In Australia we round to the nearest 5c, and if you pay by EFTPOS or credit card you pay the exact amount - no rounding. It's only if you pay by cash the total amount gets rounded.
I suppose you *could* work this in your favour - look at the total before deciding how you want to pay - if rounding would result in an increase in cost, pay by card, if it would result in a decrease, pay by cash.
Wikipedia's strengths lie in the fact that it's editable by everyone. This attracts all sorts of people to contrtibute: potentially, an article on [[ninja]]s can have contributions written by a ninja; ditto for [[pirate]]s, [[astronaut]]s, etc.
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Wikipedia's strengths lie in the fact that it's editable by everyone. This attracts all sorts of people to contrtibute: potentially, an article on [[ninja]]s can have contributions written by a ninja; ditto for [[pirate]]s, [[astronaut]]s, etc.
Wales wants an internet using, western centric view of the world to be bound and shipped off to Africa.
See WikiProject:Countering systemic bias. In other words, a bunch of editors going out to specifically improve Wikipedia's coverage of non-western articles. People don't go out to intentionally spread US propaganda (there are enough more liberal readers/editors to balance that), but ''systemic bias'' - bias that people don't even know they are introducing due to the culture/geography of where they live/have lived. See the page for more details.
I don't think you seem to understand that Jimmy Wales has nothing to do with the direct editorial content of Wikipedia. Or rather, he does, as much as you do.
You realise that the US funded and developed ARPAnet - it was only when it was linked to other networks (JANET, AARNet, etc) that it became the internet? That is, if the US was to cut off all links to other countries, the rest of the world would be bigger than the USA-net?
SXC isn't an OpenDocument format - it's the OpenOffice 1.0 format, the OpenDocument spreadsheet format (that OOo 2 among others use) is.ods - it is probably very similar to.sxc.
Although I do agree with your point about file sizes:P
What's the go with this bit? Non-sequiturs aplenty!
LAMB: What's your mom's name by the way? WALES: Doris. LAMB: What's your grandmother's name? WALES: Irma. LAMB: Is she alive? WALES: No, she passed away some years ago. LAMB: Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia we're out of time on that. WALES: OK.
I find it faster to middle-click the tabs, especially when you have a lot in a row. When you click the red X or press Ctrl-W, you never know which Window will be in focus next, but if you click the tab itself you know what will be under the cursor.
Yeah, the service is delivered over the electricity lines to your house (BPL), AND through your houses electrical wiring to all your standard electrical outlets (HomePlug).
at some point one needs to test such technologies out in a fairly remote area, and Tasmania does qualify in those respects.
... except the trial is being run in a few of the central suburbs of Hobart. People in these areas who want broadband, would probably already have DSL. (I don't believe the areas are DSL blackspots, though I may be wrong.)
Going from the extreme northwest tip, to a peninsula in the southeast might take you 6 hours, if you are trying - but most of the population (spread over the south, north east, and north west) is within three hours of each other.
Yeah, but they're not the only broadband provider in the world, and certainly not the only one in Tasmania - at those prices, they will only get the customers who can't get DSL and are desperate for speed, at all costs.
Not only is that article highly POV, but I question this person's encyclopedic importance.
There are many good times to state that a certain topic is not important enough for a wikipedia article - however, as a reply to someone specifically asking for more information about the named person? Sounds like the article is quite useful and has served its purpose well.
I don't think this form of sale is even available here.
By "here" you don't mean Australia do you? Are you saying you've NEVER seen a Dick Smith or Harvey Norman catalog? You've never worked at/visited an office/school full of Compaqs, HPs, Dells etc?
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I guess if he froze himself just before death, you could say that neither of those two certainties are certain after all.
In Australia we round to the nearest 5c, and if you pay by EFTPOS or credit card you pay the exact amount - no rounding. It's only if you pay by cash the total amount gets rounded.
I suppose you *could* work this in your favour - look at the total before deciding how you want to pay - if rounding would result in an increase in cost, pay by card, if it would result in a decrease, pay by cash.
She made the mistake of sending that as part of her semester project.
