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Falcon, Dragon... Next stop ISSI was an IPSE Consultative Council Member, until the BoD abolished it. I am not an IPSE Member, since they have no longer have any relevance to me, as an IT Contractor. Read my lips...I recommend QDOS for ALL your Insurance requirements (Contact me for a referral code).Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostTags are useful supplementary metadata, but a national library can't have a website interface that's nothing but a list of tags - they need to impose some kind of structure on the collections. And although Dewey Decimal works well for putting things on shelves, they want to organise their website so that visitors looking for their collection of Antarctic explorer materials, or their scans of Ordnance Survey maps, or their archive of knitting patterns, can find them by exploring what seem to the visitor to be relevant areas of the site. Hence the exercise in finding out how real people categorise things, even if that turns out to be different to the way a librarian would do it
The beauty of the web IMHO is that search does the classification, place in a tight constraint as per Dewey there is a 'right place' for everything but using pointers allows people to find the right place.
If I search for say the Doomsday book I want to see far down in the results - "modern survey like the Doomsday book" . They may not be even actually related but they have the same tag.
If you use tags "relevant areas of the site" precede the users eyes.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Comment
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Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostEntertainment: The Beiderbecke Tapes E1.
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostOddly the dvd doesn't seem to be episoded, it's just 2 hours and 31 minutes of uninterrupted video.
Weird! I wonder if my box set is like that. Does it do that when you select "Play all", or is there just one episode and no episode selection or scene selection option?Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View PostIIRC (at this time of day), it presented me with a menu saying "play".
The episodes (2 of them) appear to be 1:15 long, so I didn't reach the end of the 1st ep when I stopped watching.
It would have made the prog 1:30 long back in the day with the adverts.
As you say, it is a bit odd.
Then again, I've got dvds even barer bones than that which just play as soon as you put the dvd in, no menu or anything.
It hasn't got subtitles either, though that's a bit more useful with "Timeless" where the septic drawl is a bit indistinct, and even worse when they're speaking German, French, or whatever.
To get those subtitles one needs to select "3: English" rather than the generic "1: English" option.
Entertainment (continued): "Timeless" S1 E10 "The Capture of Benedict Arnold" wherein our favourite Ferenghi/Principal Snyder appears.Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 30 May 2020, 20:53.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View PostThe beauty of the web IMHO is that search does the classification, place in a tight constraint as per Dewey there is a 'right place' for everything but using pointers allows people to find the right place.
If I search for say the Doomsday book I want to see far down in the results - "modern survey like the Doomsday book" . They may not be even actually related but they have the same tag.
If you use tags "relevant areas of the site" precede the users eyes.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostIn the Chinese
They were busy, which is nice for them, but the new owner still hasn't developed the knack of random theorising about whyComment
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Originally posted by ladymuck View PostNo way! I am so going to try that tomorrowComment
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Another view of the ISS accomplished, though it was lower down today.
Even with the binoculars turned up to x30, still couldn't see much, though the sky isn't exactly dark at the moment.
The moon is looking quite lovely with the craters showing quite well on the terminator.
And a toad came to say hello.When the fun stops, STOP.Comment
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