Often times, you aren't going to walk into a used book store with a "shopping list" and fulfill all the authors you want. But, that does not mean that they don't have a good selection of interesting reads.
Usually I see two main types of books available at the used places. You have your mainstream mega popular selection, where everybody ran out and bought a copy, read it, and then "recycled" it in an attempt to recoup some money. The other kind of books are the obscure books, that make you wonder who actually bought them in the first place. Most likely, somebody bought it, didn't like it, and dumped it quick as possible.
Its the second category where you find most of the good ones. But usually, if you are set on one author, its a hit and miss deal. But thats the beauty of the used place, its a gold mine of authors you've never read, but at the fraction of the cost of having to possibly read a bad book at full price.
No, not at all. I mean going down to your local bookstore, instead of buying it from some guy across the country. Its the lazy people who can't get off their asses and look locally, are the ones that are creating this new niche. And yes, I recognize this as a niche, but I don't see this being THE niche for used books, as the submitter eluded to.
I think that this is partially off. For the most part, it is correct that many people are able to buy/sell/trade in the "global marketplace" whereas they could not before. However, used bookstores have been around for a long long time, and they always seem to have a good selection, even in small towns. I can only see the "specialty" market actually being helped by this. Its only the lazy people who order groceries from the web and don't want to go down to the local used book store to look around.
Yeah, something like that, but not quite. The design is different, but it works the same way.
Surviving and reproducing dictate the needs. Cell mutations represent "choices". Bad choices don't make it. Good choices advance the individual, and its offspring. The ultimate authority in this case, is survivability.
But still, when that benevolent dictator splits and starts again, he still needs to be supported. (Or the project will fizzle, or split again.)
And gee, what does this remind you of? This sounds alot like "natural selection" to me. If it works for Nature, it should work for product development.
The benevolent dictatorship only works if that person has been placed on a pedastal by the people, and the people fully support him/her.
In the case of the Linux kernel, Linus's dictatorship works because he allows the individuals to make their own decisions, but steps when needed. He will say "Hey wait, we need to focus on X, not Y." And people say ok, lets do that. Then someobody will say "Hey Linux, My X2 works better, try this out." And if it works better, he'll accept it and run with it.
What most people fail to understand is that Linux has been around for as long as Windows. In fact, I started using Linux before I used windows 3.1. Windows 3.1 required a VGA card, and all I had was EGA. So Linux worked, and Windows didn't.
This is interesting, because I was just watching a show on the CIA last night. In it, the CIA said that the cost of maintaining proprietary stuff was unjustified, and that open and readily available commercial items were able to satisfy what they wanted. I doubt that the CIA and the Pentagon would be all that different in this regard. Government users of high end equipment realize that the expense of propietary systems (be it home grown or MS) is not worth it. They can get open source software, modify it to their needs, and not worry about. I'm sure MS would be a little more open with its code to someone like this, but what I think is the biggest threat by using MS is the same to the American consumer. MS puts out a buggy, hole ridden product, and keeps increasing the price as we become more dependant. Do you want MS having a choke hold on the military?
Just because Realnames was obviously wrong for trying to pin the failure of a bad business idea on Microsoft, doesn't mean that MS is right in any way. They still signed up with this stupid company to begin with.
I also see that allowing Realnames people to join the fight against MS by having them tell their sob story is sickening when we have real issues at hand, and at stake. It makes us as a group look bad to have a shady charachter in our ranks pretending to believe in what we do, when we all know that they don't believe, they just want to get even. But still, I don't see how the need to put a clear divider between the REAL fight against MS and this failed company shows that MS is right in any shape or form.
They aren't wrong in one tiny aspect, but they sure as hell aren't in the right. If anything, they are in the gray, in only one aspect of Realnames demise.
They even were selling off some of the Alpha patents before the Compaq merger. VMS was one of the few things nobody wanted to buy off from them.
Intel bought design rights to the Alpha core so they could jumpstart their ia64 cpu's, and then DEC sold off manufacturing rights to Samsung.
I loved DEC equipment, and will forever be an Alpha fanatic. It was ahead of its time, and didn't get marketed well enough by its designers. Kind of like Amiga's.
