Yet you read the comments posted on board like slashdot?
Wikipedia has stated many times that is it not the end all and be all of information in the internet. It is a tool, it can give you vague information or very detailed, it's a great starting point for research. Print encyclopedias contain errors as well, mabey not as many as these open ones however the print versions can't be updated and added to cheaply.
Wikipedia could have a zillion entries and I still won't trust it.
It's hard to make a generalisation about a whole encyclopedia that contains over a million entries. Sure some of them are not 100% accurate, then correct it, or wait 5 minutes for the error to be fixed. When researching you have to check multiple sources or you are bound to get misleading information.
Interestingly enough, George W. Bush currently has the most liberal ownership.
Well as a democrat, I would love to see George Bush lose. As a rational person I know he will probably ending winning, due to big business, or the senior vote which usually goes overwhelmingly to republicans. Combined with the fact that Kerry's war record is in doubt, and how Nader is gaining more votes. I really dont want bush to be president and I will vote against him, but I would also put my money on Bush
Just watching Generation 'e' on NBC and a senoir research from gartner expects people to be using windows XP well into 2010. I was surprises how he also offered no notable reason to upgrade to longhorn simply quoting the features that would also be available for XP. It seems that MS's new pitch may be just 'it's more secure' and for most people that's not worth the big bucks.
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I use Sparknotes.com often and it really helps you understand books and better prepare for tests. I also use myBiblio for bibliographies which works pretty well too. tutors arent consideredd cheating so why should study aids?
Its great that companies are able to offer TV on cell phones, but it is really necessary? I for one have a camera phone with wireless internet and most of the features on that phone go unused. Internet enabled cell phones are usefull for stock quotes and news, and mabey checking mail. Having TV on the phone would not only drain the battery but people would have to watch the news for 10 minutes to get to a story that affects them instead of having it on demand like the internet.
Thanks, but no thanks, i'll save my battery life for making calls.
I have always been wary of using actionscript for anything other than banner ads and website introductions. One thing I have seen is that people use actionscript for login systems; which can usually be hacked in less than 1 minute (with exception of SQl based), most people use this tutorial infact.
I really like google, however I would never invest in a company that gains over 90% of its revenue from advertising and a user base that is very unpredictable. If a better search company comes around then users will switch, just like they switched to goole. However what google is trying to do is expand into many more online markets so people come to them for every online service with their powerfull search leading the way. They have great services and are a great company but I can't invest so readily in a young company in a volatile market.
If i remember correctly, there was an article a while back about the ipod being able to play all audio codecs, however Apple purposely disabled all other formats due to licenseing costs. I would like to hear apples reaction to this.
When episode one first came out i was very excited, waited in line, and cheer when it started. How ever it was not nearly as good as I hoped, and many people probably feel the same way. When episode 2 rolled around i didn't bother waiting line, just saw it a week after it came out, still disappointed. I'm not trying to troll here but i don't know if i'll even go see episode 3, or just wait to rent it from blockbuster. Just hope they clean up there act.
ultralights don't require a license if they meet certain requirements:
"(d) If unpowered, weighs less than 155 pounds; or
(e) If powered:
(1) Weighs less than 254 pounds empty, excluding floats and safety devices which are intended for deployment in a potentially catastrophic situation;"
Certification:
"(a) Notwithstanding any other section pertaining to certification of aircraft or their parts or equipment, ultralight vehicles and their component parts and equipment are not required to meet the airworthiness certification standards specified for aircraft or to have certificates of air-worthiness."
If it can pick up cell phones in a 30 metres radius, one would have to think that in a conjested area, it may pick up many cellphones and possibly confuse the system. Also I would like to know if this device could interfere with peoples mobile calls, if so, cell phone jammers (this one isnt pocket sized) are already avaialable.
we all love google, however their search technology allows any one to find out anything about the government. one of the special searchs primarily searches US government documents. Not to mention peoples personal information can be found just as easily.
Please don't get me wrong, I love google, and use it, and I especially enjoy these types of searches
Mozilla has accomplished a lot in 1 year, few security flaws, those found are fixed, many releases of software, and new technologies. All in all their a pretty healthy company, and the market share is actually growing.
Whats really interesting about this is that after seven years the guy who owns that domain hasn't changed it one bit. the domain itself is worth alot of money amd there aren't even any ads on the site. At the height of the dot com era he could of sold the domain for tens of thousands od dollars. I think thats the real story here.
I'm tired because I just woke up after 12 hours of sleep.
This could also count the number of embedded windows installations on portable devices. I you remember the worlds most installed OS is barely heard of.
About 20 percent of the computers Duncan administers at the college now use Mozilla-based browsers, Duncan said, and the main impediment to more widespread adoption is user perception, he said. "They have this perception that open source software can't be worth anything because it's free."
isn't this why the name was changed from 'free software' to open-source? Free as in Speech, not as in Free Beer.
I would like to know where this perception came from. People love free things, even if they are completely worthless people will still try them. Why doesn't that extend into the software arena?
Just as Mozilla gains market share, I am starting to see Netscape re-apear in my server logs, Mine aren't public but these guys are.
If MS doesn't issue a quick fix for IE then people may perminately switch to Mozilla or Opera. As many companies know, customers don't think about product loyalty when a better cheaper product comes around.
This time MSIE is so far behind, And people are beginning to know, when your average joe (for whom your product is designed) decided not to use, or more importantly buy your product, then you have a problem.
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Yet you read the comments posted on board like slashdot?
