My first guess would be expense. Sure, the data is free, but it takes up a whole lot of space, and Wikipedia goes through bandwidth like nobody's business.
My second guess would be apathy. 99.99% of current Wikipedia users would continue to use the original, even if you hired (or hacked!) every screen and marquee in Times Square to advertise your fork.
My third guess is French: "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose". Wikipedia is a bureaucracy wrapped in red tape and Byzantine nerd politicking, but it didn't begin that way. Entropy and ego infiltrate any social system, and sooner or later the Old Guard is going to get annoyed with new arrivals adding 'irrelevant' entries, deleting them, and circling the wagons (and the jerks) when someone makes a fuss.
Linux failed on the desktop because of bitchfights between gnome and KDE fans? If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you. See? It even has a penguin spraypainted on the side.
Tweetdeck is an obnoxious piece of shit, and probably the exact reason why they're lowering the boom like this. Very recently, they rolled out an automatic 'tweet longer' function that's transparent to the user, and to other Tweetdeck users, but only shows a portion of the original 140 characters and then a shortened URL... that leads to that user's Tweetdeck web page and the whole mondo-tweet. Tweetdeck gets free advertising, the possibility of people changing to avoid that annoying 'functionality', and anyone they happen to partner with for user page advertising gets more eyeballs.
Tweetdeck isn't the only third-party developer who's been caught doing some smelly shit recently, either. Others have been whapped for inserting ads and hijacking users streams for self-promotion and spamming, which is probably the meat of what this is about, and not forcing trending ads or whatever is written on any given person's chunk of falling sky.
The very thought of voice interaction as a cornerstone of the UX makes my heart go out to people with thick, non-American accents. Just watch this cautionary video.
I hate to break it this way, but most people don't have the QA skills of a goldfish. Most of them, even given guidelines, walkthroughs, or even formal instruction on how to write a bug report, would rather just drop a single, unhelpful line and get back to waiting for a cheque.
Not just by retreading the Ten Commandments? What, does it sift through your Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare data to figure out who, what, and where you've been up to?
Was that time supposed to be before or after the reign of naked and petrified Natalie Portmans, pants filled with hot grits, Beowulf clusters of unlikely objects, and the GNAA? Because I've been here like ten years between this account and its predecessor, and I don't recall this golden age at all.
Seriously dude, listen to yourself. You come off as a parody of the vicious nerd that everyone knew in high school, ranting about noobs and jocks-- and that's just embarrassing. Tragic, at worst.
Your example is ridiculous as well, I'm afraid: pipefitters deal in tangible structures, and it's much cheaper to engage one that's local to your project; coders can work from virtually anywhere. When demand outstrips supply, companies aren't going to offer blank checks to angry, entitled, self-styled geeks: they're going to hire coding houses in China or India, where people have realized that's where the money is currently, and aren't so wrapped up in their high school identities.
Essentially plotless. That's about what I expected from the teasers, the tie-in comic, and this... I want to call it a trailer, but it was two minutes of nothing happening. Two characters, in a cyber-SUV, performing the traditional 'what is this strange new world/shut up and let me look smug, chosen one' exchange. Only, they don't. They keep driving. And driving. The local slams on the brakes here and there to be an asshole. There's a cyber-cliffside. Nothing. Fucking. Happens.
Dude, 'I'm poor, and I'm cheap, and I disagree with the claimed value of movie tickets, DVDs and games, so I download' starts out as a bad argument, but becomes downright farcical when you turn around and accuse entertainment producers of being greedy.
When I read the summary, I thought it was referring to the delightful(ly stupid) practice some people have got into, of packaging Wikipedia pages and selling them on Amazon while printing the things through services like Lulu. That was a clear example of how badly their internal search can be gamed. This is just unbelievably crass. On the other hand, who on Earth is going to go straight to an Amazon mirror of Wikipedia?
Really, claiming that it was an e-mail replacement/killer/evolution was the biggest mistake they made. Wave is what it is: very inexpensive collaboration software. That's an absolutely fantastic thing for teleconferencing, but just shy of totally useless for the average consumer's everyday purposes. I think it's fantastic that they've open sourced the project, and I do hope that it makes it into an incubator, because similar software from outfits like Adobe and Co. are loopily expensive, and this could be a real benefit for organizations that run on a fraying shoestring budget. I just hope that people can get past the claim that Wave's apple was really an orange.
Offtopic? Really? When there's a good dozen sub-threads commenting on the man's goddamned name? Sorry guys, but this racist bullshit has made itself the topic.
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You forgot the interminable list of Wikipedia references in anime.
