but that's exactly what is happening. Administrators are basing their deletions on whether or not something should be deleted on their own personal subjective notion of what is notable. I've seen articles labeled for deletion with such highly thought out discussion additions as "delete-spam" when the article in question isn't spam at all. These guys aren't even giving an article the attention that is required for them to find out if an article is note worthy. One admins deletion log that i looked at showed him deleting several articles in a single minute throughout the day. How can any single administrator conduct the required research to see if an article is note worthy or not if he doesn't even give time to discovery? Easy, they simply look at the subject and make the subjective determination if it's something that THEY find note worthy.
I've seen administrators delete articles with similar notability to other articles and then when confronted, simply copy/paste a link to their "other stuff exist" page as if that has any relevance to what's being pointed out.
but that's the problem, they are not being objective about what is worty of inclusion. There are plenty of examples of articles that exist that would be of similar note as an article on world of warcraft. It's the subjectivity or downright hostility of some administrators to the topic being discussed who have made it their mission to make sure such topics do not get entered into the system. It simply internet administrator jackassery, and it's taken firm hold of what was suppose to be a community based effort.
I'd also like to add that most of the deletionist notability policy, which in my opinion is highly subjective and subject to administrator whim and fancy, is centered around what they are able to find through google hit searches. They don't seem to take any consideration that something might have been notable through means that do not exist in a documented form on the internet.
Having recently written a couple of small articles for wikipedia I have a encounter a few problems with the deletionist crowd. Firstly they seem extremely eager in their draconian approach. One administrator that I was crossing paths with was deleting articles at a rate that defied the possibility that the was even making any attempt at discovery. His logged showed that he was deleting articles at a rate of over 3 or 4 deletions in a minutes time. When you confront these administrators about this issue they have a tendency to simply ignore you and delete your article out of spite. I've also found that administrators are often highly subjective in their interpretations of policy. I've confronted administrators about this as well, asking them what makes two almost identical articles in terms of notability and instead of discussing the matter they copy/paste unrelated policy links and tell you to STFU. It was my impression that Wikipedia was a community effort yet the deletionists wont even give new articles enough time for the community to fill out the necessary information. Finally, if there is any sort of disruption to their dominance over content, they will simply block users from participation.
You can check out my interactions with wikipedia admin at these urls
Apparently nobody pays attention because everyone has forgotten about the episode where it's the human how make incursions into cylon space that precipitates the war. A war where perhaps the cylons act along those same lines of reasoning, that the humans are a threat that the existance of the cylon race and must be exterminated.
This is classic stuff. NO SIDE is any better then the other in war. Think people!
"who is going to have to pay for all this legal video streaming?"
Are we not already paying for our streaming after we sign up for service? I know I get a bill every month for about $50.
Is it really my fault that my ISP hasn't planned their business model to properly support their claims?
What's with the people that run these companies that somehow think that it's a privilege to pay for their service?
To be perfectly honest, I'm looking forward to the day when the wireless market really starts opening up and these land line based companies can no longer compete.
What about public wireless mesh networks? Has anyone put any thought into this kind of development? I would really like to find and get involved in the local development of such a project.
...to get what they want out of apple. I doubt the studio would just give up on an already proven revenue source so quickly if they didn't believe they could get a better compromise out of apple. Most probably 1 or most of their demands is simply chips added to the pot to make their bluff sound more believeable should they be called on to show their hand. In all likely hood, they will probably back down, strategically, from some of their demands in order to push the ones they really want forward. After all, they know that apple needs them just as much as they want to sell their content.
well... that's how I would play it if I were them.;)
But sci-fi isn't "traditionally" about FTL travel, AI, or ulimited energy sources, it's about how we as humans deal with them. FTL travel can easily represent the ability of 15th century europeans being able to build ships capable of traversing the worlds oceans. Or AI could be a mirror of how we view ourselves as intellegent beings. So my point is, it's not the gadgetry that is really important but how man interacts and uses his creations.:)
I thought about installing on a spare drive just to see what all the non-fuss was about but then I saw that it was going to cost $200+ and said "no thanks".
It would be nice to take a walk outside in some of the highly urban areas that we live in and not choke to death of the toxic fumes belching forth from the millions of internal combustion motor vehicles that are running pretty much 24/7 these days.:(
Now it would be nice if we could get everyone to turn off all those unnecessary lights after midnight so that our night skys are glowing that wonderful orange smoggy glow.
Now that they are all getting married off, wouldn't they be buying half as many cd since 2 people only have to buy 1 CD as opposed to 2 they previously bought when they were single?
