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Wikipedia Releases Offline CD
An anonymous reader writes "WikipediaOnDVD, with cooperation with the Wikipedia community, has released its first offline test version. The articles were selected by Wikipedians and reviewed for accuracy, vandalism, and importance. Nearly 2,000 core Wikipedia articles will be sold on compact disc to give people without a net connection access to highlights of the popular web resource. The CD can be purchased or downloaded online via their site or the torrent."
I pick 77 as the number of articles on the CD that will be wrong
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[...] to give people without a net connection access to highlights [...]. The CD can be purchased or downloaded online [...]
Now that's a hefty business plan.
This reminds me of a retail cd drive that came with no printed installation instructions, the manual was on a CD.
Wikipedia without accuracy or vandalism problems... What fun is that?!?!?
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
so you can edit it. Also it will only work if you place it in a publically accessible network drive so others can make changes too.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Wikipedia on CD was already taken by a guy providing only 1.44 MB floppy images.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Now my information can be wrong AND outdated.
Patrick Volkerding? Is that you?
My blog
If somebody has 15 minutes of net connection, would he look at live versions of Wikipedia articles for those 15 minutes, or would he spend 15 minutes buying the disc to take home to use on his own computer without an Internet connection?
They'd spend 15 minutes looking at pornography.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
I can do you one better.
Personally, I think it's great. Makes you think, if the Knuckles article is 10 pages long, how many pages is the rest of the sum of all knowledge?
>That in five minutes you COULDN'T care less about. Don't use a phrase if you don't know how to use it.
:-P
You fail it.
If you don't understand the language completely, you don't get to complain.
Both are perfectly valid turns of phrase. One American, one British.
Could care less: I am so uninterested that while I could care less about the subject, I'm not even bothered to that point. Also, I am so interested that I care about the subject, therefore proving I could care less.
Couldn't care less: I am so uninterested that my caring level is at zero. Also, I am so interested that caring less would be physically impossible.
Both are correct and incorrect at the same time.
Yes, it's on the list of English errors. That in itself is an error, as the author is American. He needs to read up on his English history a bit, perhaps? alt.usage.english beat him to the punch on this one. Oddly enough, this clearly prescriptive English teacher is pro ending sentences in prepositions. How contradictory. He does agree he is fighting a losing battle on it (One he lost BEFORE he put up the website, ironically).
Irregardless, I ain't wrong. Here's some more references on the matter. Cheap at half the price, I tell you!
BTW: This topic truly is important to me, I couldn't care less about it, so don't ask me to. I could care less for rants about it, though, but sometimes I miss them.
Teach, where's my gold star?