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... In the catechism of capitalism, shares represent the part- ownership of an economic enterprise, usually a firm. The value of shares is determined by... ...nal databases cannot be integrated with object oriented ones, for instance. To run Java applets, a "virtual machine" needs to be embedded in the op... ... dealing with others in the purchase, sale, or lease of any product; b. Excluding enterprises from, or allocating or dividing, any territorial mar... ..., or fixing sales quotas or purchase quotas; c. Discriminating against particular enterprises; d. Limiting production or fixing production quotas... ...ored in the recipient's brain and provoked by the symbol. This is a little like the Java applets in modern programming: the application is divided t... ...ored in a central computer. The symbols generated by the user's computer (using the Java programming language) "provoke" them to surface. The resul... ...ed content can now easily interact with other media (e.g., CD-ROMs) and with non-PC platforms (PDA's, mobile phones). Examples abound: A CD-ROM sh... ...er media). F. E-Publishing The Internet is by far the world's largest publishing platform. It incorporates FAQs (Q&A's regarding almost every tec... ...ogy is still not fully there. Wars rage in both the wireless and the e-book realms. Platforms compete. Standards clash. Gurus debate. But convergenc...

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... In the catechism of capitalism, shares represent the part- ownership of an economic enterprise, usually a firm. The value of shares is determined by... ...nal databases cannot be integrated with object oriented ones, for instance. To run Java applets, a "virtual machine" needs to be embedded in the op... ... dealing with others in the purchase, sale, or lease of any product; b. Excluding enterprises from, or allocating or dividing, any territorial mar... ..., or fixing sales quotas or purchase quotas; c. Discriminating against particular enterprises; d. Limiting production or fixing production quotas... ...ored in the recipient's brain and provoked by the symbol. This is a little like the Java applets in modern programming: the application is divided t... ...ored in a central computer. The symbols generated by the user's computer (using the Java programming language) "provoke" them to surface. The resul... ...ed content can now easily interact with other media (e.g., CD-ROMs) and with non-PC platforms (PDA's, mobile phones). Examples abound: A CD-ROM sh... ...er media). F. E-Publishing The Internet is by far the world's largest publishing platform. It incorporates FAQs (Q&A's regarding almost every tec... ...ogy is still not fully there. Wars rage in both the wireless and the e-book realms. Platforms compete. Standards clash. Gurus debate. But convergenc...

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..., we will all be forbidden from making derivative works, or publishing cheap editions or large-type versions, or simply reproduc- ing it for pleasure.... ...e finest biographical work in the world would have been as scarce as the first edition of Camden’s Britannia. 34 From more recent examples we can see th... ...ause it is an infringement of the sacred right of property; and that such an enterprise, if it were to remain unpunished, would deprive citizens of th... ...ll of this was much clearer before the assimilation of literature to private enterprise.” 49 This is the flip side of the arguments that Diderot and la... ...In a competitive market, Apple would choose whether to make the iPod an open platform, able to work with everyone’s music service, or to try to keep i... ...ought out on the hardware (and software) level, with the manufacturer of the platform constantly seeking to make the competing prod- ucts incompatible... ... Mean- while the competitors would race to untangle the knots as fast as the platform manufacturer could tie them. If the consumers got irritated enou... ...r how cool the idea of banana-scented, picture-taking bacteria, this kind of enterprise will cause some of you to shudder. Professor Drew Endy, one of... ...ve choices in a code of A’s, C’s, G’s, and T’s, just as a programmer does in Java or C++. Yet, software was already a stretch for copyright law. Synth...

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...e and a sunset. And that har poon — so like a corkscrew now — was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Ca... ...Likewise upon the extreme stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adr... ... rooted in the keel, and rising some two feet above the level of the stern platform. It is used for catching turns with the whale line. Its top is not... ... bubbling up from his unexhausted brain. In the title page of the original edition of the “Ad vancement of Learning” you will find some curious whales... ... him, as well as to the thousand concurring accidents of such an audacious enterprise, eight or ten loose second irons may be simultaneously dangling ... ...hing which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as yet undertaken. Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scruti nize... ...cks, my friend. Chapter 82 The Honor and Glory of Whaling T here are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method. The more ... ...contin uous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampa... ...rge into the China seas. Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; and standing midway in that vast rampart of islands, buttressed by th...

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...s INTR INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION THE ENTERPRISE of Messrs. T . Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of M... ...resent three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from the last century. This edition is more definitive than I supposed when first I arranged for it. In... ...ntil Hill hated Bernard Shaw’s graceful egotisms, William Morris’s limited editions and luxurious wall-papers, and Walter Crane’s charmingly absurd id... ...—no other than the Rev. James Parker and the young Prince of Bosso-Kuni in Java. I am obliged to them for certain particulars. The object of the Princ... ...te behind. And then death. China was lit glowing white, but over Japan and Java and all the islands of Eastern Asia the great star was a ball of dull ... ...show signs of stimulation, and their ambition enlarged. Their first larger enterprise was due to hunger and the negligence of Mrs. Minchin, Mr. Maydig... ...aring red. She made a prim and pleasant little figure on the Charing Cross platform, in spite of her swelling pride, when at last the great day dawned... ...shoulder, and made sly little remarks about the accumulating people on the platform, at which Fanny laughed gleefully. They were travelling with one o... ...d not want and who followed him in a steadily growing tail up and down the platform. These people seemed, indeed, to think that their one chance of re...

