Rather than publish the X "most popular articles," I think a more fun compilation would be a collection of the most unique, un-Encyclopaedia Brittanica articles on Wikipedia. Things that would never have made it into a real encyclopedia before the web, but that have flourished on Wikipedia.
Now I love wikipedia precisely because of this kind of obscure information. I remember reading an article about "which is the most powerfull character in the Dragonball Z universe" and it pisses me off when some obscure article that I found is being deleted because it's not important enough. But for every single episode?
It's not that the mechanisms are failing, it's that humans as a race are no longer benefitting from natural selection. Technology and cooperation in the first world has stopped a significant amount of beneficial genetic mutations from passing on to new generations while at the same time allowing possibly unbeneficial mutations to pass on.
(note: I'm not a racist nor do I propose that we should do anything to stop these things that I'm about to describe from happening)
Example: a couple is infertile, they get their seeds artificially implanted, this way passing on their genetic make up. So now they have _possibly_ passed on the genetic factors that caused their infertility to the next generation which will then again pass it on because being able to reproduce is no longer a factor. In a long timescale this might lead to most people being unable to reproduce without aid.
Example: some scientist/business man/whatever has genes in him that make him brilliant at what he does. This however does not lead him to having many children. He will probably instead consentrate on his carreer and use birth control with his beatifull genetically magnificent wife.
Example: a violent drug using scumback is unenployed all his life, not because he's poor but because he's lazy and completely unskilled at anything. Despite all this he can reproduce, possibly with several women, and have many children who might not be pathetic like their father (one of them might be a scientist described in example 1) but still contain the same unbeneficial genes.
Ofcourse by the time every human being on earth is an infertile mindless slob I'll be long dead and really couldn't care less if the whole race is wiped out after I'm gone, but this is why people say that evolutionary mechanisms no longer work. I think.
That sounds like a "slippery slope" argument to me. Personally, I'm for birth control, but against abortion.
And that, if you consider it far enough, is a logical conflict. Wich suggests that you've been influensed by some religious cult that hampers your ability to think straight by introdusing supernatural variables into the equation (such as soul, sin, fate or god).
Sometimes it's better to think for your self about what works and not just blindly follow the way the "professionals" do it. Maybe it doesn't work, maybe it's better... There are lots of poor quality translations I bet, they get sweeped under the rug and replaced, the group disappears or they gradually get better. Anyhow, if the series is even moderately popular there are several groups subbing it, some priorize on speed, some on quality, some do a great job, some don't. How could that ever be a bad thing?
What the grand parent stated "fansubs that precede the release dates by months and can often have far higher quality/authentic translation" is true, they can get the episode almost immediately after it has aired in Japan and start subbing it, and release it after it's done. If any bad errors were missed they can release a new version (200MB aint that much nowadays). How about the licensers? First the series airs for months in Japan, they license it and start subbing (and dubbing, what a waste of time, I know it's important for the marketing value but a seasoned anime fan probably doesn't care about that), the subbing is done under a budget and a schedule, by people who either might or might not do a good job, just like the fansub community. If they did a good job, great. If they didn't, what then? They have exclusive rights, they can rape and pillage the series all they want, sensor it to oblivion to fit the 'professional' taste, nobody else can have a go an do it properly... except the fansub community, wich is gradually getting the notion USA !== World and series like Naruto and Gundam Seed Destiny are still subbed after getting licensed in USA.
"Ever watch a sub where they leave stuff like -chan, -kun or -sama on? Or just not bother to translate simple words like Tomodachi, onii/aniki, or the like? The quality of fansubs is SHIT. Pure SHIT. It's like playing Russian Roulette."
Some people like those kinds of things left as they are. Having watched a few thousand episodes I allready manage to undestand most of what they are saying without the subs, not enough to completely manage without subbing but I tend to prefer the bare minium being translated. Afterall, the more you translate and try to change the idioms to fit a particular culture the more information is lost in the progress.
Also keep in mind that these people are not in the business of selling anime, they do it for the community, for people with similar tastes to theirs. If some socker mom from the US who has never watched anime goes "OMFM we don't use stuff like -sama and -san in America, they should translate it the way _I_ like it or not at all" and doesn't watch their fansubs, it's not the end of the world, it's her loss afterall.
1. Fast forward, makes watching those long slides of, ehm, pictures, so much easier.
2. Spell checking. Have to remember to use it for this post.
3. Automatically checking email. (I get like 2 mails per day, 98% of them spam so I used to check my box like 2 times per year.)
