You seem to be missing the fact that most libraries are underbudgeted and rely greatly upon user-donated books to flesh out their collections. Also, a lot of the donations get circulated throughout the library system to balance out the collections of various libraries in the system - and part of that balancing includes making sure that specific libraries have enough volumes of popular titles on hand to meet their users demand.
At least you did in fact find copies (multiple at that) of your selected titles at the branches you visited. It's not as though they were hiding things from you.
Caveat: My knowledge is secondary. I suggest you take your findings to a librarian, ask them why, and then post your results.
Frankly, I think librarians are not putting any filter in place, and only presenting ALL of the information, not what a select group considers good or bad.
Having been married to a librarian and consequently having known a great many librarians, I can attest that this statement is almost entirely true. There are instances where librarians are allowed to put filters in place, but largely in only two ways: their "top picks" display(s) devoted to personal favorites - if the library even sports such a section or display, and also - as guessed at in an earlier post in this thread - in the promotion of favorite authors and genres/subjects via [usually] temporary and rotating displays/themes. Beyond that, the vast majority of librarians I've encountered are extremely fanatical (yes - fanatical) about unbiased presentation of all available information to users. If you doubt this, I invite you to walk into a library and ask the librarians themselves and the people who frequently use their services.
This equal dissemination of information is what librarians live for. Ask them just how far they, the library, and library system are willing to go to find you the book/subject you want - regardless of how obscure or unpopular the author, book, or subject matter.
Apart from the bigger filesize, JPG shows ugly artifacting. Note: I don't use too many antialiased fonts, and no fancy backgrounds and skins. If most of your desktop is covered by a photographic JPG image in the first place, you will find different results, of course.:)
The reason you get these results is because png uses Run Length Encoding (RLE) to compress the images. Images are stored from top to bottom, left to right. When encoding (and decoding) each pixel's color information is stored (or read) along with a value indicating how many pixels directly in line after that have the same value (that's the "Run" part of RLE). So anywhere in an image that you see large expanses of color is where png will excel. It's also where jpg is going to fall down, since jpg (which uses fractal compression) essentially records the "roughness" of an image. Large flat areas of color are anything but rough.
I'm not sure exactly what you're doing to those connectors, but early on as a bench tech and then later as an engineer I've given that style of connector a serious workout. I find it to be one of the most reliable, especially considering the cost. After making literally thousands of connections I've rarely encountered the problem you describe - more common is that the cheaper ones will have trouble mating (which will cause the actual mechanical connection to spread as you describe).
Everyone knows that each electrical component is built with a certain amount of smoke inside of it that makes it work. Let the smoke out, and the thing won't work anymore
It's not just any kind of smoke, but a special kind of smoke developed by several top-secret fabs both here and abroad. The correct techincal term is Magic Smoke, or Blue Smoke .
I was the tech manager at the SF location. It got kind of surreal sometimes, as the muffled din that the place would put out often sounded like scores of women being axe-murdered. [That and the naked girls/women running around everywhere.]
Um... why did I quit that job again?
The virus can do searches far faster than a human, it also doesn't get tired, bored, or scurry off to another part of the web when it's found what it's looking for.
The article's final paragraph begins with the following statement: None of this means we, America, just have to do what the world wants...
That's right, the world had better damn well do what America wants. All these stinking foreign cultures with their un-American ideals just plain scare the hell out of me. Gawd-damn world should just get a friggin clue and realize that it is The One True Democracy(tm) that rules it.
Great, I kinda read slashdot to avoid drivel like this - now I'm going to have to dig up my boomstick and find me some more pinko scum to refocus my attention on.
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"but don't some BMW/Hummer/Lexus and some other luxury and european vehicles already use at least 24volt?"
I'm not sure about newer Cadillacs, but I used a '91 El Dorado Biarritz as the base for an art car. It had both 12 and 24 volt systems.
it took a while to get used to but produced superb code
Personally, I found it to be a disappointment and all my side-by-side comparisons with Borland's Turbo C++ usually fell short. Especially if I was unrolling a lot of loops. IIRC, snooping the output revealed that it ignored them and no amount of tweaking the compiler would correct it.
There's no arguing that Watcom made it pretty easy to access more memory, but if you already had a code base set up to handle that there didn't seem to be much of a point.
