Except this is one big MF tribe. A world wide tribe. As I see it, the real problem for wikipedia is the popularity of authoring. The more popular it becomes to write for wikipedia, the more difficult it will be to maintain quality entries.
This is a self correcting cycle as spammers, and propagandists find that they can not have their way with the content, readers find that the content is too biased/low quality, authors find that they can not get good content up without endless battles.
I believe that in the end, wikipedia will be a great source of information for topics that are not popular, controversial, or prone to be targeted by marketers. Basically, stuff that matters.
I felt he had the more persuasive arguments, which is a shame since so many of them were utter bullocks. I feel like Craig should have answered more directly the issue of the backbone networks which are "privately" owned, but really represent a public trust.
Oh well, I guess I just need to resign myself to playing a rigged game.
Obviously they can't see everything on the internet, but as a backbone provider, they pass traffic originating from many other ISPs. The quote you highlighted taken in this context is much more chilling than it is humorous.
Now that we're actually talking about something, I would imagine that java's inheritance, polymorphism, etc. would be a major time saver when maintaining a large repository of pages. Obviously it's not a panacea, but if you could get it to do the majority of what you want done, and then just tweak with the JSNI, I can see some major advantages for productivity.
Maybe I just don't know browser compatibility code well enough, but the ajax stuff that I've done has been a major pain in the ass, and hence my productivity is extremely low when writing this code.
Incidentally, I wasn't trying to be formulaic in my first response. I actually thought that the encoding binary ascii files was at least slightly creative. Obviouslly it was hyperbole, and apparently predictable as well. Oh well, maybe next time I can eek out a +1 funny.
There are still people who write assembly language for the same reasons. It's not that hard to write once you know what you are doing. Does that mean that C, C++, and other HLL should not be used? If you can't stand the overhead of auto-generated code, then don't use a compiler or interpreter. Write the entire web server in assembly and then, just to make sure that your IDE doesn't put in any extraneous non-printable characters into the ascii of your web page's source, encode it manually in binary.
By next year you should have your hello world test page done. Best of luck.
It's a tool, just like so many slashdotters, but in a different way. I guess what I'm trying to say is that some applications lend themselves to 3d. Why not view maps in 3d? Why not offer a 3d interface to merchandise that people might want to see from all sides. In short, why not browse and sort things using a 3d representation if that is an intuitive or useful interface, and you have the technology available to accomplish the feat smoothly.
If you don't want to use the 3d interface, maybe you can just watch hex stream by on a duo-chromatic display.
The article was a good summary of what is and isn't in Windows Vista, especially from a UI perspective. That said, I think there may be some enterprise level features that were not discussed that may get corparate america fired up. Federation is one such feature that I've heard a little about.
I want to believe we are watching the demise of a monopoly, but I will not count MS out until they are bought out by OSTG.
As an occasional user at digg, what bothers me is not the lack of visibility in their moderation system. What bothers me is the sequence of 16 or so users digging two stories in the same chronological order on the same day, from the same submitter. One of the users happened to be Kevin Rose according to TFA. I'm not sure what it means, but I would like to see some attempt at an explanation.
First off, libertarians generally count on an informed consumer base, which is exactly what happened when your budy Ralph started publishing books. Of course in the ideal libertarian world that would result in consumer revolt and not legislation, but don't shoot the messenger.
Additionally, imagine the possibility that there is a bug in the code. Or a security vulnerability of some sort (not sure what that would look like, maybe a bluetooth virus, who knows). Shouldn't we be able to turn it off? Technology should be used to manage complexity, not control it.
As others have commented, the distractions are so pervasive that we are losing valuable interpersonal communications. As painful as it was to be stuck in a car for hours on end when I was a kid, I still feel a little sad these days when I drive along listening to my mp3 player while my wife chats on her cell phone and both kids focus on their own dvd players. It's like we're together, but we're not.
By all means make a todo list during the sermon, but don't stop talking to your kids.
The government is seriously overspending. I got to see the packbot in development. Some very creative, very cheap methods were used, at least in the mechanical design.
As I'm sure you are aware, the English language changes and grows over time. According to the encyclopedia section in answers.com's entry regarding slang, the word typo seems to be more of a colloquialism. This analysis is supported by the fact that "typo" appears in several dictionaries as cited in previous posts.
Since you are a reader of slashdot, you are no doubt accustomed to keeping abreast of changes in a very dynamic field of knowledge. I hope you agree that the same diligence is due to the English language. Welcome to our funny argument about slang. Make yourself at home.
Dell "pilfers" code, doesn't maintain it, leaves users with laptops and desktops that will only run 2 year out of date software they can't update.
