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Wikimedia Commons reaches 400,000 Files
Brushen writes "Wikimedia Commons, a website built to be a repository of free, public domain, or GFDL images, sounds, and animations, has reached 400,000 files this week. Launched in September 2004 by the Wikimedia Foundation, the creators of Wikipedia, the organization intended for it to be a source of images that could be used in the rest of the organization's projects. As well, recently they've had a best picture comeptition."
I know. For my next trick, I'll get someone to believe me when I say "Hey, lets /. google!".
If all you have is a grenade, pretty soon every problem looks like a foxhole -- MightyYar
Wow, only 6$ to your principal every month eh? That sounds like the ideal situation for paying extra. You might want to eliminate one or two of your other expenses and allocate that money to the loan instead - afterall 50$ extra a month now will have greater returns later on .. (in the form of a lower % of your payment going toards interist, thus going toards your principal instead)
/really/ good interist rate, any interist you pay is wasted money. prolonging that pay cycle just means you're throwing money away no matter how you look at it.
Oh and to the person above - even though 2.875% is a
No, I am not an English major. My posts are subject to typos and incorrect grammar. Do not expect perfection.
stfu u dun haev 2 typ everythign out
Bad puns gave me bad karma. =(
You must have missed the recent news post where Taco answered a bunch of questions about SD and talked about this point, he basically said that all the grammar and spelling errors are part of the charm of Slashdot.
In other words, it's a feature, not a bug lol.
I'd find a link to the discussion but I can't be arsed to wade through the hundreds of posts in the discussion to find it.
I admit to it bothering the hell out of me before also (the frequent, obvious screwups in the postings), but now that I know they purposefully don't care, it doesn't bother me as much anymore (I guess what bothered me most was the leaving the errors unfixed more than the errors being made in the first place, now I'm not left there hanging, waiting for them to fix the crap and I just move on to the discussion and forget it).
I suppose calling someone a yobbo is considered polite where you're from.
No, in fact I'm not even sure that's true. It's certainly not an aspect of US copyright law.
This was absolutely blantantly false. He was basically telling me I'm an idiot that got it wrong because I don't live in the US and where I'm from the laws are obviously inferior.
How is it polite to call someone a liar without checking the facts?
I suggest you get a clue.
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