If you're going to copy from a Wikipedia article and just paste it straight into a comment, you could at least respect their license and provide attribution.
Is there anything to that statistic beyond the slowing of new content since it's a mature product?
That was my question. According to this article from 2012, Wikipedia is essentially complete, at least as far as major topics are concerned.
From the earlier article:
With the exciting work over, editors are losing interest. In the spring of 2012, 3,300 editors contributed more than 100 edits per month each â" that's a 31 percent drop from spring of 2007, when that number was 4,800.
So, not only is this article kind of a dupe, but the questions raised by the MIT Technology Review article were basically addressed in the one in the Atlantic from a year earlier.
I think the aritcle you are referring to is this one from 2008 about a student handing out live CDs provided by the HeliOS Project.
The teacher in that particular case took a real beating on Slashdot and in the comments sections of the original HeliOS blogpost. In a follow up post, the author apologized for some of his stronger assertions (like implying that the teacher's dis-belief in free software had been influenced by monetary contribtions Microsoft had made to the NEA) and reported the teacher's side of the story, which had been missing from his initial post.
Both parties had been acting out of ignorance to a certain extent, but the simple act of communication allowed each to gain a better understanding of the other's perspective.
So maybe there's hope for the judge in this case, if someone from the hacker community would care to take the time to engage him.
Why would drones have videocards? Oh wait, the guy doing the reporting is stupid and was talking about an SD card that had a video file of the flight on it
Yeah, apparently the businessman handed the "video card" over to a local TV station, who presumably put it in their "hard drive" so they could "download" it.
Obama's position does not constitutionally allow him to pick and choose which laws he will and will not enforce
You seriously believe the office of the Attorney General lacks the authority to give federal prosecutors direction on how they manage their limited resources?
The pacific northwest states of OR and WA should also join together, and maybe they could get northern CA (maybe including the Bay Area, maybe not) to join them... maybe they could get British Columbia to leave Canada and join them into a country called "Ecotopia"
That idea has actually been floated, going back to the 19th century, but the name usually suggested is Cascadia.
If you want to review your paper notes and make them digital at some point after class, that is up to you.
I'm in total agreement about pen(cil) and paper being the best tool for note-taking. I'm partial to centre-ruled, spiral-bound steno notepads myself. Transposing your handwritten notes to a more appropriate medium for long-term storage is also an essential part of the whole grokking process, imo. And that, I think, is the better question - how best to store, organize and make use of the content of your notes once the class is over.
Given the large volume and variety of data he will be compiling while in school and (hopefully) beyond, and the need to make connections between that and outside sources, I think a CMS might be in order. Drupal, for example.
He could create different Content Types to handle the various different forms of data he needs to store, and manage the relationships using Views. Links to outside information sources would be easy to imbed in the pages he creates, and there are plenty of modules for creating charts, graphs and whatever else he uses to visualize the data. He could either find a webhost or just run it on his laptop using something like WAMP (assuming he's running Windows).
I know the mention of Drupal generally inspires a collective groan around here, but I think this is a situation where it might fit the bill.
It was proven decades ago that you didn't need a motion base under a flight simulator if your visual scene generator was good enough.
Quite true. There was an attraction at Disneyland when I was a kid called Circle-Vision 360. It was basically a round room with screens arranged in a circle around you. They shot scenes with a 360 degree camera setup, often from the top of a car or a plane, and played them on the screens. You really felt the sensation of motion.
The fun part was watching people leaning left and right as the motion in the scene went the other direction. There were actually hand rails for people to hang on to so they didn't topple over.
Today I have mod points. And I would have modded you up for this. Go make an account and be part the/. community.
If you use whether the poster was logged in as a factor in your moderation decisions, you're missing the point of moderation. The goal is to promote worthwhile comments, while burying some of the useless "noise." I'd rather read the former by an AC than the latter by a logged-in user.
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Correct. People who are sexually attracted to children are pedos, not gay.
No, the problem is the only qualification needed to drive one is having the money to afford it.
