I performed a fully manual update, first searching by ISBN then inserting the full record and price into a StarOffice calc sheet. This was quite tiresome. You should do BETTER by ordering LOC on a CD. This way you might perhaps write a quickie program to scan the ISBN and retrieve LOC information. Does anyone know of an pre existing program that also works like this? PLEASE LET US KNOW if you can point to a pre existing program (thanks).
I sorted my 570 book library by LOC number.
I did not label any books. My future plan is to scan a book's ISBN to locate info from a MySQL db.
A half dozen books were not found in LOC. Here LOC may list the first edition but not the second edition. Obviously you can make a good educated guess this way.
LOC's exist for VERY OLD books. For example 1908 "The Telegraph Instructor"
LOC order results in an interesting sort order, for example, where Tuft's "Visual Display of Quantative Information" is in QA276 Statistics-Graphics Methods while Tuft's "Visual Explanations" is in P93 Visual Communication. Also fascinating are the adjacent books after organizing them in LOC number.
Any librarians out there, please feel free to add to this!
Ok, thanks jhermans. Good rating too. I wish that the Firefox team would update Deer Park Alpha 2 instead. But I cannot change the direction the wind blows nor the direction of BonEcho.
What is Bon Echo anyhow? Yet another version of Firefox? Why does Firefox ignore Firefox 2 Alpha? Or is Firefox 2 Alpha now another dead armadillo with its legs in the air and flys buzzing around like Mozilla 1.7.11? I click on Firefox 2 Alpha help\check for updates and get the message "there are no new updates available".
RexRhino makes excellent points. I am rating you up a some!
USA doing as a people vs the government. Yes Rex, I had the government in mind because it would take a higher level of oversight to do this. Not government as we currently enjoy because it would take a government of a different mindset.
Your comments on JIT manufacturing and burdensome overhead. Again the current executive structure (i.e EPA, FDA, Sarbanes Oxley, et all) are not set up to nurture companies. They are set up for seemingly draconian punishment to scare companies to be better in other areas. The solution is not to bureaucratically oversee nor is it to remove all restraints. Its a modification of both. Kind of like parents raise a child.
True the minimum number of widgets might cost a lot more in the USA than overseas but thats exactly it. We have to expect a somewhat higher cost for the mimimum widgets.
I realize my comments are much of a 'pie in the sky' nature but somehow we need to see a better path beyond our current economic issues.
May I suggest that all slashdotters consider this thought? Especially any economists. Read the concept, note it down, then re-read your notes before you go to bed. Upon awakening see if any new ideas have surfaced and respond. OK, here goes.
The USA should safeguard its people from troubles anywhere in the world. Therefore I suggest that the USA should keep and nourish in the USA some minimum, perhaps of 20-30%, of the industries that are outsourced. This would not be entirely cost efficient because its not as purely efficient an economy that eternally chases the lowest price. Take for example if a considerable amount of international steelmaking capacity goes away, then we should have sufficient capacity to supply the minimum level. Another example might be like maintaining a mimimum level of heating in the winter to kind of survive - like 45 degrees. Here we are not looking for comfort but survival. Flu vaccine is another area that would need to be supported. In the 1970's we had (I believe) 24-26 companies that manufactured flu vaccines. Now we have four which is barely enough today to supply and protect from seasonal type A viruses. I guess Malcom Gladwell's "Tipping Point" might provide another perspective of how to picture the minimum level needed.
This would also turn the 'just in time manufacturing' on its head because a minimum amount of raw materials and goods would have to be kept in the pipeline. Of course employment and many areas of the economy would be affected.
Here is an off topic suggestion is to make slashdot more like the better blogs are with insightful and thought out comments rather than what we typically see. Perhaps rather than react to stories (i.e. current mode), slashdot could request think pieces on various ideas then we could comment on these.
Hmm whats flawed here? Not the study. If cellphones disable GPS then the remaining location method is INS. What if INS itself gets messed up and GPS squaks "RAIM"? Do you start praying or look for another redundant system? Thats why the human immune system has multiple defenses (i.e. macrophages and antibodies) and the space shuttle has five launch computers. The word is backup. If your application is critical, and I would consider airflight to be critical, then redundant systems are not nice but necessary.
Resources "They Write the Right Stuff" See the first paragraph. www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.html "How The Immune System Works", Lauren Sompayrac
Cheers, Jim
Source of the REAL story at Ft Worth Star Telegram
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RadioShack CEO Resigns
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Ok, I live in Dallas and its all over the news here. Faked academic credentials. I have only seen vague comments before re this on/. So below are links to the actual stories. Pity about Forbes too. That story focuses on the business and not personalities. The WSJ in last Friday's RadioShack investor call did better by quoting the RS ethics statement - with no reply from RS.
Yep, I am for cameras in my apartment. Found out last night that someone had broken into my locked antique bookcase. They bent the brass door lock like crazy. This was not an apartment break in but happened during limited PERMITTRED access.
