For books - Calibre, let it convert things to epub format and let it deal with the directory structure.
For comics, "ComicRack" is the absolute best. It allows cover view, can convert cbr/cbz/pdfs (though it prefers cbz for metadata), and allows the importation/scraping of metadata and saving it directly to the file.
Last time I bought a new PC the old one went into the entertainment center. It isn't huge, isn't loud, and is more flexible than any of the small box setups. I keep a wireless mouse & keyboard in the coffee table drawer, and the PC is in sleep mode when not in use. Very easy to reach in the drawer, smack the space bar to wake it up and start watching Netflix.
Life in early UO was often nasty, brutish, short, and fun. If you were in town you had to be wary of thieves and scams, and if you were out of town you had to worry about being attacked at any second. But, you picked up good friends and forged great memories doing it because it was the only game in town. It's like my father reminiscing about the great depression - all the bad things created some good memories, but given the choice no one would go through that again.
Yes, it would and it has. If you're dealing with 50+ resumes, any little thing like that helps reduce the pile. Unfair, perhaps, but if someone's supposed to be on good behavior, presenting their best face, and don't know better than to use, 'jedimaster@', how serious are clients going to take them?
Also on New Egg - about a year ago I wrote a bad review on a product, and mine was the only review. I checked a week later and several people had marked my review helpful. Another week, and the product itself was gone. I'm assuming they pulled it because of my review, and definitely upped my respect for them.
"The problem with menu style systems is that it is not intuitive."
It is if you've been doing it for seven+ years, or however long Firefox has been on my desktop. Right or wrong, I know exactly where these tools are by now - I don't want to have to relearn where they are in an "intuitive" ribbon solely because "it's better" (for whom? Someone who has never, ever used a web browser? Really?)
"There is resistance to the change because of 'menus are the way we are used to doing things' not necessarily the way things should be done.""
Should as defined by whom? This sounds like change for the sake of change. By this logic we should all immediaetly begin using the Dvorak keyboard.
I have no idea how _much_ money they're losing because the images are on Wikimedia, but I think it's reasonable to assume there's a noticeable loss.
My guess would be they're not experiencing a loss at all. If their revenue stream is based on prints from their gift shop, or even exclusive'deals with online print sellers, I can't see someone not buying from them thinking, "Oho, I can just go to Wikipedia and print it out on my color printer for free!"
Hrm, or maybe it's other online print sellers grabbing the wiki entries and selling them that's the problem?
"somebody has invested money, skills and effort in making the reproduction be as good as possible."
True, a lot of sweat went into it, but does that make it an original work of art which should be afforded the same protections as a any other piece under the law? Apparently under UK law, yes; fairly dumb if ya ask me.
I've got this car, and it doesn't run and it's got all these strange bits inside under this hood thingie. . . .
Hire a librarian or someone with a degree in knowledge management who has experience in the corp world.
Ditto. I was so surprised my wife didn't want one, not even when I tried selling her on Sony's model instead. Now I'm at a loss what to get her. Maybe a netbook instead.
Moral questions aren't a luxury, unless you're playing a zero sum game. Most nations aren't, they're a necessity, if only out of self-interest. If a nation proves it's rabidly amoral, doesn't follow the rules of war that have developed over the past few hundred years, they also better hope they don't need allies.
I love that the intro to his article goes on and on about how useless text filters are. Yet point 1 of his essay is, "Filters are a good place to start!"
He never defines 'inappropriate content' either or explains how standards are communicated to the community-policing, other than to give an example of the terrible & mighty beef-stick. I guess they know it when they see it.
I'd say make a ratings system, "Adult" or "Not Adult" and let users. ..oh wait, I forgot, by the ToS I think you must be over 18 to play, and of course everyone is. Of course.
"No, you have that backwards. It's not your "right""
There is no natural order or law of the universe that stops copying of information. It's something our civilization decided ought to be a good thing, less than 500 years ago, and only really defined in the past 100. So yeah, the only reason he doesn't have the 'right' is because 'we' made a law saying he doesn't.
Ever since I read Heinlein's 'Man Who Sold the Moon' I've hoped we'd see an entrepreneur take on the role of 'D.D. Harriman'. Lord British would be a good fit. Hopefully the perspective he gained from his space trip is outbound rather than Earth related.
Clarke's writing clearly defines him as a different sort of person. The Foundation series clearly identifies him as a man who knew history.
Except it was Asimov who wrote that.
That'd be great, if the government were trustworthy, but last I checked our whole system was built on paranoia about the government overstepping. Second, the 'government' is made of people, people who often-times aren't that honest themselves. I once worked with a guy whose wife worked for the IRS. Through her he had full access to financial info on everyone in our office, and loved to prove it.
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For books - Calibre, let it convert things to epub format and let it deal with the directory structure. For comics, "ComicRack" is the absolute best. It allows cover view, can convert cbr/cbz/pdfs (though it prefers cbz for metadata), and allows the importation/scraping of metadata and saving it directly to the file.
