"Franklin Felber" has less than 40 hits on google. For that reason I very much doubt he is a noted physicist. By association, I am not going to take his claims seriously...
but exactly, then, WHO is supposed to edit this information
Wikipedia policy clearly says that you are not supposed to edit articles about yourself, see Wikipedia:Autobiography. While correcting factual stuff like a birth date is ok, adding praise or deleting true but unfortunate facts about yourself (such as this one from the IP from the new article?) is a definite no-go.
FYI, Wikipedia does not have a policy banning musicians from editing articles about musical instruments; musicians are knowledgeable and their edits are appreciated and assumed to be truthfull and neutral. On the other hand, creating an article about your own band, your own website, or your own one-man company is frowned upon.
There are two kinds of planets: Solid and gas giants. Almost all other extra-solar planets have been gas giants; this new one is solid, just like Venus, Earth and Mars.
Kerneltrap had an informative article on this. The short summary is that wireless support on Linux sucks, and that it is partially our own problem. A quote:
another banner year has passed, with Linux once again proving its superiority in the area of crappy wireless (WiFi) support. Linux oldsters love the current state of wireless, because it hearkens back to the heady days of Yuri Gagarin, Sputnik and Linux kernel 0.99, when getting hardware to work under Linux required either engineering knowledge or luck (or both).
Using Firefox with Adblock installed one can stop all files of this dangerous type by adblocking them until a patch is available.
This comment says that you can't block it (ny blocking a file extention as is done in adblock), as Windows will execute the file as a.wmf even if the file is renamed to.jpg .
This is how it already works in Denmark - and it works fine.
If somebody uses your card number on the internet, and the person who withdraw from your account does/can not document that it was done with your consent, you get the money refunded. So if somebody steals your credit card number and withdraws money with it, you get your money back from the bank.
A merchant may first withdraw the amount from your account when the object is shipped.
For the curious, the relevant section in the US constitution:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Just a quote from the article you linked, so your comment is not taken out of context:
However, they said that the thickening seemed consistent with theories of global warming, blamed by most experts on a build-up of heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars.
Warmer air, even if it is still below freezing, can carry more moisture. That extra moisture falls as snow below 32 Fahrenheit.
Actually, I should mention that most of the credit for keeping Wikipedia "clean"/high quality goes to ordinary users. Anybody can revert vandalism, and if a page should be deleted it can be marked with a "speedy delete" request, which an admin will then look at and execute if the request is proper.
I thought Wiki would be flooded with ass clowns who wrote a lot of silly joke pages
It is; only the "superuser" admins are deleting them (I am a WIkipedia admin). Take a look at the Wikipedia deletion log; in the last 24 hours almost 1000 pages has been deleted, and that is a typical day. That works out to almost one page delete per minute.
Personally, I believe that computers, at this point, can beat mankind in anything that can be mathematically explained.
The game Go is famous for being hard for computers to play. Wikipedia says:
Although attempts have been made to program computers to play Go, success in that area has been moderate at best - development in this area has not reached the level of Chess programs. Even the strongest programs are no better than an average club player, and would easily be beaten by a strong player even getting a nine-stone handicap. This is attributed to many qualities of the game, including the "optimising" nature of the victory condition, the virtually unlimited placement of each stone, the large board size, the nonlocal nature of the Ko rule, and the high degree of pattern recognition involved. For this reason, many in the field of artificial intelligence consider Go to be a better measure of a computer's capacity for thought than chess.
Since this problem is probably exponential in some way then it would probably currently be impossible to build a computer which could beat humans, at least until somebody invents better algoritms.
Evidently oddities like that must have caused someone at Google to alter whatever pattern-matching search of answers.com the definition link uses, because now a lot more searches default to definitions of the individual words.
As far as I can see, now the only definitions ever linked are for individual words.
It is too bad; it was really cool when they were also linking to definitions for combinations; almost all such linked definitions included a wikipedia article.
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noted physicist Dr. Franklin Felber will present
"Franklin Felber" has less than 40 hits on google. For that reason I very much doubt he is a noted physicist. By association, I am not going to take his claims seriously...
but exactly, then, WHO is supposed to edit this information
Wikipedia policy clearly says that you are not supposed to edit articles about yourself, see Wikipedia:Autobiography. While correcting factual stuff like a birth date is ok, adding praise or deleting true but unfortunate facts about yourself (such as this one from the IP from the new article?) is a definite no-go.
FYI, Wikipedia does not have a policy banning musicians from editing articles about musical instruments; musicians are knowledgeable and their edits are appreciated and assumed to be truthfull and neutral. On the other hand, creating an article about your own band, your own website, or your own one-man company is frowned upon.
There are two kinds of planets: Solid and gas giants. Almost all other extra-solar planets have been gas giants; this new one is solid, just like Venus, Earth and Mars.
