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If anyone is looking for a free encyclopedia (well paid for by the US tax payer), get hold of the CIA's World Factbook. It is available from this page
http://www.cia.gov/cia/download.html It is 83MB (zipped to 30MB) so you will need a decent size card to put it on. It is all in HTML format and it works well with the Opera browser. The only problem I had was bookmarking it in Opera. It seems Opera does not like creating bookmarks for local files, so I edited an existing bookmark and that did it. The encyclopedia is updated a few times throughout the year.
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Posted: 2004-11-13 16:34:46
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baseballfanz Posts: > 500
CIA? Does it tells you who killed Kenedy?.
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Posted: 2004-11-13 17:04:20
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It's actually a remarkably useful and unbiased resource.
This message was posted from a T68i
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Posted: 2004-11-13 17:51:42
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there's a number of free tomeraider encyclo's around as well... lot more compact (15mb)
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Posted: 2004-11-13 19:31:38
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Err ... hang on we're supposed to believe that the CIA can produce a "remarkably useful and unbiased resource" this from the country who can't even tell the truth about the enigma machine, a case in which the entire world new the truth but HW tried to rewrite it.
Quote:U-571 is a fictional movie based on historical events of World War II. U-571 is the story behind the movie U-571, with historical accounts of the capture of the enigma encryption device implemented by Hitler during World War II ( WWII ). The enigma encryption machine was originally designed for business, but soon by Hitler for use in encryption of war plans. The enigma encryption devices were carried aboard German U-Boats, and finally captured from the U-110 by the British navy. The movie U-571 upset the Brits because of it's fictional content, in actuality the enigma device was captured by the British, and not the US, and not from the U-571 but from the U-110 German U-Boat.
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Posted: 2004-11-13 20:39:29
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It is here:
http://jdictionary-mobile.com/factbook_for_uiq.html
and only 4.7Mb
But you will have to buy it, to get it out of demo mode.
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Posted: 2004-11-13 21:33:44
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I've used the 'CIA Factbook' on a Palm OS device and it was a useful resource. It is simply a collection of facts, numbers and statistics. Of course, one can argue about the source of some of the #'s, but - judging from the entries of countries with which I am at least moderately familiar - the collection is not bad. Pretty big, though, accessing it on a Sony Clié was not fast, I'd expect my P900 to be rather slow.
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Posted: 2004-11-13 21:34:03
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It is fast on a P910i, the startup takes about 16 seconds.
Searching is as fast as you can type, and a few seconds to open a map.
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Posted: 2004-11-13 21:43:50
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I had not seen this version. At 4.7MB it certainly will be more friendly. How soon do they update it after the CIA release new versions I wonder?
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Posted: 2004-11-13 23:33:50
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Wow
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Posted: 2004-11-14 05:19:00
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