If I wear out a paperback rereading it multiple times, I will sometimes buy the hardcover instead of buying another paperback. I did this with The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
If it's one of top three favorite authors, I'll buy the hardcover. I don't want to wait 6-9 months for the paperback, I want my Lois McMaster Bujold novel now!
And since this is Slashdot, I'll put in the obligatory open source plug. Most of Bujold's books are published by Baen Books. Baen Books has free introductory chapters online for most of its new books, paid web subscriptions for many books, and a few complete books online for free in its Free Library. I'll close with a quote from Eric Flint in his introduction to the Free Library.
In the course of this debate, I mentioned it to my publisher Jim Baen. He more or less virtually snorted and expressed the opinion that if one of his authors -- how about you, Eric? -- were willing to put up a book for free online that the resulting publicity would more than offset any losses the author might suffer.
The minute he made the proposal, I realized he was right. After all, Dave Weber's On Basilisk Station has been available for free as a "loss leader" for Baen's for-pay experiment "Webscriptions" for months now. And -- hey, whaddaya know? -- over that time it's become Baen's most popular backlist title in paper!
It's ironic that the Washington Post published this article. A couple of years ago, they had an online survey for favorite romance books. Each voter would email their 10 favorite romance books to their romance reviewer. He unilaterally dropped the a romance/SF book, A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, when it was receiving the most votes of any book.
Yes, one member of the Bujold fan list did post an email suggesting that Bujold fans write to the survey, but so did members of the Georgette Heyer fan list. If you are going to publish a survey, you shouldn't throw out results that don't match your prejudiced notions.
The Library of Alexandria is a book recommender database. I joined when they were still in their pure data gathering stages. Nowadays you have to click on the Departments:Recommender link to get past the online fiction store.
You rate several stories [Dreadful, Boring, So-so, Enjoyable, Really Good, Excellent, Fabulous]. Then you can ask for recommendations. The database correlates your ratings with everyone elses ratings and finds the people with ratings closest to yours, your "neighbors". Then it uses your neighbors' ratings to recommend books that you haven't rated yet. The recommendations each have a confidence rating [Pure Speculation, Wild Guess, Extremely Low, Very Low, Low, Medium-Low, Medium, Medium-High, High, Very High, Extremely High, Almost Positive] based on how many neighbors recommended the book, what the range of ratings are, and how "close" each neighbor is. Obviously, the more books you rate, the more accurate the system can be. With this system I've discovered lots of books that I love, but never would have picked while browsing in a bookstore.
Dragging this post somewhat back on-topic, users can enter in story title's and authors that are not in the database yet. Similar to CDDB and freeDB, most stories were entered by the users, not the administrators.
I am not connected with the Library of Alexandria website except as an occasional customer of their online store and as a long time user of their database; over the past four years or so I've entered 2314 ratings.
With titanium, I don't think you'd have such an easy time removing a stuck ring. A cutting torch is not going to leave much of a finger and using a diamond saw, too, could be real tricky with in vivo parts involved.
Forget power tools, just be patient with a small hand file.
I lived in Madison, AL (just outside Huntsville) for six years, technical writing & training at Intergraph. One of our customers was in town for a week of training and asked what there was to do in town.
"Have you been to the Space and Rocket Center?"
"Did that yesterday. What else is there?"
"Well, um, have you been to the Space and Rocket Center?"
The Apache may be the first helicopter to have it built in from the beginning, but a helmet directed minigun was added to my father's Huey gunship in Vietnam in 1969.
Yes, but then I have to reset all my preferences in the new file. It was less work just to do a
"Save As" every couple of days and then when I had a corrupted file, copy the backup and overwrite the bad file.
I hope they fixed the data corruption problems that the beta had. About half a dozen times over the past few months my desktop data file would not open, and had to be deleted and restored from backup.
I think you meant to say iPhoto reigns supreme. On the other hand, my preferred cataloging program is iView MediaPro. It's much more flexible in html or print output. It catalogs my files from their existing location instead of copying them to a set of application folders. Finally, if you move files while the application is open, it automatically updates its database to note the new location.
I always thought Rick Jones was the most connected person in the Marvel Universe. Captain America sidekick; involved in the creation of the Hulk, and Hulk sidekick; Marvell tie-ins; ROM sidekick, and didn't he work with Dazzler a bit in her performer days?
From the "Dark Mirror" comments, I guess that the "mirror" might not be a smooth reflective mirror surface, but a flat white surface. Straight angle of incidence reflection would be brightest. Tilting away would slightly decrease the brightness, tilting perpendicularly away would be black.
The theatre sized digital projectors typically do not use LCD's. There are three filtered lights (Red, Green, Blue) shining on to 3 arrays of very small mirrors. One mirror per pixel in each array.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
A few percent of the world's gold is (or at least used to be, my information is about 12 years old)stored at the Federal Depository in Boston. A few Third World nations with hard currency keep the gold that backs their currency there.
There is more forest in the United States now than there was in 1800.
Cities used to need large farms with a few days travel. Now your food is likely to travel several hundred miles before it reaches the supermarket. Nothern New England is covered with forests that used to be farms.
Richard Feynman was somewhat tone deaf, or at least had a very hard time understanding any music that was not heavily biased toward percussion instruments.
