I can understand that there are some reasons why we wouldn't want the creator or a 1st hand source editing the wiki for it, but does it truly outweigh the benefits of allowing them to add information?
Sometimes a 2nd hand source can leave out information which is critical to understanding the whole article. If the article was about something I did, I should be allowed to edit the wiki and add or edit any information which I think is missing or is incorrect. Some may have a tendency to exaggerate, but that's what the peer review system is. If I wrote an article for a journal and the only way for that article's content to appear on wikipedia is to have someone read my article and either summarize it or copy/paste snippets of my article into wikipedia, don't you think it'd be much more accurate if I had written the wikipedia entry itself.
If it really needs to be a 2nd hand source, I can easily find a close friend who would do it for me (i.e. politicians having their workers update the wiki with new information).
If we're so afraid of the original 1st hand source editing their work, I find it even scarier we trust 2nd hand source more.
I would also add the fact that 1 domain can have multiple websites and multiple domains can serve the same website, so I wouldn't say that that domain and websites are always the same thing.
One thing I was wondering was how did they remember where they drew the original legs or corners to actually remember those points and connect stuff to it. For me, I think as long as I can see what I'm drawing, I'll be okay.
This is where AJAX comes in handy. Why just 100 results, why not all?
I really like Live.com's image search, where instead of having a next/previous page link, they have a scrollbar. Scrolling down (mouse or hitting page up/down) will display more results as if you were clicking next page, but doing so doesn't need to load a different page. Through AJAX, it's able to do so quite well. I mean they even have buffering algorithm where the next few pages are already downloaded to quickly show you when you scroll down.
IIRC, they had that implemented on their default search before. I wonder why it was removed.
So you CAN have short page lengths and still show infinite amount of information.
I actually forgot to mention that the best new feature is the ability to recreate the file without playing the file at 1x speed. In previous versions, it had to play the entire song through before it was done recreating the new m4a file. However with this new version, it was able to recreate the DRM-free version in just a few seconds. I guess they found a way to get iTunes to play the file really fast because it still needs iTunes to play the file, but no audio comes out.
The current version of QTFairUse (2.4) doesn't work with the newest iTunes, however there's currently 2.5 beta 1 which is awesome. I don't know if these features were also in 2.4 since I jumped from 2.3 to 2.5 beta 1 (because 2.4 didn't work after the iTunes upgrade), but 2.5 now includes the ability to not just strip the DRM from the m4p files and redo the ID3 tags, it even has the option of backing up the the files, removing the DRM version from your library and adding the new DRM-free version back into your library, transfer your rating from the old file to the new file, and even finding all the playlists that had that song and re-adding the song back to these playlists.
I think you have to be a nerd to understand what "tonight's" Halloween parties refers to
If someone says, "Today's teenagers are so reckless." They aren't saying just teenagers on this exact day, but referring to modern teenagers in general. If the poster said, "The perfect soundtrack for today's Halloween parties." I don't think there would be much question in regards to what "today's" is referring to. It would just refer to modern Halloween parties. But by using the word "tonight", he has solidified his nerdiness/geekiness (if those words even exist. FF2.0 is throwing spell checking on it).
I was watching a JDrama the other day and there's this speech I thought was quite fitting for this discussion.
*note: Toudai = Tokyo University (basically the #1 university in Japan)
You'll continue to lose all your life.... I mean "lose" by the fact that you will be cheated. If you continue like that, all your life, you will be cheated.... Our society has rules. You must follow these rules. And all these rules are written by smart people. And what does that mean? These rules are written by the smartest people and they make use of them. Since stupid people aren't able to understand these rules, there will be hidden things. These rules will continue to serve the smart people. For example, taxes, salaries, insurances, and allocations. The smart people will continue to make them incomprehensible, and the stupid people will fail to understand their meaning. You all think that thinking is bothersome, so all your life, you'll be cheated and you'll end up losing a lot!... Smart people will take advantage of this situation, and stupid people will lose and be cheated. So if you don't want to be cheated, if you don't want to lose, study! I'll show you a simple way. Go to Toudai!... Do you hate Toudai?... Me too. Those who are in admiration in front of the word "Toudai"; those who think they will succeed, just because they entered Todai; those who feel insignificant when they learn the guy who sits in front of them is from Todai; That is all meaningless and makes me sick.... Kids like you don't know anything about society. And you don't know anything because your parents have hidden it from you. You don't know how what greatness you're capable of. You have no basis and you have a lot of the wrong ideas. If you think that someone else can change your life, you've mistaken. That's not how society works. If you don't know that and wait to be rejected, your reality will only be filled with discontentment and eternal regrets.... If you don't want to know this reality, walk on your own rules.
