Oracles and archeologists.(Embedded In Electronic Design)

Electronic Design,  March, 2007  by Wong, William

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What do you trust? These days, many people trust the Internet. When they have a question, they often "Google" the answer. Unfortunately, many Web surfers take the results they get as if they came from an infallible oracle. This wouldn't be too bad if the results of most online searches were good. In most cases, though, your surfing will resemble archeology because of the amount of digging (not digg digging) required to find your treasured answers.

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A great deal of information on the Internet is valuable and accurate. Lots of it has been ...

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