Look around at prices online. If that's really the case then why is it I can get a Win XP Acer Aspire One 8.9-Inch Netbook (e.g. @ Amazon.com) with 1 GB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive, and 3 Cell Battery for $350, but the Linpus Linux Lite one only has 512 MB RAM, 8 GB Solid State Drive instead of a HD, and a standard battery, and that's about $300.
The hardware differences alone should be more than a $50 drop in price. It's like you're getting a discount for adding Win XP to the device.
If you start with the $350 XP model and deduct the cost of the hardware differences, and deduct the cost of XP, the Linux one by comparison should probably be more like $200.
That's what I would do. As long as the search engines allow a means to opt-out, content providers shouldn't have any right to tell search engines how they do their job, anymore than the search engines can tell them what content to put up or how to design their pages. If you don't like it, opt-out. It's real simple, and most search engines will even do it retroactively to previously scanned content. Nothing indexed, no copyright violated.
Okay, so say it all works exactly as planned, they all make it up into orbit at the costs expected and work perfectly to counter the effects of doubled CO2 in this crisis situation.
So people finally get their act together because of this crisis that required this drastic action, and say the CO2 starts going down, back to normal or maybe even lower.
Then we have normal CO2 and this solar shade that's going to last at least 50 years according to the article, and maybe a heck of a lot longer. Does this start a global cooling? How bad could that get? How do we get rid of a 20 million ton cloud of 1 gram space crafts?
I think that's something that better be planned on before sending anything like that up there.
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Look around at prices online. If that's really the case then why is it I can get a Win XP Acer Aspire One 8.9-Inch Netbook (e.g. @ Amazon.com) with 1 GB RAM, 120 GB Hard Drive, and 3 Cell Battery for $350, but the Linpus Linux Lite one only has 512 MB RAM, 8 GB Solid State Drive instead of a HD, and a standard battery, and that's about $300.
The hardware differences alone should be more than a $50 drop in price. It's like you're getting a discount for adding Win XP to the device.
If you start with the $350 XP model and deduct the cost of the hardware differences, and deduct the cost of XP, the Linux one by comparison should probably be more like $200.
So what's up with that?
That's what I would do. As long as the search engines allow a means to opt-out, content providers shouldn't have any right to tell search engines how they do their job, anymore than the search engines can tell them what content to put up or how to design their pages. If you don't like it, opt-out. It's real simple, and most search engines will even do it retroactively to previously scanned content. Nothing indexed, no copyright violated.
Okay, so say it all works exactly as planned, they all make it up into orbit at the costs expected and work perfectly to counter the effects of doubled CO2 in this crisis situation.
So people finally get their act together because of this crisis that required this drastic action, and say the CO2 starts going down, back to normal or maybe even lower.
Then we have normal CO2 and this solar shade that's going to last at least 50 years according to the article, and maybe a heck of a lot longer. Does this start a global cooling? How bad could that get? How do we get rid of a 20 million ton cloud of 1 gram space crafts?
I think that's something that better be planned on before sending anything like that up there.