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[The Shutter]

I have a friend in first year of med school who does not have reliable Internet access. I'm currently downloading the Spanish Wikipedia so that he can read it offline in his netbook. Any other similar resources you'd recommend?

Wikipedia isn't a reliable source for information , during high school you can use wikipedia since no one will check if the information is 100% correct or not .
I've learned that the hard way , the only reliable sources of information in college are (References , Journals , conference papers) ; Other than that there is a chance the information is bogus .

[anon]

True, but when your access to these resources are limited, every bit counts.

Anyway, he just passed by to get the netbook back, I managed to stuff Kiwix and a scientific calculator in it.

[The Shutter]

True, but when your access to these resources are limited, every bit counts.

Anyway, he just passed by to get the netbook back, I managed to stuff Kiwix and a scientific calculator in it.

Well you could have given him the offline version of library.nu .

[anon]

offline version of library.nu

Does such a thing exist?

[anon]

The school I work at ordered the printing of last-year diplomas to a shop. They somehow managed to misspell "rectory" and "school".

[yoco]

As in english words or?

[The Shutter]

Does such a thing exist?

There was a project to keep it alive , don't know if it was completed or not.

[anon]

As in english words or?

No, Spanish, but of course it's still a blunder. I think there's something ironic about receiving a diploma where words are misspelled

[yoco]

lol, I would actually understand if the words were in english, but spanish! That's just too big of mistake to make on such important piece of paper!

[slikrapid]

They somehow managed to misspell...

strange mistakes, such written material ought to go through several checking levels before it gets printed:

- original text creator (1-2 persons)
- (certified) proofreader (1)
- designer (1)
- final check before sending it to the publisher (1)

- publisher (1)

seems a few of these steps were skipped and/or done by a single person

[yoco]

OMG, someone in my country just won over 21million € on eurojackpot! I'm so jealous!

[supermarrioh]

I got a spelling error in my FINAL diploma(for 13 years of school), too... I didn't had it corrected, I actually like the thought of my school being that stupid.

[anon]

Hey guys, please suggest me a gift for a special someone who works the same job I do and is on more or less equal grounds with me knowledge-wise. Ideally I would prefer something that is and remains useful, like a flash drive or external disk, but she already has all that sort of stuff and I'm at a loss as to what else I could pick.

Thank you

[illusive]

Hey guys, please suggest me a gift for a special someone who works the same job I do and is on more or less equal grounds with me knowledge-wise. Ideally I would prefer something that is and remains useful, like a flash drive or external disk, but she already has all that sort of stuff and I'm at a loss as to what else I could pick.

Thank you

well you can get a something addition to thing that she already have. like camera lens if there is a camera or good quality headphone if there is a mobile phone and likes music or connector for the car if there's one. There are many options. if you found nothing then do like I do. Perfume always is good idea . what prices we talking about though ?

[anon]

well you can get a something addition to thing that she already have. like camera lens if there is a camera or good quality headphone if there is a mobile phone and likes music or connector for the car if there's one. There are many options.

Good idea. There is a phone and she lost the data cable recently, so that would really hit the spot. I was thinking of something a little more complex than that, but it would certainly be useful.

if you found nothing then do like I do. Perfume always is good idea .

Could also work.

what prices we talking about though ?

Last month, one of the school authorities made a vague (in his words) complaint to the government about several things that were wrong, including a month I wasn't paid for due to a mishap in the revenue service, which was planned to be fixed at the end of the year.

The day after, I get an e-mail saying I would be paid in full for my work during May and April, even though I only worked like five days on the latter month. So I wouldn't mind going a bit out of the way if there's something cool I could buy