I think it's more accurate to say that it is not the scientists, but the pseudo-scientific press that is the problem. The seminal example was the 'Black Hole', a term which the research team neither wanted nor approved of, but which became the name for that phenomenon.
There are some snake-oil sellers out there, but the majority of scientists and researchers roll their eyes when they see the way the general press (and, worse, places like this site) mash theories and garble messages.
Blizzard categorise their servers and greatly limit PvP on some World of Warcraft Servers. It would presumably not be too difficult to create a server mode completely without PvP.
Players will still be able to cause each other's characters to die by bringing hordes of monsters down on them, but that can be prevented by banning it in the T&C.
Except that change of processor to Intel does not mean X86 architecture all over. There is still likely to be a lot of custom stuff in the Apple hardware, making it just as far from WINTEL as it has been up until now.
and *intel inside* badge does not a compatible system make.
There are RP and PVE only servers, where PVP is location limited or removed almost entirely. The main motivator for PVP (Honour) only applies if you attack/contribute to people within a certain range of levels, and is weighted to higher levels by the formula for gaining ranks.
I know it's not exactly what you describe, but WoW has the added factor that the only cost for being PVP'd (ooh - new verb) is time. You don't lose your stuff, you don't lose XP for dying.
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I think it's a pity that the rather beautiful design and obviously neat software doesn't include Nokia's core function: mobile phone connectivity (and not through BT).
Well, except for the numerous other sources of nuclear technology, such as Pakistan, Former Soviet countries and others.
The US hasn't had a monopoly on those technologies for some time, and offering safer, more scrutable technologies to supplant the dodgy equipment in situ seemed like a good plan.
Bear in mind, the DPRK has butted heads with the US before, it didn't work out well - especially for the Koreans.
Except that other household chemicals have a variety of obvious uses other than attacking people. Most people favour licensing guns, this is effectively a gun.
This weapon prompts serious temptation to the irresponsible. It's like the laser pointer, but way more dangerous.
It's a fair point you're making, but I feel that in this case we have a very serious weapon with no obvious harmless uses, and a considerable range (unlike the chemicals).
However...
"distribution in binary form must provide a disclaimer that
states that the software is based in part of the work of the
FreeType Team, in the distribution documentation. We also
encourage you to put an URL to the FreeType web page in your
documentation, though this isn't mandatory.
These conditions apply to any software derived from or based on
the FreeType Project, not just the unmodified files. If you use
our work, you must acknowledge us. However, no fee need be paid
to us."
Unless this company acknowledged them in detail, then that is another broken license.
That's the whole point though, English is extremely poor at representing meaning, and semantic annotation is intended to give keywords for more sensible reasoning.
English is very poor, it's somewhat possible to get effective searching from something like google from the structure of the document and its content, but a better annotation will permit more accurate and more complete retrieval, as well as retrieval based on non-obvious features.
We need an ontology that will cover many if not all aspect of human experience.
One of the advantages of the Ontology as a model is that we can avoid needing a 'global' one, instead we can compose ontologies and translate between them to create the semantic viewpoint.
The amount of time we will have to invest in adding metadata to the data will dramatically increase over time
There are additional issues, such as 'faithless' annotation (liars and miscreants) as well as genuine errors (human or other). Tagging data for the semantic web is a very big challenge.
It remains to be seen what the usage model will be, from agents to something new...
Should all false accusations then be made illegal?
There is already protection from 'frivolous' threat, but your implication is that there is no belief by the accusers that they are in the right. It's possible that they do indeed believe it, and *shock* it may even be true in some cases.
According to his site, Weird Al always gets permission first, though it's characterised as a notification:
"Q. Does Al get permission to do his parodies?
A. Al does get permission from the original writers of the songs that he parodies. While the law supports his ability to parody without permission, he feels it's important to maintain the relationships that he's built with artists and writers over the years. Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit (as writer of new lyrics) as well as his rightful share of the royalties."
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I think it's more accurate to say that it is not the scientists, but the pseudo-scientific press that is the problem. The seminal example was the 'Black Hole', a term which the research team neither wanted nor approved of, but which became the name for that phenomenon.
There are some snake-oil sellers out there, but the majority of scientists and researchers roll their eyes when they see the way the general press (and, worse, places like this site) mash theories and garble messages.
"A little knowledge..."
Pre-internet is probably a better reference to the fact that it was not connected to those networks - proto-internet perhaps?
Blizzard categorise their servers and greatly limit PvP on some World of Warcraft Servers. It would presumably not be too difficult to create a server mode completely without PvP.
