"Do they track the frequency of article updates over there? This could get stupid real fast."
They track all changes. A better way to detect problems is the number of "reverts" to a previous version of the article. After three reverts they're supposed to lock the article. And by the by, some wikipedia articles have been stupid for a long time before this. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit _wars_ever. I'm not sure what you mean about it being an ad rag, I spend quite a bit of time on it and I can't remember seeing many that aren't quickly removed. I suppose it depends what you're looking up.
Well there's the N91 they're working on. My friend works at Nokia and has a prototype of it, which looks pretty cool. It's a little bulky, and I think by the time they release it a 4GB hard drive will be a bad idea compared to 4 GB of flash, but I was pretty impressed with the music interface and quality when I tried it. Of course the $700 + price tag (without a plan) is pretty damn prohibitive.
You are right to say that this is dumping. But the PS2 did the same thing - as I understand it Nintendo was the only company that cut a profit from the last generation of consoles. And I expect the PS3 will continue the tradition. I'll also point out the obvious - Microsoft is not a monopoly in the console market, nowhere near, and Sony is a bigger company overall ($70 billion annual revenues vs $40 billion).
And maybe everyone's forgotten, but Sony and other Japanese companies practically invented the idea of dumping in the 70's and 80's to elbow their way into Western markets with their largely ripped off consumer electronics and cars. I for one would love to see Microsoft give them a black eye at their own game.
1)We didn't instate [sic] saddam hussein. We supported him against Iran (also bad bastards). 2)Last time I checked we payed for oil. Quite a lot in fact.
Also, most of the rioters are minors so the bulk of their discontent would be from their parents not getting jobs, rather than themselves. And the parents of 2nd generation street thugs are? Uneducated/inexperienced immigrants.
Are you talking about the rioters not being able to get jobs? In that case, I suggest to you the kind of people that run through the streets burning and looting are not employed for reasons other than just having an arab name, like perhaps being street thugs.
If you're talking about the French population at large, you look at the numbers. A large portion of the arab population are first generation immigrants, many of them there illegally.
I'm not saying racism isn't an issue, and arguably that's part of what turns them into rioting thugs. But saying discrimination alone makes them "5 times less likely" to get a job is misleading and likely not the case.
Islam will never be as powerful a force in America as it is in Europe. Reasons are as follows: relatively tiny numbers, relatively good integration of muslims in American society.
How exactly is Bush being greedy? Made some poor decisions, yes. But it's not like he's smuggling oil out of Iraq and Afghanistan in the night and putting it in some big tank somewhere. Now explain the leap of logic in how that relates to these French rioters. What exactly do they have to do with Bush's alleged "greed"? Is the extent of your comparision "look, muslims are rioting"? And for the record, I'm fairly sure the Turks told their share of Christians and others how to live their lives. If you mean forced them to live under sharia law, then no, but that's not the only criteria.
Maybe I'm alone here, but I don't really care if they do shut down blogs that are even remotely supportive of the rioting. But part of thats because I really don't care about blogs period. I'm perfectly willing to accept their existance under normal circumstances, but when the country is burning I'll do quite happily without the half-baked, unsourced, uncorroborated and highly opinionated crap from your average blogger. If my car was torched by some of those bastards I think I'd care even less.
Call me if they shut down some media outlet I can actually trust.
You're assuming that the fact that they have Arab names is what causes them to be rejected more often. Did you ever suppose perhaps some of it's because of everything else on their resumes? The fact that so many are uneducated, inexperienced immigrants perhaps?
Now I hate Google speculation as much as the next guy.. But could this be an effort by google to get a feel for Open Office to pave the way for a future Google-run, GMail style web interface version of Open Office?
With WiMAX looking fairly promising, are cable companies waiting to see if it pans out before investing billions in new infrastructure? And if WiMAX does catch on, will performance be significantly better and/or cheaper than cable is now? Or will it ultimately fall into the same traps of overuse and monopoly? Or face new traps like not working in bad weather?
1) Computers may not add that much to a child's education. Do I feel my education was any less than my younger sibling who was in a mandatory laptop program? No, and in many cases I think the lack of distraction may have helped. Of course someone in the third world might take better advantage of a laptop ("leapfrogging" older education methods?) but my gut says not that much more. They'll maybe learn to type (which without internet access, I doubt), maybe be run through something like Algeblaster or Reader Rabbit and then go and play whatever crappy open source games come on the thing before dropping it in a puddle or getting the crap beaten out of them and having it stolen.
2) 150 million of these things? Now I may not be good with numbers (in fact I'm fairly sure I'm not), but if he thinks he could find developing governments willing to pay 15 billion dollars on these things that may not even have much effect (see point 1) then good luck to him.
Personally I think this money could be better spent on paper and pencils, perhaps community libraries and certainly more local teachers. In fact, back that up a step, how about enough schools for all the people in these countries, and how about making them so you're not packing hundreds of kids into an elementary classroom?
These people apparently see computers as a silver bullet to end ignorance. Education requires time and effort, not word processors and Tetris. If these things go ahead, they should be sold to up and coming families, who will put them to productive use, not given to everybody and watching the gong show that ensues.
