A German publisher tried to make books from Wikipedia articles. They identified commited Wikipedians, who collected Wikipedia articles and tried to improve them until the quality was sufficient to be printed. Professional editors supported the Wikipedians.
After a few volumes the project was abadoned. It was way too much work to maintain and verify the Wikipedia articles, to find a common structure and diction.
Where are the internet games?
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Where are Wii?
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I have a Wii and it is fun to play with others. But to play alone is a little boring.
Are there any games that take advantage of the internet connection? Is it possible to play against other Wii users around the world?
Every fact on Wikipedia has a link back to the primary source.
No. There should be a link to every source but this goal is far from being achieved. And most sources used in Wikipedia are those that can be found with Google, not the actual primary sources.
You are legally required to aggressively defend your IPR, otherwise you lose it. Hate the game, not the playa.
That is a common error. You don't loose rights when you refuse to sue people.
A few weeks ago I read a story about someone who did a parody of a website, he used logos and design which are clearly copyrighted. And what happened? The company did not sue the author, they gave him a license for his parody. They did not lose any intellectual property, the did not pay any lawyer or court and they had free publicity. The parody was clearly no competition for them.
BRIAN: Good morning. FOLLOWERS: A blessing! A blessing! A blessing!... BRIAN: No. No, please! Please! Please listen. I've got one or two things to say. FOLLOWERS: Tell us. Tell us both of them. BRIAN: Look. You've got it all wrong. You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves. You're all individuals! FOLLOWERS: Yes, we're all individuals! BRIAN: You're all different! FOLLOWERS: Yes, we are all different! DENNIS: I'm not. ARTHUR: Shhhh. FOLLOWERS: Shh. Shhhh. Shhh. BRIAN: You've all got to work it out for yourselves! FOLLOWERS: Yes! We've got to work it out for ourselves! BRIAN: Exactly! FOLLOWERS: Tell us more! BRIAN: No! That's the point! Don't let anyone tell you what to do! Otherwise-- Ow! No!
You will only get money, if someone buys access at your hotspot. But it's actually less than half the money they receive. And they pay only if you have a earned a certain amount of money. And when a Fonero with free access surfs, you receive nothing.
In result nearly nobody ever got any money from FON.
It sounds like the ruling states that the government can not retain IP info.
The law is the same for the government as for everyone else.
The bis question is: are IP adresses personal data? The court confirmed this as a fact, but The Federal Ministry and even the Bureaus for data protection have a different opinion.
If the Federal Ministry is not allowed to log IP adresses, nobody in Germany is.
Why not apply a rating system to journalists similar to that being used on Wikipedia by the UCSC crew? A journalist's rating is affected by whether they follow journalistic procedures in their writing, who they sell their article to (separate rating system for publishers based on the ratings of journalists who publish throgh them), accuracy of factual reporting, whether they include large blocks of text found to be non original, etc.
a) because it is too much work. b) because it may work in theory, but even the Wikipedia rating system is in fact not very useful. c) because a journalist may not be able to publish his sources.
The Wikia search project may be a search engine for very special requests in three or five years, but it is not a competition for Google, nor it is intended to be.
BTW: There are plenty of other open source and distributed search engines. For example this one.
If you want to be serious about it: my government does not feed me or pay for my meds. And it is not the US government. Even though US security agencies have the possibility to wiretap some of my calls.
You forgot the billions of hours slashdot posters used to create countless amout of SCO rants and flames.
Let's have a party
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When this is not an occasion for celebration - I don't know.
What about an SCO party? You can use facebook, upcoming.org and all the web 2.0 platforms to plan a party near you. Lots of people will be eager to join. Try it now.
If someone gets hold of my data I would be glad if he just copied some films and music.
But when people start poking in data of other people - it is reasonable to assume someone copies your emails, passwords and other personal information along with your porn...
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A German publisher tried to make books from Wikipedia articles. They identified commited Wikipedians, who collected Wikipedia articles and tried to improve them until the quality was sufficient to be printed. Professional editors supported the Wikipedians. After a few volumes the project was abadoned. It was way too much work to maintain and verify the Wikipedia articles, to find a common structure and diction.
...after they published a FAQ on "troubleshooting".
How long has this been in firehose?
I have a Wii and it is fun to play with others. But to play alone is a little boring. Are there any games that take advantage of the internet connection? Is it possible to play against other Wii users around the world?
How do third party websites know about an Facebookm account when a user is logged out of Facebook?
I don't see an article history or any hint who wrote the article on Wikipedia. This is clearly a violation of the GFDL.
BRIAN: Good morning.
FOLLOWERS: A blessing! A blessing! A blessing!...
BRIAN: No. No, please! Please! Please listen. I've got one or two things to say.
FOLLOWERS: Tell us. Tell us both of them.
BRIAN: Look. You've got it all wrong. You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves. You're all individuals!
FOLLOWERS: Yes, we're all individuals!
BRIAN: You're all different!
FOLLOWERS: Yes, we are all different!
DENNIS: I'm not.
ARTHUR: Shhhh.
FOLLOWERS: Shh. Shhhh. Shhh.
BRIAN: You've all got to work it out for yourselves!
FOLLOWERS: Yes! We've got to work it out for ourselves!
BRIAN: Exactly!
FOLLOWERS: Tell us more!
BRIAN: No! That's the point! Don't let anyone tell you what to do! Otherwise-- Ow! No!
http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-19.htm
You will only get money, if someone buys access at your hotspot. But it's actually less than half the money they receive. And they pay only if you have a earned a certain amount of money. And when a Fonero with free access surfs, you receive nothing. In result nearly nobody ever got any money from FON.
Why is the production company only up to season 4 so far?
(Well, I would guess, they sell the seasons 5 to 10 still for broadcast in other countries, but six years delay is IMHO too much.)
I don't trust Bill McEwen more than Steve Ballmer.
Yes, that is right.
The bis question is: are IP adresses personal data? The court confirmed this as a fact, but The Federal Ministry and even the Bureaus for data protection have a different opinion.
If the Federal Ministry is not allowed to log IP adresses, nobody in Germany is.
...for Baywatch: the Movie. It will be the first movie shot entirely in slow motion.
How many companies have not upgraded to XP yet?
And how many are still running Windows 98 or 95?
Have you ever heard the slogan News for nerds - stuff that matters? If he is speaking of the slashdot crowd, "nerd" is not an insult.
Why not apply a rating system to journalists similar to that being used on Wikipedia by the UCSC crew? A journalist's rating is affected by whether they follow journalistic procedures in their writing, who they sell their article to (separate rating system for publishers based on the ratings of journalists who publish throgh them), accuracy of factual reporting, whether they include large blocks of text found to be non original, etc.
a) because it is too much work.
b) because it may work in theory, but even the Wikipedia rating system is in fact not very useful.
c) because a journalist may not be able to publish his sources.
BTW: There are plenty of other open source and distributed search engines. For example this one.
If you want to be serious about it: my government does not feed me or pay for my meds. And it is not the US government. Even though US security agencies have the possibility to wiretap some of my calls.
...by CIA and NSA. I'm just a harmless jackass. No need to pay any attention. Nor to wiretap me.
You forgot the billions of hours slashdot posters used to create countless amout of SCO rants and flames.
When this is not an occasion for celebration - I don't know. What about an SCO party? You can use facebook, upcoming.org and all the web 2.0 platforms to plan a party near you. Lots of people will be eager to join. Try it now.
If someone gets hold of my data I would be glad if he just copied some films and music.
But when people start poking in data of other people - it is reasonable to assume someone copies your emails, passwords and other personal information along with your porn...