I'm not a "fan" of Star Wars but I have fond memories of seeing it in a theater when I was very young, and I don't care a minute for the new Star Wars movies. I don't equal Star Wars with the guy who pretends to be in charge, Lucas. Who's this bitter guy?
Not long ago, when I saw "Serenity" (i didn't know a thing about it beforehand), after half an hour in it I discovered that a much better tittle would have been "Cliché in Space".
My guilty pleasures for tonight are John coltrane "A love Supreme", Django Reihnard "Jazz in Paris", and Derya Turkan "Ahenk". TV or listen to radio, or anything related to music industry, it's just garbage.
The A380 isn't an absolute disaster by any means available: it's a good plane. It's a plane that is maybe less modern than the Boeings to come soon, but is not bad either, and it's passenger capacity DO interest some people. It will sell ok. The management problems that delayed it and made it loss lots of sales and make the research for next gen financially more difficult to start are a disaster.
I'm astonished that reading one's email and listening to ones telephone calls without consent is by default a legal behabior for a governement, even if one speaks loudly on the phone. I surely miss to understand something.
"This is just a 'feature' similar to the one in Firefox that automatically performs a google search on things you enter into the URL bar if they aren't valid addresses"
No, No.
Firefox will ony get you there if you enter the (usually) correct name, otherwise it does not land you on a "google" or "mozilla" page with ppc ads. One one side you have a service which is useful and Spam, on the other side you have just a useful service.
"Just something equivelent to 1 hour a day use for 1 year (assuming.14 kwh power cost), so that at the register you actually see what the bulb will cost."
I find it a kind of a good idea, but i'm pretty sure that this isn't practical. From officials checking lightbulbs consomation to the reseller having to keep a new tax for just one product but diferent for every product of this kind... I am sure that the climate heating caused by all the people rightly pissed off would mitigate any ecologic gain.
"What measure...?"
I think it is a good measure to be at home, where parents and strangers have no place when not welcome, like when you have sex or when you vote (well, at least it's how it works for all the people I know). Of course they may be very highly dysfunctional individuals would would accept patronage of a parent that would come to chack their vote, but we're speaking of a minority who's vote would be markedly tainted whatever the setup. Well, I think.
Do you have an actual example of an article which exhibes such problems, or must I go without an answer like everytime I ask it. Because "wiki has bad articles, too many editors, blah, blah, oh nevermind I won't bother to even cite one such bad bad article" becomes tiring, and sounds like elitist shit.
They may rightly not care, they will still benefit of it if they use Internet at all. And maybe in the house next to them live a middle aged person who use internet daily and benefits a lot more from it. A small town doesn't necessarily means just old peoples, and some old people are used to use broadband Internet (well, in my country, where they can, that is). And there can be for example small shops that need internet visibility, or just ordinary internet using people that happen to live here. You can't dismiss a real issue because you imagine it affects only people who not care at all for Internet, it doesn't. And you can't say that the US doesn't lag, obviously it does on this very point of broadband prices, competition, and Internet access. And not only in small towns from what I hear.
"I don't know about the printed version of Britannica, but the online version has far more information than Wikipedia, especially on obscure subjects. Britannica Online has 73 pages on the history of furniture. Wikipedia has a few paragraphs. For serious research, Wikipedia is often useless even as a starting point."
What's the factual information in that 73 pages article that you can't find in wikipedia ? honnest ?
I read this same post in every thread about wikipedia. Now, some example would be more interesting that trusting you on your word, because wikipedia seems as fine as ever, with more and more featured articles, and has become de facto the standart encyclopedia. I have a Encyclopedia Universlais (equivalent to Britanica) and the fact that less people contribute to articles make bias more deranging, make articles far less on the point (more wordy), has no notably more accuracy or less errors, and which DVD edition hyperlinks are leaps and bounds behind what WIkipedia provides. And has no articles on The Simpsons. Hell, why not. Its a friggin Encyclopedia, the thing without which humanity lived for millions of years plus 1800, and it's the best one out there today.