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"Do they track the frequency of article updates over there? This could get stupid real fast." They track all changes. A better way to detect problems is the number of "reverts" to a previous version of the article. After three reverts they're supposed to lock the article. And by the by, some wikipedia articles have been stupid for a long time before this. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit _wars_ever. I'm not sure what you mean about it being an ad rag, I spend quite a bit of time on it and I can't remember seeing many that aren't quickly removed. I suppose it depends what you're looking up.
Well there's the N91 they're working on. My friend works at Nokia and has a prototype of it, which looks pretty cool. It's a little bulky, and I think by the time they release it a 4GB hard drive will be a bad idea compared to 4 GB of flash, but I was pretty impressed with the music interface and quality when I tried it. Of course the $700 + price tag (without a plan) is pretty damn prohibitive.
You are right to say that this is dumping. But the PS2 did the same thing - as I understand it Nintendo was the only company that cut a profit from the last generation of consoles. And I expect the PS3 will continue the tradition. I'll also point out the obvious - Microsoft is not a monopoly in the console market, nowhere near, and Sony is a bigger company overall ($70 billion annual revenues vs $40 billion). And maybe everyone's forgotten, but Sony and other Japanese companies practically invented the idea of dumping in the 70's and 80's to elbow their way into Western markets with their largely ripped off consumer electronics and cars. I for one would love to see Microsoft give them a black eye at their own game.
1)We didn't instate [sic] saddam hussein. We supported him against Iran (also bad bastards).
2)Last time I checked we payed for oil. Quite a lot in fact.
Also, most of the rioters are minors so the bulk of their discontent would be from their parents not getting jobs, rather than themselves. And the parents of 2nd generation street thugs are? Uneducated/inexperienced immigrants.
Are you talking about the rioters not being able to get jobs? In that case, I suggest to you the kind of people that run through the streets burning and looting are not employed for reasons other than just having an arab name, like perhaps being street thugs. If you're talking about the French population at large, you look at the numbers. A large portion of the arab population are first generation immigrants, many of them there illegally. I'm not saying racism isn't an issue, and arguably that's part of what turns them into rioting thugs. But saying discrimination alone makes them "5 times less likely" to get a job is misleading and likely not the case.
Islam will never be as powerful a force in America as it is in Europe. Reasons are as follows: relatively tiny numbers, relatively good integration of muslims in American society.
How exactly is Bush being greedy? Made some poor decisions, yes. But it's not like he's smuggling oil out of Iraq and Afghanistan in the night and putting it in some big tank somewhere. Now explain the leap of logic in how that relates to these French rioters. What exactly do they have to do with Bush's alleged "greed"? Is the extent of your comparision "look, muslims are rioting"? And for the record, I'm fairly sure the Turks told their share of Christians and others how to live their lives. If you mean forced them to live under sharia law, then no, but that's not the only criteria.
Maybe I'm alone here, but I don't really care if they do shut down blogs that are even remotely supportive of the rioting. But part of thats because I really don't care about blogs period. I'm perfectly willing to accept their existance under normal circumstances, but when the country is burning I'll do quite happily without the half-baked, unsourced, uncorroborated and highly opinionated crap from your average blogger. If my car was torched by some of those bastards I think I'd care even less. Call me if they shut down some media outlet I can actually trust.
You're assuming that the fact that they have Arab names is what causes them to be rejected more often. Did you ever suppose perhaps some of it's because of everything else on their resumes? The fact that so many are uneducated, inexperienced immigrants perhaps?
Now I hate Google speculation as much as the next guy.. But could this be an effort by google to get a feel for Open Office to pave the way for a future Google-run, GMail style web interface version of Open Office?
Oh who am I kidding, I love google speculation.
With WiMAX looking fairly promising, are cable companies waiting to see if it pans out before investing billions in new infrastructure?
And if WiMAX does catch on, will performance be significantly better and/or cheaper than cable is now? Or will it ultimately fall into the same traps of overuse and monopoly? Or face new traps like not working in bad weather?
1) Computers may not add that much to a child's education. Do I feel my education was any less than my younger sibling who was in a mandatory laptop program? No, and in many cases I think the lack of distraction may have helped. Of course someone in the third world might take better advantage of a laptop ("leapfrogging" older education methods?) but my gut says not that much more. They'll maybe learn to type (which without internet access, I doubt), maybe be run through something like Algeblaster or Reader Rabbit and then go and play whatever crappy open source games come on the thing before dropping it in a puddle or getting the crap beaten out of them and having it stolen.
2) 150 million of these things? Now I may not be good with numbers (in fact I'm fairly sure I'm not), but if he thinks he could find developing governments willing to pay 15 billion dollars on these things that may not even have much effect (see point 1) then good luck to him.
Personally I think this money could be better spent on paper and pencils, perhaps community libraries and certainly more local teachers. In fact, back that up a step, how about enough schools for all the people in these countries, and how about making them so you're not packing hundreds of kids into an elementary classroom?
These people apparently see computers as a silver bullet to end ignorance. Education requires time and effort, not word processors and Tetris. If these things go ahead, they should be sold to up and coming families, who will put them to productive use, not given to everybody and watching the gong show that ensues.