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...pon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ou... ...rst upon us six years ago now. As Mars ap- proached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the as- tronomical exchange palpitating with the amaz... ...hose days. People in these latter times scarcely realise the abundance and enterprise of our nineteenth-cen- tury papers. For my own part, I was much ... ... afternoon the appearance of the common had al- tered very much. The early editions of the evening papers had startled London with enormous headlines:... ... and receiving no reply—the man was killed— decided not to print a special edition. Even within the five-mile circle the great majority of people were... ...of people had assembled in and about the railway station, and the swarming platform was piled with boxes and pack- ages. The ordinary traffic had been... ...ere was a thunder- storm, and my brother reached Waterloo in a cab. On the platform from which the midnight train usually starts he learned, after som... ...quad of police came into the station and began to clear the public off the platforms, and my brother went out into the street again. The church bells ... ...s. After that no body of men would stand against them, so hopeless was the enterprise. Even the crews of the tor- pedo-boats and destroyers that had b...

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...W ITHIN THE T IDES Four Stories by Joseph Conrad from the 1919 J. M. Dent edition A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION Within th... ........... 119 4 Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad from the 1919 J. M. Dent edition THE PLANTER OF MALATA CHAPTER I IN THE PRIV ATE EDITORIAL OFFICE of... ...ake part in the counsels of all these people captivated by the sentimental enterprise of a declared love. On taking Miss Moorsom’s hand he looked up, ... ...ng the island on this trip to town. Like many men ready enough for arduous enterprises Renouard was inclined to evade the small complications of exist... ... all these notions himself into her empty head… What your husband wants is enterprise, a little audacity. Y ou can encourage him best, Mrs. Dunbar… Sh... ...danger on account of the dollars. He told her, he said, that there were no Java-sea pirates nowa- days except in boys’ books. He had laughed at her fe... ... been up that creek, where no European vessel had ever been seen before. A Javanese passenger he had on board offered him fifty dollars to call in the... ...e where there was water enough to float a soup-plate. “Davidson landed his Javanese plutocrat, and, as he had to wait a couple of hours for the tide, ... ...y lightfooted. He climbed the seven steps or so, stepped across the bamboo platform quietly, but what he saw through the doorway stopped him short. “F...

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...nrise and a sunset. And that harpoon— so like a corkscrew now—was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Ca... ...Likewise upon the extreme stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adr... ... rooted in the keel, and rising some two feet above the level of the stern platform. It is used for catching turns with the whale line. Its top is not... ... bubbling up from his unexhausted brain. In the title-page of the original edition of the “Advancement of Learning” you will find some curious whales.... ...rit, the Pequod still held on her way north-eastward towards the island of Java; a gentle air impelling her keel, so that in the surrounding serenity ... ...im, as well as to the thousand con- curring accidents of such an audacious enterprise, eight or ten loose second irons may be simultaneously dangling ... ...ng which no Physiognomist or Phrenologist has as yet under- taken. Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized ... ...cks, my friend. CHAPTER 82 The Honour and Glory of Whaling T HERE ARE SOME ENTERPRISES in which a careful dis orderliness is the true method. The more... ...a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampa...

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...to impress upon these short Author’s Notes prepared for my first Collected Edition is that of absolute frankness, I has- ten to declare that I founded... ... an open enve- lope, addressed to the commander of any British ship in the Java Sea. The paper was thick, had an em- bossed heading: “Schooner-yacht H... ... battling with a heavy monsoon in the Bay of Bengal, lying becalmed in the Java Sea, or gliding out sud- denly from behind a point of land, graceful a... ...“Whom did I not know? I knew Sentot when he was King of the South Shore of Java and the Dutch offered a price for his head—enough to make any man’s fo... ...OR TWO YEARS, Lingard, who had thrown himself body and soul into the great enterprise, had lived in the long intoxication of slowly preparing success.... ...gs had gradually emerged from the Shallows. They stood for a moment on the platform looking down on the deck as if about to step into the unknown, the... ...e risk was incurred mostly for his sake—so that the prospects of the great enterprise should not be ruined by a quarrel over the lives of these whites... ...rom whom trustworthy information can be obtained by the lead- ers of great enterprises. Lingard did put several ques- tions to him, but in this instan...

