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Uhhh... Guys... tone it down. How about talking about the topic and not the posters.
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Originally posted by Asher
Why would you want to corner a market in a market that is becoming obsolete?
Libraries are becoming less useful as work is digitized. You'd have to be stupid to start work in such a field today.
I didn't know that you would be such easy meat. I thought that you where yet another MS freak, but you REALLY don't have a clue about what is happening neither in computing nor in RL.
Do you really think that library systems only handle HW books ?
Oh, and I seriously doubt that HW libraries are a dying race - if that was the case you would see a decline in publications instead of the increase that is going on.
Maybe you should dust off your good ole libsys and see if you could make a dime
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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Sorry, didn't see that before posting last oneOriginally posted by Ming
Uhhh... Guys... tone it down. How about talking about the topic and not the posters.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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All I know is my university library (which is the largest in western Canada) is pretty abandonded these days, and the University just announced a $113M project (the Campus Digital Library) to digitize all of the UofC's books in the 14-story library tower and 9 other libraries across campus, and then integrating these into Google Scholar as well. All of the post-secondary institutions in Alberta will then be able to pool their resources and books.
Combined with the integration of Google Scholar we already have, very few people are using hardcover books (I presume that's what you mean by HW).
Hardcover libraries are on the way out. Just the way it is."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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That's cheap
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Guess that they don't have that many booksOriginally posted by Provost Harrison
That's cheap
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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ROFLMAO.
European humour..."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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A market where a single library will spend $113M isn't worth anything ?Originally posted by Asher
All I know is my university library (which is the largest in western Canada) is pretty abandonded these days, and the University just announced a $113M project (the Campus Digital Library) to digitize all of the UofC's books in the 14-story library tower and 9 other libraries across campus, and then integrating these into Google Scholar as well. All of the post-secondary institutions in Alberta will then be able to pool their resources and books.
Combined with the integration of Google Scholar we already have, very few people are using hardcover books (I presume that's what you mean by HW).
Hardcover libraries are on the way out. Just the way it is.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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What about reading culture? Does noone value a good book anymore nowadays?
Reading on the screen for too long makes my eyes hurt, but then those flat screens might be better.
Anyone got any experiences to share? Especially people who don't wear glasses would be a true source of information here.Comment
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See, this is why you're a code monkey.Originally posted by BlackCat
A market where a single library will spend $113M isn't worth anything ?
$113M isn't something to scoff at. If you had any business sense, or even common sense, you' realize that's a good deal to get.
And the whole point is it's not going towards companies like the one you work for. The original proposal was to build another library tower to cater for the expanding student base. It was rejected instead, and the province is digitizing post-secondary instutitions and sharing the information across all of them. It's the way it's going to happen in the future."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Higher dpi monitors are coming out this year and will be supported by Windows Vista, it'll help people like you that find it hard to read on the screen.Originally posted by Ecthy
What about reading culture? Does noone value a good book anymore nowadays?
Reading on the screen for too long makes my eyes hurt, but then those flat screens might be better.
Anyone got any experiences to share? Especially people who don't wear glasses would be a true source of information here.
With the other advancements in epaper as well, it's not hard to see that library systems based on hardcover books is not a very strong industry to be in."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Originally posted by Asher
See, this is why you're a code monkey.
$113M isn't something to scoff at. If you had any business sense, or even common sense, you' realize that's a good deal to get.
And the whole point is it's not going towards companies like the one you work for. The original proposal was to build another library tower to cater for the expanding student base. It was rejected instead, and the province is digitizing post-secondary instutitions and sharing the information across all of them. It's the way it's going to happen in the future.
Yet another time you display you haven't a clue of what you are talking about. I guess that most library system companies could have taken that job and they probably would do it better than Google.
Do you really think that we only handle hardcover books/videos/cd/DVD ?
Hate to say it, but the real world has long time ago surpassed your imagination.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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All I know is you've displayed profound ignorance on large-project software engineering, been extremely hesitant to say which company you actually work for and which product you actually make, and the reasons for your secrecy are obvious to anyone with a clue.
You make simplistic software for simplistic markets using simplistic tools. If you think it's complicated, it's only because you're intellectually challenged."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Originally posted by Asher
All I know is you've displayed profound ignorance on large-project software engineering, been extremely hesitant to say which company you actually work for and which product you actually make, and the reasons for your secrecy are obvious to anyone with a clue.
It's becoming a little boring, but you still displays that you don't have a clue about the subjectYou make simplistic software for simplistic markets using simplistic tools. If you think it's complicated, it's only because you're intellectually challenged.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergComment
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It's only 9.1 million figures long. What's that, 9 megs?Originally posted by Kuciwalker
You couldn't store that number in a computer the size of the universe."I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
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