What logical errors did I make? I said that Wikipedia cannot become a coherent whole (a whole being an "encyclopedia") in its current state when articles like these exist in it. What's wrong with that?
First of all, I don't remember saying Wikipedia was stupid. I remember saying that the articles only exist because Wikipedia is on the internet and people on the internet often deem things of unimportance to be horribly important and as such put them in Wikipedia when they shouldn't be there. This tug-of-war between well researched encyclopedic content versus haphazard internet fanboy articles defines Wikipedia.
If Wikipedia truly wants to be an encyclopedia then they need to clamp on articles like that which are written from one point of view, have so little merit that they are basically a paragraph, and/or are completely made up as well as fighting article vandalism. Wikipedia does do a relatively good job doing this but it's not perfect and so at any point in time when you visit Wikipedia and read an article you could be reading a vandalized version that has incorrect facts or a fanboy fluff piece which doesn't tell the whole truth. As such it will never be a "real" encyclopedia, as I said.
Also, your summary of my post consisting of "well, these articles are stupid, so it doesn't matter, and this makes Wikipedia stupid and worthless by association" is an incorrect reading of my post. I said that it makes Wikipedia not a "real" encyclopedia, not that it makes it stupid. I think you just wanted to use the words "ad hominem" and misconstrued my post just so you could.
Well, where does the "care to look someone up" stop? Since you used "people" what if my friends and I decide that we all should be in Wikipedia and put each other as relevant links? Should we be in Wikipedia then? How big does "people" need to be for it to belong in Wikipedia? I say "people" needs to be larger than the average following of an internet fad such as Brian Peppers, whereas by your disagreement you must mean a smaller group. How big of a group do you think needs to be looking for information before it appears in Wikipedia?
Why should these people have articles dedicated to them in an encyclopedia? Knowledge of these people amount to pretty much internet trivia. Why do these, or half of Wikipedia's articles exist? Well, because the internet says so and the internet is what fills Wikipedia's pages. This is why "real" encyclopedias say Wikipedia will never be a "real" encyclopedia: because it has too many fluff/worthless pieces that are of no encyclopedic merit like the three mentioned in the blurb.
The world finals are there as well, listed under "World Finals" on the badly done Java app. You can also get to them by clicking on "problemset" on the left sidebar and then on "World Finals" in the list. An alternative way is to click on "downloads" and they will be listed across the top. They don't have this year's yet but they have the past 4 years from before that.
For those who want to know more about this contest in the form of actually attempting ACM questions, then I suggest heading over to their problemset archive which not only has ACM stuff from the last 5 years but a large number of non-ACM programming problems in the same vein. You can sign up with them and have your solutions to their problems checked for correctness.
Since the website's a design massacre, to get to the ACM problems you need to click on the link marked THE CII ICPC LIVE ARCHIVE !!! in the news bar, or just click on that one right there.
There's a difference between the strength of a gravitational field and a gravitational gradient. It's like at the center of the Earth. The gravitational gradient there (relative to the Earth's field) is zero, but the force of all that overhanging rock is pretty high. You wouldn't float there comfortably with no force acting on you. You'd be squished.
Doesn't Newton's shell theory state that when within a large spherical body of mass you can treat the mass as a shell of radius to where you are within it because the mass that's further out than you ends up cancelling out? As such, if the center of the earth was somehow hollow and you somehow got transported there or something, then you would float because by the shell theory all of the mass above you is cancelling out all the mass below you and thus you have a net gravitational force of 0 pulling on you. The "overhanging" rock wouldn't squish you because you'd have "underhanging" rock to counteract its pull (even though those terms mean nothing if you're at the center of the planet where essentially every direction is up).
Before anyone else does a "OMG Tool did it first!!" and then someone responds to them with "No, [insert older reference here] did it first!", the blog author acknowledges this in his post (linked to in the first, longer link). I quote:
and, as much as I'd like to say I invented a new form of poetry, these sequences have been part of various poetic structures since before Fibonacci's time.
As such, now anyone who brings up the Tool/etc thing in such a way that they're implying the blog author is claiming credit for inventing this can be marked a troll.
The rumble pak and Gamecube controller use one unbalanced weight in the center whereas the Dual Shocks and Xbox controllers use two different unbalanced weights, one on each side of the controller. The patent is for the two weight configuration so Nintendo gets away scott free.
If someone doesn't buy a computer game all year, running out of space because of too many games doesn't seem like it'd be a problem, now would it? His point is that if you game so much that you're running out of space on a small hard drive, skip a couple of games and buy a new one.
