He didn't ask for "a book database that is widely used". He simply wanted to enter his 2500+ books into a database without typing in lots of information. If Amazon changes their format he won't be "screwed", he'll just update his Perl script.
A publically available book database is an entirely different matter.
Then just stick the ISBN numbers into MySQL, an Excel spreadsheet, or an Access database. Then write a quicky Perl script to scan through the records and any that don't have all the information filled in, go scrub it off of Amazon's web site. I've already written several Perl scripts that scrub data from Amazon. It's pretty simple.
(hint:
use LWP::Simple; $page = get http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/$isbn; ($d esc, $pgs, $price, $other) = $page =~/use regex to find (desc) and (pgs) and (price) and (other) usefull stuff/;
> > "Everyone at my company has upgraded to Windows 3.1. I don't know why Slashdot is still talking about DOS"
> Though I would agree that DOS is probably inhibiting people from getting data off certain sites off the net, they're talking about DoS.
I read in Discover about someone with damage his right frontal lobe that couldn't understand humor. I guess you've taken one too many shots to the forehead, huh?
Can someone who has used a Kyocera 6035 tell me if I can talk on the cell phone with a headset and use the PDA to read and write information at the same time?
I will stop this ridiculous insanity once and for all by enforcing MY patent #5,163,447 on: "A method for stopping patent infringements by suing the party committing the infringement."
That's right. I have a patent on suing over patents. I will be demanding royalties from every jerk suing over a patent by USING my own patented process of suing infringers!
> It's a downright bastardization by slavering fanboys who must run linux everywhere to put linux on this beautiful sony handheld.
I just got Linux running on my toilet bowl (RedHat 7.2). It's great! Now I have to type 'rm -rf *' when I'm done. Of course, I replaced the stdio function 'fflush()' with a version that does the appropriate thing.
Next, I'll be installing Linux on a rock in my front yard. Yes, a rock. I'm not sure what It will do yet, but won't it be great to have Linux on a rock?
Actually, I was being very careful when I chose APL as my example. Even Assembly Language has English at it's base. LD (Load) ST (Store) JMP (Jump) NOP (No Operation). Perl has "while" and other English derived keywords.
Come on people! John Gilmore is going on and on about his freedom of speech and how he is running a mail relay for his friends.
He is lying.
If he really wanted to run a mail relay for his friends you could authenicate them on a properly administered CLOSED mail relay. Here are a few ways to do this: POP before SMTP authentication SMTP authentication SSH accounts for his friends Webmail accounts
And John Gilmore certainly knows these and other methods of properly administering his mail server. I doubt he is running a spam relay for profit, I think he is just trying to stubbornly make some minor point of personal philosophy, and hiding it with his words.
Hey, me too! I'm starting an Excel spreadsheet that will list every species on Earth. I'll pass it around to my friends and let them add the ones I missed. We should beat the 25 year estimate in that silly article.
Later on if it turns out to be too big a job for Excel I may "super-size" it to Access!
That ought to be able to handle simultaneous access from hundreds of thousands of researchers on a database of approximately 100 Million records, each recording containing research notes and DNA samples among other things.
Dude... X-Files was the #1 best show on television through it's long run with Duchovny. But admit it... now it's lost it. It's boring, has no direction, and basically sucks now.
Associated Press- Correction:
Bill Gates announced to THE MICROSOFT MARKETING DEPARTMENT Wednesday a major strategy shift across all its products to emphasize security and privacy over new capabilities. In e-mail to THE MARKETING DEPARTMENT, Gates referred to the new philosophy as "Trustworthy Computing" and called it the "highest priority".
Development personnel who heard rumors of this were told go go back in their cubes and stop wasting time.
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> might it not become a part of the game if you get murdered in cold blood by another, rival player?
> a user agreement in which you agree that the "designers" can use any event in any player's life as a part of the developing plot, and that you as a player agree not to hold them liable for the actions of other players, including actions taken against you or your family.
Jeez. You got me worried so I checked my Majestic Agreement and sure enough it says it right here:
"The undersigned understands that Majestic can be a dangerous sport and agrees to his own murder if such murder advances the plotline."
Thanks for alerting me!
