In terms of individual artists I think you're absolutely correct. Music artists by example can make a very good living doing just concerts and record labels are really an outdated concept as they're not much more than marketing firms who take a much larger % than they ought to.
In terms of corporations investing millions of dollars to fund a project it's a little harder to recoup those costs. A low budget film these days costs over a million, sub-million dollar movies are now considered "micro" budgets. There needs to be a way to serve both interests without making the consumer a target for litigation/jail/internet cutoff.
So it needs to be fed an image? Our eyes feed images to our brain to process/interpret/etc
Can a blind person paint an image they've never heard described/touched/etc? Is what they paint random or inspired by the input they've received?
The point is that it can take input and paint the same thing over and over without it being identical twice. The next logical step would be to add in a database of images/techniques and an algorithm that would allow it to create interpretations based on what it's observed in it's database.
This and it's backwards - humans are losing out to copyright. Copyright is the entirety of the problem not fair use.
Yes I believe people should be able to recoup their invested time/money and some form of copy protection is needed for that but the current laws are doing it to the detriment of society.
ahh - never paid enough attention to when stuff was picked - to me that's just too elitist. If it's edible, free of crap that will likely kill me in the long run, and reasonably priced that's all I care about. Hydroponic strawberries would be the exception to that statement... they're technically edible but strawberries should be red/soft/sweet inside, not white/hard/watery.
For all the wonders of fresh broccoli, in most parts of the country it is only available from local growers during the cooler weeks at either end of the growing season, nowhere near long enough to become a fixture in grocery stores or kitchens
hun? This is bizarre to me as a Canadian it is a fixture in grocery stores. I can't remember the last one I saw without it.
Spinach - that's a problem. Even though they all stock it, it's frequently sold out. Baby spinach is abundant but not the dark leaf.
You said it was impossible to have 100% efficiency in any system - I gave you an example of one. The reason it's 100% efficient is because the typical loss is from heat which is what it's supposed to be generating anyway. Heat pumps are not 300% efficient and never were - the pump itself is as efficient as it's ability to transfer electrical energy into mechanical energy to move the air. The 2.5-5 coefficient of performance they get (probably where you're getting your 300% figure from) has to do with thermal dynamics and does not relate to the efficiency of the unit outside of the thermal dynamic effects.
No I didn't - everyone just keeps thinking in terms of the current state of batteries, engines, transmission lines, and electricity generation by fossil fuels. Those are what can be improved upon via technological advancement. Extracting the full energy potential of gasoline is simply not possible because it needs energy input to extract the energy and energy is lost in the conversion from a liquid state.
An engine is a technology and that is not 100% efficient - I'm talking strictly electricity on it's own.
If you must think of it in terms of technology then think of an electric heater - 100% of the electricity used is expelled as thermal energy. By comparison a gas furnace only converts 85% of the potential energy into thermal energy.
No they can't because they require energy input to extract the energy and energy is lost through the conversion process.
Speaking in terms of technology - A typical combustion engine is only able to convert 25% of the energy in gasoline into mechanical energy. Electric engines, typically, are able to convert 90% of the electricity into mechanical energy. The problem with electric cars is the battery & generation/transmission of said electricity which the technologies are advancing rapidly where combustion has remained fairly stagnant.
[facepalm] Electricity - outside of any technology is 100% efficient because it requires no input to extract the full energy potential. Gasoline requires energy input to extract only a portion of the stored energy. Gasoline is akin to a battery itself, it has energy stored, and without changing it's makeup it is always going to be limited in the potential vs extractable energy.
Given that fact, in the long run, we will be able to continue to gain efficiencies through technology to reduce entropy/loss/etc in electric cars well beyond what we could ever do with combustion engines simply because of the nature of the fuel.
Efficiency of a fuel source is determined by the loss required to extract the energy - in a combustion engine the gas is well, combusted, to get that energy out. There is significant loss of energy in this process and there always will be. There is zero loss required to extract energy in the form of electricity because it's already pure energy.
You are making my point - I never said batteries or transmission or any other tech was 100% efficient - I said that electricity is 100% efficient. That means that in the long run as all these other technologies advance and gain efficiencies the less the impact will be. Fossil fuels are not 100% efficient and never will be.
I saw a piece on this back in the early 90s on Daily Planet - I could never find it again and no one else seemed to remember it. Glad to know I'm not crazy!
1) Not at all what I was referring to. WikiData is extremely limited, appears to only handle 1 to 1, and has a very clunky/non-intuitive interface. I was referring to something with perhaps an OpenRico spreadsheet style interface for managing data sets to allow better management/navigation/cross-referencing of data sets (examples might be Nvidia/Radeon articles). It also doesn't deal with dynamic data. Obviously security would be a concern but some constantly fluctuating data is impractical to update but has value. A simple example would be exchange rate data. This could be imported via a feed into a database and updated periodically to allow regional conversion of $ amounts. Taking the Canada article, the $ value listed is in an unknown currency, lets assume it's CDN$ - if I'm someone from Japan reading about Canada - $1.8 trillion Canadian dollars means nothing but if it was converted to local currency automatically it would actually mean something to the user.
