orders of magnitude weaker than the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces which dominate at the atomic and subatomic scales.
How did you slim it down to run in 130MB? Mine's 330MB...
You need only go to my web site to have a searchable index of most of the non-trivial things I've written since I was about 17 years old.
Perhaps the Internet is just raising the cost of being a dick. And that's bad how?
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Pity they don't edit the articles more, then they wouldn't have to edit the tags so much.
The current interface for setting cookie and JavaScript permissions is severely non-optimal.
What I want is something more like the pop-up blocking--it blocks cookies and JavaScript by default, and there's a button I can click to add a rule to allow cookies and JavaScript for particular domains.
I wish Apple would make tiny machines like this. The smallest laptop they have is too big for me.
"AOL Paradigm Shift"
How did that letter 'f' get in there?
Well, Java already has Lucene to leverage. But given that search needs to be fast to be useful, I'd be inclined to use native code.
Fight Club no, but NBK? Totally superfluous. Just watch Fritz Lang's 'M' to see how it could have been done.
No, the biggest drawback is that it's just the mail and database client. No Domino Designer, no Domino Administrator. So all your developers and database and server admins still need to run Windows.
Pity Beagle requires Mono.
I need to run software that's only supported on SuSE. Otherwise I wouldn't be using it.
I find OpenSuSE (which SLED/SLES is based on) a bit of a mixed bag. YaST is still clunky and annoying. I wiped out Mono as the disease it is, and that took out Xen. I installed APT, and had a usable packaging system, now I just need to find aptitude or synaptic.
It's a big improvement over SLES 9, though. At least YaST doesn't have terminal problems and lockup problems any more.
It's nothing to do with fashion. It's to do with the fact that Ken Lay was a close personal friend of George W. Bush, that Ken Lay was on the Bush administration energy task force whose meeting minutes are being kept secret, that back as far as 1988 George W. Bush was phoning the government of Argentina and using his family connections to try and get Enron juicy government contracts, and so on.
See also http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/enron.asp
Wrong. Fry's stiffed me on a rebate. They advertised an item with rebate, but shipped me the same item in slightly different packaging--with a different UPC code. And of course, I didn't find out for six months, so it was too late to do anything about it. (Like, say, disputing the charges with the credit card company.)
That's a bunch of crap. I'll buy that a CEO is something you need, but there are any number of business school graduates who'd happily take on a CEO position, and many of them are highly skilled. And there's no way that a CEO is worth 400x what a good engineer is worth.
This is an article for Sony trolls. There'll be an Apple troll article along in a few minutes.