Bad business decision again; users revolt.
Please explain how it is bad business to force an upgrade cycle? Sounds very much like our current software overlords. Incidentally this is also a technique employed by shoe makers who make footware that wears out easily. This is very good business indeed for the suppliers.
In fact the scenarios you describe both sound plausible and like good business for Dell. The only caveat is that no one comes along to undercut them with an open platform including support for gma and gpa.
We need someone to figure out how to get around the chip fab barrier. None of us hobbiests can build a fab plant, so there is the possiblility that chip producers will get together one day and essentially destroy the ability of OS software to run on newer hardware. In this scenario, the elite, the privy to secret hardware handshakes could continue to modify and release code that no one else could modify because only they have the secret keys to the hardware.
This might require a larger conspiracy than some of us are comfortable with, but consider the track record of the US government over the past 6 years, and get comfortable with conspiracy.
One doesn't even require a tinfoil hat to imagine that this will happen and is happening in certain segments of the hardware market. Although porting to another platform is facillitated by having source, what happens when some of the key logic is hard coded inside proprietary hardware?
I just hope that hardware doesn't become the achilles heel of OSS.
First world nations should worry about global warming if for no other then reason then the selfish reason that they are expensive. Katrinas can't make a dent in the population by killing people. They are however very costly to pick up afterwards. They force us to build more weather resistant structures which in turn cost more. Farmers are forced to change what they grow in an potentially expensive proposition. First world nations are not going to starve, but they are going to feel more then an economic prick if the climate changes drastically.
Obviously neither of us has first hand experience in catastrophic climate change, but I think you seriously overestimate the resilience of first world technology. More importantly I think you underestimate how quickly a dramatic change in climate would make us all people struggling to survive as opposed to first/third world people.
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Except this is one big MF tribe. A world wide tribe. As I see it, the real problem for wikipedia is the popularity of authoring. The more popular it becomes to write for wikipedia, the more difficult it will be to maintain quality entries.
This is a self correcting cycle as spammers, and propagandists find that they can not have their way with the content, readers find that the content is too biased/low quality, authors find that they can not get good content up without endless battles.
I believe that in the end, wikipedia will be a great source of information for topics that are not popular, controversial, or prone to be targeted by marketers. Basically, stuff that matters.
I used clusty just this morning to quickly differentiate a term that had relevant results with multiple disparate themes.
It's not the search engine I use "in most cases", but why discourage people from trying to make better tools for you?
I felt he had the more persuasive arguments, which is a shame since so many of them were utter bullocks. I feel like Craig should have answered more directly the issue of the backbone networks which are "privately" owned, but really represent a public trust.
Oh well, I guess I just need to resign myself to playing a rigged game.
in soviet russia the processors... I'm sorry I just can't. It wasn't even that funny when it used to be funny.
There is a saying overused to the point of becoming cliche which fits this situation well.
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean their not out to get you."
http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/att_ba ckbone_large.gif
Obviously they can't see everything on the internet, but as a backbone provider, they pass traffic originating from many other ISPs. The quote you highlighted taken in this context is much more chilling than it is humorous.
Now that we're actually talking about something, I would imagine that java's inheritance, polymorphism, etc. would be a major time saver when maintaining a large repository of pages. Obviously it's not a panacea, but if you could get it to do the majority of what you want done, and then just tweak with the JSNI, I can see some major advantages for productivity.
Maybe I just don't know browser compatibility code well enough, but the ajax stuff that I've done has been a major pain in the ass, and hence my productivity is extremely low when writing this code.
Incidentally, I wasn't trying to be formulaic in my first response. I actually thought that the encoding binary ascii files was at least slightly creative. Obviouslly it was hyperbole, and apparently predictable as well. Oh well, maybe next time I can eek out a +1 funny.
There are still people who write assembly language for the same reasons. It's not that hard to write once you know what you are doing. Does that mean that C, C++, and other HLL should not be used? If you can't stand the overhead of auto-generated code, then don't use a compiler or interpreter. Write the entire web server in assembly and then, just to make sure that your IDE doesn't put in any extraneous non-printable characters into the ascii of your web page's source, encode it manually in binary.
By next year you should have your hello world test page done. Best of luck.
one to two years
It's a tool, just like so many slashdotters, but in a different way. I guess what I'm trying to say is that some applications lend themselves to 3d. Why not view maps in 3d? Why not offer a 3d interface to merchandise that people might want to see from all sides. In short, why not browse and sort things using a 3d representation if that is an intuitive or useful interface, and you have the technology available to accomplish the feat smoothly.