(If your post is a troll, then you are brilliant.)
All movies are severely limited in the amount of content they can show compared to a book. Drastic editing must be done, and the more visual elements must win out by the nature of movies. Movies are more like comic books in the amount of content they can present.
> by ergo98 on Mon 24 Dec 09:45AM:
> Has there ever been a movie that's been "as good" as the book?
Yes, I think that the Harry Potter movie did some editing that the book could have used. The book is very popular, but isn't the best writing. So what is left in the movie is in my opinion more enjoyable than the book.
> by dachshund on Mon 24 Dec 10:46AM:
> knowledge of the book invites potentially unfavorable comparison, it also makes the movie much more coherent and enjoyable
Dune is a good example of this. Considered on it's own, Dune was a terrible movie (IMHO). But considered as a visualization of some elements of the book it could be enjoyable. Sort of like a book with drawings at the beginning of each chapter.
I was right there with you nodding my head until you gave your choices for the best movies of all time. Run Lola Run?
You have shown that you have odd and marginal taste that is not in the same universe as everybody else.
Being John Malkovitch and Amelie were fantastic movies! Run Lola Run was interesting. None of these make the top 100 though.
Top 10 Ultimate Sci-Fi Books
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The Forever War
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> All in all, this was a very enjoyable read, and I highly recommend it. I've voted 9 for this novel in the Top100SF.
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Well, you don't have an email address and the lameness filter, in all it's lameness, won't let me post REGEX or Perl snippets.
He didn't ask for "a book database that is widely used". He simply wanted to enter his 2500+ books into a database without typing in lots of information. If Amazon changes their format he won't be "screwed", he'll just update his Perl script.
A publically available book database is an entirely different matter.
Then just stick the ISBN numbers into MySQL, an Excel spreadsheet, or an Access database.
d esc, $pgs, $price, $other) = $page =~ /use regex to find (desc) and (pgs) and (price) and (other) usefull stuff/;
Then write a quicky Perl script to scan through the records and any that don't have all the information filled in, go scrub it off of Amazon's web site.
I've already written several Perl scripts that scrub data from Amazon. It's pretty simple.
(hint:
use LWP::Simple;
$page = get http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/$isbn;
($
)
>> You can't prove a negative.
> Prove it.
HAhAhAHA! Got'cha! Someone with a wand-of-modding please mod this up!
> > "Everyone at my company has upgraded to Windows 3.1. I don't know why Slashdot is still talking about DOS"
> Though I would agree that DOS is probably inhibiting people from getting data off certain sites off the net, they're talking about DoS.
I read in Discover about someone with damage his right frontal lobe that couldn't understand humor. I guess you've taken one too many shots to the forehead, huh?
In this post 9-11 anti-open source world I find myself unable to read any more Jon Katz, not even for the children.
Can someone who has used a Kyocera 6035 tell me if I can talk on the cell phone with a headset and use the PDA to read and write information at the same time?
Same question for the Treo...
I will stop this ridiculous insanity once and for all by enforcing MY patent #5,163,447 on:
"A method for stopping patent infringements by suing the party committing the infringement."
That's right. I have a patent on suing over patents.
I will be demanding royalties from every jerk suing over a patent by USING my own patented process of suing infringers!
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I wonder what kind of cell phone signal I would get in a conductive-concrete building? Probably next to none...
Laptop?
M P.
I'm bringing my old DecWriter printer console.
THUMP-A-THUMP-THUMP.
THUMP-A-THUMP-THU
CHING...ZIIIIIIP. (carriage return)
> It's a downright bastardization by slavering fanboys who must run linux everywhere to put linux on this beautiful sony handheld.
I just got Linux running on my toilet bowl (RedHat 7.2).
It's great!
Now I have to type 'rm -rf *' when I'm done.
Of course, I replaced the stdio function 'fflush()' with a version that does the appropriate thing.
Next, I'll be installing Linux on a rock in my front yard. Yes, a rock. I'm not sure what It will do yet, but won't it be great to have Linux on a rock?
> ... evolution bad ... moral = stupid ... etc...
... abortion ... blah blah blah ... racism ... blah blah blah ... religion ... blah blah blah ... nazi ... blah blah blah ...
