I wanted the best of the current mini-macs. My local retailer didn't have any with the SuperDrive, which was advertised as being the highest end in the mini-mac series, and therefore had to special order one for me. After waiting two weeks, I get it, only to find out it isn't the highest end product. No, the packaging isn't misadvertising the product, but the company is misadvertising the products! And as a result, I do feel cheated.
The Z Machine is now able to propel small plates at 34 kilometers a second, faster than the 30 kilometers per second that Earth travels through space in its orbit about the Sun. That's 50 times faster than a rifle bullet, and three times the velocity needed to escape Earth's gravitational field.
While this particular case revolved around non-technical issues, in general the issues involved in close elections, regardless of your operational definition of 'close election', are effected by the technical; and the technical effects how close elections are dealt with. Ultimately the laws and court rulings in this case and others like it, may effect or be effected by technology. Thus, this is Slashdot related.
But the argument is over the use of a generic word in the same field, whether that generic word is "tiger" or "apple". If Apple has rights in the computer (hardware, software, OS, etc) field to the word "apple" and the prefix "mac", then certainly Tiger has rights in the the computer field to the word "tiger".
As for completeness, check out Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism. I have to agree with the anti-elitism "problem". And while the optimist in me hopes that the collaborative democratic approach succeeds, what I have seen on Wikipedia is that (a) White, male, USian, geeky topics are covered extremely well, both in depth and quality that (b) controversial topics are fought over and that (c) anything else is somebody's pet-project and at best lacks depth at worst it horribly misrepresents the topic.
As for the controversial topics most of them are undeniably biased, and if you have any doubt just check the discussion page for the topic. (An example would be Pope John Paul II's discussion page)
So, why are we heralding the possibility of articles of questionable quality and completeness being burned on CDs? It seems completely ridiculous to me. At least the topics can grow and evolve on the web. On a CD, any inaccuracy, incompleteness, or bias is maintained and perpetuated as long as that CD is used.
How is this flamebait? Many of the articles I see in wikipedia are either very incomplete or have errors/bias in them. So how does my comment qualify as flamebait because of their poor quality?
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I wanted the best of the current mini-macs. My local retailer didn't have any with the SuperDrive, which was advertised as being the highest end in the mini-mac series, and therefore had to special order one for me. After waiting two weeks, I get it, only to find out it isn't the highest end product. No, the packaging isn't misadvertising the product, but the company is misadvertising the products ! And as a result, I do feel cheated.
While this particular case revolved around non-technical issues, in general the issues involved in close elections, regardless of your operational definition of 'close election', are effected by the technical; and the technical effects how close elections are dealt with. Ultimately the laws and court rulings in this case and others like it, may effect or be effected by technology. Thus, this is Slashdot related.
Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program
Tampering with Election Machine Software
Didn't know how to let someone in charge know that the submit story link is leading to a 503.
But the argument is over the use of a generic word in the same field, whether that generic word is "tiger" or "apple". If Apple has rights in the computer (hardware, software, OS, etc) field to the word "apple" and the prefix "mac", then certainly Tiger has rights in the the computer field to the word "tiger".
You can't own something as generic as "Tiger."
What about something as generic as "Apple"?
That's what I get for chatting, writing a paper, and trying to post simultaneously in the zero-dark hours of an all-nighter.
As for accuracy, check out The Faith-Based Encyclopedia's analysis of Wikipedia's page on Alexander Hamilton.
As for completeness, check out Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism. I have to agree with the anti-elitism "problem". And while the optimist in me hopes that the collaborative democratic approach succeeds, what I have seen on Wikipedia is that (a) White, male, USian, geeky topics are covered extremely well, both in depth and quality that (b) controversial topics are fought over and that (c) anything else is somebody's pet-project and at best lacks depth at worst it horribly misrepresents the topic.
As for the controversial topics most of them are undeniably biased, and if you have any doubt just check the discussion page for the topic. (An example would be Pope John Paul II's discussion page)
So, why are we heralding the possibility of articles of questionable quality and completeness being burned on CDs? It seems completely ridiculous to me. At least the topics can grow and evolve on the web. On a CD, any inaccuracy, incompleteness, or bias is maintained and perpetuated as long as that CD is used.
How is this flamebait? Many of the articles I see in wikipedia are either very incomplete or have errors/bias in them. So how does my comment qualify as flamebait because of their poor quality?
So we can get lots of incomplete information?
Let Them lose on the infidels!
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