Wikipedia has stated many times that is it not the end all and be all of information in the internet. It is a tool, it can give you vague information or very detailed, it's a great starting point for research. Print encyclopedias contain errors as well, mabey not as many as these open ones however the print versions can't be updated and added to cheaply.
Wikipedia could have a zillion entries and I still won't trust it.
It's hard to make a generalisation about a whole encyclopedia that contains over a million entries. Sure some of them are not 100% accurate, then correct it, or wait 5 minutes for the error to be fixed. When researching you have to check multiple sources or you are bound to get misleading information.
Hey! I posted this same comment in a previous dupe story! (And it was modded +5)
Your right, but I never saw that one, and with the way the karma system works you dont get karma for funny posts anyway.
This is one good thing to dupe stories:
You can always increase your karma by re-posting all the comments modded +5
Interestingly enough, George W. Bush currently has the most liberal ownership.
Well as a democrat, I would love to see George Bush lose. As a rational person I know he will probably ending winning, due to big business, or the senior vote which usually goes overwhelmingly to republicans. Combined with the fact that Kerry's war record is in doubt, and how Nader is gaining more votes. I really dont want bush to be president and I will vote against him, but I would also put my money on Bush
Just watching Generation 'e' on NBC and a senoir research from gartner expects people to be using windows XP well into 2010. I was surprises how he also offered no notable reason to upgrade to longhorn simply quoting the features that would also be available for XP. It seems that MS's new pitch may be just 'it's more secure' and for most people that's not worth the big bucks.
I use Sparknotes.com often and it really helps you understand books and better prepare for tests. I also use myBiblio for bibliographies which works pretty well too. tutors arent consideredd cheating so why should study aids?
Its great that companies are able to offer TV on cell phones, but it is really necessary? I for one have a camera phone with wireless internet and most of the features on that phone go unused. Internet enabled cell phones are usefull for stock quotes and news, and mabey checking mail. Having TV on the phone would not only drain the battery but people would have to watch the news for 10 minutes to get to a story that affects them instead of having it on demand like the internet. Thanks, but no thanks, i'll save my battery life for making calls.
I have always been wary of using actionscript for anything other than banner ads and website introductions. One thing I have seen is that people use actionscript for login systems; which can usually be hacked in less than 1 minute (with exception of SQl based), most people use this tutorial infact.
you can always not broadcast your wlan name and set a password, it works against most people. And on the other end you can always use KisMac or KisMet
I really like google, however I would never invest in a company that gains over 90% of its revenue from advertising and a user base that is very unpredictable. If a better search company comes around then users will switch, just like they switched to goole. However what google is trying to do is expand into many more online markets so people come to them for every online service with their powerfull search leading the way. They have great services and are a great company but I can't invest so readily in a young company in a volatile market.
that smartphones were hit by a worm before windows CE, anyone wondering the same thing?
when you can build a top 5 supercomputer for under 6 million dollars, using off the shelf parts. Why spend the hundreds of millions of dollars?
If i remember correctly, there was an article a while back about the ipod being able to play all audio codecs, however Apple purposely disabled all other formats due to licenseing costs. I would like to hear apples reaction to this.
When episode one first came out i was very excited, waited in line, and cheer when it started. How ever it was not nearly as good as I hoped, and many people probably feel the same way. When episode 2 rolled around i didn't bother waiting line, just saw it a week after it came out, still disappointed. I'm not trying to troll here but i don't know if i'll even go see episode 3, or just wait to rent it from blockbuster. Just hope they clean up there act.
"(d) If unpowered, weighs less than 155 pounds; or (e) If powered: (1) Weighs less than 254 pounds empty, excluding floats and safety devices which are intended for deployment in a potentially catastrophic situation;"
Certification:
"(a) Notwithstanding any other section pertaining to certification of aircraft or their parts or equipment, ultralight vehicles and their component parts and equipment are not required to meet the airworthiness certification standards specified for aircraft or to have certificates of air-worthiness."
If it can pick up cell phones in a 30 metres radius, one would have to think that in a conjested area, it may pick up many cellphones and possibly confuse the system. Also I would like to know if this device could interfere with peoples mobile calls, if so, cell phone jammers (this one isnt pocket sized) are already avaialable.
we all love google, however their search technology allows any one to find out anything about the government. one of the special searchs primarily searches US government documents. Not to mention peoples personal information can be found just as easily.
Please don't get me wrong, I love google, and use it, and I especially enjoy these types of searches
the sign for the car and van wash is more than twice the size of the sign for the linux computer store
Mozilla has accomplished a lot in 1 year, few security flaws, those found are fixed, many releases of software, and new technologies. All in all their a pretty healthy company, and the market share is actually growing.
co-incidentily future versions windows won't be supporting DVD-Rom drive
I'm tired because I just woke up after 12 hours of sleep.
This could also count the number of embedded windows installations on portable devices. I you remember the worlds most installed OS is barely heard of.
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isn't this why the name was changed from 'free software' to open-source? Free as in Speech, not as in Free Beer.
I would like to know where this perception came from. People love free things, even if they are completely worthless people will still try them. Why doesn't that extend into the software arena?
Just as Mozilla gains market share, I am starting to see Netscape re-apear in my server logs, Mine aren't public but these guys are.
If MS doesn't issue a quick fix for IE then people may perminately switch to Mozilla or Opera. As many companies know, customers don't think about product loyalty when a better cheaper product comes around.
This time MSIE is so far behind, And people are beginning to know, when your average joe (for whom your product is designed) decided not to use, or more importantly buy your product, then you have a problem.