that the libraries in the Google consortium only hold English language books? Exact numbers are hard to come by, but Oxford University claims to hold half a million books in modern European languages other than English in the specialist Taylorian library alone. The Taylorian is not in the Google consortium but I would be surprised if the participating libraries could not match this between them.
The more digitisation the better, but I think the various initiatives should try to avoid overlap.
Fair enough, but the Wired article could be read
as saying that Asperger's (as distinct from
classic autism) simply is the same thing as
geekiness. I can't say I am sorry that various
old teachers of mine had never heard of it.
IANAN but I was intellectually a long way ahead
of my age group when I was a boy, and I often fell
for practical jokes through difficulty in
detecting deliberate lies.
The reason, I now
think, is that I was all too used to being
misinformed by other children because of their
relative ignorance. This made it hard to filter
out the minority of cases where I was being
misinformed on purpose.
The problem goes away in adult life as other
people catch up and you can choose friends on
your own intellectual level. It is notable that
you generally find this complaint from people raised
in an intellectual family background and much
less often from very intelligent people whose
parents were not highly educated.
I don't think I believe in Asperger's syndrome.
Real autism, which I have occasionally come
across, is a huge and unmistakeable handicap.
I didn't see the programme, but to judge by
newspaper accounts it was outrageously ill
judged. The head of the BBC has issued an
apology.
Americans should know that a 3 minute silence
was widely observed in Britain as the Queen
and Tony Blair attended a memorial service at
St Paul's cathedral. Flags were still at half
mast yesterday (Sunday) and the national mood
is very subdued. Many tributes have been laid
outside the US embassy.
I do think it is important that Americans should
take notice of events in the rest of the world.
Visitors often remark how few foreign stories are
printed in the US newspapers. At times like these,
dubious measures are often slipped through while
the public has its attention elsewhere. I note,
for instance, that NATO troops are to stay in
Macedonia indefinitely, that China has been
admitted to the World Trade Organisation, and
that Europol - the unaccountable force which
aspires to be the FBI of the European Union - is
to be given responsibility for counter-terrorism.
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that the libraries in the Google consortium only hold English language books? Exact numbers are hard to come by, but Oxford University claims to hold half a million books in modern European languages other than English in the specialist Taylorian library alone. The Taylorian is not in the Google consortium but I would be surprised if the participating libraries could not match this between them.
The more digitisation the better, but I think the various initiatives should try to avoid overlap.
Fair enough, but the Wired article could be read as saying that Asperger's (as distinct from classic autism) simply is the same thing as geekiness. I can't say I am sorry that various old teachers of mine had never heard of it.
The reason, I now think, is that I was all too used to being misinformed by other children because of their relative ignorance. This made it hard to filter out the minority of cases where I was being misinformed on purpose. The problem goes away in adult life as other people catch up and you can choose friends on your own intellectual level. It is notable that you generally find this complaint from people raised in an intellectual family background and much less often from very intelligent people whose parents were not highly educated.
I don't think I believe in Asperger's syndrome. Real autism, which I have occasionally come across, is a huge and unmistakeable handicap.
I didn't see the programme, but to judge by newspaper accounts it was outrageously ill judged. The head of the BBC has issued an apology. Americans should know that a 3 minute silence was widely observed in Britain as the Queen and Tony Blair attended a memorial service at St Paul's cathedral. Flags were still at half mast yesterday (Sunday) and the national mood is very subdued. Many tributes have been laid outside the US embassy. I do think it is important that Americans should take notice of events in the rest of the world. Visitors often remark how few foreign stories are printed in the US newspapers. At times like these, dubious measures are often slipped through while the public has its attention elsewhere. I note, for instance, that NATO troops are to stay in Macedonia indefinitely, that China has been admitted to the World Trade Organisation, and that Europol - the unaccountable force which aspires to be the FBI of the European Union - is to be given responsibility for counter-terrorism.