Wikipedia sources are the same as other academic sources i.e. they can be web pages but are the usual newspapers, books, Journals, etc..
Wikipedia even has help on what are reliable sources and specifically rules out most websites as unreliable (unless moderated, peer reviewed, or a web copy of a printed reliable source)
Have you seen a paper submitted to a journal? Or a academic work? they normally have a list or sources a mile long, this is not just for show it's so people can see where the basic information came from.
Citing sources are not "examples" they are the sources of the information so what is in the article can be checked.
The point is that an educated person with credentials that knows what they are talking about will also know where to find proper sources of infromation (and be able to cite them), some bozo who is guessing or half-remembering won't... It's the difference between someone who can direct you to the right page in the right book to confirm what they are saying and "..some bloke down the pub said..."
An ignorant bastard who is a good writer is still an ignorant bastard, and so will write well written rubbish and not cite proper sources (if at all) and so their edits will be suspect, a genius expert who is a terrible writer but cites good sources will have his poor writing corrected...
It's the cites that count... the hoaxes that have lasted longest on Wikipedia were all the ones that sounded reasonable and cited sources (false ones)
The problem is this is all a bit esoteric for the average user (most/.ers are not average users)...
What apps are you running right now?
e.g.
Web Browser
Word Processor
Spreadsheet
Music player
Besides running each app on a separate core (or maybe each tab in the browser) how are multiple cores going to help?
None of these needs much pure CPU speed (except the music player maybe) they spend most of their time waiting for the user, and the current *multithreaded* apps help when they are doing multiple things at once (if done properly)?
All the examples I have seen above are sorting large datasets , photoediting, video processing - all very CPU intensive, and the kind of thing that most people would run with as little else running as possible?
Lagging applications are mostly very processor intensive (or are being slowed by another such app) which parallel processing will help, or have other resource problems (memory, disk etc...) that will not be solved by more cores
Maybe the high school drop out is Richard Branson (Head of the Virgin Group) and the Nobel Laureate is Jimmy Carter..?
Wikipedia does not equalise the input of everyone? A contributor with no writing ability who does not cite sources and writes long rambling point of view pieces, or what looks like vandalism will get edited out, note this is not always the person who is badly educated, or ill-informed
So like Wikipedia you will have authors and Editors/Admins and you will have the same culture but with money involved..... Does not sound like and advantage to me ?
Wikipedia's model may be flawed in that you get edit wars and arrogant admins but at least the article is more correct at the end of the process (maybe not totally correct but better than average) Google's Knol seems to be biased towards opinionated articles that can only be reviewed (by Admins?) this sounds nearer to a traditional Encyclopedia?
It also depends on how inclusive their acceptance policy is, will they allow minority articles (like Wikipedia mostly does) or vanity articles (like Wikipedia doesn't) Wikipedia gets huge amounts of flak about the borderline cases....
So
There are more people : So more variations, more mutations
People now tend to survive : There is less pressure on slightly bad mutations, most mutations survive
Therefore
Evolution is at an enhanced rate as compared to 10000 years ago when there were few people the population was not expanding and most people's lives were nasty brutish and short (like them) so the sick or unfit almost always died
Note : this does not mean that all this evolution is good for the species it just means that there is more variation both bad and good - Some bad variations however may lead on to good variations (e.g Sickle Cell anaemia, making people resistant to malaira)
Note evolution does not advance, step ahead or progress it just adjusts a species to the local conditions, but our "local conditions" are the whole planet and the human race and it's knowledge and we are very good at keeping people alive so the local conditions are very forgiving of ill-adapted mutations
It looks like these drives are incompatible with USB
Linux (and Mac) assume that all USB storage devices will meet the standard and so have problems
Windows appears to allow this drive to work and so also does not strictly follow the standard (which Microsoft helped to write?)
But note Windows users are also having problems with these drives on USB
A product which needs to be reliable but does not function in a reliable manner is broken and should be avoided!
I've read books on a Newton, on a Palm, on a modern PDA all of them have the same problems,
1) the size of the screen (far too small) 2) the resolution (not a high enough DPI to be comfortable for reading for extended periods) 3) mostly, too heavy if they get anywhere near to overcoming the other two
So what people want is a reader that have a surface that is large enough at a high enough DPI to read easily and is not too heavy and is cheap, unfortunately this exists already and is called a book.... When the e-Reader catches up if will be more convenient because it can contain more text than the same weight of book, but that has not happened yet..
