Your conjecture that is ignoring the slashdot interview is just idiotic, factually unsupported speculation.
I am indeed sure Jimmy Wales is a busy man. I merely noticed that/. readers' questions were asked for, and the highest moderated questions would get responses. This has not been the case. So is it the fault of Slashdot editors jumping the gun somewhat.
Asking readers of a website for questions
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Answering a different set of readers' quesions
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Genuinely asking why the first set of questions were not asked...
...is not really idiotic and factually unsupported is it? Indeed they were about similar (but not identical themes). Indeed many IRC posters may have got ideas from the/. interview question request (not the 'Slashdot interview' as you state). But they are different interview questions, which was not explained in TFA nor by your somewhat flaming response to my (and possibly others' question). So were the/. editors to blame for being a little too keen?
Pretty intersting that questions were requested from the/. audience, to which Jimmy Wales would reply one week later. Now two weeks later we get replies from questions submitted by 'Wikipedia regulars'.
I wonder if the (highest moderated)/. questions were questions Jimmy Wales didn't want to answer. The questions from the 'Wikipedia regulars' seemed to facilitate snappy answers which were pretty obvious, though still useful as a snapshot of ambitions to refer against in the future.
It would be nice to be able to see his interview. As he answers a question on Wikipedia being blocked in China, and hosts that interview on Wikipedia (which is blanket blocked as a web domain in the PRC, and I've had little luck with Tor).
Could someone be kind enough to post the text of the interview in the discussion?
It surely is a classic piece of flamebait, but I found it very funny.
...I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart...
Indeed. Perhaps there was some truth to that. I'm only kidding, but that's what made it funny right at this moment, on a story related to the OSx86 project. Good parody of an old cut-n-paste flamebait (most recent renditions have replaced the processor specs with recent ones, that's now not really possible).
Ubuntu isn't quite there yet. For a distribution that places interoperability and openness highly, it has quite awful language support. Most non-Roman script languages use SCIM as the IME (the greatest exception, I think, being Japanese which can use UIM). As of 5.10 SCIM breaks Ubuntu, by 'break' I mean Synaptic no longer works and all file browsing slows to a crawl. Discussed in depth on Ubuntu Forums, the work-arounds there are damage limitation at best. That is the reason I now use Mandriva.
You also cite MPlayer, which IIRC is disabled in Ubuntu's Synaptic registeries (even the multiverse ones).
Man, sounds like you had some poor friends in the past. No worries, if you had a poor break try not to worry about it (easier said than done) and most importantly, for me at least, realise you're probably a lot more analytical and self-critical about yourself than others hear you as. And constrained surroundings create a dog-eat-dof mentality, so like you do online and find friends with similar interests. You don't join a 'gay fag bash chicken sex' server deliberately unless you're into that kind of thing, but in real life if a significant majority of people in highschool are into that you can't 'log out'. But when you can choose to live where you live, the job you have and in working and college life have a range of potentially more similar people, you are totally able to ignore what you don't like BUT find what you do like.
Anyway, not fond of off/online differences. It's just another way of breaking the ice/keeping conversation going as far as I'm concerned, and with a little practice there are planty of ways to do that in reality. Given you start with approaching nothing, there is little to lose by risking it, then getting regenerated with the next person you meet.
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A lot of offices don't need most of the tools (think: your typical 2-10 person small business), and not having to pay for them is very helpful.
Then OpenOffice (or KOffice or whatever) should suffice in most cases, no need to pay anything! If VBA macros, or other niche tools only offered by existing installs of MS Office, are essential, then stick with Office 2k, 2003, or whatever else you have installed (being such a small business, preferential/time limited licences are unlikely, unless you were unlucky in your initial agreement).
'Hedge funds' are the most generic group these guys would fit in, although they're not an actual hedge fund, I think they ally with this type of investor in terms of being innovative and having a good amount of discression in their concentrated approaches. A good community website for hedge funds (with a good amount of private equity, also potentially similar business tactics, and related companies) is Albourne Village. Subscribe to their daily newsletter and you will see the odd gem of an idea every few days, thought there is a lot of noise to the signal, I think this is the leading website for 'the trade'.
Nice examples, very nice. Sounds like a company with some innovative ideas, which are sadly rare in larger financial institutions. While you were unsure of their clients, do you have any published success rates, or even their name?
Did your program also see if weather news reports contained words like "rain" and "downpour" and hence "predict" rain?
