On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 05:05:27PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my house, we had an encyclopedia because I was in school ...
it was useful for research papers.
I suspect the usefulness would depend on what one's teachers meant
by research, which tends to change with grade level.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:42 AM
To: Ted Mittelstaedt
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Subject: Re: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 01
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:00:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
This is not a silly idea. For many many years people would spend
hundreds of dollars on a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica
or World Book encyclopedia to have it sit on their shelf gathering
they bought it to HAVE it,
In my house, we had an encyclopedia because I was in school ...
it was useful for research papers.
I suspect the usefulness would depend on what one's teachers meant
by research, which tends to change with grade level.
In elementary and middle school, certainly. In high school, maybe.
In
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Franks
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 1:49 PM
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Subject: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?
So call me a sociopath, but times are a bit scary. I'd like to
I really feel the big value of doing something like this is to
be able to go back to it, years later, and compare the old
entries on a topic with the current entries on a topic to
see how they have changed.
nothing to solve - compressed database are available for download.
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 01:50:20AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 1:49 PM
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Subject: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror
This is not a silly idea. For many many years people would spend
hundreds of dollars on a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica
or World Book encyclopedia to have it sit on their shelf gathering
they bought it to HAVE it, not because they need it.