You may want to check the Semantic MediaWiki (semantic-mediawiki.org) or SMW+ (wiki.ontoprise.de).
Both are built on top of MediaWiki (which powers Wikipedia) so you can tap the very rich pools of extensions (numbering in the hundreds).
SMW+ is actually built on top of SMW, and it focuses on increasing usability and it preinstall pre-configured extensions out of the box to make it easier to deploy.
With SMW/SMW+, you can put in semantic annotations for an article describing just about anything you want to assert about the article. One assertion you can make is a Wikipedia link. It even has the smarts to know that the assertion/property is a URL and it will put in the necessary bits to make it clickable.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg, you can do some other amaaaazzziiing stuff with the semantic smarts of SMW/SMW+. To get a better sense of what SMW is, you may want to check out - http://simia.net/download/SemTech2009.ppt
Full disclosure - I help out with the SMW project:)
Man. I have news for you. Everything in the computer world will be quickly outdated...
BTW, have you tried comparing the MBP 17" with anything else in the PC world? These guys did, and they actually found it $500 cheaper than a similarly configured Dell XPS 1710 gaming laptop!
Whoa! Talk about responsiveness!!! I made this comment on the 26th and lo and behold, today's Security Update is brimming with info, even CVE IDs! Way to go Apple!
FP! However, I wish Apple would provide more information on their updates. They are so generalized. If they're serious about the Enterprise space, this is a must do.
Its a sad thing, but as the posts here points out, the association has stuck, and legitimate applications of P2P technology has suffered because of it.
Look at how JXTA has been languishing for the past few years.
Cmon folks, P2P is not piracy. It mirrors how distributed complex systems in nature behave and it has the potential to create dynamic, loosely-coupled distributed systems that may just get us out of this IT rut.
When I was in college, you can easily get lost in the symbols because run-of-the-mill teachers have often lost their passion for math. Math is the language of God (oooppsss... bracing for flamebursts) and it pervades everything in the universe.
Oftentimes, Math is taught as something for the geeks/propellerheads and classical Humanities training is almost totally divorced from it. I think that is a mistake.
We should really use Math, as just that, a language - and try to use it to express concepts taught in the Humanities to better grasps some seemingly abstract concepts that words (which were "invented" by man) cannot express.
Think about it - how many of us took Spanish and French lessons in middle school and summarily forgot it right after the course? Why is that, because we were only tutored in the syntax of those languages and we didn't apply it to real life in our daily conversations. The same is true for Math.
But unlike other "human" languages, Math predates us - we only "discover" it as we push the edge of our comprehension of the world around us.
For myself, I've rehabilitated my Math instruction by using some visualization tools like Mathematica which facilitates comprehension of abstract concepts on an instinctive level.
I think having tools like Mathematica should be a requirement for math instruction.
I'm a very happy NEO user myself, and I have to say, that it nicely fills in the gaps that Outlook 2003 has.
Even though Outlook 2003 copied the Today and Yesterday views from NEO, I find myself using NEO more than Outlook since it allows me to view stuff I sent as well.
Furthermore, the search engine is soooo fast and is worth the price of NEO by itself.
And once again, you can use them together - you don't need to ditch Outlook to use NEO.
Ooopppsss.... I made a bit of a non-sequitur last sentence of first paragraph. That was meant to be the last sentence of my posting.
Anywhooo... the US is losing its technological lead and we can reclaim it by mandating IPv6. It will allow some software companies to create the next killer-app too, and maybe, even reclaim the broadband title at the same time (S. Korea is the most broadband connected country right now).
Why, it might even enable an "agreeable" DRM that everybody can live with, since you have some security features right on the network layer.
Building out the Interstate system during Eisenhower's time, IMHO, was a big factor in cementing America's dominance - enabling faster, cheaper interstate commerce, and allowing America to be a more homogenous melting pot. It will even help the struggling IT industry, wouldn't it?
Why not do the same now? That is, build the digital highway on IPv6. Mandate that all govt agencies start using the system, juicing up the telecom industry, and taking advantage of all that dark fiber?
Wouldn't IPv6 make e-govt, web services easier among other things?
Heck, maybe, they can revamp the SMTP system too to require IPv6 usage, so that you can really track down em spammers!!!!
And security thru obscurity is one strategy that does work - why heck! Even MS keeps pestering security companies not to release advisories until they get a peek at it first.
You might want to check out Audible.com and subscribe to them directly. You get deep discounts and you can download to iTunes or to any other of their supported players. I am a member myself of Audible, and I was hoping that they'd allow me to redeem my one book/month thru iTunes, but the rep said no dice.
But Slashdot is targeted at the digiterati, and if you don't know what I just posted, then you're just another "user who just knows enough to be dangerous".
