I didn't read teh details of the Pentagon Papers trial, however I hope there was an exception included that them being allowed to print whatever was leaked did not extend to things like say battle-plans or such stuff (which they may be allowed to print, but not before the operation reached a conclusion).
I always called myself an experience junkie. I get a total high from anything new, even if its bad. I.e. breaking my leg would actually be interesting to me as I'd never done it before. for about the first 2 or 3 days, then the novelty would wear off as it does with pretty much everything else.
honeslty I don't see this as fud. Fud to me is someone needless, or warrantless spreading doubt about something. Doubt about wikipedia is justified. As a whole, society and people are stupid. When groups get together things inevitably turn into a gong show. Wikipedia is just another example of something that got ruined by a bunch of people using it.
As I said on the other wikipedia article here not too long ago: its very easy for a few idiots to get together and muddle things into no concensus. You could write an article on something remotely notable that couldn't possibly have any sources and easily have it kept by having a few buddies show up for the AfD. They don't get major exposure, and all it takes is a handful 90% of the time. Part of the blame for this lies with the admins. Most seem lazy and unwilling to do anything that requires work. AfDs are supposed to be debates, and they insist that what it is, but admins often just tally the responses and go based on that, if an AfD look like this:
Delete - Violates WP:OR Delete - not notable, original research, violates WP:V Delete - as above Keep - pickles keep - spork keep - I like ponies!
they would simply close it as a no concensus even though its clear the people who want the article kept are brain damaged.
Admins also aren't content editors. In a content dispute, they'll protect the article or block those involved in an edit war, but they won't go "Yeah, you're full of crap, stop trying to add that ridiculous information". Which basically means when blocks and page protection expire, they go at it again. There are two IPs that have been warring over Herner Werzog's nationality, an admin will randomly semi-protect the page, but it expires and they come back and fight over it again. These kind of things damage wikipedia a lot. Until they start actively dealing with these things, its going to suffer, and likely fail.
Hah. God you're naive. As someone working on cleaning up articles cited on garbage, no wikipedia doesn't support it. People are all to happy to have an unsourced, original research article be kept because "I find it really useful even though none of it can be sourced reliably, lalalala".
The admins are all to happy to close AfDs with noconcensus even though the delete side says "It violates policies x,y,z" and the keep side says "I like it, the article is pretty and I'm wearing blue shorts today".
Having gotten familiar with things on wikipedia over the last few months, I've found myself less than impressed. Its all too easy for a few individuals to push point of view, or keep any random pointless garbage article by muddling concensus. Most articles put up for deletion don't get massive attention, and half a dozen individuals dropping by and claiming keep for irrelevant reasons like "I find it useful" while turning a blind eye to the policy violations in the article, results in garbage finding a home there. When coupled with admins who just tally the opinions rather than read the debate (but they're very adament about it being a discussion and not a vote) it ends up being a gong show. The same thing can occur in pushing poit of view in articles, and other agendas people want to push. its a nice read, but there needs to be some reform there to account for people who want to use wikipedia as a soapbox, and other dumbassery.
Xbox version came out 5 weeks after PC version of Max Payne 2, same with Morrowind. Morrowind also had an updated game of the year edition that tweaked gameplay for the console. They were not simultaneous releases and they weren't developed with the console as the base system of play.
It has a high ranking because its shiny and it was hyped to death. Popularity does not equal quality. These two things are independent of one another. Plenty of quality games are not popular and plenty of popular games really aren't that great. Oblivion WAS dumbed down for the console. Its a perfect example of something that was ruined by. They made sweeping changes to the game as a result of it going to the console and it turned out as garbage. The backlash lasted for weeks on the forum. The AI sucked, the gameplay was honestly not that great, the total lack of the ability to map keys sucked, the interface was not great.
Because consoles are poor gaming platforms compared to the PC. They're cheap because they just don't have the same abilities. Static hardware means that at release IF the console is designed by current PC standards your first few games might be on par graphically. Next year, you're releasing crappy graphics if you don't clean it up for the PC. Even oblivion when compared side by side was shown to be better on the PC already and it was just released.
Processors aren't good in the consoles. I've linked to this numerous times and I'll continue to link to it: http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03/ burn_the_house_.html read what Chris Hecker says about the processors in the xbox360 and the P3. In order processing is not good for AI. Games released for both PC and Console that aren't cleaned up will have dumbed down AI.
