This would mean that it's refering to the various countries in Europe taking huge swathes of Africa since that all happened during the past few centuries.
For it to include Rome, it'd have to be a several millenia.
That's good, I didn't know if it had that feature in it or not (I've never attempted to edit a page at the same time as anyone else so I've not run into it).
It still has the problem you might have to revise it, the revise it, then revise it, then revise it... if lots of people are submitting at the same time.
I suppose whether it would work or not would depend on how many people were using it. If it was only a couple it might work well, while if it's 100 it'd probably not. Splitting the calendar into as many pages as possible might help (1 per hour or something).
Just out of interest, how do Wikis cope if more than one user is editing a page at the same time?
The calendar'd be edited frequently, I'm just thinking that it might be possible that it two people edit at the same time the first one to submit will lose their entry when the next one is submitted. It'll be in the history, but since it wasn't in the other person's textarea it'll disappear when they submit.
I was thinking that and it would be a workaround for your favourite sites, but it would be useless to your average user who doesn't know what a hosts file is and you wouldn't have listed any websites you don't normally go to so the internet would become useless in terms of looking for information, companies etc.
Plus every website using NameVirtualHost or equivalent to share the same IP with other websites would become inaccessible, whether you know the IP or not.
There's no harm in letting them have a say in it. After all they won't control it. They can suggest ideas, yes, but they would then be voted on and all the other countries would have to agree too.
At least since both work at the moment you can check the To: header when you get emails to see if you've forgotten to update it with them. That only helps with accounts you regularly receive email from though.
That's not as good... some users perhaps it might apply to but some could be experts in the field (scientists, phd students etc) and you would probably want them to be able to update it as often as they like... especially if it's a new area with more becoming known as time goes on.
I suppose you could remove the rate limit for the 'certified' experts.
Kind of. You can flag articles up as to be deleted because it's incorrect or wrong or something like that. There's then a brief debate on what to do with it, which could end with it being updated, merged with something else, renamed, deleted or a number of things. There's an article somewhere on how to go about it and what sort of things you can flag up. Users then discuss it and a decision's made. Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines Wikipedia:Deletion_policy
If the problem's a factual error it relies on someone coming along, noticing it and correcting it... that perhaps does not reviewing more as it assumes the reader will spot the error. They probably won't though, as the most likely reason they are reading the page is they don't know about the subject yet.
People *can* also watch articles so that when anyone edits it if they're an expert in the field they can read it over and see if it's correct or not. There's an option to watch it when you edit it, probably so that previous contributors can help maintain it.
I think one good feature to add would be to stop Anonymous users editing (it's a simple policy change in the MediaWiki configuration file so is easily possible)... if you have an account they can at least attempt to track how trustworthy you are. (I'm ignoring the problem of people opening fake accounts just to muck articles up).
Added onto the previous points, the extras weren't in the original contract so probably weren't covered by it. Which could cause all sorts of legal problems for both the customer and for the company if things were to go wrong.
There's nothing wrong with doing the extras, you just have to make sure you have permission to do so first (so they can sort out ammendments to the contract and that sort of thing to protect both parties).
Examples of legal problems: -Is it covered by a warranty -Who owns IP? -Has the customer been licensed to use it? Technically it's now a different program to the one they were licensed to use (even if it's only a modified version or the original) -If it causes problems who's to blame. You might even be responsible then and so on.
Similarly the time estimate could have been binding, and at the very least if the timescale was made longer or you ran out of time the company would look bad as they hadn't met it. Usual practice is to make an estimate then double it so you have plenty of time in case things go wrong. You then do it ahead of schedule and instead of the company looking ok for meeting the schedule they look great for delivering ahead of time. A bit like on Star Trek when Scotty'll estimate 30 hours to get the plasma conduits rerouted and warp drive back online, then does it in an hour. Everyone goes 'wow'.
I still think it's valid. We do see slight variations on Earth which at least show it's possible (you mentioned a few). The fact carbon-based life thrives so much here just shows a) they probably are all related in a very vague way and b) carbon-based life thrives in an Earth-type environment. The other chemistries supposedly don't work on Earth but would elsewhere.
Given the size of universe the fact we're alone in the solar system doesn't imply we're entirely alone at all, it just means our solar system is barren. I'm not saying life will occur everywhere, just that it can in a lot more place than we can survive.
