I've lost the context of the point, but it seems as though you are asking for a specific example of how business categories can clash with social values. I...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Jun 12, 1999 12:52 pm
... If you want to change how the world looks at such things, you have to put your own money and effort into it. Don't buy sports tickets at inflated prices,...
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Dave Pawson
dave.pawson@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 13, 1999 6:09 am
... One answer that came to me this weekend. The 'social' element goes between the tags, the technical element within the pointy brackets. <techie-bit>authors...
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brownh@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Jun 19, 1999 1:40 pm
Chuck, ... Aha! Exactly my point. My wild guess is that history professors write on average two books in their careers, primarily because they have to. A...
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brownh@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Jun 19, 1999 2:05 pm
Millard, The charge that e-documents are "ephemeral" is one that I've encountered personally and find annoying because its usually because the person making...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 20, 1999 4:48 pm
... 1. All visble light is sent to us by electrons. . .making them, in one very real sense, the ONLY visible things in the Universe. 2. I can't really pay...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Jun 22, 1999 1:01 pm
... That is always the stickler problem in this society, and it drives me up the wall. Its one of the reasons I went away from trying to market anything I...
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Doug Klein
klein@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 22, 1999 1:15 pm
... The Rocket eBook (Franklin or NuvoMedia branded) can be upgraded with a pretty straightforward software download from our web site. (See ...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 22, 1999 2:54 pm
... Would you care to send me any of what you have written? ... The way around this is "SneakerNet". . .just encourage your users to share the information on...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 22, 1999 3:45 pm
... Obviously the problem is twofold. . .one medium is too fast, while the other is too slow. . .the fault lies with the fact that your journals move too...
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John Woodthorpe
lists@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx...
Jun 22, 1999 3:45 pm
In message <376EF17C.3285@...> ... Modern ones do. I find the screen is clear enough on the Palm V and Palm IIIx to read under most lighting...
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Bowerbird@xxx.xxx
Jun 22, 1999 4:16 pm
... yes, it makes that easier, and lots of other tasks too. anything you want to be sold in bookstores should have an isbn. (since the "n" at the end stands...
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brownh@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Jun 22, 1999 6:04 pm
Michael, ... Hope you understand that I was raising the objections of traditional scholarship to focus debate and that I'm not unsympathetic to some of your...
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brownh@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Jun 22, 1999 6:08 pm
Lisa, ... Perhaps Michael H. will enlighten us about alexis.com (and why it smacks of 1984). Also, I've heard that XML offers a way around this, but wonder...
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brownh@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Jun 22, 1999 6:22 pm
Rich, ... True, but in practice it seems important that we can place some reliance on the critical source editions. Merely a lack of guarantee does not mean...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Jun 22, 1999 8:05 pm
... Most of its on my website, but I can zip it up and send it along. Its not scholarly or necessarily of value to everyone, and a lot of what I write is ...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 22, 1999 8:36 pm
... {snip} ... I certainly do not like the concept that only those with access to the costliest and rarest copies have any chance an "an authoritative edition"...
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zendog
zendog@xxxxxxx.xxxxx....
Jun 22, 1999 9:30 pm
One of the problems the networked information universe will have to deal with is authentication. You may be right than nobody really cares what actually IS in...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 22, 1999 9:27 pm
... Well. . .I certainly do think Project Gutenberg is the first example of what will become a new paradigm. . .in fact. . .I think the paradigm may be more...
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Rich Kulawiec
rsk@xxx.xxxx
Jun 22, 1999 11:57 pm
... Yes, that's very much the gist of what I was trying to say. In the conventional world, we have experts who can ascertain which editions constitute original...
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Lisa L. Spangenberg
lisaspangenberg@xxxxx...
Jun 23, 1999 1:28 am
... That's why you have to serve some sort of an apprenticeship learning how to produce editions of texts. It's not easy, especially working with texts that...
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CCrow21993@xxx.xxx
Jun 23, 1999 4:10 am
In a message dated 6/22/99 8:16:52 AM Central Daylight Time, klein@... writes: << I believe it's real weakness is the ... I agree. Had a Rocket...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 23, 1999 10:55 am
... So we need to know what it is to defend it. . .but _I_ am not the sort who tries to change the meaning of it by inserting or a deleting a comma. The...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 23, 1999 11:03 am
... If you can email me anything that stands alone, I would be glad to look at it, not sure if I have the proper background in D&D, etc., for the rest. . . . ...
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brownh@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Jun 23, 1999 3:07 am
Michael, ... I don't like the idea either, but my point was (right or wrong) that the whole notion of critical editions has presumed their cost and scarcity....
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 23, 1999 12:05 pm
... Hmmm. . .a strangely disconcerting thought. And if they could NOT be created in great numbers at little cost, the the public is simply left out of the...
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Deena Larsen
textra@xxxxx.xxxx
Jun 23, 1999 3:12 am
Hi,. I have a copyright issue that I would like to get some advice on. My hypertext in progress is a mystery that tracks a girl's disappearance by referring...
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Joseph Teller
fantasyrealms@xxxxxxx...
Jun 23, 1999 12:42 pm
... What size battery (and type) were they using? Batteries are the big weight problem in a lot of notebook computers, this could be our inadequate battery ...
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Lance Purple
lpurple@xxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 23, 1999 2:46 pm
... Not necessarily; you could have critical e-texts (or audio files, or any other binary file), signed with a digital authentication code from some ...
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Michael S. Hart
hart@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 23, 1999 3:23 pm
... Actually, you could just use COMP or "diff" or any other file comparison program to show you the differences between any two files you suspect are not...
