Because my current connection is fast enough? I have cable, it's about 6 mbps, that's fast enough for anything I have ever wanted to do. Its fast enough that the server response is the limiting factor, not the connection. So why do I care about making it faster?
That has been my experience as well. Looking at pages I could (in other circumstances) contribute to as an expert certainly suggests a pretty significant error rate. Far or vastly higher than traditional written reference books. the primary difference - the written reference books were written by established experts and edited by competent editors. The big difference is that the up-front cost of publishing the book is so high that mistakes are exceedingly costly - either you have to correct it or it gets around and the book doesn't sell, either way, costly.
It's more than a message. The problem with Wikipedia has been discussed many times - it's not about getting the most accurate information, it's about getting the information from people who have a lot of time on their hands.
Everybody says, "well if you see something incorrect, you can fix it". Well, true, and then someone else can "unfix" it,by claiming NPOV, original research, etc, or just by having the free time to undo it with no particular justification. It doesnt matter if someone is the established expert, as long as some weenie is sitting in his mom's basement and has a hard-on about some topic, he wins. Established experts are explicitly prevented from providing their expertise. The Encyclopedia Brittanica certainly has it's flaws but they generally seek out expertise, not bar it. That's why it's never going to be anything more than a curiosity or a source of well-referenced bullshit.
bullshit, I know no such thing and there will be general cheering in the streets when this parasite goes down. He set out to damage my country, he is going to pay for that.
I had the same sort of thing with the PDP 11/04, and later, the late and totally unlamented Teledyne 1750a processor. Both of those date me appropriately.
Of cours eI didn't read TFA, but one problem with the summary is that psychology and ecology *aren't sciences*. Both involves extensive subjective evaluations and value judgements and so it is no surprise at all that they can't be repeated.
Punched cards belong to the era of batch computing (submit job, come back later and collect results), before being "online" (initially on a mainframe/minicomputer terminal) became common/possible. Rather than sitting at a computer terminal typing your program in an editor....
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What's sad to me is that you had to explain this. It wasn't all that long ago that we still used cards - we still had the capability to run card decks into the late 90's. And get output on line printer paper that was couriered over to us from the printer facility. Teh most interesting thing is that in our (aerospace engineering) application, we did at least as well doing out jobs that way as we do know. Or even better, perhaps, because we didn't have the crutch or relying exclusively of computer generated results.
You don't need a new 35mm film- 35mm has been obsolete since digital got about about 3 Mpixels. and ASA 400 equivalent sensitivity. 35mm has been obsolete for professional purposes for event longer. What you do still need is large-format film, which, fortunately, is in good supply and not about to go away.
No, a news organization can't have a view point and still be a news organization. Well, not quite, a news organization can't set out to have one and still be a news organization.
So NBC, CBS, ABC,CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc, are pure as the driven snow? And their tendency to spew every nonsensical DNC talking point is just good journalism? Got it.
do something like: "Consider private key X revoked, and trust nothing signed with it, unless that something has SHA1 hash equal to one of the hashes on the following list..."
Hey I think that sentence is a viable line of COBOL.
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The problem is that the first 70,000 miles or so is uphill.
p.s. dear God in heaven, all this white space is burning my retinas!!!!
Because my current connection is fast enough? I have cable, it's about 6 mbps, that's fast enough for anything I have ever wanted to do. Its fast enough that the server response is the limiting factor, not the connection. So why do I care about making it faster?
If it's holding 5000 PSI it will be pretty difficult to crush.
Ih come one, indeed. Nobody is thinking about the revolutionary war on a second to second basis, even history professors.
My Apple mouse supports right, left and center clicks, works fine.
Of Obama has any common sense at all, he will get this stopped using ITAR.
We killed them all once, and that was with HAND TOOLS!
Yeah, those gentle herbivores could really wreak havoc!
Oh, yeah, I certainly come to slashdot for sober and rational discussions.
This place is one small step from the monkey house.
That has been my experience as well. Looking at pages I could (in other circumstances) contribute to as an expert certainly suggests a pretty significant error rate. Far or vastly higher than traditional written reference books. the primary difference - the written reference books were written by established experts and edited by competent editors. The big difference is that the up-front cost of publishing the book is so high that mistakes are exceedingly costly - either you have to correct it or it gets around and the book doesn't sell, either way, costly.
Problem is there is no way to know whether any particular page is a function of the "working" portion, or the bullshit portion.
It's more than a message. The problem with Wikipedia has been discussed many times - it's not about getting the most accurate information, it's about getting the information from people who have a lot of time on their hands.
Everybody says, "well if you see something incorrect, you can fix it". Well, true, and then someone else can "unfix" it,by claiming NPOV, original research, etc, or just by having the free time to undo it with no particular justification. It doesnt matter if someone is the established expert, as long as some weenie is sitting in his mom's basement and has a hard-on about some topic, he wins. Established experts are explicitly prevented from providing their expertise. The Encyclopedia Brittanica certainly has it's flaws but they generally seek out expertise, not bar it. That's why it's never going to be anything more than a curiosity or a source of well-referenced bullshit.
Why is this a bad idea again? It's not overly speedy but it's plenty fast enough for almost any sort of office use.
Hey, I have a 4100 right over here. 3 feet away. I don't surf with it.
And hey, Altavista worked great, I had no complaints about it. Only when it was obviously on the way down did I start using google.
Brett
bullshit, I know no such thing and there will be general cheering in the streets when this parasite goes down. He set out to damage my country, he is going to pay for that.
Does that include people who are offended by other peoples morals?
Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Richards!
Yes, that's what we need, more government mandates shoving unpopular and unnecessary new things down everyone's throat.
I had the same sort of thing with the PDP 11/04, and later, the late and totally unlamented Teledyne 1750a processor. Both of those date me appropriately.
That's pretty awesome and a vast improvement over the tedious, pretentious, and lugubrious original.
Of cours eI didn't read TFA, but one problem with the summary is that psychology and ecology *aren't sciences*. Both involves extensive subjective evaluations and value judgements and so it is no surprise at all that they can't be repeated.
What's sad to me is that you had to explain this. It wasn't all that long ago that we still used cards - we still had the capability to run card decks into the late 90's. And get output on line printer paper that was couriered over to us from the printer facility. Teh most interesting thing is that in our (aerospace engineering) application, we did at least as well doing out jobs that way as we do know. Or even better, perhaps, because we didn't have the crutch or relying exclusively of computer generated results.
You don't need a new 35mm film- 35mm has been obsolete since digital got about about 3 Mpixels. and ASA 400 equivalent sensitivity. 35mm has been obsolete for professional purposes for event longer. What you do still need is large-format film, which, fortunately, is in good supply and not about to go away.
Brett
So NBC, CBS, ABC,CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc, are pure as the driven snow? And their tendency to spew every nonsensical DNC talking point is just good journalism? Got it.
Brett
Hey I think that sentence is a viable line of COBOL.