All the Wiki'dness in the world...
Blog Wikipedia has enough flame wars as it is, and each Wikipedia is largely the product of people with common cultural backgrounds. As Douglas Adams (may his name live forever) said: by removing all barriers to human communication, the Babel Fish was...
[January 23, 2007, 17:20]
Testing times for open source
Talkback We, the OS community shouldn't start flame wars just because someone says some proprietary software is better at something. Mr. Goodwins, I think you should rewrite the thesis of your article. It's not browser SECURITY what was tested, but rather...
[October 27, 2004, 11:02]
Patching things up
Blog Comment I predict the bad guys popping up as trusted volunteers followed by an awful lot of flame wars and messy infighting. Hi JW, My biggest problem with a trusted authority is that to be of any use they must check software for malicious and spyware.
[September 28, 2008, 11:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I consider whether it might be an idea to build a portable Turing Test machine, to be carried by the Net police and deployed during flame wars when one or more of the correspondents is being particularly stupid.
[September 1, 2006, 20:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It also makes one wonder if you can heat up the milk on a token ring, whether the pilot project runs a risk of being blown out if the window gets left open and whether flame wars will ever be entirely safe again.
[November 11, 2005, 17:30]
Black Frog hops into spam battle
Talkback Odds are, a combination of the two will be the best defense, but I expect that until people are simply wise enough to ignore spam, it will always be a problem.sarcasm]Well, that and everyone getting a Mac would help reduce zombie networks.sarcasm...
[May 26, 2006, 15:22]
Happy birthday, Stack Overflow!
Blog So how do they do it, when the seabed of the Web is littered with failed communities sunk by apathy, flame wars or accretions of sludge ? If you're not a developer, you may not have come across Stack Overflow.
[August 2, 2009, 18:25]
Haha..
Talkback Very good article, :D Just but a few I have found myself in; Intel Vs AMD PC Vs Mac Windows Vs OS2 Warp Vs LINUX Vs Mac OS CISC Vs RISC AMIGA Vs ATARI ST Vs ARCHIMEDES AMSTRAD Vs SPECTRUM Vs COMMADORE Vs BBC
[September 4, 2009, 19:23]
Good memories
Talkback These brought back good memories. May I suggest a few more: AMD vs Intel Object-oriented (databases/languages/systems/etc) vs that other rubbish (a touch of bias creeping in there) Big-endian vs Little-endian
[September 4, 2009, 18:18]
