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Re: Silicon Sea
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2006 May 20, 07:29 +1000
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2006 May 20, 07:29 +1000
> Robert Gainer wrote: > A downside to changing the date is that it will again be out of date > immediately. A lot of work and in less then a year you are back to the > same place. Unless there are subsequent editions ... This is an advantage of printing small quantities as required. Prohibitively expensive traditionally, becoming more feasible these days. Sometimes when I order a book online and there is a delay in sending it out I suspect its because the book is being printed to my order. That's probably an exaggeration. > I think keeping the date and including the relevant pages from > the almanac is all we need to do. A blank plotting sheet might be a nice inclusion, that could be photocopied as needed. Which reminds me: there are a lot of useful resources like this on the homepage. Will you be keeping them accessible after 31 May? > I had not thought about the question of set and drift. It is something > that might best be changed to come into line with the accepted texts on > navigation. Any reason not to make that change? Am not sure what the question is here.