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...on grounds of gentility, I fear), and is too full of physi- cal energy and enterprise to take readily to sober parochial life. His ardour is a gallant... ...eously at the station, and the passengers were getting out on the opposite platform. The Doctor made a dash to cross in the rear of the train, but was... ... line the same instant, but the blank was his. Up and down the gas-lighted platform he looked in vain among the crowd, only his eye suddenly lit on a ... ...up in a regular rage! Only look at his eyes—and Henry just like Gertrude’s Java sparrow in a taking—’ ‘It must not be,’ cried Ethel, starting up to at... ...e father of their young lady friend at the boarding- house.’ ‘Oh! a Yankee edition of Mrs. Pugh!’ ‘ And the worst of it is that this is to be done wit... ...e pier; and so they walked the length of 373 Yo n g e Weymouth, paced the platform, and took their places in the train. Just as they had shot beyond ... ...years, partook of the exhilara- tion enough to delight in an extraordinary enterprise, and as nothing remained but a little sweeping up, they left thi...

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...s, with their means and funds, should have left it to private humanity and enterprise, to enter on an attempt to improve that class of per- sons—since... ...ices or defects, it has been found necessary to announce, that in a second edition the passage has been expunged, or altered, or explained away, or pa... ...he had crowded into that one day—but entertain a strong misgiving that his enterprise was doomed. Rash and ill- considered as it had often looked on s... ...oser than ever when they entered the Hall, got by that means upon a little platform of tables at the upper end; where an armchair was set for the Gene... ...red from the conversation of these worthies, that they were embarked in an enterprise of some magni- tude, in which they addressed the public in gener... ...e car of Juggernaut had crushed him, and also that the deadly Upas tree of Java had blighted him. His name was Moddle. Towards this most unhappy Moddl...

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... “To Build a Fire” And Other Stories By JACK LONDON 1899 1918 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2003 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All righ... ...ld compass. The world he had so recently left, with its busy nations and great enterprises, seemed very far away. Recollections occasionally ob trude... ...hese women of the Southland — no, no, they were too soft, too tender, for such enterprises. Sitka Charley did not know this kind of woman. Five minute... ... was nothing if not orthodox. Presidents of great railway systems bought whole editions of it to give to their employees. The 15 First magazine public... ... with his controller bar, was beaten into insensi bility and dragged from his platform. The captain of police, beside himself at the repulse of his m... ... winning his first laurels in the squared ring. He leaped lightly to the raised platform and ducked through the ropes to his corner, where he sat down ... ... northwest monsoon, is also evident. Nobody ever comes to Lord Howe, or Ontong Java as it is some times called. Thomas Cook & Son do not sell tickets... ...ne ever paid visits. In the top of our tree we built a grass house, and on the platform outside was a pile of rocks, which were for the heads of any t...

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... text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are d... ... translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translator. Urquhart’s trans- la... ...art’s trans- lation of Book III. appeared posthumously in 1693, with a new edition of Books I. and II., under Motteux ’s editorship. Motteux ’s render... ...ny ground or cause, and from day to day pursueth his furious 107 Rabelais enterprise with that height of insolence that is intolerable to freeborn sp... ... to make a breach in your alliance; and have been so afraid of it in their enterprises that they have never dared to provoke, incense, or endamage the... ...he name and title of your alliance, they have suddenly desisted from their enterprises. What rage and madness, therefore, doth now incite thee, all ol... ...heads, play on the lute, and crack with their tails, to make pretty little platform leaps in keeping level by the ground? But now the world is 218 Ga... ...trenches, cleansed countermines, fenced themselves with gabions, contrived platforms, emptied casemates, barricaded the false brays, erected the caval... ...g through the air. T aproban hath seen the heaths of Lapland, and both the Javas and Riphaean mountains; wide distant Phebol shall see Theleme, and th...

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...pages at stations are impertinences, and the delivery of us at last on the platform is an astonish- ment, for it is not we who have done it—we have no... ...ed property. Shortly after the union, as one that has achieved the goal of enterprise, the gallant of- ficer retired from the service nor did north-we... ...ated; that she might furnish arms to her husband to carry out an audacious enterprise likely to in- volve both of them in blood and ruin? Would he not... ...ere the great big bursting end of all things for you lies crouching like a Java-Tiger—a ferocious beast painted undertaker’s colour—for a leap at you ... ...ning. You can only move them by popping at them over hedges and roaring on platforms. They’re incapable of understanding a complaint a yard beyond the... ... boyishly Irish, not like his inscrutable brother; a better, or hopefuller edition of Captain Con; one with whom something could be done to steady him... ... at a bait— it ‘s fun: the lady I mentioned, with a turn for adventure and enterprise: it’s rare fun: he ‘s nibbling, he’ll be hooked. You must make h... ...nd he is a cha- meleon.’ ‘Parliament may steady him.’ ‘It is too much of a platform for Con’s head.’ ‘Yes, there is more of poet than politician,’ sai...