What, the extension that restores the original functionality doesn't count as a "way to restore the stripped functionality"? And saying "adding features I don't like counts as making your product less functional" is kind of cheating.
While true, the vast majority of programs people need Wine to run are closed-source. An architecture-agnostic version of Winelib which could be included with from-source programs on non-x86 systems might be viable...but frankly, people are more likely to port their program to Linux than to Sparc.
Getting Wine to run on a processor architecture not native to Windows would require emulating an x86 processor. Say it with me: Wine Is Not an Emulator.
Recall that bacteria have had around 4 billion years to turn Earth into a nanopocalyptic wasteland. Sure, they're everywhere, but they aren't dismantling everything else for parts. If this were a real risk, it would already have happened.
I, for one, welcome...
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But seriously, am I the only one who sees an inevitable path from "offshore datacenters" to "cyberpunk future where major corporations like Google declare sovereignty"?
By using Fourier analysis on number fields, we prove in this paper E. Bombieri's refinement of A. Weil's positivity condition, which implies the Riemann hypothesis for the Riemann zeta function in the spirit of A. Connes' approach to the Riemann hypothesis.
Weather permitting of course. (Just looking on the positivity side)
I thought you were randomly babbling, but then I RTFA and realized you were just quoting it...
I read a whole bunch, but the best/most useful are:
Digg: Sure, the commentary here is better, but it's nice to know what the Obamanation thinks of the latest political scandals. Ars Technica: They've got good articles on various technical issues. Relatively low-volume. Boing Boing: Quirky news, with a slant towards privacy concerns, steampunk, and general weirdness. Wired's Threat Level: Alerts on various privacy issues, as well as other things the government is doing that you don't want them to be.
RIAA reports that new copyright filters will be powered by eating babies and cute puppies. Everyone else says, "I'd like to be surprised by this turn of events, but it's really perfectly in line with their past actions."
Yes, I know there are races which are inherently better at jumping than swimming and so on. However, if you merge Spot/Listen and Hide/Move Silently but not Jump/Swim/Balance, you create two new uber-skills (Perception and Stealth) and leave three shitty skills no one will ever pick. Please, whatever you do, try to make all skills somewhat comparable in power. If you're getting rid of Appraise and Profession, get rid of a distinct Jump, Swim, and Balance, and create Agility (or Acrobatics, or something).
I don't object to the length of those articles; I've always believed that any information someone is willing to write (which is true, not vanity, and not original research) should stay in the Wikipedia. OK, maybe some notability requirements, but the minutiae of certain sci-fi universes probably has as much appeal as many of the webcomics whose articles were deleted. I guess in some sense the hard-core fans are "shielded" by those with a lower level of interest; no one is going to delete the article on lightsaber combat, for example, so even if only a small fraction of users care about the details, they'll stay in. If that same number of users care about a webcomic, though, they have no such protection.
If you want to make comments, make them over at Wikinews. It's not that I don't want to have the last word here (oops... I just had the last word, and it feels GREAT), it's that I think your comments will be more effective closer to the broken systems. Also, I'm tired of fishing your colorful metaphors out of my spam trap. I just chlorinated this thing.
He was trying to raise awareness for the linked article, and fuel a debate there; he didn't want to split it by having it take place in multiple fora across the web. Also, he probably didn't want his blogging system slashdotted.
It's kind of hard to find the full text of articles which were deleted to verify that they were more than just stubs, but here's at least one deletion citing CSD A7 as sufficient to speedily delete a webcomic article.
I don't think the admins are being blamed per se, but rather the policies. As it is, one person can nominate a little-read article for speedy deletion, and it will be wiped before anyone in the relevant fan community has had a chance to comment on the deletion page. I think the problem is that the population of people who pay enough attention to Wikipedia to notice and respond to deletion requests is not identical to the population who read and benefit from Wikipedia, so people in the former population can delete articles useful to those in the latter population.
Just wait until.berlin and.nyc come online. I mean, at least the culture-based domains (.cat for Catalan culture, and the proposed.bzh,.cym, and.gal) are for areas not already defined by the underutilized country code TLDs.
Is it just me, or does http://www.ca.gov/ still work? I mean, I just went there and got a page reading "Welcome to the State of California." I guess this problem's already been resolved.
The number of people saying "OMG? MIT has a mean of 1380?!" somewhat disturbs me. Apparently, 25% of people at MIT have an SAT of 1380 or lower. That's all this means. To be fair, though, when comparing top schools it's most meaningful to look at the bottom quartile. After all, we know they all have lots of smart kids; the question is, how many not-so-smart kids do they have? Whatever, this only tarnishes the name of whoever made the mistake, not the school itself.
Back when he used to add a second link on each submission to his blog's take on the news, I was pissed off. Now that he's stopped doing that, though, I frankly tend to enjoy his articles more than average. Slashdot should just admit it and make Roland an official editor: that way, people who dislike him can just log on and block him directly.
Well, 4chan did let us all read Harry Potter 7 five days early...and the video does equate spoiling popular fantasy books with domestic terrorism...so I guess they are terrorists!
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What, the extension that restores the original functionality doesn't count as a "way to restore the stripped functionality"? And saying "adding features I don't like counts as making your product less functional" is kind of cheating.
While true, the vast majority of programs people need Wine to run are closed-source. An architecture-agnostic version of Winelib which could be included with from-source programs on non-x86 systems might be viable...but frankly, people are more likely to port their program to Linux than to Sparc.
