it's ironic that they would even emerge with this argument, whether it's true or not. the two facets of wikipedia that have always been put forward as their basis for superiority over traditional encyclopedias is that they're constantly updated and that the democratic, de-centralized mode of contribution leads to better, broader, and more-balanced content. they consistently criticize the culture of elitism that is a result of the closed process of creating traditional encyclopedias. now JW comes out to sell us a story of how wikipedia essentially works the same way as those encyclopedias, with a group of 500 elite that do almost all the work of censoring the teeming masses? i suppose next we will have a new wiki motto, maybe something like: "all editors are equal, but some editors are more equal than others"
Not to mention how rarely people in space go to the toilet. I mean, in almost every space sci-fi movie or series there's usually at least one or two scenes where everybody eats - well, the captain, senior crew, and important visitors at least (you never see redshirts eating, but they never seem to last long enough for the hunger pangs to set in anyway...)
what is this obsession you have with the captain's log?
i also have a two bedroom apartment:
2 bulbs in the kitchen (one under-the-cabinet light, one in the two-bulb fixture)
1 halogen torch in the frontroom
1 bulb in the extra bedroom
3 tiny bulbs in the bathroom
2 in my bedroom, 1 lamp and 1 reading light (1 bulb each)
--
9 total
it sounds like a big part of the difference is multi-bulb fixtures and lights in closets and hallways (i have neither)
if every one of 110 million American households bought just one [CFL], took it home, and screwed it in the place of an ordinary 60-watt bulb, the energy saved would be enough to power a city of 1.5 million people.
50-100 bulbs seems excessive, there's no way the typical house has that many full-sized lightbulbs. maybe if you count christmas lights...
I do not nostagically pine for CLIs. But on my Powerbook, the two most used programs are Terminal.app and Vim.app -- and ls, find, and grep get me through my chores quicker than graphical interfaces do.
this will be a great commercial once they figure out how to make smug guy say it in a condescending way. maybe windows guy is complaining that he can never find the file he needs, and smug guy gives him the grep smackdown?
The Mac is being shown in the light of being a computer for your home life, far away from spreadsheets and Active Directory, where your photos, home movies, and music play a much stronger role, and showing ease-of-use for doing nice things with that media.
if they're conceding the office world to Windows, they'd better take extra care to explain how you can play games on a Mac with bootcamp because a solitaire game is only going to stay interesting for so long
i actually missed the ability to sort on multiple columns more than charts and graphs, have they added that feature yet? it'd also be nice to be able to insert columns or rows faster than one-per-minute
of course they do, HBO is clearly not making money off their (non-existant) commercials. i'm sure there are lots of premium channels that they have to pay to broadcast, they may even pay some amount to broadcast each channel on the dial.
that's strange since ESPN.com was running a petition a year or two back for people to ask Comcast to carry ESPN in their basic package. it seems like if the studios controlled all that, then there would be no need for such a petition?
maybe The Oak Ridge Boys could sing a song about the lab to raise public awareness (to the tune of Elvira):
I'm singin'
El Jaguar, El Jaguar
Five thousand Opterons on fire, El Jaguar
Giddy Up Oom Poppa Omm Poppa Mow Mow
Giddy Up Oom Poppa Omm Poppa Mow Mow
Heigh-ho Silver, away
Tonight I'm gonna ray trace me a big ol' honkin' scene
And I'm gonna give her all the poly's I can, yes I am
She's gonna have lights, shades and fill-ins
'Cause I saved up my last two hundred million
We're gonna go and find that researcher man
absolutely! anyone that doesn't think that rubber boots flung to enormous distances won't be a key step in the race to intercept comets has their head in the sand
if i remember correctly, the 1962 all-stars challenge was smack in the middle of the Dead Boot Era. the shorter distances made for some hard fought competitions, but if you're a fan of the long-boot it wasn't much of a show
all the resurrections seem to happen with *ster names too (e.g. napster, friendster), maybe someone should get the hint that every *ster name needs to be resurrected. or like you said maybe now is the time to snap up robster.com, completely fail at running it, and then ask for money to resurrect it.
it could easily be the case that high-volume sellers have moved onto EBay where it was mostly small inventory sellers before. each high-volume seller offsets lots of new buyers, so even if the number of new buyers was a lot larger than the number of new sellers it might be becoming a tougher market to sell in.
