It's PUSH technology, and the studios, judging from the movie list, are going to be PUSHing their box-office flops, failed sequels and other crap at the users.
There were very few movies on the list I would watch for free. They aren't worth the time.
One blogger, with one test protocol. Read George Ou's blog on it.
He had a humongous spreadsheet (a couple hundred megabytes) and was tracking the load time.
He whined about the memory OO takes, and didn't mention that MSOffice pre-loads its stuff on startup, so you are loafing MSOffice stuff whether you need it or not.
the pricing is set to be about the same as the DVD, even though the download will only become available at the same time as the DVD release, and can only play on one machine (the one that does the downloading)
Let's analyse this offer: WB expects me to use my resources to help them distribute films on a torrent, pay as much for a film as I would for a real, pre-burned DVD from Walmart (which means WB cuts out the retail middleman and pockets even more money), get the film the same time as Walmart, and have a product that I can't take to a friend's house to play, can't take on the road to play, only plays on the download computer, and if the DRM scheme or that computer dies, probably can't play at all.
Not only no, but HELL NO!
Prediction: They will do this for a while, notice a lack of users, and declare to the world that "legal downloads don't work".
This way, I'm not bothered by spammers, currrent employers, or those jerks who cruise Monster.com trying to lure talent ot their own agency.
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And here is another way to stretch the blood supply Automated Blood Collection.
So next time instead of giving whole blood, check out apheresis, and see your donation go to help more people, more often.
Boosting the parent visibility - this is a good idea.
Because... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_slang#T
Tango Uniform is NATO phonetic alphabet for "Toes Up" also used by the FCC, FAA and DOD to mean killed or destroyed. (whatever went Tango Uniform, it's not functioning as intended)
Why not use the real thing instead of a vulgar imitation?
Ask the library about "Inter-Library Loan". For a (usually) small fee, most libraries can borrow material on your behalf from libraries anywhere in the US. I've used it to get things from across the country, published in the 1700s... modern novels might be easier for them.
Also, there are some web-based associations, for lack of a better word, that let you publicize what you are willing to loan or want to borrow. I've seen the announcements, but don't remember the sites.
PRIOR ART! Netflix has patented the old mail-based "Subscription Library" model. In the USA, they were founded by Ben Franklin, who later went on to run the USPTO after the Revolution. Here's how the subscription libraries worked:
In-town, one could stroll to the lending library (or send one's maid or footman) to return a book and pick up the next one on the list. It was a social occasion as well as a literary one. Subscription price varied depending on how many books you wanted to have in your posession at a time.
Out of town patrons paid a subscription fee (higher to cover the cost of shipping) that depended on how many books they wanted to posess at a time (a few, up to dozens of them if you were going to India), handed over or mailed in their list and waited for the postman to deliver the books. When they were finished with the book/s, they sent it/them back and got the next batch on the list that was in stock.
It's like I tried the wireless cords for my blow dryer so I cuold like read./ (you geeks are like SOOOOOOOOOOO HOT) and my kitten was like playing with the cord when I turned it on and it like EXPLODED THE KITTEN.
IM me, I'm like so bummed about this. My mom's making me clean up the mess and like it wasn't even my fault.
I have been known to stop a presentation or class and ask the inattentive one/s to please pay attention because the information is important to them. Or give the persons asking for a private session (because I paid attention and they didn't) a blank stare and ask "you were in the class, weren't you?" and suggest that they retake the class if the concepts were too advanced for them to handle in one session.
I have also been told I'm "not a team player" for not covering up someone else's lapses of attention.
I've been in training sessions where 7 of the 12 "participants" were answering email instead of listening to the instructor, and most of them came to me after the training because they didn't know how to do what he was explaining.
I've been in project meetings where I meticulously explained the plan, only to be whacked later because someone who was typing and reading stuff on her laptop screen as I explained what I planned to do realized she didn't know what I was doing... and had to report on the project to her manager.
The problem is that it has a web-based interface: not only do you have to have KOHA, but you need to have a web server configured and running just to see the books.
A home library works better with a stand-alone DB app.
