I've always wondered what the deal is with not being allowed to use wikipedia for school etc. If you learned to research anything with some efficacy you would know that you CAN go to wikipedia and use the cited references there to write your own information. You are also not allowed to use someone else's paper from last semester.
You are terrifying. If you are the future of our race, we're screwed. You need to try to see the wood for the trees more.
In the unlikely event you find a Wikipedia article with a primary source. Then why not quote the primary source? You need to understand that many, if not most Wikipedia articles are written by people who are NOT experts on a subject, but believe themselves to be experts. If you are an expert on a subject, go to that Wikipedia entry and you will find errors. If you are lucky it will be a page that isn't protected by a cabal, and you'll be able to correct the errors. If it is protected, you can forget it. Wikipedia articles have nothing to do with real truth, only the truth the admins want you to accept.
Most articles sources are NOT valid sources -- random web pages, tabloid magazine articles, some guy's blog etc. aren't peer review, or accountable journalism. Things like your post, and the and the earlier story about "why do we need scientific journals anymore" are conclusive proof that the FoxNews/Wikiality generation is in some way brainwashed. Homo Sapiens is doomed if you guys get into power.
Trust your teachers and their ban on Wikipedia, you teachers are much wiser than you are!
Keep hand on content, unlike Wikipedia, edit contributed content and sell as own
Wikipedia does this already. Any concept of "democracy" and "truth" on Wikipedia is just that -- a concept. It's well documented that the wikiadmins and cabals completely control many entries. And Jimbo Wales flogs off Wikipedia articles to Answers.com for profit -- and probably a few other places that he's yet to be caught on.
Wow, the summary is totally right for once - watching the screencast makes the features actually seem desirable.
Not sure I'd go quite that far... however, I am less concerned about some of the new features now. The name "awesome bar" and the description of what it did had me worried. Originally it looked like a feature for a feature's sake, with a stupid name to boot.
Now, I admit I am more open minded about the Bar (except the name, that remains stupid). I'm open to seeing how it behaves in practice. If the searchable aspects of it are returning good results then maybe it's useful. If, however, it's like the built-in dictionary in Fx 2 that seems only to recognize words in Webster's 1893 edition, then it may be beyond irritating.
But, the Site Identity thing -- and it recognizing how may times you've visited a site, looks like a whole bundle of trouble waiting to happen. At best a divorce, and at worst a 1st class ticket to Gitmo when they impound your laptop at an airport check-in and you forgot to clear it.
I'm also thinking the fact that this changes color might be potentially distracting and irritating. Almost all of the extensions I add to Firefox are about stopping things distracting me on a webpage or browser. I'm not MTV generation, I need to focus when I read, and I only use a browser to read (and for pr0n too obviously, but I don't want distracted then either).
I'm in the UK. My ISP, BT (which I believe stands for Bastard Telcom), does in fact throttle my MLB.tv connection for afternoon games -- which are peak hours in the UK time zone 6pm to 10pm-ish. They are pretty much unwatchable. I can only watch games that start after 6pm Eastern -- midnight UK time -- without much interference.
We really need to fight ISPs a lot harder. They are killing progress. MLB.TV is a great idea. All sports should do the same, in fact the future of HBO or Showtime would be to use exactly the same business model. It would be popular, but it's impossible with the way ISP's behave right now.
I'm fairly certain that if the people you mention DO engage in dubious practices like that that their accounts will be banned, their efforts undone, and their changes revoked.
Well if Wikipedia is the model then, yes that will certainly happen. After all, Wikipedia has blocked entire countries' IP addresses on the whim of Jimmy Wales.
The problem is... define "dubious practices".
Wikipedia blocks for "vandalism". But has never satisfactorily defined what that is -- often in practice it's disagreeing with the cabal that runs a page who is either an admin or has their view supported by an admin.
I see no reason why this will be any different here. Given Jimmy Wales's well documented dubious financial dealings and ethics, no doubt sites like answers.com, wikipedia itself, or other sites where he has a vested interest, will get priority regardless.
Based on the Wikipedia example, I can see no way in which this search engine could ever be trusted.
I suspect this may have come form the Wikipedia page. Certainly it's subjective speculation presented as fact, like a lot on the Tower of Pisa Wikipedia page.
