Why not just use Youtube to host the videos, after archiving them in a Wikimedia store?
Or is this more about control than openness? What value does hosting them at Wikimedia have over Youtube?
1) less intrusive ads
2) you would be relying on a commercial third-party, which is bad. What if Youtube suddenly decides to go pay-per-view? What if it closes?
3) you, and not Google, should get to decide what is "fair use"
Not sure that would work, they would just change their business plan.
The Italian RIAA (the local name is SIAE) has started charging a "missed revenue tax" on empty media. Wanna buy a CD-R, a DVD or even a hard disk in Italy? You have to pay your share. Even if you use it to burn the photos of your holidays.
I received an email from Hell just under a week ago:
Dear Friend,
I am Lucifer of the Army of Evil. Our beloved father Satan is dead and has left over a inheritance of $14,000,000,000, which I have to transfer on a foreign bank account.
...
What about a battery that does not fit if it's inserted the wrong way? By the age of 3 we all learn to put pegs in the holes of the right shape, so it should be user-friendly enough.
Let me just patent it before Microsoft will...
15 years to get to 1.0 means a speed of a 0.0666 increase in the version number per year. This extrapolates to 3 more years to get to 1.2. So it's not surprising to see a RC only two years later.
(this post just nominated for the "worst use of extrapolation 2010" award)
Horizontal space is cheap, unless you decide to run two applications side-by-side. This is a scenario which is extremely common for people who are writing a document (HTML, Latex, most programming languages, maybe also 3d editors) and like to have a preview of what they're writing/drawing/programming. Unfortunately, despite widescreens turning more and more popular, window managers do not seem to have caught on the trend. AFAICT, only with some obscure tiling window managers such as Awesome and Xmonad or some scripting uber-hacks can you have two applications side-by-side without resizing them manually every time (which is a PITA).
Thanks Ubuntu, neat idea, but I would rather have the toolbars on the top and bottom, and some support for tiling horizzontally side-by-side two windows.
What's an "industry-recognized standard"? Who has the authority to make them? Defining this could raise more problems than the ones this whole thing is supposed to solve...
Obviously needs to be refined, but in principle it's not as bad as it looks. There are a lots of queries when you'd rather have a big company's site in the first page of results, rather than an obscure blog or scam site. Discovering how much they wish to pay for bandwidth is a good method to tell them apart.
What if I write an essay for my class, and then include parts of it into Wikipedia? Will the automated cheating detectors mark me as a cheater? Sounds unfair.
Hope they didn't buy the processor used for the tests from Newegg. Otherwise they could've discovered that the benchmarks are surprisingly equal to those of a PentiumPro 166 MMX.
Hexes, one unit per tile, ranged attacks, tactical combat, no need to garrison a city... Wow, civ5 will be an overpriced giant 3D Battle of Wesnoth clone.
behavioral problems have virtually disappeared
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"behavioral problems have virtually disappeared" --- well, that depends on what you consider a behavioral problem. I find it healthier for a bunch of kid to be noisy and hyperactive (even if this involves occasionally hitting each other) than to be all hunched down on their 7'' netbooks checking Facebook.
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A Vi command in the body and an Emacs one in the signature? That's a good way to make enemies on both sides.
No brown? Clearly you haven't used Ubuntu...
1) less intrusive ads
2) you would be relying on a commercial third-party, which is bad. What if Youtube suddenly decides to go pay-per-view? What if it closes?
3) you, and not Google, should get to decide what is "fair use"
Not sure that would work, they would just change their business plan.
The Italian RIAA (the local name is SIAE) has started charging a "missed revenue tax" on empty media. Wanna buy a CD-R, a DVD or even a hard disk in Italy? You have to pay your share. Even if you use it to burn the photos of your holidays.
We should have the tubes manufactured by the same companies that produce battery chargers for mobile phones. Problem solved!
Dear Friend,
...
I am Lucifer of the Army of Evil. Our beloved father Satan is dead and has left over a inheritance of $14,000,000,000, which I have to transfer on a foreign bank account.
...I'm using WEP, so I am perfectly safe!
Why do you need a USB joystick? My Atari console has no USB port.
What about a battery that does not fit if it's inserted the wrong way? By the age of 3 we all learn to put pegs in the holes of the right shape, so it should be user-friendly enough. Let me just patent it before Microsoft will...
In case you are wondering too, SC stands for Software Compilation. Not a bad name (for a crappy dance remix).
3000BC called... they want their idea back!
15 years to get to 1.0 means a speed of a 0.0666 increase in the version number per year. This extrapolates to 3 more years to get to 1.2. So it's not surprising to see a RC only two years later.
(this post just nominated for the "worst use of extrapolation 2010" award)
The only open mac is the one you have already opened with your screwdriver (or sledgehammer)
Horizontal space is cheap, unless you decide to run two applications side-by-side. This is a scenario which is extremely common for people who are writing a document (HTML, Latex, most programming languages, maybe also 3d editors) and like to have a preview of what they're writing/drawing/programming. Unfortunately, despite widescreens turning more and more popular, window managers do not seem to have caught on the trend. AFAICT, only with some obscure tiling window managers such as Awesome and Xmonad or some scripting uber-hacks can you have two applications side-by-side without resizing them manually every time (which is a PITA). Thanks Ubuntu, neat idea, but I would rather have the toolbars on the top and bottom, and some support for tiling horizzontally side-by-side two windows.
What's an "industry-recognized standard"? Who has the authority to make them? Defining this could raise more problems than the ones this whole thing is supposed to solve...
So, what's his key binding for deploying airstrikes? F5? S? shift-F?
Where's the "sad but true" moderator category when you need it?
If we assume an average of 5 letters per word, that makes 0.5 USD/letter --- I'll no longer think that my SMS plan at 0.1 cents/letter is expensive...
Obviously needs to be refined, but in principle it's not as bad as it looks. There are a lots of queries when you'd rather have a big company's site in the first page of results, rather than an obscure blog or scam site. Discovering how much they wish to pay for bandwidth is a good method to tell them apart.
Sam: Actually, that was the Commissioner with another idiotic and baffling assignment.
Max: Does it involve wanton destruction?
Sam: We can only hope.
...lolcats turn 42.
What if I write an essay for my class, and then include parts of it into Wikipedia? Will the automated cheating detectors mark me as a cheater? Sounds unfair.
Hope they didn't buy the processor used for the tests from Newegg. Otherwise they could've discovered that the benchmarks are surprisingly equal to those of a PentiumPro 166 MMX.
Hexes, one unit per tile, ranged attacks, tactical combat, no need to garrison a city... Wow, civ5 will be an overpriced giant 3D Battle of Wesnoth clone.
"behavioral problems have virtually disappeared" --- well, that depends on what you consider a behavioral problem. I find it healthier for a bunch of kid to be noisy and hyperactive (even if this involves occasionally hitting each other) than to be all hunched down on their 7'' netbooks checking Facebook.