If you don't want to use the 3d interface, maybe you can just watch hex stream by on a duo-chromatic display.
The article was a good summary of what is and isn't in Windows Vista, especially from a UI perspective. That said, I think there may be some enterprise level features that were not discussed that may get corparate america fired up. Federation is one such feature that I've heard a little about.
I want to believe we are watching the demise of a monopoly, but I will not count MS out until they are bought out by OSTG.
Maybe I didn't understand the system very well since I don't have many friends in either meat or cyber space, but your explanation does make sense.
As an occasional user at digg, what bothers me is not the lack of visibility in their moderation system. What bothers me is the sequence of 16 or so users digging two stories in the same chronological order on the same day, from the same submitter. One of the users happened to be Kevin Rose according to TFA. I'm not sure what it means, but I would like to see some attempt at an explanation.
First off, libertarians generally count on an informed consumer base, which is exactly what happened when your budy Ralph started publishing books. Of course in the ideal libertarian world that would result in consumer revolt and not legislation, but don't shoot the messenger.
Additionally, imagine the possibility that there is a bug in the code. Or a security vulnerability of some sort (not sure what that would look like, maybe a bluetooth virus, who knows). Shouldn't we be able to turn it off? Technology should be used to manage complexity, not control it.
should become authoritive for the domain GPS.dix.dk and forward traffic to dlink. You DNS admins know who you are.
April fools is over on May 1 or when we run out of fools, which ever comes first.
It's quite elementary actually. This should get you started. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/math/pdf/0508/0508378.pd f
No but really,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta_distribution
Good luck see you in a week
As others have commented, the distractions are so pervasive that we are losing valuable interpersonal communications. As painful as it was to be stuck in a car for hours on end when I was a kid, I still feel a little sad these days when I drive along listening to my mp3 player while my wife chats on her cell phone and both kids focus on their own dvd players. It's like we're together, but we're not.
By all means make a todo list during the sermon, but don't stop talking to your kids.
The government is seriously overspending. I got to see the packbot in development. Some very creative, very cheap methods were used, at least in the mechanical design.
There is supposedly going to be an eclipse plugin. http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/atf/
As I'm sure you are aware, the English language changes and grows over time. According to the encyclopedia section in answers.com's entry regarding slang, the word typo seems to be more of a colloquialism. This analysis is supported by the fact that "typo" appears in several dictionaries as cited in previous posts.
Since you are a reader of slashdot, you are no doubt accustomed to keeping abreast of changes in a very dynamic field of knowledge. I hope you agree that the same diligence is due to the English language. Welcome to our funny argument about slang. Make yourself at home.
Actually, typo is short for typographical error. As such it is pluralized according to the rules of the uncontracted expression hence typos.
Did that sound good? It's complete bs, however dictionary.com does give a plural of typos. See http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=typo.
Dell "pilfers" code, doesn't maintain it, leaves users with laptops and desktops that will only run 2 year out of date software they can't update.
Bad business decision again; users revolt.
Please explain how it is bad business to force an upgrade cycle? Sounds very much like our current software overlords. Incidentally this is also a technique employed by shoe makers who make footware that wears out easily. This is very good business indeed for the suppliers.
In fact the scenarios you describe both sound plausible and like good business for Dell. The only caveat is that no one comes along to undercut them with an open platform including support for gma and gpa.
We need someone to figure out how to get around the chip fab barrier. None of us hobbiests can build a fab plant, so there is the possiblility that chip producers will get together one day and essentially destroy the ability of OS software to run on newer hardware. In this scenario, the elite, the privy to secret hardware handshakes could continue to modify and release code that no one else could modify because only they have the secret keys to the hardware.
This might require a larger conspiracy than some of us are comfortable with, but consider the track record of the US government over the past 6 years, and get comfortable with conspiracy.
One doesn't even require a tinfoil hat to imagine that this will happen and is happening in certain segments of the hardware market. Although porting to another platform is facillitated by having source, what happens when some of the key logic is hard coded inside proprietary hardware?
I just hope that hardware doesn't become the achilles heel of OSS.
First world nations should worry about global warming if for no other then reason then the selfish reason that they are expensive. Katrinas can't make a dent in the population by killing people. They are however very costly to pick up afterwards. They force us to build more weather resistant structures which in turn cost more. Farmers are forced to change what they grow in an potentially expensive proposition. First world nations are not going to starve, but they are going to feel more then an economic prick if the climate changes drastically.
Obviously neither of us has first hand experience in catastrophic climate change, but I think you seriously overestimate the resilience of first world technology. More importantly I think you underestimate how quickly a dramatic change in climate would make us all people struggling to survive as opposed to first/third world people.