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Amazon's 1,082-volume Classics Collection: $7,989
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Who would buy 828 feet worth of books, for nearly $8,000, that would take 20 years to read at the rate of one title per week? And how much does it cost to ship? The Real Time columnists at the Wall Street Journal Online ponder these and other deep questions raised by Amazon's The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection, whose sheer jaw-dropping enormity reminds them of e-tailers' wacky offers during the dot-com boom. 'We think the collection is a perfect fit for more than a few software engineers we've known -- smart, self-directed people who are eternally curious, yet abhor wasting time intellectually and can't hide their impatience with the fuzziness of liberal arts,' Jason Fry and Tim Hanrahan write. 'For them, here's a pre-selected, pretty comprehensive list of Western classics, assembled for purchase with a single mouse-click -- and available in a form that eschews frills for portability and ease of use. Think of it as Humanities In a Box. OK, a Very Big Box.'"
One title per week seems pretty leisurely to me.
How much commision are you hoping to get with that link? Enough for a new graphics card, perhaps?
The Tools Of Ignorance wanna be a tool?
You're wrong.
At about 225 pages per hour, four hours a day for ten years (that's 3,285,000 pages or perhaps 8.2E8 words), I'd think that you would've seen consistently enough times to know how to spell it. I doubt your boasting.
Put identity in the browser.
Sysadmins -- who know the difference between egrep, pgrep, and zgrep, but not your and you're.
What an incredibly stupid thing to say! On what data are you basing your broad conclusion about system administrators? Was there some study establishing a negative correlation between technical aptitude and writing skills published while I was sleeping?
You might as well say that all blacks can't use "your" and "you're" properly, or that all midgets named Tony have the same deficiency. It's ludicrous and offensive on its face.
We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.