There's a setting that lets you prevent viewing bot edits, as I'm sure you know. Would be neat if you could also block bot-created stories. I assume random page already filters out stubs/sub-stubs, but I haven't used it all that much.
Of course, the article database is available freely, so one could just extract a list of topics, somehow remove all US cities, and then rig up a PHP script to redirect to a random Wikipedia entry from the list. It wouldn't be hard at all... I may try it, because the 'homepage' idea sounds interesting.
Thanks for that point - yeah that does put a new light on it. Oh well, at least we can't add any more US cities to it since they're all covered, so it might balance out better with time.
As soon as you read the article, it's theoretically obsolete as it could have been updated. As soon as you buy a PC it's not worth as much as you paid for it. It really doesn't change anything, and is certainly not a reason to stop a DVD coming out.
Exactly. Many journalists don't bother to research, or if they do they just search around for the first thing they find and use it. Articles are filled with erroneous details all the time. This will occur whether Wikipedia is around or not...
That's a good point, but even regardless of the offline mode if they were going out of business they'd let you know I should think. You'd be able to make CD backups before they close down for good and then you'd be back to where we would be without Steam.
I can't find anything that suggests that. Looking at the Recent Changes on the earliest archived copy of Wikipedia, there are a few Jargon File titles and that, but most of it is general in nature, from religion to biology and much wider. Maybe the Jargon File etc. were just ways to building up the article base harmlessly? I don't see anything wrong with that.
The ability to link pages that have nothing to do with each other can open the reader's eyes to new topics.
Wow, just like the rest of web!
That said, I do understand your point. Surfing Wikipedia is perhaps easier than surfing everything2 or the web in general because of the sheer number of links. Category links, related links, external links, and a whole bunch bunch of links in the article text. They do their best to keep articles interconnected.
Wikipedia has a policy on bots that, while largely negative, allows limited use of bots for certain things.
One example is that a whole bunch of articles from a 1911 dictionary were added. Another is that 30,000 US towns and cities were automatically added as stubs, with information being added later (basic information, such as state and population, were included I believe).
Because all your silly arguments about CDs eroding or getting scratched or being lost and you needing to install no-cd cracks and use 'backup' copies collapse when Steam enters the picture.
Lose your copy? Just redownload it. You can start playing as soon as the first level is downloaded, and on increasingly fast connections the download time won't be an issue. For 56kers, you can always get the CD. But as a Cable user I find Steam easier.
It gets rid of the pre-ordering / limited copies at shop / queueing at midnight problem too.
For me, that could be anywhere between 30% and 80%... and I'm really quite interested in the number of IE converts vs. number of raw downloads. I don't want to sound rude, but can you be more specific?
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If they are hiring people to port the toolbar over, we should see a XUL or similar port very soon. Which apparently is required for some of the more advanced features of the site, such as adding diary entries.
Actually the pc of people who play for fun is around 80% (see the results). Wave Two, which I just filled out, features a lot of questions of people's attitude towards 'power-levellers' as well as people who taunt or scam, and a LOT of personal stuff about how you feel in RL and your social life. The results should be really interesting.
Crystal Space is well designed, it just takes some getting used to. It's extremely OO. It's bloated somewhat. You need to have it handle all your variables for you etc.
However it's extremely powerful, and kicks the ass out of this engine from my impression. The existing renderer isn't too good, probably about the standards of this one, but their new renderer is capable of cel shading and bump mapping to make Doom 3 envious. And as the poster pointed out it's behind a relatively big-name OSS game. Although I must admit I haven't seen many other examples of its use.
If you are planning on using CS for development, consider CEL, the Crystal Entity Layer. Like CS itself it's in production and nowhere near finished, but handles entities for you (including physics and AI). Something to look out for.
CS's version number at the moment is 0.98r004 - this is normal. They keep increasing it in tiny amounts because, unlike GAIM, they are scared of reaching 1.0:)
I read the mailing list. The general consensus seems to be that 1.0 would be a good idea because they just broke their old versioning system with v0.82.1 or something. It's not special as your topic says, in fact one post had a comment about how it would be neat to release a 1.0 that isn't special.
Yet people still thought it might get on/. as if it was special. I quote:
" > The question is, will gaim be/. again when 1.0 comes out?
Apparently there were 'massive walkouts at the Cannes' and a 30% Rotten Tomatoes rating (which is very bad). I quote:
The common complaint among critics is that while the movie is beautiful, it is souless with too much technological mumbo jumbo and not enough likable characters. The story is said to be at once extremely convaluted and boring with action sequences too far between and countless uniteresting quotes form philosophers or the bible hindering the story.
So althought it saddens me to say this, it really doesn't look like it's worth checking out. That said, everyone is different, and this is just the critics' opinion.
I use Adblock, but share your opinion. Sites that have ads that are too annoying to use, I block the ads from and continue to use it. Otherwise I leave them there. Sure, I might be contributing to the downfall of this annoying site, but I'd prefer it if their banner views were lower so they might be persuaded to change their advertising to something less annoying.
Most semi-large companies have a local version of Windows Update so updates aren't downloaded from Microsoft's server for every computer. I assume this is done through software and the repository can easily be made part of the intranet.
I might be mistaken but wasn't Vincent an entirely optional character in FF7? Meaning you could play through the entire game without having him in your party? Might be confusing for players returning for the sequel.
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There's a setting that lets you prevent viewing bot edits, as I'm sure you know. Would be neat if you could also block bot-created stories. I assume random page already filters out stubs/sub-stubs, but I haven't used it all that much.
... I may try it, because the 'homepage' idea sounds interesting.
