You said you "believe" these sources are 99.99% accurate. You also said you don't feel it necessary to fact check them.
Your belief in the accuracy of sources is not the same thing as them being accurate. If you did check for errors and came to the conclusion that a source was accurate, that would be reasonable but that isn't what you said. The probable existance of a nearly error free source doesn't in anyway defend the assumption of a source as error free.
It may not be worth it to double check in all cases, but then you have to admit the possibility of error not just assume that it's 99.99% accurate because it's not worth it to read further.
"If I have a resource that I believe to be accurate 99.99% of the time, it is much less necessary to be double-checking than a source I believe to be accurate only 50% of the time, assuming what I am looking up has roughly equal value riding on the correctness of the information."
No, that just means you shouldn't believe that a resource is 99.99% accurate. Ever.
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A lot of the information ISN'T out there. I took a college courses on African American music and African American art. To my suprise, a great number of the most highlighted artists in the class had no information available to them on the internet. I started the Wikiprojects on Composers and Visual Arts after that and we've discovered a large number of composers aren't only neglected on Wikipedia, but on the internet.
It's especially sad considering a good book on the subject would have at least a little of the information. The textbook I have on African American music isn't even that big, but even a few sentences on a few of the people mentioned is more than I can find in the whole internet. The internet hasn't caught up with print yet outside of the most popular topics.
Wrong, Kevin Pereira isn't funny.
Also, why the hell is G4 playing reruns of the Fox drama Fastlane? What does that have to do with ANYTHING on this channel!
From the article:
"I've definitely been picking up on the resentment," said Max Levchin, a founder of PayPal, the online payment service now owned by eBay. "They're a big company now, doing things people didn't expect them to do."
I hope everyone appreciates the humor in PAYPAL saying this. They've certainly gone in the direction we all hate to see a once promising company go. The never ending fees and the increasing marketshare with few real competitors.
The Terms of Service which gives them power to do pretty much anything, including lock out your accounts or take from your bank account... and fake "buyer protection" which is incredibly difficult to claim and screws over sellers immediately if there is even a hint at an alleged complaint.
Yeah, Paypal knows a thing or two about user resentment
That same argument can be used about Picasa and Keyhole. Except why would they take a pay service like Keyhole and turn it into a free version of Google Earth
If you expressed your aggravation more maturely, people would have responded much more favorably. Present yourself as a child and expect to be treated as one.
Salaried workers don't need to do 9-5 shifts. My mother has been a salaried worker at various companies for over 20 years. One thing she always notes is the time people arrive and try to leave ontime (though usually they do unpaid overtime). She's not a morning person, so she comes in at 10 and leaves sometimes past 8.
Must be nice. I'm thankfully not working right now, but when I was I had to email my boss files and answer calls from work. Sometimes it was beyond ridiculous.
My first boyfriend was an IT manager and he'd be on any number of electronic devices in the time we were together. He always was iming, cellphone, etc the people at his job. It was insane at times.
I feel like you though. The unpaid time is unspoken part of too many job descriptions
Who reads magazines while doing any of those things?? I just go to sleep when I go to sleep, I keep very regular so my bathroom time is short, and when I'm waiting for clothes I'm on the internet. =)
I wouldn't say four years vs three. Those who bought the current generation late, will probably buy the next generation just as late and get the same out of time out of their console. They will be only paying $300yr for $75 per year for four years.
They'll have that larger library of games during their peak gaming period with that console. During the last year, they new console may be out but they'll be able to still tap into that game library. For that overlap period, games will see a price drop.
Not mention the ease of buying used games from the defectors who are selling their old games to get the new games and new console.
Most of the Google Labs are done by individual employees in their time that is set aside to develop new products. With that many minds trying to get their ideas through google, it's no wonder that they can tackle so many areas
Then don't use it. I don't use Google's "My Search History" because it seems too insane that my entire search history can be tapped from any computer that cracks my Gmail username and password.
Aren't there brands that you trust who you don't use for absolutely everything they offer? I may by Old Spice deodorant, but somehow I don't use the bodywash and am not antioldspice.
Google should consider splitting into seperate entities. Like how we pretend like NBC and General Electric aren't the same company. They distance themselves enough that we don't worry about our electric bill mixing with our Thursday night line up (Well. No one really watches NBC anyway)
Tolkien was pointing out that allegory is intentional by the author while applicability was made by the reader. Tolkien's books aren't an allegory. Whether or not this Star Wars movie is an allegory is a different matter entirely.
