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Wikinfo's policy on point of view is different from Wikipedia: rather than adopting a neutral point of view, the set of articles about a particular topic are split into a number of articles with a specified point of view--thus it tries to have several points of view on each topic. The main article is written from a sympathetic point of view which is described as "a way of encouraging a pluralism of content, rather than limiting content to an unattainable encyclopedic goal."
Wow... three years. What a blow to the progress of human civilization.
I hope I can make it until 2056. because I know that if I die in 2053 I will miss out on all the major advanced held back by Kyoto: flying cars, end to third world hunger, diamond rings on every finger...
You haven't taken the time to look at Kant's Critique of Pure Reason have you?
Time is a function of our inner experience. To illustrate time in Space, the function of our outer experience, it must be represented on a line. I assume that this would change the direction of the line.
Imagine watching the a video normally is live following a vertical line, but you can only turn your head horizontally. You can't see where you've been or where you are going.
Turn the line on its side, so you can see all the scenes simultaneously, horizontally. Each scence cannot be in motion (because that is a function of a vertical movement) but you can see all scenes, for selection, at the same time.
We've built a Windows desktop and application framework around a Linux operating system, and both sides of this equation - open source and proprietary - are needed for our plan to continue to work.
In other news, RMS announces the imminent release of HURD. "I can feel it, any day now, " says RMS.
When asked about the new Winux, RMS suddenly issued blue smoke and sparks, muttering "Freedom, freedom, where is the freedom," before crashing to the floor.
My e-mail address is MartinTa m-a-r-t-i-n-"t" as in tom, "a" as in apple @microsoft.com. I'd love to hear from you, as well, if you have other comments, or if your experience has been different than the ones that we're seeing with customers; we always love to hear more from our customers around the world.
I know some people are going to say that the MPAA does not represent artists. But they do represent the people that pay the artists. They will not continue to do so if they cannot profit from what they are paying the artists to do.
There were always artists. There will always be artist. Their work always got to the public. It always will get to the public.
The idea of "producers" is new. It is not a permanent feature of artistic distribution. It is getting to a point where someone can make all the art they need without the input of corporations. Movies are not there yet, but music almost is. It is entirely possible to create, produce and release one's own material digitally.
The only thing that is necessary is the art itself, and by extension, some form of artist. Record and Movie companies, compared to the history of artistic creation, are but a short blip on the radar.
How is the slashdot crowd so desperate for anti-SCO news that it would sink low enough to post such non-news such as this?
Everyone says that blogs are the news of the future, the new wave in journalism. However, one idiot who wasn't trained in English usage--unlike trained journalists--makes some mistake like this, and it is taken up by the "blogsphere" and repeated.
Sure, blogs are the news source of the future, but only because the general level of intellegence of North American is falling at an alarming rate. Case in point, this slashdot sumbission.
Half the fun of suprnova is checking and rechecking the websites all day to see what is newly released. After you search through all the files, you find go only have to stay on top of the new stuff.
Where is the fun in actually finding what you want?
RTFA you asshats. The program is not a worm which searches over the internet but a program for "concerned parents" to scan their own computers to find out what their children have been downloading, and from where.
Osama bin Laden proclaimed new World Hide and Seek Champion
Dateline: Baghdad
President Saddam Husein has just been tagged by the "Its" of the US led coalition forces in Iraq. After counting to 50, the US stocked around the country, searching palaces and buildings for the Iraqi champion of hide and seek, who, for decades has hidden from sight, except for occasional "Marco-Polo" messages--an Arab variation of our traditional "Hide and Seek" rules.
It looked, in the beginning of this match, as if bin Laden was going to go out first, as his various favourite hiding spots were picked out by the US one by one. However, every time the US lifted the cloth covering to one of the caves, Osama was no where in sight.
"I can't believe that we got Saddam first, " said Gaming Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "I mean, Osama has more places to hid, 'cause Saddam is in the middle of the desert. Yet, Saddam kept switching hiding spots, which is so, like, cheating." The US tried to enlist the support of others in this 'It' campaign against Saddam, stating that the dictator would use WMD (Weapons of Mass Distraction). However, the international gaming community saw the American request as a violation of the rules.
"I really think, too, that the US should have counted to 100. 50 is just not the way things are done, and it violates many international agreements, and the mandate of the UN Security Council. After Hitler only counted to 25, there was an international mandate for "100 Mississippi"'s--that is in the "Geneva Convention," said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
However, in the end, bin Laden held out longer, as the US tagged Husein in an underground cavern measuring 6 by 8 feet.
Rumsfeld commented: "I remembered this one time my friend Jimmy was hiding under the porch, and I saw him laying down there, and I said "That's where Saddam is hiding!". It is much better this time, too, because after I found Jimmy, play time was over, and I had to go back to work at Halliburton. Now, I can stay out and play in Iraq after the street lights come on."
