That said, you can't just throw your hands up in the air and say "screw it"--do something:
Normally, I would agree with you. However, the problem I experienced appears to be endemic to Wikipedia. Here's a suggestion, someone else can take it to the next step: a method for providing footnotes and textual references should be built into Wikipedia. Now that would make Wikipedia an useful resource, in my estimation. Elsewhere in this thread, some say that Wikipedia is "just like visiting some random web page" or "a collection of opinions that arrive at coherent articles." Footnotes would solve this problem, since a researcher could then follow those footnotes and get the information directly from its source.
How is what I say specious? If Wikipedia provided you with links (and I hope you acknowledged Wikipedia in you bibliography!) to reliable information, then that's a start; yet it appears to be the exception, not the rule. If your sociology teacher allowed you to cite Wikipedia as an authoritative text, you have been done a great academic disservice. But I'm beginning to make assumptions, so I'll stop now while I'm ahead.
Take a look at the articles (well, more like article hierarchies) for Star Trek and World of Warcraft - you won't find a more thorough or more carefully woven source of information anywhere else...If the type of information it presents is "trivia" to you, then use a different encyclopedia.
Thank you for reiterating that, truly, Wikipedia == trivia. You give good advice, though, so I'll heed it and not contribute my expertise to Wikipedia. It's no skin off my back...
Wikipedia is worthless, from anything other than a triva perspective. Silly me, I once tried to include literature citations in the entry for Julius Caesar, they were promptly deleted and someone re-entered demonstrably false information.
I concur. Thunderbird has also needed, for a very long time, an option "do not delete from remote server until message is emptied from trash" and an easier way to put in multiple SMTP servers and link them to their proper email address.
It is pretty, but it really looks just like any other KDE centric distro, there's honestly nothing unique about how it looks. What I'm waiting for is Enlightenment to be actively supported, developed and set as the default desktop by one of the big distros.
If you RTFA, you'll find that the bot can distinguish between different guns. I strongly suspect that this also means it can distinguish between a gunshot and a metal striking metal. I imagine it can still be fooled fairly easily.
The "man in the loop" need not stand in the open. I wouldn't be surprised if the sniper assigned to take care of the robot's IDs had himself concealed.
Slashcode is really screwed up. I posted this earlier, and it got submitted with someone else's sig and didn't even show up in the thread. As I write this, both submissions have not yet appeared in the thread.
...have really got to go. I think Ubuntu is a decent distro (have it on my laptop), but their "marketing" is unprofessional, to say the least. First it was the half naked and interracial menage-a-trois, which they mercifully 86'ed, and still these ridiculous names. It'd be one thing if they were codenames for release candidates and died with the final - numbered - release, but no, the names live on, in all their campy glory (cf. the dapper drake "gay duck" future release, mentioned in a recent review of Ubuntu). I suppose now might be a good time to point out that their release numbering scheme is very nice, also, I can't argue with the free CDs.
Ubuntu might be popular within its own community, but the distro won't go mainstream until its image matures past high school sophomore.
...have really got to go. I think Ubuntu is a decent distro (have it on my laptop), but their "marketing" is unprofessional, to say the least. First it was the half naked and interracial menage-a-trois, which they mercifully 86'ed, and still these ridiculous names. It'd be one thing if they were codenames for release candidates and died with the final - numbered - release, but no, the names live on, in all their campy glory (cf. the dapper drake "gay duck" future release, mentioned in a recent review of Ubuntu). I suppose now might be a good time to point out that their release numbering scheme is very nice, also, I can't argue with the free CDs.
Ubuntu might be popular within its own community, but the distro won't go mainstream until its image matures past high school sophomore.
How are some of the more advanced guifications/eye candy? Last time I tried turning them on, KDE slowed to a crawl, and my system's not too shabby. If KDE could get the same performance as Enlightenment, that would be great, otherwise, I hope more development goes into Enlightenment. As it stands, I prefer Gnome, so make of that what you will.
Because each and every question you asked wasn't meant to be answered, I'll just answer a few...
I vote because it's better than not voting (I suppose). I wouldn't pay taxes if I had that option. All 300M of us would probably do a heck of a lot better than you would think, were some of us not so conditioned to sucking on Uncle Sam's teets for sustenance.
I was going to respond by flaming the grandparent, but since you point out that "Some people actually rely on the government instead of thinking and acting for themselves," I'm going to have to agree with the grandparent with regard to the "Soviet America" part.
Soviet America, yes. Soviet American President, no.
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That said, you can't just throw your hands up in the air and say "screw it"--do something:
Normally, I would agree with you. However, the problem I experienced appears to be endemic to Wikipedia. Here's a suggestion, someone else can take it to the next step: a method for providing footnotes and textual references should be built into Wikipedia. Now that would make Wikipedia an useful resource, in my estimation. Elsewhere in this thread, some say that Wikipedia is "just like visiting some random web page" or "a collection of opinions that arrive at coherent articles." Footnotes would solve this problem, since a researcher could then follow those footnotes and get the information directly from its source.
