I've talked to some Wikimedia developers on freenode/#mediawiki (thanks Duesentrieb and Raul654) and have been provided with some great information about ongoing and past attempts to do roughly what I was trying to describe in the parent. Here are some of the relevant links:
Provides a common platform for discussing extensions of the MediaWiki software that allow for simple, machine-based processing of Wiki content. This usually requires some form of "semantic annotation," but the special Wiki environment and the multitude of envisaged applications impose a number of additional requirements.
I would like to present a project that aims to apply techniques of data-mining and knowledge-management to the Wikipedia corpus. The idea is to extract semantic relations directly from the link structure, as opposed to trying to analyze natural language. Wikipedia is an excellent basis for such an analysis because every node in the web of links represents exactly one topic. The results may be used to benefit the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects. Key points are support of multilingual features and computer aided structuring.
The current excessive usage of article lists and categories witnesses the fact that 19th century content organization technologies like inter-article references and indices are no longer sufficient for today's needs. Rather, it is necessary to allow knowledge processing in a computer assisted way, for example to intelligently query the knowledge base. To this end, we propose the introduction of typed links as an extremely simple and unintrusive way for rendering large parts of Wikipedia machine readable.
Wikidata (an 'outdated' proposal but with links to superseding discussions):
Imagine that you can edit the content of an infobox on Wikipedia (e.g. Germany) with one click, that you get an edit form specific to the infobox you are editing, and that other Wikipedias automatically and immediately use the same content (unless it is specific to your locale). Imagine that some data in an article can be automatically updated in the background, without any work from you - whether it is the development of a company stock, or the number of lines of code in an open source project. Imagine that you can easily search wiki-databases on a variety of subjects, without knowing anything about wikis.
WikiDB is a PHP software that allow to create cooperatively data table online. It is inspired by WikiWiki system for cooperative aspect and by PHPMyAdmin for the interface.
The Wiki article format is essentially unstructured. Formatting and content standards are decided upon by the community and enforced by peer moderation, but it is not precise and it is not semantic. Are you thinking about a way of introducing enforced, queryable, structured data templates? Think Google Base with community moderation of both structure and data.
Well since Wikimedia has so far been released under the GPL, and all of the content ever contributed to Wikipedia under the GFDL, it would only take 15 minutes for any other organization to pick up where a comercialized-Wikipedia left off.
Google has every right to do whatever they want to make sure you're paying for their service by way of viewing their ads. It was part of the deal when you registered your account. Ads are increasingly a part of our world and they don't look like their going to go away anytime soon. As the industry grows it will become harder and harder to employ technology to hide them. The best solution, however, will remain our own brains, which are the best spam-filters known to man. So get your own personal Bayesian ad-recognition database populated as soon as possible by disabling Adblock!
Did you make sure to check "Show updates" in the upper right corner of the "Add or Remove Programs" dialogue? Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 was at the bottom of the update list that appears for me. If it still doesn't appear, try doing what Microsoft suggests in this situation and running:
%windir%\$NtUninstallie7bet2p$\spuninst\spuninst.e xe
To uninstall Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview and return to Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP * Click "Start," and then click "Control Panel." * Click "Add or Remove Programs." * Check "Show Updates" at the top of the dialog box. * Scroll down the list to "Windows XP - Software Updates," select "Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2Preview," and then click "Change/Remove."
If "Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview" does not exist, run %windir%\$NtUninstallie7bet2p$\spuninst\spuninst.e xe. You need to have "view hidden folders" enabled.
Seeing as Linux has such a small share of the desktop market it doesn't seem fair to "slap" them for not supporting it when their resources would be better spent elsewhere. In any case, rumour has it that there will be a video store player for Linux, and since libjingle is available under a Free license, and is being integrated into Gaim, there isn't much point in Google producing a linux version of their client, which is really just a proof of concept client anyway.
A good point, but do consider that increasing the user base must surely have a positive effect on development as well. Somebody who uses Firefox is more likely to think about contributing to it than somebody who doesn't -- whether that be simply via bug reporting, plug-in development, or even direct source contribution.