The Wikipedia entry on The Tower of Pisa is a good example of why Wikipedia is troublesome. It's a got a lot of speculation on it that's unreferenced -- and were it referenced, it's sill supposition in many cases. The English is awful too. And yet... there's no way of fixing it, because it's locked off by a cabal of admins. Yep, who needs terrorists to attack free speech!
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Spoken like a true lawyer. And it's nonsense too.
I've moved countries several times -- not just to English speaking ones. Most western laws are basically similar. Assuming you are not going to be doing anything unethical, pay your bills, and generally behave reasonably, you've no need to talk to a lawyer -- ever. Though you'll probably find that most countries (except the UK and Ireland) don't binge-drink as much alcohol as the average Australian, and have much less tolerance for drunken behavior -- that might get you into trouble.
Also never underestimate the power of the "stupid foreigner" card. You can get away with a lot using that, more so in non-English speaking countries.
So, no thanks for failing to consider the environmental impact of your design.
That's unfair. The Pringles can is robust enough to be used for many other purposes. Who says you need to throw it away? Just because unthinking Joe Sixpack decides to throw something out doesn't make it the fault of the designer.
So maybe I've read too much Dostoevsky over the years... but I never buy the explanations for what people think these things were.
Visiting some dolmens in France a few years ago the archaeologist explained that it was believed these were religious sites, since visitors had to bow low to enter a womb-like chamber. Sure... or... how about the small entrance is easier to heat, easy to keep dry, easier to defend, and easier to keep out animals like rats etc away from food stores. For all we know the dolmen was the first equivalent of Walmart.
Homo Sapiens is, for the most part, a selfish, greedy species. To ascribe our ancestors with cuddly, noble airs of spirituality, science and mysticism is the stuff of fairy tales, not science. Take a look at your neighborhood; minus the styles, the cars, and the pointless obsession with worthless things like social networking sites, the species is today just and evolved and spiritual as it has ever been. If anything, we've progressed (slightly) in terms of abolishing slavery, women's right etc.
Seriously, the first Walmart is more likely than some solar temple. I'll buy a royal burial site admittedly, that's just naked greed. That's pretty much what we humans are good at, especially the ones at the top of the social order.
i wonder how many people who view ebay's actions as wrong and unethical will continue to buy through ebay.
Fortunately, less and less every day. Their growth rate has been stagnant for several years now. Their share price is also stagnant. It's a company that's slowly dying -- fortunately. Few companies deserve to die more than eBay.
Google is right to complain. But what would be better is if they worked on micropayments and improved local search. The ONLY reason eBay exists is because a closed database is needed to find things. If search worked better there would be no need for eBay whatsoever.
It's important to remember things such as this when the usual brainwashed-by-Fox conservatives say stuff like: "if you've nothing to hide, they why are you worried about privacy".
it always struck me that a company that didn't actually sell anything was pretty much doomed to failure.
In some ways that's true, but in others there's no logic at all. Why did Excite fail when Yahoo lasted until 2008 (though it's admittedly unlikely that Yahoo will go on past 2008... it's the long, seemingly Bataan march, to well-deserved dot.com failure).
eBay is another. There's really no substance to that firm and yet it survives today -- although rightly in not good shape.
Yes I agree. I use VLC all the time. I love what it can do on the whole, but the UI is from 1995. My biggest gripe is the volume control -- it's really hard to fine tune it. The UI has a LOT of room for improvement, and I've never found a skin for it that actually works properly.
That said, I guess the important thing to remember about VLC is that it's yet to to reach v1.0. It's thus, not really fair to expect it to be perfect yet.
Why 2 articles so close about what WON'T be in Windows 7 and now what WILL be in Windows 7... ?
What it does is allow us to see that there's no lessons learned from Vista. In the previous article we learned that meaningful and useful features would not be included. In this article we've learned that there will be even more eye candy.
Sound familiar?
Next they'll be telling us Windows 7 is delayed... (count on it)
There's so much promotional material for bands on Wikipedia that this must lower the the number of steps between pages.
Basically every other page at least has some sort of "band X wrote a song about.... ". And then every band page has further spam in the form of "band Y covered the song of Band X on their ABC album".
