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We have REposted significantly improved 11th editions of the following:
Dec 1979 Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address [linc1xxx.xxx] 9
Nov 1994 The American, by Henry James [James #2] [theamxxx.xxx] 177
Oct 1997 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [US President] V2 [2musgxxx.xxx]1068
Jan 1998 The Chessman of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs[ERB#11][cmarsxxx.txt]1153
May 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2186
May 2001 Du Cote de Chez Swann, Marcel Proust [Proust #1][xswan11x.xxx]2650
[We are releasing as 7swan11.txt 8swan11.txt, and swan11h.htm and the .zips]
[This of Volume One of Proust's "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu"]
And edition 11a of:
Jun 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2225
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And here are the 22 new releases for this week.
22 Etext per week would yield 1144 per year, or
about 94 per 30 day month.
Most of our readers missed our announcements of this one before:
Jan 2003 The Chronicles of Clovis, by Saki [H. H. Munro] #6[clovsxxx.xxx]3688
[Since this was left out of the totals before, it is included this week]
Sep 2002 1001 Nights[Arabian Nights], V8, by Richard Burton[81001xxx.xxx]3442
[8 volumes done, 8 to go!!!!!!!]
Mar 2003 The Entire Marie Antoinette, by Campan [CM#54][cm54bxxx.xxx]3891
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v7 [CM#53][cm53bxxx.xxx]3890
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v6 [CM#52][cm52bxxx.xxx]3889
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v5 [CM#51][cm51bxxx.xxx]3888
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v4 [CM#50][cm50bxxx.xxx]3887
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v3 [CM#49][cm49bxxx.xxx]3886
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v2 [CM#48][cm48bxxx.xxx]3885
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v1 [CM#47][cm47bxxx.xxx]3884
Feb 2003 Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque[Fouque #5][ndinexxx.xxx]3714
Feb 2003 Aaron Trow, by Anthony Trollope[Ant. Trollope #21][arntrxxx.xxx]3713
Feb 2003 Chateau of Prince Polignac, by Anthony Trollope 20[chtppxxx.xxx]3712
Feb 2003 Relics of General Chasse, by Anthony Trollope[#19][rlcgcxxx.xxx]3711
10
Feb 2003 An Unprotected Female, by Anthony Trollope[AT #18][unpfmxxx.xxx]3710
Feb 2003 Love Eternal, by H. Rider Haggard[H R Haggard #34][xlovexxx.xxx]3709
[We are releasing as 7love10.txt & 8love10.txt and 7love10.zip & 8love10.zip]
[The 8 bit version include high bit binary characters, accents, etc.]
Feb 2003 An Introduction to Chemical Science by RP Williams[aitcsxxx.xxx]3708
Feb 2003 The Trimmed Lamp, et al, by O Henry [O Henry #12][tlampxxx.xxx]3707
Contains:
THE TRIMMED LAMP
A MADISON SQUARE ARABIAN NIGHT
THE RUBAIYAT OF A SCOTCH HIGHBALL
THE PENDULUM
TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN
THE ASSESSOR OF SUCCESS
THE BUYER FROM CACTUS CITY
THE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON
BRICKDUST ROW
THE MAKING OF A NEW YORKER
VANITY AND SOME SABLES
THE SOCIAL TRIANGLE
THE PURPLE DRESS
THE FOREIGN POLICY OF COMPANY 99
THE LOST BLEND
A HARLEM TRAGEDY
"THE GUILTY PARTY"--AN EAST SIDE TRAGEDY
ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS
A MIDSUMMER KNIGHT'S DREAM
THE LAST LEAF
THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUEST
THE COUNTRY OF ELUSION
THE FERRY OF UNFULFILMENT
THE TALE OF A TAINTED TENNER
ELSIE IN NEW YORK
Feb 2003 The Valiant Runaways, by Gertrude Atherton [valruxxx.xxx]3706
05
Feb 2003 Happy Hawkins, by Robert Alexander Wason [hhwknxxx.xxx]3705
Feb 2003 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#18] [vbglexxx.xxx]3704
[This is based on the 11th paper edition, 1890, first edition was 1860]
[This file [vbgle10a] is the significantly improved version of:
Jun 1997 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#1] [vbglexxx.xxx] 944
[Actual Full Title: A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World]
Feb 2003 Dot And The Kangaroo, by Ethel Pedley [dkangxxx.xxx]3703
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Our Total For The Year Is About 670 For The First 7 Months,
or 96 Per Month. . .This Would Yield Abour 1146 For The Year
Weekly
Newsdate Etexts Avg/wk
08/01/01 22 22
07/25/01 24 22
07/18/01 22 22
07/11/01 21 23
07/04/01 29 23
July Total 96
06/27/01 22 23
06/20/01 18 23
06/13/01 17 23
06/06/01 20 23
June Total 77
05/31/01 18 24
05/23/01 16 24
05/16/01 18 24
05/09/01 18 25
05/02/01 39 25
May Total 109
04/25/01 15 24
04/18/01 11 25
04/11/01 12 26
Weekly Started Here
April total 137
1st Qtr 04/04/01 Avg
13 Weeks 326 25.08
And for the 13 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 282 21.69
And for the 16 Weeks
Ending on 07/25/01
We totaled 326 20.38
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Jan 2003 The Chronicles of Clovis, by Saki [H. H. Munro] #6[clovsxxx.xxx]3688