2) Visual Editor does not simplify wiki code nor does it really assist in making templates
3) Or internal loaders which would keep you on wiki while loading the source material to the correct paragraph or better still include a "highlight='some text in here'" along with the citation which again, with an internal loader could highlight the text being cited and act as an automated check for changes to the page (ie: if it fails to find the text to highlight the citation is removed or flagged as needing to be updated)
4) That's a great idea but it doesn't address complexity nor the scope of symbols/letters which are used. Take the Linear Algebra wiki article as an example, you need to be very well versed in the subject to understand what it's talking about - if not you've got to wade through the Math Symbols page, make sense of the equally complex linked articles, and know that the greek letter lambda represents an eigenvalue and so on and so forth
5) Yes, but applied to all article links by default without having to change them to templates
6) Faceted search is nothing like perspectives within an article, that deals strictly with organization and does not address the clunky nature of disambiguation pages, see also sections, and hidden article problems. By hidden article, I mean an article on a related subject that you may never know to consider looking at despite being a variation of the one you're on. See also does address this somewhat but they are limited in length and usefulness. Perspectives also address the issue of seeking information based on subject matter without having to read full text to find a link on what you want. Perspectives would also address issues with contentious aspects - allowing the different "sides" of an issue to be expressed in the same space with clear acknowledgement of the non-neutral perspective (though maintaining neutral tone within the given perspectives).
1) What and when is Wiki going to do something about data sets? By this I mean having easy to access, modular data sets which can be used across articles in a user understandable format (ie: a format users can interact with while maintaining the underlying structure needed for templates)
2) What is being done to simplify Wiki code? Here's an example of what a mess it can be:
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In terms of individual artists I think you're absolutely correct. Music artists by example can make a very good living doing just concerts and record labels are really an outdated concept as they're not much more than marketing firms who take a much larger % than they ought to.
In terms of corporations investing millions of dollars to fund a project it's a little harder to recoup those costs. A low budget film these days costs over a million, sub-million dollar movies are now considered "micro" budgets. There needs to be a way to serve both interests without making the consumer a target for litigation/jail/internet cutoff.
Painting is painting and copyright covers brilliant art the same way it does your child's painting.
So it needs to be fed an image? Our eyes feed images to our brain to process/interpret/etc
Can a blind person paint an image they've never heard described/touched/etc? Is what they paint random or inspired by the input they've received?
The point is that it can take input and paint the same thing over and over without it being identical twice. The next logical step would be to add in a database of images/techniques and an algorithm that would allow it to create interpretations based on what it's observed in it's database.
http://vimeo.com/68859229 eDavid - nuff said.
This and it's backwards - humans are losing out to copyright. Copyright is the entirety of the problem not fair use.
Yes I believe people should be able to recoup their invested time/money and some form of copy protection is needed for that but the current laws are doing it to the detriment of society.
ahh - never paid enough attention to when stuff was picked - to me that's just too elitist. If it's edible, free of crap that will likely kill me in the long run, and reasonably priced that's all I care about. Hydroponic strawberries would be the exception to that statement... they're technically edible but strawberries should be red/soft/sweet inside, not white/hard/watery.
For all the wonders of fresh broccoli, in most parts of the country it is only available from local growers during the cooler weeks at either end of the growing season, nowhere near long enough to become a fixture in grocery stores or kitchens
hun? This is bizarre to me as a Canadian it is a fixture in grocery stores. I can't remember the last one I saw without it.
Spinach - that's a problem. Even though they all stock it, it's frequently sold out. Baby spinach is abundant but not the dark leaf.
The equivalent of recalling an ambassador for the "intelligence" community.
It depends what type you're referring to but for combustion engines: E{mechanical}=U+K
You said it was impossible to have 100% efficiency in any system - I gave you an example of one. The reason it's 100% efficient is because the typical loss is from heat which is what it's supposed to be generating anyway. Heat pumps are not 300% efficient and never were - the pump itself is as efficient as it's ability to transfer electrical energy into mechanical energy to move the air. The 2.5-5 coefficient of performance they get (probably where you're getting your 300% figure from) has to do with thermal dynamics and does not relate to the efficiency of the unit outside of the thermal dynamic effects.
Electric heaters are 100% efficient.
No I didn't - everyone just keeps thinking in terms of the current state of batteries, engines, transmission lines, and electricity generation by fossil fuels. Those are what can be improved upon via technological advancement. Extracting the full energy potential of gasoline is simply not possible because it needs energy input to extract the energy and energy is lost in the conversion from a liquid state.
An engine is a technology and that is not 100% efficient - I'm talking strictly electricity on it's own.
If you must think of it in terms of technology then think of an electric heater - 100% of the electricity used is expelled as thermal energy. By comparison a gas furnace only converts 85% of the potential energy into thermal energy.
No they can't because they require energy input to extract the energy and energy is lost through the conversion process.