I think the sentence "Hopefully, alert Slashdot readers (like you) will post confirmations if, indeed, there are any to be found." in the Slashdot article means that it was posted to see if it was true or not, not that it was true.
In my opinion the real cause of smaller sales is not because of people not caring about sequels, but because the consoles are reaching the end of their lifespan and a new one was released. the $400+ dollars one would spend to get an Xbox 360 could have usually been spent on 8 or so games. Of course, there weren't that many good games to purchase anyway because producers are winding down current gen support and evaluating whether or not they should port their game to new systems or just move it entirely over to the new system. So there's less games out, a new moneyhole just opened, and sales are down. Doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Call me if this happens 2 years from now when companies are back in the swing of things and then I'll believe the retards who buy Madden XX for every console they own and the people who when you mention "Halo 3" simultaneously orgasm and start to drool have suddenly dissappeared from the earth.
It's a perfectly valid question. Why'd you assume "white-friendly" meant white supremacists? The same for pedo-friendly and child predators? Using the same leap of logic you used to go from white-friendly to white supremacists one could go from GLBT-friendly to GLBT Only, right? That's the original poster's intent, was it not? To show that leap of logic occurs for other terms, thus it could occur with this one and thus Blizzard was in the right for not allowing it in their general chat.
An example supporting you is Ape Escape: it would only work with the Dual Shock because it used the R3/L3 buttons. This meant that everyone who have/buy a Dual Shock controller couldn't play the game.
Also, the analog stick didn't work on games that were released before the Dual Shock came out. Try moving around with the analog stick on FF7 and it won't work because the game doesn't even look for control input on those ports. So, yes, adding an analog stick does split the console base into essentially two seperate consoles.
Also according to that very same Wikipedia article in the very same sentence where they state they're flightless, they mention that pengiuns only naturally exist in the southern hemisphere! So the title is totally broken: both wrong about flight and redundant about being down under.
The system, at least from the blurb, seems to squeeze people into elevators by floors, so instead of stopping on every floor the way up you just stop on one or two. Since elevators have size and weight constraints, this means the elevator needs to know how many people want to go to a particular floor so it can fill the elevator properly. If it didn't have this data it would have to assume the amount of people, and assumption is not a good thing when it comes to elevators.
As a note: the mockups were just made (by either Nintendo or the polling company, not Joystiq) to illustrate the poll's point. They are in no way indicative of the final product. The word "look" in the summary should be replaced with "work."
I agree, the summary is completely worthless once you get past the colon. Replace that with a period and then tack on that added "Oh hey blog blah" sentence from the end onto it and you've got a summary.
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What logical errors did I make? I said that Wikipedia cannot become a coherent whole (a whole being an "encyclopedia") in its current state when articles like these exist in it. What's wrong with that?
First of all, I don't remember saying Wikipedia was stupid. I remember saying that the articles only exist because Wikipedia is on the internet and people on the internet often deem things of unimportance to be horribly important and as such put them in Wikipedia when they shouldn't be there. This tug-of-war between well researched encyclopedic content versus haphazard internet fanboy articles defines Wikipedia.
If Wikipedia truly wants to be an encyclopedia then they need to clamp on articles like that which are written from one point of view, have so little merit that they are basically a paragraph, and/or are completely made up as well as fighting article vandalism. Wikipedia does do a relatively good job doing this but it's not perfect and so at any point in time when you visit Wikipedia and read an article you could be reading a vandalized version that has incorrect facts or a fanboy fluff piece which doesn't tell the whole truth. As such it will never be a "real" encyclopedia, as I said.
Also, your summary of my post consisting of "well, these articles are stupid, so it doesn't matter, and this makes Wikipedia stupid and worthless by association" is an incorrect reading of my post. I said that it makes Wikipedia not a "real" encyclopedia, not that it makes it stupid. I think you just wanted to use the words "ad hominem" and misconstrued my post just so you could.
Well, where does the "care to look someone up" stop? Since you used "people" what if my friends and I decide that we all should be in Wikipedia and put each other as relevant links? Should we be in Wikipedia then? How big does "people" need to be for it to belong in Wikipedia? I say "people" needs to be larger than the average following of an internet fad such as Brian Peppers, whereas by your disagreement you must mean a smaller group. How big of a group do you think needs to be looking for information before it appears in Wikipedia?