Variables; do you have them all properly initialized and accounted for?:)
...it almost never gets played. I don't use vinyl for casual listening and to be honest, it really sucks for that use. I do use it for a very specific mood, when I want to play DJ. To be perfectly honest, I wish all the music I have on vinyl was available digitally so I wouldn't have to muck about with the stuff when all I really want to do is listen to some music. When I feel a connection with music, it's not with the physical medium, it's with the auditory experince.
This isn't a new phenomenon. The kids have been playing with vinyl because it's "cool" to do so since the early 90's when DJ culture became more widespread. They all want to fancy themselves as their favorite DJ. The friends of mine who have substantial vinyl collections have them not because they feel some kind of "tactile joy of owning a physical object", but because they love MUSIC, they are DJs, or they had been collecting music during a time when CDs and more recently the digital formats were not as pervasive.
Brian Herbert has been doing this with his fathers great worlks also. I hear they are good but I'm scared to read something by an author other then the one who originally developed the story. Though I did read the Paul Preuss version of Arthur C. Clark's Venus Prime and I enjoyed it.
I've been meaning to pick up the Simillarion as I've heard nothing but good things... perhaps this will be the viral marketing ploy that will motivate me enough to grab a copy.
Remove the government and some other organization, like the corporation, will jump in to fill the power gap. That's the problem with "libritatianism", it seeks to remove tyrany by removing the government but doesn't provide any protection against other would by tyrants.
funny you mention a wireless solution...I think that solution is currently possible with off the shelf technology. I'm currently working on an experimental "shadow internet" of my own that will rely strictly on a wireless mesh network.:)
...Hey, lets get our townships, counties, and other municipalities to charge the ISPs for usage of local land to run their lines. AFter all, why should I let them run their lines accross my property and not get a cut of the profits.:)
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but that's exactly what is happening. Administrators are basing their deletions on whether or not something should be deleted on their own personal subjective notion of what is notable. I've seen articles labeled for deletion with such highly thought out discussion additions as "delete-spam" when the article in question isn't spam at all. These guys aren't even giving an article the attention that is required for them to find out if an article is note worthy. One admins deletion log that i looked at showed him deleting several articles in a single minute throughout the day. How can any single administrator conduct the required research to see if an article is note worthy or not if he doesn't even give time to discovery? Easy, they simply look at the subject and make the subjective determination if it's something that THEY find note worthy.
I've seen administrators delete articles with similar notability to other articles and then when confronted, simply copy/paste a link to their "other stuff exist" page as if that has any relevance to what's being pointed out.
but that's the problem, they are not being objective about what is worty of inclusion. There are plenty of examples of articles that exist that would be of similar note as an article on world of warcraft. It's the subjectivity or downright hostility of some administrators to the topic being discussed who have made it their mission to make sure such topics do not get entered into the system. It simply internet administrator jackassery, and it's taken firm hold of what was suppose to be a community based effort.
I'd also like to add that most of the deletionist notability policy, which in my opinion is highly subjective and subject to administrator whim and fancy, is centered around what they are able to find through google hit searches. They don't seem to take any consideration that something might have been notable through means that do not exist in a documented form on the internet.
Having recently written a couple of small articles for wikipedia I have a encounter a few problems with the deletionist crowd. Firstly they seem extremely eager in their draconian approach. One administrator that I was crossing paths with was deleting articles at a rate that defied the possibility that the was even making any attempt at discovery. His logged showed that he was deleting articles at a rate of over 3 or 4 deletions in a minutes time. When you confront these administrators about this issue they have a tendency to simply ignore you and delete your article out of spite. I've also found that administrators are often highly subjective in their interpretations of policy. I've confronted administrators about this as well, asking them what makes two almost identical articles in terms of notability and instead of discussing the matter they copy/paste unrelated policy links and tell you to STFU. It was my impression that Wikipedia was a community effort yet the deletionists wont even give new articles enough time for the community to fill out the necessary information. Finally, if there is any sort of disruption to their dominance over content, they will simply block users from participation.
You can check out my interactions with wikipedia admin at these urls
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Tefosav
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Zenasprime
Due to this hostile environment, I've pretty much given up on any effort to participate in this "community" based effort.
Apparently nobody pays attention because everyone has forgotten about the episode where it's the human how make incursions into cylon space that precipitates the war. A war where perhaps the cylons act along those same lines of reasoning, that the humans are a threat that the existance of the cylon race and must be exterminated.
This is classic stuff. NO SIDE is any better then the other in war. Think people!
