You mean turnabout isn't fair play after 12 years of OEM installing only MS browsers and forcing people who want to be open minded to go hunt links?
If they enjoyed their MS experience and can visit Microsoft in a browser, they can get IE7. If their computer skills stop at clicking a link, then we need their Newbie Mass flocking to the new choice of default browsers.
This is why I want a Wiki Cousin site that has looser rules. "Yes, it's even less valid to quote", but it would handle pages like yours. I lost a big edit a while back too. Some of the really obscure topics have a "resident captain" who will delete things for what might be subjective reasons. (Or the "right" reasons, but again you'd want your subsidiary page version on tap to express yourself".
There used to be Filenes & Filene's Basement. Filenes was staid, proper,... and priced that way. Filene's Basement was usually a mess or worse, but had all kinds of wild things swimming down there on the racks.
However, we don't do scholarly work here. Slashdot is a reasonably intelligent discussion forum, and a Wiki link to get the rawest of raw basics of something is more accurate than complete non-information we had to start with.
That long end of the "Free Lunch Buffet" is starting to catch up to us.
Anything sufficiently large eventually accumulates overhead costs from vendors who want to be paid.
We're all talking about ads here; Wikipedia recently went more the "Please Donate" NPR route. Other than creating another layer to manage, I'm almost smelling a fork. Maybe there's room for a Wiki variant paid for by ads, but also less strict on notability, etc. It would be known as a more rough&tumble cousin site, but if you liked Original Research blended into articles it could be interesting.
Slashdot articles, Jan 2011. "Today the laptop with the Oregon GPS data was stolen. 177 companies "accidentally" got access to a copy. Now they can give you ads based on where you actually drive because we know the Big Autos need a bailout!"
"Today the Swedish hacker 'Lazor' replaced his GPS with that of a deceased former resident of Taiwan."
"The GPS of the Detroit Police suddenly racked up a lot of miles. Turns out, it was force fed to a migrating bird flying south for the winter."
Your first chunk of money comes from some other job, to produce your first paper, which earns you a grant. Then you earn the time for your second paper at "normal" rather than half-speed.
While it might allow some sophisticated trolls through, I'd like to use a search engine ranked by data intelligence. No BuyMe link farms, and phenomenal discussions above random unreadable junk.
Seriously now, I can see this business model struggling exactly on the same timescale as our friends at the RIAA, only less violently.
Hell you could even put papers on Slashdot with special restrictions on the qualifications of mods and commenters. The only real stickler is you need a world class IT manager to keep identities ultra pure, and develop the credentialed group of Peers allowed to Review.
The problem is that Good Science takes money, and money leads to political wiggling.
I posted a sibling reply sideways to your note. To you I'll repeat that reinstalling offends me to no limit. It's NOT necessarily easier than Windows, because my friend put the original Dapper install on and had to break out the Skillz to get it to behave.
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Now you're cookin! Ideas, man!
Wouldn't it be cool if Google earned a Googol pennies...
Wasn't there a guy in a Russian novel Nikolai Googol?
You could do it for breakfast! I'm Googol for GooglePuffs!
I have no idea how any of that can make money. But they're ideas!
In the wake of the Great Crash of 2008 that might take on scary new meaning.
On Debian, RHEL, Centos & Boxen! On Irix, Solaris, Ibex & Vixen!
It's a metaphor for Steve Ballmer's heart.
No, it means you have to update your site info on 40 sites too. You could waste an entire weekend doing that.
So what's the percent of GoogleMail + Yahoo + Hotmail? Are we in Oligopoly territory yet?
Make breakfast and surf the news at the same time! I love it!
Protect yourself from typos in MS Word! Use LaTex!
You mean turnabout isn't fair play after 12 years of OEM installing only MS browsers and forcing people who want to be open minded to go hunt links?
If they enjoyed their MS experience and can visit Microsoft in a browser, they can get IE7. If their computer skills stop at clicking a link, then we need their Newbie Mass flocking to the new choice of default browsers.
For large values of "reasonably". We're smarter than digg.
This is why I want a Wiki Cousin site that has looser rules. "Yes, it's even less valid to quote", but it would handle pages like yours. I lost a big edit a while back too. Some of the really obscure topics have a "resident captain" who will delete things for what might be subjective reasons. (Or the "right" reasons, but again you'd want your subsidiary page version on tap to express yourself".
There used to be Filenes & Filene's Basement. Filenes was staid, proper, ... and priced that way. Filene's Basement was usually a mess or worse, but had all kinds of wild things swimming down there on the racks.
Theodore Sturgeon would be proud.
However, we don't do scholarly work here. Slashdot is a reasonably intelligent discussion forum, and a Wiki link to get the rawest of raw basics of something is more accurate than complete non-information we had to start with.
That long end of the "Free Lunch Buffet" is starting to catch up to us.
Anything sufficiently large eventually accumulates overhead costs from vendors who want to be paid.
We're all talking about ads here; Wikipedia recently went more the "Please Donate" NPR route. Other than creating another layer to manage, I'm almost smelling a fork. Maybe there's room for a Wiki variant paid for by ads, but also less strict on notability, etc. It would be known as a more rough&tumble cousin site, but if you liked Original Research blended into articles it could be interesting.
Slashdot articles, Jan 2011.
"Today the laptop with the Oregon GPS data was stolen. 177 companies "accidentally" got access to a copy. Now they can give you ads based on where you actually drive because we know the Big Autos need a bailout!"
"Today the Swedish hacker 'Lazor' replaced his GPS with that of a deceased former resident of Taiwan."
"The GPS of the Detroit Police suddenly racked up a lot of miles. Turns out, it was force fed to a migrating bird flying south for the winter."
What kind of ridiculous form gives you the credit when your car gets towed by the Munis for junk parking?
"You park in the fire lane, we tow you from Oregon to NY and back".
Oops. Watch them forget, then "forget".
1024X768 FTW!
Really though.
That's the next resolution to come down to the ultra-portable devices, so you can keep dev. parity between mobile & monitor.
So who's smarter? Dogbert or Brian
Internet enabled stationary bike FTW!
Rule 34 comes to Doubts!
Chicken.
Your first chunk of money comes from some other job, to produce your first paper, which earns you a grant. Then you earn the time for your second paper at "normal" rather than half-speed.
While it might allow some sophisticated trolls through, I'd like to use a search engine ranked by data intelligence. No BuyMe link farms, and phenomenal discussions above random unreadable junk.
Seriously now, I can see this business model struggling exactly on the same timescale as our friends at the RIAA, only less violently.
Hell you could even put papers on Slashdot with special restrictions on the qualifications of mods and commenters. The only real stickler is you need a world class IT manager to keep identities ultra pure, and develop the credentialed group of Peers allowed to Review.
The problem is that Good Science takes money, and money leads to political wiggling.
How big are those Wav files it supports? To TTS generated speech and play them back. That's way better info density than the led screen.
I posted a sibling reply sideways to your note. To you I'll repeat that reinstalling offends me to no limit. It's NOT necessarily easier than Windows, because my friend put the original Dapper install on and had to break out the Skillz to get it to behave.