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Doesn't that sound a little bit like "Look what you made me do to you?"

That particular little line is a distinctive indication of an abuser... blaming the abused.

Abusers have alloplastic defenses. They tend to blame every mistake, failure, or mishap on others, or on the world at large. They do not assume personal responsibility, do not admit to having faults and miscalculations, keep blaming others for their predicament. "Look what you made me do!" is an abuser's ubiquitous catchphrase.

-- Abusers - Denying the Abuse

Now it seems all very clear to me.

Wait a moment. MacOS and Win 3.1 in their time being able to run on the same hardware?

Yes.

Win 3.1 has always been restricted to x86 processors.

DOS and Win 3.x ran on an add-on card installed in an Amiga. The Mac OS was run the same way, on an add-on card.

MacOS in it's time on what was it the Motorola 68something or so. Definitely not Intels. Win 3.1 was from even before the PPC era. Especially if Amigas were still around other than as museum piece.

Macs and Amigas used the same CPUs, those Motorola 68x00. However back then the Mac OS was in ROM so a board and the ROM or ROM image from a Mac was needed. Emulation on the Amiga has a little more info. There were other methods to emulate Macs too.

Falcon

Then upgrade the backbone. Instead of limiting the speed for end users, invest in the backbone and eliminate the clogging. I'm guessing Japan doesn't have that big of a problem with the backbone though. (neither does Sweden it would appear, I can easily reach 100 Mbps if I download directly from someone else on a 100 Mbps connection within Sweden)

Its a lot easier to upgrade infrastructure in a smaller place then it is in a bigger one. Sweden and Japan are small assed nations compared to the USA, so the cost of long haul fiber would be cheaper for those nations, then it would be for the USA.

Do you need a quick physical geography lesson to see this?

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_surface_area_of_Japan
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sw.html
http://open-site.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/

Can you afford to help run high capacity and long haul fiber optic cable from Annapolis, Md to San Francisco, Ca so everyone can be all happy and content with their broadband? As well as to connect each and every house hold in the US to be able to use this new High Capacity and long haul fiber back bone network? I dont think you can, so please stop sounding like you are smart, because quite frankly you are not.

At risk of stating the obvious, this won't get anywhere near as popular as Wikipedia because everyone can't edit any article (thereby keeping the articles up-to-date and reaching decisions by consensus so ensuring accuracy)--although I do suspect that Google will be able to develop a better interface--Wikimedia is in desperate need of developers to work on RFEs.

An on-line encyclopedia model where articles are owned has been tried many times before by the likes of ODP/DMoz spin-off, the Open Encyclopedia Project, and Slashdot spin-off, Everything2. In fact, nearly all the online encyclopedias except Wikipedia have some kind of article ownership even if in some cases it isn't absolute (including Wikipedia predecessor, Nupedia, of course, which was abandoned when it was realised how successful the anyone-can-edit model they were trialing was).

Yes.

http://open-site.org/Computers/Programming/Contest s/Obfuscated_Perl_Contest/

-Jay

Not on windows it isn't :)

Any comments on The Open Encyclopedia Project which appears to have a similar objective/goal as Wikipedia - which you have done a very nice job with BTW! ;-)

Not to mention http://open-site.org .