Try inforcing US laws around the world and most countries will tell you politely to get stuffed... the rest will not be polite...
and the Seize computers used for piracy is a laugh... It could easily be interpreted as seize the internet as a whole...... who writes this dross.. oh yes the same people who get to interpret them...?
But there are developers that refuse point blank to code for IE6 now IE7 is out...
Not saying IE7 is perfect but it gives them an excuse not to support the totally broken nature of IE6
It used to be Code for standards
Make one or two minor mods to get the layout looking nice in Firefox and Opera
Make a number of mods to make it look ok in IE7
put huge amounts of Javascript in to make it render at all in IE6
Now many are just leaving out the last step and adding an "Upgrade to IE7 to use this page" button....
So if they just launch a human mission to Mars, it's OK
It's not research into landing a man on mars It's not development for landing a man on mars It's not a demonstration of landing a man on mars It's just landing a man on mars
or they could go to another planet/moon/asteroid so it's not mars or they can do anything that has another application or they can just wait until next year....
amazing a legal ban on something we can't do yet, and can show we are not doing even if we are...?
This was a nice story several weeks ago...../. is on the cutting edge of news again....
Barrow Gurney has no sidewalks, because it is not in America (it has pavements instead) it does not have a problem with Trucks it has a problem with Lorries
Americans, two weeks late and in a foreign language....
From your list...
My response is either Don't care, Don't need it, or why is that part of PDF?
Most people do not write PDF documents, they write documents and turn them into PDFs to distribute them
So Spell checking, import, export etc. is done in a better document writer?
And about Forms, sorry never used them, don't see the point, it's not what a PDF is about a PDF *IS* a static document to me?
If you have properly cited the article (which should be easy since you are an expert) then getting it reinstated by an admin and the "punk wikipedia cultist" banned is easy....... If however it's an uncited article then best of luck....
Educate your posters to \. Some people in the UK are stupid, just like some people in the US.
The perception from the outside of the US is that it is the majority of the US that are stupid (but I suspect that is just a perception) and I suspect that the perception of the UK from the outside is that the majority of us are stupid as well... It's not us it's our media, they all studied "Media" in college and don't know Science (or even common sense it seems) and don't seem to care if they get it wrong as long as it makes a good story...
But the point of this is our media is regulated, the BBC got it wrong (they are media people they don't know science), people complained, and someone checked, and they corrected it...
No you select "Install Software" pick the nearest equivilent from the list and press install... and it magically installs it (along with any updates to other software you require)
No Money, No Shop, No hassle....
Please call back when installing Windows software is this easy (Confirm/Deny)
The Admins are there to arbitrate and if required ban people....... this is what they do.. they don't (or most of them don't) edit anymore because they are too busy being Admins...
Wikis need people like this to arbitrate on disputes and ban annoying people who will not follow the rules
The fact that they discuss who to ban is a *good* thing at least they are not being arbitary and acting alone
It's more likely that the current record industry will morph into artist promoters (they do this anyway) so they will handle the booking, advertising, promotion etc.. but not actually do any distribution, that will be handled by iTunes et al...
Meanwhile the smaller independent artists will continue to bypass them since they don't need them...
I'm betting that if it's automatic it will label all pictures of the Blackpool tower "the Eiffel Tower" since they look very similar... If it's not automatic then it will not happen....
It'll be a case of "So that's what that looks like"... "Well actually no it looks nothing like that..."
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Wikipedia sources are the same as other academic sources i.e. they can be web pages but are the usual newspapers, books, Journals, etc..
Wikipedia even has help on what are reliable sources and specifically rules out most websites as unreliable (unless moderated, peer reviewed, or a web copy of a printed reliable source)
Have you seen a paper submitted to a journal? Or a academic work? they normally have a list or sources a mile long, this is not just for show it's so people can see where the basic information came from.
Citing sources are not "examples" they are the sources of the information so what is in the article can be checked.
The point is that an educated person with credentials that knows what they are talking about will also know where to find proper sources of infromation (and be able to cite them), some bozo who is guessing or half-remembering won't... It's the difference between someone who can direct you to the right page in the right book to confirm what they are saying and "..some bloke down the pub said..."
