It's well written, doesnt appear to violate NPOV, contains appropriate factual information that would be useful to somone researching the thing years from now.
Who can better contribute entries than the creators of things, as long as they are carefully watched over by the editors? After all these are the people who have the largest chunk of the story first hand.
How dare you sully the great name of Blizzard? I and my 80 strong army of MC loot equipped legionaires will lead a crusade against you until there is not but one of you left to mock us!
But we need a one hour break from 6-7, Mom will murder me if I'm not there to eat dinner with the familly. Don't worry, this "real world" instance seems to be pretty persistant, our progress wont be lost, just aa few minutes to clear the repop...
As I remember from past FF stories it's not actually a counter but rather a display that increments based on time and is brought in check with reality occasionally.
Still, the numbers must be way off even with that - I have installed >10 machines off my tools CD (since then only autoupdated, which isn't counted) plus my own 3 Linux machines via the package repository, also not counted.
Can you immagine the headline from MSNBC competitors - "MSN cuts off users of Google's IM service from their friends!"
They dont care when the protocol gets changed to stop a few users of Jabber or Gaim, but if it was Google getting disconnected it would be a Story (tm), and a PR nightmare for the IM service that tried it.
Come to that you could have linked directly to http://zieak.com/projects/nintendo_mouse.htm rather than to a ad laden blog site whoring someone else's content for pennies a click.
(Not that it matters I suppose as the site is offline already.)
My brother took a copy of his Black Adder DVDs back with him to China in Xvid+Vorbis format (to save damaging the originals).
6 months later I buy a pirate copy in Mexico to show to a friend because I don't have *my* originals with me, and it was the same files (or at least, the same checksum when I checked with him). Also on the disk was a vorbis codec and instructions about how to install it... and how to rip new media with it to best effect.
We have had GPS, PDAs and satellite phones for years, they just need to be tied together to make a 'guide'. More important is the *data* and no one company could possibly generate or manage the quantity required.
The closest things to the guide we will ever see have been around for a while already - h2g2, wikipedia and the internet as a whole.
My 14" NEC laptop had a conventional format an in an economy seat it couldnt be opened up because the top banged against the seat in front and if the guy pushed his seat back too fast... crunch, end of laptop hinge.
My 15" powerbook on the other hand fits with an inch to spare, which is much more convenient. At least for us young guys who get screwed when the company does it's travel budget allocation for the year.
RealPlayer have really cleaned up their act recently.
The Linux client (which they have had for a long long time, unlike some other bandwagon jumpers) works very well and now integrates properly with the desktop environment.
They support non-Linux UNIX-like platforms.
The OS X and Windows clients both work well and don't seem to include any crap.
I haven't had any spam to the e-mail address I signed up with (and you didn't have to register to use it either).
"Buffering" seems to be a thing of the past on fast connections.
The only problem they ever have is that they seem to think that you want to associate RealPlayer with every action on your system... but no worse than iTunes or WMP.
What format would you rather have them use? Dirac might be nice... but these are suits not geeks. WMV? When there is only a client for Windows and an inferior Mac version, with NO official Windows support? Where the only client could get sued out of the water at any time and doesnt handle DRM?
Real video is about the best we are going to get, and their improved behaviour as a company makes them well worthy of another chance. If and when Microsoft open sources half their stuff, makes the other half work on Linux and behaves as well as Real has done in the past few years... then I'll take another look at WMV as a good way to get my video.
Any company that can justify stealing from the public domain with no intention to return anything to it has clearly not only drawn up a contract with satan but has also disputed the subclauses, delivered the first two goats, renegotiated paragraph three and taken the whole legal department on a field trip to hell to learn new techniques.
Corporations should have some social responsibility attached to their privilages - after all they are granted permission to exist by the people.
No 'make work' jobs should be encouraged, it's just a waste of economic resource, but strongly suggesting to such companies that they should look into retraining and redeploying their workers rather than just firing them en mass would be a good idea as the shock of such large events can permanently damage communities and economies.
That and I seriously hope the board of IBM is taking a huge pay cut. Lead by example and all that.
As we all know mechnical cars are perfect and without any defect at all. You never see one of those reliable things by the side of the road!
Of course when a old-style mechanical car has a problem at least you can just connect it to a modem and get a redesigned fuel system dropped in without and cost or hassle!...but on the other hand I do wish they would design their software with something like CSP so that they could use a formal model checker like FDR2. Something like that should resolve almost all of these annoying bugs and race conditions.
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What's so wrong with it:
It's well written, doesnt appear to violate NPOV, contains appropriate factual information that would be useful to somone researching the thing years from now.
Who can better contribute entries than the creators of things, as long as they are carefully watched over by the editors? After all these are the people who have the largest chunk of the story first hand.
How dare you sully the great name of Blizzard? I and my 80 strong army of MC loot equipped legionaires will lead a crusade against you until there is not but one of you left to mock us!
But we need a one hour break from 6-7, Mom will murder me if I'm not there to eat dinner with the familly. Don't worry, this "real world" instance seems to be pretty persistant, our progress wont be lost, just aa few minutes to clear the repop...
As I remember from past FF stories it's not actually a counter but rather a display that increments based on time and is brought in check with reality occasionally.
