How about he get a job at a small insurance company and die from a heart attack 60 years from now brought on by too many donuts for breakfast for 60 years? Mmmm, donuts...
On "American Bandstand" and "Soul Train", there used to be a segment where short sections of two songs were compared by some kids in the audience. (It's where we get the expression, "Its got a good beat, and you can dance to it!") Perhaps a site more like, hotornot where people could have access to short streams and the links to download the whole song if desired.
One thing that you might want to consider is that the descriptions of digital information is often unique. For example, CDDB and freedb both use the TOC data and the disc's running time as a means to identify the disc, as these are likely to be unique.
Books are not so easily identified, as any librarian familiar with field #300 in a MARC record will tell you. As a book's edition changes, this description can change as well.
I am not sure that I understand the problem AC is trying to solve, but he might want to look at this site hosted by those Sourceforge people:
Slashdot Mirror
How about he get a job at a small insurance company and die from a heart attack 60 years from now brought on by too many donuts for breakfast for 60 years?
Mmmm, donuts...
Hey, why not?
On "American Bandstand" and "Soul Train", there used to be a segment where short sections of two songs were compared by some kids in the audience. (It's where we get the expression, "Its got a good beat, and you can dance to it!") Perhaps a site more like, hotornot where people could have access to short streams and the links to download the whole song if desired.
...that a Microsoft banner ad loaded with this
story?
Those of you running Linux should be able to try this out with
terminator x.
And, it's GPL'ed too!
There's no larger scale project that I know of that directly addresses the child's "linux"(or any open source) desktop.
How about Debian-Jr.?
One thing that you might want to consider is that
the descriptions of digital information is often
unique. For example, CDDB and freedb both use
the TOC data and the disc's running time as a
means to identify the disc, as these are likely
to be unique.
Books are not so easily identified, as any
librarian familiar with field #300 in a MARC
record will tell you. As a book's edition
changes, this description can change as well.
I am not sure that I understand the problem AC is
trying to solve, but he might want to look at
this site hosted by those Sourceforge people:
http://www.oss4lib.org
Hope this helps...
What's the difference between a necromancer and a
necrophile?
The necromancer pays for dinner.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these networked
to a pack of Aibos!!!!
Oh, and first post?
Hey,
h tml>
Didn't Suck suggest that the RIAA might try
to 'co-opt' Napster a few months ago?
http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/03/24/nc_index4.