Control schemes suck on the console. They're planning on releasing Battle for Middle Earth 2 and EA thinks they've figured out a magic control scheme for consoles to use in an RTS game. First words "complicated". The developers didn't even clean oblivion up enough to allow PC users to map keys. Interfaces are dumbed down to work for console users.
Then money, the publisher does not want to pay a developer to spend 2 or 3 months extra cleaning up a PC game so that it actaully plays and looks good on the system.
Consoles are the lowest common denominator and when you build for the lowest common denominator you very rarely are building quality.
Except whats your point? Not everyone is equal. A perfect world would not be a world in which any random job you pick there is an equal mix of geners/races/religions/ages/etc working that job. In a perfect world the best person is hired for the job and everybody gets the fuck over it.
As above, racism is only really a problem because some people won't let it die. They're too concerned about appearing perfect rather than being perfect.
Every chance they get they find a way to shove it down everyone's throat about how there isn't a 50/50 split in races in some job somewhere.
Why does racism exist? Because of bellyachers like that. The fact of the matter is, white males were in charge here for a long time. Things don't change overnight. In the grand scheme of thing, 40 or 50 years is over night. Shut up for another 100 years then see how things are.
Educators were already complaining that students couldn't even write properly in class as they were often falling back on internet short hand in reports. It used to take an extremely long time for buzz words to get into dictionaries, they had to have a long history of usage. Now, it seems a couple of years of sketchy usage and you're good enough for Websters. I remember that when there was a story about them adding Bootylicious to the dictionary, which people get beaten for using now good choice on that, they were also adding a couple of slang words from like the 50s or something. Took them 50 years to earn a spot in websters, and bootylicious was getting in after a year or so. Yeah..
Several of the provinces in Canada have banned smoking in pubs and nightclubs. It hasn't been an issue here. There is always an initial drop, but it comes back when people realize there isn't anywhere else to go to smoke, so they just suck it up and go out anyway.
As far as volume, my yahoo account got on someone's list and I get 3 or 4 e-mails a day for various "Vouchers" (This WAS a low-spam account, until I joined a few linux mailing groups). If half the vouchers were real I'd have so much free crap I wouldn't know what to do with it. Coach handbags, United airlines tickets, Pizza-hut, and about a dozen or so other brands. No porn though that I've noticed.
My hotmail account on which the spam filter used to work really nicely and send everything to junk, has recently stopped. Not a single e-mail is being caught by the spam filter and is showing up right in my inbox. Its mostly porn, I'd say 90%, or v1aaagrrrra (sic).
"eBay has been a great resource to buy or sell goods without leaving your computer"
Ebay is a mediocre resource. It may have been great awhile ago, but it stopped being great a few years ago. Ebay bends to the will of the power seller, and does nothing to enforce their rules and ToS. Trying to report violations (like an asian seller who marks his location as Hong Kong, Canada) and clearly states the item ships from the pacific, gets you a canned response from ebay about how they just snuggled that seller last night and they trust him to say where he's from. Or someone charging $60 to ship a USB dongle via standard USPS post gets you another canned response about how they trust their sellers to set appropriate shipping rates, even though that example is included in their ToS for things that shouldn't happen.
I get about that far on my mother's side just back into germany. Unfortunately nothing before that. On my fathers fathers side I can only get back about 3 generations and then it gets fuzzy because they don't have any real records there and they think his grandfather may have been part of a press gang.
Which is the big problem with hyphenated names. They become a disgusting mess if you let them get out of control. I don't think many parents who've imposed that on their children really thought it through.
[quote]They might even release a tool to map out the distribution of license keys to see if they could track the original licensee[/quote] Pretty useless since you can get a program that generates unique keys over time and verifies whether or not they can be used to trick windows into thinking it is legit. It can take a couple minutes to generate a key, but you can leave it on over night and generate a hundred keys or so. I don't think you'd be able to track that down at all.
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I didn't read teh details of the Pentagon Papers trial, however I hope there was an exception included that them being allowed to print whatever was leaked did not extend to things like say battle-plans or such stuff (which they may be allowed to print, but not before the operation reached a conclusion).
