After 244 Years, the End For the Dead Tree Encyclopedia Britannica 373
Rick Zeman writes "According to the New York Times, it's the end of the road for the printed Encyclopedia Brittanica, saying, '...in recent years, print reference books have been almost completely wiped out by the Internet and its vast spread of resources, particularly Wikipedia, which in 11 years has helped replace the authority of experts with the wisdom of the crowds.' The last print edition will be the 32-volume 2010 edition."
Bad Joke (Score:5, Funny)
How did the hipster burn his mouth?
He ate pizza before it was cool.
Re:Losing A Snapshot Of History (Score:4, Funny)
You can go download a copy of wikipedia right now. Stick it on a dvd, throw it in some dark corner, and come back in 10 years.
12,000 years from now... (Score:5, Funny)
"Scientists have been wondering why historical records mysteriously ended sometime around the year 2012. It's as if humanity decided to just stop writing things down, and left everything to oral tradition. It's sad that we will never know what happened between then and the eventua downfall of one of the greatest ancient civilizations that ever lived."
Re:Citable (Score:5, Funny)
The bottom line is that Wikipedia isn't written by experts, or for the large part by people who have expertise in *any* field, and for topics outside CS and parts of the sciences, it's pretty poor because non-expert "crowds" don't have much judgment. In short-- there's no wisdom in crowds, only amplified ignorance.
That's simply not true. Wikipedia's articles on manga and anime characters are second to none.
slashdot setting help needed (Score:4, Funny)
I can't find the setting to show the thread scores. And YES MUTHAFUCKERS, I've looked everywhere.
George Orwell would approve (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bad Joke (Score:5, Funny)
(waits for you to answer)
No, it's some obscure number you probably haven't heard of yet.
Re:Yeah... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:endurance egghead pukes amplified ignorance (Score:3, Funny)
>For all the rest, amplified ignorance is vastly superior to no signal at all.
In the same way that a randomly generated map of a minefield is vastly superior to no map at all. LOL What a vapid argument.
Re:Yeah... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:12,000 years from now... (Score:4, Funny)
Scientists have been wondering why historical records mysteriously ended sometime around the year 2012. It's as if humanity decided to just stop writing things down, and left everything to oral tradition.
Too bad they'll never know the truth...all our knowledge disappeared because we put it in the cloud.
Re:The ultimate hipster edition (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Citable (Score:3, Funny)
Re:slashdot setting help needed (Score:3, Funny)
I can't find the setting to show the thread scores. And YES MUTHAFUCKERS, I've looked everywhere.
Did you check the Britannica? ;p