Still, the numbers must be way off even with that - I have installed >10 machines off my tools CD (since then only autoupdated, which isn't counted) plus my own 3 Linux machines via the package repository, also not counted.
Google can probably rely on mass media support.
Can you immagine the headline from MSNBC competitors - "MSN cuts off users of Google's IM service from their friends!"
They dont care when the protocol gets changed to stop a few users of Jabber or Gaim, but if it was Google getting disconnected it would be a Story (tm), and a PR nightmare for the IM service that tried it.
Come to that you could have linked directly to http://zieak.com/projects/nintendo_mouse.htm rather than to a ad laden blog site whoring someone else's content for pennies a click. (Not that it matters I suppose as the site is offline already.)
Ikari not Akari. If you are going to blatantly steal the introduction to the article why not at least do it right?
But then I realised that it would be cheaper just to move to Pluto where cooling would be an easy-to-solve problem.
My brother took a copy of his Black Adder DVDs back with him to China in Xvid+Vorbis format (to save damaging the originals).
6 months later I buy a pirate copy in Mexico to show to a friend because I don't have *my* originals with me, and it was the same files (or at least, the same checksum when I checked with him). Also on the disk was a vorbis codec and instructions about how to install it... and how to rip new media with it to best effect.
Something to think about.
*cough* itunes, drm, turning up the heat slowly, more restrictions soon, told you so *cough*
I liked my powerbook, but now it's time to say fuck you Apple, enough is enough, and part ways it seems.
We have had GPS, PDAs and satellite phones for years, they just need to be tied together to make a 'guide'. More important is the *data* and no one company could possibly generate or manage the quantity required.
The closest things to the guide we will ever see have been around for a while already - h2g2, wikipedia and the internet as a whole.
I calculated that numbers pulled out of asses cost the industry $98.2 billion last year!
My 14" NEC laptop had a conventional format an in an economy seat it couldnt be opened up because the top banged against the seat in front and if the guy pushed his seat back too fast... crunch, end of laptop hinge.
My 15" powerbook on the other hand fits with an inch to spare, which is much more convenient. At least for us young guys who get screwed when the company does it's travel budget allocation for the year.
Makes me wonder how much they paid the Attorney General to keep the fine that low.
[end joke]
...oh.
Sheesh, that was a close call. You have to remember to close your tags, or the whole of Slashdot could have turned into one huge bad...
I wish my girlfriend could drive 200 miles without crashing into something. Perhaps theres a trade in programme or something?
RealPlayer have really cleaned up their act recently.
The Linux client (which they have had for a long long time, unlike some other bandwagon jumpers) works very well and now integrates properly with the desktop environment.
They support non-Linux UNIX-like platforms.
The OS X and Windows clients both work well and don't seem to include any crap.
I haven't had any spam to the e-mail address I signed up with (and you didn't have to register to use it either).
"Buffering" seems to be a thing of the past on fast connections.
The only problem they ever have is that they seem to think that you want to associate RealPlayer with every action on your system... but no worse than iTunes or WMP.
What format would you rather have them use? Dirac might be nice... but these are suits not geeks. WMV? When there is only a client for Windows and an inferior Mac version, with NO official Windows support? Where the only client could get sued out of the water at any time and doesnt handle DRM?
Real video is about the best we are going to get, and their improved behaviour as a company makes them well worthy of another chance. If and when Microsoft open sources half their stuff, makes the other half work on Linux and behaves as well as Real has done in the past few years... then I'll take another look at WMV as a good way to get my video.
...but a lot more drop out because they are stupid.
...no.
Any company that can justify stealing from the public domain with no intention to return anything to it has clearly not only drawn up a contract with satan but has also disputed the subclauses, delivered the first two goats, renegotiated paragraph three and taken the whole legal department on a field trip to hell to learn new techniques.
...that in this tournament counting cards will be permitted?
Corporations should have some social responsibility attached to their privilages - after all they are granted permission to exist by the people.
No 'make work' jobs should be encouraged, it's just a waste of economic resource, but strongly suggesting to such companies that they should look into retraining and redeploying their workers rather than just firing them en mass would be a good idea as the shock of such large events can permanently damage communities and economies.
That and I seriously hope the board of IBM is taking a huge pay cut. Lead by example and all that.
As we all know mechnical cars are perfect and without any defect at all. You never see one of those reliable things by the side of the road!
...but on the other hand I do wish they would design their software with something like CSP so that they could use a formal model checker like FDR2. Something like that should resolve almost all of these annoying bugs and race conditions.
Of course when a old-style mechanical car has a problem at least you can just connect it to a modem and get a redesigned fuel system dropped in without and cost or hassle!
It actually runs on W2k3 w/IIS as the backend. That's why the uptime is so great.
It turns out that ut's not an 8 day early copy of OS X, it's a 1 year 8 day early copy of Longhorn.
If they will discount me since I'm downloading the Windows version onto Linux using Mozilla?
...where you type your PIN into a small box attached to the cash register.
Because, as we all know, typing your PIN into someone elses computer system is by far the best way to keep it confidential.
ATMs are at least owned by the bank and significantly harder to tamper with in a non-obvious way.