I always called myself an experience junkie. I get a total high from anything new, even if its bad. I.e. breaking my leg would actually be interesting to me as I'd never done it before. for about the first 2 or 3 days, then the novelty would wear off as it does with pretty much everything else.
if it were a single event no. its a constant endless behaviour.
http://wal-mart.ca/wps-portal/storelocator/Canada- VideoGames.jsp?selection=listingDetails&page=vg&la ng=null&assetId=2429&imageId=4421&suggestedItem=&p riceType=1&page=null&departmentId=17&categoryId=21 5 goto canada and get a blue one?
You assume the code is really stolen.
honeslty I don't see this as fud. Fud to me is someone needless, or warrantless spreading doubt about something. Doubt about wikipedia is justified. As a whole, society and people are stupid. When groups get together things inevitably turn into a gong show. Wikipedia is just another example of something that got ruined by a bunch of people using it.
As I said on the other wikipedia article here not too long ago:
its very easy for a few idiots to get together and muddle things into no concensus. You could write an article on something remotely notable that couldn't possibly have any sources and easily have it kept by having a few buddies show up for the AfD. They don't get major exposure, and all it takes is a handful 90% of the time. Part of the blame for this lies with the admins. Most seem lazy and unwilling to do anything that requires work. AfDs are supposed to be debates, and they insist that what it is, but admins often just tally the responses and go based on that, if an AfD look like this:
Delete - Violates WP:OR
Delete - not notable, original research, violates WP:V
Delete - as above
Keep - pickles
keep - spork
keep - I like ponies!
they would simply close it as a no concensus even though its clear the people who want the article kept are brain damaged.
Admins also aren't content editors. In a content dispute, they'll protect the article or block those involved in an edit war, but they won't go "Yeah, you're full of crap, stop trying to add that ridiculous information". Which basically means when blocks and page protection expire, they go at it again. There are two IPs that have been warring over Herner Werzog's nationality, an admin will randomly semi-protect the page, but it expires and they come back and fight over it again. These kind of things damage wikipedia a lot. Until they start actively dealing with these things, its going to suffer, and likely fail.
Hah. God you're naive. As someone working on cleaning up articles cited on garbage, no wikipedia doesn't support it. People are all to happy to have an unsourced, original research article be kept because "I find it really useful even though none of it can be sourced reliably, lalalala".
The admins are all to happy to close AfDs with noconcensus even though the delete side says "It violates policies x,y,z" and the keep side says "I like it, the article is pretty and I'm wearing blue shorts today".
I hope they remember to leverage their synergies. Don't shift without a clutch.
Having gotten familiar with things on wikipedia over the last few months, I've found myself less than impressed. Its all too easy for a few individuals to push point of view, or keep any random pointless garbage article by muddling concensus. Most articles put up for deletion don't get massive attention, and half a dozen individuals dropping by and claiming keep for irrelevant reasons like "I find it useful" while turning a blind eye to the policy violations in the article, results in garbage finding a home there. When coupled with admins who just tally the opinions rather than read the debate (but they're very adament about it being a discussion and not a vote) it ends up being a gong show.
The same thing can occur in pushing poit of view in articles, and other agendas people want to push. its a nice read, but there needs to be some reform there to account for people who want to use wikipedia as a soapbox, and other dumbassery.
Many people would see a decline in quality as a failure. Success isn't measure solely by your monetary gain.
Xbox version came out 5 weeks after PC version of Max Payne 2, same with Morrowind. Morrowind also had an updated game of the year edition that tweaked gameplay for the console. They were not simultaneous releases and they weren't developed with the console as the base system of play.
It has a high ranking because its shiny and it was hyped to death.
Popularity does not equal quality.
These two things are independent of one another. Plenty of quality games are not popular and plenty of popular games really aren't that great. Oblivion WAS dumbed down for the console. Its a perfect example of something that was ruined by. They made sweeping changes to the game as a result of it going to the console and it turned out as garbage. The backlash lasted for weeks on the forum. The AI sucked, the gameplay was honestly not that great, the total lack of the ability to map keys sucked, the interface was not great.
Because consoles are poor gaming platforms compared to the PC. They're cheap because they just don't have the same abilities. Static hardware means that at release IF the console is designed by current PC standards your first few games might be on par graphically. Next year, you're releasing crappy graphics if you don't clean it up for the PC. Even oblivion when compared side by side was shown to be better on the PC already and it was just released.
/ burn_the_house_.html read what Chris Hecker says about the processors in the xbox360 and the P3. In order processing is not good for AI. Games released for both PC and Console that aren't cleaned up will have dumbed down AI.
