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Interesting idea, thanks. I have a bunch of material that might go pretty well on that sort of site, but my primary interest is still in doing stuff, more than teaching about it.

I sent the index off a week or two ago, and the cover design has converged on something more or less acceptable. I still think that blurbs and so on belong on a dust jacket, so you can decently toss it when you get the book home, but oh well--as an example of the breed this isn't that bad.

They tell me that the typesetters will have the index sorted out soon, so that the book will come out in July. (If so, I'd like to shake the typesetters' hands--the proofs had completely different pagination. I'll go over it carefully before it gets printed.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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I grew up in Huntington, WV. Was only in Massachusetts for my 4 years at MIT>

People who voted for Obama deserve the results that derive from their electoral idiocy. It's called "adjustment" ;-)

I'm leery of _anything_ Larkin recommended recently... he's gone somewhat bonkers ;-)

Since you recommend it I'll get a copy.

Early '80's, I was already 20+ years after MIT graduation.

...Jim Thompson

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 Stormy on the East Coast today... due to Bush\'s failed policies.

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I keep getting these Amazon notices, several books I've ordered are "delayed" :-(

...Jim Thompson

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"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and
the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of
misery."  -Winston Churchill

Wow, looks like something from the '70s! :-)

It'll definitely catch peoples' eyes and get them to take a second look... should be good for "impulsive" sales.

---Joel

That's what you get for ordering new stuff. The mailman just brought me a copy of Phelan's control systems book from 1977. Good stuff.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I feel so much better now, thanks. ;)

The price went down to $145, too, even though there's about 100 pages' worth of all new stuff. (The rest has been completely revised as well.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Hi Jim,

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Ah, OK... so not visible in Huntington, then, eh?

Yeah, but the nuke isn't going to discriminate between those who voted for him and those who didn't!

At times I rather think several of you older fellows are growing more beligerant now, having perhaps personally experienced that "playing nice" doesn't seem to help while realizing that you've been successful enough that you no longer have much to gain via self-censorship. :-)

With great effort, he did get his MS in mechanical engineering, but didn't pass the qualifier for a PhD program. From the way he describes it, it sounds like you really had to be a true genius-level individual to get into the PhD program there -- not just, e.g., "noticeably above average" and "hard-working." Besides his personal academic "career," though, the more interesting part of the story is the tales of the professors and staff at MIT and the other students he knew there.

Warning: His career goal was to figure out how to reduce energy consumption/use alternative fuels/etc.! (And he now has his own energy consulting company.)

Yeah, and now we're another 20+ years on. Time flies...

At Oregon State University a few years ago they decided that if you received your MSEE/MSCS from them, you didn't even have to take a qualifying exam to get into a PhD program. It's hard for me not to think that move wasn't more about trying to establish OSU as a place with many PhD candidates -- and hoping people would then assume that meant it "must be good," thereby attracting more research dollars -- than just giving the master's students a break and trying not to lose a few who could have been really good PhDs but didn't want the major hassle of a qualifier.

---Joel

Cox Cable gets their fair share, as well. Someone from their, in California was trying to hack into my computer today. Two clicks, and their IP address was blocked.

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I'll wait until it comes out on Netflix.

John

I was in Boston at that time. I went to the roof of the old Hilton hotel, and it could be plainly seen.

The next day, in Washington, D.C., I asked some people in the Pentagon if there was any effect on U.S. defense funds. Someone said: "Every time it goes around the earth, a little more money falls out!"

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I would think that you would get more from free access and extra book sales, assuming the material is related. There is so much free content around, I cannot imagine paying money for such a "subscription".

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Well, with that cover, it's bound to come out on DVD right after the first weekend in the theatres. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs "Long long ago in a nebula far far away..."

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ElectroOptical Innovations
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Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
845-480-2058
hobbs at electrooptical dot net
http://electrooptical.net

I can. Free content is great, and I certainly make plenty of use of it, but subscription services have a couple of advantages:

1) The guy providing the content now has a new incentive to keep coming up with new material. 2) If your web site becomes popular, web hosting costs can become significant. (This is particularly true if you start hosting videos rather than just text files with a few snapshots...) Some income can help pay for that... and perhaps even pay for some new equipment for the guy to test out/play with. 3) If you're paying money for something, you've made enough of a commitment to it that you're probably more likely to "engage." This certainly isn't true for everyone, perhaps, but at least for me, if I'm paying for, e.g., classes at a college, my butt's going to be there for every class to "get my money's worth" whereas if the classes are free, I'm much more likely to skip them -- even though I know in the long term I'm doing myself a disservice. (This is somewhat similar to people figuring that if they're spending $30/mo on a gym membership they're more likely to actually go get in shape, even though for free they could just walk/jog/hike/bike/run around their neighborhood or whatever... clearly that concept doesn't always pan out, but sometimes...)

I'm not wealthy, but I do have enough discretionary cash around that I wouldn't miss $50/year, so for me the question would just be "is the content worth $50?" and not "if I search around enough, can I find similar content for free, and be convinced that it's coming from a source that's as reliable as Phil, whom I already know to be not only an upstanding guy but also one very sharp cookie?"