Is there any reason she didn't send it in PDF format? With the "export to PDF" function being built in to OO, I would have thought it would be ideal.
Wikipedia's strengths lie in the fact that it's editable by everyone. This attracts all sorts of people to contrtibute: potentially, an article on [[ninja]]s can have contributions written by a ninja; ditto for [[pirate]]s, [[astronaut]]s, etc.
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Wikipedia's strengths lie in the fact that it's editable by everyone. This attracts all sorts of people to contrtibute: potentially, an article on [[ninja]]s can have contributions written by a ninja; ditto for [[pirate]]s, [[astronaut]]s, etc.
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Secondly - backward (e.g. "third world") countries do not, by and large, speak English. What language is Wikipedia largely written in...?
Most of it is not english, at the moment.
Wales wants an internet using, western centric view of the world to be bound and shipped off to Africa.
See WikiProject:Countering systemic bias. In other words, a bunch of editors going out to specifically improve Wikipedia's coverage of non-western articles. People don't go out to intentionally spread US propaganda (there are enough more liberal readers/editors to balance that), but ''systemic bias'' - bias that people don't even know they are introducing due to the culture/geography of where they live/have lived. See the page for more details.
I don't think you seem to understand that Jimmy Wales has nothing to do with the direct editorial content of Wikipedia. Or rather, he does, as much as you do.
What was the article name? I'll check the deletion history for you.
LOL :)
Do you have any idea how silly "Massachussetts" sounds if you didn't grow up in the US?
Make a Wikipedia entry for what exactly? Wikipedia? Slashdot? The Register? Criticism of Wikipedia? They all seem to exist, and have done for some time now.
Nobody's bothered correcting it? Yes they have - you just said you did!
What an ironic sig.
You realise that the US funded and developed ARPAnet - it was only when it was linked to other networks (JANET, AARNet, etc) that it became the internet? That is, if the US was to cut off all links to other countries, the rest of the world would be bigger than the USA-net?
SXC isn't an OpenDocument format - it's the OpenOffice 1.0 format, the OpenDocument spreadsheet format (that OOo 2 among others use) is .ods - it is probably very similar to .sxc.
:P
Although I do agree with your point about file sizes
What's the go with this bit? Non-sequiturs aplenty!
LAMB: What's your mom's name by the way?
WALES: Doris.
LAMB: What's your grandmother's name?
WALES: Irma.
LAMB: Is she alive?
WALES: No, she passed away some years ago.
LAMB: Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia we're out of time on that.
WALES: OK.
I find it faster to middle-click the tabs, especially when you have a lot in a row. When you click the red X or press Ctrl-W, you never know which Window will be in focus next, but if you click the tab itself you know what will be under the cursor.
Wow. I'd certainly pay $12 for 256K.
But with only 20mb of included data?
Yeah, the service is delivered over the electricity lines to your house (BPL), AND through your houses electrical wiring to all your standard electrical outlets (HomePlug).
at some point one needs to test such technologies out in a fairly remote area, and Tasmania does qualify in those respects.
... except the trial is being run in a few of the central suburbs of Hobart. People in these areas who want broadband, would probably already have DSL. (I don't believe the areas are DSL blackspots, though I may be wrong.)
North to south is more like 3 hours, than 6.
Going from the extreme northwest tip, to a peninsula in the southeast might take you 6 hours, if you are trying - but most of the population (spread over the south, north east, and north west) is within three hours of each other.
Well there are companies doing that as well!
Yeah, but they're not the only broadband provider in the world, and certainly not the only one in Tasmania - at those prices, they will only get the customers who can't get DSL and are desperate for speed, at all costs.
Not only is that article highly POV, but I question this person's encyclopedic importance.
There are many good times to state that a certain topic is not important enough for a wikipedia article - however, as a reply to someone specifically asking for more information about the named person? Sounds like the article is quite useful and has served its purpose well.
I don't think this form of sale is even available here.
By "here" you don't mean Australia do you? Are you saying you've NEVER seen a Dick Smith or Harvey Norman catalog? You've never worked at/visited an office/school full of Compaqs, HPs, Dells etc?