4. Aggressive caching. Actually, I hated this, since it caused me trouble a while back, but I hoped I could learn to cope with it and that it would eventually pay off.
5. Doesn't reload the page when you press the back button. (I was there recently, I don't care if something changed or if it expired)
For those reasons I installed Opera, put on all the settings I wanted, installed spell checker and so on.. and it was nearly perfect. And then I tried it for awhile and was annoyed by the aggressive caching (for example, logged onto some web page and the login prompt was still there, it didn't reload the page like I expected it to, not a big problem but annoying sometimes). Then I went to animenfo.com and noticed that it loaded very slowly. All the time! Fired up Firefox and the page loaded like lightning. It seemed like Opera, with all the annoying caching and stuff still loaded the images, used for the layout of the page, again, every time. I tried to tweak the cache settings to no avail. Did some googling and found out that there was no solution, Opera just plain sucked on that aspect. Back to Firefox I went but I didn't want to lose all the nifty features that I so much liked in Opera.
So...
1. Did some googling and found an extension for it. It was for Mozilla suite or something and didn't seem to work but I figured that I'd find one that worked sooner or later. (Still not looking)
2. Found and extension for it. Works great.
3. Downloaded Thunderbird and an extension that minimized it to a tray icon. Then made it start at boot and check mail every 15 minutes.
4. Never had any problems with this issue in Firefox, pages load fast but I have never had problems with old version loading when it shouldn't.
5. No fix for this. =(
Also, maybe it's just that I'm more used to the Firefox extensions gestures that I'm using, but I had some trouble with Opera sensing some gestures that weren't meant to be one's. (just me doing some random crap, don't ask why.) I didn't notice anything about the Opera gestures that would make them superior to the extension I'm currently using on Firefox (all in one gestures I think) eater.
He is making scientific conclusions based on his faith that the soul is not real. That's just stupid.
Indeed, it's like saying "Santa doesn't exist" or "there are no Unicorns". Sure, in some cases it can be proven that parents fraud results and it's not easy to explain how presents get under the tree (or wherever), if there is no chimney. Or why poor kids get less presents. But none of that proves that Santa Claus or Unicorns wouldn't exist.
... BUT, you absolutely CAN NOT use it for reference, especially for school purposes and stuff (well, in practise you can, and no one will care, but its not right). Not because the info can be inaccurate or plain wrong, but because the dynamic nature of Wikipedia. The content of the page you are referring to can be changed at any time by anybody, wich means that you could just as well refer to some random chalkboard at your school, wich happened to have some piece of information at some given time.
I for one am genuinely interested in computer science and everyting related to it but the is no change in hell that I would try my luch in that field. No instead im going to law school (im not kidding here) and going to specialize in tech related cases. Thats why I'm hoping EU will follow US example and get fucked up IP patent laws... more work for me.
Your 'device that has ~2million indicators of colour and is connected to computer sucks', my device that is connected to computer can display 3.15 million indicators of colour.
Actually (I think) that lol, u, rofl and other silly abvertations come from realtime online games where typing time can be very limited and players might not have yet mastered the skill of typing extremely fast. I caught this habbit while playing Age of Kings where communication can be a big part of the game (serriously) and even if it isn't you still wan't to respond when the other player is yapping... just say "lol!!11" (which basicly means... " thats right, keep talking asshole, im coming...") or something similar to distract him.
Ofcourse after I started typing faster and stopped playing that became unnessessary and actually started hating people who say "lol" and "u", especially "u", yep... its 67% less letters and almost 0.001s less typing time but cmon!
Now you can have a happy blue donkey on your desktop, it can do all the neat stuff that your monkey can do! But, in addittion it can also vote for you!!
for you! do you want to install? [yes] [yes] [hell yes] [always yes!] [maby some other time]
All the hype about those terrorists have gone too deep into your heads people. Way too deep... I mean, "before the bad guys research it"? Did the world suddenly turn into a giant comic book while I was asleep?
Maby you want to have kids some day... I bet then you would like to be taxed 3 times more for those services...
Cigarettes cost your state shitloads of money by making the smokers get lung related diseases and such... and it has no benefits...
Gassoline is cheap as hell in US, its not like its going to last forever, and encouraging its use by taxing it low is just plain stupid... and you dont actually need it, trust me.
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You mean like redicilously detailed descriptions of every episode of Arrested Developement. In the main wikipedia namespace like this episode. I forget what episode it was, but pretty recently while searching for something, I ended up on the wikipedia page for a freaking single episode of a tv series instead, with a similar name to what I was searching.