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You seem to be missing the fact that most libraries are underbudgeted and rely greatly upon user-donated books to flesh out their collections. Also, a lot of the donations get circulated throughout the library system to balance out the collections of various libraries in the system - and part of that balancing includes making sure that specific libraries have enough volumes of popular titles on hand to meet their users demand. At least you did in fact find copies (multiple at that) of your selected titles at the branches you visited. It's not as though they were hiding things from you. Caveat: My knowledge is secondary. I suggest you take your findings to a librarian, ask them why, and then post your results.
Frankly, I think librarians are not putting any filter in place, and only presenting ALL of the information, not what a select group considers good or bad.
Having been married to a librarian and consequently having known a great many librarians, I can attest that this statement is almost entirely true. There are instances where librarians are allowed to put filters in place, but largely in only two ways: their "top picks" display(s) devoted to personal favorites - if the library even sports such a section or display, and also - as guessed at in an earlier post in this thread - in the promotion of favorite authors and genres/subjects via [usually] temporary and rotating displays/themes. Beyond that, the vast majority of librarians I've encountered are extremely fanatical (yes - fanatical) about unbiased presentation of all available information to users. If you doubt this, I invite you to walk into a library and ask the librarians themselves and the people who frequently use their services.
This equal dissemination of information is what librarians live for. Ask them just how far they, the library, and library system are willing to go to find you the book/subject you want - regardless of how obscure or unpopular the author, book, or subject matter.
Apart from the bigger filesize, JPG shows ugly artifacting. Note: I don't use too many antialiased fonts, and no fancy backgrounds and skins. If most of your desktop is covered by a photographic JPG image in the first place, you will find different results, of course. :)
The reason you get these results is because png uses Run Length Encoding (RLE) to compress the images. Images are stored from top to bottom, left to right. When encoding (and decoding) each pixel's color information is stored (or read) along with a value indicating how many pixels directly in line after that have the same value (that's the "Run" part of RLE). So anywhere in an image that you see large expanses of color is where png will excel. It's also where jpg is going to fall down, since jpg (which uses fractal compression) essentially records the "roughness" of an image. Large flat areas of color are anything but rough.
I'm not sure exactly what you're doing to those connectors, but early on as a bench tech and then later as an engineer I've given that style of connector a serious workout. I find it to be one of the most reliable, especially considering the cost. After making literally thousands of connections I've rarely encountered the problem you describe - more common is that the cheaper ones will have trouble mating (which will cause the actual mechanical connection to spread as you describe).
Everyone knows that each electrical component is built with a certain amount of smoke inside of it that makes it work. Let the smoke out, and the thing won't work anymore
It's not just any kind of smoke, but a special kind of smoke developed by several top-secret fabs both here and abroad. The correct techincal term is Magic Smoke , or Blue Smoke .
I was the tech manager at the SF location. It got kind of surreal sometimes, as the muffled din that the place would put out often sounded like scores of women being axe-murdered. [That and the naked girls/women running around everywhere.] ... why did I quit that job again?
Um
The virus can do searches far faster than a human, it also doesn't get tired, bored, or scurry off to another part of the web when it's found what it's looking for.
Tattooing anything so lame on your body for your job is retarded.
Tatoos aren't that hard to remove these days, so nothing says he has to keep it.
I first read that as Catholic Computing.
Pearly Gate logic will have to wait a few years yet, I guess.
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Found some pics here.
The article's final paragraph begins with the following statement: ...
None of this means we, America, just have to do what the world wants
That's right, the world had better damn well do what America wants. All these stinking foreign cultures with their un-American ideals just plain scare the hell out of me. Gawd-damn world should just get a friggin clue and realize that it is The One True Democracy(tm) that rules it.
Great, I kinda read slashdot to avoid drivel like this - now I'm going to have to dig up my boomstick and find me some more pinko scum to refocus my attention on.
"but don't some BMW/Hummer/Lexus and some other luxury and european vehicles already use at least 24volt?"
I'm not sure about newer Cadillacs, but I used a '91 El Dorado Biarritz as the base for an art car. It had both 12 and 24 volt systems.
it took a while to get used to but produced superb code
Personally, I found it to be a disappointment and all my side-by-side comparisons with Borland's Turbo C++ usually fell short. Especially if I was unrolling a lot of loops. IIRC, snooping the output revealed that it ignored them and no amount of tweaking the compiler would correct it.
There's no arguing that Watcom made it pretty easy to access more memory, but if you already had a code base set up to handle that there didn't seem to be much of a point.