Of course, the article database is available freely, so one could just extract a list of topics, somehow remove all US cities, and then rig up a PHP script to redirect to a random Wikipedia entry from the list. It wouldn't be hard at all
I just set my prefs the same way (and threw in a few more to test)... nothing changed. Very odd.
Anyone got an XSL to make those links clickable? (Linkifcation doesn't seem to work with XML)
Thanks for that point - yeah that does put a new light on it. Oh well, at least we can't add any more US cities to it since they're all covered, so it might balance out better with time.
As soon as you read the article, it's theoretically obsolete as it could have been updated. As soon as you buy a PC it's not worth as much as you paid for it. It really doesn't change anything, and is certainly not a reason to stop a DVD coming out.
I've also experienced this problem and I was really expecting Google to filter out near-identical pages already.
Exactly. Many journalists don't bother to research, or if they do they just search around for the first thing they find and use it. Articles are filled with erroneous details all the time. This will occur whether Wikipedia is around or not...
That's a good point, but even regardless of the offline mode if they were going out of business they'd let you know I should think. You'd be able to make CD backups before they close down for good and then you'd be back to where we would be without Steam.
I can't find anything that suggests that. Looking at the Recent Changes on the earliest archived copy of Wikipedia, there are a few Jargon File titles and that, but most of it is general in nature, from religion to biology and much wider. Maybe the Jargon File etc. were just ways to building up the article base harmlessly? I don't see anything wrong with that.
The ability to link pages that have nothing to do with each other can open the reader's eyes to new topics.
Wow, just like the rest of web!
That said, I do understand your point. Surfing Wikipedia is perhaps easier than surfing everything2 or the web in general because of the sheer number of links. Category links, related links, external links, and a whole bunch bunch of links in the article text. They do their best to keep articles interconnected.
Wikipedia has a policy on bots that, while largely negative, allows limited use of bots for certain things.
;)
One example is that a whole bunch of articles from a 1911 dictionary were added. Another is that 30,000 US towns and cities were automatically added as stubs, with information being added later (basic information, such as state and population, were included I believe).
This might be useful: History of Wikipedia bots
30,000 is a chunk of 1 million, but not that large a chunk. You just might have been unlucky
Because all your silly arguments about CDs eroding or getting scratched or being lost and you needing to install no-cd cracks and use 'backup' copies collapse when Steam enters the picture.
Lose your copy? Just redownload it. You can start playing as soon as the first level is downloaded, and on increasingly fast connections the download time won't be an issue. For 56kers, you can always get the CD. But as a Cable user I find Steam easier.
It gets rid of the pre-ordering / limited copies at shop / queueing at midnight problem too.
Halfbakery.com is now officially dead. Looks like the server was half baked also :)
Maybe if you're doing really basic statistics (hypothesis testing), but I'm talking about the 'real world' use of significant.
a significant portion
... and I'm really quite interested in the number of IE converts vs. number of raw downloads. I don't want to sound rude, but can you be more specific?
For me, that could be anywhere between 30% and 80%
According to the site itself:
*** Currently the A9 Toolbar runs only on Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or above. We are working to extend the toolbar to other browsers. ***
Also:
Note: We are working on toolbars to support other browsers and other operating systems (and we're looking for great developers to join our team).
If they are hiring people to port the toolbar over, we should see a XUL or similar port very soon. Which apparently is required for some of the more advanced features of the site, such as adding diary entries.
Actually the pc of people who play for fun is around 80% (see the results). Wave Two, which I just filled out, features a lot of questions of people's attitude towards 'power-levellers' as well as people who taunt or scam, and a LOT of personal stuff about how you feel in RL and your social life. The results should be really interesting.
Crystal Space is well designed, it just takes some getting used to. It's extremely OO. It's bloated somewhat. You need to have it handle all your variables for you etc.
:)
However it's extremely powerful, and kicks the ass out of this engine from my impression. The existing renderer isn't too good, probably about the standards of this one, but their new renderer is capable of cel shading and bump mapping to make Doom 3 envious. And as the poster pointed out it's behind a relatively big-name OSS game. Although I must admit I haven't seen many other examples of its use.
If you are planning on using CS for development, consider CEL, the Crystal Entity Layer. Like CS itself it's in production and nowhere near finished, but handles entities for you (including physics and AI). Something to look out for.
CS's version number at the moment is 0.98r004 - this is normal. They keep increasing it in tiny amounts because, unlike GAIM, they are scared of reaching 1.0
Yet people still thought it might get on
You should check out this IMDB board posting.
Apparently there were 'massive walkouts at the Cannes' and a 30% Rotten Tomatoes rating (which is very bad). I quote:
The common complaint among critics is that while the movie is beautiful, it is souless with too much technological mumbo jumbo and not enough likable characters. The story is said to be at once extremely convaluted and boring with action sequences too far between and countless uniteresting quotes form philosophers or the bible hindering the story.
So althought it saddens me to say this, it really doesn't look like it's worth checking out. That said, everyone is different, and this is just the critics' opinion.
Yeah, it's still being used :)
I use Adblock, but share your opinion. Sites that have ads that are too annoying to use, I block the ads from and continue to use it. Otherwise I leave them there. Sure, I might be contributing to the downfall of this annoying site, but I'd prefer it if their banner views were lower so they might be persuaded to change their advertising to something less annoying.
Most semi-large companies have a local version of Windows Update so updates aren't downloaded from Microsoft's server for every computer. I assume this is done through software and the repository can easily be made part of the intranet.
I have an nForce2, so that 'FUD' is accurate for me, and helpful information.
It doesn't apply to everyone, but it's still a valid complaint and (as others have said) totally unacceptable.
I might be mistaken but wasn't Vincent an entirely optional character in FF7? Meaning you could play through the entire game without having him in your party? Might be confusing for players returning for the sequel.