Do you honestly think that the majority of consumers care about where their products are made? I know very few people (one, and he's an anarcho-socialist vegan millionare [honest!]) who really pays attention to that type of information. Information about manufacturing is not what brands need to worry about.
What most people care about is getting stuff, and artificial intelligence and the internet (which is really what this article is about, not Google per se) is making this cheaper by stimulating competition.
And while many of us are complaining about how big retail industry is killing Mom and Pop, it's exactly the technology discussed in this article which is bringing consumers closer and closer to these small-scale retailers. Price comparison information most certainly is what big retail need to worry about in this respect.
Celestia is a "universe" explorer, and it's very good at its job. WorldWind is a "world" explorer, and it's very good at its job.
WorldWind has two primary advantages over Celestia for exploring the Moon:
* Streamed imagery - data is downloaded as you view, which makes it possible to support extremely high resolution and detailed data that, if downloaded all at once (as would have to be the case with Celestia), would span hundreds of gigabytes.
* Topographic projection - WorldWind supports topographic data for both the Earth and the Moon. This means that if you can see craters and mountains in 3D, which is what really sets it apart from viewing a flat image. Even viewing a flat image projected onto a simple sphere (as in Celestia) is not much more enlightening than viewing a flat photograph of the sphere itself.
It is my view, as well as that of the W3C, that the.mobi TLD is a rather flawed concept to begin with. There is absolutely no need to cordon off a part of the web for a specific audience (users of small-screen mobile devices in this case). TLDs traditionally refer to the nature of the content provider, not the abilities of the user! If we would stick to accessibility standards there would be no need for domains such as.mobi. Imagine telling blind users that they should only access.blind domains and that those with really big monitors should access.large domains!
I have been using OO.org 2.0 beta and I have been very impressed with both its features and performance, especially in Calc (Excel equivalent).
Most delightful to me was the ability to use regular expression pattern matching when doing search and search & replace! For instance, I needed to remove all two digit US state names from a column that also contained country names, so I simply did a search on [A-Z][A-Z] and replace with "" (actually this didn't quite work as it also removed 'UK', but you get the idea). Microsoft seems to have a terrible aversion to regular expressions, preferring its users to learn BASIC and write their own macros to handle these simple tasks.
Calc 2.0's speed is also very impressive. Copying and moving huge (10,000+ row) columns is instantaneous, whereas Excel produces quite a bit of churning noises (I think it uses wooden gears).
Calc 2.0 has also saved my life on three occasions now, as it is miraculously able to open and repair xls documents that were corrupted by Excel (granted they were saved out by version 95 -- but Excel XP would fatally crash when I tried to open the same document!)
£121 is barely 0.4% of the the average income in the UK, and if you're too poor to pay that without suffering irreparable harm, you probably don't have a TV to begin with, so you don't have to pay a pence. (And if you do, it's probably monochrome, in which case the fee is only £40.50). If you're over 75 years there is no fee, and if you're blind you only pay half. Living in the US, I'd gladly pay three times your license fee to get some decent news coverage!
I can't see how putting your personal widgets into the system's widget directory _improves_ security! I would imagine that in doing so you are giving root privileges to the widget? Of course, I expect Apple severely limits their power, but that's no reason to do it. You're also forcing all of the users on your system to use your widgets! Terrible advice!
Jesus christ, read the article! This is a security warning applying specifically to the Safari browser on Apple's MacOS 10.4 "Tiger". If you're either not running Safari or not running Tiger (if you don't HAVE dashboard, how could it possibly install a widget to it?) then you are obviously not going to see anything out of the ordinary at this link!
This warning applies specifically to Safari. It's obviously not going to affect Firefox, because Firefox does not have the widget auto-installation feature that Safari does. Most users of Tiger, however, are probably using Safari, so this most certainly is dangerous.
Fair enough, but I doubt that DRI can give you better performance than what the binary drivers hypothetically released by nVidia or ATI could give you. Certainly on the x86 platform the proprietary drivers give vast performance boosts compared to DRI, plus--as you said--you get to use the powerful GPU features. I will be thrilled when Free drivers that can rival the proprietary ones in performance and features are released (or nVidia/ATI start releasing their code).
