Different. A one-dimensional assessment such as "laxer" doesn't do it justice.
One, it does have an intermediate step, "Cold Storage", where articles are moved instead of deleted. The problem with deletion is that it removes everything about an article, including the metadata (history, etc.). That's the exact opposite of what a Wiki is all about.
The notability criterium is a pretty stupid rule anyways, as the massive discussions around most notability deletions show clearly. When the subject is discussion controversially again and again, there is something wrong with the basic ruleset. Citizendium doesn't have "notability" rule. It does have other rules which cover the important elements, such as quality and relevance, which are not the same.
My main issue with Wikipedia is the whole "notability" bullshit. I have not seen one notability-based deletion where I'm not saying "so what?". For reasons I don't understand some people consider it vastly important to destroy other people's work because it is below some threshold of importance. Mostly, it's a fairly small group. When you hang around the daily AfDs for a while you see the same names pop up again and again and again. Most of them don't contribute anything to Wikipedia except AfDs.
And that, as well, shows that there's something wrong with the base concept. It invites unproductive and destructive people, and punishes those who actually contribute something and (quite rightfully) think their first input should maybe about something smaller since it's a learning experience anyways.
There's already a Wikipedia fork which focuses on expert opinion and reliability - Citizendium.
Doesn't have the big "Google" name behind it, and not very many articles, but for all I care, it's Wikipedia done right. Ever since the deletionism and notability nazis have taken over Wikipedia, I'm kind of disillusioned about it.
Bugs are a part of life in the software world -- they're annoying and painful, but like death and taxes, there's no way of avoiding their existence. Is that a truth, or the way you (and most of the software industry) thinks right now?
I think it's the later. Claiming that bugs are simply there and you should take it like a man are cheap excuses to avoid the less sexy, more structured and more formal methods that do exist and are proven to produce code that, while it isn't without bugs entirely, has a bug count several orders of magnitude lower than the way most of us write code.
Instead of Gates doing the "Wow" thing, he should have just stuck to the features. He did. So much that he couldn't let go of them and that's why none of them was actually implemented in Vista.
Didn't someone post a list a while ago, where it shows that the number of features removed from Longhorn before it became Vista is actually longer than the number that remained?
been there, done that and dumped the idea as incredibly stupid and pretty dangerous, together with everyone else who's been doing research in that area several years ago.
Why are retroactive laws even possible in the US system? I'm really wondering about that. Where I come from, the laws at the time of your action count, both for and against you.
What's next? Retro-actively making something illegal and then putting you in jail for it?
Nevertheless, they are a part of the very industry that pushed (and pushes) for longer and longer copyrights, so it's only fair that it affects them, too.
Not sure. If TFA is correct and the studio simply didn't pay what they promised to pay, it looks more like another example of the greedy movie/music industry screwing over everyone they can find, from artist to customer, in order to keep as much as they can for themselves.
for people suspected of breaching copyright by file sharing. Under the proposed new laws ISPs who fail to enforce the policy will face prosecution in the courts. Users falling foul of the new law will be subject to a three strike policy: First suspected instance Noticed the important word there? It's suspected. Without due process, without a trial, without evidence, witnesses or being found guilty, you are being dealt the punishment.
The last time we had that on the law books was in pre-roman times. In fact, I think we've not had it in any law books anywhere at any time, procedures like that have always been the mark of unlawful governments.
Refuse to attend conferences, conventions, seminars, workshops if you are invited. Been doing that for years. Ironically, one of the first workshops I was invited to was for some top-dog oil company managers, probably the same kind of people who put you all into this mess.:-)
There is no way I'm going to hand over my passwords to a just-above-minimum-wage dofus. Not if it means I can't take that flight. Not going to happen. Since by whatever perverse application of your totaliarian laws they can force me to, the only solution is to avoid the US the same way anyone with a sane mind avoids any other place where the insane rule.
More usefully, rather than screwing around with DNS, the best way to accomplish email portability would be to build another layer of abstraction on top of email as it currently exists. Instead of remembering people's emails, remember their real names or handles, and then have your email program consult some sort of global distributed database in order to find their email address (which would change whenever they moved ISPs or networks). Exactly. You point out the important difference: Phone numbers may have an internal meaning, but that is hidden from the user.
E-Mail addresses have an obvious meaning. I can't be quite sane and think that jane@ibm.com is still available under that address after she's left IBM. It simply wouldn't make sense. (except as a forward for some time, of course.)