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) funded the BLEEX project in 2000. Last November, U.C. Berkeley's Human Engineering and Robotics Laboratory, successfully demonstrated the first experimental Exoskeleton in which the pilot (i.e., the wearer) could carry a heavy load, while feeling only a few-pound load.
It also really depends on your playing style. Some people like to go straight through the game and get the win. Others (and I fall into this category) like to explore the entire map before going to the next level, not wanting to miss any "treasure" as I like to call it.
Most people would probably fall somewhere in between, giving up halfway through exploring and going to the next level.
genuine -adjective 1. possessing the claimed or attributed character, quality, or origin; not counterfeit; authentic; real: genuine sympathy; a genuine antique. 2. properly so called: a genuine case of smallpox. 3. free from pretense, affectation, or hypocrisy; sincere: a genuine person. 4. descended from the original stock; pure in breed: a genuine Celtic people.
If I made a copy of my favorite CD or DVD, would that copy be genuine/authentic? Would it have the same value as my original CD/DVD? Some may argue that the material itself is different. What if I can get the exact blanks and even stamp them instead of burning and even apply the correct cd cover. I mean, it's just bits right? What if I photocopy every single page out of a book? Would that book be an authentic copy? All the words are the same and I can even use the same paper and cover. To me, an genuine software isn't just the bits, but comes with the manual, the box, the support, the warranty, etc. I personally wouldn't call any of these home-brew copies authentic or genuine, but that's just me.
As for the word advantage, I noticed some people were saying how that's being redefined too. Let me ask you this. Do you think there's an advantage to having free support and updates? Do you think any company should provide free support and updates to people who stole from them?
Um... If there are power outlets, just bring along a surge protector and guess what, now you can share! I don't know how much power each outlet can output, but I'm more than certain it can do more than 1 laptop per outlet.
Do note, this is from Microsoft Research and not a core developement team working on the browser. There will always be bugs in software, just like virus can exist on any OS (though some may have more than others). MSR has been renowned for coming up with interesting solutions for interesting problems. I mean Firefox, Opera, Safari, and any other browser out there has been hit with exploits before. I mean every update of Firefox I download has multiple security updates. I'm not saying a perfect browser can't exist, but the road to get there requires both time and effort, espeically while trying to add new features to keep up to date to be able to compete with other browsers.
Just like how AV software isn't the solution to viruses, it's done quite well in protecting many systems. I personally don't understand exactly how this browsershield works, but from what I can grasp, it seems to be an additional check before loading the page into the browser and removing any malicious code. How it detects the malicious code is not clear, but having seen interesting research come out of MSR, I have my faith in these guys to have come up with an interesting solution.
To be able to spell check through AJAX, wouldn't you need to send every word back to their servers as they return and tell you which one's to highlight and which words to use?
Given that, it's rather scary where I'd want to use this spellchecker on. I would never use spellchecker if my document was being sent from Word back to the Office group's spell checking server. Some things like these a crucial to be on the client side.
Hmmm, have you experimented posting your email address on your website to see if you never or hardly get any unwanted email.
It obviously depends on what information your posting online and of course some or more stupid in regards to what data one should obviuosly not post to the public.
I personally posted my college class schedule on my previous website, the reasoning being I wanted friends to know when I'll be busy or not, so they don't try to call me when I'm in class.
i'm aware that new laser printers often times don't come with a full cartridge, but you forgot to calculate in how much I could resell the printer for. Your Samsung ML-1710 is currently selling on eBay for $41 + shipping used with no toner.
If you wait for deals/rebates, I've seen this for $50 or less. So for ~$10 and I get a new printer and a half filled toner, I think it's worth it.
Nothing but Printer included. *This Item is being sold AS/IS however, a test page has been tested to verify it still worked. *From an office clearance.
