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Karen Wiesner
kwiesner@...
Sep 1, 2001 12:45 pm
x-post I have a new article out. It's the feature article in the August 31, 2001 issue of the SF Romance Newsletter: SF/F and Epublishing: An...
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Christine.Zang@...
Sep 1, 2001 1:05 pm
sorry, I messed up my own URL, its: http://www.dreamwater.com/spindler Cheers Christine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.christinespindler.com ...
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Roger Sperberg
rsperberg@...
Sep 2, 2001 9:07 pm
I don't know if anyone noticed but a travel advisory has been issued for computer programmers. Reuters sent out this news item: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia...
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Chris Smith
smith@...
Sep 2, 2001 9:13 pm
... The usual ebook reading platforms are not well suited to the audio-ebook. However, as you note, many of the audio book listeners are not going to read the...
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Chris Smith
smith@...
Sep 2, 2001 9:27 pm
... ... You're on the right track. English results in the average value of each additional letter being 1 BIT. So, on average after compression, each word will...
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Prince Mu-Chao
pmc@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:00 pm
... .. which is why zipping a text file results in a zip file that is 1/4 size of the original, whereas zipping a program or a PDF results in a file 10-20% ...
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Roger Sperberg
rsperberg@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:13 pm
... I went and I am convinced. This is head and shoulders above the best TTS I've heard before now. Is this an engine that can be installed on a local machine?...
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Ichimusai
ichi@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:23 pm
+-----[ "Roger Sperberg" <rsperberg@...> ]----- ... +----- No, you can buy it from them. +----- ... +----- But reading a book? Like a Shakespear drama,...
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Roger Sperberg
rsperberg@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:48 pm
... Well, I plunged back into the ATT pages and found this system requirement: 500 mHz speed and 512 MB RAM. That's out of reach of today's PocketPC and also...
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Daniel P. B. Smith
dpbsmith@...
Sep 3, 2001 11:48 am
This is all very intriguing. I agree with those who are pessimistic... the problem is the combinatorics. I think that the difference in "reach" between one...
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Mary E Tyler
dejah@...
Sep 3, 2001 12:01 pm
... This is not correct. One book length submission at a time. Fee US$30. Articles and shorts etc may be submitted in a packet of several (to many) at a time....
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Mark Rauterkus
mrauterkus@...
Sep 3, 2001 12:10 pm
... A greeting card, perhaps - IANAL. Mark R....
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Michael Hart
hart@...
Sep 3, 2001 1:39 pm
Definitely one of the best I have ever seen. I read it word for word. . . . One thing I left out was "The Library Of The Future." This was a CD prepared by the...
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Michael Hart
hart@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:05 pm
... Actually, once a longer work has been copyrighted, even short quotations have the full weight of the copyright on them, as long as they are unique. This is...
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Michael Hart
hart@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:25 pm
... I must disagree. . .if I buy a car for $100, or even rebuild it myself, I still have to pay much higher fees than that, and repay most ever year, not to...
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Michael Hart
hart@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:33 pm
Of course, we haven't mentioned compression at all here. I wonder why not? Given the most common few thousand nouns, verbs. etc., compression of a database...
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Michael Hart
hart@...
Sep 3, 2001 3:06 pm
... There are places you can get 512M for $28. . . . Michael...
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Daniel P. B. Smith
dpbsmith@...
Sep 3, 2001 7:03 pm
What do the following writers have in common? James Agee, Isabella Allende, Maya Angelou, Saul Bellow, MacKinlay Cantor, John Cheever, E. L. Doctorow, William...
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Lida
publisher@...
Sep 3, 2001 7:20 pm
Folks, I am compiling September and October ebook release info for the eBook Ecstasy newsletter. From the epublishers, I am most interested in info on three or...
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Pat Montague
patmontague@...
Sep 3, 2001 7:25 pm
I'm guessing here, but could it be that all these writers were first published in The New Yorker???? Pat What do the following writers have in common? James...
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Prince Mu-Chao
pmc@...
Sep 3, 2001 8:03 pm
They are all in your email? * * * * * Prince Mu-Chao "Bright one, isn't he? I say Pulitzers" - Ambrose Bierce ... From: "Daniel P. B. Smith"...
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Mary E Tyler
dejah@...
Sep 3, 2001 8:30 pm
... their names are all listed in this email? dej -- ... Caught between love and lust, despair and determination, a golden boy and a troubled man, Elayne is On...
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Richard Gaskin
Ambassador@...
Sep 3, 2001 9:08 pm
... That was a good read. I'm surprised they don't issue a travel advisory about the risks of breaking a leg in one of the few industrialized countries that...
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Lance Purple
lpurple@...
Sep 3, 2001 10:32 pm
IANAL, but I'd expect courts to reject this on a number of grounds if someone actually tried to enforce such a copyright: A) Works must contain "a minimal...
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russotto@...
Sep 3, 2001 11:48 pm
... quotations ... are unique. ... students are ... Ever read Spider Robinson's "Melancholy Elephants"? It's available in an eBook from Baen. I once posted on...
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Mary E Tyler
dejah@...
Sep 4, 2001 12:02 am
... I think we've experienced thread drift there. I never understood the original idea to include *copyrighting* every sentence, only *recording* every...
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Jon Jermey
jonjermey@...
Sep 4, 2001 12:11 am
Back in the days when computer magazines distributed source code and not CDs, there was a wonderful program around called Travesty. I wrote a version in Pascal...
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Doug Clapp
dclapp@...
Sep 4, 2001 1:46 am
An aside on copyright. From the translator's preface to Don Quixote, by translator John Ormsby: ...the First Part of “Don Quixote” lay on his hands some...
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Ichimusai
ichi@...
Sep 4, 2001 5:24 am
+-----[ "Jon Jermey" <jonjermey@...> ]----- ... +----- Search for "Markov Chains" this sounds like the perfect application for such an algorithm...