[This completes the 100 Etexts for January, 2003
Mar 2003 The Entire Marie Antoinette, by Campan [CM#54][cm54bxxx.xxx]3891
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v7 [CM#53][cm53bxxx.xxx]3890
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v6 [CM#52][cm52bxxx.xxx]3889
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v5 [CM#51][cm51bxxx.xxx]3888
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v4 [CM#50][cm50bxxx.xxx]3887
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v3 [CM#49][cm49bxxx.xxx]3886
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v2 [CM#48][cm48bxxx.xxx]3885
Mar 2003 Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Campan, v1 [CM#47][cm47bxxx.xxx]3884
Feb 2003 Undine, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouque[Fouque #5][ndinexxx.xxx]3714
Feb 2003 Aaron Trow, by Anthony Trollope[Ant. Trollope #21][arntrxxx.xxx]3713
Feb 2003 Chateau of Prince Polignac, by Anthony Trollope 20[chtppxxx.xxx]3712
Feb 2003 Relics of General Chasse, by Anthony Trollope[#19][rlcgcxxx.xxx]3711
10
Feb 2003 An Unprotected Female, by Anthony Trollope[AT #18][unpfmxxx.xxx]3710
Feb 2003 Love Eternal, by H. Rider Haggard[H R Haggard #34][xlovexxx.xxx]3709
[We are releasing as 7love10.txt & 8love10.txt and 7love10.zip & 8love10.zip]
[The 8 bit version include high bit binary characters, accents, etc.]
dagny
Feb 2003 An Introduction to Chemical Science by RP Williams[aitcsxxx.xxx]3708
Feb 2003 The Trimmed Lamp, et al, by O Henry [O Henry #12][tlampxxx.xxx]3707
Contains:
THE TRIMMED LAMP
A MADISON SQUARE ARABIAN NIGHT
THE RUBAIYAT OF A SCOTCH HIGHBALL
THE PENDULUM
TWO THANKSGIVING DAY GENTLEMEN
THE ASSESSOR OF SUCCESS
THE BUYER FROM CACTUS CITY
THE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON
BRICKDUST ROW
THE MAKING OF A NEW YORKER
VANITY AND SOME SABLES
THE SOCIAL TRIANGLE
THE PURPLE DRESS
THE FOREIGN POLICY OF COMPANY 99
THE LOST BLEND
A HARLEM TRAGEDY
"THE GUILTY PARTY"--AN EAST SIDE TRAGEDY
ACCORDING TO THEIR LIGHTS
A MIDSUMMER KNIGHT'S DREAM
THE LAST LEAF
THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING GUEST
THE COUNTRY OF ELUSION
THE FERRY OF UNFULFILMENT
THE TALE OF A TAINTED TENNER
ELSIE IN NEW YORK
Feb 2003 The Valiant Runaways, by Gertrude Atherton [valruxxx.xxx]3706
05
Feb 2003 Happy Hawkins, by Robert Alexander Wason [hhwknxxx.xxx]3705
Feb 2003 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#18] [vbglexxx.xxx]3704
[This is based on the 11th paper edition, 1890, first edition was 1860]
[This file [vbgle10a] is the significantly improved version of:
Jun 1997 The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin [#1] [vbglexxx.xxx] 944
[Actual Full Title: A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World]
Feb 2003 Dot And The Kangaroo, by Ethel Pedley [dkangxxx.xxx]3703
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We have REposted significantly improved 11th editions of the following:
Dec 1979 Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address [linc1xxx.xxx] 9
Nov 1994 The American, by Henry James [James #2] [theamxxx.xxx] 177
Oct 1997 Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [US President] V2 [2musgxxx.xxx]1068
Jan 1998 The Chessman of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs[ERB#11][cmarsxxx.txt]1153
May 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2186
May 2001 Du Cote de Chez Swann, Marcel Proust [Proust #1][xswan11x.xxx]2650
[We are releasing as 7swan11.txt 8swan11.txt, and swan11h.htm and the .zips]
[This of Volume One of Proust's "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu"]
And edition 11a of:
Jun 2000 Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling[Kipling#9][cptcrxxx.xxx]2225
***News Headlines From Newsscan and Edupage***
VIVENDI AND AOL CHARGED WITH CD PRICE-FIXING
The Federal Trade Commission has accused Warner Music (a unit of AOL Time
Warner) and PolyGram (now a part of Vivendi) of colluding in 1998 to fix
prices on CDs, cassettes and videos of opera singers Placido Domingo,
Luciano Pavarotti, and Jose Carreras, knowns as "The Three Tenors." Neither
company has admitted wrong-doing, but AOL has settled the case and Warner
"has made the business decision to resolve this matter amicably rather than
engage in protracted adversarial proceedings." (Washington Post 1 Aug 2001)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12775-2001Jul31.html
FACE-OFF: SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS VS. PRIVACY ADVOCATES
U.S. federal agencies have committed millions of dollars to the improvement
of facial-identification systems that lets cameras scan faces in a crowd and
automatically compare them to stored images. An example of this technology
is the FaceIt system (developed by Visionics), which has been used in Israel
to manage the flow of individuals entering and exiting the Gaza strip and in
Tampa, Florida to taking photos of individuals walking in an entertainment
district and matching the photos with digital mug shots of known criminals.
