When reading large amounts of text, particularly boring text nothing beats a book. I don't see universities doing away with text books any time soon, but that's not to say libraries are the way to go. I have never even used the library I just purchase the textbooks required for my course and everything else is online.
There are more books than you can imagine. The google books poeple say even if we ramp up increadably we won't even scratch the surface and there's zero chance all books will be digitized in our lifetime, or several lifetimes - there's that many.
That's very true, but who has the higher storage capacity? Google or the local Library?
WTF are you talking about, your post is totally irrelevant.
Their filter is their responsibility, how am I and everyone else who sends email to know if the mail gets through? Gmail is a bit better than hotmail (Although not as good as SpamAssasin) but I have had Hotmail block my emails on more than one occasion, unknown to me until about a month later. Which to be honest is not my problem I sent the message and if the recipient didn't get it that is partially their own fault. This is why allot of companies insist that staff use the company email service.
If I download something for free nobody misses out on anything, it's what we could call a victimless crime (although it is actually not a crime at all).
After all, while you worked at your job, no physical good was exchanged, so you didn't lose anything, right?
I will be paid for the work I did last week, but I won't be paid for it a second time nor will I be paid for the work I already got paid for a year ago.
I think people need to think about their Spam solutions.
I use SpamAssasin which checks against multiple blacklists, this reduces the chances of a legit email being filtered.
People need to think about who is responsible for their spam filtering. Services like Gmail and Hotmail are the worse offenders when it comes to false positives because you never know when you have been filtered since their blacklists are private.
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When reading large amounts of text, particularly boring text nothing beats a book. I don't see universities doing away with text books any time soon, but that's not to say libraries are the way to go. I have never even used the library I just purchase the textbooks required for my course and everything else is online.
The internet isn't just a big library. It's a series of tubes!
or a sewer clogged with garbage...
The guy is obviously just a senile old fool.
There are more books than you can imagine. The google books poeple say even if we ramp up increadably we won't even scratch the surface and there's zero chance all books will be digitized in our lifetime, or several lifetimes - there's that many.
That's very true, but who has the higher storage capacity?
Google or the local Library?
I have questions: "Who the fuck is Ray Bradbury?" and "Why should we care?"
I forgot to point out, im not a mass mailer. So I don't know where you drew that conclusion from.
WTF are you talking about, your post is totally irrelevant.
Their filter is their responsibility, how am I and everyone else who sends email to know if the mail gets through? Gmail is a bit better than hotmail (Although not as good as SpamAssasin) but I have had Hotmail block my emails on more than one occasion, unknown to me until about a month later. Which to be honest is not my problem I sent the message and if the recipient didn't get it that is partially their own fault. This is why allot of companies insist that staff use the company email service.
If not for piracy I would not have purchased half the DVDs I now own.
Do you photocopy textbooks to avoid paying for them?
Yes, doesn't everyone?
Most libraries provide the equipment to do so.
There is no analogy for copyright infringement.
If I download something for free nobody misses out on anything, it's what we could call a victimless crime (although it is actually not a crime at all).
After all, while you worked at your job, no physical good was exchanged, so you didn't lose anything, right?
I will be paid for the work I did last week, but I won't be paid for it a second time nor will I be paid for the work I already got paid for a year ago.
I also advise that you don't trash talk them either, at least not here...
Why? surely the EFF would not have a problem with it.
Piracy drives sales, is that a bad thing?
It is when it fuels DRM development, but otherwise it's mostly beneficial.
I think people need to think about their Spam solutions.
I use SpamAssasin which checks against multiple blacklists, this reduces the chances of a legit email being filtered.
People need to think about who is responsible for their spam filtering. Services like Gmail and Hotmail are the worse offenders when it comes to false positives because you never know when you have been filtered since their blacklists are private.
and having to sift through thousands of emails perday just to get one legitimate message isn't disrupting communications?
My government has around 10,000 website ready to block, dam that's a big hosts file.
Nazi's censoring other Nazi's
Secondly, no one who's used a VPN to circumvent censorship would consider it a solution.
I meant to point out, latency is often an issue.
Yes, but how many people know how to use a VPN?
Secondly, no one who's used a VPN to circumvent censorship would consider it a solution.
The guy obviously didn't think he just threw up an excuse, a bad one at that.
This is /. the mods are on crack.
Then why is it on /.?
What sort of caveman could possible have a use for it?
Should I use my phone that fits in my pocket or a big heavy commodore64 plus tv plus mains power supply?
In this case both software AND hardware need to catch up about 27 years.
The Crimminals already do pay people to write good things about them.