It costs about $9 a ticket per person to see a non matinee movie where I live. (That's in a suburb area in NJ outside NYC) Last time I went to a movie in Manhattan, it ended up costing $11 a ticket.
First off, I don't fully trust the FDA. Second, celastrus seed oil has been scientifically tested. It has also been used for thousands of years, without any recorded side effects.
I have a 40Gb Deskstar in one of my computers, and it has really rocked. I picked it because it had superior seek time, and was made by IBM, who is really putting alot of work into R&D. I'm sad to see them get out of this business, I was hoping to be a good customer of theirs.
About 3 years ago, I worked as a programmer/sysadmin at a community college. My boss used to buy cases of those Penguin Mints and gave them to his computer dept for free. This was also right after several people quit, and we were having to do all of their work, several new projects, a datacenter move, and our regular assigned jobs which we were hired for.
I have been taking celastrus seed oil pills for a couple weeks now, which boosts energy, and claims to boost brain function too (I do know that I am much more alert, to say the least). This is an all natural item, not something that a biochemist came up with. I highly recommend it.
Something to that affect, but much broader. A man falls sleep, spilling his beer and causing his house to burn. The smoke from the burning house causes a cancer to form in a cow, which ends up getting eaten by a mother, who's DNA gets mutated to have a a 3 headed baby, which is put on display, which causes some other kid to go insane and kill all of his 4th grade class. That sort of thing..
Damn hackers, all they do is sit around and don't pay big corporations money!
This is all a big conspiracy (on purpose or not) to erode our individual freedoms of speech, privacy, and the right to not spend our hard earned money.
I don't think simulations are ever going to get it right, because of so many possibilities that each of us encounter. People are too wishy washy, same events effect people differently, etc etc.
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Often times, you aren't going to walk into a used book store with a "shopping list" and fulfill all the authors you want. But, that does not mean that they don't have a good selection of interesting reads.
Usually I see two main types of books available at the used places. You have your mainstream mega popular selection, where everybody ran out and bought a copy, read it, and then "recycled" it in an attempt to recoup some money. The other kind of books are the obscure books, that make you wonder who actually bought them in the first place. Most likely, somebody bought it, didn't like it, and dumped it quick as possible.
Its the second category where you find most of the good ones. But usually, if you are set on one author, its a hit and miss deal. But thats the beauty of the used place, its a gold mine of authors you've never read, but at the fraction of the cost of having to possibly read a bad book at full price.
No, not at all. I mean going down to your local bookstore, instead of buying it from some guy across the country. Its the lazy people who can't get off their asses and look locally, are the ones that are creating this new niche. And yes, I recognize this as a niche, but I don't see this being THE niche for used books, as the submitter eluded to.
Yeah, I can see your point. A new middleman for the lazy. :)
I think that this is partially off. For the most part, it is correct that many people are able to buy/sell/trade in the "global marketplace" whereas they could not before. However, used bookstores have been around for a long long time, and they always seem to have a good selection, even in small towns. I can only see the "specialty" market actually being helped by this. Its only the lazy people who order groceries from the web and don't want to go down to the local used book store to look around.
Yeah, something like that, but not quite. The design is different, but it works the same way.
Surviving and reproducing dictate the needs. Cell mutations represent "choices". Bad choices don't make it. Good choices advance the individual, and its offspring. The ultimate authority in this case, is survivability.
Yes, I totally agree, and understand your point.
But still, when that benevolent dictator splits and starts again, he still needs to be supported. (Or the project will fizzle, or split again.)
And gee, what does this remind you of? This sounds alot like "natural selection" to me. If it works for Nature, it should work for product development.
The benevolent dictatorship only works if that person has been placed on a pedastal by the people, and the people fully support him/her.
In the case of the Linux kernel, Linus's dictatorship works because he allows the individuals to make their own decisions, but steps when needed. He will say "Hey wait, we need to focus on X, not Y." And people say ok, lets do that. Then someobody will say "Hey Linux, My X2 works better, try this out." And if it works better, he'll accept it and run with it.
First post AND on topic. That's a first too.
What most people fail to understand is that Linux has been around for as long as Windows. In fact, I started using Linux before I used windows 3.1. Windows 3.1 required a VGA card, and all I had was EGA. So Linux worked, and Windows didn't.