Can you imagine if Monty Python had set 'The Life of Brian' around Mohammed? Roughly the same that would've happened to them if they had done it 500 years earlier?
Western society has developed faster (despite massive opposition of the church) and christians have had to adapt. In fact, muslims living in western countries have adapted roughly the same way (they're trying to be not too different from their eastern buddies, that's all).
So I'm fairly sure this has absolutely nothing to do with what religion you follow and everything with what society you're living in.
In which case you have to follow them and engage in a chess match. The game isn't chess, the game is "I know that you know that I know that..." - as you can easily see, it's an infinite regression, and playing the game means estimating correctly where your enemy stops.
And while you are correct that many people overestimate the conspiracy theory matter, don't fall into the same trap of underestimating intelligence agencies with budgets the size of small countries. 15 years ago, few people believed that the NSA really did listen in to world-wide communications on all channels. Few people would've believed the CIA plans to blow up some US aircrafts and "get rid of" US citizens in order to spark a war with Cuba. These TLAs are huge, they do wield real power, and the fact that most likely they are in an intentional state of chaotic behaviour, just like the Eurofighter is aerodynamically instable by intention, makes them more, not less dangerous.
The measure of a theory of behavior is not "Does this action/occurrence further the given goal?", but "Given a hypothesis that group X is pursuing goal Y, is the action Z the best action X can take?" The problem is that the theory fails against a target that has itself knowledge of these kinds of analysis, and employs PsyOps and Counter-Intelligence units specifically in order to thwart being analysed. Sometimes, they do precisely that which an analysis would reveal as not being in their best interest, and as such not likely being their action.
This split has already happened in Europe. My company, for example, bought the access part of AOL Germany, and that was a year ago. It was always just a matter of time until the same thing would happen in the US.
And yes, there were layoffs. Mostly in the audience part, which fired about 75% of its people in two waves (one right after the split, one about three quarters later). The access part went well here, but I'm not sure about other countries. Some of the bidders, like us, were interested in the whole company, while other bidders quite openly stated that they only cared for the customers, and would've probably layed off everyone.
What, you mean unlike the same sort of small world you live in where it's justifiable to call people who disagree with you dumb asses? And people who use cheap rhetorical overgeneralisations in order to make a point that ignores the original content, yes.:-)
Like it or not, anyone who believes otherwise probably as a narrow-minded view of the world themselves. Totally. In fact, it's difficult to get other views, because very few organisations or groups even allow them in. The problem with automation is that it hides the filtering.
The New York Times, in the meantime, has accused Google of a Microsoft fixation. No, NYT, watching the convicted killer with the loaded gun in the corner isn't a "fixation", it's called "being careful" or, in Texas, "hating to be shot in the back".
But neither the #2 nor the #3 appear to be on the verge of destruction, different from, say Netscape in the browser market from years back. And the purpose of the regulators isn't to let #2 and #3 merge so #1 becomes #2. Only if disallowing the merger would mean that one of the #2 or #3 go away can I imagine them to agree on such a deal.
Coincidence?
It looks like Iran has completely lost Internet connectivity." Ok, I'm paranoid, but it is an election year, and the world would be surprised a lot if Bush didn't fuck up something else before he goes.
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Different. A one-dimensional assessment such as "laxer" doesn't do it justice.
One, it does have an intermediate step, "Cold Storage", where articles are moved instead of deleted. The problem with deletion is that it removes everything about an article, including the metadata (history, etc.). That's the exact opposite of what a Wiki is all about.
The notability criterium is a pretty stupid rule anyways, as the massive discussions around most notability deletions show clearly. When the subject is discussion controversially again and again, there is something wrong with the basic ruleset. Citizendium doesn't have "notability" rule. It does have other rules which cover the important elements, such as quality and relevance, which are not the same.
My main issue with Wikipedia is the whole "notability" bullshit. I have not seen one notability-based deletion where I'm not saying "so what?". For reasons I don't understand some people consider it vastly important to destroy other people's work because it is below some threshold of importance. Mostly, it's a fairly small group. When you hang around the daily AfDs for a while you see the same names pop up again and again and again. Most of them don't contribute anything to Wikipedia except AfDs.
And that, as well, shows that there's something wrong with the base concept. It invites unproductive and destructive people, and punishes those who actually contribute something and (quite rightfully) think their first input should maybe about something smaller since it's a learning experience anyways.
There's already a Wikipedia fork which focuses on expert opinion and reliability - Citizendium.