Processors aren't good in the consoles. I've linked to this numerous times and I'll continue to link to it: http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03
Control schemes suck on the console. They're planning on releasing Battle for Middle Earth 2 and EA thinks they've figured out a magic control scheme for consoles to use in an RTS game. First words "complicated". The developers didn't even clean oblivion up enough to allow PC users to map keys. Interfaces are dumbed down to work for console users.
Then money, the publisher does not want to pay a developer to spend 2 or 3 months extra cleaning up a PC game so that it actaully plays and looks good on the system.
Consoles are the lowest common denominator and when you build for the lowest common denominator you very rarely are building quality.
Except whats your point? Not everyone is equal. A perfect world would not be a world in which any random job you pick there is an equal mix of geners/races/religions/ages/etc working that job. In a perfect world the best person is hired for the job and everybody gets the fuck over it.
As above, racism is only really a problem because some people won't let it die. They're too concerned about appearing perfect rather than being perfect.
Every chance they get they find a way to shove it down everyone's throat about how there isn't a 50/50 split in races in some job somewhere.
Why does racism exist? Because of bellyachers like that. The fact of the matter is, white males were in charge here for a long time. Things don't change overnight. In the grand scheme of thing, 40 or 50 years is over night. Shut up for another 100 years then see how things are.
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
Just because its popular with the masses doesn't mean its quality. These things are not dependent on one another.
Educators were already complaining that students couldn't even write properly in class as they were often falling back on internet short hand in reports. It used to take an extremely long time for buzz words to get into dictionaries, they had to have a long history of usage. Now, it seems a couple of years of sketchy usage and you're good enough for Websters. I remember that when there was a story about them adding Bootylicious to the dictionary, which people get beaten for using now good choice on that, they were also adding a couple of slang words from like the 50s or something. Took them 50 years to earn a spot in websters, and bootylicious was getting in after a year or so.
Yeah..
"has boldly gone to a place where the intrepid crew never took the Enterprise: the Bronx"
i se_episode) they must have missed this episode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Front_(Enterpr
Several of the provinces in Canada have banned smoking in pubs and nightclubs. It hasn't been an issue here. There is always an initial drop, but it comes back when people realize there isn't anywhere else to go to smoke, so they just suck it up and go out anyway.
As far as volume, my yahoo account got on someone's list and I get 3 or 4 e-mails a day for various "Vouchers" (This WAS a low-spam account, until I joined a few linux mailing groups). If half the vouchers were real I'd have so much free crap I wouldn't know what to do with it. Coach handbags, United airlines tickets, Pizza-hut, and about a dozen or so other brands. No porn though that I've noticed.
My hotmail account on which the spam filter used to work really nicely and send everything to junk, has recently stopped. Not a single e-mail is being caught by the spam filter and is showing up right in my inbox. Its mostly porn, I'd say 90%, or v1aaagrrrra (sic).
could you put another metaphor or two in the summary so that its really spelled out...
"eBay has been a great resource to buy or sell goods without leaving your computer"
Ebay is a mediocre resource. It may have been great awhile ago, but it stopped being great a few years ago. Ebay bends to the will of the power seller, and does nothing to enforce their rules and ToS. Trying to report violations (like an asian seller who marks his location as Hong Kong, Canada) and clearly states the item ships from the pacific, gets you a canned response from ebay about how they just snuggled that seller last night and they trust him to say where he's from. Or someone charging $60 to ship a USB dongle via standard USPS post gets you another canned response about how they trust their sellers to set appropriate shipping rates, even though that example is included in their ToS for things that shouldn't happen.
I get about that far on my mother's side just back into germany. Unfortunately nothing before that. On my fathers fathers side I can only get back about 3 generations and then it gets fuzzy because they don't have any real records there and they think his grandfather may have been part of a press gang.
Which is the big problem with hyphenated names. They become a disgusting mess if you let them get out of control. I don't think many parents who've imposed that on their children really thought it through.
[quote]They might even release a tool to map out the distribution of license keys to see if they could track the original licensee[/quote] Pretty useless since you can get a program that generates unique keys over time and verifies whether or not they can be used to trick windows into thinking it is legit. It can take a couple minutes to generate a key, but you can leave it on over night and generate a hundred keys or so. I don't think you'd be able to track that down at all.
Some linux links here: http://www.worldserver.com/turk/quicktimevr/QTVRli nks.html