Everything2 - Everything2 If you're an Everything2 noder wishing to become a Wikipedian, please try our guide for Everything2 noders. Everything2, or E2 for short, is a large collaborative Internet community, currently at www.everything2.com. It describes itself as having "grown from being a very simple user-written encyclopedia to a very complex online community with a focus to write, publish and edit a quality database of information, insight and humor." Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Nodes and Writeups 1.1 Links 1.2 Rewards 1.3 Copyright Policy 2 Messaging 3 History and Society 4 Software 5 Related projects 6 Other Resources Nodes and Writeups E2 users called noders create pages called nodes and add information in multiple writeups. Only logged-in users can create writeups, and only the author of a writeup.
H2G2 - entries repairing broken links, making updates, and so forth. These were the first volunteers, originally hand picked, who used to do the jobs of scouts as well prior to the creation of Peer Review. Community Artists contribute the art that illustrates many of the entries. The team has to provide three graphics every day and an additional four every Wednesday. Their art is credited at the bottom of the page they have illustrated. Everyone on h2g2 has some respect for the artists. University Field Researchers wrote groups of entries based around a common theme, aiming to provide a comprehensive guide to a specific subject. These projects often became quite involved, and took several months to complete. Once finished, they were usually featured on the h2g2 home page for a week. This.
History of Internet encyclopedia projects - of the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2000, which was put online at http://www.bartleby.com/65/ in early 2000 and is updated periodically. Another related branch of activity is the creation of new, free contents on a volunteer basis. In 1991, the participants of the Usenet newsgroup alt.fan.douglas-adams [1] started a project to produce a real version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional encyclopedia used in the works of Douglas Adams. It became known as Project Galactic Guide. Although it originally aimed to contain only real, factual articles, policy was changed to allow and encourage semi-real and unreal articles as well. Project Galactic Guide contains over 1700 articles, but no new articles have been added since 2000; this is probably partly due to the founding of h2g2, a more official project.
Furry - computer games. Examples include the race of humanoid ducks found in the role-playing game RuneQuest and the races found in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games. Much furry interest centers on artistic representations, often cartoon-like, of furry creatures; Yerf and VCL (Vixen Controlled Library) are two such online repositories of furry art. Amateur and professional artists ply their wares online, by mail order, and at furry fandom conventions. In 2003, Anthrocon's Art Show tallied sales of almost $50,000, only about 25% of which was for erotic or pornographic images, which are known as yiffy or spooge. Comics creator Steve Gallacci is believed to have popularised this usage of "furry" through his association with many science fiction and comics conventions, and the small-press "funny animals" APAzine Rowrbrazzle. Related Topics Furry fandom List.
Eksi Sozluk - collaborative hypertext dictionary that follows almost the same concept as Everything2 or H2G2. The site is in Turkish; the name "Eksi Sozluk" translates to "Sour Dictionary". When the site was founded on February 15, 1999, the developers had no idea that similar projects were around. Therefore the site design and the functionality may seem much different from that of other sites. Conceptually, however, the site is very similar to H2G2, since it has been inspired a lot by Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. AsAs of July 2003, there were 3,100,000 entries (actual plus deleted ones) and 4,000 active writers (called susers) in the web site. The creator of the site is known as SSG. There are 5 moderators who scrutinize and, if need be, modify/delete the entries of.
Entity-Relationship Diagram - key constraint. To indicate that each entity in the entity set is involved in exactly one relationship, a thick arrow is drawn. Less Common Symbols A weak entity is an entity that can't be uniquely identified by its own attributes alone, and therefore must use as its primary key both its own attributes and the primary key of an entity it is related to. A weak entity set is indicated by a bold rectangle (the entity) connected by a bold arrow to a bold diamond (the relationship). Sometimes two entities are more specific subtypes of a more general type of entity. For example, programmers and marketers might both be types of employees at a software company. To indicate this, a triangle with "ISA" on the inside is drawn. The superclass is.
Everything - and fix that link. Everything, a Jam band Everything, an audio book by Henry Rollins Everything2, a large collaborative Internet community producing a user-written encyclopedia Theory of everything, a physics theory that unifies the four fundamental forces of nature Life, the Universe and Everything, a book by Douglas Adams (see also The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, a book by David Reuben and a film by Woody Allen.
DuPont Manual Magnet High School - school in 1892 by a grant from Victor du Pont. In 1893, the annual Male-Manual football rivalry, the longest running high school football series in the US, began. In 1934, the Louisville Girl's High School (formerly Female) moved to Halleck Hall at the current site of Manual. Over the period 1948-50, Manual moved to its current location and merged with the Louisville Girl's High School. In 1984, Manual became a Magnet school and quickly established a strong academic reputation. Among the distinguished alumni of this school are the politicians Mitch McConnell and Gene Snyder, as well as baseball player Pee Wee Reese. (copied from Everything2 and posted here by the original author, Ryan Gabbard (elwethingol of Everything2)).
Dr. Mario - create new four-in-a-row combinations. There's also an addictive deathmatch mode, where you can use such chain reactions to attack your opponent. U.S. Patent 5,265,888 covers Dr. Mario, but as of 2002, Nintendo has not enforced it against amateur software developers. Article based on http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=551043.
