Frankly, who cares? I don't. What if I want to know some details on [whatever web comic] someone just mentioned to me? Maybe I want to know a handful of relevant links? Google is going to give me a bunch of irrelevant crap I don't want.
Do you not see that this is exactly what happens to Wikipedia when it tries to index everything that exists? Add in the fact that everything is edited by hand, and you get a bunch of outdated information (if any at all) and a list dead links.
IN FACT, I'll argue right now that the LESS notable something is, all the more reason to keep the article and get people to contribute whatever info they might have! Why even BOTHER running an online encyclopedia-style site if you're going to shut down articles that happen to pertain to not-widely-known subjects? I can understand extremely trivial stuff like "The QX935 is a $0.39 alarm clock from Bill's Dollar Store in Urbana, Ohio", but even then, maybe someone found an old "QX935" sitting around and are wondering about its origin?
If there is nothing more to say about a subject than "X exists, click here", then that is the very definition of non-notable. You have not archived any important information for future generations. The only thing you have done is to inflate your own ego today.
Its....a YouTube video?!?
Wow. And that needs a Wikipedia article? Because why?
So, every YouTube video should have a Wikipedia page? Or just all the ones with 1 million views?
What about 900 thousand views? What about 9 thousand? Who gets to draw this line? Or is it just videos that you personally really really like?
What possible useful information could this page have anyway, other than a link to the video? Is this anything that Google couldn't provide, and much quicker and more accurately?
Soon, every single page on the web will need an article about it on Wikipedia. And that includes those article pages, so I think you can see where this is going...
Server Name: BIGFATTURD.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com/
>>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:54:43 UTC
You don't trust 'whois', but you trust your ISP not to sell DNS records? You are far more trustworthy than I.
Not to mention the significant chance that the domain might be registered, but not exposing a web host.
A 650 MByte CD is 333000 sectors x 2048 bytes per sector = 650.4 x 2^20 bytes (power of 2)
A 700 MByte CD is 360000 sectors x 2048 bytes per sector = 703.1 x 2^20 bytes (power of 2)
Having just input configuration, no matter how brilliant it is, will always suck. Why can't more applications give the ability to configure keypresses and menus, rather than trying to make up just another brilliant scheme that few people would like and that no other app would adopt?
I want fully configurable key presses, tool bars, menus, tool panes, etc. Everything. Mr. Barnes should be able to configure whatever app for his bizarre menu idea if he wants. And if I want to put the six actions that I want on a separate touchscreen display as huge buttons that I can punch with my nose, then let me do that too.
A few apps have decent enough support for this, but it is far from common. Do the standard widget libraries just not easily support this, or is it that programmers have no idea how to use them? Or, most likely, both?
Firefox, seriously, is that really the best you can do?
The French know that the right way to collect secret information is to get a government official drunk enough that he will let slip classified information. The US is trying to duck out of the bar tab, and the French government is right to insist that these things are done properly!
Hey Slashdorks, why all of the whining? The MPA is actually targetting the right people for a change. It is the mass-producing counterfeiters who they should have been the most worried about all along, instead of the guy wanting to back up his purchase to his computer.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh wait, there it is on page 2. Figures.
What, Open Source didn't make the list?!? On the other hand, neither did Software Patents. Where is a good shill when you need one?
Wow, Vic Gundotra?!?
Thats right! It could be MySpace!
So, every YouTube video should have a Wikipedia page? Or just all the ones with 1 million views? What about 900 thousand views? What about 9 thousand? Who gets to draw this line? Or is it just videos that you personally really really like?
What possible useful information could this page have anyway, other than a link to the video? Is this anything that Google couldn't provide, and much quicker and more accurately?
Soon, every single page on the web will need an article about it on Wikipedia. And that includes those article pages, so I think you can see where this is going...
Server Name: BIGFATTURD.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com/ >>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:54:43 UTC
You don't trust 'whois', but you trust your ISP not to sell DNS records? You are far more trustworthy than I. Not to mention the significant chance that the domain might be registered, but not exposing a web host.
A 650 MByte CD is 650 * 10^6 bytes (power of 10)
Actually,
A 650 MByte CD is 333000 sectors x 2048 bytes per sector = 650.4 x 2^20 bytes (power of 2)
A 700 MByte CD is 360000 sectors x 2048 bytes per sector = 703.1 x 2^20 bytes (power of 2)
Where else do you think it would be? In Mexico?!?
Not to mention, setting back Accessibility more than a few years...
Having just input configuration, no matter how brilliant it is, will always suck. Why can't more applications give the ability to configure keypresses and menus, rather than trying to make up just another brilliant scheme that few people would like and that no other app would adopt? I want fully configurable key presses, tool bars, menus, tool panes, etc. Everything. Mr. Barnes should be able to configure whatever app for his bizarre menu idea if he wants. And if I want to put the six actions that I want on a separate touchscreen display as huge buttons that I can punch with my nose, then let me do that too. A few apps have decent enough support for this, but it is far from common. Do the standard widget libraries just not easily support this, or is it that programmers have no idea how to use them? Or, most likely, both? Firefox, seriously, is that really the best you can do?
I think we should avoid the Linux competition angle for a little while. Its showing at the Indy 500 was not exactly awe-inspiring...
Dumb people have more kids sounds like at least as plausible of an interpretation of this study as any other.
The French know that the right way to collect secret information is to get a government official drunk enough that he will let slip classified information. The US is trying to duck out of the bar tab, and the French government is right to insist that these things are done properly!
I would have thought he would be kept pretty busy with the Nuggets... I guess he needs something to do during the playoffs.
Is Uranus ever not funny?!? I mean, besides always...
Too bad my mod points have run out... This has to be the funniest thing I've read on here in a long time!
And here I thought it was just because we weren't afraid of games where you had to do math...
Hey Slashdorks, why all of the whining? The MPA is actually targetting the right people for a change. It is the mass-producing counterfeiters who they should have been the most worried about all along, instead of the guy wanting to back up his purchase to his computer.
I hear that Google is already getting sued by the Martians over copyright violations.
Its good to see that those software engineering classes are paying off
You made all that up, didn't you?
Fascinating... Live long and prosper!
Ok, I read that headline wrong and though that Google had finally lost its mind completely...