We wrote perhaps a 9 months' work in three days and you think publishers will mock this in an effective way? The PR has been enormously great and this gives the book even better chances to improve.:)
Cleaning, editing and some graphics are still to be done, but it will still have been faster and better than our current books. And yet another great highlight of open materials which the general public don't really know about.
It's going to end up being a steaming pile of crap, designed by a committee, rushed to finish. Why such a hurry? In my experience, great textbooks are labor of love of experts in the field with talent in writing.
It won't end up being a steaming pile of crap for a simple reason: it continues to develop for longer than this weekend. This sprint was a separate interesting idea from the book being open.
I'd say that we are not really able to evaluate how complex the evolution of intelligence is since it obviously (realisation based on Slashdot comments) hasn't developed very far yet.
... but where to mail the complaint? Many times I when I have wanted to post my opinion to some isntance or another i have only found that they have made it IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to contact them. They don't leave any path open for possible complaints.
Go see EA.com yourselves. Where does it give you an email address to which you can mail your voice to?
Nowhere. Not even under "Contact Us".
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We wrote perhaps a 9 months' work in three days and you think publishers will mock this in an effective way? The PR has been enormously great and this gives the book even better chances to improve. :)
Cleaning, editing and some graphics are still to be done, but it will still have been faster and better than our current books. And yet another great highlight of open materials which the general public don't really know about.
Here's a English-language video from Vesa Linja-aho, the submitter and the main boss guy in this project: http://youtu.be/ThbUiky4AKA
It's going to end up being a steaming pile of crap, designed by a committee, rushed to finish. Why such a hurry? In my experience, great textbooks are labor of love of experts in the field with talent in writing.
It won't end up being a steaming pile of crap for a simple reason: it continues to develop for longer than this weekend. This sprint was a separate interesting idea from the book being open.
... am I the only one who first read the title as simply "Ubisoft To Shut Down"?
Oh, too bad. I just called my ISP. Took 2 minutes. Now I pay 20 euros per month for 100/10 connection. Hell yeah.
Why, oh why did you not tell me all this ten years ago? ;_;
Come to Finland. http://www.welho.fi/homes/broadband/cableandadslbroadbandsubscriptions/welho100m/tabid/72495/Default.aspx We've had that for about a year now. Oh, and look: http://www.welho.fi/homes/broadband/cableandadslbroadbandsubscriptions/welho110m/tabid/72504/Default.aspx
I'd say that we are not really able to evaluate how complex the evolution of intelligence is since it obviously (realisation based on Slashdot comments) hasn't developed very far yet.
... but where to mail the complaint? Many times I when I have wanted to post my opinion to some isntance or another i have only found that they have made it IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to contact them. They don't leave any path open for possible complaints. Go see EA.com yourselves. Where does it give you an email address to which you can mail your voice to? Nowhere. Not even under "Contact Us".