Much of organizing depends on how YOU think of your collection because if it doesn't make sense to you, you'll never find anything. My method (2500 books, mostly non-fiction, most published before ISBN numbers) was to shelve them by my need to retrieve the subject matter. That resulted in some odd juxtapositions, because the books about the anti-sin campaigns of the Victorian era were with the books by Victorian sinners and about Victorian sins... Great Bordellos of the World was shelved with the memoirs of Carrie Nation and Margaret Sanger.
You need to SORT them into groups of related books to make them findable. Try to do "binary sorts": split fiction from non-fiction, then the predominant ficiton genre from the rest of the fiction... until you have the books grouped the way you want. You will have to sort any group by author and title to get started: you probably have duplicates in there. Set the duplicates aside.
Are the 3500 books distributed across many genres, or is it 3000 romance novels and 500 cookbooks? It does make a difference. Fiction goes well sorted by genre, then alphabetically by author, just like a library. If you know that SF is in the living room and murder mysteries in the rear bedroom it's easy enough to find what you need.
One method I have seen used for a predominantly non-fiction collection, seen in a used bookstore in Phoenix, is "geographical". The owner has all of the non-fiction that relates to a certain geographical area shelved together. It's been a while since I was in that store, but I believe he starts with the histories, then biographies of the citizens (chronologically), and then through natural history, etc. Within an area, he starts with the overviews and multi-topic books, then down to the books about a country or city or species. Non-fiction that is shelved separately: Medicine, Psychology, Chemistry, etc.
For tracking the books in a computer, you need a database that can retrieve the books by YOUR search terms. If it doesn't allow you to find "all the books about China with maps", and it's something you will need to retrieve, it's a bad database. If it doesn't let you add genres, it's a bad database! I had an ACCESS database that let me find "all the books about 18th century China" by careful use of 6 keyword fields. (I should port that thing to MySQL!)
Email me if you want to discuss the project - anything to help out a bibliophile.
Can you really claim responsibility for something that was an ENGLISHMAN's addiction? And probably his suggestion, too? We have to credit the ENGLISHMAN for bringing his Ragusan servant to England, and hosting levees (morning parties) to make the drink so popular that the servant could make a go at the coffeehouse.
The weight of evidence seems to be in favour of Rosee, who was servant to a Turkey merchant named Edwards. Having acquired the coffee-drinking habit in Turkey, Mr. Edwards was accustomed to having his servant prepare the beverage for him in his London house, and the new drink speedily attracted a levee of curious onlookers and tasters. Evidently the company grew too large to be convenient, and at this juncture Mr. Edwards suggested that Rosee should set up as a vendor of the drink. He did so, and a copy of the prospectus he issued on the occasion still exists. It set forth at great length "the virtue of the Coffee Drink First publiquely made and sold in England by Pasqua Rosee," the berry of which was described as "a simple innocent thing" but yielding a liquor of countless merits.
Rosee is describes as a "Ragusan" in some documents... and "Ragusa" was not Islamic in the 1600s - it is modern-day Dubrovnik. They acknowledged the Ottomans - to the extent that they paid them tribute - but they were NOT islamic. Ragusa was well-known for its staunch, almost fanatical support of Roman Catholicism. They used the Ottomans to stave off the Venetians, a common ploy of the region and times.
" Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it."
This is just plain WRONG! The practice of deliberately infecting people with SMALLPOX (not cowpox) from a mild case to make them immune (variolation) was a process developed sometime around the 10th century in China and/or India. It involved taking pus from the pox of someone suffering from smallpox, or the scabs from the pox, and inoculating healthy people with it. Usually a mild case of smallpox developed, giving lifelong immunity afterwards. The first written account of variolation describes a Buddhist nun practicing around 1022 to 1063 AD. She would grind up scabs taken from a person infected with smallpox into a powder, and then blow it into the nostrils of a non-immune person. Another method, more common, involves rubbing the pus from the pox into a scratch in the skin of the non-immune person.