Almost new Samsung Laser printer. I bought it a few years ago and used it until the toner ran out. I didn't bother buying a new one since I already have a faster printer at home and an inkjet. No problems at all, comes with a power cable. I can probably find an extra USB cable for it. Plug it in, ready to go! Go online, buy a toner refill for a few dollars!/
you can't really compare inkjet vs laser like that. does spending $400 on a inkjet printer mean i'll spend less on inkjet cartridges than on a $100 inkjet printer? does spending $400 on a laser printer mean i'll spend less on toner than on a $100 inkjet printer?
in fact it's quite opposite to that, but the higher price you pay for the original printer usually means better and faster and probably more durable.
the amount you spend on ink/toner really depends on how much you print. i currently have a laser printer, but i never buy toner. every 1 or 2 years, i go and buy a new laser printer which comes with a new toner cartridge. why? because I can spend $50 and get a replacement cartridge for my current printer or use that exact same $50 and get a new laser printer with a new cartridge. and i also have the option of selling my current printer.
the only reason why you would want a inkjet printer today is the ability to print color/photos. color laser printers have gone down in price, but not quite easily affordable yet.
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I can understand that there are some reasons why we wouldn't want the creator or a 1st hand source editing the wiki for it, but does it truly outweigh the benefits of allowing them to add information?
Sometimes a 2nd hand source can leave out information which is critical to understanding the whole article. If the article was about something I did, I should be allowed to edit the wiki and add or edit any information which I think is missing or is incorrect. Some may have a tendency to exaggerate, but that's what the peer review system is. If I wrote an article for a journal and the only way for that article's content to appear on wikipedia is to have someone read my article and either summarize it or copy/paste snippets of my article into wikipedia, don't you think it'd be much more accurate if I had written the wikipedia entry itself.
If it really needs to be a 2nd hand source, I can easily find a close friend who would do it for me (i.e. politicians having their workers update the wiki with new information).
If we're so afraid of the original 1st hand source editing their work, I find it even scarier we trust 2nd hand source more.
I would also add the fact that 1 domain can have multiple websites and multiple domains can serve the same website, so I wouldn't say that that domain and websites are always the same thing.
did anyone else notice that DSMOS is an anagram of MS DOS?
One thing I was wondering was how did they remember where they drew the original legs or corners to actually remember those points and connect stuff to it. For me, I think as long as I can see what I'm drawing, I'll be okay.
This is where AJAX comes in handy. Why just 100 results, why not all?
I really like Live.com's image search, where instead of having a next/previous page link, they have a scrollbar. Scrolling down (mouse or hitting page up/down) will display more results as if you were clicking next page, but doing so doesn't need to load a different page. Through AJAX, it's able to do so quite well. I mean they even have buffering algorithm where the next few pages are already downloaded to quickly show you when you scroll down.
IIRC, they had that implemented on their default search before. I wonder why it was removed.
So you CAN have short page lengths and still show infinite amount of information.
I actually forgot to mention that the best new feature is the ability to recreate the file without playing the file at 1x speed. In previous versions, it had to play the entire song through before it was done recreating the new m4a file. However with this new version, it was able to recreate the DRM-free version in just a few seconds. I guess they found a way to get iTunes to play the file really fast because it still needs iTunes to play the file, but no audio comes out.
The current version of QTFairUse (2.4) doesn't work with the newest iTunes, however there's currently 2.5 beta 1 which is awesome. I don't know if these features were also in 2.4 since I jumped from 2.3 to 2.5 beta 1 (because 2.4 didn't work after the iTunes upgrade), but 2.5 now includes the ability to not just strip the DRM from the m4p files and redo the ID3 tags, it even has the option of backing up the the files, removing the DRM version from your library and adding the new DRM-free version back into your library, transfer your rating from the old file to the new file, and even finding all the playlists that had that song and re-adding the song back to these playlists.
I think you have to be a nerd to understand what "tonight's" Halloween parties refers to
If someone says, "Today's teenagers are so reckless." They aren't saying just teenagers on this exact day, but referring to modern teenagers in general. If the poster said, "The perfect soundtrack for today's Halloween parties." I don't think there would be much question in regards to what "today's" is referring to. It would just refer to modern Halloween parties. But by using the word "tonight", he has solidified his nerdiness/geekiness (if those words even exist. FF2.0 is throwing spell checking on it).
*note: Toudai = Tokyo University (basically the #1 university in Japan)
Information Cards / Windows CardSpace attempts to fix this problem:d /default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/reference/infocar
It's the brainchild of Kim Cameron: http://www.identityblog.com/
Unlike Passport, Microsoft does not own your identity when you use Information Cards.
http://bleex.me.berkeley.edu/bleex.htm
or "People who play Halo to buy the Xbox" doesn't quite work either.