Infact, in most places in the world, predicting the following day's weather to be the same as the present day's weather would be reasonably accurate. It could be further refined by taking into account local weather patterns. Of course in the stock market this should be corrected for in projections using simple statistics, and is done so by most market participants (most weighted by market capitalisation). The constant guessing and counter-guessing of others is where it gets very very hard. If the GP was faster at doing what he/she said, it might work, but then raises the question "why haven't better resourced market participants done it before?". Which then turns into a bit of a circular argument around the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.
Macro forecasts are not worthe the paper they are printed on, my models were designed to interrpet when others were missing things like market share shifts and competitive advantages that...
Good for you. And when you get your fixed interest rate mortgage, when a company takes out a loan for investment, when you have a great investment idea but need to buy a cascade of 10 year futures (invest in a gas pipeline but want to invest in the quality of the management rather than take risks on anything and everything affecting the gas price and the second order effects on your investment) to mitigate your risk and make the bucks you planned, you are relying on macro forecasts.
They are broad-brush efforts, very rarely would a 'macro person' deny that. But they are essential to the modern running of our global economy. The point of 'analysts' [stock market analysts, rather than economic analysts] is to have ideas about individual companies, perhaps sectors vs. sector or region vs. region if pushed to it. Consensus Forecasts (which accumulate individual stock market analysts across companies, markets and countries) are laughable when looked at on a macro level, even more laughable than economist estimates. There are some excellent analysts, but they are usually the ones that accept estimation is, to varying degrees, educated guesswork, rarely will there be one sure choice; and if there is, that's because time, dedication, luck, restraint and insight have been combined.
If any readers fancy a quick run-down of macro economic policy, I recommend today's publication of the Bank of England Inflation Report, or more specifically, the live press briefing where topics are discussed in a straight-forward way. Hopefully Bernake will implement something similar at the Federal Reserve to improve on Greenspan's smoke and daggers approach to public statements.
Your comments, too, will be censored by the chinese government by DJCacophony (832334) Alter Relationship on Tuesday February 14, @05:51PM (#14717303)
Hell, with all the criticism we give the Chinese govt here on/. - I wouldnt doubt it a bit if they just have the entire domain blocked by Zantetsuken (935350) Alter Relationship on Tuesday February 14, @05:56PM (#14717334)
Slashdot.org is not blocked within China, not in part nor in whole. Some sites are, wikipedia.org and news.bbc.co.uk being among them. Seems the Chinese government are not bothered with the criticism they receive on Slashdot, which wouldn't surprise me, because it is extremely poor in signal-to-noise ratio and where it hits target it is extremely obtuse. The benefit of Chinese coders reading the latest PHP book reviews clearly outweighs the downside.
Come on, China. I thought you could lie better than that.
Serious point. I'm curious why you replay to a statement with a question to a country. Yes he is a spokeperson for the country, but would a George Bush (or insert other figure) statement be replied to with 'country...'.
This is by no means to single you out. Organisations can have over zealous officials, especially when they're not used to being faced with inscrutability. China has a problem with divisional and local officials not heading the official line, most conspicuously, to me, being bank loans to wholly/partially owned (local)government companies. So this would increase the implication that an attributed individual's comments come from them and not from a Borg like mega-complex.
IMHO, China is ruled by the local party and individual divisions, opposed to a central/federal control, far more than the US. Hey, I only live her.
This means you can't read chinese from the mainland and HK or TW with the same settings. Want to read you aunts blog in TW in Big5 change the settings, then want to read the latest economic news from the PRC and you have to go in twidle your settings back.
Not having those problems myself. Using Mandriva LE2005 I can browse various webpages with various encodings from the PRC, HK and Taiwan. Didn't configure it manually, so can't really comment on how that came to be. Input is via SCIM (can input simplified and traditional characters over a variety of input methods, including 'Cantonese pinyin' which seems quite a bizarre Romanisation based on an outdated accent, but that is a little OT). Infact the main reason I'm now using Mandriva is because Ubuntu 5.10 screwed up Chinese input (SCIM) very very badly (crashing Symantic, file browsers, etc), it only works in 5.04 unless extreme pains are taken in the 5.10 install. KDE was a pain on the Ubuntu release but it works fine on my computer with Mandriva. KDE on Mandriva is also considerably more responsive than GNOME was on Ubuntu, but this pulls in many many different factors.
So it was like 5th grade? Was it 5th grape, or was the submitter abducted by aliens?
But in seriousness, I'm worried about the use of 'like' in such a fashion in colloquial speech. It emits a lack of confidence of the writer, afraid to commit opinions, facts or asertation.
Very similar to saying "You..." when the speaker really means "I...". Try it. Try dropping 'like' and 'you' used in these contexts and see how more confident and clear your thoughts become to the listener.
Once the yuan is floated, inflation will rise at a massive level...
