[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia isn't just a good idea - it's compulsory

[Jay Litwyn]

I hate this damn machine.
Why don't I sell it.
It does not what I want it to,
but rather what I tell it.

Clicked on play button. Buffer got up to 62%, then stalled and started over 
according to the numbers. Pressed the stop button...kept playing a little 
bit more, then a little bit more. It should hav stopped when I pressed the 
more button to download it, and it did not. I pressed the more button to get 
the download link. Still playing bits. Started download. Download completes 
in record time. Downloaded five seconds of it according to winamp. Delete 
file. Start download again. That five second bit in the cache, so the 
download is at 1000kbps, and I am not on broadband. Dropped the whole page 
to stop it from playing bits. Called it up again. Pressed title bar to get 
full description page. 89%, 9:04.

"Durova" <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:a01006d90903251727w12acbd0cma73bc8be476d6036 at mail.gmail.com...
> This discussion of World War I social issues is irresistible.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_How_I_Hate_to_Get_Up_in_the_Morning
>
> -Durova
>
> P.S. Shameless plug for an article I wrote.  The audio file is a featured
> sound.
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Thomas Dalton 
> <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2009/3/25 Phil Nash <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>> > Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> >>> 2009/3/25 Phil Nash <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk>:
>> >>>> I don't see much of a problem with this, as a comparison implies
>> >>>> some sort of value-judgement.
>> >>>
>> >>> UK primary school history does tend to focus on people a lot, rather
>> >>> than details of historical events.
>> >
>> > Probably more recent than my 1950s primary school history, which IIRC,
>> was
>> > more about dates and events rather than people, and my 1960s history
>> > education was more about politics than anything else. Social history
>> might
>> > just as well have been a foreign language when I was taught. Let's just
>> say
>> > it didn't relate to my experience of life, and thus failed to light my
>> fire.
>>
>> Indeed, history education has changed a lot since then! When I was in
>> primary school (10+ years ago) we hardly learned any dates, it was all
>> about what life was like during that period.
>>
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