My second guess would be apathy. 99.99% of current Wikipedia users would continue to use the original, even if you hired (or hacked!) every screen and marquee in Times Square to advertise your fork.
My third guess is French: "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose". Wikipedia is a bureaucracy wrapped in red tape and Byzantine nerd politicking, but it didn't begin that way. Entropy and ego infiltrate any social system, and sooner or later the Old Guard is going to get annoyed with new arrivals adding 'irrelevant' entries, deleting them, and circling the wagons (and the jerks) when someone makes a fuss.
Linux failed on the desktop because of bitchfights between gnome and KDE fans? If you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you. See? It even has a penguin spraypainted on the side.
Tweetdeck isn't the only third-party developer who's been caught doing some smelly shit recently, either. Others have been whapped for inserting ads and hijacking users streams for self-promotion and spamming, which is probably the meat of what this is about, and not forcing trending ads or whatever is written on any given person's chunk of falling sky.
Seriously, all I see is a blurb and a half-frigging-hour Youtube video that someone probably filmed on their iPhone.
The very thought of voice interaction as a cornerstone of the UX makes my heart go out to people with thick, non-American accents. Just watch this cautionary video.
I hate to break it this way, but most people don't have the QA skills of a goldfish. Most of them, even given guidelines, walkthroughs, or even formal instruction on how to write a bug report, would rather just drop a single, unhelpful line and get back to waiting for a cheque.
Using WP7 is like peeing your pants while Redmond gives you a golden shower.
Wait, wouldn't that void your warranty as well as your bladder? The fiends!
Not just by retreading the Ten Commandments? What, does it sift through your Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare data to figure out who, what, and where you've been up to?
Ikea: Swedish for 'Robot Overlords'.
Seriously dude, listen to yourself. You come off as a parody of the vicious nerd that everyone knew in high school, ranting about noobs and jocks-- and that's just embarrassing. Tragic, at worst.
Your example is ridiculous as well, I'm afraid: pipefitters deal in tangible structures, and it's much cheaper to engage one that's local to your project; coders can work from virtually anywhere. When demand outstrips supply, companies aren't going to offer blank checks to angry, entitled, self-styled geeks: they're going to hire coding houses in China or India, where people have realized that's where the money is currently, and aren't so wrapped up in their high school identities.
You seem bitter. Wedgie riding up today?
As clearly evinced by that godawful glamour shot photograph pinned above his name.
Looser, said the Loser.
Hahaha. This post works better if you ratchet it back to at least 1975, and gets funnier with age too.
Jesus, no shit. This is going to end in tears.
Yes, just like sci-fi in the Eighties and Nineties 'got it right' by having everyone swearing in Japanese.
Essentially plotless. That's about what I expected from the teasers, the tie-in comic, and this... I want to call it a trailer, but it was two minutes of nothing happening. Two characters, in a cyber-SUV, performing the traditional 'what is this strange new world/shut up and let me look smug, chosen one' exchange. Only, they don't. They keep driving. And driving. The local slams on the brakes here and there to be an asshole. There's a cyber-cliffside. Nothing. Fucking. Happens.
"The Dictates of Twombly and Iqbal: A Curiously Victorian Guide to Jihad" (Oxford University Press)
Dude, 'I'm poor, and I'm cheap, and I disagree with the claimed value of movie tickets, DVDs and games, so I download' starts out as a bad argument, but becomes downright farcical when you turn around and accuse entertainment producers of being greedy.
When I read the summary, I thought it was referring to the delightful(ly stupid) practice some people have got into, of packaging Wikipedia pages and selling them on Amazon while printing the things through services like Lulu. That was a clear example of how badly their internal search can be gamed. This is just unbelievably crass. On the other hand, who on Earth is going to go straight to an Amazon mirror of Wikipedia?
I came here to post that. Maybe I need a series of tubes to get my thoughts from my fingers to the keyboard faster...
Really, claiming that it was an e-mail replacement/killer/evolution was the biggest mistake they made. Wave is what it is: very inexpensive collaboration software. That's an absolutely fantastic thing for teleconferencing, but just shy of totally useless for the average consumer's everyday purposes. I think it's fantastic that they've open sourced the project, and I do hope that it makes it into an incubator, because similar software from outfits like Adobe and Co. are loopily expensive, and this could be a real benefit for organizations that run on a fraying shoestring budget. I just hope that people can get past the claim that Wave's apple was really an orange.
Offtopic? Really? When there's a good dozen sub-threads commenting on the man's goddamned name? Sorry guys, but this racist bullshit has made itself the topic.
I'm afraid that I didn't notice it for all of the racism in these comments.