Why is a devalued currency unsustainable for a government? The government could print bank notes until the cows come home, printing banknotes (in this case, selling RMB at a fixed level to the USD) could be done indefinitely. Why isn't it done? Because an artificially low exchange rate leads to inflation - banknotes are printed at a rate greater than the actual output of the economy cannot match. China presently has a low inflation rate. Come and move here, I did so a few months ago. Raising the level of the RMB relative to the USD would only counter inflationary pressures and depress inflation further.
Macro-economic courses are probably available at your local college, or by correspondence. Otherwise you could visit China to see for yourself.
Four words; signal to noise ratio. Lets cut down on the superfluous karma whoring, please, so the more interesting stuff (that makes slashdot what it is) has a chance.
So perhaps you could stop posting off-topic replies with 'Karma Bonus' enabled, or, even better, actually add some ideas to discussion rather than dismissing statements in an ego-massaging way which adds no depth to the discussion.
You're not short of geeks who know their stuff around here, so all you have to do is get rid of the 95% who can't right too safe they're lifes, and your problem's solved.:o)
I was a user and contributor to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia). Now I'm located in China and Wikipedia is nationally blocked, as are most caches (the Google cache work-around was eliminated a few days after becoming widly known). There have been blocks in the past, the present one in force since late October.
I was curious what Wikipedia's approach to blocking in the PRC was. Note that the entire wikipedia.org site is blocked, not only zh.wikipedia.org. Also 'wikis' are not blocked outright, such as blogs were in 2005 (for using 'blog' in the URL, a block which has now been reversed, now only selective blogs are blocked).
Does the Wikipedia organisation have any plan, such as a work-around or an agreement for a selective ban (such as blocking zh.wikipedia.org only, thus preventing casual browsing by Chinese internet users)? Has any analysis been done on the PRC's blocking of Wikipedia, and if so what is the status?
This message is sent from inside the PRC, where/. is viewable but any discussion on the issue from wikipedia.org is not. If this has been discussed on wikipedia.org then please excuse my redundancy, it would be sweet if you copied that discussion into this thread.
Slashdot Mirror
Your conjecture that is ignoring the slashdot interview is just idiotic, factually unsupported speculation.
/. readers' questions were asked for, and the highest moderated questions would get responses. This has not been the case. So is it the fault of Slashdot editors jumping the gun somewhat.
...is not really idiotic and factually unsupported is it? Indeed they were about similar (but not identical themes). Indeed many IRC posters may have got ideas from the /. interview question request (not the 'Slashdot interview' as you state). But they are different interview questions, which was not explained in TFA nor by your somewhat flaming response to my (and possibly others' question). So were the /. editors to blame for being a little too keen?
I am indeed sure Jimmy Wales is a busy man. I merely noticed that
Asking readers of a website for questions
|
Answering a different set of readers' quesions
|
Genuinely asking why the first set of questions were not asked...
Pretty intersting that questions were requested from the /. audience, to which Jimmy Wales would reply one week later. Now two weeks later we get replies from questions submitted by 'Wikipedia regulars'.
/. questions were questions Jimmy Wales didn't want to answer. The questions from the 'Wikipedia regulars' seemed to facilitate snappy answers which were pretty obvious, though still useful as a snapshot of ambitions to refer against in the future.
I wonder if the (highest moderated)
It would be nice to be able to see his interview. As he answers a question on Wikipedia being blocked in China, and hosts that interview on Wikipedia (which is blanket blocked as a web domain in the PRC, and I've had little luck with Tor).
Could someone be kind enough to post the text of the interview in the discussion?
So what does it mean? I genuinely don't know.
It surely is a classic piece of flamebait, but I found it very funny.
...I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart...
Indeed. Perhaps there was some truth to that. I'm only kidding, but that's what made it funny right at this moment, on a story related to the OSx86 project. Good parody of an old cut-n-paste flamebait (most recent renditions have replaced the processor specs with recent ones, that's now not really possible).
Ubuntu isn't quite there yet. For a distribution that places interoperability and openness highly, it has quite awful language support. Most non-Roman script languages use SCIM as the IME (the greatest exception, I think, being Japanese which can use UIM). As of 5.10 SCIM breaks Ubuntu, by 'break' I mean Synaptic no longer works and all file browsing slows to a crawl. Discussed in depth on Ubuntu Forums, the work-arounds there are damage limitation at best. That is the reason I now use Mandriva.
You also cite MPlayer, which IIRC is disabled in Ubuntu's Synaptic registeries (even the multiverse ones).
Is there any way to mod this story 'troll'?
Actually there is.
