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Why Project Gutenberg Isn't There Yet
option8 writes "This wired article ('Any Text. Anytime. Anywhere. (Any Volunteers?)'), goes into good detail on why Project Gutenberg, and similar efforts, are far from creating a complete, free electronic library. A quote: "The mechanics of a universal library are simple. The tricky part: harnessing the free labor." Though it doesn't go into technology much, I expect there's a lot of potential in mass OCR tech and good speech recognition (faster to read a book aloud than to transcribe it correctly)."
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by random ac Where IS your AC POSTIN Gnow !!!
If it were a toss up between MS and Unix, Plato would have used Unix.
I'm all about the ancient Greek Philosophers. Fo' Sho!
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
for short command sets. Mac OS X has excellent speech recognition for example. What we are lacking is a way to differentiate a larger vocabulary.
I can see PG's next release now:
Welcome to the audiotape version of.......
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Immediate attention needed :
from: George Walker Bush
I am George Walker Bush, son of the former President of the United States of America George Herbert Walker Bush, and currently serving as President of the United States of America. This letter might surprise you because we have not met neither in person nor by correspondence. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential business transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to an account requiring
maximum confidence.
I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek your assistance in acquiring oil funds that are presently trapped in the Republic of Iraq. My partners and I solicit your assistance in completing a transaction begun by my father, who has long been actively engaged in the extraction of petroleum in the United States of America, and bravely served his country as director of the United States Central ntelligence Agency.
In the decade of the nineteen-eighties, my father, then Vice-President of the United States of America, sought to work with the good offices of the President of the Republic of Iraq to regain lost oil revenue sources in the neighboring Islamic Republic of Iran. This unsuccessful venture was soon followed by a falling out with his Iraqi partner, who sought to acquire additional oil revenue sources in the neighboring Emirate of Kuwait, a wholly-owned U.S.-British subsidiary.
My father re-secured the petroleum assets of
kuwait in 1991 at a cost of sixty-one billion U.S. dollars ($61,000,000,000). Out of that cost, thirty-six billion dollars ($36,000,000,000) were supplied by his partners in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Persian gulf monarchies, and
sixteen billion dollars ($16,000,000,000) by
German and Japanese partners. But my father's former Iraqi business partner remained in control of the Republic of Iraq and its petroleum reserves.
My family is calling for your urgent assistance
in funding the removal of the President of the Republic of Iraq and acquiring the petroleum assets of his country, as compensation for the costs of removing him from power. Unfortunately, our partners from 1991 are not willing to shoulder the burden of this new venture, which in its upcoming phase may cost the sum of 100 billion to 200 billion dollars ($100,000,000,000 - $200,000,000,000), both in the initial acquisition and in long-term management.
Without the funds from our 1991 partners, we would not be able to acquire the oil revenue trapped within Iraq. That is why my family and our colleagues are urgently seeking your gracious assistance. Our distinguished colleagues in this
business transaction include the sitting Vice-President of the United States of America, Richard Cheney, who is an original partner in the Iraq venture and former head of the Halliburton Oil Company, and Condoleeza Rice, whose professional dedication to the venture was demonstrated in the naming of a Chevron oil tanker after her.
I would beseech you to transfer a sum equaling ten to twenty-five percent (10-25 %) of your yearly income to our account to aid in this important venture. The Internal Revenue Service of the United States of America will function as our trusted intermediary. I propose that you make this transfer before the Fifteenth (15th) of the month of April.
I know that a transaction of this magnitude would make anyone apprehensive and worried. But I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. A bold step taken shall not be regretted, I assure you. please do be informed that this business transaction is 100% legal.
If you do not wish to co-operate in this transaction, please contact our intermediary representatives to further discuss the matter.
I pray that you understand our plight.
My family and our colleagues will be forever grateful. Please reply in strict confidence to
the contact numbers below.
Sincerely with warm regards,
George Walker Bush
switchboard: 202.456.1414
comments: 202.456.1111
fax: 202.456.2461
email: president@whitehouse.gov
I did it - YOU DID IT! did not and cannot.
May the Community of Logged in Trolls forever reign over Slashdot!!!!1
Come on mod's, read more carefully.
Right...when dead monkeys fly out my ass and join the EU, maybe.....
Sorry to hear the project's in trouble. Man, it sucks that big companies keep enforcing these frivolous patents.
If it helps in proving prior art, some guy invented something similar about 500 years ago, but I can't remember his name...
nah. plato would have been a mac man.
it's the sophists who would have been the open source users!