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...unconventional approach to virtually every subject, taking cues from Adams' own sense of humor and irony. Unlike the motivations of sites that attempt to build forums and communities as a way of getting people to stay on their sites and buy more products, creating the guide is h2g2's raison d'etre. Soon h2g2 plans to introduce a premium service allowing users to receive a "smarticle," a text-based phone message summarizing sightseeing tips for a particular area, saving mobile users search time and reducing phone charges. h2g2 will make money through subscription charges and by taking...
While it is true that "small cells of hackers [in the developing world]...pose an unprecedented threat to the computer systems of the industrialized world," bringing down the developed world is not the raison d'etre of hackers (and computer schools and users) in less-developed countries, except for a small minority. Please do not reinforce, however indirectly, a phobia about the Third World. KATRINA O. MOLINA Kobe, Japan...
...very different raison d'etre than, say, the Glee Club," Billett says. "Each [Glee Club] piece is carefully prepared--they spend hours and hours getting everything right...
...Camille Paglia, a firebrand scholar of art history who teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, has made criticism of most modern literary theory her raison...
People have remarked that for me conversation is largely an excuse to quote "The Simpsons". Those who make it past this paragraph might conclude that this column has no other raison d'tre. And yet I assure the reader that for me, quoting from the show has always been a means...