Sure, wiki may offer a cultural snapshot, depending on the proposition underlying the question posed in such an analysis. But that ain't archeology. If the author, a lawyer, would have discussed his wikipedia-as-social-science with an archeologist, or even an anthropologist, he likely would have learned that archeologists don't make "guesses based on random bits and pieces..."; rather they develop hypothesis based on patterns in the distribution of cultural material gathered through the archeological method. And archeologists trained in North America over the past 50 years or so are, in fact, anthropologists first. And, yeah, there are people out there who "...mine (this) treasure trove...", but they are known as looters, not professional archeologists.
As an archeologist, I promise to not attempt to explain lawyers without talking with a lawyer first, if lawyers would do likewise with archeologists.
RCA/Thompson has a firmware update that gets rid of the necessity to encrypt mp3s thru MusicMatch. It works great. My Lyra looks and acts just like a portable usb drive to windows now, and I don't have to use MusicMatch either. Check out Yahoo Groups RCA-Lyra-MP3, or go to www.rca.com/digitalaudiosupport
heh, my cisco aironet service in Yakima thru a local isp was unreliable, slow and not ready for prime time. Let's hope the constabulary doesn't throw out those walkie talkies yet. And those cameras on the traffic lights - they are supposed to trigger the green/red cycle, but the locals all know how well they work (camera to light: here comes a car, shine red dude!).
hey Dad, what cha gonna do when that boy gets caught speeding in your car? More to the point, what are you gonna do when YOU get caught speeding? or running a red light? or feeding the parking meter past the time limit? Did you ever photocopy a magazine article? It's called copyright infringement, and it's illegal? Or instead of photocopying the magazine, maybe it just walked out of the library. That is called theft.
"What we've done is highlight the 40 threads that got the most number of messages in this period--day, week, month, year. And we'll say, 'Here are 40 really big threads.'"
Of course. The largest threads are rants about the latest crapware-security theat-EULA limitation-boneheaded activation scheme-code bloat-ad nauseum originating in Redmond
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Sure, wiki may offer a cultural snapshot, depending on the proposition underlying the question posed in such an analysis. But that ain't archeology. If the author, a lawyer, would have discussed his wikipedia-as-social-science with an archeologist, or even an anthropologist, he likely would have learned that archeologists don't make "guesses based on random bits and pieces..."; rather they develop hypothesis based on patterns in the distribution of cultural material gathered through the archeological method. And archeologists trained in North America over the past 50 years or so are, in fact, anthropologists first. And, yeah, there are people out there who "...mine (this) treasure trove...", but they are known as looters, not professional archeologists. As an archeologist, I promise to not attempt to explain lawyers without talking with a lawyer first, if lawyers would do likewise with archeologists.
RCA/Thompson has a firmware update that gets rid of the necessity to encrypt mp3s thru MusicMatch. It works great. My Lyra looks and acts just like a portable usb drive to windows now, and I don't have to use MusicMatch either. Check out Yahoo Groups RCA-Lyra-MP3, or go to www.rca.com/digitalaudiosupport
heh, my cisco aironet service in Yakima thru a local isp was unreliable, slow and not ready for prime time. Let's hope the constabulary doesn't throw out those walkie talkies yet. And those cameras on the traffic lights - they are supposed to trigger the green/red cycle, but the locals all know how well they work (camera to light: here comes a car, shine red dude!).
hey Dad, what cha gonna do when that boy gets caught speeding in your car? More to the point, what are you gonna do when YOU get caught speeding? or running a red light? or feeding the parking meter past the time limit? Did you ever photocopy a magazine article? It's called copyright infringement, and it's illegal? Or instead of photocopying the magazine, maybe it just walked out of the library. That is called theft.
To stay off m$ radar,keep the posts in threads to 39 or below. The sociologist his self said the magic number was, what, 40?
"What we've done is highlight the 40 threads that got the most number of messages in this period--day, week, month, year. And we'll say, 'Here are 40 really big threads.'"
Of course. The largest threads are rants about the latest crapware-security theat-EULA limitation-boneheaded activation scheme-code bloat-ad nauseum originating in Redmond