Reporters tried to reach bin Laden for comment on his win, but he was no where to be found. US President Bush commented: "It is time for all of us to live in peace. It is time for the US to bring freedom to the world. It is time for us to call 'Ali, Ali oxen free' and bring these terrorist to justice."
Commenting on the way the game was played, he said: "Here in America, tag is played in plain sight, which much running and pushing. This is just the true, free, violent American way, where the winner it he with the longest reach. This game of hiding is just not what God intended."
C3P0 is a protocol droid--his function is to interact with people. He has a huminoid shape. He knows 3 billion forms of communication. I assume his primary function would be to attend a family of wealth, educate them on protocol, translate visiting dignataries. He is a mechanical steward of the household.
R2D2 is a repair droid. His primary function is not to interact with humans. He is built for his function: he is small and round. He has many attachments which do different tasks. As seen in Episode One, he has magnetic treads so he can repair a ship in mid-flight.
Your modem does not speek English, so why should R2? His primary task would be to talk to damaged machines, and co-ordinate tasks with other R2 units. We can only assume that his whistle speech could be ramped up for more data transfer over long distances when he can't physically plug in i.e. talking to other R2's during repairs.
You wouldn't expect C3P0 to use a "hyperspanner"--why do you expect R2D2 to talk to people?
That's what square brackets mean: an editorial change. If you see this [XXX] in writing, it means the person who quoted has changed a word or words. If you seet this "..." it means the person has left out words.
It is time to learn what brackets and punctuation mean in English, not code.
Slashdot Mirror
Bullshit. Just go to "My Subscriptions" and use the up and down arrows, or right be side that the "Filter" box.
Slashdot editors firing with all weapons!
Shields Up! Luckily they have no temporal retention dynamics!
It exists:
Wikinfo
Wikinfo, formerly known as Internet-Encyclopedia (renamed in January 2004), is a fork of Wikipedia initiated by Fred Bauder in July 2003. It is hosted by ibiblio. Wikinfo makes no attempt to be multilingual, although existing links to Wikipedia articles in other languages are retained in the case of articles copied from Wikipedia.
Wikinfo's policy on point of view is different from Wikipedia: rather than adopting a neutral point of view, the set of articles about a particular topic are split into a number of articles with a specified point of view--thus it tries to have several points of view on each topic. The main article is written from a sympathetic point of view which is described as "a way of encouraging a pluralism of content, rather than limiting content to an unattainable encyclopedic goal."
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Slashdot gets stuck in feedback loop.
The UN are becoming Hare Krishnas!
Then how come I can never get First Post?
I am always 32 posts down.
Wow... three years. What a blow to the progress of human civilization.
I hope I can make it until 2056. because I know that if I die in 2053 I will miss out on all the major advanced held back by Kyoto: flying cars, end to third world hunger, diamond rings on every finger...
You haven't taken the time to look at Kant's Critique of Pure Reason have you?
Time is a function of our inner experience. To illustrate time in Space, the function of our outer experience, it must be represented on a line. I assume that this would change the direction of the line.
Imagine watching the a video normally is live following a vertical line, but you can only turn your head horizontally. You can't see where you've been or where you are going.
Turn the line on its side, so you can see all the scenes simultaneously, horizontally. Each scence cannot be in motion (because that is a function of a vertical movement) but you can see all scenes, for selection, at the same time.
It is basically like scene selection on your DVD.
We've built a Windows desktop and application framework around a Linux operating system, and both sides of this equation - open source and proprietary - are needed for our plan to continue to work.
In other news, RMS announces the imminent release of HURD. "I can feel it, any day now, " says RMS.
When asked about the new Winux, RMS suddenly issued blue smoke and sparks, muttering "Freedom, freedom, where is the freedom," before crashing to the floor.
My e-mail address is MartinTa m-a-r-t-i-n-"t" as in tom, "a" as in apple @microsoft.com. I'd love to hear from you, as well, if you have other comments, or if your experience has been different than the ones that we're seeing with customers; we always love to hear more from our customers around the world.
Gentlemen, start your engines.
I know some people are going to say that the MPAA does not represent artists. But they do represent the people that pay the artists. They will not continue to do so if they cannot profit from what they are paying the artists to do.
There were always artists. There will always be artist. Their work always got to the public. It always will get to the public.
The idea of "producers" is new. It is not a permanent feature of artistic distribution. It is getting to a point where someone can make all the art they need without the input of corporations. Movies are not there yet, but music almost is. It is entirely possible to create, produce and release one's own material digitally.
The only thing that is necessary is the art itself, and by extension, some form of artist. Record and Movie companies, compared to the history of artistic creation, are but a short blip on the radar.