"also see Dan Huard's take on TechTV".
"Thats not Kevin Rose's take, this post is taken from a blog entry by Dan Huard, who was the guy that answered phones. I just love all the misinformation on Slashdot."
The only "misinformation" here seems to be in your post.
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Your belief in the accuracy of sources is not the same thing as them being accurate. If you did check for errors and came to the conclusion that a source was accurate, that would be reasonable but that isn't what you said. The probable existance of a nearly error free source doesn't in anyway defend the assumption of a source as error free.
It may not be worth it to double check in all cases, but then you have to admit the possibility of error not just assume that it's 99.99% accurate because it's not worth it to read further.
"If I have a resource that I believe to be accurate 99.99% of the time, it is much less necessary to be double-checking than a source I believe to be accurate only 50% of the time, assuming what I am looking up has roughly equal value riding on the correctness of the information." No, that just means you shouldn't believe that a resource is 99.99% accurate. Ever.
A lot of the information ISN'T out there. I took a college courses on African American music and African American art. To my suprise, a great number of the most highlighted artists in the class had no information available to them on the internet. I started the Wikiprojects on Composers and Visual Arts after that and we've discovered a large number of composers aren't only neglected on Wikipedia, but on the internet. It's especially sad considering a good book on the subject would have at least a little of the information. The textbook I have on African American music isn't even that big, but even a few sentences on a few of the people mentioned is more than I can find in the whole internet. The internet hasn't caught up with print yet outside of the most popular topics.
THe main problem here is that the article was SPEEDY DELETED--one person decided to delete it. It was subject to that one person's bias.
Wrong, Kevin Pereira isn't funny. Also, why the hell is G4 playing reruns of the Fox drama Fastlane? What does that have to do with ANYTHING on this channel!
That same argument can be used about Picasa and Keyhole. Except why would they take a pay service like Keyhole and turn it into a free version of Google Earth
If you expressed your aggravation more maturely, people would have responded much more favorably. Present yourself as a child and expect to be treated as one.
In this article, the stem cells were taken from embryos.
Salaried workers don't need to do 9-5 shifts. My mother has been a salaried worker at various companies for over 20 years. One thing she always notes is the time people arrive and try to leave ontime (though usually they do unpaid overtime). She's not a morning person, so she comes in at 10 and leaves sometimes past 8.
Must be nice. I'm thankfully not working right now, but when I was I had to email my boss files and answer calls from work. Sometimes it was beyond ridiculous. My first boyfriend was an IT manager and he'd be on any number of electronic devices in the time we were together. He always was iming, cellphone, etc the people at his job. It was insane at times. I feel like you though. The unpaid time is unspoken part of too many job descriptions
Who reads magazines while doing any of those things?? I just go to sleep when I go to sleep, I keep very regular so my bathroom time is short, and when I'm waiting for clothes I'm on the internet. =)
They'll have that larger library of games during their peak gaming period with that console. During the last year, they new console may be out but they'll be able to still tap into that game library. For that overlap period, games will see a price drop.
Not mention the ease of buying used games from the defectors who are selling their old games to get the new games and new console.
... meet DMCA Junior!
Presumably I'll be able to buy information
Most of the Google Labs are done by individual employees in their time that is set aside to develop new products. With that many minds trying to get their ideas through google, it's no wonder that they can tackle so many areas
Then don't use it. I don't use Google's "My Search History" because it seems too insane that my entire search history can be tapped from any computer that cracks my Gmail username and password. Aren't there brands that you trust who you don't use for absolutely everything they offer? I may by Old Spice deodorant, but somehow I don't use the bodywash and am not antioldspice.
Google should consider splitting into seperate entities. Like how we pretend like NBC and General Electric aren't the same company. They distance themselves enough that we don't worry about our electric bill mixing with our Thursday night line up (Well. No one really watches NBC anyway)
Tolkien was pointing out that allegory is intentional by the author while applicability was made by the reader. Tolkien's books aren't an allegory. Whether or not this Star Wars movie is an allegory is a different matter entirely.
"also see Dan Huard's take on TechTV". "Thats not Kevin Rose's take, this post is taken from a blog entry by Dan Huard, who was the guy that answered phones. I just love all the misinformation on Slashdot." The only "misinformation" here seems to be in your post.