Is this a good time to remind everyone that the Music Industry is the Original Evil raised to the power of evil -- and yet, something that's supposed to be neutral (and I guess I emphasize the "supposed" because we all know it's nothing of the sort) is in fact one of the prime mechanisms where bands, music websites, the music press, and the rest of the music industry promote their wares.
Does no-one not see this is a problem? If it were rolexes, or washing powder would you think it was ok? They are no more, and no less, commercial products than bands. Just because you enjoy the product does not mean that it's promotion is not spam.
So what's the adjective from Lake Cheko? Chekovian? Maybe someone's finger slipped on the photon torpedo launcher controls, and they came back in time to rename the lake -- so it went on his permanent record.
Yes... but before you get all patronizing... you might want to note that Deutsche Telkom also is T-Mobile, which is an international company. Are you sure they only did this in Germany? Because I seriously doubt they restricted this immoral action to the borders of Germany.
Prior to the Hoover Dam coming on line (i.e., pre-World-War II), there wasn't a city there.
Which is one of the great things about Vegas. It's the archetype of artifact, and a wonderful model for future terraforming operations. Especially the hookers and blackjack part. In fact, forget the city...
"In Houston this week they had an auction for Enron. They sold all kinds of things that were once property of Enron. Lots of good deals -- in fact I picked up 2 senators and a congressman. Hell of a deal."
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In the unlikely event you find a Wikipedia article with a primary source. Then why not quote the primary source? You need to understand that many, if not most Wikipedia articles are written by people who are NOT experts on a subject, but believe themselves to be experts. If you are an expert on a subject, go to that Wikipedia entry and you will find errors. If you are lucky it will be a page that isn't protected by a cabal, and you'll be able to correct the errors. If it is protected, you can forget it. Wikipedia articles have nothing to do with real truth, only the truth the admins want you to accept.
Most articles sources are NOT valid sources -- random web pages, tabloid magazine articles, some guy's blog etc. aren't peer review, or accountable journalism. Things like your post, and the and the earlier story about "why do we need scientific journals anymore" are conclusive proof that the FoxNews/Wikiality generation is in some way brainwashed. Homo Sapiens is doomed if you guys get into power.
Trust your teachers and their ban on Wikipedia, you teachers are much wiser than you are!
Now, I admit I am more open minded about the Bar (except the name, that remains stupid). I'm open to seeing how it behaves in practice. If the searchable aspects of it are returning good results then maybe it's useful. If, however, it's like the built-in dictionary in Fx 2 that seems only to recognize words in Webster's 1893 edition, then it may be beyond irritating.
But, the Site Identity thing -- and it recognizing how may times you've visited a site, looks like a whole bundle of trouble waiting to happen. At best a divorce, and at worst a 1st class ticket to Gitmo when they impound your laptop at an airport check-in and you forgot to clear it.
I'm also thinking the fact that this changes color might be potentially distracting and irritating. Almost all of the extensions I add to Firefox are about stopping things distracting me on a webpage or browser. I'm not MTV generation, I need to focus when I read, and I only use a browser to read (and for pr0n too obviously, but I don't want distracted then either).
Yes... whalers are all good and well, but what about the Moon Pirates? How will they repel Moon Ninjas if whalers have their telescopes?
I'm in the UK. My ISP, BT (which I believe stands for Bastard Telcom), does in fact throttle my MLB.tv connection for afternoon games -- which are peak hours in the UK time zone 6pm to 10pm-ish. They are pretty much unwatchable. I can only watch games that start after 6pm Eastern -- midnight UK time -- without much interference.
We really need to fight ISPs a lot harder. They are killing progress. MLB.TV is a great idea. All sports should do the same, in fact the future of HBO or Showtime would be to use exactly the same business model. It would be popular, but it's impossible with the way ISP's behave right now.
... I misread this as "Imagine Crap" at first. I suspect I was right first time too.
The problem is... define "dubious practices".
Wikipedia blocks for "vandalism". But has never satisfactorily defined what that is -- often in practice it's disagreeing with the cabal that runs a page who is either an admin or has their view supported by an admin.
I see no reason why this will be any different here. Given Jimmy Wales's well documented dubious financial dealings and ethics, no doubt sites like answers.com, wikipedia itself, or other sites where he has a vested interest, will get priority regardless.