Just the same, here's why I posted:
the TiBook aka Powerbook has a 15.2 inch mega-wide display that was introduced last year!
VAIO and the Powerbook are in the same market segment, i.e. high-end consumer laptops
with Macworld around the corner, a new round of hardware announcements is widely anticipated from Apple, including rumors of bigger screens on both the Apple laptops and the iMac
CmrTaco is a Linux user and you can be sure he'll be loading up Linux on that VAIO (right Cmr?)
and try out the TiBook or the iBook! OS X is based on Darwin/BSD. And if you like Linux, you can always use YellowDog. And you can always use Fink too! And the best part is, MS Office of OS X is the best Office suite IMHO, bar none.
Use a screwdriver to drive in screws. Use a hammer to drive in a nail. And sometimes, if I need something really quick and dirty, you can just staple it in.
Having language religion is bad!!!!
Also, there's much to be said about the life of applications. Save for COBOL, how many old-style two-tier client-server apps are still around with no plans of being retired.
Also, I second the motion that using scripting languages is not a bad idea. For those parts of a system that get executed repeatedly, it makes sense to go with a compiled language.
For those program paths that are called occasionally, its not a bad idea to use "glue code".
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He is the power behind gravity as He pushes as down with His noodly appendages...
See http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Gravity#Gravity_and_the_Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Ramen
You may want to check the Semantic MediaWiki (semantic-mediawiki.org) or SMW+ (wiki.ontoprise.de).
Both are built on top of MediaWiki (which powers Wikipedia) so you can tap the very rich pools of extensions (numbering in the hundreds).
SMW+ is actually built on top of SMW, and it focuses on increasing usability and it preinstall pre-configured extensions out of the box to make it easier to deploy.
With SMW/SMW+, you can put in semantic annotations for an article describing just about anything you want to assert about the article. One assertion you can make is a Wikipedia link. It even has the smarts to know that the assertion/property is a URL and it will put in the necessary bits to make it clickable.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg, you can do some other amaaaazzziiing stuff with the semantic smarts of SMW/SMW+. To get a better sense of what SMW is, you may want to check out - http://simia.net/download/SemTech2009.ppt
Full disclosure - I help out with the SMW project :)
Man. I have news for you. Everything in the computer world will be quickly outdated...
BTW, have you tried comparing the MBP 17" with anything else in the PC world? These guys did, and they actually found it $500 cheaper than a similarly configured Dell XPS 1710 gaming laptop!
And worse, it doesn't work when javascript is disabled.
/ /opensourceenergy.org
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http:
Eeeehhh?
We used wvWare in an open-source CMS for a Fortune 10 to let PR English Majors upload Word files.
The site takes about 15 mill hits/months.
It works but there are a lot of caveats. Also, wvWare is no longer an active project so I wouldn't recommend it.
We ended up giving the PR guys a Word macro to sanitize Word a bit before giving it to wvWare for processing.
Also, the HTML it produces is very verbose and very heavy. It removes the MSisms but doesn't necessarily take out the redundant formatting info.
And an MBA is also useful if you want to become an enterpreneur.
It's also a good way to establish a network.
IMHO, being a lifelong employee is not the way to go. Learn the ropes and establish your networks in Corporate America, and then be your own boss.
I've seen too many capable people "synergized" out of a job by all the Mergers & Acquisitions happening out there.
SSH on Sidekick, albeit slow, rox!
Whoa!
Talk about responsiveness!!!
I made this comment on the 26th and lo and behold, today's Security Update is brimming with info, even CVE IDs!
Way to go Apple!
After I applied the update, Halo is much slower now to my chagrin.
I thought the new OpenGL and NVIDIA stuff would make it fly...
FP!
However, I wish Apple would provide more information on their updates. They are so generalized.
If they're serious about the Enterprise space, this is a must do.
http://www.sysresccd.org/
They have a PPC edition.
Its a sad thing, but as the posts here points out, the association has stuck, and legitimate applications of P2P technology has suffered because of it.
Look at how JXTA has been languishing for the past few years.
Cmon folks, P2P is not piracy. It mirrors how distributed complex systems in nature behave and it has the potential to create dynamic, loosely-coupled distributed systems that may just get us out of this IT rut.
When I was in college, you can easily get lost in the symbols because run-of-the-mill teachers have often lost their passion for math. Math is the language of God (oooppsss... bracing for flamebursts) and it pervades everything in the universe.
Oftentimes, Math is taught as something for the geeks/propellerheads and classical Humanities training is almost totally divorced from it.
I think that is a mistake.
We should really use Math, as just that, a language - and try to use it to express concepts taught in the Humanities to better grasps some seemingly abstract concepts that words (which were "invented" by man) cannot express.
