Anyone who has read the discussion pages and reviewed history logs knows wikipedians often disagree with one another. This makes wikipedia more representative of human knowledge, which is fluid.
Well, if this article has any value for me, it's in eliciting the above comment. Wikipedia is indeed representative of human knowledge; whether it's representative of the truth is another matter. Often it will be, sometimes it won't, but it will be guaranteed to be representative of human knowledge. Nicely analysed, sir/madam, and thanks for the insight.
Perfect objectivity is a logical impossibility, therefore we should abandon all attempts to try and narrow down the scope of what may be regarded as factual?
Philosophically sound, but completely nihilist. For practical purposes -- if I actually want to get anything done -- I don't think I'll be subscribing to your encyclopaedia. A reference source that actually makes an effort at objectivity -- like Wikipedia, or almost any printed encyclopaedia, or most academic journals -- is infinitely superior to one that purposely dismisses any efforts in that direction.
Yup, and I do rev up Oolite every now and then (though sometimes, when I'm too lazy to bother with the niceties of having to dock at a space station, I might play Escape Velocity instead). Another old game that comes to mind whose world was procedurally generated is Telengard. (Trying to map that dungeon was so frustrating!)
Indeed. I mean, I like, KotOR, but... the fact that you have people using swords. Yyyyeah. Oh, sure, they try to explain it, but still -- a guy with a sword usually wipes the floor with a guy with a heavy repeating blaster. Hmm. Doesn't stop it from being a great game, of course.
FYI, something like this already exists in OpenOffice.org. File - Wizards - Document converter. Something to remember if you ever do succeed in building it:-) (and I've heard elsewhere, by the way, that it is stupendously difficult to build).
Maybe it is too much trouble. OpenOffice.org, for example, pops up a similar dialogue when you try saving to a format other than odf, no matter how simple the document is. There's nothing unusual about that kind of behaviour.
People keep bringing this lunatic idea up whenever this topic comes up. It's silly. Just remember this: it would be about as intelligent for Microsoft to pull its products from the EU as it would be for Microsoft to pull its products from the US. I.e., not very.
That is short-sighted. The argument that OSS is economically beneficial because it keeps money rolling around the local support industry is just as valid for the US as it is for any other country.
They didn't have swimming events in the ancient Olympics, though. Combat sports, yes. Sprinting **ouchouchouchouchouch!**, also yes (though I can't help thinking the competitors wouldn't have been good for much for a couple of days afterwards).
Too many mouse-clicks required: you right-click to get to the adblocker, click again to choose which image(s) to block, and then to fine-tune your filter you need to mouseclick on the "edit" button, make your changes, then click "OK" or "Done" twice (IIRC). With the FF Adblock extension, it's possible to get by with a single mouseclick.
No options for adblocking iframes, flash, or other elements. To block these, you have to open up the page source and go through it by hand.
The Opera adblock feature only appears in the popup menu when you right-click somewhere other than an image (or text).
I didn't notice any options for exporting or importing filter sets, but I may be mistaken about that.
you know how fast Opera/Mozilla/anyone would get sued for having that feature as default?
Opera 9.0 does have an ad-blocker. (Actually, earlier versions did too, but it's become much more accessible now. It's much more powerful than the Firefox "Block images from..." menu option, less powerful than the Adblock extension.)
Can you imagine what it must be like to be the Queen though? The temptation to tell Blair to just fuck right off...
I believe the proper wording that the monarch is supposed to use on such an occasion, at least when being asked to sign something into law, is, "La reine s'avisera."
Office comes preinstalled on their computer and the price of the software is absorbed into the price of the computer as a whole.
Just for what it's worth, in my home town a lot of shops (including at least one major chain) sell all their computers with OpenOffice.org preinstalled (customers can buy MS Office and have that preinstalled as well, for an extra fee). I think the second part of your sentence still applies, too. No, wait, I tell a lie: when I bought a box last year, I bought it without an OS, so they gave me OpenOffice.org on a CD instead. Obviously this isn't the case everywhere -- damn shame, that.
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I don't play Impossible Mission any more, but Jumpman still pwns me. And I still haven't managed to finish Jumpman Junior.
While I'm commenting, I might as well add a vote of support for those who named Infocom.
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I don't think even today companies are capable of making adventure games as polished as LucasFilms games were 15 years ago...
Not just adventure games. In the action games they came out with in the 80s it still boggles my mind what they managed to accomplish, in 3D no less, on such limited hardware. Purely in terms of graphics, to my mind Rescue on Fractalus has the look of a game 10 years more recent. Plus they were enormous fun! Ballblazer was horribly addictive. (Koronis Rift was a rotten game, though.)
It was Queenie herself who signed the law agreeing to the extradition treaty.
Just for reference -- I'm sure there are those who don't know -- Queenie herself signs all the parliamentary laws in the UK. (Though it's also worth pointing out that the last time a British monarch got away with refusing to sign one was in 1708.)
People will start sending you ODF when us geeks (you) start sending them ODF.
Exactly, it's a 2-way channel.
I agree with your agreement. As this thread shows, plenty of people are using and sending people ODF documents. For my students (non-tech-savvy, mind you) I routinely post lecture notes etc. online in both ODF and PDF formats, with links to download free readers; when I send documents to (non-tech-savvy) colleagues, I regularly send them in both ODF and PDF formats; out of hundreds of people, no one has complained yet.