This is interesting, because I was just watching a show on the CIA last night. In it, the CIA said that the cost of maintaining proprietary stuff was unjustified, and that open and readily available commercial items were able to satisfy what they wanted. I doubt that the CIA and the Pentagon would be all that different in this regard. Government users of high end equipment realize that the expense of propietary systems (be it home grown or MS) is not worth it. They can get open source software, modify it to their needs, and not worry about. I'm sure MS would be a little more open with its code to someone like this, but what I think is the biggest threat by using MS is the same to the American consumer. MS puts out a buggy, hole ridden product, and keeps increasing the price as we become more dependant. Do you want MS having a choke hold on the military?
Was MS really right to begin with?
Just because Realnames was obviously wrong for trying to pin the failure of a bad business idea on Microsoft, doesn't mean that MS is right in any way. They still signed up with this stupid company to begin with.
I also see that allowing Realnames people to join the fight against MS by having them tell their sob story is sickening when we have real issues at hand, and at stake. It makes us as a group look bad to have a shady charachter in our ranks pretending to believe in what we do, when we all know that they don't believe, they just want to get even. But still, I don't see how the need to put a clear divider between the REAL fight against MS and this failed company shows that MS is right in any shape or form.
They aren't wrong in one tiny aspect, but they sure as hell aren't in the right. If anything, they are in the gray, in only one aspect of Realnames demise.
I live in NJ, but I have a 212 (NY) number, since I signed up with Vonage. (Which btw, kicks ass!)
I wonder if the NY laws allow me to be excluded from those telemarketers...
They even were selling off some of the Alpha patents before the Compaq merger. VMS was one of the few things nobody wanted to buy off from them.
Intel bought design rights to the Alpha core so they could jumpstart their ia64 cpu's, and then DEC sold off manufacturing rights to Samsung.
I loved DEC equipment, and will forever be an Alpha fanatic. It was ahead of its time, and didn't get marketed well enough by its designers. Kind of like Amiga's.
Lucky bastard...
It costs about $9 a ticket per person to see a non matinee movie where I live. (That's in a suburb area in NJ outside NYC) Last time I went to a movie in Manhattan, it ended up costing $11 a ticket.
Ok, I set myself up on that one. LOL
First off, I don't fully trust the FDA. Second, celastrus seed oil has been scientifically tested.
It has also been used for thousands of years, without any recorded side effects.
Sorry, but I trust nature over government.
Excuse me, I'm American, so my schoolin' was lacking. Oh, and not to mention the fact that sometimes people make mistakes and get things mixed up.
Either shut the fuck up, or come out and post with your name on it. Fucking AC's.
that I use Netscape!
Your a moron, but that doesn't mean you can't post here.
I have a 40Gb Deskstar in one of my computers, and it has really rocked. I picked it because it had superior seek time, and was made by IBM, who is really putting alot of work into R&D. I'm sad to see them get out of this business, I was hoping to be a good customer of theirs.
About 3 years ago, I worked as a programmer/sysadmin at a community college. My boss used to buy cases of those Penguin Mints and gave them to his computer dept for free. This was also right after several people quit, and we were having to do all of their work, several new projects, a datacenter move, and our regular assigned jobs which we were hired for.
I think you know why he gave the mints to us.
I have been taking celastrus seed oil pills for a couple weeks now, which boosts energy, and claims to boost brain function too (I do know that I am much more alert, to say the least). This is an all natural item, not something that a biochemist came up with. I highly recommend it.
Something to that affect, but much broader. A man falls sleep, spilling his beer and causing his house to burn. The smoke from the burning house causes a cancer to form in a cow, which ends up getting eaten by a mother, who's DNA gets mutated to have a a 3 headed baby, which is put on display, which causes some other kid to go insane and kill all of his 4th grade class. That sort of thing..
Damn hackers, all they do is sit around and don't pay big corporations money!
This is all a big conspiracy (on purpose or not) to erode our individual freedoms of speech, privacy, and the right to not spend our hard earned money.
I don't think simulations are ever going to get it right, because of so many possibilities that each of us encounter. People are too wishy washy, same events effect people differently, etc etc.