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If I wear out a paperback rereading it multiple times, I will sometimes buy the hardcover instead of buying another paperback. I did this with The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
If it's one of top three favorite authors, I'll buy the hardcover. I don't want to wait 6-9 months for the paperback, I want my Lois McMaster Bujold novel now!
And since this is Slashdot, I'll put in the obligatory open source plug. Most of Bujold's books are published by Baen Books. Baen Books has free introductory chapters online for most of its new books, paid web subscriptions for many books, and a few complete books online for free in its Free Library. I'll close with a quote from Eric Flint in his introduction to the Free Library.
It's ironic that the Washington Post published this article. A couple of years ago, they had an online survey for favorite romance books. Each voter would email their 10 favorite romance books to their romance reviewer. He unilaterally dropped the a romance/SF book, A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, when it was receiving the most votes of any book.
Yes, one member of the Bujold fan list did post an email suggesting that Bujold fans write to the survey, but so did members of the Georgette Heyer fan list. If you are going to publish a survey, you shouldn't throw out results that don't match your prejudiced notions.
And to go for easy fast hot pluggable external hard drives without termination or SCSI ID issues. Apple has always gone for ease of use.
Some of their desktop machines still have SCSI drive options available.
The Library of Alexandria is a book recommender database. I joined when they were still in their pure data gathering stages. Nowadays you have to click on the Departments:Recommender link to get past the online fiction store.
You rate several stories [Dreadful, Boring, So-so, Enjoyable, Really Good, Excellent, Fabulous]. Then you can ask for recommendations. The database correlates your ratings with everyone elses ratings and finds the people with ratings closest to yours, your "neighbors". Then it uses your neighbors' ratings to recommend books that you haven't rated yet. The recommendations each have a confidence rating [Pure Speculation, Wild Guess, Extremely Low, Very Low, Low, Medium-Low, Medium, Medium-High, High, Very High, Extremely High, Almost Positive] based on how many neighbors recommended the book, what the range of ratings are, and how "close" each neighbor is. Obviously, the more books you rate, the more accurate the system can be. With this system I've discovered lots of books that I love, but never would have picked while browsing in a bookstore.
Dragging this post somewhat back on-topic, users can enter in story title's and authors that are not in the database yet. Similar to CDDB and freeDB, most stories were entered by the users, not the administrators.
I am not connected with the Library of Alexandria website except as an occasional customer of their online store and as a long time user of their database; over the past four years or so I've entered 2314 ratings.
I've done it once or twice on payday when the musician was really good.
I lived in Madison, AL (just outside Huntsville) for six years, technical writing & training at Intergraph. One of our customers was in town for a week of training and asked what there was to do in town.
"Have you been to the Space and Rocket Center?"
"Did that yesterday. What else is there?"
"Well, um, have you been to the Space and Rocket Center?"
All models are wrong. Some are useful.
The Apache may be the first helicopter to have it built in from the beginning, but a helmet directed minigun was added to my father's Huey gunship in Vietnam in 1969.
I wasn't talking about a satellite dish. Just a mircrowave horn like the ones you see on the side of many towers in rural areas like northern Maine.
If you want obscurity put it inside a rectangular fiberglass structure designed to look like an elevator machine room or air conditioner unit.
I would not be surprised if they have a microwave relay backup available.
Yes, but then I have to reset all my preferences in the new file. It was less work just to do a "Save As" every couple of days and then when I had a corrupted file, copy the backup and overwrite the bad file.
I hope they fixed the data corruption problems that the beta had. About half a dozen times over the past few months my desktop data file would not open, and had to be deleted and restored from backup.
I think you meant to say iPhoto reigns supreme. On the other hand, my preferred cataloging program is iView MediaPro . It's much more flexible in html or print output. It catalogs my files from their existing location instead of copying them to a set of application folders. Finally, if you move files while the application is open, it automatically updates its database to note the new location.
I always thought Rick Jones was the most connected person in the Marvel Universe. Captain America sidekick; involved in the creation of the Hulk, and Hulk sidekick; Marvell tie-ins; ROM sidekick, and didn't he work with Dazzler a bit in her performer days?
Winter Olympics on tape the day after the event.
From the "Dark Mirror" comments, I guess that the "mirror" might not be a smooth reflective mirror surface, but a flat white surface. Straight angle of incidence reflection would be brightest. Tilting away would slightly decrease the brightness, tilting perpendicularly away would be black.
The theatre sized digital projectors typically do not use LCD's. There are three filtered lights (Red, Green, Blue) shining on to 3 arrays of very small mirrors. One mirror per pixel in each array.
See this PDF for a more in-depth explanation.
A few percent of the world's gold is (or at least used to be, my information is about 12 years old)stored at the Federal Depository in Boston. A few Third World nations with hard currency keep the gold that backs their currency there.
There is more forest in the United States now than there was in 1800.
Cities used to need large farms with a few days travel. Now your food is likely to travel several hundred miles before it reaches the supermarket. Nothern New England is covered with forests that used to be farms.
Motorola made the StarMax Macintosh clones. I've got one of the 166MHz 601 machines. One interesting note, they came with a five year warrantee.
Richard Feynman was somewhat tone deaf, or at least had a very hard time understanding any music that was not heavily biased toward percussion instruments.