If they want to take the responsibility of editing these documents they'll have to take the responsibility of installing an editor; so far, those that have needed to have happily followed my instructions. For those that can't install OpenOffice or similar for some reason (e.g. they don't have root access on their Mac), I'll make a special case and send them a document in another format, usually RTF or CSV, occasionally doc or xls if necessary. Works fine.
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Well, if this article has any value for me, it's in eliciting the above comment. Wikipedia is indeed representative of human knowledge; whether it's representative of the truth is another matter. Often it will be, sometimes it won't, but it will be guaranteed to be representative of human knowledge. Nicely analysed, sir/madam, and thanks for the insight.
Perfect objectivity is a logical impossibility, therefore we should abandon all attempts to try and narrow down the scope of what may be regarded as factual?
Philosophically sound, but completely nihilist. For practical purposes -- if I actually want to get anything done -- I don't think I'll be subscribing to your encyclopaedia. A reference source that actually makes an effort at objectivity -- like Wikipedia, or almost any printed encyclopaedia, or most academic journals -- is infinitely superior to one that purposely dismisses any efforts in that direction.
Yup, and I do rev up Oolite every now and then (though sometimes, when I'm too lazy to bother with the niceties of having to dock at a space station, I might play Escape Velocity instead). Another old game that comes to mind whose world was procedurally generated is Telengard. (Trying to map that dungeon was so frustrating!)
Indeed. I mean, I like, KotOR, but ... the fact that you have people using swords. Yyyyeah. Oh, sure, they try to explain it, but still -- a guy with a sword usually wipes the floor with a guy with a heavy repeating blaster. Hmm. Doesn't stop it from being a great game, of course.
FYI, something like this already exists in OpenOffice.org. File - Wizards - Document converter. Something to remember if you ever do succeed in building it :-) (and I've heard elsewhere, by the way, that it is stupendously difficult to build).
Maybe it is too much trouble. OpenOffice.org, for example, pops up a similar dialogue when you try saving to a format other than odf, no matter how simple the document is. There's nothing unusual about that kind of behaviour.
People keep bringing this lunatic idea up whenever this topic comes up. It's silly. Just remember this: it would be about as intelligent for Microsoft to pull its products from the EU as it would be for Microsoft to pull its products from the US. I.e., not very.
That is short-sighted. The argument that OSS is economically beneficial because it keeps money rolling around the local support industry is just as valid for the US as it is for any other country.
You can drive the width of the continental USA in 48 hours? Wow.
Meh. FreeCell is infinitely better!
Guess.
Actually, Lord of the Rings. (Just saying.)
They didn't have swimming events in the ancient Olympics, though. Combat sports, yes. Sprinting **ouchouchouchouchouch!**, also yes (though I can't help thinking the competitors wouldn't have been good for much for a couple of days afterwards).
You worry about your 12" discs? Me, I'm wondering how to get the damn cylinders to fit into the tray.
Opera 9.0 does have an ad-blocker. (Actually, earlier versions did too, but it's become much more accessible now. It's much more powerful than the Firefox "Block images from ..." menu option, less powerful than the Adblock extension.)
I believe the proper wording that the monarch is supposed to use on such an occasion, at least when being asked to sign something into law, is, "La reine s'avisera."
Just for what it's worth, in my home town a lot of shops (including at least one major chain) sell all their computers with OpenOffice.org preinstalled (customers can buy MS Office and have that preinstalled as well, for an extra fee). I think the second part of your sentence still applies, too. No, wait, I tell a lie: when I bought a box last year, I bought it without an OS, so they gave me OpenOffice.org on a CD instead. Obviously this isn't the case everywhere -- damn shame, that.
I don't play Impossible Mission any more, but Jumpman still pwns me. And I still haven't managed to finish Jumpman Junior.
While I'm commenting, I might as well add a vote of support for those who named Infocom.
Not just adventure games. In the action games they came out with in the 80s it still boggles my mind what they managed to accomplish, in 3D no less, on such limited hardware. Purely in terms of graphics, to my mind Rescue on Fractalus has the look of a game 10 years more recent. Plus they were enormous fun! Ballblazer was horribly addictive. (Koronis Rift was a rotten game, though.)
Just for reference -- I'm sure there are those who don't know -- Queenie herself signs all the parliamentary laws in the UK. (Though it's also worth pointing out that the last time a British monarch got away with refusing to sign one was in 1708.)
I'll take your word for it -- I'm not a Mac user at the moment myself, so I know nothing :-)
Hmm, you're right: there certainly is a sense-of-humour failure going on here ... somewhere ...
I agree with your agreement. As this thread shows, plenty of people are using and sending people ODF documents. For my students (non-tech-savvy, mind you) I routinely post lecture notes etc. online in both ODF and PDF formats, with links to download free readers; when I send documents to (non-tech-savvy) colleagues, I regularly send them in both ODF and PDF formats; out of hundreds of people, no one has complained yet.
If they want to take the responsibility of editing these documents they'll have to take the responsibility of installing an editor; so far, those that have needed to have happily followed my instructions. For those that can't install OpenOffice or similar for some reason (e.g. they don't have root access on their Mac), I'll make a special case and send them a document in another format, usually RTF or CSV, occasionally doc or xls if necessary. Works fine.
I like Hamill most as villains, like Ripburger in Full Throttle and Muska in Laputa.