Now I love wikipedia precisely because of this kind of obscure information. I remember reading an article about "which is the most powerfull character in the Dragonball Z universe" and it pisses me off when some obscure article that I found is being deleted because it's not important enough. But for every single episode?
It's not that the mechanisms are failing, it's that humans as a race are no longer benefitting from natural selection. Technology and cooperation in the first world has stopped a significant amount of beneficial genetic mutations from passing on to new generations while at the same time allowing possibly unbeneficial mutations to pass on.
(note: I'm not a racist nor do I propose that we should do anything to stop these things that I'm about to describe from happening)
Example: a couple is infertile, they get their seeds artificially implanted, this way passing on their genetic make up. So now they have _possibly_ passed on the genetic factors that caused their infertility to the next generation which will then again pass it on because being able to reproduce is no longer a factor. In a long timescale this might lead to most people being unable to reproduce without aid.
Example: some scientist/business man/whatever has genes in him that make him brilliant at what he does. This however does not lead him to having many children. He will probably instead consentrate on his carreer and use birth control with his beatifull genetically magnificent wife.
Example: a violent drug using scumback is unenployed all his life, not because he's poor but because he's lazy and completely unskilled at anything. Despite all this he can reproduce, possibly with several women, and have many children who might not be pathetic like their father (one of them might be a scientist described in example 1) but still contain the same unbeneficial genes.
Ofcourse by the time every human being on earth is an infertile mindless slob I'll be long dead and really couldn't care less if the whole race is wiped out after I'm gone, but this is why people say that evolutionary mechanisms no longer work. I think.
That sounds like a "slippery slope" argument to me. Personally, I'm for birth control, but against abortion.
And that, if you consider it far enough, is a logical conflict. Wich suggests that you've been influensed by some religious cult that hampers your ability to think straight by introdusing supernatural variables into the equation (such as soul, sin, fate or god).
Sometimes it's better to think for your self about what works and not just blindly follow the way the "professionals" do it. Maybe it doesn't work, maybe it's better... There are lots of poor quality translations I bet, they get sweeped under the rug and replaced, the group disappears or they gradually get better. Anyhow, if the series is even moderately popular there are several groups subbing it, some priorize on speed, some on quality, some do a great job, some don't. How could that ever be a bad thing?
What the grand parent stated "fansubs that precede the release dates by months and can often have far higher quality/authentic translation" is true, they can get the episode almost immediately after it has aired in Japan and start subbing it, and release it after it's done. If any bad errors were missed they can release a new version (200MB aint that much nowadays). How about the licensers? First the series airs for months in Japan, they license it and start subbing (and dubbing, what a waste of time, I know it's important for the marketing value but a seasoned anime fan probably doesn't care about that), the subbing is done under a budget and a schedule, by people who either might or might not do a good job, just like the fansub community. If they did a good job, great. If they didn't, what then? They have exclusive rights, they can rape and pillage the series all they want, sensor it to oblivion to fit the 'professional' taste, nobody else can have a go an do it properly... except the fansub community, wich is gradually getting the notion USA !== World and series like Naruto and Gundam Seed Destiny are still subbed after getting licensed in USA.
"Ever watch a sub where they leave stuff like -chan, -kun or -sama on? Or just not bother to translate simple words like Tomodachi, onii/aniki, or the like? The quality of fansubs is SHIT. Pure SHIT. It's like playing Russian Roulette."
Some people like those kinds of things left as they are. Having watched a few thousand episodes I allready manage to undestand most of what they are saying without the subs, not enough to completely manage without subbing but I tend to prefer the bare minium being translated. Afterall, the more you translate and try to change the idioms to fit a particular culture the more information is lost in the progress.
Also keep in mind that these people are not in the business of selling anime, they do it for the community, for people with similar tastes to theirs. If some socker mom from the US who has never watched anime goes "OMFM we don't use stuff like -sama and -san in America, they should translate it the way _I_ like it or not at all" and doesn't watch their fansubs, it's not the end of the world, it's her loss afterall.
I recently switched to Opera for 5 reasons.
1. Fast forward, makes watching those long slides of, ehm, pictures, so much easier.
2. Spell checking. Have to remember to use it for this post.
3. Automatically checking email. (I get like 2 mails per day, 98% of them spam so I used to check my box like 2 times per year.)
4. Aggressive caching. Actually, I hated this, since it caused me trouble a while back, but I hoped I could learn to cope with it and that it would eventually pay off.