By the 1700's, variolation was common practice in China, India, and Turkey, where it was carried to England by a diplomat's wife. In the late 1700's European physicians used this and other methods of variolation, but reported "devastating" results in some cases. Overall, 2% to 3% of people who were variolated died of smallpox, but this practice decreased the total number of smallpox fatalities by 10-fold. However, a variolated patient could transmit genuine smallpox and could even start an epidemic!
Jenner, on the other hand, was the first to use cowpox (vaccinia virus) instead of live smallpox... hence the name of "vaccination".
Looking at the programs that come with Linux distros, you have software for writing, math, drawing, graphing, and other activities that learning requires.
You also have a HUGE collection of FOSS utilities and games and compilers.
I worked for a major mid-price consumer electronics company... the same factory made multiple brands for us, with the only difference being the feature set and the case.
The parasite makes us tolerate, or even like, CATS. That keeps the life cycle going for the Toxoplasma better than if the kitties had to fend for themselves in the wild.
I had a couple of prospective tenants ask about making modifications - because of the way most pre-WWII houses were build, it was flat impossible to make them accessible without a major remodel and moving walls, some of which were brick or adobe. Nobody is going to spend $50,000+ for improvements they can't keep.
Ages ago, I was a volunteer for the Norfolk area Fair Housing Commission. By coincidence, my DH and I (white) knew a black couple - same occupations and salary, similar age, etc, just REALLY black. If an apartment complex was discriminating, the black couple would be told AT THE DOOR that the place was already leased. Then the FHC would send us over, and if the landlord showed us the place, it was pretty obvious that the skin color was the problem.
I have also managed, and owned, rental property... here's the way it works:
If I was renting a living unit, I could, and did, have requirements about being employed, owning pets (genuine service dogs, like seeing-eye dogs, are not pets), smoking, and the NUMBER of persons who would be living there. None of that is discriminatory. I could even refuse to accept Section 8 (government subsidezed rent, and a PITA to deal with) tenants.
I could NOT advertise "whites only", I could not advertise "Christians Only"... and could not even say "Adults only" (although pointing out that the yard was gravelled, the schools were lousy, and asking the prospective tenant to sign a "yes I know the house is old and may have lead paint and hold the landlord harmless if my kid eats the woodwork" statement spared me from the worst of the rug-rats' parents).
Handicapped? In most of the houses, the doorways were too narrow for a wheelchair, and the bathrooms too small. Two were suitable for wheelchairs... they rented FAST.
Despite my meticulous adherence to the law, I STILL got a fair housing complaint from a person who arrived after a place was rented. I had a policy of accepting tenants in the order they arrived, The first person to inspect the apartment rented it on sight, I had not had time to change the message on the answering machine, and a pigmentally enhanced woman who arrived right after the other person left complained, assuming that I was waiting for a white tenant and rejecting her.
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There were very few movies on the list I would watch for free. They aren't worth the time.
He had a humongous spreadsheet (a couple hundred megabytes) and was tracking the load time.
He whined about the memory OO takes, and didn't mention that MSOffice pre-loads its stuff on startup, so you are loafing MSOffice stuff whether you need it or not.
Let's analyse this offer: WB expects me to use my resources to help them distribute films on a torrent, pay as much for a film as I would for a real, pre-burned DVD from Walmart (which means WB cuts out the retail middleman and pockets even more money), get the film the same time as Walmart, and have a product that I can't take to a friend's house to play, can't take on the road to play, only plays on the download computer, and if the DRM scheme or that computer dies, probably can't play at all.
Not only no, but HELL NO!
Prediction: They will do this for a while, notice a lack of users, and declare to the world that "legal downloads don't work".
This way, I'm not bothered by spammers, currrent employers, or those jerks who cruise Monster.com trying to lure talent ot their own agency.
Boosting the parent visibility - this is a good idea.
Not to mention stretching the blood supply for the patients this doesn't help ... a 27-unit obstetrical disaster, or a gut-shot cop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_slang#T
Tango Uniform is NATO phonetic alphabet for "Toes Up" also used by the FCC, FAA and DOD to mean killed or destroyed. (whatever went Tango Uniform, it's not functioning as intended)
Why not use the real thing instead of a vulgar imitation?