Based on the Wikipedia example, I can see no way in which this search engine could ever be trusted.
I suspect this may have come form the Wikipedia page. Certainly it's subjective speculation presented as fact, like a lot on the Tower of Pisa Wikipedia page.
The Wikipedia entry on The Tower of Pisa is a good example of why Wikipedia is troublesome. It's a got a lot of speculation on it that's unreferenced -- and were it referenced, it's sill supposition in many cases. The English is awful too. And yet... there's no way of fixing it, because it's locked off by a cabal of admins. Yep, who needs terrorists to attack free speech!
Spoken like a true lawyer. And it's nonsense too.
I've moved countries several times -- not just to English speaking ones. Most western laws are basically similar. Assuming you are not going to be doing anything unethical, pay your bills, and generally behave reasonably, you've no need to talk to a lawyer -- ever. Though you'll probably find that most countries (except the UK and Ireland) don't binge-drink as much alcohol as the average Australian, and have much less tolerance for drunken behavior -- that might get you into trouble.
Also never underestimate the power of the "stupid foreigner" card. You can get away with a lot using that, more so in non-English speaking countries.
... never trust a man with a dog's name.
So maybe I've read too much Dostoevsky over the years... but I never buy the explanations for what people think these things were.
Visiting some dolmens in France a few years ago the archaeologist explained that it was believed these were religious sites, since visitors had to bow low to enter a womb-like chamber. Sure... or... how about the small entrance is easier to heat, easy to keep dry, easier to defend, and easier to keep out animals like rats etc away from food stores. For all we know the dolmen was the first equivalent of Walmart.
Homo Sapiens is, for the most part, a selfish, greedy species. To ascribe our ancestors with cuddly, noble airs of spirituality, science and mysticism is the stuff of fairy tales, not science. Take a look at your neighborhood; minus the styles, the cars, and the pointless obsession with worthless things like social networking sites, the species is today just and evolved and spiritual as it has ever been. If anything, we've progressed (slightly) in terms of abolishing slavery, women's right etc.
Seriously, the first Walmart is more likely than some solar temple. I'll buy a royal burial site admittedly, that's just naked greed. That's pretty much what we humans are good at, especially the ones at the top of the social order.
Google is right to complain. But what would be better is if they worked on micropayments and improved local search. The ONLY reason eBay exists is because a closed database is needed to find things. If search worked better there would be no need for eBay whatsoever.
It's important to remember things such as this when the usual brainwashed-by-Fox conservatives say stuff like: "if you've nothing to hide, they why are you worried about privacy".
eBay is another. There's really no substance to that firm and yet it survives today -- although rightly in not good shape.
Yes I agree. I use VLC all the time. I love what it can do on the whole, but the UI is from 1995. My biggest gripe is the volume control -- it's really hard to fine tune it. The UI has a LOT of room for improvement, and I've never found a skin for it that actually works properly.
That said, I guess the important thing to remember about VLC is that it's yet to to reach v1.0. It's thus, not really fair to expect it to be perfect yet.
Sound familiar?
Next they'll be telling us Windows 7 is delayed... (count on it)
Yes, but I'm sure someone can still claim PRYOR art.
There's so much promotional material for bands on Wikipedia that this must lower the the number of steps between pages.
.... ". And then every band page has further spam in the form of "band Y covered the song of Band X on their ABC album".
Basically every other page at least has some sort of "band X wrote a song about
Is this a good time to remind everyone that the Music Industry is the Original Evil raised to the power of evil -- and yet, something that's supposed to be neutral (and I guess I emphasize the "supposed" because we all know it's nothing of the sort) is in fact one of the prime mechanisms where bands, music websites, the music press, and the rest of the music industry promote their wares.
Does no-one not see this is a problem? If it were rolexes, or washing powder would you think it was ok? They are no more, and no less, commercial products than bands. Just because you enjoy the product does not mean that it's promotion is not spam.
So what's the adjective from Lake Cheko? Chekovian? Maybe someone's finger slipped on the photon torpedo launcher controls, and they came back in time to rename the lake -- so it went on his permanent record.
-- Jay Leno