Man, sounds like you had some poor friends in the past. No worries, if you had a poor break try not to worry about it (easier said than done) and most importantly, for me at least, realise you're probably a lot more analytical and self-critical about yourself than others hear you as. And constrained surroundings create a dog-eat-dof mentality, so like you do online and find friends with similar interests. You don't join a 'gay fag bash chicken sex' server deliberately unless you're into that kind of thing, but in real life if a significant majority of people in highschool are into that you can't 'log out'. But when you can choose to live where you live, the job you have and in working and college life have a range of potentially more similar people, you are totally able to ignore what you don't like BUT find what you do like.
Anyway, not fond of off/online differences. It's just another way of breaking the ice/keeping conversation going as far as I'm concerned, and with a little practice there are planty of ways to do that in reality. Given you start with approaching nothing, there is little to lose by risking it, then getting regenerated with the next person you meet.
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...only old people use Windows.
A lot of offices don't need most of the tools (think: your typical 2-10 person small business), and not having to pay for them is very helpful.
Then OpenOffice (or KOffice or whatever) should suffice in most cases, no need to pay anything! If VBA macros, or other niche tools only offered by existing installs of MS Office, are essential, then stick with Office 2k, 2003, or whatever else you have installed (being such a small business, preferential/time limited licences are unlikely, unless you were unlucky in your initial agreement).
'Hedge funds' are the most generic group these guys would fit in, although they're not an actual hedge fund, I think they ally with this type of investor in terms of being innovative and having a good amount of discression in their concentrated approaches. A good community website for hedge funds (with a good amount of private equity, also potentially similar business tactics, and related companies) is Albourne Village. Subscribe to their daily newsletter and you will see the odd gem of an idea every few days, thought there is a lot of noise to the signal, I think this is the leading website for 'the trade'.
Nice examples, very nice. Sounds like a company with some innovative ideas, which are sadly rare in larger financial institutions. While you were unsure of their clients, do you have any published success rates, or even their name?
The reason? I just may send my CV off!
Did your program also see if weather news reports contained words like "rain" and "downpour" and hence "predict" rain?
Infact, in most places in the world, predicting the following day's weather to be the same as the present day's weather would be reasonably accurate. It could be further refined by taking into account local weather patterns. Of course in the stock market this should be corrected for in projections using simple statistics, and is done so by most market participants (most weighted by market capitalisation). The constant guessing and counter-guessing of others is where it gets very very hard. If the GP was faster at doing what he/she said, it might work, but then raises the question "why haven't better resourced market participants done it before?". Which then turns into a bit of a circular argument around the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.
Macro forecasts are not worthe the paper they are printed on, my models were designed to interrpet when others were missing things like market share shifts and competitive advantages that...
Good for you. And when you get your fixed interest rate mortgage, when a company takes out a loan for investment, when you have a great investment idea but need to buy a cascade of 10 year futures (invest in a gas pipeline but want to invest in the quality of the management rather than take risks on anything and everything affecting the gas price and the second order effects on your investment) to mitigate your risk and make the bucks you planned, you are relying on macro forecasts.
They are broad-brush efforts, very rarely would a 'macro person' deny that. But they are essential to the modern running of our global economy. The point of 'analysts' [stock market analysts, rather than economic analysts] is to have ideas about individual companies, perhaps sectors vs. sector or region vs. region if pushed to it. Consensus Forecasts (which accumulate individual stock market analysts across companies, markets and countries) are laughable when looked at on a macro level, even more laughable than economist estimates. There are some excellent analysts, but they are usually the ones that accept estimation is, to varying degrees, educated guesswork, rarely will there be one sure choice; and if there is, that's because time, dedication, luck, restraint and insight have been combined.
If any readers fancy a quick run-down of macro economic policy, I recommend today's publication of the Bank of England Inflation Report, or more specifically, the live press briefing where topics are discussed in a straight-forward way. Hopefully Bernake will implement something similar at the Federal Reserve to improve on Greenspan's smoke and daggers approach to public statements.
Your comments, too, will be censored by the chinese government by DJCacophony (832334) Alter Relationship on Tuesday February 14, @05:51PM (#14717303)
/. - I wouldnt doubt it a bit if they just have the entire domain blocked by Zantetsuken (935350) Alter Relationship on Tuesday February 14, @05:56PM (#14717334)
Hell, with all the criticism we give the Chinese govt here on
Slashdot.org is not blocked within China, not in part nor in whole. Some sites are, wikipedia.org and news.bbc.co.uk being among them. Seems the Chinese government are not bothered with the criticism they receive on Slashdot, which wouldn't surprise me, because it is extremely poor in signal-to-noise ratio and where it hits target it is extremely obtuse. The benefit of Chinese coders reading the latest PHP book reviews clearly outweighs the downside.
