Books In Print is a great reference, but it is far from definitive.
There are lots of publishers whose catalogs never make it into the listing. Also, as we might gather from the title, it only covers books in print, which obviously excludes a huge range of publications.
A database would be a great idea for this reason... (though it doesn't necessarily have to be centralised).
...some branches that do not require more. First, is computer science.
I agree with your post in general but...
Computer science is not a science at all, but a pseudoscience. I am not trolling, I spent 10 years as a sysprog without thinking twice about calling my area of expertise "computer science" until I started on a biotech/chemistry double-major and I was quickly jolted into the realisation that CS has bugger all to do with the scientific method, or even science in general.
This is standard practice here in Australia - if you want unlimited traffic on your account, you have to pay a premium price. The rest of us are used to shopping around for the best deal (except for the morons who go with the big ISPs for no other reason than that they've heard the name)
I'm serious - this is the rather evocative name of a unit of capacity equivalent to that of Sydney Harbour - can't remember whether it's at high or low tide...:-)
At Murdoch University, Perth, the price is $4. Australian dollars. OK, I personally don't need this (got my own burner) but still not a bad deal, I think...
got started in the IT industry ('78) - an old-fashioned teletype machine (or what was then called a SPO) was the only "user" - read BOFH access (yes, I was an operator:-))
It would probably have taken more memory than the machine (Burroughs B3700) had to cope with the trackball.
The current CDs are also made of organic compounds, many of which are very stable - unfortunately, even the best of our science isn't going to tell us if today's CDs are really going to be readable in a century or two.
Since I can live without persistent cookies, I have a simple trick I've been using for a few years, and that is simply to link my Mozilla/Netscape/Whatever cookies file to/dev/null.
(or in the bad ol' days when I ran a Windows box, I used to emulate this by just creating an empty directory of the same name - this didn't work, of course, with IE, as the latter [as far as I remember] had a different way of filing cookies).
OK, you still have to close the browser to completely clear the cookies, but I found an immediate drop in the amount of spam I was getting.
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I agree, but can't live with the amount of screenspace the toolbars/adbars take up...
Yes they are.
You can flick through them, browsing as randomly or as focused as you like, read the back cover, read the contents pages, maybe even scan the index.
Seriously, I think we are missing out on a lot if we suppose that only online text is useful.
There are lots of publishers whose catalogs never make it into the listing. Also, as we might gather from the title, it only covers books in print, which obviously excludes a huge range of publications.
A database would be a great idea for this reason... (though it doesn't necessarily have to be centralised).
I agree with your post in general but...
Computer science is not a science at all, but a pseudoscience. I am not trolling, I spent 10 years as a sysprog without thinking twice about calling my area of expertise "computer science" until I started on a biotech/chemistry double-major and I was quickly jolted into the realisation that CS has bugger all to do with the scientific method, or even science in general.
here is a periodic table that IMHO is way cooler :-)
This is standard practice here in Australia - if you want unlimited traffic on your account, you have to pay a premium price. The rest of us are used to shopping around for the best deal (except for the morons who go with the big ISPs for no other reason than that they've heard the name)
I'm serious - this is the rather evocative name of a unit of capacity equivalent to that of Sydney Harbour - can't remember whether it's at high or low tide... :-)
At Murdoch University, Perth, the price is $4. Australian dollars. OK, I personally don't need this (got my own burner) but still not a bad deal, I think...
These machines have been installed at the student guild offices in Murdoch University for at least a year.
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I was under the impression from one of my chemistry textbooks that the US army had been using this process for years...
Someone mod this chappie up!
It would probably have taken more memory than the machine (Burroughs B3700) had to cope with the trackball.
Makes you wonder...
The current CDs are also made of organic compounds, many of which are very stable - unfortunately, even the best of our science isn't going to tell us if today's CDs are really going to be readable in a century or two.
Since I can live without persistent cookies, I have a simple trick I've been using for a few years, and that is simply to link my Mozilla/Netscape/Whatever cookies file to /dev/null.
(or in the bad ol' days when I ran a Windows box, I used to emulate this by just creating an empty directory of the same name - this didn't work, of course, with IE, as the latter [as far as I remember] had a different way of filing cookies).
OK, you still have to close the browser to completely clear the cookies, but I found an immediate drop in the amount of spam I was getting.
Your nvidia card should work out-of-the-box with the new Mandrake - it is fine with 8.1, any resolution you like on my Sony Trinitron screen.
If you rebuild your kernel, though, remember you have to build support in - I think it's under framebuffer device support...
Thanks for the coroner's handbook link - I hadn't come across this one before, and it's quite good... :-)
someone mod this poster up +n informative...
Here's the timeline for 1.0 according to the good folks at Mozilla: Roadmap