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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → Posts by William
The law about Legal Deposit in the UK seems to me to be worded as if the publisher does not want to send in the copies but is being forced to do so.
Yet in my way of looking at the Legal Deposit system it is a great way to have my work conserved.
And hopefully soon for me to have some of my art exhibited.
I have five pictures ready thus far and I feel that I need at least two more, some text and a newly coined word to describe the whole process.
William
I am fairly sure that I once saw somewhere that in the United States of America, where the deposit is with the Library of Congress, that they do not keep everything.
I have been having a look this morning and have not yet found anything about it at the time of writing this note.
I have started to read the following document.
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ07d.pdf
If the Library of Congress does not keep everything then my idea of an Art Show at a Legal Deposit library sort of automatically would not work in the USA.
William
An interesting aspect of the United Kingdom Legal Deposit system is that everything is conserved.
So there is no assessment of merit in relation to which items are conserved.
William
Some puzzles for those of us who enjoy such stuff.
How is that prime number expressed in binary notation?
How many zeros are there in that binary expression of that prime number?
> Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free software
Well, what?
Some of we older people here who lived in the UK many years ago may remember spending hours doing arithmetic problems of a type of which the following is a newly made up example.
Convert 2209 pennies to £ s d.
William
1951: BRITANNIA - The New Standard Class STEAM ENGINE | Newsreel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=963Hlu3NoNc
5 minutes 47 seconds
Karen kindly included an illustration.
May I mention, for the benefit of those readers who may not know, that if one clicks on that illustration then an enlarged version is displayed, and that if one then clicks on that enlarged version then an even larger version is displayed.
William
In
https://www.royalmail.com/sites/royalma … 024-v1.pdf
there is the following.
> For rolled and cylinder shaped parcels, the length of the
item plus twice the diameter must not exceed 104cm,
with the greatest dimension being no more than 90cm.
Quite a range of possible shapes and possible applications.
William
And they yodel.
The presenter in the second video is the lady who starts at the right of the screen in this video.
I know that using smaller type for captions within articles is a widespread practice.
I find it unhelpful and that it makes reading the captions difficult.
What is your opinion on this please?
William
Does Bristol Zoo have okapi?
Yes, Bristol Zoo has okapi! They are part of the zoo’s Central African Forest habitat, which is currently undergoing a transformation. The new habitat will feature some of the world’s most threatened species, including okapi.
[A recent article.]
https://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/news/news … st-habitat
[Two older articles.]
> Robot artist Ai-Da to make history as portrait of Alan Turing goes to auction
Please find attached a PDF document.
William
The A3 size picture in the PDF document has 48 colours.
This so that when the picture is printed, the print is a guide as to how those colours when used in an electronic display will appear in a print made using the same printing process.
Can you deduce the paths through RGB space that the vertical sequences follow?
William
William wrote:The British Library has Reading Rooms…
I think Donald Trump is very largely responsible for the use in English text of capital letters where none are needed! The British Library has reading rooms.
Ah, an ordinary library may have reading rooms, which are just rooms where reading can take place, but The British Library has Reading Rooms because they are the only places where, by law, the public may read items that have been deposited by Legal Deposit.
For pure electronic publications under Legal Deposit only one display may take place at any one time. So I intend to make a gift of a second copy of my (not yet produced) Art Show PDF document so that The British Library may display as many copies of the gift copy as it chooses, that being stated that in the PDF document too.
William
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