Dictionary - of major dictionaries English Oxford English Dictionary (descriptive) Concise Oxford Dictionary New Oxford Dictionary of English New Oxford American Dictionary The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (prescriptive) Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language (prescriptive) The Century Dictionary The Macquarie Dictionary, a dictionary of Australian English The Chambers Dictionary Japanese Shin meikai kokugo jiten, a dictionary of Japanese language (lit. new well-understanding dictionary) Kojien, a dictionary of Japanese language Publishers Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press Merriam-Webster Funk and Wagnalls Collins Chambers Harrap List of online dictionaries OneLook searches almost 1000 online dictionaries for more than 6 million indexed words. hyperdictionary.com seems to be one of the more comprehensive online dictionaries. Dictionary.com offers a dictionary and thesaurus and other.
Advogato - on a trust metric. They have a wiki site called AdvoWiki. See also Kuro5hin, Slashdot, Everything2.
Audio time stretching - 48 Hz = 2,880 cycles/minute = 24 cycles/beat * 120 bpm. High-end commercial audio processing packages combine the two techniques, using wavelet techniques to separate the signal into sinusoid and transient waveforms, applying the phase vocoder to the sinusoids, and processing transients in the time domain, producing the highest quality time stretching. Pitch scaling These techniques can also be used to scale the pitch of an audio sample while holding time constant. (Note that the technique is properly called pitch scaling, not "shifting," as pitch shifting by amplitude modulation with a complex exponential does not preserve the ratios of the harmonic frequencies that determine the sound's timbre.) Time domain processing works much better here, as smearing is less noticeable, but scaling vocal samples distorts the formants into a sort of Alvin.
Binary symmetric channel - and absence of a pulse, for instance), this assumption is often not valid in practical situations. However, this assumption makes analysis much easier. Formally, let p < ½ be the probability of an error occurring. Then the probability of a bit sent over a BSC being correctly received is (1-p), and this probability is independent of what bit is sent. (copied from Everything2 and posted here by the original author, Ryan Gabbard (elwethingol of Everything2)).
ClearType - image to avoid color fringing caused by beats with the color subcarrier. (Microsoft uses a filter equivalent to the 3-tap FIR filter [1 1 1]/3; the 5-tap filter [1 3 4 3 1]/12, with an additional double zero at f/2 that removes color fringes caused by alternate dark and light pixels, may work better for some images.) Then sample alternately red, green, and blue components of successive pixels to produce a final image at nearly triple the apparent horizontal resolution of an ordinary image. Some displays, such as the one in the original iBook computer and the Game Boy Advance handheld video game console, order pixels in BGR order rather than RGB; a subpixel rasterizer that can run on multiple displays must take this into account. Additional Resources Sub-Pixel Font Rendering.
Collaborative software - allows several concurrent users to create and manage information in a website. Collaborative media models include Wiki and Slashdot models. Some sites with publicly accessible content based on collaborative software are: WikiWiki, Wikipedia and Everything2. By method used we can divide them in: Web-based collaborative tools Software collaborative tools By area served we can divide them in: knowledge management tools knowledge creation tools information sharing tools Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Three levels of collaboration 2 Implementation 3 Examples of collaborative software 3.1 Open source software 3.2 Proprietary software 4 For further reading 4.3 See also 4.4 Finding related topics 4.5.
Collaborative writing - people together (collaboratively) rather than individually. Collaborative writing projects include: H2G2 Everything2 The International Writing Exchange The Linux documentation project Wikipedia and many other wikis Some collaborative writing projects are also open content..
XP - Programming. Experience points in a role-playing game or in Everything2 AMD Athlon XP CPU as the Chi Rho, the symbol that the emperor Constantine I saw in the sky before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312. First two letters in Christ in Greek, therefore symbolic of Christianity. See Labarum. Windows XP operating system. The official Microsoft explanation for this name is a derivation from "experience"; another notes that "Cairo" was Microsoft's codename for an object-oriented operating system that would eliminate completely MS-DOS code from Microsoft Windows; Windows XP (chi-rho) completes the process..
Timeline of hypertext technology - Authorware Canon Cat ("Leap" function, interface) HyperCard 1989 Macromedia Director World Wide Web 1991 Gopher 1995 WikiWiki 1998 Everything2 XML 2001 Wikipedia.
Sindarin - occur when a short phrase (usually a preposition) occurs before the mutated word, changing its (the mutated word's) first consonant. Many times, the preposition also changes. Also, mutation occurs in many other places (to mention a few, in compounds (elvellyn, from mellyn, "friends") or in direct objects). Sindarin verbs are also quite complex. There are strong and weak verbs, also called i-stems and a-stems respectively. Just like English (and German) strong and weak verbs, the strong ones are more "irregular" than the weak ones. Sindarin also has quite a large number of irregular verbs. Sindarin is one of the two languages developed by Tolkien (the other is Quenya) that is developed enough that we can write texts that are quite large in size. See also: Middle-earth Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1.
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act - work, or the individual or privately held owner of copyright in the original work might refuse to license a use at any price (though a refusal to license may trigger a fair use safety valve). One can thus argue that a rich public domain is necessary for artistic creation. For example, the works of Shakespeare and the Greek myths have been the basis for much of Neil Gaiman's writing, which might well not have been created if they were still under copyright. Recent works that have entered the popular culture, and for which copyright is arguably not appropriate, include the novels that created Frankenstein and Dracula, both originating in the 19th century. Most of the holy writings of major religions are also in the public domain, which allows them to be.