I expect your experience seeing better performance on the Linux than the OS X system is not that the DRI drivers are more efficient than the binary drivers on OS X, but that both your CPU and GPU were under less stress thanks to a lighter footprint (Aqua certainly takes its toll on available video processing power).
This is only true to a limited extent. Because of the low market share of PowerPC desktops, some binary drivers neccessary for the use of the hardware selected by Apple are not available from the manufacturers. Most notable in this category are nVidia, ATI, and Broadcom, who do not provide binary drivers for PPC Linux for their video and wireless chipsets. This means that, in general, you will have a tough time getting decent video performance out of your Mac running Linux, and you certainly won't get your integrated Airport Extreme card running.
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I am interested in reading about this attempt. If you have any clues as to where I can read a discussion about it, I'd be very grateful.
The Wiki article format is essentially unstructured. Formatting and content standards are decided upon by the community and enforced by peer moderation, but it is not precise and it is not semantic. Are you thinking about a way of introducing enforced, queryable, structured data templates? Think Google Base with community moderation of both structure and data.
Well since Wikimedia has so far been released under the GPL, and all of the content ever contributed to Wikipedia under the GFDL, it would only take 15 minutes for any other organization to pick up where a comercialized-Wikipedia left off.
Google has every right to do whatever they want to make sure you're paying for their service by way of viewing their ads. It was part of the deal when you registered your account. Ads are increasingly a part of our world and they don't look like their going to go away anytime soon. As the industry grows it will become harder and harder to employ technology to hide them. The best solution, however, will remain our own brains, which are the best spam-filters known to man. So get your own personal Bayesian ad-recognition database populated as soon as possible by disabling Adblock!
Did you make sure to check "Show updates" in the upper right corner of the "Add or Remove Programs" dialogue? Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 was at the bottom of the update list that appears for me. If it still doesn't appear, try doing what Microsoft suggests in this situation and running: %windir%\$NtUninstallie7bet2p$\spuninst\spuninst.e xe
From http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/releasenotes/default. aspx
e xe. You need to have "view hidden folders" enabled.
To uninstall Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview and return to Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP
* Click "Start," and then click "Control Panel."
* Click "Add or Remove Programs."
* Check "Show Updates" at the top of the dialog box.
* Scroll down the list to "Windows XP - Software Updates," select "Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2Preview," and then click "Change/Remove."
If "Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview" does not exist, run %windir%\$NtUninstallie7bet2p$\spuninst\spuninst.
Neither digg nor slashdot own the stories that they publish, and cannot, therefore, have them stolen from one another.
Don't forget that Adium "does all that GAIM stuff" because it uses libgaim.
Seeing as Linux has such a small share of the desktop market it doesn't seem fair to "slap" them for not supporting it when their resources would be better spent elsewhere. In any case, rumour has it that there will be a video store player for Linux, and since libjingle is available under a Free license, and is being integrated into Gaim, there isn't much point in Google producing a linux version of their client, which is really just a proof of concept client anyway.
A good point, but do consider that increasing the user base must surely have a positive effect on development as well. Somebody who uses Firefox is more likely to think about contributing to it than somebody who doesn't -- whether that be simply via bug reporting, plug-in development, or even direct source contribution.
Do you honestly think that the majority of consumers care about where their products are made? I know very few people (one, and he's an anarcho-socialist vegan millionare [honest!]) who really pays attention to that type of information. Information about manufacturing is not what brands need to worry about.
What most people care about is getting stuff, and artificial intelligence and the internet (which is really what this article is about, not Google per se) is making this cheaper by stimulating competition.
And while many of us are complaining about how big retail industry is killing Mom and Pop, it's exactly the technology discussed in this article which is bringing consumers closer and closer to these small-scale retailers. Price comparison information most certainly is what big retail need to worry about in this respect.
Celestia is a "universe" explorer, and it's very good at its job. WorldWind is a "world" explorer, and it's very good at its job.
WorldWind has two primary advantages over Celestia for exploring the Moon:
* Streamed imagery - data is downloaded as you view, which makes it possible to support extremely high resolution and detailed data that, if downloaded all at once (as would have to be the case with Celestia), would span hundreds of gigabytes.