If you're going to copy from a Wikipedia article and just paste it straight into a comment, you could at least respect their license and provide attribution.
So you're okay with other countries listening in on the communications of your politicians?
That was my question. According to this article from 2012, Wikipedia is essentially complete, at least as far as major topics are concerned.
From the earlier article:
So, not only is this article kind of a dupe, but the questions raised by the MIT Technology Review article were basically addressed in the one in the Atlantic from a year earlier.
I think the aritcle you are referring to is this one from 2008 about a student handing out live CDs provided by the HeliOS Project.
The teacher in that particular case took a real beating on Slashdot and in the comments sections of the original HeliOS blogpost. In a follow up post, the author apologized for some of his stronger assertions (like implying that the teacher's dis-belief in free software had been influenced by monetary contribtions Microsoft had made to the NEA) and reported the teacher's side of the story, which had been missing from his initial post.
Both parties had been acting out of ignorance to a certain extent, but the simple act of communication allowed each to gain a better understanding of the other's perspective.
So maybe there's hope for the judge in this case, if someone from the hacker community would care to take the time to engage him.
Yeah, apparently the businessman handed the "video card" over to a local TV station, who presumably put it in their "hard drive" so they could "download" it.
Never mind not being a Muslim, what if she's not even a he?
Nevermind zombies ... didn't concern over the Mayan calendar end when the world didn't in 2012?
The phasers you remember were obviously set to Stun.
You seriously believe the office of the Attorney General lacks the authority to give federal prosecutors direction on how they manage their limited resources?
Yup. I saw it too in the byline and user Slashbox areas. Gone after a page refresh.
That idea has actually been floated, going back to the 19th century, but the name usually suggested is Cascadia.
Advice is a noun.
I'm in total agreement about pen(cil) and paper being the best tool for note-taking. I'm partial to centre-ruled, spiral-bound steno notepads myself. Transposing your handwritten notes to a more appropriate medium for long-term storage is also an essential part of the whole grokking process, imo. And that, I think, is the better question - how best to store, organize and make use of the content of your notes once the class is over.
Given the large volume and variety of data he will be compiling while in school and (hopefully) beyond, and the need to make connections between that and outside sources, I think a CMS might be in order. Drupal, for example.
He could create different Content Types to handle the various different forms of data he needs to store, and manage the relationships using Views. Links to outside information sources would be easy to imbed in the pages he creates, and there are plenty of modules for creating charts, graphs and whatever else he uses to visualize the data. He could either find a webhost or just run it on his laptop using something like WAMP (assuming he's running Windows).
I know the mention of Drupal generally inspires a collective groan around here, but I think this is a situation where it might fit the bill.
Fiddling with a photo camera while the CEO was talking on his telephone machine?
Quite unacceptable.
One of my all-time favorite flicks. RIP, Cleavon Little, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise and Alex "Mongo" Karras.
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I care more about Thieves gaining access to my bank account than Hackers or the NSA.
Quite true. There was an attraction at Disneyland when I was a kid called Circle-Vision 360. It was basically a round room with screens arranged in a circle around you. They shot scenes with a 360 degree camera setup, often from the top of a car or a plane, and played them on the screens. You really felt the sensation of motion.
The fun part was watching people leaning left and right as the motion in the scene went the other direction. There were actually hand rails for people to hang on to so they didn't topple over.
Completely off topic, but so is this whole discussion:
Thanks to Pulp Fiction, I can not make a language choice during an install without saying "English, mother fucker! Do you speak it?"
Okay, that's all I've got.
Also no mention of Sidney Reilly, Ace of Spies, another major inspiration for Fleming's character.
I think the customer will be the one to bear the brunt of those costs.
Hard landing in Kazakhstan desert would be another possibility.
If you use whether the poster was logged in as a factor in your moderation decisions, you're missing the point of moderation. The goal is to promote worthwhile comments, while burying some of the useless "noise." I'd rather read the former by an AC than the latter by a logged-in user.
ACs *are* part of the /. community.
And they most certainly don't have an entire barn as one speaker, with a house as the other.