Easier than that - Campus bookstore here has a sign out front saying no mobiles allowed in the store.
Well, Missouri does proclaim itself the Show-Me state. . .
Last time I bought a new PC the old one went into the entertainment center. It isn't huge, isn't loud, and is more flexible than any of the small box setups. I keep a wireless mouse & keyboard in the coffee table drawer, and the PC is in sleep mode when not in use. Very easy to reach in the drawer, smack the space bar to wake it up and start watching Netflix.
Life in early UO was often nasty, brutish, short, and fun. If you were in town you had to be wary of thieves and scams, and if you were out of town you had to worry about being attacked at any second. But, you picked up good friends and forged great memories doing it because it was the only game in town. It's like my father reminiscing about the great depression - all the bad things created some good memories, but given the choice no one would go through that again.
Yes, it would and it has. If you're dealing with 50+ resumes, any little thing like that helps reduce the pile. Unfair, perhaps, but if someone's supposed to be on good behavior, presenting their best face, and don't know better than to use, 'jedimaster@', how serious are clients going to take them?
You forgot: if the 2005 post has replies they're insulting to the original poster or irrelevant to his question.
Also on New Egg - about a year ago I wrote a bad review on a product, and mine was the only review. I checked a week later and several people had marked my review helpful. Another week, and the product itself was gone. I'm assuming they pulled it because of my review, and definitely upped my respect for them.
"The problem with menu style systems is that it is not intuitive."
It is if you've been doing it for seven+ years, or however long Firefox has been on my desktop. Right or wrong, I know exactly where these tools are by now - I don't want to have to relearn where they are in an "intuitive" ribbon solely because "it's better" (for whom? Someone who has never, ever used a web browser? Really?)
"There is resistance to the change because of 'menus are the way we are used to doing things' not necessarily the way things should be done.""
Should as defined by whom? This sounds like change for the sake of change. By this logic we should all immediaetly begin using the Dvorak keyboard.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/096-0262.htm for what was passed.
I have no idea how _much_ money they're losing because the images are on Wikimedia, but I think it's reasonable to assume there's a noticeable loss.
My guess would be they're not experiencing a loss at all. If their revenue stream is based on prints from their gift shop, or even exclusive'deals with online print sellers, I can't see someone not buying from them thinking, "Oho, I can just go to Wikipedia and print it out on my color printer for free!" Hrm, or maybe it's other online print sellers grabbing the wiki entries and selling them that's the problem?
"somebody has invested money, skills and effort in making the reproduction be as good as possible."
True, a lot of sweat went into it, but does that make it an original work of art which should be afforded the same protections as a any other piece under the law? Apparently under UK law, yes; fairly dumb if ya ask me.
What exactly are the client's 'needs' in this case, as a publicly funded organisation? Or rather, where is the harm/what is their injury?
I've got this car, and it doesn't run and it's got all these strange bits inside under this hood thingie. . . . Hire a librarian or someone with a degree in knowledge management who has experience in the corp world.
I do that all the time anyway. Birthdays are for 'wow you shouldn't have' things.
Ditto. I was so surprised my wife didn't want one, not even when I tried selling her on Sony's model instead. Now I'm at a loss what to get her. Maybe a netbook instead.
Moral questions aren't a luxury, unless you're playing a zero sum game. Most nations aren't, they're a necessity, if only out of self-interest. If a nation proves it's rabidly amoral, doesn't follow the rules of war that have developed over the past few hundred years, they also better hope they don't need allies.
I love that the intro to his article goes on and on about how useless text filters are. Yet point 1 of his essay is, "Filters are a good place to start!"
He never defines 'inappropriate content' either or explains how standards are communicated to the community-policing, other than to give an example of the terrible & mighty beef-stick. I guess they know it when they see it.
I'd say make a ratings system, "Adult" or "Not Adult" and let users. . .oh wait, I forgot, by the ToS I think you must be over 18 to play, and of course everyone is. Of course.
"No, you have that backwards. It's not your "right""
There is no natural order or law of the universe that stops copying of information. It's something our civilization decided ought to be a good thing, less than 500 years ago, and only really defined in the past 100. So yeah, the only reason he doesn't have the 'right' is because 'we' made a law saying he doesn't.
Ever since I read Heinlein's 'Man Who Sold the Moon' I've hoped we'd see an entrepreneur take on the role of 'D.D. Harriman'. Lord British would be a good fit. Hopefully the perspective he gained from his space trip is outbound rather than Earth related.
Clarke's writing clearly defines him as a different sort of person. The Foundation series clearly identifies him as a man who knew history.
Except it was Asimov who wrote that.
That'd be great, if the government were trustworthy, but last I checked our whole system was built on paranoia about the government overstepping. Second, the 'government' is made of people, people who often-times aren't that honest themselves. I once worked with a guy whose wife worked for the IRS. Through her he had full access to financial info on everyone in our office, and loved to prove it.