"who is going to have to pay for all this legal video streaming?"
Are we not already paying for our streaming after we sign up for service? I know I get a bill every month for about $50.
Is it really my fault that my ISP hasn't planned their business model to properly support their claims?
What's with the people that run these companies that somehow think that it's a privilege to pay for their service?
To be perfectly honest, I'm looking forward to the day when the wireless market really starts opening up and these land line based companies can no longer compete.
What about public wireless mesh networks? Has anyone put any thought into this kind of development? I would really like to find and get involved in the local development of such a project.
...to get what they want out of apple. I doubt the studio would just give up on an already proven revenue source so quickly if they didn't believe they could get a better compromise out of apple. Most probably 1 or most of their demands is simply chips added to the pot to make their bluff sound more believeable should they be called on to show their hand. In all likely hood, they will probably back down, strategically, from some of their demands in order to push the ones they really want forward. After all, they know that apple needs them just as much as they want to sell their content.
;)
well... that's how I would play it if I were them.
But sci-fi isn't "traditionally" about FTL travel, AI, or ulimited energy sources, it's about how we as humans deal with them. FTL travel can easily represent the ability of 15th century europeans being able to build ships capable of traversing the worlds oceans. Or AI could be a mirror of how we view ourselves as intellegent beings. So my point is, it's not the gadgetry that is really important but how man interacts and uses his creations. :)
...Or is it? Eh...I always thought Sci-Fi was more about bringing the present to light then predicting anything about the future but who am I... :p
...is updatable via iTunes so that when nasty little bugs are found they can be fixed. :)
What do those other phone manufacturers do when a vulnerablity is discovered in their phones?
Not all "small webcasters" are businesses. Some of us actually do things for the love of music.
http://zenapolae.com/
I thought about installing on a spare drive just to see what all the non-fuss was about but then I saw that it was going to cost $200+ and said "no thanks".
Count me in.... http://zenapolae.com/ :D
It would be nice to take a walk outside in some of the highly urban areas that we live in and not choke to death of the toxic fumes belching forth from the millions of internal combustion motor vehicles that are running pretty much 24/7 these days. :(
Now it would be nice if we could get everyone to turn off all those unnecessary lights after midnight so that our night skys are glowing that wonderful orange smoggy glow.
....and it does not share power! /jump
there is....
http://creativecommons.org/
also shameless plug http://zenapolae.com/
I thought the three branches were the executive, the judicial, and the legislative. hmmmm.... :p
Now that they are all getting married off, wouldn't they be buying half as many cd since 2 people only have to buy 1 CD as opposed to 2 they previously bought when they were single?
:)
Variables; do you have them all properly initialized and accounted for?
...it almost never gets played. I don't use vinyl for casual listening and to be honest, it really sucks for that use. I do use it for a very specific mood, when I want to play DJ. To be perfectly honest, I wish all the music I have on vinyl was available digitally so I wouldn't have to muck about with the stuff when all I really want to do is listen to some music. When I feel a connection with music, it's not with the physical medium, it's with the auditory experince.
This isn't a new phenomenon. The kids have been playing with vinyl because it's "cool" to do so since the early 90's when DJ culture became more widespread. They all want to fancy themselves as their favorite DJ. The friends of mine who have substantial vinyl collections have them not because they feel some kind of "tactile joy of owning a physical object", but because they love MUSIC, they are DJs, or they had been collecting music during a time when CDs and more recently the digital formats were not as pervasive.
Brian Herbert has been doing this with his fathers great worlks also. I hear they are good but I'm scared to read something by an author other then the one who originally developed the story. Though I did read the Paul Preuss version of Arthur C. Clark's Venus Prime and I enjoyed it.
I've been meaning to pick up the Simillarion as I've heard nothing but good things... perhaps this will be the viral marketing ploy that will motivate me enough to grab a copy.
Remove the government and some other organization, like the corporation, will jump in to fill the power gap. That's the problem with "libritatianism", it seeks to remove tyrany by removing the government but doesn't provide any protection against other would by tyrants.
Democracy is dead. Now bow before the corporate plutocracy slave!
funny you mention a wireless solution...I think that solution is currently possible with off the shelf technology. I'm currently working on an experimental "shadow internet" of my own that will rely strictly on a wireless mesh network. :)
...Hey, lets get our townships, counties, and other municipalities to charge the ISPs for usage of local land to run their lines. AFter all, why should I let them run their lines accross my property and not get a cut of the profits. :)
Don't be an asshole. One day you might need some fucking bread.