Getting Wine to run on a processor architecture not native to Windows would require emulating an x86 processor. Say it with me: Wine Is Not an Emulator.
I take it you didn't read the subject of the comment you were replying to?
> If a bacteria were lab engineered with the capacity to function between near absolute zero and upwards of 5k f
We have tardigrades, they haven't taken over yet. 'Nuff said.
Recall that bacteria have had around 4 billion years to turn Earth into a nanopocalyptic wasteland. Sure, they're everywhere, but they aren't dismantling everything else for parts. If this were a real risk, it would already have happened.
But seriously, am I the only one who sees an inevitable path from "offshore datacenters" to "cyberpunk future where major corporations like Google declare sovereignty"?
Aw, you ruined my "Yet another typographical error from Slash Dot" joke. /also an alum
By using Fourier analysis on number fields, we prove in this paper E. Bombieri's refinement of A. Weil's positivity condition, which implies the Riemann hypothesis for the Riemann zeta function in the spirit of A. Connes' approach to the Riemann hypothesis.
Weather permitting of course. (Just looking on the positivity side)
I thought you were randomly babbling, but then I RTFA and realized you were just quoting it...
I read a whole bunch, but the best/most useful are:
Digg: Sure, the commentary here is better, but it's nice to know what the Obamanation thinks of the latest political scandals.
Ars Technica: They've got good articles on various technical issues. Relatively low-volume.
Boing Boing: Quirky news, with a slant towards privacy concerns, steampunk, and general weirdness.
Wired's Threat Level: Alerts on various privacy issues, as well as other things the government is doing that you don't want them to be.
RIAA reports that new copyright filters will be powered by eating babies and cute puppies. Everyone else says, "I'd like to be surprised by this turn of events, but it's really perfectly in line with their past actions."
Yes, I know there are races which are inherently better at jumping than swimming and so on. However, if you merge Spot/Listen and Hide/Move Silently but not Jump/Swim/Balance, you create two new uber-skills (Perception and Stealth) and leave three shitty skills no one will ever pick. Please, whatever you do, try to make all skills somewhat comparable in power. If you're getting rid of Appraise and Profession, get rid of a distinct Jump, Swim, and Balance, and create Agility (or Acrobatics, or something).
I don't object to the length of those articles; I've always believed that any information someone is willing to write (which is true, not vanity, and not original research) should stay in the Wikipedia. OK, maybe some notability requirements, but the minutiae of certain sci-fi universes probably has as much appeal as many of the webcomics whose articles were deleted. I guess in some sense the hard-core fans are "shielded" by those with a lower level of interest; no one is going to delete the article on lightsaber combat, for example, so even if only a small fraction of users care about the details, they'll stay in. If that same number of users care about a webcomic, though, they have no such protection.
From the blog post you cite:
If you want to make comments, make them over at Wikinews. It's not that I don't want to have the last word here (oops... I just had the last word, and it feels GREAT), it's that I think your comments will be more effective closer to the broken systems. Also, I'm tired of fishing your colorful metaphors out of my spam trap. I just chlorinated this thing.
He was trying to raise awareness for the linked article, and fuel a debate there; he didn't want to split it by having it take place in multiple fora across the web. Also, he probably didn't want his blogging system slashdotted.
Dominion War
Comparison of Battlestar Galactica (1978) and (2003)
List of Pokemon
Take a look at the length of those article. Go ahead, tell me that the Wikipedia routinely removes trivia.
It's kind of hard to find the full text of articles which were deleted to verify that they were more than just stubs, but here's at least one deletion citing CSD A7 as sufficient to speedily delete a webcomic article.
I don't think the admins are being blamed per se, but rather the policies. As it is, one person can nominate a little-read article for speedy deletion, and it will be wiped before anyone in the relevant fan community has had a chance to comment on the deletion page. I think the problem is that the population of people who pay enough attention to Wikipedia to notice and respond to deletion requests is not identical to the population who read and benefit from Wikipedia, so people in the former population can delete articles useful to those in the latter population.
Just wait until .berlin and .nyc come online. I mean, at least the culture-based domains (.cat for Catalan culture, and the proposed .bzh, .cym, and .gal) are for areas not already defined by the underutilized country code TLDs.
Is it just me, or does http://www.ca.gov/ still work? I mean, I just went there and got a page reading "Welcome to the State of California." I guess this problem's already been resolved.
The number of people saying "OMG? MIT has a mean of 1380?!" somewhat disturbs me. Apparently, 25% of people at MIT have an SAT of 1380 or lower. That's all this means. To be fair, though, when comparing top schools it's most meaningful to look at the bottom quartile. After all, we know they all have lots of smart kids; the question is, how many not-so-smart kids do they have? Whatever, this only tarnishes the name of whoever made the mistake, not the school itself.
Back when he used to add a second link on each submission to his blog's take on the news, I was pissed off. Now that he's stopped doing that, though, I frankly tend to enjoy his articles more than average. Slashdot should just admit it and make Roland an official editor: that way, people who dislike him can just log on and block him directly.
I managed to get into the site long enough to copy some of the files; they're available as a torrent here:
h =6455bdea4c06c4583302c452ed0363b06447a6e0
http://cw.enlightning.de:6969/stats.html?info_has
Well, 4chan did let us all read Harry Potter 7 five days early...and the video does equate spoiling popular fantasy books with domestic terrorism...so I guess they are terrorists!