This reminds me of the time I transferred 100,000 miles from my Amex rewards account to one of my airline mileage accounts. I initiated the transfer on the Amex website. When I logged into the airline web site to confirm the transfer, I saw that it had been transferred in increments: 32767, 32767, 32767, and finally 1699;)
The online French Yellow Pages (http://www.pagesjaunes.fr) has a primitive streetview feature. Most of the pictures appear to be taken early in the morning when there are very few pedestrians, but it's still fairly common to see people in the background.
There's a lot of talk about how Wikipedia allows anyone in the community to contribute, and how peer review ensures accuracy. But doesn't the general internet/WWW provide the same thing? Anyone can 'contribute' by posting content on any web site, Google's relevancy algorithm provides the peer review - perhaps just as well or better than Wikipedia or Encarta or Brittanica.
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This reminds me of the time I transferred 100,000 miles from my Amex rewards account to one of my airline mileage accounts. I initiated the transfer on the Amex website. When I logged into the airline web site to confirm the transfer, I saw that it had been transferred in increments: ;)
32767,
32767,
32767,
and finally 1699
The online French Yellow Pages (http://www.pagesjaunes.fr) has a primitive streetview feature. Most of the pictures appear to be taken early in the morning when there are very few pedestrians, but it's still fairly common to see people in the background.
and FrontPage had this back in 1995 before Microsoft bought the company that created it (Vermeer Technologies)
Maybe the 8th grader could just use the internet. Google's first hit when searching for Walt Whitman is pretty competitive to Encarta/Wikipedia:
b io graphy/
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/
It does take two clicks to get to the bio, but it is easy to find:
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/whitman/criticism/
There's a lot of talk about how Wikipedia allows anyone in the community to contribute, and how peer review ensures accuracy. But doesn't the general internet/WWW provide the same thing? Anyone can 'contribute' by posting content on any web site, Google's relevancy algorithm provides the peer review - perhaps just as well or better than Wikipedia or Encarta or Brittanica.