Good idea!
... modern novels might be easier for them.
Ask the library about "Inter-Library Loan". For a (usually) small fee, most libraries can borrow material on your behalf from libraries anywhere in the US. I've used it to get things from across the country, published in the 1700s
Also, there are some web-based associations, for lack of a better word, that let you publicize what you are willing to loan or want to borrow. I've seen the announcements, but don't remember the sites.
In-town, one could stroll to the lending library (or send one's maid or footman) to return a book and pick up the next one on the list. It was a social occasion as well as a literary one. Subscription price varied depending on how many books you wanted to have in your posession at a time.
Out of town patrons paid a subscription fee (higher to cover the cost of shipping) that depended on how many books they wanted to posess at a time (a few, up to dozens of them if you were going to India), handed over or mailed in their list and waited for the postman to deliver the books. When they were finished with the book/s, they sent it/them back and got the next batch on the list that was in stock.
IM me, I'm like so bummed about this. My mom's making me clean up the mess and like it wasn't even my fault.
I have been known to stop a presentation or class and ask the inattentive one/s to please pay attention because the information is important to them. Or give the persons asking for a private session (because I paid attention and they didn't) a blank stare and ask "you were in the class, weren't you?" and suggest that they retake the class if the concepts were too advanced for them to handle in one session.
I have also been told I'm "not a team player" for not covering up someone else's lapses of attention.
I've been in project meetings where I meticulously explained the plan, only to be whacked later because someone who was typing and reading stuff on her laptop screen as I explained what I planned to do realized she didn't know what I was doing ... and had to report on the project to her manager.
A home library works better with a stand-alone DB app.
You need to SORT them into groups of related books to make them findable. Try to do "binary sorts": split fiction from non-fiction, then the predominant ficiton genre from the rest of the fiction ... until you have the books grouped the way you want. You will have to sort any group by author and title to get started: you probably have duplicates in there. Set the duplicates aside.
Are the 3500 books distributed across many genres, or is it 3000 romance novels and 500 cookbooks? It does make a difference. Fiction goes well sorted by genre, then alphabetically by author, just like a library. If you know that SF is in the living room and murder mysteries in the rear bedroom it's easy enough to find what you need.
One method I have seen used for a predominantly non-fiction collection, seen in a used bookstore in Phoenix, is "geographical". The owner has all of the non-fiction that relates to a certain geographical area shelved together. It's been a while since I was in that store, but I believe he starts with the histories, then biographies of the citizens (chronologically), and then through natural history, etc. Within an area, he starts with the overviews and multi-topic books, then down to the books about a country or city or species. Non-fiction that is shelved separately: Medicine, Psychology, Chemistry, etc.
For tracking the books in a computer, you need a database that can retrieve the books by YOUR search terms. If it doesn't allow you to find "all the books about China with maps", and it's something you will need to retrieve, it's a bad database. If it doesn't let you add genres, it's a bad database! I had an ACCESS database that let me find "all the books about 18th century China" by careful use of 6 keyword fields. (I should port that thing to MySQL!)
Email me if you want to discuss the project - anything to help out a bibliophile.
I downloaded it ... does that mean the NSA is now surveilling me, scanning my email and planning my trip to tropical isles?
Can you really claim responsibility for something that was an ENGLISHMAN's addiction? And probably his suggestion, too? We have to credit the ENGLISHMAN for bringing his Ragusan servant to England, and hosting levees (morning parties) to make the drink so popular that the servant could make a go at the coffeehouse.
The weight of evidence seems to be in favour of Rosee, who was servant to a Turkey merchant named Edwards. Having acquired the coffee-drinking habit in Turkey, Mr. Edwards was accustomed to having his servant prepare the beverage for him in his London house, and the new drink speedily attracted a levee of curious onlookers and tasters. Evidently the company grew too large to be convenient, and at this juncture Mr. Edwards suggested that Rosee should set up as a vendor of the drink. He did so, and a copy of the prospectus he issued on the occasion still exists. It set forth at great length "the virtue of the Coffee Drink First publiquely made and sold in England by Pasqua Rosee," the berry of which was described as "a simple innocent thing" but yielding a liquor of countless merits.