Come on, China. I thought you could lie better than that.
...'.
Serious point. I'm curious why you replay to a statement with a question to a country. Yes he is a spokeperson for the country, but would a George Bush (or insert other figure) statement be replied to with 'country
This is by no means to single you out. Organisations can have over zealous officials, especially when they're not used to being faced with inscrutability. China has a problem with divisional and local officials not heading the official line, most conspicuously, to me, being bank loans to wholly/partially owned (local)government companies. So this would increase the implication that an attributed individual's comments come from them and not from a Borg like mega-complex.
IMHO, China is ruled by the local party and individual divisions, opposed to a central/federal control, far more than the US. Hey, I only live her.
This means you can't read chinese from the mainland and HK or TW with the same settings. Want to read you aunts blog in TW in Big5 change the settings, then want to read the latest economic news from the PRC and you have to go in twidle your settings back.
Not having those problems myself. Using Mandriva LE2005 I can browse various webpages with various encodings from the PRC, HK and Taiwan. Didn't configure it manually, so can't really comment on how that came to be. Input is via SCIM (can input simplified and traditional characters over a variety of input methods, including 'Cantonese pinyin' which seems quite a bizarre Romanisation based on an outdated accent, but that is a little OT). Infact the main reason I'm now using Mandriva is because Ubuntu 5.10 screwed up Chinese input (SCIM) very very badly (crashing Symantic, file browsers, etc), it only works in 5.04 unless extreme pains are taken in the 5.10 install. KDE was a pain on the Ubuntu release but it works fine on my computer with Mandriva. KDE on Mandriva is also considerably more responsive than GNOME was on Ubuntu, but this pulls in many many different factors.
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I started on a trash 80 in like 5th grade.
So it was like 5th grade? Was it 5th grape, or was the submitter abducted by aliens?
But in seriousness, I'm worried about the use of 'like' in such a fashion in colloquial speech. It emits a lack of confidence of the writer, afraid to commit opinions, facts or asertation.
Very similar to saying "You..." when the speaker really means "I...". Try it. Try dropping 'like' and 'you' used in these contexts and see how more confident and clear your thoughts become to the listener.
STFU! you think you're so smart? I could've have gotten the 1st post if i was less normal like you...
I could've have gotten the 1st post if i was, less normal, like you...
I could've have gotten the 1st post if i was less, normal like you...
Once the yuan is floated, inflation will rise at a massive level...
Why is a devalued currency unsustainable for a government? The government could print bank notes until the cows come home, printing banknotes (in this case, selling RMB at a fixed level to the USD) could be done indefinitely. Why isn't it done? Because an artificially low exchange rate leads to inflation - banknotes are printed at a rate greater than the actual output of the economy cannot match. China presently has a low inflation rate. Come and move here, I did so a few months ago. Raising the level of the RMB relative to the USD would only counter inflationary pressures and depress inflation further.
Macro-economic courses are probably available at your local college, or by correspondence. Otherwise you could visit China to see for yourself.
Four words; signal to noise ratio. Lets cut down on the superfluous karma whoring, please, so the more interesting stuff (that makes slashdot what it is) has a chance.
So perhaps you could stop posting off-topic replies with 'Karma Bonus' enabled, or, even better, actually add some ideas to discussion rather than dismissing statements in an ego-massaging way which adds no depth to the discussion.
Best regards,
You're not short of geeks who know their stuff around here, so all you have to do is get rid of the 95% who can't right too safe they're lifes, and your problem's solved. :o)
Hahaha. Good one!
I was a user and contributor to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia). Now I'm located in China and Wikipedia is nationally blocked, as are most caches (the Google cache work-around was eliminated a few days after becoming widly known). There have been blocks in the past, the present one in force since late October.
/. is viewable but any discussion on the issue from wikipedia.org is not. If this has been discussed on wikipedia.org then please excuse my redundancy, it would be sweet if you copied that discussion into this thread.
I was curious what Wikipedia's approach to blocking in the PRC was. Note that the entire wikipedia.org site is blocked, not only zh.wikipedia.org. Also 'wikis' are not blocked outright, such as blogs were in 2005 (for using 'blog' in the URL, a block which has now been reversed, now only selective blogs are blocked).
Does the Wikipedia organisation have any plan, such as a work-around or an agreement for a selective ban (such as blocking zh.wikipedia.org only, thus preventing casual browsing by Chinese internet users)? Has any analysis been done on the PRC's blocking of Wikipedia, and if so what is the status?
This message is sent from inside the PRC, where