Could have been the bug sprayer guy, the fire sprinkler inspectors, or twice yearly apartment inspections. Seems that half of Dallas goes through my apartment.
Notices are rarely left. I can tell by tracks on the vaccumed carpet.
Therefore I AM GOING TO GET CAMERAS. Would be delightful DREAM if those police cameras might capture the malfesants without requiring my interaction.
DON'T KNOW IF POLICE CAMERAS WOULD WORK. POLICE ARE BASICALLY CRIME JANITORS. They won't save you but perhaps save the next person down the line from the same felon.
Two items here: trouble with huge queries and is the IBM offer only a tease?
TROUBLE. I had trouble running some of my huge queries on DB2. I had to add SQL to split the queries to return partial results. Took a week to produce a final result set. My queries may not have had sufficient permissions to eat all the CPU cycles.
Then when NCR's Teradata came out my company went to that. Teradat is a whole different kind of RDB. First its a 4way box that indexes the data. Then,like WalMart, we had huge 42 (maybe more) node machines. Teradata ran my queries in two hours. The table was a few hundred million records. While performance is good, the problem with Teradata is maintenance is expensive - maybe 17 million dollars a year.
I think we are being offered a lesser RDB. The best one is IBM's DB2 Universal Database Data Warehouse. Is the jewel that will run more than two processors.
HOW THE BIG GUYS DO IT. I used to work at JCPenney headquarters in Plano TX. They built their HQ back about 14 years ago. At night they chill a series of water tanks using low rate kilowatts. Then during the day that chilled water is used for HVAC. Of course heating can be done the same way.
ITS A DUSTY PLANET. If this company has done it, then most likely an amazing number of recent office buildings have done it.
NOT NOTICING? And like others, I have considerable reservations about 'not even noticing' a cooler temperature in the morning. In the controlled environment at JCP they certainly turned OFF AC in the evenings and weekends. Yep I noticed that. Same thing in reverse in winter.
JUST A GRAD PAPER? Seems to me to be yet another graduate research project unleashed on an unwanting world. A better approach would be to somehow retrofit those 'package' HVAC units to chill a different mass such as an external tank.
Slashdot Mirror
Your best bet would be using the Library of Congress system (i.e. LOC). The LOC search page URL is posted below.
o cal&PAGE=First
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=l
I performed a fully manual update, first searching by ISBN then inserting the full record and price into a StarOffice calc sheet. This was quite tiresome. You should do BETTER by ordering LOC on a CD. This way you might perhaps write a quickie program to scan the ISBN and retrieve LOC information. Does anyone know of an pre existing program that also works like this? PLEASE LET US KNOW if you can point to a pre existing program (thanks).
I sorted my 570 book library by LOC number.
I did not label any books. My future plan is to scan a book's ISBN to locate info from a MySQL db.
A half dozen books were not found in LOC. Here LOC may list the first edition but not the second edition. Obviously you can make a good educated guess this way.
LOC's exist for VERY OLD books. For example 1908 "The Telegraph Instructor"
LOC order results in an interesting sort order, for example, where Tuft's "Visual Display of Quantative Information" is in QA276 Statistics-Graphics Methods while Tuft's "Visual Explanations" is in P93 Visual Communication. Also fascinating are the adjacent books after organizing them in LOC number.
Any librarians out there, please feel free to add to this!
Good luck,
Jim
Ok, thanks jhermans. Good rating too. I wish that the Firefox team would update Deer Park Alpha 2 instead. But I cannot change the direction the wind blows nor the direction of BonEcho.
Thanks again,
Jim
What is Bon Echo anyhow? Yet another version of Firefox? Why does Firefox ignore Firefox 2 Alpha? Or is Firefox 2 Alpha now another dead armadillo with its legs in the air and flys buzzing around like Mozilla 1.7.11? I click on Firefox 2 Alpha help\check for updates and get the message "there are no new updates available".
Disgruntledly,
Jim
RexRhino makes excellent points. I am rating you up a some!
USA doing as a people vs the government. Yes Rex, I had the government in mind because it would take a higher level of oversight to do this. Not government as we currently enjoy because it would take a government of a different mindset.
Your comments on JIT manufacturing and burdensome overhead. Again the current executive structure (i.e EPA, FDA, Sarbanes Oxley, et all) are not set up to nurture companies. They are set up for seemingly draconian punishment to scare companies to be better in other areas. The solution is not to bureaucratically oversee nor is it to remove all restraints. Its a modification of both. Kind of like parents raise a child.
True the minimum number of widgets might cost a lot more in the USA than overseas but thats exactly it. We have to expect a somewhat higher cost for the mimimum widgets.
I realize my comments are much of a 'pie in the sky' nature but somehow we need to see a better path beyond our current economic issues.
Thanks again,
Jim Burke
May I suggest that all slashdotters consider this thought? Especially any economists. Read the concept, note it down, then re-read your notes before you go to bed. Upon awakening see if any new ideas have surfaced and respond. OK, here goes.