It also really depends on your playing style. Some people like to go straight through the game and get the win. Others (and I fall into this category) like to explore the entire map before going to the next level, not wanting to miss any "treasure" as I like to call it.
Most people would probably fall somewhere in between, giving up halfway through exploring and going to the next level.
or sell only male or only females.
then this study can show the correlation between dumb users and strong passwords. as one might expect, the correlation's rather negative.
If I made a copy of my favorite CD or DVD, would that copy be genuine/authentic? Would it have the same value as my original CD/DVD? Some may argue that the material itself is different. What if I can get the exact blanks and even stamp them instead of burning and even apply the correct cd cover. I mean, it's just bits right? What if I photocopy every single page out of a book? Would that book be an authentic copy? All the words are the same and I can even use the same paper and cover. To me, an genuine software isn't just the bits, but comes with the manual, the box, the support, the warranty, etc. I personally wouldn't call any of these home-brew copies authentic or genuine, but that's just me.
As for the word advantage, I noticed some people were saying how that's being redefined too. Let me ask you this. Do you think there's an advantage to having free support and updates? Do you think any company should provide free support and updates to people who stole from them?
Just my 2 cents.
Um... If there are power outlets, just bring along a surge protector and guess what, now you can share! I don't know how much power each outlet can output, but I'm more than certain it can do more than 1 laptop per outlet.
They claim to have seized over 32,000 fake CDs, and stopped over 70,000 "auctions". I have no idea what they mean by auctions.
by auctions, I believe they mean venues like eBay.
several of you mentioned turning term papers with this special toner, but isn't that just a practical joke on yourself when you get an F?
Do note, this is from Microsoft Research and not a core developement team working on the browser. There will always be bugs in software, just like virus can exist on any OS (though some may have more than others). MSR has been renowned for coming up with interesting solutions for interesting problems. I mean Firefox, Opera, Safari, and any other browser out there has been hit with exploits before. I mean every update of Firefox I download has multiple security updates. I'm not saying a perfect browser can't exist, but the road to get there requires both time and effort, espeically while trying to add new features to keep up to date to be able to compete with other browsers.
Just like how AV software isn't the solution to viruses, it's done quite well in protecting many systems. I personally don't understand exactly how this browsershield works, but from what I can grasp, it seems to be an additional check before loading the page into the browser and removing any malicious code. How it detects the malicious code is not clear, but having seen interesting research come out of MSR, I have my faith in these guys to have come up with an interesting solution.
To be able to spell check through AJAX, wouldn't you need to send every word back to their servers as they return and tell you which one's to highlight and which words to use?
Given that, it's rather scary where I'd want to use this spellchecker on. I would never use spellchecker if my document was being sent from Word back to the Office group's spell checking server. Some things like these a crucial to be on the client side.
Hmmm, have you experimented posting your email address on your website to see if you never or hardly get any unwanted email.
It obviously depends on what information your posting online and of course some or more stupid in regards to what data one should obviuosly not post to the public.
I personally posted my college class schedule on my previous website, the reasoning being I wanted friends to know when I'll be busy or not, so they don't try to call me when I'm in class.
did any of you catch the subliminal message around 3:58 where it shows this url for 1 frame:
www.tivo.com/bluemoon
If you wait for deals/rebates, I've seen this for $50 or less. So for ~$10 and I get a new printer and a half filled toner, I think it's worth it.
Examples (do note, these auctions haven't even ended yet):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite
you can't really compare inkjet vs laser like that. does spending $400 on a inkjet printer mean i'll spend less on inkjet cartridges than on a $100 inkjet printer? does spending $400 on a laser printer mean i'll spend less on toner than on a $100 inkjet printer?
in fact it's quite opposite to that, but the higher price you pay for the original printer usually means better and faster and probably more durable.
the amount you spend on ink/toner really depends on how much you print. i currently have a laser printer, but i never buy toner. every 1 or 2 years, i go and buy a new laser printer which comes with a new toner cartridge. why? because I can spend $50 and get a replacement cartridge for my current printer or use that exact same $50 and get a new laser printer with a new cartridge. and i also have the option of selling my current printer.
the only reason why you would want a inkjet printer today is the ability to print color/photos. color laser printers have gone down in price, but not quite easily affordable yet.