An ignorant bastard who is a good writer is still an ignorant bastard, and so will write well written rubbish and not cite proper sources (if at all) and so their edits will be suspect, a genius expert who is a terrible writer but cites good sources will have his poor writing corrected...
It's the cites that count... the hoaxes that have lasted longest on Wikipedia were all the ones that sounded reasonable and cited sources (false ones)
The problem is this is all a bit esoteric for the average user (most /.ers are not average users) ...
...) that will not be solved by more cores
What apps are you running right now?
e.g.
Web Browser
Word Processor
Spreadsheet
Music player
Besides running each app on a separate core (or maybe each tab in the browser) how are multiple cores going to help?
None of these needs much pure CPU speed (except the music player maybe) they spend most of their time waiting for the user, and the current *multithreaded* apps help when they are doing multiple things at once (if done properly)?
All the examples I have seen above are sorting large datasets , photoediting, video processing - all very CPU intensive, and the kind of thing that most people would run with as little else running as possible?
Lagging applications are mostly very processor intensive (or are being slowed by another such app) which parallel processing will help, or have other resource problems (memory, disk etc
Maybe the high school drop out is Richard Branson (Head of the Virgin Group) and the Nobel Laureate is Jimmy Carter..?
Wikipedia does not equalise the input of everyone? A contributor with no writing ability who does not cite sources and writes long rambling point of view pieces, or what looks like vandalism will get edited out, note this is not always the person who is badly educated, or ill-informed
So like Wikipedia you will have authors and Editors/Admins and you will have the same culture but with money involved ... .. Does not sound like and advantage to me ?
Wikipedia's model may be flawed in that you get edit wars and arrogant admins but at least the article is more correct at the end of the process (maybe not totally correct but better than average) Google's Knol seems to be biased towards opinionated articles that can only be reviewed (by Admins?) this sounds nearer to a traditional Encyclopedia?
It also depends on how inclusive their acceptance policy is, will they allow minority articles (like Wikipedia mostly does) or vanity articles (like Wikipedia doesn't) Wikipedia gets huge amounts of flak about the borderline cases....
How to make your Codec protected against the Software Patent system in America ... .. You can't
...
When you have a patent system that allows someone to retrospectively patent obvious simple ideas then anything can have submarine patents on it
"putting their patents where their mouth is" with MPEG4 would be worthless you would end up with something akin to what Theora is now
Evolution is the result of mutations surviving
So
There are more people : So more variations, more mutations
People now tend to survive : There is less pressure on slightly bad mutations, most mutations survive
Therefore
Evolution is at an enhanced rate as compared to 10000 years ago when there were few people the population was not expanding and most people's lives were nasty brutish and short (like them) so the sick or unfit almost always died
Note : this does not mean that all this evolution is good for the species it just means that there is more variation both bad and good - Some bad variations however may lead on to good variations (e.g Sickle Cell anaemia, making people resistant to malaira)
Note evolution does not advance, step ahead or progress it just adjusts a species to the local conditions, but our "local conditions" are the whole planet and the human race and it's knowledge and we are very good at keeping people alive so the local conditions are very forgiving of ill-adapted mutations
The ARPANET was already 17 Years old when NSFNET went online in 1986?
...
in 1995
the Internet had 36 Million users when the NSFNET closed and offloaded it's 6 million users
It looks like these drives are incompatible with USB
Linux (and Mac) assume that all USB storage devices will meet the standard and so have problems
Windows appears to allow this drive to work and so also does not strictly follow the standard (which Microsoft helped to write?)
But note Windows users are also having problems with these drives on USB
A product which needs to be reliable but does not function in a reliable manner is broken and should be avoided!
Colombia said, ok we'll implement these laws for this aid ... and then did the absolute minimum ...
...
Afghanistan said no opium is too profitable and went back to growing it
I've read books on a Newton, on a Palm, on a modern PDA all of them have the same problems,
.... When the e-Reader catches up if will be more convenient because it can contain more text than the same weight of book, but that has not happened yet ..
1) the size of the screen (far too small)
2) the resolution (not a high enough DPI to be comfortable for reading for extended periods)
3) mostly, too heavy if they get anywhere near to overcoming the other two
So what people want is a reader that have a surface that is large enough at a high enough DPI to read easily and is not too heavy and is cheap, unfortunately this exists already and is called a book
Try inforcing US laws around the world and most countries will tell you politely to get stuffed ... the rest will not be polite ...