Think about it - how many of us took Spanish and French lessons in middle school and summarily forgot it right after the course? Why is that, because we were only tutored in the syntax of those languages and we didn't apply it to real life in our daily conversations. The same is true for Math.
But unlike other "human" languages, Math predates us - we only "discover" it as we push the edge of our comprehension of the world around us.
For myself, I've rehabilitated my Math instruction by using some visualization tools like Mathematica which facilitates comprehension of abstract concepts on an instinctive level.
I think having tools like Mathematica should be a requirement for math instruction.
I'm a very happy NEO user myself, and I have to say, that it nicely fills in the gaps that Outlook 2003 has.
Even though Outlook 2003 copied the Today and Yesterday views from NEO, I find myself using NEO more than Outlook since it allows me to view stuff I sent as well.
Furthermore, the search engine is soooo fast and is worth the price of NEO by itself.
And once again, you can use them together - you don't need to ditch Outlook to use NEO.
Ooopppsss.... I made a bit of a non-sequitur last sentence of first paragraph. That was meant to be the last sentence of my posting.
Anywhooo... the US is losing its technological lead and we can reclaim it by mandating IPv6. It will allow some software companies to create the next killer-app too, and maybe, even reclaim the broadband title at the same time (S. Korea is the most broadband connected country right now).
Why, it might even enable an "agreeable" DRM that everybody can live with, since you have some security features right on the network layer.
Building out the Interstate system during Eisenhower's time, IMHO, was a big factor in cementing America's dominance - enabling faster, cheaper interstate commerce, and allowing America to be a more homogenous melting pot. It will even help the struggling IT industry, wouldn't it?
Why not do the same now? That is, build the digital highway on IPv6. Mandate that all govt agencies start using the system, juicing up the telecom industry, and taking advantage of all that dark fiber?
Wouldn't IPv6 make e-govt, web services easier among other things?
Heck, maybe, they can revamp the SMTP system too to require IPv6 usage, so that you can really track down em spammers!!!!
B4 you blow a gasket, check it out yourself - Netcraft survey of www.army.mil.
And security thru obscurity is one strategy that does work - why heck! Even MS keeps pestering security companies not to release advisories until they get a peek at it first.
You might want to check out Audible.com and subscribe to them directly.
You get deep discounts and you can download to iTunes or to any other of their supported players.
I am a member myself of Audible, and I was hoping that they'd allow me to redeem my one book/month thru iTunes, but the rep said no dice.
But don't forget, there are ways to override em by replacing the firmware.
Check out aibohack.com!
But Slashdot is targeted at the digiterati, and if you don't know what I just posted, then you're just another "user who just knows enough to be dangerous".
Just the same, here's why I posted:
- the TiBook aka Powerbook has a 15.2 inch mega-wide display that was introduced last year!
- VAIO and the Powerbook are in the same market segment, i.e. high-end consumer laptops
- with Macworld around the corner, a new round of hardware announcements is widely anticipated from Apple, including rumors of bigger screens on both the Apple laptops and the iMac
- CmrTaco is a Linux user and you can be sure he'll be loading up Linux on that VAIO (right Cmr?)
- Fink is a project to port Unix tools to Mac OS X.
- OS X is a *Nix (for your benefit, that's shorthand for a Unix-like system like Linux, Solaris and the ilk)
- and lastly, Slashdot is a FORUM so everybody (including you, sad to say), can post what they think
I suggest you expand your library to include "Mac OS X for Dummies", you'll find it most illuminating.And BTW, I was the editor of our paper, and have been feted with numerous literary awards.
Its just that when you're talking amongst peers, you tend to conduct the conversation in shorthand.
See you around, anonymous coward.
and try out the TiBook or the iBook! OS X is based on Darwin/BSD. And if you like Linux, you can always use YellowDog.
And you can always use Fink too!
And the best part is, MS Office of OS X is the best Office suite IMHO, bar none.
Just wanted to point out that PS2 runs on a modified version of RedHat. Check it out here.
Use a screwdriver to drive in screws. Use a hammer to drive in a nail. And sometimes, if I need something really quick and dirty, you can just staple it in.
Having language religion is bad!!!!
Also, there's much to be said about the life of applications. Save for COBOL, how many old-style two-tier client-server apps are still around with no plans of being retired.
Also, I second the motion that using scripting languages is not a bad idea. For those parts of a system that get executed repeatedly, it makes sense to go with a compiled language.
For those program paths that are called occasionally, its not a bad idea to use "glue code".
In the thread about the Gartner group recommending moving away from IIS, JediTrainer had some solid migration experience that you might find interesting.
I also posted this question in connection with the Gartner Group's report which recommends moving off IIS.