Could some people that strongly artue about why wikipedia is bad in principle, and therefore becomes less and less good with more and more people using it. This is a kind of truth that doesn't comply with what happens in the real world.
I think those people are in a "all or nothing" frame of mind (make an encyclopedia fit in that) and for each time i hear that wikipedia becomes worst and worst, some actual examples would do no bad.
"The people should be able to judge how their government is acting"
I'm not sure if there should be a new law specifying that:
- every action of every governement agents (like president of the USA, governor, chief policeman chasing the bad guys) should be open to public (and public from the whole world I guess, you can't limit that whole lot of informations only to Americans). This will change a whole lot of things, maybe for the better who knows.
- every action should be disclosed only when something good could happen and the disclosure may ruin it, and it's about Google.
Not sure which one to choose, the second one applies best in our case, but the first one wold be less hypocritical.
1st paragraph: everyone knows that wikipedia can be erratic. See, easy.
2nd paragraph: indeed, that what the wikipedia article says as well, whats your point ?
Well the good news is that development is starting to be rethought in a very serious way. Many people are sick of/not impressed by the homogeneous golf course dormitories.
As a child I followed a parent in a trip through the US. As we flought from NY to Tampa, I remember to have been impressed to the point of fear by the huge size and total symetry of a huge residential area, which start and end I couldn't see from my plane window. Thats something I could not even have imagined before.
Interesting enough to try linux someday. I'm afraid that for now there won't be the necessary reliability of all plugins, sequencer, and ASIO stream, but it looks more advanced than I thought, thanks.
I'm not a technician but in this case I also felt that you can't have layers of "User can/User can't. But if XXX then User can... but if ZZZZ then User can't" and get a performance oriented OS.
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I'm not a "fan" of Star Wars but I have fond memories of seeing it in a theater when I was very young, and I don't care a minute for the new Star Wars movies. I don't equal Star Wars with the guy who pretends to be in charge, Lucas. Who's this bitter guy?
Not long ago, when I saw "Serenity" (i didn't know a thing about it beforehand), after half an hour in it I discovered that a much better tittle would have been "Cliché in Space".
My guilty pleasures for tonight are John coltrane "A love Supreme", Django Reihnard "Jazz in Paris", and Derya Turkan "Ahenk". TV or listen to radio, or anything related to music industry, it's just garbage.
The A380 isn't an absolute disaster by any means available: it's a good plane. It's a plane that is maybe less modern than the Boeings to come soon, but is not bad either, and it's passenger capacity DO interest some people. It will sell ok. The management problems that delayed it and made it loss lots of sales and make the research for next gen financially more difficult to start are a disaster.
Beacause the USA was supposed to be a modern enlightened country I think.
At our discharge it didn't turn well for the last one who did: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marat
I'm astonished that reading one's email and listening to ones telephone calls without consent is by default a legal behabior for a governement, even if one speaks loudly on the phone. I surely miss to understand something.
WiFi telephony seems to take ground here, but I don't know more than what articles like this one says: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.journaldufreenaute.fr%2F10%2F10%2F2006%2Fto ut-sur-le-reseau-de-telephonie-wifi-des-freebox-hd .html&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe= UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
I never really had a mobile phone (I'm cheap), but the idea to have a no suscribtion mobil phone that I could use for free at several places who have the same ADSL provider as me (most friends and all my family), this is an interesting prospect.
"This is just a 'feature' similar to the one in Firefox that automatically performs a google search on things you enter into the URL bar if they aren't valid addresses" No, No. Firefox will ony get you there if you enter the (usually) correct name, otherwise it does not land you on a "google" or "mozilla" page with ppc ads. One one side you have a service which is useful and Spam, on the other side you have just a useful service.
"Just something equivelent to 1 hour a day use for 1 year (assuming .14 kwh power cost), so that at the register you actually see what the bulb will cost."
I find it a kind of a good idea, but i'm pretty sure that this isn't practical. From officials checking lightbulbs consomation to the reseller having to keep a new tax for just one product but diferent for every product of this kind... I am sure that the climate heating caused by all the people rightly pissed off would mitigate any ecologic gain.