... It could easily be interpreted as seize the internet as a whole ... ... who writes this dross .. oh yes the same people who get to interpret them ...?
and the Seize computers used for piracy is a laugh
But there are developers that refuse point blank to code for IE6 now IE7 is out ...
....
Not saying IE7 is perfect but it gives them an excuse not to support the totally broken nature of IE6
It used to be Code for standards
Make one or two minor mods to get the layout looking nice in Firefox and Opera
Make a number of mods to make it look ok in IE7
put huge amounts of Javascript in to make it render at all in IE6
Now many are just leaving out the last step and adding an "Upgrade to IE7 to use this page" button
Sony?
Would that be the Sony that helped design and is backing HD-DVD
or the Sony that helped design and is backing Blu-Ray
(BTW Betamax was pure Sony, VHS was Phillips+Sony , which is why VHS now has all of Betamax's Technology in it)
So if they just launch a human mission to Mars, it's OK
...?
It's not research into landing a man on mars
It's not development for landing a man on mars
It's not a demonstration of landing a man on mars
It's just landing a man on mars
or they could go to another planet/moon/asteroid so it's not mars
or they can do anything that has another application
or they can just wait until next year....
amazing a legal ban on something we can't do yet, and can show we are not doing even if we are
This was a nice story several weeks ago..... /. is on the cutting edge of news again....
....
Barrow Gurney has no sidewalks, because it is not in America (it has pavements instead) it does not have a problem with Trucks it has a problem with Lorries
Americans, two weeks late and in a foreign language
From your list ...
My response is either Don't care, Don't need it, or why is that part of PDF?
Most people do not write PDF documents, they write documents and turn them into PDFs to distribute them
So Spell checking, import, export etc. is done in a better document writer?
And about Forms, sorry never used them, don't see the point, it's not what a PDF is about a PDF *IS* a static document to me?
If you have properly cited the article (which should be easy since you are an expert) then getting it reinstated by an admin and the "punk wikipedia cultist" banned is easy.... ... If however it's an uncited article then best of luck ....
Dear USA,
... It's not us it's our media, they all studied "Media" in college and don't know Science (or even common sense it seems) and don't seem to care if they get it wrong as long as it makes a good story ...
...
Educate your posters to \. Some people in the UK are stupid, just like some people in the US.
The perception from the outside of the US is that it is the majority of the US that are stupid (but I suspect that is just a perception) and I suspect that the perception of the UK from the outside is that the majority of us are stupid as well
But the point of this is our media is regulated, the BBC got it wrong (they are media people they don't know science), people complained, and someone checked, and they corrected it
No you select "Install Software" pick the nearest equivilent from the list and press install ... and it magically installs it (along with any updates to other software you require)
....
No Money, No Shop, No hassle
Please call back when installing Windows software is this easy (Confirm/Deny)
The Admins are there to arbitrate and if required ban people .... ... this is what they do .. they don't (or most of them don't) edit anymore because they are too busy being Admins ...
Wikis need people like this to arbitrate on disputes and ban annoying people who will not follow the rules
The fact that they discuss who to ban is a *good* thing at least they are not being arbitary and acting alone
The record industry does not equal music
.. but not actually do any distribution, that will be handled by iTunes et al ...
...
It's more likely that the current record industry will morph into artist promoters (they do this anyway) so they will handle the booking, advertising, promotion etc
Meanwhile the smaller independent artists will continue to bypass them since they don't need them
Yes it fixes all the problems
..etc ..etc .. does and more and does it properly !
....
It's a layout system
It's also a scripting language
It's network aware
It can dynamically change output
It's a proper application interface
i.e it does everything HTML/XML/XHTML/DHTML/JavaScript/Ajax etc
the only reason it died was it needed to be licensed from Sun whereas HTML and X (windowing) was free
I'm betting that if it's automatic it will label all pictures of the Blackpool tower "the Eiffel Tower" since they look very similar ... If it's not automatic then it will not happen ....
... "Well actually no it looks nothing like that..."
It'll be a case of "So that's what that looks like"
So you don't have broadband?
Or Cable?
You actually try and use broadband via a Cellphone, at the slow and horribly costly rates they charge?
And why are you still using that old fashioned phone technology why are you not using VOIP and paying nothing for phone calls?