How is what I say specious? If Wikipedia provided you with links (and I hope you acknowledged Wikipedia in you bibliography!) to reliable information, then that's a start; yet it appears to be the exception, not the rule. If your sociology teacher allowed you to cite Wikipedia as an authoritative text, you have been done a great academic disservice. But I'm beginning to make assumptions, so I'll stop now while I'm ahead.
Take a look at the articles (well, more like article hierarchies) for Star Trek and World of Warcraft - you won't find a more thorough or more carefully woven source of information anywhere else...If the type of information it presents is "trivia" to you, then use a different encyclopedia.
Thank you for reiterating that, truly, Wikipedia == trivia. You give good advice, though, so I'll heed it and not contribute my expertise to Wikipedia. It's no skin off my back...
Wikipedia is worthless, from anything other than a triva perspective. Silly me, I once tried to include literature citations in the entry for Julius Caesar, they were promptly deleted and someone re-entered demonstrably false information.
All I know is that if, once my broadband ISP serves up IPv6, they want to charge me extra for a static IP, I'll be pissed.
Nope, doesn't involve folding the paper.
Heh. Just your standard ballpoint pen. This puzzle is scalable, and it doesn't involve folding the paper.
Connect all nine dots using four straight lines drawn without lifting the pen from the paper:
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Sure, but just imagine if we find drillable oil there! :-D
I concur. Thunderbird has also needed, for a very long time, an option "do not delete from remote server until message is emptied from trash" and an easier way to put in multiple SMTP servers and link them to their proper email address.
Yes, but, Enlightenment is better looking than all those. It's juicy, but still a little tart and not quite ripe.
It is pretty, but it really looks just like any other KDE centric distro, there's honestly nothing unique about how it looks. What I'm waiting for is Enlightenment to be actively supported, developed and set as the default desktop by one of the big distros.
If you RTFA, you'll find that the bot can distinguish between different guns. I strongly suspect that this also means it can distinguish between a gunshot and a metal striking metal. I imagine it can still be fooled fairly easily.
The "man in the loop" need not stand in the open. I wouldn't be surprised if the sniper assigned to take care of the robot's IDs had himself concealed.
Slashcode is really screwed up. I posted this earlier, and it got submitted with someone else's sig and didn't even show up in the thread. As I write this, both submissions have not yet appeared in the thread.
...have really got to go. I think Ubuntu is a decent distro (have it on my laptop), but their "marketing" is unprofessional, to say the least. First it was the half naked and interracial menage-a-trois, which they mercifully 86'ed, and still these ridiculous names. It'd be one thing if they were codenames for release candidates and died with the final - numbered - release, but no, the names live on, in all their campy glory (cf. the dapper drake "gay duck" future release, mentioned in a recent review of Ubuntu). I suppose now might be a good time to point out that their release numbering scheme is very nice, also, I can't argue with the free CDs.
Ubuntu might be popular within its own community, but the distro won't go mainstream until its image matures past high school sophomore....have really got to go. I think Ubuntu is a decent distro (have it on my laptop), but their "marketing" is unprofessional, to say the least. First it was the half naked and interracial menage-a-trois, which they mercifully 86'ed, and still these ridiculous names. It'd be one thing if they were codenames for release candidates and died with the final - numbered - release, but no, the names live on, in all their campy glory (cf. the dapper drake "gay duck" future release, mentioned in a recent review of Ubuntu). I suppose now might be a good time to point out that their release numbering scheme is very nice, also, I can't argue with the free CDs.
Ubuntu might be popular within its own community, but the distro won't go mainstream until its image matures past high school sophomore.
...and editors take note.
If ever we had an excuse for not reading TFA, goatse is it.
I propose ScuttleMonkey be barred from Slashdot. Forever.
"Experts who have studied the U.S. navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns."
Right, because the dolphins would be equipped, locked and loaded when held (i.e., not engaged in training exercises) in "their coastal compound."
Oh wait, I forgot to put on my tin foil hat.
There we go... Egads!!! I must now cancel my scuba trip in the Gulf!
Heh, with any luck, they'll go after the goatse posters here.
How are some of the more advanced guifications/eye candy? Last time I tried turning them on, KDE slowed to a crawl, and my system's not too shabby. If KDE could get the same performance as Enlightenment, that would be great, otherwise, I hope more development goes into Enlightenment. As it stands, I prefer Gnome, so make of that what you will.
Raise your hand?
...when they offer pop3 or imap + smtp.
Because each and every question you asked wasn't meant to be answered, I'll just answer a few...
I vote because it's better than not voting (I suppose). I wouldn't pay taxes if I had that option. All 300M of us would probably do a heck of a lot better than you would think, were some of us not so conditioned to sucking on Uncle Sam's teets for sustenance.
I was going to respond by flaming the grandparent, but since you point out that "Some people actually rely on the government instead of thinking and acting for themselves," I'm going to have to agree with the grandparent with regard to the "Soviet America" part.
Soviet America, yes. Soviet American President, no.