Donna Richoux
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 7:47 pm
Post subject: Re: the asterisk |
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<Snidely.too@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Xah Lee wrote:
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O, but actually what i wanted to say in this reply was that there's a
good article related to the accuracy issue of encyclopedias:
"The facts depend on where you are coming from"
http://www.btimes.co.za/97/0406/tech/tech6.htm
i haven't been able to determine the author. If you know, please tell.
Xah
xah@xahlee.org
http://xahlee.org/
The attribution appears to be "Bill Gates", writing a column called
"Gatesway". It is probably syndicated, and may appear in other papers
than just the Bombay Times.
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Actually it's not reprinted on the Web, which is odd. But I found a
related Usenet post from around the same time. Note that the URL above
is dated either 4 June 1997, or 6 April 1997. The Usenet post is from
April 28, 1997.
I made a TinyURL twice but there's something buggy. The desired post is
Number 6, by Nada.
http://tinyurl.com/c3xfb
It quotes excerpts as follows:
| Quote: | let me quote Bill Gates from a published article
on Sunday, April 6, 1997 ASUBURY PARK PRESS:
[Start of quote] **********************
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Did Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb?
Or was it Sir Joseph Swan? An encyclopedia published by
my company on CD-Rom in the United States has an article
on Edison but not Swan.
"In 1878 and 1879, British inventor Joseph Swan and
American inventor Thomas Edison simultaneously developed the
carbon-filament lamp," it states.
The edition sold in Britain reflects a slightly different reality.
"In 1878 he demonsrtated an electric light using a carbon wire
in a vacuum bulb. Thomas Edison arrived independently at the
solution the following year".
Did the American Alexander Graham Bill invent the
telephone? Or was it the Italian-American Antonio Mucci.
Both english-language encyclo- pedias credit Bell, who
patented the invention in 1876. None of the 30,000 articles
in the U.S. version or the 28,000 articles in the British
version even mention the name Meucci. But in a forthcoming
Italian version, Meucci is credited with developing the first
rudimentary telephone in 1854 and filing preliminary papers
with the U.S. patent office in 1871"
......
......
The result is a series of CD-ROM encyclopedia rooted in the U.S.
version but different. Each is as local as possible,
representing what we call "local, educated reality."
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[End of quote] *********************
"ASUBURY" should be Asbury Park Press, New Jersey. |
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Best wishes -- Donna Richoux |
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Paul Wolff
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:48 am
Post subject: Re: the asterisk |
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In message <1h5rh77.18dt1zum6s29dN%trio@euronet.nl>, Donna Richoux
<trio@euronet.nl> writes
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Actually it's not reprinted on the Web, which is odd. But I found a
related Usenet post from around the same time. Note that the URL above
is dated either 4 June 1997, or 6 April 1997. The Usenet post is from
April 28, 1997.
It quotes excerpts as follows:
let me quote Bill Gates from a published article
on Sunday, April 6, 1997 ASUBURY PARK PRESS:
[Start of quote] **********************
"
[Snip]
Did the American Alexander Graham Bill invent the
telephone?
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I did like that. He probably pinched the operating system from
somewhere, though.
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Paul
In bocca al Lupo!
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