This makes me glad I didn't ditch my SLR.
It is always the quality I want it to be: photo quality. No fading, no "archive qualtiy", no ink problems.
I don't know what sand dune you've had your head in, but, contrary to what the government says, the US does not go to war for freedom and democracy.
They go to war for money, plain and simple, and currently China isn't giving them any shit, so there is no reason to go to war.
How is the slashdot crowd so desperate for anti-SCO news that it would sink low enough to post such non-news such as this?
Everyone says that blogs are the news of the future, the new wave in journalism. However, one idiot who wasn't trained in English usage--unlike trained journalists--makes some mistake like this, and it is taken up by the "blogsphere" and repeated.
Sure, blogs are the news source of the future, but only because the general level of intellegence of North American is falling at an alarming rate. Case in point, this slashdot sumbission.
Half the fun of suprnova is checking and rechecking the websites all day to see what is newly released. After you search through all the files, you find go only have to stay on top of the new stuff.
Where is the fun in actually finding what you want?
... uses Enlightenment.
E17 forever.
RTFA you asshats. The program is not a worm which searches over the internet but a program for "concerned parents" to scan their own computers to find out what their children have been downloading, and from where.
Is that not what happens? Taking the fat from your vanquished foe?
I claim typographic errors, not ignorance. As a Canadian, I hold this right.
coup de gras. The 'P' is silent. "Coup" means blow, "cou" means neck.
Osama bin Laden proclaimed new World Hide and Seek Champion
Dateline: Baghdad
President Saddam Husein has just been tagged by the "Its" of the US led coalition forces in Iraq. After counting to 50, the US stocked around the country, searching palaces and buildings for the Iraqi champion of hide and seek, who, for decades has hidden from sight, except for occasional "Marco-Polo" messages--an Arab variation of our traditional "Hide and Seek" rules.
It looked, in the beginning of this match, as if bin Laden was going to go out first, as his various favourite hiding spots were picked out by the US one by one. However, every time the US lifted the cloth covering to one of the caves, Osama was no where in sight.
"I can't believe that we got Saddam first, " said Gaming Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "I mean, Osama has more places to hid, 'cause Saddam is in the middle of the desert. Yet, Saddam kept switching hiding spots, which is so, like, cheating." The US tried to enlist the support of others in this 'It' campaign against Saddam, stating that the dictator would use WMD (Weapons of Mass Distraction). However, the international gaming community saw the American request as a violation of the rules.
"I really think, too, that the US should have counted to 100. 50 is just not the way things are done, and it violates many international agreements, and the mandate of the UN Security Council. After Hitler only counted to 25, there was an international mandate for "100 Mississippi"'s--that is in the "Geneva Convention," said UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
However, in the end, bin Laden held out longer, as the US tagged Husein in an underground cavern measuring 6 by 8 feet.
Rumsfeld commented: "I remembered this one time my friend Jimmy was hiding under the porch, and I saw him laying down there, and I said "That's where Saddam is hiding!". It is much better this time, too, because after I found Jimmy, play time was over, and I had to go back to work at Halliburton. Now, I can stay out and play in Iraq after the street lights come on."
Reporters tried to reach bin Laden for comment on his win, but he was no where to be found. US President Bush commented: "It is time for all of us to live in peace. It is time for the US to bring freedom to the world. It is time for us to call 'Ali, Ali oxen free' and bring these terrorist to justice."
Commenting on the way the game was played, he said: "Here in America, tag is played in plain sight, which much running and pushing. This is just the true, free, violent American way, where the winner it he with the longest reach. This game of hiding is just not what God intended."
I am a philosophy undergrad you insensitive clod!
(but chicks dig it)
On advice of a foolish sci-fi bookstore clerk... Which one is the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?
This is not a hard thing to get straight:
C3P0 is a protocol droid--his function is to interact with people. He has a huminoid shape. He knows 3 billion forms of communication. I assume his primary function would be to attend a family of wealth, educate them on protocol, translate visiting dignataries. He is a mechanical steward of the household.
R2D2 is a repair droid. His primary function is not to interact with humans. He is built for his function: he is small and round. He has many attachments which do different tasks. As seen in Episode One, he has magnetic treads so he can repair a ship in mid-flight.
Your modem does not speek English, so why should R2? His primary task would be to talk to damaged machines, and co-ordinate tasks with other R2 units. We can only assume that his whistle speech could be ramped up for more data transfer over long distances when he can't physically plug in i.e. talking to other R2's during repairs.
You wouldn't expect C3P0 to use a "hyperspanner"--why do you expect R2D2 to talk to people?
That's what square brackets mean: an editorial change. If you see this [XXX] in writing, it means the person who quoted has changed a word or words. If you seet this "..." it means the person has left out words. It is time to learn what brackets and punctuation mean in English, not code.