In my opinion the problem with the current semantic web is the use of ontologies. An ontology is very good at describing knowledge within a certain domain such as health care or art. The resulting knowledge base can be searched in very inventive ways with a lot of relevant results.
I have experience with tools such as protege to create such ontologies and they work great within a certain domain.
The problem however is that an ontology only describes a certain domain. It is not possible to describe the entire world using one ontology. Semantic search would have to leave the entire ontology research field behind if it actually wants to go somewhere with the semantic web.
Usually Microsoft's anti-piracy initiatives are aimed at businesses without any licenses at all. I would be surprised if they changed their target to 12 year old kids or companies missing 2 licenses out of 5000. That is at least not what the article tells me.
Microsoft is informing their customers they will stop selling windows XP through small resellers by february 2009. larger resellers will stop shipping xp in july. This kind of information is aimed at (usually) smaller companies who are using a third party to replace all hardware within their company once every three years.
There is nothing to gain for microsoft when prosecuting the 12 year old kid that pirated his windows xp copy.
It was the most amazing thing to hear Obama saying that he didn't want to eliminate existing insurance, just provide free coverage for those who can't afford it. He has no clue how many people would stop paying for their existing insurance and go with free, so his projections on cost and workability are skewed. It's the same as every other entitlement program ever enacted. FREE draws crowds of people who can afford it but don't want to pay. What's worse is that those who drop paid insurance for the free stuff are likely to be the ones who don't need much medical care to start with and object to paying insurance for something they don't need. That leaves all the sick people paying insurance because they can't change with an existing condition, which can't provide services because it is no longer getting subsidized by people who are paying but not needing services.
I don't think free insurance is the way to go. Instead in the Netherlands where I live every citizen is obliged to have health care insurance. The basic version which can't be denied to anyone is around 90 euros a month and every citizen has at least this. Those that can't afford it will get compensation up to around 60 euro a month. Who can't afford it is based on Tax reports send in by every citizen.
In this way everyone has a right to health care. When you arive at a hospital after a car accident no one will ask for your insurance but they will help you first since everyone is insured.
This is a lot better and overal cheaper then the american health care system and in no way a free healthcare system where people want and can get health care for free.
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Which came first, creativity or copyright?
1. creativity
2. printing press
3. mass distribution
4. copyright
5. the Internet
6. the RIAA
pretty simplo IMO.
In my opinion the problem with the current semantic web is the use of ontologies. An ontology is very good at describing knowledge within a certain domain such as health care or art. The resulting knowledge base can be searched in very inventive ways with a lot of relevant results. I have experience with tools such as protege to create such ontologies and they work great within a certain domain. The problem however is that an ontology only describes a certain domain. It is not possible to describe the entire world using one ontology. Semantic search would have to leave the entire ontology research field behind if it actually wants to go somewhere with the semantic web.
Usually Microsoft's anti-piracy initiatives are aimed at businesses without any licenses at all. I would be surprised if they changed their target to 12 year old kids or companies missing 2 licenses out of 5000. That is at least not what the article tells me. Microsoft is informing their customers they will stop selling windows XP through small resellers by february 2009. larger resellers will stop shipping xp in july. This kind of information is aimed at (usually) smaller companies who are using a third party to replace all hardware within their company once every three years. There is nothing to gain for microsoft when prosecuting the 12 year old kid that pirated his windows xp copy.
It was the most amazing thing to hear Obama saying that he didn't want to eliminate existing insurance, just provide free coverage for those who can't afford it. He has no clue how many people would stop paying for their existing insurance and go with free, so his projections on cost and workability are skewed. It's the same as every other entitlement program ever enacted. FREE draws crowds of people who can afford it but don't want to pay. What's worse is that those who drop paid insurance for the free stuff are likely to be the ones who don't need much medical care to start with and object to paying insurance for something they don't need. That leaves all the sick people paying insurance because they can't change with an existing condition, which can't provide services because it is no longer getting subsidized by people who are paying but not needing services.
I don't think free insurance is the way to go. Instead in the Netherlands where I live every citizen is obliged to have health care insurance. The basic version which can't be denied to anyone is around 90 euros a month and every citizen has at least this. Those that can't afford it will get compensation up to around 60 euro a month. Who can't afford it is based on Tax reports send in by every citizen. In this way everyone has a right to health care. When you arive at a hospital after a car accident no one will ask for your insurance but they will help you first since everyone is insured. This is a lot better and overal cheaper then the american health care system and in no way a free healthcare system where people want and can get health care for free.