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Independent Media Center - included in normal Google searches, however. Structure Local IMC collectives are expected to be open and inclusive of a variety of different local left-wing activist organizations, so that even those without internet access can participate both in content creation and in content consumption. The structure is non-hierarchical in terms of political power relationships, though there do exist de facto hierarchies, due either to control over physical resources (i.e. servers), access to funding, the fact that certain "global" functions are needed, or simply because it makes sense to coordinate within geographically close regions, without any formal link to geographical borders. However, the existence of numerous redundant communication channels (such as publicly archived mailing lists [1], wiki pages and local face-to-face meetings) make it difficult for those at the top of these limited.
File sharing - sharing 5 File sharing and copyright 6 List of file-sharing utilities 7 Categories of clients: 8 Communities and external links 8.1 Portals 8.2 Mailing Lists 8.3 Newsgroups 8.4 Papers, Articles and Infant Projects 9 Credit File-sharing programs A variety of file-sharing programss is available on several different networks. Availability depends partly on operating system, and different networks have different features (for example, multiple-source downloads, different sorts of search limiting, and so on). Several major file-sharing programs contain spyware, which many users wish to avoid. File-sharing dynamics There are several major topics surrounding file sharing. Of them, the two primary dynamics are the benefits and drawbacks of Centralization vs Decentralization and Privacy / Anonymity, especially vs copyright protection and file-sharing legality. As well as the problem of spyware, a method for the.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - Counsel to devote full attention to wine writing. His interest in wine began in 1967, when he spent a month abroad during his Christmas vacation, visiting a girlfriend (who is now his wife of 30 years) at the University of Strasbourg in Alsace, France. By 1975, he began to think about writing about wine and commencing his own "independent, consumer's guide," largely because of the paucity of reliable information on wine quality. At that time, few wine writers or reviewers were not involved in the wine trade, and Parker felt their opinions were compromised by conflects of interest. Parker proposed to be a consumer advocate, unencumbered by the need to sell wine. Friends and family advised that his career in law should be given top priority, and that wine writing was.
Internet research - and other printed publications - was the primary source of in-depth information in the most of the world. In print, the book is the basic research unit. Consulting several books on a topic, and related subjects, was the usual research method for most people. Compared to the Internet, print physically limits access to information. A book has to be identified, then actually obtained. On the Net, the Web can be searched, and typically hundreds or thousands of documents can be found on a topic, within seconds. In addition, email (including mailing lists), online discussion forums (aka message boards, BBS's), and other personal communication facilities (instant messaging, IRC, newsgroups, etc) provide direct access to experts and other individuals with relevant interests and knowledge. As the Internet continues to expand, Internet research could.
Philatelic investment - -Following their defeat in World War II, the economies of both Germany and Japan were in a shambles. Most Germans and Japanese were very poor; consequently, very few could afford to spend money which they needed to survive on collecting stamps, and most of the unused stamps collected from these countries during the postwar period were sold to collectors in other countries and American GIs. As their economies grew, German and Japanese collectors bought back their own stamps, and prices for these early postwar stamps rose dramatically. -Mainland China (or the People's Rep. of China)- because Maoists despised stamp collectors as reactionary counter-revolutionaries, stamp collecting was illegal in the P.R.C. while Mao was alive. Most stamps collected from the P.R.C. during this period were sold overseas to American and European collectors.
George Cockcroft - writes under the pen name Luke Rhinehart (see that entry for info about his books). Most authors have nice biographies which show a place of birth, current location, and preferably a few nice pictures. Not this one. Those few facts and figures which are out in the public domain are uncertain. In any case, one would expect a diceperson to be free and loose with the truth. This is certainly the impression he gives when writing: "Finally, there is George Cockcroft. In theory he is the author of several books, including The Dice Man. For most of the last 30 years he has hidden behind the name of Luke Rhinehart, but in this book he begins to peek out behind Luke's bulky presence and reveal a few things about himself. Any.
Information science glossary of terms - an article, it is very useful for either browsing or keyword searching. An annotation (noun) is an explanatory or critical note or commentary. Annotation (verb) is the process of adding an explanatory or critical note or commentary to a text. Reference lists are often annotated with comments about what each resource covered and how useful it was. An appendix is a group of supplementary material appended to a text. It is usually related to the material in the main part of the text but not so closely related to it that it should be put into the main text. Put background information and supporting facts in the appendices. An example of a file that should be put in an appendix is a file of detailed charts and graphs of resent research.
Electronic mailing list - Electronic mailing list Mailing lists are a special usage of email that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users. Software is installed on a computer which processes incoming email messages, and, depending on their content, either acts on them internally or distributes the message to all users subscribed to the mailing list. Popular examples of mailing list software include GNU Mailman and Majordomo. Today, mailing lists are most often used for collaboration on various projects and as a way of distributing current news and other such information. One very popular mailing list is Bugtraq. Free web-based services offering an easy way to run and maintain such lists were popular in the late 1990s, but many of these were taken over or went bust, so.