And I did mention the possibility it could be so vastly different to us that we would not know if we found it given our observations would be based on it moving/communicating/eating in recognisable ways.
that it's statistically hard to say that there's life anywhere we'd be able to reach before we're long extinct.
Similar life.:o)
Life would still have the potential to exist elsewhere, but would have to adapt to a different environment. As a result it could exist but would probably not resemble anything we've seen before... we may not even know it if we did find it.
I'm slightly concerned about the sort of project that's sometimes posted on here. For example, from today:
"eBanking
Fully functional, highly sophicated and secured online banking internet site using XML, java as the prime programming language with jdbc in the background connected to oracle or db2 or sql server is urgently needed. The system should have a friendly user-interface with a proffesional feel. It has to allow customers over the internet to open bank accounts, check balance,view account details, account history, bill payment,print balance, carry out money transfers, arrange overdrafts, arrange credit limit, high security features, etc... It must have features conform to some of the high street banks i.e Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB.
Please bid with references otherwise your bid may not be considered."
Bids of £100 or more for a single person to do it and the deadline's 45 days.
This is the sort of project you'd want to have a team working on, who're still there afterwards to fix bugs and after a couple of months building the system spend more just looking through it checking for bugs.
Not the sort of thing that you'd post on the Internet for a random (and possibly low standard) coder to bodge in a few weeks and then disappear into the woodwork before you start finding bugs.
Slashdot Mirror
That's one of the better adaptations though.
We could probably hook him up to a dynamo and solve the world's energy problems after the Tom Cruise one.
By the end of the series they'd invented inertial dampeners hadn't they?
(By being inside a zone of force so no outside forces had any effect on them, and they drove the ship using 5th and 6th order forces).
It's a while since I last read the books.
"What can I use it for?"
...But I haven't downloaded it so I can't give an opinion.
"...team calendars..."
Might be of use.
couple centuries of imperialism
This would mean that it's refering to the various countries in Europe taking huge swathes of Africa since that all happened during the past few centuries.
For it to include Rome, it'd have to be a several millenia.
That's good, I didn't know if it had that feature in it or not (I've never attempted to edit a page at the same time as anyone else so I've not run into it).
It still has the problem you might have to revise it, the revise it, then revise it, then revise it... if lots of people are submitting at the same time.
I suppose whether it would work or not would depend on how many people were using it. If it was only a couple it might work well, while if it's 100 it'd probably not. Splitting the calendar into as many pages as possible might help (1 per hour or something).
Just out of interest, how do Wikis cope if more than one user is editing a page at the same time?
The calendar'd be edited frequently, I'm just thinking that it might be possible that it two people edit at the same time the first one to submit will lose their entry when the next one is submitted. It'll be in the history, but since it wasn't in the other person's textarea it'll disappear when they submit.
I was thinking that and it would be a workaround for your favourite sites, but it would be useless to your average user who doesn't know what a hosts file is and you wouldn't have listed any websites you don't normally go to so the internet would become useless in terms of looking for information, companies etc.
At 24km it will be above the weather.
However, I wonder if they may still be susceptible to Sprites, Elves and Jets.
The figures on the Wikipedia page seem to suggest that 24km would be in the gap above the weather we experience and below where these occur.
Then log in once and tick 'Remember me' as you do so.
Plus every website using NameVirtualHost or equivalent to share the same IP with other websites would become inaccessible, whether you know the IP or not.
There's no harm in letting them have a say in it.
After all they won't control it. They can suggest ideas, yes, but they would then be voted on and all the other countries would have to agree too.
At least since both work at the moment you can check the To: header when you get emails to see if you've forgotten to update it with them. That only helps with accounts you regularly receive email from though.
That's not as good... some users perhaps it might apply to but some could be experts in the field (scientists, phd students etc) and you would probably want them to be able to update it as often as they like... especially if it's a new area with more becoming known as time goes on.
I suppose you could remove the rate limit for the 'certified' experts.
Kind of. You can flag articles up as to be deleted because it's incorrect or wrong or something like that. There's then a brief debate on what to do with it, which could end with it being updated, merged with something else, renamed, deleted or a number of things. There's an article somewhere on how to go about it and what sort of things you can flag up. Users then discuss it and a decision's made.
Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines
Wikipedia:Deletion_policy
If the problem's a factual error it relies on someone coming along, noticing it and correcting it... that perhaps does not reviewing more as it assumes the reader will spot the error. They probably won't though, as the most likely reason they are reading the page is they don't know about the subject yet.
People *can* also watch articles so that when anyone edits it if they're an expert in the field they can read it over and see if it's correct or not. There's an option to watch it when you edit it, probably so that previous contributors can help maintain it.
I think one good feature to add would be to stop Anonymous users editing (it's a simple policy change in the MediaWiki configuration file so is easily possible)... if you have an account they can at least attempt to track how trustworthy you are. (I'm ignoring the problem of people opening fake accounts just to muck articles up).
Added onto the previous points, the extras weren't in the original contract so probably weren't covered by it. Which could cause all sorts of legal problems for both the customer and for the company if things were to go wrong.
There's nothing wrong with doing the extras, you just have to make sure you have permission to do so first (so they can sort out ammendments to the contract and that sort of thing to protect both parties).
Examples of legal problems:
-Is it covered by a warranty
-Who owns IP?
-Has the customer been licensed to use it? Technically it's now a different program to the one they were licensed to use (even if it's only a modified version or the original)
-If it causes problems who's to blame. You might even be responsible then
and so on.
Similarly the time estimate could have been binding, and at the very least if the timescale was made longer or you ran out of time the company would look bad as they hadn't met it. Usual practice is to make an estimate then double it so you have plenty of time in case things go wrong. You then do it ahead of schedule and instead of the company looking ok for meeting the schedule they look great for delivering ahead of time.
A bit like on Star Trek when Scotty'll estimate 30 hours to get the plasma conduits rerouted and warp drive back online, then does it in an hour. Everyone goes 'wow'.
Omnisexual (has sex with anything in sight...)
As I explained to the other guy, that was the joke... I phrased it that way deliberately.
Oh well... it can no longer be funny:
The Far Side Uncertainty Principle
All are valid points.
I still think it's valid. We do see slight variations on Earth which at least show it's possible (you mentioned a few). The fact carbon-based life thrives so much here just shows a) they probably are all related in a very vague way and b) carbon-based life thrives in an Earth-type environment. The other chemistries supposedly don't work on Earth but would elsewhere.
Given the size of universe the fact we're alone in the solar system doesn't imply we're entirely alone at all, it just means our solar system is barren. I'm not saying life will occur everywhere, just that it can in a lot more place than we can survive.
And I did mention the possibility it could be so vastly different to us that we would not know if we found it given our observations would be based on it moving/communicating/eating in recognisable ways.
that it's statistically hard to say that there's life anywhere we'd be able to reach before we're long extinct.
:o)
Similar life.
Life would still have the potential to exist elsewhere, but would have to adapt to a different environment. As a result it could exist but would probably not resemble anything we've seen before... we may not even know it if we did find it.
That would be the joke.
Sorry but no, you must be wrong.
I just checked and I can't find any missing whales anywhere.
Except that we did, but NAT was invented as a bodge to get around it for another decade.
Yep. I'm running 1.5 and just tried it out... no effect.
I'm slightly concerned about the sort of project that's sometimes posted on here. For example, from today:
"eBanking
Fully functional, highly sophicated and secured online banking internet site using XML, java as the prime programming language with jdbc in the background connected to oracle or db2 or sql server is urgently needed. The system should have a friendly user-interface with a proffesional feel. It has to allow customers over the internet to open bank accounts, check balance,view account details, account history, bill payment,print balance, carry out money transfers, arrange overdrafts, arrange credit limit, high security features, etc... It must have features conform to some of the high street banks i.e Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB.
Please bid with references otherwise your bid may not be considered."
Bids of £100 or more for a single person to do it and the deadline's 45 days.
This is the sort of project you'd want to have a team working on, who're still there afterwards to fix bugs and after a couple of months building the system spend more just looking through it checking for bugs.
Not the sort of thing that you'd post on the Internet for a random (and possibly low standard) coder to bodge in a few weeks and then disappear into the woodwork before you start finding bugs.
Stoners with Munchies + Food = Profit.
I'm surprised they don't sell food.