Doesn't have the big "Google" name behind it, and not very many articles, but for all I care, it's Wikipedia done right. Ever since the deletionism and notability nazis have taken over Wikipedia, I'm kind of disillusioned about it.
I think it's the later. Claiming that bugs are simply there and you should take it like a man are cheap excuses to avoid the less sexy, more structured and more formal methods that do exist and are proven to produce code that, while it isn't without bugs entirely, has a bug count several orders of magnitude lower than the way most of us write code.
Wow! I'm astonished at their honesty.
Just for clarification: The (bracketed-in) answers are the wrong ones, aren't they?
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Sales people learn the same stuff that politics students read about theoretically as the elements of propaganda.
Didn't someone post a list a while ago, where it shows that the number of features removed from Longhorn before it became Vista is actually longer than the number that remained?
So, in addition to the chance game that running Vista is, they've now added a game of luck that involves just knowing about it?
Seems you have to be one lucky dude to get anywhere in microsoft territory.
been there, done that and dumped the idea as incredibly stupid and pretty dangerous, together with everyone else who's been doing research in that area several years ago.
What's MS at? Reinventing old, bad ideas, again?
Why are retroactive laws even possible in the US system? I'm really wondering about that. Where I come from, the laws at the time of your action count, both for and against you.
What's next? Retro-actively making something illegal and then putting you in jail for it?
Nevertheless, they are a part of the very industry that pushed (and pushes) for longer and longer copyrights, so it's only fair that it affects them, too.
Not sure. If TFA is correct and the studio simply didn't pay what they promised to pay, it looks more like another example of the greedy movie/music industry screwing over everyone they can find, from artist to customer, in order to keep as much as they can for themselves.
The last time we had that on the law books was in pre-roman times. In fact, I think we've not had it in any law books anywhere at any time, procedures like that have always been the mark of unlawful governments.
Don't travel to the US.
There is no way I'm going to hand over my passwords to a just-above-minimum-wage dofus. Not if it means I can't take that flight. Not going to happen. Since by whatever perverse application of your totaliarian laws they can force me to, the only solution is to avoid the US the same way anyone with a sane mind avoids any other place where the insane rule.
E-Mail addresses have an obvious meaning. I can't be quite sane and think that jane@ibm.com is still available under that address after she's left IBM. It simply wouldn't make sense. (except as a forward for some time, of course.)
Different from phone numbers, e-mail addresses aren't arbitrary. The domain part is by design tied to a particular service, server, whatever.
Portability for phone numbers makes sense, because they are just arbitrary numbers and AT&T can give you 12345 just as well as any other provider.
But portability for e-mail addresses makes as much sense as portability of your street address when you move. The best you can ask for is forwarding.
The Right to Read. If you haven't read it yet, read it now, while there is no filter preventing it.
Western society has developed faster (despite massive opposition of the church) and christians have had to adapt. In fact, muslims living in western countries have adapted roughly the same way (they're trying to be not too different from their eastern buddies, that's all).
So I'm fairly sure this has absolutely nothing to do with what religion you follow and everything with what society you're living in.
And while you are correct that many people overestimate the conspiracy theory matter, don't fall into the same trap of underestimating intelligence agencies with budgets the size of small countries. 15 years ago, few people believed that the NSA really did listen in to world-wide communications on all channels. Few people would've believed the CIA plans to blow up some US aircrafts and "get rid of" US citizens in order to spark a war with Cuba. These TLAs are huge, they do wield real power, and the fact that most likely they are in an intentional state of chaotic behaviour, just like the Eurofighter is aerodynamically instable by intention, makes them more, not less dangerous.
And what, exactly is news about this?
This split has already happened in Europe. My company, for example, bought the access part of AOL Germany, and that was a year ago. It was always just a matter of time until the same thing would happen in the US.
And yes, there were layoffs. Mostly in the audience part, which fired about 75% of its people in two waves (one right after the split, one about three quarters later). The access part went well here, but I'm not sure about other countries. Some of the bidders, like us, were interested in the whole company, while other bidders quite openly stated that they only cared for the customers, and would've probably layed off everyone.
But neither the #2 nor the #3 appear to be on the verge of destruction, different from, say Netscape in the browser market from years back. And the purpose of the regulators isn't to let #2 and #3 merge so #1 becomes #2. Only if disallowing the merger would mean that one of the #2 or #3 go away can I imagine them to agree on such a deal.
Seriously, what are the chances of this?