Mailing list - Mailing list A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients. The term is often extended to include the people subscribed to such a list, so the group of subscribers are referred to as "the mailing list", or simply "the list". At least two quite different types of mailing lists can be defined: the first one is closer to the literal sense, where a "mailing list" of people is used as a recipient for newsletters, periodicals or advertising. Traditionally this was done through the postal system, but with the rise of e-mail, the electronic mailing list became popular. Such a list is usually unidirectional, with a list owner sending mail and subscribers.
Mailing list archive - Mailing list archive A mailing list archive is a collection of past messages from one or more electronic mailing lists. Such archives often include searching and indexing functionality. Geocrawler and MARC are two examples. Some popular free software programs for collecting mailing list archives are Hypermail and Mhonarc. See Wikipedia:Mailing lists for Wikipedia's mailing list archives. See also e-mail, Google Groups, GMANE.
Orders of magnitude (numbers) - of things, dimensionless numbers and probabilities. See also the order of magnitude lists on length, area, volume, mass and time and the overview article orders of magnitude, which has pointers to other similar lists. 10-24 10-21 10-18 10-15 10-12 10-9 Lottery: The odds of winning the Grand Prize (matching all 6 numbers) in the US Powerball Multistate Lottery, with a single ticket, under the current rules, are 120,526,770 to 1 against, for a probability of 8 × 10-9. Lottery: The odds of winning the Jackpot (matching the 6 main numbers) in the UK National Lottery, with a single ticket, under the current rules, are 13,983,816 to 1 against, for a probability of 7 × 10-8. 10-6 Poker: The odds of being dealt a royal flush in poker are 649,739 to 1.
GMANE - e-mail to news gateway. It allows users to access electronic mailing lists as if they were Usenet newsgroups. The project was initiated in 2001 by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, one of the authors of Gnus, an email client for Emacs..
GNU Mailman - GNU Mailman is software for managing electronic mailing lists. It is open source software, distributed freely under the GNU General Public License. Similar software programs include Majordomo and ezmlm; Mailman's chief distinction is its easy-to-use Web interface for list administration. Mailman is written in the Python language. It can work with any common Unix mail server software, including Postfix, Sendmail and qmail. User features include the Web interface, built-in archiving of messages, automatic processing of bounce messages, digest mode, and spam filtering..
AS/400 Command Language - 3 Prompting 4 Command Help 5 Creating new commands 6 Finding the right command 6.1 Standardized TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms) 6.2 Command Grouping Menus 6.3 Command Selection Commands and programs Parameters (aka arguments) defined in the main procedures of all traditional AS/400 programs are hard coded lists that are be made up of parameters that can be numeric, alphanumeric, boolean, etc and the order in which parameters are passed is important. This is a stark difference from the Unix & DOS words where the parameter list in Unix shell scripts and C programs is a set or array of character pointers and more often than not the parameters are not positionally dependent. The AS/400 developer's solution to this problem was the command object (*CMD). Each parameter is definied to be passed.
XEmacs - that XEmacs did not have proper support for text terminals (or emulators such as xterm). This was never true; XEmacs always ran without a windowing system. In fact, for a period of time it even had some terminal features, such as coloring, that Emacs lacked. XEmacs often directly integrates upstream code for independently maintained lisp packages, whereas the Emacs project performs testing on every package distributed with it. As a result, major lisp packages in XEmacs are usually more up-to-date. Historically, XEmacs had a more open development environment, including anonymous CVS access and publicly accessible development mailing lists. However, with the release of Emacs 21 in 2001, the Emacs project has provided both functions. The development models of the two projects are now very similar. XEmacs still has somewhat better X.
Comma (punctuation) - 1 Grammar 2 Numbers 3 Diacritic 4 Computer programming Grammar It is used to mark off separate elements in a sentence, introductory clauses, words in a series, parenthetical phrases, or interjections. Commas are also used to separate items in lists, and to present large numbers in a more readable form. These formal uses frequently also indicate a pause in speech. Writers often use optional commas for stylistic reasons, to indicate such a pause where none may be required, grammatically. Fowler's Modern English Usage demonstrates this optional use of commas with two sentences, differing only by a comma: "The teacher beat the scholar with a whip." A simple description. "The teacher beat the scholar, with a whip." Expression of outrage. The use of a comma before the word "and" in a list.
The Canadian Rockies Trail Guide - The Canadian Rockies Trail Guide The Canadian Rockies Trail Guide by Brian Patton and Bart Robinson, describes hundreds of hiking and backpacking trails in the Canadian Rockies. The first edition was published in 1971, with subsequent editions in 1978, 1986 and 2000 (7th). The book is published by Summerthought Ltd. of Banff, Alberta. For each trail, the book lists: the length of time normally required to complete the trail the amount of elevation gain or loss, in metres and feet the maximum elevation in metres and feet the topographic map(s) covering the area how to get to the trailhead distances, in metres, to notable features along the way detailed description The third (ISBN 0-919934-14-5) and later editions contain over 100 photographs..