Rosee is describes as a "Ragusan" in some documents ... and "Ragusa" was not Islamic in the 1600s - it is modern-day Dubrovnik. They acknowledged the Ottomans - to the extent that they paid them tribute - but they were NOT islamic. Ragusa was well-known for its staunch, almost fanatical support of Roman Catholicism. They used the Ottomans to stave off the Venetians, a common ploy of the region and times.
" Children in Turkey were vaccinated with cowpox to fight the deadly smallpox at least 50 years before the West discovered it."
This is just plain WRONG! The practice of deliberately infecting people with SMALLPOX (not cowpox) from a mild case to make them immune (variolation) was a process developed sometime around the 10th century in China and/or India. It involved taking pus from the pox of someone suffering from smallpox, or the scabs from the pox, and inoculating healthy people with it. Usually a mild case of smallpox developed, giving lifelong immunity afterwards. The first written account of variolation describes a Buddhist nun practicing around 1022 to 1063 AD. She would grind up scabs taken from a person infected with smallpox into a powder, and then blow it into the nostrils of a non-immune person. Another method, more common, involves rubbing the pus from the pox into a scratch in the skin of the non-immune person.
By the 1700's, variolation was common practice in China, India, and Turkey, where it was carried to England by a diplomat's wife. In the late 1700's European physicians used this and other methods of variolation, but reported "devastating" results in some cases. Overall, 2% to 3% of people who were variolated died of smallpox, but this practice decreased the total number of smallpox fatalities by 10-fold. However, a variolated patient could transmit genuine smallpox and could even start an epidemic!
Jenner, on the other hand, was the first to use cowpox (vaccinia virus) instead of live smallpox ... hence the name of "vaccination".
Looking at the programs that come with Linux distros, you have software for writing, math, drawing, graphing, and other activities that learning requires.
You also have a HUGE collection of FOSS utilities and games and compilers.
I worked for a major mid-price consumer electronics company ... the same factory made multiple brands for us, with the only difference being the feature set and the case.
The parent should be required to sit there and, when pr0n pops up on screen, cover the kid's eyes and click the back button.
The parasite makes us tolerate, or even like, CATS. That keeps the life cycle going for the Toxoplasma better than if the kitties had to fend for themselves in the wild.
RTFA, dude. They went back to sneaker-net, visual ID and phone calls.
Every department of any hospital I have worked in has a backup plan for when the 'puters are down. It usually involves a pen and a bunch of paper.
I had a couple of prospective tenants ask about making modifications - because of the way most pre-WWII houses were build, it was flat impossible to make them accessible without a major remodel and moving walls, some of which were brick or adobe. Nobody is going to spend $50,000+ for improvements they can't keep.
If I was renting a living unit, I could, and did, have requirements about being employed, owning pets (genuine service dogs, like seeing-eye dogs, are not pets), smoking, and the NUMBER of persons who would be living there. None of that is discriminatory. I could even refuse to accept Section 8 (government subsidezed rent, and a PITA to deal with) tenants.
I could NOT advertise "whites only", I could not advertise "Christians Only" ... and could not even say "Adults only" (although pointing out that the yard was gravelled, the schools were lousy, and asking the prospective tenant to sign a "yes I know the house is old and may have lead paint and hold the landlord harmless if my kid eats the woodwork" statement spared me from the worst of the rug-rats' parents).
Handicapped? In most of the houses, the doorways were too narrow for a wheelchair, and the bathrooms too small. Two were suitable for wheelchairs ... they rented FAST.
Despite my meticulous adherence to the law, I STILL got a fair housing complaint from a person who arrived after a place was rented. I had a policy of accepting tenants in the order they arrived, The first person to inspect the apartment rented it on sight, I had not had time to change the message on the answering machine, and a pigmentally enhanced woman who arrived right after the other person left complained, assuming that I was waiting for a white tenant and rejecting her.
It could be profitable :0