Why should these people have articles dedicated to them in an encyclopedia? Knowledge of these people amount to pretty much internet trivia. Why do these, or half of Wikipedia's articles exist? Well, because the internet says so and the internet is what fills Wikipedia's pages. This is why "real" encyclopedias say Wikipedia will never be a "real" encyclopedia: because it has too many fluff/worthless pieces that are of no encyclopedic merit like the three mentioned in the blurb.
The world finals are there as well, listed under "World Finals" on the badly done Java app. You can also get to them by clicking on "problemset" on the left sidebar and then on "World Finals" in the list. An alternative way is to click on "downloads" and they will be listed across the top. They don't have this year's yet but they have the past 4 years from before that.
For those who want to know more about this contest in the form of actually attempting ACM questions, then I suggest heading over to their problemset archive which not only has ACM stuff from the last 5 years but a large number of non-ACM programming problems in the same vein. You can sign up with them and have your solutions to their problems checked for correctness.
Since the website's a design massacre, to get to the ACM problems you need to click on the link marked THE CII ICPC LIVE ARCHIVE !!! in the news bar, or just click on that one right there.
Don't forget UMD and soon, Blu-Ray!
The rumble pak and Gamecube controller use one unbalanced weight in the center whereas the Dual Shocks and Xbox controllers use two different unbalanced weights, one on each side of the controller. The patent is for the two weight configuration so Nintendo gets away scott free.
If someone doesn't buy a computer game all year, running out of space because of too many games doesn't seem like it'd be a problem, now would it? His point is that if you game so much that you're running out of space on a small hard drive, skip a couple of games and buy a new one.
This is special because Nintendo's online service reached 1 million in 4 months. Microsoft's took 2 years.
I think the sentence "Hopefully, alert Slashdot readers (like you) will post confirmations if, indeed, there are any to be found." in the Slashdot article means that it was posted to see if it was true or not, not that it was true.
That's exactly what it means: That you can buy the $20 Episode 1 and get CS:S with it (as well as play any free mods)
So why aren't they going after the sites that stole them, thus enabling Google to index them?
In my opinion the real cause of smaller sales is not because of people not caring about sequels, but because the consoles are reaching the end of their lifespan and a new one was released. the $400+ dollars one would spend to get an Xbox 360 could have usually been spent on 8 or so games. Of course, there weren't that many good games to purchase anyway because producers are winding down current gen support and evaluating whether or not they should port their game to new systems or just move it entirely over to the new system. So there's less games out, a new moneyhole just opened, and sales are down. Doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Call me if this happens 2 years from now when companies are back in the swing of things and then I'll believe the retards who buy Madden XX for every console they own and the people who when you mention "Halo 3" simultaneously orgasm and start to drool have suddenly dissappeared from the earth.
It's a perfectly valid question. Why'd you assume "white-friendly" meant white supremacists? The same for pedo-friendly and child predators? Using the same leap of logic you used to go from white-friendly to white supremacists one could go from GLBT-friendly to GLBT Only, right? That's the original poster's intent, was it not? To show that leap of logic occurs for other terms, thus it could occur with this one and thus Blizzard was in the right for not allowing it in their general chat.
You've found the missing link! *ba-na-na-naaa!*
An example supporting you is Ape Escape: it would only work with the Dual Shock because it used the R3/L3 buttons. This meant that everyone who have/buy a Dual Shock controller couldn't play the game. Also, the analog stick didn't work on games that were released before the Dual Shock came out. Try moving around with the analog stick on FF7 and it won't work because the game doesn't even look for control input on those ports. So, yes, adding an analog stick does split the console base into essentially two seperate consoles.
Okami's concept screams "make me on the Nintendo DS." Does anyone else agree or is it just me?
Also according to that very same Wikipedia article in the very same sentence where they state they're flightless, they mention that pengiuns only naturally exist in the southern hemisphere! So the title is totally broken: both wrong about flight and redundant about being down under.
The system, at least from the blurb, seems to squeeze people into elevators by floors, so instead of stopping on every floor the way up you just stop on one or two. Since elevators have size and weight constraints, this means the elevator needs to know how many people want to go to a particular floor so it can fill the elevator properly. If it didn't have this data it would have to assume the amount of people, and assumption is not a good thing when it comes to elevators.
Bravo, editors, bravo. My previous post's last sentence has been nullified by editing.
As a note: the mockups were just made (by either Nintendo or the polling company, not Joystiq) to illustrate the poll's point. They are in no way indicative of the final product. The word "look" in the summary should be replaced with "work."
I agree, the summary is completely worthless once you get past the colon. Replace that with a period and then tack on that added "Oh hey blog blah" sentence from the end onto it and you've got a summary.