I've contributed (a pet-page of mine is the Hatshepsut page. I didn't create it, I haven't contributed the most, I've just enjoyed watching it grow and have contributed here and there:)).
What I love is people who come in after me and fix my typo's, grammatical errors, wikify my content and generally just make my addition flow better. I do try my best, but I aint too good at it. So when someone comes along after me and fixes my contribution I appreciate it greatly. They don't need to know anything about the topic, just need to know English:)
You're beef seems to be wikipedia is not any good because it has some bad articles and it's impossible to know what article is good and what article is bad. Here's a tip. Don't use 1 source.
ANYONE who takes into account only 1 source is a moron, unless they don't truly care about accuracy.
Wikipedia is 1 source and anyone who uses it exclusively is a moron as all people who only take 1 source into account are either morons or very trusting. Let's take Hatshepsut for example.
The published historian Gardner claims that she was an overbearing mother who Thutmose III hated. For his proof he states the fact a lot of Hatshepsut's reliefs have been destroyed and replaced with other people and that this is obviously indicative of his pent up frustration and anger at her.
Gae Callendar (another published historian) says that this is completely false and that there's proof that the relief's were destroyed long after Thutmose III and that even if he DID do it, this was common practise amongst the Egyptian Pharoahs so it isn't indicative that he hated her, but was just following Egyptian tradition.
Gardner says that Hatshepsut wasn't a true Pharaoh because she didn't have enough military campaigns, Callendar says she was and that Gardner is just comparing her to the people that had the MOST military campaigns which is unfair and that she had more campaigns then other pharaohs and Gardner admits they're true Pharaohs.
Now I never read a book that laid out the information just as I did. I learnt all that by reading SEVERAL books. If I had only read 1 book I would have had an unbalanced viewpoint, such as the one evident in this page with the quote
(Unfortunately many were damaged or destroyed when someone - most likely Thuthmose III - tried to erase her name and image from every monument that may have had her name.)
Though this seems a little drastic, there was obviously bitter feelings against Hatshepsut.
I would say Wikiepdia has a better article on this subject as it says
The traditional belief among historians is that Thutmose III was responsible; however, researchers such as Charles Nims? and Peter Dorman? have examined these erasures and found that those which can be dated were done after year 42 of Thutmose's reign. As with many detail about Hatshepsut, historians have opposing views on who defaced her monuments.
Hell, how about your own name?.... That name describes you?
No! Okay. I'm not an aussie. I'm in fact an american. I just picked this name so i could mis-spell words like colour and poke fun at new zealanders. I admit it. My name doesn't describe me. There. Are you happy now?
I absolutely do not want some human person mucking about through information about my online purchases etc
But could a google cookie really do that? Let's say I go to amazon.com (by typing it into the browser window). I buy a book. How the hell can google find out I even went to the site, let alone bought a book? This fear of a cookie to me seems ridiculous. From what I've been taught They're not that powerful. Honest question.
What are you talking about? I read all my books (that I am able to anyway) in e-book format. And my monitor isn't full of post-it notes. But even if it were, it's for the extra "screen space" that I can't get by using a computer. A good program that can be used with anything that could take the form of post-it notes without taking up intrusively taking up screen space would be good, but I haven't seen it.
old-fashioned paper and pen seem to be a wiser choice as they can survive a soaking
Wow. You're paper is amazing to be able to still be read after being soaked. I wish I could have some of that paper. This sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to anything technological.
You have to realise that to some of us, "Intellectual Property" laws are akin to the slave-trade laws
Slaves are pesecuted and therefore are able to seek asylumn in other countries. So if IP laws are akin to slave-trade laws then you should go off and seek asylumn.
Take control, this is yet another reason to dump TV entirely and download what you want to watch.
Except that's illegal of course. There's no excuse to break the law. If you don't like a law, fight to have it changed. If you don't like this limitation, find a legal way to get around it or don't use TiVo or whatever else will make you happy. Buy your movies instead of keeping them on TiVo. Boycott the movies and only watch stuff from indi sources, there's plenty of free content on the internet.
When you break the law you just give the **AA's an excuse to become even more draconian and you ruin it for the rest of us.
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They're too small to notice any difference!
Knowledge and information cannot be copyrighted (yet). If something's missing, it's because you haven't added it yet ;)
How is this fucking flamebait?
Well I for one welcome our new overlords agree with crtfdgk. I too can't see the difference.
Why don't they stop submitting their site to slashdot? That should cut down on their bandwidth.
Damn right. Here's an example on why sources (other then Wikipedia) are not authoritive.
I've contributed (a pet-page of mine is the Hatshepsut page. I didn't create it, I haven't contributed the most, I've just enjoyed watching it grow and have contributed here and there :)).
