Hai: Let me commend you for your excellent answers. In addition, I must tell you all that references for certain topics are quite good in Wikipedia, especially for those topics that are serious and often searched. For instance, I profusely use wikipedia to understand technology concepts like cloud computing, FPGA chips etc. I find them to be reliable and if they are not Wikipedia is very clear about it right at the beginning so that we are not entirely misled by the information. So it works well that way.
Subramani -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roopakshi Pathania Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AI] accessible gps comparison Hi, On Mon, 2/22/10, KARAN GUPTA <[email protected]> wrote: > Technically speaking - no wi-fi can be hooked with gps > satelites because wi-fi a/b/g/n and newer wi-max have their > own limitations. There is no "hooking" of Wi-Fi to GPS satellites involved. Skyhook uses Wi-Fi hotspot locations alongside GPS and cell towers location in a complex algorithm to calculate a more accurate position. Perhaps you should have read the Wikipedia entry after all. It provides the same information as the company's official page that was also mentioned in my email. > on this topic. No educated people or leading universities > take refrences and informations from unreliable sources like > wikipedia. Academic references are only made while writing a research paper, and not on casual lists. Of course if one doesn't know the difference in the style of writing a research paper and an email, this can be a big problem. I'm on several mailing lists and forums full of Economists, Mathematicians and Statisticians and none of them make use of references to papers to explain concepts that already exist in the public domain, in fact guess what? They link to Wikipedia to clarify the basic idea behind the concept. Wikipedia contains further references that can be followed up to authentic sources. The job of Wikipedia is to give a quick overview of a concept and provide further more useful sources, which it does quite well. > Anyone can write there > exacly like we do on blogs Blogs are also written by Nobel laureates. The blogs written by famous Mathematicians and scientists have a huge impact on prevalent ideas and eventually on research that finally takes place. For those interested, here is a comprehensive list of GPS software available for India. In all likelihood, they are all inaccessible. http://www.gpsinindia.com/index.php?n=Main.Software "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." ~ Leonardo da Vinci To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