The Visionics system and systems developed by its competitors have been
funded by such agencies as DARPA, NSA, and the U.S. Justice Department.
George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen, a privacy advocate
who is critical of these developments, warns: "America now faces a choice
about how far we want to go down the road to being a surveillance society."
(San Jose Mercury News 1 Aug 2001)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/016044.htm
VOICE CLONING
AT&T Labs has created new text-to-voice software that makes it possible for
a company to use recordings of a person's voice (for example, John F.
Kennedy's) to utter life-like statements that they never made. Priced in the
thousands of dollars and called "Natural Voices," the software could be used
by telephone call centers and other such activities. An AT&T executive said:
"If ABC wanted to use Regis Philbin's voice for all of its automated
customer-service calls, it could." Issues sure to arise include disputes
over voice-licensing rights and measures to prevent fraudulent uses. One
potential client for the software noted: "Just like you can't trust a
photography anymore, you won't be able to trust a voice either." (New York
Times 31 Jul 2001)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/31/technology/31VOIC.html
[Remember what I said about pay-per-view. . .eventually you will have to
pay just to give a copy to yourself. . .and then every time you listen.]
BMG TO TEST PROTECTIVE CDs
Bertelsmann's BMG Entertainment is testing a new type of compact disc that
enables consumers to make a limited number of digital copies, but prevents
unlimited "ripping" of songs. Listeners can e-mail songs to others, but the
recipients will have to pay a fee to listen to them. The CDs use technology
from SunnComm, based in Phoenix, Ariz. BMG's test is the latest sign that
the era of free music is drawing to a close. (Wall Street Journal 31 Jul
2001)
http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB996530381990482524.djm
"FREE DMITRY" PROTESTS CONTINUE
About a hundred protesters showed up yesterday in San Francisco to denounce
the arrest of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov, who the government has
accused of violating the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The
charge was based on Sklyarov's role in the development of software used to
evade copyright protections used on Adobe eBook software. An attorney for
the Electronic Freedom Foundation told the gathering of Sklyarov supporters
that the long-standing "Fair Use" principle of copyright law "allows people
to make use of things freely without the permission of the copyright
holder." One protester said: "I'm interested in freedom of speech and trying
to redress the balance between copyright holders to control information and
the lack of the individual's right to challenge that." (Reuters/San Jose
Mercury News 31 Jul 2001) http://www.siliconvalley.com
MICROSOFT SET TO BLOCK AOL-AT&T CABLE DEAL
Microsoft is preparing to flex its financial muscle to block AOL Time
Warner's bid for AT&T Broadband by encouraging alternative bids for the No.
1 U.S. cable operator. With its cash pile of more than $50bn, Microsoft
could afford to make its own overtures, but the company insists it's not
interested in entering the cable business directly. Instead, Microsoft
likely will make further investments in other cable operators. At issue is
the software maker's determination to prevent a merger that would create an
industry giant with about 29 million subscribers, or about 40% of the U.S.
market, and would give AOL control over one of the most promising means of
delivering advanced Internet services to U.S. consumers. (Financial Times
30 Jul 2001) http://news.ft.com/news/industries/infotechnology
[Will this happen with computers???]