Fantasy is fine, but you know there's all kind of people watching tv. So, stop it, now.
"What measure...?" I think it is a good measure to be at home, where parents and strangers have no place when not welcome, like when you have sex or when you vote (well, at least it's how it works for all the people I know). Of course they may be very highly dysfunctional individuals would would accept patronage of a parent that would come to chack their vote, but we're speaking of a minority who's vote would be markedly tainted whatever the setup. Well, I think.
I didn't know there were computers able to run Vista and Norton at the same time.
With those principles, they should also ban bottled water and only authorize filtred tap water.
To what extent will one go to get the puccini line, eh?
Do you have an actual example of an article which exhibes such problems, or must I go without an answer like everytime I ask it. Because "wiki has bad articles, too many editors, blah, blah, oh nevermind I won't bother to even cite one such bad bad article" becomes tiring, and sounds like elitist shit.
They may rightly not care, they will still benefit of it if they use Internet at all. And maybe in the house next to them live a middle aged person who use internet daily and benefits a lot more from it. A small town doesn't necessarily means just old peoples, and some old people are used to use broadband Internet (well, in my country, where they can, that is). And there can be for example small shops that need internet visibility, or just ordinary internet using people that happen to live here. You can't dismiss a real issue because you imagine it affects only people who not care at all for Internet, it doesn't. And you can't say that the US doesn't lag, obviously it does on this very point of broadband prices, competition, and Internet access. And not only in small towns from what I hear.
"I don't know about the printed version of Britannica, but the online version has far more information than Wikipedia, especially on obscure subjects. Britannica Online has 73 pages on the history of furniture. Wikipedia has a few paragraphs. For serious research, Wikipedia is often useless even as a starting point." What's the factual information in that 73 pages article that you can't find in wikipedia ? honnest ?
I read this same post in every thread about wikipedia. Now, some example would be more interesting that trusting you on your word, because wikipedia seems as fine as ever, with more and more featured articles, and has become de facto the standart encyclopedia. I have a Encyclopedia Universlais (equivalent to Britanica) and the fact that less people contribute to articles make bias more deranging, make articles far less on the point (more wordy), has no notably more accuracy or less errors, and which DVD edition hyperlinks are leaps and bounds behind what WIkipedia provides. And has no articles on The Simpsons. Hell, why not. Its a friggin Encyclopedia, the thing without which humanity lived for millions of years plus 1800, and it's the best one out there today.
Could some people that strongly artue about why wikipedia is bad in principle, and therefore becomes less and less good with more and more people using it. This is a kind of truth that doesn't comply with what happens in the real world. I think those people are in a "all or nothing" frame of mind (make an encyclopedia fit in that) and for each time i hear that wikipedia becomes worst and worst, some actual examples would do no bad.
"The people should be able to judge how their government is acting" I'm not sure if there should be a new law specifying that: - every action of every governement agents (like president of the USA, governor, chief policeman chasing the bad guys) should be open to public (and public from the whole world I guess, you can't limit that whole lot of informations only to Americans). This will change a whole lot of things, maybe for the better who knows. - every action should be disclosed only when something good could happen and the disclosure may ruin it, and it's about Google. Not sure which one to choose, the second one applies best in our case, but the first one wold be less hypocritical.
What do you mean get old quicker in the PC than in the MAC ? the hard drive ? the ram ? the parts that make it a gaming capable machine ?
1st paragraph: everyone knows that wikipedia can be erratic. See, easy. 2nd paragraph: indeed, that what the wikipedia article says as well, whats your point ?
Interesting enough to try linux someday. I'm afraid that for now there won't be the necessary reliability of all plugins, sequencer, and ASIO stream, but it looks more advanced than I thought, thanks.
I'm not a technician but in this case I also felt that you can't have layers of "User can/User can't. But if XXX then User can... but if ZZZZ then User can't" and get a performance oriented OS.