Speaking in terms of technology - A typical combustion engine is only able to convert 25% of the energy in gasoline into mechanical energy. Electric engines, typically, are able to convert 90% of the electricity into mechanical energy. The problem with electric cars is the battery & generation/transmission of said electricity which the technologies are advancing rapidly where combustion has remained fairly stagnant.
Electricity is always 100% efficient, the technology used to store/transfer/etc is not.
[facepalm] Electricity - outside of any technology is 100% efficient because it requires no input to extract the full energy potential. Gasoline requires energy input to extract only a portion of the stored energy. Gasoline is akin to a battery itself, it has energy stored, and without changing it's makeup it is always going to be limited in the potential vs extractable energy.
Given that fact, in the long run, we will be able to continue to gain efficiencies through technology to reduce entropy/loss/etc in electric cars well beyond what we could ever do with combustion engines simply because of the nature of the fuel.
Efficiency of a fuel source is determined by the loss required to extract the energy - in a combustion engine the gas is well, combusted, to get that energy out. There is significant loss of energy in this process and there always will be. There is zero loss required to extract energy in the form of electricity because it's already pure energy.
You are making my point - I never said batteries or transmission or any other tech was 100% efficient - I said that electricity is 100% efficient. That means that in the long run as all these other technologies advance and gain efficiencies the less the impact will be. Fossil fuels are not 100% efficient and never will be.
These arguments lead nowhere. There's one inescapable fact:
Electricity is 100% efficient. Gas is not.
Technology will continue to advance and the impact of building the cars will be lessened.
I saw a piece on this back in the early 90s on Daily Planet - I could never find it again and no one else seemed to remember it. Glad to know I'm not crazy!
1) Not at all what I was referring to. WikiData is extremely limited, appears to only handle 1 to 1, and has a very clunky/non-intuitive interface. I was referring to something with perhaps an OpenRico spreadsheet style interface for managing data sets to allow better management/navigation/cross-referencing of data sets (examples might be Nvidia/Radeon articles). It also doesn't deal with dynamic data. Obviously security would be a concern but some constantly fluctuating data is impractical to update but has value. A simple example would be exchange rate data. This could be imported via a feed into a database and updated periodically to allow regional conversion of $ amounts. Taking the Canada article, the $ value listed is in an unknown currency, lets assume it's CDN$ - if I'm someone from Japan reading about Canada - $1.8 trillion Canadian dollars means nothing but if it was converted to local currency automatically it would actually mean something to the user.
2) Visual Editor does not simplify wiki code nor does it really assist in making templates
3) Or internal loaders which would keep you on wiki while loading the source material to the correct paragraph or better still include a "highlight='some text in here'" along with the citation which again, with an internal loader could highlight the text being cited and act as an automated check for changes to the page (ie: if it fails to find the text to highlight the citation is removed or flagged as needing to be updated)
4) That's a great idea but it doesn't address complexity nor the scope of symbols/letters which are used. Take the Linear Algebra wiki article as an example, you need to be very well versed in the subject to understand what it's talking about - if not you've got to wade through the Math Symbols page, make sense of the equally complex linked articles, and know that the greek letter lambda represents an eigenvalue and so on and so forth
5) Yes, but applied to all article links by default without having to change them to templates
6) Faceted search is nothing like perspectives within an article, that deals strictly with organization and does not address the clunky nature of disambiguation pages, see also sections, and hidden article problems. By hidden article, I mean an article on a related subject that you may never know to consider looking at despite being a variation of the one you're on. See also does address this somewhat but they are limited in length and usefulness. Perspectives also address the issue of seeking information based on subject matter without having to read full text to find a link on what you want. Perspectives would also address issues with contentious aspects - allowing the different "sides" of an issue to be expressed in the same space with clear acknowledgement of the non-neutral perspective (though maintaining neutral tone within the given perspectives).
If he answers one, great, if he answers two all the better, if he answers them all - awesome!
I would like to know 2 things:
1) What and when is Wiki going to do something about data sets? By this I mean having easy to access, modular data sets which can be used across articles in a user understandable format (ie: a format users can interact with while maintaining the underlying structure needed for templates)
2) What is being done to simplify Wiki code? Here's an example of what a mess it can be:
http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Approval?action=edit I created this template to do this: http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Approval which should be simple but due to the convoluted mess that is wiki code it ballooned into something virtually unreadable.
3) Will citations ever evolve beyond "here's a generic link to a page on the subject"?
4) Is there an effort underway to clarify complex topic pages such as maths & chemistry which use abstract, unlinkable, symbols?
5) Will we ever see summary previews for links? ie: hover over a wiki link to get the summary of the topic instead of the tooltip.
6) Are their any plans for article perspectives? ie:
Instead of having the following articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_Canada
etc
etc
That you have a single article with tabbed perspectives?
Thanks for your answers!
Or highly successful ones like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesat
Or just take one copy, add a few other punctuation errors (or corrections) and presto - untrackable copy!