[icon-discuss] Re: suggestion: Wikipedia on the Icon
- From: glenn <loudguitar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:09:32 -0400
Dear James, and all,
The idea is not to have an ever growing collection available on the icon; it is
to have an educational reference which an encyclopedia provides. The reason
that wikipedia was suggested is it's low cost. I think that it would be
beneficial to broaden the thread to discuss any and all encyclopedic sources
that could be ported onto the icon.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: James Mannion
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: suggestion: Wikipedia on the Icon
Just my 2 cents to the original poster of this idea, my thought would be that
it is not really all that productive to persue this concept because even in the
event that a collection like this is a manageable size right now (may or may
not be) it will grow exponentially and quickly. It's a lot like that idea
where they had that idea at the beginning of the internet that you could order
the entire internet on a disk. I have heard second hand that something like
that was promoted and atempted for a time when the internet was in its early
stages of being the public network that it is today. External drives are
becoming available in larger and larger capacities all the time, but then you
lose some degree of portability if you were to use such a solution to hold the
data. That may or may not be an issue for you. I don't think it is an icon
limitation issue as much as it is just a concept that will collapse under its
own weight.
Jim
> From: marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: suggestion: Wikipedia on the Icon
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:26:24 -0600
>
> This site claims that they have it all compressed into 2 or 4 GB depending
> on the image sizes. This handheld version hasn't been updated for awhile
> though.
>
> Marc
>
> Marc Mulcahy
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> marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pratik Patel
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:12 AM
> > To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: suggestion: Wikipedia on the Icon
> >
> > Keep in mind that the Wikipedia collection is huge and takes
> > up tarrabytes of data. You're not likely to even touch the
> > surface of whatr might be available with the little old 30 GB.
> >
> > Pratik
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Megan Kelly
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:56 AM
> > To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: suggestion: Wikipedia on the Icon
> >
> > Sometimes, one doesn't have an internet connection available.
> > I think it would be wonderful to have wikipedia, or any
> > encyclopedia for that matter at
> >
> > hand all the time.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Megan
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kevin Jones" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:55 AM
> > Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: suggestion: Wikipedia on the Icon
> >
> >
> > > you could just bookmark the wikipedia site and then you'd
> > basically have
> > > it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Megan Kelly wrote:
> > >> Hi everyone,
> > >> I came across an adaptation for running/storing Wikipedia on a
> > >> hand-held device. http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/index.html
> > >> I think it would be wonderful if something like this were
> > to be available
> >
> > >> for the Icon. It would make an excellent educational
> > addition to an
> > >> already amazing tool.
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Megan
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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