Talk:Revision3 Corporation
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[edit] Inaccurate Statement?
"The company was formed in San Francisco, California by Kevin Rose and Dan Huard, who at the time were employees of the television network TechTV." I'm pretty sure this statement is inaccurate. Revision3 was not formed until Kevin Rose's departure from G4. However, Kevin and Dan did produce The Broken while TechTV still existed. I wasn't sure what to put in its place, so I noted it here. Also, the name 'Revision3' comes from a third phase at providing tech content, the first being TechTV, and the second being G4 (after Kevin Rose continued to host a show there). Again, i wasn't sure how to implement this into the article, so I noted it here. Psykus 07:57, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] VfD
If you look at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Systm, you can see that Systm was declared a "merge and redirect". However, it makes no sense to redirect it to Kevin Rose... he's only one-fifth of the team behind the show. It makes much more sense to combine Systm and thebroken with Revision3 Studios, the company that produces them.
In addition, the new Revision3 Studios article is much more encyclopedic than the previous article that was deleted. .... added at 02:06, 2005 Jun 20 by Taestell
- Let's take a look at the VfD page. It was I who nominated it, and my objection wasn't that the article wasn't sufficiently encyclopedic but rather Google tells me that the total number of hits for "revision3 studios" is a rather underwhelming zero. That was on 2 June; perhaps there are some more hits now. Others voted on perceived vanity, crappiness, etc. -- Hoary 02:36, 2005 Jun 20 (UTC)
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- The reason that there are few hits is that the existance of the company was just announced. The videozines that it produces, however, have already acheived notability and had millions of downloads. And it still makes more since to combine Systm with Revision3 Studios than with Kevin Rose. --taestell 03:02, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
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- What you're saying suggests to me that Systm is a lot more noteworthy than Revision3 Studios. You may wish to claim that Systm was wrongly turned into a redirect. -- Hoary 04:15, 2005 Jun 20 (UTC)
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- The point is that if I recreated the Systm article, it would get nominated for deletion, and the result would probably be to "merge and redirect", just like before. The most logical place to merge it would be in Revision3 Studios. Therefore, I think since this article contains information about not only the studio, but also Systm and thebroken, it contains enough notable information to exist. --taestell 04:32, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
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- I know this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison, but think of it like this... Homestar Runner characters contains information about all of the minor Homestar Runner characters that don't deserve a full article each. Should we start a Revision3 Studios productions article for all of their productions that don't deserve full articles? Even if you don't think the studio itself is very notable, it would make more sense to put information about Systm and thebroken into Revision3 Studios rather than Revision3 Studios productions. --taestell 04:57, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] AFD debate link
This article has been kept following this AFD debate. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:18, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Added a new section for "Infected", but I had to mess around with the image sizes for Diggnation and the Infected logos in order for everything to line up right. If someone wants to clean that up, go ahead. Psykus 09:25, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Move to Revision3 Corporation
I decided to move this page from Revision3 Studios to Revision3 Corporation. The company's name is Revision3 Corporation and is not referred to as Revision3 Studios. There are probably I number of double redirects which I will fix soon. It is 4am in the morning as I type this and I must go to bed.
--Peter McGinley 17:07, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Systm article
Now somewhat removed from it's launch, does anyone think that there is sufficent notability to expand Systm to its own article? -AKMask 04:53, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The Broken
Actually, I'm in doubt of this statement:
"It features advice on breaking wireless encryption, cracking windows passwords, and modding gaming consoles such as the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and GameCube. The show also demonstrates social engineering and various methods of piracy."
My question is, did it really advised people on doing such acts? To me, I believed that the show more on education purposes rather than advicing people to do so.
Another question is, I was wondering in which episode does The Broken demonstrates various method of piracy?
I think the mention of piracy came from a humor segment on The Broken called "Hacking with Ramzi", where Ramzi shows you how to "pirate" BonziBuddy (a joke because BonziBuddy is a widely known spy/malware application) via Kazaa (also spyware-ridden). 207.42.160.59 22:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] thebroken
The language in the following passage is biased and questionable:
Although marketed as shady and illegal, most of the concepts mentioned in the show are old, and although there are plenty of concepts (such as WEP and password cracking) which could be used illegally, they are concepts originating in the shallow, mainstream end of computer security, and are in no sense groundbreaking.
Shallow? Does that word even belong in this article? Who is to determine what is groundbreaking? This section should be prefaced with "critics argue..." or something similar. If critics do not say this, then it shouldn't even be mentioned.
[edit] Post by Keith on Rev3 Forum
I don't have time to put any of this into the article now, so I'll copy it here for the time being.
[1] "Posted by keith at 2006-06-11 14:51
I don't want to get into this too much or make up a bunch of excuses. The facts of the matter are this.
We are a VERY shoe-string operation. Three full-time employees, including myself, and one of whom is strictly talent. We borrow Ron, who is employed by Digg.com, once a week to help us get our content online. We work out of an apartment and have to deal with Comcast broadband to upload our files at painfully slow speeds, which also have to be cached before we can make them live. Sometimes there are technical glitches in the process that cause delays. Yes our communication can be lacking and that does need to be addressed. We are working on expanding and growing to tackle these issues but it is not easy and won't happen overnight.
We offer our content free of charge and provide the opportunity for people to make donations via subscriptions if they so choose. We don't intentionally try and miss deadlines or have delays. Sometimes it just happens because of the situation we are in. If this is a problem then by all means cancel your subscription and download the content for free when we make it public. If you understand this reasoning then you're apt to be a lot less frustrated when these delays happen to occur.
I wasn't a fan of having a scheduled release time at first but we decided to go ahead with it. Ron and I have worked hard to get to a point were we could work within that time frame. Unfortunately, because it is such a tight schedule, if anything happens along the process it can push things back.
We really think we have a good thing going here and we need all the support we can get. We have lofty plans for Revision3 and hopefully we will see great strides before the year is out. We are, as always, dedicated to providing quality content to the Internet masses."
68.184.209.190 07:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Zodiac"?
Any idea who "Zodiac" is, or if that is even a real person who has affiliation w/ the company? See this edit. I searched this article, and high and low on Rev3's site, and found no information about such a person. As such, I have removed that entry for the time being and left this note on the user's talk page. This was also the only edit the user has EVER made. Hoping someone can solve this mystery. Czj 02:43, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] My Rollback
Ok, that's not the most helpful rollback summary, so here's my reasoning:
The article was deleted and protected to prevent recreation. It is not coming back, so no point in linking there.
Sorry for the bad summary once again. Cheers. --Falcorian (talk) 17:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Umm, why doesn't diggnation get its own entry? I think a lot of people who've heard of diggnation but not of revision3 would be pretty confused to find themselves at a revision3 entry instead of a diggnation one. Can we add the diggnation page back? ~~
[edit] The broken is not dead
Jay,the CEO, said the broken is not dead. I'm busy to add this in.--71.244.10.242 02:45, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Address Formatting
I recently rewrote the Diggnation section of this article, and I tried to reformat the mailing address section. Does anyone know how to make the pound (#) sign appear as the first character in a line without making it a numbered list like it is currently? Yavoh 23:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Use & # 3 5 ; but without the spaces. CardinalFangZERO 02:02, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