REPLACEMENT PHONES TO DRIVE CELL PHONE MARKET
China's vast wireless market is coveted by handset makers, but it won't
revive the sector, says First Union Securities analyst Mark Roberts. "It's
not the new subscriber globally that is going to drive the industry. It is
the replacement market." According to UBS Warburg, more than half the cell
phones sold this year will be replacement models, not new purchases. And
that trend is set to continue -- in 2002, 75% of handset sales will be
replacements. Analyst say that while China boasts hundreds of millions of
potential customers, most of them are poor. "They can sell millions (of
handsets), but they'd have to sell them cheap. It's really a gray market
for unsold, surplus handsets from Europe," says Matt Finick, an analyst
with Thomas Weisel Partners. In contrast, the next-generation handsets
needed for European and U.S. wireless data services can cost $100 and up,
providing manufacturers with healthy profit margins. (Investor's Business
Daily 30 Jul 2001) http://www.investors.com/editorial/tech01.asp?v=7/30
WHO WILL BUY? AND WHY?
Although the personal computer industry has been engaged in a price war and
the price of a 1-GHz Pentium III system has fallen to about $700, sales are
lagging, and research firm Gartner Dataquest thinks the reason is simply
that, for most people, the computers they already own are fast enough. One
glimmer of hope for the industry is that the October release of Microsoft's
new Windows XP operating system will prompt people to decide that it's
easier just to buy a new system than to worry that an existing system might
be growing obsolete. (AP/Washington Post 30 Jul 2001)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5559-2001Jul30.html
CONGRESS AGAINST CARNIVORE
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would require
federal law-enforcement officials to provide a detailed accounting each
year of how they made use of the system known as Carnivore (renamed DCS
1000), which allows criminal investigators with a search warrant to monitor
the e-mail traffic to and from a suspect's computer. The FBI would be
called on to reveal which officials and which courts authorized its use,
which specific laws were invoked to justify its use, and what benefits were
gained from that use. (Reuters/USA Today 25 Jul 2001)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-07-25-carnivore.htm
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LINUX TAKES ON BIG JOBS
The Linux operating system is being used for more and more
mission-critical business applications. Last week, Korean Air
announced that its flight crew scheduling and daily revenue
accounting systems were being moved to Linux. Linux has been
running Newell Rubbermaid's Multi Router Traffic Grapher on its
mainframe for almost a year. Winnebago Industries saved 70
percent of its software licensing costs for e-mail by using
Linux operating on an IBM mainframe. Mainframe Linux has been
downloaded from the Web roughly 3,000 times, and 10 of those
downloads are running mission-critical systems, said Giga
Information Group analyst David Mastrobattista.
(Interactive Week, 23 July 2001)
CONGRESS NOT LIKELY TO CHANGE DMCA
While programmers, technologists, and consumer advocates rail
against the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), insiders
believe that there is little chance of changing the law.
Approved unanimously in both the House and Senate in 1998, the
DMCA has received continued support from Congress and its
corporate lobbyists. Leaders of the technology and intellectual
property rights committees on both sides of Congress say they
approve of the law in its current form. Legal challenges to the
law, including free speech arguments, have not fared well either,
as shown in the case of the recording industry against the online
magazine 2600, which failed in a bid to publish code that can
unscramble DVD copy protection. Currently, many opposed to the
DMCA in its current form are in an uproar over the arrest of a
Russian programmer accused of creating and disseminating software
to circumvent file-copying protections on e-books. Although
Adobe, the software firm that first sought the programmer's
arrest, has since reversed its calls for prosecution, observers
say the government is likely to press forward with its case.
(Wired News, 25 July 2001)
PIRACY BATTLE HITTING HOME
The Fair Use provision of the copyright law give users the
right to quote or reference the intellectual property of others.
Based on this, Raymond Kim, who owns a laptop and two desktop
computers, said he should be allowed to share the software among
his family's machines rather than buy three programs. Most in
the software industry do not agree. For example, Microsoft plans
to allow consumers one standard installation of Office XP and one
backup copy; the software will shut down after 50 uses if the
program is not registered after installation. On the other hand,
Adobe takes a lax attitude toward consumers installing one piece
of software on other computers in their home.
(Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2001)
SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT FUND ONLINE CONTENT?
Former PBS President Lawrence K. Grossman and former FCC Chief
Newton N. Minow argue that the federal government should become
more involved in bridging the digital divide by providing online
public space to supplement their efforts to Web-enable schools
and communities. With this end in mind, Grossman and Minow have
formed the Digital Promise Project, an organization dedicated
to the provision of educational and civic-centered Web content
through initiatives such as the Digital Opportunity Investment
Trust. The project would support the implementation of online
libraries and museum collections, as well as programs to help
teachers learn how to take full advantage of technology in their
classrooms. The Digital Promise group suggests that funding
could be acquired from electromagnetic spectrum auctions, but
they would not be the only agency vying for such revenues. The
promise of public sites uncluttered by marketing is a worthy
goal, said Grossman. "You could have a virtual solar system,
a 3D model of a human body, or a recreation of Mark Twain's America."
(Wall Street Journal, 23 July 2001)
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