To get this sort of thing working, you'd need to write to a number of dictionary publishers, and ask them nicely for a copy of a previous edition's typeset tape. It'll be in a horrible format, all control codes, but it will be possible to reconstitute it to a decent structured form.
I'm suspicious of the claims made of the 1911 Webster that's going around. Dictionaries have come a long way since then; the style is more discursive, less abbreviated, and there are many key words that just weren't around then.
I've done a lot of dictionary text conversion; it's not easy, but can be done. With many eyes, the process should be simple.
Air con is unheard of in a house You don't need it. It never gets hot enough here. Summer temperatures rarely exceed 27C/80F; a Midwestern spring day.
Our govt doesn't like us driving Yeah, well, when you consider how badly messed up the country is by over-reliance on the car, it's no surprise. Until they're properly taxed by usage, cars will proliferate like rats.
Our health service is free... And it SUCKS It's not as good as it should be, but you'll get emergency care quickly and free. What sucks is that for-profit healthcare is creeping into this country; somebody else gets what you paid for!
patent protection . ..should be reserved for REALLY new and novel ideas, not obvious, stupid ones.
Didn't the US Patent office insert a clause in their regulations allowing only nonobvious patent applications more than a century ago? The mid-19th century had a similar flood of patents, many of them as zany as this one.
One has to wonder what the Patent Office's definition of obvious is. It's patently different from ours.
The internet is only providing a form of free speech for those that can afford it. As ever, the poor are unrepresented.
Take a walk through Mencken's old neighbourhood in South West Baltimore. I guess it would be easy to call it run down. The people there have their problems, but technology isn't solving any of them.
If you're not innovating by small increments in a fast-moving market, you're going nowhere. And even standing still in a growing market means you're going out of business.
If you've got the capital to invest in big development projects, sure, you can go for a huge return -- but with an equally huge risk. But small, rapid investments yield more efficient returns; it's pretty simple to demonstrate that the innovation investment against return graph is an inverted quadratic curve.
So maybe our Bazaar, with its many and rapid small 'investments' could end up a better business proposition than the monolithic Cathedral...
Most of the above arguments are well and good. Yes, *we* know about FUD, but discussing all this in our own safe little cubby-hole that is/. isn't getting the message out.
...you're probably better off with a PC and Linux. The Ultra 5 I'm using right now (a couple of weeks old) is hampered by slow IO, espcially on the CD-ROM (which, under Solaris, is only single-session and makes the CPU hit 90%+ IOWait under heavy use).
They don't even have the nice Mouse Systems optical mice any more...
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To get this sort of thing working, you'd need to write to a number of dictionary publishers, and ask them nicely for a copy of a previous edition's typeset tape. It'll be in a horrible format, all
control codes, but it will be possible to reconstitute it to a decent structured form.
I'm suspicious of the claims made of the 1911 Webster that's going around. Dictionaries have come a long way since then; the style is more discursive, less abbreviated, and there are many key words that just weren't around then.
I've done a lot of dictionary text conversion; it's not easy, but can be done. With many eyes, the process should be simple.
Air con is unheard of in a house
You don't need it. It never gets hot enough here. Summer temperatures rarely exceed 27C/80F; a Midwestern spring day.
Our govt doesn't like us driving
Yeah, well, when you consider how badly messed up the country is by over-reliance on the car, it's no surprise. Until they're properly taxed by usage, cars will proliferate like rats.
Our health service is free ... And it SUCKS
It's not as good as it should be, but you'll get emergency care quickly and free. What sucks is that for-profit healthcare is creeping into this country; somebody else gets what you paid for!
patent protection . . .should be reserved for REALLY new and novel ideas, not obvious, stupid ones.
Didn't the US Patent office insert a clause in their regulations allowing only nonobvious patent applications more than a century ago? The mid-19th century had a similar flood of patents, many of them as zany as this one.
One has to wonder what the Patent Office's definition of obvious is. It's patently different from ours.
The internet is only providing a form of free speech for those that can afford it. As ever, the poor are unrepresented.
Take a walk through Mencken's old neighbourhood in South West Baltimore. I guess it would be easy to call it run down. The people there have their problems, but technology isn't solving any of them.
If you're not innovating by small increments in a fast-moving market, you're going nowhere. And even standing still in a growing market means you're going out of business.
If you've got the capital to invest in big development projects, sure, you can go for a huge return -- but with an equally huge risk. But small, rapid investments yield more efficient returns; it's pretty simple to demonstrate that the innovation investment against return graph is an inverted quadratic curve.
So maybe our Bazaar, with its many and rapid small 'investments' could end up a better business proposition than the monolithic Cathedral...
Most of the above arguments are well and good. Yes, *we* know about FUD, but discussing all this in our own safe little cubby-hole that is /. isn't getting the message out.
://crit.org/http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/ news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp and most importantly, tell people about it!
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...you're probably better off with a PC and Linux. The Ultra 5 I'm using right now (a couple of weeks old) is hampered by slow IO, espcially on the CD-ROM (which, under Solaris, is only single-session and makes the CPU hit 90%+ IOWait under heavy use).
They don't even have the nice Mouse Systems optical mice any more...