What I love is people who come in after me and fix my typo's, grammatical errors, wikify my content and generally just make my addition flow better. I do try my best, but I aint too good at it. So when someone comes along after me and fixes my contribution I appreciate it greatly. They don't need to know anything about the topic, just need to know English :)
ANYONE who takes into account only 1 source is a moron, unless they don't truly care about accuracy.
Wikipedia is 1 source and anyone who uses it exclusively is a moron as all people who only take 1 source into account are either morons or very trusting. Let's take Hatshepsut for example.
The published historian Gardner claims that she was an overbearing mother who Thutmose III hated. For his proof he states the fact a lot of Hatshepsut's reliefs have been destroyed and replaced with other people and that this is obviously indicative of his pent up frustration and anger at her.
Gae Callendar (another published historian) says that this is completely false and that there's proof that the relief's were destroyed long after Thutmose III and that even if he DID do it, this was common practise amongst the Egyptian Pharoahs so it isn't indicative that he hated her, but was just following Egyptian tradition.
Gardner says that Hatshepsut wasn't a true Pharaoh because she didn't have enough military campaigns, Callendar says she was and that Gardner is just comparing her to the people that had the MOST military campaigns which is unfair and that she had more campaigns then other pharaohs and Gardner admits they're true Pharaohs.
Now I never read a book that laid out the information just as I did. I learnt all that by reading SEVERAL books. If I had only read 1 book I would have had an unbalanced viewpoint, such as the one evident in this page with the quote I would say Wikiepdia has a better article on this subject as it says
May they continue to squabble until the end of time. Or until the end of various things in America (the least of which being DMCA and the **AA's).
Hell, how about your own name? .... That name describes you?
No! Okay. I'm not an aussie. I'm in fact an american. I just picked this name so i could mis-spell words like colour and poke fun at new zealanders. I admit it. My name doesn't describe me. There. Are you happy now?
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spot the deliberate mistake?
:D)
Very amusing considering your sig.
(pssst, change your sig to make all these comments meaningless
I absolutely do not want some human person mucking about through information about my online purchases etc
But could a google cookie really do that? Let's say I go to amazon.com (by typing it into the browser window). I buy a book. How the hell can google find out I even went to the site, let alone bought a book? This fear of a cookie to me seems ridiculous. From what I've been taught They're not that powerful. Honest question.
And I personally think that Gmail will remain compatible with other browsers; Google's not that stupid.
That eerily sounds like something you'd find in a "Famous Last Words" list.
This man has done more to stifle competition and innovation than any other person in history yet we Brits award him by giving him a knighthood.
Well let's face it. You guys'll knight anyone. You knighted Sean Connery for crying outloud!
3. Find keys? 4. ???? 5. Profit
Jesus! What's WRONG with you people? (As of this post it is Score:4, Insightful)
You silly Americans. I've never heard someone say "For all intensive purposes" or pronounce vice versa as "VICE-uh VER-sa"
You just don't mind only having one organ beamed per trip do you?
(Spot the reference).
You say that like it's a bad thing. Well... mozilla didn't succeed in eating your dog, so I guess I can see how it's bad.
I don't see how slashdotting a server repeatedly is an award at all.
What are you talking about? I read all my books (that I am able to anyway) in e-book format. And my monitor isn't full of post-it notes. But even if it were, it's for the extra "screen space" that I can't get by using a computer. A good program that can be used with anything that could take the form of post-it notes without taking up intrusively taking up screen space would be good, but I haven't seen it.
old-fashioned paper and pen seem to be a wiser choice as they can survive a soaking
Wow. You're paper is amazing to be able to still be read after being soaked. I wish I could have some of that paper. This sounds like a knee-jerk reaction to anything technological.
I'd mod this up (there's a hint there. How do I mod stuff up?)
You have to realise that to some of us, "Intellectual Property" laws are akin to the slave-trade laws
Slaves are pesecuted and therefore are able to seek asylumn in other countries. So if IP laws are akin to slave-trade laws then you should go off and seek asylumn.
It was on-topic damnit! I was talking about Saturn and Uranus and whatnot. Sheeesh.
Take control, this is yet another reason to dump TV entirely and download what you want to watch.
Except that's illegal of course. There's no excuse to break the law. If you don't like a law, fight to have it changed. If you don't like this limitation, find a legal way to get around it or don't use TiVo or whatever else will make you happy. Buy your movies instead of keeping them on TiVo. Boycott the movies and only watch stuff from indi sources, there's plenty of free content on the internet.
When you break the law you just give the **AA's an excuse to become even more draconian and you ruin it for the rest of us.