Players will still be able to cause each other's characters to die by bringing hordes of monsters down on them, but that can be prevented by banning it in the T&C.
It might even be a traitor-tracing method. Send different stuff to different people, so that you can find out who was a bold NDA-breaking boy.
Except that change of processor to Intel does not mean X86 architecture all over. There is still likely to be a lot of custom stuff in the Apple hardware, making it just as far from WINTEL as it has been up until now.
and *intel inside* badge does not a compatible system make.
Well WoW has some of these elements.
There are RP and PVE only servers, where PVP is location limited or removed almost entirely. The main motivator for PVP (Honour) only applies if you attack/contribute to people within a certain range of levels, and is weighted to higher levels by the formula for gaining ranks.
I know it's not exactly what you describe, but WoW has the added factor that the only cost for being PVP'd (ooh - new verb) is time. You don't lose your stuff, you don't lose XP for dying.
It seems to have run out.
I think it's a pity that the rather beautiful design and obviously neat software doesn't include Nokia's core function: mobile phone connectivity (and not through BT).
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Well, except for the numerous other sources of nuclear technology, such as Pakistan, Former Soviet countries and others.
The US hasn't had a monopoly on those technologies for some time, and offering safer, more scrutable technologies to supplant the dodgy equipment in situ seemed like a good plan.
Bear in mind, the DPRK has butted heads with the US before, it didn't work out well - especially for the Koreans.
How about the Semantic Web Initiative?
Wind turbines are quieter and more beautiful than a coal fired power plant, and less expensive than nuclear
Most studies I have read place the TCO of wind turbines at over 10p/kW compared to ~4p/kW for nuclear.
So what you're saying is that they might as well have called it Infinium "Vapour".
Maybe that will be the handheld.
Except that other household chemicals have a variety of obvious uses other than attacking people. Most people favour licensing guns, this is effectively a gun.
This weapon prompts serious temptation to the irresponsible. It's like the laser pointer, but way more dangerous.
It's a fair point you're making, but I feel that in this case we have a very serious weapon with no obvious harmless uses, and a considerable range (unlike the chemicals).
Hmm Norwegian Blue Cheese licenses?
Well, apart from being simplistic, jingoistic and offensive, it's wrong
Art. 11 Sec. 2. The moon is not subject to national appropriation by any claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
However...
"distribution in binary form must provide a disclaimer that
states that the software is based in part of the work of the
FreeType Team, in the distribution documentation. We also
encourage you to put an URL to the FreeType web page in your
documentation, though this isn't mandatory.
These conditions apply to any software derived from or based on
the FreeType Project, not just the unmodified files. If you use
our work, you must acknowledge us. However, no fee need be paid
to us."
Unless this company acknowledged them in detail, then that is another broken license.
That's the whole point though, English is extremely poor at representing meaning, and semantic annotation is intended to give keywords for more sensible reasoning.
English is very poor, it's somewhat possible to get effective searching from something like google from the structure of the document and its content, but a better annotation will permit more accurate and more complete retrieval, as well as retrieval based on non-obvious features.
Well said, there are indeed numerous areas of investigation of this sort of work. It's not as empty an area as the article tells us.
We need an ontology that will cover many if not all aspect of human experience.
One of the advantages of the Ontology as a model is that we can avoid needing a 'global' one, instead we can compose ontologies and translate between them to create the semantic viewpoint.
The amount of time we will have to invest in adding metadata to the data will dramatically increase over time
There are additional issues, such as 'faithless' annotation (liars and miscreants) as well as genuine errors (human or other). Tagging data for the semantic web is a very big challenge.
It remains to be seen what the usage model will be, from agents to something new...
We presume it's not Romero, unless the changes to the mythology involve robotic frogs.
That said, this film has had approximately the same excessive pre-production lifespan as Daikatana
Should all false accusations then be made illegal?
There is already protection from 'frivolous' threat, but your implication is that there is no belief by the accusers that they are in the right. It's possible that they do indeed believe it, and *shock* it may even be true in some cases.
According to his site, Weird Al always gets permission first, though it's characterised as a notification:
"Q. Does Al get permission to do his parodies?
A. Al does get permission from the original writers of the songs that he parodies. While the law supports his ability to parody without permission, he feels it's important to maintain the relationships that he's built with artists and writers over the years. Plus, Al wants to make sure that he gets his songwriter credit (as writer of new lyrics) as well as his rightful share of the royalties."
I suppose the issue lies in the fact that there isn't a war going on between Illonois and Missouri over St. Louis.
The errors being made are of political geography, where govts are extremely sensitive about the issues, rightly or wrongly.