The USA should safeguard its people from troubles anywhere in the world. Therefore I suggest that the USA should keep and nourish in the USA some minimum, perhaps of 20-30%, of the industries that are outsourced. This would not be entirely cost efficient because its not as purely efficient an economy that eternally chases the lowest price. Take for example if a considerable amount of international steelmaking capacity goes away, then we should have sufficient capacity to supply the minimum level. Another example might be like maintaining a mimimum level of heating in the winter to kind of survive - like 45 degrees. Here we are not looking for comfort but survival. Flu vaccine is another area that would need to be supported. In the 1970's we had (I believe) 24-26 companies that manufactured flu vaccines. Now we have four which is barely enough today to supply and protect from seasonal type A viruses. I guess Malcom Gladwell's "Tipping Point" might provide another perspective of how to picture the minimum level needed.
This would also turn the 'just in time manufacturing' on its head because a minimum amount of raw materials and goods would have to be kept in the pipeline. Of course employment and many areas of the economy would be affected.
Here is an off topic suggestion is to make slashdot more like the better blogs are with insightful and thought out comments rather than what we typically see. Perhaps rather than react to stories (i.e. current mode), slashdot could request think pieces on various ideas then we could comment on these.
Thanks,
Jim Burke
Hmm whats flawed here? Not the study. If cellphones disable GPS then the remaining location method is INS. What if INS itself gets messed up and GPS squaks "RAIM"? Do you start praying or look for another redundant system? Thats why the human immune system has multiple defenses (i.e. macrophages and antibodies) and the space shuttle has five launch computers. The word is backup. If your application is critical, and I would consider airflight to be critical, then redundant systems are not nice but necessary.
Resources
"They Write the Right Stuff" See the first paragraph.
www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.html
"How The Immune System Works", Lauren Sompayrac
Cheers,
Jim
Ok, I live in Dallas and its all over the news here. Faked academic credentials. I have only seen vague comments before re this on /. So below are links to the actual stories. Pity about Forbes too. That story focuses on the business and not personalities. The WSJ in last Friday's RadioShack investor call did better by quoting the RS ethics statement - with no reply from RS.
g es/special_reports/13870480.htm
g es/special_reports/13877117.htm
d mondsons.html#comments
Resume is in question
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/special_packa
Pastor cannot verify RadioShack CEO's Account on Diploma
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/special_packa
This one is a different perspective on "don't need no diploma" but you do need ethics
http://blogs.dfw.com/schnurmanator/2006/02/dave_e
TUESDAY 02/14/05 WHEN ALL WAS REVEALED Oh the degree? It got burned in a fire....
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/13867927.htm
Yep, I am for cameras in my apartment. Found out last night that someone had broken into my locked antique bookcase. They bent the brass door lock like crazy. This was not an apartment break in but happened during limited PERMITTRED access.
Could have been the bug sprayer guy, the fire sprinkler inspectors, or twice yearly apartment inspections. Seems that half of Dallas goes through my apartment.
Notices are rarely left. I can tell by tracks on the vaccumed carpet.
Therefore I AM GOING TO GET CAMERAS. Would be delightful DREAM if those police cameras might capture the malfesants without requiring my interaction.
DON'T KNOW IF POLICE CAMERAS WOULD WORK. POLICE ARE BASICALLY CRIME JANITORS. They won't save you but perhaps save the next person down the line from the same felon.
Jim of Dallas
Two items here: trouble with huge queries and is the IBM offer only a tease?
TROUBLE. I had trouble running some of my huge queries on DB2. I had to add SQL to split the queries to return partial results. Took a week to produce a final result set. My queries may not have had sufficient permissions to eat all the CPU cycles.
Then when NCR's Teradata came out my company went to that. Teradat is a whole different kind of RDB. First its a 4way box that indexes the data. Then,like WalMart, we had huge 42 (maybe more) node machines. Teradata ran my queries in two hours. The table was a few hundred million records. While performance is good, the problem with Teradata is maintenance is expensive - maybe 17 million dollars a year.
I think we are being offered a lesser RDB. The best one is IBM's DB2 Universal Database Data Warehouse. Is the jewel that will run more than two processors.
HOW THE BIG GUYS DO IT. I used to work at JCPenney headquarters in Plano TX. They built their HQ back about 14 years ago. At night they chill a series of water tanks using low rate kilowatts. Then during the day that chilled water is used for HVAC. Of course heating can be done the same way. ITS A DUSTY PLANET. If this company has done it, then most likely an amazing number of recent office buildings have done it. NOT NOTICING? And like others, I have considerable reservations about 'not even noticing' a cooler temperature in the morning. In the controlled environment at JCP they certainly turned OFF AC in the evenings and weekends. Yep I noticed that. Same thing in reverse in winter. JUST A GRAD PAPER? Seems to me to be yet another graduate research project unleashed on an unwanting world. A better approach would be to somehow retrofit those 'package' HVAC units to chill a different mass such as an external tank.