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Comment Re:Wikipedia hightlights pre-existing human issues (Score 1) 441

by chyrality on Monday April 14, 2008 @12:10PM (#23064904) Attached to: Wikipedia Breeds Unwitting Trust (Says IT Professor)

âoePeople put too much trust in information.â I'm presently a 3rd year student and I'm tired of listening to lectures dismiss wikipedia out of hand, of course its not right for academia and should never be quoted in submitted work. However to dismiss it totally is a mistake, IMOP. Look up Beethoven, Mohamed Ali, Newtons laws of motion, Amy Winehouse or E=mc2 and what you see is fine for a general intro. But as mentioned above, you need to be judicious when reading any information from any source. Descartes may well have been correct when deducing one shouldn't believe anything you read, hear, smell, see, taste or touch, but be confident in the knowledge that you are thinking: Cogito, ergo sum.

ISO Takes Control Of OOXML 260

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 13, 2008 @12:12PM from the down-to-business dept.

mikkl666 writes "Alex Brown, head of the ISO work group responsible for OOXML, has posted a summary of their latest meeting, and he also comments on the resolutions discussed there. The basic message is that ISO now has 'full responsibility for the standard,' and that several workgroups will be established to work on OOXML. An interesting point here is that 'setting up a maintance[sic] procedure for ODF, and then working on cross-standard initiatives' is one of the explicit goals. On a side note, they also reacted to the very emotional discussion on OOXML by posting an open letter: 'We the undersigned participants ... wish to make it clear that we deplore the personal attacks that have been made ... in recent months. We believe standards debate should always be carried out with respect for all parties, even when they strongly disagree.' As Brown correctly points out, 'This content speaks for itself.' We discussed the approval of OOXML earlier this month."

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