Kerneltrap had an informative article on this. The short summary is that wireless support on Linux sucks, and that it is partially our own problem. A quote:
another banner year has passed, with Linux once again proving its superiority in the area of crappy wireless (WiFi) support. Linux oldsters love the current state of wireless, because it hearkens back to the heady days of Yuri Gagarin, Sputnik and Linux kernel 0.99, when getting hardware to work under Linux required either engineering knowledge or luck (or both).
Linux: Wireless State of the Union
Using Firefox with Adblock installed one can stop all files of this dangerous type by adblocking them until a patch is available.
.wmf even if the file is renamed to .jpg .
This comment says that you can't block it (ny blocking a file extention as is done in adblock), as Windows will execute the file as a
Actually, I just semi-protected it : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special% 3ALog&type=protect&user=&page=He-Man .
This is how it already works in Denmark - and it works fine.
If somebody uses your card number on the internet, and the person who withdraw from your account does/can not document that it was done with your consent, you get the money refunded. So if somebody steals your credit card number and withdraws money with it, you get your money back from the bank.
A merchant may first withdraw the amount from your account when the object is shipped.
For the curious, the relevant section in the US constitution:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Just a quote from the article you linked, so your comment is not taken out of context:
However, they said that the thickening seemed consistent with theories of global warming, blamed by most experts on a build-up of heat-trapping gases from burning fossil fuels in power plants, factories and cars.
Warmer air, even if it is still below freezing, can carry more moisture. That extra moisture falls as snow below 32 Fahrenheit.
instead of getting 8 sportcars and a larger penis.
;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Shuttleworth
:).
Or... instead of using $20 million on an 8 day trip to space?
That said, I am very gratefull for his sponsorship of Ubuntu
only the "superuser" admins are deleting them.
Actually, I should mention that most of the credit for keeping Wikipedia "clean"/high quality goes to ordinary users. Anybody can revert vandalism, and if a page should be deleted it can be marked with a "speedy delete" request, which an admin will then look at and execute if the request is proper.
I thought Wiki would be flooded with ass clowns who wrote a lot of silly joke pages
It is; only the "superuser" admins are deleting them (I am a WIkipedia admin). Take a look at the Wikipedia deletion log; in the last 24 hours almost 1000 pages has been deleted, and that is a typical day. That works out to almost one page delete per minute.
you will have a very high SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio)
That should be low SNR I think.
MS, on the other hand, has not (to my knowledge) used a single patent offensively.
Here you go: Microsoft patents ASF media file format, stops reverse engineering.
Microsoft is also demanding that people buy licenses to use their FAT file system: Wikipedia article
Personally, I believe that computers, at this point, can beat mankind in anything that can be mathematically explained.
The game Go is famous for being hard for computers to play. Wikipedia says:
Although attempts have been made to program computers to play Go, success in that area has been moderate at best - development in this area has not reached the level of Chess programs. Even the strongest programs are no better than an average club player, and would easily be beaten by a strong player even getting a nine-stone handicap. This is attributed to many qualities of the game, including the "optimising" nature of the victory condition, the virtually unlimited placement of each stone, the large board size, the nonlocal nature of the Ko rule, and the high degree of pattern recognition involved. For this reason, many in the field of artificial intelligence consider Go to be a better measure of a computer's capacity for thought than chess.
Since this problem is probably exponential in some way then it would probably currently be impossible to build a computer which could beat humans, at least until somebody invents better algoritms.
www.gmoney.com and www.gcash.com are taken too.
I thus don't think it's a good idea to name a project after a mountain top famous for failed and deadly attempts to finally climb it.
:).
Even worse: According to wikipedia "Eiger" means "Ogre". Great naming
(Can a German please confirm the translation?)
agreed - there is something that just feels good about peeling off that windows sticker after you've finished your fresh [linux] install.
:).
One of my friends put the "Designed for Windows" sticker on the side of his trash can after he installed FreeBSD
He is not the first. Press Play on Tape is a moderately famous Danish band who play C64 music.
See fx:
Commando
Ghosts'n Goblins
Paperboy
hey, I wrote that! : wikipedia page history
Evidently oddities like that must have caused someone at Google to alter whatever pattern-matching search of answers.com the definition link uses, because now a lot more searches default to definitions of the individual words.
As far as I can see, now the only definitions ever linked are for individual words.
It is too bad; it was really cool when they were also linking to definitions for combinations; almost all such linked definitions included a wikipedia article.
WOW! All that, plus superlative superlatives!
:).
Except that the quoted text contains no superlatives
While the radiation is a problem - the chemical issues with Pu are almost worse. The stuff is more poisonous than Arsenic
It seems to be a myth that plutonium is very poisonous. See fx the wikipedia entry or The Myth of Plutonium Toxicity
6) Put ads on the page, as they have done (The amazon link to "iPod and iTunes Hacks" book)
or
7) "profit" by having fun, getting your curiosity satisfied, and/or getting respect from your readers.
For the lazy, here is a link to the video.
t ml
http://www.theonering.net/staticnews/1054890864.h