me like the bit on "It's not a bald spot, it's a *solar panel for a sex-machine*."
this morning heard the interview with the mimos ceo on bfm radio. kena trap about r&d funding amount that they have received ... first he blurted 'sensitive' then fumbled and mumbled.. aiyoo... felt sorry for the guy On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Boh Yap <[email protected]> wrote: > > the Cory Doctrow article on Semantic Web is better and more intersting > reading. > > "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia" > http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm<http://www.well.com/%7Edoctorow/metacrap.htm> > > Semantic web is a big project. And MIMOS going it 'on their own' > (propritry vs open source) is doomed to irrelevance. I'm gonna be > cynical here, but what has MIMOS achieved since its creation? It was > set up (in late 80's) to do micro-electronics research, as Msia was > then becoming a leader for the packaging of IC's as companies like > Mototrola, Intel, AMD, TI, Harris setup shop here. > > Back in the late 80's/90's when I was doing contract work for a major > semicon company, I asked their senior engineers what they thought of > MIMOS, ".. bunch of jokers" was what I got. Since then, Taiwan and > Korea has their own wafer foundries (yeah we have one in Sarawak, that > does'nt count... but that's another story). But we were ahead of them > then. > > To their credit, they introduced internet to M'sia, Jaring, but what > else? I do remember they announcing doing research on 8-bit processors > at a time when the rest of the world has moved onto 16, 32 bit. Then > there's a few other things they tried to do, but.... what happened to > Digicert, its a MIMOS Verisign look alike, spin-off, what's its > uptake? > > Throw in the multi-lingual environ we have in Msia, how do you link > mata-data then? > > Thats why we need the power of the 'commons'... > > So MIMOS can pull off Semantic Web & 3.0 on its own? I doubt it. > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:19 PM, sweemeng ng<[email protected]> wrote: > > The idea of semantic web is to give meaning to data, instead of giving > > structure on how it looks, or links to other data. We not just talking > about > > looks, but meanings and relationship > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:16 PM, syamsul anuar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Wow my Ex-Uni siot.. UMS cayalah.. tak paham apa tu semantic. > >> > >> Like red1 said "proprietary software baru merangkak masuk Web 2.0, U > want > >> to give them web 3.0?" > >> > >> -wariola- > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:03 PM, red1 <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> googled for it... some news here > >>> > >>> > http://mis-asia.com/news/articles/mimos,-university-malaysia-sabah-launch-semantic-centre-of-excellence > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> .: war|ola :. > >> Use Fedora Linux for better computing experience > >> http://fedoraproject.org > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > #------- > regds, > > Boh Heong, Yap > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Open-Source-Developers-Club-Malaysia/80292283545 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/osdcmy-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