* Topographic projection - WorldWind supports topographic data for both the Earth and the Moon. This means that if you can see craters and mountains in 3D, which is what really sets it apart from viewing a flat image. Even viewing a flat image projected onto a simple sphere (as in Celestia) is not much more enlightening than viewing a flat photograph of the sphere itself.
It is my view, as well as that of the W3C, that the .mobi TLD is a rather flawed concept to begin with. There is absolutely no need to cordon off a part of the web for a specific audience (users of small-screen mobile devices in this case). TLDs traditionally refer to the nature of the content provider, not the abilities of the user! If we would stick to accessibility standards there would be no need for domains such as .mobi. Imagine telling blind users that they should only access .blind domains and that those with really big monitors should access .large domains!
Tim Berners-Lee has written an excellent piece outlining his own gripes with this issue: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/TLD
Rotan Hanrahan has another: http://www.w3.org/2004/07/dotmobi_diwg.html
I have been using OO.org 2.0 beta and I have been very impressed with both its features and performance, especially in Calc (Excel equivalent).
Most delightful to me was the ability to use regular expression pattern matching when doing search and search & replace! For instance, I needed to remove all two digit US state names from a column that also contained country names, so I simply did a search on [A-Z][A-Z] and replace with "" (actually this didn't quite work as it also removed 'UK', but you get the idea). Microsoft seems to have a terrible aversion to regular expressions, preferring its users to learn BASIC and write their own macros to handle these simple tasks.
Calc 2.0's speed is also very impressive. Copying and moving huge (10,000+ row) columns is instantaneous, whereas Excel produces quite a bit of churning noises (I think it uses wooden gears).
Calc 2.0 has also saved my life on three occasions now, as it is miraculously able to open and repair xls documents that were corrupted by Excel (granted they were saved out by version 95 -- but Excel XP would fatally crash when I tried to open the same document!)
That sounds nice -- have you released it to the world? If not, please do.
This story is not a dupe of the story to which you refer, but a dupe of another story to which I am too lazy to find a link.
£121 is barely 0.4% of the the average income in the UK, and if you're too poor to pay that without suffering irreparable harm, you probably don't have a TV to begin with, so you don't have to pay a pence. (And if you do, it's probably monochrome, in which case the fee is only £40.50). If you're over 75 years there is no fee, and if you're blind you only pay half. Living in the US, I'd gladly pay three times your license fee to get some decent news coverage!
I can't see how putting your personal widgets into the system's widget directory _improves_ security! I would imagine that in doing so you are giving root privileges to the widget? Of course, I expect Apple severely limits their power, but that's no reason to do it. You're also forcing all of the users on your system to use your widgets! Terrible advice!
Jesus christ, read the article! This is a security warning applying specifically to the Safari browser on Apple's MacOS 10.4 "Tiger". If you're either not running Safari or not running Tiger (if you don't HAVE dashboard, how could it possibly install a widget to it?) then you are obviously not going to see anything out of the ordinary at this link!
This warning applies specifically to Safari. It's obviously not going to affect Firefox, because Firefox does not have the widget auto-installation feature that Safari does. Most users of Tiger, however, are probably using Safari, so this most certainly is dangerous.
Fair enough, but I doubt that DRI can give you better performance than what the binary drivers hypothetically released by nVidia or ATI could give you. Certainly on the x86 platform the proprietary drivers give vast performance boosts compared to DRI, plus--as you said--you get to use the powerful GPU features. I will be thrilled when Free drivers that can rival the proprietary ones in performance and features are released (or nVidia/ATI start releasing their code). I expect your experience seeing better performance on the Linux than the OS X system is not that the DRI drivers are more efficient than the binary drivers on OS X, but that both your CPU and GPU were under less stress thanks to a lighter footprint (Aqua certainly takes its toll on available video processing power).
This is only true to a limited extent. Because of the low market share of PowerPC desktops, some binary drivers neccessary for the use of the hardware selected by Apple are not available from the manufacturers. Most notable in this category are nVidia, ATI, and Broadcom, who do not provide binary drivers for PPC Linux for their video and wireless chipsets. This means that, in general, you will have a tough time getting decent video performance out of your Mac running Linux, and you certainly won't get your integrated Airport Extreme card running.