Comment Re:People tend to believe their first media (Score 2) 340
As a counterpoint, my first news sources were local community newspapers and nationally syndicated TV news -- both of which I avoid like the plague now.
As a counterpoint, my first news sources were local community newspapers and nationally syndicated TV news -- both of which I avoid like the plague now.
Where's the video of Zuckerberg saying that Facebook will be mostly video?
Where's that guy with his HOSTS file diatribe? It actually fits here perfectly
Why do you think all the TV networks have embraced putting TV shows online? Because they realize they can put ads on the stream and the user has to sit through them (or go to the bathroom). Either way, they can't fast forward through them like they can on a DVR.
...except that in my case, I block the paths to the ad-content streams. You know what happens? Video stream loads, html5/flash then goes to the "insert ad" code, gets no response, and moves on to the next queued stream, until the next in the queue is the non-ad video. This means that where others get ads, I get about 3 seconds of spinners. I could probably write a greasemonkey script that would flat-out scrub references to those streams from the code so that playback is seamless -- AdBlockPlus, Ghostery and NoScript plugins already do that for me in some situations. I didn't even realize YouTube had ads until I was shoulder surfing someone's iPad....
Who the fuck has the time to look through 100 FB stories a day???
the average person will only look at about 100 a day
Nobody; they look at the headlines and then add 100 comments, just like here on slashdot.
I've generally found that about the time "enough" is no longer enough, the I/O speeds of the removable storage seem slow and small enough that I get testy. Yes Palm devices and SDHC support, I'm looking at you, among others.
Other things to check out:
MinutePhysics
MinuteEarth
Veritasium
VSauce
Devin Supertramp (for a dose of anti-nerd)
Sorted (for the food fix)
All of those tend to have links to yet more YT channels with decent programming, but they've got huge archives of interesting and entertaining material themselves.
Actually, I like the "No original research" policy -- it forces people to post their original research elsewhere, which keeps Wikipedia out of THAT realm of corrupt politics at least. Let domain experts host original research -- not a survey site.
Ah... but Slashdot is!
Whoever modded me troll would have done better to cite an example of how they're currently mismanaging things and not being held accountable for it.
Considering how huge Wikipedia is, I think they're doing an amazing job -- better than most career politicians who have to deal with the same large volumes of contrary views. They're basically at a place where they would be hard pressed to do better, and also hard pressed to do worse without doing a LOT worse.
And here comes the actual troll...
They tend to do better at moderating Wikipedia issues than Slashdot moderators are at handling issues on here -- and they've got a larger and more diverse audience and contributing group.
By pretty much any logic, Wikipedia shouldn't work
By all the evidence, it doesn't.
Utter pile of shitcuntitude & buttsnottery.
Such things also tend to work -- it's what our society is built upon.
And because nobody pays attention to the stewards, they're not held accountable.
To play devil's advocate: the fact that they're doing their jobs commendably well is possibly the reason nobody pays attention to them. So by that, they ARE held accountable. They just measure up pretty well under that accounting, so nobody complains about them (with the obvious notable exceptions).
It's kind of like saying "and because nobody pays attention to the janitors at my workplace, they're not held accountable." You'd better bet that if things started going missing or the mess started to build up, people would pay attention pretty quickly.
Good idea; that would solve the size and energy issues too!
Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated.