5. Doesn't reload the page when you press the back button. (I was there recently, I don't care if something changed or if it expired)
For those reasons I installed Opera, put on all the settings I wanted, installed spell checker and so on.. and it was nearly perfect. And then I tried it for awhile and was annoyed by the aggressive caching (for example, logged onto some web page and the login prompt was still there, it didn't reload the page like I expected it to, not a big problem but annoying sometimes). Then I went to animenfo.com and noticed that it loaded very slowly. All the time! Fired up Firefox and the page loaded like lightning. It seemed like Opera, with all the annoying caching and stuff still loaded the images, used for the layout of the page, again, every time. I tried to tweak the cache settings to no avail. Did some googling and found out that there was no solution, Opera just plain sucked on that aspect. Back to Firefox I went but I didn't want to lose all the nifty features that I so much liked in Opera.
So...
1. Did some googling and found an extension for it. It was for Mozilla suite or something and didn't seem to work but I figured that I'd find one that worked sooner or later. (Still not looking)
2. Found and extension for it. Works great.
3. Downloaded Thunderbird and an extension that minimized it to a tray icon. Then made it start at boot and check mail every 15 minutes.
4. Never had any problems with this issue in Firefox, pages load fast but I have never had problems with old version loading when it shouldn't.
5. No fix for this. =(
Also, maybe it's just that I'm more used to the Firefox extensions gestures that I'm using, but I had some trouble with Opera sensing some gestures that weren't meant to be one's. (just me doing some random crap, don't ask why.) I didn't notice anything about the Opera gestures that would make them superior to the extension I'm currently using on Firefox (all in one gestures I think) eater.
He is making scientific conclusions based on his faith that the soul is not real. That's just stupid.
Indeed, it's like saying "Santa doesn't exist" or "there are no Unicorns". Sure, in some cases it can be proven that parents fraud results and it's not easy to explain how presents get under the tree (or wherever), if there is no chimney. Or why poor kids get less presents. But none of that proves that Santa Claus or Unicorns wouldn't exist.
... BUT, you absolutely CAN NOT use it for reference, especially for school purposes and stuff (well, in practise you can, and no one will care, but its not right). Not because the info can be inaccurate or plain wrong, but because the dynamic nature of Wikipedia. The content of the page you are referring to can be changed at any time by anybody, wich means that you could just as well refer to some random chalkboard at your school, wich happened to have some piece of information at some given time.
I for one am genuinely interested in computer science and everyting related to it but the is no change in hell that I would try my luch in that field. No instead im going to law school (im not kidding here) and going to specialize in tech related cases. Thats why I'm hoping EU will follow US example and get fucked up IP patent laws... more work for me.
I don't see them.
Your 'device that has ~2million indicators of colour and is connected to computer sucks', my device that is connected to computer can display 3.15 million indicators of colour.
Actually (I think) that lol, u, rofl and other silly abvertations come from realtime online games where typing time can be very limited and players might not have yet mastered the skill of typing extremely fast. I caught this habbit while playing Age of Kings where communication can be a big part of the game (serriously) and even if it isn't you still wan't to respond when the other player is yapping... just say "lol!!11" (which basicly means... " thats right, keep talking asshole, im coming...") or something similar to distract him.
Ofcourse after I started typing faster and stopped playing that became unnessessary and actually started hating people who say "lol" and "u", especially "u", yep... its 67% less letters and almost 0.001s less typing time but cmon!
Yes.
Yeah... I guess killing a hundred thousand civilians is fair when you want to end a war (read: test a new toy/demonstrade power)
Now you can have a happy blue donkey on your desktop, it can do all the neat stuff that your monkey can do! But, in addittion it can also vote for you!!
for you! do you want to install?
[yes] [yes] [hell yes] [always yes!] [maby some other time]
Imagine how many "search engine" links link to google.
Thats must be the single funnyest post I've red all year.
All the hype about those terrorists have gone too deep into your heads people. Way too deep...
I mean, "before the bad guys research it"?
Did the world suddenly turn into a giant comic book while I was asleep?
Maby you want to have kids some day... I bet then you would like to be taxed 3 times more for those services...
Cigarettes cost your state shitloads of money by making the smokers get lung related diseases and such... and it has no benefits...
Gassoline is cheap as hell in US, its not like its going to last forever, and encouraging its use by taxing it low is just plain stupid... and you dont actually need it, trust me.
Because of the "challenge everything!!" logo...
...one giant step backward's for mankind.
Junior sacrifised its crook for an uknown reason (to me) and lost...
I live in finland and I havn't yet discovered a radio station that would only broadcast news... I havn't really tried to eather.