MSI includes nice packets of software with their video cards. Not that I'm going to buy another one of them... Most of it is trial software though.<br><br>Google and Wikipedia also produce big problems in research. Students today get all of their information from these places without being taught how to differentiate between a reliable source and an unreliable source. I feel this has more to do with the teachers failing to understand how to use these resources and teachers also failing to teach their students how to look for resources even 'the old-fashioned way' (or perhaps the students either aren't being taught this or they just don't care). I wonder if we just need to have a class that teaches students how to do research at a college level using modern technology and make that required. Not that I'd be very interested in teaching a bunch of freshmen that... But I could probably outline one.<br>
<br>-Devin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Andrew Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I remember Encarta, I think we had a different few ones though included with our home PC's.<br>
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There are some other general online encyclopaedias still (and many more specialised ones) - although many are pay-gated ones, sadly. ( <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_encyclopedias" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_encyclopedias</a> ), but they are getting pushed out by Google and Wikipedia, as the article notes.<br>
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A loss, but Microsoft would only run something for a profit - which Encarta, I recall, was having problems with years and years ago.<br><font color="#888888">
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Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:<br>
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Wow.. no more Encarta. That really marks the end of the shareware age for me. I remember getting a new PC used to be as much fun for the packet of random disks as it was for the computer itself.<br>
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/business/03digi.html?hpw" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/business/03digi.html?hpw</a><br>
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On Sun, 03 May 2009 11:23:23 -0400, Devin Monnens <<a href="mailto:dmonnens@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmonnens@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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The Times has a great article on the history of Encarta, that encyclopedia that came for free when you purchased a Gateway computer in the mid-90s and was a staple of universities. The Underdogs used to host other similar<br>
multimedia CDs from this bygone age, and it's interesting to see how the<br>
media has changed from then to now. We don't have news clips on sites like Wikipedia or flash animations, just creative commons text, images, and the freedom to edit them.<br>
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