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it's ironic that they would even emerge with this argument, whether it's true or not. the two facets of wikipedia that have always been put forward as their basis for superiority over traditional encyclopedias is that they're constantly updated and that the democratic, de-centralized mode of contribution leads to better, broader, and more-balanced content. they consistently criticize the culture of elitism that is a result of the closed process of creating traditional encyclopedias. now JW comes out to sell us a story of how wikipedia essentially works the same way as those encyclopedias, with a group of 500 elite that do almost all the work of censoring the teeming masses? i suppose next we will have a new wiki motto, maybe something like: "all editors are equal, but some editors are more equal than others"
and the number of users in that contributing 5% has tripled in the last 6 months!
it's quite simple really. as people find ways to exploit browser-shield, they will release browser-shield-shield to block those exploits.
i dunno, some of the modern "startle" movies are scarier than Night of the Lepus
i also have a two bedroom apartment :
2 bulbs in the kitchen (one under-the-cabinet light, one in the two-bulb fixture)
1 halogen torch in the frontroom
1 bulb in the extra bedroom
3 tiny bulbs in the bathroom
2 in my bedroom, 1 lamp and 1 reading light (1 bulb each)
--
9 total
it sounds like a big part of the difference is multi-bulb fixtures and lights in closets and hallways (i have neither)
i actually missed the ability to sort on multiple columns more than charts and graphs, have they added that feature yet? it'd also be nice to be able to insert columns or rows faster than one-per-minute
of course they do, HBO is clearly not making money off their (non-existant) commercials. i'm sure there are lots of premium channels that they have to pay to broadcast, they may even pay some amount to broadcast each channel on the dial.
that's strange since ESPN.com was running a petition a year or two back for people to ask Comcast to carry ESPN in their basic package. it seems like if the studios controlled all that, then there would be no need for such a petition?
these days they have slots for just about anything
maybe The Oak Ridge Boys could sing a song about the lab to raise public awareness (to the tune of Elvira) :
I'm singin'
El Jaguar, El Jaguar
Five thousand Opterons on fire, El Jaguar
Giddy Up Oom Poppa Omm Poppa Mow Mow
Giddy Up Oom Poppa Omm Poppa Mow Mow
Heigh-ho Silver, away
Tonight I'm gonna ray trace me a big ol' honkin' scene
And I'm gonna give her all the poly's I can, yes I am
She's gonna have lights, shades and fill-ins
'Cause I saved up my last two hundred million
We're gonna go and find that researcher man
your cookie is flying at your head at 100mph thanks to my robotic Cookie Catapult, your next engineering task is to catch it in a glass of milk
great, they'll ruin another sport with that Robotic Rocker Wrecker
absolutely! anyone that doesn't think that rubber boots flung to enormous distances won't be a key step in the race to intercept comets has their head in the sand
if i remember correctly, the 1962 all-stars challenge was smack in the middle of the Dead Boot Era. the shorter distances made for some hard fought competitions, but if you're a fan of the long-boot it wasn't much of a show
your non-net-neutral ISP will just block you from downloading that plugin and the game continues
in this case it looks like $25M is the amount of money that "makes it all better", members of congress might charge more than that anyway
sounds to me like those mice have a case of the Mondays
i hear they have an opening for a Chief Hacker's Understudy Developer
Who needs a phone to store numbers? write it on your hand, or better yet:
Check it out, my new Gortec watch.
I can store 20 numbers.
Tonight, I'll fill it.
All or nothing.
all the resurrections seem to happen with *ster names too (e.g. napster, friendster), maybe someone should get the hint that every *ster name needs to be resurrected. or like you said maybe now is the time to snap up robster.com, completely fail at running it, and then ask for money to resurrect it.
it could easily be the case that high-volume sellers have moved onto EBay where it was mostly small inventory sellers before. each high-volume seller offsets lots of new buyers, so even if the number of new buyers was a lot larger than the number of new sellers it might be becoming a tougher market to sell in.