You must be a beginner. Flame bait has to be a little more subtle than that.
... blah blah blah
From the article:
> Suggestions for the name are welcome. As long as it is not 'beige'!
They should have known better than to say that!
> or Perl...
Actually, I was being very careful when I chose APL as my example. Even Assembly Language has English at it's base. LD (Load) ST (Store) JMP (Jump) NOP (No Operation). Perl has "while" and other English derived keywords.
Come on people! John Gilmore is going on and on about his freedom of speech and how he is running a mail relay for his friends.
He is lying.
If he really wanted to run a mail relay for his friends you could authenicate them on a properly administered CLOSED mail relay. Here are a few ways to do this:
POP before SMTP authentication
SMTP authentication
SSH accounts for his friends
Webmail accounts
And John Gilmore certainly knows these and other methods of properly administering his mail server.
I doubt he is running a spam relay for profit, I think he is just trying to stubbornly make some minor point of personal philosophy, and hiding it with his words.
Nobody can accuse you of having a misleading user name.
> Why can't scientists ever just admit when they don't know a figure, rather than give some ridiculous range
Or at least come up with a single number that sounds more authoritative like Spock would.
"Hmm my two guess are 10 million and 100 million"
"Captain, there are 55 million unique species on that planet."
> I'm trying to write a website to do this
Hey, me too! I'm starting an Excel spreadsheet that will list every species on Earth. I'll pass it around to my friends and let them add the ones I missed. We should beat the 25 year estimate in that silly article.
Later on if it turns out to be too big a job for Excel I may "super-size" it to Access!
That ought to be able to handle simultaneous access from hundreds of thousands of researchers on a database of approximately 100 Million records, each recording containing research notes and DNA samples among other things.
Good luck, Municipia, I'll race you to the end!
> all, if not most of the computer languages out their are based in some way on English
Apparently you've never programmed in APL.
Dude... X-Files was the #1 best show on television through it's long run with Duchovny. But admit it... now it's lost it. It's boring, has no direction, and basically sucks now.
That's why it's cancelled.
Associated Press- Correction:
Bill Gates announced to THE MICROSOFT MARKETING DEPARTMENT Wednesday a major strategy shift across all its products to emphasize security and privacy over new capabilities. In e-mail to THE MARKETING DEPARTMENT, Gates referred to the new philosophy as "Trustworthy Computing" and called it the "highest priority".
Development personnel who heard rumors of this were told go go back in their cubes and stop wasting time.
> might it not become a part of the game if you get murdered in cold blood by another, rival player?
> a user agreement in which you agree that the "designers" can use any event in any player's life as a part of the developing plot, and that you as a player agree not to hold them liable for the actions of other players, including actions taken against you or your family.
Jeez. You got me worried so I checked my Majestic Agreement and sure enough it says it right here:
"The undersigned understands that Majestic can be a dangerous sport and agrees to his own murder if such murder advances the plotline."
Thanks for alerting me!
(If your post is a troll, then you are brilliant.)
All movies are severely limited in the amount of content they can show compared to a book. Drastic editing must be done, and the more visual elements must win out by the nature of movies. Movies are more like comic books in the amount of content they can present.
> by ergo98 on Mon 24 Dec 09:45AM:
> Has there ever been a movie that's been "as good" as the book?
Yes, I think that the Harry Potter movie did some editing that the book could have used. The book is very popular, but isn't the best writing. So what is left in the movie is in my opinion more enjoyable than the book.
> by dachshund on Mon 24 Dec 10:46AM:
> knowledge of the book invites potentially unfavorable comparison, it also makes the movie much more coherent and enjoyable
Dune is a good example of this. Considered on it's own, Dune was a terrible movie (IMHO). But considered as a visualization of some elements of the book it could be enjoyable. Sort of like a book with drawings at the beginning of each chapter.
I was right there with you nodding my head until you gave your choices for the best movies of all time. Run Lola Run?
You have shown that you have odd and marginal taste that is not in the same universe as everybody else.
Being John Malkovitch and Amelie were fantastic movies! Run Lola Run was interesting. None of these make the top 100 though.
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