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  1. Re:where to get ebooks? on Microsoft Reader Format Cracked · · Score: 1

    If you like science fiction try Baen Books and go to the free library.

  2. Re:So what? on Sklyarov Denied Visa to Return to U.S. for Trial · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Russia, but in the US if you are convicted of a felony by another country, even if the offense is legal in the US you are a felon. You lose your right to vote and your right to posses firearms and suffer under all the other restrictions of a felon.

  3. Re: Since you're maintaining SANE.... on Epson Pulls Linux Software Following GPL Violations · · Score: 1

    Yes. I scanned from XP to a Slackware box with the ES-600C last night. It's dog slow, but doesn't seem any slower than when I had the scanner directly connected to a Windows box. The gotcha is the Epson backend has to run as root to get R/W privledges to the port directly. It doesn't use a driver. The rest of the set up is fairly well documented. I have saned started from inetd as root. The epson.conf file has to specify the port address.

  4. Re: TAG Heuer Watches on Transparent Aluminium · · Score: 1

    http://www.europastar.com/ESWatch/index.html?watch tech/watchcrystals.html

  5. Publishers on Biting The Bullet: Publishing And The Net · · Score: 1
    The ferocious interactivity of almost all successful Web sites -- hives of linked, communicative exchanges between dispensers and consumers of information -- or technology companies (think Dell, Amazon, Microsoft or even Wal-Mart, which uses technology intensively to monitor inventory and move products) is completely alien to the way newspapers or publishing work.

    Not alien to all publishers. Baen (no. 2 science fiction paper publisher) has a discussion bar with Jim Baen present in almost all the discussions. Some of his authors also participate. They actually listen to what people say there too. Of course Baen has been epublishing his books in HTML for several months now. His latest best seller "Ashes of Victory" by David Weber was sold in HTML for $2.50 as part of March's eWebscription before it was available in paper. It's now number 14 or so on the NYT best seller list. Some publishers know what they're doing.

    Greg Weeks

  6. Re:Show me the money! on Major Star Wars Character To Die in Next Books · · Score: 1

    Go to the sci-fi section of any bookstore and find me an *original* *well-written* *non-preaching* *non-formula* *untrite* piece of contemporary science fiction. Written in the past year.

    Let's see:
    "Plan B" Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
    "Earthweb" Marc Stiegler
    "1632" Eric Flint
    "The Fata Morgana" Leo Frankoski
    "A Boy and His Tank" Leo Frankoski

    They're there, they're just not as common as they used to be.

  7. RCA player. on The Matrix DVD Troubles · · Score: 1

    I had problems with this on one of the first gen RCA players. I don't remember the model number of my player, but the player completely locked up. I reset the player and it played the scene fine. I've had the player for about a year now and figure I'll probably replace it in another year. These sorts of things happen early in the technology curve.

    Greg Weeks

  8. Re:This is a good thing? DejaNews could die. on Publishers Lose Database Copyright Appeal · · Score: 1

    DejaNews is probably ok. There is a specific mechanism to have your posts excluded from archives. If you're too ignorant to learn about the medium you're using and have things archived that you don't want archived tough. Though I suppose it can always go to court.

  9. Re:Just a little note on Brew your own SPARC: SPARC IP Core SCSLed · · Score: 1

    Here's one reason you might want to use SPARC in an embedded appliance. This is something I worked on the early stages of about a year ago. It has much more performance than the current generation of mpeg decoding CPU's.
    http://www.c-cube.com/technology/dvxpress.html#6

  10. Or Iowa on Trade Politicians Like Stocks · · Score: 1

    http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/
    I'd never heard of this before and I live in Iowa.