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i think you really get into too much development and design effort when such a simple task can be accomplished by using resources that are already available. wikipedia already exists, and they already have servers to handle the search requests. i still say developing a small application (whether it's some javascript, a new add-on, or something that already exists) to add links to wikipedia entries that have alternate internal wiki entries, since according to the parent question the employees are going to be using wikipedia a lot, anyway. you can make the link apparent so that employees can simply take a quick glance to see whether they need to do any more internal research. you don't have to waste time downloading, restoring, and implementing the wikipedia database internally, and you don't have to waste time updating it, writing scripts to do so automatically, or finding scripts that will.

as to the api approach, i think that would be fun, but it seems like a waste of server power to have a machine dedicated to doing something that could be done on client computers dynamically with a relatively minute bit of javascript, and would be just as functional and ultimately less effort to upkeep. for future changes to the api you may have to alter your entire application, but if wikipedia just changes the html layout all you have to do is modify a regular expression and the rest of the code is still usable.

we've found that mcdonald's consistently sells their 'big mac' cheeseburgers in their branded restaurants. this prevents potential customers of burger and wendy's from purchasing alternative burgers, such as the whopper with cheese and the whatever wendy's sells. the united states government has determined that if mcdonald's begins to sell wendy's and burger king cheeseburgers alongside the big mac, a pending antitrust suit against mcdonald's will be dropped. mcdonald's has decided to stop selling the big mac completely, which is totally unfair, because our entire business plan was based on forcing our competitor to carry our products!

if with jews you lose, and you need to lose the jews to win, do you need to use the jews to lose the jews? if so, how do you lose the final jew?

create a firefox addon that downloads a master list of wikipedia urls to add a link to the intranet site to. you can use regular expressions to parse the wikipedia source so that your link is consistently placed. the master list can be updated at will, and could probably be filled the first time with a simple database request. or something.

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at&t has now recompounded with cingular to form voltron

there are way more incompetent morons running around with degrees who are proficient in java to state that this is the case. what is the real question here? are intelligent programmers from the united states too individualistic to conform to some management dictum? perhaps instead of considering ourselves innovative and capable of addressing issues as they arise, we could start thinking of ourselves as manufactured commodities designed to steal the business from other national economies in order to make old-fashioned newspaper headlines about how the 'american hacker' mindset doesn't work when compared to some indian bullshit.

yeah, i see your point. launching a satellite into a perpetual free fall so it can orbit the earth taking pictures of specific locations is way less complicated than having cell phones do what they already do, only with an alternative intent. ??

instead of simply using satellites orbiting the earth we write programs on these phones that request to be triangulated by surrounding phones in order to develop a cellular sense of location, like a layer of atmospheric nerves relaying locational awareness data constantly? then as pictures are taken the location can be stored in a database and a digital reconstruction of reality can be created. why drive a car with a camera on top when you can get humanity to do all the work for free by providing a service?!

congress has also been looking into a way to install triggers in newborn brains that will sound an audible click each time a person sees and remembers something.

i'm a femele and i have to say that abortion is right, because god created the concept of it and has a plan for the women who do it. certainly god's plan for women who abort babies is not for them to go to hell, but for god to have lots of little babies in heaven that he can play with.