Comments on: Thanks, Web 2.0 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1199 Jason Scott's Weblog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jason Scott http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1199/comment-page-1#comment-4550 Jason Scott Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:10:26 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1199#comment-4550 Your question is addressed pretty well in <a href="http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/000247.html" rel="nofollow">this weblog entry</a> I wrote a bit of time ago. Your question is addressed pretty well in this weblog entry I wrote a bit of time ago.

]]> By: Brian http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1199/comment-page-1#comment-4549 Brian Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:06:18 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1199#comment-4549 There is one flaw in your original essay which you never address; Wikipedia is a ridiculously large and comprehensive resource. To call the gigabytes upon gigabytes of raw html information on that site a "failure" is silly. The fact that the "on screen" content is not the best it could be is certainly true. This in no way negates the phenomenal success that Wikipedia has been as a starting point for academic, or recreational research. I There is one flaw in your original essay which you never address; Wikipedia is a ridiculously large and comprehensive resource. To call the gigabytes upon gigabytes of raw html information on that site a “failure” is silly. The fact that the “on screen” content is not the best it could be is certainly true. This in no way negates the phenomenal success that Wikipedia has been as a starting point for academic, or recreational research.

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]]> By: cassiel http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1199/comment-page-1#comment-4548 cassiel Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:50:56 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1199#comment-4548 ... then my dictionary is wrong either =:-} … then my dictionary is wrong either =:-}

]]> By: anonymous http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1199/comment-page-1#comment-4547 anonymous Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:40:20 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1199#comment-4547 learn to take criticism learn to take criticism

]]> By: Michael Kohne http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1199/comment-page-1#comment-4546 Michael Kohne Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:38:49 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1199#comment-4546 Actually, he did make a mistake (though almost anyone not looking to disagree understood what he meant and just went on to see if his underlying argument made sense). In the US normal usage, virus and bacteria refer to different classes of germs. A virus is generally a small bit of genetic material that gets a cell to reproduce it, while a bacteria is a cell in it's own right. Antibiotics are effective against some bacteria, but not at all against a virus. Not a big deal, as I said most folk got his meaning and went on. But yea, he was wrong. Actually, he did make a mistake (though almost anyone not looking to disagree understood what he meant and just went on to see if his underlying argument made sense).

In the US normal usage, virus and bacteria refer to different classes of germs. A virus is generally a small bit of genetic material that gets a cell to reproduce it, while a bacteria is a cell in it’s own right.

Antibiotics are effective against some bacteria, but not at all against a virus.

Not a big deal, as I said most folk got his meaning and went on. But yea, he was wrong.

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