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Google's Library Up and Running
An anonymous reader writes "It seems that Google Print results are beginning to appear on searches. For
those who don't know, Google has been scanning from libraries from some of the world's
greatest universities in order to compile a freely accessible online library. An easy way to turn up these results is to simply type "book", and then
whatever you want to search for.
For instance, book origin of species will turn up the
full text of Charles Darwin's controversial treatise. 20,000
leagues, Oliver Twist and Pride and
Prejudice and m o r e are all there in full.
It'll be interestin to see how publishers deal with this if demand for these
books declines. In the meantime, would anyone like to point out any good books?" Hopefully, Google can also start to index some books that are being released in the Creative Commons/alternative open licenses.
With all of these great works online, will the masses bother to read them?
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
You voted for Bush and complain about industrial text book prices? Suck every bit of that $120 text book like the whore that you are. You reap what you sow so get over it it or accept it.
"evolution is still news to some individuals of our species"
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i.e. the ones who haven't yet evolved
No but, yeah but, no but...
Evolution is a theory in name only. It's all but fact. (Gravity fits the same description.)
Seriously, has anyone come up with a well-argued, valid rebuttal for all the masses of evidence backing evolution? If they have, I've yet to see it.
The only people who hang onto the belief that evolution isn't true are those who do so because it challenges their religious beliefs. It wasn't that long ago that the Catholic church was proclaiming arabic numerals (0-9), the Earth revolving around the Sun, etc as heretical, and persecuting people for things that they later accepted and for which today only a fool would argue against.
Yes, Darwin's Origin Of The Species was controversial in its time, not least of all to Darwin himself who was a deeply religious man for most of his life - the death of his young daughter shook his faith later in his life - but for anyone ready to judge evolution on is merits it's not at all controversial.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
could you please remind yourself, that the internet is international? most non-US readers will not understand this combination of words. thanks.
Which is one reason why a university education is largely a scam anyways.
The schools are out to rape the students out of their money, the student then pick this up and only attend to "boost their earnings potential".
Which is why I give humanity all of about 50-75 more years [75 being generous] before we're reduced to cave paintings and hair on our backs.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
"Bible" means King James version of the Bible in America and the Roman Catholic version in Europe. -- - Just so you know for next time...
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... its facinating.
Standard Revised is BETTER. But if you want something other than King James version or the Roman Catholic version, you gotta SPECIFY.
By the way, the Roman Catholic version doesn't say bad things in the 10 comandments about "images" like the Protestant versions do. Guess they have too many images
Off topic, but only Islam has stayed true to the "no interest (no profit on lending money)" rule that originally was in Christianity as well as Christ's religion. Read up on Islamic banking
Truth disclosure: (was a Christian, now don't believe in the gods of religions, but think I would be happier if I did)